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2 rr =. r t.'.' ' # A'/ t I. :4 CHARLES FILLMORESUNDAY, JUNE, 930. L 2 INCREASING MAN' S CAPACITY,. Matt. 25:430. ) 2 The lesson today wll be compared wth that of last f Sunday, whch was the parable of the ten vrgns. Today, ;t 4 4 f 2 lesson when we found these ten v ns wthn ourselves and t s the Parable of the Talents. We had a very nterestng W....: b I._ saw how, through the applcaton of the sprtual law, we..._ r«. 4. were prepared for the advent, or the marrage, of the sprtual and the socalled materal conscousness. Ths s the mystcal marrage. The lesson last Sunday was one of watchfulness. "Be r ye ready" for ths new state of mlnd, or the development of : ths Superman n you. The lesson today s one of works; we. 'I 5 are to do somethng; we _have to apply these facultes, or these talents. *

3 fs.r=:r. 3 ' * ': A W. / 4 9 Last Sunday, the vrgns were warned to have ol n ther lamps, and to trm the lamps. We can all clearly use derstand that ths referred to man n hs sprtual substance, the conservaton of that nner, fner energy, whch we know s so essental to the buldng up of our facultes, to the restoraton and strength of the real mnd of the man. Also, we must purfy that substance, whch s represented by the trmmng of the lamps. Those vse vrglns kept ther lamps fl 4 trmmed and had ol n them, and we are those wse people f we understand somewhat about the law of mnd, and the adaptablty and capacty of the body to respond to that mnd : We have to sharpen up all these abltes before we can really enter nto the next great step n human.progress, whch s, mystcally, to put on Chrst; to be joned; to be T : marred to the Sprt, nstead of attachng Ourselves so Ill A nterestedly and so, sometmes, fanatcally to the materal.

4 ,"., '.tow E sde of lfe. These facultes, or talents, whch the householder was empowered to gve to hs servants whle he,ent on a long * journey nto another country, we know, represent the nnate. capactes of man. That s so smple and plan that we call our facultles, our abltes, talents, whch comes from ths parable l of the Lord Jesus Chrst and we 'know who the Gver of all, r I r thepe abltes s. We readly admt that they com from God. 6 But do we use them n a godlke way? Now, ths householder gave to hs servants fve talents, two talents, one talent; and we know that God s not partal n gvng Hs talents. They are all gven to us freely, and we all have access to all the talents of man; but, as Paul sad, t s accordng to our fath. The text of. the _lesson says he gave to the servants "accordng to ther several abltes." Ths s to show how same people brng

5 7.4 44'..:.. r,. 9.. RZ : E. forth ther nnate abltes, and others are rather lazy n r.. ther actvtes. We all must have the same fundamental, abltes, the same talents; and the dfference n the manfest f _ man le smply a dfference n how he has used hs talents. Jesus llustrated ths n the one who, accordng to the text, let hs talent, whch was really a pece of Roman money worth about a thousand dollars n our money. He loaned t out; he had ncreased t; gave t to the banker. 8 We mght nterpret ths lterally and say that Jesus was encouragng usury, but we know from other contexts that He dld not encourage the layng up of these treasures ln the #. earth, where, as Be sad, the moth and the rust corrupt, and. the theves break through and steal. It was of the Sprt that He was talkngthese hbltes n us whch may be used sprtf r. E. 7 ually, or they may be used materally. Here s the one great, pvotal pont n the lesson. How r f

6 9 are you uslng your abltes? Are you usng them sprtually? > or are you tryng to get ncrease out of a materal actvty? l It seems almost unbelevable that the son of Godone vho has, orgnally, an nsght nto hs sprtual Sourceshould use r hs godgven abltes n a materal way; but we.have here to nject ths factor of free wll. If we thnk that the materal sde s the safe sde, lke ths man who was workng for safety t frst, we bury our talents by usng them n the earth, by 0 l e '. r gvng them an envronment of materalty; and so we fall short. fve We don't realze that nnety/per cent of our resources come from Sprt; they are provded by God. A farmer wll say to you: "Look at the fne feld of gran that I have rased." But how much of that gran dd he really provde the envronment for? You wll say, "Very lttle."., # = He ddn' t even rase the seed; hemay have bought the seed. But the envronmentthe sol and the seed and the sunshne and *.

