February 21, 1943 John 10rl-5

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1 February 21, 1943 John 10rl-5 ;" 1 Verly, verly, say unto you, He that entereth not by the door nto the old o the sheep, but clmbeth up some other ( way, the same s a the and a robber 2 But he that entereth n by the door s the shepherd o the sheep 3 To hm the porter openeth; and the sheep hear hs voce: and he calleth hs own sheep by name, and leadeth them out 4 When he hath put orth all hs own, he goeth beore them, and the sheep ollow hm: or they know hs voce ; 5 And a stranger wll they not ollow, but wll lee,'rom hm: or they know not ; the voce o strangers «~~ What s the symbology o the parable o the Good Shepherd? The Good Shepherd represents the AM, and so does the "door" by whch the shepherd enters The "porter" represents the wll Wth respect to manknd what do the "sheep" represent? : They represent the t h o u g h t ^ ^ n a n? llond The thought le s thepatrt o eus that above all else heeds "T 1 * be guarded and developed we are to rse to the Chrst conscousness What part does the wll play n / : our progress rom sense to the hgher \ pd-ema the Chrst concsousnett?-~sn = An absolutely necessary "part, or The" ascent s a voluntary one t s "whosoever wll" that ollows the Chrst "The sheep ollow hm: or they know hs voce" Coercon o the nner le s an mpossblty What-thoughts determne our character? The subconscous thoughts or deep mpulses o the heart, o whch we ourselves are not always aware, are the ones that control us and mold our character "As he thnketh wthn hmsel, so s he" How can we apply the words "When he hath put orth all hs own, he goeth beore them"? W e denty ourselves wth our thoughts through the use o the AM 'By ths means we clam rom the unversal mnd the deas that we choose to make our own or those whch we \ are able to grasp

2 SUNDAYJ'BBKUAKY V WHAT DO THE DOOR AND THE ^ ^ ^ P ^ S ^ R H P ^ $ ;» ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ t 4 H ^ ^ l v ^ ^ S H E E P P 0 L D REPRESENT META-1 *v r t h s ndvdual AM 'TrM*4,* 1 Verly, -verly, say' unto yote Ht PHYSCALLY? phhhrlm, Mghted by t h e u n d e r s t a n d ' r ;that entereth not by the door nto the ok pg o Truth ^ t ^ S n e s t t e 1 h a n d P r r T b b t r h e r M e t a p h 7 s c a l l 7 t h e s h e e p - * Whatstke meanng o the state; 2 But he that entereth n by the door o l d r e p r e s e n t s t h e m n d went, The good shepherd lay eth ' '- shepherd o the sheep wth t s thoughts* the ^own hs le or the sheep? \ \ -ohm the porter openeth; and the J -,or_0 " r^ + AM * When AM dentty receves llumr T eep hear hs voce: and he calleth h s * ***** V 3 ZtlG X A M naton and then dentes tsel wth ;own sheep by name, and leadeth t h e m C o n s o o u s n e s s ^ t ^ T t s U e tq &n t s! ut What dd Jesus mean when He<Ln l Jl,----_ A 4u^, J +v,<>+ +VOTT : 4 When he hath put orth all hs own,;sad- "Hee that entereth not bv e e t h o u ete h t ^l ^t e d ut po t o^hes end that they rtual con he goeth beore them, and the sheep & 1 - S J n the j L l? w ^ P " 7 ld the sh low hm: or they know hs voce, V? J?7' &M scousness h h Sam V A?, d a s t r a n g e r w l 1 t h e ^ n o t o l k w lt 7 STe ltt7 What does the hrelng represent? h u t wll lee rom hm: or they know«a the and a robber"? _,, ^^ M W M J ; + B lva not the voce o strangers ndvdual dentty, or AM, s the T t e hrelng represents the per- 6 Ths parable e spake Jesus unto door to all thoughts that enter n t o s o n a l es0n t rltj* they t w twere 7 ^whch S t Khe d spake 1 ^unto t h e -, actvty Each thngs,,,o, the,,mnd v- >nd them, vdual should do hs own thnkng 7 Jesus thereore sad unto them he leans upon others, or takes ther?ag?