,~..,..J.THE I AM INSTnUGTING Tlili CONSCloUSNBSS ~ T,, /.,,K:' The Sermon on the Mount is undoubtedly one of the greatest

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1 ';;i r' 'i' ) Charwes 'Fillmore 4: J' January \ ': 9 \ c 'c'! rl' \ J THE I AM INSTnUGTING Tlili CONSCloUSNBSS T / K:' The Sermon on he Moun is undoubedly one o he greaes riuals ha was ever given o he human amily Is so grea and so ar above anyhing ha has been comprehended in he pas or ;IJ conceived in he presen ha i marvelous ha i ever go ino he Bible There is no doub ha i his Sermon on he Moun were presened a any o our heological seminaries as a par o he Bible and had never been in he Bible beore i wouldn' be received I wouid be consideredwork o a meaphysical maniac a leas ';' -- ' 2 \ I I is srange ha he compilers o he Bible pu i in in J' I ' he beginning I+viden ha here mus have been a divine hand : ; in he building o he Bible Eiher ha or he people hen were _ IJ very much more c:edulous han hey are oday I remarkable ha ' ; ;; di!'ec conicion o all he cusoms o he Israelies he - : Hebrew people a ha ime I was con!'a!'y o all heir pracices They didn' love hei!' enemies They were augh o hae heir enemies Jesus comes righ ou boldly and says Love your enemies :' :- Jesus could preach a sermon o his kind because i is in such - '-;- UN'-TV SCHOOL OF CHRISTiANIY III 'c UN IN ARCHiVES - -!;;C':C;Jc'-'

2 v c Do good o hose ha despieully use you undoubedlhe pre- :; l' ceps ha are here given in his remarkable sermon were doubed r ; c by chrisians hey would be shocked Bu hey would be a good {C I' i \ deal more shocked i hey were pu ino pracice You lisen o'r hese sermons and read hem over hese Beaiudes bu when you l- - aemp o pracice hem you are up agains i :' - Now we have jus had hese proposiions read over and every!jj-;i body re ce i ve d hem and read hem and heard hem And you didn' eel any remor go over you did you when you read hem? Bu L -:_-: 4 ;; c ; 1-7p' ; supposing ha I should say o you Now are you loving your i c1c cc' enemies? Are you doing good o hose ha pieuliy r - A use you? 1 ' When any body smies you on one cheek do you urn he 0 her and C do you give o everybody ha asks o you? I hey a-sk or your l /I 7 1- [ coa do you give your(also? And are you carrying ou hebe ; i ocr hings? No You don' carry ou a single one or hem No one i Ye I say you read hem over We've read hese hings over like we read he airy ales We jus accep hem bu we don' pu hem ino rr acice Tha brings us o he quesion o why are hey pu

3 I - i in he Bible i we don' pracice hem? How do hey ever ge here? ;'i: ; - :' Wha is he objec o heir being here? Well we have o go ino ( anoher realm o consciousness o answer his quesion And ha realm o consciousne88 i8 called he kingdom o he heavens or pe super mind JesU8 was he ore runner o an enirely new civilizaion in which cerain relaions would prevailand his Sermon on he Moun gives us an inkling o wha hose condiions will be Now we are old a he very beginning o his wonderul alk by Jesus ha he wen up ono a mounain o pray and he sa down/upon () v i;; r'j'; s mounain Now all o hese represen somehing Wha is i '' o go up ono a mounain in your mind Why you meaphys'icians / -- l-_ -;-':: know i is o ge a high realizaion o absolue ruh As we :': --' say o ener ino he consciousness o God And ha means : /1 dl! ( you 4-separae yoursel rom maerial hings 'l'ha you :I have a realizaion o he absolue mind o Being Now he ordinary ;' man would sayhas impossible he Moral can' conceive o he ic ; ' ; ( ;' di vine Bu Jesus augh oherwise He laid hese laws down 88 : ;i '; : capable o execuion He said You're my ollowers you're my '