7 I.. / 4. the ran, and the dew, and the *nd, to blow the pollen through the ar, to fertlze that granyall came from, we call t the God, Nature, but back of nature s God Mnd. It s drected by an nfnte Intellgence. That same Intellgence drects and shows us where our abltes come from f we use a very lttle wsdom use that nnate logc and reason : I. whch s gven to you by. the nfnte Mnd, and.you cannot arrve t at any other concluson but that there s an nfnte Resource, 2 L and that everythng that you have comes from that. Why not I gve that Resource credt for t, and try to work n harmony wth the Gver? Ths nfnte Mnd s constantly gvng to us ablty to use our ablty. That s somethng that very few of us realze; that the Glver knows how best to use the gft. We try n our own selves, we try from the earthly sde, from the materal scfe, to ncrease our sprtual abltes; and there s always a contracton

8 3 I. ' materally ' when we/use a sprtual ablty, because t s lmted. We r. r have not found the real outlet, and the outlet s adway, n A f the Sprt. So we, as we study man, fnd that he s constantly.: reducng hls power to the thngs that seem to be. Jesus sad, ' "Judge not accordng to appearances, but judge rghteous. judgment." We must use the hgher wsdom n the exercse of tthe smplest thng. / U. 2 Now, ths man who had but the one talent thought, as he rl2.. 4 F. looked out nto the natural world: "What a hard God there s back of ths. I have to work hard for everythng I get. I earn a lttle food that I get from the earth by the sweat of my face, and I wll have to be mghty careful how I branch out; how I take any rsk; how I take any chance. I won't work on fath, but I wll just take what I see before. me. That s the lmt of my capacty." That s the man that dgs n the earth. He sees everythng

9 . 5.,. n ts lmted, n ts materal surroundng, whch s envronment. It s lmted to the man of the flesh, to the man of : small fath. L T We know that we are here for a purpos6. What s that purpose? to manfest the Son of God. Wll.you manfest the Son of God f you look upon the materal world as all, or that you are lmted to these small thngs that you are usng n your personal conscousness? Jesus taught that these people should en 6 large ther conscousness. He gave them these talents to use; but dd they all use them? All but the one manthe onetalent man. If that onetalent man had used hs talent lke the others. the Lord would have sad to hm; "You have been falthful over a few thngs, and I wll set you over many thngs. Enter nto the joy of the Lord." The onetalent man s the one who needs the most encouragement n the human famly, because he settles down wth the thought: "I UNITY ARCHIVES T 6 NNIFY SCHOOLDF CHRISTIANITY

10 r.. t. :z 7. F.': 5 haven' t any specal abltes. I was not born wth a slver / h. spoon n my mouth; and the best I can do s just to peg along. n the ordnary way." That man s dggng n the. earth and ' buryng hs talent, and he s not gong to get anywhere. But. I f r. that man would begn tothnk about beng a sprtual beng V. r... and that everythng he has s founded n Sprt, he could ncrease ; and multply and brng about n hs own envronment often a better condton for some one. He could sow n hs mnd and reap, I say; 4. t.* 8. that man could get somewhere. There s a parallel story n the Orlent to ths of Jesus Chrst, n whch a man, gong on a journey, had a h couple of bushels of gran. The people n these Orlental countres lve n a small world, and ths man decded to gve to a couple of hs neghbors each one a bushel of the gran, whch he dd. When he came back, he told the man that he wanted. hls corn agan. and one man went to.hs granary and took out a

