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1955 Cape Town Series

Contemplative Meditation

God into our consciousness. And in this wise. Even with our eyes closed, we
embrace the universe within ourselves, the whole universe. And we will realize that, this
universe of Gods creating, is within us and that Gods love enfolds it, upholds it and all
who are therein. Gods love permeates this universe and all that exists in this universe is
of Gods creating, and it is spiritual just as the Master said, why callest thou me good,
there is none good except the father in heaven, so we will know that in this universe,
there is nothing good or bad, all that exists is of God and God is the good unto this
universe.
Whoever it is, wherever it is whatever it is, we will see it as neither good nor evil but
as wholly spiritual, of God, the good which is God permeates it, maintains and sustains it.
Every individual embraced in our consciousness we understand to be the child of God,
the sons of God, the offspring of God, Gods own creation, and of also we will not say
that it is good or that it its evil nor that he is good or evil nor that she is good or evil but
rather that all those embraced in the spiritual universe are God and therefore spiritual.
We will not place the word good or the word evil on anybody. We will not label
anybody good or evil, we will not label any condition good or evil even at this moment as
some form of physical, mental, moral, or financial discords come into your thought, un-
label it. Take the label of good or evil and see it as merely a condition that exits but that it
is a condition that exists not good and not evil and then have it translated into that which
it is and you will behold a harmony, a health where heretofore there has been discord or
disease,
Watch this with your eyes closed, watch thisnothing is good and nothing is evil.
Begin with this moment and continue with the next weeks or months to come to
remember to that there is neither good nor evil in this world and we will place no labels
of good and evil upon anyone or anything. The reason is that we acknowledge God to be
the only good and all that exists partakes of Gods goodness, and evil has no existence.
Regardless of any appearance that may be in your thought this moment, evil has no
existence. Only God and the formations of God have existence and these we will call
neither good or evil.
Remember it is a state of duality to behold good and evil.
Remember that nothing exits in all of this world that is good or evil, it becomes good
or evil in proportion to your thinking it is so. And so something that is very good to you
becomes very evil to your neighbor. Something that is very evil to your neighbor is very
good to you and the reason is that there is neither good nor evil in anything in and of
itself but your thinking can make it so unto you and then not as a reality but as an
illusionary experience which will certainly seem real and painful and harmful and
destructive to those who entertain thoughts evil and destruction.
Now this calls for a rebirth on your part and on my part. It means the you are going to
consciously make the agreement with me now, that in this whole world of men, women
and children, in this whole world of conditions there is neither good nor evil God alone is
good and Gods goodness permeates all that exits.
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There is no evil in any condition, there is no evil in any circumstance,
there is no evil in any person because God, the Infinite good has not
created evil and there is no other creator. If we have entertained an
evil sense of some person or condition, let us in this moment of
purificationlet us purify ourselves of such beliefs.
In all of this world there is no evil person or conditionmeaning there is not a person
or condition that has within itself any powers of evil regardless of what you may look
upon, regardless of what it appears this moment to you, you will remove its sting, you
will remove its seeming destructive nature when you look upon the person or condition,
and say within yourself,
You have no powers of evil for there are none. I have heretofore
mislabeled you. The world has mislabeled you and it says that you
are evil, dangerous, destructive and now I know that it is not so. I
know that in all the universe there is no person, or thing, or
condition that has any quality of evil in it, or any power of evil or
any power of destruction. It is neither good nor evil for only God is
good.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for there is
no evil in that condition. There is no evil presence and no evil power. Though I seem to
be consumed with disease I will no longer fear it, for it has within itself no element of
destruction no element of pain no element of death. It is in and of itself nothingness since
all power is in God. I will not say of this condition that it is good, nor will I say of it that
it is evil, I will say merely it is nothingness, God is Allness, everything else is
nothingness and Gods Allness and Gods goodness and Gods power and Gods law
permeates me, this universe, all being, and all conditions.
Heretofore, we have lived in a world of two powers, we have tried to acquire a good
power, we have tried to get rid of an evil power, and now we will do neither. We will rest
content in that which Is. We will rest content in the realization that apart from God there
is no power, apart from God there is no good, but Gods Omnipotence, Omniscience,
Omnipresence assure that Gods good permeate all being all cause, all effect. I will not
judge by appearances and will withhold all judgment as to good or evil and merely
acknowledge that God alone is the good.
