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A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
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"MAN KNOW THYSELF" SAYETH THE LORD

SPIRITUAL MAN
If we traced man's history back into the dim past we should come to a place where he did
not consciously know himself. We should come to a place where Spiritual Man alone
existed; for the self-conscious man had not yet evolved.
Nothing can be more apparent than that man, as he now appears, is the result of growth
and unfoldment. But in order to unfold, he had to have something from which to unfold, and
since he is intelligent, he must have unfolded from an intelligent cause.
Spiritual Man, then, means that Inner something, or life, which we do not see but which is,
of course, there. We might say that Spiritual Life is God in man, or the idea of God, working
through man. But if Spiritual Man is an idea of God, why is he not perfect? The answer is
that he is perfect, but that as soon as individuality is evolved he must be left alone to
discover himself. Even God could not make a mechanical Individuality. If man is created
with the attributes of self-choice and free will, he must be let alone to make the great
discovery for himself.
NATURE WAITS ON MAN'S SELF-RECOGNITION
We note, that from the day when Spiritual Life brought man to the point of self-choice, it let
him alone, and from that day Spiritual life has waited on man's unfoldment. It is true that
during all this time it has carried on the automatic functions of the body and has even
silently told man what to do; but it has let him alone in all other ways. It may, and must,
hold man as a perfect being, but it also must let him discover this fact for himself. During
all of this time, however, Spiritual Life, or God, must be silently waiting for the great
discovery to be made and must always be ready to respond to man's advancement. We
note this to be true along the line of man's progress. For instance, consider the discovery
of any of nature's forces; we know that they must have always existed; but, so far as man
is concerned, they exist to him only after he has discovered, and learned how to make use
of them. Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the Children of Israel
from the land of Egypt, but neither Moses nor any of his followers knew anything about it,
and so they did not receive any benefits from its use. This is true of any and all of the
natural laws; they always existed, and as soon as they are understood then they may be
used. In this way, Instinctive Life waits upon man's discovery of the natural laws and his
discovery of himself and his relationship to the great Whole.
If this is so evidently true of all the forces in the natural world we must expect to find the
same thing to be true of those inner and finer forces within man. The unfoldment of these
inner and finer forces through man is what we call his evolution.
THE FIRST GREAT DISCOVERY
The first great discovery that man made was that he could think. This was the day when
he rose from the ground and said, "I AM." This marked the first great day of personal
attainment; and from that day man became an individual and had to make all further
progress himself; any compulsory evolution stopped when man became an individual, and
from that day he had to work in conscious union with Nature and its forces; but he did not
have to work alone, for spiritual life has always been with him and will never depart from
him. Spiritual Life desires that man shall express more, and yet more, of its own limitless
possibilities.
Man is evolving from an Infinite basis; behind him is the great Unknown but not the great
unknowable; for the unknown becomes known through man, and whatever more spiritual
life is to do for him must be done through him. Nature must work through man in order to
work for him. This is true all along the line of life and endeavor.
The first great discovery of man was that he could think, plan and execute. As the result of
this discovery he has built up a great civilization and all that goes with it. He has
harnessed electricity to his inventions, tied steam and compelled it to do his bidding. He
has lain waste forests, built cities, made the desert to bloom, and has thrown the lines of
his commerce around the globe; indeed, he has seemed to possess the earth.
THE INNER SENSE AWAKENS
But with all of man's powers he has still felt a vague sense of something more, something
greater, something further along; a sort of mystical inner sense of things, a spiritual urge,
a blind groping after a greater light. Disregarding all of his apparent power, man has still
been unhappy, sick, lonely and afraid. The cities which he built have crumbled into dust,
the nations which he fostered have, one by one, fallen into ruin, and history alone remains
to tell the tale of most of his endeavors.
In spite of man's apparent power he has suffered greatly, and death has crowned his life
and work with a pail of darkness and uncertainty.
THE GREAT QUESTION "WHY"
The great question "Why" has forever been upon his lips. Few indeed have been able to
answer this question; and these few have been passed by, unheeded, in the struggle for
existence.
Man has struggled along the weary road with a heavy heart and bleeding feet, only to be
met by the grave. The lack of a sense of completion has beset his every pathway; and in
his blind groping, he has held up his hands in speechless anguish, and his broken cries
have rent the air with supplications to an apparently unheeding world.
Why the suffering, the sorrow, the sin, the sickness and a lifetime of trouble, only to be met
at last by the grim and sinister tomb?
Why, why, why? Man has sought the wise only to discover their foolishness; he has
sought the learned only to find a lack of wisdom. Why, why, why? His cry has appeared to
go forth into an empty nothingness. But hark! From somewhere a vague answer has
come, some subtle inner sense of things; some unknown presence has given answer and
a still small voice has said to him, "Man, know thyself." The Spirit has again spoken and
told him to search more deeply into his own nature; to look deep within himself for the
answer to life. The hour has struck in the evolution of man when he can understand this
voice and do its bidding.

THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF ALL TIME, MIND
Man's response to this inner spiritual voice has caused him to start on the greatest
adventure of his career, the discovery of Mind.
Man's first discovery of his ability to think was set aside as being too evident to take any
notice of; he could think, but what of it! Of course, it was a proof that he was, but that was
all; he had always been able to think; this simply gave him the ability to know his needs
and try to supply them. This he had always done.
The ability to think seemed to be an automatic thing; it came with him and would doubtless
die when he died; the brain seemed to be the organ of thought; and, of course, when death
stilled the brain it would no longer operate-this was self-evident.
THE BRAIN DOES NOT THINK
But the day came when some wise man said that it is not the brain that thinks at all; for if
the brain, of itself, could think, then one could cut it out and it would keep right on thinking.
No, the brain of itself could not think; and yet, without a brain man could not think; which
simply means that man needs a brain while here, but that the brain, of itself, does not think.
The brain does not think and yet man thinks; so behind the brain there must be a thinker.
But where is this thinker? We do not see him. Have we a right to say that there is a thinker
when no one has ever seen him? Yes; for can we name a single force of nature that we
can see? Have we ever seen electricity or any of the other forces of nature? No; and the
only evidence we have of their existence is that we see what they do. We have light and
motive power, so we have a right to suppose that there is a force which we call electricity.
This is true all along the line, for we see effects and not causes.
WE DO NOT SEE THE THINKER
But to return to the thinker; we do not see him, but the proof of his reality is in the evidence
of his works. We know that the legs do not walk; for, if severed from the body, they could
not carry any one very far. Cut off the hand and see if it could still hold anything in its
grasp! Pluck out the eye and it cannot see; and so it is with all the organs of the body.
There is a thinker and doer back of the organism who is using it for a conscious purpose.
THE BODY UNCONSCIOUS WITHOUT THE THINKER
This is a great discovery; for it means that the body without the thinker could neither be
sick nor suffer; for without the thinker there could be no movement of the body. Why then
are we sick? This inquiry will not be answered until every form of disease is swept from
the face of the earth and numbered with the things that were once thought necessary. For
man has discovered that the body, of itself, has no life, nor power to act.
Let us follow the course of man's thought since he first made this discovery about the
body and began to apply his knowledge. He first realized that Spiritual Man built up the
body through evolution; and, after having created and evolved a perfect body, left it in
man's keeping to do with as he willed. At first, man was ignorant of this, thinking that the
body was self-operating; but as soon as he discovered that such was not the case he
began to formulate certain new theories about himself. He discovered that while he could
consciously think and decide, something happened to his thoughts after he had thought
them. They went somewhere; for soon they would come back as remembrance. Man had
now discovered that he could consciously think and that his thought would come back to
him again. This led to the conclusion that memory is an active thing, an inner mental
action. He said, "Memory is the storehouse of all my conscious thoughts and it is active.
My body is not conscious of life, but my thought is conscious of my body; my body is
operated upon by my thought; and it must also be operated upon by my memory, since
memory is active. But, since memory is only the result of conscious thought, memory, of
itself, is an unconscious operation of what was once a conscious thought."
THE CONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS THOUGHT
Since man always has had the habit of naming things, he named his memory his
"unconscious thought," and his conscious thought he called his "objective mind." He now
came to the conclusion that he had two minds, one conscious and one unconscious, or
sub-conscious. The conscious mind; being the one that he used all of the time in his self-
conscious state and the sub-conscious mind being the storehouse of all his conscious
thoughts as well as the seat of his memory. It follows, that as conscious thought acts,
unconscious thought must also operate. This conclusion led to the discovery that the sub-
conscious mind is the builder of the body; not that it really made the body in the first place,
for God did that; but that the sub-conscious mind keeps the body going and is always
acting on the thoughts of the conscious mind. After carefully watching this process, man
discovered that he could consciously think and, by so doing, make such an impression on
his subconscious thought that it would do what he directed. From these observations he
deduced the law of suggestion to be one of action and reaction. Thus he found how habits
are formed; that they are conscious ideas fallen into the inner thought and reasoned
through personal experience to be carried out to logical conclusions of action.
A NEW BASIS OF THOUGHT
Therefore, he began to reason: "God within me is perfect and yet I appear to be imperfect.
My apparent imperfection must be the result of an imperfect thinking; in reality I am, and
always have been, perfect. I will now begin to think differently about myself and see what
happens." And as he began to think from the new basis he found that the body responded
and was healed. So he came to this conclusion: "God made me perfect but He also made
me an individual, which means that I can do with myself as I will. I cannot really destroy my
spirit but I can make it most uncomfortable. Since God made me and made me perfect,
each one of the organs of my body represents a perfect idea."
