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abundance, 64

affirmation(s), 49-58, 81, 83, 97, 106, 108, 129; for deliverance, 16; for freedom, 74; four comprehensive, 52-55; of Elijah, 67; repetition of, 51, 55; specific usefulness of, 56; to overcome timidity, 73

All-Good, 26, 35

All-perfection, 22, 129

anger, to be denied, 46, 82

animal part of man, 6, 7

anxiety, 57, 69, 99, 128

appearance(s), negative, 42-43; of evil, 44, 52, 57; of weakness, 52

apostles, 95

argument, 26, 29, 128

Artist, master, 123

asceticism, 12

ask(ing), 65, 106, 115, 125

aspiration, 49

astronomy, 76

attitude toward God, 53

automatons, 32

beauty, 99

Being, 19; statement of, 17-26

being, 11, 19, 66, 77, 84, 89, 90, 92, 96, 101, 102, 105, 111, 120, 128

beseeching, 79, 102

Bible, 65

birth, new, 79, 84; spiritual, 76

birthright, 55

blood, 31

body, 25, 31, 34, 43, 78, 104, 114, 132; envy of parts of, 46; torturing, 37

bondage, 12, 74, 106, 110, 114; freedom from through denial, 47; to false beliefs, 14; to the flesh, 6, 7, 10

books, 27, 28, 90, 95, 110

bugaboos, 42, 47

p. ii

business, 62

Center, perfect, 124

center of being, 66, 89, 91, 100, 111, 113, 121, 128

channel(s), 33, 80, 86, 110, 119

child(ren), 27, 30, 32, 35, 42, 90, 94, 104, 129

child(ren), of God, 9, 45, 53, 54, 58, 128, 131, 132

Christ, gospel of, 130; indwelling, 10, 28, 84, 90, 91, 94-95, 107, 110, 111, 120-121, 124, 126, 128, 129; mind of, 98, 99; place of meeting, 89; way of, 16

Christ Spirit, 13

circumstances, 13, 14, 30, 47, 127; can be changed, 40; controlled by thoughts, 43

clay, 107

closet of our being, 105

comfort, spring of, 8

Comforter, 78

communion, 101, 103, 109, 112, 131

companionship, 101, 130

concentrating, 107

conditions, denial of, 43; troublesome, 40, 49, 57-58; two, for revelation, 109-110

consciousness, awakened, 129; error, 40, 46; human, 6, 7, 11, 71, 83, 92, 97, 100, 107, 109, 122, 132; inner, 15, 62, 77, 89, 94, 96; new, 108; of indwelling Father, 78-79, 80, 88, 89, 102, 121, 124; of Mary, 93; spiritual, 64, 79, 82, 84

contradictions, seeming, 96

conversation, idle, 11

courage, 14, 56, 118

creations of God, 20

creative cause, 20

creative energy, 18

criticism, fear of, 72

cure, 77

death, power over, 78; seeming, 118; unreality of, 44

decree, 51

deliver(ance), 6, 15, 16, 26, 54, 55, 82, 89, 91, 111, 114, 126, 127

demand and supply, law of, 50, 64, 66, 67, 105

demons, power to cast out, 121

demonstration, 15, 118

p. iii

denial(s), 37-48, 51, 56, 83, 97, 108; how spoken, 48; of fear, 47; of four common error thoughts, 44-46; repetition of, 51, specific usefulness of, 56

denominations, 124

deprivation, 39

desire(s), 22, 31, 43, 47, 49, 50, 54, 57, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 78, 80, 84, 86, 90, 96, 99, 100, 101, 105, 107, 114, 115, 121

