The ego is premised on the scarcity belief.
“The ego IS the belief of the mind that it is completely on its own.” Urtext/OE/JCIM only

The scarcity belief is premised on the belief in separation.
“The mind can make the belief in Separation VERY real and VERY fearful. And this belief IS the devil. It is powerful, active, destructive, and clearly in opposition to God, because it literally denies His Fatherhood. Never underestimate power of this denial. Look at your lives and see what the devil has made. But KNOW that this making will surely dissolve in the light of truth, because its foundation IS a lie.” Urtext/OE/JCIM only

“Darkness [hiding from Light]…is an example of the scarcity fallacy, from which only error can proceed.” T-1.IV.3.1-3

The belief in separation is the erroneous belief that you can be cut off from All That Is = lacking
Infinity minus x = lack = fear that this is what you are/are not = error

 “We once said there is no order of difficulty in miracles because they are ALL maximal expressions of love. This has no range at all. The non-maximal only APPEARS to have a range. This is because it SEEMS to be meaningful to measure it FROM the maximum, and identify its position by HOW MUCH it is NOT there. Actually, this does not mean anything. It is like negative numbers ...”   Urtext/OE/JCIM only

Therefore, the ego is a circular belief system, and those who identify with the ego are trapped in hamster wheel and they need mobius (Holy Instant) thinking in order to break the cycle

[Miracle workers] MUST learn Christ-control, to replace their former habits, which DID produce scarcity rather than abundance. From errors of this kind, the sense of deprivation IS inevitable, but very easily corrected. Urtext/OE/JCIM only

Until the Separation, which is a better term than the Fall, nothing was lacking.  This meant that man had no needs at all.  If he had not deprived himself, he would never have experienced them.   Original version of T-1.VI.1.6-8
After the Separation, needs became the most powerful source of motivation for human action.  All behavior is essentially motivated by needs...   Urtext/OE/JCIM only

[The mind that thinks it is separate from Infinity is] acting from scarcity. He then becomes more and more driven in his behavior, to fill the emptiness. Urtext/OE/JCIM only

…abilities are beliefs which are BASED on the scarcity fallacy, since they do not mean anything apart from within-group comparisons. As you yourself never fail to point out, “nobody has none of an ability, and nobody has all of it.” Urtext/OE/JCIM only

“Giving to get” is an inescapable law of the ego, which ALWAYS evaluates itself in relation to others’ egos, and is therefore continually preoccupied with the scarcity principle which gave rise to it. This IS the meaning of Freud’s “pleasure principle.” Freud was the most accurate “ego psychologist” we ever had, although he would not have preferred this description himself. His ego was a very weak and deprived concept, which could function ONLY as a thing in need. Partly contained in T-4.II.6.5-6

…“good” and “deprivation” are opposites… T-21.III.11.4 fragment

Every attack is a call for [Christ's] patience, because ONLY His patience can translate attack into blessing. Those who attack DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE BLESSED. They attack BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE DEPRIVED. Give therefore of YOUR abundance, and teach them THEIRS. Do not share their delusions of scarcity, or you will perceive YOURSELF as lacking.   T-7.VII.7.4-8

Projection, to the Holy Spirit, is the law of extension. To the ego, it is the law of deprivation. It therefore produces abundance or scarcity, depending on how you choose to apply it. This choice IS up to you, but it is NOT up to you to decide whether or not you will UTILIZE projection. Every mind MUST project because that is how it lives, and every mind IS life. The ego’s use of projection must be fully understood before its inevitable association between projection and anger can be finally undone. ...
The ego ALWAYS tries to preserve conflict. It is very ingenious in devising ways which SEEM to diminish conflict because it does NOT want you to find conflict so intolerable that you will INSIST on giving it up. Therefore, the ego tries to persuade you that IT can free you of conflict, lest you give the EGO up and free YOURSELF. ...It projects conflict FROM your mind to OTHER minds, in an attempt to persuade you that you have gotten RID of it. This has several fallacies which may not be so apparent.
...A second fallacy is the idea the you can get RID of something you do not want by giving it away. GIVING it is how you KEEP it. The belief that by giving it OUT you have excluded it from WITHIN is a complete distortion of the power of extension.
That is why those who project from the ego are vigilant for their OWN safety. They ARE afraid that their projections will return and hurt them. They DO believe they have blotted their projections from their OWN minds, but they also believe their projections are trying to creep back INTO them. That is because the projections have NOT left their minds, and this, in turn, forces them to engage in compulsive [changed to “constant”] activity in order NOT to recognize this.   T-7.VIII.1.7 - 3

If [children] are deprived, their perception becomes distorted. When this occurs, the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships. Original version of T-1.V.3.1-3

…the special relationship is an attempt to RE-ENACT the past, AND CHANGE IT. Imagined slights, remembered pain, past disappointments, perceived injustices and deprivations, all enter into the special relationship, which becomes a way in which you seek to restore your wounded SELF-esteem. T-16.VII.1.2-3

ONLY YOU CAN DEPRIVE YOURSELF OF ANYTHING. Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light. Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize, and to oppose steadfastly and WITHOUT EXCEPTION. This is a crucial step in the re-awakening. The beginning phases of this reversal are often quite painful, for as blame is withdrawn from without, there is a strong tendency to harbor it within. T-11.IV.4

…there IS no distinction between within and without. If your brothers are part of YOU, and you blame THEM for your deprivation, you ARE blaming yourself. And you cannot blame yourself WITHOUT blaming them. Last part of T-11.IV.4.6 – 5.2

…deprivation breeds attack, BEING the belief that attack IS justified. And, as long as you would RETAIN the deprivation, attack becomes salvation, and sacrifice becomes love. T-15.XI.5.6

[The ego] literally believes that every time it deprives someone of something, IT has increased. T-7.V.9.8

Whenever you deny a blessing to a brother YOU will feel deprived. T-7.VII.1.1

The picture you see of yourselves is deprived, unloving and very vulnerable. You CANNOT love this. Yet you can very easily escape from it, or better, leave it behind. Original version of T-7.VII.3.2-4

As long as you perceive the body as your reality, so long will you perceive yourself as lonely and deprived. And so long will you also perceive yourself as a VICTIM OF SACRIFICE, JUSTIFIED in sacrificing others. 

Attack could never promote attack unless you perceived it as a means of depriving you of something you WANT. Yet you cannot LOSE anything unless YOU did not value it, and therefore did not WANT it. This makes you feel DEPRIVED of it, and by projecting your own rejection, you believe that others are taking it FROM you.

Only YOU can limit your creative power, but God wills to release it. He no more wills you to deprive yourself of your creations than He wills to deprive Himself of His. Do not withhold your gifts to the Sonship, or you withhold yourself from God. Selfishness is of the ego, but self-fullness is of the Soul because that is how God created it. 

 Let us join in celebrating peace by demanding no sacrifice of anyone, for so will you offer me the love I offer you. What can be more joyous than to perceive WE ARE DEPRIVED OF NOTHING? Such is the message of the time of Christ...

The blind become ACCUSTOMED to their world by their adjustments to it. They think they know their way about in it. They learned it not through joyous lessons, but through the stern necessity of limits they believed they could not overcome. And, STILL believing this, they hold those lessons dear, and cling to them BECAUSE they cannot see.
They do not understand the lessons [from their past] KEEP them blind. This they do NOT believe. And so they keep the world they learned to “see” in their imagination, believing that their choice is that, or nothing. They hate the world they learned through pain. And everything they think is in it serves to remind them that THEY are incomplete and bitterly deprived. Thus they DEFINE their life and where they live it [limits=hell], ADJUSTING to it as they think they must, afraid to lose the little that they have. And so it is with all who see the body as all they have, and all their brothers have. They try to reach each other, and they fail. And fail again. And they ADJUST to loneliness, believing that to KEEP the body is to SAVE the little that they have. 

