Lesson 4.1 continued

whenever humanly possible your hour, or period, of concentration BE AT NIGHT...or during the evening hours.

There is not only a very deep psychological principle involved in choosing the hours of DARKNESS (night) for entering your period IN THE SILENCE, but according to the ancient wisdom of the Bible, ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW (God) is recorded as closest to Man in demonstration during or in DARKNESS (night). For proof of this fact, let us turn for a few minutes to the scared scriptures themselves.

A surprising part of our present Lesson awaits us here. Gen. 1:2 tells us that “darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the SPIRIT OF GOD moved upon the face of the waters.”

God—Eternal Spiritual Law—speaks often amid DARKNESS. “These words the Lord spake unto all your assem­bly in the mount out of the midst of fire, of the cloud. AND OF THE THICK DARKNESS,” records Deut. 5:22.

Immutable Spiritual Law still reveals secrets and gives Power to men and women at night, just as in the olden times “Then was the secret REVEALED unto Daniel IN A NIGHT VISION.” Then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven”. Dan. 2:19.

Turning to the New Testament, we find that Darkness and Night surround many manifestations of power (commonly miscalled “miracle”), for instance “...in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walk­ing on the sea,” Matt. 14:25. Then there is how that beautiful night scene came to us by the beloved John, “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, WHEN IT WAS YET DARK, unto the sephulchre...” (John 20:1)

Thus, let us not forget, Woman was the last friend at the Cross and the first human being to see the risen Christ in the las hours OF THE NIGHT. Daylight is disintegrating, often confusing-night vibrates with Silence and God.

IMAGING POWER OPENS ALL DOORS

Does it seem to you that Fate has slammed the door of Opportunity in your face? Nonsense! You are just mistaken, that is all. Suppose one door has swung shut in your face, be wise and know that the House of Life has a thousand doors; why, it’s all doors!

True it is that today we do live in the strangest, perhaps most terrifying times of all history. Before us and all around us are the grim and bloody desolutions of a war-torn World.

We all live between Hells, however, amid it all the divine imaging power that is ours to use opens the doors of...Heaven. Life never seemed less certain than now—but that is only the seeming. If you are weak, life becomes a burden—so dare to be strong. If you are timid, life becomes a mirror of horror—so dare to be brave.

Before you is the greatest road in the world—that road is open—that is the road that leads to your Golden Tomorrow. See it, visualize it, image it...Health, Happiness and Good Fortune beckon you...they are waiting for you just a short way along this open road.

STOP IMAGING BARRIERS ACROSS YOUR ROAD

Don’t build barriers across your own road by imaging them in your mind. Some people mentally image age as a bar to attainment. What a mistake! There Roosevelt’s magnificent train into the Capitol was seventy-seven

years old.