PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION SERIES

No.4

Loving Your Problem

By LILLIAN DE WATERS

Dear Friend, have you a problem which you would

like to see adjusted? Are you seeking an
understanding of Life which would help you to
harmonize all your affairs with the peace and glory of
Heaven? Come then, and with both heart and mind
listen closely to the Kingdom message: “Resist not
evil. Agree with thine adversary quickly. Love your
enemies.”

Probably you have often read or heard these divine

commands, but perhaps they have never been entirely
understood and so you have been, to some extent,
unable to intelligently practice and apply them to your
everyday experiences. But in them is voiced your
deliverance. Herein lies the way to your freedom.

Now what is the nature of a problem, or a trial? Of

what does it consist? Perhaps you may think that it
consists of evil, or of false belief. No. Evil, or falsity,
is not the substance of anything, not even of a problem
or a trial. Indeed, you will probably experience a
surprise when you learn just what is the real nature of
any so-called trial or difficulty in your life. Now, here
is the answer and let it open for you the way to
Freedom and kindle in you “the knowledge of the
glory of God.” If God is ALL then even a problem
can consist of nothing but God!

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Dear Friend, do you not think of your problems and
your trials as of so many enemies? Are you not letting
them keep your mind disturbed, your heart disquieted
and your thought fearful and tormented? Well, Jesus’
commandment is to “Love your enemies” is it not?
This command is the Truth of God and is therefore
true Substance. You are to love your problem; for the
fulfilling of all adjustments, the salvation of all
situations, all conditions, is LOVE.

“But,” some may ask, “How can I love a problem of

pain and disease?” or; “How can I love my trial when
I am in the midst of poverty and ruin?” “How can I
love my problem when my wife has forsaken me,” Or;
“My husband has stopped loving me?” Or; “My
children are dishonouring me?” How can one love
such trials as sorrow, sickness, sin, poverty, despair?
Only by understanding them, and this understanding
will be your release, and your return to that
marvellous Kingdom of Love from which, in reality,
you have never wandered away.

Be assured, first of all, that you would not be reading

these lines right now unless you were at that point in
your life’s experience where you were able to receive
and accept this glorious illumination and deliverance.
Be assured also that the writer could not give forth this
message, — LOVE YOUR PROBLEMS — unless
she felt certain in her heart that they were not her own
but God’s Word to us each.

Now why is it, do you suppose, that one involuntarily

shrinks from a serpent? Is it not because he is afraid
of it? And why afraid? Because he does not love it.
Yet there are some people who love all of Nature’s
family so well that they do not hesitate to handle
serpents considered by others to be poisonous. Their
love for serpents solves for them any problem of an
unkindly or fatal attack.

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Now Jesus’ assurance is: “They shall take up
serpents.” As long as one fears any thing, any trial or
any problem he is not exercising that admonition
which would bring him immunity. Jesus instructed
his disciples, (and this includes ourselves), that we
should handle serpents without harm to us, that we
could cast out devils and raise the dead, if we acted in
His Name, — if we fulfilled his requirements, - LOVE
YOUR ENEMIES” … “PUT UP THE SWORD” …
“RESIST NOT EVIL.”

The Christ in us ever urges: “Believe in Me, and in

My Words. Believe that your problems are not such
to Me, for I understand the nature of them. I take the
responsibility of the trials and problems of the whole
world, for they are as nothing in My vision.” Does
not He who conceived the Idea of the drama of true
experience know also how to preserve and sustain it
harmoniously? Yea, verily. The Christ knows that
there is nothing to any (so-called) human being but
Himself. The Christ-Self understands that “there
shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, or
maketh a lie” either in the invisible world of Spirit or
in the visible dramatization of that Reality in Earth.
Love of the Perfect, both in Heaven and in Earth,
liberates the mind from its misunderstanding, its belief
of separation, and reveals the ideal state, the totality
and omnipresence of uninterrupted Harmony and
Glory.

Is it to the author of a story any problem to write that

story as he wishes it? Have the characters any voice
in the matter whatsoever? To the mind of the reader it
may seem a problem, while he is reading the book, to
solve its mystery, or to work it out to an interesting
and desirable end. But all of that problem was solved
by the author before the reader came upon the scene,
was it not?

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Similarly it may seem to you a problem to remove
disease from your body, or pain from your mind, or
discord from your environment; but it is no problem to
that Spirit who is the Author of your book of life. It is
not a problem to your Christ, your perfect Self, to
know how to keep the sight of your eyes or the
hearing of your ears, or to preserve your whole body
without spot or blemish. It is in the nature of your
true Being to solve your problems, to transmute your
trials. These are but the call to your greater love and
understanding of Life. Freedom from your trial does
not consist in destroying what appears to you an evil
condition, (or even an evil belief), but in the exercise
of your realization of the totality of Love and your
acceptance of that which is your resurrection and your
ascension.

