Lesson 9 - Truth's Practice

To be healed, means a spiritual or normal condition, which brings into expression consciousness of unity and wholeness. A spiritual and normal condition is one like unto Infinite Spirit, with which we are one. That we may manifest and realize the harmony of Spirit, we are to acquire a knowledge of what we are, and know that we are forever concerned with the permanent and real, and not with the transient and passing.

To know the truth, that we are one with the Whole or Holy Spirit, is to know that we are one with all goodness; not to deny, negate, nor to refuse in any way to accept this all-inclusive truth, but to affirm it in thought, word and act, is the great work which lies before us. Affirmation brings realization, for it is the word of truth and life; it is the pinnacle of absolute consciousness, above temptation and sense delusion, and reveals to us that we are superior to time, place and circumstance.

They who realize this truth, are caused to turn from darkness to light, from the seeming to the real, from dis-ease to ease, from fear and its torments, to love and its bliss, from unkindness to justice, from doubt to faith, from false belief to knowledge, from the tempter to God, in which and by which all live: "THE BREAD OF LIFE."

The first work to be done preparatory to correct interpretation, is to erase false belief; by means of this primary work consciousness is realized that you are superior to all effects, or to the visible universe. Through right habit of thought, sensation, word and deed - the effect of thought - becomes harmonious, and we realize peace, in earth - the body - as it is in heaven - Spirit.

If you find that through force of habit - so-called - you are thinking and reasoning in favor of the belief in sin, sickness, death, envy, prejudice, hate, etc., do not feel discouraged, but deny and erase that line of thought, by thinking, speaking, and manifesting their opposite. Think and manifest salvation - and not sin; health - not sickness; life - not death; justice - not envy; love - not prejudice; truth - not hate; by so doing you serve God, Goodness, and make desirable conditions. The science of God is also the science of Goodness, the law of which is love.

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap." His habit of thought is expressed in the body; he reaps in manifestation what he by thought sows in mentality; the present thought will bear its fruit in due season. They who would be free from error, must be willing that error should pass from their mental vision; must be willing not to believe in error, then maintain that position, and think no error.

The lesson of letting go, is an important one to understand. To get understanding is to let go of error.

Some persons say they fear to let go of the belief of the reality of sin, sickness and death, for fear that they may come upon them, and for this reason they are afraid not to fear. It is written, "God hath not given you the spirit of fear," with its torments. He has given you the spirit of perfect love with its bliss, which when recognized, obeyed, and manifest, casteth out fear. When we abide in that truth which God hath given us, we give up false beliefs in fear, for His love and truth. He who manifested patience, divinely, while suffering, said, "The things that I feared, have come upon me."

Commence your work in the place and condition that you are in, by thinking and saying: I do not fear, there is nothing to fear. The spirit of Goodness is omnipresent; it is love, power, faith or substance, it is all that I need and want. I love the truth and am in truth and of the truth, which is fearless and free.

Let your thought be that the Infinite Goodness, in which you live, sustains in every hour, guides and gives in every need. Seek to make your thoughts loving and kind toward all persons and every thing, and it will be like unto the One which gives and sustains all that live.

If you fear age, or believe that you can grow old, which is an inference that you were once young, that fear is based in the belief that you are the mortal body. So you are taking yourself to be the passing and transient; this being misinterpretation and not interpretation, it is the basis for fear and its torments; therefore, rouse up and claim the truth of Being for yourself. Age cannot touch you, death cannot come to you.

Disease and pain, so to speak, are always effect; so they are subject to us; and this is demonstrated by truthful thought, and the non-reality of disease is proven. Where fear and negation are not, pain is not. When there is an appearance of pain, if you doubt not that truth will heal you; speak quickly the words of life and truth, and you will prove its mastery and freedom. Whatever the occupation may be, truth applies alike to all, and is the remedy for all error.

Let not work worry or fret you; you may prevent it from so doing, by thinking that the more I worry and fret, the less competent am I to execute and make desirable conditions; that the strength and concentration which is necessary for the accomplishment of the work, is expended in worry and fretting; therefore, say there is nothing to worry and fret about, that you desire to do what you are doing, and that you are happy. If you thus affirm, believing, your work becomes a pleasure, and worry ceases.

Spirit manifests with order and law. Its thought is a living image of itself; Its word is a form or symbol of Its thought. It has no anxiety nor worry; fear, fault finding, are effects of selfishness, or self desire; in the present moment, hour, or day, there is sufficient work to be done, without thought of the morrow or fearing the future.