-a, Verly, verly, say unto you, deas as a gude wthout thnkng or am the door o the sheep hmsel, n reason and logc, he s 8 All that came beore me are theves ^ ^ g t o e n t e r t h e k l l g d o m o (jod and robbers: but the sheep dd not hear, e /t ' n A _T F m an unlawul way (the the-andtllem 9 am the door; by me any m a n r O D D e r r o u "? ) * _ c enter n, he shall be saved, and shall goj- What do the wolves that snatch n and go out, and shall nd pasture "«M*4 scatter the sheep represent? U 10 The the cometh not, but that heb o % 0 v e s represent worldly thoughts, may steal, and kll, and destroy: c u m e ^ w a n t n g a n d n e v e r ndng, althat they may have le, and may havee, j,- «,, ' + t abundantly ways hungry and never satsed, rest11 am the good shepherd: the goodless, searchng here and there and shepherd layeth down hs le or the, everywhere or Truth These sheep : thoughts are let nto the conscous12 He that s a hrelng, and not a ; ^ g b ^ hrelng, the personal ego, shepherd, whose own the sheep are not,: >±,, / ; Q 0 Q a c+q+0 o ' h the wol comng, and leaveth «hd the result s a scattered state o ^_ v,eep,: and" leeth, and zthe y^rxxlxx& _ "-T-\;_::!;lt _r_r"^lz» _:-' : "snatcheth thenttan ':^WExplah'the 16th verse: "And other 13 He leeth because he s a hrelmg,&g e p / have, whch are not o ths 3 and careth not or the sheep T S «W : them also must brng, and they 14 am the good shepherd; and T9*,, hear a n +\,m, <,j,/w? 7 m mce; hal1 know mne own, and mne own know m e p " J 7 ***»,? 1 15 Even as the Father knoweth me,^s$ome one lock, one shepherd and know the Father; and lay d o w n T h e "other sheep whch are not 1 my le or the sheep j g ^ ths old" but whch must be 16 And other sheep have, whch are B g ^ _ h t n t o t h e o l d a n d m a d e one not o ths old: them also must brngmw n,, l _ -arynn-ral Pan and they shall hear my voce; and t h e y ^ 1 1 ^ - o c k > a ^ e o u 5 temporal Gen spte thoughts and states o conscousv shajl become one lock, one shepherd ^ ^ s s, whch we have consdered not l a c l u d e d n the dvne plan o pereca "lon or us Now, however, we know t h a t the entre man s to be lted out o sense expresson and manestaton, nto sprtual conscousness and asternal le " Wll the tme ever come when all % he natons o the earth wll be ought nto one common old and S hadc a l l come n hsnaton? glory, and a H ' t h e one great ngels wth hm, then shall heostman on * mjesua_sad">yheathespn ae throne o hs glory: and beore < shall be gathered all the naj ns" When we enter the Chrst scousness we nd that all persons o one naton and o one blood t tme to "come, all people wll use l e language All wll be one great ton

3 Lesson, Aprl JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD John Prnt John 10:1-11 Verly, verly, say unto you, He that entereth not by the %oor, nto the "old o the sheep* bat' cpaa^ss^^^^&^^^^^ the same s a the and a robber 2 But he that entereth n by the door s the shepherd o the sheep 3 To hm the porter openeth; and the sheep hear hs voce; and he calleth hs own sheep by name, and leadeth them out 4 When he hath put orth all hs owu he goeth beore them and the sheep ollow hm: or they know hs voce 5 And a stranger wll they not ollow, but wll lee rom hm: or they know not the voce o strangers 6 Ths parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what thngs they were whch he spake unto them 7 Jesus thereore sad unto them agan Verly, verly, say unto you, am the door o the sheep 8 All that came beore me are theves and robbers; but the sheep dd not hear them 9 am the door; by me any m\n enter n, he shall be saved, and shall go n and go out, and shall nd pasture 10 The the cometh not, but that he may steal and kll and destroy: came that they may have le, and may have t abundantly, 11 am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down bs le or the sheep GOLDEN T E X T The good shepherd layeh down hs le or the sheep John 10:11 Chrst represents Sprtual conscousness, the "door" through whch every thought (sheep) must enter the old (Sprtual Kngdom) Those who try to get ther thoughts nto the Kngdom n some other way than that o true sprtualzaton are robbers they are robbng themselves o; great possessons, whch would be thers they conormed to the law o the Chrst-Mnd and entered by -the door o Truth -- ~ Chrst " also the Shepherd o the sheepr n Orental countres a shepherd has hs sheep under perect control and they come and go at command when ther names are called Hastngs' Bble Dctonary says, "t s one o the most nterestng spectacles to see a number o locks o thrsty sheep watered at a ountan Each lock, n obedence to the call o ts own shepherd, les down, awatng ts turn The shepherd o one lock calls hs sheep n squads, and, when the squad has done drnkng, orders t away by sounds whch the sheep perectly understand, and alls up another squad The sheep never make any rstake as to who whstles to them or calls them n lock o hundreds or thousands each ndvdual has name, knows