How To Live Life And Love It
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PUPIL: Will you please give us a few other prototypes, and show us how they are arrived at? With still a few more examples to serve as guides, I am sure that I shall then know how to form my own prototypes for any particular thing desired or required.

MASTER: Very well; here are a few more. Let us take the head, for example, supposing that one had a belief in a violent headache. The head is the house of the brain; and the brain is the instrument of the mind, but in no sense the mind itself. What is the purpose of the mind? It is TO KNOW, TO KNOW GOD, the CAPACITY TO KNOW GOD! Can a CAPACITY TO KNOW ever really ache, or hurt, it being a FORMLESS THING? No it can not! The spiritual prototype for the head then, as I see it, is the CAPACITY TO KNOW GOD. Now for a minute let us consider the eyes. What is the purpose of the physical eye? It is the instrument of DISCERNMENT, which is a purely spiritual factor, DISCERNMENT as such having no form of its own. The CAPACITY OF DISCERNMENT is the spiritual prototype for the eyes, to me. Here are a few other spiritual prototypes for you; and in these that now follow I shall not explain for you just how I arrived at the conclusion. I shall name the particular organ, or part, of the body and the prototype for it, as I see it, and give you the benefit of thinking out for yourself just why I have chosen this particular prototype for each specific thing.

TEETH -Capacity to analyze and dissect God's ideas;

LUNGS -Capacity to KNOW LIFE as LIFE;

HEART -Capacity of LOVE;

STOMACH -Capacity of UNDERSTANDING;

LIVER -Capacity of FAITH;

KIDNEYS -Capacity of PURITY and CLEANLINESS.

The spiritual prototype, please remember always, is the purpose of the thing. Every physical thing has a purpose; consequently it has a SPIRITUAL CORRESPONDENCE. By letting your thoughts dwell upon the purpose of any physical organ, or thing, you make direct and most powerful CONTACT with the SOURCE OF ALL THINGS, with the FIRST CAUSE which projected forth from itself all concentrated things; for as Troward told me, "MATTER IS ONLY SPIRIT SLOWED DOWN TO A POINT OF VISIBILITY."

PUPIL: These examples will help me very much, I am sure. But now I am wondering just what is the best way to help ourselves, and others, forget human weaknesses, aches and pains, etc. It seems to me that most of us have the habit of dwelling too much in thought upon such negative things.

MASTER: I find that the very best way to get away from negative thoughts and feelings is this: TO DELIBERATELY TRAIN THE THOUGHT AND FEELING TO TRAVEL ALONG THE ROAD OF OUR BLESSINGS! Our every conscious moment DOES HAVE a blessing in it, if only one will look carefully for it, recognize it and be happy because of it. In looking for our blessings it will help greatly to recall to mind the many joys we have experienced, as well as those we hope to experience. In these ways we are able to forget the negative things of which the human side of us is so prone to accuse us.

PUPIL: May we have an illustration of this point, please? Something out of your own experience?

MASTER: Yes. Here is an actual experience in which I had a part. In Los Angeles several years ago a lady came to me with the problem of cancer, with which inharmony she had been told that she was grievously afflicted. Her whole attention, it seemed to me, was rigidly held on the limitation the cancerous condition was causing her, or should soon cause her to know. She owned and operated a restaurant, and was doing much of the work herself. Several doctors, she said, had told her there was no cure for her, that the disease had spread until an operation was not to be considered, that she must stay off her feet and spend most of her time, such as remained to her, in bed, etc. This, she said, meant that she must go out of business, of course, and when she did that she would be in dire want, in fact an object of charity. With her mind filled with these negative thoughts of illness and lack, which were certain to come unless she could be healed, she came to see me.

When I had talked the matter over with her I asked her to let me think things over for three days before giving her my decision about accepting her case for mental treatment. I asked for this delay in order that I might thoroughly check to see how much time I could allot to her, to see if I could arrange for all the time she would require. After two days of changing some appointments, and postponing some others which were not really urgent, I told the lady to come. My first question to her was this:

"Do you absolutely BELIEVE what Jesus told His disciples, as recorded in Mark 10:27, and which reads as follows: 'With man it is impossible, but not with God; FOR WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!' ?"

