"It is not that God, Spirit, is going to do something for mortal, material man: it is that mortal, material man is to put off his materiality that his spiritual identity may be revealed."
"It is not God who comes to the human experience; it is the human being who has to give up the human experience, exchanging it for his spiritual identity."
"Whether a person is good or bad is not the determining factor in the descent of Grace upon him."
"There must be a turning; there must be an inner transformation. This has nothing to do with our outer life. The change takes place within us. The whole experience is an inner experience; it is one of consciousness, but when it takes place, it affects our entire outer experience.
No one of himself has the power to receive God's grace. Grace comes through an evolutionary progressive unfoldment of consciousness."
"No one who believes that there is a power somewhere that can operate on him for good and a power that can operate for evil has come even close to touching the hem of the Robe, for there are no such powers. There is no power of good; there is no power of evil."
"With such discernment this outer world becomes only a symbol, a shell, almosty a 'suffer it to be so now'. The real world is the World of Consciousness and Its forms, not the forms created by nature, not the forms created by the imagination of man or the forms we see with the eyes, but the forms that Consciousness assumes, the forms that we behold in the kingdom of God within us."
"Ah, Yes, there are two worlds - the outer world of the senses and the inner world of the Spirit, and once we have been touched by this inner world of the Spirit, the "natural" man becomes less and less that the son of God may be more and more."

Ch. 2: Release God

"Spiritual freedom is attainable by any one of us. It is our birthright."
"No image that can be conceived in the MIND can ever be God; no concept of God ever entertained by man has the power to answer prayer."
"God IS: that is enough to know. No images! No concepts! In the moment of not knowing, of unknowing - not in a moment of blankness, dullness, or of falling asleep - in a vibrant aliveness, God is experienced. Then we find that through this experience we live and move and have our being in God, and God in us."
"When we pray, we should release God from any personal obligation to us, release Him in the awareness that we are trusting that which created this universe to maintain and sustain Himself and His creation, that we are trusting God in His divine love to care for His own. When we do this, we are releasing God and no longer trying to channel Him in the direction of our personal desires."
"Let us give up believing that our wisdom is greater than God's wisdom or that our love is greater than God's love, and in SILENCE let us accept God's grace."
"I will rest in the assurance that Thou, God, knowest my need before I do, and it is Thy good pleasure to give me the kingdom. I will not seek: I will rest. I will release myself from any belief that Thou art separate and apart from me."

Ch. 3: The Spiritual Adventure

"Long, long centuries before Jesus, it was revealed that there is this inner Self which is our true Self, and which is the Mediator between man and God."
"We need not hear an audible voice - we may, but it is not necessary. We need not see any visions - we may, but it is not important. What is necessary and important is that we enter the sanctuary, this temple of God that we are and in which the presence of God dwells."
"We must arrive at the point where we are able to perceive what the Master meant when he said: 'My kingdom is not of this world ...'"
"We are only at the beginning, however, and just as the spider unfolds its web from within its own being, so we must unfold grace, divine wisdom, and divine power from our own being."
"God, in the beginning, planted Himself in us and breathed into us His breath of life, He did not breathe into us human life: He breathed into us His life. God did not give us a limited soul, but the Soul of God - infinite, eternal, and immortal - if we but go to that Center.
When we have opened this Source within ourselves, we shall find the Master there. We are never the Master: we are always the servant. But once we are illumined, the Master within us is expressing, functioning, and performing."

Ch. 4: The Journey Within

"Contemplative meditation, practiced faithfully, leads to a moment of silence in which all words and thoughts are stilled, a silence so deep that we become a transparency for the still small voice to speak to us. The contemplation of God's grace, of God as the One and Only, and the contemplation of scriptural passages which give the assurance of the divine Presence lead to an inner stillness, and then the second phase of meditation enters our experience. That is when something comes to us, not something that we have consciously thought, but something that was thought through us. These thoughts come out of the void, from the depth of the Infinite Invisible, out of that spiritual consciousness which we are."
"The third stage, that of conscious union with God, is the ultimate and in this stage the personal or separate selfhood disappears. It is as if one were not aware of himself as a person, but as if only God Itself were there."
"There wil be an overturning in our consciousness, and it will appear to us as a warfare between the flesh and the Spirit, a warfare between disease and health, between lack and abundance, and finally between the two I's: the I that we are as a person and the I that is God. (...) the warfare goes on until finally that human being is shaken so thoroughly that he awakens to the fact that of himself he is nothing, but that the I which is God is all."
"(...) when we have broken through this human exterior of mind and, through meditation, have contacted the Source, we are then one with the spiritual mind of the universe, which is the mind of the Buddha, of Jesus, of Lao-tse and the mind of every spiritual saint and seer."
"Every time that we meditate - and we meditate only for the attainment of this conscious awareness (...) - we are at that same moment lessening the evil and selfish influences in the world."
"The ultimate of spiritual living is to live so completely in attunement with the Source, God in the midst of us, that the influence of God which is flowing through us will flow out and be a law of good unto all who come within range of our consciousness, thereby lifing them up and increasing their desire for the spiritual."

Ch. 5: Sowing and Reaping

"In this whole world there is only one Self, and that which constitutes my Self constitutes your Self and the Self of every person, in spite of the fact that each one expresses his identity in an individual way. (...) there are millions of people on earth, but there is only one Life, there is only one Self on earth, and that One is God, Spirit: your Self and my Self.
Because of this oneness, then, what we do to another, we are actually doing to ourselves. If we do good to another, we set in motion the law which returns that good unto us (...)."
"To know that there is but one Selfhood and that that One is God is to set ourselves free."
"God is my abiding place, my home. I live and move and have my being in the secret place of the most High, hidden from the world. My body may be seen, but not the I of my being because I live in an inner awareness of God. My body is out here walking and working in the world, but I am not. I am living in the temple that is within me, the temple that is my consciousness."
"What we accept in our mind as being real and as having power is what determines the kind of sowing we are doing. The more power we give to persons or to things, the more we are sowing to the flesh, and the more corruption we reap. The more attention we give to abiding in the Word, the more we dwell on the truth that there is a Spirit of God in us which teaches, feeds, supports, maintains, and transports us, the more we are letting the Christ, Truth, abide in us, and the more we are abiding in It.
As we continue a practice of this kind, we are throwing the weight on the right side of the scale; whereas before, the majority of our thoughts and deeds were bound up in human and materialistic values and power. At first we may be giving only two, three, or four per cent of our thought and time to entertaining spiritual truth, but gradually as we continue the practice of the Presence, more weight goes over on to the spiritual side (...)."
"To sow to the Spirit does not mean becoming ascetics; it does not mean giving up our work, our profession, our home, or our family. It has nothing to do with what we do externally: it has to do with what is going on in our consciousness while our mind and body are performing their functions on the outer plane. What is going on in consciousness determines wether we are setting in motion the karmic law of good or the karmic law of evil."
"Knowing the truth, following spiritual principles, sowing to the Spirit instead of the flesh - only this will bring our regeneration, resurrection, renewal, and finally, our ascension above all materiality. In that exalted state of consciousness even the karmic law of good ceases to operate in our experience, because in the recognition that we are never the actor or the doer, but that God is acting and doing through us, we have stopped sowing. Karmic law is then forever nullified."

