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What Is Power? February 2, 1964 Outline Tacoma, Washington Everyone knows the difference between potential power and kinetic energy. Potential power harnessed can do anything. Kinetic energy is potential power released into action. Running wild, it is capable of extreme destruction, harnessed, it can move the world. The difference between an individual, who has a goal, is even-tempered, controls his life while conquering and one who flies off in all directions, lacks self-control and has no desire to conquer is one of soul expression versus self expression. Soul expression harnesses the potential Power of God and releases it though prayers and declarations, receiving miracles and success, as compared with delays for the "almost-hardlys," ranging from the atheists to agnostics in their belief in God, who have no respect for the Power of God. "Of myself, I can do nothing." Breathe the Power of the Almighty. To man, a million things are impossible. Yet one man comes along who doesn’t believe it’s impossible, thinks or knows it’s possible and does it. If I declare it "impossible," so it is to me. If I declare, "Not I, but the Power can do anything. All things are possible with God. My God can do anything," so it shall be. The difference between a declaration and a statement is that a statement can be weak and unsure of itself. A declaration is a positive thing, born of the fire of conviction that Power is. To see the Truth, to believe the Truth is not enough. Truth waits upon the declaration to move into action. A declaration of Power is like starting a jet engine. It starts the Power into the atomic energy that does the work. "I now declare my new Truth of the Power of God to move into action, to fulfill all my dreams. I begin to transform my life. I move up to my Mount of Transfiguration, where Power does the work, where the renewing, rebuilding Glory of the Power of God vitalizes and quickens all my projects."
Love & Wisdom February 7, 1964 Outline Tacoma, Washington Wisdom is the Father of Principle. Love is the Mother of Personality. Principle represents all Power. Personality represents all action. Wisdom is all Law. Love is all Law as action. The mating of Love and Wisdom gives firmness and boldness to al action. When Love and Wisdom are one, they become Nonresistance, which is the greatest, most powerful of all Primary Laws. We get into action according to our desires. When we use Power-Desire-Love as darkness, we steal from ourselves. We rob Light to live in dark or half-dark. Light diluted, adulterated, dissipated. Only truth is self-sustaining. Darkness steals substance to sustain itself. What do you desire? Choose! Stand, know and praise, knowing no fear, no delay. Only love enough brings uncountable, unthinkable rewards beyond belief, the Life abundant.
Responsibility February 14, 1964 Outline Tacoma, Washington Responsibility is a form of steadfastness in assuming payment for all of our own debts for things, actions and words. Responsibility means to take the blame for what my words or actions cause, without becoming soft, a doormat, or unbalanced. Everyone knows what irresponsibility is and what it does, blithely doing anything it pleases, never paying an emotional or material debt. When we pay on the outer, we receive tenfold on the inner. For example, we earn our own Oversoul, ready to fold its golden wings beside us. We repudiate some debts, and our golden wings fly off, back to the mountaintop of unattainable desires to wait until our next spurt of desire sends them winging our way once more. Responsibility is based on respect for God’s Laws under Honor, Loyalty and Integrity of soul. Lack of respect for God causes lack of respect for all Laws and for God Himself!
The Mysteries of Egypt May 5, 1964 Cleveland, Ohio A myth is a story portraying truth, an explanation of phenomena, a legend. Myths are relative and are sometimes told as fact. We may comprehend myths on various levels: spiritual, as stories of the gods; intellectual, as history in time and location; and emotional, as the subject matter of a story and your reaction to it. Mysteries are something hidden, closed, unknown. To the savage, the alphabet, or even a book, is a mystery. They are unfolding the spiritual, mental and emotional mysteries so quickly now that we are almost dizzy with them. Psychological values have been mysteries in the past but are no longer. In religion, all tenets such as sacramental rites, Eucharist, Mass and Communion, are mysteries, especially in the general lack of understanding of the meaning of Ascension. For instance, the meaning of the Immaculate Conception is that two cosmic rays of Light in the Milky Way cross, and a baby star is born. Astrology shows how cosmic rays affect the human being through the brain and glands. The same two rays cross in the Ark of the Mother and cause an Immaculate Conception. This occurs often in the world today. That which we call a mystery is something that has not yet been intellectually or scientifically placed. Its meaning is hidden in spiritual realms. Egypt was considered a sanctuary of the arts and sciences. Other nations of the day considered it the great college of the world and it was certainly the intellectual center of the world. Gathered there were all teachings brought forth by the descended gods. One of the first gods to indwell in Egypt was the architect of the great pyramid at Giza, which was a great sundial that recorded astronomical data perfectly. Scrolls could be lost or destroyed. However, the great pyramid is permanent and unfolds the mysteries through its measurements, the pyramid inch. In 550 BC, Cyrus the Great of Persia decided to conquer the world about him. His son, Cambyses II, followed him and later had his brother, Smerdis, murdered so he would inherit the throne. Cambyses II destroyed many principal cities he conquered and profaned the temples of Egypt and murdered the priests. This was the turning point from the Arien to the Piscean Age. 850 BC marked the dispersion of the Hebrew tribes and the Babylonian Captivity. This renewed the life of the mysteries in the Hebrew faith. In the mystery schools, priests initiated their students into the mysteries of science and theology. They termed each class an initiation. The conquering of Egypt dispersed the priests and teachers who were