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Teach Us To Pray
The Spoken Word
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Spirit life quickens mind and body, and I am whole.
Spirit substance fills my mind and floods my affairs.
WE UNDERSTAND that the worlds were framed by the word of
God spoken in faith. This in substance is the comment of
the author of Hebrews. If God created by the power of His
word it is fair to assume that He gave like power to man,
who has in miniature all the abilities of His Father. Jesus
confirmed this power of man's word when He said that we
should be held accountable for our lightest word and that
our words would both justify and condemn us.
Our words are so interwoven with our thoughts and acts that
we do not discern the relation between cause and effect, in
fact we do not as a rule see any connection between them.
We are so concerned with effects that we have no
consciousness of causes. So in explaining the law by which
man builds his
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character, body, and environment, we must repeatedly call
attention to the source of these things, Spirit and its
outlet in man, the word. Thought and word are so intimately
allied that we usually count them as one. "Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Get a deep
conviction of the truth of your cause; then speak it forth
in strong words, and it will surely come to pass.
The process through which the idea--conceived in mind,
formed in thought, and made manifest in body and
affairs--passes in its various stages is not always clear,
and we are not usually concerned about the manner in which
the end is accomplished. The fulfillment of our objective
is the principal thing.
However it is within the province of man to understand and
witness the whole process of creative thought in his own
organism. It requires soul culture of an advanced order to
do this, and but few persons are willing to undertake the
necessary study and discipline. It is not taught in any of
the metaphysical schools, because the instructions cannot
be put in words. No words have yet been invented to express
the attitudes of mind and body required to raise the cell
life in man's body to the required potency. The spiritual
ether in which we float has a rate of vibration millions of
times greater than matter. This is the kingdom of Spirit
life, which Jesus brought to our attention and of which we
must lay hold if we would attain eternal or continuous
life. The individuality or I AM must give concentrated
attention to this inner life energy and
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introduce it into mind and body continually until the whole
nervous system is aflame with Spirit life. We may not be
conscious of it, but we are all seeking this inner life
flame, because its energy is the only source upon which we
can draw to raise our atomic vibration to the point where
it will overcome the slow disintegrating flow of human
nature.
There are souls in the heavens who have accomplished this
and so attuned their bodies to the spiritual life that they
are no longer subject to death. Jesus of Nazareth is the
illumined soul appointed to save our race from the
disintegrating effects of broken law, and through Him we
are dynamically infused with life.
Every time we listen to a radio program we have in the
diffusion of intelligence an illustration of what Jesus
accomplished in the diffusion of life. In the 1st chapter
of John we read, "In him was life; and the life was the
light of men."
Here light (intelligence) and life are treated as one. Like
all the attributes of Spirit, intelligence or the knowing
quality is united with the active quality, life. There is a
spiritual ether corresponding to the radio ether, into
which Jesus merged His soul and body at His disappearance
in the heavens (hoi ouranoi). Here awaiting our
appropriation is a radiant intelligence and life. When we
turn our attention within and give ourselves up wholly to
Spirit, we are quickened with a life and intelligence of
superexcellence.
When the blood stream becomes depleted our
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physicians hasten to make a blood transfusion, overlooking
the fact that Jesus made it possible for all of us to
receive from Him a life transfusion that not only revives
us in temporal ills but, above all, begins in our body a
purifying and energizing process that will finally save us
from death.
When we strive to be like Jesus in thought and word we are
quickened by Him and are lifted up. This results in
healing; but far more important, we are inoculated with the
germs of soul and body cleansing.
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