now, just at this present moment-because he resists God. "This is life eternal, to know God"-anything less than knowing God is death, and death means being out of correspondence or harmony with goodness. God cannot save or help a man until the man is willing and offers no resistance. Man should not resist anything-good or evilbecause man has no power of his own volition to encompass or attain heaven now or at any time. Heaven is an attitude of mind toward God. It is a condition of peace, harmony, joy, health and love, and comes to man as the gift of God, by the grace of God, through the spirit of God. It is the privilege of every man to use this gift as a loan but for which interest is expected and development demanded. When wisely used by man there is certain heaven here and now. A specialist who has just returned from France where for over a year he has been treating mind, nerve and shell-shock cases in the immediate front trenches, states that of the thousands of men who came under his observation and treatment, he never met one case wherein the soldier gave any visible sign that the eternal things of God, or religion, occupied the mind. They were too busily engaged in the horrible business of warfare, their safety, and the activities of the enemy. It was only after the tension and excitement of the trenches had been left behind and the men had returned to the rear that in comparative quietness their thoughts turned to God. The man whose mind is stayed in God cannot reach that condition called "tension or excitement," neither could the business of warfare absorb his whole attention for he lives, moves and has being in God. God is his life, God is his all, his health, his breath, his power. "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him... but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." When the Spirit, the ego of man, the mind, the I Am of man's being, seizes upon or attaches itself to the infant body we know from the manifestations that a soul is there developing. The purpose, office, and object of the spirit, mind, I Am ego, is the divine essence or breath enfolding and enveloping the infant body seeking to dwell therein as in a temple. This body-temple contains countless cells in which electrons are revolving at incalcuable speed amid spaces so minute as not to be observed through lenses of the highest power. Yet the office and purpose of the divine mind, the I am life, is to so enclose and fill these spaces of the body through and by the willingness of the individual, that every aspiration, desire and attainment in development may serve and show forth the will of the Father during its career now or anywhere where it may arrive. Non-resistance to this enfolding, embodying and enveloping of the I am mind produces spiritual man, the Christ-like man, the man in unison with the Father, the at-one with God, the man after God's own heart. The gradual overcoming penetration of the body, senses, and material desires is through this Christ mind within. "Christ liveth in me." "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God." This absorption of the cell space of the body is gained by gradual permeation by the mind, spirit, I am, with the assent, and willing attitude of the man who desires harmony with the Father-God. Resistance to this penetration prevents the vibrations of the body to syntonize with God. The repellant power of natural man resists the urge and striving toward goodness which the Christ Mind, Omnipresent in power, love, and soundmindedness offers to lead man to. This Omnipresent Christ Mind is the totality of man's life, surrounding enveloping, and enfolding him like a halo of spiritual atmosphere through which nothing evil or harmful can penetrate. This mind may be in you as it was in Christ Jesus if man does not resist. It will absorb, cleanse, and purify the whole body and make it impregnable to disease, care, or calamity if the individual be willing, non-resistant, and passive. The persistency of mind, spirit, I am, will separate the marrow from the bones and create a new creature, give a new birth and spiritual impetus to every condition and phase of existence, when encouraged to occupy the temple called man's body. Then man becomes a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God. Resistance and antagonism to God prevents this penetration, absorption and assimilation process, while resistance to evil means the acknowledgment of evil as a power, and the recognition of man as having power in and of himself to adjust conditions of life to his own needs. Until man recognizes this fallacy, and admits God as the every breath of life controlling every phase and detail of existence, then the perishing and decaying process called death will continue. But thanks be to our God, the good news is spreading whereby death is being swallowed up in the victory of the Christ Mind penetrating, occupying and cleansing, and like yeast making mankind whole, wholesome, holy. A MORNING WORD The day is thine, dear Lord, and I am thine, Our Father. -Fannie Herron Wingate. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.Samuel Johnson. "Freedom a state without limitation; immunity; exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint."-Dict. RUE Freedom is in no sense license, since it works with and not against the Universal Law of Rightness, and is impartially All and for all. It is the very essence of Being, coequal with God, an essential of the God-nature-it is, as Truth is, and cannot be altered or limited. All-Power, call it by what name we will, cannot be conceived of as less than absolute and perfect Freedom; nor could a state of perfect Freedom be conceived of that did not embrace and include the allness of Good-God-wisdom, God-power, God-presence, and God-love. No limitation could be tolerated in our idea of God, nor possible of God-therefore we recognize God as Freedom per se Freedom limited-not God, nor good. God limited-not free-so neither God, nor good. If the Principle of goodness that we call God is, Freedom is, always has been and ever will be; uncircumscribed by time, unhampered by man's ideas of partial or limited Freedom, unbound by man-made laws, it is in its perfection. It is not created by man, nor subject to his ideas about it; nor is it obtained by working for it. If we believe that there is no such thing as Freedom, and hold ourselves in bondage by that idea, Freedom itself remains untouched and unchanged, eternally willing to press out into visibility, but never interfering with man's free-will. We do not go out to find this Freedom-for it is right-thinking of that kingdom of heaven which is in deed within the consciousness, and to which "all things” shall be added, because itself contains and is all things. Any form of bondage is a "frame-up" of the human mind. Eve's humanity thought that Eden was a circumscribed place and that God had limited her when he told her not to eat of the one tree. She hadn't imagination enough to picture what would happen if she did, but she possessed that curious twist of the human mind which desires experience because it believes it will thus find out some fancied good. This is the first consciousness of separation from God, since God knows, and knows that he knows! Eve formed her own idea of Freedom, which was license, and did eat! Freedom cannot be formed, because it is a spiritual truth; is, in fact, Substance, or Spirit, itself, and anything formed tends toward denseness or materiality socalled, because it has gone outward from its center of power, and so seems to diffuse and lessen its force. It has in consciousness wandered away from God, and the farther away, the more it seems "lost" from its goodness, and the more its God-consciousness seems to wane. We clothe our ideas in formand form, to our human mindedness, is always limitation-and name them "matter," or "disease," or "death," or "sin." Any condition of limitation in which man finds himself is but the bondage of his belief about himself. Let him become aware of the power of thought and of his relation to the Infinite Intelligence, and he straightway begins to change those conditions and remake them after a more perfect pattern. He no longer resists the form his idea has taken on, but proceeds to change his idea; he declares that back of the sense of pain lies a false conception, and that falsity he sets himself to eliminate. There is one Truth-Good is. All else is illusion. And this knowing is the true Philosopher's Stone which always finds the pure gold of reality in every illusory condition that confronts us as human beings. Is this |