Author: Mallory Kretzmann

Newsletter – November 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Waking Up To What Is Essential.”

Many look around and see a world that needs fixing.  If I were to argue with that, the same “many” would think I was crazy.  Another way of looking at it could be that there is so much focus on need, that this is all we are conscious of.

You may recall the passage from scripture that indicates: The land that thou seeist, to thee will I give it.  Well, taken literally, it would seem that whatever land we may see and desire we will get. When we investigate scripture and in fact all spiritual teachings, there is a common denominator in that the glue that holds it together is consciousness—Spiritual Consciousness, the originating Cause of all Life.

There is a message that is sounding through all creation right now.  It is being carried into manifestation in all aspects of life and when truly understood, becomes our anchor or mainstay—a message of Truth, embodying Light, Love and Hope.  All of creation carries and embodies the message and the time for understanding is now. The invisible is more important than the visible—our Statement of Being, in Divine Science is a reminder: Omnipresent God being the Invisible Source of All.

Whatever tradition or religion we follow there is always the need for faith in the invisible. The message is always constant and it does not matter who the teacher or messenger is.  Each comes forth from the same originating Source in the universe and it is through the knowing of this in consciousness (from the invisible to the visible) that we will experience it in our daily lives.

In his book, Run With The Horses, Eugene H. Peterson mentions Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles in Babylon where he literally tells the people to quit sitting around feeling sorry for themselves. “The exile was the ‘crucible of Israel’s faith.’ They were pushed to the edge of existence where they thought they were hanging on by the skin of their teeth, and found that in fact they had been pushed to the center where God was. They experienced not bare survival but abundant life. Now they saw their previous life as subsistence living, a marginal existence absorbed in consumption and fashion, empty ritual and insensitive exploitation. Exile pushed  them from the margins of life to the vortex where all the issues of life and death, love and meaning, purpose and value formed the dynamic everyday participation—demanding realities of God’s future with them. It keeps on happening. Exile is the worst that reveals the best. When the superfluous is stripped away we find the essential—the essential is God.”

The scripture stories are our stories too. Have we been living in exile—removed from our Truth? Have we been living on the  “outer edges” as occupants of this beautiful planet, forgetting our Truth, and truth for all?

Jeremiah carried the message to the people of that time, yet the message rings true today. Have we been hanging onto the margins of Truth, the edges of life, when we could be experiencing life in a different way? Let us give up complaining about whatever it is that disturbs us. Let us wake up to the opportunity we have; the essential ingredient that is right within each and every consciousness, waiting to be discovered.  More than ever, we are being called to Be Still, to wake up and discover the Truth deep within our souls—the Truth that has always been, and always will be—it is at the vortex (the very center) of our consciousness.

In Closing…….
Jesus was quoting from the Old Testament when he gave but two commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” Deut.6:5, and “…thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself…”Lev.19:18.  These commandments are fulfilled as man recognizes the perfect nature in all creation.
When we realize the oneness and divinity of Life in all things we sense a universal justice, strength, and harmony back of all creation which when understood will be expressed as love.  Understanding that the whole of Truth must be found in infinite Mind, we have a standard by which to judge all things, a basis from which to reason of Truth.  We now turn from appearances and “judge righteous judgment”; we decide what is true from our knowledge of an omnipresent principle of Truth rather than from a personal opinion or feeling.  Whatever God is, is Truth.
All Truth is eternal in nature; true love can never change; true understanding cannot fail; true life can never end.  This is all true now.  Conscious awareness of the Truth and the opening of our hearts and minds to the acceptance of the fullness within our own nature is our greatest need.  All good, wisdom, strength, life, health, love are ours now.  Let us accept them.
DIVINE SCIENCE—Its Principle and Practice

Bountiful Blessings
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter – October 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Climbing Higher in Consciousness.”

At the current speed at which changes are happening in the world, as you know; changes that most of us are not comfortable with, we need to “climb higher.”  In Galatians 6:9, we read: “Ye shall overcome if ye faint not.”

