REPORT 03? MmRQTG HELD AT
U IT I T Y AUDITORIUM Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri SUBJECT: wSPIRITUAL SUBSTAITCE" SURDAY M0R1TI1TG, JURE 29, 1915.
Men do not value prayer as they should, we do net pray enough. Most of us jr ay when we are in great need. We prey in an emergency.
Jesus said men should pray always. An understanding of the office of pr ayer in the growth and the stength-giving of the Spirit and the soul, clears up that statement, and we see why it was given. Prayer should he part of man's daily life. Men ought always to pray, he cause it is part of the exercise of the mind. It
has its place in connecting us ness. If we don't reach out in and higher ideas, we get into a
with the Higher Realms of conscious-our prayers for the higher thought, rutted state of mind, and the things
that the mind deals with become stale.
If you wish to freshen your mind, pray. If you wish to
raise yourself into freer
And the more your prayer
, higher states of consciousness is based upon understanding, the
, why more
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pray.
suc-
cess you will have.
Sc, it is necessary to understand in your prayers, pray vith the understanding; pray with the realization that your prayer will be answered. Yes - and a little mure than that, - pray with the understanding that your pray er is already answered. "Pray, believing that you have received, ard you shall receive".
How, the understanding is that all these gifts of God are in ine mind. All you have tc do is just drop them into your mind, and they oeccme operative; an d at the moment that you utter a thought ■ even before you think - while the thought is 'way deep in your consciousness, it is responded to by the Great Mind in whom all
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ideas exist.
ITcw, cur lessen to-day is for a fuller realization cf the Divine Substance, "The Bread of Life", we know that that Substance is omnipresent - always here. All that is required of us is to realize it, to lay hold of it, and we do that with our minds.
vie will take for our prayer this: "The Substance of my being is spirit". We know that to be true. "Spirit-Substance penetrates and permeates my soul and body, and there is no lack anywhere". "The Substance of my being is spirit: Spirit-Substance penetrates and permeates my soul and body, and there is no lack anywhere". How, this is a prayer, or affirmation. It is a prayer of Truth. Let us all join in that prayer silently.
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Y/e hold that religion should he inquired into; that man
should accept nothing blindly, or because someone else has a revel-
under-
at ion; but th t he sho u Id/sta. nd for himself that upon which. he bases his doctrine. This, then, requires study, thought and expression. You must not only know a thing, but you should also express your knowledge, be able to tell it and demonstrate it. To express clearly and definitely the Truth, is a demonstration. Some people call demonstrations the doing of things in a mechanical, material way, but, in its highest, a. demonstration is a statement of Truth. The Truth will do the work. All that the Demonstrator jn spiritual things is required is that he make his statement.
If he makes it based upon absolute Truth, he demonstrates it.
In the study of what we call the Truth, we have found it
necessary to "bring out the understanding, or the knowledge of those
who are students; and for that reason, we have adopted, in part c-f our meetings, this system of askiig and answering questions. Y/e assume that all people are like children at school, and that they require, it is required, that they get their lessons; that they come and recite, and in that my, they really go forward. Tilere is a development of the understanding, and in this way ycu demonstrate.
how, our lesson to-day is of this character, and I presume, as we announced last Sunday, all who are here have studied your lesson, and you have written cut the answers. You are expected. to rise in your seats and read your answer to the question. Then we will take it up and discuss it. If you haven't "brought cut all the Truth, we will find cut wherein you lack, and where the truth
Hew, as I say, every question - it. doesn't make aay dif-
ference where it came from, v ho its author is, is subject to the probing of the mind. We don»t look upon anything as toe sacred to inquire into. All the gods and all the men are open to question. we want to know just wherein they got their Truth, and wheth er it is based upon Principle or not. If it wont hold water, we don't want it, that is all. To us, religion is a science, aid its rules must be complied with.
