Being we find our immaculate immortality and our transcending glory.n5087 ¶1
There is a laborless way in which one may leave undesirable earthly conditions. This way is a state of consciousness wherein such conditions cannot exist.n5087 ¶2
If one reports that his body is sick, that his purse is empty, that his mind is sorrowful, the Christ is saying unto him, “The Kingdom of perfect Life is within you. In the Kingdom are MANY mansions. Arise! Enter! Behold!”n5087 ¶3
Here, the notion that one should combat undesirable conditions, or that one should heal undesirable conditions, is laid aside for vision of a higher order. For illustration, let us suppose that upon entering a house one chooses to live in the kitchen. The house has many desirable rooms but in this kitchen he finds himself confronted with dishes, brooms and labor, and he finds that he must deal with them. Thus, his experience becomes unhappy and distasteful.n5087 ¶4
But why attack brooms and dishes as though they were opposing oneself? Are there not other rooms in which one may live, automatically dispensing with kitchen labor?n5087 ¶5
One finds instant and tremendous relief in his mind when he perceives that he need not attack so-called external experience. Rising into a higher realm of thought one automatically transcends undesirable conditions. As individual consciousness is uplifted, conditions simultaneously take on a new aspect. One’s whole universe is transformed for him as he ascends in consciousness.n5087 ¶6
We escape the condition called dis-ease as we perceive and understand that we are immutable Life. We put off limitation and bondage as we accept and practice our Reality. Remaining in the library one laborlessly escapes the toils of the kitchen; and entering that realm of consciousness which perceives with Jesus, “Ye are the light,” one laborlessly puts off darkness.n5087 ¶7
As the student instructed in music avoids discords by beholding and understanding harmony, so do WE overcome and avoid discordant conditions by beholding and claiming our primitive state of perfect being.n5087 ¶8
If one considers himself a material being he labors with material limitations. If one considers himself a mental being he labors with mental limitations. But should one cease the belief that he is material, cease ‘also the belief that he is mental, and enter that realm of consciousness wherein he perceives that he 1s God-beig, spontaneously he leaves the so-called physical and mental states and enters the state of Spirit.n5087 ¶9
One finds it utterly impossible to formulate a belief that Spirit can be sick, that Truth can be untrue, that Intelligence can be ignorant. Therefore we open our vision that our King of Glory may appear.n5087 ¶10
Since we know in our heart that there are no false conditions in Spirit, then our escape from false conditions is to be Spirit!n5087 ¶11
“T say unto thee, Arise,” is not spoken to the so-called dead but to the living.n5087 ¶12
As ignorance is overcome by Intelligence, so human sense is overcome by Spiritual consciousness. The day of attempting to heal socalled conditions is drawing to a close. There is being ushered in to view a higher vision,—the Science of Ascension; the Science of being the Truth; the Science of spontaneously experiencing health and blessedness.n5087 ¶13
With the coming of the automobile the use of the horse began to diminish. With the coming of the radio the use of the victrola lessened. With the coming of the perception that we are Spirit the conditions called sickness, sin and death begin to vanish.n5087 ¶14
Wings are not given a butterfly by the cutting off of feet, nor does one receive heavenly harmony by cutting down or attacking his experience and environment. Not by might but by spiritual perception, saith our Lord-Self,n5087 ¶15
This glorifying Vision—that we are the being of Truth, in our new and immortal birth, and in Light such as this we perceive our actual being.n5087 ¶16
Spiritual awakening, or awakening to self as Spirit, is the uplifting of individual consciousness into eternal Truth. Perceiving that there is nothing external to combat, heal or destroy, one makes rapid strides in individual spiritual advancement ; and what is called inharmony, transformed by the higher vision, disappears.n5087 ¶17
Truth awakens us to receive spiritual realities. Truth calls us to hear wondrous ideas. With the coming of illumination the DREAM of material existence is dispelled. As light (understanding) appears, darkness (unenlightenment) vanishes. As Christ, our real Self, appears to us, un-reality or in-harmony disappears.n5087 ¶18
“As a vesture shalt Thou change them.” .. . “In the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed.”n5087 ¶19
