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Volume, made from transcriptions and translations of records in the Vatican, Rome, and Church of St. Sophia, Constantinople. Translations by Drs. Mac Intosh & Twyman of the Antiquarian Lodge, Genoa, Italy.

In this amazing little volume, you will find on page 89 in Gamaliel's Interview:-"Jesus taught, 'God is Spirit and God is Father; and he said these are the only two things essential for man to know.”

When we remember that Gamaliel was the grandson of the great Hillel and it was he at whose feet Paul was educated, we realize what those words of testimony mean. In the Archko Volume you will find the famous Hillel Letters.

It is my belief that the brothers of Jesus were the sons of Joseph by a former marriage. The action of our Lord in commending Mary to John is one proofin my mind. Else, why did not Mary's younger "sons" if there were any-care for her?

Having read Unity Magazine for twenty yearsand more with joy and gratitude, I feel the inward urge to write as above.-Frances Wadsworth Johnson.

DIVINE PROSPERITY

"All that the Father hath is mine."

"Then why am I not in possession of it?" asks the

average man.

We answer, "Because in the 'brawl for the means to live' you have overlooked the important fact that the possessions of the Father are not in stocks and bonds, but are the divine possibilities implanted in the mind and soul of every man."

It is through the mind of man that ideas are born into being. It is through the soul of man that God's wealth of love finds its avenue for expression.

It has been said that the mind of man is a crucible

in which the ideal is transmuted into the real, and that this process of transformation is the spiritual chemistry which we must learn before we are ready to enter the great laboratory of the Father's Substance. There is no lack of material there. Every one of us has the opportunity to bring forth from this Resource according to his thought and purpose.

Health and prosperity and all our good comes through the awakening consciousness of spiritual power. When we understand this, every man becomes the supreme being of his own life and affairs, and no good nor evil can come to him except he make it possible.

Opulence of consciousness will express itself in opulence of manifestation.

Spiritual power is creative, and is not dependent upon material securities.

The inexhaustible energies of nature are at our service when we learn to make confident demand upon them.

Disease and poverty will never enter our domain unless we invite these ideas through belief in them, and they will never stay unless we entertain them. This consciousness of power is one of the delights of our Divine inheritance, but we must know how to apply it righteously.

QUESTION AND STATEMENT
ETHELIND LORD CAMPION

Is that which we call Life a material substance? Is Life ever dead, inert, weak, sick, unhappy, or incompetent?

Do we not instinctively recognize life as force, power, energy?

Yet even force, power, energy, must be backed by something, must originate in something more comprehensive, more inclusive, than itself. We name this something Mind, or Universal Intelligence.

You may call this Intelligence Spirit, or God, or Law, or the Great First Cause, or what you will. It is the One Original Life and Substance; that which stands back of, or under, all manifestation, though men call it variously.

Is the physical man the real man?

Is your body you?

What are you?

What is it in you that feels, that loves, that thinks?
Is not the mind in you, the "I," the Real Self?

Is not that Real Self in the last analysis, Intelligence?

Does Life or Intelligence die or change or ever in any way cease to be less than itself, or other than itself? Must it not contain within itself all power, all wisdom, and is it not universal in its action, and present everywhere?

Who, then, or what, limits you or hinders you from having all you need or can use of this Mind or any of its attributes-Life, Love, Wisdom, Power, Happiness, Abundance?

Is it anything or anybody outside of your own thinking?

You believe you have some life, or you would be dead; some power, or you could not exercise your muscles; some wisdom, or you would not be aware of life; some love, or you would not care to live; a little happiness, or you could not conceive the bliss of happiness. You believe in a little of the good of life and so the dynamo of your thinking apparatus generates just the exact amount you believe in! Is that not reasonable? And the divinest justice?

If you desire more, then change your mind.

Demand more, and more, and more of Universal Good, until every atom of mind and body is satisfied and no longer hungry or starving. Demand until you are rich in satisfaction, no longer poor and unhappy. You may have all you can use, if you will but believe

that you can! "I will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on me, for he trusteth in me.'

Meditate thus: I believe in Universal Intelligence. I believe this Intelligence is Good, and only Good. I believe that my I Am is my means of contacting in consciousness this Intelligence and Power.

I believe I can enlarge my organ of receptivity, increase my consciousness, and use, or manifest, more and more of this Universal Intelligence.

I believe that the life in me is one with the Universal Life and Intelligence, and so is unlimited and free.

I believe that in my Real Self I Am Intelligence. I know I have a brain to function that Intelligence through.

I propose hereafter to use my brain to function Intelligence only, and more and more of it.

I demand satisfaction, and I believe it not only belongs to me, but that I can get it here and now. It is so.

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THE BEATITUDES

(Matthew 5:1-12.)

"He went up into the mountain," means that the I Am ascends into the higher regions of consciousness. "He opened his mouth and taught them." The I Am becomes the open door through which spiritual truths are reflected into the common thoughts.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

Let those who think they have great spiritual acquirements give them up, become poor in spiritual pride, then the real kingdom with all its enduring riches shall be theirs.

"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."

Those who cry and yearn for the Spirit shall receive its consolation.

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."

Thoughts receptive to spiritual realities, though unseen, take hold of that invisible substance, "of which worlds have been framed by the word of God," and it becomes theirs they possess it.

"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

The sincere desire to do right—the longing for the pure, the just, the true, shall meet with fulfillment. "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."

Charity begets charity; love begets love. Forgive yourself, everybody, and the consciousness that there is "no condemnation in Christ Jesus" shall be yours.

"The quality of mercy is not strained;

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath it; it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."

"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

God is love, and they that love without the adulteration of selfishness, or the lust of sense, come into the very of the Good-they actually see God. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God."

presence

The ability to say "Peace!" to the turbulent waves of thought, and have them obey, entitles man to the sonship of the Most High.

"Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

They who have withstood and overcome in Truth's righteous way the persecutions of sense thought shall have harmony within-the kingdom of heaven.

"Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you

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