She assured me positively that she DID BELIEVE just that; but said that she found her own mind too untrained and chaotic to keep her thought and feeling OFF what seemed to be the inevitable and hold it ON THE FACT that God IS the ONLY POWER there is, that HE is FOREVER PRESENT, ALWAYS AMENABLE TO SUGGESTION, ETERNALLY RESPONSIVE AND ALWAYS CREATIVE. Hence she wished the help of the Spirit through me.

I told her that I should ask her to know with me HOURLY, continually, that her relation to God is always I-AM, and that whenever she thought or said "I-AM" to remember that she was thinking or saying, in reality, "GOD IS." I told her also that God created her out of Himself, for Himself, and that to Him and in Him she was forever complete, whole, perfect. "God is love!" I told her; and I asked her to always try to feel His Great Love surging through her. I quoted I John 4:16-18 to her: "God is love; and he that DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD and GOD IN HIM!" I also asked her to know that God is LIFE, Intelligent, Loving, Harmonious, Creative Life, and asked her to HOLD HER CONSCIOUS THOUGHT AND FEELING on these things.

"But," she protested, "you have not given me any affirmation for MY cancer!"

"Did you say 'My cancer'?" I asked her with much feeling and emphasis. "Do you really want cancer, my dear? Are you determined to have it? If not, then why ARE YOU CLAIMING IT FOR YOUR OWN by saying 'my cancer'? Remember thoughts are things!"

"Oh, no!" she exclaimed. "I see what you mean. Just listen to me. I must conquer this negative habit of thought."

I assured her yet again that she WAS a Divine Child, that all of her needs were forever supplied THROUGH HER RECOGNITION of them. I then told her to try to constantly keep in her consciousness thoughts which contained some quality of the following:

Belief Confidence Conviction Credit Honesty Patience Reliance Sincerity .and other ideas in which there was some of the ESSENCE OF FAITH. I stressed the fact that by keeping these things in mind her THOUGHT and FEELING would have the ESSENCE of FAITH in them; and that she should soon form the HABIT of thinking in that way. It was my endeavor to get her to keep her mind OFF HERSELF and ON THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT. I knew that if I could get her to do this HABITUALLY God should take care of the rest of the matter.

This lady assured me that she would try to do exactly as I had asked although it seemed more plausible to doubt than to believe that she could be in perfect health again after so much suffering, and the opinions of several doctors that she was doomed.

Still again I told her most positively that it is written: "GOD IS WITH YOU TO SAVE YOU!" I asked her to remember that FAITH IS ALIVE and that it LEADS TO MORE LIFE which doubt is dead and leads nowhere. The leading characteristic of faith is that it constantly flows and burns with constantly increasing brightness and expectancy. Faith always travels in the one direction of understanding. Doubt is a blight upon every effort towards Truth.

This patient came to see me regularly every day for some two weeks; and her condition began to improve from the very start. Then she had only absent treatment at frequent intervals, with an occasional visit in person, for another six weeks. At the end of two months she was entirely free from any evidences of cancer, free in body, in mind and in affairs. Immediately she began to build up physically and when I last saw her, some two of three years after she first came to me, she was in robust health, prospering in business and sure of her contact with the Spirit.

PUPIL: This illustration clears up in my mind, when I go back over it point by point, a number of ideas which were very hazy and uncertain to me. Thank you. I do know that doubts make one wretched from morning until night.

MASTER: Exactly so. And it would seem that after a while people who indulge in them would learn this fact and make an "about face" and a "forward march" in the direction of faith. Faith is a brightly-glowing light and lives within us. It has its source in the fountain-head of INTUITION. Its radiance is seen in the long shafts of splendor that lead one forever upward into the kingdom of the beautiful, the true, and the good.

PUPIL: If one does not have any faith, how does one get it?

MASTER: One does NOT get faith. EVERY SOUL ALREADY HAS IT! It has been yours forever; it is as much a part of you, of your Divine Being, as is your heart, your lungs, your mind: It is a gift as precious as Life itself, and is born of Life itself, forever innate in every living soul. It is true that some are less aware of faith than others through having neglected it, through having blighted it with doubts, fears, anxiety, etc. But the quality IS still there, and by cultivation it will spring into fullness again. All that is required is this: THAT YOU EXERCISE THE FAITH THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE for just a few weeks. Deliberately look for it! Insist on seeing it! PERSIST IN USING IT!