Sub.Expanded:Subject (1) Mind versus Matter

Jesus said the [?] Unclear or illegible re was not a greater born of woman than John the Baptist and yet the least in the Kingdom of Heaven was greater than heMatt 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. The words of the prop [?] Unclear or illegible het yea more th [?] Unclear or illegible an prophetMatt 11:9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. were true however contradictory they might appear Why? Because the ideas they conveyed were not learned of man of the Schools of the five personal senses Th He talked Truth loved it and lived it therefore his words were inspired of God and reve his teachings w [?] Unclear or illegible ere the revelations of the divine PrincpleCorrected:Principleeven divine Truth Life Love. This then settles the question of their veracity authenticity and rightful authority to be received by us without cavil & to rule our [?] Unclear or illegible  lives Addressing his students he He said the Kingdom of Heaven is within youLuke 17:20 ¶And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Then [?] Unclear or illegible ce it follwsCorrected:follows that the pious BaptistEditorial Note: John the Baptist was less than what he within his present possibilities to be even within or th [?] Unclear or illegible e power of mortals born of woman within the possibilities that human knowledge conferred that knowledge that d obtained from the 5 personal sense from books study observation reason and the schools could bestow Does it not then greatly behoove us to know what this [?] Unclear or illegible  attainment was the least whereof was greater than all else even those acquirements for which mortals strive & give money without stint and all their lives are in persuitCorrected:pursuit thereof Even I will can tell you dear friends what the secret of this treasure above all price was, and is. It is the secret place of the Most HighPs 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. spoken of in the Psalter by David the Hebrew bard But what is this secret place? aAgain I can reply answer on the basis and authority of revelation and inspiration and the teachings of [?] Unclear or illegible  the Great MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ It is the spiritual idea of God and the universe wherein man and all that He God created and all that God He reveals and inspires is found and found to be to be spiritual and not never material I know this is true for And Christ Jesus the as representative of the Father of that is of Spirit and not matter plainly declared it in all he taught this He said call no man Father for one is your father even GodMatt 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. This was a his protest against man [?] Unclear or illegible  being material and a plain declaration that man God he is and all that God Spirit evolves are spiritual Also such as the scientific record in Genesis of creation in Genesis shows it and declares it in these words in that [?] Unclear or illegible  it declare God made all and it was goodGen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. . wWe all admit that Good or goodness is spiritual and not materiealCorrected:material and aAgain it the Scripture reads He made man in His own image and likenessGen 1:26 ¶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. this therefore is spiritual and not material and we We have no history of matter or of its a material creation till the history of error as as the opposedite to of Truth was recor [?] Unclear or illegible ded and sin and death as its conconcomitants Now the Scripture reads God is SpiritJohn 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. and God is infinite and we ask can the InfiteCorrected:Infinite have an opposite? Now come with me to the revelation that when Jesus gave in proof that the secret of God is learned spiritually and is no secret in Divine Science wherein all is that is real is eternal and to be eternal it must be spiritual found to be right spiritual [?] Unclear or illegible  and eternal

Again note the consistency of Jesus Corrected: Jesus's statements when he reiterated this mighty truth in when answering the saying in reply to the Rabis Corrected: Rabbi's question Love the God with all thy heart and love thy mind sooulCorrected:soul and mindMatt 22:34 ¶But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Matt 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Matt 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Matt 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. which interpreted in the spiritual tongue means [?] Unclear or illegible  Thou shalt have no other gods before meEx 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. and love thy negbor as thyselfMatt 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. . Credit as [?] Unclear or illegible  thyself This takes in the First comandmntCorrected:commandment This give all thy affections thy inmortal Corrected: immortal powers and thy consciousness to God to Spirit And this command which must meamCorrected:mean give no consciousness to or matter and give no affection thereto in other words or sense thou shalt have no affection love for [?] Unclear or illegible  material things and nor but Spirit and no [?] Unclear or illegible  hold any to matter partnership therewith

Again Genesis in not only affirms this necessity in the First Comandmet of the Hebrew DecalogueEx 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. but gives a vivid account of God's curseGen 3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. on all other than his spiritual modes and forms of bingCorrected:being And Jesus adds to his other command Jesus said that on th [?] Unclear or illegible ese two commands anothers that he says is equally imperative viz love love to [?] Unclear or illegible  thy neighbor as thyself fulfilled the on which two connands he declared hangs Obedience to [?] Unclear or illegible  hung hangs all the law and prophets, rested all divine law and and human wisdom and weal Note how Now Obedience to these two divine requirements destroys all power to sin to or to depart from the spiritual standpoint of mans original being and action whi as made by SSpirit [?] Unclear or illegible  and not from dustGen 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. [?] Unclear or illegible  the material basis for life and mind Loving one's neighbor takes as oneself removes all possible and all selfishness and shows that man has no enemi [?] Unclear or illegible esMatt 5:43 ¶Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Matt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Matt 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Luke 6:27 ¶But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Luke 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. to love since neighbor is defind Corrected: defined most friendly This grace and science obtained of Spirit is the secret place which verifies and brings [?] Unclear or illegible  into and mansCorrected:man's present experience what David sang in the 91st PsalmPs 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. and what Jesus lauded as [?] Unclear or illegible  the Kingdom of Heaven within youLuke 17:20 ¶And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. All brought about by the spiritualization of thought and the scientific understanding that all is Spirit, Mind, and there is no matter

Anecdotes

My Mother taught me to say after any naughtiness and she had punished me for it "I am sorry and I will not do that so again" When I was twelve years old [?] Unclear or illegible  and pained over points of old timeCorrected:old-time faiths one day I asked her, one day if eternal punishment was true She paused then with a deep replid I su sigh answered Mary I suppose it is Then What said I when if we repent are sorry and tell God "we are sorry and will not do so again" [?] Unclear or illegible  will God continue to punish us? then? "Then he is not as good as my mother and he will find me a hard case" Oh chi [?] Unclear or illegible ld she exclaimed then you will remember what you have said Her words are fulfilldCorrected:fulfilled. I have fretted over injustice till now etc etc

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When my son was two years old his fath having passed he lay on my lap asleep his fFather had passed on I was alone and a tear fell from my eyes on his [?] Unclear or illegible downy cheek, it wakened him, and then [?] Unclear or illegible putting up his soft little palm he patted my cheek and Manma said Gorgie is man is tomp'nyCorrected:company for mamma Even that broken sentence from the child-heart It really solaced me

Oh may mother's tears daily falling that daily fall on the brow of thought waken the sleepers to become to be company for the woman in the wildernessRev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.