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.

TO THOSE who desire to fit themselves for Inner Work and raise their consciousness above the limitation of littleness and separation, we give the following statement of Truth, which if learned by heart, pondered, absorbed, held continuously in thought, will inevitably bring about the desired expansion of consciousness.

“I am pure consciousness, an outer extension of God’s Consciousness. Therefore I am not body or a separate self; they are but my thought creations, and are only what I see and believe them to be.

“As I now know my Oneness with God, in order to express my God qualities and powers, I now think and thereby cause to appear in my consciousness a perfect body, in which I as a Christ Self, live and have my being while here on earth.

“I see myself now as God formed me in the beginning, when creating the earth and all on it, and I see how good and perfect are all.

“Therefore all which formerly appeared to my mortal senses, and which I believed as so, are changed, and I now see only the good and perfect things God sees and wants me to see and use.

“Inharmony, weakness, and imperfection have no existence in God’s Consciousness: therefore they have no part in me or in my consciousness.

“I now see myself as I am: strong, vital, good, pure and perfect; all-wise, all-loving, and all-capable of doing God’s Will on earth, as He sent me forth to do.

“And I now open myself wide and allow the One Consciousness to fill out and make fully manifest this thought-picture of myself, even as I see it and believe it is so.”

CONSIDER how we are PURE CONSCIOUSNESS,—Virgin Consciousness,—in the integrity or essence of our being, that we are not even mind or thought, but we are of that Virgin Substance from which all things are created. We are God, we are creations of God, made in His Image and Likeness. We are then just Pure Consciousness, a pure state of awareness.

But when we were created, God gave us a self conscious mind. When He breathed into us the breath of life we became living souls. That which made us living souls was that which became our minds, which enabled us to think, thereby to create, and thereby to go forth from the ONE Consciousness and live in our own creations.

It was on the discovery of our powers as Sons of God, a living expression of Him, that we left our Father’s House, or Consciousness, as prodigal sons, starting out into a world of our own creating, and thereby learning the use of these God-derived powers.

In those early days when we first became aware of those powers, we greatly feared them, and called them monsters or gods. But in reality they were only the powers of God that we had loosed, or freed through our thinking. For, as we went farther and farther out in our thinking, and became more and more separated from our Father, God—the ONE Consciousness—we became involved in our own world and in our own new creations. We lost our way, and our world began to grow dark because as the light within grew dim, we could no longer see or be aware of our source in the One Consciousness or origin of our life and our nature. Finally, we descended into that “thick darkness,” or materiality, where we wasted our substance and lived with the “swine”—the lowest of our creations. In that state we misused the powers of our divine nature in the creations of self, of things of the lowest type to gratify self, to satisfy the cravings of the senses. These became so powerful that they in turn enslaved us. And we became completely involved in our own false consciousness. When we could go no further, at last we awoke to what we had done and to where we are. We began to recall our Father’s Home, or the One Consciousness. We recalled how we had left that home, enticed by the misuse of the power of God, to think our own thoughts which had awakened in us that quality of self to see and know for ourselves, to taste and indulge and use all the powers we had discovered within ourselves, the power of thinking and creating.

At last we saw to the full what we had done, what we had created, the awful state of separation in which we now lived. And we said, “I will arise and go to my Father. I will try to use His power wisely as He would have me do.” But we found that wherever we turned, we were faced by our own creations, by our own thoughts, and all those forces of our lower nature which we had allowed to rule in our consciousness. We could not take one step until we learned to face, control and master these forces, these children of our lusts, our selfishness and greed.

Then we turned consciously to our Father and in humility, on bended knees, asked His help in our return to His Consciousness. In response He began to reveal Himself to us. The first glimpse of Him taught us humility and submission to His Spirit within us.

In this manner, humanity starts its return journey to the Father’s House. Those who have been faithful, have listened to His Voice and have been guided by Him, have made real headway and will in time reach their Father’s House, bringing with them all the experience gained, the old mistakes, miscreations redeemed, their forces transmuted and built into love and power to serve God and our Lord Jesus Christ. For we have found that He alone is the Way Home; the only Truth and the only Life, and that by Him and Him alone, can we be safely led and reach our Father’s Home.

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MIGHTY I is making sublime all my creations! Little i is composed of body, intellect and emotions outpictured in belief images and is the portion of Mighty I, asleep apparently, outside of His Kingdom.

Mighty I’s Ideas are in His Kingdom, but i, who am sustained and live in His Life, imagine i am alone and separate.

Mighty I permitted me to believe and create just as i wished, and so i, in innocence took His Divine Ideas and made Them into human beings in my imagination. In my ignorance, i made untrue pictures; then i grew sight, hearing, taste, smell and feelings, to support and sustain my human self in them. As i had only Mighty I’s Ideas to start with, which He endowed me in the beginning, to build all manner of untrue beliefs and project them out into manifestation.

This i consciousness is crude and imperfect, and can never enter the refined and exalted Consciousness of Mighty I—so i, having grown wise after many ages, i discriminate between His GOOD and my evil. Now i try to use all my life and thought to remove the false pictures i made, from around Mighty I’s lovely Ideas.

After i became aware of the feeling of Him within me, He, the Mighty I, and little i, began working together on all my false pictures that were in my brain mind. Before i became wise enough to look within—before i found Mighty I within me, my thoughts, images and pictures troubled me greatly. i could not control them. i thought i was pure and believed i was on the way to the Kingdom, yet they would not listen when i tried to tell them about their evil ways. Then one day Mighty I said to little i—“Are you willing to take all the sins of the world on yourself?” and i answered “Yes!”

Then He sent a GREAT ANGEL to help me, and i never ceased to marvel about Her Love. To me, Her Love included all human loves and MUCH MORE! She was with me by day, and by night She stood beside my bed. She loved little me so that She never left me.

It was She Who showed me how Heavenly were the Ideas beneath the ugly pictures i had made of humans. Showed me that underneath this human picture were LORDS, ANGELS, GODS, GODDESSES, WHITE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, and CHRISTS! And all the time little i thought they were human beings!

Oh! It is such a relief to have all my creations right in my own brain-mind—here they are, and here i am . . . and here also is Mighty I, all together in one place . . . the creation . . . the creator . . . and the REDEEMER!

WE do not have to go outside for anything, for i have learned the source of my life. Now i know there is nothing wrong, and never has been anything wrong with Our Universe but me . . . and i only made wrong pictures of it.

And so, now . . . every day WE take my picture-beliefs and sublimate them one by one. Mighty I tells me what to do.

Some day soon, they will all be just as He made them— IDEAS! Then little i will go into nothingness from whence she created her self. Then there will be only GOD in HIS UNIVERSE! —Nancy.

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THERE is naught new! That which thou claimest thine . . . Is but a center Of Eternal Being — the God That ever was, and IS!

And words of thine . . . But frame an inner seeming, The onward surging Of That Life, and of a Love That ever was, and IS.

Eternally, ONE Life has ever circled on Through countless forms, “below”, “above”, Guided by laws, immutable, unbroken, The greatest of all . . . CHRIST LOVE. That ever was, and IS! —N. B.

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