The science of religion, based upon the works and words of Jesus the Christ

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Preface

THE dawning of the Sun was foretold by the Prophet Malachi (4:2) "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; . . . .

When the words of The Revelation of St. John the Divine (6:12-14) are fulfilled foretelling the passing of the entire solar system, there will be chaos and darkness in the world unless mankind has gained a clearer understanding of the light of the spiritual Sun, which is Jesus the Christ.

"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." St. John (1:9.) No luminary as great as the brilliancy of Jesus' understanding has ever appeared upon this earth.

His life works and triumphant ascension are unassailable proofs of His Immaculate Conception.

The Sun of the "King of Kings" said "Before Abraham was, I am." If that statement be true then is one justified in believing that Jesus the Christ is still here and can be discerned when man's vision is cleansed of materiality. The last written words of Jesus, spoken

just before His Ascension (Matt. 28:20) are further

justification for believing that Jesus the Christ has

never departed from this earth.

This sphere was and is the realm of the work of Jesus; His was the problem of solving the dream of

sin, sickness and death, and awaking us to heaven and to the Spiritual Universe here and now. Jesus started his work 1900 years ago and he is able to finish it. He disappeared from our vision only because we were not pure enough to behold him longer. The coming of the Christ to the consciousness of man universally is the coming of the millenium. The dawn is breaking ! The world must have the greater light to lead it out of its chaotic state. Jesus, the Christ, "The Sun of righteousness/' (Malachi) who began the redemption of the world from its suffering and unhappiness, will complete His work.

My mission is to reveal to all, Jesus The Christ whose last written words are "and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

The veil of darkness appears to be thriving; but the Sun of righteousness will rend asunder the mysticism

of evil. For centuries men have been blinded to the presence of Jesus the Christ because of the impurities in the

minds of mortals.

Shall we not turn to Jesus, our great Shepherd, and to God, who ... so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him

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should not perish, but have everlasting life," (John 3:16) and shall we not search more into the Holy Bible for light? We have, as wandering sheep gone astray.

Let us worship God!

"Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the Holy City

Behold the Sun riseth!

CARRIE BARBOUR GALYON.

"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

I and my Father are one." (John 10:27-30)

Lead Thou me on !

MANKIND WITHIN THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE NOW

CHAPTER L

"And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." (Genesis, 1:31.)

"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." St. John 1:3).

GOD'S creation, which is the only creation that is eternal, is very little understood by mankind. The

false creation, so intertwined with the true creation, as

depicted in the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible, makes

it very difficult to separate the tares from the wheat,

the spiritual from the material.

God, omnipresent, the Spiritual Universe, and the Spiritual man are the only realities, whereas, the material universe and the mortal man, when the last trumpet shall sound, will pass away.

". . . , for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. ,, (Gen. 3:19.)

"And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." (Rev. 6:14.)

Man, in the image and likeness of God, is forever at one with the Father-Mother God. The question arises — "But what is to be done with sin, sickness, and death ?" The author of this book has devoted her life to the helping of suffering humanity; therefore, she must consider sin, sickness, and death, discord, sinful state of man, and the evil of the world as apparently

real. She treats the conditions of suffering, weeps with the sorrowing ones, often is in pain herself and, when ill, not only says so but usually has someone communicate with friends, that she may receive the necessary amount of indulgence expected by one who is ill. May this convey a meaning to the reader of this book and to the mind of the world!

Let us take the illustration of mathematics — an accurate science. Suppose that only ten years ago mathematics was revealed to the world. Suppose that up to that time few had any knowledge of the science of numbers but that thousands of people had attempted to solve the problems of mathematics; in their ignorance they had taken up geometry before they understood the multiplication table. A few profound thinkers had found out that two times two made four, but the thousands of people who had advanced too rapidly and who had skimmed over mathematics, were working in geometry with a foundation built upon the statement that two times two made five and three times three made ten. The few profound thinkers who had discovered the truth stated it, then serene in their consciousness of right, stood calmly reiterating it in the face of those who were still desperately attempting to build on a falsity, but were really accomplishing nothing.