Freedom from your problem consists in harmonizing

your personal sense of it with its spiritual Reality.
The mind must give up its dream of separation and an
existence apart from Perfection and Harmony; for how
else can this darkened sense be overcome except by
opening it more and more to the light of understanding
Love? In order to flood the darkness there must be
light, and in order to transcend fear and resistance and
resentment there must be loving understanding. If
you love your problem you will understand it and if
you understand your problem you will transcend it for
Love is the invincible solvent.

The measure of your love is the measure of your true

idea of Being. “Love one another as I have loved
you.” “Love never faileth.” “Love is the fulfilling of
the law.”

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Ask yourself, Who, or what could have a false belief?
We know that God cannot, and that God is ALL. This
is how you may see the nothingness of false beliefs
and the good in every trial, since it brings your human
sense to the understanding of your spiritual perfection.
There is no evil in God or to God, and if you can but
find God in your problem you will understand it. If
you attack a condition, or a state of mind, you will
experience in return that quality which you put into it,
for what is placed before the mirror is pictured in the
mirror. If one attacks his problem with the notion that
its substance is falsity what else can take place, or be
out-pictured, but a continuance of inharmony and
confusion?

In the effort to overcome evil, as though there could

be a false substance, the mind is kept in constant
confusion and turmoil, but by accepting the Kingdom
message, - RESIST NOT EVIL; one’s consciousness
becomes yielding and non-resisting. Sickness,
sorrow, disorders of any kind are not punishments but
reminders that one should turn his vision inward, that
he should remember his Source, that he should love
his seeming enemy. Beloved, our problems and their
solution rest in ourselves.

“Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come

out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.”
The sooner we pay that last “farthing” the sooner we
find our immunity from all hallucinations and our
identity with the One who is ALL. It may be
imagined that one is to pass from one sin to another,
from one suffering to another until finally, somehow,
he is glad to turn to the Light. Now the “uttermost
farthing” is self-surrender, and this need not
necessarily be the last effort which one is forced to
make, but it may just as well be the first!

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Since the last farthing must be paid, then why not pay
this farthing first of all? What do you fear to lose in
giving your self-surrender? It is in the nature of your
Christ-Self to solve your problems and to transmute
your trials into blessings. A problem is simply a call
for more love, more understanding, more renunciation
of a sense separate from our perfection. Where there
is light there cannot be darkness, and where there is
loving understanding of perfect Being there can be no
grievous problem. Certain it is that the appearance of
evil will remain with us just so long as we entertain
the belief that there is evil. Nothing shall by any
means harm us so long as we abide in the
consciousness of the totality of the perfection in Earth
as in Heaven and in the realization of the oneness of
Infinite Being,” “the same yesterday, today and
forever.”

Your trial will not have been vain if now you will
welcome its solution, — selfless Love, — if now you
will understand that all the conditions of experience
are but the drama of the Great Playwright, hence are
harmless and interesting. The call of Love is the voice
of the Author speaking through His characters. The
“uttermost farthing” is Loving Agreement, Non-
Resistance.

“Agree with thine adversary quickly.” This is the

wise admonition of that Victorious One who was Love
personified. Do you ask, How can I agree with
sickness, sin, sorrow and separation from my good?
Here is the answer.

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When one understands the Truth about a thing one can
love that Truth and the Truth is all there is to the
problem, which is that it is God knocking at the door
of your consciousness wishing to reveal to you more
of His Love, His Joy, His Peace and Satisfaction. As
soon as this agreement, — that Love is the only
Substance, — reaches your consciousness then the so-
called trial, or problem, disappears in the consuming
fire of loving understanding. Let it be perceived
clearly that the problem (adversary), is not evil, called
sickness or lack or loss. The problem, or lesson,
consists in understanding that “Love never faileth.”

The only requirement is, How much do we love? If

for any reason we withhold love from our world of
friends and so-called enemies we may experience a
darkened sense called a lack or loss of health or
harmony; still the Substance of the problem is Good,
since it is our True Self calling us to pay the uttermost
farthing, to come to agreement with our so-called
adversary, to fulfill the law of living by falling in love
with it. “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange
thing happened unto you; but rejoice … that when
(Christ’s) glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also
with exceeding joy.” (1Pet. 4:12). Let those who are
weary and heavy laden, those who are fearful and
sorrowful, those who are hardened and resentful drink
from this fountain of Irresistible Love.

