THE SCHOOL OF TRUTH LECTURE YOU CANNOT FAIL!

I am sure there are many of you who have at times felt that God has let you down.

To the best of your ability, you have put all your trust in Him; have lived, as far as

you know, in accordance with the Law of Love; done everything in your power to

work in turn with God; and perhaps many of you may have said, "Why have You

let me down, when all my trust has been put in You? Why have You let me

down?" And yet, when you go on in Truth, when you learn to understand the

working of God's Spiritual Law, you find He has not let you down.

So we shall take as our talk "In Thee, Lord, have I put my trust. Let me never be

ashamed of my trust in You." Let me be able to hold up my head in the face of

adversity, when conditions, inharmonious and negative, are pressing me on every

hand. Let me still have the courage to say it and mean it: "Yes, in Thee, O God,

have I put my trust. I shall never be ashamed."

The practise of Truth is a most difficult thing. Do not, any of you, make the

mistake of thinking it is something for women and weak men. It is the most

difficult thing in life to build up the consciousness, the realisation, that within you

and me and all humanity is a Special Power so great, so all-encompassing that you

have nothing to fear.

I do not care how far you have evolved through your practical demonstrations, you

will never really be able to say, "I know all there is to know about God; I know all

there is to know about bringing about any and every demonstration." Like the

lawyer who wins his first case, pats himself on the back and says, "I am a

successful lawyer. Now I know all there is to know about it." He is going to be a

very surprised man, because he will find many difficult problems confronting him,

problems that are totally different from anything that has ever confronted any other

man before. He will find he will need a very much larger knowledge before he can

say, "I know all there is to know."

You are growing and so am I, and you will be confronted with many problems

because the Spiritual Power within you wants to make you conscious of Himself as

a living, dynamic Power; when, like the Christ, you will see right through the

condition into the very reality of the Truth of God.

God never lets you down. You and I have such an accumulation of negative

thoughts in our minds that it is difficult for us to bring Him into our consciousness,

and it is only by our constant inner seeking and practical application that we will

find the solution to any and every problem with which we are confronted. The

fundamentals that will bring about the solution are the same, but you do not

approach each problem in the same way. You do not set down a hard and fast rule

and say, "This, and only this, is the way that will bring the solution to me," because

you will find that applying the knowledge which you have built up through

overcoming other problems has only taken you a certain distance along the path,

and you will need a greater expansion of consciousness, a new perspective in your

approach to the new problem.

My job and duty is to try and understand the mental and emotional make-up of

every student who comes in to see me, because it is impossible for me to say: "This

is the way you bring about your demonstration," if I do not understand him. I may

have the type of mind that just accepts it. I say to myself, "I know God is; I know

He is All-Power; I know He is All-Knowledge; I know my body is the Temple of

All-Power and All-Knowledge. Yes, I know it. I have nothing to worry about. That

is my make-up, but are you going to accept it? Have you the type of mind that can

say the same thing? Are you so sure of God that you know you have nothing to

fear, and that you can calmly analyse and dissect the problem piece by piece like

an onion? If you keep on peeling off the skins there is eventually nothing there; it

is non-existent.

So it is with your problems. They are very real to you while you are sick,

miserable, unhappy and poor. For anyone to say, "These problems do not exist" is

nonsense. They do not exist for God - Divine Mind - in the Spiritual Realm, but

they do exist for you! If, when I was hungry, a man had come to me and said: "You

are not hungry, you have no stomach," I would probably have been very angry and

hurt.

Your problems are real - you are making them real by holding them in your

consciousness; by your inability to rise above them and know that they are only

temporal and must change. You must start looking upon them as unreal in the

consciousness of God - perfection. You must face them; take away the power you

are investing in them; realise they are only a manifestation of your fear that is

retaining them in your consciousness, body and affairs.

How often have I said to God, when it seems impossible for a demonstration to

take place, when I have been cut off from all human help: "Why have You

forsaken me? Have I not put all my trust in You? Am I not pretending, making

believe, that this condition does not exist? Am I not in my present consciousness of

faith living up to the highest I know? Why have You let me down? I can expect it

from human beings because they have feet of clay. I can expect them to forsake

me, but not You, God! If You are the Love and Life and Power and Goodness

which we have been taught to believe, would You call that love, to hold me in

suspense and anxiety, sickness, unhappiness? Is that love?"

Probably you have often said something like that yourself. You have felt that you

have done everything possible, that literally you have played the game with God

and God has not fulfilled His promise; and you reach a certain stage, the turning

point, and in your disappointment you turn back. You turn back from the solution -

the solution to your problem that is waiting for you at that particular place.

You want faith, I know as well as any other human being in this world, that all I

require is faith in God; not a nebulous belief in some power that may not exist, but

a conscious knowledge of a Reality that is thinking, speaking, acting and living

through me. That is the faith I want - the Real living substance of God in my own

heart and mind; to know that when I ask I am asking within this body temple -

God's temple; that if I want to find Him I must seek Him inside me, not in people

or places; and that if I knock I must knock within, not without. I must ask and seek

within myself.

