The Truth Of Being.

Nothing exists but God and His manifestation. God, good,

is All-in-all.

Therefore your existence and that of the real world—which

is now, always has been and always must be, perfect—is
solely due to God.

God is Mind, and God, good, is infinite; hence all is

infinite Mind and its manifestation.

God, being the Principle of all good, could never know,

and much less have made, anything bad. The
love, life, truth, wisdom, intelligence, joy, beauty,
etc., all being in the reality good, are the outcome of
God, only we do not cognise them properly. They shine
through the matter of this material world, which hides
their full perfection from us. For this reason we only
have a material or false sense of them, limited both as to
quantity and quality, so that they appear as poor imita-
tions of the real.

Consequently, as the offspring or manifestation of God, called the son of God, you are
not a material being. You are, were, and always will be, in reality, a glorious being,
spiritual and perfect, governed by a perfect God and existing in heaven, a perfect state
of universal harmony.

The recognition of this spiritual truth is the second coming of the Christ to the human
limited consciousness. This comes to each individual when he is sufficiently receptive.

There is no reality, that is, no truth, no permanence, in

the material world. It is a mere illusion, exactly similar
to the illusion that the earth was flat or that the sun
went round the earth.

Therefore God never made the material world. It is a

non-reality, always more or less bad, merely a false sense
of the real, the suppositional opposite of good.

All matter is not only unreal, but is, by its very nature,
self-destructive. It merely hides heaven from us, and
its false conception of itself, which is all that
there is of it, will ultimately be self-destroyed on
account of the action of God, Truth.

Everything we see is only materialised " thought," resting upon an ethereal basis or
false mentality, which claims to be a creator, but is unreal and illusive.

All these thoughts, past, present, and future, as far as they can be said to exist at all,
exist now, as hypothetical material thoughts, in a fixed position relative to all other
material thoughts ; and groups of them, owing to the human, limited sense, apparently
come separately into action one aftur the other, unless they are in the mean time
destroyed.

Every material thing that we appear to see, is, however, only a portion of an apparent
series of cinematographic pictures, flashing past and, so to speak, hiding the real
things, giving a false sense of continuous and progressive movement.

The limited human capacity to see or cognise any of

these pictures except at a predetermined time, gives the false
sense of time.

All the evil of the material world, although appearing so real, is imaginary, and only due
to the seeming action of wrong thoughts. There is no material thinker. The
thinker and these thoughts are one.

These wrong thoughts are not created by man, but—to

use a material term—existed as false ethereal concepts, before they became
manifested; that is, before the material world apparently started in its ghostly and
ghastly series of lying illusions.

All these false thoughts are predestined ; that is to say,

each of these ethereal thoughts, unless destroyed, must come to man at a
predetermined time.

The material man, until he prays rightly, is a puppet,

acted upon by these wrong thoughts, and obliged to
dance in accordance with the so-called thoughts that
come to him, and the condition of his human consciousness. But

Fatalism is not true ; because man has the power of turning in thought to God and
reversing wrong thoughts, when—

By the Denial of Error—

Evil thoughts are destroyed ; and
By the Affirmation of Truth— The human consciousness is purified so that bad
thoughts will not act upon it. When bad thoughts are destroyed, less bad thoughts
appear to act; if these are destroyed, so-called better
ones are manifested, and these again give place to still
better thoughts ; although we do not know beforehand
the form in which this improved appearance will be seen.
So-called thoughts in the material world appear in their
relative seeming positions, merely as opposite "false-
mental" impressions of real facts, and the action of
God is, not to cause them to alter their position, but
to destroy the illusion as to their reality. The evil
then disappears.

A mortal does not die for some little time after he seems dead. He therefore can be
what is called " raised from the dead." Even when the mortal "passes away" he merely
disappears from sight. Death is the result of ignorance, and is quite unnecessary.

Those who think that they have passed on cannot communicate with those who believe
that thev remain behind.

The so-called dead merely continue to pass from one

stage of material consciousness to another, apparently
dying and appearing in material world after world.
They, fortunately, are continually improving, owing
to the action of God upon the human or carnal " mind," until the human consciousness
is sufficiently purified to be entirely dematerialised. A mortal disappearing from sight,
through so-called death,
there appears amongst us, shortly after, yet another false sense, or material conception
of the spiritual being, of
which the departed mortal has been a misrepresentation; only this time the
etherealised, illusive view of the real man becomes visible as a newly born human
being, in consistent fulfilment of human theories universally
consented to, and so constituting for the time a false law.

So-called evolution is merely the successive appearance

and disappearance of groups of cinematographic
pictures, illusive ethereal impressions, forming successive periods in human history.

These successive periods are each merely a series of

these false pictures, misrepresenting the same real
facts, only each series having less materiality, and
extending over a gradually shortening period of time,
 By comparing these false ethereal impressions, or periodic
historical occurrences, one with the other, we are able -" to check the accuracy of our
interpretation of the prophetic utterances with regard to the few last series now facing
us, and still hiding heaven from us.