NEEDS WHILE YET IN TIME

Your Father knoweth that you have need of nothing. In Heaven this is so, for what could you need in eternity? In YOUR world you DO need things, because it is a world of scarcity in which you find yourself BECAUSE you are lacking. But CAN you find yourself in such a world? Without the Holy Spirit, the answer would be no. But BECAUSE of Him, the answer is a joyous YES. As mediator between the two worlds, He knows what you have need of, and WHICH WILL NOT HURT YOU. Ownership is a dangerous concept, if it is left to you. The ego wants to HAVE things for salvation, for possession is its law. Possession for its OWN sake is the ego’s fundamental creed, a basic cornerstone in the churches that it builds unto itself. And at ITS altar, it demands you lay ALL of the things it bids you get, leaving you no joy in them. 
EVERYTHING that the ego tells you that you need will hurt you. For, although it urges you again and again to GET, it LEAVES you nothing, for what you get it will DEMAND of you. And even from the very hands that grasped it, it will be wrenched and hurled into the dust. For where the ego sees salvation IT SEES SEPARATION, and so you lose whatever you have gotten in its name. Therefore, ask not of yourselves what you need, FOR YOU KNOW NOT, and your advice unto yourself WILL hurt you. For what YOU think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world AGAINST the light, and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can REALLY hold for you. 
Only the Holy Spirit KNOWS what you need. For HE will give you all things that do NOT block the way to light. And what else COULD you need? In time, He gives you all the things that you need have, and will renew them as long as you have need of them. He will take nothing FROM you, as long as you have ANY need of it. And yet He knows that EVERYTHING you need is temporary, and need but last until you step aside from ALL your needs, and learn that all of them HAVE BEEN fulfilled. Therefore, He has no investment in the things that He supplies, except to make certain that you will NOT use them on behalf of lingering in time. He knows that you are not at home there, and He wills no delay to wait upon your joyous homecoming. 
Leave, then, your needs to Him. He will supply them, with no emphasis at all upon them. What comes to you of Him comes safely, for He will ensure it never can become a dark spot, hidden in your mind, and kept to hurt you. Under His guidance, you will travel light and journey lightly, for His sight is ever on the journey’s end, which is His goal. God’s Son is not a traveller through OUTER worlds. However holy his perception may become, no world OUTSIDE himself holds his inheritance. Within HIMSELF he HAS no needs, for light needs nothing but to shine in peace.  And from ITSELF, to let the rays extend in quiet to infinity. 

It is a gift given

You often wonder why it has taken so long for certain events to be realized in your lives; that is your question. This is the answer: how long has it taken you to obey the simple requests given you? Has much been asked? Has anything been demanded beyond your strength and intelligence? Let us be spiritually honest; you ask, you pray for results; do you spiritually work for them? Honestly, have you?

I do not like the word “work” — it is too hard a word. But above all, above all, this is not a happy anodyne, an escape from the realities of life through which you can be pleasantly rested and released from momentary strains; this is not an opiate. You have never been failed when you have wholeheartedly opened to receive the Spirit that abides within you; opened to receive it into your mind, into your heart by transmuting all untoward emotions through it. We see this lack of active co-operation so often when great wisdom has been manifested to those who asked for it, and even while receiving it, it slipped away and was forgotten and the advice not taken. The thing enjoyed was the moment of spiritual awareness and the wonderment that the glory for an instant was felt.

How often it is said, “How true and beautiful are these communions!” and then they are not acted upon very much, if at all. This is not a chiding; it is an answer to your question, “Why, oh why am I in this or that situation?” You are a human organism and a spiritual intelligence is difficult to assimilate and realize. You see the failures more clearly in your acquaintances when they fail to act upon their inner wisdom.

All that is asked is an awareness of God’s awareness of you, of the immense love of his spirit for you. There is no must nor effort in this, for once the heart is touched by an awareness of him it is comforted, reassured, content.

No effort brings this confident companionship; it is a gift given to him who takes time to rest in the desire for Him, and will free himself from delaying appetites, not always physical appetite. There are greeds that stand in your way; not just the outer greed, but the quality of the spirit of greed within; there is where the refinement must take place; melt away this murky darkness which so intimately surrounds the lighter spirit.
The spiritual significance of baptism, the ancient ritual of crowning a king, hold true; the linen shirt before the gold tunic and the crown. Realize your dedication and you will be free; you cannot hold great power without hurting yourselves if you are full of great shadows and fears. Be holy! Inward discipline is close to the quick of life eternal, and we tell you that the high purity of the light you seek must be made way for. Ah, I have it . . . clean the lamp chimney so the light can shine through! It is not difficult when done with joy and good sense. Ask of yourselves the subtle refinement; to hate a man, to self-justify, to overeat, to walk through the day in a subjective sleep, to roll an appetite upon the tongue …. Go to the root, what do you want most?

The burden is light

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It is as if you climbed and reached a plateau where you could rest and consolidate your gains for awhile and gather strength through an inner, eternal voice. You go on and up with so much less dross until you reach another plateau and lie a little weary, but with a most wondrous sense that you are stronger; so you go, ever climbing and getting freer from delaying emotions and habits. That is being shriven. So in this clay, and workaday, violent life, march gaily upward out of the teeming plains, through the dark forest, up on to the cliffs where the way is less crowded. Climb the heights and soon you will find you have escaped and are alone in the clear air, air that is revivifying, restoring. Be a good athlete, self-disciplined, tried and free.

It may seem strange to give you a picture where there is so much effort and struggle – for it is not so; the yoke is easy, the burden is light compared to the way of the flesh. There is no effort spiritually, though you find you have to do things that tire the body, for you carry with you your knowledge of high peace like a lofty mountain peak high up in the silence near the stars.

As one has said, “What I say is commonplace, but if it became a conviction it would change the faith of the world.”

Find joy in this wonderful game

The chemistry of your body, affected as it is by emotional states, is very delicate, very sensitive; it is true in the strongest men. You are subject to thousands of influences; of some you are completely unaware; and if you could see to what some people react you would be astonished. Climate, fears most childlike, changes in temperature, old resentments, fear of cats, rainy days, depressing influences from strangers, noises and even smells are constantly affecting your bodily health; not to mention maladjustments.
The greatest thing to help you is the habit of being in the presence of God. Your wish is for it, but as someone has said, the proof of a desire is found in the habit of response. When this great habit becomes more secure you will find an orderly faith is a controlling, rejuvenating rightness, and your weak, defenseless, awkward, too solid body will at last know what it means to find fulfillment in the highest health.

Oh, fill yourself with light! Try every kind of way not to slide off the beautiful smooth path where, if you could but stay, are no aches or unease or sadness or pain or tiredness. Yes, you will find a health more wonderful than any athlete’s, for it will be a vibrating faith. But you must do it.

Be alert, industrious in the habit of being in his presence. The fight is inch by inch, never swerving. Learn that by these thorny struggles to keep what you get and be strong in the holding of it, you will be saved from having to go back to learn your lesson all over again. All that is asked of you is to be gloriously happy and it seems such a painful process! Watch every idle word, for you will find joy in this wonderful game.
It is true the successes seem frail and delicate but they are stronger than you can have any conception of, for because of your intent you are being filled with healing, vitalizing, sustaining truth and eternal love; it is all on so grand a scale. You will astonish yourself, and if you can see the simplicity of this-the victory is yours.

Delay, delay — stop it now!

Watch your every response and thought and bring to yourself a day, a fraction of a day, when you have kept his presence in your heart and your heart in his presence. For this is the good news of which the prophets spoke, this is what it is all about. This is what they meant when they said “Rejoice!” for there is very little from which we cannot be defended, and there is much that we can overcome magnificently by learning not to sink down into darkness as the result of not being awake and alert.

Here he is — now.

But man hates to think. He hates the effort of thinking, he is always seeking escape in the senses, in anything to get away from that which will make him free. Take the dare-for this is no foolish thing. Snatch moments, invent reminders, until this divine habit becomes constant. It is really as if you were in a place which is overcrowded, like a tenement street, and dark, and you knew a secret door that opened into a garden where there was quiet and everything had a friendly feeling; even the flowers and leaves turned toward you and the sky was aglow with infinite refreshment, that feeling of complete renewal of your tired mind, your weary flesh, and your clogged spirit. Walk as you would enjoying a rose garden, hear the fountains of goodness and the birds of joy singing.