The problem of the serpent appearing in the rope is

solved by perceiving it to be a rope, is it not? So a
problem has nothing whatever to do with
hallucinations or phantoms but consists in perceiving
the Truth of Heaven and the Truth of Earth to be ALL
there is. The problem of so-called evil appearing in
our experience is solved by the perception of God as
the ONE and the ONLY, the ALL and the
TOTALITY of Substance and of Manifestation.

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THE DESTINY OF MAN IS TO ONE DAY KNOW
HIMSELF, and the only problem for us each is to
understand the sense in which we are Man and the
sense in which we are God, and to accept the oneness
and totality of God and Man and the Universe, Your
answer to every problem is in yourself, and in yourself
also is your problem!

Man not only shares the supreme power of the

spiritual world but he is Lord also of the things in the
dream, or drama-world. Since he is an Idea in the
Mind of God he must necessarily be God, for God is
ALL there is to him, as the characters in the mind of
an author are that author and are nothing else. So the
Characters, or Ideas, of the Author and Creator of all
Being are that Author and nothing less. God is in
Man and Man is in God. So God is in you and you are
in God. In the Earth state you are Man, the Character,
but in the Heavenly state you are God, the Creator. “I
(Man) and my Father, (Self) are one (whole).”

Now the problem is not yours as a Character in the

Book of Life, but belongs to your own Lord-Self as a
problem of God, (since God is ALL there is), but not a
problem to God, since He is all Love and
Understanding. Of yourself, as a human character,
you can do nothing, you cannot wield an iota of
power, courage or understanding, but ALL power is
given unto him who locates his thought of himself as
in the Mind of the Author, to him who spiritually
perceives and accepts the trinity of his Being. Certain
it is that Man is compelled to come to himself, like the
Prodigal, and this Self-knowledge constitutes his
“judgment day,” and his salvation from all dream.
The Truth of God does not come to destroy things or
conditions for there are none to destroy, but it comes
to make Itself known “in Earth as it is in Heaven.”

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Remember it is the “mortal” who is to put on
“immortality;” that is, it is the mistaken sense which is
to accept the enfranchising Idea that LOVE is the
fulfilling of that law which is transcended by true
experience. As the mortal (sense) gives the problem
to the Christ-Self, the solution, or adjustment,
necessary to perfection, harmony and satisfaction
takes place in that sense. This is the act which is
called self-surrender, or renunciation. Thus every
trial surmounted and every problem understood
transcends sense and raises one to the mountain-top of
Self understanding.

Nothing in Man’s world exists outside of himself, and

it is through conscious understanding that one finds
Himself, and consequently corrects the dramatizing of
sense. By refusing to accept and practice the Christ-
Message of the Infinite, changeless Love and
Perfection as now and here one may stumble in his
own-created darkness; yet this darkness is nothing of
itself, merely a name given to his reluctance or refusal
to live in the consciousness of his Oneness with
infinite Perfection. Now, in one sense the substance
of seeming false creation, (like the serpent appearing
in the rope), is a true substance, (the rope), for it was
the true substance, (the rope), which was
misinterpreted and called by another name.

This illustration shows us plainly that there is really

no false creation outside of one’s own erring sense, for
the substance of that very thing which is called evil is
the one and only Substance, God or Good. How
wonderful then for us to perceive and accept the Truth
that the nature and substance of all beings, all things,
all trials is God, the Infinite Being, and any State or
condition which seems inharmonious and an opposite
of Perfection is but merely a picture-form
corresponding to one’s sense-illusion. Your trial, your
problem, is not therefore one of evil, nor of sickness,
sin, or lack, but your only problem consists in
understanding that God is the Answer to it.

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Dare we command the waves to be still; the dead to be
raised? If we dare not, where is our vision? Are we
conscious of the one changeless Being? Do we look
with Love on our daily experiences as did Jesus
Christ? Can we stand with the poise of Jesus Christ
and know that God is where we are looking and in that
which we face God is facing us? In this state of
exalted consciousness we may indeed “stand still”
visioning the perfect Being as experiencing health,
happiness, success and infinite abundance of all-good,
and knowing no sin, no discord, no sickness, age or
death.

Infinite Power has already prepared in the glory of

your irresistible Being that which is only waiting your
call of faith to set you free from illusion and fantasy.
It is unbelief which causes all the phantoms of the
mind and Man’s redemption consist in knowing
Himself, - knowing that he is a tri-unity - the Author
of the Book of Life; the Character in the Book; and
the Drama of True Experience.

