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THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

religious faith. Immediately there was a coldness and the spirit of happiness
disappeared because of the struggle to conform to certain beliefs.
This happy group of people were on the verge of breaking up when

I stepped into the breach, and I want to tell you of this experience because
it is a common occurrence with most people. I am sure this experience will
help you also to help others to see beyond beliefs. For this is most important to
us all in the Sanctuary of the Silent Healing Power.

I spoke to them and explained that we were first of all human beings in
whom the one Life is the only Reality and which we all depend upon for our
existence and if we would take a few minutes to think we would see that beliefs

were utterly false if they caused antagonisms and separation. If our beliefs
divided us then we could not live in that “One Presence” of God inherent
in each one and which was never antagonistic to Itself in any individual.

This was the only truth and there could be no other and we must learn
to think purely from the Presence within, for in this Presence there is no
separation, no religions or differing cults or organizations, no nationally, or any-

thing else that separated one Spiritual being from another.
Now this is a tremendous truth and requires our earnest consideration.
If we try to conform to a particular belief there is a constant struggle, but
there is no need to struggle to “live”. We live without struggle, but when we

struggle to conform we put Life in a prison of our own making.
Perhaps you grew up with your beliefs, but since then you never
questioned them to see if they were true or not, and all your efforts were

merely to adjust your actions to the dictates of another.
You will see that this struggle, this effort to conform, to imitate does
not lead to understanding but makes you a hypocrite and insincere to yourself
and others.

Hence you do not know what you really think, what you really feel,
because you never doubt the pattern you are trying to conform to. To think
clearly you must be free from prejudices, attachments, and the ideas of

others.
You know that God is Love, Wisdom, Healing and is omnipresent.
You accept this is true, yet you will not discern that which is untrue, with the

result that you perpetuate that which is false.
If you will adhere to your divisions in nationality, in religion, and the
differing creeds and cults, politics, etc., then you cannot think purely, for you

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