"1;:;;:~ -INCREASING THE LrFE STREAV- ..:i~"]:;:: _.-~ ~-- T-,o --~i

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Jm. CHARL:ES FILLMORE--.". -~~~

found that certain people apparent1-y

live or three lives, or a half dozen J.ives, sometimes.

..one be expressiag a certain 4efiRlte character or

personality, suddenly they aDd have another....'

people,

d1f:terent case a young J.ady was fer a time

refined character, With a na. corresponding, and all at once

change over and be a very cearse character, .r course en-

aoc~rd1ng t. her story. am she had her taste cha~d

domlnant.Done or them. seemed to have

, "-,,"h: They wereJ.1ke.three people

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)J;::;::::' body at different times, and yet they aU claimed to live in that c'.'

:~~:"rgan1sm. :- , : ..

-;;:; Now, the fact is that all people are mGre or less of

that same character. We have here many men, or many women. and they

are locked up in our consciousness. with some dominant persQ.nality-

leading. or some dominant idea in the lead. And it depends upon us.

whether we shall give expression to these various identities,. or

Tarious egos. Dr whether we shall have,a higher egG. a higher Prin-: :,.,.

ciple. and give that expression. give that the Kingdom.

Now, we know that there is a real man, and that that man

is the head of the house; and if we concentrate upon that. Why, we

: ."bring an entirely new state of consciousness to bear. We find that '.'.

.-characti-r-, .the¥ij-'::;!ij:::. ~irtg-Ego.-':~"::~:~-:::':~:-:~"

:::;:::: ,.- Now. in the Scripture s,mbology that 1s caned The Christ, ,.

and it should be the work of every man te bring that Christ Ego inte

such perfect expreusion it would rule aU these lesser egos, or these

lesser personalities, because there is but en.e power. Now, we call

that, in Metaphysics, the I Am. or the Christ I Ami and if you .find

yourself" in that negative state, in which you aeem to be different

people a.t different times, it is evident that you haven't concen-

t rated upon your real I. You haven"t brought to bear the I Am Christ

in you.

Now, this morning we will cCl:lcentrate for a little upon

._-~~.~::=:;~~e~~~~_-",,~Z~~.I.. w1 t~ ~~_:~dea that::~~'c1s__t~~_~~a1.1n g,.r~n8~~g... ,-~..

Life-givmg Power. You will rsneni>er 'that Chr18t said: -I am the

Yay; I am the Truth; I am the Light8. 'ie was concentrating, thTQugh",,.;',;, ,

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:, .t God in you, in Which is aU glory-."",

;\l:,'""""""' w d # dit tion ~ ll b .D ThChri t,;J:,',,:, or ,I. or me a ".I. e. e 8,~,'::~i

I .Am quickens and heals me: The Christ I Am quickens and heals me ".

Now, we wil.1 a11 be very still and hold that in mind, and get the

realiz please. Yfold the thought unt 11 you feel that unifying,~

quickening, healing, Life-giving Power working in you: ftThe Christ

! I Am quickens and heals me". Every body join in that pra~r.

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We have given lesson:

" stream-, based upon the Fifth Cupter of John.fjf. have just read. Jesus being at Capemaum in the previous recitation

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.~~:.. in this Chapter, where he'heals the trobleman's son. these

; things he went up to Jerusalem to the Feast, and it was at the Sheep

i Gat e w,,::,;' been sick for thirty-eight ~a~!,,~~~ {!8US asked him if he wanted, .',., y,.".".' ,"

to be healed, when this pool moved, they

all IUshed in ahead of him Who were 111 and sick, and there was no.-.,.,,--,_.",-~~-."

~an to carry him down, because he couldn't walk. And Jesus told him., "-" "" '~~-"..""...

;=cc totak=_c_..,~ ,-'

,Sabbat .."c:::' ..:;'::i.~~

..a8 tn.greasing the law by telling that .~~,1!...~!..!"_~"b~..lfr"b,e4..D .' ',:,::~~ ~-~' ".. ."", .._~ c;;"_.~~,~i~(;i,:~

~'f"\';'" .-:"":"~j",,,,,~., :"',-:"-- .':i"'~~~~(r

f;~' the Sabbath Day. ~hose old Jews Were strlct ebservers of the S'ab- ',(;:'

.;; ;' :,;;,::,;;i~, bath, and anytranagress.1on.. the least thing, caused a great out-' ;,;:::;:"-., ..-,

break against those who were guilty Of in any way breaking the law

.! the Sabbath.

