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'Ae talked last uednesday evening about our new class thought .

Our healing thought for the mooth is "Old thoughts and old conditions  M

are as waters that have passed iway. In Christ I am conscious of 40 _ .1

4 'new life, new strength and new health. These statements that i& -

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re give oul you will find in thejmagazines. Through these slips i)

.that you heve and the honthly and-leekly Unity we try to get the i1

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keep repeating a word oft.en enough, it ·v:ill finelly sink back  1

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that it becomes an invis ible atmosphere and permeates everything.

Nov.· that really is the second coming of Christ o Christ is an*

(idea in divine mind, and that idea ls everywhere.Like the ldea of/I)

mathematics or music or any of those exact sciences, there is ,0

an idea of a perfect Christ in divine mind o That idea hasn't

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fully, hes it? So we say the idea of mathematics  1 24

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and music or any of those aciences has never been folly

1expressed, 6ot men are trying to express theseideas more and  

and Tmore and are getting a little better underatanding/as they i

use the idea, it colites more and more into manifestation.

Now you can see the illustration everywhere of hos ze grow

from ideas to manifestation, and as I say, those ideas come first

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as a flash. There is something that we see outside of ourselves. 5

Thet is the first concept ion of this Christ . Jesus of Nazareth. 1

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east unto the West, "but he elso said. people will say unto'..

you, 10.herp is the Christ and 10 there is the Chript, but go A

not forth for behold the kingdom of God is within you. N 9,·i

I find people today looking'for another advent of that personal

man, and they won't believe that he comes as a thief in the night.

He cores :o quietly, he comes so unexpectedly that people don't

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accept him, and again,he comes in these flashes of spiritual - f1.

understanding, and people say,"Why I feel and know that there is 1

a new man born into meo I am a new creature in Christ Jesus."-.

Paul had it all figured out, and I assure you those people

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God find they are experiencing new ideals and they don'v look - J

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that that identity is right here in our midst in the lifted up, 1

the spiritu,l character. Nov: as I say, this fact that the Christ  1

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was to come again was in the Soripture from Genesis to

Revelations.  The old Hebrews expected that the Messiah would come, but When he

came they didn't recognize him, because they were not looking for

that kind of a kessiah. They had their ideas made up about what 11

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the SEme thing is tree today, exactly. Our church fathers hsve 11'j

'i-/,ill11:Ede up their minds just about what Jesus Christ/look like; a3T

· A4 he v.ill look like the pictures thet have been painted, and when <Ahe con:es lookinc just thaz way ard doing 811 these marvelous ifl1

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·thir-·s lie did 1923 years ego, Lell if he is just right and belongs 4.

t o our cherdi , ke rillaccept himp Bu·L I assure you ve ere hot  goirg to havs thet kind of an advent. Kor, this Christ principle, -i'

as you will finj if you study it,doesn't come FS 8 7]"con[·lity.  

T: e personal appefrance of Christ has been dated agair and ags in "9

Rby Orthodox people• Their prophets have received so-called

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history of religion it has been definitely stated that he would 2

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come again. In 1844 the Millerites all over the northeast '

had it so fixed, and they made their assension robes and they ----0 *1.-*-* - I. - -i . . . .1---4

. gave away all their goods. The very night that he was to come ii

was prophesied. I remember hearing a story once of a man in 4

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touched a match to the stack of hayp and lt went up in flames. 7

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with a great shoot and said, "Resurrection morn, Fnd 1 am in12

jHellp just as I expe cted." That is the way these personal i

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-prophe:cies turn out i If you v derstand the--metaphysicAl

' make up of a man who believes in heaven and hell, you can see

that he would wake up,out of the body or in it, and find he was in f

one place or the othero Now if you should ledve your body, you . 11

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but if you believ in heaven you v.ould find yourself in a place

that 6ould 6orrespond to heaven. But it would be according to  your ideal. I read once of a man ,from St.

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su')posed to have gone to heaven and the attendant was showing

him around, and he said,- "ilhy Heaven is just like St. Louis."

And the 4.tt endant said, 313 1£*xkkixxix "This isn 't heaven. u ·i''

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it would be like Kansas City, or just like our highest idealo1

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thinY most About and love the most you will find/in an environ-  4

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just v.·here you are. If it is a St. Louis environment, you will  

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has in:plented ir us that higner ideal principle, end that i: the )tI. 'll

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put it cs an ideal in our mirds, and re come into zhct  1

step ty rtGr, perception by perception, and re get r perception  

of it, end -,1-cr: comee the. realization. But is it; outsidet No.1iit

1 tell you thst is all in your innor c:Insciousness. And if you  

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v.·ant to realize and know absolutely that Christ has come again,1

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why you must go into this inner kingdom within you. They will

tell you, 10 here is the Christ and 10 there, bot the kingd om

of God is within you. It is within every one of us, and the more Zt 6,0

we search for thet inner kingdom, and comply with the law,.t

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No, th4re is no doubt that the race in a universal way

goes through this evolution of the mind which brings it to its

various stages of' perception, and there is no doubt that the i

advent of Jesns of Nazareth had a great deal to do with ther

advent of this Christ consciousness in the race, and we are%,

right now in that second step, and 211 the signs that are     4

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:)to bs right cr, the verge of a great chaotic state. But ·i.hat  ..6did Jesus say -- the Chriet through Jesus, becatise this Christ 44'.