Realizing this to be true, he began to think from this basis, and the organs of the body
responded. He found that thoughts of peace produced a peaceful condition while thoughts
of fear produced a disturbed condition; that confidence made him strong while fear made
him weak. In fact, he was able to trace each mental attitude to its physical correspondent.
He discovered that, asleep or awake, the inner mind works all the time. He also found that
by analyzing his thought he could discover what ailed him. This he called psycho-analysis.
THE LAW OF MIND
Then another idea came to him: the whole thing was in accordance with law. He had
discovered a law of mind just as he, at another time, discovered a law of electricity. If it
were law, then he could always use it and it would always respond. From this he gradually
built up a definite technique for the practice of right thinking.
He found that if he always thought of himself as being perfect he would always feel better.
But what should he do with his body when it appeared sick? How was he to think of
himself when he was sick? Could he deny that he was sick when he was suffering? Yes;
for his sickness was the result of thought and by changing the thought he could change
the effect (catching a healing) as my mom taught me. He learned to turn away from the
body when it was sick and go back into mind and think of the body as being perfect; for his
thought worked independently of the body. He turned from the image of sickness to the
idea of health and said, "I am perfect, no matter what the appearance may be."
UNCONSCIOUS MIND AT WORK
But some kinds of sickness had never entered his mind at all; that is, he had never
consciously thought of them. How was he to reconcile this fact with his new theory? For a
while this was a hard problem to solve; but by a still more careful study of his inner self, he
discovered that what he called his subjective mind took all of his thoughts and did
something with them. He found that there were certain combinations of thought which,
brought to their logical conclusions, would produce certain kinds of diseases. He did not
have to consciously think of a certain disease to have it; but if he thought certain kinds of
thoughts they would produce their logical results. For instance, if he were excited all the
time it would produce nervousness; if he became angry it would secrete poison in his
system, and so on through the whole category of the human ailments; somewhere in mind
they had their reason for being. Perhaps he could not always tell exactly where, but, by
knowing that his body was perfect, he could still heal himself to some point. He knew that
as time went on and his knowledge grew he would find out more and more about himself
and so be better able to heal himself. He was glad that he had started on the right track; he
believed that he would know all in time and never be sick again.
ANOTHER GREAT DISCOVERY THOUGHT REACHED OTHERS
Then a new discovery came, which was that he could think of others and heal them. It
seemed to make no difference where they were; he could think of them and heal them.
This was a most astounding fact, for it meant that there was a common mind somewhere
through which his thought operated; for he could not reach another unless there were a
medium between himself and the other person. This seemed strange; for what he had
learned to think of as his individual subjective mind, was, after all, only the personal use
that he was making of something which was around every one. He began to think for
others, and found that mind responded to his thinking for them and caused some action to
take place in their bodies. He called this medium "Universal Mind," or "the Law of God." It
seemed to be as omnipresent as the law of electricity or any of the other forces of nature.
THE DISCOVERY OF RACE-THOUGHT
In this way he discovered how it was possible that the whole race might have held certain
kinds of thoughts and how they might have operated through any one who was receptive
to them. That is, if any one should feel discouraged, other thoughts of discouragement
might gain entrance also and make him feel worse. This he called race-suggestion. But
how was he to protect himself from it? By knowing that it could not operate through him;
that he was a perfect idea and could not be affected by suggestion; for, after all, it was
nothing but thought. He learned to build a mental wall around himself which could not be
entered unless he chose. This he called "Divine Protection."
A UNIVERSAL MEDIUM WHICH ALL MUST COME TO BELIEVE IN
Man had now discovered that he could help and heal himself and others by thinking into
some kind of a Universal Law of Mind, the Holy Spirit, or God’s active force. He found that,
like all other forces of God, it was a great Impersonal Law and could be consciously used
whenever he wished to use it and that the use of it was through right thinking and belief.
He realized that the time must come when the race would be healed by knowing the Truth
about itself. But because the Law was mental it could only work for those who believed in
it, and since many did not believe, the thing to do was to heal himself and others who
wished to be healed, waiting for the rest of the world to realize the fact.

MAN BEGINS TO REALIZE THAT HIS CONDITIONS ARE CONTROLLED BY THOUGHT
In this way man realized that even his affairs were controlled by thought working through
the avenue of the One Mind. He discovered that by changing his thought he could re-mold
his affairs, and that by right thinking he could bring into his life new conditions. But would
there be enough to go around should every one become prosperous? Yes, for Instinctive
Life is Limitless. Call things as you want them to be.
