IMPERSONAL AFFIRMATIONS OR STATEMENTS OF BEING

DOREÁNMASTER THE SUN CENTER

LIFE MORE ABUNDANT

"Truth shall make you free."

MORE ABUNDANT, means above the common. In the book of Job it means " increase unto the double. " Divine Science teaches and demonstrates who, what and where God is. We can truthfully say that Omnipotence is God, or that God is Omnipotence, but this does not tell definitely, to the usual conception, who God is. It is true that All Power is God ; there is no power beside. 

The fact that there seems to be many powers, shows the unlimited nature of the One Power to express itself. Power is One and inseparable.

We can truthfully say that Omniscience is God, or that God is Omniscience, but this statement is not, to the ordinary conception, a full defini­tion of what God is. It is true that all knowledge is God. There is none beside. 

The fact that there seems to be degrees in knowledge shows the unlimited nature of the One Knowledge to express itself. Knowledge is One, Inseparable and Infinite.

We may truthfully say Omnipresence is God, or that God is Omnipres­ence, and, while no fuller definition can be given of where God is, it means but little, and nothing practical, to those who believe in another presence. It is true that all presence is God. 

The fact that there seems to be different ones present merely shows the unlimited nature of the All Presence to express itself. Presence is One, Inseparable and Infinite. We each are one, hence each one stands for the One All, radiating the knowledge and express­ing the power of the infinite whole.

Who is God ? The Expressor and Expressed ; the whole of the Creator and creation ; the All in All.

What is God ? The Holy Spirit; the All of Life, Love, Truth, Sub­stance, Soul, Intelligence, Knowledge, Power, Presence ; the Allness of the All ; the fulness of what is.

Where is God ? Everywhere ; and because of the infinitude and in­ separable nature o f the One All, the fulness of all there is is ever present wherever we are. God is not All without Me. So I am here in the nature of eternal wholeness ; in the name of God, this each one can say.

Is not this life more abundant ? Life above the average conception. It has been taught all down through the ages that " What a man soweth the same shall he also reap."

In other words, what he reaps he must have sown. This text has not been taught with the eye singled to Truth, nor from the spirit of wholeness.

If it had we all would have known that what is can alone be sown, and only the same can be reaped; that what is not cannot be sown, nor can it be reaped. The word is the seed, and it is with God and is God. So the word of God, which is God, can be spoken and brought forth in the elements, or earth, without form, and there it will take form according to its nature.

Our bodies being composed of these indestructible elements, the word takes form in them. For the body is the spoken word of God— God expressed.

There is no inexorable law of cause and effect in misbelief or erroneous opinions. There is no principle of evil or error. There are no evil or error atoms ; no evil or error elements ; no evil or error qualities to Infinite Mind, or God. Therefore, we can never gain anything by believing that we can reap a harvest of evil or erroneous belief. Being is all there is, and misbe­lief is nothing, and we see the nothingness of it, and do not endeavor to reap nothing. All that man can sow is the good, and all that he can reap is the good. " The tree is good and the fruit is good." " The Creator is good and the creature is good." " God is good and I am good."

We cannot reap anything by believing that we are worms of the dust, conceived of sin and born in iniquity. That we are miserable sinners or totally depraved. Erroneous belief cannot change the nature of man.

A devoted pastor, while visiting his parishioners, said to a good sister :

"What do you think of the doctrine of ' total depravity ?" Her prompt reply was : " I think it a good thing if it was only lived up to."

Man is not a creature of circumstances, nor a being subject to law. Man is the maker of circumstances, and is law itself. Being is its own law. There is none beside, none over Being, and none to dominate or to oppose and overpower it. Because Being is law, it can be and is expressed by us all. Is not this the fuller, larger Life ? Life above the common view ?

" Blessed are they who seek wisdom. My covenant is to make them know it."

The realization of supreme cause and effect is oneness, justice. The Universe is a just one. It is not a diverse. In the freedom of Truth we all want to reap what we sow. We want what is, just as it is in Truth ; the same is bounty. It proves that we do succeed.

