99,,mystic ,,immanence99 ,,the ,,indwelling ,,spirit ,,by ,,the ,,venerable ,,basil ,,wilberforce1 ,d4,d4 ,,london 3 ,,elliot ,,stock #g1 ,,paternoster ,,row1 ,e4,c4 #aiad 99,,works ,,by ,,archdeacon ,,wilberforce99 ,,spiritual ,,consciousness1 #cs4 net4 ,,steps ,,in ,,spiritual ,,growth4 #cs4 net4 ,,the ,,secret ,,of ,,the ,,quiet ,,mind4 #cs4 net4 ,,the ,,power ,,that ,,worketh ,,in ,,us4 ,with ,portrait of the ,author4 #cs4 net4 ,,power ,,with ,,god4 #cs4 net4 ,,the ,,hope ,,that ,,is ,,in ,,me4 #es4 ,,sermons ,,preached ,,in ,,westminster ,,abbey4 ,first ,series4 #es4 ,,sermons ,,preached ,,in ,,westminster ,,abbey4 ,second ,series4 #es4 ,,sanctification ,,by ,,the ,,truth4 #es4 ,,new 787 ,,theology4 ,,thoughts ,,on ,,the ,,universality ,,and ,,continuity ,,of ,,the ,,doctrine ,,of ,,the ,,immanence ,,of ,,god4 #es4 ,,there ,,is ,,no ,,death1 #as4 #f;d4 net2 bound in ,white ,parchment1 #bs4 #f;d4 net4 ,,mystic ,,immanence4 ,,the ,,indwelling ,,spirit1 #as4 #f;d4 net2 bound in ,white ,parchment1 #bs4 #f;d4 net4 ,,the ,,hope ,,of ,,glory1 #as4 net4 ,,light ,,on ,,the ,,problems ,,of ,,life4 #bs4 net4 ,,the ,,awakening1 #as4 net4 ,,elliot ,,stock1 #g1 ,,paternoster ,row1 ,e4,c4 ,all rights reserved 99,,foreword99 ,transcriber's ,note3 ,foreword missing from source book 99,,contents99 ,,foreword 7missing from source book7 ,,infinite ,,immanent ,,mind ,,spirit1 ,,soul1 ,,body ,,out ,,of ,,the ,,everywhere ,,into ,,here ,,last ,,words 99,,mystic ,,immanence99 99,infinite ,immanent ,mind99 ,whose is this image and superscription8--,,st4 ,,matt4 xxii4 #bj4 ,the question1 ,whose is this image and superscription8 is suggestive1 first1 of the deeper meaning of a harvest festival1 and that is the recognition in public worship that the material universe is the visible thought of ,god4 ,what is the principle by which everything came into being8 ,physical science has now reduced all material things to a primary ether1 universally distributed1 whose innumerable particles are in absolute equilibrium4 ,the initial movement1 then1 which began to concentrate material substances out of the ether could not have originated with the particles themselves1 and we are logically compelled to acknowledge the presence of a ,creative ,intelligence exercising volition4 ,that ,creative ,intelligence exercising volition1 that ,parent ,mind1 has impressed ,his image and superscription upon all that is--upon the life and beauty of the animal world1 upon the marvels of the vegetable world1 the prolific fruits of the earth1 the gorgeous flowers with which church and altar are decorated to-day4 ,whose is their image and superscription8 ,whom do they manifest8 ,whence come their life and their beauty8 ,to understand the deeper meaning of a church decorated with fruits and flowers we must have risen to some conception of the ,invisible ,intelligence that is realizing itself in concrete phenomena4 ,everything in the physical world is what it is by reason of a spirit-organism or mind-form which relates it to the ,universal ,mind1 and the ,universal ,mind is that ,divine activity which ,st4 ,john calls the ,word1 the ,logos1 the ,originator in creative activity4 ,through every grass-blade1 says ,carlyle1 the glory of the present ,god still beams4 ,it does1 and therefore a harvest festival suggests1 not only the obvious duty of profound thanksgiving to a bounteous ,father--that goes without saying--but also a reverent mental recognition of the intense nearness of ,god1 that ,earth's crammed with ,heaven and every common bush afire with ,god4 ,cf4 ,troward's ,edinburgh ,lectures4 ,so the first thought of to-day is that the world is ruled by ,mind and not by ,matter1 that there is a soul in all things1 and that soul is ,god1 that in the true philosophy of ,creation every atom1 every germ1 has within it a principle1 a life1 a purpose1 a degree of consciousness appropriate to its position in the scheme of things4 ,that consciousness1 that mind1 differs in magnitude in its different manifestations2 higher in the insect than in the vegetable1 higher in the animal than in the insect1 and occasionally there is evidenced in the animal a shrewdness which implies observation and close reasoning4 ,for example1 recently ,i was at ,christchurch1 in ,hampshire1 and was conducted by ,mr4 ,hart over his unique museum of birds1 representing the life-work of an expert and enthusiast4 ,he told me many most interesting things1 and amongst them the following3 ,it is well known that the cuckoo makes no nest of its own1 but places its eggs in the nest of one of the smaller birds4 ,now1 in order to deceive the bird amongst whose eggs the cuckoo intends to place its own egg1 the cuckoo causes the egg it is about to lay to assume the colour and markings of the eggs of the small bird who is to be the foster-mother4 ,mr4 ,hart showed me over forty cuckoos' eggs1 each one coloured to imitate the natural egg of the bird whose nest the cuckoo had commandeered4 ,this had been done with extraordinary accuracy1 from the bright blue of the hedge-sparrow's egg to the dull olive of the nightingale's egg1 and even the peculiar markings1 like notes of music1 of the yellow-hammer's egg1 had been imitated4 ,consider the extraordinary mental power implied4 ,the cuckoo has first to decide which nest she will lay under contribution4 ,she has then to study the colouring of the eggs in that nest2 then1 with some amazing exercise of the creative power of thought1 she has to cause her unlaid egg to assume that colour4 ,she then lays it on the ground1 and1 carrying it in her beak1 carefully places it amongst the eggs of the little foster-mother4 ,what an intense1 ever-present reality is the ,infinite ,mind6 ,what a glorious thought it is that the ,eternal ,purpose is everywhere6 ,when the heart grows faint and the hands weary1 how sustaining it is to know that there is no chance1 no mere machinery--everywhere purpose1 intelligence1 evolution1 love6 ,now1 obviously the operation of the ,originating ,mind in all that is differs in quality of self-realization in proportion to the receptive capacity of the matter in which it is immanent4 ,it is not sufficient for us intellectually to affirm the immanence of ,god in a blade of grass1 but it is for us to carry the thought higher1 and not to rest until we have realized that ,divine immanence is in a far more intense degree in ourselves4 ,man is the crown of ,creation1 and when our ,lord took that coin in ,his hand and asked the question1 ,whose is this image and superscription8 ,he was stimulating thinkers to consider man's unique place in the cosmic order1 and man's true relation to the ,universal ,originating ,spirit2 and when a man has really found that1 he is well on his way to the region of understanding and realization4 ,these ,pharisees were no obscurantists4 ,some of them were ,essenes1 some ,therapeuts1 some ,mystics2 and when the ,lord asked ,whose is this image8 their minds would automatically have reverted to the profound declaration of human origins in the ,book of ,genesis3 ,so ,god created man in ,his own image1 in the image of ,god created ,he him4 ,they would have realized that the question was a suggestion for a thought-excursion4 ,it was4 ,it was a hint at the transcendent truth of the elemental inseverability of ,god and man4 ,it was an appeal to a ,divine fact in man2 it was a reiteration of ,his dogma1 ,the kingdom of ,heaven is within you2 it was a reaffirmation of the truth that nothing can ever really change the central current of man's purpose1 and regenerate man's nature1 but the clear recognition of his dignity1 his responsibility1 his potentiality1 as a vehicle for the manifestation of ,god4 ,if they had brought to ,jesus some utterly degraded specimen of the human race1 as they brought ,him that silver didrachma1 and asked ,him the question1 ',whose is the image and superscription' on this man8 7and they virtually did this when they brought ,him the woman taken in adultery7 there could have been but one reply--,in the image of ,god created ,he him2 and that which ,god has once impressed with ,his image1 though that image may be defaced and overlaid1 is ,his for ever1 and the impress can never be obliterated4 ,you remember ,tennyson's words3 ,for good ye are and bad1 and like to coins1 ,some true1 some light1 but every one of you ,stamped with the image of the ,king4 ,stamped with the image of the ,king4 ,the thought touches human life at many points1 theological1 personal1 practical4 ,the theological lesson from the human coin stamped with the ,divine image is one of the utmost importance as a stimulus to spiritual growth4 ,it is the transcendent twin-truth of the ,eternal humanity in ,god1 and the ,eternal ,divinity in man2 that inasmuch as all that is must have pre-existed1 as a first principle1 in the mind of the ,infinite ,originator1 and as the highest of all that is1 so far as we at present know1 is man1 the archetypal original of man must be in the hidden nature of the ,infinite ,mind2 and therefore man1 however buried and stifled for educative purposes in the corruptible body1 is in his inmost ego indestructible1 and inseverably linked to the ,father of ,spirits4 ,god needs man as a vehicle for ,self-,manifestation4 ,the heavens declare the glory of ,god1 and the firmament sheweth ,his