SERMON BY CHARLES FILLMORE NOV. Itf), 1918
In giving an interpretation of Scripture it is neceosary to take two broad platforms, first,that of the universal or historic, that which relates to the race, and then the 3ame thing portrayed in an individual consciousness. It is a recognition of that iniversally accepted truth by those who study law that the within and the without exist, that the great and the small are in it and the law identical.
Now our lesson deals with a stage of unfoldment in the Hewish race that we know and can appreciate but little at present. We read of the -Book of the Law, for example, having been lost for seventy years, being covered up in a chest in a neglected temple,
. and when'looking at the multitude of books that we have we say that it is a strange thing that the only Book the Israelites had should be lost and the people ignorant of their Law seventy years. It is a strangecondition of affairs, but we must remember that at that time there were no books, there was no Bible in reality.
A few parchments that were in existence were written by hand and were in the possession of the priesthood. The fact is that the priests taught the Law.. It was the priesthood which was a part of the Jewish civilization that had existence by itself, they taught the Law from father to son, and it was carried along in that way, and if there was corrupt priesthood of course the Law was corrupt. Ifthe priests saw that it,was to their benefit to wo‘
the heathen	v,L v. the heathen anAs>	nt.
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the h.w, and this only manuscript that they had doubtless in the whole nation became forgotten, it wasn't read in the synagogue o. in the temple, and it was only when they gathered the money to re store the temple to its original importance in the religious race consciousness that we find the restoration at the same time of this
Law.	_
Now law is an essential part of consciousness. There could be, of course, no creation without law, and when we read in this text of the vengence of Jehovah and how He visited upon the children the evil, why, we see at once that it can't oe the good God that we worship, it can't oe the God of love and tenderness that Jesus taught us about, and so it is. This is simply the way in which the scribe descriued the action of the law. He saw that the law was a rule of action. Well7-se-we That is what Blaokstone says law is, a rule of action. Well, so we see that there must in the creative processes of Infinite Mind be exaetly-w^at a rule of action. And what is that rule of action? Weil7-ee-we That is just exactly what we are studying, seeking to find, because evidently there has been lost in the consciousness of the present race, the law. The lav; has been lost for more than seventy years. Why, you know that in our day this law of Infinite IvSLnd has been so lost to human consciousness that we are having visited upon us evils and sins that ebnae some of the Christians are attributing to gods. They are back in the consciousness of those old Hebrews who in their ignorance saw the effect of the broken law, and they said, "This comes from an angry God". You know that teachers are expounding that same doctrine. They are telling us that the sins or the evils that are visited upon men comes from the vengence and anger of God. 'Well, you mnow that can't bee good logic, that
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can't be true, and aa we get at the real source of truth, aa we begin to search into the depths of things for the understanding of this law we find that it has its standards, it has its rules of action, and the reason we are getting the result of broken law is that we don't understand. We are neglecting just what the children of Israel neglected, and that is a searching for the lav/.
Now, the experience of the children of Israel at this stage of their unfoldment and all the little incidents that occurred in the discovery of that parchment, because that is what it was, takes evidently the book of Deuteronomy, because that was about all they had at that time. It v/as supposed that the five books of Moses were in existence--that we don't Know, but we do know that each little book was in a little parchment by itself. When they paid the money they found the book. Now we get the best lesson by applying this to our own experience. We find that deep in the consciousness of every man is an intuitive knowledge of the law. That is universally accepted. f)here is something in man that under great stress of circumstances brings him to a recognition of the law, that is, through trials and tribulation. That is one way in which we are brought to the understanding of the law. Another is through the development of the higher qualities in us, the tenderness and the love developed, or generosity. Now, it seems that this road to the law was through generosity, through giving. This parchmenty-this law, which you know, applied to the individua' is written on the inner planes of our souls, was found when tb' aople
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id given for the restoration of the temple. Now, we find
question, because w . lay :oriBMMMM—a and whatever
of a°n«it«fnva,pn?»?nu /ve.4 ?	up,	why,	that, is a demonstration
oi a certain mental and spiritual law. We give up to our Lord to
the restoration in us and in our affairs of a setter and hilled
spiritual character, we want to see the temple, we want to see
aadgive °f, oar riches. Of the things we count the moat valuable. You know that opens the way to our inner a iritual nature. Through the generosity we gain a new understanding of the truth, so it is good for people to give to the truth, ’it i* is good for people to give to those who help them in understanding the 8 truth, and part of our doctrine. We instruct oeople in living Give, and it shall be given unto you. And so don't oe afraid°to give, and instruct your people to give, it is part of the law Ao- I say, you may be covering up, you may oe suppressing, you may be hiding away a law an innate law, that was written upon your soul by the creative md you may be hiding it away through a penuriou8* a stingy atat	f mind. Ifiaase	that.	If you	find that you are sSali
m dealing wi	your finances,	become	large,	see	things in a lara-er
way and you break into that cheat that haf in it hidden aSay tS Lw.