How, the lessen is based upon the Sixth Chapter of John, as found in the Hew Testament, beginning with, the twenty-second verse, and continuing to the fortieth verse. This Chapter recites
that some time after Jesus the five thousand with the
had performed the miracle of feeding loaves eoid fishes, they followed him
to 31 other place across the Sea of Galilee, and they wanted some-
thing -- he perceived that it was mere of the loaves and fishes. And he said to them, "you are not chasing me around in the desert here for the Truth that I may give you, hut what you want is something to fill your hunger - the loaves and fishes. Well, they said they wanted a sign from heaven, as to his Divine authority. He told them that he was "the ’oread of Life sent down from hear en by God, to feed them". "Oh", they said, "We have had bread from cur father Moses in the wilderness. He gave us the manna". And Jesus
answered, "Yes, he gave you the manna, but this bread that I will give you will feed you shrill live forever; and the bread that appease your appetite that you will never
all of you died. Hew you to eternal life -I give you will so hunger".
ITow, was Jesus speaking to these people alone, or to all who are to eat of this Bread of Life? And if so, what is the character of the Bread that he genre, the Life that he gave, and how nay we eat of it - drink that Life, and come to the place where we shall never hunger, But hare Eternal Life, have a realization of this SuBstare e?
ITcw, we all went to know how this cm Be accorapli shed.
It is of very great importance to us. Now, we have arranged this, just to start us off, in five questions. We don't have to follow these questions, But we will take the first one, which is: "Upon what idea is all Substance Based?" New, in order to get at this Bread of life, which we know means the SuBstarce, the under-
lying Principle of Life, in order to get at that, we must know some-
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what ah out it. What is it? Up<- n what idea is all Substance based? Now, somebody in the class please ai swer that? I- you nave got your answer written out, .just rise in your seat and read it so everybody will hear it. "Upon what idea is all Substance based?" That is easy to a Metaphysician, and you Eire all Metaphysicians?
A I have that, all Substance is based upon the idea of Substance, for back of all visible forms there must be the idea-in mind of the visible form, of that which we would being into visibility. All Substance then, is based upon the idea of Substance.
MR. PILLMO.RE:	That	is	good.	I	don't think we could have a bet-
ter .--inswer than that. AH that we see then, we see with what -- cur eyes?
A with the mind.
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MR, JILJjMORE:	See	with	cur	mind.	Everything	is	an	idea	first.
Now, this will bring us to an analysis and a clear understanding of the difference between this outer realm, called matter, and the real Substance of things. And once you get the difference, see what matter is and what the real Substance in mind is, why, ohen /•. u nave a working basis for the eating or the appropriation of the Life and Substance that Jesus Christ brought, or hire Cnrist in us OLin^s, here waiting for us to appropriate and utilize it.
How, you will never understand the Christian Religion until you get at these foundation Principles. It will always oe the edict of some preacher or some authority, some book, until you know the Principle. Then, it is very important that we should lay hold
of these inner Principles.
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How, we will take that next question: "What fellows the faithful adherence to the spiritual idea of Suostunce?" - what follows in the consciousness? How, remember you are in trie clear under standing that 'there is a Universal Sue stance idea. TDvei zoning first has its place in the Hind, as an idea. The inventor xirst sees his invention in his mind - forms it in his mind - then he takes the materials and puts them together; hut it is constantly the carrying out of an idea. How the real, then, of everything that is made is in the mind. Remember that. How, as a Metaphysician, when you form in your mind the clear idea of a Substance, an underlying Principle, that is unchangeable, that is firm in us, mat is, in other words, abiding, substantial, what kind of a Substance
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do you corns into relation with? What will "be the effect of that
kind of a thought in your mind?
How, when we speak of Substance, do we mean matter?
Ho, certainly not. Our Scientists - I mean by that,Physical Scientists - are telling us in this day that there is a Universal Substance, and that it is not like matter; that matter passes through this Universal Substance just as a sieve passes through water, or just as the wind passes through the trees; that matter is a break, a nothingness, in this Universal Ether. ITow, these are the results of not a study, as I understand it, in the laboratory, where you can lay hold of this Universal Ether, but a mathematical proposition. It has been figured out to the satisfaction of Scientists,
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and you will find - I see in the Literary Digest here last week was an epitome of this conclusion that has been coining, end had been come to by cur men of science about the existence of a Substance back of natter; that matter ms just what we, in Metaphy-sics have been contending for so long - absolute unreality; absolutely unreal. This world that we see all about us, that is unreal in the form that we see it. There is something back of it.
And what is that? Why, the physical Scientists say it must be that there is a Universal Ether.
