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the past, the present, and the future.
Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to 84:15 commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee
and foretell events which concern the universal welfare,
to be divinely inspired, - yea, to reach the range of fetter-84:18 less Mind.
The Mind unbounded
To understand that Mind is infinite, not bounded by
corporeality, not dependent upon the ear and eye for 84:21 sound or sight nor upon muscles and bones
for locomotion, is a step towards the Mind-science by which we discern man’s nature and existence. 84:24 This true conception of being destroys the belief of spiritualism at its very inception, for without the concession of
material personalities called spirits, spiritualism has no 84:27 basis upon which to build.
Scientific foreknowing
All we correctly know of Spirit comes from God, divine
Principle, and is learned through Christ and Christian 84:30 Science. If this Science has been thoroughly
learned and properly digested, we can know
the truth more accurately than the astronomer can read 85:1 the stars or calculate an eclipse. This Mind-reading
is the opposite of clairvoyance. It is the illumination of 85:3 the spiritual understanding which demonstrates the capacity of Soul, not of material sense. This Soul-sense
comes to the human mind when the latter yields to the 85:6 divine Mind.
Value of intuition
Such intuitions reveal whatever constitutes and perpetuates harmony, enabling one to do good, but not 85:9 evil. You will reach the perfect Science of
healing when you are able to read the human
mind after this manner and discern the error you would 85:12 destroy. The Samaritan woman said: “Come, see a
man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this
the Christ?”
85:15 It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with his
students, “knew their thoughts,” - read them scientifically. In like manner he discerned disease and healed 85:18 the sick. After the same method, events of great moment were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our
Master rebuked the lack of this power when he said: 85:21 “O ye hypocrites! ye can discern the face of the sky;
but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Hypocrisy condemned
Both Jew and Gentile may have had acute corporeal 85:24 senses, but mortals need spiritual sense. Jesus knew the
generation to be wicked and adulterous, seeking the material more than the spiritual. His 85:27 thrusts at materialism were sharp, but needed. He never
spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation.. He said:
“These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other 85:30 undone.” The great Teacher knew both cause and
effect, knew that truth communicates itself but never
imparts error.
Mental contact
86:1 Jesus once asked, “Who touched me?” Supposing
this inquiry to be occasioned by physical contact alone, 86:3 his disciples answered, “The multitude throng
thee.” Jesus knew, as others did not, that
it was not matter, but mortal mind, whose touch called 86:6 for aid. Repeating his inquiry, he was answered by the
faith of a sick woman. His quick apprehension of this
mental call illustrated his spirituality. The disciples’ 86:9 misconception of it uncovered their materiality. Jesus
possessed more spiritual susceptibility than the disciples.
Opposites come from contrary directions, and produce 86:12 unlike results.
Images of thought
Mortals evolve images of thought. These may appear
to the ignorant to be apparitions; but they are myste-86:15 rious only because it is unusual to see
thoughts, though we can always feel their
influence. Haunted houses, ghostly voices, unusual 86:18 noises, and apparitions brought out in dark seances
either involve feats by tricksters, or they are images and
sounds evolved involuntarily by mortal mind. Seeing 86:21 is no less a quality of physical sense than feeling. Then
why is it more difficult to see a thought than to feel one?
Education alone determines the difference. In reality 86:24 there is none.
Phenomena explained
Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penman—
ship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, 86:27 can all be taken from pictorial thought and
memory as readily as from objects cognizable
by the senses. Mortal mind sees what it believes as 86:30 certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, hears, and
sees its own thoughts. Pictures are mentally formed
before the artist can convey them to canvas. So is it 87:1 with all material conceptions. Mind-readers perceive
these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce 87:3 them, even when they are lost to the memory of the mind
in which they are discoverable.
Mental environment
It is needless for the thought or for the person hold-87:6 ing the transferred picture to be individually and consciously present. Though individuals have
passed away, their mental environment re-87:9 mains to be discerned, described, and transmitted. Though
bodies are leagues apart and their associations forgotten,
their associations float in the general atmosphere of human 87:12 mind.
Second sight
The Scotch call such vision “second sight”, when
really it is first sight instead of second, for it presents 87:15 primal facts to mortal mind. Science enables
one to read the human mind, but not as a
clairvoyant. It enables one to heal through Mind, but 87:18 not as a mesmerist.
Buried secrets
The mine knows naught of the emeralds within its
rocks; the sea is ignorant of the gems within its caverns, 87:21 of the corals, of its sharp reefs, of the tall ships
that float on its bosom, or of the bodies which
lie buried in its sands: yet these are all there. Do not 87:24 suppose that any mental concept is gone because you do
not think of it. The true concept is never lost. The
strong impressions produced on mortal mind by friend-87:27 ship or by any intense feeling are lasting, and mind—
readers can perceive and reproduce these impressions.
