Christ." As art is the elimination of non-essentials, so in Truth the first thing which we must do is to get rid of the vast accumulation of beliefs which have no bases in Truth. Then follows the rigid discipline of thought and act until brought into perfect conformity to the model of spiritual Reality. Only in this stronghold are we secure, and if we build our bodies, our houses, and our work upon this established Rock, the storms of mortality will beat upon them in vain; they cannot be destroyed for they are composed of the essence of the Eternal.

Spiritual Receptivity.-Education is the preparation we make in order to eradicate human misconceptions and make way for God's Truth. Beauty and harmony are the handmaidens of Truth, and he who would hold Truth must perceive that perfection alone is ultimate; he must train the eye to see, attune the ear to hear and open the soul to receive it. As we do this we cease to try by human effort to comprehend anything and we find the short way to all knowledge and accomplishment. The Spirit of Truth leads into all Truth as we yield to its guidance, and through it we find the real things of life which were hidden by sense illusions.

He who desires Truth must arise each morning into a clearer perception of it. He must win a fresh victory each day. Truth abides with no one who does not love and honor it by the use of all that he sees. The streams of Truth broaden and deepen as the way of consciousness is kept open, and it floods the one who keeps himself under the vision, and carries him out into the illimitable ocean of power.

Humility, patience, absolute integrity in all the transactions of life, conscientious effort to hold fast to the vision of Truth and translate it into thought, body and work must be the steadfast purpose of those who would progress. "He that endureth to the end shall be saved;" and to the One who thus spake there was no end, save demonstration of "all Truth." The secret of all great lives and accomplishment is to "live as seeing the invisible" Truth; to perceive the ideas of Infinity and to wait, watch and work continuously in its light. This eventually results in the conviction of spiritual Reality and thus we become free citizens of an unlimited universe.

Every truth perceived sets us free to the extent that we accept it; and progress demands that we use all the Truth we perceive. This does not mean that we should live continuously in a state of abstract mystic exaltation; but it does mean that we should, with balanced saneness, go through our daily duties perceiving a truer way of doing our work and gaining new inspiration for a larger and better expression of life. To know Truth begin to use it just where you are, on the problem that confronts you today. When we know Truth all time is concentrated in the now, all opportunity is here, for "Beloved, now are we sons of God."

Behind every mortal thought stands Truth, and he who sees is "a repairer of the breach." We leave a trail of benediction in our path as we live in the light of Truth, and over that trail the whole human race may pass from under serfdom to material beliefs into the large free life of the "grace and Truth" of the Spirit.

CHAPTER II

GOD.

We have felt the heart of the Silence
Throb with a soundless word;

And by the inward ear alone
The Spirit's voice we heard.
And the spoken word is written
On air, and wave and sod;

And the bending walls of sapphire
Blaze with the thought of God.

-Whittier. (Altered.)

Beauty through my senses stole,

I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

-Emerson.

This is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God. -Jesus.

The New Vision.-Many books have been written about God; the subject can never be exhausted. The purpose of this book, however, is not to offer a philosophic dissertation about Him, but to clarify some misunderstood principles, and to afford the earnest student the aid by which he may be led into that unity with God which is his realization of the "life abundant." To know God, to comprehend life, to interpret spiritual realities is the destination of the race as a whole, and is the reason for the existence of each individual being.

In passing from the anthropomorphic or “unlimited monarch" misconception of God, to the insight

of Him as Infinite Being holding the vast universe in His Consciousness, we have each felt as did Mary at the tomb: "They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him." Even as she spoke her risen and glorified Lord was standing beside her, and thus stands overshadowing us a Father who is infinitely nearer, "Closer than breathing, nearer than hands or feet," as infinitely higher than our former belief of Him as God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

Who is this Being? What is His nature? What is His relation to us? Can we know Him as He is, in the same sense in which we know each other?

The present writers answer this last question with a positive and unqualified affirmative. They know Him, and this not merely from what they have read in books, or from what preachers have taught them. The knowledge of God claimed by them has come from revelation, and the experience covering years of public ministry. God has been experienced. He has been tested by the acid test of life itself, and never has He been found wanting.

How God Is Known.-Is it not through experience and testings that we know each other? How otherwise can we know each other? Surely not by the color of our eyes, the height of our figures, or a knowledge of our personal accomplishments. We know each other only as we perceive each other's inner nature, and touch that which responds to our silent demand as to our spoken word. Our social relationships are all of a spiritual nature, and it is by those only that we know each other. Our relationship with God is of a spiritual nature, and it is

because of this quality of the relationship that we can perceive and know God in the fullest sense of the words.

It is the nature of God to seek man, it is the nature of man to seek God, and the "meeting" is inevitable. The Spirit of God seeks its outlet, the spirit of man seeks its Source. Love begets love, and is regained again in love and God is expressed only as man responds to His love by consciously knowing and loving Him. To experience God we must love. One who has not experienced love for another cannot experience love for God. We are one with God as we lose our lives in love. “Whosoever loveth another is born of God," and “If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" It is alone the experience of love which lifts us into God, and enables us to partake of His essence; for the essence of God is love.

To love is to lose the heavy burden of self, and to fly from self to others. One who is chained in one spot cannot make visits; love unchains the prisoner in self, that he may freely visit others. Love is a sense of ease for one is away from himself when he loves. "Love is the flight of one soul to another," and we are liberated from the prison of self through love, and the wings upon which we fly to another, carry us into the very heart of God.

Love enables us to lose ourselves in our work, so that we bring our ideals to realization. Love is the energizing and quickening Power. Until we love, we are filled with unrest, which renders us inefficient and ineffectual. Unrest is the friction of a prisoner