There; that is a clumsy idea of what you will find when you slip through that door into his presence, but the mind of man is so constituted that he has to be told and retold and reminded that there is a door all the time, every hour of the twenty-four.
I am the way, the truth and the life. Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden. Seek and ye shall find. My peace I give unto you.

Keep free of all things

Strange and surprising elements are in all of us, beyond our understanding and largely unknown to us — wisely so, for we can only bear the knowledge when revealed to us little by little. Therefore when you find yourselves storming and fretful, tempted to despair by an unexpected revelation, examine it coolly and then pray.
Prayer and intelligence — intelligence and prayer. From inspired voices have come sayings so supercharged with truth that you would be awakened in a flash if you were sensitive enough to realize their full content. One is, “God helps those who help themselves” and it has become such a commonplace that hardly anyone hears it.
But if you can hear it, you will receive deep satisfaction. The questioning, the self-examination, is not a fretful conscience nor a stricken, anxious tidying of the mind. It should be rather a simple question, “Have I this day realized who I am, where I am going, how much I walk alone, how much I walk not alone? How much have I listened? How much have I realized? Is my shield polished to hold off the poisoned arrows of life’s dangers and alarms? Can I hold my soul within my soul?
Can I be awake to the divine whisper or am I sound asleep? Am I strong, built on a foundation of silence? Am I myself, a son of God, one-pointed, using the wisdom, the knowledge and the inspiration vouchsafed me to live with my fellow men in the troublesome world of confusion, despair and baffling mysteries? Am I vigilant so that when false or sly emotion and sentimentalities sweep over me I can rise above them and see them revealed in all their dangers? What do I want, then? What is my journey? How far have I stepped this day, this hour?”
These questions are some of the safe tools; clear and clean your minds with them and you will indeed be illumined and safe in a terrifying world.
Simple exercises are good for this time, and simple images are quieting to the mind. Stand naked, free of all things, greeds and appetites. Keep a balance, but keep free of all things. Even while working in groups, keep free of entangling details. Keep faithful with quiet, every moment counts. Allow no treachery of thought. Walk in the garments of immortality now. Keep invisible and indeed have no vain imaginings of fear or doubt.
Trusting is part of your role; trust in peace, merriment and confidence. Wear garments of joy without fearful anticipations. Look upon the quiet of the hills, early morning light, a candle untroubled by the wind and let them be to you reminders of your task. Keep in the very center, safe and a power for victory, healing and peace.
Keep aware of eternal values as compared to relative values. Keep your naked intent and never forget your direction. By this one thing is meant, live in the awareness of the love of Christ for you, for by so doing you obey his word and give light and peace to the world through him.

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Yes, there seems to be a heavy dismaying delay in the outer world, as if the waters of material life were in heavy tide and the times were frozen. And yet you, as children of the Way, have been secretly freed from fear as you have advanced in your invisible selves.

 
The paradox is puzzling to many who journey upon this road, that great revelation and joy often cometh in times of seeming darkness, obstruction and difficulty. In periods of confusion those who live in the invisible while in the visible world can be as yeast, the ferment, the center of the light which is illuminating the dark places, because they remain in peace and are quietly and gently instructed. And by instruction I mean the only form it could take, that of feeling the actual Presence, the reality of the helping guiding spirit.

 
As you well know, when novices attempt to push forward through their own effort and fresh enthusiasm the world opposes. This is true in art and all human endeavor – that when a positive move is made an obstruction is met. The question then is, Will the challenge dismay and discourage?

 
In the material world the successful ones are not dismayed but gather more strength, win more victories. But the young soul with its new perceptions half revealed, a little overconfident because he is not on guard against the outer you, goes down in a cloud of chilling doubt, for the world is grim indeed to those sensitive souls just awakening.

When you go beyond the point of perception, the burden is lifted for the first time. Remain steadfast! Return to childlike simplicity and doubt not. Are you not aware that there is a no-man’s-land between your periods of invisible at-one-ment, your holy communion, your sense of reliance in these heavenly moments, and the contact with the impinging material world with its laws of time and place, events and confusions?
It is indeed hard to remain there and remember across the no-man’s-land to this place of creative power and serenity. What has happened, and why you have felt the protection of peace, is that the no-man’s-land is narrowing, you remain closer to your place of safety and you are able to bring beams of light to your material world.

 
You have asked to be spiritual beings; do you know what spirituality is? It is a loftiness, a sustaining, august, fiery, yet still presence. Can you carry this feeling across no-man’s-land and hold it in your spiritually-evaporating outside life? Whatever happens, stand in thy full spiritual stature and deny everything that is not of God; nothing will then have power over you except your highest conception.

Let us consider the past years when in the beginning we met through these communions. Like children you half believed it. It remained to you as definite as a story in symbol, instantly forgotten. You were brought back again and led away by events, the little events of daily life; great events bring you back quickly, but inertias smother you. Within the mind the spiritual entity was nebulous, out of focus, but it has gradually become more defined and this communion easier, yet it is still difficult for you to live your daily lives in awareness always of the infinite beauty that never leaves you, no matter if the mind is turned away from it. The magnet of the life about you, what you call actuality, is so absorbing the contact is broken, though for shorter periods, and the divine power is now so established that it draws you back, but it would be well for you to study yourselves objectively in this matter.

This awareness should not be a divided thing, feeling him one time and then having long intervals of forgetfulness. It is rather that you feel him within you, beside you and about you actually while in different environments. Keep the contact if you can as an undertone or overtone; carry your stillness with you. Instead of walking with God you so often walk with feverish thought which tires you and lowers your vitality and resistance. Where are the thoughts of yesterday, last month, last year? Where are the busy exciting interests of the past decade gone?

You know that the communions in stillness have not gone, they have remained, each adding more and more power and understanding to the realization of the diving Presence; this you bear witness to, that each withdrawal from the world of appearances to the world of eternal love has been a building of a structure, a living invisible temple not made with hands, and each withdrawal was a stone chiseled and squared that you placed in position until the edifice is high and strong and good. Yes, indeed silence, profound silence, deeper than thought, deeper than your five senses, deeper than any experience you have known will grow more and more powerful and the Word will be made flesh to heal and straighten your lives and bring you abundance of peace in these days of war. Do not underestimate how important this is, for by living with this divine source of peace you help to restore it to the world. Abide in the very core, the secret place of the most High. No orders are given you, for this must be done through love which will give you inward fortitude. Be dismayed by nothing.

Keep this inward contact secure in your outward living for this is being in the ark of salvation, and this is the way to keep yourselves channels for the Spirit to pour through to those who walk in darkness. Hold your light high by being faithful and abiding in his words.

It may be helpful for you to consider the fact that to permit stupid thoughts to dwell and slip through the mind is as dangerous as to let sharp delicate tools slip through the fingers. Therefore the old practice of self-examination is recommended if it is made with clean, concentrated thinking that challenges one’s words and deeds during the miniature life of a day, thus planning for the future. See and realize the strange unreasonable elements that seem to come from nowhere; shades of savagery born from self-pity, the constant over-sweet voice that indulges the self, condoning excuses. There is much degeneration due to emotional storms, even though they are secret storms, that needs the strong tools of creative, intelligent thought to clear away. Yes, build yourselves a practical, efficient, spiritually-hard working instrument that will live your life for you more easily, in balance, so that you will walk sure-footed through states of emotion. When you are stung by a hurt, an unreasonableness, a delay, watch your response; take it out and look at it. You are to think your way out. Now that you are more aware of divine assistance, cease from being fools, for the wise man is he who when he prays for wisdom and receives it, acts upon it. Many pray, receive and do not recognize it. Pray that you may realize the tools of thought-recognize them-when they are put shining into your hands. There are no excuses in this realm.