It is difficult to believe what God says about his creation, but a great many Bible students are gaining the understanding that God, who knows only good, created the Heaven and the earth, and that he made man in his image and likeness, and that God made everything; that without him was not anything made that was made. Therefore, speaking absolutely, if God be All, there is neither presence nor place in which evil, sin, sickness, nor death can exist. A very few of the Bible students of today have come into the understanding of this great and wonderful truth. The science of Christianity brought first to the world by Jesus Christ and seemingly hidden from our vision for many centuries is an absolute science. Just as those who first received the light of understanding of mathematics realized the great fundamental truths of numbers, so do very few students of today realize the great fundamental truth of Christianity is that, absolutely speaking, evil is not real. At this point in the book, the reader will please reserve judgment of the truth of this statement until after he has read the first chapter.

There is nothing which man desires more than to possess the understanding of eternal life to the extent that he can demonstrate it. It is universally believed that the Bible is a book of eternal truths; shall we not, then, look to it for satisfactory answers to our queries? The answer to the above question is found in these words from the New Testament.

"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." (St. John 17:3.) That unchanging, undying word of God should be sufficient incentive to cause us to search and seek for right understanding of God by day and by night. A proof that we have not full understanding of life's reality and immortality is that only Jesus Christ has been able to lift others from the grave or to lemonstrate over death himself and thus prove life to >e eternal. Since the word of the Bible quoted above convinces us that there is but one pathway leading into the understanding of everlasting life, let us follow that path; it takes us up to the only source of life, which is God. According to the statement "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee," one needs to learn more about the great "I am."

God was omnipresent when creation in the beginning of time had not yet appeared. He filled immensity and there was neither earth, nor water, nor heaven. At this point let us briefly analyze the meaning of the word God. God is all-pervading Mind; the source, creator, and container of life, of Divine Love, of harmony, of riches, of beauty, and of all good. He is an all-harmonious, ever-active, divine Intelligence. The foundation of this Mind is Principle; the strength of this all-pervading Intelligence is goodness. Divine Intellect is an inherent quality of the exquisitely cultured and pure Mind of God, — an Intellect which is higher, clearer and far

more discerning than is the intellect of mortal man. The great omnipresent Mind never slumbers nor sleeps for watching over us, but rests in its own rhythmical and harmonious action. — "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalms 121:4.) Every thought in Mind is one of loving activity. This Mind, possessing all beauty, and all harmony, is the fountainhead of purity. The purity of the Mind of God is beyond human comprehension. The writer had some difficulty years ago in understanding the meaning of the word "Spirit"; and a great awakening came upon her with the dawning of this understanding. "God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24).

The above analysis of the qualities of the Mind of God defines clearly the word "Spirit." One can see therefrom that Mind of God, filling all space, is God, the Omnipresent Spirit.

God, the Creator of life, has never taken cognizance of death. One can see that in worshipping Mind, thereby entering into the presence of Mind, he would receive a great blessing of understanding of life, of immortality; communing with the all-pervading Mind, so alive that it knows not death, would bring man into union with the alive Mind of God. The author must dwell in some degree in the consciousness of Mind's omnipresence, because, though called to the bedside of hundreds of people with fatal diseases who lay close to death, she has never lost a patient by death. Her experience alone should be sufficient to cause the world to seek knowledge of God that death, the last enemy of the world, might be universally effaced. Concerning the Bible statement that to know God aright is eternal life, she feels that she has a right to speak with some authority concerning the understanding of that truth.

The Seven Days

From the beginning of time, God is His universe. The Spiritual Universe is made up of many worlds. Eternity expresses the meaning of creation; His universe has always been perfect, with neither beginning nor end. Creation, as man beholds it, is the unfoldment to man's consciousness of the ever-present perfection of the universe. The seven days of creation were the seven

days of revelation to man of the completion of creation. Man was able to discern the fullness of creation during the six days' unfoldment because there came to him on the first day the Light of Mind awaking to the all-presence of the brilliant Mind of God which prepared man for the revelation of the days of creation which has followed. Creation, revelation of man's consciousness, has been going on ever since, in rapid unfoldment. It was a time of creation when there was revealed to Columbus a new land. Thus, one may understand that to other countries this great continent of America was not created before Columbus discovered it; although it had been here from the beginning of the world. It appeared to the Old World as creation and it was discovered because of the Light of Mind which dawned upon that great man in the light of revelation. He first saw the new world in his mind's eye and afterward was it revealed through him to the nations.

