SCIENCE OF ASCENSION

VALIANT THOR
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Preface
Books, Teachers, Instructions, presenting the Kingdom of Heaven within and
at hand, are spiritual lamps lighting everyone who presents himself as a
willing disciple.

Ever advancing period delivers a clearer and more practical view of a perfect
life and its perfect expression. As ideas of God, Self, and Universe advance
to truer conceptions, thought gently rises from the material basis to the true
understanding of being.

Absolute science reveals the truth of individual identity and this revelation
is the light which “shineth in darkness and the darkness apprehendeth it
not.”

If one knows not his own identity, is it to be wondered that he wanders

about as in a dream? How can one demonstrate his perfect immortal
identity unless he accepts and understands it?

Absolute science presents the way of perfect being and perfect universe at
hand, and from this point it demonstrates its power, dominion and authority.
Waking to the true consciousness of one's being as Spirit, one automatically
breaks the yoke of bondage and rises to divine heights.

For those ready and willing to listen and be shown the Science of Ascension
the way is big with blessings. How can one gain a richer and more practical
understanding of life except by gaining richer and fuller insight of his own
being “What thou seest, that thou beest,” said one with right vision.

Many seem slow to accept advanced ideas and so come to a standstill in

understanding and in demonstration. Truth demands that we advance in the
spiritual apprehension, understanding and demonstration of reality as the
only fact of existence. The hour strikes for each to demonstrate self
knowledge and self government. The commands of spiritual sense when
recognized and fulfilled lead to the illumination of spiritual understanding,
restoring the lost sense of one's perfection and revealing one God, one
Christ, one Universe, here and now.
 The glories of revelation await him who, viewing the ascended Christ,
accepts this Christ as his own selfhood.

“Who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth”? (Gal. 5.7). Why
give power to physical personality, to man made creeds and laws hindering
the glorious sense of individual freedom, power and authority?

Perceiving and obeying the light of impersonal Christ, one makes rapid
progress in the practice of truth and in overcoming of the false beliefs called
sin, sickness and bondage.

Jesus preached Truth, presenting a way of deliverance from suffering and

limitation. Spiritual seers since that period have spiritually interpreted his
message, bringing it more clearly to individual and universal recognition and
understanding. Truth having been revealed, it needs now to be intelligently
understood and practiced.

The significance in which one interprets perfect identity, perfect

embodiment and perfect universe determines for him his advancement in
individual spiritual demonstration. In proportion as one perceives and
accepts the truth that he is Spirit, limit-less, bound-less, law-less, is he
prepared to view the glories awaiting his vision.

Learning the power of Soul over sense and Science over belief, we find
demonstration easy and natural and this new birth delivers to us infallible
joy, peace and harmony. As sense is uplifted to receive, retain and practice
Reality, we are redeemed from erring manifestation and we reach the fruition
of the promise: “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

( Gray Barker, 1980 )

 Chapter I
Laborless Deliverance

Jesus prophesied that a vision greater than healing the sick, greater even
than raising the dead, should some time descend upon us.

Does not vision delivering cessation of sin and sickness transcend vision of
healing? And would not immunity from death transcend raising the dead?

Jesus practiced and taught a science which enabled him not only to help
and bless others on their plane of experience but which lifted himself into a
realm or state of consciousness called Ascension.

Ascension is the door opening to us a new heaven and a new earth. In this
perception of Being, we find our immaculate immortality and our
transcending glory.

There is a laborless way in which one may leave undesirable earthly

conditions. This way is a state of consciousness wherein such conditions
cannot exist.

If one reports that his body is sick, that his purse is empty, that his mind is
sorrowful, the Christ is saying unto him, “The Kingdom of perfect life is
within you. In the Kingdom are many mansions. Arise! Enter! Behold!”

Here, the notion that one should combat undesirable conditions, or that
one should heal undesirable conditions, is laid aside for vision of a higher
order. For illustration, let us suppose that upon entering a house, one
chooses to live in the kitchen. The house has many desirable rooms but in
this kitchen he finds himself confronted with dishes, brooms and labor, and
he finds that he must deal with them. Thus, his experience becomes
unhappy and distasteful.

But why attack brooms and dishes as though they were opposing oneself?
Are there not other rooms in which one may live, automatically dispensing
with kitchen labor?

One finds instant and tremendous relief in his mind when he perceives that
he need not attack so-called external experience. Raising into a higher
realm of thought, one automatically transcends undesirable conditions. As
individual consciousness is uplifted, conditions simultaneously take on a new
aspect. One’s whole universe is transformed for him as he ascends in
consciousness.

We escape the condition called dis-ease as we perceive and understand

that we are immutable Life. We put off limitation and bondage as we accept
and practice our Reality. Remaining in the library, one laborlessly escapes
the toils of the kitchen; and entering that realm of consciousness which
perceives with Jesus, “Ye are the Light”, one laborlessly puts off darkness.

As the student instructed in music avoids discord by beholding and

understanding harmony, so do we overcome and avoid discordant conditions
by beholding and claiming our primitive state of perfect being.

If one considers himself a material being he labors with material

limitations. If one considers himself a mental being he labors with mental
limitations. But should one cease the belief that he is material, cease also
the belief that he is mental, and inter that realm of consciousness wherein he
perceives that he is God-being, spontaneously he leaves the so-called
physical and mental states and enters the state of Spirit.

One finds it utterly impossible to formulate a belief that Spirit can be sick,
that Truth can be untrue, that Intelligence can be ignorant. Therefore, we
open our vision that our King of Glory may appear.

Since we know in our heart that there are no false conditions in Spirit, then
our escape from false conditions is to be Spirit.

“I say unto thee, Arise”, is not spoken to the so-called dead but to the
living.

As ignorance is overcome by Intelligence, so common sense is overcome

by Spiritual consciousness. The day of attempting to heal so-called
conditions is drawing to a close. There is being ushered in to view a higher
vision, - the Science of Ascension; the science of being the Truth; The science
of spontaneously experiencing health and blessedness.

With the coming of the automobile the use of the horse began to diminish.
With the coming of the radio the use of the victrola lessened. With the
coming of the perception that we are Spirit, the conditions called sickness,
sin and death begin to vanish.

Wings are not given a butterfly by the cutting off of feet, nor does one
receive heavenly harmony by cutting down or attacking his experience and
environment. Not by might, but by spiritual perception, with our Lord-Self.
 This glorifying Vision-that we are the being of Truth, is our new and
immortal birth, and in Light such as this we perceive our actual being.

Spiritual awakening, or awakening to self as Spirit, is the uplifting of

individual consciousness into eternal Truth. Perceiving that there is nothing
external to combat, heal or destroy, one makes rapid strides in individual
spiritual advancement; and what is called in-harmony, transformed by the
higher vision, disappears.

“As a vesture shalt Thou change them.” … ” In the twinkling of an eye, ye

shall be changed.”

Thought and vision becoming exalted, no longer does one put new wine
into old bottles or patch discordant bodies with right ideas. Wings are not
placed upon a Caterpillar, nor should one attempt to place a body white as
light upon a body that is considered mortal and structural.

The Immaculate spiritual body ( the temple of our Lord), awaits our claim
and our laborless acceptance. Jesus assured us that his vision reported the
perfect universe at hand, the white fields harvested and the radiant body
prepared.

‘Eye (Material vision) Hath not seen the things which God hath prepared for
him.” … “His going forth is prepared as the morning.” … “inherit the
Kingdom prepared for you.” … “Thou preparest a table before me.”

Recognition and acceptance of our God-being enables us to perceive

abundance, happiness and harmony, prepared and at hand. As our
immortality becomes apparent to us, the body responds to our ascending
vision. Such transconfiguration is the spontaneous shadowing forth of the
new and glorified state of consciousness.

The Science of Ascension, revealing to us that we are Soul, seizes and

holds our vision, and human beliefs and limitations cease proportionately.

Come up higher! This is the call of the One. Come up to a higher

perception, and here experience illumination and transconfiguration.

“He made darkness his secret place.” … “The darkness and the light are
both alike to Thee.”

No matter how great may seem one’s mental darkness, there is hidden in
him the glory of his Lord. The message that we are Life, Truth and Love is
the Light that shineth eternally in us though we may comprehend it not.
Because of this ever present and transcending light, one is always delivered
potentially, and no dream ever takes from him his changeless ever-present
glory and immortality.

Since one is now a perfect and immortal being why speak or write at all
about redemption, resurrection and ascension? The answer is obvious. If
one knew and had demonstrated his redemption, resurrection and ascension
he would not be present to ask this question. His body would disappear
from material sight and would be deathless.

Jesus Christ presented to us all the way of salvation from false belief,---
belief in the reality of material limitation and bondage. Material sense of life
must be put off and false belief must yield to Truth, for “In Christ shall all be
made alive.” As one apprehends and retains the correct view of ideal
being--perfect, unfallen, changeless identity--the untrue sense of life is
laborlessly put off and vanquished.

As the Science of Being dawns upon us, we relinquish untrue beliefs for
spiritual realization, establishing in this dream of material existence our
understanding of the Truth.

“Ye shall know the Truth”—Jesus.

We gain the control of Soul over sense in the very way that Jesus taught
and demonstrated. In proportion as the truth of Jesus’ life and teaching is
apprehended and demonstrated by the individual does the individual “put
on” or experience, his harmonious individual identity.

One solves a problem in mathematics understanding that the correct

answer already exists, and this perception also applies to the solution of the
problem of so-called material existence. The answer is prepared, established
from Eternity, and individually one obtains, retains, and practices the Science
of Being.

“When this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory’ --Paul.

True being is not lost, fallen or resurrected, and the Kingdom of eternal
harmony remains forever omnipresent in Consciousness. Transition from an
untrue sense of life to a new and true sense constitutes resurrection.

Being cannot be transformed for the reason that being is changeless and
immortal. It is wrong belief or mistaken sense which must yield to the
harmony of spiritual sense or to the Science of Ascension.
 Although individual spiritual identity is actually immortal, perfect and
complete, and not imperfect, human and mortal, nevertheless the perception
of this fact seems to dawn upon one by degrees. Spiritual understanding is
perceived and demonstrated by the individual gradually and gently,
culminating in the divine requirement: ”Be ye therefore perfect.”

Our individual demonstration of Spiritual power over false sense becomes

evident only as we rise to our nativity in Spirit. One emerges step by step
from the belief that he is material and mortal to the recognition that he is
Spirit and that all his experience is spiritual. A meta-physical teacher wrote:
“Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.”

We wait expectantly and finally the child disappears and the man takes his
place; yet the man is always here potentially and actually. We discern and
perceive Truth spiritually and finally the unreal (sense) disappears and the
real state is enthroned. Perfect being is always here inherently and eternally.

With the disappearance of the caterpillar the crawling motion is gone

automatically. The butterfly does not crawl. With the disappearance of the
mortal (untrue belief) the sick and dying habits are gone. Immortal being is
not sick or sinful. With the acceptance in individual consciousness of the
perfect changeless state the untrue expression ceases automatically.

“Overcome evil with good.” Overcome the belief of mortality with the
realization of immortality. Overcome the belief of sick, discordant body with
the conviction of perfect and changeless body. Overcome the un-awakened
state of consciousness with a living fire of insight and perception.

“The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law
of sin and death”--Paul.

The immortal being is not bound by fetters or hampered by dreams.

Immortal being is free spirit, omnipresent omniscient and omnipotent. Let
this be our vision.

The putting on of immortality is like the awakening to the fact that a

spiritual being is perfect and that there is no other being!

Nothing opposed to reality can ever actually exist. Opposition and

separation appear only to dull eyes and dim vision. Perfect being never
changes, no matter what may be one’s view-point. As the individual
harmonizes his vision with Reality he laborlessly experiences peace, power,
glory and immortality.
 “The light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not”--
John.

As the light shineth in darkness so health shineth in one who reports

sickness; and in him who declares that two and two are 5 there still abides
consciousness of the fact that two and two are four. Thus our infinite Self
supplies all our needs, fills all our desires and delivers all our ideals. This
way is the Science Of Ascension, the Science Of Fulfillment, the Science of
The Last shall be First, the Science Of Fields white already to harvest.”

In our everyday experience we see ways of of traveling from one

geographical place to another. One may walk over the distance, he may
motor or he may travel by aeroplane. But if he could bridge that distance by
being there without any process of traveling or “going,” this deliverance
would illustrate the Science of Ascension.

The prodigal son was confronted with the problem of regaining his perfect
state of being. So are we. If in the attempt to return one takes the mental
position of climbing, overcoming, laboring, this process is what has been
termed the way of “suffering”; for here one is supposed to learn Truth
through experience, and this entails constant effort, practice and labor.

If, however, one glimpses the fact that he has never left his perfect
Kingdom, then he sees that he is not required to return, he is required only to
know that he has never wandered away but in a dream, and that he is now
here, uninterruptedly and unchangingly a perfect being of Life, Truth and
Love.

This is laborless deliverance. This is not the Science of moving up and on

but the science of remaining still; not the Science of putting on or putting off
experience but the Science of recognizing and accepting Reality.

The Science of Ascension is the Science of laborless deliverance, the

Science of seeing face to face, the Science of experiencing Reality.
 Chapter II
Is Man God

To announce that we are Spirit means that we recognize and accept Spirit,
God, as our reality and as our true Self.

Many have refrained from accepting the wonderful vision that we are Life,
Truth, and Love, because of the boldness of the statement, but when this fact
is stated in another way, when it is couched in different phraseology, one
readily confirms and sanctions it.

Let us be big enough in vision and great enough in nature to recognize and
accept truth no matter who states it or in what raiment of words it may be
clothed. One of insight penetrates the garment of language and knows that
the leaven is working no matter how many measures of meal may seem to
conceal it.

Suppose we are asked the current metaphysical query, “Is man God?”
What is your reply?

Our reply is this. The question cannot be intelligently answered, as it

stands, for the reason that the words “God”, and “man”, are open to many
different interpretations. But if one pierces the wall of ambiguity and
discerning the underlying meaning, asks the question in a more precise
language, it can be satisfactorily answered.

Let the question be stated: “Are we Life, Truth and Love?” This language is
understood and does not need interpretation as though it were a foreign
tongue.

When one hears the word man, immediately the mind questions, “Does
this mean the real or the false man?” Does this question revert to the
“Mentality, the Soul or the Body?” If therefore, students, teachers and writers
avoid using the word man and substitute a word which is common and easily
understood, much confusion occurring in metaphysical teaching will be
eliminated.

The same misunderstanding occurs with the word God. Here one,
spiritually unenlightened, may regard “God” in a personal sense. We
therefore use the words Truth, Spirit, Soul, Reality, etc, to bring the light
more clearly to individual consciousness.

Writers of the Bible, as well as some well-known metaphysical writers of

recent times, speak of a man, as image, expression, manifestation, idea.
Can it be that this image means you and me - the individual, himself? Can it
be that I, myself, am an Image an expression, a manifestation only?

Verily, no. There is no one but whom as soon as he receives a certain

baptism of the fire of insight, chafes under the notion that he, himself, is an
“image”. There is something in him which whispers to him that he is greater
than an image, greater than a manifestation or an idea. If he penetrates a
little more deeply, if he opens his vision a little more fully, he soon perceives
just what it is that is the image and just what it is that is called man, - the
image of God.

It is the body that is the image. The body is the manifestation or

expression of individual consciousness. The body images, enacts, protrays,
expresses, manifests the health, life, strength, power, intelligence, substance
and reality of individual consciousness.

Perceiving that man is the body or embodiment, one can then clearly
accept that God ( in-visible Life), is not man (visible body), nor is man,
(visible body), God, - yet they are one and inseparable.

One would not say that the person outside the mirror is the form in the
mirror. The person outside is not an image or expression, but the form in the
mirror is the expression of that form standing before the mirror. One is not
the other, Still they are one and inseparable.

Thus if one questions, is man God? the answer is; man, or image, is not
God, or Substance; but they are one as Intelligence and idea; Manifestor and
manifestation; Soul and embodiment.

Individual body, (man or manifestation), is the activity, expression and

manifestation of individual Self.

We do not consider Self a picture or an idea or a manifestation. Such belief

would not agree and coincide with our living Teacher, who says throughout
all ages, times and discoveries, I Am The Life, I Am The Truth, I Am The Way!

Individual being, or the being of the individual, is the one Life, Intelligence
in Substance. There is only One being and this One is All. We cannot have
being outside this One. All being is Christ, God. All life is Reality, God. All
intelligence is Truth, God.

Have no fear in stepping out upon the waves of new ideas and in claiming
the glory of your immaculate being. Individual being comprises both
consciousness and body, both Life and its expression, for they are one and
inseparable. To consider oneself manifestation only is to fear to step upon
the great sea of understanding.

Everything that is real, that is true, that is perfect is included in the One.
The One is Universal, (Father) and individual (Son)- one being. The reality of
the individual Self can be nothing else than the one Reality, for there is
nothing else to be.