Ch. 6: God, the Consciousness of the Individual

"Once you understand that God is infinite, divine, spiritual, perfect consciousness, yet individual, you have come close to knowing God."
"After a year of relaxing in this infinite, divine Consciousness and finding the miracle of the mystery of life, closer than breathing, how would it be possible not to love the Lord thy God."
"In my mind's eye I can see Gautama before he became the Buddha. (...) He had been seeking God in practices, exercises, diets, and fasting, and God is not to be found in any of these. God is to be found only within. (...) when you find God you will find life eternal. Then you will never die. You may pass from view, but you will never die, nor will you ever again be anxious."
"Success in this search is possible only when it is understood that Consciousness is the substance of all form and the activity, not only of all life, but even of the body, this very body with which we walk and eat and sleep."
"The kingdom of God is within our consciousness, and when we turn within in meditation to this infinite Consciousness to let It flow, we will show forth more of the Infinity which we are and always have been, and next year a greater degree, and the year after, a still greater degree. In other words, we are expressing as much of infinite Consciousness as we can at the moment apprehend."
"When we realize that we are God-consciousness expressing Itself as individual form and variety, we do not feel so great a responsibility to perpetuate our little selves, or even be overconcerned about our creature comforts."
"On the spiritual path, we are seeking to 'die' to our human life, a life made up of both good and evil, and be reborn in our original Essence, divine Consciousness, or God-life."

Ch. 7: The Sacred Word

"There is only one I permeating every person, constituting all individual life, whether human, animal, vegetable, or mineral. That one I is the Soul of my being, the creative principle, the activity, the cause, the life, and even the body itself. It is both cause and effect."
"As long as there is an "I" seeking God, we have not come home. Only when we realize that I is God are we at home in Him, at peace, for when we know that I and the Father are one, we have nothing to be unpeaceful about, nothing to fear and no one to fear, nothing to hate, nothing to resent. Neither life nor death can separate us from the love of God."
" (...) the Master was crucified for revealing: 'I AM THAT I AM... I and my Father are one'."
"We are the instruments, the witnesses to God's word, and that word is I. But we must not speak I: we must hear I. These things are so sacred and so secret that they should never be voiced by anyone: they are true only if they well up within and are heard in the inner sanctuary of our being."

Ch. 8: The Mystical I

"This, I cannot prove to you, You will have to take my word for it, or doubt it until you have an experience of your own that shows you that this I of which you have been aware since you were born really existed before you came forth into this experience. (...) Eventually, perhaps after many lifetimes, that man who has depended upon physical and mental force begins to rise to the status of spiritual man, and that is the story of unfolding consciousness. (...) We have always been functioning at the particular level necessary for our spiritual development because the purpose of our being here is to unfold spiritually, moving from experience to experience until the I that we are stands forth in all Its purity and fullness. (...) My true identity was never born, and it will never die."
"Inwardly and silently, say the word I softly, gently - I, meaning your Self, your true identity. Close your eyes to all outer appearances and inside the inner sanctuary, alone with God, listen to the voice of God as It speaks to you: '(...) Do not fear effects, do not fear outer conditions. I, the I of your being, I am that part of you which was never born. I brought you into experience; I will carry you through it; and I will carry you on into the next experience, even unto the end of the world. (...) When you have gone far enough you will understand that I am God the Father as well as God the Son. And then you will understand oneness. You will understand that, because I am infinite, there are no evil powers. (...) They have no entity; they have no identity; they have no real being, Only understand them to be the fabric of mental illusion - nothingsness - for I in the midst of you am the only power and the only presence'."

Ch. 9: An Interval in Eternity

"One mystic described this life as 'a parenthesis in eternity'. THIS life! Observing life objectively and using the circle as symbolic of all life, it is obvious that we have come from the past into a parenthesis in the circle, and when this parenthesis is removed - the one marking birth and the other marking death - we will be on our way into another parenthesis, or what is called the future."
"The ancients tell us that when we are perfected, that is, when we live this life as God lives life, in that degree of purity, we will not enter the parenthesis again: we will just live in the circle, outside, beyond, and above all human experience."
"(...) Christ-teaching (...) wipes out the past in the moment of real repentance. With the cognition of the Christ, with repentance and with turning, karma is instantly erased."
"It is possible and highly desirable to reach a place of recognizing that our present state of consciousness embodies the spiritual progress of every life-experience we have had since the very beginning - not that there ever was a beginning to the circle or to what we call coexistence with God."
"The moment that we are spiritually endowed (...) and have attained the correct sense of who our mother and brother really are, then we find ourselves tabernacling with those of our spiritual household. We fulfill ourselves spiritually among the spiritual lights who have gone before us, and we are drawn higher, and higher, and higher, and then we do not have to fulfill ourselves humanly, even if we return to earth."

Ch. 10: Reality and Illusion

"The truth is that God is Spirit, Consciousness, and therefore all that really exists is God formed, God in manifestation. The world that we cognize with the five physical senses, however, is not the world of God's creating: it is the finite sense of the world which universal mind has created. With our mind, we cannot discern the world of God's creating. We do not see God's kingdom: we see only the human, limited, finite concept, or mental image, only the physical concept of the spiritual universe. That is why it is changeable and changing, sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes sick and sometimes well, sometimes alive and sometimes dead, all these conditions exist only as concepts and not as reality. It takes spiritual discernment to know the things of God.
"Let us not look at this visible world and call it spiritual, but on the other hand let us not look at it and call it a creation separate from God. Let us rather cleave to the Middle Path which heads to our inner spiritual center where we are the Christ of God and where we can see that we are one with the Father."
"When enlightenment has been attained, the temporal picture is recognized for what it is: 'maya' or illusion. Then when we are faced with evil people, evil or erroneous conditions, we will not fight them or try to get God to do something to them or for them: we will relax, knowing that this is the illusion or hypnotism of the five senses. When we awaken from beholding this mortal dream as if it were reality, we will see one another as we are, and then we will love our neighbor as ourselves because we will discover that our neighbor is our Self."
"The eyes must be closed to the objects of sense so that we can inwardly behold God's creation."