handiwork2 but only man--mental1 moral1 volitional man--can declare the nature of ,god and manifest the qualities of ,god4 ,as ,god's power is revealed in the wheeling planet1 ,god's nature is revealed in the thinking man4 ,man is therefore the special sphere of the self-manifestation of the ,originating ,mind4 ,we humans are personal spirits who have proceeded from ,god into matter1 and the image and superscription of the ,creative ,sovereign ,power1 whence we came1 remains for ever indelibly impressed upon our inmost ego1 and must work in us1 and will work in us1 until at last it unites our conscious mind fully with ,god4 ,inasmuch as humanity is the chosen vehicle of the self-expression of the moral qualities of the ,originating ,spirit1 humanity will1 through much initial imperfection and through many changes1 evolve upwards and onwards1 until at last it shall be complete in ,him1 and the preordained purpose of the ,originating ,spirit be completely fulfilled4 ,he who believes this must be1 theologically1 a universalist4 ,there follows the personal lesson4 ,the moral evolution of humanity is not automatic1 it is not generic1 it is not impersonal4 ,it is individual1 in accord with the personal equation of each one4 ,though it is a necessary philosophic truth that our true ego1 our imperishable centre1 is in the universal1 and not in the imprisonment of what we now call personality1 still we shall never lose our individuality1 we shall always know that ,i am ,i and no one else4 ,with ,god1 said ,de ,tocqueville1 each one counts for one1 and each one must work out his own salvation4 ,you and ,i will not drift onwards in a vague1 impersonal stream called the race4 ,each one of us is a responsible life-centre in which ,god has expressed ,himself1 and we have to become moral beings1 and a moral being is not machine-made--he must be grown2 he is the product of evolution1 and for the purpose of evolution he must emerge triumphant from resistance1 as every flower1 every grape1 every grain of corn in this church has emerged triumphant4 ,in other words1 he must be exposed to what1 with our present imperfect knowledge1 we call evil4 ,it is just here that the analogy of the coin comes in4 ,man is a composite being--he possesses an inferior animal nature1 a lower region of appetite1 perception1 imagination1 and tendency2 in other words1 to carry on the analogy used by our ,lord1 there is a reverse side to every human coin4 ,don't overpress the analogy1 but note that to every current coin there is a reverse side1 and when you are looking at that side you cannot see the ,king's image4 ,generally on the reverse side there is some device representing a myth1 or tradition1 or national characteristic4 ,for example1 on the reverse side of this denarius1 or silver didrachma1 that they brought to our ,lord1 was a representation of ,mercury with the ,caduceus4 ,hold in your hand an ,english sovereign4 ,think of our ,lord's analogy4 ,let the mind wander back into the distant past1 and consider the ages during which that sovereign has been in the making3 the precipitation of the chemical constituents of gold in prehistoric times1 when the planet was emerging from the fiery womb that bore it2 the forcing of the metal into the cells of the quartz under the incalculable pressure of the contracting1 cooling world2 the ages upon ages of concealment in the depths of the earth2 the discovery of the metal1 and all that was implied2 the toil of the miners1 the smelting1 the refining1 the alloying2 and1 at last1 the stamping with the image and superscription of the reigning sovereign4 ,and once stamped in the ,mint it is an essential item in the economy of a great empire4 ,it is legal tender--no man may refuse it in payment2 at his peril does any man clip it or take from its weight4 ,the image and superscription of the reigning sovereign gives it its dignity1 its sphere of usefulness1 even its name4 ,now turn it over2 you can no longer see the image of the ,king4 ,what is this on the reverse side8 ,another device1 an heraldic design1 symbolical of the traditions and myths of the nation2 a transition from the real to the illusory1 a representation of ,st4 ,george fighting the dragon4 ,whose is this image and superscription8 ,whose handiwork is this8 ,examine closely the reverse side of a sovereign4 ,close to the date you will see some minute capital letters4 ,they are the initials of the talented chief engraver to the ,mint in the reign of ,george ,,iii41 the designer of both sides of the coin which ,ruskin said was the most beautiful coin in ,europe1 the ,english sovereign4 ,who is the engraver who has stamped the reverse of every human coin with the mythical designs of our human imagination1 the pleasing illusions of our natural self-life1 the device of our outer and common humanity1 the conditions of our flesh-and-blood existence8 ,do you really believe that this was done by some powerful enemy of the ,most ,high8 ,the mythical1 demonized objectification of what we call evil is greatly in the way of clear thought4 ,st4 ,paul is careful to point out1 in ,romans viii41 that there is only one ,originator1 and ,he can never be taken by surprise4 ,paul says man was made subject to vanity1 not willingly1 but by ,god4 ,the same omnipotent hand that stamped the ,king's image stamped also the reverse of the coin4 ,the device on the reverse side of the human coin is the device of human heredity1 the qualities of temperament1 the race-memories which belong to the region of animal life-power4 ,we have had fathers of our flesh1 the ,apostle reminds us4 ,they have transmitted to us1 by human generations1 tendencies appertaining to corporeal life4 ,there is nothing to deprecate in these tendencies in themselves2 they are all within the majestic lines of nature4 ,obviously1 if we concentrate all our attention on the reverse side of the coin1 if we persist in imagining that our animal nature is our real self1 we forget that the ,king's image is on the other side4 ,we can only see one side at a time1 and while we gaze at the reverse side1 and the other side is hidden1 doubt1 depression1 pessimism1 sense of separateness from ,god1 are the inevitable result4 ,what is the moral of the analogy8 ,it is this3 ,do not always harp upon the worst side of yourself4 ,we are bound to become what we see ourselves ideally to be4 ,the higher your ideal of yourself1 the more rapid your spiritual growth2 see yourself ideally as ,divine1 and you will become it4 ,remember1 you cannot see both sides of the coin of yourself at once4 ,when you are discouraged by the prominence of the animal nature2 when you are prone to give way to appetite or temper1 or despondency1 or self-detestation1 instantly force yourself to turn over1 as it were1 the coin of yourself2 reckon yourself1 as ,paul says1 alive to ,god2 forcibly detach your attention from the reverse side2 think intensely into the other side4 ,say1 ,i am spirit1 ,i am the ,lord's2 ,his image is stamped on me1 ,his life is in me4 ,his eternal purpose is my perfection1 my true ego is ,his ,divine ,life2 ,i am a personal spirit1 thought-begotten by the ,father-,spirit in ,his own image and likeness1 made subject to the vanity of human birth1 that through the bondage of corruption ,i may attain to the conscious liberty of the glory of ,sonship4 ,this body is not ,i1 not the real ,i4 ,the thought1 when persisted in1 becomes creative2 it restores the equilibrium2 it helps the at-one-ment of the two sides of the coin1 the human and the ,divine1 making1 as the ,apostle says1 of the twain one new man4 ,the same rule applies as to our judgments of others4 ,remember1 we cannot see both sides of the human coin at once1 and therefore our judgments are literally one-sided4 ,this they are in both directions4 ,the people we admire are not deserving of all the worship we give them2 the people we dislike are not as black as we paint them4 ,some people live with only the reverse side visible1 but always there is the other side of the coin4 ,i have never honestly tried mentally to turn over a human coin of this description without finding the ,king's image often defaced and covered with accretions1 but always there4 ,if asked of the most degraded1 ,whose is this image8 ,i should not hesitate in my reply3 ,the qualities1 potentialities1 of ,spirit are here though hidden4 ,the conclusion is1 ,never despair of anyone1 and never despise thy brother man2 always believe the best of other people2 be sure that the name of the ,eternal ,father is impressed on their true ego4 ,that ,divine name is ineradicable4 ,in the end it will save the worst1 though1 it may be1 yet so as by fire4 ,the practical lesson scarcely needs enforcement4 ,whose is this image and superscription8 asks the ,head of humanity of the human items that make up the race4 ,a recognition of the fact that the real ego in every man is ,divine would be the golden key which would unlock the most puzzling of the social problems of the age4 ,the prominent evils which degrade humanity would pass away before it1 and in private life love would reign instead of harsh criticism4 ,if the answer were clearly and intelligently given to the question1 ,whose is this image and superscription8 and it were recognized that humanity is ,god-souled1 and that the ,originating ,spirit is the self-evolving image in all1 it would not only mitigate our personal judgments of others1 but it would break down the prejudices which now divide us4 ,the regenerating transforming mission of love would knit souls together1 there would be no ,eastern question1 for1 in ,god1 there are no ,greeks1 ,turks1 ,bulgarians1 ,russians1 ,austrians1 there are only men4 ,the universality of the ,divine impress1 the certainty that every individual life-centre is a manifestation of ,god1 should convince us that one is our ,father and all we are brethren4 ,to know that humanity is ,god's child1 though it has a side weighted with crime1 brutality1 and degradation1 should stimulate us1 first1 always to see the best side in people we dislike1 and1 secondly1 to associate ourselves with all ameliorating work for humanity in a vast ,empire city like ,london4 ,the human coins are sometimes for a while lost1 and it is our duty to find them4 ,our ,lord once drew a vivid picture of a search for a lost coin4 ,he implied that it was the ,church's fault 7for the woman in that parable is the ,church7 that the coin was lost4 ,he suggested that we should light a candle and stir up the dust from the unswept floor of our distorted social conditions1 and actively1 eagerly search for ,his ,god-stamped human coins till we found them4 ,to keep others and to make others happy is the road to personal happiness1 that is implied in the conclusion of that allegory of the lost coin4 ,the successful searcher is represented as calling upon friends and neighbours to rejoice with her1 for she has found the coin which was lost4 ,to manifest love and help to make others happy is the highest credential for the future life beyond1 for ,heaven is not ,heaven to one alone4 ,save thou one soul1 and thou mayest save thine own4 99,spirit1 ,soul1 ,body499 ,a man's heart deviseth his way1 but the ,lord directeth his steps4--,,prov4 xvi4 #i4 ,a profound philosophy underlies that inspired maxim4 ,man is a threefold being1 composed of spirit1 soul1 and body1 and this proverb indicates the true relation which should exist between these three functioning centres in each individual man4 ,soul is the region of the intellect1 where a man does his conscious thinking4 ,soul deviseth man's way and plans details4 ,spirit1 the innermost being1 the immortal ego1 ,infinite ,mind differentiated into an individual life-centre1 when not grieved1 controls soul1 and of this control soul is sometimes conscious1 but more often not conscious4 ,body1 the external part of man's being1 the association of organs whereby the spirit comes into contact with the physical universe1 ought to obey soul1 controlled by spirit1 and then all is well4 ,that is the ideal relation between the three functioning centres in individual man4 ,spirit is the seat of our ,god-consciousness4 ,soul is the seat of our self-consciousness4 ,body is the seat of our sense-consciousness4 ,in the spirit ,god dwells2 in the soul self dwells2 in the body sense dwells4 ,the at-one-ment is the realized equipoise of these functioning factors in the complex mechanism of the individual man4 ,the body1 with its senses1 subject to the soul with its conscious mind4 ,the soul1 with its conscious mind1 subject to the spirit which is ,divine4 ,and when a man knows this inter-relation1 and gives spirit the pre-eminence1 he does not sin4 ,disharmony1 or1 as we call it1 sin1 when it is mental1 is the assertion of self1 seeking its life and its happiness through human intelligence only4 ,sin1 when it is bodily1 is the assertion of animal appetite1 seeking its life and its happiness through the senses only4 ,harmony lies in the soul-self1 of which the conscious mind is the functioning power1 seeking its life and its happiness in obedience to spirit1 thinking itself into conscious oneness with spirit1 the inmost shrine of our complex nature4 ,then1 as ,soul will be no longer functioning from the plane of material conditions1 ,body obeys ,soul1 and thus1 though a man's conscious mind deviseth his way1 ,spirit directeth his steps4 ,there is a restful universalism in this analysis1 because spirit is the true man4 ,spirit is the kingdom of heaven within4 ,spirit is the ,father within you4 ,the one ever-lasting impossibility to man is to sever himself from immanent spirit4 ,a man's soul may have so wrongly devised his way as to be derelict2 the nightmare of life may have been so heavy that a man has not recognized that the keys of the ,kingdom of ,heaven within him are committed to him4 ,he may not yet have awakened to the truth that ,god's intensity dwells within him2 he may even plunge into animalism2 he may pass out of this life still in his dream1 but1 though he knows it not1 whatever his mind may devise1 the ,lord1 ,immanent ,spirit1 will still direct his steps to the ultimate issue4 ,into whatever educative school a human being may pass4 ,spirit goes with him4 ,if ,i go down into ,hades1 ,thou art there2 if ,i take the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea1 even there shall ,thy right hand lead me4 ,and where ,spirit is1 there is ,love--tireless1 patient1 remedial1 effective1 and at last1 far off1 at last1 every wandering derelict human being will arise and go to its ,father4 ,i know that you cannot make another person see what you see yourself1 but ,i long to encourage all to believe it1 to test it1 to live it1 to proclaim it4 ,some think ,i err by ceaselessly reiterating the same truth4 ,i cannot help it2 it is the ideal ,i am striving to attain myself4 ,i must give it to others4 ,as ,whittier said3 ,if there be some weaker one1 ,give me strength to help him on4 ,if a blinder soul there be1 ,let me guide him nearer ,thee4 ,i desire to encourage all to aim at conscious identification with ,spirit1 and to bear witness by the peace it brings into their lives4 ,that to believe these things are so1 ,this firm faith never to forego1 ,despite of all which seems at strife ,with blessing1 all with curses rife1 ,that this is blessing1 this is life4 ,the ,collect1 ,epistle1 and ,gospel for the eighth ,sunday after ,trinity help the attainment of this mental attitude4 ,the ,epistle touches upon a question of importance to those who are learning the glorious truth of the ,immanence of ,god4 ,do not let concentration upon your oneness with ,infinite ,spirit ,immanent hinder your consciousness of ,infinite ,spirit ,transcendent--that is1 external to you4 ,the ,lord ,jesus1 knowing that the human mind can only cognize in terms of human experience1 gave us the name ,father to help us mentally to personify ,infinite ,spirit ,transcendent--that is1 external to us4 ,the ,lord ,jesus was intensely conscious of the ,immanence of ,god1 ,he called it the ,father in ,him1 but ,he also prayed definitely to the ,father outside ,him4 ,st4 ,paul suggests that when we pray to undifferentiated ,spirit1 who is ,god outside us1 we should use the familar ,transcriber's note3 familiar8 affectionate title ,abba4 ,the ,lord ,jesus is only recorded to have used this title once1 at the moment of ,his deepest agony1 and it is in suffering1 physical or mental1 that you most want it4 ,it is a declaration of your estimate of ,god1 and therefore important1 because the ability of ,divine ,love to help and soothe you is conditioned by your appreciation of ,him and your mental attitude of receptivity towards ,himself4 ,so in those times of deepest darkness1 when ,he seems most absent1 it is well to address ,him by the tenderest name1 and say1 ,abba1 ,father4 ,abba1 ,father1 if it be possible1 let this cup pass from ,me4 ,let us consider the ,collect4 ,how it redeems our ,liturgy from its leaven of ,augustinianism6 ,how it silences the obscurantists who accuse believers in universal restitution of going beyond the ,church's teaching6 ,is this collect an authoritative formula of the ,church1 or is it not8 ,o ,god1 whose never-failing ,providence ordereth all things both in ,heaven and on earth4 ,in other words1 a man's conscious mind may wrongly devise his way1 but the ,lord will direct his steps4 ,saturate your mind with that thought4 ,speak to the universal ,spirit outside you and individualize ,him4 ,say1 ,abba1 ,father1 whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in ,heaven and on earth1 though my heart may be 'devising my way' wrongly and tortuously1 ,i know ,thou wilt 'direct my steps' into ,thy purpose4 ,in that attitude of mind you know that ,god will be in whatever happens to you4 ,this gives you a great freedom in worshipping ,infinite ,spirit4 ,you feel yourself emancipated from all traditional conceptions1 and you feel in yourself the aspiration of ,faber when he wrote3 ,oh1 for freedom1 for freedom in worshipping ,god1 ,for the mountain-top feeling of generous souls1 ,for the health1 for the air1 of the hearts deep and broad1 ,where grace1 not in rills1 but in cataracts rolls6 ,it is well to face the principle underlying these words of the collect3 ,abba1 ,father1 ordereth all things both in ,heaven and on earth4 ,then1 as ,his will is man's sanctification1 the logical conclusion is an absolute ultimate universalism4 ,the absurdity of the paradox that man by wrongly devising his way can ultimately defeat the predestined purpose of ,infinite ,originating ,mind is self-evident4 ,sophocles and ,plato taught that