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"The crowning glory of God" and "God's image and likeness," became individualized.

When man becomes fully conscious of this, he will walk in the labyrinth of God's Glory and, in the White Light of that glory, man will see the magnitude of God's beauty, and breathe in rhythm with the Holy Breath and smilingly welcome the soft zephyr which is God's Love.

Glory to God! "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, Peace, Good Will to man." "The Glory of God may fill the earth as the waters cover the sea," but none but the initiate will recognize it and become benefited.

There were only a few who recognized Jesus as the Christ when He was walking over the Judean hills and teaching in the synagogues in Jerusalem; and it was only those who saw in Him the Messiah who were benefited by His presence.

A man has a garden where the rarest and most beautiful flowers grow. With great care and expense he keeps it, but a blind man will walk carelessly through and tread upon the orchids, violets and carnations as contentedly as if he were walking in the barren desert. Why is this so? Because to him it is a barren desert and nothing more. When a blind man becomes touched by the Glory of God, his eyes will open. He may not be enabled to see the full light at once, but day by day the Light will grow brighter to him, if he will keep his face turned toward the Light.

The Glory of God fills the earth, even now, as the water fills the sea. Who recognizes it? Who perceives the greatness of the presence of the glory of God? The initiate who is walking in the Glory Initiation, not only recognizes the glory which fills the earth, but he, too, is filled with the Light of the Glory of God. Jesus Christ remembered the ecstasy and bliss which He enjoyed while in Paradise before the world was; the glory being so great, it had not departed from His memory.

In the glory of God there can be no disease, no sorrow, no poverty, no death, because the glory of God is so great that it consumes these. The carnal man cannot dwell in the Glory of God, because "God is a consuming fire" and consumes all which is unlike Himself.

As the Initiate walks in the labyrinth of God's glory, he gathers the gleanings which the reapers have left in the field, such gleanings are left by the command of the King, and plucks the flowers along the Path, too delicate are they for description. The fruits are luscious and tender, the grain golden and, in the Light of Eternal Glory, which is the Light, warmth and Love which is God, man is in rhythm with God and all that is. He hears the music of the Spheres as the harmonious rhythms vibrate through the labyrinth; and, in the ecstasy of Bliss, rests in the Glory which is, was and ever will be.

In serenity the initiate passes through the labyrinth of God's Glory and hears the birds warbling their sweet notes and the cattle lowing in contentment. He sees the lambs skipping about and the fish in the sea and the beasts in the forest contentedly living their life,all save man who is living in the carnal concept of himself and the universe,-content and restful.

As the boat is rocked by the waves of the sea, so man is held in the ever-present Love and Power of God. It is when man awakens sufficiently to understand the omnipresence of God that he recognizes the Living Presence of God, our Loving Father who is ever near. When man awakens, his traveling is upon the Sacred Path, and, as man travels this Path, God's glory becomes brighter until its Light is more resplendent than the noon-day sun.

The glory of God transforms the initiate, as he moves forward upon the Sacred Path, from the carnal man with his desires, cares, fears and doubts which are of the earth, until he becomes in expression the perfect

manifestation of the Living God. Then it is that he is freed from carnal bondage into the glorious liberty of the beauty of the Sons of God. This is the destiny of all men,-yea, it is their inheritance.

The length of time required for man's transition from the carnal dream, depends upon the desire and energy put forth by the man after he has become awakened. Some may desire to sleep in sluggishness for days, weeks or years. However, they will not be permitted to remain continuously in the earth-dream, because they have started upon the Sacred Path. The Light is bright and the angels are ever watching over those who are upon the Path, and sometime they will come into the Glory of God. As man turns his face toward the brightness of God, he begins to reflect God's glory, and, in time, as he passes forward upon the Path, his Mind, Body, Soul and Spirit become at-one with God's Glory. Then the Glorious Son of God moves in the labyrinth of the Glory of God, and he is conscious of God's Beauty in Man and in the Universe.

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CHAPTER XVII

THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.

N the preceding chapters, God has been portrayed in all His different aspects, the One-ness, the Wholeness, the Inseparableness dwelt upon, that the reader may comprehend the Great-I-Am in its unmanifest and manifest states.

The one who follows the teachings given in this book from the first unto the last chapters, with a desire for his mind to expand even unto the height, breadth and depth of God will be blest with the fulfillment of his desires, if he bring to this study a mind that is cleansed of superstitions, doubts and fears.

God is Love, Power, Peace, Light, Life, Justice, Harmony and Intelligence. Then for these different aspects of the Infinite to each continually perform their part and not interfere with each other, there necessarily is Law and this Law is scientific. This Scientific Law is embodied in the God-Head, the Infinite, the First and only Cause.

In the Spiritual Universe, which is never touched nor contaminated by carnality, although it is ever-present, everything moves in harmony, filled with Life, Light and Justice. In the Scientific Law, science is exact and everything moves scientifically.

In the beginning, when the universe and systems of universes began to take form, this Scientific Law was in action and from the unmanifest substance, which is and was, that spirit-substance-essence which is God, the visible became manifest.

There could not be a mistake, for all was moving scientifically, in harmony and rhythm. Not an atom of earth, a blade of grass, neither a grain of sand came into expression, neither continues in expression, except in the Scientific Law of Truth.

This Law is in operation in the earth. It is intelligently causing the minerals to form in the bowels of the earth. In this Scientific Law the life which is in every atom is kept in action continuously. We see, therefore, that the earth is a living, pulsating thing; not a thing in it by chance, but everything, from the atom to the granite and marble mountains is in its right place and held there in the Law which is Scientific Action.

The air is also filled with this same Law and moves and acts, not by chance, but scientifically. The warmth of the tropical zone and the cold at the north pole are scientifically adjusted.

This same God-Law causes the life in the acorn to burst the shell and, in the action of this Law, grow into a giant oak. It, also, causes the life in the rose-bush to press forward until it expands into a beautiful rose; quietly, intelligently and scientifically this infinite life expresses through the rose-bush and out into the rose.

No thing happens by chance, neither does Infinite Intelligence do an idle thing. Life expresses through the rose, that man may feel the Love of the FatherMother-God, as they look upon the rose, His smile.

There is but one mind, the mind of God; but one Law, the scientific Law of God; and these operate in and through and throughout the manifestations of God, which compose the Perfect Creation, and every expression in form, from the universe, the many systems of universes to man, the highest expression.

When man through insight perceives this great Truth and scientifically stays his mind upon God, what will be the final result? Man, having consicously placed his mind in conjunction with the Divine Mind, he,

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