FROM time to time, we hope to give under this heading, interesting experiences sent in by our Students, or answers to Questions in the Correspondence Course Department, which we think are of general interest.

QUESTION: “Are there or are there not two antagonistic powers in the world? If there are, what are they? Give reasons for your answer.”

ANSWER: “Yes. There are positive and negative, or good and evil. The Master constantly taught His Disciples to avoid evil. He taught them how to pray in what is called ‘The Lord’s Prayer,’ and in it He prayed to the Father, ‘Deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.’ He knew the wickedness (evil) of men’s hearts, and admonished all to ‘seek first the Kingdom of God.’ Evil has ever followed on the heels of good that man, through experiencing evil to the saturation point, might at last turn within and find the Kingdom which the Master taught was within. Then, and only then, from God’s Consciousness, is man able to see that evil is good. Satan, wrongly called The Tempter, or Evil One, is in reality a Deity (Saturn) a very highly evolved Spiritual Being, sent to Earth by His Father in Heaven to bring evil conditions to humanity, that man, through experiencing them to satiation, might learn to turn from evil and seek the good within—at long last knowing that evil is but the results of his thinking in terms of separation from Divine Mind.” —E. H.

In commenting on Matthew 6:33, a Student sends in the following:

“I am minded of a couple I know who are Truth teachers, as good examples of those who took no thought for the morrow. When I first met them they knew a good bit of the Law and were practicing it to the best of their ability. At that time they were very close to destitution but were managing to ‘get by.’ As time went on and the outer results of their understanding and practicing became visible, we saw health, success, prosperity more and more in evidence. And this all took place at the time when the whole world was saying ‘poverty, lack, loss, failure.’”

“They proved in the face of what others called adversity that the abundance of God, in Whom they trusted, was ever present.” —A. D. C.

QUESTION: “Explain how one in the home can apply spiritual truths, and gain splendid training and disciplining from the problems met daily.”

ANSWER: “If only we will humble ourselves enough to HEED the scoldings and little pointers concerning some thing in our natures, we will learn very quickly what there is in us which must be gotten out. Our homes are the Great Plan on a small scale—Father (God), Mother (God), Sisters and Brothers (Christ Selves of every man), and if we cannot prove our Love and Truth within our own small Circles, how could we expect to go forth and do for the Great Circle. We could not.” —J. M.

“Do perfect team-work with your conscious and subconscious. If your conscious is full of worry you could not get results from your subconscious, and the voice of the Higher Self could not be heard at all. Team work is very necessary even in worldly affairs. Your conscious mind is the Porter guarding the very gates of the Kingdom. It is the Power that governs the five physical senses. In other words, the mind is the sun-center of the body. The subconscious, the Soul, is the sun-center of the mind. The Higher Self is the sun-center of the Soul. The universal, or super-conscious, is the sun-center, or Father-in-Heaven, of the Higher Self, or Christ of you—and all is One—or you are the three in One, or All in All and All in One. Ninety-nine per cent is Soul, or subconscious. One per cent is conscious. And God is one hundred per cent plus. Our part is to use our one per cent to its highest degree and get out of the way and let the ninety-nine per cent operate.” —R. M.

QUESTION: How may you tell God’s thoughts from those of self? What must you do to win over self?

ANSWER: “When self speaks it is often preceded by ‘I want.’ Anything that bears on the negative, such as self-pity, self-justification, or condemnation, fear, are always of self. In order to overcome these thoughts one must make a conscious effort to keep them out of their mind by turning to the loving Father within, whose vibrating power of love will disperse all signs of self, if it is sought. When one is thinking of self, the easiest way to get the mind in tune with God is to see the Love that is God surrounding the world, some thing, or person, and forget that you even exist.”