Even this that I have been fearing is not evil. Even this that I have been hating is not
evil, even this that I have been wondering why it came to my dwelling place that even
now I know it is not evil. It has no qualities of evil, he or she has no qualities of evil. All
good is since God alone is good.
This will lead you out of the world of dualityout of the age old mistake of having a
power of God and a power of devilor a power of good and a power of evil or a power
of immortal and a power of mortal. This will lead you into the fourth dimensional
consciousness in which there is nothing that is either good or evil for all this is receives
its grace, glory, power, substance, cause and law from God. Nothing is good, nothing is
evil, all that is of God is spiritualabove qualities, above quantities in the realm of God
there is neither qualities or qualities, there is only infinity, eternality, immortality, a
divine state of being which has no opposites, is neither good nor evil but is spiritual.
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The miracles of grace come into our experience in proportion as we withdraw
judgment and labels from the world of men and women, conditions, things and
circumstances and no longer speak the language of good or evil, no longer speak the
language of comparisons, but recognize God as the creative principle of all and therefore
all is spiritual. It is not what goes into the mouth that defileth or maketh a lie but that
which emanates from our own consciousness.
You will never again be able to blame a person, a circumstance of a condition for the
inharmonies of your life because you will recognize that it is nothing that goes into your
experience that defileth or maketh a lie, nothing that man whose breath is in his nostrils
can do to you that maketh a lie but rather what emanates from your consciousness. If you
persist in living in the world of duality and having something good an something bad,,
then that bread which you have cast on the waters returns to you and as you have cast the
bread of duality so the bread of duality returns unto you. but is you retire to the real of
your own consciousness and look out on this world and say,
I withdraw all labels from you. I no longer see you as good or
evil. I see you as of God and I see Gods goodness permeates you, I
see Gods goodness upholds you, sustains you, I see the law of God
keeps you in perfect peace. I do not give you labels of good or evil.
No good evil emanates from my consciousness, only the vision of
Gods spiritual perfection, maintaining a spiritual universe in
eternal glory and having no glory of its own but showing forth
Gods gloryGods handiwork. The heavens declare the glory of
God, the earth showeth forth his handiwork. And so you see we
have no glory of our own but it is Gods glory. And so you may not
call it good you may not call it evil you must call it spiritualof
God.
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Gods grace does not remove disease, Gods grace reveals to us that there never has
been disease, that we have accepted the worlds concept of good and evil and therefore
we have demonstrated that. Now in our spiritual enlightenment, we will no longer label
anything disease, we will no longer label anything evil, we will no longer believe that any
condition has in itself a power of evil, of destruction, of pain since all power emanates
from God. We will no longer believe that there is a law of disease, since all law is
spiritual. There is no good law and evil law, there is only one lawspiritual lawthe
laws of God which govern Gods creation and there is no other creation. All that is made
God made, and Gods saw all that he made and it is very good.
Therefore we must not be deceived by appearances, and be tempted
into saying that this is evil that this is error, that this is discord and
we must get rid of it and rise above it, no, no, no. We must come
into the glory of God and realizeGod made all that was made,
and all that was made is maintained and sustained by its creative
principle which is God, and regardless of appearances to my
misguided senses, I will label nothing good, I will label nothing
evil, I will label all things spiritualof God. This spiritual vision
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will result in the translating of these false appearances into an
understanding of the divine harmony which is ever present.
When you go to the altar to pray and there remember that any man has aught against
thee, then get up and make peace with thy brother then return to the alter with thy gifts.
And so, if at any time you attempt to pray or commune with God and remember you are
holding anything in your consciousness as being good or evil, stop right there and make
peace within yourself by agreeingnothing is good or evil only God is good and the
infinity of Gods goodness permeating all being leaves nothing of an evil or destructive
nature.