" Neither do I condemn thee " is a test of true consciousness, and not of prejudice. I condemn thee, or I condemn this or that condition, is a test of prejudice and not of consciousness. In Truth we cannot be untrue to ourselves. This is not license— a go-as you-please way, according to desire. It is principle. It is the straight gate, the door, the way which I am.

Is not this Truth the more abundant Life— Life above the common acceptance ?

As there is no principle, or element of error, I will not undertake to claim erroneous beliefs nor conditions.

Now is the sowing.

Now is the growing.

Now is the harvest.

Now is the reaping.

I have sown good seed.

I have reaped good seed.

My harvest is an hundred fold more than the sowing. I thank God for the daily increase of this harvest. I succeed now. Since I have ceased believing that I can harvest tares, I know I shall always succeed in harvest­ing the good.

From the standpoint of God— the Allness of the All— there can be no justice, nor truth in, nor excuse for the claim that past events are the source for present events, or that past experience is the basis for present experience, or that there is an inexorable law of cause and effect in erroneous belief. These, and all such claims, are based in a supposed separation from the One All and a dualism which does not exist. There will never be unity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.

The seed of the serpent is the word of becoming by and by. The seed of the woman is the word of Being. One is postponement, the other is fulness now. The words are spoken from different standpoints. All that the Christ conscious­ness can do is to show that all the promises that the serpent, or becoming, makes for the future, are now fulfilled in Being, and I am the fulness of them.

Originally the serpent was known only as a symbol of wisdom. Its tail was in its mouth, making a circle and symbolizing the eternal Truth that my end is in my beginning ; and as beginning means " Source and Origin," I am from everlasting to everlasting the Beginning and the End. When the serpent becomes a deceiver its tail is not in its mouth. The drop from being wisdom to becoming wise, brings the "beginning and end " out of eternity into time. Then the serpent, the belief of becoming, does nothing but wriggle about on the surface of things, and judge man and all things from observation and from time. This is called a mortal view, a carnal mind, evil, adversary, or satan.

To know that the unrighteous judgment from observation is a missing of the mark of Truth and belongs to the serpentine wriggling effort to become what already is, renders it harmless. It is believing these false theories are true that does the mischief in our conception of things.

The truth is we can have no knowledge or Being, at any time, but God-knowledge and God-Being. To judge ourselves and others accordingly, is righteous judgment. Justice is alike to God and man. Let us not deceive ourselves by supposing we can know what God does not know. Knowledge is above human beliefs and opinions.

The habit of holding immortality and eternal life as conditional is the greatest farce ever imposed upon the world. There is no conditional immor­tality or eternal life. To know this is the more abundant life of which it is said : I am come that ye might have. It is the "Increase unto the double."

Holding our permanent good for another world which cannot be reached but through death, and that all our present good is temporal, is causing peo­ple to drop the body through dis ease and dis-satisfaction. Our permanent good is here. The other world is here. God is here. I am here. Spirit, soul, body, a unit. The outer is as the inner. The inner is as the outer.

I am free now. This is the Life that I am now. Is it not above the average belief of life ? Heaven is at hand. Each one can say I am life and immor­tality now.

It is life more abundant to know, as we do, that the true idea of pos­session is that all things belong to the All, hence to all of us. We are not called upon to give up our possessions that others may have. We are not called upon to give up truth, life or love, that others may have them. Others may be and demonstrate all truth, life and love, and it will not prevent me from doing likewise. What has been and is being done, I can and am now doing.

" All the lessons Jesus taught I am teaching all the way." I do not rob another if I breathe deeply and freely, nor if I enjoy the sunshine. I rob no one if I enjoy the beauty of nature, if I appreciate a lecture, or exalt the good as All in All. I rob no one if I single my eye to Truth and see nothing beside. To " know the Truth," then, is freedom and the more abundant life compared with past beliefs.

MALINDA ELLIOTT CRAMER -DIVINE SCIENCE

PRAYER

Our Beloved Father, Who art in Heaven within us, as our very life, consciousness and nature.

