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.

REGARDING the change in the Time-measurement in the King’s Chamber from the inch-month to the inch-week basis, we have no way of knowing if such a change is actually consummated, other than the conditions now manifesting in the world. But we do know that for those who believe that the time is shortened, for them it will be shortened, as it is what one believes and holds in consciousness as being so that outmanifests. Can you see what we mean?

There is really no true Spirit or Pure Consciousness, and for any one of us who can this day, or next year, or within the next eight years, come into the full realization of his Oneness with Christ, he then makes his Ascension and puts on Immortality, and the prophecy of the shortened time has been fulfilled. This is something for us all to think about.

REGARDING your claim of deafness, there is no doubt but what you have allowed some mental picture of it to become a living fact in your consciousness, so much so that you are continually feeding it with your belief and concern about it. When the fact is, your God Self is the only self living in your body and has perfect hearing. Undoubtedly the original cause was in your mind not being open to His loving Voice, causing a seeming stoppage of your mental ears, which finally outmanifested in so-called deafness.

To regain your perfect hearing, try faithfully to listen to the loving guidance within, waiting upon the Lord every moment of the day, concerned only that you are pleasing Him and not all about your physical hearing, outer results or things, but with mind and heart ever fixed on Him, KNOW that He is all that you are, that His life and nature are expressing in you, and that if you get out of the way with your untrue beliefs about Him and yourself, He will manifest forth His perfect Self, including perfect hearing.

Think this over until you get its full meaning, and then try to do just what is stated with the help of the words on the back cover page of the Magazine.

WE ARE sorry to learn that you have not been able as yet to pull yourself fully out of the despondent condition you mention. Surely with your husband so fine and good to turn to and to work with you, you can leave that old condition behind and look down upon it for what it is—the actions of children who do not understand what they are doing.

We know that the influence of mother, brother and sister has always been very strong and that it is hard to free yourself from it and at the same time hold what you now know to be their selfish love; but, dear friend, you have had many mothers and brothers and sisters in former lives, and the time has come when you must express your True Self and be greater than any human personality such as they look upon you to be, able to stand on your own spiritual feet and not be affected by anyone, or by anything that they may say or do to you. That is probably the lesson you need to learn out of this experience, especially with the understanding of the truth you have gained from the Lessons. Of what value are these truths if you do not apply them in this very condition that has been provided as an opportunity for the development of the spiritual strength you need.

So why not get busy and demonstrate to your own satisfaction that none of these things affect you—that it is only your little human self that is affected, and that it must now step aside, because you will no longer allow it to influence you and hold you down in this negative state. Think this over, dear friend, and prove that you are bigger than all of these things.

TRY TO realize that the chief purpose of the Correspondence Study Course is to train and discipline the mind so that it will be a perfect instrument for Spirit’s use. This is much more important than you at present realize, for not until you can get your mind to do what you want it to do, it rebels and likes to go its own stubborn, selfish way, even as it is trying to tell you now that answering these questions seem empty of results and likewise all reading and studying. If you only know it, in everything that the outer self does is hidden many lessons; for it is in the doing perfectly of whatever is before you, the mind not at all concerned about results but only that it is pleasing you, and then showing it just what you want it to do and seeing that it does it, that the real results are gained.

There is much of great value in these words, and we hope you will stay with this Course until you have your mind and its thoughts under perfect control.