Ch. 11: The Nature of Spiritual Power

"If we believe that there is an evil power from which our understanding of God will protect us or if we believe that we have an "in" with God that will save us from some evil, we are lost: we have accepted two powers, and according to our belief so is it unto us."
"Spiritual power can be brought into expression only through the attainment of the fourth-dimensional consciousness, a higher awareness than that which is possessed by the human mind."
"Our very acknowledgment of the unreal and illusory nature of the discords of this world is the spiritual power. If God is omnipotence, than what power is there in any physical, mental, moral, or financial condition? If God is all-power, can there be a power in any negative condition? Every time we become aware of some negative, material, or mental power, we must realize the truth of Omnipotence: 'Spirit is the only power; spiritual law is the only power; spiritual grace is the only power'."
"If God is omnipresence, we must be the very presence of God. That must mean that there is no other presence, and even we, then, have no presence. Why? Becauase God fills all space, and that does not leave any room for us, except in the degree that we are part of that Omnipresence. This wipes out that false ego-selfhood and leaves only the divine Selfhood which we are."
"It sets us free from the continuous struggle and striving to do something, or accomplish something. It sets our minds free to rest, to be still, and to know that we are one with the eternal, infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient God."
"To attain that mind that was in Christ Jesus and to develop that consciousness which is the source of spiritual power, it is necessary first to adopt the principle of one power, and then (...) begin to apply it in every circumstance of life that presents itself to us, to face every situation with an understanding that there is no power except what is derived from God because there cannot be an infinite God of Spirit and material power, too."
"When, through practice, we have trained ourselves so that we no longer use the power of mind or try to use the power of Spirit, we are in spiritual consciousness and we have the secret of spiritual power.
Spiritual power is the power that animates each and every one of us, but it operates only when we stop trying to use God. The nature of spiritual power is BEING, and it is being spiritual power here and now, it is functioning here and now, and there is no other power functioning."

Ch. 12: The Discovery of Self

"Nothing can establish permanent peace in the heart of an individual except the entrance into that heart of the Christ, the Spirit of God. As peace is established in the heart of the individual, ultimately it will be established in the world, a peace that comes, not by the knowledge of man, nor by the wisdom or power of man, but by the Spirit of God functioning as the consciousness of man."
"Ultimately we shall all discover that our true identity is Christ, and although we may have been brought up as Jones, Brown, or Smith, our real name - our identity and our potentiality - is Christ, the spiritual offspring of God. In the moment that this truth is revealed to us, all that has been imposed upon us by human belief will drop away, and as soon as we begin to perceive our true nature and identity, it will not take long to become accustomed to the atmosphere of Spirit, which is our original abiding place."
"When we are expressing love impersonally to the downtrodden and abandoned people of the world, we are really expressing love to ourselves because the Self of those others is the Self of us. This is the Way: there is but one Self. I am that Self and I am that Self even if I am appearing as you."
"There are no boundaries in the spiritual relationship, for there is only one I AM, and that I AM is universal, individually manifested and expressed as every individual, past, present, and future. I AM is the Way, and the more we dwell in the remembrance of our true identity, the closer we are living to the way."
"The goal of mysticism is the attainment of the realization of one's self as Self, so that life is a continuing experience of the Self, with a coming down to the personal sense of self only for the purpose of the immediate work to be done. The attainment of the mystical state is, of course, the ascension out of the personal sense of life into the experience of life lived as the Universal and the Divine."

PART II: RISING OUT OF THE PARENTHESIS - Attaining the Mystical Consciousness

Ch. 13: The Unillumined and the Illumined

"In his state of unillumined being, each person has a life of his own to live, a life probably destined to be manifested on earth for threescore years and ten - a little less or a little more - a life subject to disease and death, a life that began and must therefore end. This constitutes the unillumined, the human race."
"The individual illumined with the understanding of the nature of God and the nature of his own being is no longer the 'creature', but is now the son, the heir of God, living under Grace.
"Once even the tiniest little crack of insight into the nature of God is opened, the rest comes more or less quickly, because now, instead of blind faith, there is a complete relaxing from mental strife, struggle, and effort in the realization that, since God is infinite wisdom and light, we can rest and let God illumine, instruct, and guide us.
"With even a small measure of spiritual illumination must come the realization that God is not be prayed to and that there is nothing for which we can pray. This first glimmer of light reveals an all-knowing God with a wisdom so great that it would be presumptuous on our part to advise or attempt to enlighten Him."
"The truth reveals the universal nature of God's love which is bestowed alike on saint and sinner, and is not reserved for those who belong to a particular church."
"We are men of earth until we know the truth and demonstrate a sufficient degree of it so that we reach a state of consciousness which is no longer fettered by ignorance, superstition, and fear. In that state of consciousness, we are enabled to penetrate behind the realm of mind into the realm of divine Consciousness, but it takes spiritual illumination to make that possible."
"Two types of schools (...) developed side by side: those that taught the power of the mind, and the purely spiritual that revealed how to unfold spiritually and develop the transcendental consciousness. On the level of the mind, great works and great feats of magic can be performed, and sometimes this deludes people into believing that they are witnessing God in action, when it is nothing more nor less than the action of the mind."
"Whatever exists on the material or mental plane of life can be used in two ways, for good as well as for evil. The effects of spiritual or transcendental consciousness, on the other hand, can be only good."

