Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

[Randy]

How many people try to understand themselves by taking the inner journey?

These are some snips from a series of books called Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, by Baird T. Spalding, copyright 1924.

They are very thought provoking to say the least. not the average "religious" material nor do they shut out the current religious teachings.

"The failure of outer things to satisfy leads the soul to seek the power within. Then the individual may discover the I AM, he may know that within him lies all power to satisfy the soul, to fulfill its every need and desire. This knowledge may not come until the individual is driven by the buffetings of the world to seek this inner plane of peace and calm. When he knows I AM is the fulfillment of his desire, the desire if filled. To look outside the God self for the fulfillment of his desire is folly. To unfold, the self must do the unfolding.

"Then what a realization, what an awakening to know the I AM; to know that within is the power, substance, and intelligence from which all forms take form; and to know that the moment of a definite and true idea of desire can be intelligently formed, the power, intelligence, and substance of spirit must flow to it and bring it forth. Are these not treasures in heaven that we have not beheld? Here, in the unformed, lie boundless treasures hid within ourselves. How clear this is to the one that has found the pearl. Then think, 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (right-use-ness) and all these things shall be added unto you.' The reason they are added is that they are made out of the very essence of Spirit. The consciousness must first find the Spirit before it can for the desired thing"

[Randy]

another quote for your contemplation

"As I stand alone in Your great silence, God my Father, in the midst of me there blazes a pure light and it fills every atom of my whole being with its great radiance. Life, Love, Strength, Purity, Beauty, Perfection, stand forth in all dominion within me. As I gaze into the very heart of this light, I see another light, - liquid, soft, golden-white and radiantly luminous, - absorbing, mothering and giving forth the caressing fire of the Greater Light.

"Now I know that I am God and one with God's whole universe. I whisper to God my Father and I am undisturbed.

"Yet in the complete silence there exists God's Greatest Activity. Again, I am undisturbed and complete silence is all about me. Now the radiance of this light spreads to God's vast universe and everywhere I know there is God's conscious life. Again, I say fearlessly, I am God; I am silent and unafraid.

"I lift the Christ high within me and sing God's praise. In the tones of my music inspiration hums. Louder and louder within me the Great Mother sings of new life. Louder and clearer with each new day, inspiration is lifting my conscious thought until it is attuned to God's rhythm. Again, I lift the Christ high and give close ear that I may hear the glad music. My keynote is harmony and the theme of my song is God and God seals my song as Truth.

"I am free with the great light of Your Spirit, God my Father, Your seal is placed upon my forehead. I accept. I hold your light high, God my Father. Again, I accept.

[Randy]

"I stand steadfastly with my eyes fixed on you O father; knowing naught but you father; and I see naught but God in all things. I stand firmly on the holy mount, knowing naught but your love, life and wisdom. Your divine spirit pervades me always. It surrounds me always. I know father, that this is not for me alone, but it is for all thy children. I know father that I have naught but that which they have and there is naught but God for all. I thank thee father.

I must know that I AM entitled to every good and perfect gift of God, and I must prepare to receive those gifts through the knowledge of God as my divine nature. If I separate myself from God in thought, I will also separate myself from God in manifestation. In order to enter fully into the joy of life, I must seek life and joy, for the fullness and joy that life gives to all humanity."

"In the heart of my being father I AM one with you and I recognize you as being the father of all. You are spirit omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. You are wisdom, love, truth; the power and substance and intelligence of which and through which all things are created. You are the life of my spirit, the substance of my soul, the intelligence of my thought. I AM expressing you in my body and in my affairs. You are the beginning and the end, the very all of the good which I can express. The desire of my thought, which is implanted in my soul, is quickened by your life in my spirit; and in the fullness of time, through the law of faith, it is brought into visibility in my experience. I know that the good I desire already exists in spirit in invisible form but awaits the fulfillment of the law to be made visible and I know that already I have."

"The words which I now speak outline to you my father, that which I desire. As a seed is planted in the soil of my soul and moved upon by your quickening life in my spirit. It must come forth. I allow only your spirit, wisdom, love and truth to move in my soul. I desire only that which is good for all and I now ask you father to bring it forth. Father within me I ask to express love, wisdom, strength and eternal youth. I ask to realize harmony, happiness and abundant prosperity; that I may have the understanding direct from you, of the method of bringing forth from the universal substance that which will satisfy every good desire. This is not for self father, but that I may have the understanding so that I may be of service to all your children."

