1910 – 1949 Letters
Written by Herbert W. Eustace

1910 Letters

HERBERT W. EUSTACE, CSB
Boston, Mass.
April 30th, 1913.

Dear Mrs. —-:

Mrs. ….’s night letter has just reached me, and I am writing at once. Endeavour to realize as clearly as you can that because all that you are conscious of, or ever have been conscious of, must be in consciousness or you could have no consciousness of it, and because it is in consciousness and there is only the one consciousness, God, the divine Mind, it is still in consciousness, and you cannot be deprived of this knowledge, and you cannot be mesmerized into believing that you can be separated for one moment from that which is in Mind, or be led to believe that any thing has died. Man exists as the idea of God and as such idea he is forever about his Father’s business. He cannot be deprived of his oneness with God, with all that means and is good any more than the ray of sunlight can be deprived of its oneness with the sun. It cannot be separated from the sun for one instant, and neither can man be separated from his Principle God for one instant. Knowing this you know that you cannot be led to believe that you are separated from your husband. You are not and it is only a lie that says you are and it is this lie that must be destroyed with the truth.

Do not let anything turn your thought away from the knowledge that good is all the presence there is. In spite of the so-called testimony of the material senses declaring otherwise, cling faithfully to the scientific fact that man is spiritual and lives forever as the idea of divine Love and can no more die than divine Love can die. Let your thought dwell on Life and its expression, and you will find the mesmerism of the belief that somebody has died will disappear, and God, infinite good will reign as the ALL-consciousness to you.

I have just sent you the enclosed night letter. I felt it would help you to know that I was working for you, and also I wanted especially to encourage you not to take a single step about the business without the greatest forethought and without any lack or hurry. If the business is a good business, I should certainly go ahead with it myself. You can run it as well as anyone, and you will find you can, when you get the right understanding that the one Mind alone is intelligence and guides and governs every action whether that action is called a business action or a bodily action or an action of a planet. All action is of God and must eventually be acknowledged as such. Take hold of your business naturally and let each day take care of itself. God will guide you every moment what is right to do. Look to Him for guidance and you will find His way right every time.

You may find many would-be well intentioned advisers ready to advise you to do this and that, but be careful and take only what God tells you to do. Remember also that frequently God’s ways are quite the opposite of human ways and methods, so do not be surprised if in many ways you may find yourself doing things that seem contrary to the beaten path of doing them. Have no uneasiness, just do what you feel God is directing you to do and you will go right ahead.

You will find many perhaps advising you to sell out your business and all that sort of thing at possibly a heavy loss. Do not listen to this advice at all. If you feel that it is right for you to sell, if you get a good price offered you, it is all right for you to do so, but do not feel that you have to sell.

I know that the one Mind will guide you in governing the business just as well as He has guided your husband. I have known several wives who found themselves left with a business on their hands that they absolutely knew nothing about, but which they bravely took hold of and have in every instance made a splendid success of. You can do the same. This is woman’s day anyway, and there is not one thing that a man can do that a woman can not do equally well when she settles right down to doing it and works from the standpoint of the one Mind guiding and directing her. Feel this and have no anxiety whatever. Do not be in a hurry to take any step. Wait quietly and let things go along naturally. Arrange your home affairs so that you can give your time to the business until you understand it a little. You will soon learn how to do. Keep the entire management in your own hands. Do not take anyone in with you. Let the clerks go right on as they are. Do not put any in charge. Keep charge of things yourself and you will find in no time that you understand things.

If you have to probate the property, make an arrangement with some responsible lawyer to do everything about the legal matters for a set fee. Do not let him put you off by saying he will charge you what is right, or something of that kind. Tell him that you want to know before you make any arrangement whatever, what the whole thing is to cost, and insist on his setting his fee, and if you think it is too high ask some other lawyer what he will do it for, but have of course a good reliable lawyer, but whoever you have insist on his telling you his fee for the entire work including everything. Do this whether your lawyer is an old friend or not. It is only businesslike and right. If a person goes into your store to buy something you tell him the price of the article don’t you? It is the same with the lawyer, he has his goods for sale and it is only right that he tells you his fee. You will find if you insist on this in every business transaction before undertaking it, you will be saved a great deal of trouble and worry.

Never be afraid to ask questions until you thoroughly understand a subject. Pay no attention to anyone laughing at you for doing so. You will find it pays to understand a thing always. Mortal mind hates to be asked direct questions. It is always afraid of a questioner, for it cannot usually hide from a direct question, so never be afraid to ask all the direct questions you like when doing any business.

One other point that you need to remember and that is that you need never be in a hurry about anything. Pay no attention to what anyone may say to you that you must decide this or that thing immediately, you never have to decide anything until you are ready and God has shown you the way. Do not allow yourself to be hurried. No good thing will he deprive you of, so you cannot have to be in a hurry over anything, and it is only mortal mind that insists that you shall be and as you are not listening to mortal mind you do not have to be in a hurry. Always take ample time to think a thing over. It is wise nearly always to sleep on everything. The morning often brings quite a different view of any subject.