Then when you have made peace so that you are not warring within yourself against a
person, a thing, or a condition, then you may return to your meditation and your
communion and say,
Father I come to you with clean hands, I have naught against
anyone and I do not accept anyone or anything as evil therefore
no one and no thing has anything against me and so now I am in
Thy Presence in my spiritual purity, I am entertaining no evil
concepts of person or things or conditions. I am at peace with all
creation.
Then in that state of spiritual purity the grace of God is able to permeate your mind,
your soul your being your body and your pocketbook. The grace of God is enabled to
flow in a consciousness that is not divided against itself. The grace of God is enabled to
flow in a consciousness that is not at war with anyone or anything. Gods grace is
enabled to flow through a consciousness that is single-pointed, that has only one
presenceone power, no opposites, no opposition.
Then is prayer answered, but while we have aught against someone, or someone has
aught against us, that means while we are beholding someone or something as having evil
qualities or propensities, while we believe that there is a world of duality and some one or
something is evil, has evil can cause or produce evil, we are a house divided against
itself. We are a state of consciousness at war within ourselves and the grace of God
cannot reveal itself in such a divided household.
Now we must be of a single mind, we must see with a single eye and to do that we
must withdraw the labels of good and evil from everything there is and acknowledge all
good as being GodGod alone to be good.
If you invest anything with a power of evil that is the only evil it
has to react upon you.
When you withdraw the label of evilsince it has no powers of evil within itself, they
are no longer any appearances of evil or beliefs of evil to react upon you. A belief of evil
entertained in your consciousness reacts upon youas you sow so shall you reap. If you
entertain a sense of evil to a person, place, thing, circumstance, or condition that sense of
evil that you entertain is the sense of evil that returns to harm your being, your body, your
business. When you release all sense of evil, when you refuse to invest anything with
powers of evil then your consciousness is purged of all sense of evil an there is no longer
a sense of evil to operate in you, upon you, through you, or against you.
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As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. And it doesnt really mean think, it means in
his heart as he is convinced in his consciousness whatever consciousness he entertains
that is what he drew unto himself. Therefore do not entertain any consciousness, any
sense of awareness of evil then none can react upon you. Cast your bread upon the
waters. Cast your understanding of oneness upon the waters, cast your understanding of
Gods grace as sufficiency upon the waters, cast your realization of God as the all good
upon the waters and these will return to you.
Yes, we must be in the world but not of it. We must take care of
our business, of our family life, or our social life, or our
community life, or our national life, or our international life but
we must not accept the worlds standards of what it taking place.
We above all, even while the passing parade of human events we
must stand back and realization that inherent in this world is no
power of evil.
Even with the eyes closed look out upon this world, and realize that no one and
nothing in this universe has inherent a power or propensity for evil. Make this a daily
practice, if necessary twice daily, so the always you come to the altar of prayer with no
enmity in your consciousness, there is no belief of evil people, evil presence, evil
conditions, evil potentialities then your prayer reaches the throne of heaven, your prayer
reaches the very center of your being and good flows and permeates your entire universe.
Give to God your consciousness purified. Purified with the understanding that God alone
is good, Gods goodness is the goodness of individual being, individual condition,
thought and thing. Nothing else is power, nothing else is law.
Behold the Christ sitting behind the eyes of every individual on the face of the globe.
Behold the Christ as the substance and law of every conditionthen you have no duality
in your consciousness, and no duality can return unto you. You are the Masters of your
fate, the captains of your own soul in proportion to the truth and that you know. Ye shall
know the truth an the truth shall make you free. Because it is ye that must know the truth
it is ye who are captains of your soul and Masters of your fate by the degree of truth that
you know. And there is only one truthand that truth is God. Therefore to behold evil is
to behold evil in God or because of God or in spite of God and this isnt true. There is no
evil.. an infinity of good an eternality of goodthe all good is the only truth.
Purge my consciousness of the belief in two powers, purge my
consciousness of the belief in appearances that would testify to a good
power and an evil power. Purge my consciousness so I know there is no
powerthere is only Godinfinite good.
Nothing in all this world opposes two times two being four, no , nothing in all this
world opposes the value of do, re, me, fa, so, la, te, do. These are maintained and
sustained unto eternity without any opposition because there is no evil to destroy the
fourness of two times two or the do, re, me-ness of do, re, me. These qualities and
qualities are eternally intact without opposition and so are we. There is no opposition to
our immortality or eternality. There is no power on earth to destroy the perfection and
harmony of our being.