There is no destruction to take place, either in the real

world or in the drama-experience. The lack, the
sickness, the disorder which one senses in his mental
darkness are not actual conditions but states of mind
in which one has turned away from paying that last
farthing, — from accepting LOVE as the only
Substance, and from the active perception and belief
that there is no evil.

Dear Friend, have you not until now believed that

there was a difference as of two entities, between good
and evil? But how can there be the concept of
difference or separation in the Idea of the All? Is
there any difference between the rope which you
actually see and the serpent which you believe you see
in its place? Is not the rope ALL there is present? In
reality that which you see, (the rope), is the substance
of that which you think you see, and which you may
call a serpent. So, likewise, the substance back of all
which you call trials and problems is the Good, for
this is the only Substance there ever is, or ever can be.

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Have you a dislike for many things, or do you dread
some special condition, or fear some possible
separation? Then are you not resisting or resenting or
fearing your problem (enemy) when you are divinely
counseled to “LOVE YOUR ENEMIES?” “Then
shalt thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
health shall spring forth speedily; and thy
righteousness shall go before thee Then shalt thou
call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and
He shall say, Here I am.”

Within yourself is a Presence that can solve your

every problem. This Presence is the One who
understands that problem. Many who read these lines,
feeling burdened and heavy-laden will admit that they
are resisting their enemies instead of loving them.

Now to love your enemy (problem) is to transmute it.

Such an awakening takes away all sense of opposites
and unifies one with the Totality of All-Good.
Although as characters we may act in the drama of
Life; still we are not in the drama anymore than the
actor is the person of his role, or than we are in a
dream while sleeping in bed. The dream and the
drama are nothing for the Reality of Life is ALL.
Hence accepting the Author’s perfection and in
learning to love that one Substance AS ALL, we cease
to fear. Love of the Perfect casteth out fear, the fear
which signifies that we need to gain a larger and fuller
realization of perfect Love as the Deliverer from all
sense of inharmony of every kind.

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It is the realization of our actual parallel life in the
spiritual world of Heaven which gives us our freedom
from fear and our harmony in this drama-world. We
can see that in Heaven there are no trials, nor
problems, but until we completely understand that we
are spiritual beings living in a world of uninterrupted
Harmony and perpetual Peace and Glory we will
(seemingly) have problems to overcome in this world.
By letting go the false belief that this world exists
separate and apart from that real world, and by
realizing that the Kingdom of Heaven must also be in
Earth, because of the Totality of the One Life, we may
lay claim to our perfection as NOW and HERE.

The joy of living consists in understanding that this

world is but the “play” of Life, but as such may be as
harmonious and satisfying as is Life, Itself. Learn to
meditate upon this most essential fact of your Being,
that although you are one of the Characters in the
drama of Life, and as a Character you are nothing, still
as the Author, or Creator of that Character you are
ALL.

A mother recently asked treatment for her baby,

reporting that his skin was covered with a tormenting
rash, so that it was almost impossible for him to sleep
either by day or night. Treatment was taken up in this
way: This baby is an Idea in the Mind of God. As a
character in a book is not actually in the book, but
exists WHOLLY in the mind of the author, so this
divine Idea called a baby, does not live in this world,
this drama of Life, at all, but lives in the Mind of God,
and is God, the Creator. There is no Idea of “rash,” or
“irritation,” or anything evil in the Mind of God,
hence there can be no such expression as this
appearance in God’s Idea or Character. In His Mind
is Peace, Rest, Love, Harmony, Satisfaction, hence
this is ALL that He can supply to His Characters. God
is ALL, — the Author, the Character, and the Play of
Life.

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Now, the Mother was taught that she must love her
problem. Her problem was not the “rash, or
irritation,” nor need she love this. Her problem was to
stop resisting and resenting spectrality and to LOVE
TO GLORIFY GOD AS THE ONLY BEING IN
HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. She was told to love the
Fact that GOD IS ALL and GOD IS LOVE. In a short
time the report came from the mother that all was
well.

Now a problem is not an evil spell but a signal to the

individual that he needs “Be still and know! Be still
and trust! Be still and love! How many of us would
feel as far along this seeming journey from sense to
Soul were it not for the problems or lessons which we
have faced and transcended? Looking back can we
not feel that these were revelations to us; were really
blessings? Even the smallest seed when placed in the
ground is obedient to that urge of Life within itself. It
makes the journey from the darkness to the light
through faith and love so that it can bloom and radiate
life in its incomparable charm and simplicity.

