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To better comprehend this article, the word God means, power, substance and intelligence
When Jesus said, “I am the door,” He meant that the I AM in each soul is the door through which the
life, power, and substance of the great I AM, which is God, comes forth into expression through the
individual. This I AM has but one mode of expression through idea, thought, word, and act. This I AM
God Being, which is power, substance, intelligence, is given form by consciousness; for this reason the
Master said, “According to your faith be it unto you,” and “All things are possible to them that believe.”
Now we see that God is within the soul as power, substance, and intelligence—or in spiritual terms,
wisdom, love and truth—and is brought out into form or expression through consciousness. The
consciousness that is in the infinite mind of God and in man is determined by the concept or belief that
is held in mind. It is the belief in separation from Spirit that has caused our forms to age and die. When
we see that Spirit is all and that form is constantly being expressed from Spirit, then shall we
understand that what is born of or brought out of Spirit is Spirit.
The next great truth to be revealed through this consciousness is that each individual, being a concept
of the divine Mind, is held in that Mind as a perfect idea. Not one of us has to conceive himself. We
have been perfectly conceived and are always held in the perfect mind of God as perfect beings. By
having this realization brought to our consciousness, we can contact the divine Mind and so conceive
what God has already conceived for us.
This is what Jesus called being “born again.” It is the great gift that the silence has to offer to us. By
contacting the God-mind we can think with God-mind and know ourselves as we are in reality rather
than as we have thought ourselves to be. We contact the God-mind through true thought and so bring
forth a true expression, whereas in the past, perhaps through untrue thought, we have brought forth an
untrue expression.
Whether the form is perfect or imperfect, the Being of the form is perfect God-power, substance, and
intelligence. It is not the being of the form that we wish to change but the form that Being has
assumed. This is to be done through the renewing of the mind, or through the change from the
imperfect to the perfect concept, from the thought of man to the thought of God.
How important then to find God, to contact Him, to be one with Him and to bring Him forth into
expression. How equally important is the silence or the stilling of the personal mind so the God-mind in
all its splendor may illumine the consciousness. When it does so, then we shall understand how “the sun
of righteousness (right-use-ness) shall rise with healing in his wings.”
The mind of God floods consciousness as sunshine floods a darkened room. The infusion of the Universal
Mind into the personal mind is like the entrance of the vastness of the outside air into the impurity of
that which has long been held in some close compartment. It stands alone, supreme, and we realize
that we are to build but one temple. The Temple of the Living God is the blending of the greater with
the lesser through which the lesser becomes one with the greater. The impurity was caused by the
separation of the lesser from the greater. The purity is caused by their union, so that no longer is there
a greater and a lesser but just the one good, whole, pure air.
Even so must we know that God is One and all things visible and invisible are one with Him. It is
separation from Him that has caused sin, sickness, poverty, and death. It is union with Him that causes
one to become a whole Being or to become conscious of being whole.
When Jesus said, “I am the door,” He meant that the I AM in each soul is the door through which the
life, power, and substance of the great I AM, which is God, comes forth into expression through the
individual. This I AM has but one mode of expression through idea, thought, word, and act. This I AM
God Being, which is power, substance, intelligence, is given form by consciousness; for this reason the
Master said, “According to your faith be it unto you,” and “All things are possible to them that believe.”
Now we see that God is within the soul as power, substance, and intelligence—or in spiritual terms,
wisdom, love and truth—and is brought out into form or expression through consciousness. The
consciousness that is in the infinite mind of God and in man is determined by the concept or belief that
is held in mind. It is the belief in separation from Spirit that has caused our forms to age and die. When
we see that Spirit is all and that form is constantly being expressed from Spirit, then shall we
understand that what is born of or brought out of Spirit is Spirit.
The next great truth to be revealed through this consciousness is that each individual, being a concept
of the divine Mind, is held in that Mind as a perfect idea. Not one of us has to conceive himself. We
have been perfectly conceived and are always held in the perfect mind of God as perfect beings. By
having this realization brought to our consciousness, we can contact the divine Mind and so conceive
what God has already conceived for us.
This is what Jesus called being “born again.” It is the great gift that the silence has to offer to us. By
contacting the God-mind we can think with God-mind and know ourselves as we are in reality rather
than as we have thought ourselves to be. We contact the God-mind through true thought and so bring
forth a true expression, whereas in the past, perhaps through untrue thought, we have brought forth an
untrue expression.
Whether the form is perfect or imperfect, the Being of the form is perfect God-power, substance, and
intelligence. It is not the being of the form that we wish to change but the form that Being has
assumed. This is to be done through the renewing of the mind, or through the change from the
imperfect to the perfect concept, from the thought of man to the thought of God.
How important then to find God, to contact Him, to be one with Him and to bring Him forth into
expression. How equally important is the silence or the stilling of the personal mind so the God-mind in
all its splendor may illumine the consciousness. When it does so, then we shall understand how “the sun
of righteousness (right-use-ness) shall rise with healing in his wings.”
The mind of God floods consciousness as sunshine floods a darkened room. The infusion of the Universal
Mind into the personal mind is like the entrance of the vastness of the outside air into the impurity of
that which has long been held in some close compartment. It stands alone, supreme, and we realize
that we are to build but one temple. The Temple of the Living God is the blending of the greater with
the lesser through which the lesser becomes one with the greater. The impurity was caused by the
separation of the lesser from the greater. The purity is caused by their union, so that no longer is there
a greater and a lesser but just the one good, whole, pure air.
Even so must we know that God is One and all things visible and invisible are one with Him. It is
separation from Him that has caused sin, sickness, poverty, and death. It is union with Him that causes
one to become a whole Being or to become conscious of being whole.