REALIZES THAT HE MUST THINK CORRECTLY
So man discovered that he could control his affairs by right thinking; he could bring into his
experience the things he wished to enjoy if he thought correctly; and since this was all in
accordance with law he could do so consciously. He realized that the time would come
when every one would think correctly; and poverty, unhappiness, and all that goes with
them, would be swept from the face of the earth. They were never intended to be, but man
had misused his power; now that he understood, he would change his whole manner of
thinking and consequently he would become happy and have plenty. But every one did not
believe this. Many said that it was a foolish idea, while others said that it was too good to
be true. However, it was soon proven that whoever would believe and comply with the
Spirit could prove it to be true. If some did not wish to believe, that was all right; there were
plenty who would, and the direct proofs of their lives would in time convince others. In this
way, eventually, all would be saved from unbearable conditions. The thing to do was to
teach the Spirit to those who did believe.
The human race is made up of individuals, and the place to begin is with the person who
believes in the greater possibility. Each one, for himself, must work out the Spirit of his
own being. It is within the power of every man to completely change his environment and
completely heal his body. Whether or not he will do this; depends entirely upon his own
conviction and his own determination. The Holy Spirit attends him on the way and is
always ready to serve; but he is an individual and nothing will ever be forced upon him. Let
any one follow the Spirit, comply with its nature, and consistently apply himself to right
thinking and living, and he will prove to himself that life holds all and more than he has ever
imagined.
SCIENCE
Science is knowledge of facts built around some proven principle. All that we know about
any science is that certain things happen under certain conditions. Take electricity as an
example; we know that there is such a thing as electricity; we have never seen it, but we
know that it exists because we can use it; we know that it operates in a certain way and
we have discovered the way it works. From this knowledge we go ahead and deduce
certain facts about electricity; and, applying them to the general principle, we receive
definite results. No one has ever seen the power or the energy that we call electricity; and
the only proof we have that it really exists is that from it we receive light, heat and motive
power.
No one has ever seen any of the great causes that lie back of the manifestations of life,
and perhaps no one ever will; but we know that such principles exist because we can use
them.
HOW LAWS ARE DISCOVERED
The discovery of a law is generally made more or less by accident, or by some one who,
after careful thought and observation, has come to the conclusion that such a principle
must exist. As soon as a law is discovered experiments are made with it, certain facts are
proved to be true, and in this way a science is gradually formulated; for any science
consists of the number of known facts about any given principle. As more and more facts
are gathered and proven, the science expands and gradually becomes accepted by all and
used by those who understand it. In this way all of our sciences have been evolved until
today we have the use of powers and unseen forces of which our ancestors never even
dreamed.
PROOF OF MIND
This is true of the Mind. No one has ever seen Mind or Spirit, but who could possibly doubt
their existence? Nothing is more self-evident than that we live; and since we live, we must
have life; yet who has ever seen this life? The only proof of life we have is that we live; and
the only proof we have of Mind is that we can think; so we are perfectly justified in
believing that we have a mind and that we live.
WHERE OUR THOUGHTS GO
As we watch the processes of thought we find that we think consciously, and we also find
that something happens to our thoughts after we have thought them; for instance, they
become memory. This proves that we have a deeper aspect of mind, which is called
subjective, lying just below the threshold of the conscious. This subjective mind is the
place where our thoughts go and from whence they eventually return to us again as
memory. Observation proves this to be true; for it always happens this way.
Observation has proven that the subjective mind is the seat of memory and that it contains
mental pictures, or impressions, of all that has ever happened to the individual. As these
mental impressions come to the surface of the conscious mind they are called memories.
Moreover observation has shown that the subjective mind is the builder of the body. It has
proven that it is not only the seat of memory; it is also the avenue through which spiritual
man works. We mean by spiritual man that part of the individual which came with him
when he was born that inner something which makes him what he is. For instance, we do
not have to consciously think to make the body function; so we say that the inner, or the
spiritual Man, does this for us. This is true of most of the functions of the body; they
appear to be automatic; they came with us and are God’s way of working through us. So
we say that in the unconscious or the sub-conscious or the subjective, there is a silent
process forever working away and always doing its duty, carrying on all of the
unconscious activities of the body without effort on our part.
SUGGESTION BECOMES MEMORY
It has been observed that suggestions, planted in the subconscious, become memories,
and eventually tend to externalize in the body. From this it has been deduced that the sub-
conscious mind is the builder of the body and is the creative factor in man. It has also been
proven that certain types of thought produce certain kinds of results. This shows that the
subjective mind takes our suggestions and tends to act upon them, no matter what the
suggestion may be.
While the spiritual man or the Natural man must be perfect, it is known that the thoughts of
the conscious man may hinder spiritual action, through adverse suggestion. That is,
conscious thought, acting as memory, may build a false condition in the body, which
condition we call disease. Conscious thought may also erase this memory and thereby
heal the disease.
Through observations such as these, a science of the subjective mind has gradually been
formulated, many facts have been put together; and, today, these facts constitute what we
call the science of the subjective life in its relationship to mental healing.