Now what is the significance of this journey from a

seedling to a flower? Simply this: By the process of
the journey from the soil, (darkness), to the surface,
(light), it finds its own wonderful self. Through faith
and love its transmutation (problem) fulfills its nature
and purpose. Similarly, our human problems when
rightly viewed and lovingly understood are a means of
restitution, and lessons of revelation, whereby we try
our strength, and prove our power, and glorify our
Creator in Earth as in Heaven.

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So the purpose of a problem is that in that place you
shall see shining the Glory of the Son of God. If one
pays no heed to the still small Voice eventually it must
needs speak in the form of a seeming problem; but this
is not an evil thing but a good thing inasmuch as the
Author wishes His Book of Life to fulfill Himself, —
to express a Love which never faileth, and words
“which are light unto them that find them and health
to all their flesh.” Insight does not concern itself with
the destruction or abolition of evil for it knows that its
very non-existence is its abolition. Let Man feel the
grandeur of this outlook, the infinite capacity of his
being, and let him look upon his daily experiences,
(his world), as did Jesus Christ. It is in this state of
consciousness that we may hear; “Set yourselves,
stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with
you.”

A body humanly perceived as structural and subject to

limitation, change and final annihilation, is entirely a
mental reflex, or out-picturing of ignorant and
mistaken thoughts and beliefs, and as a mental
phenomenon has no Life, Substance nor Reality; no
existence apart from the mind which evolves it. As
the appearance called the physical body originates
wholly in ignorance and mental mistification so also a
world in which there appears birth, accident, sickness,
and death has no more actual Substance or Reality,
than has the picture-creation of a dream. Although
such a world is described as consisting of matter and
physical forces; when correctly interpreted both this
mind and all of its phantasmagoria of sin, sickness,
disease and death are entirely mythical, changeable,
temporal and unsubstantial.

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Any discordant appearance of the body is but the
mirrored reflection of ignorance and fear, and the
reluctance to surrender oneself to at-one-ment, and
resurrection, and ascension. The mistaken belief that
the body is structural, that it is subject to sickness,
pain and death reflects a corresponding discordant
state, which of itself cannot be healed, or saved, or
redeemed either directly or indirectly, either
objectively or subjectively, but which disappears from
view in proportion as one lovingly understands and
accepts the nature and purpose of Life, Truth, and
Love.

Since all is God, and God is Love the time is at hand

when such understanding should take place in the
experience of each individual claiming a place in the
Kingdom.

The true world, so misunderstood by erring thought,

has been called a world of trouble and tribulation.
Moreover, that immortal Image of his Creator, - Man,
misinterpreted for so long through mental obscuration,
has been called a material body, clothing a personal
mind. Instead of recognizing Entities and Ideas which
are lovely, perfect, unlimited and imperishable human
sense has perceived a creation subject to the tragedy
of limitation, change and certain end.

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Turning away from Love as the ONLY Reality the
mind casts a shadow of its erring sense, and it is this
shadow which has been considered a problem. The
darkened mentality, not knowing from whence come
the false pictures called sickness, sin, and death,
mistakenly looks upon them as actualities; hence it
can be clearly seen that it is the mentality which needs
enlightening, and not its out-pictured shadows. The
mists of materialism evaporate and disappear in
proportion as one gains a knowledge of infinite Love
and Its operation, in contrast with the human mind and
its counterfeit operations; until the fictitious
phenomena of a world of limitation and conflict
entirely disappear from mental view, and perfect
forms identical with Spirit, the Self, are recognized
and understood to be NOW and HERE.

“Looking up we perceive that nothing was impossible

with Jesus, that nothing is impossible with us. Exalted
vision discloses that there is no departure nor lapse
from perfection and no return to perfection; but
always, everywhere, there is one entity and one
expression. As in the night one sees glowing Stars, so
right now, no matter how dark may seem your
pathway, look up and behold this golden Light before
you. Accept your real identity and love this identity.
Your triumph and your redemption are here, already
established, waiting your acceptance.” (Science of
Ascension)

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The Truth about anything is all there ever can be to
that thing, and the Truth about everything is always
good, for the Truth is that which is so about God and
God is All. So also the Truth about this world is all
there is to this world; and the Truth about Man is all
there is to Man; and the Truth about a so-called
problem is all there is to that problem. Since, as Jesus
promised “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you free,” we are compelled by this Truth
to fully understand what is so about all things. Now
the Truth about Man is that as an Idea of God he is
God, and as God he is inevitably Power, Love, and the
totality of Understanding. Further: The Truth about
Man is that as he continually exists in the Mind of
God as Idea, and so is God, he must also exist always
in Heaven, for God and Heaven are one; and the
Presence of God and of Heaven is the Presence of
Love and the totality of Understanding.