[Randy]

here's the ongoing thought to the previous post.

"That which I desire is already in visible form. I form in my mind only that which I desire. As a seed begins its growth underground in the quiet and in the dark, so does my desire now take form in the silent, invisible realm of my soul. I enter my closet and shut the door. Quietly and confidently I now hold my desire in mind as already fulfilled. Father, I now await the perfect out picturing of my desire. Father, father within me I thank you that now in the invisible the fulfillment of my desire is always established and I know that you have poured out lovingly and lavishly to all an abundance of your treasure; that you have filled every good desire of my life; that I may partake of your opulent supply; that I may realize my oneness with you; that all your children may realize the same; and that whatever I have, I may pour out to help all your children. All that I have I give to you father."

"No act or thought of mine shall deny that I have already received in spirit the fulfillment of my desire and it is now brought forth into perfect visibility. In spirit, in soul, in mind, in body, I AM true to my desire. I have perceived my good in spirit. I have conceived it as a perfect idea in soul and I have given true thought form to my desire. I now bring into visibility, or true manifestation, my perfect desire. I thank you father, that I now have love wisdom and understanding; life, health, strength, and eternal youth; harmony, happiness, and abundant prosperity; and the method of bringing forth from the universal substance that which will satisfy every good desire."

[Randy]

a few more thoughts to ponder

"She stepped quietly to the small platform and began her address. "We are gathered here this evening with the desire to enter into the fuller meaning of passing from a lower to a higher consciousness and we welcome those of you who are prepared for this. At first you followed us, led by your interest in the things you have seen us accomplish, which you at first looked upon with awe and wonder, thinking of them as marvelous. We know you have at this time learned to look upon these things as the everyday occurrences of a life lived as it should be lived, a natural everyday life that God would have us live at all times. By this time you are satisfied that we have not performed any marvels. You realize the true spiritual meaning of what you are doing. The consciousness that functions from the true spiritual plane always interprets all forms in terms of the ideal underlying them; then the great inner meaning is revealed and there is no mystery, consequently no marvel, no miracle. This passing over from a lower to a higher consciousness means putting away the material, where all is discord and inharmony, and taking up and accepting the Christ Consciousness, in which all is beauty, harmony and perfection. This is the natural way of living, the way God sees us living, and the way so beautifully exemplified by Jesus here on earth. The other is the unnatural, the self way, the hard way. When we realize it, it is so easy, so natural to live the christ way. Then we come into the Christ Consciousness."

Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 1, chapter 22, page 144
by Baird T. Spalding

"Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thoughts, he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy, strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection. By abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all of the grades of character and man is their maker and master."

Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 2, chapter 9, page 89
by Baird T. Spalding

"The door giving access to this omnipotent and transforming alchemy of the Spirit in man is open to all at all times and the key to its opening is in the thoughts of all. When two ideals and methods of salvation or of securing the saving grace of God's love, are different, it is man's thoughts and not God that made them so. Those who close the door to the immediate blessings of God for all His children, isolate themselves from the immediate blessings that God bestows upon the Christ Child and from the spiritual illumination of the transcendent alchemy of Spirit and the all-potent powers which are theirs to use as the Christ would and should use them. When men recognize this, the leper will be made whole instantly, the withered arm will be restored, and all diseases of the body and mind will vanish at their touch. Through the concentration of the spoken word, they will multiply the loaves and fishes; and as they break the bread or pour the oil for the multitude, it will never dimish but there will always be an abundance left. They will calm the raging sea or tempest by their command and gravitation will be overruled by levitation, for their command is the command of God. Then will they know my thoughts when I gave forth my opening message to the world as I left the temple that day, when I said, 'the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand', and , 'have faith in God and nothing is impossible to you.' All who believe they can do the works that I do will come forth and do them may do even greater works than I have done. They will know that it is a process of living the life, believing and knowing' then absolutley nothing is impossible to them."

Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 2, chapter 16, page 158-159
by Baird T. Spalding

"The idea of an inner and an outer consciousness is also a phase of hypnosis for the theory imposes a sense of separation or division. There is in reality not an inner and an outer consciousness nor a personal consciousness and a universal one. When the Self becomes conscious in the outer it is only one attitude of consciousness and it is complete in every way and it is ONE in and with universal consciousness. I and my Father are ONE."

Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 4, chapter 6, page 77
by Baird T. Spalding

[Randy]

"He boldly taught that ignorance is the cause of all sin. He saw that, in order to practice forgiveness or the science of forgiving, man must be enlightened to the fact that man has the power to forgive all sin, discord and inharmony; that it is not God who forgives sin, for God has nothing to do with the sin, sickness and inharmony of man; that man, himself, brought these into being and man is the only one who can erase or forgive them. He saw that man must learn that ignorance is disregard and lack of understanding both of Divine Mind as the Creative Principle and of his relation to that Principle. He saw that man may have all intellectual knowledge and be versed in worldly affairs, yet if he does not recognize the Christ as the living, vitalizing essence of God within him, he is grossly ignorant of the most important factor governing his life. He quickly saw the inconsistency of asking a perfectly just and loving Father to heal a disease or sin. He taught that disease is the effect of sin and that forgiveness is an important factor in healing; that sickness is not punishment sent from God, as many believe it to be, but is the result of man's misunderstanding of his real being. He taught that it is the Truth which sets free. The purity of his teachings has caused them to outlive those of his teachers."

[Randy]

"To make God alive and vital to me, I must think and know that I AM God. This is more living and vital to me than anything. Than I the Christ, my redeemer, becomes alive and one with me. I AM that very thing. This becomes the motivating force for my whole life. I AM redeeming myself, the true me, I AM one with God, truly God. By reverencing, loving, and worshiping this it becomes ideal to me. God right within and active. Back of will stands desire, will in it’s true estate is a pure colorless force and is moved into action by desire. If there is no color or direction given to will, it is inactive. Place the desire in harmony with the will force and it will spring into action immediately and call legions to carry out it's commands, the only requirement being that the commands are in divine order."

"God principal is the one point. I AM one with universal life energy. It is flowing through me now. I know it, I feel it. I thank God my father that I have the ability to do all things.

God my father, the Divine Principal flowing through me, is all, and all that god is, I AM. I AM the Christ of God, God-Man. All that God my father is, is for God-man to use; thus I AM is entitled to use all substance. In fact God my father is pressing out all substance to God-man in unlimited measure. God principal is my father; I AM the Christ of God; I AM in whole and complete union. All that God has, the Christ of God is. I let my body become a generator through which the great creative radiating principal flows. I see this principal as the emanation of all power, know that it is the principal of all power; then, like an electric generator, my body collects and magnifies this energy until I send it out as a stream of pure white light that nothing can resist. and anything directed toward me can not harm me."

[Randy]

"The repetition of mantrams is hypnotic and people set their own limitations by leaning on the power of affirmation.
"The moment we say, 'I want a certain condition,' we have barred the way to much good that we did not recognize and opened but one avenue of expression. Unless the statement were in accord with the fullness of an expanding life, the realization might take a form not anticipated. The very emphasis on want may aggravate the need instead of granting the supply. The moment we put up a bar to the free flow of substance by a limiting statement, we hinder the perfect expression of God's abundance.

What is the great expression that brings all things? 'I AM abundance.' This statement opens every avenue of expression and closes none. It recognizes the presence of God in all things and the conscious unity of the self with the source of all good. You will find that this was the teaching of Jesus. It was aboundance always, with no limitation whatsoever.

"I AM knowledge." "I AM harmony." Use of these expressions will vitalize the energy in the body so that there results a new awareness of the abundance of knowledge and harmony. Nor is the energy depleted through free use in daily life."

[Randy]

Here's a snipet from the series that is more along the lines of conversation rather than lecture.

