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THE DIVINE ART OF LIVING
by
KATHLEEN M. H. BESLY
A REPRINT FROM THE 1917 EDITION
This PDF version has been manually typed from the book published byRand McNally & Co., Chicago, 1917.
 Presented by
 Northwoods Spiritual Resource Center Wisconsin
Kathleen M. H. Besly was a featured speaker at the 1912 National New Thought Alliance conferences held inSan Francisco & Los Angeles. (Listed in The Master Mind, Vol. II, No. 4, July 1912. Editor: Annie Rix Militz) Northwoods is pleased to have located this book by Mrs Besly and welcomes the opportunity to reprint thisimportant New Thought work. Although this book is attributed to "The Home of Truth" denomination, anadvertisement in the Divine Science Monthly Vol. XV, No. 6, June 1930, indicates it could be purchased fromThe Colorado College of Divine Science in Denver, hence its implied compatibility with our teachings.The words contained in this Northwoods edition are those of the author. The content has been minimally edited for length.
© 1917 Kathleen M.H. Besly Intended for free distribution Northwoods Spiritual Resource Center, Wisconsin
 
Foreword
What we give to life we may have in return. We may have happiness if we give happiness toothers. We may have sorrow if we extend sorrow to those about us.Right living goes with right thinking. The spoken word is the outward manifestation of the power of thought. As every act is preceded by thought, it follows that thought is real, and that if it isright, evil cannot follow.This little book has been planned as a help and guide for those who would have a method of living from which they may draw the maximum of happiness and interest. If it brings a tithe of that result to those who read it, the author’s work will have been richly rewarded.K. M. H. B.i
© 1917 Kathleen M.H. Besly Intended for free distribution Northwoods Spiritual Resource Center, Wisconsin
 
Omnipresence
In every Christian church stands the doctrine that God is omnipresent, omnipotent andomniscient.The very foundation stone of our teaching is the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, and this weaccept without reserve.We accept the word in its full meaning as defined, “Presence in every place at the same time,unbounded, universal presence, ubiquity.”We know that the Holy Spirit is everywhere and in everything. We know that the Holy Spirit isthe creator and must be in the creation that never ends. His word is the power that makes allthings.In the first chapter of Genesis is recorded, “And God said let there be light and there was light.”The record of each act of creation is prefaced by the words, “And God said.”The creative force is thus expressed by the word. A word is merely the expression of thought.Thought is the power.God created this wonderful universe from his own substance, from Spirit. He put Himself intoeverything He created and is therefore omnipresent and in everything. Necessarily thisomnipresent spirit in everything is God; but at this point arises the question, If God the good isomnipresent, why is there evil in the world?Why, it is asked, is there sin, sickness and death, wars, pestilence and misery?The answer is, that these things which seem so dreadful to our senses are not realities. When wehave learned to see only good, these manifestations will cease. All will disappear when we cometo a full realization of the Omnipresence. Then we will overcome sin and its results, sickness anddeath.There is no real death. Life is omnipresent because God is life. After our bodies have been givenup, indeed, we think we shall live more intensely than before.The Infinite Omnipresence is love. Love cannot exist with hate. Hate and fear and all horrors arecast out by love just as a light turned on in a room casts out darkness.It is only the external or outer man that suffers the horrors of war and starvation and themultitude of human ills. Some day he will awaken to the blessings of peace, harmony and1
© 1917 Kathleen M.H. Besly Intended for free distribution Northwoods Spiritual Resource Center, Wisconsin
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