omnipotent purpose governed the apparently accidental phenomena of life1 and the writer of the book of ,proverbs says plainly3 ,a man's heart may devise his way1 but the ,lord will direct his steps4 ,that is the inspired statement of the problem4 ,milton thought the problem insoluble1 and describes the fallen angels exercising their minds on fixed fate1 free will1 fore-knowledge absolute1 and being in wandering mazes lost1 ,i really think it only needs common sense4 ,infinite ,mind expresses ,himself in individual human life-centres that ,he may realize ,his own qualities and have millions of separate entities to love and1 after education1 to love ,him4 ,is it conceivable that ,he would so overdo ,his creative work as to produce beings with a superior will to ,himself capable of resisting ,him through the endless ages1 and putting ,his purpose to complete confusion8 ,is it not obvious that ,he would only give them enough will to train them8 ,the will of man1 such as it is1 has its clearly-defined sphere4 ,it is with his will he deviseth his way1 and that devising his way is the test of his life2 but he can no more escape the ultimate purpose of ,abba1 ,father1 than a material substance on this planet can escape the law of gravitation4 ,obviously we have volition1 we have the power to devise our way4 ,this must be so for two reasons4 ,first1 ,originating ,spirit desires to realize ,his highest qualities in man4 ,therefore1 man must have liberty to withhold his co-operation or he would be only an automaton4 ,mechanical moral qualities would not be moral any more than your watch is moral4 ,to receive and to distribute the nature of the ,divine mind1 not mechanism1 but mental acquiescence is necessary4 ,the heavens declare the glory of ,god1 but they do it mechanically1 not morally4 ,the solar system is a perfect work of mechanical creation1 but the planet cannot leave its appointed orbit4 ,man can4 ,if man obeyed ,god1 only as a planet revolves in its orbit1 he would declare the glory of ,god1 but he would not be a man2 that is1 he would not be a mental centre in which the ,originating ,mind could realize ,itself4 ,then1 again1 without being free to disobey1 we could never become moral beings4 ,the antagonistic pressure of non-moral inclinations challenges our highest self1 and as we make1 within our limited sphere1 correct choice between alternatives presented1 we are built up ,godward or the reverse4 ,but inasmuch as ,infinite ,spirit and ,his vehicles are elementally inseverable1 and ,abba1 ,father1 ordereth all things1 though wrong choice1 and the selection of lower standards1 will occasion pain and unrest1 and delay the evolution of the ,eternal purpose1 and grieve the ,spirit within us4 ,creative ,spirit is ,omnipotent1 to defeat ,him is impossible4 ,he will ultimately1 in ways of ,his own1 direct man's steps without turning him into an automaton4 ,when once you perceive that man in his inmost nature is the product of the ,divine ,mind1 imaging forth an image of ,itself1 you are certain that no negation can finally frustrate the evolution of the ,divine principle which is the inmost centre in us all4 ,it must ultimately blend with the ocean of uncreated life whence it came1 and whither from all ,eternity it is predestined to return1 for ,infinite ,mind has declared of ,his human children1 ,ye shall be perfect4 ,of course1 we must ourselves open out the way4 ,in that obligation lies the function of our ,will and our responsibility for using the ,keys of our own ,kingdom of ,heaven within4 ,as ,browning expresses it so grandly in ,paracelsus3 ,there is an inmost centre in us all1 ,where truth abides in fulness2 and around1 ,wall upon wall1 the gross flesh hems it in4 444 ,,to ,,know ,rather consists in opening out a way ,whence the imprisoned splendour may escape1 ,than in effecting entry for a light ,supposed to be without4 ,those who use the ,keys of their ,kingdom of ,heaven know1 and open out the way4 ,and for those who don't know1 though they blunder terribly and suffer in the blundering1 the ,immanent ,spirit directs their steps4 ,do you say this implies fatalism1 submission to impersonal destiny destructive of independence and self-reliance8 ,the ,gospel negatives the suggestion1 and demonstrates that this ordering all things is not the despotic overrule of an irresistible law1 but the immanent influence of an omnipotent ,providence ceaselessly suggesting to the ,soul of man4 ,the ,lord ,jesus said3 ,i can do nothing of ,myself1 the ,father in ,me doeth the works4 ,was that fatalism8 ,no1 the ,lord ,jesus was consciously working out the thoughts1 the ideas of the ,immanent ,spirit1 and the ,epistle says2 ,the ,spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of ,god2 and if children1 then heirs1 heirs of ,god1 and joint-heirs with ,christ4 ,joint-heirs with ,christ1 that is1 that the same spirit that was in perfection in the ,christ is germinally in us1 and though we may not yet be conscious of it1 we are co-partners in the same splendid inheritance4 ,again1 the prevalence of evil is to some a stumbling-block4 ,they say ,god is all1 and all is ,god1 and ,god is ,love1 resistless1 resourceful1 perfect4 ,he ordereth all things both in ,heaven and on earth1 why1 then1 this discord between the heart that deviseth the way and the ,lord who directeth the steps8 why all this misunderstanding8 ,have we not learnt the answer8 ,it is an interesting study in human psychology to note how thoughtful men will stumble over the answer4 ,i am always repeating the axiom3 ,even ,god cannot make anything except by means of the process through which it becomes what it is4 ,he is making moral beings4 ,he can only make moral beings by means of the process through which a moral being becomes what he is1 and that is1 by having the opportunity of being non-moral4 ,therefore ,infinite ,spirit1 who can never make a mistake1 is responsible for the conditions under which what we call evil becomes possible1 because by those conditions alone can men become moral beings1 and these conditions underlie the three functioning centres in the complex mechanism of human beings4 ,that is the inner meaning of that metaphor about gathering grapes from thorns and figs from thistles in the ,gospel4 ,the thorn and the thistle1 the grape and the fig1 do not signify separate types of men4 ,if so1 the force of the metaphor would fail1 and ,necessitarian ,calvinism would be established4 ,the thorn and the thistle are obeying ,god's own law of heredity and affinity by producing only thorns and thistles2 they would violate the law of their being if they produced grapes and figs4 ,it is an allegory of our separate selves1 of that complex nature which differentiates us from the immanence of ,god as subconscious mind in the vegetable and the animal4 ,each man is the soil in which the soul-man and the body-man produce thorn and thistle1 and the spirit-man produces grape and fig4 ,the opposing functioning centres in the same individual strive for the mastery1 and from this very striving emerges the perfected life of the ,child of ,god1 and that is where the possibility of what we call evil comes in4 ,our own limited minds teach us that ,god's thought-forms1 imaged forth from the womb of ,infinite ,mind1 could never attain ,self-consciousness unless associated with matter in some definite form4 ,that association with matter involved body with its thorn and thistle tendencies1 which tendencies are the training-ground of the individual1 and this training will be complete when the spirit-man1 through the soul-man1 controls the body-man1 and he can say with ,paul3 ,i keep under my body and bring it into subjection4 ,as vehicles of spirit we have the capacity of living by a definite effort and purpose the higher life1 the fruit-bearing life1 and1 as we live it1 we weaken and starve the thorn-bearing life4 ,we are debtors1 says the ,apostle1 we1 who have received the ,keys of our own ,kingdom of ,heaven within--we are debtors not to live after the flesh4 ,no one needs the pulpit to tell them what is the life not after the flesh4 ,every purposeful encouragement of the ,divine nature within1 every clinging to principle in time of temptation1 every masterful conquest over bodily desires by forcing the mind away from sense impressions into recollection of the ,divinity within1 every quenching of anger by a kind and gentle word1 ministers to the fruit-bearing life and withers the thorn4 ,in one word1 the higher life is the continuous conscious blending of the human mind with the ,infinite ,mind4 ,remember conscious mind is part of the soul-man1 and our ability to gain dominion over the physical body develops as we use our will to blend our thought-power with the ,infinite ,mind1 for the spirit-man influences the body-man1 through the channel of the soul-man1 which is the seat of mind4 ,begin it by suffering the indwelling ,spirit to realize itself as love4 ,the ,master taught us that to manifest love is to live not as an isolated unit but in terms of the larger life of humanity4 ,when ,he was asked1 ,what shall ,i do to inherit eternal life8 ,he replied with the parable of the ,good ,samaritan4 ,manifest love to theological and political opponents1 and unlovable people generally1 and the thorn and thistle within you will have a poor chance