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 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.

THE LOST WORD in reality is but the lost power to speak or use The Word that immediately outmanifests itself.

In another article in this issue, entitled “The Wonder Word,” is a story of a man who for a few moments possessed the power of using The Word and seeing it bring to pass whatever he wished. A Stranger appeared to him in the quiet of his garden and told him of this power, and behold, he found that it worked.

Of course that “Stranger” was his Higher Self, and the “garden” was the inner consciousness of his soul, where we sometimes enter in our meditations and dreams, and there see beautiful things and enjoy strange powers, seemingly annihilating time and space.

And that is what we want to talk about in this article, to show that in order to regain the use of “The Lost Word,” we have but to lose our consciousness of time and space. Just what does that mean?

Both time and space are admitted by Science to be creations of the mind, and that once one can eliminate the belief in time and space from the mind—free it from all thought of them, whatever one would think clearly or say would immediately be manifest.

This must be so, for in the mental realm, or in one’s mind, when one thinks and sees clearly in his mind his thought, that thought is right there before him a living thing as long as he sees it. In all the inner realms of the mind this is so.

Now supposing you could get your mind to believe that time and space were illusions—were but mind’s creations, and that our law, “Whatever we think and believe is so will outmanifest itself,” do you not see that with time and space out of the way, the outmanifestation would be immediate.

We know that it is difficult—almost impossible—for our minds not to consider time and space in all our calculations, and that such considerations influence all that we say and do; but this article is to assure you that one’s belief in them can be eliminated from one’s consciousness to such effect that instantaneous manifestations of one’s spoken or unspoken word will result.

We need not cite instances of such manifestations in modern life, because many of you have had evidences of saying things and seeing them appear a moment or so later; deeming them as coincidences, however, because of their not being very important, and not realizing that you actually spoke them into being out of the invisible. We have had numerous students report such experiences.

But we wish to emphasize that these were not accidents or coincidences, but were the outworking of a definite law—yes, our law, that what one thinks and sees clearly enough will manifest itself—if certain vitalizing qualities are put in one’s thought-picture.

What are those qualities? Pure faith, belief, knowing; even strong desire bringing it about. Many have experienced it in little things, some in big things. Jesus used and proved it in all His so-called miracles. All Adepts, Yogis, and Magicians use it. Use what? Use the law—our law in The Way Out.

Why do we tell you this again? Because in that law lies hidden the secret you are all seeking, the secret of Jesus, the secret of Masters and Adepts, the secret of “The Lost Word.”

Yes it can be found, and the power of “The Lost Word” can be regained, by anyone who is willing to pay the price of painstaking, determined working with the mind, patiently explaining, reasoning and convincing it day after day, week after week, until little by little it lets go of its belief in time and space, and finally allows the truth of the omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence of the One Mind to flood its consciousness and to free it from all limitations.

Of course this priceless power has to be earned, and is never permitted for long to be the possession of anyone who would use it as planned by the man in the story of “The Wonder Word.”

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YOU HAVE no physical body; you just think you have a body. Your body then is but a thought-form of a body. In fact, you are states of consciousness in body forms held together by your interest and belief in them. They belong to you because they are apart of your consciousness, but they are known only to you as YOU.

YOU, in the beginning were a THOUGHT—A LOVELY GOD-THOUGHT! Then this God Thought began having thoughts separate from Its Creator. THIS was when It went to sleep in the Garden of Eden.

During that sleep this Heavenly God Thought used Its perfect life force to build a false being in consciousness. This false entity then dominated the consciousness and went deeper and deeper into this dream state until it began to think many thoughts separate and different from God Thoughts, and to believe these creations were real.

These picture images in consciousness grew stronger and seemed to this entity to become things—as seen and felt and having power over its being.

But You are awakening from this dream and are knowing these things for just what they are—YOUR OWN CREATED BELIEF IMAGES!!!

Now when You were still in the Garden Paradise of God, You had many, many lovely thoughts—lovely as was Your own Being. But when you went to sleep YOU DREAMED THAT ALL GOD’S OTHER THOUGHTS WENT TO SLEEP ALSO.