Ch. 14: "And They Shall All Be Taught of God"

"No one should ever be in a hurry to choose his teacher or his teaching. Rather should a person wait until he has such an inner conviction that he has found the right way for him that there is no turning back. Then, when it is revealed to him that this is the way for him, he will follow it even if it is a very difficult one.
"When a student finds his spiritual teaching, he should thereafter give up all others, and be as true to that teaching and the teacher as he expects the teacher to be to him."
"Since spiritual impartation does not come through the human mind or through the reasoning faculties, the only reason that questions have any place at all in the unfolding of spiritual consciousness is because the hodgepodge of erroneous teachings, which many have been taught from their earliest years, will continue to puzzle them until it is cleared out."
"When no personal sense enters, either in imparting or receiving, that is absolute teaching. It is accomplished entirely on the spiritual plane. When the Absolute is reached and the student raises with the teacher into divine Consciousness, the human sense of truth drops away."
"The ultimate destiny of a student has to be realized in his own consciousness. (...) Books (...) will not make his demonstration: they are merely tools or instruments for his use as he goes into his periods of contemplative meditation. When he is in prayer and communion in that inner sanctuary within himself, there the transition takes place, the Word is heard, and ultimately the indissoluble union is reached."
"Should it be necessary for us to find a teacher or even to contact some teacher on the inner plane (...) he will appear."
"There are many persons who have contacted a teacher within their consciousness without ever having had a teacher on the outer plane."
"(...) whether our particular teacher is on this plane or another, we can understand him correctly only if we understand that he comes to us as an instrument through which God, Truth, can reach us. Then if perchance we become aware of something acting as an instrument from another plane and if through that contact the fruitage is good, we need not fear it, but welcome it. If, on the other hand, we find ourselves touching a realm on another plane made up of good and evil, we can know that we have touched only the human plane, whether here or there."
"No man of himself can bestow the Holy Ghost upon another, but as an instrument of God, the teacher becomes the transparency through which God reaches human consciousness, elevates and purifies it, lifts it from the stony soil into the barren, and from the barren into the fertile."

Ch. 15: Self-Surrender

"Usually the metaphysical student does not come to a truth-teaching to surrender or to give up anything. His primary thought is on what he will get out of it. (...) the first year or two of study does result in a considerable amount of getting for most students. Their personal lives begin to be adjusted; harmonies come into their experience: greater health, sometimes a greater supply, and nearly always a greater sense of peace. (...) during (the) second, third, or fourth year of very serious spiritual study, we can expect the worst of us to come to the surface, whether it is a physical worst, a mental worst, or even a moral worst. In many different ways the early years are troublesome ones because, if the temptations that come are not wisely handled, we can find ourselves (...) walking back to (...) those places of outgrown consciousness which we have long since gone beyond. The goal looks so far away that we may become discouraged and decide to turn back. It is in these years, therefore, that we need to watch ourselves most closely to be sure that we are not overcome by our problems or by the situations that face us, but that we continue moving forward."
"(...) for those who (...) have had their footsteps turned to a spiritual path, there is no such thing as being satisfied by a little physical comfort, mental and moral stability, or financial security. There has to be the pressing onward to the ultimate goal, and that is where the surrender comes in. We must surrender all desire to the one desire: to see God face to face, to know Him, and to let the will of God be made manifest in us. There must come the complete surrender of our personal selfhood, so that the Spirit of God can fulfill Itself in us in accordance with Its will, not with ours."
"There is a Spirit, but there is a price to be paid for. (...) We cannot add the kingdom of heaven to our personal sense of self. (...) Our vessel must be empty of self before it can be filled with the grace of God. (...) It is when sitting humbly and completely aware of one's inability, even to know how to pray, that the Spirit of God can function and perform Its miracles on earth."
"When we come to the point of serving as practitioners or teachers we shall have to be courageous and completely purged of any personal sense because we will undoubtedly offend many of the very persons whom we wish to bliss. (...) This path is not the pathway of popularity."
"Certainly in the early stages it may be painful when the Spirit is breaking up the humanness in us; certainly there will be disturbances in our existence. These we must accept with gratitude. This very pain and these very disturbances indicate that undesirable traits, qualities and conditions are no longer lying dormant within us. Now they are being roused up, rooted out, and if we are faithful we will be purified."

Ch. 16: The Secret of the Word Made Flesh (The First Degree)

"Attaining unity with God does not usually come at a single bound. It is more than likely to be the result of years of dedicated study, meditation, and service, the earliest stage of which might be called the First Degree. When we come to this First Degree, we (...) feel that we are not alone, that within us there really is this Infinite Invisible. At times it seems almost as if It were within our chest, sometimes as if It might be sitting on our shoulder or standing back of us (...), and more and more we relax in It."
"The end result of passing through this degree is the gaining of an absolute inner conviction that where we are, God is, that the place whereon we stand is holy ground, that there is a He that performs that which is given us to do (...)."
"(...) the greatest attainment at this stage of our unfoldment is the realization of God as One, not as a power over some other powers, but as the only Power."
"Through the building up and strengthening of our realization of God as a Presence, as Law, as Life eternal, and as Peace, we are at the same time losing our fear of all material forms, whether appearing as condition or person."
"It may be that we hear (the) still small inner voice speak to us as clearly as any person might speak, giving us specific instructions in a language that we cannot possibly misunderstand. Sometimes we are aware of a great light within ourselves, and just the presence of that light changes our entire outer experience."
"(...) one way we can know whether it is a true spiritual experience is that there are always signs following. (...) In one way or another, a spiritual experience is always accompanied by signs following - what in metaphysics is called demonstration (...). These might be in the form of the healing of some physical, mental, moral, or financial discord."
"While this process is going on, something else is taking place at the same time. Instead of putting our entire hope, faith, and reliance on the external world and instead of living by the world's standards of life, we now begin to see that there is a spiritual Something that is of far greater importance than the material. There is a Spirit within us, and it is this Spirit that is playing the most important role in our life."
"Through inner unfoldment we learn in this First Degree that whereas before we thought we needed things on the outer plane and our whole life struggle was to attain more of these things, now we relax from that struggle and realize that 'man does not live by bread alone.'"
"Our first instruction in spiritual wisdom reveals that we are no longer to look up into the skies (...). Our vision turns within and upward into that altitude of consciousness where we can discern that the Word has become flesh and dwells in us."
"During the First Degree, we come to the realization that there is this inner Substance, Activity, or Law, and that It is flowing out through our consciousness, becoming the substance of our new world. The man of flesh has 'died', and in a measure that man who has his being in Christ is now beginning to come alive, resurrected from the tomb of material beliefs and risen into the realization of his spiritual identity."

