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1 ," ClIARLES & CORA FILLMORE 0 10/23/41 THE MYSTERIES OF THE FOUR GOSPELS V.Matthew 26:26 to 30 nal. - Charles Fllpora: Th Blood and Rod, of the Chrst Our subject today s the 'Blood and Dody of. the Chrst'. WI arn goh to sng No.252, - mullc of 251 and vords of 252. I vll now read the words of the frst verse: That s Now Glory for Me. Banshed all burdens of sorrov and pan 2.Lfe, lke a rver of nfnte My soulls aglow vth an nfnts flame; grao/, My voce exultant,now gngs ths rfran Mrrors the lght of hs glorous Anthem of flory, 0 glory for mo. face, Chorus: Makng of earth, a most heavnly 0$ That s nov glory for me, place Glory for me, Glory for ml Flled vth hs presence, 0, glory For by hs graol,i now look on hs face; for mel That le my glory, 0, glory for ml That was so good let' s do t agan. (Mr. Franghser:The whole thngl C.F. The vhole thng.) That'g sur fne. It was worth repeatng, wasn't tt Let' s all jon n the Lord's Prayer:(repeat)...Amen. Cora Fllmoret Modtaton: I have a vord to say n regard to those who are workng for credt: please wrte the number of the lesson - 1,2,3,4,5 eto Also ve got one or two papers where someone had forgotten to sgn hs or her name. Put your name on them. Now as you knov, our subject for ths course of les,ons s "THE MYSTERIIS OF THE FOUR GOSPELS*'. Today s the Ffth lesson n the o ourse. Our lesson today s the o hapter of Matthow 26, vors from 26 to 30 nclusve. Ths s park of the tocount of the Lord's Supper or the Laet Supper, just before Jesus' Wruafxon. In t ve read: (26.)And as they wers eatng, Jesus took bread, and blessed t, and brake t, and he gave to hs dscples, and sad, Take, eat; ths s my ' body. (27.) And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gage to them, sayng, Drnk ye all of t; (28.) For ths s my blood of the covenant whch s pourld out for many for the rmsson of sns. (29.) But I say unto you, I shall not drnk henceforth of ths frut of the vne, untl that day when I drnk t nev wth you n my /ather's kngdom. (30 ) And when they had sung an hymn, they vent out nto the Mount of Olves. Now the great queston has beon and s: HOW DO WE DRINK THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST and EAT OF HIS BODYI In the orthodox church they Eake Holy Communon of a lttl oeremony by eatng a crumb o f broad ond sppng a lttle vne, and through ths outer servc affrm they have drunk of the hlfla.andtagtd of the body of Jesus Chrst. Now of coure, tht, 5 does not satsfy the sprtual metaphyscan. WI take the Bble, as you all know, and 1 1 resolve t back nto the prmal deas. We consder that the whole Bble s a desorp- f ton, or a hstory v mght say, of each soul n ts unfoldment from the mortal to the sprtual plane of conscousnees. In order, therefore, tonfnk of the blood and to * oat of th, body of Jesus Chrst, tha frot stop s to RESOLVE THIS WIDLE TI:ING BACK INTO ITS PRIMAL IDEAS. The broad has back of t the dea of LIFE. The body has back of t, as you all knov, the dea of substanc...the st; stance dea. And to approprate the LIFE and the SUBSTANDE of Jesus' BODY must take place through the actvty of the mnd through the mos t hghly acolerated ao tvty of th mnd. There would be no other vay, would ther,1 We as a race have settled do/n and become so crystallzed untl our flsh s not muah more than a mre c rust. Now you know, ve all know, ve should have radant bodes should we notl WI should have llumned bodes, f your wll, electrcal bodes. That' s Ihre w should be n sprtual unfoldment today. Jesus Chrst, through.1 /prtual realzaton, through scentfc prayer, through sprtual revelaton attaned all ths. of hs Through ths procoss, ho was constantly renavng soul, through th renevng mnd,-and we know the body s the frut of the soul,-and vas transform/d nto purs sprtual Insence. Agan, we all know rght here at Unty, ve have been nstructed all through the years, that fhrough Jesus' experence on the cross, he lowered hs conscousness to that * f the raco and thereby vas enabld to admnster to the race a wonderful blood transfuson vhch ve all understand so voll mplanted n both soul and body the mood of.. eternal lfe here and nov--ths seed of dvne substance, here and now. '' Jesus Chrst broadcast, f you please, the electrons of hs blood, the electrons of ' '