4 :i;::;;;;:;;;;;; c CcCcc;;!j disciples Now here are he proposiions ha you mus live up o Well did he mean ha or was he alking as we say hrough his ; lian I hink he was elling he ruh Bu he wasn' elling he r 'ruh abou he religions o he human amily as hey are oday Wha is he oundaion o he presen religion o human civiliza I! ion? Why i is baserl upon selishness Wha does selishness come :rom? You say he carnal mind he personal man And where does war ce rom? From he crnal mind personal man Vihere does age come rom? Vlhy i has he same source Well who is his l 'cccc -c 1 r I ellow ha causes so much rouble in he world? VJell he is named variously bu his personiicaion is he adversary he devil He was a liar and he aher o lies He has always been -; a liar 'and always will be a liar I has no realiy a all Well wha kind o a world are we living in? Why we are living in hell Tha is he presen civilizaion is hell Now you don' have o ' ' go o hell o ind hell because is righ here and he devil is here Well who is he devil? This personaliy his carnal mind And wha did Jesus come o do' Vihy o do away wih he c

5 !:: 9 jv ';;1' :' c;-' 0!' devil o do away wih he carnal mind To raise us o a higher level ha has a civilized people And when is ha going o be ; cern his inner kingdom and see possibiliies we know-now I Ca<l j-' s Sermon on h Voun a presen B: years ago i i had been presened o-me I would as mos people do say Well ha may be all righ as a grea high ideal o somehing ' has coming way o in he uure I may be h& i means when we ge o heaven we can pu i ino pracice bu can i be brough - I ino expression righ here now? Why we hink i can Bu beore c 10 accomplished? Tha'Panoher proposiion Bu as we begin o-dis- ---C_-'- i his is accomplished we mus deal wih his adversary his devil - ':;:'-' in us his Judas r :;:-- '': Now people say Why Jesus didn'%have any Judas in him 0 no Paul says ha he was emped in all poins like you are bu wihou sin lie wasn' a sinner Then he couldn' have had ' ::r' ;: he human side o his naure I JesuR didn' sin and he wasn' :- ;'' rc ::--: ; pos8es8ed or he d vi1 a imes hen he wasnj he grea eacher c i;:! c ' he claimed o be Bu he did have he hwtlan side Consequenly

6 11! - he had Judas Judas was one o he powers o he man Jesus as ḟ! he oher eleven rl1sciples were his powers He raised his COn- I 8cIousnes o a higher in human evoluion han any man ha ever lived He puriied ha 18 hrough his hough and words puriied all eleven o his aculies Bu one he le because he didn' go down ino he dephs o wha we call he carnal mind He didn:' cleanse i Wholly Bu he paved' :he way on he cross;ha carnal consciousness was wiped ou or his mind Bu i wasn' wiped ou o he whole human rami1y Thas he greaer work ha we are o 12 - r : j I i do And when shall we begin lui work? Well I hink righ away J Righ now And he ollowers o Jesus Chris should' ge busy and l i;' -- -' _8ee i hey can' pu his Sermon on he Moun ino every day ; '(;1 r pracice inocwell he commercial world OUr business man's clubs' \ : J'!i ; ;:: are rying o :L'aise he sandard o comme1'cial relaions They e1'e : ()j'j-- raising hem Why hese ideas' ilering ou rom Jesus' each- :c ;! ings ino he world have or ye&rs and years -The business men : )'1?U1-- he grea leaders o inarce are rinding ha hey mus have a e8a4y rela-lon Tha he buyer and he seller mus underaand 8&ch oher UNiTY SCHOOLOFHRISTAN1TY - 8' ''UNIT:YcARCHWE c ---;;:;;:;Cc(C;;cc c

