Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lesson 5 THE HIGHER METAPHYSICS Application He standard of this message is The Absolute: but for man to study these lessons as he would read a book, just cramming the intellect, it will avail him little indeed. The Cosmic is vibrant with the Infinite Principle, and, when man becomes alert to this great Truth and understand- ingly in tune therewith, he has learned many of the deep things of God; then, if he desires to become in at-one-ment with the great Cosmic Heart, and touch the secret spring thereof, that the perfect expression of the God Law become evident, he must apply the deep truths which he has learned. If he does not apply the rules, or voice the prayer, he stands in the same current as those who do not know concerning the principle of Truth. Therefore, if sickness seems to be, it will exhaust itself, or cause the body to succumb, and death take place with the one who understands the God-Law and its application, if he does not use it, (if he has not attained unto illumination so deep that it is Realization,) just the same as with the one who knows not of it. The one who studies The Higher Metaphysics, and daily applies its rules, will begin almost at once to pass into clearer light, and his health of body will become evident in proportion to his realization of the Truth which is the foundation. When man awakens from the carnal slumber,— (we read in Genesis, that Adam went to sleep; this signifies the carnal concept; as long as man is sleeping soundly, he is conscious only of the outer self;)—but when he awakens, his Soul, the Real Divine Self, has begun to stir within him; and his carnal mind feels that a change of heart has taken place; then he no longer is satisfied with the life of the surface, (the carnal life) ; he then discovers he is, " In a far ...