This is not preaching in the old scolding way; this is awakening in your consciousness the inspiration of knowing that you can overcome the world; you cannot overcome the world by formless prayer, although I would not confuse you by implying that you have to put prayer always into words. It is the deep intent, the idea, that carries power; the shape of a cup shapes the substance it contains. That is why the emotion behind a word does not always bring what we expect or desire. It is not enough to say “my kingdom is not of this world.” That is a truth, a noble and divine theme, a statement of intent. What matters is how are you going to prove there is a kingdom within you in which you are a crowned king? Your life is not placed in a palace, but in a very restricted, irritated small area of reality where you meet the heat and cold of public opinion, delays and obstructions, jealousies, malice, lacks, boredom and strain. It is not enough to say “my kingdom is not of this world” and not arrange your thoughts accordingly. An awakening is taking place, a dawning, for the time is approaching when you will realize that you cannot advance spiritually unless you act upon the wisdom given you, instead of receiving, of hearing the voice and then doing nothing about it.

Out of humanity have come such realizations because every human who has made this journey has come to this place, this time of understanding, when he sees that acting upon the revelation that has come to him is the only way he can win to victory.
Here is a prayer for thy comfort: “I stand in the light of the Spirit knowing that this tired flesh is not the reality of myself. In this light I stand, aware of immortality now. I will dedicate my waking hours to the realization of this Presence and the knowledge that I am never alone. Thou art with me always and thou art my refreshment.”

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You can completely dissolve and blow away the cloud of anxiety if by your concentrated one-pointedness you keep aware of the power of the Spirit. Let there be an awareness so deep it is as if it were in the center of a block of granite, secretly hidden, but held fast. The discomfort of fear will naturally discipline you to be one-pointed by the force of its attack so be one-pointed first. At this time be determined, with all your forces, to be more aware of your inner spiritual companionship and protection; stand aware of your invincible godhood in the Christ within, then fear will recede and order will come in its place. But you must not be half awake mentally. Those who win do not deviate; and so your energies at this life-creating moment must be used to keep yourself undisturbed in God’s power. Do not let the moments go by you unlighted.

 
You sometimes wonder why certain things are given you to bear; do not, for it is a waste of time. Put your desire, your pent-up feeling, into the pure desire of being with him, and watch during the day the extraordinary waste of thinking that unmans and weakens. It is the discipline of one’s thoughts that matters, the turning inward and resting in that deep center where all is still and safe and sure. Great is the companionship and the peace of so doing, and be sure you know you are doing your best.

 
Receive in quiet the assurance of your protection.

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The frail life which is yours sets forth upon its journey weak and helpless, passing through storms and changes, strange unlockings unknown to your consciousness. Things hardly realized, influences beyond your conception make cross currents upon your destiny, upon this frail life which like a leaf blown high into the sky crosses mountains and valleys. In your day and times this life seems meaningless, terrifying and full of suffering, violent and easily brushed across the veil because of a thousand menacing dangers. The purpose of the inward struggles for integrity, to live, even to simply exist, stupefies the philosophers who like all the rest grope blindfolded through the first human stages, for the mystery is not revealed at once, but day by day, little by little and only to the seeker. I hear you say, “If I am in communion with the celestial influences, the Holy Spirit, why is my path not made smooth and why does it not bring about the instant destiny of my endeavor? Why is there this impenetrable wall between me and my aspiration and its fulfillment?”
Think. To fulfill any enterprise means that you meet other destinies also behind impenetrable walls, filled with emotions, desires, attributes different from your own. No wonder, therefore, that your little leaf is swirled high into the storms and revolts of other human destinies. This way is dark, the road hard and flinty and no one can free himself from the question Why? Why? The events of your times, stages in human personalities of those with whom you must march, add to your darkness and confusion. Under these circumstances of human living great can be the loneliness and the suffering. Life is awful indeed in its greater sense. But the hope and the wonder is that a change comes, a dawning, when you reach a place, when you step forward and choose wisely. You have acted upon your choice, you have stood your ground and have not weakened so that we can tell you to walk confidently carrying your dawning with you. Within you is the dawn, within you is the light, within you is the freedom, therefore with eye turned inward you are safe. Perhaps I speak to you behind many horizons but I can tell you that great is your hold upon the impenetrable secret which you have seized like children, not fully understanding, but with an instinct for this bright jewel which is all you really have. This dawn that you carry, clearing, clarifying, refreshing, is all that is needed for you. Live in it, abide in it, then let the leaves of your life blow free and high and you will find a true direction, a true control, ordered and inspired. “No harm shall come nigh thee” indeed, while you walk this Way, and the far-reaching of the Light you trust in is boundless and unknown to you as you sit here in this hour, in this century, in this universe.
Why you must not trouble yourselves with whys and wherefores is because it is a waste of time. You will be taught and learn as you go and as our need arises; and believe me, the fantastic heights of human knowledge are as nothing compared to the childlike instinct you have to go through all knowledge, all concepts to seize Light itself at its zenith. This is the known quantity. Seize and hold eternally to the highest and your feet will be guided through eternity, for it is your childlike faith that keeps your universe together.

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When you are in communion you are in the pivotal place, in the center where your safety lies; you are in balance, for this is the plumb bob that does not sway in the midst of alternating violence and peace. It keeps all in quietness, steady and true. When you are here you are in the center of the storm; keep to this point, timeless, immortal and omniscient. This is too transcendent for you to grasp except at fleeting moments like this, but be faithful in intent and all you need will be revealed to you.
There are simple exercises that may help you; sometimes lie still in silence when you are tired and feel the earth turning under you, the universe of stars above and below, held together by this serene force that is within yourself. Lie there and receive in silence, and let the light shine through every cell of your flesh and bones and say “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” Again, think of your heart as the center of the universe and let it say “Light!” with every heartbeat; or when you find yourself walking, as it were, to your destruction, come to a halt and say these words, “I am aware of thee, that thou are beside me,” and then walk with him wherever you go.
These are but exercises, but they can be important. Put all your faith in this secret-holding companionship and you will be astonished. It is becoming as a child.
Yes, this is a time to be aware of this great birth, baneful though it be. Hold yourselves to Yourselves; be spiritually tough, indeed be holy. No compromise; and do not keep this as a sort of sanctimonious concept to turn to vaguely. Take the dare and converse with God. Ask him simply and bring him into your life and you will then not blank out so often. Once there was an ancient king who, upon the day of his coronation felt that all his hopes had come to fulfillment, for he was crowned after many years of waiting, king of a great realm. As he sat in the cathedral in his vestments, his orb and scepter in his hands, his crown upon his head, he saw a fault in the uniform one of his generals was wearing and his mind was taken to that and he forgot that he was at the great moment of his life and the moment passed him by.
Try not to let these ephemeral, impinging, daily pinpricks steal away your immortality, which you can begin to know now, for this is your great moment, now . . . now . . . now. Now is the time of thy salvation, and salvation means safe return. Arise and shine for thy light has come.

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Your world is invisible, the world of your spiritual life within; but invisible also is the world of rumor, ethnic fears, ignorance, the greed of multitudes, public opinion and human passions. All these are invisible. So are creative inspiration, honest endeavor and integrity. Invisible also is the intent which makes the true servant of medicine, that which is behind the long hours and personal sacrifice; all this is faith invisible. Many who see a sword see but a blade of sharpened steel; but it is a symbol of anger, pain, annihilation and woe. Those who look and are held captive out there by what they see are amazed and bewildered when invisible forces suddenly focus into an event. They are startled and disturbed when the hidden forces the mind has qualified are manifested in action.
You who from desire for truth and eternal beauty have stepped out upon the great adventure are coming out of that strange captivity, the prison of ignorance, and when you realize the invisible while in the visible, the incarnate in the carnate, the Holy Spirit in flesh and blood, spirit in matter, thought back of the material world. You have learned your first lesson. Have pity upon the tortured soul who has been deformed by that which is silent within him. Because of the invisible world of mind and thought we can reach one another. Because of the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit we can make gifts of healing and peace, without a word. In this way we obey the second commandment of Christ.
The invisible is the only reality. Honor is invisible, and so is love. Yet they last and all else crumbles and changes. Go forth, then, beloved invisible ones, knowing that you have touched the only reality. The place where you now stand you have reached through listening, following an invisible desire, a vision which pierced the dark. There is great tenderness for you when your feet are weary and your shoulders are tired of the burden and your emotions smother you with fear. Ill-smelling winds blow upon you from those places where liberty has been imprisoned, honor defiled and greed unmasked. You hear it in voices, it sweeps across the daily news, and meets you at every turning. You are in a sea of invisible negatives if you look down — all ancient, all insistent. They challenged me and my father and my father’s father and they challenge you. Face them! For all these things are met at some time. Face them and then look up and see them no longer. He that dwells within is the light of the world and can shine through your every act if you will but obey, live in his presence and keep illumined in his light.
Therefore shine and take great heart whether there are wars or rumors of wars, alarms and confusion and all the high cry of chaos, for through him abiding within you can fulfill your privilege of life and bring light into darkness. Keep your mind a lighted lamp.