Hallowed art Thou as our most glorious, good and perfect Self. 

Thy Kingdom is come, for Thy Truth ever confronts us all about; 

Thy Will is being done, because it is now our only will; 

And Thy love is now our very life on earth, even as it is in Heaven. 

Give us this day sufficient of Thy Consciousness to supply our every need.

Forgive us—and teach us through—our mistakes and failures, even as Thou wouldst have us help our brothers in similar need.

Lead us far above the temptations of our lower natures 

And thus deliver us from the presence of all appearance of evil. 

For we would rest only in the Kingdom of Thy Consciousness, where the Power of Thy Love and the Glory of ever serving Thee inspires and sustains us forever and ever.

AMEN.

JOSEPH SIEBER BENNER

STATEMENTS OF TRUTH

BE YE TRANSFORMED

TO THOSE who desire to fit themselves for Inner Work and raise their consciousness above the limitation of finiteness and separation, we give the following statement of Truth, which if learned by heart, pondered, absorbed, held continuously in thought, will inevitably bring about the desired expansion of consciousness.

"I am pure consciousness, an outer extension of God's Consciousness. Therefore I am not body or a separate self; they are but my thought creations, and are only what I see and believe them to be.

"As I now know my Oneness with God, in order to express my God qualities and powers, I now think and thereby cause to appear in my consciousness a perfect body, in which I as a Christ Self, live and have my being while here on earth.

"I see myself now as God formed me in the beginning, when creating the earth and all on it, and I see how good and perfect are all.

"Therefore all which formerly appeared to my mortal senses, and which I believed as so, are changed, and I now see only the good and perfect things God sees and wants me to see and use.

"Inharmony, weakness, and imperfection have no existence in God's Consciousness: therefore they have no part in me or in my consciousness.

"I now see myself as I am: strong, vital, good, pure and perfect; all-wise, all-loving, and all-capable of doing God's Will on earth, as He sent me forth to do.

"And I now open myself wide and allow the One Consciousness to fill out and make fully manifest this thought-picture of myself, even as I see it and believe it is so."

JOSEPH SIEBER BENNER

CHRIST - HOLY SPIRIT

CHRIST,  BROTHER, CAPTAIN, KING, MY DIVINE SELF, I SERVE YOU, YOU ARE MY IDEAL, MY TEACHER, MY MASTER, MY LOVE, MY COMFORT, MY ROCK, MY LIGHT, MY JOY, MY PEACE, MY REST, MY TRUTH, MY ABUNDANCE OF GOOD, MY SUN OF GLORY, MY POWER, MY FAITH, MY TRUST, MY WISDOM, MY STRENGTH, MY FREEDOM, MY BLESSING, MY GRACE.

YOU ARE ONE, YOU ARE FOLLOWED, YOU ARE RESPECTED, YOU HAVE MY HONOR AND HUMILITY, I COME TO YOU TO REST AND FOR ADVICE.

YOU ARE ONE IN ALL, YOU ARE THEIR ONLY SELF, THE THREE ONE GLORY OF THE FATHER, THEREFORE WHEN I WORSHIP YOU ONLY, I WORSHIP ALL, FOR YOU ARE THEIR ONLY DIVINE SELF IN THEM. 

CHRIST - HOLY SPIRIT OF MY BEING, YOU ARE MY BEING, YOU ARE ME, BROTHER, CAPTAIN, KING.

I REMAIN IN YOU, YOUR WORDS REMAIN IN ME, THAT I MAY BEAR GOOD FRUIT, FOR I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE.

JÁN MASTER

I AM LOVE - STATEMENTS  OF LOVE 

I AM come to you because you are ready for real LOVE. 

My child, ask yourself what you are really looking for in an ideal partner, an ideal relationship. Your answer will be LOVE. You have searched for it in the world and have gone through disappointment after disappointment. Your heart brightened for a moment and then disappointment came. 

Have you reached the point of vanity, my child? Then listen to what I want to tell you with all my heart. 

