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Lillian
DeWaters, student of Mary Baker Eddy spoke
often
of Ontology. Her first books
were
through the Christian Science organization, then she went out on her
own, forming her own publishing house, and went beyond
the limits of the "religious dogma" which sometimes inhabits
organizations and inhibits the Teaching.
The main
difference between her teaching and that of Christian Science and much
of New Thought, is that she regards Jesus and Christ as inseperable -
One and the same God, and in this sense her teaching is much more
inline with that of orthodox Christianity.
Like her mentor
Mary Baker Eddy, De Waters regards mental healing and spiritual healing
to be two quite different things.
In her book The Christ Within she says:
Right here let
the reader be fully familiar with the difference
between
mental healing and spiritual or divine healing. Mental healing uses the
power in the individual mentality with which to heal, saying that the
individual mentality is God. Mental healing is a process of thought,
wherein the healer sends from his own mind thoughts of health,
strength, power, peace to the mind of another who has called upon him
for help, or, in the case of self-healing, wherein the individual
would help himself.
These thoughts of the healer have birth or origin in his
individual
mentality, and, as the river can rise no higher than its source, so
one's idea of what is right and true "treatment" can rise no higher
than his own viewpoint.
Spiritual or divine healing is not based on the healer nor the
patient
nor the mentality of either nor is it based on any mental cause or
mental effect of that cause. Spiritual healing is based on CHRIST and
REALITY. It lifts the vision from the mind, from the thoughts, from the
self, to the great I AM, and it bases all its declarations on Truth, on
Reality, and the finished perfection of God and man.
Spiritual healing is not based on any method or any system of any
individual on earth, but it is founded on Jesus Christ, Himself, and
His teaching. Any books, based on the Bible, that point away from the
self to Christ, Truth, are based on the Rock against which the gates of
hell cannot prevail. . . .
. . . The
reading of spiritual books causes the reader to cease his own
thinking, and to look on High, receive, feel, experience that which
quickens him, blesses and illumines him. He forgets himself, and for
the time lives in Spirit, above the body, and, later, when he takes up
conscious thinking, he finds great uplift present, joy and gladness,
for has he not been viewing heavenly Realities, listening to supernal
glories, touching divine heights?
If one would hear, he must listen. If one would see, he must
watch. If
one would receive, he must be still.
Let it be understood, it is the Spirit in another that beareth
witness
of the Truth; the personal individual does not impart Truth to another.
There is but one Path and there is but one Spirit. Acknowledge Truth
when it blesses you. As no day is like another, though it is all the
one day, so there is but one Voice: though many messengers, each
bearing Truth according to his vision of Truth.
Let each follow the Christ urge within him. When we find the
Living
Bread within, then we are able to recognize the Living Bread
without,—in books. All that inspires us to higher action is beneficial.
Many prepare the way for us to higher things, while but One consummates
it.
The Light that one sees is not his, but is The Light of the World.
The
Truth that one feels is not his, but is the Truth of the Eternal. The
Way that one finds is not his, but is the Way of Life. The heavenly
Bread that one inbreathes is not his, but is the body of Christ. The
Living Water that one drinks is not his, but is Inspiration from on
High.
Rejoice in all books that have raised your vision. Books that
cause you
to change your thinking into better thoughts are helpful on the way,
yet, when the time comes and the Voice whispers to enlarge our borders,
let us be obedient. The watchful student ever knows when the Spirit
bear witness. We overcome the world when we understand that Christ in
us hath already overcome the world. When we receive from above, it is
to us a revelation, yet, each one receives the same Word, and hears the
same Voice, and sees the one Christ. We are all stars in the one Crown,
drops in the one Ocean.
Here is what she had to
say on her discovery of TRUTH:
Today,
nearly the whole world is
giving attention, is some way, to the great triangle,---the Truth
(God), the student (man), and the problem (human existence). We all
know that problems continually come and go and that man changes
his ideas all the time. . . while to God, the Truth,
everything remains invariable, and without shadow of turning.
Undoubtebly,
we have all placed
ourselves as studentsendeavoring to apply
Truth to our earthly problems. Reader, have you not done this
very thing?
Suppose
that all knowledge of
Truth we possessed were inadequate to solve our problems. We might
search for more knowledge, and greater ability to make use of it, but
the demands upon us might increase, and the problems seem never to
cease. We often long for that place where we rest, with no thought of
an earthly problem. Have we not all entertained such a wish?
Invariably
it takes flash
of light to reveal the true meaning of Life and of all things to
us: nor can it be obtained in any other way.