If we build a bridge, vessel, or structure of any kind, the plan of the structure is first completed, then the builder, step by step, is guided by the plan to its completion. Each day brings its duty, or new part of the work, which brings it further on the way toward a perfect whole; and to-day’s work is a preparation for to-morrow’s work. No amount of anxiety can aid the work or hasten its completion, or change the plan. If by accident any part of the structure be destroyed, no amount of anxiety can aid in replacing it; the work must be done again, and all that can be done can be accomplished better without anxiety and fear, than with it. so, also, can the problem of life be demonstrated by each individual.

Some persons conscientiously say: I feel that I am powerless to help myself; I have not attained to truth, but I believe I could attain to it and live the life if I was situated as some are, etc. Dear friends, do not feel discouraged though you have tried a thousand times to live the life, and have seemed to fail; all effort is success in motive. Do not be anxious about your situation - be willing to commence your work in your present surroundings, for you now know that you are not subject to elements, climates, surrounding environments, heredity, nor any mortal thing; for the immortal cannot be subject to the mortal.

I hear the thought of thousands, asking, Can we maintain ourselves in this high attitude of Infinite Goodness, while in its opposite, this mundane sphere? When you regard the Spirit of Infinite Goodness as the only Spirit and Presence, it being all of power, all of goodness, all of love, all of truth, all of life, all that is, you are in the high attitude of Spirit, you have gone up into the mountain, where all false belief and its effect is seen as false belief and appearance only, over which you have entire control. Ignorance is the cause of all suffering, and knowledge and truth is its remedy. When we take our position in truth, which is one of knowledge, we are able to erase false belief, by striking at the root of error in our own mental conditions.

A teacher of Divine Science not long since, said to her class, that if at any time circumstances made it necessary for them to listen to recitals of prejudice, envy, malice, etc., to say, "My soul did not hear it." What we refuse to admit in the soul - or even in mentality, we have not heard; thus all error is rejected. If therefore, thine eye be single - to truth - thy whole body shall be full of light.

Mentalities that blend with the consciousness of Spirit, know that they are the light of the world, and will let their light so shine, that the Spirit will be manifest or apparent. No ill can befall one who sees no ill. They who fulfill the royal law, resist not evil, for they see no power in what is called evil; goodness being infinite, they know naught but goodness.

The principle of mathematics is not revealed by the error in the problem; we do not perceive the principle until we turn from the error. God is not revealed by the errors of His children.

We do not perceive and manifest God, until we turn from error to God. The law of love is not manifest in us, while we are recognizing the hate manifest in others. All bitter fruit is the product of false seeing and believing, or misinterpretation.

Spirit perceives its own truth; and to the pure all is pure. Hence it is impossible to obtain knowledge from error, or by error, or even from error, in effect, or by effect.

The practitioner of the science of Infinite Spirit or truth has the mistakes of the whole world to erase or correct when healing. Eighteen hundred years ago, the Jews claimed themselves to be the children of God, because they were descendants of Abraham; basing their conclusion on the physical, proved they did not understand the full meaning of their claim. The world’s people are still claiming to be the children of God and the descendants of form, earth, or flesh. This belief in materiality, which is the root of all idolatry and suffering, should be denied in thought, and by word and deed. And this is our method of correcting the false race beliefs.

The science of God is absolute mathematics. They who wish may demonstrate and prove it. A true practitioner will administer truth for all beliefs of imperfection. To heal is to manifest truth in the body. "He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your bodies because of His spirit that dwelleth in you." Truth is the remedy, and the only remedy, for error, and will not compromise with it. All may heal, who will administer truth - free from personal will and desire, by thinking, speaking and acting it. Healing by the Spirit of Truth, is casting out error by the power of God, and is not a kingdom divided against itself. When the Spirit of Truth is manifest in the patient, God is manifest.

Truth is equally good for all; the more we give of this remedy, the more we are conscious of. In healing do not in thought hold your patient as the body, nor use personal will; have no desire for special effects, otherwise it will not be a Science treatment. When we speak from Spirit and claim all goodness for another, our measure is according to Spirit, and is just and right.

Truthful statements, made like unto God, destroy erroneous belief, which is unlike God. One more question do we hear which we will answer in this lesson, How do you treat persons at the time they are passing through the change called death? Knowing that our personality or personal presence is not the power that heals, we speak the truth, placing our faith in the Spirit of Truth; thus we administer the Living Water of eternal life. "There is no death, what seems so is transition." So we clothe them with love and truth, by holding them as one with all goodness. We speak to them in the silence and tell them they have eternal life with God, and to look within, to the Spirit in which they live, and there will they find heaven. That they are at one with the whole Spirit - make this truth your own, and all else will be added. If our sympathies are touched for the friends, we include them in our words of life, and hold all alike in truth.

Dear student, you thoroughly understand from this lesson what it is to hold all in truth.