Are you ready for real LOVE? Do you put it first in your life, do you think about it constantly, do you seek it constantly and is it first for you… 

Then listen carefully. 

That LOVE IS I, your DIVINE SELF within you. 

You seek Me outside, in persons, but I AM WITHIN YOU as UNIVERSAL, IMPERSONAL ALL-PERPETRATING LOVE. 

I AM your CHRIST SELF, I AM the LOVE that you seek outside. When you have truly found Me, by turning your mind inward and knowing that LOVE is within you as a quiet, peaceful state of radiant LIGHT OF BLISS, then I will lay my hand on your heart and you will know Me, your DIVINE SELF - LOVE IN YOUR HEART. 

Then you will no longer seek in vain for Love without, but you will be FULL OF THE LIGHT OF MY KNOWLEDGE THAT I AM LOVE WITHIN YOU. Then you will radiate LOVE and naturally attract the Ideal Partner to you, creating an ideal relationship that will grow and blossom in the FULLNESS of IMPERSONAL LOVE for I AM in all as their DIVINE SELF - LOVE walking the earth. Then THIS RELATIONSHIP founded in Heaven (CONSCIOUSNESS OF DIVINE LOVE) WILL ATTRACT AND UPLIFT MANY OTHERS AND BLESS ALL IT MEET.

JÁN MASTER

STATEMENTS OF TRUTH FOR HEALTH AND GENERAL FREEDOM 

1.

First Day :— I AM every whit whole.

Second Day:—I AM bodily free in every part.

Third Day:—I AM in a state of absolute health.

Fourth Day :— I enjoy the knowledge of being whole.

Fifth Day:—I AM thankful every moment of the day.

Sixth Day:—I rejoice in the oneness of all things.

Seventh Day:—I AM thankful that I realize that there is nothing to con­tend with.

Dear friend, we are one in Spirit and Truth—our communion is divine,

There is one spirit and one body. There is but one Source and one Cause

acting in me, which is the one ever-present Creator, and it is working all things together for good now. I am not subject to or dependent on the past. To­ day is the day of salvation. I have and am exercising absolute dominion over all conditions.

You will understand my words and know that I am whole. I cannot postpone, for there is no postponement with God. I cannot be weary with hoping for results. I am able to accomplish every undertaking without labor, even to doing the Father's work. My existence bears witness of Truth.

MALINDA ELLIOT CRAMER

STATEMENTS OF TRUTH FOR HEALTH AND GENERAL FREEDOM 

2.

I AM Rich.

First Day :—I AM Spirit.

Second Day :—I AM Conscious Law.

Third Day :—I AM a financial success.  I AM success itself.

Fourth Day :—I AM succeeding now in all lines in which I AM engaged.

Fifth Day :—I AM the possessor of all money. I AM the very source of wealth.

Sixth day :—I AM blessed with the fullness of God's bounty. I AM blessing itself.

Seventh Day:—I AM rich in all things useful. I AM wealth itself.

I AM whole. I AM prosperous.

I AM rich. I AM happy.  I AM Happiness itself.

I AM generous. I AM loving.  I AM Love itself.

I AM good. I AM true. I AM Truth itself.

Nothing tempts me, nor binds or limits me.

I AM free, I AM free. In Truth I AM free.I AM Freedom itself.

So let it be.

MALINDA ELLIOTT CRAMER AND JÁN MASTER

A STATEMENT OF BEING

(To be studied and repeated daily as many times as possible, until the mind fully accepts its truth and you find yourself speaking and acting in its consciousness.)

I am a Son of God, a Spiritual Being, living always in the Kingdom of Divine Mind. In this, My true consciousness, there is for Me no lack or limitation of any good thing.

From My human mind's viewpoint, however, there is no direct evidence of this. Yet I am teaching it through long, hard experience, bringing to it much struggle, suffering and failure, that the human self of itself is nothing, can have nothing, can do nothing, and that I am all that it is; that I give it all that it ever gets, and empower it to do all that it ever does.

