THE TEMPLE OF GOD 

     “What is man that thou are mindful of him?  Thou madest him a 
little lower than the angels, and gave him dominion over the earth.”
     What a farce all these lovely words are in the face of the slavery 
of man as we see him today!
     What am I?
     Why am I here?
     Where am I going?
     The air is surcharged with the unreality of life.  In the distance a 
terrible note of futility sounds like a doomsday dirge.  Yet Jesus 
discovered, and gave to the universe two thousand years ago, the 
simple truth of the relationship of God to man.  Misunderstanding 
the revelation man has “sought out many inventions” even though 
he was created perfect.  Man has conceived the idea that he is here 
as a special pawn or toy of the Almighty, subject to a devastating 
thing called human life, from which he can escape only through 
death.
      A ray of hope came with the teaching --- though oft 
misunderstood --- of Jesus Christ.  Being able to demonstrate the 
Power of God at rare intervals --- making something happen that 
otherwise would not happen --- working miracles, brought some joy; 
but the uncertainty of it all, the apparent failure, turned man again 
to the questions:
     What am I?
     Why am I here?
     Where am I going?
     Jesus answered all these questions.  You are the temple of the 
Living God.  Your body is the temple which is incorruptible and 
indestructible --- the temple of the Living God.  All this means 
nothing very definite to the listener, until it is finally revealed that 
not only is man here as the temple of the Living God, but he is here 
in order that God can find expression.  The temple “embodiment” 
known as man, is here for the purpose of God making Himself 
manifest.  The temple is the place where the invisible is stepped 
down into the visible --- as in a distilling plant where steam becomes 
water and is later turned into ice.  Without man, or this embodiment 
known as temple, none of the present-day inventions would have 
found expression.
     Though man has sensed this, he has mistakenly thought to work 
independently of this Power.  When he become conscious that it is 
the NATURE of the temple “embodiment” to express God, and that 
is its only reason for being, the dis-ease, struggle, anxiety, fear and 
questioning will cease.  He will be no more surprised that the works 
of God are being done through him than he would be to find water 
turning to ice in zero weather.  There is nothing curious, mysterious 
or miraculous about the appearance of God through his temple, and 
when this is seen, the excitement of “demonstrating” the Power will 
cease. 
     It is said, “I will walk in you and talk in you.”  Just what does 
this mean and do you believe it?  Not until you understand the 
temple “embodiment” as being here for the express purpose of 
manifesting God, or bringing the unseen into the seen, will this 
“walking and talking” take place.  Suddenly, when your right 
relationship is established, you will not be surprised or even moved, 
by the appearance of that which it is your nature to cause to appear.
     If I be lifted up to the point of the naturalness of my desire, “I 
will draw all manifestation unto me.”  If you are lifted up to the 
place of the naturalness of God functioning in the temple 
“embodiment” then you will find all the elements drawn unto you.
     In bringing forth the automobile it had to come through the 
temple "embodiment" into visibility.  It had to come through a thick 
wall of opinion and belief.  It had to be conceived in the temple 
“embodiment” and magnified --- the appearances and the existing 
laws and beliefs had to be completely disregarded.  It had to take on 
a “naturalness” if it was to come forth in the name or nature of God.  
Just as a letter is born when it is accepted as possible to the 
consciousness, and the materials necessary for its “embodiment” 
come from the far ends of the earth, so it is with the “embodiment” 
of anything.
     Your desire is the urge of spirit giving the temple “embodiment” 
instructions as to what should come into manifestation through that 
medium.  If you assume the work yourself it immediately becomes 
impossible or marked with the ugly shadow of personality or is still-
born, but when you make the assumption that your temple 
"embodiment" is for the express purpose --- and only for the purpose 
of making the invisible visible, then that glorious relaxation and 
naturalness of the expression of God through you will take place.
     Jesus made himself as God.  You are told to do likewise.  Why?  
Because if you are to do the works of God you will have to have the 
nature of God, or else you will find yourself only an imitator.  
Nothing strange about an author producing books or a singer 
singing is there?  Why should it be thought unnatural for one who 
knows himself to be as God to do the works of God?
     If an author does not produce books he is called an ex-author, or 
a would-be-author, and he is like the fig tree, without figs.  Why 
cumbereth it the ground?  When you see the purpose of your 
existence --- the expression of God, the releasing of the unseen into 
the seen, all the greediness for things, place, power, name or fame 
fades away.  Why should you be greedy for things when you know 
that you are automatically the distributor of all --- that you can give 
to all men whatsoever they ask because the giver within the temple 
"embodiment" is God?
     It is marvelous to contemplate the freedom of the temple of God.  
The temple of God is with man ---man is the temple of God when he 
recognizes the naturalness of it all.
     Without an expression God would be unexpressed, nothingness, 
but with the temple "embodiment" He is able to project Himself into 
manifestation.  The "Behold I stand at the door and knock" is the 
eternal pattern which is to be expressed through your temple trying 
to let Me into manifestation.  If you will see that you body, temple 
"embodiment," is for the express purpose of stepping down the 
invisible into visibility, you will open unto Me and I will come in 
and sup with you, and you with Me, I will show you many wonderful 
things which shall not be said with the noisy voice of man nor 
written in books.