Ch. 17: The Mystical Life through the Two Great Commandments

"(...) we are trying to live our (...) lives in accordance with the two great Commandments (...): Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (Matthew 22: 37,39)".
"By desiring or willing it, we cannot, of ourselves, receive the Christ. It is an act of Grace, but it comes in a moment of unselfedness, when we are loving the Lord our God supremely and loving our neighbor as ourselves. In that split second of unselfedness, room is made in our consciousness for the entrance of that Seed, the Christ, and then, as we nurture It silently, secretly, and sacredly within ourselves, telling no man, eventually the Birth takes place, and it becomes evident that we are a new being, that we have 'died' to the old and been reborn to the new, that we have put off mortality and are being clothed upon with immortality."
"Loving our neighbor as ourselves (...) is giving our neighbor that same recognition of godliness that we give ourselves, regardless of the appearance of the moment. (...) In the loving of God and the loving of our neighbor there is an unselfedness which creates something of a vacuum, an absence of an awareness of the little 'I' (...), and in its absence conception takes place - the overshadowing by the Holy Ghost, the Annunciation, or the planting of the seed of the Christ within us. (...) It takes (...) two, and possibly more, symbolic years in 'Egypt', even after the Christ has been born in us, to come to the full realization of the non-power of the carnal mind, the non-power of human or temporal power (...)."

Ch. 18: The Function of the Mind (The Second Degree)

"(...) the purpose (...) is to spiritualize mind and body, to bring to our awareness the light of truth so that our whole being may be transformed from a materialistic sense to a spiritual sense. (...) we are transformed from the man of earth into that man who has his being in Christ. (...) The only truth there is, is the truth about God, the truth that God is the substance of our body, our business, and our life. (...) In Him, not in material or physical structures, do we live, and move, and have our being."
"Every word of truth that we embody in our consciousness becomes the breath of life to us. (...) all we have to think of is of God as the activity and the law unto our being, and then all action is performed harmoniously and perfectly in accordance with divine law."
"At first we fill our consciousness with thruth until the mind is transformed from a material to a spiritual base; then we stop using our mind as a mental power to make something happen, and let it become an avenue or an instrument of awareness through which to receive God's grace. Ultimately we live by the Grace that flows from the Spirit within, and that becomes apparent to us through the mind. (...) We are now learning not to use the commonly accepted modes or means of life, but to rely upon the word of truth that is within our consciousness."
"When we have progressed in the Second Degree to the point where we have spiritualized the mind, where we understand the mind to be an unconditioned channel for God's wisdom, and have learned to be still, then when problems are brought to us for solution, we are not concerned about thinking thoughts, but go within, and let His voice utter itself, let ourselves be instructed from within, and let His power come through."

Ch. 19: Attaining Divine Sonship (The Third Degree)

"When we have encompassed the First and Second Degrees, a new dimension of life, an entirely different area of consciousness, opens up to us. (...) Having found the kingdom of God and dwelling in it, something else is taking over the responsibility for our entire experience. The government is on His shoulder, on this divine Son which in the Third Degree is now raised up in us."
"When we come to the third stage, which is reached by passing through a series of initiations, each marking a transition from a lower state of consciousness to a higher one, there is no sowing and there is no reaping: there is only a state of divine being, the fourth-dimensional consciousness which, when attained, enables us to live by Grace. When the son of God is raised up in us and is alive, we need take no thought, for It is of the essence of Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience; It is the All-knowing, the All-powerful, the All-presence, and It does these things for us. (...) We find ourselves in His image and likeness; we find that there is a God, that God cares for His son, and that you and I are that son."
"The final experience is the annihilation of our human self, of its good qualities as well as its evil; it is 'dying daily' until even the best of humanhood is gone, and spiritual identity is revealed."
"When the transition takes place, sometimes slowly or sometimes in a flash, it always leaves us with a trace of our old self. This is a difficult period because we have glimpses of what spiritual living can be, and yet at the same time we have the frustrating experience of not being able to live in the Spirit continuously. While our old unillumined self does not dominate the scene, its shadow still lingers, and we are often tempted to indulge in the old habits and modes of life. So there is a need for great patience until the son of God has been more fully raised in us."
"When we first set out on this Path, let us not forget that we already are the Christ, but that the Christ is so heavily veiled that we cannot behold the real Self. Every moment of our journey the veils are dropping away from us - the claims of humanhood - until eventually we stand forth and see ourselves as we really are, sons of God, united in a brotherhood with all mankind, wherein there is neither Greek nor Jew, bond nor free, where all are One in Christhood."

Ch. 20: The Meaning of Initiation

"Initiation is an act of Grace bestowed on (an) individual at a certain time in (his) unfoldment, lifting (him) into the master-state of consciousness. (...) The world loses its attractions for him, not because he planned or willed it so, nor because he studied to bring it to pass. Rather has an experience taken place within him. The Spirit of God has begun to come alive; his Soul-center is being opened (...)."
"Life is eternal. The life of God is eternal. The life of God is infinite. There is only one Life, and therefore that eternal Life must be your life and mine. The very life that we are living is infinite and eternal, and it is not dependent upon the action of the body: the action of the body is dependent upon life. Such a realization leads to the period of transition where we move from existence in the body to an existence which is external to body, and yet which governs the body."
"(...) to experience the ascension, we have to take all the footsteps that Jesus showed us including the temptations and the crucifixion. (...) If we study this experience of Jesus, we will understand why it is that just when we think we are entering the kingdom of God, our trials begin, and our temptations. (...) These temptations come to all those on the spiritual path, and usually at a time when they have reached the place where they are good human beings and are about to shed their humanhood."
"When this spiritual way of life begins to change our nature and we find ourselves being cut off from society, we do not always realize that we are going through a transitional period and that once this transition has been made and we are completely isolated from our former associates, we will be led into the companionship of those of our own spiritual household."
"(...) when all personal sense has been eliminated, when there is no 'I', 'me', or 'mine', there is only God, there is only the Light Itself, and this is Self-supporting, Self-maintaining, needing no help from any human source.
"The final step for every initiate is the command to 'die'. No one attains the heights until he reaches a complete surrender of self, give it up completely - if necessary to jump off the cliff into the ocean, to swim out so sea, to keep swimming and never turn back, to do what the Master commanded: 'lose' his life, 'die' to his human sense of life."
"To attain (...) spiritual realization, the prime responsibility of the student is the practice of meditation. It is in meditation that he loses the self with a small 's', and gains the Self with a capital 'S'. It is in meditation that he is developing, enriching, and unfolding his inner Self, but not while the human mind is busy with the ambition or desire for attainment. The preparation for spiritual attainment, if there is any, therefore, is to forsake a goal."
"Certainly, then, a prime requisite in the preparation for initiation on the spiritual path is the understanding that the aspirant is ready to be unknown and to be nothing."
"In order to attain the spiritual heights, every initiate must go down into the depths and go through a period known as 'the dark night of the Soul', which may last months and months. This is a time of anguish, a period of barrenness in which he is torn apart and feels certain that God has forsaken him, that he is unworthy, that he has made a mistake, or that he has committed a sin, and God has therefore cast him into outer darkness. The reason for this desolation is not that God has thrown him off: it is only that a greater, deeper light is coming, and there must be an emptying-out process before that greater light can come."