So that now it is learning that it is not, and that I alone am; that I as a Son of God know all things and have all power; that whatever the Father has, the Son has; and likewise what the Son has, his human reflection must have; that it therefore has it always, has all good things ever available — when it comes back into My consciousness and sees there with My eyes. From this it glimpses that it is but an instrument that I am preparing, purifying and perfecting through these experiences, apparently getting it ready for some use I intend to make of it later.

It is thus realizing that with My being a Son of God and thereby having all things, I naturally have no desire and no need, except that of expressing My perfect life through it — My human self, and if it feels a desire or a need, it is but an indication that the thing desired is about to manifest. Otherwise it would not be felt.

That being so, it is gradually realizing that for it also there is no need, all good things being always present, and it is learning to let go of its personal ideas, desires and opinions, and to go about its business unconcerned, knowing that all needed things will be taken care of and provided by Me, as surely as the lungs will receive air in the next breath.

It is likewise learning to pay no attention to appearances, that what seems real and important to the outer senses are but thought-pictures formed in the mind and which, if good, fall far short of the goodness and perfection that are ever seen in Divine Mind; or if bad or undesirable, such do not exist — except in the mortal mind.

Therefore it is perceiving that in order to see the Truth it has but to close its mortal eyes and mind and to look with the eyes of Spirit — My eyes, when all the riches and glories of the Kingdom shine forth and are clearly visible. When one thus sees Reality all the illusions of separation disappear, even as when looking at the sun there are no shadows — all is light.

The above contains so much of vital significance to the unfolding consciousness that we cannot urge too strongly its daily frequent repetition and study, until the mind fully understands and accepts its truth.

Those who do this will be very happy and grateful for what it brings to them.

JOSEPH SIEBER BENNER

DECLARATION OF FREEDOM

Here and now I declare my independence and unlimited freedom, as the

Son of God. It is my Father's pleasure to give me the kingdom. He knoweth that I have need, before I ask, and every need is supplied. I turn not to the right nor to the left from the Law of Pure Being, that I may prosper, wherever I go. The commandments are upon me that I should fulfill them. I therefore demonstrate the Law of my Being unto perfection. Thus I declare my independence from all supposition of dependence. I work the works of my Father. I am, therefore, one with the Supreme.

MALINDA ELLIOTT CRAMER

STATEMENTS OF TRUTH FOR HEALING

Of all that God has given me I can lose nothing. Love is present and is eternal, hence I love all now whom I have ever loved. Success is, and I am it, and I know that I shall succeed in all my ways during the Harmony year.

" I am the beginning and the end, " therefore I am eternal now. I do not linger regretfully in memories of the past. I do not dream away the present in glowing fancies of a future. I let pass no golden opportunities for present happiness and success. I demonstrate the Law of Being perfectly.

MALINDA ELLIOTT CRAMER

A STATEMENT OF BEING

I AM THE REAL REALITY IN YOUR HEART. 

I AM THE ETERNAL BEING, THE ETERNAL LOVE THAT MANIFESTS AS LIGHT. I AM THE LIGHT WITHIN YOU THAT YOUR EYES SEE WITHOUT. I AM THE POWER OF THIS LIGHT THAT DECLARES IN YOUR HEART AS LOVE. I AM THIS LOVE THAT IS IMPERSONAL, PURE, UNSELFISH, UNSELFLESS, SELF-GIVING, ALL-LIVING, ALL-FULFILLING. I AM THIS TRUE LOVE - REALITY, TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF PERSONALITY, AN IMPERSONAL CONSCIOUS POWER, SEEING ONLY GOOD AND PERFECTION EVERYWHERE.

JÁN MASTER

UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT

First Day : I AM Divine wholeness.

Second Day : I AM wholly Divine.

Third Day : I AM infinite in Power.

Fourth Day : The Power that I AM is Infinite.

Fifth Day : I know the Truth and I realize it.

Sixth Day : I AM satisfied and happy.

Seventh Day: In my Being I AM unlimited bounty of all good things.

MALINDA ELLIOT CRAMER