destiny, 7

Devil, 52, 127

difference(s), 124, 125

digestion, 31

disappointment, 22, 38

discouragement, 31, 61, 74, 102, 109, 118

disease, 34

dissatisfaction, 49

diversity of gifts, 116-117, 121, 122

Divine Mind, 26, 29

divine plan, 43

divine presence, 114, 119

divine spark, 66

Divine, prompting of within us, 49

divine voice, 80

divinity, 84, 89

doing, 11, 50

dominion, man's, 7, 10, 20, 58, 66

doubt, 57, 83, 106

dream, 81

education, 19

Emerson, 9, 68, 70, 71-72, 73

emotional side, 90

energy, 99

environment, 14, 15

envy, denial of, 47, 82

equilibrium, 96

error, 21, 25-26, 53, 125

error thoughts, four common, 44-46

escape, 14

establishing the word, 51

evil(s), 32, 44, 51, 52, 55, 56, 66, 89, 91, 108, 113, 127

expectation, 111, 112

experience, 32

p. iv

external, 22, 25, 32, 37, 39, 53, 54, 71, 78, 82, 94, 103, 109, 128

eye, single, 127, 129, 133

faculties, spiritual, 79

failure, seeming, 118-119, 122, 130

faith, 55, 59-69, 80, 97, 106, 107, 108, 114, 116, 125; blind, 61; understanding, 62

faith healer, 124

false accusation, 13

false beliefs, 8, 14, 51; about God, 41; arise only in human mind, 40; can be changed 40; consequence of, 40

Father, access to, 23, 91; desire of, 96; indwelling, 8, 21, 39, 54, 77-78, 79, 91, 93, 94, 99, 102, 104, 111, 114, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133; oneness with, 44, 54, 78, 91, 108; receiving from, 96, 110; waiting upon, 101, 109

Father-Mother God, 22, 35, 65, 130, 132, 133

fear, 31, 45, 47, 57, 69, 72, 89, 120, 121

forgiveness, 13, 82

formulas, healing, 90

fountain(head), 13, 23, 33, 47, 53

fowls, 105

freedom, 47, 58, 113, 131

fulfillment, 67, 100, 101, 105, 107, 132

geology, 76

geometry, 62

giants or pygmies, 119

gift(s), 80; diversity of, 116-117; spiritual, 113-122

giving, 65, 96

God, access to, 28; as central sun, 62; as creative cause, 16, 64, 91; as invincible, 125; as love, 18, 52, 54, 71, 92, 100; as Omnipotence, 32, 52, 54, 93, 116, 128; as perfect health, 80; as personal being, 17, 18, 22; as power, 19, 71; as Principle, 22, 131; as Spirit, 18, 64; as substance, 19, 52, 54, 64, 130, 131; as total of all good, 39, 43, 64, 84; as wisdom and intelligence, 19, 52, 54, 71; attitude unchanged, 55, 103; business of, 86; but one, 18; cannot be sick, hurt, afraid, 54, 131; children of, 9; coming into visibility, 70, 72, 73, 75; consciousness of, 90, 128; control of our thoughts, 31; cut off from, 83; deep things of, 78, 84; desire of, 67, 99, 107; displeasure of, 35; expression of, 39; gifts of, 84, 118, 125; giver of all good gifts, 77, 103, 115; happiness, health, and power from, 47; has need of you, 75; heart of, 65;

p. v

held by His own laws, 51; how he regards man, 8; human longing to know, 88; immanent, 84, 124; impersonality of, 22; indwelling, 15, 88, 91, 104, 124, 129; infinite supply of, 66; in movement, 119; inner presence of, 78, 80; invisible, 50; law of His being, 34; manifesting Himself through us, 55, 82, 91, 122, 124; motherhood of, 133; nature of, 37; need not be beseeched, 34, 79-80; never changes, 127, 132; not an autocrat, 7; oneness with, 53, 54, 55, 73, 115, 129-130; our attempts to limit, 123; our desire and power to please, 31, 61; our relation to, 32-33; plans of, 52; pleasing and placating, 37; promises of, 65; pushing on divine spark, 66; quantity of, made manifest, 14; revelation of, 76, 80, 84, 92, 93; seeking, 79, 82, 96, 99; standard of faith, 61; submission to, 49; things joined together by, 62; turning to in desperation, 38, 113; waiting upon, 95, 96, 100, 102, 104, 105, 109, 110, 117, 120; works in stillness, 101; wrong thoughts about, 30, 34, 41

