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Foreword
MAKING YOUR SELF THE MASTER
Harvey Hardman
FOREWORD
Each chapter in this book contains the substance of a lecture delivered in the course of my work as a teacher of Divine Science and metaphysics. My purpose in assembling this material and giving it its present form is to make available to the reader, in brief chapters, the instruction and the inspirational values of the lectures upon which they are based.
A word of explanation is due to the reader who may be unfamiliar with some of the terms employed. God and Principle are synonymous, and refer to the impersonal Cause of all things. “Father” is used to denote the universal Source of all individual life forms, but when so used in this book, it is not to be confused with the idea of a personal God. The Father of all things is not a person, but Principle. When the word is capitalized and used to indicate the incarnation of the universal Father in the individual human, a different meaning is involved. It means then what Jesus referred to when he spoke, as he so often did, of “The Father that dwelleth in me.” But he more often used the term “Son of God” and occasionally “Son of man.” Hence, whenever the terms Indwelling Father, Master Within, Christ Mind, Soul, the I Am, the greater Self, Son of God, are used in this work, the reference is to the immortal Self of the individual.
In this connection it is well for the reader to understand that such psychological terms as subjective mind, subconscious mind, and subliminal mind, all refer to the same Plus-Entity in man that I have mentioned in the above paragraph. In psychology this principle of subjectivity is regarded as creatively active in maintaining the vital functions of the body; the force back of intuition, habit, dreams, and other modes of mental action involving super-normal powers. If the reader will keep in mind these terms and their definitions, he will encounter no difficulty in perceiving the scientific basis of the instruction, and if the Law herein expounded is put into practice, he will be able to improve the conditions of his life.
I give with the book my treatment for the reader, that he may, as a result of his study, realize the presence and power of the Master-Self within him. That realization leads to success, health, and happiness. In the Name of the Master withing you, you shall be able to live the life and do the works of the Son of God.
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MAKING YOUR SELF THE MASTER
Harvey Hardman
DOES MANKIND NEED A NEW RELIGION?
“Oh, that I knew where I might find Him!
Then He would guide me aright.
He leaveth countless steps behind Him
Yet passeth out of sight.”
The eternal quest of man is to find God. Religions change and evolve as man’s knowledge of the universe expands. When a religion fails to meet the human need; when the human mind outgrows any system of religious thought and practice, that religion begins to decline, and ultimately dies and is forgotten. Thousands of religions, cults, and sects, have thus come and gone in the course of human history, and doubtless other thousands before the dawn of history.
Wherever this has occurred, a new religion has sprung up to take the place of the old. And yet, something of the abandoned religion has been carried on into the new faith. So that an absolutely new and original religion is as impossible as a new science.
Modern science grew out of ancient magic and alchemy.
The Hebrew religion drew upon a body of laws and teachings that were very ancient when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt. The very name--Israel--is a compound of the names of ancient Egyptian gods. Christianity grew out of the religion of the Jews. Protestantism sprang from Roman Catholicism. Christian Science, to give a more modern instance, was born of Christianity.
The new religion which is now coming into the world is not and cannot be an original system of knowledge of God. It has its roots in the ancient faiths. It will grow into a distinct type of religious thought and practice, but some of the old terms and ideas will follow through. For the old faiths have in them certain truths, and all truth is universal, the property of any person or organized body of people who can perceive and use it. One fact is becoming increasingly evident: mighty forces are at work today to change man’s thought about God.
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MAKING YOUR SELF THE MASTER
Harvey Hardman
DIVINE SCIENCE
“That which fills all space cannot be limited to form, but contains all
forms within itself, and is the Source and Substance of all that exists.
This is why we define God as impersonal Principle
and not as personal Being.”
-- Fannie B. James.
The word Science is defined as, “An exact and systematic statement of knowledge concerning some subject or group of subjects. Knowledge gained and verified by exact observation and correct thinking.” The word Divine means, “That which pertains to the nature of God.” Divine Science is therefore a systematic statement of knowledge of the nature of God, and man’s relationship to the Universe.
Divine Science is a religion. It is a new religion, because it undertakes to explain the relationship between man and the universe from the basis of Principle rather than personality. It rests on Law rather than special revelation.
