MAN'S DOMINION OVER TIME

Man

Creation is twofold, God's creation, man's creation. God's creation is in Spirit, in the ideal. takes those ideals and makes them the foundation of his creation. He makes form, shape, environment. He does this through thought and word. This being true, and observation proves it true, either physically or mentally considered, man should enter into the law of creation in all its details.

In our study of Being we strive to marshal all the forces of thought into consciousness, and straighten them out. We strive to "make straight the way of the Lord." The creative power of Divine Mind enters into man's work when he makes his mind receptive thereto. When the mind is in turmoil through. wrong understanding, it cannot perfectly receive and express the ideals of Divine Mind. In the present development, it is necessary to take up all questions and put them in right relation.

In the six days creation of Genesis we read that Divine Mind thought out the whole creative plan, and set man in authority. Man is the acme of Divine idealism; he should exercise his dominion, and enter into complete mastery over everything.

Are we masters of all things? If not, why not? Go into the different avenues of your environment and see if you are master. If not, you are not exercising your prerogative. You must be master to be happy, because dominion is yours under the creative Law. Just to the extent that you give up to external things do you lose your dominion.

We should direct all the forces that enter into our lives; we give up to many external conditions, when a little analysis and understanding of them would set us free. Jesus Christ laid the foundation of his church, a spiritual consciousness, which is now ours, on faith.

He took Peter as a type of that foundation.

He said to Peter, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church." By faith we build, and bind or loose whatsoever we will. Applied to creative power, we find that faith has power to bind or loose environment. Yet to your faith add understanding. Faith and understanding should co-operate in the wellbalanced mind.

What is your estimate of the conditions that environ you? When you understand that which seems to oppress and bind you, you perceive its powerlessness. You find that it has no such power as you have been giving it. The ignorant assumption of the intellect will dominate you if you allow it. You should know that most of what it assumes is a mere figment of blind belief.

We are just now entering in to what men call the New Year, and those who are in the intellectual concept of time take it for granted that years have power. So man becomes subject to time. It is surprising to know to what extent men have given up to the idea of the power of time. They believe their bodies grow old with the passing of the years. Have years power over man? If so, where does that power lie? None of the wise ones in either material or spiritual science have made any such claim. Man has given up to a mere belief in time. We read about three score years and ten as a limit to man's life, but the Scriptures put a negative on this again and again. Adam lived 930 years; Methuselah 969 years, and Noah 950 years. That does away with the threescore-and-ten standard. Why do men not now live to such great age? Because they have not the grasp on the life-idea that they once had.

Years have nothing to do with the life proposition Be careful how you load up with years. The Bible says Abraham died full of years.' If he had not filled up with years, he might be alive now. Job died "full of days." Joshua was "well stricken in years."

Moral: Don't get full of years, or days, or any ideas of time.

People who understand the power of mind to create conditions, should use that power to absolutely wipe out of consciousness all belief of years. In Revelations we read that the angel said that time should be no longer. When he made this proclamation, he stood with one foot on the sea and one on the land. The feet represent the negative pole of understanding, or the understanding of material conditions. The angel of the Lord, the free, full expression of GodMind in man, declares his understanding and sets free from the idea of time, the earth or formed realm and the sea or unformed realm of thought. When man gets into the understanding of the Absolute, he takes his freedom from all bondage of time, and declares that time shall no more enter into the Substance of his mind, or body or affairs.

The Ego has power to say yes or no; to bind or to loose. When this understanding is attained, time has passed away. The ego is master of time. It says, "Before Abraham was, I am." There are no years, no past, no future. All is present. I am telling you the Absolute and you can prove it. It is good to have our attention called to the intellect's assumption of time. Time is not fixed - we have solar time, railroad time and other assumed measurements of passing events, but no absolute standard time. newspaper report of an interview with the chief Observer at Greenwich, he said, "There is no such thing as time. We fake it." This acknowledgment, from the very headquarters of earthly time, reveals its hollowness.

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If time is a man-made fake, how about the widespread belief in passing years? A fake and more of it. The pious dyspeptic and pensive poet revel in the years that are passing by, but they are merely exercising imagination. Astronomy says that a year is the sum

of days it takes the earth to travel around the sun. The earth comes back promptly to the place which man assumed as the starting point of his yearly estimate, so what has passed away? You say time has passed. But time is only the measure of earth movements and the events that pertain to materiality. Everything that enters into this relation returns like the earth to its appointed place, so there is no “passing away" of anything. Our friends have not passed away they have simply lost their hold on substance. They have allowed these false claims of sense to become more powerful than the I AM, and the result is a letting go of the body. The saving message to every Ego is "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God.”

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So let us be free from bondage to the belief in time. Let us believe in the fulness of the now. Now is the time to rejoice in the abundance of Good. Do not look back. Remember Lot's wife. If you look back to the joys of the past, you will soon be recalling its sorrows also. It is not safe to look back at all. When you dwell on the past you are working on a false foundation. There is no past. There is no

You cannot comprehend eternity if you try. You will only get dizzy in trying. When the intellect tries to grasp the idea of endless years, it gets beyond its depths. The disciples of Jesus asked him when the kingdom of God should come, and he said to them, "No man knoweth; the Father alone knoweth." All we have to do is to watch and pray. We have all we can do to take care of the now. Do not spend any time looking for a Day of Judgment. The Day of Judgment is every day and every moment. Forgive Now. Watch Now. Pray Now. It is our blessed privilege to enter now and here into consciousness of all that God is. The inspiration of the Spirit was not all used up in the past. God's

Presence was not manifest merely in the Old Dispensation. His power is pouring out upon us more and more. Acknowledge it in all ways. Enter into the consciousness of I AM Presence. God sends his I AM Law down into the darkness of the Egypt consciousness at all times. The account given in the Scriptures does not belong wholly to the Mosaic dispensation. The Spirit is now going down into your consciousness and setting you free from all bondage to material conditions. If you wish to escape the bondage of time make this your daily affirmation: "I do not believe in passing years - I enter into the fulness of the

Eternal Now."

[Stenographic jottings from an address before the Unity Society, by Charles Fillmore.

Man's life is not confined to three score and ten
Here are the ages of some of the patriarchs:

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The real power of thought does not come from positive mental action, but from the opening of the mind to the invincible power of deep, interior, spiritual action. Forced or determined action on the surface does not produce the powerful mind. The powerful mind is powerful because it gives expression to the power of the great within.-Eternal Progress.