t, and s known by t" The great mass o thoughts n conscous and subonscous mnd, whch we call "man," are lke sheep teedng a shepherd The central ego or " " o ths ower conscousness does not know the names o ts >wn acultes and could not properly drect and conrol them t dd The super-conscousness or Chrstvlnd s the true "door" through whch the man must jass hs many thoughts, and all those who teach other ways o sprtualzaton are robbng men o ther rtaltes t s no dle warnng, ths, that there are soul theves and robbers among men All those teachers who gnore Chrst and clam to show a better way to attan, sprtual power come under ths head n John 4, t s wrtten, " Beloved, beleve not every sprt, but prove the sprts, whether they are o God: because many alse prophets are gone out nto the world Hereby know ye the Sprt o God: every sprt whch conesseth that Jesus Chrst s come n the lesh s o God, and every sprt whch conesseth not Jesus s not o God: and ths s the Sprt o antchrst, whereo ye have heard that t cometh; and now t s n the world already Ye are o God, my lttle chldren, and have overcome them; because greater s he that s n you than he that s n the world" "Greater s he that s n you than he that s n the w^^t^:ohnj«unmed "up magncently the (teachng o Jesus n that sentence The sprtual / Am n man s"greater than any sprt or adept wthout, and has a thousand tmes more power t s ths Great One n you that knows every thought and loves them as the shepherd loves hs sheep The shepherd wll sacrce hs le n deense o hs sheep because he loves them, so the Chrst pours out hs le to the soul that turns to the kngdom wthn and seeks to know the law o that nner le through Chrst " came that they may have le, and have t abundantly"

4 Aprl 2, 1905 John 10: Then sad Jesus unto them agan, Verly, verly, say unto you, am the door o the sheep 8 All that ever came beore me are theves and robbers: but the sheep dd not hear them 9 am the door: by me any man enter n, he shall be saved, and shall go n and out, and nd pasture o The the cometh not, but or to steal, and to kll, and to destroy: am come that they mght have le, and that they mght have t more abundantly t am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gveth hs le or the sheep 12 But he that s an hrelng, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wol comng, and leaveth the sheep, and leeth: and the wol catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep 13 The hrelng leeth because he s an hrelng, and careth not or the sheep 14 am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known o mne 15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know the Father: and lay down my le or the sheep 16 And other sheep have, whch are not o ths old: them also must brng, and they shall hear my voce, and there shall be one old and one shepherd 17 Thereore doth my Father love me, because lay down my le, that mght take t agan 18 No man taketh t rom me, but lay t down o mysel have power to lay t down, and have power to take t agan Ths commandment have receved o my Father GOLDEN T E X T am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gveth hs le or the sheep John 10:11 " am the door o the sheep" To get the ndvdual applcaton o ths, we should put specal emphass upon am The " sheep " are the nnocent, obedent, natural le orces o the conscousness These thoughts aggregated make the personalty, or " man," who goes n and out, and s saved by the AM _ The " theves" and: "robbers" are those deas that come nto conscousness rom the outsde, and steal away our vtalty They are legon Lookng to the uture or happness s a the, and robs us o the joys o the present Regrettng the errors and losses o the past s a great robber o vtalty The nnocent le substance o our organsm s depleted and slan daly through our dependence upon some materal remedy as a vtalzng agent The bele that certan drugs are toncs and buld up the system, s a "the" Dependng upon these thngs robs us o that true nner realzaton o Dvne Le, whch comes through the AM door alone One may have temporary le through the many artcal sources, such as stmulants, electrcty, magnetsm, etc, but the true abdng le comes rom the One Dvne Mnd That Mnd s made up o deas, and among them s the dea Le When man grasps ths Truth, and through hs own AM arms, "am Le," he has ound the Good Shepherd that eternally gves