You have only just so much capacity. You could not stand any more than the

growth to which you have attained, and all this faith and consciousness, all this

living, vital substance within you, is trying to express itself through you to the limit

of your capacity. It is the urge that makes you keep on until you succeed. Do not

turn back - go beyond the condition of darkness. That is the time you are having

faith - daring to trust Him and acting fearlessly. GO FORWARD!

Like you, I try to go on, and at times feel sick within myself at the immensity, the

enormity, of the problem which confronts me. "What will happen if God fails?

What will happen if my quality of faith is insufficient? How can I know the

standard by which I can judge the quality of my faith? Why is it that people who

have evolved to a great consciousness of God have not received the solution to

their problem until the eleventh hour? Can I dare to go as far as they in my trust in

God?

And if you think about it, you will realise that it was only at the eleventh hour that

they have been drawn up to the very highest within themselves; that at the last

moment, face to face with the problem, they have been compelled to "let go" of

any remaining doubt. Then the solution has appeared. What has been lacking in

them was the constant consciousness, the inner knowledge born of complete faith,

that God was indeed the ever-present solution, but the degree of their recognition

of their oneness with God was not sufficient to ensure that the solution preceded

the problem in their own minds. In other words, they had not realised that no

problem existed!

I know that faith can only be built up by constant exercise, and it is my business to

set myself the exercises by which my faith grows. How much do I trust God? What

does He mean to me? What can I do? I cannot die from trusting! Perhaps a failure,

but if I do not try, how do I know how far I can go? What good unless I test Him?

He sets out the challenge: "Come on, prove Me! Prove me in all things, whether

disease in your body, unhappiness in your affairs, or poverty. Come on, prove Me,

and see if I will not open the windows of heaven, the windows of understanding in

your own mind, and pour you out a blessing so great that there shall not be room

enough to receive it."

I have complained to God as much as you have, I am sorry to say - I wish it were

not so; but I find an impersonal law, which must be fulfilled before we find the

individualisation of God, which we call Christ, in our own souls. You must fulfil

the law, and until you fulfil the law you are subject to environment and conditions

to which every single human being is subject. It is only when you fulfil the law that

you get your mind and heart into tune with God - perfect love - the Christ part of

himself - the individualised Self of God. It is only then that you can say, "A

thousand shall fall at my side and ten thousand at my right hand, and it shall not

come nigh me." You are subject to that law in exactly the same way as flowers are

subject to the seasons, and there is nothing you can do about it until you fulfil the

law.

How far are you going to trust God? Is there some problem which you must face

up to that is going to require every single atom of your faith to meet it? There is

God's challenge, or shall I say, the challenge of Life, for you may misunderstand

me if I say the challenge of God. How much faith have you got? How close is God

to you?

When you walk out of here, will you say to yourself, "Can I take him at his word?

Can I dare to go all out? Is he speaking the truth? What if it is not the truth? Is it

going to be a hopeless failure for me? How do I know he is speaking the truth?" I

can never make you know until you yourself test it. I cannot test it for you. All my

time is spent in bringing into my own mind the consciousness of God in greater

degree. I do not want to stand still and become stagnant. I want to progress

constantly, to be able to say to every human being, whatever conditions may be

manifesting, "I know it!" and have the absolute conviction within myself and be

free from fear. Yes, God can make you whole, but you cannot say that unless you

know. I cannot experiment with the happiness, love and health of any human

being. I would rather say, "Go somewhere else. I have not reached the state of

consciousness yet, I have not sufficient knowledge to say 'Yes, I know you can be

healed' for I am not sure." But I believe and I know that every single word I am

saying to you is exact Truth.

I believe - call it egotism if you like - that God gives me the knowledge. I believe

that God answers and confirms me in my faith, by manifesting the Good when I

turn to Him within and say, "Can this be done? Is it real and true? I know it is not I,

but You, Who are responsible for bringing about the healing, but still I am Your

representative. I am the voice that speaks the Truth, I am the accessory. Will You

lift up the minds of human beings - Your temples - into the state where they can

say 'Although this condition is pronounced incurable, I can be healed'? When any

human being, no matter how low he may have sunk, raises the mind of some other

human being to know Your presence in that very condition, will it not be healed?

Would You do it?"

Ask yourself this question: "Can I believe what he is telling me? Can I really go all

the way, trusting God and be at peace? Can I have the same enthusiastic love and

expectancy that I would have in my earthly father who had promised me

something? Can I be as sure as that and say, without the slightest hesitation,

without mental reservation, 'I can be healed'?"

I say, you can be healed. Go out and prove it for yourself, as I have proved it, as

hundreds of thousands of others have proved it. Dare to trust God, without

reservation, and you can never fail!