First Day

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1:3.)

The light of the Mind of God, when realized in its fullness, is a much brighter light and has greater illuminative powers than are expressed by the brilliance of our greatest solar planet, the sun. His Mind is the real light of the world. Darkness presupposes the absence of light. Since Mind, God, fills all space, where can darkness exist? There is seeming darkness in the world, but if we stand in the knowledge of the firm foundation of Truth as depicted by the Holy Bible, though darkness of night and, man's apparent ignorance of God — the worst form of darkness — may seem real to all of humanity, we will prove the fundamentalities of God's creation to be true. There is no night in God. The author had a splendid opportunity to test the truth of the statement that darkness has no presence in reality, for light of Mind fills the universe — which light does not forsake us at any time — and her experience may help one to understand the foregoing.

She was called to the bedside of a sister who, after a most serious operation, was thought to be dying. The operation had been kept a secret from the author because the family were still believing in materia medica. The sister, however, when almost at the end, had just enough consciousness to send for and to be treated by her. She knew that only God himself could possibly bring her back from the portals of death. The writer sat by the bedside of the patient who almost immediately grew better, and in two hours showed a considerable improvement. Night, when vitality decreases, was fast coming on, and both were filled with dread at the thought. A whisper from the sister to the effect that she could live if it were day caused the writer to cry out to God for guidance in her helplessness. Immediately she was led to the Bible statement, — "The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun." (Psalms 74:16.) Instantly she saw that if the night belonged to God, that there was not any night. She conveyed in a way this thought to her sister and held her in the consciousness of the brilliance of the Mind of God so that the sick one could not realize or see that evening had fallen. It effected a complete removal of the sister's fear; for, due to the atmosphere in which she was held, she became conscious only of the light of the Mind of God. The result proved overwhelmingly satisfactory. In a few minutes the sister was so much better that the author felt free to make it known to the anxious family waiting without, and to the doctors present, that her sister was out of danger. She told her family to return to their homes and she went also. The sister was able to leave the hospital in about two weeks and was soon entirely well.

"If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. "Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee." (Psalms 139:11-12.)

King David, the writer of sweet songs, said, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (Psalms 119:105.)

"The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. The sun shall no more go down; neither shall the moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended." (Isaiah 60:19-20.)

"And the evening and the morning were the first day."

Second Day

"And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. ,, (Gen. 1:6-7).

The firmament, which is spiritual understanding, divides the great flowing bodies of powerful truths from each other, thus rightly directing them in their differing courses, that all of the Spiritual Universe may be refreshed and invigorated by life-giving waters of Truth.

"And God called the firmament Heaven . . ." (Gen. 1:8.)

If we look in the dictionary for the definition of the word "firmament/' we find: "The sky, or heavens: The vault of heaven, viewed as something solid and abiding; the region of the air."

Jesus speaks of heaven as here and now, and says that it is a state of consciousness. The heavenly state of consciousness is a dwelling in the pure waters of life in the atmosphere of Divine Love and of the heights and depths of Truth. In the second day of creation the firmament was revealed to the consciousness of man.

At first thought we wonder why God called the firmament "Heaven," because, materially speaking it is a distant place up in the sky where our solar system is shining forth. Heaven would not be found in the material understanding of the atmosphere wherein dwell our solar planets. This atmosphere is the dwelling place of God's Spiritual Ideas, ranging from the highest of his creation, man, down the scale to the least of Spiritual Ideas, such as animals and insects; it is a dwelling in the omnipresence of Spirit in God's love, in the omnipresence of Mind's understanding, and in the sunlight of Truth in the all-inclusiveness of God's pure Mind. Heaven is a place of loving hearts, of tenderness, of harmony, of beauty, of rhythm, and of order, where God reigns supreme.