Jeaus again taught them a lesson On doing good, whether*i

f Qn the Sabbath Day, or any other day.

".' In order to get the fullest good out of this Scripture,

we must take it in aU of its various aspects, as relating to man.

We know that the real work of' every man is to bring forth his char-

acter, s.nd that all J.essons by the spiritually wise are for guidance

in this respect. that we shall have a knowledge of what man reaUy

is, and what the $;'{enues or ~rowth are. The 'Scripture tells us .th

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-:~:;:c,~-{.~~~;. -.l~i, ;j:;:::k\~2: i --~ lit, ~ "';'::!," ":.'-_;::~;ic ; ,~"

investigations in modem life, prove this to e a good classifica- ,j.:,;':

tion.. And if man is a three-fold being, under the guidance and :i.,'

direction 0:1" One Divine Intelligent Idea, the Christ-man, it should "-

be our work tolay hold of this man in his fullness, and put h1m

in right relation. And these Scripture lessons are for the purpose.' --.r cauiitg our attention to the varioU8 phases of man1s character :::~

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in the three-fold natur8~ ~ Spirit, Soul, Body. :c;:~:.::.

'How, nearly all of our physielegical studie s have been '-'..;.

merely of the body; and that is the fruit, or the outer, crystallized.

representation of the~e two inlier forces. And we will never know--"-'-~-c-"'C.-'_--' -cO" , -'::.~ :~=;-:Jtt8t ;-how'"t1!i'a body-man ~s'brought--1nto expresaior. u:zatU-w..tu4

somewhat the soul and the Spirit, because the 8oul i8 but anoth

,aame tor our active thinking, am the Spirit 1a but another nale

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i{,::;;; for those ini tiat ive absolut e ideas thrG~h which the thought is~,~~;:)~i';';:'::: f ft I'm -" ,.";;'"' w ~\I..; -'... f;\;

".it,' Then, all these characters given in the Scripture are~:!:,;

but -.representative of some phase, or some ir~er active force in the

-.man. a. I say, ei~her in the spiritual, in the Psychical, or in"'.,.,,;

:' the Physicals ud they are all sOmetim.e:s Interblended, because theyi~i';"¥;:; work ~nd act one upon an'other. S~t1L'1es the bod,j"'-conscioume:sa~,~~~:'::-, may re-act in its activity upon the soul, and the Spirit may act

"; upon the Soul, without our conscipus volition. That is, I may not-.'

.: 'be aware of these ideas coming in and going out on the higher pla res

~;"" of consciousness. ...,-[,~,"," -.." ,. " d;";:: ...,:- N'QW. we are told that Jesus went rusalam" after :,::'.,

~::::.::_::-".:.~_::::::::':~'::":::::~-"'" :_=~-:_-: --~':".c_~:.-~::-:::::;c-: --.",- ,-_::=:::::.:..-:~:~,;- being down at Capernaum. In this Scripture, every place is the rep-

resentative of some center in consciousness. J"eru.sa1.em is the

great psychical center here at the heart. called the solar plexus;

." and that city is representative gf the soul and its spiritual Pri!i-

; ciple, represented in Jerusalem by the priesthood. And we everyone

of us have this City 'ilithin us, and when we go up to J'e rusal em, we

;:~'~ are going up into a high state of cOnsciousness, in Which spirlt~al~i "

forces are 'being gathered under the law of Spirit.

Now, the gates of man's consciousness are also found to

be twelve-fold, twelve gates. You have twelve gates or entrances

into your mind. If Y°l,l take aU to be Mind, Spirit, Soul and:B""~":::- -'- -"~ ",;;.~;::-,.--'the bod"" -naUv is a pha:se-ot "the-mind. -o~t-isn1t -.material'thof of, .

',;..;: That is but our concept of it from the outer. Gr intellectual v.', ,-' ,,

:: point. When we get into the real spirit of things, we find that the

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oc,bGdy is a great deaJ. more than it appears. So, OUr Science tells:.':,:, ..I

us that through the X.Ray they can see right through the body. So

it has many interior phases of activity that, in our outer intelJ.e

ual Gr sense consciousness. we know nothing about.

