Unity of LO Lesson
The Essential Charles Fillmore
By James Gaither
Jesus Christ's Atonement (A continuation and wrap-up)
People in all ages have known about the saving power of words and have used them to the best of their understanding. The Hebrews bound upon their foreheads and wrists parchments with words of Scripture written upon them. The Hindus, Japanese, Chinese, and the people of nearly all other known nations have their various ways of applying the sacred words to the modification of their ills, and the invocation of the invisible powers to aid them in both their material and spiritual needs.
Although these methods are faulty in that they use the letter of the word, instead of its spirit, they are useful to us as indicators of the universal belief in the power of the sacred word.
We know that words express ideas, and to get at their substantial part we must move into the realm of ideas. Ideas are in the mind and we must go there if we want to get the force of our words. The Hebrew phylacteries and the lamas' (Buddhist) prayer wheels are suggestive of the wordy prayers of the Christian; but their use is not keeping the sayings of Jesus, nor reaping the inner substance of the mystical word. This can be done only by those who believe in the omnipresent Spirit of God and in faith keep in mind the words that express His goodness, wisdom, and power.
Jesus more fully voiced this nearness of God to man than any of the prophets, and His words are correspondingly vivified with inner fire and life. He said that those who kept His sayings should even escape death, so potent was the life energy attached to them.
This is a startling promise, but when we understand that it was not the personal man, Jesus, making it, but the Father speaking through Him, we know that it was not an idle one; for He said, speaking to His disciples, "The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me."
Whoever takes these words into his mind should consecrate himself to the Truth that they represent. That Truth is not the doctrine of any church, nor the creed of any sect-- not even Christianity. That Truth is written in the inner sanctuary of every soul, and all know it without external formulas. It is the intuitive perception of what is right in the sight of God. It is the Truth and justice that every man recognizes as the foundation of true living.
This means mental discipline day after day and night after night, until the inertia of the mind is overcome and the way is opened for the descent of Spirit.
Let us be thankful that God is no respecter of persons, that Truth cannot be revealed by one mortal to another. *God is a special, personal Father to every one of His children, and from no other source can they get Truth.
Meet God, commune with Him, during meditation at any of our services. *"God is a special, personal Father to everyone of His children,"
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Weekly Quote
"There's something within you that knows what to do. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can imagine."
By: Robert Adams
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