ts le to the sheep The "hrelng" state o mnd s where one s constantly lookng or rewards Ths cultvates selshness, whch s the oundaton o ear One who puts 1 money value upon all hs work, and expects pay or everythng he does, s cultvatng a dependence upon temporal thngs or hs exstence, and wll eventually nd that n the Kngdom o the Real he s counted but a "hrelng " The AM must know the Father, and' the Father must know the AM Ths means that we must become acquanted wth God n our AM demonstratons Ths s a pont o vtal nterest to metaphyscans Everywhere people are catchng the mental phase o New Thought, and usng t successully to a certan pont then somethng comes up that they cannot wthstand, and they "go all to peces" The reason s they have not worked under the gudance o Dvne Mnd the Father and Supreme Wsdom o man and the Unverse When one works under the gudance o*the Father he loses all thought about hs own welare hs le or how he s to be supported He knows that he wll be taken care o, and he reely pours out hs le-gvng thoughts to all When one n ths supreme trust and realzaton o Dvne Le, "lays down hs le," he merely gves up the dea o personal le Ths lettng go, or gvng up the thought o personal le, eeds the sheep by openng the way or the descent o the Sprtual Le, whch s the real ood, or vtalty Layng down the mortal thought o le, and takng up the Sprtual dea o Le, opens the door to the realzaton that the AM has ceratve power, and can express the le manestaton or wthdraw t at wll '' have power to lay t down, and have power to take t up agan Ths commandmen' receved rom my Father"

5 February 14,1937 John 10:1-16 (See February 21, 1932 or scrpture) 1 NTERPRETATON EXPLAN THE SYMBOLSM OF THE AM 1 The AM or the dentyng prncple o con-, scousness s the door to man's mnd and soul, J and to the entre nner kngdom The Good Shep- herd also represents the AM WHAT DO SHEEP REPRESENT, AND WHAT S THE PORTER? 1 Sheep represent thoughts, andthe porter s the 1 wll HOW DOES ONE THNK N ONE'S HEART? Snce the heart s aected by the emotons t s accepted as the seat o eelng or subconscous thought Man s conscous o the thoughts o hs heart as mpulses only, not as thoughts; but as he contnues to hold a thought subconscously t gans n ntensty untl t comes to the surace as conscous thought NAME SOME OF THE THEVES AND _BOBBERSOFpTHOUGHTrl_ Hypnotsm, alcoholsm, the drug habt, the mental tyranny o parents over grown-up chldren, and so-called psychc nluences are all theves o man's ndvdual thought NTERPRET THE STATEMENT "THE SHEEP HEAR HS VOCE" a Man learns to control hs thought le through J attenton, study, and practce as well as through prayer When hs thoughts become orderly and j obedent to hs wll, t s then that the sheep J hear hs voce WHAT S MEANT BY THE VERSE " WHEN HE HATH PUT FORTH ALL HS OWN, HE GOETH BEFORE THEM, AND THE SHEEP FOLLOW HM: FOR THEY KNOW HS VOCE"? j

6 (2) Ths means that the man who s able to correlate hs deas and rom the resultant product go on to new and better ones, becomes a leader n the thought world, creatng new deas nstead o 1 acceptng those already thought out by others J TO WHAT ABE THE CREATVE PROCESSES OP THE MND AMENABLE? Only to the wll o the AM Creatve thnkng mples true sel-expresson HOW S MAN SAVED BY THE AM? By the Good-Shepherdng o hs thought powers, or by hs learnng to thnk n harmony wth dvne law and thereater controllng hs thoughts accordngly, man s saved The AM s the Good Shepherd that eects hs salvaton

7 -3s* F e b r u a r y 2 1, 1943 Sunday, February 23,1947 _ j n d J know -them, and Aeytollow, John 10:y,-16 a-sssgg $&-;& sne To be conscous o our thoughts 7 Jesus thereore sad unto them agan,; ^ J co c o n t r o l and'drect them: s t o -shepherd layeth down hs le or the shee! -Verly, verly, say unto you, am the -r 12 He that s a hrelng, and dotm Y dooro the sheep gam mastery over le - shepherd, whose own the sheep are not,t3 % 8 All that came beore me are theves What «'** ^ 0 0 /» * J ^ ^ J holdeth Ae wol comng, and leavea :ja and robbers: but the sheep dd not hear The AM Through t we shepherd sheep, and lee A and the wol snatchej \ them o u r Aoughts and lead them to conaem, and scatterea them: Q - am the door; by me any man s t r u c t v e conclusons, 13 He leeth because he s a hrenj enter n, he shall be saved, and shall go ^ hg ^ ^ r ^ subcomcous and carea