I want you all to understand the great secret of the universe. Had the ancients known it, our modern living would be as in a paradise. If we learn it in this age, we can help to usher in the Millennium. The few who have known this secret in past ages could not teach it; it would appear that only a very few had the spiritual capacity to grasp its meaning. Some few understood it intellectually, but rarely was it understood in its spiritual significance.

I am not a dreamer of idle dreams – but I have a vision of eternal Life. I would not have you either sitting on a cloud or anchored with your feet on the ground. My idea and my ideal is that you be rooted and grounded in Truth; that you be fed with spiritual meat and that you drink waters from the wellsprings of eternal Spirit and Soul.

The secret – that which has been so rarely understood – is that spiritual meat and drink; and the secret is this: The life which you behold in man, tree or animal is not the Life which is God; human, animal or plant life is not a manifestation of God, and therefore is not immortal, eternal or spiritual. The life of material man or flower is mortal sense objectified: it is a false sense of the Life which is real.

The understanding of this truth will enable you to look away from the objects of sense; it will enable you to refrain from attempting to heal, correct or reform the mortal sense of existence; and as soon as you have conquered the desire to heal or improve the material sense of existence, the spiritual or real begins to unfold and reveal itself to you. You cannot behold or experience eternal Life and its harmonies and beauties while accepting the evidence of the senses as if it were God’s creation.

Do not take lightly what I am saying. This is the Great Revelation; this knowledge will clarify for you the Master’s statement, “My kingdom is not of this world”; it will reveal to you the secret of John the Revelator, who beheld the universe which is not made with hands, but which is eternal, as Consciousness appearing; Spirit unfolding; Soul revealing itself.

“My kingdom is not of this world.” The attempt to bring Spirit into operation in this finite sense of existence constitutes the warfare between the flesh and the Spirit. To continue in the belief that by some mental hocus-pocus you are going to make material life perfect; to feel that in some holy way a God or God-power is going to make your human life healthier or lengthier; to dream of some religious magic that will enable you to sail on smoothly in the sea of material living – all this is folly, and it is dangerous. It is leaning on a fable which will not sustain you. The life of material man, the life of the tree, the flower, the animal – this is not the Life eternal; it is not the manifestation of the Life which is God; it is a false, finite, mortal sense of life. Do not attempt to patch up this sense of life; rather turn from it and with your now enlightened consciousness discern the Life which is God; “feel” through your cultivated spiritual sense this divine energy of Spirit; become conscious in the Silence of your Soul powers. Let the divine harmonies appear as you disregard the evidence of sight and hearing, tasting, touching and smelling.