Thought and vision becoming exalted, no longer does one put new wine into old bottles or patch discordant bodies with right ideas. Wings are not placed upon a caterpillar, nor should one attempt to place a body “white as light” upon a body that is considered mortal and structural. The immaculate spiritual body (the temple of our Lord), awaits our claim and our laborless acceptance. Jesus assured us that his vision reported the perfect universe at hand, the white fields harvested and the radiant body prepared.n5087 ¶20
“Eye (material vision) hath not seen the things whichn5087 ¶21
God hath preparep for him.” ... “His going forth is PREPARED as the morning.” ... “Inherit the Kingdom PREPARED for you.” ... “Thou PREPAREST a table before me.”n5087 ¶22
Recognition and acceptance of our God-being enables us to perceive abundance, happiness and harmony, prepared and at hand. As our immortality becomes apparent to us, the body responds to our ascending vision. Such transfiguration is the spontaneous shadowing forth of the new and glorified state of consciousness.n5087 ¶23
The Science of Ascension, revealing to us that we are Soul, seizes and holds our vision, and human beliefs and limitations cease proportionately.n5087 ¶24
Come up higher! This is the call of the One. Come up into a higher perception, and here experience illumination and transfiguration.n5087 ¶25
“He made darkness his secret place.” ... “The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.”n5087 ¶26
No matter how great may seem one’s mental darkness, there is hidden in him the glory of his Lord. The message that we are Life, Truth and Love is the Light that shineth eternally in us though we may comprehend it not. Because of this ever present and transcending Light, one is always delivered; potentially, and no dream ever takes from him his changeless ever present glory and immortality.n5087 ¶27
Since one is now a perfect and immortal being why speak or write at all about redemption, resurrection and ascension? The answer is obvious. If one knew and had demonstrated his redemption, resurrection and ascension he would not be present to ask this question. His body would disappear from material sight and would be deathless.n5087 ¶28
Jesus ‘Christ presented to us all the way of salvation from false belief,—belief in the reality of material limitation and bondage. Material sense of life must be put off and false belief must yield to Truth, for “Jn Christ shall all be made alive.” As one apprehends and retains the correct view of ideal being—perfect, unfallen, changeless identity—the untrue sense of life is laborlessly put off and vanquished.n5087 ¶29
As the Science of Being dawns upon us, we relinquish untrue beliefs for spiritual realization, establishing in this dream of material existence our understanding of Truth.n5087 ¶30
“Ye SHALL KNow the Truth.’—Jesus.n5087 ¶31
We gain the control of Soul over sense in the very way that Jesus taught and demonstrated. In proportion as the truth of Jesus’ life and teaching is apprehended and demonstrated by the individual does the individual “put on,” or experience, his harmonious individual identity.n5087 ¶32
One solves a problem in mathematics. understanding that the correct answer already exists, and this perception also applies to the solution of the problem of so-called material existence. The answer is prepared, established from Eternity, and individually one obtains, retains and practices the Science of Being.n5087 ¶33
“When this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”—Paul.n5087 ¶34
True being is not lost, fallen or resurrected, and the Kingdom of eternal harmony remains forever omnipresent in Consciousness. Transition from an untrue sense of Life to a new and true sense constitutes resurrection.n5087 ¶35
Being cannot be transformed for the reason that being is changeless and immortal. It is wrong belief or mistaken sense which must yield to the harmony of spiritual sense or to the Science of Ascension.n5087 ¶36
Although individual spiritual identity is actually immortal, perfect and complete, and not imperfect, human and mortal, nevertheless the perception of this fact seems to dawn upon one by degrees. Spiritual understanding is perceived and demonstrated by the individual gradually and gently, culminating in the divine requirement: “Be ye therefore perfect.”n5087 ¶37
Our individual demonstration of Spiritual Power over false sense becomes evident only as we rise to our nativity in Spirit. One emerges step by step from the belief that he is material and mortal to the recognition that he is Spirit and that all his experience is spiritual. A metaphysical teacher wrote: “Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.”n5087 ¶38
