""_"_~~ -~ "--"'---~_-"-~-"'~'" '~""~"~"" ""~c""" " The text of our lesson relatea to the JehOTab God told hm to leate hs k1ddred h18 home all A1a attachments 8Z1d go to a cotmtry whch he would show hm Abrahan waa obe41ent s: he was nspred or moted b1 that hgher pr1dc1pl W thn h1mt 8:ld W8 hate n that movng 5p1rt when he offered to aacrf1ce on the mount hs &On saac Where Abraham lt8d 8 unkdown 2 r land of Ur may have been n Kesopotsma or Egypt or nda We gather fro:~! ~ t f the meanng of these names somewhat of the localty For example 1 f Abraham or Abram as the name was before t was changed to Abraham s very! \ f f closely alled to the chef Hndu dety Brahm and t has been argued l by some people that ths refers drectly to the orgn of Abr~~ that he was a BrahmA~ and came from nda and that was hs h)me and he receved ths nspraton to go over nto the land of Ca~~~ and actng upon t he UNTY SCHOOL OF CHRSTANTY UNTY ARCHVES
r 3 t' ~~~= became the founder of a new race We don't speculate upon these ponts :~'e fnd t more proftable to ~eculate f you wll on the meanng of the characterstcs or those qualtes Whch ~bram or Abraham aoted out ~hose we hold are of practcal value n ths age n ths day whle the hstorcal Abram s of no specal nterest to us tny more than Roan hstory or Greek hstory or any other of the great oharacters of the )alt l ~ _c~"~~" :' 4 c~=:c --c ': We know that Abram represents fath and obedence oombnaton of facultes or powers n everyone of us and that by lettng the spr tual nner meanng of these symbols --Paul the great nterpreter of the Bble says that Abraham and Sarah represent certan allegorcal Characters and that these characters are really the chur~ and the Lord ~ He gves t a lttle dfferent nterpretaton from 'M1at we do but the same Ị t! 1;" - :F ~ t~: "t ~: F ~ ; c -~
"C dea prevals that t s symbolcal that t represents somethng tor ~e benett of every man n every age Bow we ~nd that n Chrstanty there s the untoldment n us of certan nnate powers These are -~~ brought out n well n certan records n books lke Plgrm's Progress There s the unfoldment ot the Chrstan charaater gten n an allegory but no one accepts that as really true so we should not accept ths 6 scrpture especally the trst tte books of MOses as absolutely and hstoraally true t may have hstory as the foundaton but all the detals have been worked ~ nto an allegory for the beneft of all people who are progressng sprtually and t you are progressdg sprtually f you have aooepted the unknown and unsung God as your God and you are e~anddg growng n fath you are n the Abram conscousness
; \ 7 f \ Xow Abram represents that qualty n eterl man whch at a 88rtan stage oft t hs soul untoldment begn to expand; from hatng ta th n the three ; t! dmenson world he begns to thnk about a sprtual world and the majorty t of people exercsng ths new expanson of fath locate ther sprtual world ; oft n the skes or tar away to be attaned at a future tme but you # j t wll obserte f you read the 8crptures carefully that they deal nether t ~! 8 -""":"-"""":""-'-""'--=':' w th the past nor the future n the Tery begnnng we are told that God n a begnnng not n the begnnng not n a defln te begnnng but n a cont nuous begnn~ the begnnng s at all tunes So we hate our 8crpture ms~terpreted mstranslated to ft the deas of a man lke n the day of judgment --now there s no such meanng attached to the word by Jesus but "n a day of judgment" Days of Judgment are oomng all the tme The judgment s s~11 the harvest of [
- 9 : ":~~' :; ~ :" a certan thought process and f you are reapng JOu have a d&'1 of judgment - ~~ 'r" t Tha t reapng 1s always of thought proces8es We would understand our : thnkng processes better f we knew the key to ourselves We could see! : rr at once the analogy the oomparson n these allegores but the ~ pont : ta the lesson ths mornng s to relate ourselves n our unfoldment to ths l f! Jbram or ths Brahm unfoldng n U8 That s what the lesson e Brahm ~ ; ; "! f 10 1 ~ 1 1 :j" ; 8 the name of our God Brahm s the Eloktm That word comes from an old old word long before the Hebrew language was nvented t means the God 'Wlversal; t means that omnpresent prncple out of whoh the Lord God ~ \ or Jehovah god oomesthat God that Jehovah God s God dentfed a large J expanson of man a man that we are all strvng to attan the perfect Unage and lkeness or the projecton of the nfnte mnd Now that projecton of the 1ntnte mnd s gudng and drectng everyone of us jre we lten~
