lived from the eternal beginning of all things. To it there is no death. It is the Creator of all and lives eternally, radiating its supreme essence of love and power.

Fear not death, for it hath no power over thee, but is thy servant.

Thou art a king; thy crown is "life" and thy sceptre is "death." Thou hast always been guided by My life within thee, and thou needest not fear that it will forsake thee now.

And the mystery of death and suffering is this, that if one of My bodies shall suffer shame and pain and death, and others shall hear of that shame and pain and death, it shall be unto their minds a development. And it shall so work on their minds that they shall obtain the development of character which they would otherwise have had to themselves suffer to obtain. And that development shall be a salvation unto their characters. Therefore I show thee the mystery of vicarious suffering and salvation thereby, that thou mayest know the truth. Thrice blessed is he who suffers, for I will cause his suffering to be a blessing unto others.

Art thou willing to suffer and die that others may be blessed? Yea, thou mayest suffer shame and pain and death of thy body, but if thou art really willing, and the Selfconsciousness has passed away, then I say unto thee that thy body is immortal and the grave cannot hold it.

Now this writing is inspired by Me, as all things are inspired by Me, whether spoken or written or acted. And this writing shall have the effect I choose upon all to whom it shall come, whether it causes them to bless or to curse, to scoff or to pray. For all alike are inspired by Me.

PART III-PRACTICAL APPLICATION.

CHAPTER XXVII.

THE VOICE WITHIN.

Within you there is that, which knows all, that which sub-consciously is omniscient. Be still and listen to its voice. It is not personal, not separate from all other life, but one with all other life. It is life itself. It is you, yourself.

Listen to what it says:

"I AM your true self. I AM the true God. I AM love. I fill your being. I give you strength to endure joyfully. I prompt you to real accomplishment when personal ambition is dead. I inspire you to real pleasure when personal desire is killed. I give your eyes sight when their capacity for personal tears has passed away. I give your ears hear

ing when they have lost their personal sensitiveness. When your personal sympathy for separate sorrows is slain, I lead your feet in the path. I am the conqueror. I fight your battles. I AM that part of you you

call 'I.'

"I AM your impersonal self. I AM one in all men. I have, waiting for your use and enjoyment, the true knowledge of life, and of the enemy of man and of spiritual power.

"I perfect your brain and think with it. I perfect your body and manifest through it. I bid you give up all for ME, that I may reform your brain and body in the mould of My perfect strength.

"What you think you are, is an idea of self-consciousness. It is not your idea; it is My idea.

"Before you can know ME, you must thoroughly know that other self and all the tendencies that can influence it. You think it is real and separate from Me. You think its separate ambition is real, and that its self-love and self-goodness are real. That thought gives the INFLUENCES power over it.

"I AM the infinite part of you, abiding always within. I will show you all things, and enable you to see through all the illusions of personality, which have separated you in consciousness from Me, your true self.

"I AM expressing myself through you. You only exist that I may express Myself. I create you for that purpose only. I create your form to express My idea of form and your brain to think My thoughts.

"I give you all things. All that you have I AM the giver. I AM your All things I give you for use,

I give you. inner essence.

for My use.

"I may speak through you, heal through you, cast out devils through you. Yet your personality deserves no credit, and receives no benefit from those wonderful works. For the personality shall die and its sense of merit. But I use you to do My works-and however humble and faltering you are I can use you."