MENTAL MEDIUM THROUGH ALL
It has also been proven that thought operates in such a manner as to make it possible to
convey mental impressions from one person to another, showing that there is a mental
medium between all people. When we think of it, how could we talk with each other unless
there was some kind of a medium through which we talked? We could not; and so we
know that there really is such a medium. While there is a place where our bodies begin
and leave off, as form, there does not appear to be a place where our thought leaves off.
Indeed, the observations made and the facts gathered show that the medium between
men's minds is omnipresent; that is, it seems to be everywhere present. Radio also
shows this, for messages are sent out through some kind of a universal medium, and all
that we can say of it is that we know the medium is there. So it is with Mind; all that we can
say is that everything happens just as though it were there. We have a perfect right, then,
to say that such a medium exists.
This opens up a far-reaching theory, for it leads to the conclusion that we are surrounded
by a Universal Spirit which is the Medium of the communication of our thoughts. Perhaps
this is the Mind of God! Who knows? That it is there, we cannot doubt.
READING THOUGHT
Other observations have shown even more wonderful possibilities. It is known that certain
people can read our thoughts, even when we are not aware of the fact, showing that
thought operates through a medium which is universal, or always present. This also
shows that the medium is subjective; for it retains our thoughts and transmits them to
others. This leads to the conclusion that what we call our subjective mind is really the use
that we, as individuals, make of something which is universal. Perhaps, just as radio
messages are operative through a universal medium; our thoughts are operative through
the medium of a Universal Spirit. Indeed, this has been believed for thousands of years by
some of the deepest thinkers.
THE WORD OF GOD AS LAW
Since man has a self-conscious mind, a subconscious mind and a body, we know that he
is threefold in his nature. First, he is conscious mind or spirit; next, he is subconscious
mind or mental law; and then, he is body. The conscious mind controls the subconscious;
and in its turn, the subconscious controls the body.
It is evident that man comes from God. It is also evident that we can get from Life only that
which is in It. Man must partake of the Divine Nature if he comes from it or is made out of
it; for what is true of the Whole must also be true of any of its parts. Something cannot
come from nothing; something must come from something; for nothing comes from
nothing and nothing is the result; but man is something, else he could not declare himself;
and since he is something, he must be made from, or come out of, something; and that
something must be what we call God.
CONSCIOUS MIND IN GOD AND MAN
In God and in man there is a power that, while it may not transcend law, yet consciously
uses it for definite purposes. In God this knowledge must be complete, but in man it is, of
course, but dimly perceived. Jesus said that God and man are One in real nature, and no
doubt this understanding was what gave Him His marvelous power.
UNITY
It is well to remember that the enlightened in every age have taught that back of all things
there is One Unseen Cause: In studying the teachings of the great thinkers we find that a
common thread runs through all the thread of Unity. There is no record of any deep
thinker, of any age, who taught duality. One of the great teachings of Moses was, "Hear, O
Israel, the Lord our God is One Lord"; 1 We may go back much farther than Moses and find
the same teaching, for it crops out from the literatures and sayings of the wise of all ages.
Jesus taught this when He said, "I and the Father are One," and in the saying, "The Father
that dwells within me.
This teaching of Unity is the chief cornerstone of the Sacred Scriptures of the East as well
as of our own Sacred Writings. It is today the mainspring of the teachings of the modern
philosophies, such as Christian Science, Divine Science, The Unity Teachings, The New
Thought Movement, The Occult Teachings, The Esoteric or Inner Teachings, and even of
much that is taught under the name of Psychology. Without this basic teaching of Unity
these movements would have but little to offer. Science has found nothing to contradict
this teaching and it never will, for the teaching is self evident.
WORSHIP OF GOD
That there is a God no one can doubt. That the Being whom we call God really exists from
eternity to eternity is self-evident. In every age people have worshipped some kind of
Deity. It is true that as the evolution of man has progressed the idea of God has expanded,
and the more that people have realized of life, and of nature and her laws, for this is the
logical result of an unfolding mentality.
AN AWAKENING
The world is waking up to the fact that things are not at all what they appear to be; that
matter and form are but the one substance appearing and disappearing; and that form is
simply used to express something which is formless, but self-conscious life. What this life
is, science does not attempt to explain. This has been left to theology, and whether or not it
has been delegated to those competent to handle the problem time alone will tell.
A DEEP INQUIRY
The deep thinkers of antiquity as well as the philosophers of all ages have meditated long
and earnestly on the nature of the Divine Being. Knowing that there could be but One
Ultimate Reality back of all things, they have pondered deeply upon the nature of that
Reality; and it is a significant fact that all of the greatest thinkers have come to about the
same conclusion. Nothing is more evident than that we live in a world of constant change.
Things and forms come and go continuously; forms appear only to disappear; things
happen only to stop happening; and it is no wonder that the average person, unused to
trying to discover causes, is led to feel and to believe that there is a multiple cause back of
the world of things.