f~'~ C' - ~; t 11 ~c t c1 0} J;"c "c; y~cc f]~c f' :;; f' and f we are l8tenng are we obedent? We must have fath n thngs j ~n That s the frst test of the Chrstan to have fath n the nvsble God and when that fath begns to open up the realms of thehuman f ~ sght then you must be obedent to that nspraton Whatever comes to you t f 8 for your followng Now many people have fath but they are not 1 t obedent They are not loyal; they do not follow that nspraton and they -f f\:-"' ;; c ~;= 12 fall short of the reapng They don't get the bett but ths Abram f; r type s one n whch every man follows what he sees as true Now n thl day we are begnnng to see great truths we are begnnng to see n our mnds the prncple and yet we are so far beyond the present ~ace evoluton so far beyond even our own demonstraton Many of us sde-step when t comes to followng to dong that whch we know s true n the prncple We put
lz t off ~e say "Well that s true; can see n the ~rt n the logc o~ Truth that that s true but the tme sn't rght tor ta practcal applcaton : c ~ Here s where we fall short of the Abraham conscousness Abraham was obedent ~ " r- we are told He left hs kndred; he l~t h country and went nto a new cottntry a' country n Whch he was promsed he would be blessed he would become the Father ot a great naton that many should be blessed thro~h hm[ 14 cc'--1 f;1~"""~-~ f low ths dea ot blessng has ~ M back ot t the thought of ncrease J that some great good comes through blessng Dut here n ths allegory " s emphaszed the dea of a great ncrease that anould be ncreased lke t the stars of the heavens or the sands of the seashore that all natons ' should be blessed through Abraham fath and obedence Now that apples to everybody every man woman and chld Who accepts the dea of the omnpresent
15 '1 God and through acceptng ncreasng and mul tlplyng everythng that s n r the deal n other words you ar~ to make tangble and real those thngs you have dealzed Now we dealze God we dealze heaten we dealze angela but 10 they take on tangblt~t Nearly all of our e~erences wth those ntangble thngs has been m~ht say n the astral world that world whch sn't olothed wth lubstanoe and lfe t has left ts substance and 16 strength n the graveyard and s lvng n a world of lluson much more of an lluson than ths world But s there a real nvsble world that we are not seeng? say yes «ho 8e~1 tqat? Abraham How does he see t? t beoames tangble and real to hm have sad we clothe our deas of angels as somethng Tery fleetdg scmethng ephsneral but 8ubstantal and we put wngs on them to fly but we are told n the hstory of Abraham that three angels came to htm one day and they were olothed as human bengs
17 --"---~ -~ apparently and they ate wth hm They were real *angble beng' not wll-o-the-w~ angels Now that the result of fath and thnk that we ms_~~ who are today exercsng fath n the substance and the lfe of the nfnte mnd are gong to brng all of these people that lve n ~1rt not n the astral not n the Sprt world as t s usually understood but n a real omnpresent world say we are gong to brng those thdgs nto :f ~" c 18 c~ -" -:"~-:_-: ~- tangblty and t wouldn't be an unb8nal thng to talk and walk wth Jesus because he lves n that world and he wll become objectve to our sprtual objectveness e thnk we hate an objectte sght We are - lookng through a darkened eye; we are lookng through opaque eyes; we are not lookng through our real sprtual eyes but we see these pctures thro~h what mght be called a sort of clarvoyance; we see ~rely UNTY SCHOOL OF CHRSTANTY -"'- UN\TY ARCHVES