Ch. 21: "The Spirit of the Lord God ... Hath Anointed Me"

"The Transfiguration is not an experience of two thousand years ago. It is a continuing experience that always has been and always will be. It is an experience in which individuals so lift themselves above the physical or mental state that they become less aware of the corporeal form, and more aware of what is shining through that form."
"Every person who goes into spiritual work must be certain that he has been called and ordained of the Spirit and that he has not engaged in this activity simply because of a human desire. To desire a spiritual activity is a wrong desire: to want to meet God face to face, to experience Him, to want spiritual light and illumination - this is the only desire that is worthwile."
"When a person comes to that place where a transition has taken place in his consciousness and he no longer looks out on this life and sees men and women, good and bad, sick and well, but is able to see through the human picture of the spiritual reality, that one is spiritually ordained.
"There is no need to tell this to anyone, to advertise, or to voice it because when the Spirit of the Lord God is upon a person and he has received light, there is something within his consciousness that communicates itself silently to others."
"If we sincerely love truth, we will give ourselves unstintingly to the search. Whatever is necessary to do, we will do: if it is to buy books or teachings, if it is to give time, if it is effort, if it is devotion, if it is meditation, whatever is necessary to give, we will give. Every part of our life must be dedicated to God."
"If a person is not prepared to leave this world and all his friends, even his family if necessary, he obviously has not been ordained and has no right to embark on this activity, because in spiritual work no one's life is any longer his own."
"Each spiritual experience is like a plateau, and our progress on the Path like a series of plateaus. We reach a particular plateau, and then stand there, seemingly making no progress, and all we can do is wait. (...) Just as a rosebud cannot be hurried into a rose, but must take its normal natural time to unfold, so must a spiritual experience.
"So we have an experience, and it is deep and rich; it is bright; it is light; and it gives us a vision beyond anything we have ever known before. We live with that, and we work with it; and we dream with it; and all the time whatever work is given us to do is performed. Then it seems as if everything is taken away, and there comes an emptiness, a vacuum, a sense of absence from God, a sense of separation, but this is only to make us ready for the next step or plateau, for a still higher experience and unfoldment."
"If you have a spiritual teacher who has played a part in bringing you into the light, you may share your experience with your teacher, and thereby be led into a greater expansion of consciousness because your teacher knows how to hold your experience secret and sacred, and deepen and enrich it. But no one else - not a parent, not a wife, not a husband, not a child, not a friend - should ever share the depth of a spiritual experience - no one but your teacher, if you have one."

Ch. 22: The Mystical Marriage

"To everyone who attains the mystical experience comes (....) changing of name and character, even though it may not be outwardly known. Those to whom it happens do not tell the world about it, but when it happens, they know it.
"The bestowing of the Robe is also a mystical experience, and everyone who comes into the mystical consciousness has felt that Robe descend upon him. He would never refer to it: it is an inner spiritual experience - not an outer robe, but something to be worn spiritually as a garment which one places around himself to separate him from whatever is left of human sense in his consciousness."
"Every mystic not only experiences (...) dual relationship of 'I' and the indwelling Christ, but each one, at certain times, transcends this relationship and becomes that higher One. He loses sight of his human identity."
"In the period just before the full and complete union, there is sufficient oneness so that the mystic perceives his oneness with all life (...)."
"Always in the end the spiritual aspirant discovers that the kingdom of God is within him, and realizing that, pondering it, almost understanding it, step by step he is taken along both the mental and the spiritual path until one day the parenthesis is erased, his initiation is complete, illumination comes, everything drops away, the Light is there, and he realizes: I am That. That which I am seeking, I am. Then comes a complete inner release from personal selfhood, from human sense, and I stands reveiled within as his identity."

PART III: LIVING IN THE CIRCLE - Living the Mystical Life

Ch. 23: Living In, Through, and By the Spirit

"We have no right even to try to hold on to the truth that we learned yesterday. If we could empty ourselves every day of all we know, we would make way for what God has to reveal and what man has never so far even yet received. If we are trying to hold on to anything or anybody, if we continue to live on yesterday's manna, we are living wholly in material consciousness, and we have no measurable amount of illumination."
"(...) the universal Consciousness is individually expressed, and our consciousness is that Consciousness, but not until the moment of illumination. (...) What a difference there is between the 'natural man' who lives like a vegetable and is fed by food alone and the individual that we are when some measure of illumination takes place and we no longer live by bread alone, but 'by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God'!"
"The three-dimensional consciousness thinks always in terms of that which has concrete form. On the other hand, the fourth-dimensional consciousness sees the form, but looks through it and finds concreteness in the Invisible. The real substance is in the (...) Invisible Omnipresence which we are."
"There is more power in the realization that (...) we embody within ourselves the divine Substance of all form than in all that we could attract to ourselves in the external world, because with this inner realization, supply will multiply itself over, and over, and over again, as the plants keep multiplying leaves, flowers, and fruit."
"I live by the Spirit of God, not by external things, thoughts, or persons, but by the Spirit of God. This is the real meaning of life of Withinness, the mystical life that lives in and through the Spirit, rather than in and through the material world. It releases us from all attachments to the outer universe: we have no fears, no hopes, no ambitions. We are living in the Spirit, through the Spirit, and by the Spirit. And this is living the mystical life."

Ch. 24: The Master Alchemist

"At some point in the initiate's progress on the Path, he feels this invisible Presence stirring, and it either speaks to him in the still small voice, or in some other way gives him the assurance that It is with him and that It will never leave him:
Live and move and have your being in Me; live and move and have your being in the realization that I am here, that I go before you to make straigth the way, and to prepare mansions for you. I go before you to multiply the loaves and fishes. I go before you to be the cement of love between you and all whom you meet in your business, professional, and family life. I am He that is your rest and your abiding place. Be still and know that I in the midst of you am God, an invisible Presence, to human sense intangible, but tangible in expression and practical in life"
"(...) now that we have this infinite Source with ourselves, no one could ever come into our presence without feeling that he does not have to put up a mental wall of protection against us. Lines of anxiety and concern disappear from our face (...)"
"Every one of us has a Master Alchemist within its own being, and Its name is 'I'. This 'I' will take the dross of human nature and refine it. This 'I' will take ignorance and provide the necessary knowledge in its place. It will take the grossest, most material human nature and evolve it into the Christ."
"There is nothing fictional about alchemy, the turning of dross or base metals into gold. That is not fiction: that is fact. When this alchemy takes place in us, when that calyst, the divine Spirit, touches us, It transmutes the base and useless part of our nature into the gold of our spiritual nature, into the purity of divine Consciousness, and then in some degree we are less human than we were, and more divine."

