Freedom Talks, number 2 | Page 4

health in mind. The words of health, peace, power and strength do not
unfold into radiant flesh and dwell among us through a faltering idea of
fear, or vague "perhaps," or "I do hope I shall be well," or "I want to get
well," but it demands the eternal I AM HEALTH NOW.
Courage, zeal and consecration to the laws of health and freedom from
the law of death are not kindled by the halting consciousness full of the
law of opposites, but they are the results of knowing and abiding. When
we can in very truth and full of believing say to health, "Thy kingdom
come," it will come.
Our daily thoughts then become the wires over which there passes into

form a finer substance, and our body is rebuilt and fashioned from the
indestructible substance of the Universe.
The mortal body as we know it in the old thought world, is a thing of
earth and lives and suffers earth's calamities, but through the
understanding of this New Thought union it can be made to become a
portion of the cause as indestructible as life itself, and live and glory in
omnipotence.
We are then in the resurrection of the _life_, and the word that was with
God and was God, is made flesh to dwell among us in glory and full of
grace and truth; then we know what Jesus meant when he said, "I tell
you of a truth, there be those standing among you who shall not taste of
death till they see the Kingdom of God."

The Risen Self

"_And entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the
right side clothed in a long white garment, and he saith unto them, be
not affrighted, ye seek Jesus of Nazareth--He is risen! He is not here_!"
When we read the Bible with its story of human lives and their great,
wonderful mysteries, we find among them, the greatest of all--the
marvellous one of the Christ birth and death, and as we read we are
amazed at the many confusing ideas of Jesus and His teachings. His
disciples themselves did not understand Him, though He sought always
to clearly interpret Himself; often when He spoke metaphysically they
interpreted Him physically.
There was throughout all the Christ history something so great, so holy,
so inclusive that it was too large for them to comprehend, and for all
eternal ages, the developing minds of men will be the same. They will
keep busy with their attempts at explanation of His life and His words.
Jesus quitted the world in benediction, and He left to those who
followed Him and His precepts, a great inextinguishable hope.
It matters little to those who really understand Truth, whether Jesus the
Christ lived, or whether He was only a symbol worked out by the
imagination of men and priests; be the origin what it may, Christianity
still stands; and Religion still holds sway after centuries of ridicule and
generations of secular and scientific analysis. Something unknown and
uninterpreted beats and surges in the hearts of men, and brings into

expression in every age the clinging to a great mysterious, wonderful,
unseen agency that somehow works its way along the silent avenues of
the human soul.
The man Jesus may or may not have lived. Humanity may keep its
birthright of contradiction forever on this point, but higher than the
limited understanding of the few there lives the Truth of the great
Christ spirit which the name Jesus embodied, and which for centuries
gone, and centuries to be, will wax strong and flourish in the
consciousness of men, as they pass one by one into recognition of it.
Great and sacred was the day of Jesus' birth, and great and sacred was
the day of his death, for both revealed the stages of our human selfhood,
and both point our minds to deeper meanings of existence.
Jesus' life as we follow it from the manger to the cross was the
unmistakable story of the pathway of every human life and each little
action was a part of the great mosaic which each life is setting for itself,
and from which it shall one day read its own great AT-ONE-MENT.
The birth of the Christ consciousness comes to each soul as the dawn of
self-awakening. It is the first faint glimmer of a new world, and the first
hint the soul of man has of union with its source.
This first dawn of consciousness is purely a possession of the inner self,
and those who feel it only follow first by faith. This faith is buffeted
and attacked by the things of life until it is tried and becomes steadfast.
In this first dawn of consciousness of the Christ self