11 L. 9 P bushel of corn, and he sad; "Here s your corn; I have put t n a safe place and have keptt for you." They opened the sack and the corn was moldy and rotten, and they had to throw lt away. I.. ' The man then went to the other neghbor wth whom he had left a. sack of corn, and asked for hs corn; and, nstead of takng hm nto the granary, he took hm out nto the feld and showed hm what he had produced n the years snce he left hm; and he had tz_. qute a feld of corn. When t was harvested, the man took just 20 hs sack of corn, and sad, "You can have the balance." Here s an llustraton of the parable that God gves the ncrease to man. But. f you are neglgent and lazy n your capactes, and especally f you confne yourself to the materal Ade of lfe, you don't get much out of t, and what you get doesn't amount to anythng. God doesn't count a man's materal possessons; God # doesn't count what we gan through the fvesense man. It s l

12 ,7. 2 r,. 5.. the sprtual man who s commended. It s the man who gets nto the arthe armnded manwho represents somethng n ths day and age and every age. _ We must use our mlnds more. When Joan of Arc told the people A E. of France that she had receved a message from God, they sad, "You are just lstenng to your magnaton." "Yes," she sad,."how else can God talk to us except * through our mnds?" \ 22 Can you magne Gods talkng to any one except through the mnd? Nobody has ever seen God face to face. The only evdence of God s some man or woman who acts n a godlke way. Bo we see that we must qut ths constant harpng upon the mportance of the materal world, and get nto another world.., To what was Jesus comparng ths lesson? the kngdom of the _heavens.it was M kened nto the kngdom of.the heavens." I f l Are you gong to t after you de? No; the kngdom of God s r

13 23 wthn you. That s what you are up aganst, every one of you: to fnd ths kngdom; and you wll never get nto the kngdom unless you develop these nnate sprtual facultes ', that gve you access to ths fourth dmenson, or ths kngdom of the heavens. We have often called your attenton to the fact that man., has, wthn hls body, bran cells that, once developed, would brng hm n contact wth a superstate of mnd. In other words, 2 24 the fner forces that we fnd n our bodes, n a latent way: * these glands that the medcal world ls talkng so much about and s tryng n'varous ways to nject nto man's body, to rejuvenate hm. What s the offce of these glands T They are the outlets of the mnde The soul acts through your ductless glands and brngs you n contact wth the Supermnd; and you wll fnd that as you develop ths Supermnd you begn to look up. You Vr. look to the top bran, and you wll fnd there bran cells and

14 I.. I 25 t. r 'LY r ' r k L _ the great pneal gland at the center of the bran, whch, we are told, s lke a halfopened eye. And, by the way, a French scentst has dscovered that I. # by stmulatng that gland he comes nto communon wth a F fourth dmenson, whch scence has been tellng us about. F. r /, The fourth dmenson becomes a tangble realty to the man 6 t. who sees wth the eye of fath. We have dscovered that; and just to the extent that we develop ths power to see wth the r 26 F:. t.. 2. F eye of fath do we come nto touch wth the kngdom of God..e f That s what Jesus was tryng to tell us about; to develop 7 I L... r... our talents, or our facultes, and brng them nto such expresson.., wth the nfnte Mnd that we would see and know about another F f t' knd of man n ourselves, and another knd of world. It s not I that ve shall always be confned to ths earth, but that we Lrz _ '.._ shall put onthe kngdomof God; and God ls here.., We have llustratons of ths power of the mnd to lft '

15 : man above hs materal surroundngs, to lft hm nto another kngdom. There are so many of these llustratons that we L ' could not, ths mornng, gve you onetenth of what has been.. accomplshed n the world about us n rasng man's conscousness. = n the last forty years, for examplp, wp have come out of a materal world nto a sprtual world. It s not behg called a sprtual world, but t ls; and on every sde we see people who have launched rght out nto the deeps of sprtual 28 cons c lousness, and yet they are not always credted wth havng what we call "common sense." They are called fanatcs. do e Naturally,/we thnk of or apply that word "fanatc" to people g, who are expermentng wth the body, or tryng to work out of the body sprtual and mental thngs? No; but aren't there materal fanatcs?. In the Lades ' Home Journal for June s an artcle called w "Consecraton," and I am gong to read some extracts from that,

