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Twenty centuries ago the consummate Illuminate of all time tried to tell the early man of His day that God centered His universe and man. He freely told man that the kingdom of heaven was within, and that the Father of man dwelleth within man. His words had no meaning in those days of little knowing. The people of His day demanded an objective God, a ruler over men, a personal God outside of themselves who had human emotions. That was the pagan concept of pagan intellects. Very slowly, down through the ages, the Mind-God of a Mind-created universe, began to dissolve the pagan concept of a God outside of His Creation, to a Mind which is omnipresent within it. Today millions of people have entirely discarded the pagan concept and have accepted the Mind concept without comprehending its full meaning, but man in the mass, throughout the world, still holds the pagan concept. Mary Baker Eddy, the Illuminate of the last century, advanced the human race intellectually in that respect more than any other being who has ever lived since the days of the Nazarene. Civilization progressed dynamically and spiritually as man's concept of God thus changed. With even this progress the words: "Seek ye the kingdom of heaven within you," have no dynamic meaning.

The human race can never become ascendant until it is as fully aware of God Presence within man and all things, as it is aware of objective things. The brotherhood of man Idea can never come into its full meaning, and practice, till that new day of enlightenment.

In the month of May, 1921, other words of the same mean-

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ing as those uttered twenty centuries ago, were written down as another Message to man to tell man where to find God. These are the words of that Message:

''For behold: I am within all things centering them. And I am without all things controlling them. "I center My universe as My knowing. My universe encircles Me as My thinking.''

These words - which are a fragment quoted from The Divine Iliad Message - are fraught with Cosmic meaning. They were written to tell to a newly dawning Age that the nucleus of the atom is the still Magnetic Light of God, the Creator of the atom, and that the atom is the electrically divided pair of moving lights, which manifest His thinking.

God centers His universe. God holds every atom of it together to manifest Him by its purposefulness. God gives of Himself to all His universe in an eternity of endless regiving. God's universe regives of itself to God in an eternity of endless giving. That which God gives is Love. That which is regiven is love. That is the divine story of Creation. It is a story of cause and effect in the giving and regiving of love. It is the One story of God's knowing, expressed by His thinking, illumined by the Light of His imagining. It is told in the language of Light projected from His existent stillness into existent stillness to simulate motion where naught is but stillness - to simulate dimension where dimension is naught - and naught else is.

There is naught but God - and God's knowing - and His thinking - and His imagining - in all this seeming universe of Mind, which alone is. These are the things which long ages of time, and experience fraught with the agony which is a part of ignorance, have tried to whisper to man from within his inner Consciousness. The silent Voice of God has been ever active in this respect. Intuition and inspiration have also been ever active in this respect. God's Messengers to man, the geniuses, the Cosmic Illuminates and the rare mystics have ever been active in this respect, even though man crucifies them for their service to man.

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