MY CHILD, do you believe that I Am—I, and I alone? Then you must believe that all that you are, I am—that your body, your mind, your life, your will, your self—all are Mine.

Then you must be I, My Self. Which means that you can not be separate or different in any particular from Me. Only as you think yourself different can you be other than I Am in any phase of your nature.

Then naturally, if you think yourself as not different but one with Me, so shall you be, and you shall express My nature.

Be still, until you glean the full import of these words.

If I am your self, then if you will but thus know it and let Me think My thoughts, speak My words, and do My will in you—which I will always do if you keep your thoughts of a separate self and will from your mind—then you will soon learn to be your true self and will consciously join your mind and will with Mine; and I will possess and work through them, and My Mind and Will will become yours, and you will know yourself as I AM, even as My beloved Son, Christ Jesus, showed My Self to you.

But before you can be and do this, you must accustom your mind to the knowledge of your true nature as very Christ living in your body and ruling your consciousness and the consciousness of your body. You must strive unceasingly to permit no thoughts to enter your mind and no feelings to influence your heart that you know are not Mine.

Yea, you must speak to your mind as I am now speaking to you, and must convince it by words of truth whom you are—must lift it up into the consciousness that you know to be Mine and yours.

You must even persuade the consciousness of the organs and parts of your body that you are now allied with God, the All-Good, thereby wiping out of their consciousness all of the old