THE WORD OF GOD
It is impossible to conceive of anything other than the Word of God being that which sets
power in motion. This is why the Scriptures announce that, "In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. All things were made by Him,
and without Him was not anything made that was made." God speaks and it is done.
SPIRIT KNOWS ITSELF
God speaks and it is done; but if God speaks, His Word must be Law. The Word of God is
also the Law of God. God is Word, God is Law and God is Spirit; this is self-evident. We
arrive at the conclusion that God, as Spirit, is Self-Conscious Life. That Spirit is conscious
is proven by the fact that we have evidence of this consciousness strewn through all time
and space. God must know that God Is. This is the inner meaning of the teaching of the "I
AM," handed down from antiquity. "The Spirit is the Power that knows itself," is one of the
oldest sayings of time.
MEANING OF CREATION
With this in mind, we shall be better able to realize that Creation does not mean making
something out of nothing, but means the passing of Substance into form through a law
which is set in motion by the Word of Spirit. Creation is eternally going on; for we could not
imagine a time when the activity of Spirit would cease. It is "the same yesterday, today
and forever."
THE WORD ALONE IS CONSCIOUS
One of the main facts to bear in mind is that, of the three attributes of Spirit, the Word alone
is conscious of itself. The Law is force, and matter is simply stuff ready to take form. Since
law or energy is proven to be timeless. That is, not added to or taken from. And since
matter is known to be of the same nature, we have a right to suppose that both matter and
law are coexistent and co eternal with Spirit. But Spirit alone is Conscious. Law, of itself, is
only a force, and matter has no mind of its own. Law is not a thinker but is a doer, while
matter cannot think but is thought upon.
ETERNAL CREATION
There may be confusion in the minds of men but not in the Thought of God; and so we have
a universe expressing the limitless Ideas of a Limitless Mind, and without confusion. We
have, then, a Cosmic World, and an infinite and endless Creation. This is the inner meaning
of those mystic words, "World without end." Creation always was and always will be.
Things may come and things may go, but Creation goes on forever; for it is the Thought of
God coming into expression. This is, indeed, a wonderful concept; for it means that there
will always be a manifestation of the Divine Ideas.
The Nature of Being
Spiritual Life, because it is without beginning and without end, We have divided it into three
parts, calling one Spirit, one Soul and the other Body; not because the nature of Being is
three distinct things, but because It is a Unity with three distinct attributes, i.e., Spirit, Soul
and Body.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
If all Cause is existent in Spirit, and if the Law which executes the volition of Spirit is
entirely subconscious, or subjective to the Will of the Spirit, and if the body is only an
effect, it follows that both cause and effect are spiritual. Involved within the seed, which
the Spirit drops into the Creative Medium, is everything necessary to unfold the seed into
form. This is why the Spirit never thinks of methods or processes; for that which the Spirit
involves must evolve.
VOLITION
There is but one volitional factor in the Universe, and this is Spirit. God did not make God;
this is self-evident; hence God is Self-Existent. God did not make Law; Law is co eternal
with God. God did not make Substance; this also is coexistent and co eternal with God. But
God did make, and does make, and is making, and will continue to make, from eternity to
eternity forms. We live in a universe of Infinite Substance and numberless forms wherein
nothing is moved unless Intelligence moves it.
When we speak of every thought dropped into the Creative Medium, do we think of God's
thought and mans as the same? We think of each as thought; but, whereas man thinks
both inductively and deductively, God thinks only deductively. "As he thinketh in his heart,
so is he," i.e., as he lets fall the forms of his thought.
Would there be any difference between a conscious thought, for the purpose of a direct
manifestation, and one that might be thought with no idea of the form that would be
manifested? There would be a great difference. Trained thought is far more powerful than
untrained. If this were not true, the thoughts of the metaphysical practitioner could not
neutralize those that caused his patient his patient to be sick. We know a little right thought
puts to rout that which is wrong. The day that you say to yourself, "My thought is
powerful," you would better be careful. Every thought must manifest according to its
intensity.
INDIVIDUALITY
Individuality emerges from the Universal. Psychology teaches the personification of this
individuality, which is true as far as it goes; but Metaphysics universalizes individuality by
unifying it with the Whole.
There is a Universal spirit of Man, inherent within him, which causes the manifestation of
his personality, i.e., The Spirit of God.

Footnotes Part 1
Deut 6:4.
Exodus 3:14.
John 10:30.
John 14:10.
John 1:1, 3
Heb. 13:8.
John 14:27.
John 1:1, 3.
Deut 6:4.
Ps. 19:4.
Job 19:26.
John 10:30.
John 14:10.
John 14:2.
1 Cor. 13:9.
Heb. 11:3.
Exodus 3:14.
