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the universe of Substance. The limitation, the "certain amount" is man's estimate, depending in manifestation upon the faith we exercise toward God in his Supply capacity. If we fix a standard of amount and an arbitrary channel through which Supply is to arrive at our hand, we are in great likelihood of making work for ourselves; on the other hand, if we take God as the One Source and the One Channel and the Unlimited Resource, our prosperity will come probably in an unexpected way, and in an increased quantity.

A daily reading in Matthew 6th, from the 24th to the 34th verse would be helpful to you. In taking up this study, ask Spirit to illumine you, to interpret the teaching that you may know the Source and Law of Supply.

Of course if one prepares for days of disability, the days will come. When the night of unfaith shuts out God's providence the following day will bring with it all adversity that has been invited by anticipation. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." God never fails; if our faith is steadfast we shall prove him always the prospering Father, the nourishing Mother.

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"The kingdom of heaven is within you." look outside for the kingdom you will not find it; if you look outside of yourself for anything you will not find it. God has made of you a center from which to manifest and radiate his good. No one has been able to defeat the law, and as long as you think that some source outside of yourself is going to prosper you the old experience will continue.

Stop right where you are, and resolve that you will become acquainted with the God of your being as he lives, and would show himself forth from the very center of your life.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Please explain:

"To comprehend the creation of the Almighty, we must grasp the idea in Divine mind. This is what is meant by studying mind back of nature."

"Get behind the thing into the realm where it exists an idea and you can draw upon it perpetually without exhausting its source."

"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Why ask this if the "consciousness of matter and material things are transitory and will pass away from the whole race?"

What is the material but thought manifestation? And will our thoughts not always continue to manifest after we have learned to think right thoughts, even though the material will not be subject to bondage? For example, take Christ's body after the resurrection which manifested in a gardener's form, an unknown traveling companion, and in its familiar guise, and yet was not barred by locked door, vanishing whenever Christ desired.

If the universe is made of the ideas held in mind of "Being" is it through Being's thought or through our sense consciousness these ideas are brought into manifestation?

"It is only experienced as we become consciously one with it."

"When we make our selves one with it."-MRS. W. O. G.

To understand effects we must study and comprehend cause. Human science begins with effect and seeks to work backward to cause, proceeding by the method of deduction or subtraction from given data. The result of its investigations is a varied concatenation of human opinions, holding sufficient truth to make it seem plausible, but so mixed with error as to render it untenable. The Science of Truth begins with Cause and works by the process of induction or intuition. The One Supreme Cause is Divine Mind. Individual minds are not parts of the Divine Mind, because the One Mind is a unit and cannot be divided. Man's mind is a state of consciousness in the One Mind. When we realize this and know

that it is the One Divine Mind working in and through us, we are enabled to grasp the living Ideas through which the One Mind expresses. Every manifestation in the so-called natural world is the outworking of an Idea in Divine Mind. "Every world, that floats like an islet in the ocean of space, is filled with signs of his presence, just as the home of your friend is littered with the many evidences of his residence, by which you know that he lives there, though you have not seen his face. Every crocus pushing through the dark mould; every fire-fly in the forest; every bird that springs up from its nest before your feet; everything that is, all are as full of God's presence as the bush which burned with his fire, before which Moses bared his feet in acknowledgment that God was there." Get behind the effect into the spiritual or cause side of nature and work from within outward. You will then see that the Great Cause of all is infinite, both in the manner and in the measure of expression, and you will understand what it means to study Mind back of nature.

The spiritual interpretation of the passage, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," is "Let the without, the physical be brought into harmonious unity with the within, the spiritual."

The Scripture symbols "Heaven" and "earth" stand for mind and body. When man makes a conscious unification of all the forces and powers of his being, he will find his environment changing to meet the new conditions of his life and all will be established in Order and Harmony. Then will be fulfilled the establishment of “a new heaven and a new earth" promised in Scripture. The things of Spirit are readily discerned when we enter into the spiritual consciousness, and it is seen that Spirit is all, and beside it there is none other. In reality nothing is material. Everything is pervaded with the everywhere-present Life and Intelligence of Spirit, and only the ignorance of mortal thought prevents man from seeing that all is Spirit.

Thought manifestation is not material. If we allow error to creep into our thoughts, the manifestation will partake of the same nature and will be unreal and transitory, and apparently material. All habits of error thinking must be done away. The thoughts of God live and abide forever. They are right here now, ready and waiting for you to take them into your consciousness and "gather fruit unto life eternal."

The example you give of Jesus' body manifesting in different forms after the resurrection illustrates, what is called in the Science of Truth, the "fourth dimension." This is impenetrability; the process in which forms lose their apartness and become interpenetrating. It is the unity and omnipresence of Spirit, the omnipresence of the Trinity.

Nothing is brought into manifestation by sense consciousness except the changing formations of error thought. The sense consciousness does not create, it merely forms, and the results are not enduring. It is by the Living Word of Truth that all things are made.

We have said before that the Divine Mind is a unit and that man's mind is a state of consciousness in the One Mind. This explains the last two quotations in your letter. If God were a person, we could not make ourselves one with him, either consciously or unconsciously; but God is the great Omnipresent Mind and we can let this same Mind be in us. The will is the mental instrument by which you take conscious control of your thought. Your understanding is from God, who is AllWisdom and Knowledge. When will and understanding unite in your consciousness, you will realize what it means to "Let the same mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus," and the words, "Be of the same mind, one toward another" will take on a deeper significance for you. This is what is meant by making ourselves consciously one with the Father.

Do you believe in taking breathing exercise for spiritual development?-***

Efforts to gain spiritual development by means of breathing are open to question. We have known serious results to follow such practices. There is an inner spiritual breath, which advocates of deep breathing have not seemed to recognize. When one gets very still, and with attention directed within, comes in conscious touch with the Father, he may feel this inner breath and realize it in its fulness in every part of the organism. This is beneficial.

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Do you teach that affirmations of Truth are pray

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Yes. Jesus' statement, "Pray believing that ye have received, and ye shall receive" calls for the word of acknowledgment.

The prayer of affirmation is the prayer of faith. Sometimes one finds it easier to ask and then affirm, but there is a higher realization of Omnipresence which knows that all things are here in abundance awaiting man's acknowledgment. One in this understanding simply takes his own by affirmation with thanksgiving.

Some time ago I had the pleasure of engaging in a very interesting correspondence with you in the matter of the immortality of the body. That I have not yet lost interest in the subject is evidenced by my present re-appearance upon the scene; this time to offer a comment upon the question and answer contained on page 358 of the June issue of UNITY.

The question is from a correspondent who asks "Does it not seem strange that no one has attained immortality if it is the result of right thinking?" You answer, that Jesus attained it, and that we are to follow him unto the same attainment.

Now, in the first place, does it logically follow that because Jesus performed this miracle it is also for us to perform? To answer in the affirmative is also to declare that all of Jesus' so-called miracles should be regarded as examples, toward the performance of

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