THE SCHOOL OF TRUTH LECTURE YOU ARE UNIQUE!

The almost impossible task of infusing our own consciousness into another is what

we teachers of Truth are trying to accomplish. Every single day wherever I go and

to whomever of you I may be speaking, I point out how imperative it is for you to

realise your God-awareness in order to achieve the fulfilment that He is, and can

be, HERE in this physical plane.

The other night I was discussing metaphysics with two doctors, one of whom was

particularly interested in the subject. The point he brought up is a fundamental one;

he held that we are a part of the universe, while I teach that we are the universe,

and that until we understand that there is no such thing as a "part" we shall

continue to experience limitation in our minds, bodies and affairs.

When I look at a string of electric lights I do not tell myself that these are part of

electricity, any more than, when looking at the rays of the sun, do I call them

scraps of it. I recognise the truth that light itself, not a fraction thereof, is present.

Electricity is expressing as light; and the ray of the sun, 150 million kilometres

away, is still the sun, not a small piece of it. My fingers are my body; if I amputate

one of them my whole body suffers pain; if it were separate from me I could cut it

off and placing it on the table say, "There is a part of my body lying on the table,"

but at this moment my finger is my body, not a portion of it.

My body is the expression of my life, not a part of it. It is vitally important for us

to realise that we are not "parts of" anything. Someone said to me the other day, "I

suppose spiritually we are the Presence of God in manifestation, but not

physically." Yet how can God Who fills all space and is manifest therein, be unmanifest in my body which is also in space? In the same way, the man who claims

that God can be his prosperity, or give him prosperity, but is not Prosperityconstituting-him, is equally illogical. It is because of this division in our awareness

that we find God externalised not according to His Nature as GOOD, but as

sickness, poverty and unhappiness, the very antithesis of all that He is.

I do not infuse a consciousness into you any more than you impart it to me when I

discover my health, happiness or affluence. I have at this moment, come into the

realisation that I am this, that, or the other Good which makes up the Being of God,

instead of being separate from it. How can I put it more clearly and cause you to

realise that, if you are the temples of God, His Kingdom, with all that He is and has

- peace, happiness, health and prosperity - is in you, manifest as you?

In a lecture that I gave some time ago, I told my audience to go out and spend, not

my consciousness, or someone else's, but their own; by which I meant that they

were to go forth and use the knowledge they, not another, had uncovered

respecting the Presence of Love as their health, happiness and affluence.

If you have accepted limitation and separation, you have nothing to give. If I were

unhappy, frustrated, sick and poverty stricken, what would I have to give? Could I

speak with conviction, or would doubt lurk, not in my mind which is God, pure

and steadfast, impervious to outer conditions, but in my intellect? We discover His

Presence by reading, listening to lectures, and by expressing the modicum of

understanding that we have made our own. Our steps may be hesitant, but as long

as we take them the whole Power that is God will rush to our aid, filling our

consciousnesses so that we are enabled to accomplish whatever we have set as a

goal before us.

When you press the self-starter in your car, work out a mathematical equation, or

use the law of gravity in order to fly a plane, you are using knowledge born of

experience, not belief. In the Old Testament we learn that before we call, God has

answered, and while we are yet speaking He has heard us. Today we say, "Supply,

which can never be depleted, precedes the demand," but a demand has to be

made. How do we do this? Where is the Substance and how do we contact it? Who

is there that will show us the Presence of God?

Look around you! In this man you will see health that has overcome disease, in

that one plenty which has ousted poverty, in a third, discord that has been

exchanged for you and understanding. These phenomena are the Voice of God

speaking to you, and should carry conviction so that you do not look for some

supernatural occurrence to persuade you, or an angelic form to present itself to you

telling you to do this or that.

Omnipresence contains within Itself everything on every plane of awareness,

including you and me. If, therefore, It is Health, there is no place in Divine Health

for sickness. If It is Happiness and Harmony there is no room for discord; and if It

is Abundance there is no lack except in our erroneous belief which will continue

judging by appearances until such time as the impact of God, manifest in the lives

of countless people, compels the individual to recognise Him as All-good.

That is why I tell you to spend your own consciousnesses, not someone else's. If

you have a twenty-cents awareness, spend that, not my R10 one, or his R1,000 one,

or her R2,900 one. It is you who have to know what you are doing. I cannot radiate

your health or happiness until I have established these qualities in my own

understanding. Because man has been taught from time immemorial that God is up

in the sky, he has hesitated to claim bodily his at-one-ment with his Maker. Yet

there is no question of failure when you can grasp this, even if only intellectually.

I have to rationalise for myself. I don't hope blindly that a thing may be thus and

so, I am as sure of God as I am of a seed I plant in the ground. If I water it and

cultivate it and, when it has sprouted, fertilise it, it will produce after its kind; and

if we do the same by our God-consciousness it too will bear fruit. The trouble with

most of us is that we fail to sow the seeds of joy, health, happiness and the

Goodness of God, indwelling all humanity irrespective of class, colour or creed.