of life4 ,when you express love you are functioning from ,spirit4 ,then soul-man and body-man must obey4 ,soul-man must help for will is part of soul-man4 ,watch yourself4 ,keep the tongue from evil and the lips that they speak no guile4 ,never allow yourself to repeat that which will prejudice your hearer against another4 ,don't repeat a scandal4 ,it causes an evil thought-atmosphere to prevail2 it thwarts the ,god within2 it grieves the ,spirit more fatally than breaches of the moral law4 ,this1 then1 is the message of to-day4 ,use your will to keep your mental faculties in conscious realization of your true relation to ,infinite ,mind1 as one of ,his vehicles1 and you will not grieve the ,spirit4 ,know that ,god is the ,spirit within you1 and never forget that ,he is also ,abba1 ,father1 outside you4 ,abba1 ,father1 longs for us far more than we long for ,him4 ,around us always are the everlasting arms4 ,he knows our imperfections and weaknesses of character far better than we know those of our own children1 and our ,lord said3 ,if ye then1 being evil1 know how to give good gifts to your children1 how much more shall your ,heavenly ,father give good gifts to them that ask ,him8 99,out of the ,everywhere into ,here499 ,of ,his own will ,he brought us forth by the ,word1 wherefore receive with meekness the inborn ,word4--,,st4 ,,james i4 #ah1 #ba 7,r4,v474 ,though ,i have repeatedly spoken on the words of the ,epistle for the fourth ,sunday after ,easter1 ,i simply cannot pass them by now4 ,they illuminate conspicuously the thesis that we were thought-forms in the womb of ,infinite ,mind before we were body-forms in this terrestrial school1 and they affirm the closeness of our intimacy with ,infinite ,mind and the obviousness of our life's duty4 ,grant the axiom that the power of ,infinite ,mind to realize in us1 and express through us1 and externalize love in the circumstances of our life1 is strictly conditioned by our appreciation of what ,infinite ,mind is in ,itself1 then the more familiar1 the more reverently tender1 our estimate of ,originating ,spirit1 the more will ,it be able to manifest in our lives4 ,st4 ,james in the words ,i have quoted has suggested to us a conception of ,infinite ,creative ,mind so exalted1 so metaphysical1 and yet so personal1 that1 if by spiritual consciousness we can grasp it1 we possess the highest possible estimate of the ,all-,conscious ,life-,principle whence we came4 ,st4 ,james says3 ,he brought us forth with the ,word1 ,he willed us forth from ,himself by the ,logos4 ,in the ,greek there is1 of course1 no personal pronoun1 and1 indeed1 it is a paradox to put the masculine personal pronoun before this ,greek word1 apeksen1 a word used1 and only used1 for the birth of a child from its mother2 it has no other meaning4 ,imagine the motherly tenderness of this metaphor4 ,can it be used by accident8 ,does it not suggest the words3 ,can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion upon the son of her womb8 ,can ,infinite ,mind forget the individual life-centre which has come forth from its creative thought-womb8 ,you say this is emotion1 this is sentiment4 ,quite so2 that is exactly what is needed2 our relations to ,originating ,mind are too formal1 too cold1 too perfunctory1 too theological4 ,the ,mother-,soul1 apeksen1 brought us forth1 bore us1 body-formed us1 that by separation we might come to know our ,parentage as we could never have known it if we had remained in the womb of ,creative ,mind1 just as between human child and mother there can be no conscious cognizing intercourse till they are separated4 ,i pray that ,i may realize how profoundly this inspired metaphor of ,st4 ,james reaches into the deep things of ,god4 ,it proves that the irrevocability of ,divine ,immanence in man is not the product of human speculation1 but an authoritative revelation4 ,as the child in the womb receives the nature of the mother1 and is born into the world bearing that nature1 part of the mother1 a repetition of the mother1 so have we come into this world with a ,divine nature within us1 which is our real self1 our eternal humanity4 ,it is true for us1 when it is not yet true to us1 that we are the offspring of the ,infinite ,parent-,spirit by a process more intimate than anything implied by the word creation4 ,what a glorious confidence ought to be inspired by this assurance6 ,how it ought to alter our outlook upon life6 ,the nature and perfections of ,god1 as ,omnipotent ,love and ,wisdom1 are germinally within us1 and are gradually advancing mankind1 by an agency ultimately irresistible1 to a more and ever more perfect condition4 ,based on this proposition of ,st4 ,james1 final restitution stands upon an impregnable foundation2 the terrifying problem of evil1 while it remains as an urgent motive for action1 loses its power to perplex4 ,as an ,infinite ,motherliness is the sole producing agent of all that is1 and as all that is must have been in the thought-womb of ,infinite ,motherliness before coming into existence1 the whole mystery of the dark side of life must be within the purpose of the eternal order1 and there can be no independent rival to the ,author of the ,universe4 ,again1 this amazing revelation of the ,creative ,motherliness should help us in realizing the oneness of humanity4 ,it should stimulate us to generous strivings for better social conditions and more brotherly relations between man and man4 ,it ought to make impossible the international jealousies which provoke taunts and defiances between ,european nations which ultimately issue in the misery and wickedness of war4 ,above all1 it should impress upon us the dignity1 the priceless dignity1 of every individual human life1 as drawn directly from the ,originating ,spirit4 ,i desire to apply this thought4 ,i will take myself4 ,i ask1 ,what am ,i8 ,now1 don't imagine that you honour ,god by calling yourself a poor worm and a miserable sinner1 whatever you may justly feel2 it is gravely discourteous to the ,supreme ,source of your being4 ,say3 ,i am a human life1 a personal spirit1 body-formed into terrestrial birth4 ,i recognize that ,i have a double consciousness1 that two distinct planes of thought and initiative compose my life3 the one is the natural or the animal man1 the product of evolution through the operation of the ,cosmic ,mind2 the other is the spiritual man1 the essential inner nature1 equipped with all the potentialities and the qualities of the ,infinite ,creative ,mother-,soul4 ,in the recognition of this duality lies the wisdom of life2 in the reconciliation of these two planes of consciousness lies the battle of life2 and in the supremacy of the higher plane of consciousness lies the victory of life4 ,i recognize my limitations1 and ,i regretfully acknowledge my many defeats4 ,upon what does victory depend8 ,it depends upon our use of our will-power in constraining our mental faculty to rise above the mere sense-impressions of our lower consciousness1 and intensify upon the eternal fact of our oneness with the ,infinite ,life from which we have come forth as a child comes from its mother's womb4 ,st4 ,james puts it perfectly clearly4 ,he does not perplex us with theological casuistry or schemes of salvation2 he just bids us use our ,divine heredity4 ,he says ,infinite ,mind has given birth to you by the ,logos1 the ,word4 ,creative ,motherliness has brought you forth 7apeksen7 by the ,logos1 wherefore receive with meekness the ',logos ,emphutos1' the 'inborn ,word1' 'the hereditary ,divine nature1' which is able to save your souls4 ,with meekness--that is1 with receptivity4 ,mentally practise ,divine self-realization1 become conscious that the ,logos1 which is the mystic ,christ1 the image and nature of the ,mother-,god1 is within you1 inborn4 ,be receptive to its promptings1 acknowledge it1 recognize it1 realize it1 appeal to it2 put away purposely what ,st4 ,james calls all superfluity of naughtiness--an expression which each must interpret for himself4 ,strengthen it by inhibiting wrong thoughts1 by secret communion with it1 and it will rapidly evolve1 and as it grows it will externalize in the conditions of your life1 it will become more and more a power in the affairs of your daily duty1 it will build up your character1 it will bring you into right relations with your fellow-men1 and make you kind to others4 ,as it awakens the nature of the ,infinite ,mother-,soul within you it will teach you what is ,god's ideal of humanity--namely1 that ,god's true son is not one perfect man1 though one perfect ,man alone realized the ideal1 but the whole multitudinous race of men1 of which race ,god is the ,father1 the ,mother1 the ,soul1 the ,glory1 and the ,eternity4 ,now1 how do ,i know this8 ,how can ,i be certain of this8 ,how do ,i know that the ,logos ,emphutos1 the inherited nature from the prolific ,mother-,spirit1 is within me and able to save my soul8 ,i might have arrived at the knowledge by induction1 as did ,charles ,kingsley when he said that logic required him to believe that there must have been1 or will be1 an ,incarnation4 ,i arrive at it by ,revelation2 the central figure of the ,christian ,revelation proves to me incontestably the fact4 ,this ,logos ,emphutos1 this inborn ,word1 this hereditary witness of the close and tender relationship