BUT THIS WAS NOT TRUE . . . THEY DID NOT GO TO SLEEP . . . You but THOUGHT They did . . . It was all a lie, born in your dream.

Thus did I speak to Nancy, my dream-self, while still in her dream, in order to make her awake. Now she is awake and knows, and this is what she now understands:

I—God’s Thought, known as Nancy—and I only, went to sleep. Because I was asleep I imagined that all other God Thoughts also were asleep.

Oh, the great, wonderful truth! I am the only one in all my world who slept. Nothing else is asleep in the Garden of Eden but me; I, and only I, have been dreaming that these God Thoughts were human, doing all these things to me, and with me, and for me. While all this time I was only dreaming that they were humans.

And now here I am awake. And the Garden is just as it always was. There are no human beings at all! Do YOU UNDERSTAND? THERE ARE NO HUMANS—THEY ARE ALL GOD THOUGHTS!

WHY, I WAS THE ONLY THING WRONG ON THIS EARTH—IN THIS UNIVERSE! EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT but ME!! But I believed all this only in my dream.

Now I know the truth—everything and everyone has been in this Paradise all the time!

I was the cause of all trouble on earth—I created it all. I made wars; I made famines; I made earth-quakes; I made sickness; I made poverty; I made evil—all, all that is cruel and ugly. I did it all!

Everybody else and every other thing is INNOCENT . . . I alone sinned—and I sinned only in my dream!

And now that I have discovered this, I am trying to think what to do next. It gives me so much comfort and peace—PEACE all over this Universe of mine, to know that everything is all right. I am so glad, Oh, SO glad, that it was only a dream.

Now that I know the truth, the truth will show me the Way. I have only to live in the Garden and to obey my Lord God in the midst of me. —Nancy.

DEAR ONES:

I feel very strongly led to tell you of some of the many truths which I have been able to give to my outer mind through the help of the Impersonal Teachings. These Teachings are so wonderful I cannot express in mere words the loving part they have played in this outer one’s life. I am more grateful than I can ever let you know, and may the complete lifting up of the outer self prove my gratitude to you and to all of our other dear Brothers in Christ.

I have recently been impressing upon my mind that it is not what it believes itself to be, but that it is pure consciousness, and that body, mind, soul and spirit are merely vehicles or avenues of expression on different planes of consciousness; that as consciousness can act in any one of these vehicles when it centers its interest and attention on the particular knowledge which any one of them is capable of expressing; that the Spiritual Consciousness, that of the Christ, knows and does express every whole, complete and perfect thought of God, and that It is man’s true and only consciousness, thinned down to suit the size and use of its different avenues of expression.

The desired goal, therefore, must be to bring the mind’s interest and attention to be centered continually in the Christ level of Consciousness, so that It can “shine through” and illumine all other avenues of expression; that by so doing one then becomes capable of always doing the Father’s Will on all the different levels of consciousness, from the innermost to the outermost.

Another great truth that I am impressing upon this mind disciple of Mine is the one the Impersonal Teachings have stressed so much of late—that all persons, things and conditions in the outer world are only the thoughts and beliefs which people the world of anyone’s consciousness.

Indeed, my disciple is beginning to see, as our Sister expressed it, that all the things we see with our eyes are seen through the colored glasses of our personal beliefs, and that when we look at another expression of God we naturally see that one through the glasses of such beliefs and cannot see them as they really are glorious, radiant Divine Beings. When we are able to discard these glasses from our minds’ eyes, and see these Sons of God with our Christ understanding, then we will find ourselves actually in the Kingdom—the Consciousness—of God.

While My mind was pondering over these great truths, I caused certain books to come to its attention that spoke much about Karma. Its desire to know allowed Me to speak and be heard. This is the message I gave to My mind:

Within the consciousness of your soul, which for many ages has deemed itself separate from Me, your Real Self, there have grown up many wrong and foolish beliefs, caused by ignorant and selfish thinking—all of which I permitted, for reasons that will later become apparent.

