WHAT is your right? Who are you? Until you understand these two points, your statements are but lifeless words. Thousands have spent years of their lives claiming, “All that the Father hath is mine,” and had difficulty in finding enough to pay for a week’s lodging and food.

Beloved, how long will you wait without, seeking for that which is your divine heritage? How long will you try to make that which is already finished? When will you identify yourself with the Christ within, as a Son of the Most High, and claim your Divine Right? Assume your Sonship and you will realize that life is not just one long tiresome task of demonstrating. Thousands are rising each morning and getting busy knowing the truth about God and His Universe, hoping thereby to overcome some of the fiendish conditions of the flesh—and finding themselves defeated.

Who are You? Were you created by God, or by some erring human concept which has thrown you into a hell of change and then given you a glimmer of light, which says that if by your prayers you can establish a faith that there is a God, perhaps He will give you a crust of bread? You have been taught that you were conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity, a worm of the dust, a miserable sinner. Where does the Divine Heritage come in? Where does the child of God find its own? Nowhere and everywhere. No-where so long as you are looking for Him in some far off place, and every-where when you recognize the Presence here and now.

Now are we the Sons of God—right now! When a man hears the word “now” in its true sense, he finds he has been spelling it backwards, and that in reality the “now” understood means “Won.” You have now the Sonship and all that goes with it, when you understand the “now” of Spirit.

You are not a combination of matter and Spirit. If God had been clay, everything He evolved would have been of clay. But we find Him as pure Spirit, all-inclusive, and hence the creation must of necessity be Spirit. You, the highest manifestation of this Power, are made of the all-inclusive substance of mind called Spirit. You are the Son or Center from which the innate qualities of God pour into expression. You are asking no special dispensation or favor of God when you, the Son, “claim your right and press your claim.” You are claiming that which divinely belongs to you.

The name of the Prince of Wales is Edward David Windsor, but the power is vested in his claiming his rights as the Prince of Wales, and pressing his claim into expression. I doubt if a great portion of the people of the world would be impressed by the name Edward David Windsor, but most anyone is interested in the name Prince of Wales, and yet they are one and the same person. If he did not recognize the fact, however, another would certainly usurp his rights. Even though he be born to the place, yet if he did not recognize this, he would never have the power of it.

Even though you are born the Son of God, with unlimited power and happiness as your right, until you perceive this, you function along as John Smith or some other person, ignorant of the glorious freedom of the Son of God, and you will beg for a crust, when you might be sitting at the overflowing table of Infinite Spirit. All things are possible with ME, but nothing is possible for me. Joy comes when you make a clear line of demarcation between the John Smith and the Christ. You begin at once to appropriate the rights of the Son of God.

The less you ask for, the harder it is to get, not because of any stinginess of the Power, but by reason of its tremendous affluence. If you hold a pint cup in Niagara Falls you will come away with it empty—not because of the lack of water, but because of too much water. The force of water dashes everything out as fast as it gets in, because the measure is too small. Your poor little vision of what belongs to you, keeps you from having the abundance of Spirit. You can have all, and all be left.

“All the Father hath is mine.” Where is the Father? If you look at Jesus’ words, you will find that the Father is within you, and that you have everything—all that your Father has. Putting this through the limited beliefs of personality causes you to partake of the good, bad or indifferent states of your consciousness—all that you have in your consciousness.

What you conceive the Father within you to be, is all that you have in manifestation. The measure that you hold to the universe is all that can possibly come into manifestation. If you are dissatisfied with the conditions in your daily life they cannot be rectified from without—but through a better concept of the Father within. Taking attention entirely away from appearances will enable you to bring about what you formerly called demonstrations. You will see that enlarging the borders of your tent means becoming more conscious of the Power within and discovering its unlimited capacities, which are beyond anything that you can ask or think.

In pressing your claim, you do not drive a bargain,—nor do you fight. In this sense “pressing” means standing firm on the point you know to be true, and turning not to the right or left. It means saluting no man as you pass along the way (saluting no doubt or appearance as you go forward into expression of the Son of God).

“Claim your right and press your claim.” The Son of God has power on earth to forgive sins (to correct the ignorance of human beliefs). Then follow the magnificent works without number, until millions of blessings are pouring down about everybody. When I attempt to count my blessings, they are as numerous as the sands of the sea. Your blessings, Son of the Living God, are so numerous that you have no time to contemplate the lack of anything; and when you attempt to count the blessings, you will find the lack has been swallowed up in abundance and you are free here and now.

It is wonderful! It is wonderful! It is wonderful! “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.” “Prove me now herewith, if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”

What is heaven? It is a state of consciousness. What is the “Me”? It is the “I AM” within you. Hence, the windows that are to be opened are in your own consciousness. The blessings that are to be poured out are the ideas that will pour through your mind into the manifest world of expression. It is wonderful! Millions of blessings are yours. Do you hear, Son of God?

