IN THIS Department will be included teachings and truths for more advanced students, especially for those who have received the monthly lessons in the sixty-five issued Papers.

Some of our readers perhaps may not be able to grasp these truths, but we urge it 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.

WE ASK you, dear reader, to orient yourself for awhile, if possible, outside of your brain-mind’s consciousness into that of your soul or real self. We will help you to do this, if you will note carefully what follows and try to picture yourself doing just what we describe.

First, strive to get back of or above your human self and look out or down at it and see it for just what it is, with its faults and weaknesses, its good and ugly qualities, its limitations, its petty sins, and its fear, worries and concerns about so many things. Take time to do this actually, until you become aware that what you see is not you—that you are something apart and different from and much more than that self. Yes, you can do this, for undoubtedly in other moments of quiet, when remorse or regret stirred the mind, you were able to point out to it its mistakes, how it was all its fault, and many other things it very much needed to know. Think! Is this not so?

In this more or less clear awareness of your being something much greater than your outer self, you are now able to go farther with us into this inner and higher consciousness. As a soul, your real self is always in this inner consciousness, for that is the real part of you, and there is your real life—not what your mind imagines you are in the human self it sees. The real of you is always looking out or down upon the outer self, whose human mind is but an outer extension of your consciousness, always seeing what is wrong and lacking in that self and ever seeking to teach, unfold and purify its consciousness and to round out its understanding so that you can do perfectly the things you came here to do and for which alone the human mind was created. Try to see if this is not so!

In this higher consciousness and seeing the lack and limitations preventing your perfect expression, do you judge or condemn your outer self? No, you seek only to inform your mind of what it needs to know in order to bring it into an understanding of your plan and purpose for it, as fast as it can receive it and free its consciousness of all hindering and limiting beliefs. In this higher consciousness it is plain to see what beliefs are clouding the understanding, and so you put the outer self through the experiences that best show the mind also what is limiting it and how to change that condition.

The mind thus gradually learns what you want it to know. With most, though, when shown their mistakes they stop there and bemoan their fate—even while longing to free themselves from the condition for which they now know they are responsible by having created it in the past by their wrong beliefs. They are unable to do the mental work or exercise the will-power to make themselves do what they now know they should do.

Here is where your orienting yourself outside of your mind’s consciousness—with its beliefs in limitations, its concern and its acceptation of inability and defeat—permits you to exercise your authority, to talk to your mind, and to stir it up into doing what it now knows it should do. Only by keeping after it, causing it to feel your constant prodding, will it start to do what it should —think, say and do only the things it would like to have manifest, keeping out of its consciousness every contrary thought, paying no attention to appearances, and seeing only the new and desired condition as a real and living thing.

Yes, many of you have a knowledge of the truth—in your minds, know that you should permit no negative and untrue things in your consciousness, but you do not keep them out; you let them come in at will, and then you bemoan your fate and long to be free from the inharmony, lack and limitation they cause in your life.

Therefore, having shown your mind this truth, it now becomes necessary to make it responsible for its use and practice; which you do in the meeting and facing of the problems brought to it.

Consequently you must make yourself face them manfully and stay with them until you are able to show your mind the purpose of each particular problem and the necessity of mastering it and thereby of gaining the strength and the understanding each is intended to provide.

Until you have acquired the ability of thus getting outside of yourself and looking at your problems in this way, divorcing yourself from all concern about them, and you can see clearly your mind and its attitude, you are not in a position to teach your mind anything or to do much about your problems.

This getting outside and viewing yourself is much more simple than it sounds, for we are sure almost everyone who reads these words does it more or less consciously every day. Why, everytime you lead, impel, or make yourself do any thing, you in a way are outside and directing things.

If you want to learn consciously to direct and make your self do things and thereby gain a realization of your real self and the power residing in you, let no day go by without making yourself do something it does not want to do, and prevent it from doing something it wants to do. For instance, make yourself get up an hour earlier for a week and study these truths; and limit yourself to one cigarette a day (if you are a smoker), or make yourself stop eating while you are still hungry. This self-discipline you would find will be of untold value in not only developing will-power, but in teaching your mind obedience and making it aware of you as its master.

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THE following article will prove to be a wonderful aid to free yourself from the outer mind and its beliefs—if carefully studied and its great truths meditated upon.

Once the mind fully realizes that we, as centers of awareness, actually are where our attention and interest is focused, or that where our thoughts are, we are, we will more and more direct our thoughts away from this unreal world to that of our True Selves, where only goodness and perfection exist and our ideals are ever manifest realities.

ALL YOU see, feel, hear or know is but the result of your thoughts. It includes your body, your environment, the earth, the sky and humanity—everything with which you are acquainted. All is within your mind and consciousness. There is nothing outside.

Your thoughts build and make up the states of consciousness which compose the entity of which you are conscious, and which you call “I”.

You have built innumerable materialistic concepts in your thought-belief pictures, resulting in the world in which you now live. You have your own world and that world is you. You live in and have a world of complete isolation. There is nothing in your world that does not belong to you. All in that world you have created by your thinking. You made it, you see it, you feel it. And all you made, see, feel is you—yourself. There is absolutely no one or thing in your universe but You!!

You created yourself in your image, and all your images are in your likeness! And this creating has all been done in a dream—a dream that you have been indulging in since you left the Garden of Eden long eons ago!