Recollected friends
Memory may reproduce voices long ago silent. We 87:30 have but to close the eyes, and forms rise
before us, which are thousands of miles away
or altogether gone from physical sight and sense, and 88:1 this not in dreamy sleep. In our day-dreams we can
recall that for which the poet Tennyson expressed the 88:3 heart’s desire, -
the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still.
88:6 The mind may even be cognizant of a present flavor and
odor, when no viand touches the palate and no scent
salutes the nostrils.
Illusions not ideas
88:9 How are veritable ideas to be distinguished from illusions? By learning the origin of each. Ideas are
emanations from the divine Mind. Thoughts, 88:12 proceeding from the brain or from matter, are
offshoots of mortal mind; they are mortal material beliefs. Ideas are spiritual, harmonious, and eternal. Beliefs 88:15 proceed from the so-called material senses, which at one
time are supposed to be substance-matter and at another
are called spirits.
88:18 To love one’s neighbor as one’s self, is a divine idea;
but this idea can never be seen, felt, nor understood
through the physical senses. Excite the organ of ven-88:21 eration or religious faith, and the individual manifests
profound adoration. Excite the opposite development,
and he blasphemes. These effects, however, do not pro-88:24 ceed from Christianity, nor are they spiritual phenomena,
for both arise from mortal belief.
Trance speaking illusion
Eloquence re-echoes the strains of Truth and Love. 88:27 It is due to inspiration rather than to erudition. It shows
the possibilities derived from divine Mind,
though it is said to be a gift whose endowment 88:30 is obtained from books or received from the
impulsion of departed spirits. When eloquence proceeds
from the belief that a departed spirit is speaking, who 89:1 can tell what the unaided medium is incapable of knowing or uttering? This phenomenon only shows that the 89:3 beliefs of mortal mind are loosed. Forgetting her ignorance in the belief that another mind is speaking through
her, the devotee may become unwontedly eloquent. Hav-89:6 ing more faith in others than in herself, and believing
that somebody else possesses her tongue and mind, she
talks freely.
89:9 Destroy her belief in outside aid, and her eloquence
disappears. The former limits of her belief return. She
says, ” I am incapable of words that glow, for I am un-89:12 educated.” This familiar instance reaffirms the Scriptural word concerning a man, “As he thinketh in his heart,
so is he.” If one believes that he cannot be an orator with-89:15 out study or a superinduced condition, the body responds
to this belief, and the tongue grows mute which before
was eloquent.
Scientific improvisation
89:18 Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational
processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry,
and the power of expressing them. Spirit, 89:21 God, is heard when the senses are silent. We
are all capable of more than we do. The influence or
action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phe-89:24 nomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.
Divine origination
Matter is neither intelligent nor creative. The tree is
not the author of itself. Sound is not the originator of 89:27 music, and man is not the father of man. Cain
very naturally concluded that if life was in the
body, and man gave it, man had the right to take it away. 89:30 This incident shows that the belief of life in matter was
“a murderer from the beginning.”
If seed is necessary to produce wheat, and wheat to 90:1 produce flour, or if one animal can originate another,
how then can we account for their primal origin? How 90:3 were the loaves and fishes multiplied on the shores of
Galilee, - and that, too, without meal or monad from
which loaf or fish could come?
Mind is substance
90:6 The earth’s orbit and the imaginary line called the
equator are not substance. The earth’s motion and
position are sustained by Mind alone. Divest 90:9 yourself of the thought that there can be substance in matter, and the movements and transitions now
possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally 90:12 possible for the body. Then being will be recognized
as spiritual, and death will be obsolete, though now
some insist that death is the necessary prelude to 90:15 immortality.
Mortal delusions
In dreams we fly to Europe and meet a far-off friend.
The looker-on sees the body in bed, but the supposed 90:18 inhabitant of that body carries it through
the air and over the ocean. This shows the
possibilities of thought. Opium and hashish eaters men-90:21 tally travel far and work wonders, yet their bodies stay
in one place. This shows what mortal mentality and
knowledge are.
Scientific finalities
90:24 The admission to one’s self that man is God’s own likeness sets man free to master the infinite idea. This conviction shuts the door on death, and opens it 90:27 wide towards immortality. The understanding
and recognition of Spirit must finally come, and we may
as well improve our time in solving the mysteries of being 90:30 through an apprehension of divine Principle. At present
we know not what man is, but we certainly shall know
this when man reflects God.
91:1 The Revelator tells us of “a new heaven and a
new earth.” Have you ever pictured this heaven and 91:3 earth, inhabited by beings under the control of supreme
wisdom?
Let us rid ourselves of the belief that man is separated 91:6 from God, and obey only the divine principle, Life and
Love. Here is the great point of departure for all true
spiritual growth.
Man’s genuine being
91:9 It is difficult for the sinner to accept divine Science,
because Science exposes his nothingness; but the sooner
error is reduced
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