A dual mind has permitted us to believe in two powers and now in this day, in this
experience of God we return to our fathers house, we return to our father consciousness
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where we see as God sees. We are to pure to behold iniquity because we are beholding
with God consciousness with Christ awareness and we are too pure to behold inequity.
We do not believe that in all of this universe there is an evil condition, an evil power,
an evil propensity. We are too pure, we have the one mind that was in Christ Jesus and
we behold what God made was when it said to what was evidently a crippled man,
risepick up thy bed and walk because that mind saw no crippled man. It saw no
condition apart from God it saw no evil in the universe, it didnt even believe there was a
good body or a bad body there was only a God body. The only goodness of anybody is
God. Nobody has goodness of themselves anymore than they have evil. But everyone has
Goodness, God being, Christhood, we are too pure to behold inequity, we are too pure to
behold two laws operating in this universe a good one and a bad one. We are too pure to
behold two powers, two substances a good one and an evil one, a spiritual one and a
material one. We are too pure to behold inequity because we behold through the mind
that was in Christ Jesus. We behold through the vision that God has given us, the vision
shown thee on the mountone powerone presence and that one God.
Why have we taken so long to meet the discords and inharmonies of human sense
because we have persisted in accepting the belief that there is someone or something to
be gotten rid of. We have been beholding a sense of selfhood apart from God and as long
as we entertain that we cannot be free in Christ.
Let me make you this distinctionnever seek to be free from anything or anyone.
Never seek to be free from any condition because then you yourself set up in duality.
Seek freedom in Christ. Never seek freedom fromseek freedom in. I am free in Christ.
Christ is my freedom. Christ is the love that permeates my being. Christ is the liberty
wherewith I am clad. Christ is my freedom, harmony, health, wholeness, completeness,
and perfection. I do not seek freedom from anything, I realize my freedom in spiritual
being. I realize my freedom in the Oneness of consciousness in which there are no
presences or powers opposed to God. My freedom is in and of Christ, it is never from
anything or anybody. Freedom is a quality of God which we enjoy when we have
overcome duality. When we no longer entertain a sense of separation from God. When
we no longer entertain a sense of a presence and power apart from God then are we free
in God, then are we clad with the liberties of the sons of God. We are only clothed and in
our right mind when we are too pure to behold inequity, when we refuse to entertain any
sense of iniquity, of evil or destruction of calamity. We do know that as long a there is
duality in an individual consciousness, there will be the discords of earth but it does not
come nigh the dwelling place of ye who dwell in the secret place of the most high. Too
pure to behold inequity, or acknowledge it, or agree that it is so.
No man is a healer and no man can become a healer but every man can be a revealer, a
revealer of Gods graceGods harmony Gods peace permeating his universe. This
appears to outer sense as healing. In just the same wise that the mathematician corrects
the belief that two times two is five with the understanding that two times two are four
but he didnt bring about a healing because two times two were never other than four. So
he corrected nothing he changed nothing except the beliefan erroneous premise. So
with us.
We never healwe correct the belief that there is something to be healed.
We correct the belief that there is somebody to be healed. We correct the
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belief that there are two powers operating in human experiencein your
experience and mine and the worlds. We become so pure, so single-
minded that we acknowledge Gods law alone operative in all of Gods
creation.

The contemplation of this truth is a contemplative form of mediation. It is a
contemplative meditation of spiritual truth. It is more than this, it is a communion with
truth and in truth and it is prayer and it is treatment you may call this by any of these
names. Actually the highest thing you can give to it is contemplative mediation because
you are in mediationyou have withdrawn from the world, you have shut the world out
from your eyes and your ears so that inwardly you may meditate and in your meditation
you contemplate and you contemplate truth, you contemplate the nature of truth as one.
So that actually there is no such thing as a lie. You contemplate truth as a power so
that there is no such thing as evil power. You contemplate truth as substance so there is
no substance to be destroyed, got rid of. You contemplate Gods grace and Gods
goodness and this contemplating in meditation is likewise the prayer results really in the
prayer of realization. It is the prayer that comes to a realization in which that which you
have been contemplating automatically becomes real and demonstrable within you.