but we want to Know more about the law, because we must have law, we must have order. We must have not the law of man but th« law of God. When Kepler, the great astronomer, first looked though his telescope and saw the rings of Saturn and saw the wonderful conditions of the planets that he had before looked at with his eves he stopped and dropped himself upon his knees and said "Mv God T * think thy thoughts after thee". There was a revelation in that’man of the innate	law the law of God had	broken	the	outer consciousness
t+o expressed itself. Now,	when the man,	the	King in us, gives
itself to humbleness, to kindness and tenderness, it breaks the
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shell that encloses moat of us in a hard, ingiving and unforgiving spirit. We today need this tenderness and humbleness and gentleness of the Divine law to save uq from our hard thoughts.
Dow, Huldah, the prophetess, told the king and she read out the Law that because he expressed the Infinite love in man, she said, "-Because you have been humble, Decause you have been forgiving and tenderhearted, the consequences of the broken Law wiiich all the children of Israel have brought upon them during these seventy years of worshiping false gods shall not descend upop you, you shall be saved, and all the children of Israel who have been loving, who have been forgiving, who have been tenderhearted, they shall be saved, they shall be saved, no evil shall come upon them". Do you know* that it comes to me that right at this time we need this law. We need to remember the teaching of Iluldah, the prophetess. We need to have that spirit of kindheartedness, that spirit of love and forgiveness brought* forth. We are told by Jesus Christ that there should be wars and rumors of wars, nations sh uld fight against
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nations, but the end has not yet come, disciples, "shall be persecuted, you shall be magistrates, you shall be held up in contempt
he said to those brought before the for t iia teac .1 ng", and isn’t that applied to us today? If I should teach to you openly or privately a process or a law of forgiveness to the uttermost it would not be received. People would say as they are saying, "We must have these people punished. They have for four years broken eveyy law of man and they must have visited upon t em just what thev have v.iQ*ted upon the -French and the Belgians". Is that the
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f“r?heP™rLsio„ of that law, let™
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If we know a good thing .show it t
t hem, people
the Lord Jesu
the transgref
righteous way, even
;e shall escape
the
the
way
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o f of
will haven't
this nara-can't save us - that. Why,
Why, educating ucating these how them the , and in this ‘■■nd I assure und of flesh, ^ae people who are those bodies
' enemies,
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haven’t dealt with our
is the man that will ------ .
“ TnS we^tionder	-other.	Because we
been tenderhearted, because we	.
q • v.,, 4-^ -t hft 1 of J0sus ChriQti• enemies according to tne law ui
go forth'^to^the'world ^“teache^o? ‘h/tJuth of JeeSs Christ. Vie o° ■LUA .	_	0f	forgiveness,	of	tenderness
Jesus Christ in spite of tne wor^u, tell us we must carry m-ia
forth to must set up
lie must set
a standard up the standard
of
that wodld law^of punishment to the uttermost for the
of kindness, the wor'
in spite of	we	must	st.-nd
...	.	re>-id	those	papei'S	if they teach
truth. *e	ceaae to	think	about methods of punishment,
this doctrine. We must_oease w	i	take care of all
we must dwell upon	xnfi	■	■	its dispensation ail of tlie
these things, that will ^egN ‘ *uia ia the rule and the order which
affairs of m-,a^he h?ngdo“ of heaved is ushering in. and we are the new kingdom, the	^	4	lesson that will have a
today presented with a mi htyl	^	3Qme Qf ua mu3t atand for
far-reaching	JJponHa	i34flein^	bound	hand	and	foot	in the
the Lord Jesus Christ. He i3M.eLLS
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ready to’oarry oSt th^hfghe? la^aSd*’ut“aU^he"4 i?	Ur,
ptT^rtlsld^iSTio*?; E SrHLws*Pr?- »““*
divine Iwo of the Lord Jesua Christ	th?	?eople	who want the
of. love, they must stand ?or	?Jl£	iG	thia m^ter
principles, they must write those nrfnMnf1, J?ey uiuat talk those awakens to this only way of eacaHi ^ Unti} the whole world come from under the resulto of tL’hv\i 0iJ_y way they will ever been carrying throughout the -e^irations*1 ^ Whl+h the race haa the presence of the Lord Jesuf GhSst?	ffiUat	g6t	back into
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