Godhood, realization of, 58

God-possessed, 73

good, 19, 32, 33, 50, 52, 55, 57, 62, 64, 66, 67, 80, 84, 101, 103, 107, 108, 114-115, 117-118, 126, 127; absence of, 43-44; all things working together for, 14; invisible, 51; God is total of, 18, 39

gospel, 130, 131

grain, 118, 119

gratification, 40

growth, 32, 48, 81, 85, 86, 96, 108; through prayer, 44

guidance, 84, 118

Hale, 101

happiness, 47, 65, 107

harm, safe from, 91

harmony, 13, 31, 53-54, 96

healer(s), 84, 112

healing, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 125

health, 47, 55, 66, 76, 77, 80, 82, 90, 91, 92, 99, 110, 114

heart, 31, 66, 67-68, 76, 82, 83, 88, 104, 113, 116, 130

heirs, 9

Holy One, 117

Holy Spirit, 86, 100, 117, 119, 128, 132

homesickness, 88

hunger, 22, 84, 88, 99

hymn, 103

p. vi

hypnotism, 77

I, 21, 23, 25, 125, 128

I AM, 97

ideas, 70

idleness, 11

ignorance, 34, 37, 53, 86, 120, 124

illumination, 30, 95, 96, 100, 127

ill will, 46

immunity, 89

imperfection, 82

importuning, 53, 125

individual(ity), 24, 32, 33, 70-75, 111, 132, 133

induement of power, 96, 100

inefficiency, 53, 57, 72

inharmony, 13

inheritance, 9

inlet, 9, 86

inner presence, 78

inner working, 89, 93

insight, spiritual, 86, 95

inspiration, 57

intellect, 7, 9, 25, 27, 28, 34, 71, 75, 82, 90, 94, 95, 132

intellectual perception, 29, 44, 59, 76, 79, 82, 90

intelligence, God is, 19; no absence of, 44

intolerance, 56

introspection, 85, 96

intuition, 62, 76, 90, 93, 94

invisible, 60, 68, 79, 121, 125

Isreal, Children of, 6

jealousy, denial of, 46, 82

Jericho, walls of, 15

Jesus, as healer, 115; as seeming failure, 118-119; communed with Father, 110; purpose of teachings of, 78; questions based on intuition, 76; talked with Mary, 93; teachings of, 82, 85, 86; treatments for illumination, 95; typifies divine self of individuality, 71

John the Baptist, 71

joy, 55, 65, 84, 88, 107, 111, 127; spring of, 8, 77

kingdom of heaven, 27, 78

p. vii

knowledge, of spiritual things, 26, 49, 90, 110, 128; of the Father, 91, 124; source of, 19; spiritual, 11

lack, 65, 97

law, 30, 62-64, 68, 127, 131-132; divine, 7, 10, 34, 51, 53, 67, 69, 86, 132; of demand and supply, 49, 65, 67, 105

lesson, 120

life, 77, 78, 80, 90, 92, 95, 97, 100, 113, 120, 121, 132; higher, 84; new, 83, 110, 119; no absence of, 44; of God, 34; of Spirit, 13, 129; renewing of, 104; Source of, 53

light, 28, 62, 83, 84, 87, 90, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 124, 126-127, 129

limitation(s), 22, 107, 115, 119, 123, 124, 130

Lord, 111, 112, 129, 133

love, 11, 13, 66, 68, 77, 78, 80, 82, 92, 97, 99, 100, 107, 111, 114, 116, 117, 132; God is, 18, 43, 100; law of, 7; new, 83; of parents, 32, 133; universal, 21

man, composite, 25; deals directly with Father, 91; highest manifestation, 20; inner, 71; intellectual, 30, 39, 94; outer, 71, 72, 78; purpose of, 96; servant or child of God, 8; ultimate aim of, 15

manhood, spiritual, 32

manifestation(s), 19-20, 21, 24, 43, 53, 54, 64, 68, 70, 91, 93, 94, 99, 100, 106, 109, 111, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121, 124-125, 128, 132, 133

