Chapter 30
TREATMENTS FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Charles Fillmore
Dynamics For Living
Treatment to Realize God
There is one Presence, one Intelligence, one Substance, one Life: the good
omnipotent. God is the name of the everywhere present Principle.
Thy name is Spirit. I know Thee as the one all-seeing Mind.
Treatment to Realize Spiritual Sonship
I am the son of God, and the Spirit of the Most High dwells in me. I am the
only begotten son, dwelling in the bosom of the Father. I am the Christ of God.
I am the beloved son in whom the Father is well pleased. He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father. I and my Father are one. I am the image and likeness of
God, in whom is my perfection. All that the Father has is mine.
Thou art always with me as indwelling wisdom and love. Thy law is now the
standard of my life, and I am at peace. Thou art never absent from me. I dwell
in Thee and share Thine omnipotence. In Thee is my perfection.
Treatment to Know the Truth
God is Truth. The Truth is: God is Principle, Law, Being, Mind, Spirit,
All-Good, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, unchangeable, Creator, Father,
Cause, and Source of all that is. God is individually formed in consciousness in
each of us, and is known to us as "Father" when we recognize Him within us as
our Creator, as our mind, as our life, as our very being. Mind has ideas and
ideas have expression. All manifestation in our world is the result of the ideas
that we are holding in mind and are expressing. To bring forth or to manifest
the harmony of Divine Mind, or the "kingdom of heaven," all our beliefs must be
one with divine ideas, and must be expressed in the divine order of Divine Mind.
Treatment to Realize the Spiritual Ideal
My highest ideal is a perfect man. My next highest ideal is that I am that
perfect man. I am identity demonstrated. My perfection is now established in
Divine Mind. I am one with Almightiness. Through Christ I have dominion over my
every thought and word. Of a truth I am the son of God.
Treatment to Realize Perfect Manifestation
My "life is hid with Christ in God." I am the substance of Being made
manifest. I am formed in the perfection of the divine-idea man, Christ Jesus. My
body is the temple of the living God, and the glory of the Lord fills the
temple. My body is not material; it is spiritual and perfect in all its being.
By seeing perfection in all things, I help to make it manifest. I see in mind
that perfect character which I desire to be.
Treatment to Realize Light
The glory of the Lord is risen upon me, and I walk in the light of life.
Christ within me is my glory. The brightness of His presence casts out all the
darkness of error, and my whole body is full of light. My understanding is
illumined by Spirit.
Treatment to Develop One's Viewpoint
The Christ of God is born in my consciousness, and I am glorified in my
understanding. My understanding is established in Divine Mind. My spirit is
quickened in Christ. I know the reality back of the shadows. I see the light of
the Christ consciousness always. I see perfection in all forms and shapes.
Treatment for Right Thinking
With my mind's eye I see more and more the reality of the true ideas ever
existing in divine principle. I firmly believe in the guiding Intelligence that
directs all my thoughts. I am in authority, I say to this thought, "'Go,' and he
goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes." Where my thoughts are gathered
together in my Christ name, there I am in the midst of them.
I will think no evil, for Thou art always with me. I think Thy thoughts after
Thee.
Treatment to Realize Freedom
God is good, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in the reality of
evil in any of its forms. God is life, and God is all; therefore I refuse to
believe in the reality of loss of life, or death. God is power and strength, and
God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in inefficiency and weakness. God is
wisdom, and God is all; therefore I refuse to believe in ignorance. God is
spiritual substance, and God is all; therefore there is no reality in the
limitations of matter. God is inexhaustible resource, and God is all; therefore
I refuse to believe in the reality of lack or poverty. God is love, and God is
all; therefore I refuse to believe in hate or revenge.
Treatment to Realize Substance
I believe in the presence and power of the one Mind, and it is to me
substantial intelligence. Holding continuously to the reality of things
spiritual establishes them in mind--they become mental substance. My mind is
opened anew to the splendor of God's kingdom, and a flood of rich substance now
pours itself into my affairs.
Treatment to Develop Faith
The understanding of Spirit clarifies my faith. My faith is of God and in
God. My faith grows greater day by day, because it is planted in Truth, and
through it the mountains of mortal error are moved into the sea of nothingness.
My doubts and fears are dissolved and dissipated; in confidence and peace I rest
in God's unchangeable law. My faith comprehends the beauty of wholeness. I am
persuaded that God is able, that He is willing, that He is eager to give me
whatsoever I ask.