Now the dream-man, or the creation of false sense

wandering in a dream, may not understand the
solution to the dream-problem, but has not the man on
the bed, the dreamer, complete sovereignty over it?
The dangers, the ferocious animals, or any of the
antagonistic circumstances appearing in his dream are
really no problem whatsoever to the man asleep on the
bed. He has but to open his eyes and lo! the whole
dream-creation of water and land, people and
circumstances instantly vanishes, is non-existent.
Even so let man in this world, wandering in his dream
and troubled by its discordant conditions and
problems awaken to his Christ-Self, his God-Being,
and let him believe that this Self understands the
solution of every problem, for It is infinite Love and
infinite Intelligence.

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Then, if he wishes to apply the Truth of God to
healing, to adjusting a problem or gaining some high
purpose how shall he proceed? We will suppose that
he is ready and glad to turn completely from the
notion of repairing his dream with such dream-stuff as
drugs, or other systems of physical or mental cure;
that he wishes to look directly and wholly to the Mind
of the Author; he wishes to understand his problems
and to apply to them the only solution there is, — the
Power of loving Understanding. He is now willing to
pay that “uttermost farthing;” he perceives that he
cannot expect the Truth of God to bring about any
change in Heaven, or to alter, in any fashion, the
Principle of perfect Being in order that he may obtain
a physical healing, a mental uplift, or a material
supply. How then can the problem of pain, or failure,
or sorrow in the dream-experience be solved, and the
Wholeness and Glory of Heaven be realized in Earth?

The answer is this: By understanding that the

problems themselves need no change, for all there is
to them is the Truth of them, their Substance, and the
Substance of EVERYTHING is God, for God is all
there is. Therefore, as the student perceives that God,
the Self of Infinite Being, is the only Substance, only
Actor and only Author, he ceases to resist, or to resent,
his problem; ceases to try to mend it, or to bear it, for
now he turns from it to the Mind of the Creator and he
sees that in that Mind no change is necessary. It is
now revealed to him that the Ideas of this Creator are
infinitely Good, are unchangeable Perfection,
complete Satisfaction, inevitable Peace and Harmony.
Further: He perceives that since he is nothing of
himself, but is wholly, and completely, and inevitably
but the Mind of the Creator, then he has no problem;
and this joyous understanding of the non-existence of
the problem constitutes his freedom. He ceases to be
troubled, to be anxious, to be concerned, for what
difference does it make to him now how the problem
is solved, since it is quite apart from himself, since he
is ever abiding in the perfect, changeless state of God
in Heaven?

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Perhaps the best thing which ever comes to any of us
is a (so-called) trial, or trouble, because it turns our
minds to our Author and compels us to KNOW
OURSELVES. Let us then accept the Truth about our
problems and see that as problems they are nothing;
that since there can be no departure from the Mind of
the Author there is no actual return to that
Consciousness, and the only problem ever presented
to Man in his dream life is to understand I AM THAT
I AM. As our consciousness draws nearer and nearer
to the inevitableness of our perfect state as the Truth
of our Being, we experience now and here, to human
sense and sight, in Earth as it is in Heaven, the
Harmony of the Whole. Then we can forget our pains
and heartaches; we become indifferent to the opinions
of the mind of the dream-world, for we are living in
the Super-world, in the Mind of changeless Reality;
we understand that as we love our problems as we
love God they melt together; and as we love Earth,
and as we love Heaven, they become one; and as we
love Man, and as we love God; behold, they, too are
the same. Thus the understanding Self proclaims
throughout Eternity the Kingdom Message.

“Love never faileth. Ye shall not need to fight in this

battle; set yourselves, stand ye still, for I will be with
you. I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there
anything too hard for Me? Though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Behold, I give
you power to tread on serpents and scorpions; and
over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by
any means harm you. Because he hath set his love
upon Me, therefore will I deliver him. Love is the
fulfilling of the law.

Are not all our troubles to be traced to a sense of fear

or separation which clouds our vision that God is all?
Just as the sun is behind the cloud, ever shining, so
God is behind the problem, ever present. Our trials
never leave us where they found us, for after we have
made the demonstration we see that the finished
Kingdom is always right here at hand, and God is
always ever present.