Of course we all tried to ask questions at once and were eager to hear. These were his words, "I said when you departed that I would be here to greet you - I am here. I wish to call your attention more fully to the fact than man in his right domain is limitless, knows no limit of time or space. Man, when he knows himself, is not obliged to toil wearily along for five days to accomplish ninety miles. Man in his right estate can accomplish any distance, it matters not the magnitude, instantly. A moment ago I was in the village from which you departed five days ago. What you saw as my body still reposes there. Your associate, whom you left in that village, will tell you that, until a few moments before four o'clock, I conversed with him, stating that I would go to greet you as you would arrive here about this hour. What you saw as my body is still there and your associate still beholds it, although it is at present inactive. This was done simply to show you that we are able to leave our bodies and greet you at any appointed place, at any specific time. The two who accompanied you could have accomplished the journey as I have. In this way you will more readily realize that we are only ordinary humans of the same source as you; that there is not mystery but that we have developed the powers give all by the Father, the Great Omnipotent One, more fully that you have. My body will remain where it is until night, then I will bring it here and your associate will proceed on his way here as you did, arriving in due time. After a day's rest we will journey to a small village, one day off, where we will tarry one night, then return here and meet your associate to see what his report will be. We will assemble this evening in the lodge."

In the evening, after we had assembled, Emil, without opening the door, suddenly appeared in our midst and said, "You have seen me appear in this room, as you would say, by magic. Let me say there is no magic about it. Here is a simple experiment which you can behold. You can see this, consequently you will believe. Kindly gather around so that you can see. We have a small glass of water which one of your number has just brought from the spring. You see a minute particle of ice is forming on the very center of the water. You see it gather to itself, particle by particle, more ice, until now the whole of the water in the glass is frozen. What has happened? I held the central atoms of the water in the Universal until they became formed or, in other words, I lowered their vibrations until they became ice and all the other particles formed around them until the whole has become ice. You can apply this to the little glass, the tub, the pond, the lake, the sea, the whole mass of the water of the earth. What would happen? All would be frozen, would it not? To what purpose? None. You ask by what authority. I say by using a perfect law. But in this case, to what end? Nothing, as no good has been accomplished. Had I gone on determined to carry this out fully, what would have happened? The reaction. To whom? To me. I know the law and what I express returns to me as truly as I express it. Therefore I express only the good and the good returns to me only as good. You can readily see that, had I persisted in the freezing, the cold would have reacted upon me long before I had accomplished the end and I would, in reaping the harvest of my desire, have been frozen. Whereas, if I express the good, I reap the harvest of my good eternally.

"My appearance in this room tonight may be explained in this way. In the little room where you left me I held my body in the Universal by raising its vibrations and it returned to the Universal or, as we say, returning it to the Universal where all substance exists. Then, through my I AM, my Christ Consciousness, I held my body in my mind until its vibrations were lowered and it took form right here in this room and you could see it. Wherein is there any mystery? Am I not using the power, or the law, given me by the Father through the Beloved Son? Is not this Son you and I and all mankind? Wherein lies the mystery? There is none.

"Consider the faith represented by the mustard seed. It comes to us from the Universal through the Christ within, which has already been born within us all. As a minute speck it enters through the Christ or superconscious mind, the place of receptivity within ourselves. Then it must be carried to the mount or highest within ourselves, the very top of the head. It is held there. We must then allow the Holy Spirit to descend. Now here comes the admonition, 'Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength and with all thy mind.' Think! Does this meaning come? Heart, Soul, Strength, Mind. Is there anything to do at this point but to turn it all over to God, the Holy Spirit, the Whole-I-Spirit in action? This Holy Spirit comes in many ways, perhaps as tiny entities tapping and seeking admittance. We must accept and allow this Holy Spirit to come in and unite with the minute point of light or seed of knowing and revolve around it and adhere to it just as you saw the particles of ice adhere to the central particle, and it will grow in form particle by particle, circle by circle, just as the ice, multiply and express that seed of knowing until you are able to say to the mountains of difficulties, 'Be thou removed and cast into the sea.' and it will be done. Call this fourth dimension or what you wish, we call it God in expression, through the Christ in us.

"It is in this way the Christ was born. Mary, the Great Mother, perceived the ideal; the ideal was held in mind, then conceived in the soil of her soul, held for a time there, then brought forth or born as the perfect Christ Child, the First Born, the Only Begotten, the Son of God. He was nourished and protected; given the very best of the mother; watched over and cherished until He grew from childhood into manhood. It is thus the Christ comes to all of us; first as an ideal planted in the soil of our soul-the central part where God is-held in the mind as the perfect ideal, then brought forth or born as the perfect Child, the Christ Consciousness.