2 -2- hs body, nto the wholl rac tmopherl. Bhs vhat a vondorful aohevemntl, And today all *to apprhnd ths truth, all sokr, souls, merely partak, of ths thought atmssphrl, of ths dvno sood. Today all of us ho ar ap ProprAtng ths eloctrons, v ar boomng onter of Inergy. Ve are bcanng confers of suprtual substance. Thus ve are bong avod through the bood of J/sus Chrst Today, all 1,40 ar, workng dlgntly n the slno--and ve know a grr,t many n ths room ar.-are layng hold of a nov lfe germ. TOU feel t, can you notl V. ar layng hold of a nav substance ger and v rally ar layng hold of a nv Rental qualty. And n many, ve fnd evdenoes of a ner ralant boly comng nto exprosaon. W. aro very cary thankful for thos* vondorful truths hoh ve hav ha the prvlg of approprlatng and are really realzng for oursolves. WI bdn ths transformng proos,s wthn, do n nott At th vry cor of bengl Ant Ihn v do fnally reaoh th surfc vs ar fully transfer=d. Horever, Jou Chrst s the only ona who has rally m#18 ths domonstraton. In tle conneton, Paul sad, n spankng of Jous Chrst, -WI vet h= n th ar' or v reals ths radant body temple vhoh Jesus Chrst damonstratod so boautfully. Nov to drnk of th blood nm eat of th body of Jesus Glst, ve mut take the dea of blood, whoh s LITE, and th, da of body, vhloh l SUBSTAl:CZ--take ths mghty deas nto #110 slonee an.1 rally cloth, os, deas vth lfe and substanco. W. hn, 96ghty work to do there. Ve rust o lothe them deas vth tho realzaton not only of Lf and Sltance, ve must elathe thn vth SOUL, ve must actuals th m deas. W. must realze -h of those lss s a nkhty magnet funotonng n Ood-Mnd-- functonng to the dogr t oan at*,ant to t all the lf-gvng, pover-gvng Sprtual 01*ments and thus dmonstrat to th fulness, really brng nto mantlestaton th dvne lfe, the dvne substance of Josus Chrst. Thus 1,0 re transformng tho soul ant rally unfoldng th dvne sprtual body. Now ths s th tm for prry,r. Th/ povr of prty,rl What a wonderful thng t s. May v all wth on* accord turn vthn an ralz that throuh pre/or the /0 A po,- rful force s gneratod n all the.arth. Pray r calls for th very hghest Ratvty of the mnd, th, most Rooelent,4 mnd aotvty, the nost ponrful n all the unv rs/. Wth on, accord, lt us n prayer, throulh alntfe slne, seek tho Prosnge of,god, where Gol' s wsdom nd 1010 an,1 pover ar* gonratd drat, drect from the Itornal Prsenal whch gve us gradually, subtan, lfo, u nothng elso san. Ve hold our Idnds st,adlly on aod, the on Sourg, realsm through Jesus Chrst that nothng possbl to us, n take ths statament: GOD'S PURE LIrt, SUB)TANCE AND INTILLIJKNCE RIDIEWS lt SOUL AMD CLEANSES AND RENS,18 1.T JODY TZMPLS." I vll gv t agant God's pure lf, Substanc and Intollgenc nov redeem my oul, cleans and r,no, my body temple.* Together:(r p at). May vo n conclusong ralss the tru*phant maroh ef the ghrst thru th. soul conscousno,s; may v re lz ve aro clothl n bodes of ratant substanc, pure, holy, perfoot. In th Na#* of Josus Chrlt. Amen. LESSON CHARLS FILLWORE : I thnk you wll all agros vth no that the lesson today s s=thng of a nut to crwk, samethng 11 have to hnk ef n tho z,sury re ere studyngz HOW WI CAN EAT Tm BOOT 07 C!011ST AND DRINK HIS BU)03. You knot ve seek to resolve nto soentfe fantl, (that s realte that v can undrstand) 111 thos, statonents by Jesus Chrst. 