16 I. 29 Fl... F. to show you what materal fanatcsm s. I call t a beautful, a tragcal example of expermentaton by a doctor on hmself, 2 L n the name of scence. I call t, "How He Klls Hs Body.". E ; It s called "Consecraton." It s llustrated, and there s a pcture of a man on hs deathbed; he s feelng hls own pulse, and t s gven to us as a noble example of what a doctor has 4+ / E submtted to. " L r "A doctor who had made heart dsease hs specalty was :.. 30 dyng of the dsease hmself, whle dctatng hs fnal symptoms to a stenographer, and denyng hs agonzed wfe a partng word. A wealthy man who had for twenty years supported the doctor n hs heart dsease research work, called when he heard that he was dyng. The followng conversaton occurred at the door of the slck man: " I suppose Doctor I,earnng s no better?n * "No, Mr. Otway, he's worse.' He,s dc tatng hs flnal _

17 ...., 3 symptoms," answered the secretary. "Dctatngwhle hel s dyng?" "He' 8 completng hs hstory of a vctm of heart dsease. He wants to leave a record of the sensatons durng the last moments of conscousness." "And does he know he s,dyng?" "In ths case, you see, he's nsde the patentwth a specalst's knowledge of the subject." / 32 : Ths was an llustraton of a man who had, as we would say, dug n the ground, and was tryng to hde hs talent n " the body. Now, "In certan strctly materalstc schools of medcne ths type of ' consecraton' s taken s erously but metaphyscans, and advanced schools of medcne, t s 'looked upon as 4. expermental fanatcsm. 3 E. "The power of the mnd s beng so unversally studed

18 33 n ths 'day that wellread doctors, f they do not apply n ther healng art the psychatry that belongs to t, are observng enough to avod beng trapped n the phantoms of the mnd that parade n the body as dseases. It s ptable that a modern doctor, who has access to the lterature and demonstratons of the many healng cults who depend wholly on the mnd for ther cures, should allow hmself to become 80 mmersed n the study of a dsease that he fnally falls 34 \ under ts spell and des a vctm of hs own mnd mpostons. "Hardboled doctors wll quckly argue that there s a L dstnct dfference between organc heart dsease and the magnary. r or phantom brand. But no doctor can.tell what causes the 7408 knds of heart trouble for whch he prescrbes. The heart and stomach are surrounded by the largest and most compll:cated E aggregaton of nerves n.the body. The emotons play pav ertully upon these nerves and organs and they are so sympathetcally '

19 I:.**Ort. F...: P P., CS lnked that what affects one s repeated upon the other. l Fear or joy cause the heart to go pttypat, and the stomach t. at the same tme forgets ts hunger. l F t: "psychology and medcne must march hand n hand, accordng to Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, Presdent Emertus of the school of \ medcne of Johns Hopkns Unverd y. Dr. Barker says that eadh physcan must be a psychatrst as well f he 8 to meet the J test of modern medcne. And he speaks as one of the leadng C 36 g & medcal authortes of the world. "In a newspaper ntervew Dr. Barker s reported as sayng: "' It s a new era n that we are at last consderng a man as a whole. We no longer try to dagnose hs psychc and hs physcal lls sepatately. They are so nterwoven that a thorough knowledge of each s necessary to the successful dagnostcan. I. "'The ancent Greeks were adept n psychatry. Before the knowledge of medcne, men learned to remove the causes of

