Working With The Law Large Print Edition

     STUDENTS for many years have come to this School asking for a better understanding of God, and desiring knowledge of the best way to get the most out of life. They have heard God spoken of as being afar off, when He is as close to us as the breath we breathe, closer than our hands and feet. They have heard Him spoken of as: Love, Divine Mind, Divine Intelligence, Jehovah, God, Lord, First Cause, Primal Substance, and other names. Being of an analytical mind, I too, have wanted to know the facts of a Truth. If it is a Truth, there are facts to be had, and they can prove themselves, not alone in Spirit but in a very practical way.

     It is my intention to present these lessons simply, without high-minded words or vague statements that sound pretty and promising. The terms above named are all synonymous. They mean one and the same thing, and I choose to use a simpler name that everyone will understand.

     I shall call God working in our lives “LAW.” Interpreting the Law in several ways should bring it more clearly into our way of thinking. Then as we strive to work with the Law we are living closer to God, and such living brings a better understanding. As you grow in knowledge and are able to form better opinions, do not hesitate to change your views. Remember, “The wise man changes his mind; the fool never.” There can be no progress without change, no growth without renewal.

     There must be a constant stream of new thought, better thought, and truer thought to insure progression in life. As soon as you perceive the better, let go of the old, grasp the new. To continue to hold on to the old and inferior when the new and superior is at hand is to retard growth, and to this one cause may be traced many of the ills of man.

     Proceed to use your thinking faculty and take care that it does not use you. Master your mind and guide it intelligently; that is, exercise discrimination in all your thinking. Learn to think as you ought to think, give your mental life to the matters that are absolutely essential to your welfare, and the balance of your thought to themes of beauty, truth and progress. In other words, live with the ideal, but do not neglect the practical.

     Aim to adjust the two, and to strive to be on the outside what you idealize on the inside. Your thoughts make you; and your ideals, principles, or ruling desires will determine your destiny.

     Learn to use your powers unless you wish to be used by them. Make a daily effort to use the knowledge you have gained. Try to improve upon all your opinions. Endeavor to obtain a truer and larger conception of each of your personal views. This process entails effort, but all such mental discipline is highly constructive. It leads to a steady increase of mind-power, and it is the mind that matters most among life’s actualities. You may occasionally blunder. We are all inclined to do this, more so in the earlier stages of our mental development. However, we learn by our mistakes’ Then by the constant use of our intelligence we cause our faculties to grow so strong and alert that in time, we are able to avoid further errors.

     Man’s problems are mental in nature; they have no existence outside of themselves, and it has been discovered that nearly all will yield up their solutions when subjected to a broad and exact analysis.