Now, they have never felt the Ether, nor seen it, but they figured it cut mathematically. V/e say this Universal Idea is the first expression, or mental expression of the Divine Idea.
Now, don't get the idea that this Universal Ether is the mind. No
11 re a	1 i z e that
that,	in order
must	have the
It is the first expression of the Mind, hut out of it cones everything that we see.
How, if you can get this in y ur mind, there is a substantial somethirg hack of all Life; that, in order to have a continuous idea, or continuous Life, you must have the idea of this substantiahiXity of Life. When we speak of Sunstance, what, really, do we mean? HVhat do you mean when you say "Substance" A The idea of the Mind.
MR, FILLMORE:	Yes, that really is an idea in the mind. You
don't speak — for example, we say, "He is one oi our suostantial
citizens". Do you mean that the man has a very dense material
body? Certainly not! You refer to his reliability. That is it.
He is one cf the citizens that we denend upon.
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How, that is the real meaning of Substance. It is that which stands under. It don't refer tc matter at all. Matter is one cf the transitory ideas of man about Substance. Matter is a changeable idea, a flitting idea. It comes and gees. Ur.., as Metaphysicians, we see that isn't what we want. V/e want tc wheel into line this underlying, abiding Substance; v/e want the very sup-stance of Life> as it is in the Divine Man, in the Spiritual man.
How, the heavens of the mind are the ideal, end there is an ideal in abiding Life. ITobody wants tc die. Ve don't any cl us want these blow-holes in the Universal Substance, because that is where we fall down. Matter is just a lot of blow-holes in Substance, just remember that; sn d if you depend upon any material thing; if you make that the basis of your thought, why, you will
/ \ B, f)v A. t/ fall into the holes.!
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T'ne fact is that people who live in the materia 1 world, who live with the expectation of getting happiness cut of substance, are like these who are in the hole of the doughnut - they don't get hold of the Substance at all. They just fall through tne hole.
Gould you feed yourself, if you lived on doughnuts, by eating the hole? Surely you couldn't, \7ell, no more will you ever feed yourself in this world, so-called material world, by trying to get satisfaction out of materiality. You can't do it. As I Scgy , y.u are just like the naa with the doughnut - eating tne hole. I am telling you this, not as a Metaphysician, but I can bring you the proof of it right here from the Physical Scientists.
These ideas of the unreality of matter have been in the
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world ever since man began to think. You remember Berkeley, that
old English Bishop? He wrote a book on the unreality of matter.
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He said there was no such thing as matter. Then^the German Metaphysicians, Haekel, and Fichte, several of those deep thinkers came to the same conclusion. They wrote their ideas. Then came in recent years Mrs. Eddy, and she introduced it into the Christian religion, arid everybody woke up, and they applied some of trie rules of thought she gave us, and lo and behold, they got response, got results; and so it has gone cut into the whole race thought, that the real of all things is Substance, back cf the so-called matter; that matter is in some way an illusion, a secondary movement ; a kiid of a dream state that man lives in, and is constantly dropping away, and he wonders why it is, and he attributes it. to God, when it is
a 11 his yiew-point.
He isn’t seeing things as they are
How, we must get back and see the real of things; and that is what we are here for, - find cut what the real basis o_ Life is, -in other words, the Substance of Life, as Jesus Christ, said, the bread of Life, if you eat of this Bread that I bring to you, you will live forever; but if you eat that old Moses bread, that is, if you take somebody else’ say-so ior it, you will never get very much of Substance out of Life, and you will die.
How, the third question:	"What	must	may	labor	for	in
order tc get this Substance, or we are talking about? Eternal go together. How, what should
Eternal Substance" - that is what Substance and Eternal Life - they we labor for? We all understand
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that we have something to do, as individuals. We are in the world for a purpose, and what should "be the prime object cf our work in L^fe? Somebody tell us that? Now remember, you are giving the lessen - what are you laboring for?
A Nor the food of Life, of Eternal Life?
MR. FILLMORE:	Laboring for the realization of Eternal Life, yes.
A I have it:	To labor for the Bread of j,ife, which is the con-
sciousness of this Substance, this Universal Sudstance - Uu consciousness of bringing it into expression and using it.