Mary, 93

mathematics, 62

mechanical steps to spiritual life, 48, 50

meditation, 11, 109

meekness, 13

memory, 54, 56

mental scientist, 125

mental side, 90, 97

metaphysics, 27, 70, 126, 127, 130, 132

Methodist, 126

method of studying, 5

millennium, 123-124

Mind, universal, 24, 26, 29, 30, 33, 70, 123

mind(s), carnal, 25, 39-40; cleansing of, 44; conditions of, 63; exhilaration of, 31; human, 6, 13, 14, 21, 25, 33, 56, 100, 102, 103, 106, 123, 125, 132; infinite, 116; influence of, 75; laws of, 127; of Christ, 97, 99, 107; of God, 54; spiritualizing, 37; training of, 51; unawakened, 84

p. viii

mind cure, 77

miracles, 116

money, 84

Most High, 78, 83, 88-98, 109, 112

motherhood of God, 133

music, 11

name, secret, 93

Nazarene, 12, 16, 37, 38, 65, 70, 78

need, call of, 77

negation, 46, 47

neighbor's wife, 68

nervousness, 12

new birth, 79, 84

new creature, 109

ocean, 20

offspring, of God, 21

old age, unreality of, 45

omnipotence, 19, 32, 52, 54, 116

omnipresence, 19, 44, 53, 54, 55,

omniscience, 19, 52, 54, 116

oneness with God, 44, 52, 54, 55, 73, 78, 91, 106, 130, 132

opinion, 28, 29, 83

order, of divine law, 7

orthodox, 125, 126

others, service for, 84, 87, 88, 96, 110, 129

outlet, 9, 86

outreaching, 104

outspeaking, 109

outworking, 88, 93, 97

overconfidence, 56

oversensitiveness, 12

Oversoul, 108

pain, unreality of, 45

passivity, 105, 107

patience, 29, 94

Paul, 29, 90, 97, 116, 117

peace, 13, 76, 80, 85, 92

Pentecost, 86

people, two classes of, 26

p. ix

personality, 14, 22, 70-75, 96, 101, 132

Pharisees, 30

physiology, 76

Pilate, 13, 118

poise, 73, 74

possessions, 38, 68, 82, 85, 88

poverty, 45, 89, 114, 127

power, 84, 99, 108, 113, 114, 132, 133; adverse, 52; desire for, 88; God is, 19; induement of, 96, 100; indwelling, 94; in word of faith, 51; key to, 92; kingdom of, 78; like that of Jesus, 39; lives within us, 16; new, 83, 120; of faith, 60-61; of omnipotent love, 55; of the Spirit, 112, 129; omnipotent, 93; secret of, 11; Source of, 53, 90; spring of, 8; that spiritual understanding gives, 74; the one, 44, 127; through affirmations, 56; to bring invisible good into expression, 50; to heal, 114, 115; weakened through negation, 47

practice the presence of God, 11

prayer, 44, 101-102, 103, 126

preaching, 97, 99

Presence, 50, 81, 106, 114

pride, 72

Principle, 22, 131, 132, 133

principle(s), 57-58, 67, 118, 122

prison, 55

prodigal son, 82

projections of God, 21

promises, 65

prophecy, 116

prosperity, 91

purpose, 116, 120

quiet, 11, 50, 108

radiating, 33, 35, 47, 96, 129

reality, 121

realization, 16, 78, 79, 80, 89, 103, 115

reasoning, 76, 90

receiving, 65, 79, 96, 106-107, 110

recognition, 114, 129, 130, 133

Red Sea, 7

relationships, 21

relaxing, 105

p. x

religious science, 126

repetition, of affirmations and denials, 52, 54, 104

reservoir, 33

responsibility, 57

restlessness, 88

results, 10, 30, 63, 83, 109, 120, 125, 129

resurrection, 118, 119

revealing, 78, 89-90, 93

revelation, 26, 28, 29, 80, 84, 91, 92-93, 94, 96, 100, 109, 110

reward(s), 84, 113

rheumatism, 31

roots, 104

rules, 28, 51, 58

salvation, 28, 88, 93, 97, 110

satiation, 37

Scriptures, 84

secret, 91-92, 95, 96, 99, 127

secret spring, 65

secret place of Most High, 88-98; finding, 99-112

sects, 124

seed, 104, 119

seeking God, 79, 80, 84, 87, 100, 119, 124, 127

seeking, spiritual, 85, 90

self, divine, 93, 108, 113; human, 39, 127; ignorance of, 30; real, 39-40, 54, 66; spiritual, 7, 25, 72

