things, because they are compelled to by seeing them in daily use, but we of today do not realize how strange they must have seemed at first, or how many failures there were before they were used successfully. There are always a few people ahead of their time, and they make discoveries which are not visible to the ordinary mind and they preach their ideas in the face of an adverse world. But so many wonderful discoveries are accepted as facts in the scientific world today that we should take warning and be careful how we doubt anything.

Let us learn how to study Truth upon the invisible, inner plane of consciousness, so as to be in the advance guard of spiritual soldiers to battle against ignorance in the world. Let us be among the pioneers in the Spiritual Kingdom and learn all the great and wonderful Truths of Being, and give them out to a waiting but incredulous world. Let us not wait and wait in doubt and despondency until we are literally forced along by the accepted belief of the whole world into the realm of light. If everybody would learn to follow the guidance of the Spirit within, we would soon have the long-looked-for millennium.

If you are tired of this world, of mortal illusions and error thought, just throw it off by denials and affirmations and seek the Divine Self. If you are earnest in your efforts, you will soon find out for yourself that the spiritual man is the real man. If you regenerate the mortal mind and unite it with the Divine Self, you will find all the glories of heaven open to you. You will realize then who and you are the perfect child of the living God with all the privileges pertaining thereto.

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You are one with Divine Life, Divine Love, and Divine Wisdom, and there is no limitation to your power and your happiness, except as you limit yourself by your lack of faith. However, if you have wandered far away in thought from this Divine Centre, and have wasted your substance by erroneous

living, it requires time and perseverance to find your way back again.

We must not waste any time in vain regrets or looking back, but must know that we have always done the best we could according to our limited light, and now we must wipe the past all out of our remembrance. We must remember Lot's wife, who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back. This story is symbolical and shows us how people become crystalized in thought by dwelling upon the past, especially upon past experiences which are unpleasant. This is a very important lesson for us to remember, even after we become proficient in our knowledge of Truth. We should be careful how we think and talk about past sickness and past trouble even when we do so to illustrate how we have overcome error, for surely that is one great cause of people falling back after they have advanced a certain distance up the mountain of Truth. What your thoughts dwell upon is sure to come to pass in your life, so let the past go. All our unpleasant experiences are not real of the Spirit anyway, so let us not dwell in the shadows any longer, but come out into the clear sunshine of Truth, where there is no sin, sickness or trouble of any kind. We must stick firmly to the thought that Spirit is the only reality, so anything which is not true of Spirit is not really true. To be sure, false appearances sometimes seem very real and hard to get rid of, but it is only an appearance.

Shadows sometimes look very curious and dangerous too, and loom up like huge monsters before us, but we are not afraid of them when we know what they are. Suppose we had lived in ignorance of shadows and should see one for the first time, we might well be frightened by the appearance, and we would be sure it was a real monster pursuing us. Some one who was better informed might assure us that it was nothing but a shadow of ourself, but we would say that we knew it was something horrible.

because we could see it with our own eyes and it didn't look one bit like us. This would be analo

gous to our saying we know that sickness is real for we have felt it. Are our feelings any more reliable than our eyes? Our physical senses are not to be depended upon at all unless they harmonize with the Spirit of Truth within us.

If you say you know nothing about the Spirit of Truth, and have nothing to guide you but your five senses, and your intellect which you have trained entirely along materialistic lines, we tell you to look within. If you wish to study astronomy, you must go out of doors where the stars are, and if you wish to study the Science of Being and to find the Spirit of Truth, you must go where it is, which is within you. You will never find it anywhere else, so do not keep looking outside of yourself for it. Stop running here and there to learned teachers or books of science and philosophy, for they only give you what somebody has thought about Truth, which is only second-hand information at best. You have the fountain source of all Truth right within your reach, and it is your blessed privilege to drink of this inexhaustible fountain constantly without money and without price. It does not require great learning or intellectual training, though these are all right if they are used properly, but this great Pearl of all Wisdom is open to everyone, rich and poor, great and small, learned and ignorant. You may find it a little. difficult at first to look within, when all your faculties have been trained in another direction, but you can do it, everyone can do it, no matter who you are or what kind of a life you have lead. Even those who are considered the greatest criminals, and who have lived in the greatest poverty and ignorance, all have the Christ Spirit within which will lead them into all truth and goodness if they will learn to consult it. For this Spirit is the source of all power and all good, of all love and all life; it is stronger than the tempest and swifter than the sharpest

lightning. It is more powerful than dynamite and wiser than the greatest intellect, and yet it is the servant of every man if he will only look for it, claim it, and use it.

It seems very strange that so many people ignore this wonderful power, the seat of which is in the centre of your organism, the heart and the head being the principal centres. Of course, every being in existence is using this Divine Power to a certain extent, as it is the source of all life and action and knowledge, but with most people it is an unconscious, limited use. The race is just beginning to wake up to a self-conscious existence, but the majority of mankind seem to be still living an unconscious, animal life, and exist through the material race life, without finding their own God-given powers. Such people are in a childish state, and sometime, somewhere, they will grow up and become conscious of the Divine Spirit within.

Those men and women who are considered greatgreat scholars, great soldiers, great statesmen, and great artists - are those who have drawn largely apon the Divine Power in some particular aspect. We who are seeking spiritual development should recognize the fact that God includes everything that we can desire to increase our knowledge and our true happiness, and we should seek to manifest this Divine Spirit in its fullness. We desire more than a one-sided growth; we desire development along all lines, and we can have it. God is ready and waiting to pour out all blessings upon us if we will only learn how to receive them. It is a mistaken idea that God wants us to deny ourselves any real joy or power of the Spirit, and this idea arises from the belief that if we have plenty somebody else will have less, This is probably true if we are living upon the physical plane, but in the Realm of Spirit there is an abrindant, unending supply of good things of every description for all of God's children. All good is given to us for use, but not to possess exclusivel

and if we try to monopolize any of God's gifts we will meet with disaster. We must give freely if we wish to receive freely, so that a perfect equilibrium will be established. Jesus Christ was the richest man that ever lived though he appeared to have nothing, but he had all the wealth in the universe at his command. We should take him as our example and use our good things for the benefit of others as well as ourselves, and they will go on increasing and increasing.

A man may appear to have great wealth piled up, but if he does not make a good use of it, it is only a burden to him and he is really poor. The habit of hoarding and saving is not a true spiritual method, for all wealth is given us to use and not accumulate. Even if we do not seem to have very much wealth, we should spend what we have freely and righteously with perfect faith that the Father will supply all our wants. We must not allow ourselves to feel poor whatever the appearance may be, for God is the source of all wealth and "we are every one the daughter or son," "crown prince or princess of God." Many people who have spent their lives in saving and hoarding so as to become rich still continue the habit after there is no longer any necessity for it, and so do not know how to enjoy their wealth after they have gotten it. It has often been observed that some people who have a great deal of money seem to feel very poor, while others who have scarcely anything are gay and happy and feel as rich as if they were millionaires. Of course we know that true wealth is wealth of the Spirit and consists of Love, Wisdom, Meekness and Joy, and if we have these it is of little importance what our temporal possessions are. We can be perfectly happy and can make others happy through the power of the Spirit whether we have any money or not. However, if we seek first the Kingdom of God, we may rest assured that all other things shall be added all things that we need without any worry on our part.