There are, in fact, no lines of force, no vibrating ether,

no gathering electrons, no self-intensification of thoughts,

no changing conscious or subconscious minds, material

bodies, motion of matter, nor gravity, no time limitations,

no sin, sickness, nor death.

There is no necessity to believe what has been said. ' Each man can prove it all for
himself. It is demonstrable
truth, based upon absolute, unalterable science.

When a governing majority, not in numbers, but in

clearness of thought, recognise the Allness of God,

infinite Mind, and realise that there is neither a primary cunning evil nor its secondary
manifestation, called
material men and things, for good is All-in-all, away
must go this false concept of the perfect world, this false sense of sin, sickness,
trouble, and limitations,
and so every discordant note in the universe is silenced,
as the whole series of dream pictures, including the illusion
called death, fades into its native nothingness, for

THERE IS NOTHING BUT GOD

AND THE MANIFESTATION OF GOOD.

Let it be clearly understood that Life and its phenomena, the retil man and universe,
constitute a perfect, eternal, spiritual, and mental realm, an ideal state for which
humanity has long yearned. Were the real universe formed of matter, were there no
spiritual realities, then dematerialisation,

through short-circuiting of the particles, would mean annihilation for all concerned ; but
just because all is, in reality, Mind and mental, the destruction of the falsities which we
have been taught " to regard as "facts" and "things," and which we have, through false
education, invested with all sorts of terrible shortcomings, including sin, discord,
sickness, and death, is essentially necessary to bring more clearly into evidence the
permanent phenomena of the one glorious Mind. This Mind is reflected by the real man,
so every man in his right Mind is a perfect thinker and can see and think only perfect
things. It is to hasten the appearance of the perfection in all things, including that of our
real, perfect selves, that we need to affirm perfection whenever we deny imperfection.

Always Follow a Denial of Error with Affirmations of Truth.— 'Always distrust

negations. . . . Always try for a positive form
of any comprehensive denial" Said (Sir Oliver Lodge). Even after

such a denial as ''there is no anger," it is essential, in obedience to the law of right

thinking, at once, like lightning, to fill in with a thought of reality such as " all is Love, and
man reflects that Love," or after " there is no decay," " all is Life and eternal," dwelling
on this perfection. In this way, by obedience to the law of Mind and

its manifestation, we are bringing out more clearly the existence of the higher
phenomena of the one perfect Mind and its realities, which are mental, spiritual, and
eternal.
There is no loss of pleasure when matter

disappears, because matter gives no pleasure, but merely hides perfection from us and
reduces the pleasure to which we have

the right. All the beauty, the joy, the peace, in fact, everything

that gives you any pleasure, is real and eternal. Matter is

the mist which merely hides the real and results in suffering
should you disobey the law of good, and allow yourself to think ofthe evil, whether it is
your liability to sickness or your liability to be

punished for sinful indulgences. As the matter disappears, so does

our limited sense of pleasure increase, until it rises into the intense

happiness and unspeakable joy of heaven, where bliss is Love in action.

Give Tithes to God.—When we are not sufficiently advanced to do things entirely by

treatment instead of materially, we must not fail at all events to pay our tithes. That is, if
the work is likely to take thirty minutes, pray at least during three minutes of that time ; if
it will take sixty minutes, then give six to prayer. If you do this you will find that the work
is not only much better, but more quickly done, and not only will you actually have
saved more time than the ten per cent, that you have thus devoted to the realisation of
God, but you are permanently better fitted to do your material work well in the future,
as your human consciousness is purified.

Pray without ceacing.

Unfortunately, partly through ignorance, and partly through lethargy, up to the present
we have been apt only to turn to God when we want to overcome difficulties, instead of
praying without ceasing, and so preventing the mischief beforehand, thus hastening our
own and all mankind's deliverance from evil by its total destruction. We must be " willing
rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord " (Corinthians 5-8)

Never fail to pray, you can never regain the lost opportunity. Continually turn to God in
thought. Any evil lightly passed over must be met sooner or later, and perhaps under
more strenuous circumstances. When you have only a moment in which to treat, keep a
running accompaniment of thoughts such as the realisation of God as Truth, as Love, or
as Life. Which of these you choose, should depend upon the individual conditions. If
you are always well it is not so urgent to realise God as Life ; which of the other two you
chiefly realise should depend upon whether your love for others or your knowledge of
truth is most above the average. This helps one to become evenly balanced, morally,
intellectually, and physically, until Mind alone rules supreme.

So used have we been in the past to hear others talking of sin. sickness, and suffering,"
as if they were normal and unavoidable, that, unfortunately, we have fallen into the
same habit of evil thought, and constantly put ourselves into direct touch with conditions
that, were we wider awake, we should carefully avoid. A crowd of people will rush to
obtain a newspaper full of appalling horrors, innocently unaware that in so doing they
bring into their homes a devastating army of ethereal, wrongly called " mental," bacteria.
A sensibility to the suffering of others, without a knowledge of how to help them that has
led many gentle natures to the verge of insanity, is now merely the call to wield the "
rod of iron," the invincible power Mind confers upon man. This destroys with unfailing
certainty the rampant evil, and rescues its innocent victims from the throttling grasp of
false law.