19 1- mages That sn't real There s a real tangble 8p1rtual ubstan~e and we are begnnng to tou~h that wth the rado; we are bsgnn1ng to fnd out the ubstan~e out of whoh the ~haqgeable trana1torj matter cane8 \ 18 the one subst&n~e As our 8cent8ts tsll us t has a pressure of 480 pounds to the square nch whle ths materal ub8tan~e only has a pressure of ffteen pounds You can Bee ths 8ubstanae of ~rt 8 real ~~ ;t 20 " ~:f' substance and th8 that we are dealng ~th sn't real substance t s only a ~rust n the great world of substance t s the outer expresswn how so let us get down deep nto substance and/shall we do that? By exerc8~ fath the substance of fath "Fath s the substance of thngs hoped for the evdence of thngs not seen" Are you exercsng that fath n the very substance of thngs You wll say "Well have fath n God" But do ~
21 '" J"c 1»-~'":~" you have fath ;;:c n God as a tangble rea11t)'? How h&ll you get ths r /; ~' fath Jesus dsc ples sad "norease our fath" 80 you must ncrease! your fath ETery one of us must grow wthn ourselves L new fath n God as substance God s Sprt What 8 ~rt? ~rt 1s lfe; 0 ~rt s substance; ~rt s power; ~rt s ntell1gence; ~rt 8 ~ love; ~rt s all those qualtes but are these tangble and real t" f c ' f 22 ( -'"--" l They are tangble and real to the one who has developed wthn hmself the facultes neoessary to attachng those qualtes So you can see that the whole stuaton detolves upon the ndvdual Are you exercsng fa th? Are you strengthe -ng your fath muscles'? Are you brngng out the fath body? The body has fath t surely can be made manfest f you are obedent to that hgher nspraton As say we must balance
fc' " 23 ~ these two qual t es and we tnd that n order to go nto ths new country or ths new place whch the nspraton ot the day bearng out and pontng out to many people we must let go ot the old; we must gve ~ the old country the old attachments we must as the Hndoos! teach detach ourselves from thngs of sense Bow ths s a lettng go f - f t 8 an elbn1naton through the power ot thought of those old attachment j 24}r- } " j t ~ ~ J "1 t t doesn't mean that we have to go off to any heavenly place but t means t~: that n our consco~nes8 we must let go of th three-dmenson world f and enter nto the fourth enter nto t oonso1ously md that means that we[ ~ shall gve ~ the old attachments be wllng to el~nate You wll \! fnd that Abraham was tred along varous lnes to see whether he was really ~ t: l t" ~ t wllng and obedent to the lettng go of the old and brngng n the new ~ t
~; " 25 -~ wc ~' he had to deny the world tho flesh and the devl He dd that as Jesus Chr1st dd t He was the forerunner of Jesus Jhrst n our conso ousness He too:c that denal of ma ter and as Je8\ls sad "There s no proft n the lea1'" Jesus Ghrst gave that n the words "The flesh profts noth111(;" You can't get an;y ncrease out of the flesh t s the S~lrt ~t quckens Flesh s~ly works tself over and ~ver nto 1 c " - ~""'c;:;:;;:~~:" J 'w c 26~~:C; dfferent forms but f you aome nto the sprtual conscousness that ~rtual conscousness s blessed Now f you take u p your problems - and begn to ~rtual1ee your conscousness by thnkng about Sprt by thnkng about God as Sprt and belevng n your unty wth that c ~'prt Md blessng callng down ths power of the nfnte Sp~rt upon all of these thngs these deas that le back of the Tsble world you t
2'1 t::l ~~-;=~-- wll begn to ncrease That 1s the real growth that 18 the real ncrease' ;c t t 1s through the power of J'Our word of blessng and as say blessng s1 a form of ncrease You can ncrease aa J'Ou have doubtless heard agan and! agan the very plants that grow under your teet by blessng You can ncrease the ntellgence n your chldren by prasng and blessng that ntellgence You can ncrease the ntellgence n J'Our own bran cells "t -~- -'- --- -f ~ ~" 28 -:;_~~~"";"::::-::::: by prasng and blessdg those bran cells You can ncrease all the dfferent organs the effcency of the organs of your bydy by )lessng and JraaDg them or as Jehovah sad to Abraham " wll curse those that ourse you" and here agan the power of the word works adversely t you the allow that thought of/adverse or evl Be careful how you curse haw you condemn how you look upon the evl or error ade because you get!
