Unity of Flint

The Idea

23rd Day of Lent, Monday. Read Luke 5:141.

In the Scriptures ideas are symbolized by fish. An idea is
the original, primary, or unlimited thought of Being: in
God-Mind, the eternal Word or Logos. In the idea are
involved all the potentialities of that which is to be
evolved through man. The idea itself becomes the evolving
power through which it makes itself manifest.

Ideas are catching. We are all heavily charged with ideas.
When ideas are released they spring forth and pass from
mind to mind, being "recorded" as they fly; when they are
expressed the whole race is lifted up--because true ideas
are charged with the uplifting Spirit. We bring divine
ideas into manifestation by making ourselves one with them,
becoming
conscious of our indwelling Christ Mind and our oneness
with the Father.

As the son is to the father, so is the idea to the mind.
Mind is one with its ideas, so the Father--God-Mind--is one
with its offspring, the idea--the Son. Mind is coexistent
with its ideas, and there is continual interaction and
communion. The Father and the Son are one--are coexisting,
interacting, and intercommuning in will and purpose. It was
from the grand idea of divine life that Jesus healed the
sick and raised the dead.

Spiritual inspiration in me is an inflow of divine ideas;
activity of a spiritual character; understanding that comes
from God. It is the inbreathing of Spirit. The breath of
God infused into me has endowed me with super-life. "He
breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy
Spirit."

I affirm: "In the presence and power of the Christ idea in
me, I proclaim my perfection."

Fourth Dimension

22nd Day of Lent, Saturday. Read John 21:1-17.

The fourth dimension is that which embraces and encompasses
the other three; it is realization, the doing away with
time and space and all conditions. It is the process in
which forms lose their apartness and become one under
divine law. The human mind, with its limited reasoning
faculties, is bound by time, space, and conditions. By
itself it can get no further into the spiritual realm than
reason will take it; but when we invoke the aid of the
Christ in us we go beyond reason into the realm of pure
realization; then we have attained the consciousness of
pure being, the fourth dimension of the being.

The one way to enter the realm of the fourth dimension, or
of realization, is through scientific prayer, commonly
named "the silence." First, I take with me the word Jehovah
and go within and hold it steadily in mind, until the word
illumines the whole inner consciousness. I am now
functioning in the fourth dimension, and the way is open
for concentrating on the prayer I have in mind for the
special demonstration.

I fix my attention powerfully on the consummation of an
idea until the idea has nucleated a certain amount of
thought substance, and I am assured that it will be
followed by that silent power of thought which, working
throughout my whole being, is bringing forth the thing
desired.

When my thoughts radiate with the speed of spiritual light,
they blend with creative Mind (called by Jesus "heaven"),
and that which I ask for is done.

I affirm: "The illuminating power of Truth awakens and
quickens my consciousness, and I discern clearly."