     Do you begin to understand why the wandering in the desert of 
human thinking is about finished?  The veils of belief are getting 
thinner --- you are beginning to see and understand the purpose of 
life --- and nothing matters.
     The more naturally you approach the pattern or desire given to 
you, the simpler will be its appearing.  The hovering spirit of the 
Presence is waiting to pour out the infinite gifts through your temple 
"embodiment," but like Jerusalem you will not because you want 
only the loaves and fishes, not seeing that the moment you place 
yourself in the position of Temple, and Spirit in the Temple, you 
will have enough and to spare.  The temple "embodiment" is for the 
purpose of supplying, not acquiring things.  It is amazing what takes 
place when you come consciously into the understanding that you 
are here simply for the purpose of letting this God Power into 
expression.
     All the greedy demonstrations pass --- they mean nothing.  "I 
will walk in you and talk in you."  The Power has an actual right, 
not a demonstrated right to walk in you.  The walking in the temple 
will be so filled with revelation it will amaze you.  Wheresoever the 
Power "walking" in the temple wishes to go, there it goes and takes 
its temple, body, with it.  So Jesus' constant command, "Judge not 
from appearances"; "Absent from the body and present with the 
Lord" --- Law --- have a definite meaning.  The recognition that 
your body "temple" is for the purpose of the Word becoming flesh so 
sets aside any effort or struggle you can make on the outside to 
accomplish this, you are filled with amazement.  No more do you 
consult or consider the appearances, not matter how terrifying they 
may be, no matter how impossible they may be: "When you are 
ready I will" (not perhaps nor maybe) "do the works through you."
     You will search the Scriptures for they have a message for the 
TEMPLE --- and you are one of the Temples, one of those points 
where God becomes visible.  That is the only reason for your 
existence.  The stupid idea of trying to make God appear for a 
moment and do something for you fades out of the picture.  "I will 
walk in you and talk in you": the VOICE heard in the temple is one 
of authority, it speaks the Word that cannot return unto you void.  
The little human voice cannot be heard against this "still small 
voice" which will talk in you, and will tell you of things that are to 
come.
     The cooperation of the temple is so essential and must become so 
obedient that it goes to the Jordan without question, no matter if 
there be a thousand rivers between, which are better.  The temple, 
the "embodiment" which you are, is sufficient and able to do 
anything the Power directs.  Great athletes do not necessarily 
accomplish great things in the universe.  The frailest of bodies may 
bring forth the greatest finance.  This does not have to be true, but is 
noted to call your attention to the fact that no matter what your 
present temple looks like, through it can be brought into 
manifestation the works of God.
     The old human desire to do and accomplish things in order that 
the praise of man may be called into being, drops by the way, and 
with it will go the ancient and greedy thought of "demonstrating."  
You are arriving at the point of giving.
     Do you begin to understand why Jesus said, "I can of myself do 
nothing, but with GOD all things are possible" through the temple, 
known to the world as Jesus?  So with you --- there is little you can 
do of yourself, but through that same helpless, impotent temple 
comes the power of God doing what the world calls impossible and 
what the metaphysicians call demonstrations.  "In my NATURE" 
must become such a part of you that you will make the assumption 
of this Divine Nature as your own.
     It is the most natural thing in the world for Jesus (symbolically 
speaking) to do the works of God, and he definitely said, "The works 
that I do ye shall do also" --- the same mind being in you, the same 
God in the midst of your temple.  When these two, body and soul, 
are joined together you will find yourself as the giver of every good 
gift.  You will supply your brother's need not as a personal favor, not 
as a special bequest, but because it is the nature of God.  Whenever 
you are in the nature of a thing you express that nature.  If you 
arrive at the nature of a writer you will write as a natural expression, 
otherwise you will "try," struggle, and force some scribling on to the 
universe which will be rejected, because it would be an unnatural 
expression.  If it is not natural then it cannot last, neither can it find 
a place of expression.  We are not attempting to do the unnatural nor 
the impossible when we follow the path of Jesus Christ.  He made 
himself as God --- He made Himself of the same nature and found it 
not strange that He should do the works of that nature.  We do not 
find it strange that figs grow on fig trees, and why should we find it 
strange that the works of Spirit come from the consciousness of the 
Spirit?
     The glorious Voice, the "still small Voice" of God speaking in 
the temple "embodiment" gives to every man the WORD, not words, 
and that WORD will bring to man that which he is seeking, if he 
will accept it.  Perhaps he does not want the Word --- he may want 
the loaves and fishes, then he will not find ME.
     Think what a glorious revelation is taking place within you!  The 
discovery that your consciousness is the place where God comes into 
visibility; where the unseen becomes the seen.  The complete 
surrender to "My will" is not difficult when you see the magnitude 
and the glory into which you are moving.  You understand what is 
meant by "from glory to glory," from revelation to revelation, from 
one degree of manifestation to another.  All the glory, might, and 
power alone belong to God.  It is wonderful!
     "What is man that thou are mindful of him?"  What are you?  