110 are told that he spok. only n parables. So ths must ha a parable, and n wll have to get avay fron tho lteral eatng anl drnkng of th tody of JI,us Chrl st anl yot t must 1Ze; 6010:THDA. Wht 40,6 t mlly uu: That n aro 00 mang vth *hose eatng H t. 14 fnd t n all four Go pels: I fnd all through tho four Gospls: "Ths s ny body take and eat...thll le my blood' *Exeept ye ers the flesh and drnk th blood of th son of man, ye hav na lfo n you=... The are pretty bold statmnts. Th,y must have scontfe manng. I thnk narly *11 th, Epscopal poopl that I talk,4 vth toll m th, Igoopted t through blnd ( T) fath; the ddn't rally unlerstant, but they felt somethng, when they partook of the Swrament. oll, thrs s an nur sprtual co<prhnson or ackn* ledgment of oertaln truths that can't be outwrlly doman,trated. Ve get thom from the sprtual sde. Anl so th church has, all throush ts hstory, carrd as a vry n. portant part of ts rtual ths Lor's Supper, anl t has beon ntrpretl n many vays. Rov n the Cat/aht, th Shortr Catochs; I vll road you ths: Th Lord' s Supper s a Saorament whren by grl*k In rcevng breal and vn, aeoordng to Chrlt'l appontwnt, hs dath s shan forth, an th, vorthy rcev t nd are not, after a &- - chtse:i: 4%2d,1 9.9:f:IL,lt/.{919!1 to.'arlt' f z body and blood vth all I

3 the 1-3- Now that lon't Bo olear te m. I guess t s all rght f you know how to nterpret t from an orthodox standpont. - The Catholc C hurch gave power to the prests that through exaltaton,-es they call t,-of the Host,-that s lftng up of the bread,-he has tho ablty, the sprtual ablty to transform the bread nto the lteral body of Jesus Chrst. In other words, not very Lord' s Supper rpeats that process whch Josus Chrst told us of. Now ther, s no doubt that He had the realzaton of a body--hs body vass't just flash and blood, but t had scme elements n t that the dscples, or those vho looked upon hm, ddnt perceve and couldn' t fgure out, when they asked hs followers, end He sad, "Whom do they say I, the Son of man amt" And they looked at t from the personal: "Shou art Jeremah, or one of the prophete, or Elas con, to earth agan." But " he asked them, "Whom do It say that 1 amt" Peter saah, "Thou art the Chrst, the Son of the lvng God." Then he sad, "Blessed art thou, Smon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed ths unto thee, but my 1**llr n the heavens." Thatte tho sams Ntuaton as whn he told hs dscpls to eat hs body and drnk 1 hs blood--that was a sprtual roalzaton he understood and they ddn' t. It has taken us, (because we aro the followers) a long tme --and w have baleved ths to be a truth based on fale and acknondged t, anc epted t and receved a certan result. We have undoubtdly gotton th, beneft of the lftng up, the rasng of our mnds and our bodes because you cantt lft up the mnd wthout lftng up the body: They are lnked by an nvsble chan of nvsble elemants. You can call t--well.- sprtual lfe gorms; you can call t the radant substance. It doesnt matter so much what you eall t, f you admt that t s a fact--ths* there s an nvdble, radant body, and that. our bodls should be manfostng that radant body nstoad of th, slowed-down flesh-and-blood body. Now Jesus oame to brng to our realzaton ths great Truth that we wre not really lvng n the Kngdom of God. It s here. The poet says, "Enth s clad wth heaven and, every b#sh afre wth God ahd he Tho sees, takes off hs Ihoes-but the boots alt round and pluok blackborres." Now, that' s about the way ve lve n the vorld today. We dont see ths nvsble fre that Moses sav. Wo don' t see overythbng n the unvers s lt up, oustan,d by ths nvsble lfe and that nvsble subttanco. Why, don't ve realze tl Because we haventt attaned the ablty to see sprtually. How shall wo eae uprtuallyl Only through tho exaltaton, the lftng up of our sprtual deas, and that' s exactly vhat Jesus Chrst told us. As 1 Bay, we have boon for two thcusand years observng ths rt, ths o ormony, and yet t s only recently that the scentfc world has demonstrated for us that there e an nvsble electrcal body back of every body, everythng n the unverse. Everybody n the unverse s sustaned by an electrcal energy, an elec troal force and that that eleetroal force fonts the substance that we sae out/ardby. But that there s an csble substano also. Now as I say, ths makes fundamentally, makes substance, ths nner sprtual lfe and ts outor glow. But as Jesus sad, "Except ye eat the flesh and drnk the blood of Son of man, yet have no lfe n you." Ylls outer lfe ve are lvng, a transtory lfe. It s an ophemeral