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.

WE LIKE your admission that you have advanced quite a lot in Spiritual understanding since your letter of a few months ago, this despite the fact that you say that outer conditions do not seem to have changed.

Now let us see if we can get something across to you. We are going to restate the law, but in a different way, reversing the order of it. The fact that you see so prominently in your mind and believe it is so that outer conditions have not changed, is what prevents those conditions changing in the outer; because what you see and believe to be so in your mind must outmanifest in the physical. The moment that you can change that picture in your mind and see and believe a different thing is so, the outer conditions will correspondingly change.

Now let us show you that the change is actually beginning, whether you see it outwardly or not. You state that things and conditions do not concern you as much as they used to, and you are quieter and more peaceful within. In other words, you are beginning to take your mind off of that old picture and are not feeding it very much these days, because it does not concern you so much. When there is absolutely no concern about it and you do not feed that picture at all—do not even think of it anymore, you will find that it will disappear from your consciousness and therefore from outer manifestation, being replaced by the new picture of the truth you are building, as you more and more believe it is so.

If you will carefully consider and then meditate upon all that we have stated, you will find that it answers all your questions, and eventually your mind will give in to the truths that you are building in its consciousness.

CAN YOU not see that the more you want to surrender self, completely surrender to God, the more self rebels, holds on and refuses to let go? Of course that would be so, because you are wanting to take from self all life and power that it has over you; and when you take from it its life, then it cannot live and rule any more, and so it will have to die, and self never wants to die—its very existence depends upon the maintenance of self or selfishness.

Think on that idea for awhile. Then just know that the only way to accomplish the complete surrender is to stop feeding self, stop recognizing it, stop admitting there is a self, and see instead only the good and perfect One that You are, that image and likeness Self that was created in the beginning and which is always abiding within, waiting to come forth and express itself, when the mind is fixed wholly on It and no more on that other self.

The light of this great truth, clear one, as it penetrates your mind and is allowed to remain there, will help more than anything else to bring about the complete surrender. We are aiding you by holding you in the Light of our Noonday Chalice, seeing you wholly free, beautiful and perfect even as God sees you.

OF COURSE it is not necessary for everyone to organize a group in order to serve, because one can serve wherever one is. But there comes a time with many who feel the yearning to draw other souls together to help point out some of the great truths that have come into their lives. Such are urged and helped to form a group in order that these others may be brought into the consciousness of service, so that they in turn can draw to them those that they can prepare for service.

This is but the plan followed in Spirit, where is one great loving Brotherhood of many degrees and orders of unfoldment, but all fitted perfectly and working as One to help their brothers on earth to come into the Light of Christ that they have found. Where you are now and what you are doing proves that you are serving in the way that has been shown you by your Higher Self.

The real purpose of a group, therefore, you can see is to develop workers; not all are equipped or ready, as yet to do that, or are led to do it. You must follow your inner leadings, and we are sure you will do that from the way you are now being used.

AS TO your husband, God is in him and is unfolding His Consciousness in him just as He is in you, and He knows best what he needs and is therefore expressing Himself in and through him as best for him at this time. So far as your staying behind and waiting for him, that is not possible; for God is growing you and is growing him, and you cannot help yourselves. Therefore, give it no concern, but trust it all to the God within you.

Who is it that has made up her mind to stay behind? That is only the human part of you that feels that way—not the real You. You are a Spiritual Being and have lived in many bodies, and probably have had many husbands in other lives; therefore you have no concern about such things, but know as we have shown that your husband’s True Self will take care of him, even as You are taking care of Your outer expression.

Think this over until you get our true meaning.

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