So it is for this reasons that we may also call it prayer, we may also call it treatment,
then after our contemplation we have our few moments of complete silence in which we
say to the father, speak Lord thy servant heareth, then we wait until an assurance comes
within us, a feeling that this is true that we have declared, this is truth that we have relied
and up from within our own being there comes to us the assurance of Gods presence and
of Gods being on the field, than then we may say, we now have realized prayer,
realized treatment, realized meditation. A meditation may not bring out what we call
healing, prayer may not bring out what we call healing, treatment may not bring it out
unless these are lifted to the point of realization. And so when you have meditated,
contemplated, when you have prayed or treated, do not be satisfied, sit back, relax turn to
the father within, speak lord thy servant heareth, then listen and wait for the feel to be
place upon your prayer or mediation or treatment.
Do not tell this to anyone and in so far as possible do not even discuss it among
yourselves, keep this as something sacred and secret until such time as it is such a
positive conviction and realization that you are able to demonstrate it in bringing forth
harmonies into your existence and those around you. Then and then only, can you begin
not teach it to others, but do not teach this because this is the highest revelation given in
the Masters teaching. This is the highest revelation which only a few of his disciples
were able to grasp, that is why it has been lost to the world because of this depth because
of its impossibility to accept because of appearances.
This appearance world is forever testifying to the pairs of opposites, the good and evil,
the life and death, sickness and health, poverty and lack and these appearances have
registered themselves so deeply upon us that many of us even here now, hearing this
probably doubt that it is actually true that there is nobody and nothing in all of this
universe that has an evil power, propensity or capacity. And yet it is so. But it is a highly
evolved realization that comes through spiritual discernment, through inner reflection,
pondering, meditating. And one of these days, the truth of it is revealed to you from
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within your own being. At this moment some of you have only my word for it or a few
passages of scripture. Some of you are a step further and have an inner feeling that what
you are hearing is true, but none of this is enough. You must as Mary took the babe into
Egypt to hide it for a year, so must we take this gem into our consciousness and hide it,
ponder it, meditate upon it until the day when something within ourselves says, it is true,
and when that day comes, just the facts, that inner realization has come, when you open
your eyes you will behold that even in this world it is so. Then you can begin the work,
the mission of revealing this truth to whoever around you may be receptive to it.
Do not cast your pearls before swine. Do not give your great truth to the unprepared
thought, never discuss truth, never argue truth, truth is something that seems to respond
to reason. Truth is something you feel the rightness of or you do not. if you do not you
are not ready for the experience, if you do feel it, keep it within yourself to share with
others who also feel it. But do not try to argue it, or discuss it, because truth does not lend
itself the things of God are foolishness to man so do not try to convince him. And even
if you heal the sick and raise the dead do not expect the unprepared thought to accept for
scripture says, though you raise them from the dead they will not believe. We have all
witnessed that. Until a soul is prepared to accept a spiritual vision they will not even
accept the healing of disease or the raising of the dead as an actual fact or proof.
Treasure these truths within yourself as you would cherish gems and then share them
discreetly with those who are appreciative of gems. For I give it unto you that the
evidence of the senses tells us that sin, and disease and lack have powers within
themselves detrimental to us. I give it you as a spiritual truth that there is no power either
or good or evil in anything or anybody. All power is in God and God power is good.
And now you will be able to understand the meaning of the Master when he says,
peace I give unto you. My peace give I unto you. In that consciousness of his which
was too pure to behold evil he say not evil to be overcome, he saw no disease to be
healed, he saw no sinners to be reformed, he said definitely neither do I condemn you,
forgive unto seventy times seven. And so he beheld a spiritual universe filled with Gods
grace and he was able to say, my peace, that is my consciousness, which is not divided
against itself, but which is of the household of God having in it only children of God the
peace of God that give I unto you, you will find the as you can entertain within yourself
this divine idea, this spiritual truth of oneness you will find the power of Christ peace, of
an undivided household will descend upon you.
And so it is, and so it is, and we will leave these for later, and so it is and thank you
until this afternoon.