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Now the appearance of disease does not mean less of
Health but it signifies the need of a fuller
understanding of Life and its manifestation.
Separation from any good thing does not mean an
actual loss, or lack, of that good, but it is a reminder
that one is not fully conscious of Totality as Love.
What could seeming tribulation be but the needed
lesson that there is really nothing to us of ourselves,
but that we are wholly and completely the Character
in the Mind of the Author?

Or, if we would only see through our problems, and

then love them for the blessing which they left for us,
how quickly they would dissolve and disappear from
our Vision! God is the solution or answer to the
problem, for besides God there is nothing else. But
our trials may he stepping-stones, leading to the
understanding that as surely as Heaven is our Home so
certain it is that through overcoming our problems
with Love we attain to the consciousness that there is
no evil!

There is, really, no personal love, and no person to

love. In plain words, when you love some one
because of a personal relationship you really do not do
this at all, for such a thing is impossible. As human
beings we cannot love anyone because it is the
Substance of us, GOD, which does the loving, and
when we think that we are loving another, it is really
God, Himself, seeing Himself in His Characters. God
is the only Lover; the only Beloved, — Himself ALL-
IN-ALL. Then well might we cry, “Nothing can
daunt me! Nothing can oppose me! Nothing can
overpower me! There is no resentment, nor
resistance, nor fear in me, for behold, Thou art ALL!”
This is your Life, your Joy, your Glory which is
complete, finished, and at hand. The prayer which
one prays is answered in Himself.

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Beloved, do you wonder why your healing is still
delayed, or why some (so-called) trouble returns to try
you? As a reminder that there is a confession and a
surrender for you yet to make; that as a “character”
you have not yielded yourself wholly and completely
to your Author. “God so loved the world.” How
much are you loving the world? Dear Seeker, you are
not to love the world because of itself but because
your all is God, and God is Love. When Love
constitutes our world then we are the Mind of the
Author, and Heaven is our Home.

There is no division nor separation between Spirit and

a Problem; between Heaven and Earth; between God
and Man.

Now in the illustration of mistaking the rope for a

serpent the rope is the only substance which is present;
likewise in seeing, or feeling, a problem in experience,
Spirit is the only Substance! Heaven is always
Presence! God is ever ALL! No problem exists for
you, therefore, outside of your concept of it, and
hence it is your mental concept alone which
constitutes your problem. Moreover, if you allow
understanding Love to fill your consciousness you
will then realize that God is the ONLY Substance, the
ONLY Power, the ONLY ALL there is, and that you
are forced, because of this established Fact of Being to
be this Substance. In this understanding Love of the
all-inclusive God, your vision will be luminous, the
power of your word irresistible, and you will
experience here and now, the ever-presence of
Heaven.

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Actually, and in Reality, there is no mind to think, or
to believe, or to experience falsity, for there is no
falsity in God and God is the All-Mind. Moreover,
there is no Life which can be sick, or poor, or dying,
for God is the ONLY Life, and ALL Life is God.
Neither is there any Love which can cease, or resist,
for God is Love and Love is God! Since your mind is
the Mind of God, your life the Life of God, your love
the Love of God, therefore IN YOU there is no
concept, nor belief, of division, separation, or duality,
for “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.”
For, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.” “His
Name shall be in their foreheads.”

Shall we now take up some (so-called) problems and

see the way of their solution, and understand how the
Word is made flesh?

To illustrate: In great distress of mind a lady

interviewed a practitioner as follows: “I have placed
my son in one of the largest University hospitals in the
country, after treatment in the best local hospitals, but
the physicians in all give the same report: that there is
no hope for him, that his trouble is incurable, that he
must die. Can your treatment save him? Will you
try?”

The case was taken up at once, with the gratifying

result that within a week the young man was back at
his business office, completely restored to health and
harmony.

Now, Dear Reader, can you guess the cause of this

wonderful demonstration? It was Love. The
practitioner, with that same sense of loving
compassion which Jesus had, cast out of his own mind
all belief in fear, resentment, or seeming resistance.
The patient too was simply carried away from these
on the wings of Love to where the sunlight of God’s
Truth filled his consciousness. Such is the swift
healing-power of Love, ready to do the same for every
one who will let it.

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Another time the practitioner was called to the phone
to receive this message: “Mother is critically ill and
suffering greatly. Can you come at once?” The
speaker was assured that this would not be necessary,
for help would be given at once; he was told to report
shortly. This he did saying that his mother was
instantly helped, had walked down stairs and eaten her
dinner.

Now what had happened? Nothing. The practitioner

saw the mother perfect, as needing no change. To
understanding Love only a perfect condition was
present.

