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.

UNDOUBTEDLY, from what you say, you are going through a digesting and assimilating period. In fact, many of the older students are being required to free themselves from all studies and to begin the definite applying of these truths in their daily lives and in the problems brought to them. You have had all these truths needed to help you find the Kingdom, and had all these truths been built into the consciousness so that they were a part of your life, you would long ago have been in the Kingdom.

Therefore you can see the necessity of going back and taking up these truths one by one and using them as planned by your Loving Father when bringing them to you. The evidence of the results being gained is in your ability to open your heart and let out the Great Love and directing Its Light to others for their release, and to the dark places in your consciousness.

Remember all things that are less than good and perfect exist only in your consciousness, and if there are such things as eczema, lack and limitation of any kind, they are only in your consciousness. Therefore, all that is needed is to turn upon them the Light of Divine Love, which is likewise the Light of Divine Knowing, and the truth that shines forth will make you free.

Whatever you do, when you do it solely to please your Loving Father, concerned not at all about results but only that you are doing what He wants you to do, will bring you just that much closer to the Kingdom. And after awhile self will be no more, will have lost itself in His Consciousness, and you will know you are One with Him, and you can then say, “I Alone AM,” and will know that it is so

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YOU ARE a Spiritual Being. When you truly know this, then nothing that your body does can affect you in any way. Your body does not and cannot sin. It is your mind only that sins by letting your body do the things that you believe are wrong. And you, who are Spirit, likewise cannot sin, because Spirit is God and God knows no sin or iniquity; then it must be your mind only that sins through thinking things are wrong, when such thoughts are born only of wrong understanding about the true purpose of life.

As you say, how could the race be perpetuated without the sex life? That life is only wrong to those who think it is wrong and who in their thinking worship the act and forget the true purpose of being. Nothing is impure in God’s sight. Man only thinks impure things because of his wrong beliefs. The only answer then is to learn to know right from wrong, or good from evil, and that can be learned only through a study of the truth, which is clearly taught in THE IMPERSONAL LIFE and in the Courses of Study we have devised for all earnest students seeking the true way to the Kingdom.

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CAN YOU not see, dear friend, that it is the truths in these Lessons that you need more than anything else—the applying of them in the very problems facing you?

One thing you must learn and that is that you cannot get something for nothing. You have to earn all that you get in this life. And the only way one can earn anything is by thinking, knowing and acting the truth—the truth that God alone is your supply, and by looking to Him only for everything. We are trying to teach you this in these Lessons, but if you persist in turning elsewhere and are trying to get freedom from lack and limitation by buying lottery tickets and chances in similar gambles, you will just have to wander in the darkness until the true light comes to you from within.

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DEAR friend, that “Wall of Self” you have build around you is the only thing that hides the light of the Kingdom and is keeping you in the dark sense of sin and separation. That “Wall of Self” is but your belief in separation from God and His Consciousness. When that belief is dissolved you would know your oneness with Him—because His Consciousness would be yours, and you would then be in the Kingdom.

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ANSWERING your question about kneeling in prayer, yes, by getting down on your knees, you actually show that you are humbling yourself before God, and it helps to free your mind from all outer things and to turn it wholly to Him. Do you not realise that?

When your mind is thus turned wholly to Him in a perfect love and trust, then it is wide open for the good to flow through it into expression that He has been waiting to deliver to you from the beginning.

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