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SEPTEMBER 12

I AM SPIRIT

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Job 12:22

There is a spiritual body which cannot deteriorate.  This spiritual body is already within you.  As much of it appears as is recognized.  Spiritual perfection always responds to man’s consciousness but it can respond only in such degree as he becomes aware of it.  It is because this inward perfection is so insistent that you maintain a physical body, but because you are an individual with volition, you can, as it were, hang a curtain between your physical life and its spiritual cause.

Spiritual realization helps to withdraw this curtain.  Every statement you make about your body, or belief you hold about it, with deep feeling which causes the mind to accept Spirit as the substance of the body, tends to heal.  Say:

I realize that there is a Divine Presence at the center of my being.

I let this recognition flow through my entire consciousness.

I let it reach down into the very depths of my being.

I rejoice in this realization.

I am now made vigorous and whole.

I possess the vitality of the Infinite.

I am strong and well.

Every breath I draw is a breath of perfection, vitalizing, up-building and renewing every cell of my body.

I am born of the Spirit.

I am in the Spirit.

I am the Spirit made manifest.

SEPTEMBER 11

I BEAR THE ETERNAL STAMP OF INDIVIDUALITY

It is a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.  There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

I Corinthians 15:44, 45

Life has set the stamp of individuality on your soul.  You are different from any other person who has ever lived.  You are an individualized center in the Consciousness of God.  You are an individualized activity in the Action of God. You are you, and you are eternal.  Therefore, do not wait for immortality.  The resurrection of life is today.  Begin to live today as though you are an immortal being and all thought of death, all fear of change will slip from you.  You will step out of the tomb of uncertainty into the light of eternal day.  Say:

I know that every apparent death is a resurrection; therefore, I gladly die to everything that is unlike the good.

Joyfully I am resurrected into that which is beautiful, enduring and true.

Silently I pass from less to more, from isolation into inclusion, from separation into oneness.

Today, realizing that there is nothing in my past which can rise against me, nothing in my future which can menace the unfoldment of my experience, I know that life shall be an eternal adventure.

I revel in the contemplation of the immeasurable future the path of eternal progress, the everlastingness of our own being, the on-going of my soul, the daily renewed energy and action of that Divinity within me which has forever set the stamp of individualized Being on my mind.

SEPTEMBER 10

DIVINE CIRCULATION ANIMATES MY BEING

There is no end or beginning to the Tao.

Kwang – Tze

The Chinese sage said that Tao (meaning Spirit) “Produces everything, nourishes everything, and maintains everything.”  It flows through and is in all things, being all that is.  There is nothing outside it.  There is a spiritual Presence pervading the universe, welling up in your consciousness, always proclaiming Itself to be the source of your being.  The enlightened ones of the ages have told you that your recognition of Life is God within you recognizing Himself in everything you do.  Say:

I know there is one Mind, one Spirit, and one Body – the Mind, the Spirit and the Body of God – the Universal Wholeness, the ever-present Good, the all-sustaining Life.

Every organ, every function, every action and reaction of my body is in harmony with the divine creative – Spirit.

I could not ask for more; greater could not be given.

I now seek to realize the significance of this one Mind and this one Body.

I now become aware that the one Mind is acting through my body in accord with Its own divine perfection, peace and harmony.

The Divine circulates through me automatically, and freely.

Every atom of my being is animated by Its action.

At all times I have a silent, invisible Partner walking with me, talking with me, and operating through me.

I keep my mind open to Its guidance, to Its inspiration and illumination.

SEPTEMBER 9

I EXPERIENCE ABIDING PEACE

Heaven, Earth, and I were produced together, and all things and I are one.

Kwang – Tze

Peace must exist at the center of everything or the universe itself would be a chaos.  You already know this and believe it, now you are going to act upon it.  You are not going to believe in it, you are going to act as though it were true.  There is peace at the center of your being – a peace that can be felt throughout the day and in the cool of the evening when you have turned from your labor and the first star shines in the soft light of the sky. It broods over the earth quietly, tenderly, as a mother watches over her child.  Say:

In this peace that holds me so gently I find strength and protection from all fear or anxiety.

It is the peace of God in which I feel the love of a Holy Presence.

I am so conscious of this love, this protection, that every sense of fear slips away from me as mist fades in the morning light.

I see good in everything, God personified in all people, Life manifest in every event.

Spirit is not separate from persons or events; I see that It unites everything with Itself, vitalizing all with the energy of Its own being, creating everything through Its own divine imagination, surrounding everything with peace and quiet and calm.

I am one with this deep, abiding peace.

I know that all is well.