Stop this useless trying to seek Me for the loaves and fishes, and find Me as the Pure Substance of Spirit, and you will hear the joyous command: “Hitherto you have asked nothing in my Name (the I AM): ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full.” Not nearly full, but full to overflowing! You are one with the mighty sea of Substance. As the wave is one with the ocean, never for one instant separate, and rises, and loses itself in the ocean, so man finds that by “losing (himself) his life” he finds it and by “saving his life” he loses it.

When you lose your little personal sense of life, you will find the One Life—that which is Wonderful, the life that is won now, the heaven here and now.

What have you to worry over, beloved? Behold a new day—a new day, a new start, a new idea! No matter where this finds you, no matter into what depths you have fallen or to what heights you have climbed—you have the wonderful opportunity of finding the glorious True Self within, claiming your right and pressing your claim as the Living God.

Think what this means. It means that there is no more struggle to “do” or “be.” It means that the Father within is responsible, it means that the “I AM” goes before the “John Smith,” and makes the way clear and perfect. Do you see why you suddenly awaken to the realities of being, and begin to take your good out of the Universal?

“I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere,” even as the power in the wave is not separated from the ocean, but moves through the wave, an impersonal Power—so the power in you is not a personal possession of health, happiness or prosperity, but is an impersonal Power, working through the visible means supplied. So can you not see, then, how all men (Sons of God) are equal?

We have been hypnotized to the belief that we are a body with little health or power shut up within; with a little capacity to earn money; a little power to supply people with money or things. Now we awake to the fact that the Power is pouring through us,—never the same results, but always the same Power. If we go toward a fountain in the distance, we do not see the same picture two minutes in succession; the water is being changed constantly, yet holds the same form; and so it is with Spirit. It is a constant change of changeless power coming into manifestation. You are a Son of God, and the same power is here, there, and everywhere. If you go into the desert, you have but to recognize this to find it blossom as a rose. “I AM HERE, I AM THERE, I AM EVERYWHERE.” IT IS WONDERFUL! IT IS WONDERFUL! BLESSINGS, BLESSINGS, BLESSINGS.

Do you see, beloved, the truth of completeness—of wholeness? For this is (right here and now) Eternal Life, that they might know Me—the I AM. To identify yourself with this, is to experience Life Eternal, which lacks nothing.

Can you conceive of Spirit being hurt, distressed or harmed, or aided and assisted in any way by matter? To know yourself as the Son of God is to experience the freedom of the Son of God, to experience the Power of decreeing a thing and seeing it come to pass. The recognition—recognition—(cognizing again that which has already been) the divine remembrance of your rightful heritage, will restore to you the lost substance of life; will bring to you the robe, the ring, the fatted calf, to your full heritage of Sonship.

“To him that hath shall be given and to him that hath not shall be taken away.” You have in manifestation exactly what you have in consciousness whether good, bad, or indifferent. Why waste further time trying to change the outside condition when it is held in manifestation by the inner state of your consciousness? To him that hath shall be given—he attracts the good, bad, or indifferent manifestations. A man with a consciousness full of troubles always gets more troubles; he finds them everywhere. It is what he believes to be true and so it must manifest.

No wonder the prophet asked “what have you in your house,” —in your consciousness? You have just what you conceive your Father within to be, and you cannot increase your manifest good until you recognize the nature of the pure substance of Spirit from which all things come into manifestation.

Until you recognize your True Self, and stop trying to doctor up an old body or condition, you cannot know the glory of a Son of God. You are not an old creature patched up. You are a new creature in Christ. You are a new, perfect manifestation. To recognize this is to claim your right and press your claim by the supreme power of the Almighty.

“Every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of Light, with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turning.” How long will you seek among the husks for the substance of Life? Every gift that is to come to you as “John Smith” will proceed out of the center of the “I AM” consciousness within yourself. “Behold, I AM he that should come.” I AM that I AM has sent you into expression. It is wonderful, it is wonderful! Blessings, blessings, blessings.

“I AM” the Son of the Living God. Claim your right and press your claim. Son of the Living God, I salute you! Arise! Leave the husks of your human reasoning and go unto your Father within. Let the filthy be filthy still. Let those who wish to sell the Word of God continue to do so. Let those who want to argue continue their arguments. Let those judges and spiritual busybodies cast their stones.

Go thy way; it is well with thee. The new secret has been revealed to you; do you hear? Peace be unto you. It is well, now as always. “Claim your right and press your claim.” It is expression. Now is the time. Now is the day of Salvation. “Now are we the Sons of God.” Now are the millions of blessings yours. Be still, be still, be still! It is wonderful, it is wonderful, it is wonderful! Blessings, blessings, blessings!—Selected and adapted from “It is Wonderful”