 It seems we are being given an opportunity today to truly experience Life aligned with Truth!  It seems that there really is no other choice right now.  What a blessing!!  I quote briefly the words of Jean Pierre de Caussade, the French Jesuit priest and writer, who died in 1751: “Arise then, my soul. Let us walk with uplifted head above all that is passing about us, and within us—content with what He does with us, and what he gives us to do. Let us live in this upper or superior region of the soul from where we discern God and His will working out for us, even though outwardly, in our sense experience we feel tempest tossed.”

It is not always easy to understand, but right now, I believe we are being given a beautiful gift—a wonderful opportunity—to rise up and BE that which we are all created to BE. Let us be honest; if we did not get a “shake-up” now and again, would we ever emerge from our passive, mere state of existence? Right now, with the way things seem to be, many of us I am sure, would value a passive interlude.

We are being given a great opportunity to “step higher;” to step up to the plate, so to speak, and participate in the solution—the upliftment of our respective countries, and ultimately of our world.  And many are already doing this as the “stepping higher,” is moving to a higher understanding in consciousness.  We may ask, “where is God in all this?”  Yet as we wake up to the Truth of Omnipresence—God, as, in, and through all creation, we have our answer.

A good explanation is found in Emmet Fox’s book: Diagrams For Living, where he states the following:  Jesus said we could move mountains and so we can.  He did not mean literal mountains.  That would only be a conjuring trick. He meant mountains of difficulty and trouble, mountains of fear and frustration and doubt.  He said we could do it if we had sufficient faith in God.  There is no limit on the side of God, but we put a limit on our faith and understanding.  The only difference between Moses and his followers was in the quality of  their thinking.  Moses thought tall. He got higher in consciousness.  So long as we wrestle with the problem we get nowhere.  We are trapped in a circular cage and the only way out is through the top.”

 It is time to follow the words found in Psalm 121: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence commeth my help.  Look up!  In our Teaching of Divine Science, we move our attention away from the visible to the invisible—and this gives us a new and correct basis for our thinking. I quote now from our Divine Science Text book—something I have had underlined since 1997, and refer to often: Truth is forever awaiting our recognition. Our divine nature can never be lost, and sooner or later all shall awaken to its presence within them.  Although Truth is omnipresent and changeless, though we live, move, and have our being in God, the All-Good, yea though we dwell in the Kingdom of Heaven but have not consciousness of it, we may go on our way lacking many good things and losing the blessedness that is ours. Consciousness of Truth then is our great need, not that more good may come to us, not that we may have more strength or wisdom or life or health sent to us, but that our comprehension may be opened to see that all is within our very nature and that all God is, is forever ours.

In Closing…….
“The sublime majesty of Truth’s presence in the sacred sermons of so many wise ones, those of good will, ultimately guides us to the ways of peace and wisdom, the lovely, the holy. And so our troubled hearts are reassured, and we can read and reread about God’s word in many scriptures.
However incomprehensible, a faith settles into our hearts that awakens the desire to understand Infinity and Forever. The dedication is eternal and to the Eternal. For the Word becomes flesh — and this is an eternal utterance, an act that includes the human heart mounted on a towering aspiration. Yet even this pyramiding love is without effect unless winged with Grace. So we shall let fly our supplications, enfolded in holy silence on wings of veneration, to the throne of our most Sovereign Good with the request to guide the spirit of our understanding, wherein we stand within God’s Light, in order to see the pouring out of the Sacred Word made manifest.”
ANTHONY DAMIANI (1922-1984)

Bountiful Blessings
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter – September 2025

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Dear Friends,

“To What Are We Giving Our Attention?”

What is it we are “seeing” in life, in our world today?  Perhaps more importantly we need to ask ourselves: “What eye am I using to see? Am I seeing only the out-picturing of what the world tells us, or is the inner eye discerning something different?”

Is it not time that we step up and measure up? There are major changes in the world. There needs to be major change within our perception of  Truth as well. There is no God, “out there;” God is within It’s Creation. God is all Creation. Only in our lack of perception in Truth, do we place God apart from us.