20 37 52 :,3. E.* mental lls, he sad. But wth the advance of scence and the knowledge of chemstry, man came to treat hs lls as purely physcal and contnued to do so untl recent years. # M,Whenever a man became depressed, lost nterest n lfe,. andconsequently lost vtalty and weght, physcans were n,. clned to pour hm full of medcnes and drugs, 'Hs case was dagnosed as tuberculosls or some equally fearnsprng dsease. : 38 ",The fact of the matter s that a great deal of tredness, lack of nterest n lfe and depresson of all sorts are due to some dsorder of the personalty. There s a fnancal stran, a great dsappontment that has upset the psychc tran, a love affar or a dsagreeable and uncongenal occupaton. ":The mlder forms of ns anty came under the notce of physcans. The.study of psychatry arose agan. A few decddes ago some physcans realzed that the very physcalsymptoms

21 '39 5 n the mlder for/gs of nsanty were often present n a l. lesser degree ln many of thelr medcal patents. f ",Psychatry became a specalty. But medcal doctors stll r F... dd not connect t drectly wth ther professon. The old Ifashoned famly physcans often dd, however, wthout realzng t. He was practcng psychatry wth hs medcne when he sad: ", "Now you must not worry too much about Sally. She s n t _ love. You must dvert her mnd from the young man. See that she l 40 * r r: has new frends. She s not really ll."4 "' Or: "Now John, you must stop worryng about your busness. Leave t a whle. Go on a vacaton. Forget t and you wll come back a well man."' "wthe consequence has been that the famly doctor has P. often cured llnesses that specalsts have been unable to B _. / r fathom. The specalsts lacked the ntmate knowledge of the r.. famly condtons and the patent, s personalty: 'n

22 p.,st 7 #. * Dr. Barker says, n concluson: "I wsh to see every physcan dong conscously what the famly doctor dd wthout realzng t. And I wsh to see them have a knowledge of the relaton of the mnd and body as complete as possble at present." Ths that I have been readng to you s from a doctor who was for many years presdent of Johns Hopkns Unversty. We see that the doctors are awakng to the necessty of applyng.. L. r T + 42 r mnd to matter, and not contnung to dg nto physcal bodes expectng there to fnd the ssues of lfe. We all know that 2. our bodes are smply clay. Shakespeare says: "Imperous Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Mght stop a hole, to keep the wnd away." C 4 That s about all you could do wth your body after the mnd I' has left lt. Now, what are we gong to do? We have got to get busy

23 T unfoldng and sprtualzng more and more of our facultes. Many of us who understand ths power of the mnd and ts relaton to matter drop, almost unconsclously sometmes, to the materal bass of thngs. We treat the body as a pece of furnture that needs polshng up on the outsde, when t really needs burnshng up on the nsde. Let us get busy wth the nner man that Jesus taught about, and forget for a tme the outer materalty of thngs. r 44 God s Sprt; we are Sprt, and we really lve n a t sprtual world; but we shall never fnd t out untl we get sprtual n conscousness. We must lft our mnd from the world of matter to the world of Sprt. We must cease ths lvng n the world as a real world. It s not real. The world C about you s not real at all; t s just a reflecton of the _mrdof the pedp:le ; and f those mndswere wthdrawn for one / 2. nstant. everythng would collapse n t. When the mnd le

24 t V. ' ad «wthdrawn from the body, t just collapses. Let us buld the mnd nto every department of lfe. Let us patronze, f we have to have doctors, those who beleve n the mnd not the drug doctor, but the doctor who. has a sprtual dea once n a whle. Then the doctors wll awake, and we shall come nto unty wth the medcal professon. We shall see that they have'lost fath n ther drugs, whch L they have. I thnk no doctor has fath n the healng power of.. SE:.. 46 drugs. He thnks they are pallatve, and lttle bread plls once n a whle wll help those who beleve n those thngs. It s because the people demabd them. Qut demandng 7 those thngs that don't gve'you any added health. You wll get health only from the sprtual state of belng. Ths s the great lesson ths mornng. It s the lesson ' / that Jesus taught n the Parable of _the Talents.. UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY UNITY ARCHIVES