The document discusses how mankind has historically looked outward for meaning, purpose, and power rather than inward toward their spiritual selves. This misguided approach has led to all of humanity's ills, including business failures, divorces, diseases, wars, frustrations, insanity, and the rise and fall of civilizations. Jesus taught people to find God within themselves, but most did not understand and instead sought reality and identity in transient material things rather than their eternal souls. Only when humanity looks inward rather than outward will it find true happiness, peace and prosperity.

1. Man conceives these thought- pulsations of the living thinking God to be living and dying bodies of people who have identity and reality

2. In this tragic misconception lies all the ills which man has made for himself All of them without exception

3. From Business Failures To divorces

4. From Degenerative Diseases To wars

5. FROM FRUSTRATIONS TO INSANITY

6. AND FROM THE PERIODIC RISE AND FALL OF WHOLE CIVILIZATIONS

7. Oh the pity of it! And WHY?

8. Simply because men of that day did not comprehend what Jesus meant when He plainly told them that

9. They could find God within themselves and then all things else would be added unto them.

10. Instead of comprehending and believing Him the mass-Mind of the world then and now looks outward toward transient pulsing bodies

11. of living-dying physical matter for their realities

12. Instead of to their centering spiritual Soul-Mind

13. MAN DID JUST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT JESUS TAUGHT AND MADE FOR HIMSELF A WAY OF LIFE WHICH HAS ALWAYS LED TO CATASTROPHE AND OBLIVION

14. He looked outside of himself for his sense of values and chose transient pulsing living-dying bodies of material things for his choice possessions which he thought would enrich him

15. He looked away from his spiritual Self to find love and happiness in mere sensation of interchange with physical bodies of pulsing motion which had naught but motion in them to give

16. He looked away from the One great reality within which all power reposed into the unreality of transient materialism for the power he coveted and took unto himself a mirage which dissolved itself in its own emptiness

17. Even the greatest of intellectuals looked the other way away from the still fulcrum source of energy to endow pulsing vibrations of motion with energy

18. Even they looked for CAUSE In the transient EFFECTS of cause

19. Is it any wonder then that the old way of life which man has chosen has never led him to happiness and Peace?

20. Has any way of life ever led to happiness peace and prosperity which was based upon greed for material possessions and power?

21. Not one Thing of man’s Creating has Endured when Man looked Outward And away From the Spirit which Centered him

22. On the other hand those immortal creations of man which have endured and will endure as long as civilization lasts, are those works of the spiritual geniuses who have been illumined by the awakening of that divine spark which centers every man Painting by WALTER RUSSELL (1871 – 1963)

23. Extracted from the book “God Will Work With You But Not For You” by LAO RUSSELL (1904 – 1988)

24. With the exception of WALTER RUSSELL’s painting all the other pictures were extracted from www.tenthousandvisions.com