This letter is very frank for I want to guard you against many of the pitfalls that try to beset a beginner in business. I know that you will have no difficulty whatever. You will need patience and perseverance and with these and lovingly listening to your Father’s voice you will find the way easy and interesting. Beware of listening however to the advice of your friends no matter how well meaning they may be. Ask God and you will be wisely directed. I am going to help you as you request, and I shall be glad to hear from you. Have yourself appointed administrator of the estate if this is the way they do in Canada, and keep everything in your own hands, at least for the present until you have time to think and decide. “Always bear in mind that His presence, power and peace, meet all human needs and reflect all bliss”. Mis. Ws. Page 263 line 13.

With kindest remembrances.
Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

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Herbert W. Eustace, C. S. B.
373 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Mass.
Sept. 3, 1914.

Dear Mrs. —-:

Your letter of August the 30th reached me the next day and I have been helping you. I am glad to know that you now have the position in the post office for you will feel thoroughly settled and able to go ahead. Never mind if the hours are long, and it is true that from eight to seven seem pretty long hours, but if you thoroughly enjoyt your work they will not seem so long and it will not be but a very short time before it will be in Canada as it is in this country, an eight hour day will be the government day, so you will not have long to work the hours you now have. You can be happy and well under all circumstances. Enjoy your work and serve good in it and you are bound to be.

Now with regard to your apartment. That evidently seems to be coming along nicely and you will find that you will have all the money you will need. Do not worry about it at all. Look to divine Principle to supply every demand and it will do it. There cannot be a demand for something for which there is no supply. On the same basis there must be and is a supply for every demand, then the fact that you have two apartments to let means that there is someone for them. Know this and know that you know it. God is the one and only Mind guiding and directing all and He is the Mind governing the bank and every renter.

The war is simply mental chemicalization and there is only one result from it and that is good. Have no doubt or question about this. It is the time of restitution and restoration for all mankind. Read Daniel and you will find that He plainly foresaw it all and forsaw the end of evil, and we as Christian Scientists can do the same thing. Let me hear from you.

With kindest remembrances,
Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

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Herbert W. Eustace, C. S. B.
373 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Mass.
April 18th, 1916.

Dear Mrs. —-:

Just a few lines to acknowledge yours of the 15th, and to say that I will be glad to help Donald. Insist that God governs His own idea from the infinitesimal to the infinite and that this includes all that mortal mind means by adenoids then you will see that there is no necessity to remove what God already wisely governs. Why remove anything? Why not know the truth about it instead and clearly see that all glands have their use and their place and that they are always about their Father’s business. This gives something to build on and drives all fear and worry away. What mortal mind claims for its fool operations of one kind and another as John said of the Truth the world itself could not contain the books that could be written.

Trust in God as All-in-all and have no other trust and you will regret nothing. Listen to His voice and not to the subtle suggestion of evil. As the Bible says of the hairs of your head that they are all numbered, so it is equally true of Donald’s teeth they are all numbered and no matter what the lie declares his teeth are perfect and indestructible and this will manifest itself naturally and spontaneously. Live in Mind not in matter. Let me hear from you.

With kindest remembrances.
Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

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Herbert W. Eustace, C. S. B.
373 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Mass.
September 15, 1916.

Dear Mrs. —-:

Just a line to thank you for yours of the 7th enclosing Post Office order in full of your account. I am glad to know everything is getting along so nicely with you and Arnold. It cannot do otherwise for the one Law is the only law there is and that law is the law of infinite Life.

Mrs. Eustace and I are leaving for California on the 28th of this month and I shall be back by January the lst.

With kindest remembrances to you both,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

1920 Letter

The following letter can also be found in the “One Volume of the Clear Correct Teaching” and in the book entitled “Your Power and Dominion”. This seems to be an earlier letter that Herbert Eustace wrote and later put in his books with changes.

COPY OF A LETTER WRITTEN TO A FRIEND ON CHRISTIAN
CONDITIONS CONFRONTING THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST.

1600 The Alameda,
San Jose, California.
December 30, 1929.

Dear Mr. J:

As the alert Christian Scientist, as the metaphysician, you cannot be deceived by any phenomena that may be presented to you. You remember Jesus said, “What I say unto you, I say unto all, watch,” and again, “Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”

Jesus was warning against the temptation of being deceived into thinking that what appears as true to the so-called material senses is necessarily true, or indicative of what is really operating. Real truth is found only by looking away from the material sense testimony.

The metaphysician is confronted today with two very interesting conditions. One phase, which I will analyze first, is the world wide attack, as it appears, on Mrs. Eddy and her authorship of Science and Health.

Some twenty-five years ago, the attack at Mrs. Eddy’s life, education and character, from a personal standpoint, was in full swing and, as you know, this attack was fully and entirely answered, not only by Edward A. Kimball, Frederick Dixon, Alfred Farlow, B. O. Flower and others, but by Sibyl Wilbur’s excellent and accurate account of the whole question in her “Life of Mary Baker Eddy” published in 1907. The world was completely satisfied that Mrs. Eddy was not only the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, but that her character was, and always had been, above reproach, and that her entire life was an open book for all to review. Her ability as a writer was, also, fully established and her authorship of Science and Health accepted without further doubt or question.

You understand that when once a lie is replaced with the truth, the Christ, the lie is destroyed, for the Christ from that moment reigns as consciousness on that particular point, and so can never be displaced by the return of the lie, any more than two times two as five can return where the understanding reigns that two times two is four. Because you know this, you also know that when once the lie about Mrs. Eddy and the authorship of Science and Health was destroyed, it was equally impossible for that lie to return. As Science and Health declares, “Neither disease itself, sin nor fear has the power to cause disease or a relapse.”