1 Cor. 12:20.
1 Cor. 2:9.
Prov. 23:7.
Recapitulation
The evolution of man brings him automatically to a time when real individuality is
produced. From that day any further evolution must be through his conscious cooperation
with Life. All nature waits on man's self-recognition and is always ready to obey his will;
but he must use nature's forces in accordance with her laws.
The Law has done all that it can do for man automatically. It has brought him to the point of
individuality, and must now let him alone to make this discovery for himself. Man is
potentially perfect, but free will and self-choice cause him to appear imperfect. In reality,
all that he can destroy is the embodiment of himself, for the Divine Spark is always intact
in spiritual Man.
Man awakes to self-consciousness, finding himself already equipped with a mentality, a
body and an environment. Gradually he discovers one law of nature after another until he
conquers his environment through his acquisition of natural forces. Everywhere he finds
that nature does his bidding, in so far as he understands her laws and uses them along the
lines of their inherent being; for he must first obey nature, then she will obey him.
Man discovers his ability to think, and begins to realize that from within comes a reaction
to his thought. He comes to realize that he is threefold in his nature; that he can
consciously think; that he has within a mentality which acts upon his thoughts; and that he
has a body which is affected by his thinking.
He next discovers that he can think for others, causing a corresponding action in and
through their bodies. In this way he discovers that there is a mental medium through which
thought operates. He now realizes himself to be a thinking center in a Universal Mind.
Man next discovers that his affairs are also controlled by thought, and that he can likewise
think for others and aid in the control of their affairs.
He now realizes that everything in the visible world is an effect; that back of all effects
there are ideas which are the real causes of these effects. The Divine Ideas are perfect,
but man has the ability to cause them to appear imperfect. Through right thinking he is able
to uncover the appearance of imperfection and reveal the Perfect Idea. Soul and Universal
Subjective Mind have the same meaning and are the Creative Medium of all thought and
action. Soul is also the Substance of Spirit; i.e., it is the unformed Stuff from which all
forms are evolved.
Spirit, acting upon Soul, produces Creation; Spirit, Soul and Substance inter sphere each
other; each has omnipresence. Creation takes place within Spirit and is the result of the
Contemplation of Spirit.
Life makes things out of Itself by becoming the thing that It makes; there is no effort in the
process.
Conscious Mind and Spirit mean the same; they denote that part of the Trinity which is
Self-Knowing or God.
Mind and Spirit
Mind and Spirit, makes a tremendous claim when it states that it can free the individual
from the bondage of sickness, poverty and unhappiness; but it makes this statement
without hesitation and without qualification; it does not retract from that claim and it never
will. It does, however, carefully set forth the conditions under which it operates and the
laws governing Life, warning man that unless he understands these conditions and obeys
these laws, he will not receive full benefit from the spiritual Mind.
THE WORLD HAS LEARNED ALL IT CAN THROUGH SUFFERING
The world is beginning to realize that it has learned all it can through suffering and pain.
Perhaps they were good in their place, but surely there can be no power in the Universe
which wishes man to be sick, to suffer pain, to be unhappy and end up in the grave. Surely
God could not ordain that man should ultimately be other than a perfect expression of Life.
We should have no intellectual difficulty in realizing that even God Himself could not make
an automatic individuality, and this explains why man must suffer on the road to self-
discovery. He must suffer, not because pain is a necessity, but because he must have
experience in order to become individualized.
THE INCARNATION OF SPIRIT
To return to individuality; it is that which distinguishes man from the mere brute creation; it
is the greater Incarnation of God in the human; the Indwelling Spirit of the Most High.
Man is created and left to discover himself, and on the road to this self-discovery he
experiences the creations of his own imaginations which ultimately show him the Truth
and lead to real freedom.
The story of "The Prodigal Son" is the story of man's return to "His Father's House." How
truly the poet puts it when he says that "Trailing clouds of Glory do we come from Heaven
which is our home." This is the mystical meaning of that marvelous poem of Robert
Browning's, called "Saul." Saul had lost his sense of real life and lay in a stupor in his tent
when David came to sing to him, to awaken him to the realization of his true nature. At first
David sings of the wonders of Creation and of the delights of life; he tells Saul of his power
and glory as a human being; and, as the song expands, he touches the secret spring of
Saul's being--"He is Saul ye remember in glory, ere error had bent the broad brow from the
daily communion." Then, he plainly tells Saul of the Christ. This revelation finally awakens
Saul to "His old motions and attitudes kingly." The healing has taken place and the
realization of the Truth has freed Saul from the thralldom of false belief.
THE RELATION OF MAN TO THE UNIVERSE OF SPIRIT
As the evidence of design in the Universe proves a Designer, so the evidence of self-
choice shows a Power that Knows Itself. The Spirit is Self-Knowing; God knows that God
Is. But a Universal Self knowingness really means a Universal personalness; and so we
see how God can be Personal to every living soul who believes in Spirit. We could
truthfully say so it seems to me at least that there is One Infinite Person, in whom we all
"live, and move and have our Being"; for we all live in the One.