One can easily perceive that all nature symbolizes that the son is a son for
a time until finally he “puts on” or becomes, a father. In the beginning of our
metaphysical study we would no doubt have been startled as we've been
informed the majesty and the omnipotence of our being. However, we found
it easy to be children of God, sons and daughters of God, manifestations and
ideas of God. But hearts now leap to the music of the fuller vision, and
exaltedly one receives the new name in his forehead.

How could Intelligence and its idea be divided? How could Soul and its
embodiment be separated? Nay it cannot be. Life, Being, is one, and this
one is all inclusive. The universe including man ( body of the individual) is
the body of Truth, God.

“Thine eyes did see my substance, and all my members were fashioned
when as yet there were none of them.- David.”

The real body, the perfect body, the divine body, is the manifestation of
Wisdom, Intelligence, Life, Substance, Being, and it is this perfect,
immaculate body that is called man - the image of God.

Let us claim the highest, so shall the highest claim us. It has been said by
men of wisdom that as one approaches Truth so does Truth approach him. If
one feels that he must not hope for or expect too much, then it might be
safer to be son than Father, let him consider such scriptural advice as this.

“Let us come boldly to the throne of grace… Great is thy boldness of

speech…Ye are the light of the world…Let your light shine… fear not! No
man may say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.”
 Thus, we are both Creator and creation; both Intelligence and idea; both
Soul and body. And that this unit is indivisible, inseparable, irresistible,
everlasting and eternal.
It is curious one of the last revelations to come to many, yet one of the first
questions that a student asks. The thought of the body seems often to tear
one asunder.
Now many of us have discovered that we do not understand a thing until
we are in a position to understand it. That is, we may hear or read an
answer to a question, yet our ears and eyes are dull and blinded and often
the meaning escapes us. Years later, perhaps, the right answer presents
itself again, and now how different it appears to us. We hail it with great joy.
The answer is always here, but one perceives Truth according to his
individual receptivity.
When one takes ownership of his body, as though his body were outside his
consciousness, he feels a responsibility and very often a heavy one. If, for
instance, the body seems weak and sick, his belief may be that it should be
fixed up so that it will look right and act right again.
By assuming personal ownership over his body, he automatically assumes
responsibility and makes himself personally accountable for the health,
harmony and maintenance of his body. Is this not so?
Shell we then then stop feeding the body, clothing the body, caring for the
body? Not at all. But we can change our perception of body. We can come
into a higher understanding of body and automatically bless not only our
bodies and ourselves but bless the whole world.
Yay, Self does not have a body of destructible flesh and bones - a body
subject to age, limitation and disease. Do you suppose that a spiritual being
could be weak and weary, old and crippled? Unthinkable!
Do you recall how Jesus brought attention to the growing of the Lily? How
beautiful its body! How fragrant it's perfume! How irresistible its form! Yet
how wholly unconscious of its body. Jesus, discerning our needs said,
consider the Lily. It assumes no responsibility yet behold its beauty of form
and its radiance of being. And you, do you know that infinite Reason places
you in a far higher position than this Lily growing in the field? Is it not to be
expected that you have a form and a body superior to that of a simple flower
growing in the earth?
Sitting under a great shade tree one day, listening to the Carol of the birds
and the hum of the bees, it came to a thoughtful person how much more he
would enjoy nature at that moment were he not fatigued. There seemed a
sense of unrest in his body. Quite naturally he carried on a conversation with
his inner self about it.
 “Life would be so much more delightful, he meditated, if people were never
sick, if the body were not subject to disasters, discord, limitations. Of course,
there isn't really any such body but there seems –“.
“Well, why should you think about your body?”came back the answer.
“Yes,” he thought, “that's it. Why should I be compelled to think of it? I
really know so little about the body anyhow. I do not understand how I live
nor how I sleep in the body. I do not understand how my blood circulates nor
how my food digests. In fact, now that I see it, I know little or nothing about
the body as far as the substance or the reality of it is concerned.”
“Well then, why have any unnecessary care or worry over it at all? Can
there be anybody except the body of Truth? Is there anything besides
Truth?” Questioned the Voice.
“What a wonderful thought!” he mused. “To be sure, Truth is my
consciousness, and why shouldn't Truth be my body as well? Am I
consciousness and body?”
“You are not dual,” came the answer. “ You are one. Whatever there is of
you must be the all of you. You are Myself. I am Yourself. Your body is Mine.
My body is yours. This is one Whole, one All, one Being, one action, one
form, one Life and one embodiment of this Life.”
Unconsciously he had been caught up by Spirit, and now simultaneously
there came to him an illumined sense of joy, uplift and harmony.
Have we not all noticed that when the body is perfectly well and normal
that it causes us no concern,- in fact, we quite forget about it for the time?
We have it, of course, but it is much the same as a shadow; it goes along
with us wherever we wish to go, but we have no anxious concern about it,
and at times we are altogether unconscious of it.
Turn now to a consideration of the night dream. You dream, for instance,
that you are traveling with a party of friends in an Ocean liner. You plainly
see the great ship, you watch the white waves, you look upon your friends
and you distinguish them, you see the color of their hair and eyes and you
note their mode of apparel. But you do all this unconsciously, that is, with no
conscious thought of it as to whether they are material, mental or spiritual
beings.
If you wish, you could gaze into the mirror at your side and see your own
reflection. A body to be sure, - hair, eyes, hands and feet, also apparel. You
run down the stairs but you do not give your feet a thought. You sit at a
table and perhaps dine sumptuously yet it does not occur to you that you
have a stomach, and certainly you have not heard of indigestion. You dance
upon the polished floor and your joy and abandon are glorious. You are not
considering whether or not your body is weary, you are not considering your
body at all.
 Should you feel impelled to sing to your friends, you give no thought as to
whether or not your voice has been cultivated. It does not occur to you that
you have a throat, yet, laborlessly wonderful tones come forth, and words,
too. But you quite take this for granted.
Now you see that in your dreams you have hands and feet and body, you
walk and run and sing and dance, you talk and play and eat. Although you
are unconscious of a body yet it accompanies you. Is this not so?
Turning now to this world, it is not easy to acknowledge that you perform
many necessary and important acts relative to living, yet such action is quite
unconscious on your part, and quite laborless too? Then in the morning, for
instance, but you do not know how this is done. You are quite unconcerned,
however, as you have been doing this laborlessly for days, months and
years. It passes your attention unnoticed.
You partake of breakfast, yet you attend not to the digestion of this food or to
the operation through which it passes in order to nourish the body. At night
you go to sleep, which you have never yet discovered just how you do this
little thing. Indeed, if you tried to investigate it, you might be unable to
accomplish it.
When your body is radiant with the glow and glory of perfect health you
quite forget about it. The more health, the less thought of the body, full
health, no thought of the body at all now this by no means infers that we are
bodyless, but it means that our body has no personal claim upon us. We
should feel no responsibility regarding the body and we should feel no
attachment to it.
Has the hour struck for us when we are willing to be “absent from the
body and present with the Lord?” Are we ready to yield attachment and
responsibility that a personal sense of body brings? Are we not told in
mystical language that it is in losing that one gains? Have no fear that in
losing attachment to the body, you may lose the body itself, for quite to the
contrary, you will be fitting yourself to understand it.
Oh, Wondrous, radiant light! Oh, glorious ever increasing revelation! To be
willing not to heal or change the body is to find oneself on the royal road to a
body that is not sick, limited or changeable, - a body immortal, eternal and
everlasting. A body immune.
It has been said that everything is as real as one makes it. Now no one
makes Reality for reality is, regardless of what anyone thinks or believes or
feels. If one believes that his body is material, if a material body is reality to
him, then automatically he subjects his body to so-called material action.
But supposing one lays no claim to separate, external or personal body at all,
would not he then be out of the touch of disease, limitation, destruction,
altogether?
 Consider this momentous question slowly, meditatively. Finding the true
idea of a thing, the false idea drops away automatically. Bearing this in
mind, it would seem wisdom that we perceive why our bodies cannot be sick,
then we will be fearless and immune. The time is here for each of us to see
that we have no false body to deny, and that all form belongs to the one Life
and Being.
Truth is not in any form but truth is every form. Being is not divided into
form but being is expressed by form. We cannot go out of life for we are life.
We cannot go out of health for life is health. We cannot be outside the
Kingdom, for the Kingdom is within us. We cannot be separated from body
for body is one with soul. We cannot be separated, divided, disunited. We
are complete and indivisible being.
Since Reality is all, and all is Reality, then whatever the body is, it must be
in and of Reality. Clear vision reports that soul and body, Cause and Effect,
life and form are One, now, always and forever.
When we go to the telephone and listen to a friend's voice, we know that
back of the instrument is the man himself, and the instrument is but the form
or the medium of transmission. Now it is quite the same with soul and body,
with Creator and creation. Form is the medium of expression, form is as
necessary and as eternal and indestructible as is the self which it is
expressing. Perfect embodiment is the body of truth. Spirit blessed the form
called creation and called this formation good, perfect and ideal.
Do not worry about the teaching of reincarnation, which means the
changing of form, nor of pantheism, which means the placing of Spirit in
creation. Soul is limitless, infinite, eternal, in everything and yet in nothing.
Neither here nor there, yet everywhere. Neither this one nor that one, but
everyone. The one shining in the star, sparkling in the water, blooming in
the Rose, ascending in the bird, seeing, hearing, feeling, expressing in all life
and being.
Truth in small, Truth in great, Truth in heaven, Truth in earth. One being
One all. The One, all height and no height, the One, all time and no time, the
One, all form and no form, the One, all language and no language, the One
all motion and no motion, the One, indestructible, unspeakable,
incomparable!

The one says, you are my infinite self. All that I am, you are. All that is
Mine is also thine. You are immortal being including immortal form. Your
form is My idea made visible. You are not something that has Soul, you are
Soul. Being is not something that has body, being includes body. As soul is
eternal so also is body eternal. Body, form is the expression of perfect living
self existence.
 1. Our Father Being, Hallowed be Our name.
2. Our Kingdom is come. Our will is being done.
3. On earth as it is in Heaven.
4. We give this day of Our Daily Bread.
5. We joyously forgive all debts and debtors.
6. We are not led into temptation.
7. But we are delivered from all evil.
8. For Thine, Mine, Ours is the Kingdom.
9. The Power and the Glory forever.

Insight alone can sharpen the eye to function to Fourth-dimensional vision

and to right interpretation of a spiritual universe.

Fourth dimensional site is that site which is able to see in the dark, the
light shineth in darkness, which reports order instead of disorder, harmony
instead of discord, unity instead of division.

Looking toward the self-existent light, great seers have boldly proclaimed
that evil has no existence whatever. Such vision swallows up duality as light
takes up shadow.

Those of us visioning toward the city which lieth Foursquare, find it helpful
to pour over in our minds words attuned to a higher order. Words yielding
nourishment to the mind like rain to the parched ground.

Let us Inbreathe and breathe out such words as Infinity, eternity, freedom,
victory, triumph, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, almighty,
everlasting, ascension.

Let the cares and worries of false sense go, and vision the presence of
reality. Let the reports of mind and body go and hear the voice of Christ.

Illusion is not in the thing itself. Illusion is in the false concept of that thing.
Interpreting creation through the veils of time, space and personality, is it
any wonder that one reports division, duality relativity?

Light is light, not darkness nor twilight. A circle is a circle, not a square or
a cube. Two and two are 4, not three or five. And so, “ perfect creation”, is
pictured in the beginning, (genesis), and in the end, (revelation), is without
spot or blemish, pure as crystal, scintillating as the most precious stone,
radiantly reflective as the clearest mirror.
 This brings to my remembrance a particular moment in which my mind
swiftly and clearly functioned to ever present reality, despite the hearing of a
false report.

I was weakened in the middle of a night's rest by telephone. The report

came that someone was suddenly ill, that an organ of the body was
functioning improperly. Coming out from a sound sleep, I said the first thing
that came from my consciousness. “Tell him that two and two are four.”

The person to whom I spoke thought that I was still sleeping, or only partly
awake, and refusing to accept my message tried to induce me to send him a
spiritual message, something that would be appropriate to his condition.

But I was adamant. That was what I saw and that was my message. Tell
him that two and two are four! That was final. That was all.

The following morning that man himself came to see me. He looked
perfectly well and he said he was perfectly well, “but what a queer message
you sent me,” he objected.

“Did you not find that you went immediately to sleep that your, ‘attack’,
vanished.”

“Yes”, he admitted. “That is true but –,”

“I will interpret that message for you,” I said “for the interpretation is the
reality that healed you. I knew that you could not change life nor its natural
function. The message that two and two are four means Life Is Life. Life is
not sickness, pain and falsity. Life is perfect, changeless, glorious being.
Truth is that which is, and you can't change it. You are reality for there is
nothing else for you to be.“

This illustrates clearly that it is the spontaneous treatment which delivers, -

the treatment that leaps over words, that transcends dimensions, that
standing alone declares a thing to be so because it is. That does not say, I
will dress it in this gown or clothe it in these phrases so that it will be
appropriate for the illusion, but boldly and with authority. Truth speaks from
the heart, speaks from the blaze of glory which transcends dreams and
dream language.

One should never hesitate to speak from his illumined state of

consciousness at that precise moment, for then one is the Fire which
consumes and the Power which delivers.
 Life is not something that one may choose to believe, but life is what it is,
despite anyone's belief about it. Perfect individual life, perfect functioning of
that life, perfect glory and immortality of that life is independent of anyone's
belief or thought about it. Let us therefore apprehend life as it is, praise it as
it is, express it as it is.

Perfect law of Spirit neither obeys nor disobeys mental and physical law. It
is a law unto itself. It is Self-existent and only. It's command is, Let there be
Light! Let it come forth!

Recognizing oneness is consciousness, the dove of peace again descends

and power is given to function to the Christ mind. But some may continue
with material and mental methods of health and healing until they are ready
for the higher position.

Our being is actually threefold, - Father, Son and Holy Ghost. In my

textbook, The One , there is given a clear and scientific presentation of our
Trinity in unity.

Should one read wonderful statements of Truth, absorbing these with eyes
and ears only, not perceiving anything fresh or new about them, but
interpreting them though former belief and conviction, he receives no
revelation of Truth, no inspiration or illumination.

But, if one reads, there comes forth a quick response from within him, like
a moving of a living thing, - something warm, vital, uplifting like the blazing
up of a living fire -this is revelation. One is then actively drinking of the River
of the Water of Life.

Since our being is threefold, how do we interpret the Father or first position
of our Trinity? Since, “no man has seen the father at any time,” the father is
the unseen presence. The Father of us in our unseen Life, Intelligence,
Substance and Reality. The Father is our irresistible Actuality, our changeless
Being, our I AM.

Having meditated upon this first position and accepted it, one next takes
up the Son. Who Is the Son? Since the Father is the invisible Life, Truth,
Being, Reality,- who can the Son be?

The Son is Emmanuel, or God with us. The Son is therefore the Invisible
expressed. The Son is Consciousness individualized, - the individual being,
the individual identity.
 We are both the Father and the Son, both the Universal and the individual,
and they are ONE, inseparable and indivisible.

We could not be the Father, Universal, without also being also the Son,
individual. Your Father would not be identified without the Son, individual
identity, and the Son would have No being without the Father (Universal-
Substance).

The Holy Ghost is Self- illumination, Self -consciousness and Understanding

embodied. To illustrate. We walk down the avenue and see a man carrying a
sign “I am blind.” How can the Father and Son and Holy Ghost be here?
Well the man is alive, and he would not be alive without Life. This unseen
Life is God the Father.

He has individuality, he says I, and this individual identity is God the Son.

Now why does he appear blind? Because of the veil of ignorance. He is

not consciously aware of his spiritual identity. The fire in him has not been
kindled. Although he is the sight of God he acts like a blind man. But
supposing that it came to him, or he heard, that he is a divine being, that his
power to see is God and thus he cannot be separated from his perfect sight.

Day by day it is with him. He sleeps with it, he eats with it, he continually
feels, I am a divine being, I am a perfect being, I am a God being. Finally, this
Truth comes to absorb his mind completely. Then comes the blaze, then
shines the glory. Illumination, inspiration leads up with him and his sight is
restored.

Now this spiritual influx of light and glory which he has experienced is the
Holy Ghost, and it is in this light that he sees himself, that he finds his body
manifesting his glory and his perfection. The coming of the Holy Ghost
heralds the “healing.”

The coming of the Holy Ghost is the absorbing of false beliefs, the rising
into new joys, the showing forth of a body free from delusion.

“And Jesus said, what I have done, all men will do, and what I am all men
will be”, -Aquarian gospel.

“And his name will be called The Mighty God the Everlasting Father,”- Isaiah.

The notion that individual being is an image impedes individual spiritual

advancement. Our individuality is the One Life, Truth And Love. This Life,
Truth and Love was individualized, seen and interpreted as Jesus Christ, and
this same Trinity-in-unity is individualized in you and in me. Am I claiming it?
This, each must answer for himself.

He advances most in understanding and demonstration who not only sees

the heights but of aspires to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, individualizing
infinite power and demonstrating the Kingdom of heaven in his midst.