Ch. 25: Losing "I"-ness in I

"To submerge the personality and make it subservient to that which is greater than itself is well-nigh impossible for most persons and gives rise to inner conflicts which may deflect them from the path leading to the goal. Through meditation and the practice of the Presence, however, the mind is stilled, and an awareness of this Something greater than themselves is developed. Eventually, a state of complete quiescence in which there is no thinking or planning is reached, and the human will yields to the divine will."
"Such a state can be achieved only when all desire has been surrendered because desire nourishes the personal sense of 'I'-ness."
"To begin with, the retiring into a quiet state should not be of more than two or three minutes' duration at the most - probably only one or one and a half minutes would be better - but this should be repeated as many times in the day as possible, and it should be repeated at night and every time that one may awaken from sleep, and then again early in the morning. (...) In the brief periods of meditation (...) our first thought must be: God made this day, perfected it and decreed its activity. His will is done in me today."
"(...) we must begin to acknowledge that Infinity is, and if we acknowledge that It already is, and is within us, we should give up all attempts to get or achieve anything from outside ourselves. Instead, we should center our attention on letting It escape from within our own being. Then, every time that we close our eyes, even if it is only for fifteen seconds, it is to acknowledge: The kingdom of God is within me. Lord, let It flow forth into expression."
"The nature of our being is the same as the nature of God-being, for we are one. Relaxing in that oneness, we permit the Invisible to govern, uphold, sustain, move, feed, clothe, house, direct, and instruct us. This is different from thinking of ourselves as something separate and apart from God, having to ask God or attempting to influence Him (...)."
"Let us acknowledge God as infinite Intelligence and divine Love and be satisfied with that: I am satisfied to be what You want me to be, to do what You want me to do, to be where You want me to be. I live and move and have my being in Your consciousness. You are closer to me than breathing; You know my needs before I do. It is Your good pleasure to give me the kingdom, and I can rest and relax in You."
"When we rest in that truth, it picks us up and transforms the mind, the body, and all that is called our life or outer experience, which is not really an outer experience at all but an experience that is taking place within us, in that inner world that is the only world there is."

Ch. 26: My Kingdom is Not of This World

"As we give ourselves to the seeking of this spiritual kingdom, we discover that our outside world falls into place by itself; things begin to happen; and suddenly we awaken to find that the grace of God has brought us something of an unusual nature in the form of a healing, an enriching, a supplying, a companioning, or the teacher whose function it is to open our eyes. But these will not come while we are praying for them. They come, not by taking thought or by praying for them, but by dropping them out of our thought and letting God take care of our needs in His own way while we center our attention on what the kingdom of God realized is."
"When we have progressed sufficiently far on this Path, doubtless we, as was the master, will be tempted to use spiritual power, and it is then that we must resist the temptation to perform miracles, and be guided by the Master's spiritual kingdom not to glorify or cater to the self."
"As we look out at the temporal universe, let us realize: (...) This, that my eyes see or my ears hear, this is the superimposed counterfeit, not existing as a world, but as a concept, a concept of temporal power. (...) All that exists as a temporal universe is without power. I need not hate it, fear it, or condemn it: I need only understand it."
"Thus, more and more our attention is centered on God's kingdom and His grace rather that on form and effect,and then as we are absent from the body of form and effect, that body, form, and effect appear harmoniously."

Ch. 27: Living Above the Pairs of Opposites

"(...) spiritual power has nothing to do with good conditions today or evil conditions tomorrow. Rather does it have to do with our understanding that we are not seeking to change the conditions of matter but to realize the omnipresence of Spirit, that we are not seeking to turn sickness into health or war into peace: we are seeking the government of God, the revelation and the realization of God as our consciousness."
"In the realization of one power, we not only stop seeking some material power with which to meet our need, but we stop seeking a spiritual power. Since there is but one power, then, there is nothing on, against, or for which to use this power. What in essence does this really mean? What does it mean to reach a point in consciousness where we relinquish all thought of using God as a power?"
"Morning, noon, and night, we must maintain within ourselves a spiritual balance in the realization that in the kingdom of God there is neither good nor evil: there is only Spirit; and in the kingdom of this world the appearance of evil and the appearance of good are really illusory."
"In a mystical teaching we have no right to look at a human being with the idea of changing evil into good, disease into health, or lack into abundance. What we must do - and it is imperitive that we do it - is to look through the appearance and realize: Unseen to my human eyes, this is the Christ, the son of God. I do not seek to change him, improve, reform, or enrich him. I look through the appearance, and remember that even though I cannot see it, here is spiritual identity."
"The only one who believes that some error, some temporary evil, or some mistake of omission or commission is separating him from God is just as far off the beam as the person who believes that this goodness is earning him God's grace. (...) To the illumined consciousness, darkness and light are one."

Ch. 28: The Tree of Life

"Life is the Tree of which we are all branches, and we all derive our life, intelligence, love, care, and protection from the same Source. (...) The truth that enables us to serve each other is knowing that I have nothing of my own to give you, and you have nothing of your own to give me: we derive our good from the same Source because we are one (...). We are the manifestation of one Tree of Life and, by an invisible bond, we are all branches of that one Tree."
"True peace can be established between us only when there is a subjugating of the ego in the realization that there is but one Ego, but one Self, and God is that Ego, that Self, and God constitutes the Self of every individual. Now instead of being in conflict with one another, we are united."
"In the mystical life, a person lives constantly and consciously as out from the Center, in the realization of oneness, and with every temptation to see twoness, opposition, or competition, he inwardly smiles in the realization: 'Be not afraid, it is I. There is only one of us here, not two. There is not a me and danger, there is not a me and competition, there is not a me and an enemy - that is twoness.'"
"In living this life the mystic becomes a blessing without consciously desiring or attempting to be. All those who come into his presence feel something emanating from his consciousness. (...) he increasingly draws unto himself those who more nearly represent his state of consciousness. The key to a fulfilled life, as well as the key to success, is in oneness with God. Only in our relationship of oneness with the Father can we have a permanent bond at any and every level of human existence - on the level of friendship, the marital, the social, and business levels."