Joel Goldsmith, in his book: The World Is New, states: “The important point is: can we through knowing the truth of God’s omnipotence be so at-one with God and thereby a majority that we can nullify all vicious and ignorant human thought so that it will not operate as the experience of the people of the world?”

Well, we may be a small group yet we can plant the seeds and nurture them; serving the idea that God alone is power; and the nurturing is the knowing, and we keep on knowing.  Until we stop giving power, through thought and attention, to the conditions perceived currently in the world, we are going to be nurturing the conditions. And ironically, these are the same conditions that we moan about. As one of the founders of Divine Science, Malinda Cramer, taught, THERE IS NO POWER IN CONDITIONS. We give conditions power with our thought.

I turn frequently to words used by the Quakers: “Way will open.” To me, that is trust, that is surrender. And we surrender to this moment; surrender to what IS.

Jesus taught always, that it was the Father/Presence within, that did the works that so often he, even today, is held in high acclaim for having done.  When we “give over” to what IS, and IS, eternally, we let IT do what needs to be done. The main problem is that  we usually have our preconceived ideas of the outcome. And that is according to our human perception—again we are not moving beyond seeing Life, with the human eye.

Interestingly, Goldsmith also indicates that every move that the Master made throughout his three-year ministry is a lesson in complete reliance on that of which the world knows nothing.  He goes on to indicate that at one point or another, we must leave our “nets”; we must give up every material approach to life and see life from a spiritual standpoint, and then as our faith in the Infinite Invisible grows, we come to understand that: HE THAT IS WITHIN YOU IS GREATER THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD, AND THAT HE PERFORMS THAT WHICH IS GIVEN YOU TO DO. (1 John 4:4)

When Jesus told his disciples to leave their nets, he indicated they should cease looking  for material means and follow the Christ Consciousness, not the man. He reminded them: “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.”  Yet it was not he, the man to which he referred, but the Christ Consciousness.

Spirit is the true reality of being. We are reminded of this over and over again. Yet it is so difficult, it seems to “leave our nets,” – our material focus.  This all makes so much sense and we need to be aware of what it is that is constantly grabbing our attention, and remember our oneness with the Christ Conscious.

In Closing…….
 How gloriously could the  great teaching of the Master, “Take no thought for your life,” be fulfilled if at this moment you could accept the truth that the invisible part of you is connected with an invisible link called the Christ and that  that invisible link is completely one with the Father, so that all that the Father has is flowing to you, the branch, through your Christhood!
 The branch, then, will not go out and try to get fruit.  No, every branch brings forth the fruit from within itself. From within the branch? No, from within itself through its contact with the Vine and the Godhead: from the Father to the Christ, and from the Christ to the son.
 Out of the Christ of your own being flows an infinity of good: not that you of yourself have it any more than any other branch has, but that your oneness with the Christ, established in the beginning before ever the world began, is now consciously realized.
 – JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

Bountiful Blessings
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter – August 2025

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“Individual Consciousness”

A heading in one of Joel Goldsmith’s books states clearly: “Our Consciousness Externalizes As Our World.”  Well, if we really consider this, consciousness is the key to all our experiences in life. How we live and experience our lives depends on our conscious. It does not matter what seems to distract us or  what may seem more important at any given time in our daily experiences, we need to realize that despite the advancements that have been made in so many aspects of life, the key factor remains individual consciousness.

Thoughts expressed by Deepak Chopra when interviewed, indicated that we are a goal-oriented society. We are feeding false appetites while our real hunger remains famished.  What we are doing (he stated) is propping up our status and not satisfying our souls; and that part of our problem is that we are outcome oriented rather than process-oriented. We should walk a path because we love walking the path, rather than focusing on getting there.

 Jesus and Isaiah gave their respective messages publicly to all who would listen, but it was not about the messengers—it was about the message. Neither one watered down the Truth to suit the tastes or mood of the masses, yet all were invited to partake and ultimately benefit.