The perception that we are the Trinity, that individual being is being
individualized, delivers to us a fearless wing and mighty victory. Vision such
as this, accompanied with fire of insight and courage of conviction,
demonstrates the might of Omnipotence to the “pulling down of strongholds,
the casting down of imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God,” (Cor.10:4-5)

Let us not be content with the letter of the Word, no matter how
attractively we express it, nor how earnestly we listen to it. Let us aspire for
the spirit of the Word! Of what avail are scientific words unaccompanied by
fire in the mouth? Of what advantage is a fireplace stacked with logs when
no match is provided?

Yay, the resplendent flame of Spirit, in the twinkling of an eye, consumes

the false images of human thought, burns the chaff of erring belief, and lo,
here stands individual spiritual being- the Christ,- clothed in the Mind of
Omnipotence.

As we need both the match and the logs in order to obtain heat, so both
the letter (understanding) and the spirit, (fire in the mouth,) are demanded
of us that we may put on our robe of glory and receive his name in our
forehead.
 Chapter III
The Science of Our Being
About half a century ago a noted writer of Metaphysical Science stated in
her text book:

“That we are Spirit and Spirit is God is undeniably true,… the final
understanding that we are Spirit must come, ,…At present we know not what
we are, but this is certain, that we shall be Love, Life and Truth when we
understand them.”

Has not the belief that we are human beings, subject to errors of the flesh,
resulted in the limitation and discord enacted upon the face of the earth
today? And will not the understanding that we are Soul, Spirit,- the
recognition and acceptance of the actuality of our being - be the Truth that
shall set us free from this false belief?

By identifying self as Life, Soul, one automatically rises to new heights.

“ I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me,” spoke Jesus Christ. As
peerless Christ Truth is lifted up before our vision, recognition and
understanding take place and our whole universe reflects this glory.

“ Ye must be born again,” was Jesus' testimony. Was it not because Jesus
claimed and acted his deity that he infuriated the Jews? “This man,”
thought they, “who wears clothes, who eats and drinks and sleeps exactly
the same as we do, claiming that he is God, - claiming that he is different
from us. We are human and he is human.”

And so they said to Jesus: “for your good work we stone thee not, but for
blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God!”, -
( John 10:33 )

They had insight enough to see that Jesus individualized Almighty power in
healing the sick and in raising the dead, but their ignorance and human
sense kept them from perceiving that Jesus not only claimed this almighty
Authority for himself but he claimed it for everyone.

Jesus was the ideal Self. He was God in the flesh. And whatever is true of
Jesus is likewise true of us all. No wonder we love to talk about Jesus. His
great love for mankind prompted him to demonstrate to the very end his
absolute Understanding of unchangeable life and being, - to portray to the
whole universe that he had the keys to heaven.
  “I love to tell the story oh
 Of unseen things above,
 Of Jesus and his glory,
 Of Jesus and his love.”

Can we perceive that we are Life, Truth, and Love, except we first perceive
that Jesus was Life, Truth, and Love? We cannot.

“No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Other foundation can no man
lay than Jesus Christ,...He that acknowledgeth the Son, hath the Father also.”

The study of life of Jesus touches our hearts, wakens our love, and as we
identify Self as Christ, we identify Self as Life, Truth, Glory and Power.

Whatever Jesus claimed for himself he claimed also for us. Hear his
vibrant, startling words: ” That they all may be one in us… And the glory
which thou gavest me, I have given them… that they may be made perfect
in one,”

The Christ, (true belief) of you says: “I am the Life, I am the Truth, I am
the Father, I am God.” The human, (untrue sense) says: “I am in limitation, I
am in prison, I am in bondage.”

Shall we identify ourselves as limited, human being, or shall we identify

ourselves as free - flawless, triumphant Christ? Let Absolute Science decide
for us. Absolute Science is the Science of high Vision, ascending from glory
to glory.

A great vision of Reality now sweeps over the world. Soon it will be more
universally perceived and accepted that “ life is not a problem for the
individual to solve “. Its solution has already been reached. It remains now
for the individual to accept the solution and experience the glory.

It is not that our health, for instance, is coming to us, but rather it is that
our health is HERE. According to individual recognition of this fact does this
health appear. It is not that the Kingdom of heaven is coming to us, nor is it
that earth is evolving into heaven, but the fact for our attention is that
perfection is here -- reality is at hand.

How much of heaven are we perceiving? As much as our individual state

of consciousness permits.
 “Agree with thine adversary quickly,” directed Jesus. Reach a positive
position of agreement and perception. “Nothing shall by any means hurt
you,” continued he who knew. We do not shoulder a gun and go forth into
an external universe to attack our enemy, but right where we are, we stand
still and behold our salvation. We acknowledge it. We accept it.

We believe that because Spirit is all and is infinite that we are this Infinity.
How could it be otherwise? Since Reality cannot be separated or divided, we
are this reality. It is easy enough to believe that God-Self cannot lack; God-
Self cannot be afraid; God-Self cannot be limited; God-Self cannot be
destroyed.

It is said that one of vision sees nothing but good, Just as “to the pure all
things are pure.” The one of vision sees goodness, not as the opposite of
evil,( un-good), but he sees goodness as omnipresence.

The same with health. One of vision does not see health as the opposite of
sickness, but he sees health as wholeness and as ever-presence. One of
Insight reports, according to the vision of Reality.

Preach deliverance to those who are held captive by matter and mind,
(untrue belief) ! As light kindles light so recognition and praise of the Jesus
Christ Self bring forth radiance and glory of mind that cannot be deceived; of
body that cannot be sick; of being which is verily Christ.

When thought is raised to the true state of being - the sense of spirit - it is
the mind of Christ.

Jesus brought to this world a way out of ignorance. He showed a path

which was neither warfair nor separation, but on the contrary, was at-one-
moment, oneness and unity. Jesus's vision was to, “agree”. Yay he himself
was this at-one-ment or agreement.

Had Jesus come into this world clothed in body of ascension, he would not
have been seen here, but he took upon himself the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of man, that he might be visible to those in this
state of consciousness. From position of oneness with us he showed us his
actual state of being, our actual and perfect state of being.

Jesus himself was our way. He unified, he blessed, he forgave, he fulfilled,

he agreed and he redeemed.

Did Lazarus come forth as a living being because Jesus called him? No. It
was because he was a living being that Jesus called him.
 Was it because of lack of food that Jesus supplied baskets full of bread and
fish? No. It was because of abundance of food that Jesus did this very thing.

Was it because the man's arm was withered and lifeless that Jesus told
him to stretch it forth? No. It was because his arm was perfect and
changeless that Jesus commanded, stretch it forth !

Was it because Jesus was functioning to opposites that he walked

triumphantly upon the waves, passed invisible through the multitude,
commanded the sick to be well, perceived the, sinning woman, as sinlessss
and the so-called dead as the living?

It was because Jesus functioned in unity, in indivisibility, in oneness, in his

Kingdom HERE and on earth NOW that he enacted this power.

Jesus's advice was to leave the so-called external world alone. I walk in it,
he said but, I am not of it; I am not affected by it. I eat the food from the
table, true but I have other food as well. I live and eat and walk in your
world, apparently, but to myself I am living and eating and walking in a world
that you do not, as yet comprehend. This is a world that I have told you
about - the Kingdom of Soul.

Jesus did not present any other way of atonement, but he did show us an
inner way, a spiritual recognition that is to take place within individual
consciousness.

The following steps are to be taken by the individual as he rises from sense
to Soul, individually ascending the ladder of life.

FIRST: Recognition that the so-called external universe is not external but
is picturization, or expression of thought and vision.

SECOND: Recognition that the belief in so-called evil indicates a lack of

individual consciousness of the understanding of fullness, oneness,
completeness and unity.

THIRD: The final state is the immersion of individual sense into full, clear
vision of Reality. The individual has now accomplished his atonement and is
resurrected into the, ” new man”, the Christ- Self, the God-being who,
ascending above all earthly beliefs, functions in Reality.

We read in Genesis, ” and God saw everything that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good.” The perfect Creator and perfect Creation here
mentioned, portrays infinite spirit and is infinite manifestation as All-in-all. All
life is pronounced immortal, changeless, eternal, and all manifestation
perfect and good.

Now Genesis in continuing, mentions a second creation appearing after

the first. What can this second creation be except an untrue interpretation of
the first? Or the first perfect and complete creation seen materially instead
of spiritually; seen imperfectly and incompletely instead of perfectly and
completely; seen darkly as through a glass instead of seen clearly face to
face?

A Spiritual, individual being shall “know the Truth,” shall know his power,
his might, his dominion, his joy, his peace, his wonder, his eternity, his
Infinity, his wholeness and his invariableness.

Therefore, we behold right here and now the actual truth of Creator and
Creation. Moses speaks of the second creation a (mental) “mist,” and Paul
calls it a “Riddle”, while St. John (of clearer vision) looked through the
superimposition and testified to seeing the finished Kingdom here, at hand.
The discerning Jesus continually called attention to the perfect world as now
in our midst.

Individual consciousness interprets the perfect Creation in degrees, “ line

upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little,” and as vision
enlarges, one beholds more and more completely the perfection which is
prepared.

Take, for instance, the material ways of locomotion. Instead of being

instantly where one wishes to be, (as Jesus perfectly demonstrated), there
came to this world at one time the vision of the stage-coach. Then as clearer
spiritual vision followed this was interpreted, or represented variously and
successively by the steam engine, the electric engine, the automobile and
the aeroplane.

Today the aeroplane is man's exhibit of his highest concept of

instantaneity. With a little more clearing of the mist there will come even a
fleeter and more easily constructed device, and later man will find something
no larger than his own body which will carry him easily and swiftly over land
and water. Finally the greater light will reveal that one can carry his own
body triumphantly through space, directed only by his own thought and will.

Today rapid progress is seen in all manner of inventions, discoveries,

facilities of all kinds and natures, and this progress in material ways is taking
place only because of the great advance in spiritual vision. Multitudes all
over the world are applying their vision of Reality, of the perfect creation, of
the Jesus Christ presence to the transcendence of all false beliefs, and day
by day we are reaching that vision which sees face to face.

This spiritual vision of oneself as free, flawless being blesses the mental
plane and mind begins to take on new thought and new ideas. Brotherhood
is expressed as never before; a blending of hearts is being observed, not
only with individuals but with countries and with nations.

Spiritual vision blesses, too, the physical plane of action. Both mental and
physical planes are controlled by spiritual understanding. People are eating,
dressing differently, appearing differently everywhere; everything, everyone,
constantly rising from glory to glory.

Said the prophet Isaiah:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for
light and light for darkness.”

Since the world, as far as we are concerned, is our consciousness of it, evil
and good are terms which mean to one his concept of them. One who knows
in his heart the allness of good (because of the allness of God), undertakes
not to expound to a brother, unenlightened by Truth, the nothingness of evil,
but he preaches to him Repentance.

Repent of what? Those who believe that errring sense is reality and power
must repent and forsake this false view, for not until one spiritually preceives
the allness and ever presence of good does he claim and comprehend the
nothingness (in itself) of evil.

To call evil good and good evil is to be double visioned - is to see both good
and evil as power. Come on as one worships and understands reality, he
discards untrue beliefs and refuses temptation. Spiritual healing is Spirit
conscious of Its totality. Any superimposition, and the erring condition that
one seems to manifest can be dissipated by the living Truth, by Christ
consciousness. Spiritual healing is evidence that all discord and limitations
are unreal.

Jesus cast out false beliefs because of the Truth in himself. When it is
stated that the world exists in us, that our world is our consciousness of it, it
means that whatever we accept as reality, as power, as presence,
constitutes our world at that time.
 The following is an example. A woman on a busy street in the city,
suddenly noticed a great crowd of people collected, blocking traffic. Moving
along until she saw the cause of the commotion, her eyes reported an
accident. A horse and automobile had come together, and a man lay
underneath.

Now as this woman looked, this panorama of excitement, commotion and

accident, was reported to her external world, - her eyes; but she heard a
Voice very close at hand, the voice of her inner world and it said; “Never
mind what these people are seeing, what are you seeing?”

“Yes, what my I seeing?” She quickly asked herself. “Why, - why, I'm
seeing heaven,” she cried joyously, unconsciously moving away. ” There are
no accidents in my world. In my world there is eternal changeless order and
delight.” The incident was wiped absolutely from her mind as happily she
continued her way.

Several weeks later, she happened to meet a friend who, not knowing she
had been near the scene of the disaster, began relating it to her, Stating that
she had stood in the crowd and had “seen the whole thing,” “and the
strangest thing of all happened,” she went on. “Suddenly, it all seemed to be
over. The people seemed to be on their way without any departure; the
horse became quiet; the trampled man stood up refusing assistance; the
havoc and excitement changed to order and normality like a miracle.” But
that other, the one who walked in her own world, she knew and understood,
for in her world she had seen face to face.

It is inherent in each individual to know himself, to express himself, to be

himself. As individual perception coalesces with true Consciousness, false
belief slips from mind as a dream, and manifestation is seen in its true light.
Thus, one sees creation according to his individual state of consciousness.
One sees the so-called outer world according to his spiritual awakening.

In which world are we living? Are we living in a material world affected by

every wind that blows, believing what eyes report, what ears hear and what
mind sanctions?

Or, are we living in a perfect world, visioning with eyes of spirit, listening
with ears attuned to Truth, functioning with mind which Is none other than
the mind of Christ?

Truly our world is our consciousness of it. It is not a question with us, how
much wrong in thinking, wrong living there is in it, rather it is a question with
each of us, how much true belief have we accepted into our consciousness?

It has been truly said: “without vision the people perish” Without vision of
the spiritual perfect universe, the Kingdom within the Soul, the people
perish. For, visioning outward things, such as purport to be sickness, sin,
death, is it any wonder that one should perish by reasons of these very
things which he visions?

Let us bring our light into our world and let it shine. Let us see no
separation, destruction, opposition, but only Oneness, Unity, Omnipresence.
So shall resurrection take place in you and in me, and as resurrection takes
place in us this glory from on high shall illumine our whole universe and all of
our affairs.

We come not forth to battle with darkness, either with thoughts or

weapons. Light eliminates darkness laborlessly. We do not make a wall
between light and darkness but bring false beliefs right into the presence of
our true Self. “I am the Light” cried the invincible Jesus. This Light is within
you, within me, - the Light that will lighten any darkness since, for Self is
Light and to be Self is to be Light.

Jesus continually turned his vision to the Light, his true perfect Being. This
enabled him to transcend and transmute the experiences of this world, and
led him to resurrection and ascension.

Jesus, in the apparent giving up of his sense of life, demonstrated the

eternality of Consciousness. God could not die, neither could Jesus. He could
die to appearance, die to a double visioned universe, but he could not die to
himself.
 Verily, this was the claim of Jesus; “I am the atonement ! I am
resurrection! I am ascension!

We have entered a period of a tremendous awakening. Progress and

revelation such as this world has never before known has appeared to
human consciousness. This is the day of the emancipation of humanity. As
centuries ago the southern slaves found his slavery taken from him, so are
human beings today having human limitations taken from them, - limitations
of time, age, disease, and discord.

These falsities of bondage and limitation are being outlawed through

perception of one’s spiritual, eternal, irresistible Nature.

Great inspiration and illumination are coming rapidly over the world. This
is the age of surprises, of visions, of unexpected discoveries day by day, hour
by hour heaven comes closer to the race consciousness. The signs of the
times can now be read quite easily by one of insight. Music, for instance, is
rapidly assuming wider and wider proportions until soon music will be
recognized as fourth-dimensional. No longer do we find music confined to
four walls, but now we hear it in the streets, in the marketplaces, in the
automobiles and even up over our heads in the sky. We can scarcely find a
place where the burst of a song or a melody does not come upon our ears.

Often too it is reported that one hears tones other than those from the
radio, he hears the music from the super- world. Such melody is
undimensional, unlimited, unconfined. It is to be expected that in this Era of
Insight, or Era of spiritual Liight, many wonderful things unheard of
heretofore shall come to pass. Great changes are noticed taking place in
governments, racial beliefs, creeds and rituals.

As we contact the true idea of a thing the false idea drops away
automatically. As we lift our vision to the Self-existent Heights we surely find
the reality of health, joy and glory irresistible entering our lives and radiating
through all our experience.

There is no limitation, no spot or blemish upon the face of the whole

Creation. The limitation imposed by one’s false belief is illusion only. Jesus
reported no evil. He said that nothing shall by any means hurt us ; he
promised that one could handle serpents quite harmlessly; that, should one
swallow poison, he need not be at all affected by the world's belief of such a
procedure.
 Let us acknowledge Jesus’s promises to be true TODAY. Let us declare; I do
believe in the word of the living Christ. I worship the One. I identify myself
with Him who said that we all may be one, that the works that he did we
shall do also. I have almighty and implicit faith in the spirit of truth, in the
unity of Being, in the glory of Soul.

There is one substance in this world which is fixed, permanent, sounding

down through the ages. My words shall not pass away. Heaven and earth
shall pass away but my word shall never lose its power, never fail to fulfill.

To perceive unity, we function from a place above reason, above the

relative mentality.