You are the temple "embodiment" of the Living God.  You are the 
transformer, the point at which the invisible takes on a body and 
form.  The child is born --- the idea is given a body and a form, and 
is put on earth through the temple.  You are the temple of the Living 
God.  Can you begin to sense the freedom you are getting from 
things?  This does not mean that you will not have "things," but it 
does mean that you will not be held by them.
     It makes you the giver and causes you to know that the Spirit 
within the temple will dictate the symbol of your giving.
     God is minful of His temples, for within these temples the 
blessed event takes place.  The Holy of Holies is the point in 
consciousness where this sacred desire is given a body and form.  "If 
I be lifted up" (to the nature) "I will draw all 'manifestation' unto 
Me."  If you are one with the nature of your desire then its 
fulfillment is sure and certain, and is entirely apart from the 
workings of the conscious thinking.
     The temple is a little lower than the spirit that is hovering over it.  
"He made him a little lower than the angles" and "Gave him 
dominion over all the earth" --- manifestation.  Do you begin to see 
what is the height and breadth and majesty of this Power called 
God?  It is wonderful to contemplate.  "You (yes, you) are the temple 
of the Living God."  No matter what the temple looks like, no matter 
how you have scarred and scratched it with beliefs, fears, diseases 
and evil.  "You are the temple of the Living God."
     As the consciousness is aligned with the true nature of God the 
transformation of the temple will set in and continue until it arrives 
at the full resurrected state.
     Your body is the Word of God made flesh --- it is "The temple 
not made with hands and is eternal in the heavens."  It is for the 
manifestation of God.  The thing that is made with hands, the 
inanimate thing is not the body or temple of God: if it were it could 
not manifest evil.  Your body is the temple of the Living God, it is 
the temple not made with hands and is eternal in the consciousness 
of heaven.  No matter how far you have strayed from the place of 
recognition, no matter how terrible the temple may appear: the real 
temple is eternal in the heavenly consciousness of God, and is for 
the express purpose of LETTING the Power through into 
manifestation.
     "I will walk in you and talk in you" suddenly takes on a glorious 
meaning --- it answers the question "Where am I going?"  You are 
going from glory to glory, from one revelation to another, from one 
glorious experience to another.  You are going to hear and say the 
things which ears have not heard, and the things that have not yet 
entered into the heart of the unawakened man whose breath is in his 
nostrils.  It is wonderful!
   Your (yes, your) body is the temple of this LIVING GOD.  Do you 
understand the word living?  Not a God who has to be generated into 
life by what you think or do not think but a LIVING GOD --- a 
living something that will draw all manifestation unto It.
     It is true "When you lose your life you shall find it."  It is true 
because you are losing the sense of a separate life which is 
struggling to keep the body or temple in place.  It is working to earn 
its bread by the sweat of its brow for the purpose of keeping body 
and soul together, but how does this check against the statement 
"The temple not made with hands eternal in the heavens"?  What 
does it need to sustain it but the manna that droppeth down from 
heaven, which when it feeds thereon the manifest bread comes forth: 
just as Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes?  He ate 
of the bread that "cometh down from heaven."  His body, the Jesus 
body --- when recognized as the temple of God --- experienced the 
works of God as natural, and what He did in secret that also the 
body of Jesus, or the manifest temple, did openly.
     "My words are not mine but are those of Him who sent me into 
expression." --- "I will walk in you and talk in you."  If I am lifted 
up to the consciousness of the singer I will sing and find it natural.  
Do you understand what it is to begin the recognition that your body 
is for the purpose of expressing God --- for the purpose of bringing 
the invisible into the visible?
     Is there anything you can learn through the processes of evil 
which could not come to you through the revelation of God?  So 
many are clinging to the fact that problems are good for them and 
that they grow by these ugly experiences.  In may be true --- but do 
you mean to say that the All-powerful God has to stoop to the plane 
of evil in order that you should find out about Him?  Answer me.  
"Awake! thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light!"
     It is glorious the readjustment that takes place when you find 
yourself as the temple of the Living God and for the purpose of 
expressing God.  It is wonderful when you discover it is quite 
natural for figs to grow on fig trees and the works of God to emanate 
from God.  "Whatsoever you ask in my nature --- that give I unto 
you."  Do you hear?
     Who are you?
     What are you?
     Why are you here?
     Where are you going?
     These are all answered through the revelation of the TEMPLE of 
God with men.
     As soon as it is discovered that you are the temple of God and 
your will is given over you will discover that by losing your life you 
have found it; just as the apparently square-shaped air in a room 
loses nothing when the walls are torn away, but a sense of 
limitation.
     "Why cumbereth it the ground?" should be said of all fig trees of 
thought which bear no figs.  "Make a way for our Lord" --- the 
Bridegroom cometh, your joy is full, you have found the Lord.  
Gradually you experience the awakening that you have always been.  
The matrix of you in all its glory and beauty remains eternal in the 
Mind of God.  Give this some contemplation, and experience a 
subtle change as the Light passes through the temple.  It is 
wonderful!  You are the temple of the Living God.  "The Lord is in 
His Holy Temple."