Chapter 8
{8:1} When he was come down from When you overcome the obstacle of
the mountain, great multitudes doubting your oneness with the spiritual
followed him self, you begin to work with aspects of
yourself from this new awareness.
{8:2} And, behold, there came a In the past you have tried to cut off
leper and worshipped him, saying, your emotional involvement with your
Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make own life, for fear of being hurt.
me clean
{8:3} And Jesus put forth [his] But now you realize that your emotions
hand, and touched him, saying, I are valuable and good. They are not part
will; be thou clean. And of your weakness, but of your strength,
immediately his leprosy was cleansed when you put them to a higher purpose.
{8:4} And Jesus saith unto him, But do not think this is just an outer
See thou tell no man; but go thy change, but remember that it comes from
way, shew thyself to the priest, within, by the operation of spiritual
and offer the gift that Moses law, and reinforce your faith in the
commanded, for a testimony unto operation of this law.
them.
{8:5} And when Jesus was entered In a state of feeling sympathy for the
into Capernaum, there came unto him outer self, you begin to deal with
a centurion, beseeching him self-discipline.
Once you have started to deal with the
emotions, you set yourself the challenge
of increasing your control over the
mental part of the subconscious.
{8:6} And saying, Lord, my servant Your mental use of the laws is wavering
lieth at home sick of the palsy, and inconsistent. Your self discipline
grievously tormented needs strengthening.
{8:7} And Jesus saith unto him, I You create the conscious desire to
will come and heal him. fix this situation.
{8:8} The centurion answered and But your will realizes that the spirit-
said, Lord, I am not worthy that ual is greater than the mental, and
thou shouldest come under my roof: and that it cannot be limited in its
but speak the word only, and my expression to a rational idea. Align
servant shall be healed your subconscious with your super-
conscious purpose, and your use of the
universal laws will be swift and sure.
{8:9} For I am a man under As there is mental law and ordering,
authority, having soldiers under there is spiritual law, which has even
me: and I say to this [man], Go, greater authority within you.
and he goeth; and to another, Come,
and he cometh; and to my servant,
Do this, and he doeth [it]
{8:10} When Jesus heard [it], he Faith is the understanding and use of
marvelled, and said to them that spiritual cause and effect. The disci-
followed, Verily I say unto you, I plined aspects of your self lead to a
have not found so great faith, no, greater understanding of faith.
not in Israel.
{8:11} And I say unto you, That Aspects shall come from outer and inner
many shall come from the east and parts of your mind, to become part of
west, and shall sit down with your orderly regeneration of your self,
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in
the kingdom of heaven.
{8:12} But the children of the But the ideas that sound good and holy
kingdom shall be cast out into will not persist, but only those ex-
outer darkness: there shall be pressions of your self that are in a-
weeping and gnashing of teeth. lignment with your overall purpose.
{8:13} And Jesus said unto the Continue to practice your self-
centurion, Go thy way; and as thou discipline through meditation and prayer
hast believed, [so] be it done and your desired results will come.
unto thee. And his servant was
healed in the selfsame hour
{8:14} And when Jesus was come into And now in thinking about faith, you
Peter's house, he saw his wife's need to realize that this does not
mother laid, and sick of a fever originate or have its power out of
physical thoughts or ideas, but that
the expansion of this depends on
{8:15} And he touched her hand, the inner purpose, of being a responsi-
and the fever left her: and she ble creator. Then you can express this
arose, and ministered unto them faith in the physical world, and rely
on it. This is the time when you
realize your oneness with God, but
you say, "I can't act on this, I do not
believe strongly enough." You recognize
the operation of universal law, but you
do not realize yet that this law is
always operating. You think you have
to make it happen some how. "How can
I develop the strength I need to use
the things I know?" By looking within
for your strength, and not relying or
limiting your self to what you have
done in the past.
