DEVOTED STRICTLY TO DIVINE SCIENCE AND THE CHRIST THE INTENTIONS of the editors of HARMONY are: To teach that God is infinite and ever present, and that there is no other Power or presence• That there is but one Life, Mind or Spirit. To teach the truth of the body, and its true relation to God. To show that knowledge and faith are realization and demonstration. That there is no religion beside Truth-than the Christ presentation of the Truth of Being. To supply a simple method by which all may practice their knowledge of Truth, and demonstrate the Christ method of healing. To supply to students and practitioners practical lessons in Divine Science and Healing. To bring about a Unity of Thought, Purpose and Work. To bring about a correct use of Terms that will truthfully convey the idea of Omnipres- ent Good, and represent the nature of our Being in our dealings one with another. To interpret Scripture, spiritually, from the plane from which it is written. To notice publications of the day, and supply interesting information of value to students, .IO IN AUSTRALASIA, ONE YEAR....5 8 Published on the Twenty-fourth of each month, and entered at San Francisco 32 CALIFORNIA HARMONY IS WISDOM'S WAY OF PRESENTING HERSELF. VOL. 18. OCTOBER, 1905. No. I. A WHAT WE NEED TO DO. Sunday Sermon by M. E. CRAMER, at the First Divine Science Church, "If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them." --John xiii: 17. | T-ONE-MENT is consciousness of Truth, and there is no consciousness but consciousness of Truth; there may be a suppositional consciousness of that which is not true, but that is not consciousness of anything that is, for that which is not true has no reality; at most it is but a suppositional hope that it may some time be consciousness. All consciousness consists in being conscious of at-one-ment with that which is real and is truth. The illumined of all ages have known this consciousness and have stood firm in its expression, eliminating all processes of becoming. In true and abiding faith, that faith which cannot be shaken, and which is one with absolute consciousness, we see that all hold the same relation to God. We see that we are of God just as Christ Jesus is of God, and as many as have accepted this consciousness and faith have been baptized into Christ and have put on Christ, and it is then known "there is neither Jew nor Greek ; there is neither bond nor free," but all are one in Christ Jesus, and being one our inheritance is the same as His. We are heirs of God-that is, we inherit God Himself. Not until we take the attitude of oneness with God do we acknowledge the Truth necessary to the demonstration of our inheritance, which is God's nature. When Jesus ascended in the presence of the disciples a cloud received him out of their sight. If one is standing upon the earth gazing up to God and heaven afar off, it is evidence of a belief of separation that may be likened to a cloud that obscures or hides from view what the true nature of Being is, and what and where heaven is. To stand firm in the consciousness or illumination we need to decide within ourselves what we know truth to be, then analyze, acknowledge and 4 HARMONY. practice truth. We need to deal with what we know, and not with what we do not know. Some who write to us for help enumerate a long list of things they say they have not. They say: I have no health; I have no harmony in my home; I have no strength; I have no love; my consciousness of truth is limited, and I have no time to study and apply it." "I have no money; I have spent all in search of the things I have not. I haven't the ability to succeed; I haven't freedom to do as I like. I am bound by every condition; by people, by tradition, by human beliefs and opinions." We think a good way to reach such, and to reach ourselves, if we are indulging the habit of talking negatively, is to make out as long a list as possible of the things we have and of the qualities of Being; then add to that list daily. We can work to bring out the nature of Being. We can also work with what we have, but no one can do anything with what he has not. sense of According to the above habit, people talk themselves into a lack and helplessness. Nothing is brought forth nor demonstrated through dwelling upon what we have not, or upon what we are not. As Phillips Brooks once said: "We need to deal with positives." In Divine Science we affirm we need to deal with affirmations of reality and permanent good. Should I ask you where you were going, and you were to reply: "I am not going to Washington," how would I know where you were going? Were I to ask you what you are at the present time, and you were to tell me what you are not, you would convey no idea to yourself or to me of what you are. As long as one attempts to build upon what they are not, but upon what they hope to be at some future time, they have nothing but negations in their building, and it stands on a shifting foundation. Should I ask : Are you truth now with its unlimited freedom?" and you were to say: "I cannot be absolute truth now, or I would realize it and be the Christ in realization of power." In that statement you would not even