When we pay heed to the teaching of Truth first, all else shall be added. Yet often it is the idea of the “all else” that grabs us and how often we would fancy a short cut to that. What are we conscious of in our day-to-day living? When we are looking at making the world a better place, we are looking at the human evolution—not the evolution in spiritual consciousness. In other words we are putting the cart before the horse.

It begins with consciousness! Individuals make up the masses/majority; individuals make up the remnant. The remnant are the small group of people who see beyond the tangible and visible. And it was the prophet Isaiah who took on the task of looking after this group at a very unstable time in Judah. It is up to each of us to choose. Let us turn the tables, so to speak, and through our individual participation and purpose be the instruments or consciousness for greater spiritual understanding.

Through our mindfulness, each is God in expression. We are being used as were both Isaiah and Jesus.   They chose to let God’s will work through them; their consciousness; neither of these way-showers tried to use personal power. Returning to Goldsmith, he stated: “The truth is that we are not in the world: the world is in us, and we are externalizing in our lives our own states of consciousness.”

 When we discover the Inner Presence—that lives us—that ultimately is us, we will have discovered a Truth that IS and always IS.

In Closing…….

 A Simple Meditation
Right now, united in this moment, we breathe together the breath of Life, acknowledging the originating Cause of all Creation.
Sharing this sacred moment of Being, reverence for all of Life is experienced.
 Accepting our individual roles on the stage of
unfolding understanding, we know that
Omnipresence is the equalizing gift to all.
And we hear the words:
“Behold, I make all things new.”
From this place of deep realization we are uplifted in consciousness, and with hearts overflowing with love and gratitude, we speak the words:
“Thank you, O most gracious God, thank you, for the promise of your eternal Presence.
And so it is!
Amen.

Bountiful Blessings

Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newsletter – July 2025

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Dear Friends,

“A Return To Wholeness.”

Speaking about returning to Wholeness, it can be misleading as we do not have to really “go” anywhere.  The returning is to that which is, and always has been.  In our world today many may wish life to be “restored” to the the way it was.  The return to wholeness that is being considered here has nothing to do with the world, yet, ultimately everything.

We are so sense-oriented that we have difficulty in believing in something we cannot see.  We forget that everything came forth from the invisible to the visible in the first place.  The only guarantee in life is God.

Back in Genesis 1, we read: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” The chapter ends: “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” How easy is it to believe now, in today’s world, that it still is very good? What God made is good and always will be, yet we get so caught up with human behaviour, human standard, and  human separation that we are only seeing that, and not seeing beyond with the inner eye to what is REAL.

If we turn to Psalm 23, we read: He restoreth my soul…….lovely, uplifting words—yet they remain just that if we are not feeling the words, being still to fully experience the promise.  So this is the restoring of our soul; re-establishing the true nature that is our birthright; taking us “back” to our original true wholeness.

We live in a world of comparisons; and every time we compare ourselves to someone in whatever way, we are affirming that something is absent from our lives. And of course the something on which we expend so much energy and attention, is really our Good—God.

In two very well-known and mostly well-read chapters of the Bible, we have straight-forward directives from Jesus who told all that we too could do the things he did and even more—he knew and indicated in no uncertain terms that it was the Father within, not he who performed healings.  These chapters are:  Matt.6:25-33 and virtually repeated in Luke 12:22-32.

In the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, we read:  And Jesus said: “There is a Silence where the soul may meet its God.”  When we take time to be still and let the Silence rise up in us then we experience the wholeness that we are and always will be. The being  each soul is, and cannot not be. We do need to realize and be aware that the wholeness is of Spirit.  It is our  inherency; it is who we are, eternally.  It can never be taken away from us, yet we need to wake up to the truth of all being.

There are many examples in scripture that call for our awareness—these stories are our stories too. There is nothing to fix…we need to pay heed and remember.  Remember we are either believing and living according to our true nature or we are not!  When we do remember, it is the awareness of Truth that is restored and we sense and identify with that which IS.