selfish(ness), 56, 72, 79, 80, 82, 85, 99

self-reliance, 32

sense man, 6

senses, 26, 29-30, 62

separateness, 25, 124, 130

serenity, 108

Sermon on the Mount, 70

servants of the Most High, 8

service, 84, 86

shoulders, stooped, 31

sickness, 37, 45, 53, 78, 82, 89, 112, 113-114, 119, 127

signs and wonders, 106

silence, 54, 79, 90, 101-109

simplicity, 70

sin, 78, 112

slaves of circumstance, 8

p. xi

Solomon, 81-82

Son, 91, 95, 104

soul, 25

Source, 23, 53, 109

Spirit, 17, 18, 21, 25, 29, 33, 54, 64, 95, 96, 97, 108, 111, 112, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121-122, 126, 127, 128, 129; as Divine Mind, 26; fulfillment of our desires, 50; manifestation of, 94; of truth, 19, 28, 29, 62, 84, 91; union with man, 91

spirit, 29

spirits, power to discern, 116

spiritual scientist, 125

stagnation, 33, 86

stillness, 12, 90, 97, 101, 104

"still small voice," 72, 75

straining, 104, 107, 111

strength, 56, 80

submission, 41, 114

substance, 19, 44, 50, 60, 64, 105, 115, 130

suffering, 6, 14, 40, 130, 133; freedom from, 7, 114

sun, 34, 42, 104

supplication, 102

supply, 15, 49-50, 53, 54, 64-65, 66, 67, 68

taking, 67, 79, 105

talk, 13

teacher(s), 19, 38, 84, 89, 93, 94-95, 111, 112, 114, 120

temporal things, 32

thanksgiving, 68, 106, 111

theology, 124

thinking, 24-36, 102, 133; false, 30, 34

Thomas Didymus, 93

thought(s), at random, 30; centered on God, 12, 129; control bodies and circumstances, 43; highest, 96; negative, 31; of Divine Mind, 29; of fear and grief, 31; right, 10, 30, 97, 109, 133; seed, 95; turn away from external, 82; wrong, 24, 30, 31, 102, 133

thought images, 103

time, 11; fullness of, 10, 85, 86

timidity, 57, 72-73

transition periods, 120

treating, 120

trust, 15, 68, 106

p. xii

Truth, 10, 11, 27-28, 29, 31, 38, 42, 61-62, 75, 77, 82, 83-84, 87, 90, 92, 95, 96, 97, 109, 115, 120-121, 124-125, 126, 128, 134; knowledge of, 26, 114; of Being, 13; repetition of, 51; revelation of, 77; search for, 10, 99-100, 113; statement(s) of, 12, 64, 82, 90, 99

truth(s), 62-63, 64-65, 114

understanding, 26, 71, 90, 132; of divine law, 51; spiritual, 7, 26, 28, 76-77, 107

unforgiveness, 14

unity of the spirit, 123-133

universe, 65, 129

unknown, power to meet, 11

unselfishness, 84

vacuum, 102

vessel(s), 116, 123

vine, 115

vision, 123-124

vivifying, 104

water, 20

weakness, 58

whole, 20, 23, 46, 80, 100, 111, 115, 126, 131

will, free, 25, 40, 118; infinite, 118; of God, 22, 54, 126

willfulness, 34, 53

wisdom, 19, 107, 112, 117; of God, 34, 70, 132; Source of, 53, 77

withdrawal, 105

word(s), 70, 83, 84, 92, 95, 127; form of, 55, 103; speaking, 52, 53, 99, 109, 112, 125

works, 113, 116, 120, 121

worship, 88, 127

yield, to Spirit, 117

young people, 37