Truth is above comparison! Truth is incomparable. It is not how much

greater Truth is than something else, or how much greater one belief is than
another belief. We do away with comparisons. We see the truth is. When
we measure our vision by this standard, we find that our Kingdom is here
“on earth as it is in heaven.”

Let us tell ourself continually that the universe is within us, that we see
without according to what we are perceiving within. We see in the mirror
what is standing before the mirror. How can we expect to vision the One
without, if we are not entertaining the One within? How can we perceive
unity in the universe if we have not unity in our consciousness?

Yay, is it not the Christ in you who is your hope of glory? How should we
Hope to see the Christ without, if we have not yet found the Christ within?
How many of us have failed to recognize Christ as our Lord, because we were
not feeling Christ in our heart?

Is not clear Insite Lord of the dark as well as of the day? Was not Jesus,
Lord of earth as well as Lord of Heaven, - “Lord of heaven and earth”. Lift
the veil from your eyes and behold the oneness of life, the unity of being,
and see no separation, division or comparison.

Truth is totality! Truth is therefore the only substance that is ever present.

It would have been easy for multitudes to have accepted Jesus as Christ
had he been born in a palace, but how few accepted him who was born in a
Manger!

Who comes forth from the fiery flames with no smell of smoke upon his
clothing? Who feels the everlasting arms underneath while falling into an
abyss of darkness? Who hears the angels's voice in the mid of his soul's
darkest moment? Who sees dry land in the midst of the Red Sea?

He who has vision! He who has faith! He who has trust! He who has love!
He was visioning face to face.

Chapter IV
Practical Demonstration
When, great as poets, Mystics, Saints and reformers, are men of
renunciation. They have renounced personality. They are not swayed by
opinions nor moved by praise or censure. They look to the Light shining in
their own souls.

The bird does not trust the twig that sways beneath his light weight upon
it. He trusts to his wings. We may have houses and lands, friends and
families, but we place not our trust in these, we place not our happiness and
our safety here. We remember: “All my trust on Thee, (Understanding) is
stayed.”

Truth is the health of our body; Truth is the breath of our life; Truth is the
sparkle of our eyes, the laughter of our lips, the strength of our hands. How
close Truth is to us. Hark ! Listen to the Robin. It is the One singing his song.
The One is the beauty of the flower, the charm of the evening, the breath of
the morning, the pulse of all being. Yay, the One is All in all.

No matter how far one may have wandered in the dream, no matter how
low one may have fallen in belief, a welcome is ready for him who cries “I will
arise and go to my father”. This wayward son left his home of joy and
abundance and started off to search life for himself. Time and experience
brought him nothing but husks, unrest, disappointment. Finally he
remembered how happy he had been with his father; what a comfortable
home he had had there; how carefree and joyous he had been. Ah, what a
fool to have left; what ignorance to have chosen darkness rather than light;
husks rather than real Substance. He would return.

But wait, how would he be received? Notwithstanding this doubt he would

go at once. And he returned just as he was, poor, the weak, weary,
heartsick, measurable in both mind and body.
 And lo, he found everything the same as before he left. The moving hands
of the clock had not changed a thing. All was the same as if he had never
wandered away at all. Now he accepts the genuine substance; he lives the
life his father desires; and he finds peace, joy and glory. He has now “put
on” that which was all ready for his acceptance.

It is like this with us. We oftentimes forget our first awakening; like a
sparkling spring, bubbles from the well inside. Let us not abandon that vision
of oneness and enable us to walk over waves and through Red seas.

Is it not in recognizing the finished Kingdom at hand, in accepting the

Christ within, in speaking the Truth in his Name, and in practicing the
presence of the one, that we grew more and more familiar with the Science
of Ascension?

Remember it is the heart and not the head that makes such things
possible. The question for us all to consider and answer is, Am I practicing
the presence of the one?

Does not the one ask, “Can you hear my voice if you are looking to
personality for guidance and uplift?” Books and teachers of Truth deliver a
light which enables one in a wonderful way to see this Truth in his own heart.
They help one to place his radical reliance upon Christ as the almighty
power, changeless and imperishable Reality.

We bring the sense of a separate, or personal state, to the impersonal, or

the God state, and we begin a new Life. Laying down the untrue for the true,
the limited for the actual, the temporal for the eternal, we find the peace of
God which passeth (human) understanding.

We hear the voice: “I came to earth as Jesus Christ to show you how to
transcend the human state, the earth state, and how to perceive and accept
your perfect God-being.”

“ But why is this dream state necessary? “ You ask “why am I seeing that
which is called time, space, personality, sin, sickness and discord?”

“ If Intelligence did not manifest as such, what were the use then of
intelligence? If power were inert, dormant, unexpressed, of what avail then
were that power? If love were unknown, unfelt, untold, of what delight were
such love? Can you not recall that when you have been lifted on high, when
you have received great illumination, when sickness has been rolled back
like dew before the sun, when sorrow has been subsided like darkness before
the light, that this has been the moment when you were transfused with
rapturous joy, with unutterable peace, power and glory? Then you have
known the truth. Then you have felt love. Then you have manifested even
that which you are-Myself.”

Now it may seem to the unenlightened consciousness that one is a human

being born of his human parents and that through experience one progresses
to health, joy and peace. However, the announcement of Truth, the Gospel of
Jesus, proclaims that inherently we are divine beings now; that the road
called progress and experience does not create our right perfection but
rather does it disclose and reveal our perfection.

Today on every hand we find people searching for health. This is similar to
one searching for the glasses which rest upon his nose; like one dying of
hungry while gold fills his purse. Searching, traveling and seeking externally
takes one in a wrong direction. He seeks that which he already is. The River
of the water of Life abides in him and is his everlasting Health.

Jesus left a message, Behold the Kingdom of everlasting life is here at

hand. Look now upon the field already white to harvest!

Therefore we find that the true Way, or the illumined path, is not something
to be attained externally, but rather it is something to be inwardly revealed.
Christ stands in our in our midst saying. “Peace, be Still! ” His message is:
In you is the Water Of Life. In you is the heavenly Kingdom.

“Cast your care upon Me” says the inner voice. The radiance and
quickening inspiration is the Holy Ghost, instantly forgiving sins or mistakes,
and instantly placing the body under heavenly law. Miracles attend the
coming of our Christ. Never doubt but that your hour of fulfillment is at
hand. Lifting our vision to spiritual reality, we find this reality entering our
being and all of our affairs. Our minds, renewed and refreshed, are filled
with joyous praise and glory. We find it very easy thing now to be absent
from the body and present with our Lord-self.

A falsity, of course, has no substance back of it, - nothing to hold or sustain

it and its existence is bound to be discovered. The redemption of mental
darkness consists of Truth.

There is told a story of some savages who lived in a dark cave in a certain
part of the Himalayas. They had never seen the light of a fire. These
savages cooked their food as best they could by the heat of the Sun; They
went to bed and arose the day following by solar light. As time went on, they
began to wish that they might see what was in the depths of this great cave
in which they lived. Day by day they longed to drive out this terrible
darkness, and they believed that evil spirits and great monsters were moving
around here; in fact they imagined that they saw them.

Someone told them that this terrible monster - darkness - would leave if
they would worship it. They followed this suggestion faithfully; they
beseeched and supplicated the darkness, but it remained as unyielding as
before. Then they were told to fight this dark thing, to take clubs and strike
and beat it into submission. However, with their clubs and weapons they did
but strike one another, and this device was soon abandoned as unfeasible.
They also tried fasting and other practices but all to no end. The darkness
was as great as ever.

Finally a man came along who told them that the only thing that could
make darkness leave was a light. This man asked for some straw and
bamboo sticks, and by striking a stone against a piece of flint there came a
spark. Soon by means of the twigs and straws the long bamboo stick began
to blaze. These savages now followed this man as he entered the great
black cave and lo, the darkness was not there!

They thoroughly searched the cave but could find no evil spirit, no
monsters, nor could they find the darkness for wherever they carried the
light, behold, there was only light . At last their wish was granted. The
darkness left.

Now after one has perceived the true Light and after this Light has taken
away some of his darkness, He can never again believe so completely in that
darkness as reality. It is this way after one has glimpsed the finished
Kingdom. Never again is a world of time, space and personality quite so real
to him. As one passes above the plane of thought and looks up and out into
the perfect Land, he automatically becomes filled with new ecstasy and new
joy that never before has been equalled in his experience.

This land of prepared glory which he now beholds is one in which there is
no separation of people, things or ideas whatsoever. Here one is unbounded,
unlimited, free as air. Here beautiful thoughts come bubbling from one like
sparkling elixir. One sees a universe of Truth and Love; of joyous splendor
and ever increasing glory. No suggestion of sin, of fear, of sickness or
destruction is thought here, for this is the realm of perfect light; this is the
realm of ideal harmony; this is the heavenly Kingdom; This is the place of
the heart.
 Now after one has experienced such inspiration - the lighting of the fire
within the self, the removal of the darkness - he finds that spiritual
affirmations become more and more alive to him. No longer do sentences
mean mere words to him, - like so many letters of the alphabet joined
together, - but now they take on fresh meanings. Something even seems
shining upon the pages of the book which he is reading and the words are
like living things. One feels a great expansion, a freedom and an
independence not known before.

After one has caught glimpses of the finished Kingdom, a new language is
his, a new tongue. Many words now reveal new meaning to him; for
instance, the word health. One used to think of Health as identified with the
body, but now he sees that Health is universal and is on the mountaintop or
in the dungeon. Health is unlimited and omnipresent like the sunshine, and
like the fact that two and two are 4. Health is a fact of being. Health is
indivisible Omnipresent.

The word health is placed with great words such as Infinity, eternity,
freedom, life, love, peace and power. Revision A perfect universe would
behold a living Christ. We believe that good and abundance, health and
harmony of a universal Substance.

Not by strength of body, nor by might of mind, but , by My Spirit. saieth our
Lord-Self. Now the spirit of the Lord in one is perfect ideal being. The Spirit
of the Lord is that health which is in everything but attached to nothing, for
Health Is Reality.

Spirit is the fact that. “The desert will rejoice and blossom as the Rose...
The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped... The lame man will leap... and the tongue of this dumb shall
sing.” Spirit is the fact that there is no limit of health to the body, no limit
of understanding to the mind. There is no division, no limitation, no
attachment in being.

Spirit is the fact that there is no stopping place for life. No boundary to
health, no termination for joy, speech, or delight. Spirit is the fact that we
are living now, that this life will never cease for one instant to be; That we
are a being of intelligence, power, glory, without end; That we are divine,
external, irresistible Soul, Self, Truth.

We drink the water of life freely, and the path of illumination shines bright
with living glory. The presence of the one is seen, known, felt and
understood. The Golden Age is here, the age of boundless freedom, of
indescribable splendor, love and glory.

God being is not subject to material law, any more than a bird is subject to
the laws governing vegetables. When you recognize a firm and declare that
we as God being are not subject to the laws of matter, but that we are free in
heavenly reality. With burning zeal and with fire of insight, we insist that we
are immune from all sense of evil, bondage and limitation. Jesus declared
that none of these things, material beliefs, could harm us, for there is no
harm in unreality.

The conditions pictured in the body, and called dis-ease, are not at all as
they seem to un- enlightened vision. The report of the senses is that the
disease is in or on the body, that the trouble is external. This is altogether
an erroneous idea for what is seen in the body and turned disease is picture
only, and is no more in the body than a horse pictured on the motion picture
screen is on the screen. The perception of this one point, alone, brings great
relief and freedom.

As we correct untrue thoughts, (darkness), with right, spiritual ideas,

(light,) simultaneously the picturization changes and instead of disease,
(darkness), there is now health, ( Light ).

Let us acquaint ourselves with true spiritual ideas. One of the first to
establish as a working basis is that we are Spirit, God. This fact accepted, it
is then easy to perceive the spiritual being is not subject to false beliefs. A
God-being cannot believe falsely, but is forever conscious of harmony and
changeless reality.

No fault picture exists in the mind of Christ and our heritage is this Mind.
What harm can a false thing do? We perceive that Truth is with us and so
nothing can be against us. We realize that a false idea is no idea at all; we
cease fearing it.

Filling our consciousness with divine ideas - ideas of reality, of love, of

peace, of omnipotence, of victory - we ask, “What is there that can hinder us
from expressing that marvelous being which we are? What is there to keep
us from that wonderful glory which is ready and prepared for us? Can
anything oppose Almighty Truth? Can anything prevent our response when
Almighty Truth claims us?

We insist that, being Soul, we cannot lose our vision of eternal, changeless
and harmonious existence. Our vision is clear and constant. Our ideas are
pure and complete. Our bodies are one. With true consciousness, Hence
they are free from all falsity and from all imperfection whatsoever.

Pictures can move rapidly on the picture screen, yet nothing is actually
taking place on the screen; nothing is being healed, or removed, or changed.
Attention is given to the machine, (mind), and the picture ( expression),
follows automatically.

Perceiving that there is no Kingdom of darkness, that the Kingdom within

us is the Kingdom of everlasting Light, we arise new born. We shout our
freedom from limitation; we hold fast to reality, and we say. “What can
separate us from the all Power? What can overthrow the omnipotence of our
divinity?

Thus, correcting material beliefs with spiritual ideas, we commence to

experience a new world. We have not created our health and harmony, but
we have taken possession of them. We have awakened to the fact of the
perfect health and harmony at hand.

Surely there is a power irresistible, able to do all things. Let those of us

who are seeing and feeling this light bring it to other hearts longing and
waiting for its arrival. The presence of the living truth is sweeping this
universe, making itself known, seen, felt, hour by hour, ushering in the
Golden Age wherein our boundless freedom. Indescribable splendor,
irresistible love and transcendent glory.

You are not divided into a soul, a mind and a body. The body is a means
through which Soul, being, brings itself into expression, action. Body is as
imperishable, undefilable, indestructible, everlasting, eternal as Being, for
Being and body are one. We are being, action, form. We cannot be
separated, divided, disunited. Creator, creating and creation comprise one
unit.

Let all sense of division and separateness depart from thought. We are not
trying to unite God and man. Soul and body, for clear vision reports that God
and man, soul and body, Cause and effect, Life and form, are one now,
always, and forever.
 Every hour Earth is taking on more of the glory of Heaven, and from glory
to glory we press forward. Deserts are becoming fertile, valleys are
blossoming forth. Cities, countries, nations are daily uniting in thought and
the result will be peace and power. We are facing the 7th Angel, the day of
fulfillment and rest.

Let us acknowledge that the time is come, the hour is here. The Angel of
Insite gently whispered. “Be of good cheer” over all the earth. The Bible
instructs us that the body is transformed by the renewing baptism of Spirit;
therefore, being newborn in Spirit and putting on, (accepting), our inherent
immortality we gently and laborlessly transcend in harmonious experience.
Mind, imbued with spiritual understanding, is a law unto itself, dispelling
illusions and blotting out erring beliefs.

When the Spirit is seen and accepted to be the life of all, when it is certain
to us that we all have the same life, the same being, the same reality, then
the divine body will appear.

Progress is a term applied to human existence wherein the sense called

mortal, through states and stages of consciousness, progresses to the point
of ascension - the final triumph over all beliefs of mortal being and mortal
universe.

Spirit is not regenerated. it is humanity that is regenerated. How can we

understand God except through spiritualization of thought?
Dematerialization and spiritualization is one process. In this process of vision
and practical demonstration, sense,( mortality,) seem to pass through three
distinct stages before yielding completely to truth, (immortality.) These three
stages are called the atonement, the resurrection and the ascension.

Atonement is the dawning upon human consciousness of one’s sinless,

perfect state. Atonement is perception, that as “Light shineth In darkness”,
it is therefore impossible for evil to be evil. One perceives that inasmuch as
the universe is primarily in one's consciousness, there is therefore no
external evil. What is called evil is like the cloud that would conceal the
light. The light shines, constantly and uninterruptedly.

Always the good is shining in consciousness but when mists of sense

obscure the good, then the result has been termed “evil.” Atonement,
therefore, is perception of one Presence as always present. It is perception
that all that changes is belief. That which has been called evil, (such as
disease, destruction and death), are the results of false sense- results of not
clearly perceiving the light which is always shining.
 Atonement perceives that correction is to take place inwardly. The
“outward”, follows automatically. That which needs correction is mistaken
sense. One perceives that untrue, (false) beliefs are to be corrected by the
acceptance in our consciousness of genuinely true ideas.

Resurrection, the second step leading from sense to Soul, is the practice of
atonement, resurrection is practical demonstration. Resurrection is
restoration, - the restoring to the mind of power, might, glory and dominion;
the restoring of that which was never lost or lacking except in belief.
Resurrection is the practice of right vision and the practice of right ideas.

Resurrection is self improvement in sense and thought. As higher and

higher concepts of health and immortality are delivered, naturally one
embodies and expresses them. It is this living process of resurrection that
has been called “Practicing the present.”

Resurrection is the period delivering abatement of so-called evil. It is self

purification; it is awakening from the dream of “Opposite” to the perception
and the acceptance of oneness.