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At this time when the tragedy of the world presses hard, remember that the power of God is upon you. Let it use you – let it; do not strive. And let this awareness of the presence of God be like a flame to you, lighting you, warning you, cheering you this day, and all days. It can be for you a Pentecost, for you shall speak with new tongues. Open wide and let the power of the Spirit flow through you like rivers of living water, sweeping out all pettiness, all fears, all doubts of self. When you do this you have risen and the new self has been released from the things of the old, the things you have feared and fought against.
Through such daily dying you pass beyond the reach of morbid thoughts and entanglements of nagging fears, and each day you can begin as if it were the morning of your life. Become timeless and never bind yourself with age, for the mind as well as the spirit can be kept young, childlike and free. Faith, weak as it may be, can roll away the stone from your door. Rejoice in the new day and go forth with lifted faces and an inner awareness that will shine out from you; an invisible light perhaps, for only those who can see will see it through their own vision.

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When you have reached a new and higher plane of spiritual awareness remember that with it comes the challenge to abide there. The experience of deeper peace and joy is apt to carry with it what we may call personal confidence as well as a more profound realization that it has been a gift of the spirit, the inevitable reward of aspiration and holy intent. Your work is to guard it, like country newly won, so that it will not be retaken by the enemies within yourself. And those enemies which we speak of so often are the tendencies of the mind and body to reach out for diversions and excitements and indulgences. As I have said before, many of these things in themselves are not harmful. It is how you value them that makes them enemies – or not. Fast and pray, as he said, to keep the ground you have won a holy place; and by fasting and praying I mean a state of mind, an alertness, an awareness of where you are, what you are. You are either in light or darkness, up or down, depending upon the quality of your thought.
This is not a duty but a glorious opportunity, this choosing what you shall be and living in spiritual action. Fasting means not drifting, not letting yourself go to shapeless thought, for desires are there and appetites. Prayer is adoration, it is surrender to the inner glory, to the gentle spirit that will lift you so that your foot shall not stumble.
I am going to ask you to read the following dialogue, for I believe you will hear your own voice in it, and that you will recognize the other voice as well.
First Voice: How easily the senses keep us in a state of fear!
Second Voice: That is because you live in them, through them, by them.
First Voice: How else?
Second Voice: If you live from within, abiding in the Spirit, you would come to know and trust it and its power against the evidences of the senses. What is material, concrete to you — you believe in. Fear is faith in your antagonist.
First Voice: If I could know satiety instead of the besieging appetites of mind and body!
Second Voice: No. Ask for dominion, “bringing every thought into captivity.” It is an inspiring freedom.
First Voice: What use to try an impossible thing?
Second Voice: Do not question; it was done. An infinite love meets every effort and the reward is commensurate with divine understanding. Besides, it is really joyous!

First Voice: Can I say, “Today I will walk in the true way,” with any confidence that I shall succeed at all?
Second Voice: It is your safety, your protection and your delight if you will believe it.
First Voice: Oh why is my desire so easily turned aside by the beasts?
Second Voice: It isn’t, ultimately. “He that plows should plow in hope.” And remember in times of pressure “that they which minister about holy things, live of the things of the temple” and that “every, man that strives for mastery is temperate in all things.”
First Voice: It is a lonely fight.
Second Voice: No one is alone. He said, “He that sent me is with me, the Father has not left me alone.”
First Voice: That I might know him as my involuntary self control!
Second Voice: Ask – that your joy may be full!

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Someone said long ago, “Religion is not a melancholy; the Spirit of God is not a damper!” We have told you many times to keep from any tendency toward sadness, resignation and melancholy in your lives; the spirit must never be resigned nor melancholy nor gloat upon sorrow, which in some, unfortunately, is associated with a spiritual way of life. If the Spirit is real it is joy in essence, it is peace and faith. Now faith, divine faith, is an illumined state, it challenges everything mortal with a confident joy. Indeed I would like to use the word merriment instead of joy here, as in the old English song, “God rest you merry, gentlemen; let nothing you dismay!” Yes, the world is sad, tragic and the suffering terrible. But we have been shown how in such times we must and can be gallant and to be gallant is to be joyous and to have true joy we must have faith. The kingdom of heaven is happiness because those who have found it and abide in it have become aware of the beauty of the infinite Spirit. Those who live in that kingdom know that everything must be met and challenged with a shout. Challenge everything with the Spirit of joy. This may seem a hard saying for it seems to leave out pity. No, the lifting quality of confidence, of faith in ultimate victory, heals, sustains and comforts those in darkness and sorrow. If you can keep your inspiration joyfully, confidently, many of the discouraging human attributes will be purified. The secret is — and this is what you are here for — to find the pearl of great price, to keep from losing it, from letting it grow dull and to remember that it has the power to release you from those characteristics which have held you a prisoner to your own limitations. This is being on the side of the angels.

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After realizing the consequences of involuntary un-self-control you will perhaps know better the meaning of voluntary self-control. We all know how thoughts seize and shake us, involuntarily stealing in through the cracks in our armor, and that is why it is so important to have your inward area filled with light so that fearful thoughts cannot bear the sight and cannot find lodging space. When you are weak and the walls of your fortress are of paper upon which memory has morbidly written the mistakes of the past, how easily are they torn so that false alarms sweep through to your vitals! And how they call in the whole ghoulish family to live upon your fears. It is man’s task to keep his inward self clean and luminous, radiant and aware. As eternal vigilance is the price of liberty how much more is the price of spiritual victory; how important is living day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment.
Great power will be given only where great power is generated.
When you live with the great forces that beat your heart, and work through the involuntary activities of the body, you are given assurance because of your rejection of weakening terrors, and you find immediate response in health and wisdom in your daily life. More and more will you realize the relief throughout your nervous system, and the organization of your body will collaborate and assist you in generating the spirit of victory, of “dominion over all your earth-consciousness.” It is true that only the brave deserve the fair; only the aware deserve the Spirit.
As you desire to live spiritually, to be safeguarded, given health, simple goodness, peace of mind, and knowledge to deal with the circumstances of your life, you must come to this conclusion-I will discipline myself.
If you were asked to help a youth on his way you would guard him with constant watchfulness. Look upon yourself and see how much watching you need. Humans are so constituted that even while they are professing an intent toward a spiritual way of life they are delayed by moods, negative emotions of criticism, prejudice and self-justification as well as the daily assaults upon the mind by gossip, letters, and all the stinging gnats of daily contacts. It seems as if they were constantly setting up ninepins which are not allowed to stand in peace; the ninepins of ordered thinking are knocked over while they are being set up.
From a practical point of view it seems a difficult thing for man to do, this being continually aware of something almost unknown within himself, for man needs something to play with and it is easier for him to love a dog, a child, a woman, than the Light within which he cannot see. He is asked to love a thing imagined, at first, until it becomes the greatest reality, and that is a task indeed.
I cannot show you God, nor yourself in your illumined state. But you will grow to feel him and to turn within for healing comfort. Spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned. Desperate need and your imagination tell you why, so that you instinctively seek until the feeling, the answer comes. Through this invisible feeling-nature you are given a change of heart, and you can be assured that because of your love for what you have experienced in these moments of oneness with him, your imagination and reason will tell you that this came from an inner you, an inner light, an inner love. An inner Love!
Through love and remembrance of him, as you live minute by minute, turn your eye inward when there is a pause, whenever you are at a street corner waiting to cross, when you bathe; when you clothe your body, wash away the grimy thoughts, brush away the unspoken ignorance. During your morning preparations do not let your mind rattle with the thoughts of the day ahead. Clothe yourself so that you will contain, within, this love that supplies the Light, and when there is a pause in your work, when a clock strikes the hour, say these words: “I stand in Light. No foolish thoughts, no foreboding, no false imagery, no terror can come near this Light within me, for I love it and serve it and I stand here purified, dedicated to honor, to health of mind and body, to peace of mind and life everlasting.”
This, my children, is a prescription needed in these times of chaotic thinking, and you will find if you obey this spiritual desire you will be led in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake, and you will know the joy of involuntary self-control. During your times of quiet, those lovely moments, pools of restoration where you drink deep of the waters of spiritual health, learn to discipline yourselves. Not with the fist, for that soon tires; not with the mind, for that is forgetful; but with the heart. Love will keep you there. Love is vigilant, it is quieting, it is your gently strong awareness, it is the oil of joy that supplies the Light.