between ourselves and ,creative ,motherliness1 this urge of the ,creative ,mother-,soul1 is a universal principle4 ,it is not easy to define it2 but what existence is to being1 what the spoken word is to thought1 what the lightning-flash is to electricity1 that the ,logos is to the ,creative ,mother-,soul--its expression1 its activity1 its self-utterance4 ,the ,logos is the quality of ,originating ,mind that forms1 upholds1 sustains all that is4 ,without the ,logos was not anything made that was made2 in the ,logos all things consist4 ,by the ,logos1 says ,st4 ,paul1 the heavens were made4 ,the ,logos is the one life in all1 the cosmic mind in all--in the mineral1 the crystal1 the lower order of animal life1 and above all1 in its highest function1 it is the dominating power in the soul of man1 and in the angels and archangels of the higher spheres of light and life4 ,it has always been so4 ,the early ,aryans1 #agjj ,b4,c41 knew it2 but generations of wrong thinking have darkened human minds to their ,divine origin as possessors of the ,logos ,emphutos4 ,infinite ,mind1 therefore1 in the fulness of time1 specialized the ,logos ,emphutos1 for purposes of recognition and observation1 in one perfect life-centre4 ,we call this ,the ,incarnation1 as if the ,lord ,jesus alone were the ,incarnate ,son4 ,if so1 ,he would profit us little4 ,he could in no sense be our model and our brother4 ,incarnation is a universal ,principle1 of which universal ,principle the ,lord ,jesus is the specialization in absolute perfection4 ,the ,logos1 says ,st4 ,john1 was made flesh and dwelt among us1 and we beheld ,his glory full of grace and truth4 ,that is1 the universal principle of the ,divinity of humanity1 as the outbirth of the ,mother ,god1 was manifested in ,jesus of ,nazareth in such full-orbed completeness that the qualities and perfections of the ,parent ,god were displayed in ,him1 and the full result upon human character of this ,divine ,immanence1 the realization of which had before been vague and without outline1 was shown forth in ,him1 that men might know what power was in them1 and what the indwelling ,spirit of ,god was making of them4 ,this embodiment of the ,logos1 called ,jesus1 did not stay long in the limitations of the flesh1 but long enough to manifest the splendid ,divine potentiality of a man in whom the ,logos rules4 ,the human beings that ,he came to illuminate killed ,his body4 ,plato long ago prophesied that if a perfect man appeared the world would crucify ,him1 and ,plato was right4 ,and the ,gospel records ,his farewell4 ,he says3 ,it is expedient for you that ,i go away4 ,now1 before we consider what ,he meant by that saying1 just brush the dust off this foundation-stone--the dust of accumulated dogmatic limitations1 and theological schemes of salvation1 and all the rest4 ,the ,christian revelation is a complete and intelligible philosophy1 and it secures your position4 ,infinite ,mind1 brooding ,creative ,motherliness1 has expressed itself by materializing its thoughts in the phenomena of the universe1 and body-forming its highest thought in human beings4 ,that man is the highest expression and self-realization of the ,creative ,mother-mind1 is the guarantee that man's consciousness mirrors the infinite ,mother-mind as the dewdrops mirror the sun4 ,it follows that if there were an absolutely perfect human being1 that human being would be so ,god-inhabited that he would be able to say1 ,i and ,infinite ,mind are one2 he that hath seen ,me hath seen ,infinite ,mind4 ,now ,jesus is this perfect human being4 ,the ,divine ideal was specialized1 completely expressed1 in ,his individual personality4 ,the ,divinity of ,jesus means that ,he was the full embodiment of the qualities and principles of the ,creative ,motherliness1 the ,infinite ,spirit4 ,so in ,jesus1 ,god is no longer a vague abstraction1 because ,i can interpret the ,universal ,mind through the specialization in ,jesus3 ,space and time1 ,o ,lord1 that show ,thee ,oft in power1 veiling good1 ,are too vast for us to know ,thee ,as our trembling spirits would2 ,but in ,jesus1 yes1 in ,jesus1 ,father1 ,thou art understood4 ,but more2 in ,jesus ,i can also understand myself4 ,infinite ,mind sent ,jesus to be a complete full-orbed specimen of what ,i am potentially myself4 ,the principles that ,he embodied1 the ,logos ,emphutos that became flesh in ,him1 are not peculiar to ,him1 but universal1 so that we can claim identity with ,him4 ,st4 ,john says3 ,as ,he is1 so are we in this world2 ,st4 ,paul says3 ,the ,christ--that is1 the ,logos ,emphutos--is in you the hope of glory2 and ,he ,himself said3 ,i am in the ,father1 and ye in ,me1 and ,i in you4 ,that is why ,he said3 ,it is expedient for you that ,i go away4 ,he came to teach that the inborn ,word is universal2 it is the ,mother-,god repeating ,itself in all ,souls2 and if this truth were to be realized and appreciated1 it was expedient that the visible ,personality in which it was specialized should be removed1 in order that men might mentally universalize the manifestation1 and learn that this spirit of ,sonship1 this ,divine nature1 this distribution of the ,creative ,being1 belongs to all men1 as the hope of their existence1 the ideal of their life1 the leaven of their humanity1 the assurance of their perfection4 ,he did not really leave us4 ,he said that if ,he did not go the ,comforter could not come4 ,he is the ,comforter4 ,he identified ,himself completely with the coming of the ,holy ,ghost2 ,he speaks of ,pentecost as ,his second coming2 ,he says1 ,i will not leave you comfortless1 ,i will come unto you2 and ,st4 ,paul1 in #b ,cor4 iii4 #ag1 in emphatic terms1 declares1 ,now the ,lord--meaning the ,lord ,jesus ,christ--is that ,spirit4 ,our ,lord also said1 ,when ,he is come ,he will convict the world of sin4 ,do you know something of this8 ,he meant that when ,divine ,sonship1 the inborn ,word that was specialized in ,him1 begins to stir in a man1 to make itself felt1 there is a new principle in him which cannot tolerate the lower nature1 but torments it4 ,until the ,logos ,emphutos is awakened there is no real consciousness of sin4 ,philo taught that where the ,logos had not stirred in a man there was no moral responsibility2 but when ,he has come1 when something has taught you that you came out from the ,mother-,soul1 that you are an expression of ,god1 how you hate yourself for past sin2 and if from deeply ingrained habit you are sometimes now selfish1 irritable1 unkind1 impure1 the punishment comes quickly in the painful sense of disturbed harmony1 and you are miserable till restored4 ,this is the ,spirit of ,jesus1 the ,christ in you1 the ,logos ,emphutos1 call it the ,holy ,ghost if you like1 convicting you of sin4 ,one final thought4 ,this very intimate relationship to the ,mother-,soul unfolds the limitless capacities of our being4 ,all the power of the ,kingdom of ,heaven is at our disposal if we will mentally claim it4 ,remember1 the moral issues of life are mental4 ,it is a fundamental law of conscious life that by metaphysical telepathy we can have immediate communion with ,infinite ,life4 ,our minds can focus the ,divine ,presence1 and we may speak to the world's ,creator as intimately as a child would prattle to its mother4 ,then consider what ought our moral life to be8 ,not obedience to a conventional category of social maxims1 but an expression of the ,infinite ,mind1 and our daily prayer should be1 ,may my conscious mind perceive that ,thy life1 ,thy thoughts1 ,thy spirit are within me1 and that ,thou art seeking to realize ,thyself and manifest ,thy love through me4 ,again1 inasmuch as the whole must include its parts1 and as we can mentally attract the attention of the whole1 we can most assuredly attract the attention of any beloved individual personality in the spirit world by wireless thoughtography2 not drawing them down into these denser elements that they have left1 but lifting our spirit-self into the ethereal element where they abide1 for when we are realizing ,god we are summoning them4 ,that is a communion that breaks down the barrier between two worlds1 and enables us to say1 ,with angels and archangels1 and with all the company of ,heaven1 we laud and magnify ,thy glorious name2 evermore praising ,thee1 and saying1 ,holy1 holy1 holy1 ,lord ,god ,almighty1 ,heaven and earth are full of ,thy glory2 glory be to ,thee1 ,o ,lord most ,high4 99,last ,words499 ,we live1 if ye stand fast in the ,lord4--#a ,,thess4 iii4 #h4 ,the last ,sunday of a year suggests a moral balancing of accounts4 ,i will not burden you with retrospect2 what is the good8 ,nor will ,i waste your time with anticipations--always a futile speculation4 ,the only thing that matters is the present4 ,how do we stand--now1 to-day8 ,that is important both to pupil and to pupil-teacher4 ,there is something intensely pathetic1 something that arouses an echo in my own heart1 in the way ,paul interweaves the we and the ye in that sentence4 ,this great prototype1 ,we live if ye stand fast1 of all subsequent ministrants to souls recognizes the close interdependence of spiritual welfare between himself and those he had been commissioned to teach4 ,the truth of human solidarity1 and the responsibility of each soul to minister to its neighbour1 reaches its climax in such a