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shal 1 y orry you . No'.: ·.p rre nol; disturbed about t],6 Lars end tt

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ditior:f '01-_at :--(7:. iriilrint, because re kno·v. that t h e r E is p pozer, p0

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that Goe, through the Cbrist ir #En, rill v.ork out all these 1,

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to tl·*6 v.or]0, '..€: must culvivate more end wore this consciousress

sf Ch-.-ist. '.:e uust realize Lhat there is 8 new life; re Kust

i,realize thet that old fleshly life, that old sense consciousners

has parsed 6,-,ay. 1.ot: il ne tate up ths:e words of denial and R.

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strength." Some of these high and mighty metaphys icians say..

they don't use autosuggestidn at all. Nov, I tell you we use

. all these good things, and if you can suggest .td yourself that - ,.

0in every way, every day you are getting better and better,

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you will fir,d chat you v:ill go on to new life, nes strength,

1iand ne·. heafth, and i·u v.·ill be based on the rock 04 Christor

You will knoi: it isn't so:nething outside of you, but it absolutely  1

is an existing thing in yo3, and through yonr word you tap it,

and when you tap that ne·u life, it begins to flou forth like a-

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 that thought of the new life, and think about it and pray. ,.

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doing remarkably well. Some of them give a half hour a day, but

I think the/ church stat istics sho,',that the Christien people

only give about ten minutes a day during the whole year to

Prayer. Do you kno,·; ho·,7 many times a good metaphysicien prays1 '/ii how mary times E. day and hon long during the time does he pray?  

uhy, he prays hours and hours, I spend probably one third of

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down on your knees praying all that t line? No., I am w.edi tat ing

and comIouning with this inner spiritual Christ . Now after you

1/have reached a certain point in awakening in yourself the

I - - I -- 1'-. .Christ principle, it becomes, well a very fascinating game.0

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six hours a day praying, Bhy his god must be a strenuous old godj.

to require so much prayer froin hix. dhy after you once get  / 1

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world. The joy of my life is this inner communion. It is a

perfect ecstasy. .Lf I didnlt have other work to do, f wooldn't

do anythinc but just pray, morning, hoon and night . I would ·apend I1

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It is something you enjoye It is better than a picture show.

Some people think the height of enjoyment, the greatest ecstasy

they can conceive of is going to 8 picture show, but I assure z

when You get0 you/this inner consciousness of the Christ- 'working in -you,- 96u k

will enjoy more in a minute than you can enjoy in a lifetime '11

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You begin ypor meditat ion, and your prayer, begin holdingi

this thought that we are having tonight in the El lence etIl

nine o'clock. Hold it for five or ten minutes to begin on.

I remember in the beginning of my work I couldn't sit in the T

silence a half hour. 1 couldn't sit in the silence hardly  

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ten minutes. At the beginning, I douldn't do it at all. I

thought it v:as all moonshine, but gradually as they told me

I would get rid of my headaches and catarrh and a thousand things

that I had, I thought, well I ·will try it out any wayp and-- - - 4

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the silence, and it became a very absorbing proposition, and ·1.t ,  :

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will see. A lady said to me the other day, "Where do you i.1

get that cold cream you .use on your face?" I said, "It comes (

from within." I am getting healthier and healthier every day 0

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of strength ," as if you were talking within and. then rest in that . 1111

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"The Christ in me is a new consciousness of health." And do you 1 1

_ - _ _ - - - - _1 _ _ _ - _ ) -_ ij3 11want more prosperity? Put that in. Ask whats oever ye will in jj

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of abundance, riches, oppulence, prosperityo Everything is t

mine in Christe" That is your privilege. It is allwithin you.  

It is the awaken ing of your real self that does the work. That  

is the Christ. Talk to_Christ and identify yourself with

Christ .  "I am the Christ of God." That is what you e re, that is what

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=i„we every one are, the Christ of-God. A-e have heard that name :

is sacred. But I can say, "I am God's image and likeness,"

and people wooldn 't be at all disturbed by it, would they?f

1lThey would say, "Well, man was created in the beginning as - - _  0 P0

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and isn't that a glorious revelation, 1sn't that more glorious  

to yon than to have Jesus Ch,rist come in the doort Why , he  .would, be something outside of yourself. Just think of this j

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state-of consciousness, realizing our power to speak the word1i

·iof increase, and it comes-forth according to our faith. Let i

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Father we thank the-e for this offering, and we thank thee.0 1.for the blessings, for the spoken word of increase, bringing

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-. midst of them," and HAsk whatsoevet ye will in my.name, and it-- - ·- --R'

1 3 - - - - - - . - - - . -- - - - -1shall be done unto you." He also made many promises of that Rind. i

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something, and as we put them to the test we do get very  t,

wonderful r'6sults. We will all join in this statement which is

the class thought . This is the thought: "Old thoughts and old  1

conditions are as waters that have passed away." That is the 1

denial. Then, "In Chrls.t I am cons cious of new life, new  r

1 11 1strength, and new healtho We will say that aloud in concertr

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and then hold it in the silenceo (Repeated) The Christ mind is

heree It is universal, it is everywhere. Just mention the name t.

of any one you w ould like t o help. Remember we are maRing our71

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,."Whatsoever ye ask in the name of Christ shall be given yoG.1.

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gi*e thanks to Christ for the fulfillment of our words. The promise j

is that we shall ask whatsoever we will of the Father through the - ,'. .1

' Christ, and it shall be granted. That means if we .wallt greater ..3

prosperity, we shall' ask f or it and affirm it and believe it . i 0.

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