Ascension is one's utter renunciation of all of that constitute morality, and

it is the attainment and consciousness of one’s eternal individual identity.

Ascension is the return in belief, of the Prodigal to his Father's home - his
real state of Being. Having taken the footsteps of atonement (Right
perception of reality and unreality), and having taken the step following
called resurrection. (practice of the One as All), the Prodigal (mortal) has
entirely lost his sense of mortality and has gained this sense of spiritual pre-
existence. He now enters his spiritual rest and finds eternal peace.

As we learn the way in Absolute Science and enlarge our Spiritual capacity
for a higher life, we individualize sovereign power and demonstrate the
falsity of bondage and limitation.

The Science of Ascension, revealed to the waiting heart, opens prison

doors to those who are bound and sets the captive free.

Spiritual ideas delivering to us a spiritual sense, lead us to divine Heights

and make it possible for us to exchange a material sense of existence for
Sole-existence. As consciousness is uplifted, one gently relinquishes untrue
beliefs and notions, demonstrating his divine authority in overcoming sin,
sickness and discord.
 Exercising his inherent Authority one rises to the enraptured perception of
Self as dwelling in infinite harmony,- complete, perfect, immutable and
incorruptible.

As material sense, - the sense reporting pain, limitation, discord, is

perceived as false and as Spiritual sense - the sense of health, joy and
harmony is recognized the real sense, one begins to utilize his infinite power
to establish in his daily experience a perfect harmonious existence.

We are delivered to Truth as we accept and embody Truth. This is not a

method of mind over matter, nor is it mind over mind, but it is the divine
process of spiritualizing thought and sense, demonstrating the omnipotence
of Truth over false beliefs and enforcing the spiritual act of Soul over false
sense. Truth is victorious, supreme, and gloriously omnipotent. The
consciousness of this fact redeems sense from fear, renews faith, and exalts
the affections.

Gaining the vision of self as eternal Life, irresistible Truth, and exalting
Love, we lose fear and boldly enforce our Understanding.

Beholding the Truth of our being and accepting our heritage. - our reality
as the Christ-Self-we unhesitatingly stand firm in our faith, knowing that the
Holy Ghost dwells with us.

What Is the ultimate of so-called attainment but ascension? Is this not the
victory that is prepared for us,-the overcoming of all belief in sin, sickness,
limitation, and the crowning triumph over death? Not a thing but false sense
conceals reality from us and not a thing but spiritualization of thought and
vision opens to us the gates of paradise, revealing ascension above earthly
sense.

What can melt away the sense of fear and darkness except the
understanding of True being? Understanding is the Light which places the
feet on firm ground, establishing its Principle by demonstration.

The Kingdom of all-inclusive good never disappeared from Spiritual sight,

but remains forever intact, omnipresent and tangible to immortal
Consciousness.

The Kingdom of eternal, uninterrupted harmony awaits individual

recognition and acceptance. In proportion as human consciousness becomes
divine is the perfection and completeness of Self, realized and embodied.
Clad with divine illumination and spiritual perception, we assert our mastery
over disease, fear and bondage, and we prove irrefutably that divine
Understanding is supreme and triumphant. Waking to the perception of self
as God-being, we are lifted to a higher plane of experience and find it
possible to demonstrate health and harmony.

The awakened consciousness sees but one way - the Self. “ I am the way.”
Truth leads the eager and ready heart onward and upward advancing it
spiritually, and disclosing the ultimate perception that the Kingdom of
everlasting harmony and glory is within one's own power and demonstration.

Practical demonstration is the act of Truth, destroying material beliefs and

uplifting faith and vision to discern perfect Creation, permanent, changeless,
untouched by any dream sense. As Reality is brought to light, human sense
is resurrected and the spiritual idea of life is revealed as ever operative and
practical.

Those instructed in absolute science have grasped the glorious view of Self
as all knowing, almighty, and all inclusive; and practicing this inspiring view
they ascend the scale of being and emerge gently into Life everlasting.

Let us know and demonstrate that an improved belief cannot retrograde.

Once we gain control of erring sense through Soul or spiritual understanding
let us stand firm and unfaltering, realizing that nothing can deprive us of our
complete demonstration of health, harmony and happiness.

All there is to sickness, sin and death is a false claim, a claim of falsity
which cannot dethrone Soul, or deprive any one of his continuous sense of
life and immortality. There is but one right Vision - the fact of perfect Being,
perfect ideas, and perfect expression. Holding thought to this Ideal we
master so-called material law and annul its erring sentence. This divine
practice, in its direct application to human needs, lifts individual
consciousness, above physical sense, removes fear and false belief, and
reveals the all- power and ever- presence of our Kingship and Kingdom.

Absolute Science, lifting one’s consciousness higher in the scale of being,

reveals to him that identify himself as Christ he is free, victorious and
triumphant.

This spiritual understanding discloses individual might and power and

reveals the phenomenon of Ascension.
 Chapter V
Right Interpretation.

It is stated that one can easily penetrate and expose un-truth when he
perceives the genuine and real; when he perceives the truth itself.

As soon as an untruth comes to one's attention, intuitively he feels the

impulse to investigate the truth of the situation, for he knows that if he can
discover the truth, the untruth will automatically be exposed and annulled.

Should someone bring information that does not seem true to us and we
wish to ascertain if his report is actually true, we begin to trace his
statements back to it’s origin or starting place, do we not? Here. We unravel
the story, little by little, until we are satisfied that we have arrived at the
truth.

Looking through a veil, truth appears inverted, impossible, but stripping off
the veil, we penetrate the mist and perceive the real to be real, and the
unreal to be nothing.

Now it is easily understood that when a true statement is voiced or a true

experience is placed before us, we do not investigate this, for there is no
need of investigating harmony, peace and contentment. But when
something disturbing or disconcerting comes to our attention, the first
impulse is to look up the truth and find out the actual facts.

We do not attend to the report itself, nor do we attend to the false situation
or condition, but exercising spiritual vision, we look beyond the so-called
material and erring testimony, and perceive the truth that is standing back of
it, the truth which seems concealed from view.

“The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not”. -

St. John.

If we perceive the light that is shining, we simultaneously expose the

darkness which is comprehending it not. Looking toward this light and
meditating, it comes to us that a condition of sleep and lapse from the actual
state of being, or a condition of false and untrue belief does not accord with
the words of Jesus, “Ye are the light …. The Kingdom is within you.” We also
recognize that back of the put-to-sleep belief, there is a genuine fact of
perfect, changeless being, and back of the untrue expression of in-harmony
and discord there shines the fact of perfect, changeless and immortal
embodiment.

We let not a sense of sympathy go toward the individual who claims to be

experiencing falsely nor to the condition which he states is substantiating his
mental claim.

Chapter V
Right Interpretation
It is stated that one can easily penetrate and expose un-truth when he
perceives the genuine and the real; when he perceives the Truth itself.

As soon as an untruth comes to one’s attention, intuitively he feels the

impulse to investigate the truth of the situation, for he knows that if he can
discover the truth, the untruth will automatically be exposed and annulled.

Should some one bring information that does not seem true to us and we
wish to ascertain if his report is actually true, we begin to trace his statement
back to its origin or starting place, do we not? We unravel the story, little by
little, until we are satisfied that we have arrived at the right truth.

Looking through a veil, truth appears inverted, impossible, but stripping off
the veil, we penetrate the mist and perceive the real to be real, and the
unreal to be nothing.

Now it is easily understood that when a true statement is voiced or a true

experience is placed before us, we do not investigate this, for there is no
need of investigating harmony, peace and contentment. But when
something disturbing or disconcerting comes to our attention, the first
impulse is to look up the truth and find out the actual facts.

We do not attend to the report itself, nor do we attend to the false situation
or condition, but exercising spiritual vision, we look beyond the so-called
material, and erring testimony, and perceive the truth that is standing back
of it, the truth which seems concealed from view.

“The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.” –

St. John

If we perceive the light that is shining, we simultaneously expose the

darkness which is comprehending it not. Looking towards this light and
meditating, it comes to us that a condition of sleep and lapse from the actual
state of being, or a condition of false and untrue belief does not accord with
the words of Jesus, “Ye are the light... the Kingdom is within you.” We also
recognize that back of the put to sleep belief there is a genuine fact of
perfect, changeless being, and back of the untrue expression of inharmony
and discord, there shines the fact of perfect, changeless and immortal
embodiment.

We let not a sense of sympathy go toward the individual who claims to be

experiencing falsely nor to the condition which he states is substantiating his
mental claim. What is the onlooker seeing? Is he seeing the true universe
truly? If so, there is no occasion for sympathy, fear or disturbance. Is he
holding form corresponding to the spiritual Vision of changeless, perfect and
immaculate being? If so, he is mindful of reality.

The identity which the onlooker reports first as a crawling caterpillar and
later as a beautiful butterfly, never changes, for individual identity is Self and
is therefore constant, unchangeable and immortal, no matter what any
onlooker may be claiming.

This fact perceived, one grasps it so exultantly that he begins at once to

interpret the universe according to reality.

Recognizing and accepting individual identity as forever established,

perfect and complete, without beginning and without end, he now perceives
that any untrue expression presenting itself to physical vision and testifying
to discord, disease and disturbance is at variance with the premise and the
principle of this changeless identity, and therefore cannot be accepted as
carrying a vestige of truth.

No matter what may be the testimony of material sense, no matter what

may be the testimony of darkness comprehending not the light, the fact is
that perfect, mean and perfect universe are now at hand for us to behold and
experience.

Let it be clearly perceived that a being when at one time is called a mortal
and at another time is called an immortal , is one entity. A mortal is not an
immortal, but this relative statement is understood as one correctly
interprets it. It can be said that a caterpillar is not a butterfly, yet the
onlooker knows that though he calls one form by a certain term and at
another time by another term, he is all the time referring to the same entity.

Thus with individual being. With a clouded view, being is interpreted as

mortal and human, while with spiritual vision, being is interpreted as perfect
and divine. The individual identity however, is uninterrupted,constant and
eternal.

When one is believing in something that is untrue, believing some false

condition present which actually is not here, this state of mind is called in
metaphysics. “False belief”. It is this false belief that one has to meet and
overcome - and he meets and overcomes it with the right, with the truth,
with right interpretation.

Relatively speaking, that which causes darkness to disappear from a room

is the light, and relatively, that which causes false or untrue belief to
disappear from your mind is true belief. Belief in truth is true belief and right
interpretation, and as one exercises this right interpretation, he finds the
Kingdom of heaven within his own consciousness.

A true belief has actual substance back of it. If one traces back the true
belief, he arrives at the absolute Truth itself. And if one traces back the
untrue belief, he sees that as untruth, it has no support whatsoever; It rests
upon nothing, for it is but an untrue interpretation of that which is perfect
and true.

This is why we need not sympathize with another who is apparently

shadowing forth an un-true state. Instead of sympathizing with a mistake, a
misrepresentation, one brings the light of truth to that consciousness. One
understands that in accepting true belief, he has Christ with him, he has
reality with him, and his victory is assured.

Therefore, one does not treat disease, sorrow or any disorder as though it
were actual, but he sees that this is the picturing forth of wrong belief in the
mind, and that as soon as true belief is accepted, this Truth is the light which
spontaneously illumines his universe.

Holding to perception that we are Life, we are Truth, we are Spirit , one
feels firm ground under his feet, feels omnipotent Reality within him. With
eyes clear and with feet firmly planted on that which is, the untrue
expression vanishes and utterly disappears.
Is not misled, however, into thinking that any actual change has taken
place, for such belief is not clear. Perception. It is simply that now one has a
fully consciousness of reality, and he is expressing this improved belief.

“ Nothing shall by any means hurt you,” testified Jesus. We perceive this
tremendous fact of reality and practice it in our vision, thinking and acting,
that we ascend above untrue states and beliefs.
 The vision of Ascension sees clearly that nothing external is to be healed,
changed or removed. We do not go out with the vision, thought, or action to
conquer discord. We go within always. And within we find Truth. And finding
truth, we rest in the consciousness. that our being is Omniscience,
Omnipotence and Omnipresence. This right interpretation uplifts human
understanding, and Christ appears.

The putting on of immortality is not like the putting on of a cloak upon

one's shoulders, nor like the placing of gold into one's purse, but putting on
immortality is like receiving of something that one did not know that he
already possesses.
Children for instant, “put on” two and two are four. It appears as though
they receive it outwardly, or that they add it to their knowledge, whereas the
fact is that the consciousness of this fact already exists in them.

It is written. In a well known metaphysical textbook: “Mortals will

someday assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God”. Mortals, (those
on the unillumined as to their actual perfection), are destined, (because of
their nature) to trace back their identity and to discover that this identity is
the actual Truth.

Isaiah, looking into Reality, perceived that Jesus was the “Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father”, and Jesus, visioning the Kingdom of perfect being
exclaimed, “that we all may be one”.

The story of the sheep and the lion cub, the latter lived for years as a
sheep not realizing his lion nature until a real lion presented itself before his
vision; likewise, people for many centuries considered themselves mortal
and human until Reality came before their vision and they recognized
themselves as Reality.

In the story, t he sheep-lion did not experience his real nature until he saw
the majestic lion standing upon the hillside, outlined against the horizon.
Gazing enraptured at this ideal, all of a sudden he felt something give way
within him, - his sheep belief vanished. Recognizing himself as Lion,
spontaneously he accepted his real nature and entered into his Kingdom of
the jungle and forest.

What a great lesson lies concealed in this simple parable. Covering the
face of Earth were people who, believing they were human beings,
experienced sickness, sin and death in accordance with their false beliefs.
But one day looking up, lo! there, standing before them, was the glorious
Presence, - ” the lion of the tribe of Judah”, - a being of transcending glory
and majesty.

Gazing rapturously at this Ideal, many felt something give way within
them, their human beliefs vanished. Recognizing their God-being,
spontaneously they accepted their real nature and they entered their rightful
heritage - The Kingdom of perfection.

This Ideal presence is here today, standing before all, for to those who look
for him, doth he appear before them! “Low, I am with you always... I will
never leave thee nor forsake thee!
 Beloved, we are looking upon this Christ, - our Ideal Self! We too have felt
that false something give way in us, delivering us from the belief that we are
human beings! We rapturously and spontaneously accept our Kingship and
our Kingdom!

We see deliverance before us. We behold our Kingdom at hand. We

accept our Ideal standing on the Mountain peak, outlined against the glowing
horizon of our Victory, Triumph, and Ascension. Here stands our Identity, -
our Christ - with face like the Sun and with raiment “ as no fuller on earth
could white them”.

All hail! Behold our Identity, Behold our God being!

We enter the Paradise which is prepared for us in the beginning, (Genesis),

and which is prepared for us in the ending, (Revelation); and entering, we
find the peace which passes verbal expression.

Now in applying this sublime vision to the seeming problems of everyday

experience, one finds that it brings him instant freedom, joy and satisfaction
to apprehend and realize the right interpretation of time, place and
personality.

For instance, time. One often feels that he is hindered by a sense of time.
He feels that next week or next year more good will be disclosed to him than
now, today. Abundance of good may seem to him to be in the future, rather
than right at hand.

What is the vision of our God-self? Does this self establish a difference
between last year and today? Between today and a year from today? Verily
no. To the spiritual eye, there is no division, no separation whatsoever.
Whatever is true is always true. If it is ever true that I have abundance of all
good, then this fact is true now and for all time.

The notion of separation from good is altogether false and it be proven

very easily. Recently, a telephone message came to me from a student
asking for help. She stated that she did not know which way to turn for
supply, that always her demonstration seemed depending upon some future
arrangement which never came to pass, and upon certain individuals who
did not fulfill her expectations. Moving away from the telephone, the first
thought that came to me was this. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day” - Peter.

It was radiantly clear to me that if the student would be helped next week
or next year, she had received this help a thousand years ago. Eternity is
here and at hand, “the same yesterday, today and forever”, and what is
called a division of time, such as a day, a month and a year, is merely
material interpretation of changeless reality.

In the material sense-kingdom we have time, but in the Kingdom above the
material sense, we have Eternity. I consider this joyously, basking in the
consciousness of never- beginning, never ending Eternity, and also I know
that as being is one, the student who asked for help was also conscious of
this same Reality.

Recalling that she mentioned dependence in a business way upon those at

a distance from her, I saw that distance, like time, is a false sense of belief in
separation and division and this false sense had no reality at all. Infinity
cannot be divided or separated. It is one presence. What-ever is “there” is
also “here”, for there and here are the same position. Always, (eternity),
everywhere (infinity), unlimited abundance.

Then I accepted the nothingness of personality and realized that one's

demonstration does not depend upon anyone but himself. Always,
everywhere, one being.

About an hour later, the same student called me again. She said that a
wonderful experience had just come to her. A voice had spoken to her the
name of a man whom she had not seen for over twenty years. I told her to
go to him. Her next report was the practical demonstration. Through the
help of this man, she was able to accomplish an extraordinary and gratifying
sale, which for over ten years she had struggled and failed to make.

