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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind
Chapter 5
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The Day of Judgment
Chapter V
AS WE COME to a realization of an entirely different
consciousness new relations are set up that it is sometimes
difficult to explain to one who believes in time and space.
In the Bible description of the "day of judgment" the Son
of man has always been represented as Jesus Christ, who is
to be surrounded by angels and sit on a throne passing
judgment after death upon the just and the unjust. But we
understand the Son of man to be the spiritual man, that
which is ideal, unlimited, and divine. We come into
entirely different relations when we affirm, "I am a divine
being." When we affirm this we begin to pass judgment. We
are the same man, but divine ideas (angels) must come into
our consciousness. Then we begin to judge and know that our
everyday thoughts are different from our divine, ideal
thoughts. We judge between our good thoughts and our evil
thoughts, our unlimited and our limited thoughts.
It is said we are to be judged after death according to
deeds done in the body, which are kept on record like books
that are balanced; and if the balance is found to be in our
favor we go up, and if against us we go down. But if we are
spiritual now--divine--this spiritual part has dominion,
and we begin to exercise this dominion. The moment we
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catch sight of this we begin to judge. We begin to put the
thoughts that are good on the right and the others on the
left. All our ideas of the attributes of our divine self we
put on the right hand of power, while the thoughts of
disease, death, limitation and lack we put on the
left--denied, cut off.
This is not to occur after death. It is to begin right now!
We don't say that all is evil; that would be mental
suicide. We just say it is a "goat thought." We do not kill
it but transform it.
After separating our innocent sheep thoughts, we begin to
have fine, high, discriminating judgment.
Then the Son of man has come in His glory, surrounded by
His angels (ideas). We know that He is limitless. "I am now
a son of God," we say. "I am divine." These angels (ideas)
take their places on the throne with the Son of man and
judgment begins immediately.
Then today is the day of judgment!
We may have the perception and may see the angels (ideas)
but we have not passed judgment. We do not judge until we
begin to deny and affirm. Judgment commences the moment you
accept the truth of your divine sonship.
"Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world."
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Who is the king? The center of consciousness, the I AM, and
the I AM has power to just the extent you have the courage
to assert your power. We must all step forth and assert,
"All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on
earth." If the central spark is like the divine, then we
have all power.
We are here as the king, and we say to our true thoughts
(angels), "Come . . . inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world." Then all is ours. There
is no limit. We ask what we will and it is done unto us.
All good that we can conceive of is now ours. Is there
evidence of the oak in the acorn? No! But there is a
pattern of an oak there, and this pattern or image is what
makes the tree. The image in mind makes the condition.
Now is the time to plant the seed thought of the conditions
we desire by saying, "Come my good thoughts, let us inherit
our kingdom."
We do not fear anything, for we have separated our sheep
from the goats; we have set our true thoughts on the right
and have denied our error thoughts any power whatever.
"I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye
gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked,
and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in
prison, and ye came unto me."
We understand that our good thoughts always
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minister to us in days of despondency and discouragement.
We rest in the thought that we have done a good deed in
such and such an instance or that we have been good at such
and such a time. These are the thoughts that minister to
us. These thoughts are not conscious; but they are laying
the foundation for the coming of the Lord, so they say:
"When saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick,
or in prison, and came unto thee?"
Every thought of goodness makes a place, a form, and sets
up a friendly habit in the mind that is permanent and that
in your time of need ministers to you. You are glad to
accept this ministry, for you have done good because the
Spirit of good is working through you. Thus you reap the
benefit of all the good you have ever done or thought. Your
thoughts give back results of the same nature as
themselves. If in the silence you have earnestly held to
the pure and good you have built in you a place for the
pure and good. Every true thought has made a place in your
mind and when you are about to judge you will recognize it,
although you did not realize it at the time you sent it
forth.
We are carried along by these thoughts until we reach the
consciousness of our I AM power. We do not know we are
building ourselves, our environment, our world, until we
reach this consciousness.
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Then judgment of our world begins and is passed on our
thought creations. Suppose we have tried to cast the beam
out of our eye so that we might help our brother. This act
will answer in our judgment day, "I was that 'least' one."
Come into the kingdom of mind. Here everything that is in
Principle is yours.
These error thoughts and misconceptions of Truth are only
age-lasting, not everlasting.
Everything, all good, is to be gathered up, and everything
is good at its center. The essence of your body is good and
of true substance. When you sift your consciousness of all
but the real and true, the body becomes full of light.
The diamond owes its brilliance to the perfect arrangement
of the innumerable little prisms within it, each of which
refracts the light of the other. Man's body is made up of
centers of consciousness--of light--and if arranged so they
radiate the light within you, you will shine like the
diamond. All things are in the consciousness and you have
to learn to separate the erroneous from the true, darkness
from light. The I AM must separate the sheep from the
goats. This sifting begins right now and goes on until the
perfect child of God is manifest and you are fully rounded
out in all your Godlike attributes.
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