Ch. 29: Beyond Time and Space

"There is nothing God can do about the past because God is not there: God is here, and God is now. The place whereon we stand is holy ground - now. If anything is to take place in what we call the future, it has to be as a continuation of the presence of the God of now."
"The mystic does not sit around worrying about what is going to happen to the world: the mystic beholds life and watches God at work (...). This is a glorious universe when we behold God at work, God in action."
"Now is the only time, and now is the perfect time (...). In the moment that we 'die' to the past, we are reborn in this nowness, and in our rebirth in the Spirit, we carry with us nothing of the past (...). Any moment in which we have the conscious realization of the presence of God, we have 'died' to our materialism. The birth of the Christ has taken place (...). It is necessary to have periods in which we consciously live as though we were looking right down a long straight line of now, seeing nothing in conscious oneness with the Father."
"(...) mysticism reveals that our life after the transition will be the result of our life before the transition, and that every bit of spiritual awareness that we embody on earth is the degree of spiritual awaress with which we will begin our new experience. (...) there is no after-life for anything or anyone except as that after-life is a continuation of now."
"Now, now, now are we the children of God, not yesterday or tomorrow, only now! Now, 'I and my Father are one,' and this now that we are living is a continuing experience because whatever we are now we are infinitely and eternally, and if we are one with the Father now, and if all that the Father has is ours now, we have only to live in this now."

Ch. 30: God Made This World for Men and Women

"Nothing new is going to be created tomorrow, not a thing; all that was is now, all that ever will be is now; but we have to ascend to the mountaintop when we have broken through all limitations and know, 'I am I, the son of God, heir of God, joint-heir to all the heavenly riches'."
"Men and women are prisoners of their minds, and they see only the limitations of their own thinking until they begin to break through its barriers and look out at this world, and in observing the grandeur of the universe, then realize, 'It is all here for me. See what God has done for me, to give me this universe to live in and all this beauty to enjoy'."
"When we turn within in meditation, it is to realize that the kingdom of God, the Kingdom of this whole universe, is within. So our chest expands to include the whole of God's universe, and now we can look into that silence and darkness and experience His whole wisdom coming to us, His whole love, His whole life, His whole companionship flowing forth, because now our consciousness is as big as the universe: it is holding the whole universe inside of it."
"The greatest thing on earth is men and women (...). We know real joy only in men and women because in them we find the whole of God revealed. The whole of God is stored up in us, and all this world is really an instrument, a playground of joy, a place of inspiration made for our fulfillment."

Ch. 31: "There Remaineth a Rest"

"The object of a Sabbath is to lay aside the world, that world which Jesus said he had overcome. We, too, are to overcome it, even if we overcome it for fifteen minutes or an hour. Whether we give one hour a day, fifteen minutes, or whether we take a full Sabbatical day or occasionally a full Sabbatical weekend, we become so filled with the Spirit that like spring, it is bursting out all over."
"One day we come to what is the grandest experience that can take place in a human life: we lose all desire except the one desire - consciously to know God. Now as we go into our meditation, we have overcome the world. It is almost like feeling a hand on top of our head in a benediction as we pray: Let Thy grace be my sufficiency. I ask not for persons, things, or conditions: I ask only that I may honestly be able to say that Thy grace is my sufficiency, whatever form it may take. Just let me know Thy grace, know and fulfill Thy will, sit at Thy feet, tabernacle with Thee, and feel that Thy life is my life. Let me only know that wherever I am, Thou art; and that wherever Thou art, I am. I am at the state of unknowing. Let Thy wisdom be expressed through me; let Thy wisdom be my wisdom. Supply the wisdom, the energy, and the grace that I may always feel my own nothingness, and yet feel an eternal and ever-present perfection and completeness through Thy grace and Thy wisdom. I have no work to do but that which Thou givest me, and I have no wisdom with which to do it but Thy wisdom, and no power with which to perform it but Thy power. Let me always abide in Thee."
"We are not surrendering ourselves to God's will unless we make a conscious surrender of ourselves to that will by disclaiming any will of our own: I have no will and no desire of my own. Fill me with all that Thou art. Fill me with Thy wisdom, Thy might, Thy justice, that I may have nothing of myself and be nothing of myself; but be the All that Thou art.""
"What a Sabbath that is! What a fasting that is from the world, the things of the world and the peoples of the world, and how it spiritually fills, renews, and rejuvenates us! After that we can come down from the mountain into the valley, mingle with and help meet the needs of those who are drawn to us, not because of any virtue in us but by virtue of the grace of God which now fills us."

Ch. 32: Address the World Silently with Peace

"What a release from all fear would come to us once we could realize that God constitutes our life eternal, that the Father's life is our only life, that we have no life of our own to lose, that we never had any life but the life of God, that the very Spirit of God dwells in our being, even in our body, and that our body is the temple of the living God!"
"It will not be long before we feel the magical effects of this truth in our mind and in our body, and as we continue to dwell in the Word, quickly we will begin to realize that this is a universal truth. Silently and secretly, we shall find ourselves looking at every member of our household and rejoicing in the truth: 'I know thee now who thou art. The life of God is your life; the Christ-life is your life'; and soon there will be changes in the mind and in the body of everyone around us."
"We were all born to show forth God's glory, and the only reason we exist is to show forth God's life on earth, His eternal and immortal life. When we really know that, deep inside, we are virtually addressing it to every member of our household, but if we are wise, we do this silently, sacredly, secretly."
"Then, as we leave our household, we remember that in order to love our neighbor as ourselves, we must know this truth about every neighbor, friendly neighbor and enemy neighbor, nearby neighbor and neighbor ten thousand miles away: You are the Christ, the son of the living God. The Christ-life is your immortal and eternal life. The life of the Father is the life of all mankind."
"Peace must begin somewhere, and it must begin with one individual (...). We can be that one."
"As we unite with the Source of life and let It have Its will, Its rule and reign on earth as it is in heaven, wherever there is a receptive thought, wherever there is an individual who may be saying, 'Oh God, God, God, help me! Is there something beyond the human?' that soul will be touched by the Spirit of God that is upon us. We thereby unknowingly become transparencies through which this light flows to a world full of darkness, sin, ignorance, poverty, and bondage. To be the instrument through which God's grace may touch all human consciousness and enlighten and awaken it that all mankind may be free - this is living the mystical life."

Ch. 33: The Inner Universe