So, here you are now in your dream, with all your thought-belief images. And you are beginning to awaken and to get a realization of all you have done in this dream state since you were first born as a White Light of utter purity—A Breath of God.

As the mists of your mortal dream begin to dissipate into nothingness from which they sprang, faint memories of that First Glory come through. And in the human breast come feelings of remorse, surprise, consternation, fear and hope; an intense longing, a heart-ache, with a hunger for something to fill the aching void. Then begins a striving to change the thought-belief images and pictures in your dream mind.

Now you are wondering about all those so called humans on earth—millions of them. You ask, “Are they my thought-belief images also?” You say, “They move and act and are substance to my touch. Did I create them? And do they have a world as well as I? And are they in complete isolation in their Universe?”

Listen! When God created US we were neuter (sexless) Spirits, and endowed with all the God Attributes—our complete Inheritance. We knew each other as One.

Then you went to sleep, and became separated from your other Selves. When you became separated you left Them in Paradise! Then you had no more knowledge of Them. You left Them Gods, and They have always remained Gods. Right there in Paradise where you left Them.

You were the only one to go to sleep. These Gods did not sleep but went on living right in Their Paradise—the Garden of Eden, living in perfect Bliss, while you were asleep and dreaming all kinds of strange things about yourself and Them. The deeper your sleep the more distorted and unlike Gods in the Garden became your dream of Them.

At first in your dream you saw and named them Angels and Lords and Christs. In that consciousness you pictured Them as you imagined Them—you made Them—then in consciousness like yourself! Later you forgot these lovely Beings you had created in your dream consciousness and went still farther out into nothingness in your dream of separation. Then your consciousness formed a thought-picture of yourself in another consciousness, and you named this the Soul.

Then later your consciousness became so gross and far away from God’s Idea of you that you forgot the Soul and entered into the lowest and darkest state, and thus was born your belief that you were human, and you named yourself man. These pictures you named were just alike—you made them in your own likeness and they imaged the picture of yourself you had created in your consciousness. Everything you thought or believed came before you in the form you had pictured it. Every one lived around you and became a part of your life and formed your world, because you were their creator.

But all this was taking place in the Garden of Eden WHERE YOU WERE ASLEEP!

After you reached this state of mortal consciousness in your dream, with all your thoughts about you, your troubles began. You had taken the beautiful life and gifts that God had given you—your Inheritance—and had used It in making a world of false pictures.

The last time you saw your lovely God-Selves was when you were with Them in the Garden. Since that time you separated from Them you knew nothing about Them whatsoever.

Now it maybe that your other God-Selves went to sleep also. This may be true. But that is no concern of yours. They are God-Selves. And as God-Selves They need no help from you.

Let us image one of these Gods before you! But you are in a dream. You see a human; in your dream you imagine many things about him. You have a belief that he is ugly, and wicked; that he has harmed you. You pity yourself that you have to look at him or be near him. And in your consciousness in time you store up a long series of image-belief pictures about him.

Then . . . one day . . . the mists fall from your eyes! . . . You awaken from your dream . . . and behold! . . . A GOD stands before you . . . just where the human had stood!!!

But what has become of his ugliness, his wickedness, the harm he did to you? Did this God do anything to cause his transformation? No, you but lost the human picture in your consciousness. He has been there perfect all the time. The other picture was all in your mind and had no other existence.

When you saw him as a human you perhaps thought, “This is his Karma. I can not interfere with his reaping as he has sown. Perhaps he is a young soul and still must grow while I am ready for the Kingdom; he must wait, for he still has lessons to learn through his life experiences.”

But now that you see Him as a God, where is His Karma, the reaping, the sowing, and the lessons? Do you not see that all this was in your consciousness only, and was but your thoughts straying out of the Kingdom?

Your Work that you came into existence to do is—lifting up your own world. And after that is finished you will cry out with a loud voice and give up the Ghost of Separation—of false beliefs. And then you will be in that Paradise of God you have never left, except in your dream of earthly experience. —Nancy.

Here is another approach to the subject in the above article. Try to get its full meaning.

THE EARTH that we live on completely encircles all of creation. For is not the earth plane the outermost plane of our consciousness? Then any place that you stand on the surface of the earth or sea and point directly down to the surface, you are pointing toward the center of creation. There is only one earth, and only one place inhabited by man, and that is the earth we are on now.

Man is a creature of the earth, and eternity for man will be here on the earth. Heaven for man is not in some mystic place in the sky, but is right here now—if man can only know it.

Man never was an angel, and never will he be an angel. Angels were created angels in the beginning, and they remain angels. Man was created man, and he shall always be man, although someday he will be a perfect man—even like Jesus Christ, when he knows the truth about himself.

It is time that someone stepped to the front and boldly removed the false covering that modern religionists put on Eternal Things.

Men paint great pictures about a future home for man in the sky some place. The age has arrived when we had better return to the true teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept the Truth as He proclaimed it, without adding any fairy tales to His teachings.

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is here. Only ignorance separates man from being in the Kingdom here and now. It is true that Jesus said the Kingdom is within us, but he was only trying to show us that it is within our consciousness, and that when we learn the truth of our Oneness with God, the Kingdom comes forth or “descends” and becomes the Earth.

So-called Christianity of this age insults the great teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus taught that the Father and the Son would come in the person of the Holy Ghost. Jesus never taught that there were three persons in the Godhead, but Jesus did teach that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit were all ONE. Jesus was God in flesh.

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