~~.!_--~:_~~~~~,~~...~.~~e,cg~t~,~.J_,p~lled the Gat e. .9!.,t~e She ep,

was a pool, and people were heaJ.ed by ,")'oing,49,~n_;j.;rtto_that-,:po~,:when--~~--,".-:._."'.._,.~~~ c_,.~--, ~~."c ~ "_..9_".,, .-.~:::;"

it moved. It had its periods of bubbling forth. and then receding_.,- , "'"'"..,~ ,--~-~.~,.".. , ,.,.~~,~_.,'-~~~~"..., "~---"'~-'--'-~. .~,~..,_." ~-~._.~,~. O" ,...",-~

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Aack aga in tnt 0 s Que of the ~~~~,r~gk'",...unde~,..~:th~, .gr,ou.nd ,.",.~,It a. .~-"-'-~ "~~~"~ ;

~_when the pool filled. that t~~..:~~",f~~_!",!.~.:.~".~~.--~~..,.""-.,.~,,.. =. '"~",. ~~. ,...~ -'" ", -, ~..,. "'-""':---~" Now. this is aU symbolical. That refers ts a certain ac-

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tivity in the mind and the bGdy. 110.. Where -let us take it from~,-" ~." "'-~,, .c,

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c'~ the v1ew;point o'£::Physiology -wo~d ~u find a plac8,1n your body .,;;':~::~":::,:;~::'.-, :~- c~~~~-_. ,::':::: ---,' ,,:.::::::::::~:~:=::::~::_:~=~~:-c._,::~- ::':~=:::::_-,-,'~~:;~: ,- --,-,-;:,;::::.:',:::,:'=~:-'.=::;

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::~~: "l;~where there Was a r~newal of the dead cells. er the sick ce11s. the'

sick thoughts -because that is what all these cells are? WhY. you

say at once. "Why the blood is renewed in the lungs.. Yes. And the

1ungs are just :In front of that great brain. called the solar plexus.

They are right in ~erusalem, dontt you see? And when you breathe. -, '-'.,

there is a flew of blood up into the 1u.ngs, and the oxygen flows in

and a purification or healing takes place. Then it, of course. flo,.s "'c,':';;

back again. But the purificat1orl. takes place on1y when the po.sit 1ve ',;:::-:

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flow comes up into the lungs. ",:',:.; ;:,.i:,

" Now. Physiologists adv,ocate deep breathing to purify the ,:

c,:;:;-=:.c,;:,:::: ,0.-"" ::-:-- "I -,- , -:-:;;:;:::,..,:",;::,c.=..=" :='::":_:%lood~-'-The.Y'teii-uBpeop"J.e w1th~arge"'"lung 'capacity have better.:--~'~~c-:-;:::~,

.C"'"-":~:' "."~=faci11t1es for c1eans1ng their bJ.ood than those with narrOW chest. ~;,:~'; ' :;~',:

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and l1Ja1ted l~ capacity. Now then, a Jletaphysic1an, going a 1.1t- c:o,':c}:;c "'c"":":, ,

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:~;;j;"" ";"""cc =-: 'CCO,.,'. '."".-:"""~"'" 12 '~""""";-'i:';~:;;::-ctle deeper into the subject. sees that there is something l,ying back,~,:2"

;~:;c,; of' mere physical breathing. Physiology says th at the heart i s a.1~:

pump that p'.lmpS the blood into the body; but Physiology i8 in: re-

cent years changing its viewpoint on that. It says that the heart

is a series of' val~es; that instead of' a pump. it is a re~ating',c

R;-: : valve in the body;" that the blood is really forced through the~~:1~; ,

~::- whole organism by a higher principle. or the mind. Now. there is.;

.4~'" a at ill higher Princ iple than that» which is the Spirit. When ~u,

:~:, are excited. why. i8 it the heart .that pumps the blood more quickly:;(~C:.~.:: into your organism a nd goes pit,t~at? No, it is the mind that does;',

:;. the woIk, and the heart tries to hold things steady. If it didn't,i-. :-

::'::: : ;..:!~~"~:'::~~:~~:!~!! ._~~:_bl God ~OUld rush~?~~::~~~r~ur b.~_y,:_~~~:=~~_~~uld lOS~_:~~.:~;~c' the

your balance. But heart is the regulating center..:

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::'; ~"~-_."c_~~,,::_,;-', ~-_. _::_: ;.:~-'j So, as I say, here within man is a hi~er Principle, and

;::' that Higher Principle g!V8-S activity to the whole organism. And it; ,",';0:::\ is a purifying Principle. It doesn't depend upon the mere physical

force; and when you know that that is Spirit, and that it receives" -..:

its activity from your Central or I Am-Ego, why, you have the power

b. 7'-to increase this activity, !I.nd set up a new purifying Life-giving :.,-c-'-"'-'-':-'~Z ~c~. i"