SEPTEMBER 8

THE PROTECTING POWER OF THE INFINITE SUSTAINS ME

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.

I Peter 1:22

As a child turns to its parents for comfort, so every man is relying on God, whether or not he realizes it.  This concept is so universal that it has been present in every age, with all people, and at all times.  Jesus dared to place his hand serenely in the Hand of the Invisible.  His works justified his words; his faith was manifest through his acts.

Nothing has happened to Reality since this glorified figure walked the highways of human experience.  With equal confidence you should believe in the protecting Presence of the ever-available Spirit.  Today you are to hold your thought steadfast in the realization that God withholds nothing from you.  Therefore, prepare yourself for a life of joy, happiness and well-being.  Say:

I know that the Law of God surrounds me with love and friendship.

I let it radiate in my environment, bless everything I touch, make whole that which is weak, turn fear into faith, and accomplish the miracle of healing through love.

I believe in myself because I believe in God.

I accept life fully, completely, without reservation, holding to the conviction that good is the eternal Reality, that God is the everlasting Presence, that Christ within me is the eternal Guide, that my life is complete today.

SEPTEMBER 7

THE LAW OF GOOD BRINGS ME SATISFACTION

Devotion is God-gnosis; and he who knoweth God, being filled with all good things, thinks godly thoughts.

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

There is a Power operating through, a Presence inspiring, an intelligence guiding, and a Law of Good sustaining you.  Upon this Presence, this Power and this Law you may place complete reliance.  Because you live in this Divine Presence and because It is in you, you may know that the creative Law of Good, which is infinite, and which has all power, can do for you or bring to you, anything and everything necessary to your complete happiness.  Its whole desire for you is one of freedom and joy.  Say:  

I know that freedom and joy are mine today.

This freedom and joy express themselves in my experience.

There is nothing in me that can obstruct their passage.

I permit them to flow through me in all their wonder and might.

I am conscious of an Infinite Wisdom directing me.

Whatever belongs to me will come to me.

My every thought and decision is molded by intelligence and expressed through law and order in my experience.

I not only think upon and realize the meaning of this truth; I am impelled to act upon it intelligently, creatively, without confusion, doubt, or hesitation.

With joy I enter into the fulfillment of life.

SEPTEMBER 6

I LIVE ETERNALLY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD

The perfect man, along with other men, gets his food from the earth and derives his joy from his Heaven.

Kwang – Tze

You live in the house of God.  The household of God is a household of perfection.  It is “the secret place of the most High” within you and within all.  The inmates of this household all are divine.  They will become as divine to you as you permit.  As you look at them they look at you, for this is the way of life.  Everything responds to you at the level of your recognition of it.

In the household of God there is no jealousy, no littleness or meanness.  It is a household of joy, a place of happiness and contentment.  Here is warmth, color and beauty.  Seen in this light, your earthly house symbolizes the kingdom of Divine Harmony in which no one is a stranger.  Say:

Nothing is alien to me.

Nothing enters into my experience but joy, integrity and friendship.

The good I would realize for myself I realize for all others.

I cannot desire a good for myself other than the good I desire for everyone else.

Neither do I deny myself the good I affirm for others.

I know that in the household in which I live the host is God, the living Spirit Almighty; the guests are all His people; the invitation has been eternally written for all to enter and dwell therein as the guests of this Eternal Host forever.

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SEPTEMBER 5

I EXERCISE MY GOD-GIVEN DOMINION

They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

Psalm 36:8

There is a God Power at the center of every man’s being, a Presence that knows neither, lack, limitation nor fear, sickness, disquiet nor imperfection.  But because everyone is an individual he can build a wall of negative thought between himself and this perfection.  The wall which keeps you from the greater good is built of mental blocks, cemented together by fear and unbelief, mixed in the mortar of negative experience.

Now you are to tear down this wall, to completely destroy it.  The view which this wall obstructed is now seen it all its grandeur.  The sun never really stopped shining and the River of Life forever flows.  Every man’s experience is an attempt to merge his own being with this eternal river, not to the loss of his identity, but to the discovery of that self which has newer wholly left its heaven.  Say:

I know that there is a Presence and a perfect Law irresistibly drawing into my experience everything which makes life happy and worthwhile.

The good that I receive is but the completion of a circle, the fulfillment of my desire for all.

I have placed my reliance in the Power, the Presence and the Perfection of God.

Therefore, I have dominion over all apparent evil.

I repudiate all its claims, cast out ever fear of, or belief in, that which is not good and exercise the dominion which by divine right belongs to me.

Taken from “365 Days of Richer Living” by Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker