The three are one. They are the Trinity. It is as true of the whole, as of the part, that Being is Spirit, Mind and Body. It is a unit; one part is as real as the other. There is no division, save in consciousness. Being is greater than consciousness of Being, and consciousness of Being is greater than manifestation of Being, else there would be no longing for expression; but the three are one-expression is simply enfolded in the Being-the essence of which it is. For this reason Jesus said, "The Father is greater than I," and yet said, "The Father and I are one." Manifestation is contained in and is of Being. God breathes forth consciousness, and consciousness breathes forth body. That is the Law, breathing forth, or giving. God is Omnipotent. His initial breath is all power. It must pervade the universe. This breathing forth is the Holy Spirit. Early in my awakening I realized that the Holy Spirit is a flowing something. It enters one as a current. Jesus said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." "He breathed on them the Holy Spirit." This same Holy Spirit is spoken of as the blood of Christ, the universal circulation. Now we have seen from Paul that Man fits in the universe just as the members or cells fit in the individual body. It is easy to see then how this Blood of Christ Universal has as its symbol the blood which flows through and feeds the cells of our bodies. It is here we see why we are cautioned to buy and not to sell the Truth. Picture to yourself two cells in the body, and the circulation of blood streaming through them. The initial impulse from the heart is outward. The blood rushes in and out of the cells, in at one side and out the other. The opening is made to receive and to give. A cell cannot receive its fresh supply until it has opened itself to give to its neighbor just below. "Give and ye shall receive." In fact, it buys every drop of blood it receives with the drop of blood it sends forth, but it does not sell. If it sold there would be an exchange, which would cause a cross current. In making the exchange congestion would take place in the cells just above the operation, while starvation would be the result just below. Confusion would cause riot, disease are one. and death. They are bidden to be of One Mind; to all buy and sell not. The cells are in no fear of loss, for they They have entered the universal consciousness where they see that they are not giving to another, but to themselves, or rather theirself, for the All is One. They see the blood as a universal supply, sometimes belonging to the whole, and therefore no individual cell can sell it, for he does not own it. It belongs to the body as a whole. He knows in buying continually he loses nothing, for this circulation circulates. It completes a circle. It follows its course in a continuous stream, and passing through the lungs is breathed upon again, renewed, enriched, and is returned to him a better drop of blood than that which he sent forth. "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Our gift is renewed and enriched in the process of giving, and cannot fail to return; it makes the circuit. We are so blinded by the sense that we must receive from the one to whom we have given. What matter who makes us the return; is not a gift as good from one pair of hands as another? Let us give to Christ and receive from Christ. There are three reasons why we cannot sell the Truth. 1. To both buy and sell implies a double mind. We are to be of One Mind. 2. To sell is not to image God, who gives. 3. One cannot sell what does not belong to him. To do so is to act out a lie, and therefore cannot be the Truth. Now, how does this relate to plain, everyday dollars? As quickly as I had seen that the Holy Spirit flows, I saw that our money symbolized in our affairs the blood in our individual body and the Holy Spirit in our universal body. I saw that it was the one thing of our man-made possessions which circulates, which passes from hand to hand. I had satisfied myself that this was so, and then later discovered a second witness to this revelation which made the thing established in my mind. This witness was at one time writing a letter and intended to use the words, "Holy Spirit." Having made the H, she changed her mind, and decided to use the word "Spirit" instead, so made her S over the H already formed. made the dollar mark. She was astounded to find she had If one has followed this treatise carefully, he can surely see why Jesus so continually warned his followers against the quest for mammon which destroys body and soul in death. The money is good, and can be rightly obtained and abundantly used, but the quest for it brings. death. To close your purse and refuse to let your money circulate will contract the cells of your body against the free flow of the blood, and your lungs against the free passage of the Holy Breath. To open your purse in the consciousness of God's abundant supply is to not only demonstrate opulence, but life. "Let every man seek his neighbor's wealth, and not his own," is the command. Why? Because to increase your neighbor's wealth is to increase your Your neighbor and yourself are the same person. A mighty stream of opulence is back of you, simply longing to pour through you, waiting for you to recognize that fact. It is so vast that it would destroy you, did you not open to give and permit the free circulation. No man need be poor, but many men will seem to be poor until we recognize the Truth. own. The law fulfilled demonstrates: 1. Opulence in affairs. 2. Health in body. We cannot possibly Simply being willing the abundant supply 3. Immortality in consciousness. We are required to do a part. expect to get while we refuse to give. to give, and opening our minds to brings a richness beyond the mind of man to understand. It brings a wealth in every department of life. It bestows a consciousness of not only having riches, but of that which is infinitely greater, being riches. The mind becomes conscious of the presence of a vast storehouse of ideas to be expressed in an infinite variety of ways, all of which the world will love to receive and gladly pay for. You no longer will take your place in life as a beggar, but as a benefactor. You have a place; you are a delight; no one Also, you radiate hates you, but every man is your lover. health. Your presence is a benediction. of beauty. You are Love, and everything adores your loveliness. Why do we permit our selfishness to rob us of our freedom? Why do we insist on being blind, when so much awaits us if we would only see? The Master gave us the key, let us use it: "If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?" God will not make us creators until we are worthy of the trust. AS TO MEAT EATING CHARLES FILLMORE HE subject of diet is attracting more attention every day among metaphysicians. At one time it was only necessary to quote, "Take no thought what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink," to dismiss the whole matter. But the revised Bible puts an entirely new phase upon this familiar quotation. It says, "Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink." It was a treatment against anxiety as to the provision of God that Jesus was giving, and not an injunction to take no thought about food. It is found that food does have a part in body structure, and that the metaphysician must take it into account if he would reach the higher substance demonstrations. The argument that we are putting power where no power exists, in the material, is a contradiction in itself. We eat to sustain life in the organism, therefore life is the object of eating. Every form in existence is a manifestation of life, and the life idea that pervades it is its source. If that life idea is for a moment withdrawn the form collapses. Hence we do not eat matter, but life. This puts a new phase upon eating. If we are daily eating aggregations of life ideas hid within the material forms, we should use discrimination in choosing those forms. Our food should be full of life in its purity and vigor. There should be no idea of death and decay connected with it in any degree. The vegetable should be fresh and the fruit radiant in its sunny perfection. I have in years of experiment tested the effect in mind and body of meat-eating and non-meat-eating, and I feel that I am more competent to judge of the effects than one who theorizes about the matter. Some twenty-five years ago, when I began the study of Truth, I was told that it made no difference what I ate if I was in the right thought. This proved true up to a certain point in my experience. While my spiritual development was confined to the conscious mind there seemed no special need of food discrimination. But gradually a new phase set in. I found that I was having vibrations in the sympathetic nerve centers the subconscious mind was being quickened, and I was becoming a conscious life battery. The vital currents gradually grew stronger and stronger until I could hardly control them. Appetite, passion, emotion, etc., were greatly increased. Then my prayers for guidance were answered and a system of communication set up with the higher realms of consciousness. I was shown that the food that entered the organism had to pass through a process of regeneration every day before it was in condition to be built into the new Christ body. Just how to carry on this regenerative process in the various subconscious centers was also shown, and here is where I discerned the effects of foods in body building. The vitalizing element in food is contained in the cell, which may be termed a mind battery vibrating with intelligence, force and substance. These elements are present in the living cell-dead cells are those in which intelligence and force have withdrawn and inanimate substance only remains. Man appropriates these cells and his consciousness according to his Those who have not developed the they become part of capacity to use them. capacity to consciously regenerate the cells get but a small |