7 -- I beer And here mus be more conidence less rickery am beer undersanding and ha means more honesy The carnal mind 1s no ounded on honesy The carnal mind is a ricky mind is a deceiul mind a dis:1ones':; mind And as I say hese Chris Cprinciples ae becomming!\par o he commercial world as well as he religious wold I migh say j John Wanamaker produced/a revoluion in dry goods rade ' when he announded ha he would ake back any aricle ha wasn' saisacory Every merchan in he counry saidha man is going l_ I 14! I o ail bu he didn' ail Well now he proved ha he releiion i r' :'::- can be esablished ha you 'mus represen your goods or wha - :'';;::::-'- ':- hey realy are and i hey don' mee wih he approval o he - ';':' buyer you mus ake hem back I read in he paper he oher day ha our auomobile people wee going o adop ha same rule in he sale o auomobiles I you are no suied wih a car i i isn' perecly saisacory l bring i back and ge your money Now ha shows ha his 16w o' I ' b jusice and righnes and honesy is geing ou ino he world --' '- H

8 15 Ac-lJ -we mus in order o make i universal esablish i in our own individual consciousness Tha is everyone o us mus see 0- he possibiliy and geing/ercepion o i a irs Begin o go; ha percepion illo wo!'king order in our mind Now I you have discerned he dierence beween wha is called he carnal mind and he piriual mind you've begun his grea process o -redempion 1ou're caching sjgh a1; leas o wha Jesus called he kingdan o he heavens And we should begin righ now every because sooner or laer we mus incorporae his kingdom o he heavens ino our everyday lie We'll we'll have conenion) We'll have unhappiness o all kinds sicknesses and r'nally deah so long as we allow 9-- -«e he earnal mind is he 8ource Well people say How am I o discriminae beween he spiriual mnd and he carnal mind? Well Jesu8 has given you in hi8 Sermon some o he undamenal principles o he spiriual mind Bu you can apply a law And ha law 18 laid down in he Sermon on he M:>un {ol:e: Jesus worked i ouin an all round way He gave you every angle o his

9 [' 17 law o he spiriual consciousness or your higher spiriual con- AI 8clousness Now as I 8ay you can dow in he silence and raise your minrl o ha high place where you will see ha you mus love your nei&hbor ha you mus be orgiving ha you mus qui your I r condemnaion you mus qui your aul inding you mus qui }our nagging you mus quieing eyil o every kind and discripion in oher people and in yoursel also Now his o mos o us is percepion The ideas ha ener ino ha haven' become organic 'in our consciousness bacause we haven' had aih enough in hem 18 Bu hrough aih you shall aain all hings Have aih in your ideals alhough hey seem ar away Now here are sandardb by which we can judge wheher we are hinking wheher we are uncioning in he spi!'1ual mind orin he carnal mind Now some o he old Hindu masers laid down ha law years and years ago housands o years ago and his is he law' The carnal mind deecs dierences The spiriual mind recognizes similariies Now- ClL-\-L you'i{pp1y ha o yur every day hinking Every ime ha you see '11! {; Iv a JJvrji:! every ime llb you see vl ' sh;:rp so chlled inellec c j l' V v

10 ;:i';i;i-di; --'-- # -- r (- J!r '! J 11} you deec somehing separae ; somehing W separa e;; you - rom ohers 8o!rehing ha separaes you rom your very own has he carnal mind Bu when you see simlla!'iies when you begin o see ha everyhing is uniied in oregood Principle and ha Principle is every where presen onsequenly all people mus be uniied in order o ge along harmoniously here mus be a universal Faher here mus be a universal lovinghere'mus be a universal' universal love universal subsance universal inelligence Now ha is he oundaion o spiriual mind 1his -- c recogniion o SiMilariies) CAuniying Principle everywhere d hen he eliminaion or he denial o hese dierences and ; Jesus said condemn no 'Judge no pa ye be no judged For wih wha judgmen ye judge 1e shall be judged Now meaphysicians are discovering ha every hough ha hey send ou comes back As you judge so are you judged And ha you can' judge anoher wihou having in yoursel ha same hing ha you eelwell : o D his seems an awul hard law bu i is rue And ybu mus begin o apply i And -a you lipply 1a la' as you sop your conderrmaion 'c