Within, one finds the jewel. One is himself the way. Do you recall the
parable of the King and the Jewel? Seems that a certain king one day came
upon a stone, sparkling brilliantly in the clear waters of a lake. There, before
his eyes, sparkled this beautiful gem. The lake was drained at the King's
command, but the stone could not be found.

As soon as the water came into the lake there appeared again the
sparkling gem. Who could fathom this mystery? The sage was called into
console and he immediately practiced right interpretation.

Calling a servant to him, the sage commanded that he climb a tall tree
growing by the side of the lake. In its overhanging branches was found a
crow's nest, and here among the sticks at the bottom of the nest rested the
sparkling gem. What was seen in the water was not the actual gem itself but
only the reflection.
 In the dream of material existence, one feels that he must seek hither and
yonder. He must wait for the years to roll by. He must meet certain friends
or individuals who are to help him on his way toward prosperity and
happiness. But he is looking in the wrong direction; he is not practicing right
interpretation for he is looking out instead of in. The jewel is not in the outer
expression. The jewel is within. The priceless, sparkling jewel is the Soul, is
the Self. Looking within, one sees that always, everywhere, there is but One
being. Seeing and feeling this, confidently, calmly, soon the reflection
appears in the universe (lake or mirror), before us. But we are not deceived.
We see the sparkle, we rejoice in the demonstration, but we know that the
jewel is within, we know that expression and realization are one and
inseparable.

How can we experience transcending harmony and practical demonstration

except by the right interpretation of Ascension? How can we exercise divine
Authority except by illumination of spiritual sense?

This exalted spiritual sense is exercised through the inspiration of the

heart. The spiritual power of glorified thought and vision, with no mental
argument whatsoever, redeems one from false sense of imperfection.

There is a way above the path of trial and suffering. Reaching a higher
sense through insight and revelation, one is able to demonstrate the Christ
and rise spontaneously, easily, to the spiritual consciousness of being.

Jesus restored to human consciousness the lost sense of perfection, and he

established this harmony, wholeness, joy and happiness as the reality of our
individual being. This divine process of right interpretation, acknowledged
and accepted by the individual, enables him to subdue the material belief in
sin, sickness and limitation, and to embody the triumph of Spirit.

We can see clearly enough that there is no actual transition from belief to
understanding but that transition, resurrection and ascension seem essential
to relative experience only.

We do not deny untrue beliefs or untrue expressions with the thought of

destruction. On the contrary, we use denial with the spiritual insight and
conviction that no destruction is necessary. “The law (of destruction) is not
made for a righteous man.” ( 1 Tim. 1:9 ).

In our night dreams, we apparently move from one place to another place,
we apparently change from one idea to another idea, but waking, we see
that nothing whatever has taken place and that mental action or dream
action is the same as nothing happening at all.

Preserving this perception, we understand that when we put off wrong

beliefs and accept true understanding, when we put off mortality and put on
immortality, this is only happening in a mental experience, for real being is
essentially unchangeable.

True experience is changeless, irresistible omnipresent. In the dream

experience, deliverance and emancipation from erring beliefs and erring
conditions symbolize this freedom. Perfect individual identity is here, and as
we waken to the perception and exception of this glorious fact, we behold
this being in earth as in heaven.

Full consciousness of changeless being and of supernal Life brings

deliverance from the dream experience called sin, sickness and death in the
same way as waking from the dream at night delivers one from dream
conditions.

Our refuge is Spiritual Consciousness. Our refuge is Spiritual Ascension.

Jesus' final demonstration was called the ascension, for he rose above all
ellusive testimony. Ascension is the rising into full consciousness of Self as
Spirit, of Self as God.

Spiritual ascendancy is spiritual power, delivering peace, glory, harmony

and reality. As thought harmoniously ascends the scale of being, one
perceives that good alone is real and true, and good alone is omnipresence.

Right interpretation enables one to lift thought above the dream sense,
and reveals to him the spiritual body which comes with the ascension.

Metaphysics is above physics, and spiritual ascendancy is above mental

practice, delivering to one the power and ability to raise above dreams and
illusions, and the right and might to experience the heritage of glorified
being.

Right interpretation reveals what unillumined eye doth not behold. The
report that the universe is imperfect and incomplete Is false, for the universe
is the expression of Life, Truth and Love, and is as perfect, changeless and
immortal as is Intelligence, Life, Being, which sustains it.

It is relatively true that a mortal is not an immortal and it is relatively true

that the universe of unillumined vision is not the Kingdom of heaven. One
identity, (Self), is ever present whether one interprets this identity as perfect
and divine or imperfect and defective, likewise, one universe is ever present
whether one interprets this universe as heavenly and glorious, or as material
and discordant.

One Life, Truth, Love and one expression, embodiment, Kingdom, coexists,
ceaselessly, uninterruptedly, absolutely and finally. Casting aside, erring
perception and executing spiritual vision, one sees that the universe before
him is none other than the Kingdom of Heaven, and that the entity before
him is none other than the perfect being.

The universe is the expression of life and spirit and is therefore a spiritual
and perfect universe. Apprehending and recognizing the perfect universe
this right way, when laborlessly and naturally enters it.

Prophets and Saints have left different instructions pertaining to the way in
which this Kingdom of perfect harmony and immortality may be attained.
Some have said that the way is by mental law.- “ Thou shalt not ”. Others
have believed that the way is disclosed through tribulation, sorrows, trials.
The great Master of Understanding, however, delivered the ultimatum, - The
Kingdom of heaven is within you.!

The individual himself is the way to heavenly harmony. Through individual

perception, recognition and acceptance of Self as God, and of universe co-
existence with Self, one enters the glory of ascension, experiencing the
kingdom of heaven on earth.

Jesus proclaimed to mortals their immortality, and on earth he established

the Kingdom of Heaven. Truth is revealed. Perfect being and perfect
universe are here, and when perfect being and perfect universe are
interpreted by Absolute Science they can be rightly understood.

The Kingdom or perfect universe, as interpreted by Jesus, is our

consciousness of health., harmony, happiness, power, glory and authority as
inherent, absolute, final, present, complete.

Taking conscious possession of the Kingdom of reality within ourselves

through spiritual ascendancy, we individualize infinite power and glory, and
we express unlimited health, happiness, and harmony.

Spiritual blessedness is based upon the action of Truth, and instantaneous

healing is demonstrated as one sets aside mental argument letting his
enraptured sense rest in the understanding of one presence as all.
 Standing upon this immortal basis, one stands on reality, oneness, Infinity,
and his victory is assured.

The difference between the mental argument and the way of Absolute
Science is that the latter has a more spiritual basis than the former. One's
practical demonstration rests upon a spiritual bases as high as his
understanding of it.

Permanent perfection, irresistible harmony, perpetual loveliness, constitute

all phenomena of being. Spiritual sense alone can understand and interpret
the healing Christ. The more fully the science of being is understood and
interpreted by the student, the higher are his demonstrations of divine
power. That Absolute Science uplifts individual consciousness to a more
spiritual sense of life and love, delivering health, harmony, and happiness,
thousands can attest.

Absolute Science is the mighty Deliverer, the all-sufficient Presence

bringing out the highest phenomena of Reality. Proportionately as one
accepts and utilizes the understanding that his real nature is the divine
Trinity, he brings out in individual experience the glorious results of this
understanding.
 Can we demonstrate health and glorified being instantaneously, unless our
own consciousness is inspired with devotion, love, and revelation? Can we
give living waters to the thirsty unless our own hearts are overflowing with
the miracle of divine glory?

The fire of inspiration and illumination, purifying sense with Soul, forms the
coincidence of the human and divine. Through divine revelation, insight and
demonstration, the untrue view, (materiality) disappears, and the reality or
individual spiritual. Ideality-( Christ )- appears.

Right interpretation of the perfect universe reveals harmonious existence

at hand. Looking at the ideal and interpreting it erroneously, one may call
perfect Creation matter, illusion, counterfeit, but let it be clearly understood
that the perfect Being and the Universe are coexistent and eternal. The
individual viewpoint, the individual interpretation of this perfect Kingdom,
determines for one the nature of his present individual experience.

This fact clearly and forcefully sits before all the tremendous importance
that we exercise right interpretation.

Now, one may call the beautiful, glorious, heavenly universe in which we
live, matter, falsity, and he may follow this false view with another false
view, - the denial of matter, evil, falsity. But Right Interpretation delivers the
insight that nothing whatever is gained by denying a thing which has no
existence.

The fact is that we all live, move and act in one perfect universe, and as we
spiritually perceive and accept this marvelous certainty, and individually
conform our thinking and acting to this right consciousness, simultaneously
our experience is harmonious, glorious and divine.

There is no necessity to deny a material universe, for there is no material

universe. The only universe there is for all, is the one established, finished,
complete, perfect Kingdom.

Erroneously interpreting this finished Kingdom in which we all dwell, -

calling the good in this Kingdom “Evil” and the divine and glorious
“material” and “changeable”- ones wrong vision prevents him from
consciously experiencing the glories before him and encourages him to
report a false world and a false experience.

How important then is right vision, right interpretation, and right

understanding ! Through the Science of Ascension, we accept the facts of
perfect being and perfect universe as now and here and we discard all notion
of matter, evil and destruction. We perceive that it is useless and of no
practical value whatsoever to deny evil, rather, we deny that there is evil.
The same right perception is applied to matter, to sickness, to sin and death.

Interpreting the universe rightly, we see that there is no necessity or

advantage in denying matter, sickness, sin, death, for these conditions are
not found in the perfect Kingdom in which we are living. Who convinceth
spiritual Vision of sickness, sin and death? Yea, the acknowledgement of the
omnipresent and the omnipotent of perfect changeless being, and perfect
changeless experience, includes the only right denial.

The full consciousness of perfect, continuous and changeless being, and of

perfect, continuous and harmonious expression demonstrates the
nothingness of sickness, sin and evil. This spiritual action or demonstration
is Ascension, for here, the Self consciously perceives and expresses Glory,
Power, Perfection and Harmony.
 Chapter VI
Paradise

Paradise is within us. Our consciousness of health, joy, peace, glory,

abundance, immortality is our Paradise.

Spiritualization of thought and vision is the practice of prayer, and it is this

practice which delivers us to the experience of peace, joy and harmony. One
is redeemed from so-called laws of the flesh as he thinks, feels and acts in
the finished Kingdom. This is the way in which Soul controls sense, and the
way in which Paradise is brought to light.

On the plane where progress appears to have an effect, our immunity from
so-called evil is based upon our perception of reality and unreality. And upon
our ability to pray or treat correctly.

Having established as a foundation in our consciousness the fact that our

individual identity is the actual, Truth, and having accepted further that all
untrue belief can be corrected by spiritual understanding, we begin to
ascertain how to pray, or treat, so that deliverance from erring beliefs may
be quick and certain.

How can we rise in strength of Spirit unless we are Spirit? How can we
execute power unless we are Power? How can we manifest Reality unless we
are Reality? How can we hope to rise above discord and limitation unless we
rise above the belief that the body is subject to discord and limitation? In
order to laborlessly rise to our nativity in spirit. We must apprehend our
actual state,( immortality ), and enforce it.

How can we rise above limitation unless we are the Unlimited? How can
we control erring sense unless we are Understanding? How can we
remember our perfect state unless we are Intelligence? How can we hope to
overcome all fear and limitation unless we perceive that we are God-being?

Do we not have to know that two and two are four before we can agree
that two and two are not five? Must not the understanding of our actual
being precede our understanding that we are not material beings and
therefore are not subject to material, mortal beliefs? Most certainly.
 One may take the figures two and two in adding. Call the sum 5, but with a
correct view one calls the sum 4; the figures 2 and 2 remaining the same, All
that is undergoing change is the belief in the mind of the individual.

The figure five in the answer might stand for what is called a “mortal, or
human being” and a figure four might stand for an immortal, spiritual being.
When untrue belief operates; the answer is untrue, and when true belief or
understanding operates, the answer is true.

Now we have the problem of our own existence before us. It's beginning,
(genesis) is God, and its ending (revelation) is God. The problem that is set
before us is this: Since God is the beginning and God is the ending, what are
we?

When untrue belief operates, the answer is untrue ( a mortal appearance);

and when true belief operates, the answer is true, ( Immortal being ).

When one believes that the answer to the mathematical problem is five,
he writes this down; and one believes that he is a mortal or human being,
subject to discord and limitation, he externalizes this idea. But all the time,
no matter whether one is seen rightly or wrongly, the answer is fixed, final,
sure.

When one lying on his couch, dreams that he is in Europe walking on

foreign payments, what manner of being is that one who is thus protrayed in
the dream? In one breath we can say. hgyt0066 “That man walking on the
streets of Europe doesn't exist” but with another view, we can trace that non
existent being back to the man upon the couch. Is this not so? We perceive
one entity only, - the one on the couch.

Preserving this same viewpoint and this same procedure of vision, we

begin our problem with perfect individual, spiritual being. From all about us
we hear reports of pain, destruction, poverty, sorrow, disease, death. In one
breath again we can declare, “But that body is a dream body and doesn't
actually exist”. Yet,adopting another view, we say, That may be so, but I'll
trace this mind which is reporting untruly, and I'll discover its starting place.
And lo! in looking back to Beginning, one comes face to face with Reality.

So we see, whichever way we look, whatever process of vision we adopt,

we face the facts that the untrue belief and untrue expression are nothing,
and that the Truth is all.

Clear vision perceives that when the man on the couch is conscious that he
is on the couch, (self-conscious), he is un-conscious that he is on the streets
in Europe and simultaneously the dream picture of him as being there is
gone. Also, as an individual is conscious that he is God-being, (Self-
conscious), he is unconscious that he is a material being subject to sin,
disease and discord, and simultaneously the dream picture of sin, sickness
and death is gone.

Becoming conscious that our life and our being is wholly Spirit, God, (for
there is no other Life or Spirit), we are Self-conscious, and this divine process
of spiritual perception and realization is called “spiritual healing”. Thought
has now ascended, and material belief has yielded to spiritual
understanding.

It is said that the stream rises as high as its source. Likewise if we are to
return to our Father, or perfect state, as portrayed by the parable of the
prodigal, let us see what this state is. If we are to return to perfection in
consciousness, it is because we already are perfection. If we are to return to
our God-state, it is because we are God-being.

If one, dreaming himself upon the streets of Europe, can rise as high as his
source, and his source is the man on the couch, let him see that he is the
one on the couch and his dream is gone. If one dreaming himself in a
material universe, can rise as high as his source, and his source is the one
being, let him see that he is the one being, and his dream will cease.

It seems that we are confronted with the paradox of returning to a “ land

”, which we have never left. We are face to face with the problem of putting
on the true and “putting off” the untrue, when the fact is, as Jesus so simply
stated:

“Ye are the Light... Labor not... the Kingdom is within you”.

“Mortals will someday assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God.”
This is a marvelous prediction. Notice that it is not written ” Immortals ”,
but it is written “ mortals .” How can immortal assert anything at all when, as
we have proven by the dream illustration, immortal is a myth, a soul in a
dream state?

The man on the couch need not assert that he is on the couch, for this is
obvious and he knows it. But the mind that is dreaming itself on foreign
streets, this mind wishes to return to his own home and room; this mind is
tired and weary and would like to rest on the comfortable couch.

The man on the couch does not need rest and repose for he has it, but this
mind in the dream feels the need for this very thing; hence, since he feels
the need, let him assert- in the dream - his freedom from these streets and
from that country. Let him assert his freedom in the name of the man on the
couch. And lo! The dream vanishes. There is only one presence, - the man
on the couch.

Now the being of perpetual harmony does not need immortal health and
glory for he has it. But the mortal being, or the one in the dream of material
existence, feels the need for this very thing, and since he it is who feels the
need of health and harmony, let him assert - in the dream of material
existence, - his freedom from sickness, sin and trouble. Let him assert his
freedom in the name of Almighty God, And lo ! The dream of disease and
discord vanishes. There is only one presence,- Almighty God, the one Being.

Thus, while we seem to be in the dream of material existence and while we

are called “mortals”, we assert our freedom in the name of God, for what
other name is there that shall deliver us? This is the name written in our
forehead, this is the name of our perfect being. Joyfully, we believe it, we
claim it, we accept it, we love it.

When the one dreaming himself on foreign land recognizes that he is all
the while on the couch, he enters his abode of peace and rest. And when “
mortals” assert their freedom in the name of eternal Truth, they find their
heritage of glory and immortality.

Treatment is the acceptance of our freedom as spiritual beings. A real

being cannot be sick, and most certainly an unreal being cannot be sick. For
one to know that he is real being, Spirit, is for him to experience a body that
utters no complaints. This is what is meant by. “The Spirit beareth witness
with our Spirit.” (Romans. 3:16).

When it is clear to us that our true convictions are founded upon Truth, we
realize that actual Truth supports us, and that Truth is all that can ever
control erring sense. Hence, as we establish truth in our consciousness, we
are assured of victory and we regain our sense of paradise.

Let sense awaken to spiritual interpretation of true being. Let beliefs in

limitations, bondage, personality be set aside for higher views and
perceptions. The awakening of the spiritual recognition and acceptance of
self as Soul is the coming of Christ to the individual, revealing Paradise as a
present Reality.