Another reason why we should not look upon the material symbol of the heavens as being a place where after death we hope to journey, — as we have been taught in the old religions — is that it places heaven so far away that it is unattainable before death and causes many to wonder if such heights are attainable after we have passed on. One of the most harmful teachings, which has been instilled for centuries into the mind of mankind, is the pointing upward into the sky, when referring to heaven; therefore, one naturally forms the conclusion that heaven can be reached only by liberation from this world through death. Further thought might well cause a man to doubt his ability to rise into heaven even after having passed through death. The religious belief that the home of heaven is far away and above us is based upon the previously quoted statement as found in the second day of creation, — where God called the firmament "Heaven."

Jesus says that the kingdom of heaven is within man. Jesus gave to man the spiritual understanding of the material symbols. Moses, conceived humanly, though exceedingly great, could not be compared with Jesus in his understanding of spirituality. Jesus' vision was wholly spiritual. Moses was speaking spiritually when he spoke of the firmament as heaven, and it remained for Jesus to correct our human understanding of what he meant; He gave us a certain key, which unlocks the door to the understanding of the meaning of the second day of creation. The statement that "God called the firmament Heaven" is further explained when we understand that Jesus is the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4:2.)

The understanding of the spiritual Sun, Moon and Stars enables man to comprehend that the meaning of the word "firmament" is Heaven and to see that Heaven is here and now, a state of consciousness, as Jesus said. Man must understand the meaning of the spiritual firmament. The understanding that the Sun of the world is Jesus, the moon His reflection, and that the_ other planets and lesser lights represent the illumined consciousness of the great religious leaders of the world, awakens us to the meaning of the spiritual firmament. Understanding the firmament, the heavens, as the meaning of the one great Light, Jesus, and the lesser lights of the Moon — light of Truth and of the stars — great and noble men and women — brings heaven down to earth and dispels forevermore the thought of Heaven being a faraway, unattainable dwelling place in the sky. This light upon the understanding of the second day's creation, since Jesus' word is the word of God is a departure from the fundamental truths of most religions. Jesus, the Christ, as coincident with the Mind of God, is here and now with us today. Heaven is closer than breathing, a place of immediate attainment here and now; and through death we will gain no more of Heaven than we had before we died. Death is a sin, the last enemy to be overcome, and through succumbing to that enemy we certainly cannot find entrance into Heaven. Only by overcoming death will we gain access to Heaven.

Jesus, describing the end of the world, foretells the vanishing of the light of the material solar planets, therefore, man, looking to the atmosphere of these planets, would be keenly disappointed in his Heaven.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." (Matt. 24:29.)

One of the greatest spiritual developments that can come to man is the gaining of the understanding of the true firmament, according to the word of God, written by Moses, "And God called the firmament Heaven . . ." (Gen. 1 :8). There is in the heart of every man a certain longing for the heavens, and for heaven, all of which are seemingly far away. The longing is a natural one and will be satisfied with the coming into the consciousness of man of the presence of the firmament of heaven right here and now, with man standing within that firmament and dwelling in Heaven. The spiritual Sun being the great light of Jesus' Mind, the lesser lights being the light of those having great spiritual vision since the beginning of Bible history, form a pathway of light leading us into the consciousness of our being at one now with the firmament which is heaven. Jesus not only has been called the Sun, but is spoken of in many places as a great Light come to the world; we are all lights in greater or lesser degree, lighting the world on its journey from material sense to soul, according to the understanding that we have of manifesting the true Sun, Jesus.

" . . . And the evening and the morning were the second day."

Third Day

"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." (Gen. 1:9- 10.)

God creates from the substance of His Mind the waters, which are a lighter formation than earth. They are not the actual substances themselves, therefore they produce a lighter body of Mind's formation, a flowing, moving body of life-giving Truths. The waters, finding their origin in the heights of Divine Mind, the first revealing of Spiritual Waters would necessarily be recorded as coming from on high, — from the firmament.