11 :' - - sop aul inding sop nagging sop seeing evil Say Now ha isn' rue has he carnal mind in me ha sees hese hings ;I I in ohers I don' wan o live in ha mind I leads o all kinds o inharmonies I leeds o separa 1ons I l) o live in love Now his oher mind here is a mind in me and in his mouna1n mind his mind o he Spiri I wan ha mind And has his he mind I'm going o live in You've go o beginli-redempion righ where you ae Bu here is a mighy power' in he exampl o \ Jesus Chris He is our grea way shower He is he ore runner o 22 a new kind o a man And where do you ind ha man? Are you going o ind hin; aer you are dead? No You ind-him when YOU are alive e ; He is a living expression o his one Ininie Mind Now love your enemies Do good o hem ha hae you These are hard proposiions and I don' hink ha any o us in he carnal consciousness in our human every ('JAA- day lie really carry hem ou Qo 1\ (:d;:=:m i one smies you on one cheek urn he oher) less you are really illumined unless you have his Chris spiri in your hear You know I don' see how i could be possible O

12 [ I ' course when anybody his me on one cheek here is somehing lames up in me and beore I know i my is -doubles up ; Well wha will preven ha? Now here mus be a remedy or ha There mus be- a remedy or ha condiion \vhich we all :ind in ourr l selves Well wha i8 ha remedy? Les be hones wih ourselves I Le s see i we ca- ind he grea 'PCiHQ-c ha would s op I C!<'I/VU(: - -his compe-1ve eelin h permeaes he whol :hurnan amily and : j; /! 1 causes wars causes discord causes every & ha comes ino l : our lives Wha is he remedy? Why is he Chris he super-mind - ' I 24 -i' - II A: J-; Then I mus exercise love pf VIA; he love in me becomes a dominan i 4 becomes a paramoun issue o my eelings I see people ever day moaning over heir lack o being placed where hey hink hey belong And I see people ha have been placed in IJosiions where hey didn' I measure up and hey say Why is i ha my own doesn' come o me? Why is i ha I have o have so many rials? Why i i8 because l i: '!-- c hey haven' \lsed his law o love suicienly o harmonize They l are no harmonizing he people wih hom hey come in ouch They are no heads o deparens bu 8rvans 1caus; hey don' know ' _- {;: c UNlTY HQOLOFCH R1 STIAN ly :--:-' UNI-;i!VA C> I c 'cghives

13 25 ' - how o reconcile he good Now i you are in any kind o work I don' care wha i is begin o handle he good in he people j Don' le ha old carnal mind begin o deec he evil Deecives are no always he mos accepable ;)8ople in our civilizaion I wouldn' wan o be a deecire because I would be looking 'or evil all he ime Thas he carnal mind Bu we all have his deecive and some o us pride ourselves on i We hink He can' ool me I'm;1oo sharp or him' I'm no being led around by he nose by I (! I i everybody I can see righ hrough hese evil people Everybody '-- --T---': -_: --- :;;o ; I ha comes o me wih Qn evil proposiion in mind I can see i in hem And as I say we hink ra is in ourslves 1 l We like o be so oxy ha nobody can ge he bes o' us Well now ' is ha he divine mind or is ha he carnal mind? Why is he carnal mind Bu you say i I don' use my discriminaion i I don' use my sharp discernmen 'll lose everyhing 've go People will ake every advanage o me Well ry he oher and see Try i For a ime be credulous le people ake advanage o you Lose evet'yhing you've go i necessary Jesus Chris didn' have