~ ~;.,~:- Energy; and that is the Central I in the Lesson. ..(/)(1)

~, ~ As I said, the Physiologists tell us that the lungs don't0::1:;:u..,P purify all the dead cells, s.nd that those dead cells sink back intoO i~ ,

~~~;~ the organism 8,nd cause disease. They form the metabolic :poisons, etc.,0;:'- -:1::'-Z burden the kidneys and the liver and the different excretory or-

~~~!l,~8 "'~=-~tg ~ ~~~,~.Y~l~~!! opaque material th.1.ngs, called ---well, a great many medical names. --:::;;:'"i11~

i" .It isn't necessary to mention -but when you can quicken the Great C~;'.i:;:;::f~!jc .:-~,.;:'::'

~;:""I.lfe strea.$ in you; if 7oU can get more energy, more activity,; in ::.~:~~1f~.-:~ic.,.-c;c"c -,,!:;';"~"'c:;'

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~.:;1j~N:,:;,\i;ther words, Why, there L8 a new cleansing, a. new element comes .in ,';~:i.;";~i;..::c

..t ,~,:'~j~£,:;;~:1T~::?;;:"\~d th1.s 1s done through "he power of the I Am, or the Christ of God.:': ~:,;~;~:~];:c .,:;:~:~I

':'::;' A...'1d, as I say, there is the whole 'point in the lesson: How can we ~::'~:,:' :.:~

increase this Life Activity, or the Life stream in us? ,,':

3'esus was a great Physiologist, as well as a great spir.,

:1~;:":cl tual teacher. He hew all of man, we axe told. In other words, he, ;,~,",:.: , ' :

~l,:knew m~, Spiritually" he knew him psychically:. and he knew him phy- ~~:...;~;f':C c- ,. , :'\I:~"

s1cally; 'but he also had the understanding of how he could g~t action ':~:~:~

1~:'c n the body. , "c,;.;C;;:'::.'c;;:; , ;;;:..,..

Now, in symbols we are told that there was a man who had---""-' ~ ~ =c'W --'-"-,--,~.,- --c.

,,: -ain .t~ereabout that ab about:ct'J': ..-",;, "-:ci:f::~,; the age of at him as a Phy

~;81calcth1ng- the 11:re":f~r_~t~~dp~.~~;~at is, when 7oU'~~:,;;':;;;;ff;

~=~~,et_-~to _be:about thirty.e1ght :yeara-:o1'4 "-:7:QU".o are beginning to -gr()w-',;:;!;;,,".,:;~~:~{j~':~ ,-' --""~~::-~.,~:~

c. ::~~' 'c: ~1d and that day of'~-~,~,,~~., ;!,,~_.~-~,~t!p'g,1~_. ,~at 18 Sunday.

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,~::\, ,~:';:: Wow, 1s that true in Spirit? ~ no. The S',:, ~" ;:":;.::-don'tknow aw days of rest., H~~oe:sn'tknow,,~ything

": , " "c" atien of L1te.,c~, he only deal~ .~th;i..\th

he ,Absolute;., ere;"" .

,"':':"-is always here. There is just as much J.ifeAnow as ther

and there willc never 'be alG" more Life than there is.. That is log-

;--":':~'i9al in principle; and this Spiritual man. thlsChrist, r$presezt; ed ,-,-;i-'" , c. .

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j,;:;:;.:,,~~there by .resus, he sees this as t~e of every man, and, instead ,."-~:??~; ,

if: of lIependlng upQn the mere, physical, ab~ut a flow ot the blood. and; ,

the oxygen, he sets new forces ri~t at o~ce into the bo~t.1nto the

mind, and this hig1'+e,.r man says, .~ here: what...~h1s'body need.

r: is more activity.; and he -says toctba~ alan !~'ihaS lain there 'in. a

=:'-"-'-~':D.egat1ve state waiting tor some outside force riiting for somebody "--,--£;;~==;~"-.,..ccccc---c~c -' J_;", -"-c.,.. .0"'---, ,c,.:c:Cc:" c' c..-;,,_c'.,'.,.. ;-~-:;:=-~

~~, ,c'to, ~me downt 0 the pool atd carry him 1n, he says , .No~, 'y6u get a~'~,. c' c ,

.{if move on; set somec,thoughts going in your mind- .)n'other words, .take

~;:c.. ,C ,c;:'. cc; our bed .dcwalk-. ,And;the;m&n .akes~, at d says, ~ 081--,! '.

