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BIBLE LESSONS. 347
interlaced and interblended in the presence around
and within us, hence the " Kingdom of God is within
you," or "among you," as one translator gives it.
The physical plane of existence is represented by
John the Baptist. It is crude—it is like a voice in
the wilderness, crying for the right way. When this
mind is constantly striving to know and express more
and more of the All Possibility, where it realizes the
shortcomings of the sense state, it cries out for a
change. This is the cry of the suppressed soul,
the sin-sick soul, the hampered soul, in all who are
weary of the material world and material ways. The
remedy is, "Repent ye," or change your mind.
There are fixed laws governing mental changes
Thoughts are space filling, and the mental aura that
envelopes, surrounds and constitutes one's mind
requires certain definite steps in its movement to a
higher plane of consciousness.
The first step is to get rid of the great bulk of
limited thoughts that encumber and darken the understanding.
This is the baptism of John. This is
brought about by a mental process metaphysically
known as "denial." It is found that to mentally
say, "I deny the belief in the reality of matter and
material conditions," causes that aggregation of
thoughts to scatter. This is a mental "letting go "
that has to be applied to all departments of the mind.
In Christian conversion the sinner lets go of his sins
and there is a moral cleansing. The metaphysician
finds it necessary to cleanse his mind from all moral
iniquity, but he also finds that he must go further
than this. The mind governs every part of the man,
and a thorough reform requires that the baptism of
John shall include a complete transformation of
thought pertaining to things mental, moral and
physical. The self-sufficiency of the religionist, the
Pharisee, and the self-sufficiency of the agnostic, the
Sadducee, both within us, must be cleansed, and
religious emptiness for a season find place in
conscsiousness.
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