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(From: The Monthly Letter January, 1960J
In the early study of truth, I am sure that
most students have primarily in mind the overcoming of the
discords and inharmonies in their human experience and the
attainment of harmony in the form of good health, more abundant
supply, happier relationships, and other satisfying human
experiences. At that stage of unfoldment, it is not usually
recognized that this is merely a desire to exchange the evils of
human experience for the good in human experience. Nor is it
apparent to most students that even if physical health and
economic abundance are attained, they are still subject to the
vicissitudes of the calendar and the weather and alternating
periods of boom or depression, war or peace – in other
words, they still remain “man whose breath is in his
nostrils.”
Inevitably, it
dawns in our consciousness that something is missing and that
there must be something more than this volleying back and forth
between good health and bad, between abundance and lack, between
happiness and unhappiness, peace and unrest. Sooner or later, it
is brought to our attention that we are to seek the kingdom of God,
the attainment of that mind which was also in Christ Jesus –
the fourth dimensional Consciousness. And so our search takes a
different turn.
My own experience has
taught me that one is either touched by the finger of God and, by
His grace, is automatically lifted into Christ-consciousness, or
that one attains the Crown by way of the Cross. Usually there is
a mixture of both of these.
I then learned
that to know the correct letter of truth, to study and practice it,
developed the actual consciousness itself. Sometimes one may take
the problem of supply and work with specific principles of
supply, studying and practicing them, until “in such an hour
as ye think not” the realization dawns, and from then on,
supply is ours as a matter of grace – without effort,
without taking thought, without the sweat of our brow. Or, we may
work faithfully and consistently with some principle of health,
studying, learning, and putting the principle into practice,
until again one day all of a sudden it happens, and we enter the
very consciousness of health. Thereafter, we do not maintain our
health by taking thought or by treatments, but we are maintained
and sustained by the grace of God.
And so it is that
in the area of human relationships, family, business or public,
again we find the specific correct letter of truth and we work
faithfully with it, studying, remembering, consciously bearing
witness, and putting into practice the specific principles, until
a light flashes, an inner release comes, and then on that subject
we are made free. Of what are we made free? Of the inharmonies
and discords of ordinary human relationships – made free in
spiritual relationship, the relationship of Chist, or spiritual
being.
Students
ordinarily believe that if they attain a flash of light, or a
momentary sense of God’s presence they are
automatically freed from the entire round of human experiences,
but my experience indicates that this is not true. Our release
from what the Master called “this world” is gradual,
piece by piece, until in a certain moment we are able to reach
that point where we feel we are beginning to overcome the world
in some small measure. But just as the Master attained his Crown
through the Cross, so do we – it is not just one brief
period of crucifixion, but a crucifixion of the physical sense of
body, a crucifixion to the material sense of supply, a
crucifixion to the human sense of relationships, bearing out the
Master’s statement that there is no wide and easy road to
the attainment of the kingdom of God.
To the students of
The Infinite Way who have a background of good, earnest study of
the Writings and recordings, the letters of September, October
and November 1959 so clearly provide the highlights of these
principles constituting the correct letter of truth that it will
require only diligent practice and faithful adherence to these
principles, and a sincere zeal in the application of them. To
attain that which was revealed in the December, 1959 letter, that
is: the revelation of the fourth dimensional, or
Christ-consciousness. Symbolically this attainment of Christmas
occurs in the twelfth month, and our students must not be weary
if they find, as I have found, that they must plod their way
through the first arduous eleven months in order to attain the
glory of the twelfth.
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(from: “Across the Desk” Monthly
Letter October, 1957)
Looking at the
human scene, we see continual strife and struggle – good
battling evil, health trying to conquer disease, virtue
contending against vice, abundance racing to keep a step ahead of
lack, war and peace see-sawing constantly, and birth and death
occupying the same pages of the papers.
When muskets were
invented, the bow-and-arrow nations were conquered, only to be
conquered in turn when rifles came into being. When the power of
a torpedo launched from a sub marine became more potent than the
power of guns or cannon on ships, the submarine defeated the world’s
largest navies. The airplane has overcome land armies, and the
newest weapon, atomic power, has filled the whole world with
fear. Medicine and surgery continue their warfare with disease.
Education valiantly wages its battle with ignorance, superstition
and fear. We can sum it all up in one phrase – the struggle
for survival. Noting how one power always overcomes a lesser
power, we may well ask: “Where will all this end? Can this
struggle continue forever with one ogre devouring another?”
Looking at the scene from a material standpoint, the answer to
the problem of survival is always found in the discovery of a
still greater power than that which is already known.