',.~yy

16I have $.11 these forces, I have all t~ese potent1a.l-

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at hand. They are mine by Divine right. but I have never

I have thought somebody else would get then for me. or

that I could get them;by bathing in the pool» going here and t1:ere.;.

.,. by taking some outside .forces) men it was all here within. I:;: *,':~.": needed more activity 'within; I needed to get hold of the Great Life

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,~.; stream. continually 'flowing everywhere, but especially in a1 d outi'!~;:;;:'."

:.::' '. o:f' man's organi sm, through the mind.8,,;.,' "'

~:'i;:::..:- Now, 1:f' any of you are .in that state of mind, here is '..:;;,';: the remedy, practically. All you have to do is to realize that the

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:':;:::;. .', Great Centra.1 Force of your being 1s Spirit; that all these psychical~~.:~;:'~::::':;:::~ and physical conditions are the result ot your ideas about Spirit,

~:.:,,:,:'t~~t~~~ : 'Or about Li:f'e) Substance. :Intelligence. and that you have limited .4

k~:',i::~"if.=.: '.c. ." ..' :~:~~;~:7~'-. .them _.through depending upon something outside 0 f .your own I ~..m.."",,-=,-=::~~-:,-:::::;{~:';";:' J , ,,' ,1.

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"'Xc:':'_:~ ~ft3_.c~_,:;.c;--:. You have been resting In the Sabbath Day. That is. you have :oeen~~:;,. .~j;'~~;~:;:resting in the thought that you had to cease from your wo~. That:,'~~:;;, ':" .;:::::.,.{: is wbat the Sabbath Day is, ~e day in which we cease .from our

.; -work. We just rest.

Now) Borne people rest in very negative states of con-

:+-:...'- sciousnees. They rest in the race thought; they rest .in which seems Co .-.'-:, ..;-.

;::~:,-:: to :be .true from an outer viewpoint. They rest in appe~.ra'l ces. Never ::;;"' .

rest in appearances. Don't rest in that state 'o:f' consciousness that

settles down upon you from what mi~t be called the natural or the

body expression. That is mere sense consciousness. It isn't true .of the spiritual man. You know the spiritual man is just full of

=~~:~~~,!"::': ::.c~usedpotent1a11t1es.You have got 1nemaustible Life; you have":;:::.;.:;.=.,;;;::.~~~:::-:--~'-"--. '¥ -' :=-~'-""-"""'".c ,. .,::,::, got :forces in you that you don't dream of. They will never be

brought into expression until you declare them, until you say 'to.c,1 ,

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this man within and without: -You must l1ave more Lite! I must think

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~\t( more abOut activity; .I must tbink more a'bout the Energy, the capacity~..':,~J:,.:.;,-:f~~::7 of the spiritual man, to carry me right through every condition.,:I; ,

.\fC~'7 All re.gat1on, aJ.l inertia, all inactiv1 ty must 'be put out, &" the,,'\.: new man, the man of Truth, the man who exists eternally in Christ,,-

must be put into expression-" #~.. Wow, as I say, you cat do that all through your mind,~;, .t~~:c" through a realization of the Truth; a.t1i when you once realize the..t?:;:,,- .~~-:' Truth for yourself, t hen there is a great ire rease of Life flow- You'c. .b..: ::c.: will find you don't depend upon a1Y small little pool :for your life, ."

~~.; but you come into relation with ~he Great Universal Life, a1d all~c;

t:',: the gates are open, am you are renewed in every part. The whole man...r~;', comes into the consciousness of the Spirit, doem't depend upon the:;,~:-;..'-.~1;:';:. bo<iY f'oranything. The .flesh profits nothirg. .it is the Spirit tM, :;~;~:"&;(, ;~\;F,~'-

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~?k: Why, isn't that good doctrine? It 9.lrely is. And yo~;C7 :.:i~;::' quicken and increase your Life flow; you Cal clear up your c omplex-;;:.c~-,._- -" ;:~'-, ion; you can come into Etemal Life. through tb3 power of the Christ

in you, remember that. And that is t1:e point of the Lesson. That, -." -,::;.~ 1s all there is to it. ~~;,","-;, " --' ,",. -,...,...;'11 -34A..r.~" .m. .:, 11:" A. M.:-c;- f:;;:;cc~'L{R{gyt~\{;1::,,_:~ , , ,C " cOl0J\ . ,- ..." 0i:: ,~.. ir'i $C,t1~ : C\,-\\\fES..f '. .UN ,\\.\N\~ ~~,

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