Another similar instance was that of a young woman

whom the physician had said could expect to live but a
few days longer. Her condition seemed deplorable.
The practitioner went to see this case and found that
she could neither speak, nor hear what was said to her.
The nurse had no hope that she would recover; her
parents and all about her were afraid that they would
lose her; but the practitioner saw that the problem was
not to be feared but to be loved, for “Perfect Love
casteth out fear.”

Shortly after the practitioner again visited the young

lady and this time her face was beaming with smiles.
Within a few days she was about the house as usual,
and has enjoyed good health ever since.

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A lady asked help for her husband, reporting that
because he was scarcely ever sober, it was almost
impossible to live with him. When the practitioner
asked her if she loved her husband, she replied, “Why
certainly, but it seems as though I must lose my love
for him if he continues this debasing habit much
longer.” She was then asked, “Do you suppose that if
Jesus were here he would accuse your husband of
being a drunkard?” “Why no,” she replied. “Well,
although you claim to love your husband you still see
him in your own mind as an odious drunkard,” her
friend explained, “is this the love which Jesus taught
and practiced?” The wife’s heart softened, the Truth
of God flooded her consciousness, and a great load
seemed lifted from it. She went away with the proper
vision. In a few weeks word of her freedom and
mighty deliverance from her problem was sent in.

Truly the Kingdom message is this: “This is my

beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Now when
we have this vision for our friends, and for our (so-
called) enemies, for all things and all conditions; then
are we proving the power of our faith and our love:
then are we judging “righteous judgment” according
to the Truth of all existence and the Truth of all things.
When we can see that the universe and every living
thing in it comes from Love; that every problem is
filled with Love; this is the vision of The Word which
is made flesh; this is the Love which fills full all
desires.

It has been said that Love is the greatest thing in all

the world. Yes. Because through Love the world was
formed; through Love Jesus came on earth; through
Love you and I are here. Through Love we
experience the Divine Health, Harmony, Happiness,
Abundance of All-Good, in fact, the Kingdom of
Love, Itself. Your power to live, to think, to act, to
feel; is the Power of Love. The trees, the flowers, the
birds, the animals; all bring to those who can
understand it their own language of Love. In the light
of His Truth, in the consciousness of His Love, what
else can there be but that God is All?

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It matters not what our problem may be, we will never
understand it until we love it, for to fear it, to resist or
resent it, is to be ignorant of what it really is. “Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril or sword? Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved
us.”

Now, this Christ is our Very Own Self, and

understanding this we love this perfect Self in
ourselves, and in every one else. To love this Christ is
to have an understanding heart, and this is the reason
why we can clearly see the non-existence of all
problems in Him. If mankind but knew that all share
the Love which pervades the universe there would be
no unhappy dream experiences such as sin, sickness,
or trouble of any kind.

A practitioner received word one morning from a

student of Truth that his neighbour was in great pain
and that because of his extreme suffering two men
were needed to hold him in bed. The wife had already
sent for medical aid but afterward changed her mind
and now wished for spiritual treatment. The
practitioner answered that help would be given at
once, and asked for a report within a short time.

And now Dear Reader, what do you think that

practitioner held in mind? Simply this: That
consciousness that Love is ever-present, and that there
could be no failure in Love to manifest its own
Presence. The neighbour was seen to be the very
embodiment of that Love.

Within twenty minutes word came that the “patient”

was asleep and resting easily. When the physician
arrived he found that his services were not required,
for Love had proven the “fulfilling of the law;” in that
perfect Love all function, all feeling and form were
harmonious.

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If one has life he is in the presence of God, for Life is
God. And if one is in the presence of God he is in the
presence of Heaven, for God and Heaven are one!

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only

begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish but have everlasting life.” Beloved, how
much do YOU love YOUR world? How much do
YOU love everybody, every thing? How much Love
are YOU giving this (so-called) human experience?
Surely we are all born of God, for God is ALL, and it
must therefore be that as we ‘learn to love, then are we
in a position to understand all things.

Now the only real Love there is, is the Love which is
God, this Love is the Consciousness of the Christ
within us, and in this Love-Vision there is no evil, no
problem, in experience to destroy. There is a perfect
Universe to love, there is a perfect Man to understand,
there is a perfect Heaven to experience.

To repeat. God is Love, because God is ALL The

Word is made flesh and All things are our through
Love. Through Love the finished Kingdom is at hand,
the Christ lives within and the signs follow in His
Name. We practice the Presence of the One through
Love, and it is through Love that we understand the
Science of Ascension. This is the wonderful story of
Love, the fulfilling of all desires, the solution to all
problems, — ever-present, ineffable, irresistible Love!

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