THE “POOL OF BETHESDA” is that pool of Spirit deep within your consciousness that is the very Source of your life. Therein is life in its pristine purity. Try to realize that you have such a pool of consciousness deep within where you can enter and bathe any time you will, and there can be cleansed of all impurities, all weakness of body, mind and soul, and can come forth renewed, revitalized and strengthened for whatever is before you.

Your body, life and words are only what you think they are. In that quiet wonderful consciousness you see everything as it really is, and think only true thoughts about yourself and the God Life in you that is your only life. There you know the truth, and the truth is so wonderful it will make you clean, and free you from all the false beliefs accumulated in the outer consciousness of self.

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WHY BE disappointed with yourself? Those things are but tests to prove whether or not the truths you had learned you can now use. Why think you they were given you by your Higher Self? And how are you to know that you really understand them until you are given such opportunities to put them to use?

Let this experience be an incentive and a stimulation to you to make yourself the next time say and do only what the Loving One within wants you to do. We never know our weaknesses until we are tested, and then they are shown us only that we may get busy and correct them. Can you not see it now?

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WE REGRET to learn of the fallen arches and suggest that if possible you begin the exercise of the muscles that support the arches as follows: Raise yourself on your toes six times or more as far as you can and rest there a moment after each raising. After which, resting on your heels, raise your toes as far as you can an equal number of times. These exercises cause the blood to circulate fully in the muscles which before were not getting enough vitality and had therefore grown weak. Do this exercise several times a day and while doing it see and feel the muscles being strengthened thereby, and you will soon find relief manifesting and a restoration to normal condition.

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DO NOT think that you are just a beginner, because one’s progress is not in any way determined by one’s occult or metaphysical knowledge, but only by one’s Spiritual understanding and sympathy for those who are facing their problems bravely. Love is the only criterion—love for others despite what they say or do. When one has love—real love, it shines from their faces and shows in all that they do. But that love is only the reflection of what is coming from the real Lover within, the Christ, Whose Light lighteth every man who lets His Love thus shine forth.

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