( Isa. 26:3 ; Isa. 40:6-7 ; Matt. 12:50 ; Matt. 13:22 ; Rom. 8:5-6 ; Rom. 12:2 ; 1 Cor. 2:1-16 ; 2 Cor. 4:18 ; 2 Cor. 6:17-18 : 1 Pet. 4:1 ) Develop a single eye that concentrates upon the Center, the Presence of God within your soul. From this Center, the eye of Time looks at nature through the eye of Eternity. Resign yourself to the Eye of God in your spirit, then you can labor with your hands or head and allow your heart to rest in God. God is a Spirit, dwell in the Spirit, work in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit, do all things in the Spirit. Remember you are a spirit, created in the image of God: present yourself as a naked spirit before God in simplicity and purity. In this position the world, flesh and the devil, the temptations of life, and the fashions and customs of this world will not be able to draw you out... Mind them not... They can't hurt you if you choose to abide in His will.

( Rom. 8:29 ; 2 Cor. 3:18 ; 2 Cor. 4:17-18 ; 2 Pet. 3:10-14 ; 1 John 4:16-17 ) The world of naked matter, of corruption and decay, the lusts thereof, lead to frustration and anger, and darkens the root of our being. Do not let the things of the world even enter into your imagination. Your hope lies in beholding and seeing God's Light in your soul being divinely illuminated.

( Eph. 4:24 ) Let not your eye enter into matter or fret yourself with any thing whatsoever either in heaven or earth. But let it enter by naked faith into the light of His Majesty and so receive by pure love the Light Of God. This Light attracts the divine power into itself, putting-on the Divine Body, and thus, we grow up in it to the full maturity of the Humanity of Christ.

( Ps. 37:7 ; Ps. 91:15-16 ; Phil. 2:12-13 ; Phil. 4:13 ; James 4:6-7 ; 1 Pet. 5:6-7 ) Nothing is required of us but let our will be in the will of God. We are to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. If you have followed so far you have nothing to care for, nothing to desire in this life, nothing to imagine or attract. All you need to do is cast your care upon the Lord Who cares for you. And let him do with you as He wills according to His good pleasure. God knows what is best for us if we but trust Him.

( Matt. 26:39 ; Luke 11:2 ; John 4:34 ; John 5:20 ; John 10:10 ; Rom. 6:13 ; Col. 3:1-3 ) When you imagine after anything other than God, then it enters in to you. In time it will take over your will, overcome it, and lead to darkness. But when the will imagines or lusts after nothing but God, to give glory to Him, it receives the will of God into itself. And there it dwells in Light and begins to work the works of God.

( John 5:30 ; Acts 17:25,28 ; Gal. 6:14 ) The resigned will of a truly contrite spirit which is crucified to the world, the center of this will is impenetrable to the world, flesh and the devil. Nothing in the world can enter or adhere to it because the will is dead with Christ unto the world. The will is alive and quickened with Christ in the center of this life. When the love of self is banished, there dwells the love of God. For as so much of the soul's own will is dead unto itself, even so much room has the will of God to take over.

( Matt. 13:36-46 ; John 4:34 ; John 5:30 ; Rom. 6:11-23 ; Gal. 2:20 ) You cannot enter the spiritual realm by comprehending it but only by a complete surrender and the yielding up the will: then the love of God becomes the Life of your nature. You live now by God's will forasmuch as your will has become His will. It is no longer your will but the will of God; no longer the love of self but the love of God, which moves and operates you. You will become dead to self but alive unto God. So being dead, you live rather God lives in you by His Spirit. This love therefore apprehends and comprehends you: there the Treasure of Treasures is found.

( John 16:33 ; Rom. 5:3-5 ; Rom. 12:9-23 ; James 1:2-4 ; 2 Pet. 1:3-10 ; 1 John 1:7 ) It is the love of God as it penetrates into the dead self that burns and purifies the ego, the greed and envy, the deceit and vanities and the false and treacherous ways. In the world you must have trouble and your flesh will be disturbed. In this anxiety of the soul arising from the world or the flesh, the love of God will enkindle itself and its conquering fire is made to blaze forth with greater strength for the destruction of that evil. For the way to the love of God is folly to the world but it is wisdom to the children of God. Whosoever obtains it is richer than any on earth. He who gets it is nobler than any emperor can be - and more potent and absolute than all power and authority.