Chapter V - Prayer and Atonement
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sense is silenced, and Spirit the master of man. After
sense is silenced, and Spirit the master of man. After
a momentary cessation in the belief and dream of Life
in matter, whereby Life, that is God, unfolds itself,
comes the understanding and consciousness of dominion
over the body that casts out error and heals the sick,
and you speak as one having authority. We have
taught our students the footsteps to this prayer; let
them answer to-day, have they followed them. A great
relinquishment of material things must precede this ad-
vanced spiritual understanding; 'isms but retard it, and
mediumship more than most things. This prayer is
not faith; it is demonstration; it heals the sick and ad-
vances man in the scale of being; it recognizes the
falsity of personal sense and the Life that is Soul.
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Only as we rise above sensuality and sin, can we
Only as we rise above sensuality and sin, can we
reach its standpoint. Prayer addressed to a person,
prevents our letting go of personality for the impersonal
Spirit to whom all things are possible. We cannot
serve two masters, if we are sensibly with our body
and consequently our words, and regarding Omnipo-
tence a person, whose ear we would gain, we are not
Soul, Life, Love and Truth, and therefore not in the
harmony of being and oneness with the Father, "In
demonstration of the Spirit and power." Make it a
conscious reality for a single moment, that Life and In-
telligence are not in the body, and you are without sen-
sation in the body, and if sick, will find yourself well;
sorrow is turned into joy, when we become conscious
Soul, able to govern the body with Life, Truth, and
Love; hence those words of our Master, "I and the
Father are one," that wrought such blessed works, and
"greater works than I," (in the flesh) "ye can do, be-
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cause I go to the Father." The scientific position of
cause I go to the Father." The scientific position of
Intelligence is Soul triumphing over sense.
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Absent from the body and present with the Lord is
Absent from the body and present with the Lord is
not ecstacy or trance, but a realization of the science of
Life, as laid down in this volume; it is obedience to
the law of God, governing the body by Spirit instead of
matter; therefore our Master said: "After this man-
ner pray ye –
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Our Father, which art in heaven,
Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil,
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the
glory forever."
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The following is the spiritual signification of the
The following is the spiritual signification of the
Lord's Prayer:
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Harmonious and eternal Principle of man,
Harmonious and eternal Principle of man,
Nameless and adorable Intelligence,
Spiritualize man;
Control the discords of matter with the harmony of
Spirit.
Give us the understanding of God,
And Truth will destroy sickness, sin, and death, as
it destroys the belief of intelligent matter,
And lead man into Soul, and deliver him from per-
sonal sense,
For God is Truth, Life, and Love forever.