not or Ae sheep *j n and go out, and shall nd pasture 14 am Ae good shepherd; and8 10 The the cometh not, but that he thought? know mne own, and mne own know rojj may steal, and kll, and destroy: came The heart or emotonal nature 15 Even as Ae FaAer krowea ml that they may have le, and may have t, Why do we need to learn control and know Ae FaAer; and lay down rrj \ abundantly o our subconscous thought as well le or Ae Aeep 11 am the eood shepherd: the good ~/- -;» as 16 And oaer Aeep have, whch arl shepherd layeth down hs le or the sheep our ^nsctous thought? not o As old: Aem also must brna 12 He that s a hrelng, and not a As long as a thought remans n the k shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, subconscousness t orms a bass or and they Aall hear my voce; and Aey Aaj become one lock, one Aepherd beholdeth the wol comng, and leaveth mpulses and desres Unless these dehow -s-t that the "good shp : the sheep, and leeth, and the wol snatch- s r e s ^ mpulses m controlled and layeth down hs le or the sheeptk eth them, and scattereth tbem:,, J L, T, -,,, The ndvdual AM, A e Chrst j : 13 He leeth because he s a hrelng, drected by A e AM, they are lkely to us, dentes tsel wth A e unversj and careth not or the sheep " lead us to ll-consdered acton _ AM, A e Chrst, and becomes t 14 am the good shepherd; and know s suggeston sometmes permssble "good shepherd" t draws and orn mne own, and mne own know me, as a orm 0 thought control? ts Aoughts rom A e true deas 15 Even as the Father knoweth me, e s, as a temporary expedent uny r and know the Father; and lay down my,,, ',; unversal mnd These Aoughts a der ; He or m e s h e e p certan crcumstances suggeston s A e "sheep" wa w h A A e shephe l 16 And other sheep have, whch are u s e u 1 ' but t cannot be used * a becomes denaed and to whch H not o ths old: them also must brng, means o developng power to thnk* gves le n ullness and rchness, and they shall hear my voce; and they orgnally or ndependently, A e AM gves sprtual le to Aoug shall become one lock, one shepherd Explan the meanng o: "They,; dented wa t The lmted Aougl V 17 Thereore doth the Father love me, hdl hea VQ; and they shau l l e :hmjjeemgyenj^"pr'a_emhne g m e : lay down my he, that maytoke^ ^ ^ ^ckr:^^hed!l^ one ^^6/l^o'rnK^^dt^^TC^~mX^ When we accept Ae wordbtttru ; o sprtual conscousness What are some o the theves an), but lay t down o mysel, have power ; ( A e Chrst) and enter the Chrst conrobbers that steal, kll, and destroy th to lay t down, and have power to take scousness we nd Aat all persons are ag COmmandment receved 1 "sheep"? \ * m ' Father ' chldren o God, alke n Hs sght n my l Hypnotsm or A e puttng to slee " tme to come all wll be one great S«= world under A e auaorty o A e } o AconscOus mnd ana wro oa Why s t essental or us to learn ; person by anoaer n order to mpres r Chrst to control our thoughts? A e Aoughts or deas o A e hypnos Because t s Arough A e proper deon A e subject s a Ae and a robbe: [velopment and tranng o Ae mnd 'Alcoholsm s a Ae Aat steals A [and soul Aat we enter A e kngdom reasonng mnd as well as A e wll t< [o heaven or realm o genune peace ; reason, substtutng heedless mpulses and abundant le As we thnk, so we T h e drug habt s anoaer Ae o wl [are Uncontrolled thnkng makes our : power and ratonal conscousness Th le more or less chaotc and rre\ mental tyranny o one person over a n l sponsble oaer s a destroyer o ntatve andj What means o control do we use? ndvdual responsblty ' ' The AM n conjuncton wth A e hll % By what are thoughts dn ths lesson? represented

8 February 21, 1943 John 10:27-30 $ 27?, My sheep hear my voce, ahc know' them, and they ollow me: 8 And gve unto them eternal le; a they shall never persh, and m one ;shall snatch them out o my hand, 29 My Father, who hath gven them 1 unto me, s greater than all; and no one s able to snatch them out o the Father's hand 1 ^30 and the Father are one ^ n tranng our thoughts can we' grve a»/o them eternal le"? " By dentyng ourselves only wth 1 true thoughts and deas and provng ;both n our daly le, we gve them vtalty and permanence 1 How can we make the closng a-,j rmaton o today's text our own n a practcal way? " and the Father are one" We may use t n the same orm n whch Jesus stated t, or we may say, " am one wth Dvne Mnd, and thnk dvne thoughts"