{8:16} When the even was come, they Now you begin to contemplate and
brought unto him many that were reinterpret the value of the differ-
possessed with devils: and he cast ent aspects of yourself, including
out the spirits with [his] word, those you previously saw no value in.
and healed all that were sick
{8:17} That it might be fulfilled You see that God wants to help you,
which was spoken by Esaias the and this gives you the courage or
prophet, saying, Himself took our strength to continue your conscious
infirmities, and bare [our] spiritual development.
sicknesses
{8:18} Now when Jesus saw great But even so you can still be confused
multitudes about him, he gave and distracted by trying to work with
commandment to depart unto the many aspects at once, so you withdraw
other side into contemplation.
{8:19} And a certain scribe came, You are tempted to make a ritual formula
and said unto him, Master, I will to follow, to maintain the awareness of
follow thee whithersoever thou goest the Christ within you.
{8:20} And Jesus saith unto him, But Christ consciousness is not limited
The foxes have holes, and the to a physical habit or even a habit of
birds of the air [have] nests; but thought, but is maintained by constant
the Son of man hath not where to vigilance and application. You must
lay [his] head. control your thoughts using the part of
your mind that never sleeps, the
superconscious.
{8:21} And another of his disciples You are tempted to try and argue the
said unto him, Lord, suffer me truth of spiritual law on a rational
first to go and bury my father basis within yourself, hoping to
convince yourself of the truth on the
basis of sense perception.
{8:22} But Jesus said unto him, But you realize that what is separated
Follow me; and let the dead bury from the awareness of God, cannot
their dead. ever become a part of it.
{8:23} And when he was entered into As you begin to work with the emotions,
a ship, his disciples followed him you temporarily forget your divine
{8:24} And, behold, there arose a purpose, and feel overwhelmed because
great tempest in the sea, insomuch you don't see your ability to handle
that the ship was covered with the them.
waves: but he was asleep
{8:25} And his disciples came to Can you express the twelve qualities of
[him], and awoke him, saying, Lord, the superconscious through the emotions?
save us: we perish
{8:26} And he saith unto them, Why Sure, if you constantly remember your
are ye fearful, O ye of little inner purpose and your relation to
faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the superconscious.
the winds and the sea; and there
was a great calm
{8:27} But the men marvelled, But the outer aspects cannot comprehend
saying, What manner of man is this, this. How can mind work this way? You
that even the winds and the sea have been unable to deal with the
obey him the emotions in the past.
{8:28} And when he was come to the As you start to work with unconscious
other side into the country of the fears that block your ability to
Gergesenes, there met him two create responsibly,
possessed with devils, coming out
of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so
that no man might pass by that way
{8:29} And, behold, they cried out, you find resistance to your will.
saying, What have we to do with
thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art
thou come hither to torment us
before the time
{8:30} And there was a good way off And you bargain within yourself, saying
from them an herd of many swine I don't really believe this supersti-
feeding tion, I just keep it as a habit because
I am comfortable with it.
{8:31} So the devils besought him,
saying, If thou cast us out, suffer And it takes you a little while and
us to go away into the herd of swine some work to let go of the old habits
of thought.
{8:32} And he said unto them, Go.
And when they were come out, they But eventually, you release this energy
went into the herd of swine: and, by working it out through the emotions.
behold, the whole herd of swine ran
violently down a steep place into
the sea, and perished in the waters
{8:33} And they that kept them And you surprise yourself, that you are
fled, and went their ways into the changing so quickly and, relatively
city, and told every thing, and speaking, with so little effort.
what was befallen to the possessed
of the devils
{8:34} And, behold, the whole city And you find that part of you is not
came out to meet Jesus: and when ready to acknowledge the reality of
they saw him, they besought [him] your spiritual authority, and you
that he would depart out of their decide to give this part some time to
coasts get used to the idea.
This is the point where you have
developed some awareness of spiritual
law and how to use it, but you are
hesitant to use it in everyday situations.
For example, you are reaching great
realizations through meditation,
but you don't apply them. God forbid
that the people you work with should
find out you use metaphysical
principles to create what you want.
"I was just lucky, I guess."