Then the question arises, what is the world, apparently, confronted with at the present time, not only in America, but also in England, in this tirade of abuse of Mrs. Eddy and the repetition of all the old lies that have so long been silent?

With a disease corrected with the truth, and Christian Science reigning as Mind, that disease is gone, as you know, and gone forever. If the old symptoms characterizing the disease, should appear again, you would know at once that it was not the old claim, but an entirely new claim with the old appearances. Nothing could persuade you to think it was the original claim. You would at once diagnose it as a law of relapse and you would handle it as such, and destroy it through understanding that the one law of infinite progress being the law of God, of Mind, there is no mind, malicious or otherwise, that could operate as hypnotic suggestion and appear as a law of relapse.

I do not need to go into the various arguments you might use to establish this fact for yourself, for you understand how to do it, but establish it you would have to in order to destroy the lie. You could not be tempted to handle relapse but you would handle the law of relapse as the suppositional opposite of the law of progress, and you would understand that it had no relationship whatever to the original claim. The belief of a return of an old belief, in other words the belief of a law of relapse is not a claim in the realm of personality or matter at all, it only appears as that, but it is a claim in the realm of pure mental iniquity and must be destroyed as such.

What appears as the present attack at Mrs. Eddy is exactly this claim of a belief of a law of relapse. The original claim was met and destroyed. Now because the old symptoms appear again, does it mean the old claim has arisen? Of course it does not, and you cannot be mesmerized into thinking that it does. Then the claim is the belief that there is malicious mind, and that as such mind it can operate as hypnotic suggestion and appear as a law of relapse.

What is it then, that has apparently brought out the conscious activity of this spurious belief of law that is now seen? In 1927, you, with a large number of other metaphysicians, met in a conference, and established for the first time publicly, as it were, the Line of Light in which you so impersonalized Mrs. Eddy and Science and Health as to find Mind as All-in-all, relinquishing forever both the revelator and the revelation as having anything to do with personality.

This was simply the further unfoldment and activity of God’s eternal law of progress and so spontaneously there arose the pretext or possibility of the suppositional opposite. Truth always precedes error, for error is ever but the lie about Truth. Today this suppositional opposite has appeared cloaked in the guise of the Dakin Book, the articles in the Outlook, the Fisher Book in England, and the accusations of Mrs. Bill and Mr. Dittemore, and perhaps many others.

To attempt to combat these attacks with the true account of Mrs. Eddy and her life is just as futile as to attempt to correct two times two as five, with three times three as nine. The latter is true but it will never correct anything wrong about two times two. The right Christ must be present to destroy the lie, or the lie is not destroyed. So the present lie appearing as the vicious attack at Mrs. Eddy can only be destroyed with the understanding that Mind is all that there is to Mrs. Eddy and to Science and Health, and so wholly impersonal, and that this understanding is the law of progress which has no opposite because there is no malicious mind to operate as mind, and appear as the law of relapse.

Your understanding of this and of what the Line of Light is answers the attack and will destroy it. No refutation dealing with personality, no matter how true and minute, now means anything, it must be impersonal. The truth of what you established, in the meetings of 1927 and 1929, is the answer and the only answer that will meet this lie and destroy it. Publishing the report of those meetings came at exactly the moment to publicly meet the lie about person. You are, I know, awake to and are understandingly handling the law of relapse and so, as Mrs. Eddy discerned, “Will hold crime in check”. (S. & H. 97:1)

Now with regard to the second condition confronting the metaphysician.

It was in September 1922 that we began to hear of “excommunication,” and a little later the public was informed that I had been excommunicated from the Christian Science Church. But it was not any person that was excommunicated, no person is of any moment, it was metaphysics. The metaphysician knows that it is never a person that is involved, but that what appears as a person is always a state of consciousness, and so what the person is standing for is all that constitutes the person. Hence it was metaphysics that was excommunicated.

Seven years have passed since that time, and you know that seven is always a figure of speech representing completeness. During these seven years, a quiet readjustment has been taking place with the Christian Scientist in his understanding of Christian Science as Mind instead of as a religious belief. I do not mean by this that Christian Science ever has been a religious belief, but it has been, in a large measure, looked upon by the Christian Scientist as a religious belief, and, in consequence, so regarded by the world.

If you apply the term “religion” to Christian Science then instead of Christian Science being a religion or religious belief, it is religion itself, for the very term religion means man’s relation to God and this relation is as fixed as Principle and is no more subject to a belief about it than is mathematics. In this sense Christian Science is religious and religion, but never in the sense of a creed, doctrine or belief. Human opinion does not enter its realm.

Then, because Christian Science is not, and never has been, a religious belief, it was inevitable that this should finally appear, which it has done, with the greatest clarity, during the past seven years. Toda the metaphysician knows that Christian Science has nothing, whatever, to do with any religious belief, but has everything to do with Mind, for Christian Science is simply another name for Mind.

Have you ever asked yourself the question, how many people have I interested, or attempted to interested, in Christian Science during the past seven years? Perhaps, if you do this, you might be surprised to find that there had been almost a cessation of endeavor on your part, during this time, to interested anyone in Christian Science.