Divine Science is scientific in spirit, purpose and method. Reasoning from the hypothesis that God is One, the Infinite and omnipresent Cause of all things, we affirm that everything that occurs or exists in the universe is natural, that is, has law back of it, and that this law-abiding nature of the universe applies to the powers of the human mind as well as to the motions of matter.
Upon this broad basis of One Principle as Cause, Divine Science constructs its philosophy of life. It is more concerned with law than revelation; seeks to know causes, and works in the atmosphere of scientific research rather than that of supernaturalism.
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MAKING YOUR SELF THE MASTER
Harvey Hardman
THE UNIVERSAL FATHER
Salutation to The Father
“Eternal Father of Lights, in whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, we are thy Children, the Children of Light. We turn from the darkness of dogma, superstition, tradition, and the opinions of men, to the Truth revealed in the heavens, the Work of thy Fingers, and to Nature, the Scripture of Infinite Wisdom. In the Light of the Eternal revealed in Creation we see Light. We are grateful for the Lamp of Reason which thou hast lighted in our minds, and for the Law of Love which thou hast written in our hearts. We thank Thee for the Dawning Light of the New Age, which shineth more and more into the Perfect Day.”
The human soul, in its religious life and desire for worship, will never be content with a purely metaphysical, abstract conception of God. While we recognize that such words as Principle, Cause, Infinite and Eternal Energy, Universal Spirit, and the like, are proper scientific names for Deity, and have their admitted value in modern religious thought, they do not, as a matter of fact, completely satisfy the longing of the human heart for a God who cares, and who can respond to our human need for compassionate understanding and personal communion. We cannot worship a principle; we cannot commune with a law; we cannot have a sense of companionship with energy.
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MAKING YOUR SELF THE MASTER
Harvey Hardman
”MY FATHER’S HOUSE”
“In my Father’s house are many Mansions.”
-- Jesus.
Possession begets interest. My business. My son. My car. My house. What belongs to me is significant.
We listen with mild attention to the description of another’s mansion. We attend with great enthusiasm when our own cottage is praised.
The phrase, “My Father’s House” is absolutely personal. So much so that the Man who first used it did so with such sublime power and comprehension born of original discovery, that humanity has never thus far been able to divorce its meaning from his personality. There has always been the feeling that the Universe and its many Mansions belonged to Jesus, and any use we should be permitted to make of them would be merely as tenants.
Of course this feeling has been sedulously cultivated through the ages, by a very large and enterprising group of gentlemen who claim to hold the Keys to the Mansion in the sky. This conception grew out of priestcraft and not out of Christ. It devitalized religion. It make of the spiritual life a vicarious process. It made of heaven an artificial resort, owned and operated for the benefit of a privileged class of keepers of the Keys who exacted tribute from all who sought to enter the haven of rest. The whole thing was a monstrous invention of selfishness and greed and utterly remote from the spirit of the Nazarene.
Religion, when truly considered, is the most personal thing in the whole world. It connects the soul of the individual with the Soul of the Universe. If you get it secondhand, as a ritual or tradition, it is as unreal and unsatisfying as a mirage of water to a lost wanderer in the desert. My Father’s House. My Mansion. No go-betweens. No alien, collecting tribute. My Home. My Father.
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MAKING YOUR SELF THE MASTER
Harvey Hardman
THE INFINITE MOTHER
Salutation to The Mother
“Infinite Mother of Life, serene in your Eternal Beauty, out of your Infinite Womb of Time proceedeth all things, and you mother them in the Measureless Reaches of Space, and, in your Mighty Arms of Love, you hold them safe...In Beauty’s Name and Love’s, Amen.”
“I am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman.”
--Jesus
We are learning a new tongue. The language of religious thought has a tendency to remain fixed. Its idioms and terminology do not change from generation to generation, for the simple reason that the Church, guarding the sacred lore and the traditions and rituals of religion as something perfect and complete, sees to it that children are taught from baby-hood to accept the catechism and terms of theology as inspired truth.
Jesus taught a new language of religious thought. Even his immediate disciples found it hard to accept the new idioms and thought forms. We are facing the same difficulty today. We acknowledge the logic of Science and approve intellectually the findings of scientific spiritual research. But it is hard for the majority of us to get the feeling of reality and living truth which the new tongue seeks to convey. It takes time to learn a foreign language. It takes time to learn the new scientific language of religion.
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