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CHABLES EILLMOHE
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U a I T Y AUDITORIJM
923 Tracy Avenue,
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Kansas City, Missouri. Sunday, December l£, 1911.
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of thi#* thJ« lesson, to th. *	*“	“’>*•«» It'
^e monthrStAiS,tep* ®*ra readmf^?Physicia^» is or in
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law, the im\m heTfir3t step inf, «3mboiaeal. Vc rf1'" day «*
real ?+ ; Laa. *W^i? th°8e who wish +«	'	st '	'	*	'
I2ra* 14 if the sta^ini n* this *« fcjw	to kf°w about the
transi^oryUt hln°n * WS **?	W «"?t
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knock V„r,0?6t«'tioJ\a‘ Lw*- ^ the0ff^tP"0hpet3- *"4 yet
You must ip\3,ia11 he opened "A8k and t' -han®1* of the
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C]C God* Now, God is
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n-p »q if we seek Spirit, and the Law of Sod 13 ■ JJ^^^o^this law, which the
in the right way* ^ -’n rough all the ages people have testified higher man does know, - £ d must accept this ri0d had revealed to them His idW*	JesUS	Christ	un-
test imony, because it has been demon at [ is evidence that HBrXo7^elaw, and Ha 4e»onBtrated	shall	know	them.”
He had that understanding.	y
.. lnm . vou would know the law,
Sow, then, If I know the law - if you	haTe	„een	a	readout yourself in that	it	may	he	that	you	look	to
‘er of this scripture all your ine, i /source of God's law. that as the source of	rav	They	have	been	taught
S-’SsSS;niin^|£aSH.
is the one unchangeable, exact, defin J	means	"no	,
God never mokes a mistaket	because it is	full
thpn the Bihle can't he his uncnanged x . »the airect word of of contradictions • Then we know that it 18	divine	Law,	have
fod Tut men, discerning this *«J°f®^ty! a^ we should re-
Ahd^fshouwUvere It to its full ^hority.
Whatever Is good in it WiBhould^choose^a^^ read out of ttiis^lsw
just*as an attorney before the ““^/““^Lefthat ?re'opposed doe.n't bolster up his case by	those	authorities
to'the point he wishes to prove. Re cites 'in his favor, that other courts have passed upon a^h ^ truth - and the lord So, when one who discerns > * spirit - when that one will give every one of us a discerning spiri	^	that	will
quotes from this	Irepresentative	- paid representa-
holster up ***cJse:	doesn't* relyhis authority hy quoting stu_t
US Is°contraryTo^the°Truth.r he quotes the Truth.
So when we read in this Scripture that God is t	people,
of evil, that God brings destruction and death	a	(Sod
you say that doesn't prove “hTtf 1	life	have	anything
t "	&	is'^;e?"ryTLrrre
SJfoS^tSS1--:	Si wfCfthe discerning spirit, and we
know exactly where to put this scripture.
Now, it is said that the 4eT**	me”	th^adversary
U	Ster?heTa^iJr^
us r^s	qToTfaVovi	«.
while his adversary couldn t.
Now, we find in ourselves two states °f	the
physicians say there are two egos, the mortal, carnal g
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spiritual, Bivine ego. ^ are	quest	io^ which shall
Of your ideas are marshall^ - or the Christ, or spiritual. -.0 , the carnal, the personal eg »	.	vourself. You can prove
you can, if you wish, prove tt}*8 J^d vourself in a w orld of Viv the result that you get. -	„	.	dissolution	of	your
discord and sickness and inharmonyand final	e	ego, the
body, you may know that you arehand, that you are personality; hut, if you find, on	satisfaction,
growing into harmony, into peace,JrDivine peace that proves to Ind ioy comes to you, you are in the Bivine P	the	spiritual
and*""read this*Law, there was an	to^the^Law. When
attention of this mortal ego,	the scripture to
tuem 'Why, you search this scriptuie	_	you	will
oS of that piece of parchment to get	8od	dwelling in
never do it' . He said, 'you haven't the word jr ^ ^ gat away
from theseTooLf ^u^st^'et away from that neg 2?oer#S;*S°W."SST.'ShSt^'St isfhe poeitive etate of mind.
thousands of people are quoting the scripture and^hang
on +0 that as the way into eternal I •	over	and over and
that, having once gotten the'lesson, ke Pgoingto educate them, over that lesson, think	*■'	state of mind which is
They must go on; they must ge ,	' o-neak the Word, to affirm
SitW	i have°come
in%hrcultiyation'ofTthe nivine Sin, and the "Vine mm U ™ SlyVn that is. That 1. the man that	s"?r???the
waiting for us ty ,f +v^i;^ne ‘ c-0 if°you would grow rapidly ms n that speaks with authority, -o> y	that	rules
Tnto spiritual understanding, if you would know the	n
theuni verse, pray, and then after you have prayed,
affixation, "begin the development o, _	c.0JT,e	true words; and
you. Rise up in your own authority and speak some ^ ^ . God
you, every one of you, know some true word ^	’ all-informing
L All; God ls everywhere present, God is the 0	proph-
BnSrU speaks through ms”. Why, we are every ets, we are very one of us prophets, ifand that is all
standing of the positive side of this scrips » birr's ^nd in srrinture. The Bcrinture is written in vou r j-
your hearts, hut you will never flash it into expression until you make some affirmation, until you make the positive side instead of the negative.