God saw all he/she had made and it was good.  It is still Good.  This same intelligence at the source of all creation includes each of us and is forever maintaining and sustaining us.

Kahlil Gibran states:
“Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man’s life, and is the sole purpose of being.  Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
Civilization may possess a vanishing purpose, but the eternal law has offered to that purpose a ladder whose steps can lead to a free substance.”

In Closing…….
 This habit of taking a little time daily, alone in the quiet, in communion with one’s source, that the illumination and guidance of the Holy Spirit may become alive and active in the life, and going then about one’s daily work ever open to and conscious of this Divine guidance, trusting and resting in it, strengthened and sustained always by this Divine power, will bring definiteness and direction, will bring hope and courage, will bring peace and power to everyone who will heed the Master’s injunction and will follow His example.  These it has brought in great numbers to whom, before, life was an enigma; and this because the life had been lived entirely from the outside.

The higher forces and powers of the inner life, those of the mind and spirit, always potential within, become of actual value only as they are recognized, realized and used.
 The Master’s Way of the Spirit, the finding of the Kingdom within, leads into no blind alley.  It leads out and triumphantly out onto the great plain of clear vision, of unself-centered activity, of heroic endeavor and accomplishment.
IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE—RALPH WALDO TRINE

Bountiful blessings,

 Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter – June 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Do We Have Faith In What IS?”

Do we have faith in what IS? This is a big  question and best answered by identifying what is meant by: “IS.”  The scriptures when fully understood, at a level beyond the literal, give us the answer. We can also find the answer in quiet meditation.

In the book, Divine Science, Its Principle and Practice, we have the following words: “Belief in separation from God has caused man’s sense of lack and limitation. Such belief has not changed the real nature of man or altered his relation to God, but it has blinded him to Truth and he has suffered in his wanderings.”

What has caused us to wander away from our Truth? And this has nothing to do with a particular religion or tradition. It has to do with you and me—all who occupy the planet at this time. In our wandering away from Truth—from the principles of Life—we seem to have landed in a quagmire of “trouble” world-wide.

Well, whether we feel we need God, or not, is our own business, yet what is taking place around us right now is showing us very clearly that what, and how, we have been—are being–is not working. Perhaps our faith has been misplaced?  In the Gospel of Thomas, it is stated: “If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the kingdom.”

 Ignorance of Truth is the seeming great delusion of the world. Quoting from the book referred to earlier: “Although Truth is omnipresent and changeless; although man lives, moves, and has his being in God, the All Good; although he dwells in the kingdom of heaven, if he is not conscious of it, he may go on his way lacking many things and losing the blessedness that IS his. Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ, men may, through ignorance of the truth be slaves of misery, doubt and poverty. Truth must be recognized in order to be realized and to become a power in the lives of men.”

Emmet Fox in his book, Diagrams for Living, makes reference to the name of God being: I AM THAT I AM. He goes on to state that I AM is your true identity. I AM is your real name, and in that name there is power.  I AM is Divine Spirit, your real eternal self. This is the IS-ness we are talking about. That which IS and can never change. In order to access this truth of our being, we need to be aware.

Again quoting from Divine Science, Its Principle and Practice: “Revelation comes to all who can see. To receive the first evidence of Truth’s presence we must look, not without, but within.”  Each story in scripture offers us examples and points us in the way of Truth and when investigated metaphysically and mystically, gives such clarity. Maybe we have wandered too far and its  time to turn inward.

In Closing…….
Robert Browning states it well:
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate’er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

Bountiful blessings,
 Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter May – 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Our God-given Dominion.”

In Genesis 1:26, we read: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 Let us investigate this further as I refer to the following, taken from the book, Thunder of Silence, by Joel Goldsmith: “The first chapter of Genesis is the account of a spiritual universe, peopled by spiritual beings who do not live by effect but by cause, who do not live by bread alone, who do not have to earn their living by the sweat of their brow; whereas in the second and third chapters a knowledge of good and evil creates a sense of separation from God after which man lives by power and by effect: He lives by bread, by money, by the beating of the heart, by sunlight; he lives by all the creature things, instead of by the Creator.”