MR. PILLMORE:	That is it. The one object,then, of man’s life,
in the matter of Substance, is to lay hold of Eternal Life. Now, you know to-day we are simply treating cf Substance, the Substance-side of Life. Sc many people have trouble in getting on in the
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world. They have trouble in holding to what they call their substantial things, their material things. How, this lesson, if 1ru get the right understanding of it, and practice what is here taught, you will find it very much easier to handle your Suostance and everything enters into the substance side, not only your finances, out your food, and your houses and your lauds, and everything connected, even, with the so-called material world; and you will find that back of all this Substance that you think is Matter, is the real. And all there is to it is held in place by your ideas about
it. It is all in your mind.
MR. FILLMORE:	Q, "vVhat is the result when man tries to attain a
consciousness of this Substance through another?" How this brings it right home to yourself. And I would say, in relation to this
question, that a great many people, not only in the world, hut in Metaphysical thought, are in a way expecting others to bring them to a realisation of these Divine Principles. In other words, they
have a subtle thought that they are going to get it by absorption, by association, by study of books, and the listening to lectures. Now, let us get your: answer to-that?
A I have this one .for that question: • When may tries to attain a consciousness of his Substance through another, he is not striving to understand the law that he may bring into expression Substance for himself. Therefore, when those who have been bringing into manifestation the Substance for him, no longer do it, he is
left helpless, for he has not a working knowledge of this h w by
which he may being it into expression for himself
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A I have: Depending on another for this Sue stance is like depend' ing on the Christ personality.
A Hr. Fillmore , may I ask a question?	By that depending on
the other, you mean if I would go to you to heal me, or help me to read things - hut it doesn’t mean I would go to ask you about the law, does it? Can't we teach others?
A (continuing answer from page 21):	This	depending upon others
my idea was depending on what other people had manifested, not through taking their substance that they had manifested an d living upon that.
MR. FILLMORE:	Let	us	take	a	very practical illustration, we will
«av in the matter of food. I might ask you what good food was, and you would tell me what 3rou thought was the Lest lood. But
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could I eat it fox' you? I couldn't eat that food. I could simply point to you and say, "here are certain foods now, you would probably get the best result from eating those foods", but you would have to eat for yourself. How, I find that the same rule holds true in eating this Substance of the Kind. Jesus Christ, you
know, in the Last Supper, said is ray blood - drink it'." How, ard began to gnaw at his bones,
, "This is ray body - eat it; do you think the disciples 33 eat his flesh? The church,
this t down you
know, has twisted this in every way. They have said it means some thing spiritual, and then, to get it down to tine comprehension of the people, they take little wafers, and the priest blesses them, sanctifies then in some way, and that is the veritable body of
Christ
But it don't seem to do the work that he said it would,
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does it? They don't come into Eternal Life; they don't live forever, because, they die. They die just as he said those people who
ate of the manna that noses gave died.
How then, there must he something of a deeper character,
more substantial, and that is just vhat we are after. And we know that all things, in their essence, in their original, are in the mind; and, as I have told you, we have Science in this matter cf the Substance, to hack us up.
How, we have found that when we take into our minis a strong affirmation of the Omnipresent Substance and Li-, e, on ei e is a new consciousness developed. We feel that we have gotten hold of something; and those Metaphysicians who have practiced this day after day, find that they absolutely can appease their hunger, - not
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wholly, probably, because we haven't yet arrived at a full understanding, and we haven’t lifted ourselves into the Kingdom 01 the heavens, or the realm where ideas satisfy every need; but we go far enough to nreve the law, and we know that a continuance in tnat line of thinking, a realization that the Substance that Jesus Christ spoke about, is in mind;that it is a mental principle, we know that we can go forward in that until every need will be satisfied. We know the. . it is possible for man to multiply everything that he touches with his mind, of Suostance.