relationship as that existing between ,paul and the ,church in ,thessalonica4 ,he had laboured to kindle the dormant capacities of their souls1 while training his own4 ,his life had not been easy4 ,festus said he was mad4 ,the magistrates at ,philippi scourged and imprisoned him4 ,demas forsook him1 and his colleague ,peter withstood him4 ,moreover1 he had constant weakness of health1 his thorn in the flesh tormented him1 but the one only thing he cared for was that souls awakened under his ministry should not fall back4 ,he speaks as if his very life hung upon their continued perseverance in the truth he had taught4 ,we live1 he says--we live1 if ye stand fast in the ,lord4 ,it is as if he had said1 ,ye are the very travail of my soul2 life will not be worth living to me2 it will be darkened by shadow1 if ye1 the souls whom ,i have influenced1 fall away when ,i am no longer with you4 ,more than that he felt that he would be measured by the result of his work4 ,i imagine that all ministers must feel the same1 and1 without presumption1 may in the same way suggest to their people1 as one additional motive for striving for the grace of perseverance1 the motive of contributing to the life-joy of the human instrument through whom they have gained some light4 ,the thought obtrudes itself aggressively at one of these way-marks1 these sign-posts in the passage of time1 which remind one of the uncertainty as to the continuance of existing conditions4 ,not that uncertainty matters in the least4 ,i dislike the word uncertainty2 the one certainty is that all is well1 as ,god is ,all and ,god is ,love2 when you know that1 you don't talk about uncertainty3 ,all unknown the future lies--,let it rest4 ,god who veils it from our eyes--,knows best4 ,ask not what shall be to-morrow--,be content1 ,take the cup of joy or sorrow--,god has sent4 ,of course1 every pupil-teacher in ,god's school knows that he1 personally1 is nothing--nothing but a voice crying in the ,wilderness4 ,nevertheless1 he has one desire in the fulfilment of which his happiness here1 and perhaps in the other dimension1 is closely concerned2 it is that his fellow-pupils should stand fast in the ,lord4 ,in the ,lord1 mark you--in the ,lord4 ,not in fidelity to some ethical standard--not in the shibboleths of some acceptable so-called school of thought1 not in the excluding externalisms of some particular denomination--those are all incidents which have their place--but in the ,lord4 ,to define exhaustively the meaning of in the ,lord would be to recapitulate the whole curriculum2 but to be in the ,lord is a spiritual acquisition attained by systematic thinking into ,god1 and standing fast in the ,lord is using the will to compel the conscious mind to hold the thought till it becomes a normal attitude4 ,to be in the ,lord is to have discovered your true relation as an individual to the ,infinite ,originating ,spirit4 ,it is to have recognized that ,god is known only by the mind1 and that mental force is that you have the likest ,god within your soul2 and with the aid of that mental force to have thought yourself out of objective ,deism into the truth of the universally diffused ,creative ,mind1 ,immanent1 ,transcendent1 and ,paternal4 ,it is to have realized what ,wordsworth calls the ,sense ,sublime of-- ,something far more deeply interfused1 ,a ,motion and a ,spirit that impels ,all thinking things1 all objects of all thought1 ,and rolls through all things4 ,this sense sublime1 which is spiritual consciousness1 is a sense which1 once awakened1 ,materialism can never stamp out1 though it is very possible to be unfaithful to it4 ,it is a thrilling consciousness of penetrating ,divine ,mind everywhere4 ,this sense sublime is an hereditary instinct in our nature which makes feeling after ,god automatic4 ,this sense sublime1 added to the natural demand for a conception of ,god under some conditions of personality1 has been the foundation of all religions4 ,it was the foundation of the higher ,deism of the ,jewish theology1 which possessed beautiful characteristics in spite of its anthropomorphism4 ,isaiah was full of the sense sublime1 and he bids us create thought-forms and think of ,infinite ,spirit as men would think of their mothers--,as one whom his mother comforteth1 so will ,i comfort you4 ,use your imagination1 he would say1 to conceive that the tenderness of a mother feebly represents the watchful love1 the protecting care1 of ,jehovah towards the human race2 for a human mother may forget her child1 ',yet will ,i not forget thee1' saith the ,lord4 ,beautiful and consoling as is ,isaiah's conception of ,god as ,universal ,mother1 it is still ,deistic1 it still leaves the ,infinite ,intelligence as a ,person1 which ,he is not4 ,it does not answer the philosophic problem of how mentally to specialize the ,infinite ,mind while at the same time preserving mentally the conception of its universality4 ,the ,gospel of the ,word made ,flesh1 the revelation of the ,incarnation1 solves that problem4 ,in the ,christian revelation the words ,absolute1 ,infinite ,mind1 and the rest1 are relieved of impersonality and vagueness4 ,we see that earth's teeming millions are not created1 designed1 or fashioned1 or even generated in the physical sense4 ,they are to ,god what words are to thoughts--expressions1 utterances of the ,infinite ,mind of ,god4 ,each human being is an individual vehicle or life-centre in which the ,infinite ,mind expresses1 manifests itself4 ,each human life is the reproduction in an individuality of qualities which the ,infinite ,creative ,mind perceives within itself and desires to realize4 ,now1 if the sum-total of these universally diffused qualities of the ,infinite ,mind could be specialized in one absolutely perfect individual life-centre1 we should be able to recognize the personalness of the ,infinite ,mind and estimate the qualities and principles of the ,originating ,spirit4 ,and in ,jesus we have this unique specimen1 this concentration in one individual life-centre1 and we know what ,god is because in ,jesus dwelt all the fulness of the ,god-head bodily4 ,more than this4 ,the ,universal1 specialized in ,jesus1 enables us to understand how ,god is immanent in us2 for the ,lord ,jesus declared that our relationship to the ,infinite ,mind was essentially and potentially of the same nature as ,his1 that we too have the ,father in us4 ,he emphatically declares3 ,i go to ,my ,father and to your ,father4 ,thus is ,jesus the ,mediator1 or ,uniting ,medium1 between ,god and man4 ,thus does ,god in ,christ reconcile the world to ,himself1 for in the perfectly ,god-inhabited man is revealed the transcendent truth that ,god and man1 in inherent eternal unity1 are one4 ,when we think into this self-revelation of ,god in ,jesus ,christ1 when we recognize what it implies--namely1 that the personality of ,infinite ,spirit is manifested in the objective ,christ1 and that the mystic ,christ is in all1 and that every human being is a potential ,jesus--we have realized what it is to be in the ,lord4 ,if only we could stand fast in this truth6 ,if we restless1 capricious human beings could but exercise our wills1 our power of self-compulsion1 in holding our conscious minds fast to this thought1 it would reconstitute the whole of our character and being1 because it would readjust our mental relations with the material environment and sense-impressions in which we live4 ,it alters the whole outlook on life to know you personally are an idea in the mind of ,god1 and that you have the power within you to identify yourself with ,god's purpose4 ,your entire theology is expanded2 for to begin to know ,god as ,he is in ,himself is to become a convinced ,universalist and a denier of the essentiality of evil1 though you hate evil as you never hated it before4 ,so to be in the ,lord is not to be staggered by the existence of evil4 ,the imperfection that seems to mar the perfection of the economy of the world is recognized as a necessary condition for the production of the highest good1 one of its objects being to make you hate it4 ,the proposition which ,i constantly reiterate is clear1 logical1 conclusive4 ,god is ,all1 ,all is ,god2 ,god is the only ousia 7substance7 in the universe4 ,this negation of good which we hate1 this contrast1 either is or is not part of universal order4 ,if it is part of universal order1 then1 in spite of all seeming paradox1 it is of the all things that work together for good4 ,if it is not part of ,his universal order1 then the philosophy of ,infinity is shattered1 and we are confronted with another creative originator in the universe1 in everlasting antagonism to the good ,god--a paralyzing ,dualism1 which is only another name for ,atheism4 ,god is ,all1 ,god is ,love1 ,god is ,omnipotent1 and ,god is ,immanent4 ,therefore it is certain that a hidden purpose of benevolence and love1 incomparably higher than would be accomplished by the abolition of what we call evil1 must have actuated the ,infinite ,mind when ,he thought-created phenomena4 ,clearly it is an impossibility1 even to ,omnipotence1 to make moral beings1 in whom ,he could realize ,his highest quality of love1 without giving them a measure of volition1 which volition had to pass the test of the complex education and temptations of earth-life1 with all