 God gave us dominion – have we given it away? And we may even question and ask what has possibly happened to that dominion that seems to have been usurped by our allowing “other things” to dominate our lives.  What happens to that God-given dominion when we allow others in whatever aspect to dictate to us how we should be, believe, or live our lives?

Society dictates to the world as to how we should look, how we should dress, and what we should or should not eat, depending on the current fad.  Have we given away our dominion by simply forgetting who we are in Truth?  By doing so, by forgetting, we have chosen the kind of world that we currently inhabit.  That may be a tough statement yet, true.

Life is not lived by might nor by power nor by taking thought, but by divine grace – the grace that flows and is experienced when we stop and listen.  Then … we open out a way for that imprisoned splendor to escape.

Perhaps we need to return, with a deeper perception to the beginning of the story – back to Genesis.  And interestingly, Goldsmith, in the book I referred to earlier states the following:  “The world can never rise above the idea of using one power over another and into the realm of no power, until the mystery of Genesis is solved.”  Until we reach the stage of realization (in consciousness) of who we are in truth, we are always going to come under the spell of the world. Of course we can always fall back on, or remember, that no matter how much we forget; who we are in Truth, can never change!!

In order to dwell in the kingdom, we must be willing to give up human thoughts of duality.  And we need to remind ourselves that thinking or taking thought, cannot “add to us one cubit,” as the passage in Luke 12:22-32 tells us. This passage should be read over and over and over because it reiterates the message found in Genesis!

It all comes back to consciousness.  Daily we are being challenged by the goings on in life around us.  We are being challenged to give up duality thinking. It is a tough ask, due to our being subjected to some of the most awful things going on, all around the globe.

Throughout the Bible, which is a wonderful guide for living life, we are offered examples of how to live mindfully in the Presence; the Presence that is with us, living us.  And we mindfully connect with It in the Silence.  Each breath is IT!

In Closing…….
 The mystical philosophers of the past not only realized that some day humanity would shift its ethical structure from a physical to a spiritual footing, but also that each individual living in the collective plan would be required to adjust his code and his character to the new culture-level. 
As this critical hour approaches, it is important that man be supported by a measure of understanding.  When we desire to visit a far country, we prepare ourselves for the adventure. We discuss the trip with other travelers, and read the accounts of the regions through which we shall pass.
Never for a moment, however, do we regard this knowledge accumulated from the words and experiences of others as a substitute for our proposed journey.  No amount of study can equal the direct impact of personal experience.
 EXERPT FROM THE BOOK: THE MYSTICAL CHRIST
MANLY P. HALL

Bountiful blessings,
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter – April 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Letting Go Of Judgement.”

When we sit in judgement in any way, it conveniently takes the spotlight off of ourselves. What level of life are we identifying with when we make accusations? Let us return to the teachings of Jesus, given from his Christ Consciousness, where he stated: “call no man on earth your father.”  He was really indicating that we all originate from the same Divine Source, God.

It is at the core of our very being that understanding and realization of our spiritual identities begins. This is the God-center of all being, and through this recognition of the divine in ALL, any need or desire to accuse or judge falls away.  Mostly in life, we judge ourselves and in fact are often our harshest critics. Yet, when we remember who we are in truth, human expectations (the expectations we load upon ourselves) lose all impact. Human values cannot count for anything alone. When we live life in harmony with truth, we live effectively.

Emma Curtis Hopkins states it well: “Effectiveness comes with letting the goodness of the merciful and tender spirit speak, instead of your condemning tendencies wherever anything appears to be evil.” I believe the emphasis is on the word ‘appears’ because if we are acknowledging and living according to our true identities as offspring of the divine, then we will see beyond appearances.  And she goes on to say that: “we put up umbrellas against things that do not exist.”  The reason, so often, that we do this is due to our listening to the advice, and opinions of others (of the world) instead of to that INNER VOICE that is always there to guide and direct us.