How, the fact is that every thought that you send out has back of it a certain quality of substance - more substantial a good Heal than you think, and the more you think a"out the substantiaoil-ity of your thought, and the more of the Higner Principle you put
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is that you let your mind play a very important part in everytuing that you have to do with Substance. If it is eating at the taole, why eat v/ith the idea that this is the very Substance of Spirit, and you will see the essence back of the food, and your system will get v/ith that food an element that you can't get by eating it merely as material. You see the inner consciousness must come into expression, a union v/ith the inner Principle and everything that, your mind touches along the line of Substance.
how that fifth question: "What assurance have we that this is the real and only way to abiding supply?" How, we bring that right down tc a matter of finance: What assurance have you
that this is the only way to get Eternal you will - Supply? What is the basis of A Mr. pilinnre , seeking inf orient ion ing to elucidate somethiiig that requires tc find cut from you if there is a Great brought all things into manifestation as
, Abiding Prosperity, if such an assumption? on the subject, and not try-long thought, f would like Wisdom, a. Great Power that we see than, the world, and
all mankind, and, in bringing us into manifestation, are we endowed with a part of that wisdom, and a pert of that power, that we can exercise when we want to bring into manifestat ion things that can be realized by the senses, as Health - can we think and form in our minds that we have health, because we are endowed by that Great Wisdom, and, by using Wisdom and Porce, to manifest these things;
and can we, through that certain Wisdom and Porce given to us, bring
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into manifestation the things of this life that are desirable and
endure? That is the thing that I want to find out?
ICR. FILLMORE:	Well,	the	teaching	of	Jesus	Christ	was	that	we
could, and I see evidences on every side of these,who following him, are bringing into manifestation, we will say, the evidences of Health on one side, better supply, happiness, contentment, and that abidirg consciousness which ccraes from an appreciation of Cod as the Omnipresent Source of all. Why certainly. All that exists in Divine Mind must be open to the expression of that Mind, and it is through man that it is made manifest.
Sc, it is just a question of applying the Principle in the right way. You must get into your mind that you are one of the
co-creator s; that it is given to man to manifest this ideal realm,
susceptible of
and that every idea that cones into y: ur mind is a substantial clothing.
ITcv/, that brings us right to the point of the lesson. We must clothe it v-ith this finer substance. Every thought, your thought is made up of ideas. You all know that. But there are certain principles, cr certain ideas entering into every thought, and the foundation, or that upon which you rest your thought is Substance. How, that is where Substance is always associated with Life and Intelligence, You can take those three ideas:	Here	is
the Foundation now, Substance. That means that you want an abiding place. In your mind you think aVut something that will be, we will say, a hone. How whore is your home? Is it where you live? The house that you live in? Why no, that is just the cuter manifests-
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tion of your idea cf heme. Your home is in the substance idea of Being, and the more you lay hold of that substance hone, one more you think about the real home in Spirit and filx ycur mental nouse with just the furniture you want, make it just the kind of a house that you would like to have, - I say, the more you think about that as a real thing, the quicker you will get that ideal home.
So, with everything that you do. Lay hold of the Sud-stance side in its mental activity. ITow, this applies to ycur body. \7e want a more substantial abiding life in our bodies. The Life seems to come and go in the present body-consciousness. Men are subject to conditions. I see you people fanning there, for example. Why? Because you haven't got quiet within yourself and
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laid hold of the cooling substance of the Spirit. ITov> if you would all Day down your fans - put it to a practical test - and quietly say, "Why, my mind is not anxious or worried; my mind don't work cn the outside now. I am very still within. I lay hold of
the Great Cooling substance of the Spirit: I am quiet and still;
I am not anxious and worried; I donit think about the heat". You know the Commissioner of Chemistry at Washington, in giving out his rules the other day, in the matter of guidance to those who wanted to escape heat,said, "Above all things don't have any thermometer.
Thro?/ your thermometer llearly all cf with mind first. ITow, ciple in Hind, and that
away " .
the advanced thinkers are to-day deal ing I say to you that there is a Cooling Prin-rneans that we shant get choppy, and study
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Say, "I am not aa xious or worried about anything at all; I am not anxious or worried about whether I am going to have any dinner after this meeting; I am not worried and anxious that I don't understand this as well as I ought”. Just put that all away. Say, "I abide in the one Substance of the spirit. That Great Substance, and that Great Life is mine right now I I live in it. Wo reality in this outer world. It is all just Mind - Pure, Peaceful, Harmonious Mind.” Let us all held that just a minute: ”1 live in the peaceful Mind of the spirit; I abide in the cooling Substance of tire Sp i r 11 w i th i n me ” .
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