that it entails2 and ,his purpose is so high and glorious that its ultimate consummation will justify and vindicate all the apparently inexplicable means ,he adopts in bringing it about4 ,once more--though ,i fear ,i cause that string to vibrate too often1 but out of the heart the mouth speaketh--to stand fast in the ,lord is to be unspeakably uplifted and supported when crushed under the sorrow of bereavement4 ,standing fast in the ,lord--you know that every separate individual human being is a product of the ,divine ,mind1 imaging forth an image of ,itself on the plane of the material4 ,consequently1 each ,individual and the ,originating ,spirit are essentially inseverable4 ,therefore human souls strongly linked by love are inseverable1 and1 though visibly separated1 are merged in one another1 and spirit with spirit does meet4 ,the ,communion of ,saints is to you who are standing in the ,lord not a theological dogma1 but a fact of being4 ,you do not believe1 you know1 that the casting off of the body1 the passing out of sight of the temporary corporeal enslavement1 causes no separation between you and those who are living now in a world of duller life1 where the limitations of the physical do not exist4 ,we may be unconscious of the intensity and reality of this communion1 because our spiritual self1 our real man1 is still in the educative isolation of the flesh2 but the beloved departed know that the only real home of the spirit is the ,universal1 and that there is no limitation of time or space where they are1 and that as thought-transference on the physical plane is acknowledged as a scientific fact1 nothing can hinder the transmission of mind-impulse on the spiritual plane1 especially when we remember that there is a force greater1 according to ,st4 ,paul1 than ,faith1 and greater than ,hope1 and that is ,love4 ,if ,faith can penetrate into the spirit-world1 cannot ,love8 ,god is ,love1 and ,love never faileth4 ,if you are standing fast in the ,lord the vibration of your love penetrates into ,god's hidden world4 ,the method is the mental process of thinking yourself into conscious realization of the ,presence of ,universal ,spirit1 and then1 with that thought sustained1 thinking strongly of the loved one you want in the spirit world4 ,they catch the impulse of your telepathic1 ,god-inspired1 love-thought1 and respond to your spirit1 and sometimes you will be definitely conscious of the response through the percipient mind4 ,another test of standing fast in the ,lord is the increase of your usefulness in the world4 ,the service for others1 of one who is standing fast in the ,lord1 will manifest itself mainly in three spheres3 the sphere of action1 of example1 of intercession4 ,first you will have a new enthusiasm and desire to work in the sphere of definite remedial activity on this temporal1 this material plane4 ,you know that there is nothing but ,god1 therefore you recognize that the material plane is one of ,god's spheres of love and sacrifice4 ,being in the ,lord does not imply a life of indolent contemplation4 ,it implies coming to the help of the ,lord against the mighty1 like that consecrated sister of humanity1 ,sister ,dora4 ,you remember1 ,i have often repeated it1 how1 after a laborious day in her hospital1 her rest was constantly broken by the sound of the bell placed at the head of her bed to be rung whenever any sufferer wanted her1 and on that bell was engraved the motto1 ,the ,master is come and calleth for thee4 ,i often try to remind myself of that4 ,as every member of the race is ,god-inhabited1 every claim made upon us--though of course we must consider each claim with due discretion--is the ,master's voice saying1 ,remember1 ,i in them1 and thou in ,me1 that they may be perfect in us4 ,then1 again1 standing fast in the ,lord gives you a new power of expressing1 manifesting1 the ,immanent ,god by your life1 your example4 ,the highest duty in life is manifesting ,god4 ,you will find that the words in my prayer1 ,may my highest aim this day be to manifest ,god and to make others happy1 become your normal attitude4 ,it will be as natural to you now to give a gentle answer to a deliberate provocation as formerly it was natural to give an irritable reply4 ,you will take your own line on principles of moral rectitude1 heedless of the strife of tongues1 but with perfect respect for the expressed opinions of others who wholly differ from you4 ,then it is hardly necessary to point out that ,standing fast in the ,lord is to be a power in intercession4 ,god has taught us that there is no sphere in which the soul1 that really recognizes its relation to ,infinite ,spirit1 can more effectually help and bless others4 ,i cannot define these thoughtographs of mental causation on the spiritual plane1 but it is impossible to measure the cumulative force of united intercession4 ,intercession does not mean that you have importuned an objective ,omnipotent ,being to do a kindness to one of ,his subjects1 though in human language we seem thus to express it4 ,it is1 that having found your true relation as an individual to the ,universal ,originating ,spirit1 and your sympathy and pity being drawn to some case of need1 you specialize1 by the power of your thought1 the ,all-surrounding ,infinite ,love1 and focus it1 direct it1 to the particular case of need1 and ,infinite ,love thinks1 wills1 and expresses ,himself through you4 ,when ,paul said1 ,brethren1 pray for us1 he knew that loving1 sympathizing1 healing thoughts1 projected like wireless-telegraphy vibrations from united ,god-inhabited hearts1 were the life of ,god in man reaching forth to quicken1 stimulate1 and support a brother man4 ,i have been upheld in physical and mental weakness by a stream of kindly sympathy1 radiating ,divine creative energy4 ,i once before expressed my gratitude in the words of an ,american divine3 ,beneath the shelter which your prayers have reared1 ,quiet and blest1 ,the storm which struck me down no longer feared1 ,secure ,i rest4 ,that is what this wireless spiritual telegraphy does--it frees the mind from fear4 ,to free the mind from fear is to strike at the root of many a physical and mental trouble4 ,i have been withheld recently from taking an active part in this ,divine work1 but ,i have a sheaf of letters of thanksgiving4 ,i give extracts from two3 ,you prayed for a young girl who was about to face an examination for a post and who was tormented with nervous headache4 ,the letter says3 ,it was a positive miracle2 there was not a headache after that night1 and the examination was passed most successfully4 ,again1 you prayed two ,sundays in succession for a youth in the ,north of ,england4 ,the letter says3 ,he was dying2 the doctors had given him up1 and he himself had no thought of recovery4 ,he is well and a new man2 people are expressing the greatest astonishment1 declaring that no one understands it4 ,they do not know the explanation4 ,these cases are not that an ,objective external ,god did something kind because we asked ,him1 but that the ,immanent ,universal ,mind used our sympathy1 and our yearning to help1 in bringing about that which ,he also desired1 but for the fulfilment of which ,he needed the focussed love and desire of the individual life-centres in which ,he is ,immanent4 ,that is one way of coming to the help of the ,lord against the ,mighty4 ,now these recapitulations imperfectly express my meaning when ,i ask you to ,stand fast in the ,lord4 ,the end of a year is a time when a register of results is justifiable1 and an occasion for a fresh start is recognized4 ,i ask you to make a resolution that you will be spiritually self-supporting1 and independent of external aid1 and that1 whether the pupil-teacher to whom you have become accustomed is in the flesh or out of it1 you will ,stand fast in the ,lord1 for his sake as well as your own4 ,we live1 if ye stand fast4 ,it is so1 it must be so1 for the test of a teacher is the perseverance of the taught4 ,to fall away from a great principle because the temporary enunciator of that principle is removed1 is to condemn that enunciator as a failure1 and perhaps to send him to his account without his golden sheaves4 ,ah1 who shall then the ,master meet ,and bring but withered leaves8 ,ah1 who shall at the ,saviour's feet1 ,before the awful judgment seat1 ,lay down for golden sheaves ,nothing but leaves1 nothing but leaves8 ,in the words of ,shakespeare ,i say1 ,hereafter in a better world than this ,i shall desire more love and knowledge of you2 meanwhile remember1 ,the ,kingdom of ,heaven is within you1 all the power you can possibly need is at your disposal1 you need no helper to give it you1 it is yours now4 ,o be strong1 then1 and brave1 pure1 patient1 and true2 ,the work that is yours let no other hand do4 ,for the strength for all need is faithfully given ,from the fountain within you--the ,kingdom of ,heaven4 ,printed for ,elliot ,stock1 ,publisher1 #g1 ,paternoster ,row1 ,london1 ,e4,c41 by ,billing and ,sons1 ,ltd41 ,guildford 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99,by ,,the ,,ven4 ,,archdeacon ,,wilberforce99 99,,steps ,,in ,,spiritual ,,growth99 ,steps in ,spiritual ,growth--,the ,apple of ,god's ,eye--,the ,seed is the ,logos--,god ,sleeps in the 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