Truth, understood, can never be diminished; and we can never backtrack on this understanding. We will see a lot of both good and evil in the world if we entertain the idea of both in our minds.  Yet we cannot live a “yo-yo” life and experience peace and harmony. And remember this seeing of good or evil, is seeing with our human eyes and then judging that to be truth.

We have our highest good now and it abides at the center of our being.  It is pure love, not needing anything in return. And from this center of being, there is no place for accusations or judgements as these only come about when fear is prevalent. When we are centered in truth—in God, what is there to fear?  When we function predominantly from our center core of true being, it is inevitable that truth will be mirrored back to us as the joy, love, peace and understanding that is bestowed on us from the beginning of creation.

Each individual has something to accomplish. Timothy was told by Paul to: “Churn up that gift that was in him.” Is it not time that we opened ourselves to possibilities of greatness?  Yet let us realize that it is the greatness of Spirit operating in and through us, showing forth It’s radiance, and using each as a vehicle of expression, as we acknowledge and trust It.

Maybe the time has come to stop hiding behind the issues of the world, and allow that which is true to take precedence in our lives, as we note these words by H.B. Jeffrey:  “At the place of integrity within, we find ourselves in a new Garden of Eden where there is no discrimination between good and evil, because a language is spoken which has no pairs of opposites in its great mystery.  This is the place of new tongues.  It is a place of the unspoken, on earth. At this place we are told to rest, for a new and more divine judgement is speaking.”

In Closing…….
 A SLEEP OF PRISONERS
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul we ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake,
But will you wake for pity’s sake!
-Christopher Fry

Bountiful blessings,
 Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Newsletter – March 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Being Led Beside Still Waters.”

What really heartens me during these times of seeming “break down” in so many facets of Life, is that there are many around the globe holding to Truth, knowing, and trusting. Yes, many, many more than we even know about or realize.  So, when we do our daily meditation, reading and contemplation, we are just a small part of the “many” that are HOLDING TO TRUTH AND BEING LIGHTS IN THE WORLD – the peace-keepers, doing the work and living on purpose!

Years ago David Korten, philosopher and economist, wrote: “The deepest moral and spiritual issue of our day centers on the defining choice evoked in the biblical admonition that no one can serve two masters.  We must choose between God (the spirit of life) and money.”  We do not need reminding of the issues and power-struggles evident in the world today; instead we are going to rediscover the wisdom in the 23rd Psalm, the Lord/Law is my Shepherd…. I do not want.

There is One creative Source; One originating Intelligence to which all of life is connected.  In our realization of this, in this moment, we do not want. A beautiful promise! Lying down in green pastures, being led beside still waters and our soul being restored, follows on from our acceptance of the One Power, and then, trusting.  Through challenging times and feeling overwhelmed, our main struggle is our inability to trust; trust the Shepherd—trust the Law.

Each of us is here on purpose!  Truth resides within, and our Teaching is based on the PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD..  We turn to this Presence inwardly, and as we follow the inward path, our needs (not wants) are already met.

Throughout the Psalm, there is a continued declaration and acceptance of what is. He leads me beside still waters and restores my soul.  Even when walking through the valley of the shadow of death…thou art with me. And in Matthew 28:20, we have the promise: I am with you always.

And we need to ask ourselves why it is that so often this turning to God in trust, is our last resort.  Due to the many changes in all aspects of daily living we need a firm spot from which to make decisions and face each day.  It needs to be “something” to “stand on,” – from which to make new decisions; to face the beginning of each new day with an inner understanding of being sustained.

This brings us back to the “bottom line,” we are either relying on God, following the shepherd, or we are not. It is a reliance with trust—no demand or expectation involved  When we try to use Truth to get more or be more in the world, we are denying the whole of the 23rd Psalm.

The next section states: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies (our own thoughts). Thou anointest my head with oil.  My cup runneth over. Again this is stated in the present tense.  Followed by: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.  And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.  Another way of understanding this statement is: ‘and I will dwell in God-consciousness forever.’  And of course this is through our awareness.