"You who have seen what has been accomplished here doubt your own eyes. I do not blame you. I get the thought of hynotism from the minds of some. My brothers, is there one here who feels that he does not have the power to exercise every Godgiven faculty that he has seen brought forth tonight? Do you think for a moment that I am in any way controlling your thought or vision? Do you think that I could, if I would, cast a hypnotic spell over any or all of you-for did you not all see? Is it not recorded in your own great Book that Jesus entered a room with the doors closed? He just came in as I have done. Do you think for a moment that Jesus, the Great Master and Teacher, needed in any way to hypnotize? He used His own God-given power as I have done tonight. Let me say that I have done nothing but what each one of you can do. Not only you, but every child that is or has been born into this world, or universe, has the same power to do just what you have seen accomplished this night. I wish to get this clearly before your minds. Let me also say that you are individuals, that you are not personalities, that you are free wills, not automatons. Jesus did not need to hypnotize and we do need to hypnotize. Doubt us all you wish until you are fully satisfied as to our honesty. Put the idea of hypnotism away for the time, or at least let it lie passive until you have gone deeper into the work. All we ask is that you keep an open mind."

So who are we really? What potential lies buried within us, as yet untapped?

[Randy]

As we had considerable work to do before crossing the Himalayas, we decided upon this village as the most opportune place for our headquarters. The man we had left in the village to observe Emil joined us there and reported that he had conversed with Emil until nearly four o'clock of the day he was to keep his appointment with us. Then Emil said he was about to keep his appointment. His body immediately became inactive and reposed upon the couch as though asleep. It was in this position until about seven o'clock in the evening, when it gradually became more indistinct and disappeared. It was at this time in the evening that Emil came to us in the lodge at the little village.

The season was not far enough advanced for us to attempt the mountain passes. You will note that I say, for us. By this I mean the members of our little party, for by this time we had begun to look upon ourselves as mere impediments. We realized that our three great friends - you will note that I call them all great, for indeed they were - could have negotiated the distance that we covered in far less time that it took us but they were uncomplaining.

We had made a number of short trips from our headquarters with either Jast or Neprow accompanying us and in every instance, they had shown their sterling qualities and worth. On one of these trips Emil, Jast and Neprow accompanied us to a village where a temple called The Silence Temple, The Temple Not Made By Hands, is located. This village contains the temple and the houses of the attendants and is located on the former site of a village that had been nearly destroyed by the ravages of wild animals and pestilence. We were told that the Masters visited this spot and found a few inhabitants left of about three thousand population. They ministered to them and the ravages of the wild animals and pestilence ceased. The few villagers vowed that, if they were spared, they would from that time on, devote their lives to God, serving Him in any way He chose. The Masters left and when they returned later they found the temple erected and attendants in charge.

The temple is very beautiful, situated on an elevation overlooking a wide expanse of country. It is about six thousand years old, is made of white marble, and has never needed repairs, as a piece chipped off replaces itself, as was proven by members of our party. Emil said, "This is called the Temple of Silence, the Place of Power. Silence is power, for when we reach the place of silence in mind, we have reached the place of power - the place where all is one, the one power - God. 'Be still and know that I am God.' Diffused power is noise. Concentrated power is silence. When, through concentration (drawing to a center), we have brought all of our forces to one point of force, we have contacted God in silence, we are one with Him and hence one with all power. This is the heritage of man. 'I and the Father are one.' There is but one way to be one with the power of God and that is consciously to contact God. This cannot be done in the without, for God manifests from within. 'The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silent before Him.' Only as we turn from the without to the silence of the within can we hope to make conscious union with God. We will realize that His power is for us to use and we will use it at all times. Then we will know that we are one with His power."
Emil continues:

"Then will humanity be understood. Man will learn to let go of self-delusions and vanities. He will realize his ignorance and littleness. Then will he be prepared to learn. He will realize that the proud cannot be taught. He will know that only the humble can perceive the Truth. His feet will feel the firm rock, he will no longer stumble, he will be poised in decision.

"To realize that God is the only power, substance, and intelligence may be confusing at first. But when man does realize the true nature of God and brings Him forth into active expression, he will use this power at all times. He will know that he consciously contacts His power at all times - when he eats, when he runs, when he breathes, or when he does the great work before him. Man has not learned to do the greater works of God because he has not realized the greatness of God's power and has not known that God's power is for man's use.

