THIRD LESSON
CHRIST THE LIFE
The voice of spirit is far-reaching.
It is the expression of omnipresence and is both near and far. It knows nothing of space, but for the present, we must deal with beginnings.
Perhaps it would be as well to help you at your present stage of unfoldment.
It is absolutely necessary that you should have times of quiet, that you should come out from the business of life for a part of each day.
You must have times of quiet; come out from the business of life for a part of each day.
If you were to wait in silence, holding the attitude of growth and steady development, thinking above all else of the kingdom of God, your condition should not be one of strain or of blank nothingness; avoid both these extremes—
The result would be of the highest value to yourself and to all around you.
Hold in your Heart the true place of understanding, a stillness which is alive, like the heart of the rose.
The God powers within you would assert themselves; crooked things would become straight, rough places plain.
All smallness and discord quietly but surely would drop away and have no longer any power.
To spirit, stagnation is impossible.
The creative energy is constant activity within. All outside energy is waste and hindrance.
As you quietly wait upon God, the breath of life renews each particle of the body by its silent, orderly activity.
We are not able to tell you about future events, but we can indicate their trend, for each individual makes the future by the thoughts and acts of the present.
You are today the result of your past.
You may be hopeful, as your present thought will be fully realised in the future day.
Hold a positive attitude in all that you undertake for spiritual development, knowing that God never fails.
This holds you above the sense plane, and you immediately function from the spiritual, substantial and only real.
All must be finished before the Christhood of the race is complete—
Complete, unselfish, impersonal.
Loving God and loving man, all may enter into unity.
The evolution of spirit through the material is the work of creation. It is God that worketh in you now.
Rejoice that you have this knowledge, and give the utmost for the highest.
Live in spirit, breathe and walk in the innermost heart of yourself.
I want you to give some part of the day to this silent growth, thus bringing poise and balance into your whole being.
I repeat this, as it is so necessary, so pregnant with results.
First, you will be conscious of good sound judgment, a better understanding of your neighbour, and clear insight.
Afterwards, the result in your Body will be realised, for in the silence the heart of flesh will have become one with the heart of the spirit, and thus you bring about the perfect circulation of the blood.
You can understand how highly important this is when I tell you that the brain is fed by the spirit; a finer element has become ruler over the grosser and the spirit of the living God breathes through the outer body of flesh.
I am making this clear in order to emphasise the necessity for quiet.
Later, you will not need this, as you will command at all times and in all places, heeding neither environment nor discord.
Do not seek love—give it.
This is nourishment. Will you give an ear to this? Take what is your right from your Father. He who brought you to this very moment of your life is speaking in your heart.
Awake, thou that sleepest. Christ shall give thee light.
