YOUR DIVINE HERITAGE

     Claim your rightful inheritance.  What is your inheritance? 
Who are you?  Until you fully recognize these two points, you are
merely playing about with an affirmation --- merely toying with
some words.  Thousands have spent years of their lives claiming,
"All that the Father hath is mine," and had difficulty finding
enough to pay for a week's lodging and food.
     Beloved, how long will you wait without, seeking for that
which is in plain sight?  How long will you try to make God do
that which is already done?  When will you identify yourself with
the Christ within, the Son of the Most High, and begin to see the
right --- the Divine Heritage --- the joy that will come to you
when you realize that life is not just one long, tiresome job of
demonstrating God?  Thousands today are rising each morning and
getting busy, knowing the truth about God and His universe,
hoping thereby to overcome some of the fiendish conditions of the
flesh --- and finding themselves defeated.
     Who are you?  Were you created by God, or by some erring
human concept which has thrown you into a hell of change, and
then given you a glimmer of light which says that if by your
prayers you can establish the fact that there is a God, perhaps
He will give you a crust of bread?  You have been taught as much
--- conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity, worm of the
dust, miserable sinner.  Where does the Divine Heritage come in? 
Where does the Child of God find its own?  Nowhere, and
everywhere.  Nowhere so long as you are looking for Him in some
far-off place, and everywhere when you recognize the Presence
here and now.
     Now are we the Sons of God --- right now.  When a man hears
the word "now" in its true sense he finds he has been spelling it
backward, and that in reality the "now" understood means "won." 
You have won the sonship and all that goes with it when you
understand the "now" of Spirit.
     You are not a mixture of matter and spirit.  Ice and steam
are the same in essence, but as steam the water is lighter than
ice.  You are not a material thing separated from God, but a
being of pure Spirit.  If God had been clay in the first
instance, everything that He evolved would have been made of
clay; but we find Him as pure Spirit, all inclusive, and hence
the creation must of necessity be Spirit.  You, as the highest
manifestation of this Power, are made of the all-inclusive
substance of mind called Spirit.  You are the Son or the center
of manifestation, where all the innate qualities of God pour out
into expression.  It is asking no special dispensation or favor
of God for you, as the Son, to "claim your right and press your
claim."  It is merely recognizing that which innately belongs to
you.
     The name of the Queen of England is Elizabeth; but the power
is vested in her rights as the Queen of England, and pressing her
claim into expression.  You are a king --- by the name of I AM --
- only you fail to recognize this, and hence beg at the open
fount, wondering if, by beseeching the tyrant you worship through
fear, He will give you enough to live on.  The less you ask for,
the harder it is to get --- not because of any stinginess of the
Power, but by reason of its tremendous affluence.  If you hold a
pint cup in Niagara Falls you will come away with it empty ---
not because of the lack of water, but because of too much water. 
The force of the water dashes everything out as fast as it gets
in, because the measure is too small.  Your poor little vision of
what belongs to you keeps you from having the abundance of
Spirit.  You can have all, and all be left.
     "All that the Father hath is mine."  Where is the Father? 
What is the Father?  If you look at this in terms of Jesus'
words, you find that the Father is within you --- and you have
everything or all that your Father has.  Putting this through the
limited beliefs of personality causes you to partake of the good,
bad, or indifferent states of your consciousness.  All that you
have in your consciousness --- all that you conceive the Father
within you to be --- is all that you actually have into
manifestation.
     If your room is ten feet square, you can have the entire
radio concert, just the same as the man with a room a thousand
feet square, and this can go on indefinitely and still all of it
remain.  The measure that you hold to the universe is all that
can possibly come into manifestation.  If you are dissatisfied
with the results of your daily life, it cannot be rectified from
without, but a better concept of the Father within --- taking
attention entirely away from the appearance --- will enable you
to bring out what you formerly called demonstrations.  You will
begin to see that enlarging the borders of your tent means
becoming more conscious of the Power within and discovering its
unlimited capacities --- which are up and beyond anything that
you can imagine.
     All things are possible to ME, but nothing is possible to
me.  I doubt if a great portion of the people in the world would
be affected one way or the other by the name Elizabeth Windsor,
but most anyone is interested in the name the Queen of England --
- and yet they are one and the same person.  If she did not
recognize this fact, another would certainly usurp her rights. 
Even though she be born to the place, yet, if she did not
recognize this, she would never have the power of it.  Even
though you are born the Son of God, with unlimited power and
happiness within your rights, until you recognize this you
function along as John Smith or some other person, ignorant of
the glorious freedom of the Sons of God, and you will beg a crust
when you might be sitting at the overflowing table of the
Infinite Spirit.
     Joy comes when you make a clear line of demarcation between
the John Smith and the Christ.  You begin at once to appropriate
the rights of the Son of God.  In pressing your claim you do not
drive a hard bargain --- you do not fight; in this sense
"pressing" means merely standing firm on the points that you know
to be true, and turning not to the right nor left.  It means
saluting no man as you pass along the way; saluting no belief of
doubt or appearance as you go forward into the expression of the
Son of God.
     "Claim your rightful inheritance, and show by your
magnificent example that the Son of God hath power on earth to
forgive sins (to correct the ignorance of human belief).  And
then follow the magnificent works without number, until millions
of blessings are pouring down about everybody.  When I attempt to
count my blessings, they are as numerous as the sands of the sea. 
Your blessings, Son of the Living God, are so numerous that you
have not time to contemplate the lack of anything, and, when you
attempt to count the blessings, you find the lack has been
swallowed up in abundance, and you are free, here and now, as the
Son of the Living God.
     It is wonderful!  It is wonderful!  It is wonderful!  "Oh,
taste and see that the Lord is good."  "Prove me and see if I
will not open the windows in heaven and pour out a blessing you
will not be able to receive."  Where is heaven?  It is a state of
consciousness.  What is the ME?  It is the I AM within you, and
hence the windows that are to be opened are in your own
consciousness, and the blessings that are to be poured out are
the ideas which will pour out through your own mind into the
manifest world of expression.  It is wonderful.  Millions and
millions of blessings are yours.  Do You hear, Son of God?
     Stop this useless trying to seek Me after the loaves and
fishes, and find ME as the pure substance of Spirit, and you will
hear the joyous command, "Heretofore ye have asked for nothing;
now ask, that your joy might be full."  Not nearly full, but full
to overflowing!
     Do you begin to see what is meant by pressing your claim
after having claimed your inheritance?  You are one with the
mighty sea of substance.
     As the wave is one with the ocean --- never for one instant
separated --- and rises and loses itself in the ocean, so man
finds that by

