First Suggestive Lesson.
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First Suggestive Lesson.
“In Him we live and move and have our being.” I come face to face with the great Fatherly Presence.
I lift my consciousness into contact with that mighty, healing, loving, Divine Life which touches me within and without.
I open my nature for an influx of life, love, harmony, and strength from the Overflowing Fountain.
“They that wait upon the Lord” (hold him in loving thought) “shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah xl. 31). This is not merely biblical poetic sentiment, but scientific and psychological law.
My life is a part of the Universal Life, and not an isolated unit.
The heart-throbs of the Eternal Spirit pulsate through me.
God is the great Reality for thought to rest upon. Consciousness when centred upon material things becomes restless and disorderly.
To change from a ruling self-consciousness and homage to material things, to an abiding divine consciousness, is to find harmony and health.
What we mentally dwell upon we grow like, and this law is as constant as gravitation. The “Holy Spirit” is not a rare theological visitor, sent from a distance, but an every-day practical working force.
I Open My Whole Nature to the Universal Spirit.