As
the veil lifts, one moments
sudden revelation completely rearranges and shifts our
viewpoint; and the scene abruptly changes. In fact, this was
exactly what happened to me one day while in deep meditation.
I
was considering
Mathematics, its students and problems, when suddenly it dawned upon me
that the Student-position, which I had assumed, was certainly
an unreliable and unsound one.
As
this actuality burst upon me,
breathlessly my heart cried out,----oh to be the principle instead of a
student!
Instantly
there followed a moment
of shining light with its electrifying transfusion, sudden and swift.
As though a curtain had been raised admitting some startling new sight,
I saw the indisputable fact with vivid, clear distinctness--I saw that
I was the Principle. . .not a student at all!
Under
this flood of blazing
revelation, what else could I do but exclaim further,--Why, this means
that I am the TRUTH! I am not a student trying to
solve problems of human existence, but
I am the absolute
and changeless Truth itself! The simplicity of all
this amazed and overwhelmed me. Here in this brief but thrilling
moment, I saw what years of study and research had never given me.
Immediately,
I then
understood Jesus' dynamic statement, "I am the Truth!"
Yes, this was it. I was not a student of Truth, endeavoring to obtain
and attain certain states of consciousness, always letting go one
for another higher on the scale. No,
I was the Truth itself!
What
more then could I ask? What
more could be desired? Did Truth, or true Being, have any association
with a problem? Certainly not.
Neither, then, did I!
"I am the Truth!"
exuberantly I told myself again and again, in my newly
found changed relationship. I am not trying to do, to think or to know
something; but I am doing, feeling and being Truth, the Life,
and the Way! Oh, the blessed wonder of light!
I saw then that the
problem of human existence could never be solved....but will
dissolve when we take our rightful stand as the Truth, the Life and the
Way.
Now
once having seen and accepted
this platform, all other speculations immediately vanished, while
beautiful verifications in Jesus" life and teaching came flooding my
rapturous thought. How plainly now to see that Jesus never said that he
was a student of Life, but insisted, "I am the Life! ".
Neither did he intimate that he was a follower of some particular way
or system, but again and again reiterated, "I am the Way!"
No
wonder he was so absolute, so
completingly certain and sure. Never did he speak nor act as though he
were using Truth as a means to bring about certain healing results in a
material existence! His attention was NOT towards conditions,
states nor beliefs, but upon that Being which is unalterable; that
Principle which is fixed and absolute; that Life which is wholeness
always . . .Against such there is no law.
Reader,
Know
thyself! Learn who and what you really are; the meaning of life
and the fullness of all things. Then for you, wars and problems
will cease and be no more; sorrows and limitations fade away; for
finding yourself as you really are, you shall be in touch with every
good and perfect thing; and shall live here on earth a life of peace,
joy and plenty.
* * *
* *
She wrote many books including the following:
In "The Hidden Truth" (1919) she
writes: "We have all been in this same wilderness of doubt and mental
darkness. Those of us who have emerged into the vestibule where
spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence can, if we choose,
light the way for our friends and thereby, perhaps, save them many
heartaches."
In "The Finished Kingdom (A Study of The Absolute)", (1924) she writes:
"The
Finished Kingdom opens up the realm of the super-Kingdom. In this book
is presented the Science of Reality, the Science of the Absolute. It
lifts
one into the realm of intuition, inspiration, illumination, faith - the
realm of the Fourth Dimension or Cosmic Consciousness. This book
presents
a quality of consciousness that transcends thought, a something that
precedes
thought and directs thought.
In "The ONE (A Study of The Absolute) (1927) "Why is it more difficult
for some to understand Absolute Science
than it is for others? Understanding is not a mental function.
Understanding
is spiritual consciousness. Many have spent years in the study of Truth
yet have not fulfilled the desires of their hearts because they have
tried
to mentally acquire Truth instead of to spiritually understand it."
In
"The
I AM THAT I AM (1938) we read: "As
fuller revelation dawns, we see that it is God's man (for there is not
other) rather than "mortal man," who entertains the dream of
separation and so must waken and become disillusioned, (just as the
prodigal
did), and return to the truth of Being.
"The Great Answer (The Message
of
Ontology)" was published by Lillian DeWaters in 1940, and "Greater
Works" in 1946 in which she writes: "Those who are prepared for these days
await them with Praise and Thanksgiving---and joyous Expectancy. To us,
the question is not if God is on our side, but are we on God’s side?
How shall we know? Very simply. Do we have continuous Light and
Illumination in our heart? Do we have Love, Unity and Freedom? Let each
one answer these questions for himself."
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