How, among the prophets there are those who represent, we might say, the clowns. Jonah was a clown among the prophets in the Old Testament. He was one of those little fellows that we find, if we go to the circus, that tumbles around and makes a joke now and then for the audience. When the Lord told him to do a certain thing, he did right the opposite, he ignored the right thing. TTe was constantly making conditions that brought what we might call raillery or a joke even on the saints of the Lord. According to the scripture the Lord said unto him, when He told him to do a certain thin? and he doesn't do it, "Little man are you wroth?" Arfdogairi, He said to him, "Little man are you wroth again?" In other words, it seemed almost as of the Lord was joking with Jonah.
Jonah was a joke; remember that when you read the scripture. That idea which was sown here in the hook there, has "been carried down, down, down until to-day we find people who call those that bring an ill-luck a Jonah. And we have every one of us this Jonah s'tii’it. We sometimes like to joke about spiritual things, and it isn't mereljr a joke, but we are frequently just like Jonah -adverse when the Lord tells us to do a certain thing. We turn right around and do the very opposite. Why? Well, because we don't pray, to begin with.
How, Jonah didn't get down on his metaphysical knee to ask the Lord what to do in a certain case, but he'rushed right off.
Tie wasn't goino; to do that, he was going down to Tarsus.
You find in your spiritual development; you say, "How I have got to have that now - I must have that". You begin your affirmations; you rush right away from probably the very thing that you should observe - that is, the law of receptive asking.
The mortal man should be small in the sight of the Lord to begin with. It is the spiritual man that is the large man; it is the spiritual man that makes these high statements, these affirmations of Spirit. It isn't the mortal. Some people think t 'at because we make high statements for ourselves that we are talking under the mortal law. Hot at alii ATnyone who makes a statement for his personality has lost sight, of the Truth. He is not really in the Hivine Law.
How then, Hivine Law is Spirit. Remember that. Tt is universal . It, is that supreme something in us that shows us every time the righteous way; and that righteous way is the way of the Law. The law is personal, working itself into our lives and the
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lives of those about us, in a harmonious, exact way. Blackstone says that "Law is a Rule of Action"; that we make or observe these laws and they become part, of our daily lives. That is true. And if we incorporate into our consciousness a law of peace and love and power and wisdom, and lay that down as part of the great universal life of ourselves and the rest, it becomes objective; it becomes the written law of the inner consciousness, and that is all the real law is. I wouldn't depreciate this Bible, because it is one of the greatest of our books that was ever written, but it should never bind me. I should never be in bondage to that Bible, because of its many deflections, through men, of the truth.
How, we have a new translation called the Liether Bible, written by a Jew, Isaac Liether; and it is written from the Jewish standpoint. Nearly all of these translations that we have were made Ny Englishmen, and they had a creed to substantiate. They interpolated and they eliminated words, and they fixed up the Bible to fit the creed.
You find that this is true. That the little illustration that I gave you a few minutes ago, where in our King James version Jesus said: "Searcn the scriptures". Now, when that was revised. +he Board -found that the original translators had just drooped that little word "ye" out, in order to make it a positive command to search the scriptures. Jesus Christ, instead of making it a command, was showing them how they were burdened with the letter of the scriptures, when they should be searching the scriptures trying to get the Divine Life. So, inthis Liether translation, we -find there so many of the different meanings are not translated correctly. This Hebrew knows the language. Nor illustration, in the Psalms it is written "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints". Now in Mr, Liether's translation that is changed directly about. He says: "Previous in the	eyes	of the	Lord is the death of	his pious ones".	Instead
of it being	precious in the eyes of the	Lord, it, grieves	the Lord
to think that his precious ones or His saints are so foolish as to give up to death.
So you can see, if you study this Bible in the original spirit, it proves our case, and as we search into the inner meaning of	this	Bible,	we find that it has	baen inspired of	God, but
it has	been	warped	by the mortality of men to bolster up	their
preconceived i-eas. So I would say to you, when you read the scriptures, read it in the spirit. The letter killeth and the Spirit maketh alive; and the only way to read this scripture aright is to read it from the Jesus Christ view-point. Read it as a spiritual being; read it as you would read something that was for your special unfoldment; that was given to you as a special revelation, and you will find that the scripture becomes anew. It isn't as you thought it was. It is illuminated. It is a different book entirely. You place yourself where these old ■"•T'i + ers we-"o, wi+Vl +he added understanding +h a+ >>aa arnnwjla+ed
since they wrote. If Paul were here to-day, and his former manuscripts were given to him and he looked them over, don't you suppose that he could make many changes where the limited understanding of the Law had hound him? Why certainly. So there probably isn't a writer of this Old Testament but could improve himself more to-day than if it were given to him at his own day and age. And I assure you that these old fellows re here. They are he’e re-writing the scripture. I maybe talking to some of them. It may be that you are quoting in the wilderness from the devil's side, the Satan's side. Remember that you have in you the Christ, and if you will give your mortality and opportunity; if you will let go of the old hook learning, you will know the truth, and you will quote on the spiritual side. You will find that that law i3 written m your very heart; that the very ether is filled with it - "Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul :*id with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself" .