left and many traveled to Greece. They continued to teach enigmatically and ever more enveloped the mysteries in hieroglyphics, fables and myths. This finally led teachers in lower categories to descend into common and vulgar interpretations and from there they slipped into delusion and illusion. They became thoroughly mediumistic and real degeneration set in. All of this is valid reason for the trend to agnosticism. What they were teaching was tripe! The few always followed the truth, as evidenced by the survival of mystery plays at Eleusis, etc. Yet the mysteries, so long concealed under so many unexplained envelopes, produced a swarm of uncertainty and bred philosophers who did not believe in the gods. The absurdities spread from Egypt to Greece and throughout the world. Two or three high gods taught the mysteries in eight principal countries: Isis and Osiris were in Egypt, Mahadeva and Bhavani in India, Adonis (Thammuz) and Astarte (Ishtar) in Phoenicia, Attys and Cybele in Phrygia, Mithras and Asis in Persia, Dionysus (Sabonus) and Rhea in Greece (Samothrace), Hu and Ceriddwen in Britain, Woden and Freya in Scandinavia. These were eight gates. Still, Christianity bloomed in the midst of thousands of years of paganism. The sacred teachings of the Druids, for instance, carried the truth. The sons of Ishmael’s teaching focused on low emotions and black magic. Christianity was anathema to many pagan cults, and early Christians found it wise to follow the pagan calendar on holy days and to adopt many practices of their schools of initiation. Missionaries in Britain, for example, always built their churches on the sites of old pagan sacred places. Three degrees of instruction stemmed from the Orders of Solomon: Auditors, Catechumen and the Faithful. They have also called these initiations and were part of the lesser mysteries. The Auditors were novices, neophytes who were letter-perfect in their knowledge of creed and dogma. The Faithful passed through particular purification and further instruction in baptism. They also required them to pass initiations of Theogenesis, the beginning, rebirth, the origin of things. This is the first portion of what are known today as the six lesser mysteries. These mysteries were all Christian and so must be hidden from Roman authority. Initiates studied and underwent great purification before the rite of baptism to be worthy of the sacrament. Between each initiation was a separate purification rite so severe that those who survived came through with great strength. This is how they kept the holy sacraments profoundly secret. The historian, Irenaeus, relates that the Simoneans also maintained a hidden priesthood of the mysteries because, as Christians, they were so persecuted. The Simoneans, whose name could have derived from the fact that they were followers of Simon Peter, was one of the earliest of the Gnostic sects and underwent the greatest of initiations. These were not the mysteries so far talked about, the mysteries of the early Christians. They imported the sacred mysteries from Egypt. The modern church still does not accept them, but the Gnostics were the pure Christians. Hypatia was a famous Gnostic teacher in Alexandria. The Egyptian gods formed triads, the third person in each triad proceeding from the first two. The triad of Thebes included Amen, Mut and Kensu, who were oracles. Kensu, the third, was the mouthpiece of the three. An oracle is one whose vocal cords are spoken through by a high god. They close their eyes to veil their personality from the masses. Closing the eyes in prayer is first an act of devotion, but eventually you close your eyes to the world. The triad of Philae was Osiris, Isis and Horus, the son. Knemu, Sati and Anqut formed the triad of Elephantine and the Cataracts. All of these were under the order of the oracles and were regarded as spirit, active principle or generative power by speaking the word; matter, passive principle or productive capacity; and the universe, which proceeds from the first two. In Egypt they also had Amen Ra the Creator, Osiris Ra, the Giver of Life, and Horus Ra the Queller of Light, transforming Light from the Source down into form. Priests in the temples of Egypt used these three. They symbolized the three Egyptian seasons. Temples had only three gates; in all ways they held to the trinities.
Rejoice! God Reigns June 5, 1964 Opening of 49th International New Thought Alliance Congress Two thousand years ago, a babe was born in humble circumstances. He grew to adulthood and became the greatest Teacher in the world! He didn’t write a book, didn’t have a home, didn’t build a church. He traveled, was scorned, flogged, his friends left him – he even borrowed a grave! Yet, his laws are greater than all science today! Science is still trying to understand substance, yet he spoke, and substance was created, bodies came back from death. There is only One Mind, One Power, One Substance. Archaeological discoveries prove our Bible, just as scientific discoveries do. As told in the Bible, Moses struck a rock and produced water. Energy researchers are extracting water from rocks today. Moses acted as if God were acting as him, and God did! Not God and! We see bodies, but not Mind, and Spirit and emotion. Nobody sees YOU! We get a glimpse, as in the eyes of love. We are threefold– Spirit, thinking and emotions – Mind, Power and Substance. "I hope, I want, I will, I won’t" are words of challenge that we must never use. We must take our invisible self, and turn it up to God. If not, we are submerged! All we need is to declare, God as All there is! God never sets the clock back for any of us! Life is an escalator. If we look back, we become cross-eyed. Look forward! The clock is set right out there on the same vibration when we could have started. The New Testament is a complete book of psychiatry. The chapters on taints of earth, which tell the things not to do are a must! The submerged part of anyone who obeys the Laws of God is turned upward to God, but they must have a burning Desire of God and a burning Desire to see God first. Put Him into all you do! Praise everything you want increased. Joy, Beauty will follow you all the rest of your life when you praise and put God first! The submerged part is turned upward. Stay in Heaven first, and God will reward you. |
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