NATURE WAITS ON MAN
Nowhere on this path has he found nature opposed to him. She has silently waited for his
recognition and as silently done his bidding. She will never contradict herself nor operate
contrary to her inherent laws; but she will serve whoever comes to understand and use
them along the lines of her way of working. Man never created any of these laws but
simply uses them, and he can do this only as he first obeys them. "Nature obeys us as we
first obey it" is an old saying and a true one. We learn the fundamental principle of a law,
obey its mode of operation and then have conscious use of it. It would be absurd to say
that nature punished us because we did not make proper use of her laws. She simply will
not work harmoniously for us until we harmonize with her; she will obey us only after we
have obeyed her. This is, of course, true of any and all law. If we obey, it serves; if we
disobey, it seems to punish us.

MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL LAWS
It is the same with those great Mental and Spiritual Laws of our Being. We must come to
discover and utilize the inner forces of Mind and Spirit, for they are the highest powers.
Man will be delivered from sin, sickness and trouble in exact proportion to his discovery of
himself and his relationship to the Whole.
Law is law wherever we find it and we shall discover that the Laws of Mind and Spirit must
be understood if they are to be consciously used for definite purposes. THE SPIRIT
KNOWS AND THE LAW OBEYS.
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the Law of his life, and some day he will
discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and
prosperous, and will live in an entirely different world; for he will have discovered that LIFE
IS FROM WITHIN AND NOT FROM WITHOUT.
MAN REENACTS THE NATURE OF GOD
If we realize that God is "Triune" and that man is made in the Image and Likeness of God,
we shall see that the whole scheme of Life and the whole nature of the Divine Being is
reenacted through man. This, of course, does not mean that man is God; it means that, in
his small world of individual expression, his nature is identical with God's. This is what
Jesus meant when he said, "As the Father hath Life within Himself so hath He given to the
Son to have Life within himself."
A single drop of water is not the whole ocean, but it does resemble the ocean and does
contain within itself the same qualities and attributes. We might say that man is in God and
that God works through man. "I and The Father are One," "The Kingdom of God is within
you";
MANY ARE WAKING UP TO THE FACTS
One by one, people will investigate the Truth and put it into operation, and the time will
come when disease and poverty will be swept from the face of the earth, for they were
never intended to be. They are simply the by-products of ignorance, and enlightenment
alone will erase them.
THE TIME HAS COME TO KNOW THE TRUTH
The hour of freedom has struck, the bell of Liberty is ringing, and "Let him that is athirst
come." 30 Let us, then, plunge more deeply into our own natures and into the nature of God
and see if we shall not find treasures undreamed of, possibilities never imagined and
opportunities which the fond thought yearning for freedom has often, in our vision of the
greater Life, given us.
"Prove me now, herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
WHAT PSYCHOLOGY TEACHES ABOUT MAN'S NATURE
A study of the psychological nature of man verifies the belief in "The Trinity" running
through all Life. Man is self-conscious; of this we are sure, for he can say "I AM." This fact
alone proves his claim to immortality and greatness. In psychology we learn that man is
threefold in his nature; that is, he has a self-conscious mind, a subconscious mind and a
body. In metaphysics we learn that the three are but different attributes of the same life.
Man's self-conscious mind is the power with which he knows; it is, therefore, one with the
Spirit of God; it is, indeed, His only guarantee of conscious being.
TO LEARN HOW TO THINK IS TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE, for our thoughts go into a Medium
that is Infinite in Its ability to do and to be.
MAN, BY THINKING, CAN BRING INTO HIS EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER HE DESIRES, IF
HE THINKS CORRECTLY AND BECOMES A LIVING EMBODIMENT OF HIS THOUGHTS.
This is not done by holding thoughts but by KNOWING THE TRUTH.
ONE SPIRIT, ONE MIND, AND ONE SUBSTANCE; ONE LAW BUT MANY THOUGHTS; ONE
POWER, BUT MANY WAYS OF USING IT; ONE GOD IN WHOM WE ALL LIVE, AND ONE
LAW WHICH ALL OPERATE; ONE, ONE, ONE. NO GREATER UNITY COULD BE GIVEN
THAN THAT WHICH IS ALREADY VOUCHSAFED TO MANKIND.

Blessings, Rev. Charles R Redwen C.C.Ht

Footnotes Part 2
Deut. 30:14
Isa. 60:1.
Acts 17:28.
John 5:26.
John 10:30.
Luke 17:21.
John 1:3.
John 5:19.
Rev. 22:17.
Mal. 3:10.
Prov. 4:7.
Gen. 1:2.

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