suggest, much less acknowledge, to yourself, to me, or to any one else, the truth of your Being, or the truth of your freedom; but no doubt you would be in a quandary as to why you did not realize freedom. Some seem to believe that the way to Truth is through error; that the way that leads to the unlimited nature of Being is limitation; they think that limitation and error are stepping stones by which they arrive at the limitless power of Truth. I listened to an argument by an English gentleman, recently, setting forth the view that the way to heaven was through hell. But verily I say unto you that all the way to heaven is heaven; it is the only way that leads thereto. Our way is not through hell, but it is the one and only way. I Am is the way, and we gladly let these words abide in us. He who said: Before Abraham was I Am, also declared Being to be the way, the truth, and the life. The way to Omnipresence is not absence; the way to health is not sickness; the way to eternal life is not death. What is, is not realized nor enjoyed through claiming what is not. All the Omnipresence is Omnipresence. All the way to health is health. All the way to eternal life is eternal life. We need no negative claims to take us to the presence of positive good; we do not need to indulge error to realize and practice truth. God needs no discipline through suffering to get at what He is, and the truth of God is the truth of man. The Allness of the All needs no process by which to arrive at the consciousness that it is. God is not reached through process and postponement. He is not known through contrast. He is His own order and eternal law of expression. So, it is not true that we have to go through disagreeable experiences and human discipline to find the real and be One with God. Therefore, when you read this, take courage, for knowing these things happy are ye if ye lay hold of their reality. God and Heaven are not enjoyed through a supposition that there is a hell upon earth or anywhere else to pass through, but are enjoyed when the last vestige of a belief of such a state is erased from memory and consumed as by fire. "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Rev. xx: 14.) No one is hurt who dies this glorious second death, for he never dies that death until he comes over from dualism to absolute unity in Being, in consciousness, in process and all else. Knowing these things, happy are we if we do them. Our road to Omnipresence is to single the eye to truth and thus enjoy our freedom. At-one-ment, means to be whatever is; hence, whatever you can possibly want or hope for. There is no at-one-ment with anything but by being the thing itself. One with health is health. One with happiness is happiness. One with opulence is opulence. One with God is God. One with Life, Love and Truth, is being them. No one could lift another up without being up himself. At-one-ment, the inseparableness of the one all, is the basis of all science and all religion; therefore, When we are through with Absence we find Presence. When we are through with sickness we find health. When we are through with the preparation for death we find life. When we are through with poverty we find plenty. When we are through with limitation we find the limitless. "Knowing these things happy are we if we do them." When Congress was in a quandary as to how the government would resume specie payment, Horace Greeley said: "The only way to resume was to resume.' The only way to do anything is to do it. We all need to decide whether we believe that all there is is Truth, or is God expressed in creation; that like produces like, andthat we are free, and then stand firm, and not be switched about by any wind of doctrine because the name "Science" or "New Thought" is attached to it; not be limited by Evolution, Reincarnation, Hypnotism, becoming and overcoming, or by any theory of postponement; but stand firm and free in Truth of Being as all. Happy are we if we do this. The following case of healing will illustrate how healing takes place when we are through with conditions. Mr. W. J. Colville relates a case where a man came to him for healing of obsession. He came, seemingly, in great distress and related his case in whining tone. Mr. Colville simply said, in reply: How much more do you want of that condition ?'' patient replied: "I want no more; I never did want it, and I never shall want it." Mr. Colville said: "That being true, you will have no more of it." The man was healed instantly. In instantaneous healing the healer and the patient both want to be through with the condition. The What God would not do, is not God, nor man; not God-like, nor like man. People are groaning all over our land of plenty under the poverty of false belief, and are spending their time in telling what they are not, and of what they have not. A prominent New Thought lecturer was addressing an audience, in which sat a noted Jurist, a man widely read, and a recognized intellectual light in the community. The lecturer was speaking of the tendency of cultured people to dwell on the negative side of religious inquiry, and he remarked that anybody who did not recognize the trend of the New |