The reason for this cessation, if there has been one, is without doubt because you have felt that you could no longer attempt to present Christian Science as a religious belief, as you had done in the past under the aegis of church organization, and that you were not quite ready to present it in any other way. Hence the seven year period of readjustment.

Today, however, this is all changed, the seven years of quiet reconstruction is over, and a new seven years has begun. Without doubt, the second seven years we are now in, carrying to the year 1936, the computed time given as the final date of the fulfillment of all Biblical prophecy and also, given as the date of emergence into the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid, will be a period of tremendous activity on the part of the metaphysician. No longer thinking of Christian Science as a religious belief, but thinking of it in terms of pure Mind, you have no hesitancy or delicacy in presenting it to one and all as Mind.

Would you have the slightest question in presenting two times two as four to anyone? Would it not be the most natural thing in the world to correct spontaneously any mistake about two times two? Is it not equally natural and normal then for you, understanding Christian Science as Mind, to present Christian Science in this light to everyone? Why would there be any delicacy or hesitancy?

Under the old order of thinking of Christian Science as a religious belief, there was a natural delicacy about intruding one’s religious opinions on another, but with that sense of Christian Science entirely removed, there can no longer be any reluctance in presenting the allness of Mind.

As the metaphysician, you know that because you are dealing with Mind and Mind alone, that which appears to you as persons, places and things are not what they seem to be, something “over there”, but are simply the interpretation “here” that you are ascribing to your communion with Mind. It is not possible then, for you to remain satisfied with what appears as people “over there” continuing to be unacquainted with Christian Science. If you could be, you would not find yourself alone with Mind and, therefore, with perfection, which is the kingdom of heaven. Then do you not, for the moment at least, appear to have to bend your energies toward bringing to all the understanding of Christian Science as Mind? Unless you do this, will you be able to say that Mind is All-in-all? You know you will not. Does not this mean then, that you must begin to present understandingly, Christian Science as Mind, to all that appears to you, not obtrusively, but naturally and normally and in every way?

In this way will you truly find Mind as your Mind, and find Mind as All-in-all. There can be nothing external to Mind. All must be contained in Mind, hence, John’s statement, “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar.” All must be found as Mind and therefore, the presence of this Mind as omnipresent as the one Christian Scientist.

This is something you will enjoy carefully pondering and will doubtless seriously ask yourself, what am I doing to consciously establish the kingdom of God, Mind, on earth as it is in heaven? Or to give a little more punch to the question, as Mrs. Eddy puts it, “What will you do about it . . . . . will you doff your lavender-kid zeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? . . . . Answer at once and practically and answer aright.” (Misc. 177:14).

Very Sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

1930 Letters

Herbert Willoughby Eustace
1600 THE ALAMEDA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
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May. 20, 1933

Dear Mrs. —-:

Your letter of April the 28th was forwarded to me to Los Angeles, from which place we have just returned, after holding a class there, as we do each May and November.

I was very glad to receive your letter and to hear how quietly and faithfully you have been going forward with your understanding of Christian Science. It is always most interesting to see how a really straight thought keeps true to the line, regardless of circumstances or conditions. A mortal frequently thinks that things are by chance but they really never are. All things are simply what one is admitting as consciousness appearing to one, and therefore what appears as the environment or surrounding of one, is but the language in which that which he is accepting as Mind is appearing.

Because of your trueness to Principle, it opened up a freer and larger sense to you, in your receiving The Line of Light and Your Power and Dominion. God is always appearing in the language that each one can best understand, and one’s fidelity to God as All-in-all determines every instant how much of good there is before you.

I notice what you say about . . . . .’s books, and also . . . . .’s books. I am sure you have discovered before this, that everyone of these writers confuse the human mind and divine Mind, and each one of them carried to a logical conclusion would make man eventually God, and in consequence there would be no God, for without His man God would have nothing to be God to, and therefore He could not be God, any more than man could be man without being the man of something. In other words without being the man of God. Because of this fatal fallacy in all their writings none of their books can in the end prove anything but more or less harmful. A slight divergence from Truth is just as fatal as a slight divergence from two times two being four is fatal to any mathematical problem. As a keen metaphysician, I know you are awake to this, and do not propose to be deceived in any way. There is no likeness between truth and error, for one is actual isness or Truth, and the other is the reverse of it. All that you can say about error is, that it is the negation of Truth and when reversed is the very presence of Truth itself, but that is only when it is reversed. You know that.

Your appreciation of Mrs. Eddy is not dependent in any way upon your verbal declaration of that fact, or upon reading literature that is not true to Mrs. Eddy, and her metaphysical teaching, but it is dependent upon your understanding of your own oneness with God and therefore your dealing alone with Him as the one consciousness.

What acting as God means is to be the man of God, instead of being God, which would dethrone both God and man. Keep on thinking these points out and you will see them just as clearly as can be.

With regard to . . . . . remember that because God is All-in-all He is all that there is to . . . . . or anyone, never allow any other thought to be present with you.

After going to Seattle in June for a class, and holding one in August in San Jose, I shall leave the end of September to commence a class in New York, October the 4th, which will last for 12 days. During that time, if you are in New York, I shall be very glad to see you and have a good talk if you would like to do so, and of course it goes without saying, you are very welcome to be in any class that I hold.I wonder if you have ever met Miss . . . . ., 158 Madison Avenue, Toronto. She is a very earnest Scientist and, very clear in what she understands. I am sure she will be glad to see you if you are in Toronto any time.
I remember Peterboro many years ago, before going out to California in ’86. I was in Toronto for some time and used to go out to visit some friends in Peterboro. He was rector of the Episcopal church there. I have had no correspondence with them in all the years since then.