"God does not hear us through our loud and vain repetitions nor our much speaking. We must seek God through the Christ within, the invisible connection which we have within ourselves. When the Father within is worshiped in Spirit and Truth, He hears the calls of that soul which sincerely opens to Him. The one who makes the connection with the Father in secret will feel the power flowing through him as the fulfillment of every desire. For he that sees the Father in the secret place of his own soul and there abides, him the Father will reward openly. How often Jesus disclosed his individual contact with the Father. See how He constantly held Himself in conscious communication with God within. See how He talked with Him as though He were personally present. See how powerful this secret inner relation made Him. He recognized that God does not speak in the fire, the earthquake, or the great wind, but in the still, small voice - the still, small voice deep in our own souls.

"When man learns this, he will become poised. He will learn to think things through. Old ideas will drop away, new ideas will be adjusted. He will soon find the ease and efficiency of system. He will learn at last to take all the questions that perplex him into this silent hour. There he may not solve them but he will become familiar with them. Then he will not need to go hurrying and battling through the day and feel that his purpose has been defeated.

"If man would come to know the greater stranger - himself - let him enter his own closet and shut the door. There he will find his most dangerous enemy and there will he learn to master him. He will find his true self. There will he find his truest friend, his wisest teacher, his safest adviser - himself. There will he find the altar upon which God is the undying fire, the source of all goodness, all strength, all power - himself. He will know that God is in the deepest part of the silence. He will find that within himself abides the Holy of Holies. He will feel and know that his every desire is in God's mind and is, therefore, God's desire. He will feel and know the closeness of the relationship of God and man, the Father and the Son. He will realize that only in consciousness has there been any separation of these which have seemed two - just as his spirit and his body have seemed to be two - but which in reality are one.

"God fills both heaven and earth. It was this great revelation that came to Jacob in the silence. He had slept on the stone of materiality. In a great burst of divine illumination he saw the outer is but the out-pressing or expression of the image held within. So impressed was he by this that he called out, 'Surely the Lord (or law) is in this place (the earth or body) and I knew it not. This is none other but the house of God and this is the gate to heaven.' Man will realize, as Jacob did, that the real gate to heaven is through his own consciousness.

"It is this 'ladder' of consciousness, revealed in a vision to Jacob, which each of us must climb before we can enter the silent secret place of the Most High and find that we are in the very center of every created thing, one with all things, visible and invisible, in and of the Omnipresence. In Jacob's vision he was shown the ladder reaching from earth to heaven, He saw the angesl of God descending and ascending upon it - God's ideas descending from Spirit to form and ascending again. It was the same revelation that came to Jesus when the 'heavens were opened unto him' and he saw the wonderful law of expression whereby ideas conceived in the divine Mind come forth into expression and manifest as form. So perfectly was this law of expression revealed to the Master that at once he saw all form may be transformed, or changed in form, through a change of consciousness in regard to it. His first temptation was to change the form of stones to that of bread to satisfy personal hunger, but with the revelation of this law of expression came the true understanding that stones as well as all other visible forms have come forth from the Universal Mind Substance, God and are in themselves true expressions of divine Mind; and all things desired (not formed) are still in this Universal Mind Substance ready to be created or brought forth to fill every desire. Thus, the need for bread but showed that the substance with which to create bread or any other needed thing is at hand without limitation and bread can be created from this substance just as well as stones can be created therefrom. Every good desire man has is God's desire; therefore, there is an unlimited supply in the Universal God Substance all about us to fill every desire. All we need to do is learn to use what God has already created for us and this He wills to have us do that we may be free from every limitation and thus be 'abundantly free.'

"When Jesus said, 'I am the door.' He meant that the I AM in each soul is the door through which the life, power, and substance of the great I AM, which is God, comes forth into expression through the individual. This I AM has but one mode of expression and that is through idea, thought, word, and act. This I AM God Being, which is power, substance, intelligence, is given form by consciousness; and for this reason the Master said, 'According to your faith be it unto you.' and 'All things are possible to them that believe.'

"Now we see that God is within the soul as power, substance, and intelligence - or in spiritual terms, wisdom, love and truth - and is brought out into form or expression through consciousness. The consciousness which is in the infinite mind of God and in man is determined by the concept or belief that is held in mind. It is the belief in separation from Spirit that has caused our forms to age and die. When we see that Spirit is all and that form is constantly being expressed from Spirit, then shall we understand that that which is born of or brought out of Spirit is Spirit."