From "Collected Essay Of Robert Bitzer" -
KEEP
ON THE
PATH
If you create something you do not like, you
can change it. What you create you can un-create.
If conditions do not loosen their
grip on you, perhaps you are not in your effective place.
Consciousness establishes its own conditions. If things in your
outer world are not moving fast enough, you need to clear your
consciousness. Perhaps you are not doing what you really want to do
and are trying to use willpower to make things happen. Don't try to
go through the stone wall. Go back in consciousness. Change
your idea, change your evaluation. Resistance, obstructions, and
opposition could mean you are off your path.
Get still and let the new idea come
through. Find yourself on your right path. Here things work
smoothly, joyously, and powerfully. Stop struggling and
forcing. "Not by might, nor by power, but by my
spirit." Let God be you.
"You can overcome any
obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power. Have
big faith - not any old watered-down faith,
and the change in you and in your experience will be little short of
miraculous."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"One's willingness
to stand firm in
their conviction
(s)
is a sure sign of the "realization of self"
of that individual.
...thanks again for
the passion that
you exhibit for
the teaching of
Religious Science."
-
The
Rev.
Dr. O. C. Smith
Founding Minister, City of Angels
Church of Religious Science
Los Angeles, CA
Rev. Henry Lee Bates, one of
the last ministerial students of the Great Religious Science Teacher, Dr.
O. C. Smith, brings his "Way To A Wonderful Life" to the
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the same venue where Dr. Bitzer spoke so
eloquently in the Blossom Room before founding the Hollywood Church of
Religious Science.
Henry Lee
Bates received his introduction and began his studies at the Hollywood
Church of Religious Science, then pursued advanced studies at the City of
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ALL POWER
TO YOU
by Robert H. Bitzer With a Forward by Rev. Dr. Henry Lee
Bates 2002.
Henry Lee Bates, Inc. All rights reserved.
*note: Dr.
Bitzer uses the term "Treatment" which is synonymous with
Scientific Prayer.
The person giving a Treatment
treats himself. He is a center in God-conscious Mind. All
healing action takes place within his consciousness. He silently
realizes that within is the perfect power and life.
THE
SUBSTANCE OF EVERYTHING EXISTS WITHIN
That which exists within our
consciousness, invisible Mind or Intelligence, finds its perfect
fulfillment on the outer plane. Parallel action is always
maintained between the inner plane of Mind and the outer plane of
manifestation. A Perfect Pattern exists within us for everything
that takes place in our expression. The inner determines the
outer.
DO
NOT TALK ABOUT YOUR DEMONSTRATIONS
When we are working to establish
a condition it is best to keep it to ourselves. Our
consciousness then will not admit a discouraging word or criticism,
but all of our power will be carrying through our vision.
HOW TO CHANGE CONDITIONS
That which exists in our
consciousness is reflected in conditions around us. When we
change our attitude, conditions assume the form of our new thought.
ALL CONDITIONS ARE MIND IN ACTION
The clearer our conception of
the action of mind, the more positive will be the correspondence on
the outer plane.
GROW OUT OF SITUATIONS
We let go of an undesirable
condition by knowing that we are through with it - that we have
completed it - finished all in it that we were supposed to do - have
learned from our experience and are now ready for something larger.
DO NOT FIGHT AN UNPLEASANT ENVIRONMENT
That which surrounds us is the
manifestation of thought. If it does not fulfill our desire we
change our attitude and create a larger expression. We
Increase Our Mold Of Acceptance. God-in-man is harmoniously
expressed, and provides adequate opportunity to express our
recognition of what we are.
THERE IS NO LAW OF REVERSAL TO TRUTH
Man's word spoken with
conviction can not be reversed. It is powerless to change
itself. The intent within the word gives it Its Power and when
this purpose is destroyed, the word will cease to exist. A
carrot, midway in its development, does not decide to reverse itself
and become a turnip or a rose. It carries out the fundamental
idea and remains true to its kind. Our word can never fail but
has within itself all power necessary to attain its complete
unfoldment.
THE
GOD-CONSCIOUS MAN IS GOD-EXPRESSED
Primitive people are
unexpressed. As man grows in his consciousness of Truth, he
opens new avenues for his expression. As our appreciation of the
joy, beauty and love of life increases, our expression enlarges.