I shall be glad to hear from you any time you care to write.

With kindest remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

San Jose, California
May 26, 1933

Dear Mrs. W. —-:

Your letter of April 28th was forwarded to me to Los Angeles, from which place we have just returned, after holding a class there, as we do each May and November.

I was very glad to receive your letter and to hear how quietly and faithfully you have been going forward with your understanding of Christian Science. It is always most interesting to see how a really straight thought keeps true to the line, regardless of circumstances or conditions. A mortal frequently thinks that things are by chance but they really never are. All things are simply what one is admitting as consciousness appearing to one and therefore what appears as the environment or surrounding of one is but the language in which that which he is accepting as Mind is appearing.

I notice what you say about Lillian deWaters’ books, and also Walters’ books. I am sure you have discovered before this, that everyone of these writers confuse the human mind and divine Mind, and each one of them carried to a logical conclusion would make man eventually God, and in consequence there would be no God, for without His man, God would have nothing to be God to, and therefore He could not be God, any more than man could be man without being the man of something. In other words without being the man of God. Because of this fatal fallacy in all their writings none of these books can in the end prove anything but be more or less harmful. A slight divergence from Truth is just as fatal as a slight divergence from two times two being four is fatal to any mathematical problem. As a keen metaphysician, I know you are awake to this, and do not propose to be deceived in any way. There is no likeness between truth and error, for one is actual isness or Truth, and the other is the reverse of it. All that you can say about error is, that it is the negation of Truth and when reversed is the very presence of Truth itself, but that is only when it is reversed. You know that.

Your appreciation of Mrs. Eddy is not dependent in any way upon your verbal declaration of that fact, or upon reading literature that is not true to Mrs. Eddy, and her metaphysical teaching, but it is dependent upon your understanding of your oneness with God and therefore your dealing alone with Him as the one consciousness.

What acting as God means is to be the man of God, instead of being God, which would dethrone both God and man. Keep on thinking these points out and you will see them just as clearly as can be.

With regard to D—, remember that because God is All-in-all He is all that there is to D— or anyone; never allow any other thought to be present with you

I wonder if you have ever met Miss Viola E. Fleury, 158 Madison Avenue, Toronto? She is a very earnest Scientist and, very clear in what she understands. I am sure she will be glad to see you if you are in Toronto any time.

I remember Peterboro many years, before going to California in ’86. I was in Toronto for some time and used to go out to visit some friends in Peterboro. He was rector of the Episcopal church there. I have had no correspondence with them in all the years since then.

I shall be glad to hear from you at any time you care to write.
With kindest remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

(I have been requested to send out this copy of a letter written to a friend, as it was thought it might be of interest to you.)
1600 The Alameda,
San Jose, California,
November 29, 1935.

Dear . . . . . . . . :

For some time I have been wanting to write you to answer your question about what I think of World affairs at the present time and their ultimate outcome.

First may I say that I think that World affairs instead of, as so many think, being in a deplorable state, are really in the most hopeful state that has yet appeared. Of course, as a metaphysician you would know that it would have to be so, because progress is the law of being or as Mrs. Eddy says, “the law of God,” therefore every unfoldment must be a larger sense of good appearing no matter what the interpretation. It was because of this eternal truth that the Psalmist saw so clearly that if he went into hell behold infinite good was there also, there was no place and no condition into which he could be led where good was not All-in-all. That applies equally to this present unfoldment of World affairs.

Let us examine conditions and see just where we do stand. First of all, it should be frankly acknowledged that what is called The League of Nations is as essential for the welfare of European nations as is the league of States in America, called the United States of America, and which is maintained and governed by its League—its Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United States. The League of Nations is intended to be, and must finally be, to the nations of Europe what the Constitution is to the United States. It must regulate only the relationship of one nation to another and not interfere with the internal government of any nation. It is merely intended to protect each nation in its individual right to work out its own salvation in its own way and to prevent other nations from the slightest interference. Without the League of Nations how can the nations of Europe work amicably together while all the time in fear that one may be preparing to attack the other? The constant preparation for war is bound to cause fear of attack and wherever there is fear there is hatred and where there is hatred there is murder—the desire to destroy that which is causing the fear. But with that fear of interference removed is there any doubt that the nations of Europe would live in as friendly relationship with each other as do the different States of the Union in America? And does any thinking American doubt, for one moment, that were it not for the Constitution and its interpreter the Supreme Court that the States would quickly be raising barriers to protect their different interests in the form of tariffs, etc., which might lead sooner or later to serious quarrels?

It is the same human mind with its desires and selfishness, regardless of locality, and its baneful characteristics that are mastered only through severe discipline. America has attained her present position, because she has put herself through this discipline and has learned through numerous trials and tests that, as Massachusetts long ago declared, “a government of laws and not of men” is the only safe course to pursue, in order to secure happiness and freedom. Whenever there has been an attempt to substitute government by men for government by law there has been a mental revolution that has quickly overcome such an endeavor.