Dry land is symbolic of the solidity of God's thoughts, producing solid formations of strength. Land is symbolic of God's support of man, made manifest to the human consciousness. The combination of substances of Divine Mind, forming Spiritual Earth, produces our resources. To illustrate more clearly, Spiritual Earth is the source of our Spiritual nourishment, just as material earth is the source of our material food, material earth being a faint symbol of the real formation.

Spiritually defined, water is made up of flood tides of love and is formed by the pure springs of cleansing truths, finding its origin in the pure, clear heights of Mind's understanding, flowing from the mountain tops of the Mind of God, wherein are found the crystals of Truth, of Life and of Love. Life-giving waters, inundating, refreshing Mind's more solid formations of substances, invigorate the spiritual earth with flood tides of Truths.

While the earth is a more solid body of Truth, consisting of substances, the waters are made up of Mind's cleansing, life-giving Truths, less solid in formation than the earth's constituent parts. The waters are indeed more the product of the Spiritual Earth's creative substances.

The waters from the heavens upon the earth are revealed on the third day, which healing currents and floods of Truth, forming great bodies known as the seas, are separated by the more solid formation of thought called earth.

The sea, spiritually defined, is made up of the fullness of Truth, and depth of understanding. The sea is fed from on high by multitudes of pure rivers of life, and of love flowing from the heights of Spirituality, refreshing Spiritual Earth's solid formations of Spiritual substances.

The author, by observing the mountain trout and their habits, learned a most interesting and helpful lesson. The tiny trout of the mountain streams turn their heads up the stream, and from the time they begin to swim, they never once turn down stream unless they are forced down by the water or debris. Their aim from their beginning is to reach the source of the river; their life's struggle is their upward journey from wherever they begin their little lives in the mountain stream to its source. They do not cease from this struggle by day or by night, except in the time of resting in quiet pools, preparatory to their next up-going against the current.

Discerning this spiritually, one sees these little

spiritual Ideas striving against the seeming down currents of mortal thinking, in order that they might obtain a place of safety; also endeavoring to reach up to God, their source of knowledge, of strength, of love wherein there is. safety. Their going up stream, their ascent, is to them their Ascension. They are going above danger, as high as they know, to the source of the river, feeling that in the heights there is perfect safety, only to find that the fisherman is there waiting with seine or hook to destroy them. Then it is that they must learn that their refuge is yet higher, into the Spiritual Understanding of the heights of God, their source, wherein the gates of flood tides of truths are open to them. "The gates of the rivers shall be open and the palace shall be dissolved." (Nahum 2:6). Their reward for their struggle upwards is their entrance into the consciousness of the spiritual understanding of rivers.

Then, these little Ideas of God's creation awaken to the truth that they are in the river of life forevermore, in which they are free to play at their pleasure wherever they desire to go, whether it be at the source of the pure life-giving waters, or to live in its life-healing currents and be carried happily down through the valley. They will not fear even if the healing currents of divine Love take them on and out into the depths of Love's great sea.

"All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." (Eccl. 1:7.)

Rivers, Spiritually discerned, are the refreshment of man's consciousness, the means of continuous cleansing of his entire system of thinking.

Mortal thoughts are the impurities of so-called fleshly Mind, seeking to obstruct, to dam the life-giving streams of Truth. The darning of man's thoughts works only good, because the ,stored-up forces of Trfith back of the dam, the obstructions of evil, which attempt to stop the operations of God from acting through man, only retard the flood tides of Truth; in reality they are stored-up energy back of the seeming obstruction. These living waters of Truth, so held in reserve, finally bursting through the walls of thought constructed by human hatred, overflow all bounds, inundating the whole valley even of an army of dry bones, of a host of men and women who because of their resentment, and of their bitterness, are seemingly dead to Principle. (See Ezek. 37.) Thus it is that obstructions are powerless to operate against one who loves God supremely.

"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and. yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1-2).

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." (Genesis 1:11-12.)