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Teach Us To Pray
Contacting Spiritual Substance
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MAN MUST build a perfect soul structure with faculties
capable of always producing abundantly for both his
spiritual and his material welfare.
In order to accomplish this man must become familiar with
what the metaphysician terms omnipresent Spirit substance,
which is visible only to mind and the nature of which is to
sustain and enrich whatever idea is projected into it.
This Spirit substance stands back of and gives support to
man's every thought and word. It is ready to provide food
for all living creatures everywhere.
Today man is learning consciously to make union with this
invisible spiritual thought stuff and appropriate and
manifest it. Our supply and support is governed by our
familiarity with substance and by our mental hold upon it.
Spiritual substance is the source of all material wealth
and cannot suffer loss or destruction by human thought. It
is always with us, ready to be used and to make potent and
fertile both the soul and the body consciousness. In this
connection Jesus said, "I have meat to eat that ye know
not."
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Just as God has been from the beginning so Spirit substance
has been from the beginning. This substance is in fact the
Mother side of God, the feminine element in God's nature.
It is the universal medium in which we plant all ideas of
supply and support.
Just as the earth is the universal matrix in which all
vegetation develops so this invisible Spirit substance is
the universal matrix in which ideas of prosperity germinate
and grow and bring forth according to our faith and trust.
The "dust of the ground" spoken of in Genesis represents
the radiant substance, the fruit of the initial thought in
the expression of the substance idea. Under the influence
of man's mind radiant Spirit substance continues to be
manifested in form and shape. For example, the sunshine is
incorporated in the products of the vegetable world; these
being appropriated by man through mastication, digestion,
and assimilation, it becomes part of his body. Light and
electricity are forms of radiant substance.
Someone has said,
"The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world."
In this same way the Mother side of God may be said to
cradle our good, nurturing it into manifestation and
producing the influences that hover over and enrich our
life. We should always bear in mind that if we are to
demonstrate we must pay strict attention to the
conservation of the spiritual
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thought stuff. If we are to go forward spiritually, we must
not waste our thought stuff in idle thoughts, in thinking
thoughts of poverty, discontent, jealousy. We should
positively weed out of consciousness all thoughts of
poverty and failure, and in thinking or speaking of our
affairs we should use the very highest and best language at
our command.
Whatever the seed word is that is implanted in omnipresent
Spirit substance, this seed word will germinate and grow
and bring forth fruit "after its kind." Just as the farmer
therefore selects the very best seed corn for planting, so
we must choose the words that will bring forth the rich
harvest of plenty.
We should bear in mind that God is our silent partner and
that His wisdom and strength, His energy and skill are ours
to use. We should realize that in every soul there is
undoubtedly present (as a result of former effort) a great
reservoir of radiant Spirit substance, which is ready and
eager to be tapped and freed so that it can supply our
every need.
To gain control of Spirit substance we grasp it with our
mind; that is, lay hold of the idea back of it. Right
thinking is necessary in using the mind constructively to
bring about right results.
The Father-Mother God has provided abundantly for all. In
truth, when a babe is born into the world it brings with it
faculties that, once set to work consciously functioning in
the omnipresent etheric substance, open up channels through
which unfailing supply and support come to this one. The
divine-life idea in the awakened soul is implanted in divine
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substance and brings forth a new being, the Son of God.
The realization of the following prayer will awaken man to
the consciousness of his divine supply and support:
The idea of the one reality is quickened in me, and I am
alive and athrill with the one radiant substance of Spirit.
Sometimes in demonstrating prosperity God's mill seemingly
grinds slow. The reason is, first, that man's consciousness
is functioning in such a thick envelope of materiality that
it is hard to get action. And secondly, man has not yet
unfolded the working power of the word.
To overcome this condition man must enter the silence and
realize a prayer like this:
I am free from the clutches of inert matter.
The working power of the word is quickened in me, and I
understand the law governing God's abundance.
Then it is well to clinch the matter with this realization:
Divine substance flows in all its fullness into my
consciousness and through me as prosperity into all my
affairs.
God made us, and there is a vital connection between
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us and God. Keeping this truth in mind makes demonstration
easy and enjoyable.
Be ye builders, vital, doing,
Architects of life and fate,
Ever striving and preparing
For a higher, nobler state,
Not in sighing, aging, dying,
Is the measure of the man,
But in growing, building, living
Life fulfills the Master plan.
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