Individuals do not meet by chance. They ARE necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

Paragraphs 16, 17 and 18.  Man shall not live by bread alone.  Only enough food is required to supply material for the natural reconstruction of man's body.  What is more than this is but giving the functions of the body an excess of labor.  One should feed more and more upon the substance that moves in the creative principle of his being and then he would find real nourishment.  As food is supplying material for body building, sleep is consuming energies that have been wasted during our periods of false living.

We make it possible ourselves for inharmony to manifest by the reduction of the vibration of our bodies and in no other way.  We allow what should be the impossible to take place.  When we look upon complete accord as an impossibility, we worship discord instead of worshiping harmony.  That was the very teaching that Jesus gave out when He said that you of yourself are always harmonious.  He referred directly to that harmony of Principle which in reality we always manifest and which we could not help but manifest if we would let go of that personal, egotistical desire for direct service from our neighbor instead of giving Service always.  Our expectancy should be from above and our attitude toward the world as giving.


This practice is the greatest sincerity for to be sincere is to be without blemish.  It is to be whole.  The moment that you cut that individual out of your consciousness you have allowed that individual greater privileges than you have allowed yourself.  You must exalt him and then you have finished with the matter.  If you loose him and let him go before the exaltation, it is not finished, for you still have your own consciousness to mend.  It is like this:  you never knew that man before he came into your consciousness.  Now you are perfectly conscious of him because there was some situation with which you or he needed assistance.  The moment you have gained that which was needed and have finished with that person through exaltation, you can loose him and let him go back just as he was before he came into your life.  Then, when your duty is finished and the exaltation is complete, you are both free.  Both can go your separate ways the same as you did before.  Unless this is done the blemish is still in your own consciousness.

There is one law governing the Universe for the Universe is One.  We need not obey a single law that is less than the One Law.  There is but One Law and that is the only thing that we need to obey.  A human being does not need to obey even the manifestation of law, which is gravitation.  You need not obey even the conscious manifestation of law; you need obey only the law that controls these manifestations.  The moment you become unconscious of the manifestation of law you are perfectly conscious of the Law that is All, the Allness or the Universality of Principle.  Every manifestation of law then obeys us.  We are in complete authority, complete dominion over every manifestation of law.