The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | AUGUST 1934
THE IMPERSONAL WORK
IN THIS Department will be included teachings and truths for more advanced students, especially for those who have received the monthly lessons in the Papers during the past five years.
Some of our readers perhaps may not be able to grasp these truths, but we urge if so that they reserve them for future study and consideration, as they will contain matter of vital moment to the soul, when it is grown ready to receive and use it as intended.
TRUTH
YOU ASK me to write more often, but my experiences are no different from those of others, and so much has been written. You know what one has to pass through, and I am doing all that I should do.
The opening of Truth into one’s consciousness reminds me of the blind man’s trying to visualize an elephant. Today it seems to be one phase, later another; but it takes all to be the Truth. We each see it as we should, and when the Holy Ghost comes we speak one tongue. Today it is joyous recognition for me; I am beginning to “see.” When one arrives at that stage, I know that the goal is not so far away.
You see, I have never been able to understand what caused others to affirm and affirm to get anything. It never seemed right and it was as much labor to the affirmers as to work physically. But they seemed to get more “things” than I did, so I felt that perhaps one had to do just that.
I now know why it was necessary for them, necessary that they think that they thus create and can get things that way. They affirm to steady and make firm their minds. They thus gain power in their thinking and learn consciously to hold God thoughts. So they swing from one extreme of experience to the other, and are up and down in their getting. The truth is, “All power is in Truth—or in God’s thoughts,” or as Jesus said, “All power is given me by the Father.”
What need for me to tell you this? You know why and I know why; so we are One. I have been shown the power of Truth and how to see and know it. I have been shown that I,
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