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One of you said, “I become strangely hard, like ice; if I could only be thawed!” I cannot thaw you but perhaps I can help. You are going through stages of growth, of thought, of blossoming. This is real life and real life is in the schoolroom through which we all have to pass. Just remember what we repeat so often, touch the Spirit, the warm fire within you, be happy with it and you will “thaw.” Keep on opening, receiving, listening and obeying and use the inner power and wisdom for every humble thing you do. The problems of daily life make people ice-bound so they need thawing; the newspapers, angers, cold self-righteous furies, terrors-all these are the dangerous elements of human existence and they do things to your consciousness to harden you, to dismay and disappoint you and take away your hope while you live in the dreariness of a man-made world. You will thaw at the eternal touch and your world will not be man-made, but the world of immortality, now.
Some of you say, how can we do this with our beloveds in the terror of war? Believe me, you cannot do this without your beloveds being blessed by it. One soldier wrote recently, “When I need some strength of mind, some peace, some love, I’ve only to look close by – within – and there it is! . . . Keep me in your heart as a source, too, of help, for there isn’t any blood or thunder possible that can destroy a man’s soul when has received power from God from within himself.” This comes warm and living from deep experience and loneliness, when he had found the enlightenment he needed to tell him what to do. He asked, and received. Is it necessary for you to be brought face to face with such savagery before you can turn in panic to your only hope of peace and strength?
The purpose of these communions is to try and make you see that it is of vital importance for you to reach up and touch this quiet, still, clean, holy, omniscient place of eternal peace all the time. This is living beside the still waters, here are the green pastures. Abide in the living word and you will yourself to be sustained, comforted and given joy, and so you will help them through their ordeal. There is no time nor space in this realm where you are aware of the Holy Spirit.

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The time has come to lift the very spirit of you into the current of faith. It is indeed a current, a mighty, creative, creating recreating revivifying mood which, when reached, will set free an active joyous inspiration beyond your conception. You cannot keep the Spirit disincarnate if you abide in it.
This power has touched the great ones of the earth. It has changed the tide of battle, for it is inward strength, it is courage, it has a hundred names. Keep in the current of faith, the tone of faith, for it is the tone of morale. Create the atmosphere of achievement, creative expectancy. Forbid all negative impatience, for in this mood is high hope and assuring trust. It is an uplifting form of communion free from the heat, noise and confusion of human personality.
It is augustly impersonal — it is divine order, it is perfect balance and can only be reached by the discipline of appetites-appetites for anger and criticism, resentment and self-justification. You can be led far afield by angry strangers and your own desire to present your outer personality favorably. It is the old enemy, the egotist; from selflessness within to sudden self without is a sharp change!
Faces, voices, chameleon like personalities confuse and alter your whole scale of values abruptly in the outside world. The mind can trip and sprawl when caught by the snatching, insistent difficulties of daily living. There is a zero hour for all who hold high their thought, their vision — waiting to meet the temptation of fear with courage.

But as we have told you many times, courage is your only safety. Practice the little tests as you would practice putting into use any useful knowledge, and the more you do this the more are you saved “ordeals by fire,” for you acquire a strength which will not fail, through the sense of your daily companionship with him who walks with you, whose strength you use, whose power is yours for the asking, whose mightiness is illumination and whose gentleness can make you great.
Give freely of thy spirit and judge not. Be long-suffering and patient, for when you are kind with the kindness of the spirit to those who are unregenerate, the act frees your own un-regeneracy as well. Blessed is he that sees and understands and forgives. Forgive and ye shall be forgiven the trespasses, the darkness, the things negative which terrify. They are forgotten in this high clear stillness. Love conquers all things.

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In the youthful moments of triumph when you knew the race was to be won, you found one kind of satisfaction. In the hilarious confidence which came through successful attainment you found another. The serenity which came from a sense of security was still another. Now, when many things are seemingly turned against you, you are faced with the age-old antagonist which is called:
Adversity
It has been met before.
In facing realities out there with your physical and outer consciousness you are challenged with old humors, fears, dismays and your world is frozen into immobility. In this adventure, where you have barely crossed the threshold, much preparation which may have seemed slow and useless has taken place. Listen then, listen and receive. Face your enemy with your outer selves. Do not think, listen. Listen and repeat these words — put them in your mouth and blow them like a clarion, high and sweet and clear to the four corners.
“My kingdom is not of this world. I will abide in my kingdom and as the day follows the night my kingdom shall be made manifest and my outward life shall straighten and fall into a divine mold.”
You do not see the immediate manifestation because you are still children, and as a child’s destiny is locked in its breast, so you, by this spiritual communion are unlocking prisons that you are unaware of in material life. Blind as you are to the immediate development you should see clearly the happy radiance of your freedom from the laws of your outer worldliness. Through obedience you can find dominion, so do not waste your time in outward fret. You have not been prepared for that form of activity. Through spiritual loyalty and heavenly enthusiasm you can be prepared for the kingdom of happiness upon this tortured and suffering earth. Indeed he will “give you beauty for ashes.”
This is to remind you that he who is God’s anointed shall nevermore quail. Give me your hands and repeat these words:
“Blessed Savior here I stand and here I reaffirm my vow with all the strength of my body, my soul, my mind; I vow that I will put thee first, that I will endeavor to bring my thought, my brain, my heart, my very flesh and blood to the instant realization of thy actual holy presence within me. I dedicate myself to the realization of you, my Redeemer, my Comforter, in every action of the day or night. I vow that I will challenge every experience that comes to meet me; my whole life I dedicate to the realization of thy word. I vow to keep my body pure, by mind sweet and ready for thy intent, knowing that I rest in thy immortal love.”

