1. Unity. God is and God is all there
is.
"There is not a spot where God is not."
Nothing exists that is not God because
everything emanates from God. We
introduce the idea of the immanent and
transcendent aspects of God. We explain
the nature of ultimate reality. We
explain the terms Omniscience,
Omnipotence and Omnipresence. Behind the
multiplicity of appearance is the
oneness of God. Everything proceeds from
this One Source. And therefore
everything that exists has the same
nature as this One Source. This is not a
new idea. It is as old as the early
Greek philosophers. Aristotle tells us
that within each object, including
humanity, is the fundamental "stuff" of
the universe. This fundamental stuff is
built into each object by God. Within
each object is the end or goal of that
object. Aristotle states that "the true
nature of anything is the highest it can
become." Meister Eckhart, the 14th
century mystic states it another way.
"Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut
seeds grow into nut trees, and man grows
into God." We believe in the unity of
all life. Behind the multiplicity of
appearance is the Oneness of God.
2. Spiritual Beings. We are not just
human beings, we are spiritual beings
having a human experience.
We are awakening to our spiritual
magnificence. We are not just human
beings, we are spiritual beings having a
human experience. What is true in the
universal is true in the individual. Our
essence is the same as the essence of
God. We distinguish between personality
and divine individuality. We describe
the different names for God according to
the different religions. We show why we
are the essence of God but not allness
of God. We are spiritual citizens of a
divine universe. Our nature must be the
nature of God because we are made out of
God stuff.
The appearance of any negative condition
in our life is the product of error
thinking. Error thinking is thinking
from a faulty premise. The faulty
premise is that we are limited, mortal
human beings, who are born of the earth,
who struggle through life and who return
to dust in the end. The truth is that we
are unlimited spiritual beings, we are
born of the Living Spirit of God. we are
the immortal, conscious choosers of our
life.
3. Creative Process. We learn
to speak our positive word into the Law
of Mind and co-create our reality
according to our thinking.
We explain the creative process though
the Metaphysical Trinity. The three
aspects of the Universe are Spirit, Law
and Body. God contemplates Itself and
creates the physical universe through
some inner action upon Itself. God is
Spirit, God is Law, God is Body.
You and I are emanations of God. Because
we are made in the image and likeness of
God, we must have the same creative
abilities of God., so we can and do
create our own little universe by our
own contemplation. We are Spirit, we are
Law, we are Body. Our nature is the
nature of God.
We explain how Spirit speaks Its Word
into the Law of Mind and how
manifestation occurs. We explain how we,
as individuals, speak our word into the
same Law of Mind and co-create our
reality. The Mind of God is primary and
causative, while the manifestations of
that Mind is secondary and resultant.
Therefore, all manifestation is the
product of thought. All manifestation,
including the physical universe, is
relative because it changes when the
thought behind it changes. Every
condition that we experience in our life
is the product of relative thought
resulting from our limited
consciousness. By becoming more aware,
by changing the way we think, we can
change the conditions in our life.
Thoughts are things. Things are thick
thought.
4. Evolution. Life evolves
from simple consciousness to
self-consciousness to cosmic
consciousness. We continue to grow in
our awareness.
The entire universe is evolving in time
and space. Life is evolving from simple
consciousness to self-consciousness to
cosmic consciousness. The self-
conscious person, the one called human
being (homo sapien) is one phase of that
evolution and is moving towards a new
species, (homo noeticus.) The word
"sapiens" comes from the Latin and it
means both to taste and to be wise. It
is a perfect word because it explains
the human method of attaining wisdom: we
taste the world, we experience life
through the sensations of our body, we
think about our "tastings" and form
beliefs and judgments. We become wise
about the world. The word "noeticus"
comes from the Greek and it connotes a
knowing without the process of
reasoning; a spontaneous and intuitive
knowing of the truth of things, an
embodiment of truth. Just as a baby must
go through a touching and tasting phase
to apprehend aspects of reality, humans
must go through the sapiens phase. But
that phase is not who we are. We are not
simply the tasters or the wise ones. We
are the "knowers". We are spiritual
beings. We are individualizations of the
One God. We believe in spiritual
evolution. The entire Universe is
evolving and growing and we are evolving
from human self-conscious individuals
into God-centered people.
5. Prayer. We teach a scientific method
of prayer based on five specific steps.
We call this method Spiritual Mind
Treatment.
We explain the nature of prayer and the
nature of a specific form of prayer
called Spiritual Mind Treatment. We
discuss the steps of treatment. We
distinguish between prayer, meditation,
visualization, affirmation and
treatment.
6. Love and Law. All is Love and yet all
is Law. We commune with the Presence of
Love and command the impersonal Law.
We learn how to directly experience the
Love of God. We explore the nature of
Law and how it works on the material,
mental and mystical level. We explain
the seven spiritual laws. There are
material laws that apply to our
relationship with nature. There are
mental laws that apply to the creative
power of our thoughts and there are
mystical-spiritual laws that apply to
our relationship with the Divine. We
choose to learn and live from the laws
of the universe.
7. Abundance. We learn the principles of
prosperity which allow us to flow with
the flow of the universe.
We live in an abundant universe. We
explain the power of giving and
receiving and the nature of tithing.
8. Healing. We embody the essence of
wholeness and know that any condition
can be healed.
We explain the nature of disease and how
disease manifests through lack of
awareness. Healing is natural. We are in
essence, perfect, whole and complete. In
truth, there is nothing to heal, we need
only reveal our perfection. When we come
into the full realization of our inner
wisdom, our inner love and our inner
power, healing and wholeness manifest
throughout our entire body, mind,
emotions and affairs. We believe in
healing. Through positive prayer any
condition can be healed.
9. Immortality. We teach the journey
of the immortal soul. Our life
here is but a parenthesis in eternity.
We are immortal spiritual beings. Our
life on this planet is but a
"parenthesis in eternity" and although
we may make a transition from this
physical life, our life never ends but
continues to unfold. We are immortal
spiritual beings.
10. Mysticism. We are at heart a
mystical teaching revealing the mystery
of life through the direct experience of
God.
We distinguish between the mental and
the mystical. We point out the
difference between the psychic and the
mystic. We explain cosmic consciousness.
We explain why the Science of Mind is
ultimately a mystical teaching and why
spiritual mind treatment is based on
mysticism. We live our lives from a
sense of the mystical.