Everywhere in the
world, people are recognizing that there must come an end to this
eternal warfare of mind and matter and that some other solution
must be found. In The Infinite Way, we believe that we have found
the solution to life’s problems and to a way of harmonious
living – a way not based on power. An understanding of this
way begins to dissolve our personal problems, brings about more
harmonious family, business, and social relationships, and
includes in this harmony all those who are or who become a part
of our consciousness. Eventually this way will be the way of all
mankind and the word “power” will then be used merely
in measuring the forces of electricity or atomic energy.
Our students have
learned from my writings and from their own experience that God
continues individual being, and therefore each one is secure in
his own spiritual integrity, one with his Source. Each one represents
God fulfilling Itself. Each is fed by the inner meat, wine,
bread, and water within his own Self Each draws life, sustenance,
and wisdom from the springs of living water within his own being.
Each draws inspiration from the hills from whence cometh our help
that high consciousness which has evolved through unselfed
living, giving, and sharing. Our students have learned that neither
health, harmony, nor supply can be received, but these can be
given forth from that which is within each one of them.
No power drew these students from 2,500 to 9.000 miles to be here
- no promises, no suggestions, no hopes of gain, not even the
expectancy of learning of greater powers. In this grand
experience you may, with spiritual discernment, glimpse the
principles of The Infinite Way. It may help you to understand the
passage which appears on the opening page of all our writings:
Illumination
dissolves all material ties and binds men together with the
golden chains of spiritual understanding; it acknowledges only
the leadership of the Christ; it has no ritual or rule but the
divine, impersonal, universal Love; no other worship than the
inner Flame that is ever lit at the shrine of Spirit. This union
is the free state of spiritual brotherhood. The only restraint is
the discipline of the Soul, therefore we know liberty without
license; we are a united universe without physical limits; a
divine service to God without ceremony or creed.
If you can only
dimly perceive the nature of this passage, you will understand
the miracle that drew those students here and that has also drawn
such groups together in Seattle, Portland, New York, London, Amsterdam,
South Africa, Australia and other places. To discern this is to
understand the nature of The Infinite Way and its mode of
revealing Omnipresence. Is there more than this? Ponder and
meditate.
When you are faced
with some of the problems of “this world” will you not
remember that the answer does not lie in using some power –
not even some power of God – to overcome or destroy
anything? Will you not see that only in “this world”
does one power strive with another, but in “MY Kingdom”
there are no powers.
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(From the April
1960 Monthly Letter)
When understood,
The Infinite Way will change the nature of your prayers. Men have
always prayed either to many gods or to the one unknown God
for better material conditions and a greater abundance of things:
The world has prayed for bigger crops, for more rain and then
again for less rain, for safety, and for peace on earth. Men have
prayed for homes and companions and abundance until the world
would have been deluged with these if the God to whom they
have prayed were the kind of God who could answer such prayer.
Despite the
billions of men and women who pray in public places of worship,
and the other billions, who pray alone and in secret, the sins,
diseases, wars, famines and storms continue and it would seem
even increase. What explanation is there other than that there is
no such God answering such prayers?
The Infinite Way
reveals that praying to God for anything at all except for the
one great gift of an understanding of god is a waste of time.
Throughout the ages, there have been some who have attained
God’s grace and realized peace on earth and an abundance of
those things necessary to daily comfort; but it is always the
attaining of a transcendental state of consciousness that is the
secret of healing and harmony, and that spiritually enlightened
consciousness is the substance, form, and activity of our
immediate and continued good.
This message
reveals how sincere seekers can attain some measure of this
spiritual consciousness, and thereby bring joy, peace, health and
abundance to themselves and to all who can forsake the scramble
for t h i n g s in order to attain the awareness of the invisible
s u b s t a n c e of things and conditions.
The error of the
ages is the belief that the ordinary material or mental
consciousness can add to itself the blessings of God, whereas the
truth is that only the children of God – those who have the Spirit,
or consciousness of God – are heirs of God.
Before God’s
healing presence can be experienced, consciousness must be
prepared – transformed, renewed, reborn of the Spirit –
so that it may be a transparency for that Light and God’s
grace find entry to “this world” and overcome it.
“The Art of
Spiritual Healing’ set forth the specific healing principles
of The Infinite Way through which this mystical healing
consciousness may be developed. The first two months of the 1960
lecture work and class work indicate that this year will be
devoted to the actual realization and unfolding of this
transcendental consciousness through the understanding of
scripture and meditation. The Infinite Way “wisdoms”
will be more clearly understood and “Living the Infinite Way”
will reveal deeper meanings and even the tiny pamphlet “The
Fourth Dimension” will disclose its depth.
. . . . the world cannot know peace and
oneness until we of the metaphysical movements attain unity in
our relationships with one another. All those who stand for
spiritual healing are o n e in spirit and in truth
regardless of the differences in specific principles and the many
different approached to the subject of healing. The day of
oneness is surely dawning.