We wait expectantly and finally the child disappears and the man takes his place; yet the man is always here potentially and actually. We discern and perceive Truth spiritually and finally the unreal (sense) disappears and the real state is enthroned. Perfect being is always here inherently and eternally. > With the disappearance of the caterpillar the crawling motion is gone automatically. The butterfly does not crawl. With the disappearance of the mortal (untrue belief), the sick and dying habits are gone. Immortal being is not sick or sinful. With the acceptance in individual consciousness of the perfect changeless state the untrue expression ceases automatically. “Overcome evil with good.’ Overcome the belief of mortality with the realization of Immortality. Overcome the belief of sick, discordant body with the conviction of perfect and changeless body. Overcome the unawakened state of consciousness with the living fire of insight and perception.n5087 ¶39
“The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.’—PauI.n5087 ¶40
ImMMorTAL being is not bound by fetters or hampered by dreams. Immortal being is free Spirit, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. Let this be our vision.n5087 ¶41
The putting on of immortality is the AWAKEN- ING to the fact that a spiritual being is perfect and that there is no other being!n5087 ¶42
Nothing opposed to Reality can ever actually exist. Opposition and separation appear only to dull eyes and dim vision. Perfect being never changes, no matter what may be one’s view-point. As the individual harmonizes his vision with Reality he laborlessly experiences peace, power, glory and immortality.n5087 ¶43
“The light shineth 1n darkness and the darkness combrehendeth it not.’—John.n5087 ¶44
As the light shineth 1n darkness so health shineth in one who reports sickness; and In him who declares that two and two are five there still abides consciousness of the fact that two and two are four. Thus our infinite Self supplies all our needs, fulfills all our desires and delivers all our ideals.n5087 ¶45
Truth, true and ideal being, is here without beginning and without ending. Individual sense, however, perceives, accepts and demonstrates the full dominion of Spirit according to individual fatth, vision and understanding.n5087 ¶46
One’s life is not here in a coming state, but his life is here in a perfect and complete state. The same thing may be said of individual embodiment. It rests with us each to perceive and demonstrate this eternal fact of Being.n5087 ¶47
“Be ye reconciled to God” is Scriptural advice. Let us reconcile ourselves to the fact that we are dealing with one Substance only. Vision such as this quickly clears away the cloud, quickens the faith and brings one face to face with his reality.n5087 ¶48
Jesus showed us the pathway leading from the state called mortality (human sense) to the actual state of immortality (Spirit). He portrayed to us, how the dream of material existence may be broken, how dream laws may be set aside, and how sickness, disease, sin and death may be laborlessly annihilated.n5087 ¶49
It has: been scientifically stated that either by suffering or by Science one comes to himself,— one arrives at the point “Be ye therefore perfect.”n5087 ¶50
“Ye SHALL KNOw the Truth,” declared Jesus. We are not required to “know the Truth” after we have regained our perfect state (returned to our Father’s home), but now, in the dream of material existence, is the time and place for us to discern and experience the Truth that delivers us to freedom.n5087 ¶51
This Truth may become known to us individually, either through suffering,—the overcoming, step by step, of false sense with true ideas,—or, through Science of Ascension.n5087 ¶52
There is a Way above the taking of human steps, above suffering, above climbing and laboring. This way is the Science of Ascension, the Science of Fulfillment, the Science of “The last shall be first,’ the Science of “Fields white already to harvest.”n5087 ¶53
In our every day experience we see ways of traveling from one geographical place to another. One may walk over the distance, he may motor or he may travel by aeroplane. But if he could bridge that distance by being there without any process of traveling or “going,” this deliverance would illustrate the Science of Ascension.n5087 ¶54
The Prodigal son was confronted with the problem of regaining his perfect state of being. So are we. If in the attempt to return one takes the mental position of climbing, overcoming, laboring, this process is what has been termed the way of “suffering”; for here one is supposed to learn Truth through experience, and this entails constant effort, practice and labor.n5087 ¶55
If, however, one glimpses the fact that he has never left his perfect Kingdom, then he sees that he is not required to return; he is required only to know that he has never wandered away but in a dream, and that he is now and here, uninterruptedly and unchangingly, a perfect being of Life, Truth and Love.n5087 ¶56
This is laborless deliverance. This is not the Science of moving up and on but the Science of remaining still; not the Science of putting on or putting off experience but the Science of recognizing and accepting Reality.n5087 ¶57
The Science of Ascension is the Science of laborless deliverance, the Science of seeing face to face, the Science of experiencing Reality.n5087 ¶58