lfe--sn't real. It sn't real untl ve lay hold of the spr- 1tual sde. How mportant t n then that we eat ths Dvne SubBtance--that s, that we approprate the vtamns. They tll us there ara vtal pr ncplas n all the food we eat, but we oan' t get them wthout gong through a certan mental and physcal process. We have to strp the crust off the outer shell before we can gat that vtamn. That vtamn s what sustan the body, gves lfe to t. Now thre, you can see s the key. How can w get nto th s body consoousness and got that vtmnt through our nner eprtual medtaton, t frst, by realzng that va fundamentally are sprtual bengs, that we have sprtual mnds, and through ths sprtual mnd, we lay hold of these el*mente. Jesus told us, he sad man d not lve by brod alone, but by every word that prodooded out of the mouth of God. We do not lve by bread alons. We thnk outwardly, ve have to have food to eat. You don't have to have very much food to lat f you realze the elements n the food. If you knew where vtamns A B and C vere and from vhat certan foods to get those, you could eat those ans save yoursolf a whole lot of fuss n gatherng and cookng the outer food. Wa ar' comng nto that--and when we took p/t n the Lord' s Supper, nstead of havng Tne and bread to pass around, we would pass qround dvne deas, we would cultvatd that sde n our churches. We should have that brotherly love. That 18 where tha church got hold of ths holy communon, that they learn communty n sprt. You fnd people you assocate vth and you lve wth, there ls an ntellgent or nvsble substance there. You fnd that n ever,thl. you put soul nto t. I

4 1 substano -4- What s that soull What composes tl It s composed of those nvsble elments. - All those elements are capable of multplyng and ncreasng--vhy, and that s a ole, f, - - you, f you take the negatve sde and look on yourself as were anmal flesh and blodd, f you lve on anmal food alone, you don't get anywhere. Y,u really degrade yourself. You want to take the upgrade. See yours*lf Rs you ARE. Don't allow any nagatve thought to come n. I read 101On Henry Ward Belcher raceved some very flagrant lettero when he was preaohng and teachng, oapecally the abolton of slavery, he used to road them to hs class-the letters h got. Ona morn he got a letter--he brought a lottor he had just receved. On t vas wrton acrosa the face "F O O L" In bg lttere. He sad, "I rec ev qute a few lotters. Some wth no sgnature. But ths man has wrtten ht, sgnaturo clear across the faoe, wthout anythng else." That s what takes place n all of our experances. If we could throw t off n that happy way, lfe vould be smoother, vouldn't tl Now vo o an partako of ths sprtual substance--see t ag a happy somethrs, a somethng that has to do wth your walbeng. In ths axtract from the Gatechsm I read to you about 'ths vas part of the death of the Lords body', juat skp that-t sn't a body of death--jesus Ch lot ovroam dath, ddn't hot Ho lved, s contnung to lv, and ltvos rght today n our mdst, as dvlne s ubstance and dvne lfe. The mphas, hore confusng, n all of thes passages where he spoke of hs body: "Ths s my body whch was broken for you"...""my blood shed for you". Where ao th' words "brokon" and "shd" come n-where does that come n all Beo ause he knew how hm radanc ns. When ve are n assocaton wth those wo love, ma partake of ther radant bodes and ther radant blood. But to assocate wth a man who had the ablty to undrstand the lava of lfe to the pont he dd, tattate hs healng aharma ter, hs healng lfo, hs healng blood, t thrlls the attenton and the germ cell radates that state. We could all n Sprt rss nto a state of o onscousnoss, partake of and approprate t, s Ixactly what Josus Chrst means, ond vhat h dd and sklt we are just now begnnng to : reald that n our allent medtatons. "Sprtual appropraton", eatng of hs dvne subatanc, and our bodes vll bo ohang.d. Isn't that a wonderful propoetont You oan receve a bodly transfuson from the Lord Jesus Chrst at any tme that you realze that hs body s a radant body and that you can partake of t; that