As we advance in spiritual understanding, we perceive that right

interpretations is the beginning of wisdom. Interpreting a spiritual being
spiritually, one spontaneously rises to new heights, wherein is disclosed to
him the coexistence of Soul and universe, and their unfallen spiritual
perfection.

Absolute Science reveals that Omnipotence actually enthroned in every

heart, must be individually acknowledged and demonstrated. Recognizing
and claiming self as Christ, God, sense is lifted to a higher basis, opening
prison doors and letting in the light of glory. Lifted to the inspired
consciousness of Soul and body as one, perfect, immaculate, all-harmonious
brings, Paradise on earth.

Our ascension from faith to power, from sense to glory, from cross to crown
constitutes our Paradise. To the awakened consciousness sense has left the
cradle of mistification and bondage for the crown of irresistible glory. The
crown that no man taketh from us is spiritual understanding, set with the
dazzling jewels of transcending love, light and power.

The eternal varieties of Being, apprehended, claimed and practiced, light

our pathway with victory, delivering to us emancipation from the false sense
of sin, sickness, and death and revealing to us the glories and splendors of
supernal existence.

Let us relinquish the cross testifying to trial and tribulation and accept the
crown of enlightened understanding. Here we rest in the peace of conscious
strength and power, and in the practical demonstration of “Christ in you the
hope of glory”.

The recognition of the self as Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, strikes the note
of universal freedom, gently delivering all from erring sense and lifting them
to the consciousness of life as forever changeless, eternal, glowing and
harmonious.

Paradise is the discovery, the acceptance and the experience of our actual
entity.

If there is no selfhood apart from God, then selfhood is God. If there is no

being separate from the one, then all being is the one. If body is the
expression of Life, Truth and Love then body is perfect, ideal and glorious.

The preaching of the gospel is the presentation of the changeless

continuance of good; of the ever-presence of reality, glory, happiness,
harmony, health on earth as in heaven.
 The healing of the sick is the utilization and practice of right interpretation
and insight, the delivery to the individual of his reality, his perfection, his
glory.

The casting out of demons is the forsaking of false beliefs, the relinquished.
Of hearing notions. We do not give up the body, we give up the false idea of
the body. We do not give up the universe, we give up the eye. The vault
idea of the universe. We do not give up Pleasures, Commons,
companionships, activities, we give up false ideas of pleasures,
companionships, activities.

The raising of the dead is the experiencing of uninterrupted peace,

harmony and immortality.

With spiritual vision we behold Paradise as a reality here and now, an

experience of heavenly peace, glory, harmony, delight. The preaching of the
Kingdom of Paradise on earth is the presentation of the Golden Message: Be
still, and know that I am God.

Truth brings its own peace and harmony. Truth delivers its own joy,
inspiration and uplift. Truth can say unto darkened sense, You cannot come
into my presence without acknowledging Me as the one and only power and
reality.

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God ”.
This life is eternal that we shall recognize and know our reality and identity
as the only true God.

Let one vision, think and act from the standpoint of His Lordship. If one
feels that he needs quickening and illumination, that he needs the fire of
Spirit, let him read the Bible and such books as certain spiritual quickening.
Light kindles light and a lighted consciousness transmits illumination.

Claiming our identity with Spirit only, we begin to have right ideas and
right visions. “This sickness is for the glory of God” said Jesus with loving
assurance. Rising to the consciousness of our full dominion of Spirit, we
glorify our God being. Healing is not actually healing, resurrection is not
actually resurrection. God is changeless reality. We are changeless reality.
Opening our vision to this supernal variety, we transcend the human steps
called healing, overcoming, progressing; we see face to face; We discover
that we have already arrived, and that we are perfect without the process of
progression.
 This is the Science of Ascension, the science of ascending above earthly
States and conceptions. This is the Science of laborless acceptance and
experience.

When one places himself under the action of his thought and its
consequences, he hinders his advancement; but when one places himself
above his thoughts, spontaneously he rises to greater heights.

The notion that a thought or a thing can exist independently of Principle is

false, and this falsity is vanquished by the realization and consciousness of
the true facts of being. Transcending the belief in limitation and bondage,
the so-called limitation and bondage disappear.

We acknowledge ourselves as free, unfettered, faultless, triumphant. We

acknowledge our universe as heavenly, glorious, radiant, supernal. To know
that we ourselves are Truth triumphant strikes the keynote of higher claims.
As there is a strength above the strength of the body and a power above the
power of the mentality so is there a way above the way of progression.

This way is the Science of Ascension, the Science of recognizing a perfect

universe and perfect being here and now. This sublime consciousness
bridges over the periods called birth, age and death, and one finds himself in
Heaven, the only universe, and in the full consciousness of his immortality
and glory.

I am the flame, I am the inspiration, I am the finished wholeness and

completion, I am awake, alive, forevermore. Nothing can separate me from
being God. - “neither death nor life, nor powers, nor things present nor
things to come”.
 Insight excepts the kingdom of Heaven on earth. Insight reports that we
are all one life, substance, being. Insight lifts us to the Mount and discloses
to us our real identity. Insight delivers the ultimate understanding, the
Ascension, which is the experience of supernal glory, harmony and
immortality.

Looking up, we perceived that nothing was impossible with Jesus, that
nothing is impossible with us. Exalted vision discloses that there is no
departure nor lapse from perfection and no return to perfection; but always,
everywhere there is one entity and one expression. As in the night, one sees
glowing stars, so right now, no matter how dark. Seeing your pathway, look
up and behold this golden light before you. Accept your real identity and
love this identity. Your triumph and your redemption are here, already
established, waiting your acceptance.

One awakens from a dream by knowing that he is not in heaven in the

dream. We are the dreamless, the ageless, the deathless reality. We are the
all conquering, the self existing, the unchangeable Christ.
 Chapter. VII
Roll Away the Stone.
Suppose one desiring a certain precious and marvelous stone, searches
and looks everywhere, but all in vain. The gem of his dream cannot be
found.

Finally, one day a friend comes into his presence presenting him with a
handsome velvet box. “In this box”, says the friend, “You will find that for
which you have been searching. Here is the jewel of your heart. Take it for it
is yours.”

Now, what is the first thing that happens to the individual? It is this. His
mind is at peace. He stops longing and wondering for he is at rest. He does
not hasten to open the box, in fact, he rather delights in keeping it unopened
for the moment, for behold, it is here; that which he has desired at last has
come to pass.

Perhaps someone now reading these lines has problems, fears, troubles.
Let this message. - Science of Ascension - be the precious Jewel, the
priceless Treasure delivered into your hand.

There need now be no hurry about the overthrow of sin, sickness and
limitation. You can now relax and be at peace, for to the heart has come the
Light and Truth, and this Light and Truth means freedom, deliverance. This
Truth means laborless emancipation from a sense that is material to a sense
that is divine; From a mind that is darkened to a mind that is lighted; From
experience that is discordant to experience that is joyous.

The jewel is here. The mystery is unveiled. Now one sees the Way, one
feels the joy, one receives the glory that Infinite Consciousness has prepared
for those who arise and accept the way to that heavenly City and that
perfect Land, which in truth was never left. And into his experience comes a
new heaven and a new earth, for former beliefs have passed away.

By virtue of the fact that we have abolished the belief that we are human
and have accepted the understanding that we are Spirit, we are prepared to
accept the glories of Ascension. By virtue of the fact that we are God-being,
we cannot be sick and we cannot die. Our eyes now see and our ears now
hear the wonderful things that are prepared for those who accept this
glorious Vision.
 Often it is asked why it is that some students apprehend and accept
advanced ideas of Truth readily and easily; Others apparently equally as
eager and earnest do not accept the presentation, but instead hold
tenaciously to differing views and concepts.

The process of individual acceptance may be made clear by the following

illustration. Suppose that a party of friends enter a new and beautiful
furnished residence to examine its style, furniture, art, etcetera. In this party
are an electrician, and artist, a musician, as well as children of varying ages.

They all enter this spacious and luxuriously furnished home. Do you see
the musician giving his attention first of all to the tapestries, or to the floors,
or the decorations of the ceiling? Indeed not. He finds the grand piano and
for the time this absorbs his whole attention. And the artist, - is he too,
stationed at the piano? Why, already he's wandering from room to room,
engrossed with the etchings and paintings. The electricians examines the
latest style of electric features and is interested in the radio. The children
amuse themselves with games and books; each adult seeks that which
particularly captures his attention.

Now everything about this group of people is just as it should be at that

moment, is it not?? Each one is following a certain mental inclination and
culture, and each one is finding pleasure and satisfaction at his particular
point of attention.

It is quite like this with the great numbers of people who studied the Bible
and who study metaphysical works and messages. We find books, written by
highly specialized minds, setting forth verses from the Bible to prove that
Jesus was the Son of man. On the same shelves with these books are others,
written by equally respected minds, setting forth verses from the same Bible
to prove that Jesus was the Son of God and actually God Himself. Year after
year, century after century, new books of such character are being
published.

It is like this when it comes to the study of metaphysical science. It seems

that from the same textbook, variously different ideas are received and
promulgated. It simply means that one expresses himself according to his
individual state of consciousness.

The child pursues life in a different direction from the adult and each one
absorbs from books and teachings that which corresponds to his present
view of life and being. This is the reason why one can seemingly find in the
Bible whatever will support his belief, no matter which side of the message
he had adopted as his viewpoint. The Bible furnishes this paradox.

Jesus stated: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth;” yet, “of
my own self I can do nothing.” Another Biblical paradox: “The flesh profiteth
nothing”-( St. John 6:63 ) “-Flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.” -
(Cor.15:50); yet. “All flesh shall see the salvation of God” –(St. Luke 3:6 )
“That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh”-(2-
Cor. 4:11) Another :” I form light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I, the Lord, do all these things.: -(Is. 45:7) yet,”God is light, and
in him there is no darkness at all.”-(1Joh 1:5). “Thou are of purer eyes than to
behold evil” –(Hab.1:13).

The one of Insight is not dismayed by these seeming contradictions.

Climbing the ladder of life, we choose what we shall see and believe. But
there comes a time when we no longer choose, no longer separate, no longer
adopt certain specific forms of beliefs, for now, the paradox is plain to us, we
see on all sides and we reconcile all as one.

We can now understand another's view no matter where he stands upon

the ladder; also, we can show him the next step ahead. To one of exalted
vision, all views blend into one great Reality, and at last, one can say
understandingly, there is no evil.

A child has the right to childhood, and one in his study of life has a perfect
right to think and act according to his vision. Indeed, what else can he do?
Therefore, during the transitional period where one is choosing, selecting,
balancing, arguing, separating, and dividing, he acts according to his
unfolding vision. He is seeing two factors, two sides to life, and. He is
choosing between them.

But when he has reached a certain peak of vision, perhaps slowly, perhaps
swiftly, he perceives the paradox and he exclaims with the prophet. “The
darkness and the light are both alike.” From then on. He commences to
perceive Oneness. Wherever he looks, whatever he reads, in the office, in
the home, on the screen, in the stars, lo, everything speaks to him of the
One life, the One Being, the One expression.

He sees now why it is that over the world is heard a word echoing from the
Superplane, - the word Co-operation. Does this not mean oneness,
agreement, unity? Certainly it does. Down through the ages it has been
eternally sounding. “Let there be light!” Multitudes are hearing as they
never heard before and earnest and eager attention is focused on peace, on
harmony, on service, on love, on oneness.

“That which has been Is now; and that which is to be hath already been”-
( Ecc 3:15). Every good thing that seems coming to us is already here. It is
coming to individual recognition, that is all. It is being apprehended by
individual consciousness. In reality, it has been from eternity, but now it is
appearing to us, individually. This is the way in which. “Creation” is finished,
yet creation is constantly an eternally appearing to individual recognition.

With the dawning and consciousness of this view of oneness and

indivisibility, one gently rises from a mortal, limited state of thinking to a
free, immortal state of understanding. With this heavenly vision there
appears the new earth, for always. Corresponding expression accompanies
ascending states of consciousness.

Verily, O Glorious Reality, Thy Kingdom is coming. - is here, - on earth as it

is in Heaven.

Swiftly comes the end of darkness when light arrives. Swiftly over all the
face of the earth comes the end of separation, division, opposition,
ignorance, - for the light of reality is here. Illumination consumes all
misunderstanding, and the King of Love and Glory is enthroned in hearts, in
social groups, in nations.

Day by day, the whole world is echoing back the song of angels:

“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill towards men.”-
(St. Luke 2:14)

Of what advantage is it to have a selfhood that is God, almighty,

unlimited, all-powerful, all- glorious if we do not let this One live in us, if we
do not let this One shine in us, if we do not let this One act in us?

To realize freedom, authority, let us accept and practice the one presence
as all. In this way, that which has seemed false in our minds will be
transcended, swallowed up by the good in our own true Nature.

As we perceive the allness of the One and the oneness of the ALL, we can
say, “Heaven is here, the desert blossoms as they rose, the lion and the lamb
express the same being.”

Ever It is I, the divine Mind, the Jesus Christ Self, which speaketh, saying.
“I am whole, I am perfect, I am wonderful, I am glorious, I am victorious, I am
all, and besides me there is no other Authority.”
 Always there is a way of escape because of the mental nature of
limitations. For example: a caterpillar cannot fly, but suppose he should wish
that he might fly, of what avail would this wish be, since it is not the nature
of the caterpillar to fly? There is a path, however, a way for him, unseen by
reason. There is a way of deliverance. Let that entity put on (accept) the
butterfly; then he can fly.

Now, the human being wishes to be perfect, to be free, to be well and

divine. But it is not in the nature of a material being to be perfect, to be
glorious, to be free and divine. Yet there is a solution. There is a way of
fulfillment. The way is that of Absolute Science.

Let the so-called mortal put off the state of false belief for the state of
understanding. Let him emerge from material belief into spiritual ascension,-
“from matter into Spirit,” - then automatically he is glorious, he is divine, he
is free.

A butterfly need not crawl. Neither need nor can an Immortal being
function in sickness, sin and death. Behold the Light. Behold the Way.
Behold the Science of Ascension.

The God to whom we look, to whom we turn for deliverance, is verily our
own true Being. The God who healeth and redeemeth and saveth is verily the
Self of Jesus, the Self of You, the Self of Me, the one and only Self,- one God,
one Totality.

It has been stated that we must translate the universe back into Spirit, that
we must interpret spiritual things spiritually. For instance, we are to perceive
that we are the Divine Mind, and that we manifest all which comprises the
infinitude of Truth.

Jesus, while in human form, demonstrated the spiritual revelation of

atonement, resurrection, and ascension. As life is spiritually interpreted,
material sense is put off for spiritual Science. This transition from lower or
human sense of life to a new and higher sense, presents the way of
fulfillment through earthly development. Jesus’ nativity being a spiritual
sense of a spiritual world, naturally his mission was to interpret the spiritual
universe spiritually.

Inspiration is the light which illumines the darkness and reveals to us that
like Jesus, our nativity is Spirit, Soul. In the dark hour let this inspiration
shine for it is Inspiration which individualizes infinite power, sweeping aside
clouded sense as the breeze sweeps away mist. Inspiration proceeds from a
consciousness which believes in almighty Truth, a consciousness which
speaks imperatively from the basis of faith and understanding.

What “Stone” or obstacle can withstand Omnipotence? When one has the
living Fire, he fears nothing. For this living Flame is a law unto itself, and is
absolute Authority.

Whatever seems an obstacle in our path can be rolled away by insight and
inspiration. The fire of courage, certainty, power, born of spiritual
inspiration, is the flaming sword which turns every way to establish life as
irresistible, triumphant, victorious and supreme.

The “new tongue” accompanies right interpretation. As one translates

things into ideas, and ideas into soul, he needs a higher expression to
convey his advanced understanding and make practical the commands of
Jesus.

Every advancing period delivers a higher and clearer interpretation of

Being. As the vision of Truth becomes more fully interpreted and practiced,
individuals will more clearly apprehend their original and the absolute state
of being. They will rise naturally and easily to the mount of Revelation,
crowning earth with irresistible glory. Thought will soar above false beliefs to
triumphant freedom and to understanding and experience of ineffable love,
light and glory.

Human experience gives us plenty of opportunity to express that spiritual

dominion which was enthroned in us in the “beginning.” Exercising this
dominion one advances rapidly in spiritual vision and spiritual revelation.

The view from the mountain peak seems quite different from the view in
the valley. Looking from the mount of spiritual vision, one sees that the
heavenly Kingdom has come to earth, that perfection, glory, harmony,
immortality are established without beginning or ending and that this being
is forever perfectly expressed and manifested.

Looking from the Valley, one perceives progress, advancement,

regeneration; one perceives that seeds become plants, and that mortals
become Immortals through spiritualization and regeneration. From the
mount of Vision one views the universe clearly and interprets it truly, while
from the valley one looks through mistaken sense and interprets the prefect
world imperfectly, untruly, materially.