The difference between "Be still and know that I am God" and "Be still and know

that I think I am part of God" is one of manifestation and separation. This is the

Truth as I see It, and I would rather talk to an empty hall and teach what I feel is

right than preach with my tongue in my cheek, only to please my listeners.

It is written that man is God in expression. I believe this because I have proved it

and seen it manifest in thousands of people. We are not separate from the Father

but are Life, Love and Intelligence expressed as His physical temples; not made up

of body AND Spirit, but constituted of spiritual-mind, spiritual-soul and spiritualbody. When you understand this you will no longer be anxious or concerned about

your bodies or affairs, about whether you will succeed or be failures, have plenty

or have to endure want. I must accept this or go back to the old way of praying

through a personality who will intercede with some anthropomorphic being in the

sky on my behalf. I shall have to retrogress into the age of the ox-wagon and

candlelight and ignore the progress which brought forth electric light, motor cars,

aeroplanes and television.

You sit and listen to speech coming from 10,000 kilometres away and declare that

it is a miracle, but what is miraculous about God's being everywhere evenly

present, and of our having created, by means of His Intelligence, the vehicle

through which we can hear His voice?

Where our body temples are concerned the Spirit infuses Itself into the awareness

of Its own instruments; when we turn on a tap in our homes and allow the contents

of the reservoir to run out in an unending stream, it will continue so to flow until

we turn it off, and so it is with the way that God manifests. Let us see what the

Master had to say on the subject. He stated that the God of Whom Moses taught

was ONE God, All-power, and even more, All-love.

Are you chary of saying, "I am LOVE"? Are you not expressing It all day long

toward your near and dear ones; do you not give of It gladly to your friends and

relatives; are you not consciously spending your awareness of love, joy, peace and

happiness from morning till night? Of course you can claim that you are Love and

that It is All-presence! You do not have to give It to me; I can be unhappy and

distressed, down in the very depths of hell, then some kindness touches me and

immediately my spirits are lifted up and a happiness that does not come from

without warms my heart. It radiates like a light from the centre of my being to the

circumference; and from where it sprang, my health and prosperity take rise also.

There is only Love, God. In It we live and move and have our being and It exists

through Its body temples and flows from the inner to the outer. We have no need to

fear for our bodies or affairs; the Allness of God permeates His whole universe,

you, me, the Christ, the lowliest of individuals and the highest form of pure

Intelligence throughout all time.

The difference between the man who shares his knowledge with his fellows and

the one who, out of selfishness or indifference, keeps it to himself, is that the

former grows in spiritual understanding, while the latter remains static.

None can stop you from loving even though they try to hurt you, undermine you

and belittle you, they are your fingers, a treasured part of you, and in loving them,

you are merely doing likewise for yourselves.

The basic things we teach, according to our understanding today, are firstly that

man cannot create because he is NOT a creator. He can attune himself to that

which exists and release it in the same way as he liberates the power of electricity

as light and heat, but GOD ALONE is creation.

To you whose hearts are void, whose bodies are depleted, whose purses are empty

comes the wondrous message of Truth declaring that in all those lies, the Verity

that is GOD abides, for in the darkness there is light, in sickness health, in poverty

abundance, and in fear faith.

The other day a man said to me, "I know my only difficulty is one of fear and that

is the opposite of faith, is it not?" To which I replied, "No, it is not the opposite of

faith. It is inverted faith, faith used in the wrong direction." Job made this clear

when he said, "That which I greatly feared (the thing in which I had faith) is come

upon me." His sense of separation from God brought disease, lack, and suffering

into his life.

The new gospel states that according to your faith it is done unto you. It is the

same thing! Faith positive releases God, the Good, to us and faith negative

separates God, the Good, from us. We therefore have to use this Power

intelligently, to direct It, that we may become the outlets of Love, Joy, Peace,

Happiness and Health. Let us stop talking of being parts of Love, like parts of a

bicycle! We are not worms of the dust, brought forth in sin, we are HIS SPIRIT IN

BEING, the temples of the living God, Who has but one purpose, that of

expressing ever more and more of HIMSELF through us.

Consciousness is knowledge, and according to my consciousness, not to my

goodness or badness, my social connections, my financial standing or any other

pretensions, it is done unto me. Virtue is its own reward! You shall know the Truth

about the lie in your minds, bodies and affairs; it is not written that the Truth shall

remove the condition but that It "shall set you free." Light will take the place of

darkness, and Health which is ever present, will spring forth where disease and

discord seem to be. The Truth will become, for each of you, the spiritual idea you

need for your prosperity, the one concept that will bring with it the realisation of

Substance to share and to spare.

Every one of you is unique. As my thumbprint is different from all the millions of

thumbprints in the world, so are you prototypal. You are able, when the lie of

separation has been lifted from your consciousness and you really know of your

oneness, to do in your own particular manner what no one else can do in precisely

the same way.