Lessons in Truth

ourselves, and through it each person for themselves must work out their own salvation from all their troubles. In this context, "salvation" refers to liberation from suffering, sickness, and mental error through spiritual awakening.

In other words, there is a shortcut to the top of the hill. While there is a good but long, indirect road for those who need it, we prefer the less laborious means of reaching the same goal—by seeking directly the Spirit of Truth promised to dwell in us and lead us into all truth. Our advice is this: if you want to make rapid progress in growing toward spiritual understanding, stop reading so many books. They only give you someone else’s opinion about truth, or serve as a history of the author's own experience in seeking it. What you want is a revelation of truth in your own soul, and that will never come through the reading of many books.

Do not even discuss these lessons with others. Go alone. Think alone. Seek light alone, and if it does not come at once, do not be discouraged and run off to someone else to find it. As we said before, by doing so you only get the opinion of the intellect (the false mind), and you may then be further away from the truth you are seeking than ever before; for the carnal, or mortal mind, carnal or mortal mindThe author's term for the limited, ego-driven human intellect that relies on physical senses rather than spiritual intuition. makes false reports.

The very Spirit of Truth is at your call—within you. "The anointing you have received remains in you." original: "The anointing ye have received abideth in you"; a reference to 1 John 2:27.

Seek it. Wait patiently for it to "guide you into all truth about all things."

"Let this same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." A reference to Philippians 2:5, suggesting that humans can access the same divine consciousness as Jesus. This is the Universal Mind which makes no mistakes. Quiet the intellect for the time being and let it speak to you; when it speaks, even if it is only a "still, small voice," you will know that what it says is truth.

How will you know? You will know just as you know you are alive. All the arguments in the world intended to convince you against the truth that comes through direct revelation will fall flat and be powerless at your side. And the truth which you know—not simply believe—you can use to help others. That which comes forth through your spirit will reach the very innermost spirit of the person to whom you speak.

What is born from the outside, or from intellectual perception, reaches only the intellect of the person you want to help.

The intellect, or false mind, is the servant to the Real Mind. As a servant it is good, but as a master it is not. It loves to argue, but because its information is based on the evidence of the senses and not on the true thoughts of the Divine Mind in us, it is very unreliable and full of error.

The intellect argues. The Spirit draws from the deep things... original: "Spirit takes of the deep things"; likely a reference to 1 Corinthians 2:10: "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God."