the temples of our City. It is You that they worship, and it is the Self of us all, and we are to prove that we are that Self; that there is nothing to us but our great Godhood and we are to prove it in the midst of the flesh, while yet we walk humbly, meekly and in lowly spirit upon this planet.

It is not an occasion for pride, for self-glorification, nor conceit, not that state where they feel their I Am is the little personality; that is gross egotism, a form of insanity. No, your Great Self is the Self of the meanest as well as the highest, it is the Self of us all, whom you worship in that other personality just as well as in this, your own, and you are to face it in your neighbor. The second commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” is the same as the first. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God in thy neighbor as well as in thyself.

Devote yourself to the All-Good In all. Take the idea of Eden and fulfill it in yourself; learn to contemplate the common facts of life from the highest point of view; let your soul talk to itself, a beholding and jubilant soliloquy; see that the one that we are praising in you is God, and ours is the prayer of affirmation, not beseeching but pronouncing all things good and very good.

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