Eternal vigilance is, however, the only guarantee of safety. After one hundred and fifty years of progress and persistent holding to government by law and not by men, we are today confronted with public speeches and with other efforts of people, who have limited understanding of the real meaning of America, to promulgate the doctrine of “disciplined democracy”. By “disciplined democracy” they mean that democracy that is disciplined by a body of superfine, self-appointed guardians who think they know exactly the right course for Americans to pursue and would if they could, regulate the daily life and acts of each one. Fortunately the Constitution and the Supreme Court stand as a barrier against this domination, thus preventing revolution by violence.

To return to the League of Nations and World affairs. It is self-evident that until the last year the League has been in no position to test her power and authority. But today she is in that position—she is now confronted with the disagreements of two of her members. One determined to destroy the other regardless of most solemn agreements. Here is the League with its constitution confronted with the very purpose for which it was formed. What will she do about it? From all appearances, at this moment, it would look as though she were going to do, what in the end she will have to do if Europe is to survive, enforce her constitution and compel Italy to come out of Ethiopia and allow the League to settle the whole disturbance, exactly as the Supreme Court of America settles, under the Constitution, the difficulties that arise between the States.

If the League compels an amicable settlement what must the result be? The League will have learned and will have established its own power for righteousness. It will say to its members, “no more war; you can beat your swords into plowshares and your spears into pruning hooks, for from now on I am going to see that there is no more interfering between nations. Each must be allowed within its own boundaries to progress and develop with all its energy and ability. If Africa is to be developed I will open it for development under the authority given to me as the League of Nations and will protect the inhabitants from all selfish exploitation. All nations of the World will be welcome to participate in the development for the enrichment not only of themselves but for enriching and ennobling the inhabitants of the country developed.” It is absurd to assume that a so-called backward race is unwilling to be made richer and better in every way. What they all emphatically object to is being exploited and used as incubators to supply millions for what is rightly called “cannon fodder”.

If the League functions in the way the nations founding it intended it to function, then surely a bright day is dawning for Europe as well as for the whole world. It would usher in 1936 with a glory and assurance that has long been desired and should indicate the beginning of the entrance to the King’s Chamber in the Pyramid which, as you know, is calculated to take place during the latter part of 1936.

You might naturally ask, Why should the League operate in the case of two of its members, Italy and Ethiopia, when it did not operate with Japan and China? In the first place the two cases are not analogous although on the surface they seem to be so. One must not forget that the time is different, that the League while formed to protect its members from aggression had to grow to the point of unity where it could demand that for which it was established. It had to learn from experience and the bitter contempt of many of even its own peoples, because of its previous failure to do so, that it must function no matter how hard the task or else terminate in ignominy. It needed the experience of Japan and China to force it to perform its proper function or otherwise to die. It has been now given the opportunity right at home, not thousands of miles away, to prove its power or go out of business and it seems to be choosing to exercise its power.

To me there is another reason also why the League could not operate in the case of Japan and China and that is, that it was essential for the welfare of the World for Japan to do the very thing she has done and is continuing to do in establishing herself on the mainland of Asia. She has become a bulwark of protection to China from the machinations of Russia, which you must never forget, is the final menace to the World’s progress. Russia stands and always has stood as the Gog and Magog of the Scriptures, which was to come down from the North and threaten the civilization of mankind in the final conflict of Armageddon when the hosts of the godless are arrayed against the host of the godly. In other words when those who say there is no God are arrayed against those who acknowledge that there is God and that He is all that is; in other words All-in-all.

The final battle doubtless will not be seen as men fighting with material weapons but may appear as enlightenment fighting the dark weapons of destruction—destruction of all freedom of action through State control and the materialization of thought to the point of the utter despair of the heart’s cry, “Is there no God?” All this is coming under the guise of Communism and in perhaps a more subtle form as Fascism and Naziism undermining individual liberty.

Do you not think that Japan has been an instrument of God in preventing Russia from communizing the whole of China and spreading its virus to millions of others? Russia is afraid of Japan for she instinctively feels in Japan that Israelitish intent that goes forward fearlessly everywhere to bless mankind and not to harm it. Japan has shown this in her development of Manchukuo, where today progress is seen on every side and ten million Chinese are happy and satisfied, while across the border hundreds of thousands are starving to death and banditry is rampant through lack of intelligent government. In doing this Japan is showing how truly the old Samurai (the ruling class) are indeed a portion of the Israelites who became separated from their brethren in their journeyings to the Isles of the Seas in the West, the British Isles, and instead journeyed to the Isles of the Seas in the East, the Japanese Isles. In due time, after being nurtured and protected, like their fellow Israelites in the British Isles they became ready to perform their office as Israel; to stand with the sword of God, and to say to Russia and its Communism, “Stay where you are and fight out your own theories of godlessness with your own people and leaves all others alone.”
With Japan on the East ready for action at any moment, Russia does not dare to move on the West, and consequently held in check. If Japan were not on the mainland, undoubtedly Russia would have absorbed the whole of China and have endeavoured before this to move on to the West also. No thinking person can doubt this. The battle of Armageddon—the determination to destroy freedom and individuality is being fought on all sides. Without freedom and individuality no progress can be found. You cannot have one without the other.