We do not have to get  God-consciousness, we don’t have to get Truth.  What is required is that we become aware that nothing can change what God created.  The 23rd Psalm requires us to realize Truth—the Truth of all being … the Truth that is; and follow the shepherd, always ready to guide us.  So that our dwelling is in this God-consciousness forever.

In Closing…….
Through faith we are brought together in a communion of noble purposes.  By fear we are separated, each attempting to insure his own survival by exploiting others.
 Until faith becomes as natural, normal, and acceptable to the human being as are the fears which now beset him, neither the individual nor the group can experience lasting peace or security.  We are impoverished by our fears, even as we are enriched by our faith.
 Faith is not sustained by the visible works of man under existing conditions.  We must, therefore, depend upon the increasing light within ourselves for the strength of our convictions.   The Mystical Christ—Manly P. Hall

Bountiful blessings,
 Mallory

 

 

 

Newsletter – February 2025

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Dear Friends,

“Why Are We Taking Thought?”

As we move forward in this year, 2025, let us decide to do so mindfully.  When we consider the word mindful, it carries a deeper message and meaning than we often give it.  Mindfulness, means BEING, FROM AN INNER KNOWING; it means, in a sense, LETTING WHAT IS, BE. Can we do this?  Can we trust Life enough to do this?

Today, we discuss the lesson Jesus gave on taking no thought.  We find this in Luke 12: 22-32 and I cannot emphasize enough just what a valuable and practical lesson this is. From personal experience it has played a big part in my life.  If we look at the world around us right now, does it not prove to us all, just what taking thought has actually brought about??  We are now living in a time of transformation – I believe deep down we all know this – and after all is it not also a time of opportunity – a time when we put to rest, or lay aside that which has not, and is not, working?

Let us briefly remind ourselves of this important passage found in scripture that is such a wonderful directive on how to live our lives. We need this guidance, I believe, perhaps now, more than at any other time, as a species on this planet.

22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.  We are being reminded that we are more than the shell, the body, the vehicle – we are spiritual beings.

 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?  25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?  What is being indicated here is that, as an idea come forth from God, an expression of the Source of All Life, we are already whole and complete.  Our thought diminishes that. And the reason for this is that it is our human thought that thinks apart from the spiritual knowing.  It is the thinking of the world that says: take this or that to prevent aging and so on. It is human thought that feeds us erroneously with the idea that “my religion” is right, or “they” are strange, or different or wrong.   All this human thought, which then unfortunately also becomes human belief.

26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? 27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. That same Source of All Creation, resides in all of nature – this is the Omnipresence we speak of, this is the God Presence in all of IT’S creation

28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?  Well, we just have to look around at our world today to realize that we of little faith….. are creating our experiences.

29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.    It works IF we stop looking for answers outside of ourselves.  IT is within! Always within – right where we are.  In today’s world we have an extra “obstacle” to overcome and that is: DISTRACTION.  We take thought for all the things happening around us!

31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
This directive is straight to the point!  We need to stop vacillating …. Moving from faith to fear, and back again …. And trust!

I recently watched a very interesting documentary on You Tube, with a Neurosurgeon telling the story of his journey through the afterlife, during his time in a coma, from which he was not expected to recover or live.  In brief, what he indicated, was that he was shown that we are all One in consciousness, and that we carry within our souls all the attributes of the Divine Source, as he stated it.  He emphasized the Oneness of All; he also spoke about the importance of consciousness and stated that the human brain and mind won’t understand spiritual truths, and that the Divine Spirit is within us.  Well, he could have been quoting from our Divine Science Teaching!!

32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.   And of course, this promise is stated in the present tense!!   God is now – IT, Life is now… the promises made, are now! This is the kingdom, already given to all.  Let us “take no thought,” and turn to that Presence that is with us always, that when realized, makes all the difference to the way we live.

Bountiful blessings,
Mallory