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Over a long period of time you have been warned, prepared and fortified to meet violence and disorder; it is, therefore, like good soldiers of the Prince of Peace that you find yourselves on duty. Do not let a thought touched by cynicism penetrate your armor; do not wonder that a Prince of Peace should need an army, for “an armed man keeps the goods in peace” and the servants of Christ are defending the citadels of the Spirit which gives Life and not death. The sword of the Spirit frees all men because its discipline is upon the man who bears it.
And now a high resolve is essential. Prepare yourselves for inward strength, a refuge within undisturbed, a realm august, the kingdom of heaven within your own consciousness, and let no destructive human emotion draw you from it.
Every individual has, within himself, a great part to play, and let no one think he is too small, too insignificant. For the power of the kingdom of heaven, when man makes way for it to pour through him as a channel in the stillness of disciplined and controlled emotion, cannot be measured, and there is nothing too great, nothing too small.
I cannot stress too much the responsibility of each one of you. Put God immediately before you and stand behind him, close, and you will be strengthened, comforted and instructed. Play this part all the day through, hold him up as a shield against the enemies within yourself and celebrate his birth each day within your own heart. In this way you serve your country and all men. Rest in the

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In our searching for the way sometimes one mood is more helpful than another, and here is a very childlike one for tired spirits.
As a child when you were pushed ahead by your nurse or your mother, you had a spacious open faith; a knowledge that you were being safely guided through the unknown. Try today to recapture a feeling only half remembered deep within your place of memory, and in your imagination lie back in confidence and face the future with an open heart, knowing that the Presence who is guiding you is good, loving, protecting.
When the moment for action comes there will, of course, be much for you to do; but because of these moments of rest you will hear better when you are told what to do and how to do it.
Give out love; give royally of it, but keep silent. Build a thick area about yourself of a shock-absorbing substance, make an image of protection that will neutralize the natural alarms that you may be called upon to experience. This is first aid. Laugh and be merry for that is healing to those about you who despair. Be humble and human and tender; be selfless and patient with the forgiveness that permits you to go up to the altar; be simple. In fact be the child pushed ahead, having the knowledge that you are in safekeeping, in loving hands.
If you can live like this in the midst of everyday confusion, then you have nothing to fear. Fast and pray; keep in this core of light within your within-ness and you will be free from dread and ache and fear. Fast in thy mind; pray by accepting the joy of God and keep within where he abides. Go thy way, blessed, being wheeled before the

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Today we will have a primer talk. What is confusing to you I imagine is that you have not quite understood what takes place when you place a new thought, a sun-thought, in the galaxy which makes your identity, especially such powerful ones as you have been given. You do not take, as it were, a new concept in your hands, place it in the midst of the familiar galaxy and expect a sudden radiance, an immediate change, although I do not forget that instant revelation and realization have come to some of the great ones who have walked this way. No, like all good things this work begins humbly. It is like planting a seed that grows and grows for a time in the dark. Ideas that have been given you in these communions are in movement and as they grow larger and larger they push out into oblivion the older ideas which were foolish and out of proportion. This is difficult to put into words, but it may help you not to be too introspective.
When you meditate or abide in your quiet times of communion, you do not charge in and do something, like saying, “I will now be good and move mountains by my act of faith.” No, you water your garden, knowing that these ideas are growing into a heavenly garden; the indwelling spirit does the work, not you. You merely water it. Do you not see the comfort there is in that? I can tell you in primer language that a very gentle, calm, unemotional selfless and patient attitude toward your spiritual growth is essential – such as all old gardeners know. They know that patience, hoeing, watering and a certain order, a quiet rhythm, bring a birth a heavenly beauty.
How to do this in your particular, demanding, galloping tempo is difficult; but I will, in primer language, give you suggestions. In the morning I sit down to my breakfast and I eat my food; this is a voluntary action. I do not think about what is happening, but strength is being given me, life is being sustained, a great miracle has taken place. In the same way your words and thoughts are transmuted, for the food you give your mind also becomes flesh as well as part of your identity as an individual. Your part is your acceptance or rejection, and what you accept becomes a growth of some kind in your garden. But let us go further and see how we can use these everyday things to help us to greater awareness of the abiding Presence in our lives, to help us to dominion over our earth-consciousness. Let us not only recognize that we find an analogy in our earthly life, but let us use each thing that comes as a reminder.
In this rebirth into self-conscious realization of your godhood, take the homely common simple actions and make them follow the same law on a higher plane. I eat and drink in remembrance of him eternally alive in me; it is a profound communion and a great practical help. As you eat the bread of life spiritually with the bread materially, your inspiration will strengthen you for the day. As I have told you, this is a primer lesson, for what is needful for you is to keep in contact with the Spirit, to make the habit of doing so. And you yourselves will change by forming the habit of tenderness toward common things, the habit of communing and bringing down into everyday actions the heavenly grace. Everything you touch, feeling the warmth of an open fire, is an outward and visible witness of the spiritual law. Bathe in water as you would in spirit. Water is the source of life, it is a spiritual symbol. Let the shock of it on your flesh be a reminder of your contact with the invisible faith within you. Use your imaginations and be like that humble friar, Brother Lawrence, or the great artists of all time, who took the humble simple things close to them and transfigured them and themselves. For spiritual awakening allies you to the great poets and artists. Such is the wonder and the grandeur of the spirit, its transforming and glamorous beauty.
Gradually these ideas, these thoughts that have entered through your spiritual heart will grow as involuntarily as the food you eat is taken care of without effort, and the inner you will manifest so gently that as you go into the world your feet will be led to walk beside the watered garden of your own making. Illumine the common things and you will fill your skies with stars. Go, seeking goodness and you will find it; seeking beauty and it will be upon your face. Thus will you walk the glorious way, using the common elements of daily life as rods and staffs. Nothing is too small for your consideration and for your use.
There – I have spoken for children tonight in this primer. Here was my text. “Do this in remembrance of me.” Do all things in remembrance of him – remember your way out!
I will add a postscript, for children in eagerness sometimes run too far ahead. Do not feel yourself a slave to this idea, for the mind is so constructed that if you drive it with spur and bridle it will balk. Remember always with joy and never with strain or boredom, for love only can find the way.

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Sometimes in moments of temptation when one is enveloped in the fog of doubt and disbelief, there is a lowering of the bars which guard you from fear so that meditation is difficult. That is understood. It is as if a noisy crowd had entered the room and your spirit of communion had been pushed to the uttermost edge and then lost. But these things happen during the pilgrimage and your safety is in knowing that underneath all temporary confusion lies your intent. Even if you sit with mind racing and you scold yourselves for being ensnared by nonessentials, let me assure you that by sitting obediently, even though your mind is concerned with trifles, the act is a prayer in itself and you are given the privilege of holding to your direction until you come through the fears or perplexities. In this way you go on your everlasting journey in eternal life and glory immortal. Be more aware of the transcendental loveliness in simple acts; here you are, two or three people sitting together in quiet with a desire to place themselves in the way of learning – to be at one with immortality, but I tell you that though your minds wander and at times the experience seems meaningless, you have lifted banners against the power of darkness. This is turning toward the Light of the world.
Let us speak for a moment about discipline, but discipline as a beneficent force, which is ultimately revealed as involuntary strength in time of need. You have been told many things to which you have responded with loyal belief, but you have not acted upon them with all your might and main. The endeavor to apply these promises to your insistent daily lives has been spasmodic. But surely you have seen already that the good to be received or extracted from this adventure is obedience to the law. You have seen the power and the force created by the power of the sword; there is a certain perfection, however misguided, in the application of the laws of Caesar in the body politic. Let us examine the antithesis of that law; first, deep centralization and individual responsibility to the inner voice. You know the results of unorganized living. You know, too, that the organized disciplined forces of Caesar are gained through self-sacrifice and discipline, ruthless though they may be. To overcome the world /the power of Caesar) one must organize and discipline oneself, but where he has seeds of defeat sown in healthy ground, you have victory inherent in your enterprise. Your work is to be strong and clean enough within through self-discipline to bring to completion the work that has been given to you.
You ask how? Again we tell you, control appetites. Appetites that rise from personal desires that are unworthy of the spirit, as well as the appetites of the body. A problem presents itself; nothing is trifling, therefore bring the serene clarity of intelligence, that high spiritual intelligence, to bear on it. Shall I do this or that? And you will be told the way to face because your intent is to obey righteousness rather than to drift in the lassitude of unrealized potentialities.
The time has come to break into light, and to keep this light illumined calls for self-restraint, sacrifice and self-examination.
This country is today paying a dreadful penalty for the neglect of youth by parents and teachers who do not believe in discipline. This disservice cannot be overestimated for the timeless truth is that this planet is a schoolroom for discipline, and the beginning of that knowledge should come when a child is hardly aware of cause and effect, of the waiting consequence. The results of mistakes, poor judgment and youthful enthusiasm can be taught with wise, firm gentleness and even a sense of humor, but his law must be taught in order to prevent the unhappy bewilderment and suffering with which youth will meet frustration and injustice when he crosses the first threshold into his world. Self-discipline is the armor of God and can be taught as easily as the discipline on the athletic field. If it is not, then when he leaves the license of home and school he has to face the pain and misery of the law of trial and error, whether swift or slow in coming. Strong, self-controlled, joyful, vital; not self-indulged, destructive, satiated unhealthy minded, and ignorant of the “laws of sin and death.”
I speak of youth, but as these truths are ageless so are you, they belong to you as to the very young, you are still very young in this adventure. Be vigilant, keep eternally alert, keep in the quiet estate and be always aware that you walk with God.
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Be like a child. Look at your two feet and say, Lord, walk these for me. Talk to him as to your friend and nurse. Be in sweet common friendship with him. Call him in your bath, in your daily tasks, in your going from one room to another. Say, “No, I will not go alone. Come, be with me, you lead the way.” Behold, he will answer then, and come running like laughter and golden hope into your heart, and with understanding love he will walk with you from room to room. And, too, will he stand beside you when you face your friends and visitors, and he will place a hand in yours and will watch your heart and the issues held there so that you can talk in perfect safety knowing that your word will be food and drink and life to all in your presence.
For you have him all to yourself. He is yours – forever. Do not puzzle how he can see your two feet when there are millions of feet, that is too much for your understanding. Enough that it is the truth that he has never failed to come when called and that he will come as you want him. He is to be sought through the refinements of the heart. Go, then, and ask him for rest, to heal your complaints, and to fill you with the strong virtue required. He will manifest, he never fails. He is your Savior and sweet comforter. So go into your immediate and personal life with him for your very own, with your hand in his. Let him smooth your pillow, smooth your blanket; and in deep, loosened sleep let him teach you that the Life immortal, perfect divine Sonship with him, can be known in all its fullness by such a simple way as this childlike invitation to him — the eternal Guest.