These thoughts and beliefs in the course of time took on the appearance of people, things and conditions, and because of the intense interest, concern and feeling with which the mind invested these mental creations, you thereby gave them life and reality in your consciousness.

This caused you to deem yourself a separate being from Me and to believe you were living in a separate world apart from My Consciousness. These beliefs you carried with you from one mind and body to another throughout the countless ages as you incarnated again and again into the outer earth life; and all of these beliefs (people, things and conditions) became actual forces in your consciousness and thereby made up your life. Indeed, it was impossible to free your consciousness from them, because its attention and interest were being constantly claimed by these its own creations, and they were thus kept alive and powerful.

But it was I, through the outworking of the Law, who brought these forces continually to your mind’s attention, until it learned to listen to Me; when as fast as it could receive it I taught it what these things were NOT. Some of you have learned that, until you persistently put inharmonious thoughts out of your mind, and keep them out, they will stay with you and continually come to you to be fed.

And remember, these thoughts include all the people, things and conditions ever accepted into your mind. Therefore, since your soul was first interested in and thus invited into its consciousness any particular thoughts and there entertained them, each new mind in an earth body was given opportunity to see into the mirror of your soul, and to see all your old error beliefs, so that you could try to free yourself from the mistakes of the past.

This accounts for the particular people, things and conditions that are a part of your present life, for all of them are but the accepted beliefs and vitalized forces you created in former lives, and which will ever return to you, their creator, either to be redeemed or to be fed with more life.

Many people I cause to believe that when some trouble or inharmony comes into their lives, nothing can be done about it, because it is some wrong which they committed in a former life for which they have to pay, and which can be corrected only by willingly going through the experience.

This is true, My son, if rightly understood. You have created everything now manifesting in your life by your thoughts and beliefs given birth in past lives or in this life. If some objectionable thing, person or condition comes before you, no matter what it be, you yourself created it, are responsible for it, and you must change it to what God would like to have it appear. And you can do this only by willingly letting go of your present thoughts of it and by turning to Me for My instruction concerning it.

If it concerns a person, which an occultist might say was a person you wronged in a past life, know, My son, that when people are thoughts about Me, your Christ Self, Who alone you have wronged; and once you change your thoughts about them, they must change. For all things in your life are only what you think they are and what you have carried in your consciousness throughout the ages. When you have changed your wrong thinking, or your thoughts to what I would have you think, you will no longer be subjected to or affected by former mistakes. For the only mistakes were in your thinking wrong thoughts instead of right ones, and all of your experience and all of your suffering were but to free your consciousness from all thoughts that caused your eyes to see what was less than all good and all perfect. —Jack.

O FRIENDLY cross that raised me high, When mortal thought did pinion me on thee—to die! As tender flesh received each piercing nail, My heart did bleed, my senses quail; I cried aloud in what I thought to be, A cruel fate—to writhe in agony. “Father, Father! Why hast Thou forsaken me?” Just as Jesus spoke in His Gethsemane.

Gentle Jesus, Who came to show us how The flesh must yield, and human head must bow. All, all must be surrendered—on the Cross; Man must be purged of wrong beliefs, of dross. And so each builds his own crucifying bar Of adverse thoughts and acts that seem to mar His life and wreck his chance for happiness. He little knows some day this Cross he’ll bless.

When the Minus bar of misconception is complete, A change takes place in the workshop; Holy, Sweet, Thoughts pour in to be used constructively, Forming the Plus pillar of the Cross that is to be The freeing element in mortal’s earth career, Supporting strength of the thing we fear. We fear, we dread, because we do not understand— It is the portal into the Promised Land.

Oh! Cross! Most blessed Cross that we have hated! Accept our thanks, even though they seem belated. But for Thee we couldst never have known The joys of Heaven, to which our souls have flown. Thou art the only way—the only Path to Peace. Holy Instrument of God, let us not cease To give praise and thanks and gratitude For Thy service—Friendly Cross, for Thou art Good! —Edith L. Putnam.

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