" We have to offer a firm resistance to the old false habit of talking gossip, or even
talking uselessly of material things of the world. We have to endeavour as quickly as
possible to view life from its truer mental standpoint. We should never think, say, nor do
any thing, except with the object of helping another in some way, or becoming ourselves
better men. This may make a person somewhat silent at first, but he will soon have
plenty to say that is worth hearing.

Being silent with people will not surprise them, if you pray. Most
people prefer hearing themselves speak, and you will find that
if you silently deny any error that may come up, and realise the
truth, they will enjoy themselves and think you a most sympathetic listener.

when you are doubtful how to act, you pray scientifically, and

do then what first comes into your consciousness, you will find that

you have done what is right. By following this principle you obtain
perfect trust in God, trust in good, and are always doing what Is best. Before, however,
you can thus got rid of all responsibility, you must have demonstrated your knowledge
of how to pray scientifically, and this you do by the habitual instantaneous healing of sin
and sickness. Self must be eliminated as well as belief in human personality, belief in a
person who is capable of choosing that which is best. Be what you ought to be ; the rest
is God's affair

We have to practice simplicity, the ultimate of wisdom, and we must give up that
mythological material intelligence called energy, and instead be present to all the idea of
divine humility, divine wisdom, and the consequent divine power.

Fear is man's recognition of the evil thoughts that are attacking or are about to attack.
Destroy the fear and the trouble cannot happen.

The sign by which one can tell when the work has been done
well enough to rely solely upon prayer to overcome a difficulty, is
whether, after having prayed, all fear that the evil may not be
destroyed has disappeared.

If, morning and evening, man turns to God in true prayer, and works against the
different forms of false thought, it will be found that his work throughout the day is much
reduced.

Nothing is impossible to God. Try to do everything by prayer, and although

you may fail sometimes, the fact that you try difficult things not only

makes the difficult things ultimately become easy, but it makes your demonstrations
over easy things a certainty. Whenever you get
an opportunity, even where possible failure appears likely to do a little seeming harm,
and always when it would only affect yourself, take no material means, but turn to God
in thought and pray.Rely then solely upon the prayer to bring about the required result
through the action of divine Principle, that unerringly guides and protects men, instead
of trying to force your way through the miasma of earth by doing it materially. If you treat
thus and can get rid entirely of the thought that your prayer will not be heard the
demonstration will be made, and the difficulty will disappear.
when doubtful how to act, or what to say, you pray, realising that God is the Principle of
all knowledge, and that man therefore knows instantly everything he needs to know, you
will find that the Angel Gabriel has come to you, and that you will be shown
unmistakably what is the right thing to do.

When you are further on, however, you will find, with a good motive, you can do any
one of, say, five different things, and all that you have to do is to pray clearly enough,
when you will find that the one you do will appear humanly to have been the best thing
for you to have done. (This does not mean that it is right to do evil that good should
come of it. It is never right to do evil, when recognised as such, under any
circumstances.) This makes life absolute simplicity, as all that you have to do is the first
thing that appears to you to be right. Then, if you are working rightly, divine Principle
will always lead and protect you, and nothing will come to you but what is good, or what
you are capable of turning into good by reversing it. We have to give up nothing but our
belief in a power other than that of God, our belief in evil.

In voicing truth to a willing listener whom you are helping, always make your statements
of truth positively, and show at once that you have not the slightest doubt as to the
facts. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God " (I. Peter 4-11). When you
are talking, however, with a person who does not agree with you, it is often wise to
preface your statements with " I believe so and so," or " I think so and so." In this way
you will avoid antagonising him. Never argue if you can possibly avoid it; in fact, never
argue with people.

Never allow yourself to be afraid of mentioning with gratitude the blessings you have
received from knowing how to pray aright, and never think that it is waste of time to be
continually giving thanks for your blessings. The most practical form of gratitude is
helping others. When an antagonistic man
has neard for the third or fourth time, each time from different
people, the advantages that they have received from true prayer,
he begins to think that there must be something in it.

This call is our highest work today, and gives us the greatest happiness. Pray daily that
those who are ready for truth come to you, and then those who are not ready will not
appear and so delay the spread of knowledge. Error cannot send those not ready ; all
are ready for Truth, as there is nothing but Truth, for Truth is God. Dwell on the
affirmation that man knows Truth, loves Truth, and is led by Truth.

When explaining your grasp of religion, realise God as Truth, a living Principle around
you. Keep actively thinking that " man reflects Truth, man knows Truth," then your
words will be inspired. This will lead you to speak the truth, whatever truth may happen
to be. It will help also your hearer, and he, on account of your realisation, will become
hungry and thirsty, and drink in what you say, understanding it.
If you forget at any time to pray, you can pray afterwards equally as efficiently, provided
that, just before commencing, you realise that your prayer is affecting the seemingly
past events. As already mentioned, this is possible, as there is no such thing as time. All
that you have to do is, before you pray, to recognise that the so-called past is now, and
that therefore your prayer is affecting the past, and then the apparent difference in time
makes no difference in the efficacy of your prayer.