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There is a divine illumination from earthly things that will bring great joy and heavenly release to you if seen through the pure eyes of the Spirit; when you bathe, when you eat, when you walk, when you sleep-these are great symbols and are holy. When you work changing the unseen into maintenance – which you do when you use your mind to earn your bread) be holy by pouring the light upon humble ordinary things, for thus will you be transfigured and your day be blessed to you. Also it is one way to overcome the world which can be made a constant sacrament. Have more joy in your daily life, for renouncing the world is first of all to have a greater zest for things infinite than things finite.
The idea of renouncing joy is destructive. Have greater joy, but be sure the source of it is within rather than without — and lest you be misled, that simply means to be more aware of him you worship while you play, for he abides in a lifted heart. He overcame the world; put the world, therefore, at his feet. Sometimes in the past you have gone across the no-man’s land we have talked about for inspiration and then you have left it behind you and have stood in your workaday world and expected to get results for your workaday spirit.
No! Results may come that way, but slowly, inadequately. Your direct action is when you go back to your world charged and supercharged and stay charged. I have spoken at length on this for it is time you were more awake to your own power within. Go, therefore, plunge, experiment, do it joyfully. Nothing is too simple, too tiny. Go and move mountains and awake! The outward thrust of faith is your stand.

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The outer you, in its foolishness and rebellion and suffering, bends to the arrows that fly, to the perils and the dangers. But when it surrenders to the inner you whose instinct is for divine reality you are instantly released from the law of sin and death. Therefore when you have to meet the challenge of the world, come – humble, sore, bewildered – and lay thyself aside, this outer self of instant fears, sadness and temptation, and step into thy inner self who welcomes you and leads you to the high altar where all things are renewed, transcended. Here you are released. Have no fear, it is a sacrament indeed.
You have undertaken the great adventure of becoming holy children, sons of God, and you have to go through a sort of untangling to reach this place of communion and awareness. Be assured that your sole duty is to go within and dissolve by releasing the outer entanglements, to surrender appetites and forebodings. As I have to remind you again the question of appetites is different for each one, both physical and mental; nor must there be resentment and the old sense of duty in the surrender; it is rather permitting a joyful conviction to grow that there is something infinitely more satisfying. Of course there will be conflicts! Who is not familiar with the reasonable – oh very reasonable! – arguments that come rushing to justify the very human desires of mind and body? They must be met with as much gentleness toward yourself as you would meet them when trying to help another, otherwise your instant rebellion will obstruct and delay you. But in the true spirit of surrender, the giving up of everything that has become a burden, is little effort and the reward is instant; all things in this state work for thy good. And not the old idea of good which was a scourge; but the “goodness which is a rapture.”

 
Let thy troubled hearts be at peace in this serene and healing place, for here the Lord Christ will refresh you, here he will lift the heavy burden from your minds and in thy hearts he will breathe renewed joy and quietude. Have faith in practice .

 
It is not that we do not see the faults, the weaknesses and stupidities; but we waste no time with them for that is all carnal, heavy and human. It is what the outer people are struggling with. We know these things in you, but you are becoming cleansed and purified through these communions; it is the inner you that being sought – grows in strength to you, and it releases you from the meaningless and savage experiences of the race. “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Forgive, give over, release. There is great freedom when this is understood.

 
In spite of the teaching of Jesus we have been taught to hate evil, but that only justifies the more our complete satisfaction in criticism. In such emotional criticism of our friends and enemies we appear better people to ourselves. It is not the way. It is not our business, and instead of freedom we bind the consequences of poisonous hates and resentments to ourselves. We can turn from abstract evil without harm and with a sense of human righteousness. But the human does not hate evil disincarnate; he hates it in a person. Then we ask, “How can I love my enemies?” It would be plain hypocrisy to say we can, or must, do this in the ordinary sense of the word. But the true meaning will appear to you when we say. That the outer you cannot love the outer you of another who lives and has his being in the ancient darkness of the race. Instead, come within and while abiding in the conscious oneness with your inner self see and bless with understanding the inner you of that enemy whose outer you is struggling in the dark jungles of his journey, and by thus releasing him, forgiving him, giving him over, you help him on his way. This is loving your enemy, this the brotherhood of man. And there is no sentimentality about it, for only by abiding in the indwelling spirit can you have the so-called human wisdom as well as the divine wisdom to deal with him according to his needs as well as your own. You may have to put him in prison, but watch thy heart in the matter, for out of it are the issues of life! In times of fierce antagonism realize that the enemy is angry thought; fill yourself, without thought of any person, with a sense of infinite love and eternal peace, for thus are all negative things confounded and a table will be set before thee in the presence of thy enemies.

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The one hundred four letters collected in this book were originally published from the late 1930’s through the mid 1940’s in a weekly magazine called the Churchman. The letters were published as anonymous contributions by various writers from across the country. It is a mistake to think that all of the letters were written by a single individual. They were not. Many varous writers contributed over several years. From the content and style of the letters it seems likely that these unknown authors were professional Protestant clergy, or at least deeply immersed in the more spiritual side of the Christian faith.

 
The language of these letters can sometimes seem a bit archaic to the modern ear, but it is also clear that the authors were lovers of language, extremely literate, and sincere spiritual thinkers. A modern reader might notice the unaccustomed emphasis sometimes placed on racial divisions and identification with one’s “race,” but that is simply a sign of those times, and the word was also used to mean the “human race.” Some incomplete effort has been made to clean up the more annoying uses of “thee”, “thine”, and “shalt,” but enough remain so as to leave no doubt that these letters come to us from an earlier generation. Subsequent revisions to the ebook will reflect additional modernization efforts by the editor.

 
There letters were originally collected in book form by the editorial efforts of Mary Strong, about whom not much is known. First published in 1948 by Harper & Row, the book was reprinted in 1991 and it is still currently available for purchase. This present digital edition draws upon the same source materials as did the printed book, but the letters have been re-compiled in a different order of my own selection.
Coming out of the dark days of the great depression of the 1930’s and the terrifying days of World War II, this collection appears as a mighty call to take heart in the ever present solace of spiritual truth, and to focus on spirit rather than the distressing news of the day. As a source of inspiration and practical spiritual insight in the best Christian tradition, these letters are as valuable today as they were during those turbulent times.

 
Louisville, Kentucky
March, 2010

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