ve can, for example, take one of those dune (fne) cells, thol germ-alls of lfe nto tha mnd and t wll work untl t leavens through th whole body and transform the flsh. You can take one of the grms of tha blood of the Lord Jesus Chrst an eat t n our mnd by fath. le sad all ths was to.be don n rmembrano of hm. Thnk of Josus uhrst. Thnk of hm as rght here, rght now, as a radant spr- tual body, a radant lfe flow, and that we are all reooptve. WI are partakng of that I substance. We are drnkll, through fath, the Blood avorlastng, and our bodes changl. A gradual chang takes placs n the radanoe of the body. Tho blood arculatos quckly. 1 It s transformng nto radant lfe. Ths m the rea eatng and ral drnkng of th of the nner sprtual elootrans of lfe TE-The blood and-pklr of the Lord Zes CORA us Chrst FlLLWORE: Offrtory: Now la our tme for the offorng. You know as ve gv, we receve. Ther s a lm, of gvng and recevrg that apples there. W. would partake of the body of Jesus Chrst ve would drnk of he procous blood. Lat us take our offerng n our hande, rapeatng n ungon our usual statmnt. Togthr please: DIVINE LOVE TI{ROUGH ME BLESSES AND MULTI- PLT'151 MY OFFERING." (r,p,at twce mor) Aman. Blessng: Father, we thank Theo for ths g.nerous outpourng of ly dvne substance, n the Name of Jeous Chrst, ve thank Thee. An. C HARLES -MEALIN]IPOOL FILLMORE: Wa now roalse that the Body and Blood of Jesus Chrst are healng. Th,y are restorng us to our dvne nhertanoe- frst n the body. Jesus Chrst s here n hs sprtual body, that radant body. Jesus Chrst s here wth that lf/, that radlant lfe. By eatng t and drnkng t, vo come nto a now conscousness of 4 lfe and substanol; the vtamns - ve are told how to 0artake just as they had at the Last S upper, or Holy Gommunon, and realze through t, we are healed. Josus Chrst s healng us ass here and ve ara brought tqgther n sprtual o ommunon to eat t. I can feel rght nov the very Presenol of Jesus Chrst. The Presence s radatng a dvne bodly substance to everyone of you. Everyone of you. And you ara recevng L t n your mnd, tllat sprt eubstanc, and you are eatng and recevng lt, sprtual f

5 - k -5- ' * lfe-a blood transfuson, and your blood s beng transformd and renevd. In accord - - wth all ths, John says: Put on ncorrupton. Put on mmortalty, H Ths e the change Jesus Chrst has gven all a wonderful transfuson, a wonderful blood transfuson. We vll now thke ths for thos, who have asked for help, In Hs Name, thesm ndvduals vho have askd for ths new substance, new lfe to be made whole. CORAL Please jon vth us n the healng, prosperng thought: I wll read the names elently. For health and prosperty, llumnaton, fre dom. (her Arthur Beal played the most wonderful selecton --fn--hgh--and sweet, almost ethereal musc wth an exaltng, uplftng feelng that hushed every outer sense as one lstened, to now m*sc from the nv Vox Harmonca I beleve t 18.) If you have frends whom you vant to heal and holp, ask for Jesus Chrst to be wth them. Remember, no separaton, no dstance, no tme n Bprt; you are one wth your loved ones; your loved ones ar all ono n Sprt. Now ve ara askng that everyone of them whose names you are mentonng rght now wll be conscous of ths Body, the Sprtual Body holds the Sprtual Blood of the Dvne Self, through the Lord Jesus Chrst. Last weak wer receval accounts of eeveral healngs n the meetngs. For ths n are thankful. There s only one healng power, the Sprt of God, whch s nov workng freely through every soul n ths room. ClARLES FlLLMORE: You wll rse please. BEIBDJCTION: We are askng that the Lord J**118 Chrst shall be conscousnly wth you rhon you are partakng of your meals, havng dvno grace. Let' s everyono, lot' s rasolve when Te eat the bread or drnk that ve shall gvs thanks that the nner oprtual body of substance shall be manfest n our aubstance, n our bodes, and the wne we drnk ehall be made nto a fns lfe-gvng substance, energy and lfe. shall dart a nw knd of body, a new knd of lfe that REDEEMS AND RE- REMEWBER THIS, We STORES...n the Name of the Lord Josue Chrst Amen. 9