The attacks in America on “rugged individualism”, attempts at “regimentation”, focusing of all power in “Federal bureaucracies” “government of men instead of law”, “government ownership”, etc., are vicious attempts to undermine and eventually destroy all that spiritual America, the America of the Pilgrim Fathers, in other words what Christian Science really means. The need to protect America against these attacks is always present, for the negation must run side by side with the positive truth of Being and unless reversed will not be found the presence of God.

This reversing of the negative appearing of Mind must be kept constantly before one for as Mrs. Eddy says in an early edition of the Science of Man, “Matter held as shadow is the idea of God, but matter held as substance is a belief and error,” in other words if matter, material sense, is seen as the negative interpretation of Mind and reversed as such, it will be found the very presence of God, but if matter, the negation, is thought of as something of itself, as substance, and is not reversed, then it is “belief and error” and holds within itself all that there is to evil. This reversing is imperative and keeps one happy and busy, because when reversed even the very worst evil takes on the pinions of light.

Seeing things from this standpoint, how can one be anything but happy and confident because of the “joy that is set before” one? The end of prophecy and the entering into the King’s Chamber in the Pyramid, with its open coffer, the breaking down of all limitations, is verily at hand but, remember, it is an individual unfoldment requiring the utmost consecration to the one Mind as All-in-all, and the fulfilling in one’s own experience what Mrs. Eddy writes—I again quote from the Science of Man, “Do not think to deceive yourselves by deceiving others, for Wisdom will call you into judgment for all you think and act, and the tribunal before which your true position is tried and proved, is the demonstration that you are able to give of healing the sick, after learning the principle upon which this is done, and the only one by which you can succeed to the most marvelous instances of cure.”

The World is unfolding rapidly into the fundamental truth, into the acknowledgment that “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.” You can afford to rejoice and be glad and actively watch the hand of God interpreting His own earth and heaven to you His own idea.

Very sincerely yours,
HERBERT W. EUSTACE.

Note: “Origin of Japan and the Japanese”, by Jenichiro Oyabe.

Herbert Willoughby Eustace
1600 THE ALAMEDA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
TELEPHONE BALLARD 518
____________________________
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE
SUITE 228 HOLBROOK BUILDING, THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS
TELEPHONE GARFIELD 8959
February 18th, 1936

Dear Mrs. . . . . —

Thank you for your letter of the 12th. I will gladly help you of course.

The one important thing is to see Mind as All-in-all and deal only with Mind and see Mind as all there is to all person place and thing. Then you have the whole question where you can handle it alone with God, or as Mrs. Eddy puts it you are alone with your own being and the reality of things.

It is as impossible for there to be a lack of anything as it is for two times two as four to run out and be something else. You know this. Stand on what you do know and reject the lie that there is a mind that can accept and project hypnotic suggestion. You know God is the one and only Mind and He sends forth His own likeness only, perfection.

That is very interesting about your friend the first reader. I am glad it (C.C.T.) appeals to him and I am sure as he makes it his own he will find in it what he has always known and it will make him use just that and his sense of power will be proportionate. I shall be interested to know how he gets along with the book.

Mrs. Eustace joins me in kindest remembrances. Yours,

Herbert W. Eustace

Dear Mrs. . . . . –

Thank you for your letter of the 20th. I am glad to help you about your tenant, and to know with you that God being All-in-all He must and does embrace within Himself all the apartment there is or can be. Apartment is the state of consciousness called that and the one consciousness being All the one consciousness is the one apartment and of course must therefore keep it filled.

You cannot conceive of two times two not being four and being everywhere, in other words filling all space. In the same way God fills all apartment and yours is already filled and there is no malicious mind to declare otherwise. You know this. Insist on what you know.

With regard to D— and discouragement that is just a phase of belief like any other phase. It is the wave of human belief that causes such beliefs. The belief that matter is something of itself instead of understanding that matter is the shadow of Mind and so find it the idea of God as Mrs. Eddy points out. This is most important to be clear about matter. To me the right understanding of matter is the real entrance to The King’s Chamber and Christian Scientists must be clear on this point. You are I am sure. As you ask I will help D— on seeing that he is alone with his own being and the reality of things and there works out everything.

Yours, Herbert W. Eustace

Dear Mrs. . . . ,

Mrs. Eustace and I have just returned from Los Angeles holding a class, hence the delay in answering your letters.

I think you are quite right to only interpret tenant in your apartments from your highest sense of stability and rightness. It is useless to interpret it in any other way, and I know you will understand this and do not propose to interpret it except in this way.

Keep your thought perfectly clear on this. When your Job comforters talk to you about not going to church and that sort of thing, being the cause of this and that, just start right out and tell them not to be superstitious geese. Do they think God knows anything about church, and do they think that Mrs. Eddy had any use for church? They need to arouse themselves to the fact that it is ignorant superstition that made them interpret God as appearing to them in the so-called ecclesiastical organization. That is only ignorance, not understanding.

I am glad you got the pamphlet containing the meeting I held in Berkeley. You need to think it out very carefully because Mrs. Eddy’s statement, “Matter held as shadow is the idea of God,” holds within its own understanding, the fact that you are now in the kingdom of heaven and dealing with heavenly things. Think it out carefully.

Yes, D— asked me for help, and I gave it to him. I am writing him today because I have not been able to reply to his letter until now. See God as all there is to D—, and you will find a very happy and contented D—.

