There is no such thing as mass salvation. Salvation is individual. You must find and experience God within your own being in order to achieve the Kingdom. Pray, meditate, ponder and commune within yourself until this confirmation comes to you. Continue reading Prayer (3/3)
The nature of God is fulfillment. It is the function of God to fulfill and to express Itself. However, there is that which will prevent us from coming into the experience of that fulfillment. Just as there may be brilliant sunshine, there are also shades, and we may use those shades to keep out the sun. As long as we entertain a sense of separation from God, this serves as the shade, which keeps away from us the benefits, the joys, the affluence of God. Our sense of separation from God is the barrier to our enjoyment of the blessings of God. Continue reading Prayer (2/3)
What, then is true prayer? What is the prayer that leads us unto God? What is the nature of the prayer that reveals our health and supply, our companionship, and the harmonies of every day living? We know that God is the goal, and our work is to attain that goal. If prayer is the way, what is prayer? What is the prayer of faith, of which James speaks, that results in demonstration? Continue reading Prayer (1/3)
Your intent in meditation is to be the transparency through which God, or the Light, performs Its work, not you. There is no room in spiritual living for ego or egotism or personal powers ‑ none whatsoever. You do not meditate so as to exercise power for yourself or for another. Continue reading Attitude in Meditation
Prayer is a contemplation of is. God is ! Life is ! Love is ! Joy is ! Prayer is an outflowing of gratitude that God has given us the heavens and the earth for our glory. Prayer is a heart full of gratitude for the still greater blessings in prayer yet to be revealed. “Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.” Continue reading Meditation
Therefore, when we receive an assurance of God’s Presence, we may receive nothing further than that, and yet we may be expected to pack up and take a trip around the world without knowing how or why or wherewithal. Or we may be given the something or other that causes us to move to another city, or to give up our position—and strangely enough God doesn’t tell us why or where we’re going to. And, we act on it! Continue reading Attainment of the Contemplative Life (5/5)
And so it is you will find that in your Oneness with God, as far as you can see, everything that you can bear witness to is yours by the Grace of God, and without taking it from someone else. But because of its spiritual nature, it is multiplied in the life of every individual who bears witness to this Truth. Continue reading Attainment Of the Contemplative Life (4/5)
Once you personalize God, you separate yourself from God’s Grace. The moment you impersonalize by realizing the universal nature of God, and the equality of God’s Grace and bestowal, then you place yourself in the position of praying for your enemies. In other words, knowing the Truth equally about friend or foe, or Greek or Jew, or white or black, or Oriental or Occidental, you are knowing a universal Truth, and you are bringing yourself into a universal principle. Continue reading Attainment of the Contemplative Life (3/5)
Now, the first step has to be your realization that “the Kingdom of God is within you.” There has to be the realization that whatever of spiritual power is to be brought into your experience, has to be brought in through your own being. Continue reading Attainment Of the Contemplative Life (2/5)
We find, as we live our adult life, that so many circumstances outside of us and beyond our control govern our lives—that it is almost ludicrous to say that we are masters of our own fate. But it has been discovered throughout all time, and introduced now in our world—that this need not be so. In other words, an individual need not be a victim of circumstances beyond his own control, he need not live as the object of the evils of life. Continue reading Attainment Of The Contemplative Life (1/5)
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