The Inner Life

CONTAINING quotations from our replies to those writing us for help in their Spiritual problems.

Each day at 12 o’clock noon, we take the names of those asking for such help in the Silence of the Spirit, and “Speak the Word” for them. Many hundreds have testified to receiving the blessings of such ministry.

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WE WILL try to help in the problem facing you, so that you can use the Law in money matters as well as in health and in other things.

Let us consider this Law—we will reverse the statement of it: “What is now manifesting is the result of what you think and believe is so.” Your letter very clearly shows what you believe is so. We will repeat some of your own words: “My greatest trouble has been to collect the money I have honestly earned.” Many who are willing and perfectly satisfied to accept these earnings as a gift to themselves, seemingly have no desire and make no effort to do their part by paying me for my services.” “I am learning that this is holding me back from my spiritual progress.” “It will be better for me to give up dentistry and get into some work in which I would not contact human selfishness.”

It is very plain that you are holding in your consciousness these things, believing them to be so; and that according to the Law these beliefs are the real cause of such things manifesting in your life. Think this over, dear friend, and try fully to understand the significance of our words.

But you say, how can I help but see those things when I am face up against these conditions? Dear friend, these conditions exist only in your mind—not in God’s Consciousness, which is your only Consciousness. It is only what you believe is so, for you.—But it might not be so for someone else. If you can once stop thinking these believing these things are so, that we have quoted above, so much so that you will no longer see them in your mind, and instead will see yourself permanently enjoying the conditions you want to manifest, you will find that the others will disappear from your life, and peace, harmony and success will soon begin to manifest.

Now let us see if we can show you just how you can bring this about. There is only One Consciousness and it is filled with only the good and perfect things of life that were created in the beginning. But this Consciousness is of such nature and substance that what appears in the outer can be fashioned by man’s thinking, causing things to appear to be whatever he believes is so. For man is a creator, like his Father God; he creates by thinking. But he has been creating ignorantly from the beginning, not realizing that what he thinks is what outmanifests.

You have reached the age of understanding where you now know the Law. This means that knowing the Law you must either begin to think righteous thoughts—what God wants you to think, so that you can work with and for Him as He has planned—or you can suffer the results of your unrighteous thinking, as you are now doing.

That is why you are being made to suffer these conditions, so that your misuse of your Divine Power of Creation can be brought forcibly to your attention. Can you not see that the time has come for you to begin to put into practice the truths that you have learned and that the Law is compelling you to do it?

Think this all over, dear friend, staying with each statement we have made until all of its inner meaning becomes clear, and then get busy and change your thinking to the things that you want to outmanifest. The One Consciousness of God stands ready to outmanifest for you anything you think and believe is so.

YOUR problem is one that is capable of being handled today even as when Jesus was on earth—if you have faith enough. Because you say that you are a student of the higher sciences and believe you can be healed, we say to you, if you have the knowledge of the truth that what ever is now manifesting is only because of what you see and believe is so, then these cataracts which seem to be in your eyes are only because they are in your mind, and it is that thought-picture that is the obstruction that is hiding from you the true sight of God’s perfect sight being yours.

In other words, if you will cleanse your mind of that picture, knowing the truth that you can have perfect sight through letting God’s Life in you express the perfect health and body that is waiting when your mind is free of all hindering beliefs, the outmanifestation of perfect sight must follow. That is the Law.

SO LONG as you look without for help and supply, it but bars the way for the true and highest help coming to you. Therefore, dear friend, put your trust in God only, and not in outer things. Try to realize this and that He, Whose life and consciousness is your life and consciousness—for you have none of yourself—and Who has put you through every experience in life, knows what He is doing and would not let you suffer any real hardship; for He is your Self—your One and only Self, and the outer physical you is but the instrument He is preparing, developing and perfecting for His use, in order to do the work He intends through you. Then can you not trust Him to take care of you and provide whatever you need, whether it be material supply or more experience to teach you your lessons you still need to learn?