By Annie Rix Militz (1904)
Who are you? “Know thyself” has ever been the inspired injunction. Every sage has expressed this thought in some manner: “If man would only study himself and know himself, then he would know all things—nothing would be unknown to him.”
This is true. If man knows the true Self of him, then he must know God, for the true Self is one with God. Moses spoke of Man’s oneness with God as Man being made in the image and likeness of God. Jesus spoke of Man’s oneness with God as the Son being one with the Father. “I and the Father are one.”
God is Divine Mind. Man is its Idea. God creates or thinks Man. God thinks upon Himself, images Himself, speaks the word, “I am.” Man is that Word.
You are the thought of God, the idea of the Divine Mind. You have no existence apart from God. The perfect Mind never loses one of its thoughts; so you, God’s thought, cannot be lost out of His mind. “In him we live, and move, and have our being.”
The thought is always like the thinker, therefore Scripture says Man, who is the thought, is like God, who is the thinker.
Therefore, this is the truth which you must speak for yourself and realize is true: Since God is Health, I, who am the image of God, must be healthy—not sick. It is true that I am, in reality, strong and well.
Since God is Spirit, I am Spirit. I am, in reality, spiritual, immortal, healthy, and harmonious.
I am Divine, not mortal; I am Holy, not sinful; I am Wise, not ignorant, Because God is All, And beside Him there is none else.
The Idea of God is one with God. Since God is All in the universe, there is only God—only God and His Idea, His Son, and that Idea is God. For since God is All, there is only God for God to think upon. “This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God [the Father] and Jesus Christ [Man, the Son] whom thou hast sent.”
The real Self of you is the Christ, one with the Father. You are not a mortal, sickly, weak, and foolish being, as it would seem you are. In reality you are all that is everlastingly divine and perfect. This is the truth about yourself.
The Practice
It is not enough to listen to these teachings only, they must be practiced. These truths must be used in order that they may be proven good and desirable. We know that with music, one will not be proficient who only listens to the theories, but does not apply them. So it is with the Life. We must live its principles every day—every hour, every moment thinking some good thought, some God-thought.
If one hears, that is, listens carefully and obediently to these lessons, and then practices them all he can, he has built his house upon a rock, and no matter how he may be assailed by sickness or trouble, it can get no hold upon him, but he will stand, and the more the storm beats about his house the more secure he will feel himself within.
But he that hears, be he ever so attentive and pleased with the doctrine, but does not do may know why some problems seem too hard for him, and sickness and disaster undermine him.
Build upon rock by continual practice of the Word. Jesus called this “praying always.”
Now hold this statement in mind, often silently repeating it: Only the Good is true.
Copy the following, and mentally repeat it every night and morning: God is Health, Life, Love, Truth, Substance, Intelligence. God is All.
God is Omnipresence, Omnipotence, and Omniscience.
I am the Thought of God, the Idea of the Divine Mind. In Him I live, move, and have my being. I am spiritual, harmonious, fearless, and free. I am governed by the law of God, the everlasting Good, and I am not subject to the law of sin, sickness, and death.
I know the Truth, and the Truth makes me free from evil in every form and from all material bondage, now and forever.
God works through me to will and to do whatever ought to be done by me. I am happy. I am holy. I am loving. I am wise. I and the Father are one.
Amen.
Primary Lessons in Christian Living and Healing. Annie Rix Militz.