                "Losing his life he finds it,
                   And by saving his life he loses it."

When you lose your little personal sense of life, you will find
the One Life --- that which is Wonderful --- the life that is won
now --- the heaven, hear and now.
     What have you to worry about, beloved?  A new day, a new
start, a new idea.  No matter where this finds you --- no matter
into what depths you have fallen nor to what dizzy heights you
have climbed --- you have the wonderful chance of finding the
glorious true Self within, and claiming your rights and pressing
your claim as the Son of the Living God.  Just imagine what this
means.  It means that their is no personal effort to do and to
be.  It means that the Father within is responsible, and it means
that the I AM goes before your John Smith and makes the way clear
and perfect.  Do you see why you suddenly awaken to the realities
of being, and begin to take your good out of the universe?
     I AM here, there, and everywhere.  The power in the wave is
not separated from the ocean, but moves through the wave, an
impersonal power; so the power in you is not a personal
possession of health, happiness, or prosperity, but is an
impersonal power which is merely pouring itself out into
expression through the visible means supplied.  Do you see, then,
how all men (Sons of God) are equal?  We have been hypnotized to
the belief that we were a body, with a little health or power
shut up within; with a little capacity to earn money; with a
little wit to psychologize people out of money or things.  And
now we are awake to the fact that the power is pouring through
us, never the same and always the same.  As we go toward the
fountain at the distance, we have not seen the same picture two
minutes in succession; the water has been changing constantly,
yet has held the same form; and so it is with the Spirit.  It is
a constant change of changeless power coming into manifestation. 
You are the Son of God, and the Great Power is here and there and
everywhere.  If you go into the desert, you have but to recognize
this to find it blossoming as a rose.  I AM here, there, and
everywhere.  It is wonderful --- it is truly wonderful. 
Blessings, blessings, blessings.
     Do you see, beloved, the gift --- complete wholeness?  For
this Is (right here and now) Life Eternal, that they might know
Me.  To know the ME --- the I AM and to identify yourself with
this, is to experience the Life Eternal which needs nothing.  Can
you conceive of Spirit being burned, drowned, killed, aided or
assisted in any way by matter?  To know yourself as the Son is to
experience the freedom of the Son of God --- to experience the
power of decreeing a thing and seeing it come to pass.  The
recognition --- re-cognition --- cognizing again that which has
always been true --- the divine remembrance of your rightful
heritage, is what will restore to you the lost substance of life,
is what will bring to you the robe, the ring, and the fatted
calf.
     To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not
shall be taken away.  You have in manifestation exactly what you
have in consciousness --- good, bad, or indifferent.  Why waste
any further time trying to change the outside condition, when it
is held in manifestation by the inner state of consciousness?  To
him that hath shall be given --- because he will take, be it a
good, bad, or indifferent manifestation.  A man with a
consciousness full of troubles always gets more troubles, and he
finds them everywhere.  It is what he finds to be true, and so he
must find it in manifestation.
     No wonder the prophet asked, "What have you in your house?" 
What have you in your house, your consciousness?  You have just
what you conceive the Father-within to be, and you cannot
increase this until you begin to recognize the nature of the pure
substance of Spirit from which all things come into
manifestation.  Until you recognize the true Self, and stop
trying to doctor up an old body or condition, you cannot know the
glory of the Son of God.  You are not an old creature patched up. 
You are a new creature in Christ Jesus.  You are a new, perfect
manifestation; to recognize this is to claim your rights and
press your claim by the serene power of the Almighty.
     Every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of Light,
with Whom there is no change, neither shadow of turning.  Where
is the Father?  How long will you look for Him in some far-off
locality?  How long will you seek among the husks for the
substance of life?  Every gift that is to come to you as John
Smith will proceed out of the center of the I AM consciousness
within yourself.  Behold, I AM he that should come.  I AM that I
AM has sent me into expression.  It is wonderful, it is
wonderful.  Blessings, blessings, blessings.  I am the Son of the
Living God.  Claim your rights, and press your claim.  Son of the
Living God, I salute you!  Arise!  Leave your human reasoning and
go unto your Father-within.  Let the filthy be filthy still.  Let
all those who wish to sell the Word of God continue to do so. 
Let those who what to argue continue their arguments.  Let those
judges and spiritual busybodies cast their stones.
     Go thy way; it is well with thee.  The new secret has been
revealed to you; do you hear?  Peace be unto you.  It is well. 
Now and always.  Claim your inheritance.  It is well with you. 
Now and always.  Son of the Living God, arise and go thy way into
expression.  Now is the time.  Now is the Day of Salvation.  Now
are we the Sons of God.  Now are millions of blessings yours.  Be
still.  Be still.  Be still.  It is wonderful.  It is wonderful! 
It is wonderful!  Blessings, blessings, blessings.