Love, unexpressed, turns inward in self worship, but expressed helps
those around us and gives us a sense of progress. As we
recognize our Power we welcome every opportunity for its
expression. When we realize our oneness with God we shall
express this oneness in our relations toward our fellowman. Love
harmonizes every experience.
EACH
IDEA MUST EXPRESS IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
The value of an idea is
determined by its use. The rose is just as perfect as the
cabbage and the cabbage is just as perfect as the rose. A dime
is just as perfect as ten dollars. Now, where we get mixed up is
when we take an idea that does not fit in a certain expression and try
to force it. Each idea covers a certain need and we must
recognize that every idea has its purpose and its specific
place. This perfect idea must be understood for what it is
itself. Work in this definite way and realize that the perfect
expression of God Power will unfold in everything. We then have
the right idea for the right experience and it is completely fulfilled
in our work.
GOD MUST BE EXPRESSED IN MAN
We do not confine our meditation
upon the abstract but bring it down to the point of our
experience. Air circulates around us, yet only that air which we
breathe into our lungs benefits us. Life is everywhere but must
individualize in us for us to Live. God is the Principle of Good
surrounding us and in all. Meditation brings God into our
experience. More than meditation upon God; it is
God-in-me. More than knowing the Truth about God; we must know
the Truth about man.
WE KNOW WHAT WE CAN EXPRESS
We do not fully understand any
principle until we can explain it. Regardless of what we
are studying, we should increase our understanding. When we are
able to put our thought into words, our understanding will be
clear. If we are unable to give the gist of a book we have just
read, we did not get very much out of it or else did not exhaust its
possibilities. But if we can discuss it intelligently, either
pro or con, it has stimulated our thinking and absorbed our
attention. Hence we understand the way the Principle works.
WORK FOR DEFINITE IDEAS
Our success is not dependent
upon the flow of Intelligence in and through us, but upon the specific
thoughts in that stream of God Intelligence which we individually
appropriate and apply in our expression.
GOD-IN-MAN IS COMPLETE COOPERATION
We do not expect an individual
to express beyond his ability to comprehend. We must not expect
too much of other people. Each individual must express according
to his unfoldment. To make demands upon another's ability to
express is apt to create confusion. Whenever we need cooperation
from life, we must know that God is all; that we do not depend on any
person but rely completely upon the All-sufficiency of the God
Principle which brings full cooperation independent of any and all
persons and places.
IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REVEAL THE CAUSE
WHEN ANYTHING IS WRONG
If any disturbance seems to
exist in the body or affairs of the individual, we seek the cause and
eradicate it. Sometimes we do not find the mental cause or
locate the negative belief that produced in-harmony, discord or
disease. But when we recognize man as a Spiritual Reality and
know the life within him to be Spirit, we release into his affairs
power which definitely wipes out any false appearance, regardless of
what the condition may be. WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
WE ATTRACT TO OURSELVES
What we think about we gradually
believe in. In order to change our belief we have to change the
thought pattern. We change the idea that we are contemplating,
put the new picture before the mind, even though at first we are
skeptical about its attainment. We keep bringing this new idea
before the mind and meditating upon it - the first thing we know our
belief is established. We become convinced and the thought
becomes the thing.
AN IDEA BECOMES A FORM
What we call success or failure
is the mathematical operation of this Principle of Intelligence. No
idea within itself is evil. Each idea has its proper place and
its right expression. What we call failure is due to an
inadequate idea. Choose an idea adequate for your need.
The Divine Plan accepts only your Success conviction.
EVIL IS THE MISUSE OF IDEAS
When man misuses ideas he tries
to make one thing fit where it could not go. It is like trying
to fit a round peg in a square hole. Much confusion that exists
in man's affairs is caused by this misapplication.
GOD-IN-ME ALWAYS KNOWS
Intelligence being Infinite is
never at a loss to know what to do. Infinite Mind within us
could never be at a loss to provide the right idea for the right
acceptance.
WE CAN CHANGE OUR BELIEF
We meditate upon that which we
know the Truth must be. Through logic or reason we understand
that man must be the manifestation of God. We attain a personal
conviction that we individually are made in the image and likeness of
the Divine. Our belief makes abstract Truth become personal
experience.