Treatment to Develop the Body
My body does not starve for my love and appreciation of it. I recognize it,
honor it, and love it as the body temple of the living God. I have now the only
body I ever had. Though I were reincarnated a thousand times, yet is my body the
same. It is I. Its appearance depends upon my beliefs and thoughts and changes
accordingly, but it is always the same body, even as my soul and spirit are
always the same. My body is as much a part of my individuality as my soul. It is
eternal, like any other part of my I. It is I, even as my soul is I. My body
came from no one but God. It came from Him with my spirit and soul and has ever
coexisted with them. These three are one, inseparable. I do not own my body: I
am body. I do not own my soul: I am soul. I do not own my spirit: I am spirit.
These three are one. I am. I am in every cell of my body. I am every cell of my
body. I do not disown my body. I do not withdraw my I, but I take
possession--full possession--of every part in the name of the Lord. My body is
life, purity, wholeness, sinlessness. In my flesh I see God. What I see, what I
behold, becomes manifest.
Denial Treatment for Well-Being
I deny that I inherit any belief that in any way limits me in health, virtue,
intelligence, or power to do good. Those with whom I associate can no longer
make me believe that I am a poor worm of the dust. The race belief that "nature
dominates man" no longer holds me in bondage, and I am now free from every
belief that might in any way interfere with my perfect expression of health,
wealth, peace, prosperity, and perfect satisfaction in every department of life.
By my all-powerful word, in the sign and presence of Almighty God, I now
unformulate and destroy every foolish and ignorant assumption that might impede
my march to perfection. My word is the measure of my power. I have spoken, and
it shall be so.
Affirmation Treatment for Well-Being
I am unlimited in my power, and I have increasing health, strength, life,
love, wisdom, boldness, freedom, charity, and meekness, now and forever. I am
now in harmony with the Father, and stronger than any mortal law. I know my
birthright in pure Being, and I boldly assert my perfect freedom. In this
knowledge I am enduring, pure, peaceful, and happy. I am dignified and definite,
yet meek and lowly, in all that I think and do. I am one with and I now fully
manifest vigorous life, wisdom, and spiritual understanding. I am one with and I
now fully manifest love, charity, justice, kindness, and generosity. I am one
with and I now fully manifest infinite goodness and mercy. Peace floweth like a
river through my mind, and I thank Thee, O God, that I am one with Thee!
The Sevenfold Cleansing of the Temple
The eye represents the discerning capacity of the mind.
My eyes are no longer darkened by thought of deception, concealment, or lust.
The cleansing life and light of Spirit make pure and clean these eyes, and
through all-seeing Mind I have spiritual vision.
The ear represents the receptive capacity of the mind.
My ears are no longer stopped by the sensitiveness and willfullness of the
little self. I am no longer bound by personality. I now bathe in the great ocean
of life, and I am free in boundless Spirit. I hear the voice of Truth only and
rejoice.
The nose represents the initiative capacity of the mind.
The cleansing life of Spirit frees my mind of all thoughts of fear, timidity,
and incapacity. I am bold, free, courageous Spirit, and I can do all things
through Christ.
The tongue represents the judging capacity of the mind.
Sense appetite no longer clogs the clear discernment of my spiritual
judgment. The cleansing life of Spirit quickens and cleanses my taste, and I eat
and drink only what my body requires under divine law.
Feeling represents the loving capacity of the mind.
I am no longer in bondage to the thought that sensation is in matter. The
cleansing life of Spirit dissolves all fleshly lust for sense pleasure. I am
Spirit, and I desire the clean, pure currents of life to flow through every part
of my body, so that all may be made clean.
Intuition is the natural knowing capacity of the mind.
The cleansing life of Spirit purifies my heart, and I trust the "still small
voice" within my soul.
Telepathy is thought interchange.
The cleansing life of Spirit clears my mind of ignorance and materiality, and
I see the activity of ideas and understand their import independently of human
language. As God gave Daniel "learning and skill in all letters and wisdom, and
. . . understanding in all visions and dreams," so He gives me and all His
children the original ideas of His great mind to use as we will.
Treatment to Develop Prosperity
Infinite wisdom guides me, divine love prospers me, and I am successful in
everything I undertake. In quietness and confidence I affirm the drawing power
of divine love as my magnet of constantly increasing supply. I have unbounded
faith in the omnipresent substance increasing and multiplying at my word of
plenty, plenty, plenty. I trust the universal Spirit of prosperity in all my
affairs. I come to God because I believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of
them that seek after Him. I give freely and fearlessly, fulfilling the law of
giving and receiving. Divine love, through me, blesses and multiplies this
offering.
Father, I thank Thee for unlimited increase in mind, money, and affairs.