14 GO- 0- anyhing He didn' have a place o lay his head And ye he had everyhing V/ell now could we ollow JeRus? Yes We could ol- I low him in he spiri Ge in w!h JeSlB and go up on I i ha high mounain hen everybody }l8 coy!'o o you askir_g yo\ would ( give bu you would give in he spiri Bu i you ry o demonsrae his n carnal consciousness wihou associaing yoursel wih he Chris mind o course you would ail I read here no long ago o a man who began giv1ng away all 1 l o his properiy Everybody ha came o him he gave i away 28 Well wha did hey do wih him? Why in hriy days his relives ;' gd ogeher and had him pu in an asylum 'g/1'--a 1cu'i{ l Bu he claimed he was doing jus wha Jesus augh in he Sermon on ' :; };g c he Moun Bu he didn' do i in plei I he had done i in Spiri he would have accomplished wha he se ou and ha was o l- disribue h1 s good and relieve hi1tjsel rom he burden o r possession I don I hink ha one in his consciousners o he N1 o Chris puing on he Chris could be(ldh because be would see a once ha his money was a burden \ L would come ino a con-? \

15 29 sciousness where he would lay hold o every good hing he would give people more han he millions ha he migh give rom a maerial sandpoin He would give hem he real source o money r r J dvla'v Give hem he rea hing And I hink his Sermon on he ( p4-zd- Moun iwe l coe ri down o UndarnAnal principles we will ind ha all hese are symbols They are symbols o ideas which 'I' j )2 I( I i (/ r I)l -1-Z -! CI -! we know he ideas CIlV o/j o he clo and he coa) j ' o everyhing ha you have here is an idea here And you can raise yoursel on his mounain o high rehlizaion unil you can i absoluely ree o J:;:r Add you know i you give your ii coa and your cloak in spiriual consciousness you can keep on I I!; I: I l- lc: gi v1ng and giving and giving and nevej ' - yoursel Bu i you keep giving rom a maerial sandpoin why here i8 nohing goes wih your gi excep he maerial hing Vie know ha ha wears ou r:: ;;80 i couldn' be hh Jesus was eaching his He was eaching o he real hing ne was eaching o he eernal hings He was eaching us ha we MUs undersand his divine law o our daily lives d ener ino i And here is no

16 ;; ( '\ 9JJ b i a- j k:r!'ri4 jd u -- r:: z;': escape rom i 'Iii 1 ' he Sermon on he ' J44 ;I J Moun i8 in he Bible and ha we are beginning! - ; o see is beauy is wonderul possibiliies- Now when i be comes a sandard a universal sandard o all he 1'N -!;ji':i;- in he world and people everywhere accep i i will be he oundaion o an enirely new civilizaion and we will never halq'e ha l civilizaion unil we ge his undersanding Now some people l i 1 heorize abou his Bu do hey really undersand and know? \ I ; I r - J I' Vie kno\v or example ha his earh isn' la BuAlong rc 32 as a human amily have we know ha? Only a revi hundred years i I Somebody said no long ago in one or he papers ha i a voe were aken lhe world round as o wheher he earh/ round or! la he rlas would ge i Because here are more people in he I world y' n 11 he savage races ha really look upon he apl:'rainly he world is la cerainly he sky a 1 I;:'J l- Ij comes down somewhere and JI-;wil v-upmh v1- Mr1-1l ;cl J-'$J-A Thas judging by he ive sense man carnal mind Now we know ha we can' 'ArhR man Then ge busy and ind his higher

17 principle in 8 and pu subsance andl1e ino 'i and M-Jj i ino acion and can do ha We have he pz'omise o he Lord JesuA Chris ha i 1s possible or us o do hese hings and even greaer hings 2 1- Now le us ener ino his --!(/-Jcnc'i{ les 'ollow ha old Hindu's injuncion les recognize now ha every ime we see evil every ime we condemn WB:XKax every ime we le his old sinner which has been in pobseasion o our consciousness every ime we le him ou o his cage he is leading us ii:1o discord and i ' ;- 34 JM inharmon y We mus cu o all expressions How shall we do ha? By knowing ha here is in us a high Chris Principle Tha I ha spiriual principle 1s in expression in all o is ullness in he law as laid down by Jesus Chris And we are going o live up o ha law jus as nearly as we know how We are going o live up clohe o i in mind o begin wih We are going o 1II:XB our houglls \ wih subsance w1'h lie wih inelligence wih power All power is given uno me in heaven and in earh In my mind and my body is all power When I have power o see he good in eve1'ybody