Seeing the perfect universe through a veil or mist, one sees it by degrees,
“step by step” ascending as the veil is lifted. For instance, when “healing”
takes place, it appears as though the body had changed from sickness to
health, and when one manifests life more abundantly, it appears as though
he were immortalizing the body.

The fact is, however, that one cannot immortalize his body for the reason
that this act has already been accomplished. The body is perfect now and
this perfect body is recognized and understood when rightly viewed.

Roll away the stone of erring vision for “Behold, I make things all new”. -
(Rev. 24:5.). Into the mind there comes a new sense, a feeling of joyous
inspiration and courage for now it is seen that while there is nothing to be
done or outwardly accomplished, there is an inner viewpoint which shall be
attained. It is as this correct viewpoint is attained that we express the Truth
in our daily experience.

There are not two beings, one spiritual and the other material, nor are
there two worlds, one perfect and the other imperfect. Looking with clear
vision, one interprets all things spiritually perfectly. Looking through
mistaken sense, one reports spiritual reality falsely, calling the spiritual being
a material being and Speaking of perfect universe as a material world.

Now that insight is here we joyously accept it, and we love life and we love
all the activities of a perfect universe.

As one gains a clearer and clearer view of perfect Life and its perfect
expression, it seems as though he were actually immortalizing and perfecting
his body. He is perfecting his viewpoint, that is all; he is establishing himself
on the Mountain Peak and is seeing life spiritually, instead of dwelling in the
valley and interpreting life materially.

Proportionately as one widens his horizon does he more correctly view and
interpret perfect, complete being and perfect, complete universe. No change
ever takes place in perfect, establishing being or in perfect, established
expression. Our prerogative is to know this sublime reality and to apprehend
this fact of being.

It is clearly seen that Jesus while on earth and “In the flesh” viewed a
perfect universe, and that he continuously called this Kingdom to the
attention of those around him. He also saw perfect Expression as ever-
present. His instantaneous “healings” proved this fact.
 Now when one individual is perceiving life and its expression from the
mountain peak, and another individual is viewing life and its expression from
the valley, their reports seemed opposed to each other. The one on the peak
reports beauty, harmony, glory, perfection, while he in the valley reports
discord, sickness, sin, bondage.

Let it be very clearly grasped and fixed in consciousness that the discord is
not opposing the harmony, that sickness is not the opposite of health, nor is
bondage at war with freedom. It is a mistake to let mind accept the notion of
separation, opposition, warfare, for nothing of this sort is present anywhere.

Let us adopt the new tongue, revising our vocabulary and striking out
words which do not harmonize to the divine viewpoint. Why waste time and
glory in discussing what isn't true? Why not hasten to the marriage feast
already prepared, and eat and drink with our risen Lord? In proportion as
one rises above mistaken sense and its viewpoint, he finds himself on the
mountain Peak, understanding that the universe is one, and that whether
one visions from the peak or from the valley, what he sees is altogether a
matter of consciousness.

Death is not the opposite of life, nor is evil the opposite of good. For the
simple reason that one is ever present while the other is always illusion. If
you enter a dimly lighted room and mistake a pedestal for an intruder, would
it not be practicing absurdity to declare the intruder the opposite of the
pedestal?

In Omnipresence there are no opposites. This is right vision. This is the

view beheld from the mountain Top. Never does the material expression
contradict the spiritual reality; Never does earth contradict heaven. Nothing
can contradict Reality, for Reality is all, and Reality is forever established.

One ceases to mention “materiality” and “evil” when he apprehends and

accepts completeness and uninterrupted fullness as one Presence now and
here. Using the new tongue, erring expressions drop away naturally and
without taking thought.

“We shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2 ). It is an established certainty.

That we shall perceive perfect meaning and perfect universe as the way we
are; that drinking of the living Waters we shall see face to face.

As mistaken sense fades out, one perceives reality more clearly.

Misinterpreting this process of vision, however, one erringly speaks of reality
as physical healing and physical improvement. It should be known that we
do not restore the body; instead, we restore the sense of it; we restore the
point of vision. This is accomplished by calmly and trustingly declaring that
good is ever present, and that there are no opposites, that one Presence and
one Experience are forever here and with us.

Every living thing enjoys freedom. Birds and animals and high souled men
love great forests and unwalled spaces. All living things delight in freedom
because Life itself is freedom. All living things cling to life. No matter how
many years one may have been in this world, even at the end he wishes to
remain in it, to stay a little longer, to prolong the time with loved ones. Why
is that? Because Soul cannot consider destruction. Life knows no such
thing as death. Life and its individual activity cannot be separated.

We give ourselves to the one and there remains no sense of personality, no

notion of separation. It is because the One is our life and is our heart that we
can never be entirely satisfied with the joys and pleasures of this world. Do
we not see men continually searching after happiness, always eager to have
greater abundance, never quite satisfied, but always seeking just a little
further ahead? Now, one may believe that he is seeking pleasure in material
things, greater abundance of wealth, nearer and dearer companionship, but
only while it is Truth that he is seeking. He is seeking his heart, his treasure,
himself.

Now, in one language this is called evolution and in another language it is

called progress; But rising above languages, where we see that one shall find
himself, that one shall meet his own glory and shall know his own identity.
One will never be satisfied with less than all because his nature is the
unlimited, the eternal, the infinite. It may seem to him that he seeks
companionship, wealth, amusement, but even though he may know it not, he
seeks the unchangeable; he seeks the unlimited, the infinite, the eternal.

Seeking his perfection, his reality, he will never desist until he finds it, -
until he comes face to face with his own glory. “As for me, I shall be satisfied
when I awake with thy likeness.” (Ps. 17:15).

We naturally love all things beautiful, lovely, desirable, not really for things
themselves, as one may believe, but for the Self. The Self is beauty and so
loves beauty. We desire wealth, unlimited abundance of all things, not for
the sake of wealth itself, that we may accumulate or hoard it, but for the Self.
The Self is the eternal wealth of joy and satisfaction.

We love people, friends, companions, relatives, not that we may attach

ourselves to them, but we love them because we see in them the Self. The
self knows that it is universal and omnipresent and so constantly and
continuously Seeks to express and embody itself. The source of all joy,
peace, satisfaction, glory is Us, the Self.

We are here for a greater destiny than to function in time and space.
Come on, there is something in us which urges us ever up and on, which
promises that we shall be conscious of our omnipresent and be instantly
wherever we wish to be; that we shall become conscious of our omniscience
and have instantly revealed to us any particular knowledge that we may
desire at the moment; that we shall be conscious of our omniscience, and
merely speak the word, and it shall come to pass; that we shall become
conscious of our Immortality and live forever.

The Christ eternally breathed upon us the message of our everlasting

glory, Wonder, power, majesty and immortality.

If we feel burdened by matter and mind, by belief in the hardness of

human problems, we rise up and sing, we take our hymn book and raise our
voice in song and praise. One cannot sing along without feeling that he is
lifted up above his problem. Song inspires and lifts up the mind so, that
seeming troubles begin to manifest less of proportion, less of weight, and
soon they appear smaller and farther away.

We sing until we feel the answer within us, feel the warmth and the glory of
peace and power. Throughout the Bible one may find that there are many
examples of quick deliverance and emancipation from erring belief through
song and praise.

“Roll away the stone!” Sing and praise Life for Its wonderful freshness and
ever restoring fairness and loveliness. Praise Intelligence for Its omnipotence
and dominion. Praise Love for its ever-flowing affection and forgiveness.
Praise Truth for Its outpouring abundance and Its wealth of living ideas.
Open the heart and let it rejoice in song; Let it come Into its own, - the
Kingdom of supernal delight.

Song brings a quickening, a melting down of false beliefs in the mind, a

breaking away of clouds, a rendering of the tomb of Ignorance. Roll away
the stone!
 Whatever seems a tomb inclosing one in the delusion of darkness and
night, his song can roll the stone away. Jesus; coming to the tomb of his
friend, issued the order, Roll away the stone! Now, he who found it possible
to reproduce the presence of Lazareth, so that he walked forth in triumphant
glory, could certainly have caused the stone to roll away. without assistance,
- other than the Authority of the Word alone.

Jesus saw something, however, that these people could now do for
themselves, something that would symbolize the rolling away of a stone of
much greater importance. In the midst of every individual is this all-knowing
Power which can roll away the stone or seeming obstacle.

Those who say that they have never felt the Presence, heard the Voice, or
seen the Light, have nevertheless read the words, “Believe in Me” begin at
once to believe in this omnipresent Christ, and begin at once to accept this
Christ as your own Self. Accepting, believing, watching, praising, one
reaches Understanding which is able to do all things for him.

We are conscious of our hands and feet, why should we not be conscious of
our Life and Soul?

Now this living soul has been called the Christ, the Superconscious Mind,
the Father, and many other terms. But the underlying meaning is the same,
- It is one Being, it is one Reality.

Learn the Science of Ascension and be free. Through the understanding

and practice of this Science you will control error with Truth, sense with Soul,
and belief with Understanding.

As one sees that he himself is the Trinity, that he himself is the Light and
the Way, he becomes fearless and free.

How can one help but receive that which is his very own, that which ever
remains awaiting his recognition and acceptance? From beginning to end,
from eternity to eternity he is destined to come into realization that the
Kingdom of God is his and that his actual being is the One.

Ascension is the exercise of one's inherent Glory. Ascension is the drinking

of living Water and the partaking of heavenly Bread.

It is predestined from eternity that at some time in the experience of every

individual, false sense will be found unreal and untrue, and true
Consciousness will be found complete and ever present.
 Revelation brings all things to our remembrance, transcending the
evidence of the material senses and translating sense and language back
into their original tongue and substance.

Let us not be selfish with this glorious Understanding and Light but let us
give it freely to the universe. Let us rejoice to see the spreading of truth no
matter who speaks it nor what avenue opens for its expression. When we
can look upon everyone as ourselves, blessing all efforts to bring the
Kingdom of heaven on earth, then we are practicing our vision and are
beholding the divine Science which has rolled away the stone from this
sepulchre of our Lord.

Let us say, “All the good I ever thought, all the good I ever said or did, this
good was not mine, but was Thine. Let the universe take it. That all who will
take it, for what is Thine is universal, having no attachment, having no will
but the will of universal love and brotherhood.”

So shall we receive freely, even as we give freely. And the good that we
do, the wisdom that we speak, will be so wonderful, so great in light and
glory, that our personal self will be entirely lost sight of and the impersonal
and universal Christ will reign supreme. Then indeed are we glorified. Then
indeed are we prepared to behold the Creation which is perfect and good and
which can be seen face to face.

Discovering the power of Insight to break the dream of false sense, we

spiritualize thought and action, demonstrating the unreality of sin, sickness,
and discord.

A material sense of life is all that has to be relinquished, and this action
takes place automatically as one precedes and accepts his actual being and
his actual heritage. Material sense yields to the science of Ascension in
proportion as one learns and practices the radiance of his free, flawless and
triumphant Self.

The Science of Reality wipes away tears, lifts off shackles and delivers
Glory, Power, Insight and Triumph.

Sickness, sin, limitation, bondage exist only as false sense, and as this
darkened sense is controlled with the light of spiritual, precipitation and
understanding, such limitations and bondage cease and one finds himself
free, unfettered and harmonious.

The power of light over darkness is universally accepted and utilized.

Likewise the “New tongue” explaining the power of enlightened spiritual
sense over mistaken, deluded belief, is rapidly coming into a wider
recognition and acceptance.

The foundation of spiritual healing is Truth, Insight, Understanding. As one

attains a mind in harmony with Truth, he laborlessly experiences a body
governed and controlled by harmony.

Every step we take spiritually places us more firmly and surely in the realm
of conscious joy, glory and happiness. The emancipation of our bodies from
sickness, our minds from fear and our lives from discord, follows the
perception, understanding and acceptance of our being as the Unlimited,
Adorable, and Eternal.

In the Science of Omnipotence, there is no lo, here! or lo, there! but

steadily, firmly, we keep our minds on the fact that there is but one
Substance, one Power, one Life and one Being.

When the spiritual preception reaches truth. Then error is subdued and it
disappears. The human mind, advancing above itself toward sublime reality,
relinquishes the mistaken and transient view for spiritual perception and
divine consciousness.

Thus, as mind accepts spiritual understanding, it rises above all falsity, and
the divine Consciousness is found to be the only Mind, Intelligence and
Actuality. Then appear a new heaven and a new earth and former views, and
things will have passed away.

Sin, sickness, Death, are unsustained by Truth and will disappear and be
swallowed up in spiritual Truth and Reality, - in Victory, Ascension and
Triumph.

Revelation and illumination, transmitted by spiritual consciousness, Correct

Aaron sense and Aaron belief, Transforming Earth with triumphal glory.

Because the one is all being, and all being is the one, A realization of this
fact will deliver us from evil and will open our vision to behold the spiritual
phenomena of divine reality.

Consciousness, held in a full sense of existence, will be uplifted, purified

and elevated, either by ascension or by the progressive human steps, until
all come into the knowledge of reality and rise superior to limited sense and
existence.

Accept the joys and glories of your real being. True understanding will roll
away the stone and will open for you the door to supernal delights.
 You can achieve all good, all joy. All happiness. See first the
understanding of spiritual reality, the Kingdom of heaven, and the
abundance of independent glories, pleasures, and harmonies will be
showered upon you.

As the heart accepts the sublime message that individual being is Being
individualized, under the law of Love - the law of the Christ presence,
consciousness is then released from its fears and darkness, and
spontaneously it rises to behold the spotless glory of spiritual being, spiritual
body, and spiritual universe.

It has been said that all spiritual teaching in this world may be rightly
grouped under three headings. The first heading is: I am his. Dear God is
thought of in the third person. One talks about God. One sings about God.
One says. “I am his” as though God were a great way off.

The second group of heading is this: “I AM THINE” God is now being

brought closer to the individual. God is not spoken of or about, but God is
spoken to. God now becomes nearer and nearer. God hears and answers
prayers.

In the third position, the veil of duality is torn completely away. Oneness
now holds the vision, and the cry is: “I AM THOU”. Now “mine” and “Thine”
are the same. The One is recognized, acknowledged and accepted as all.

Thus, shall we not all find that, one after another, we have taken just these
three positions in our seeming journey from sense to Soul? I am His ! I am
Thine ! I am Thou !

“Arise, shine; thy light is come;

The glory of the Lord is upon thee”

FINIS
 EPILOGUE

SCIENCE OF ASCENSION.

Valiant Thor.

In the “It Can Be Now Be Told” department, we may now reveal that the
“prophet” who contacted religious author Lillian D. Waters was none other
than the enlightened Venusian thinker, Valiant Thor. Unfortunately, this
slight of hand was necessary at the time due to heightened tensions during
the buildup of World War Two. Various threats that had been made against
Thor and his family, who were working hard to stop the Nazi threat that was
building in Europe after World War One.

Since Waters was such a popular writer on spiritual topics, and the vocal
supporter of the “Four Dimensional” thesis, it was crucial that she would
be among the first Earthlings contacted. Interestingly, at the same time,
Thor tapped Waters to translate and Transcribe this book, The Science of
Ascension, Union Carbide had just built the world's first nuclear reactor in
South Charleston, West Virginia. After they subcontracted the uranium
processing for this and other reactors out to German companies like I G
Farben, and those companies began supporting Hitler and the use of slave
labor, Valiant Thor stepped up and began A crusade to keep the nuclear
technology from proliferating.

Thor is known for having worked closely with Nikola Tesla, sharing all the
knowledge he could with that advanced human, even though some of it may
have skirted the fringes of Galaxy law (which states that we should merely
observe Underdeveloped species, rather than actively intervene on their
behalf.). Some of Tesla's most common inventions ended up in the hands of
Union Carbides German subsidiary Linda Corporation, which led to startling
advancements in plutonium enrichment, the “cracking” of natural gas, and
the refrigeration and refinement of rare elemental substances used
throughout various industries today. Thor’s contact with Waters came long
before his forced internment in the Pentagon between 1957 and 1960. As
we reprint many of the books we first published many years ago, it should
become obvious that Valiant Thor was never totally imprisoned in the
Pentagon. As mentioned in Doctor Frank Stranges’ “Stranger at the
Pentagon” Thor could sneak out any time he wanted. And he did so many
times, in order to spread, to various UFO contactees, the anti-nuclear
message that was so important then - as it is now.

Luckily, Thor succeeded and was able to convince world leaders to pull
back from the abyss of all out nuclear war. Unfortunately, his good friends
John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F Kennedy were all
assassinated, setting us back greatly in our effort to “Ascend” and become
an enlightened society. We are still struggling with the forces of ignorance
and intolerance today.

The work of valiant Thor and his Venusians associates was obviously of great
importance in helping mankind through a difficult time period. What we may
ultimately do with the many Concepts that Thor gifted Tesla, Waters, and
others is of course still up in the air. But, so far, so good. I asked my readers
now to continue supporting the endeavors of these courageous Venusians.
We may also someday experience a world free of fear and war and enjoy our
birthright as free citizens of this Galaxy.

Gray Barker, 1980.

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