"_~ ~~; 29 results there Here s the law worked out beautfully but we know that law so well that we don't ~end much tme n the detal of t but we are held to Ule detal when we come to the ultmate of expresson ( Now there are some hgh ponts that are struck here n the evoluton of ~a fath n Abraham One s the offerng of saac on the mount Abraham was to~d to take hs son saac and go up n the mount and offer h~ upon 30 \ ;"-~;~'-:;"'-"z_"='='- the altar as a burnt offerng whch he dd and &S he was about to carry out ths part of obedence and loyalty to the law he heard a voce and t sad "BOld thy hand" and he looked around and there was a goat or as one translaton says a ram caught 1n the bush He was told to take that and offer nstead of hs son saac Ths s symbology also Now as we study the meandg of the dfferent words we fnd saac me8zls "laughter Joy the joy of lfe" and that comes from the pleasures of sensaton
31 fz~ The sensatons of the mnd n ts ccntact wth the body brng great Joy - : and t s through thos that we attach ourselves to the fleah Now a detachment must come before we can e~andbefore our bless~8 can be receved ~ nto the heavens and here agan we fnd ~t there must be ; ~'" t! obedence and wllngness to gve up the pleasures of sense and you know that s one of the tests n the Lord's Prayer we are told "Lead us \ ' ;'-'--- '~f'- 3 2 Co ~t L not nto temptaton" whch s a false tran81aton The rea! meanng s: Co{ f )- "and abandon us not n the hour of tral" That s the real meanng of that c r ; scrpture n the orgnal "Abandon us not n the hour of tral" Wow l there are hours of tral and those hours of tral are when we are absolutely wllng to gve up sense pleasures that we may receve sprtual satsfacton and joy We all know that there s no real satsfaoton n sense pleasure f t -~" ~---~-
" 33 ' You are always wantng somethng just a lttle more or there s always a reacton n sense pleasure there s always that knowledge of good and evl or pan gong wth the pleasure But n ~1rt when we get nto sprtual conscousness we fnd a perpetual joy and that 1s what we are all seekng s ths place of contnuous everlastng lfe and the queston 1s: How shall we attan that? By beng wllng to gve ~ the joys of (" ~ 34 ~1 ' sense and enterng nto that nner conscousness and sayng to our Lord: " am obedent; am wllng to gve up all the pleasures of sense" That s your only son that a your beloved one the pleasures of sense and you call t by all of ts varous names but t s one ts orgn t s n one and that s sensaton But 1s sensaton evl? 1'0 s sensaton the serpent? Yes but the Lord Lod made the serpent He _C'Ccc
31 s~ly tempts us on the fleahly sde He needs to be ltted ~ and here : j agan we hate ths ~bol of the lftng up of the sense oonsoou8ness by ;t Abraham's wllngness and obedence knd when he reached that pont where he was absolutely obedent and wllng to gte up hs sense pleasures he tound at once he ddn't really have to gte up the Joy the pleasure of that great avenue of expresson He only had to gve up ts phy8cal or " t ' " f~ E~-::=:- 36 sense sde of t He had to sacrfce the ram You know what that means You know what the ram stands for and represents and you wll fnd that f ~u wll gte up that dearest ot your pleasures and offer t upon the altar of the Lord God Almghty you wll receve a blessng and you wll fnd that you don't have to gve up pleasure at all There s ~re joy and more pleasure n one moment of sprtual ecsta8y than there s n a lfe ttme of '-' --c
( physcal ecstasy Remember that and f ~u want real Joy enter nto the joy ot the Sprt You wll fnd that n the ~1rt all ot ~ur t - f -pleasures wll be ncreased a thousandfold The comparson of the stars or! -c [ " \ the sands of the seash:>re was nadequate to the joy you wll get out ot WZ-f'" rc lfe the pleasures of lfe everyth1~ n lfe when you take t to r " cf: the Lord when you take t n ts sprtual lght and realze there 1 the lfe of God manfest n man f : ( -'" \1~\S\\~ Of C'r' U~\~ SC\-\OO\ \)~\\"l ~ ~C\-\\\}fS \-{'(