With our united remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Herbert Willoughby Eustace
1600 THE ALAMEDA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
TELEPHONE BALLARD 518
_______________________________
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE
SUITE 228 HOLBROOK BUILDING, THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS
TELEPHONE GARFIELD 8959
December 1, 1936

Dear Mrs. . . . .,

Thank you for your letter of the 24th.

I am glad to know that you have your apartment rented. Never mind about “up to date” or anything else. Get the whole of being as Mind, and then you will see that everything is up to date. It cannot be otherwise, because Spirit transforms everything instantaneously and keeps it transformed.

Now, with regard to D—. I should drop all thought about his birth and everything else, and free myself from the illusion that he ever was born. How could there be such a thing as a five weeks premature birth, when birth is simply communion with Mind, and how could that ever be premature? You know it could not, then drop this whole idea, and let God be all that there is to D—, and stop thinking that you have to do his thinking for him.

You say, “I would appreciate a little more help for D— in finding his right place, and for this belief I have outlined to you.” If I did not do so before, I want to tell you now, Mrs. White, that if D— wants my help, he must ask for it himself, and must write himself, and must pay for it himself, and you must stop all playing proxy for him if you really wish D— to be the man of God. I know you do, but you have got to abandon all this nonsense of trying to think for him.

With kindest remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

You ask for your a/c it is 4.00

Dear D—,

Thank you for your letter just received enclosing a dollar bill on your account. I am so glad to know you are satisfactorily placed in Detroit. Detroit is a nice city
I am so glad to know you are satisfactorily placed in Detroit. Detroit is a nice city to be located in, and I am sure you will enjoy it there.

There is a very earnest Scientist, Miss Elsie Farr, who is now living in Detroit. She is holding a positioning the insurance office. I will add the address to this letter, and sometime you can stop in and see her, and tell her I told you to call. During the litigation and before it, she was the confidential secretary of the trustees, and was a very clear-thinking Scientist.

With kindest remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Miss Elsie Farr
266 East Hancock Str.

HERBERT W. EUSTACE
1600 THE ALAMEDA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
TELEPHONE BALLARD 518
_______________________________
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE
SUITE 228 HOLBROOK BUILDING, THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS
TELEPHONE GARFIELD 8959
May 14, 1938

Dear Mrs. W. . . .,

You understand what apartment is, and therefore you know perfectly well that the claim presenting itself to you is not one of apartment, but it is one of malicious mind operating hypnotically as a belief of that.

I am glad to hear about your son, and to know that everything is going on finely with your son. Marriage is onenesss with God, and if it appears as a two-legged man or woman walking hand in hand together, that is all right. But the deviltry of all human belief of marriage is this child business for which there is absolutely no excuse. The perpetuation of a lie is nothing but the devil, and no person is fit to marry is fit to do so who does not understand this. The belief of a beginning is the belief of death, and who in their sane mind can suppose for one instant that there is any justification or excuse for perpetuating death. You know this, and I am sure you have not been negligent in having D— understand it, too.

With kindest remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Snippets

The Real Entrance to the King’s Chamber

“. . . discouragement is just a phase of belief like any other phase. It is the wave of human belief that causes such beliefs. The belief that matter is something of itself instead of understanding that matter is the shadow of Mind and so find it the idea of God as Mrs. Eddy points out. This is most important to be clear about matter. To me the right understanding of matter is the real entrance to the King’s chamber and Christian Scientists must be clear on this point.” (Letter written Oct. 1936)

“Matter Held As Shadow Is The Idea Of God”
“Mrs. Eddy’s statement, “Matter held as shadow is the idea of God”, holds within its own understanding, the fact that you are now in the kingdom of heaven and dealing with heavenly things.”
(Letter written Nov. 1936)

A FRIEND PRINTED AND GAVE ME A NUMBER OF COPIES OF THIS LETTER I WROTE IN SEPTEMBER. I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE ONE.
HERBERT W. EUSTACE
1600 THE ALAMEDA
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

September 10th, 1939
Dear:—

Always remember there is a vast difference between your religious sense and spirituality. Religiousness is a form of good materiality, whereas spirituality rises above all material belief and is entirely apart from it. That was the difference so clearly seen by Jacob in his distinction between Manasseh and Ephraim, when he definitely pointed out that Ephraim, the younger, would be the greater.

Every Christian Scientist is learning, sometime from hard experience, that his religious sense cannot be trusted to lead him forward spiritually. Too often its tendency is to lead him into materiality, not away from it. It starts from effect not from cause. He also has found that true spirituality does not deal with persons, places or things, but with God alone.

Yes, you may have many times heard me say, that the “World War” of 1914 was the ending of that kind of warfare, so far as Israel was concerned, and therefore, there would be no more war of that nature in which Israel would be involved.

Israel was deeply involved in the war of 1914, for to Israel it meant the protection of the English language, and thus the protection of the clothing of the “young child” Science and Health. All the so-called powers of evil were bent on destroying that “clothing”, even as Herod of old was determined to destroy the body or clothing of the “young child”, the Christ idea as presented by Jesus.

When once the English language was protected and evil foiled in its attempted destruction of the “clothing” of Science and Health, that phase of attack was finished. Evil could do no more along that line so it proceeded to the next phase, the purely mental, where the Christian Scientist deals entirely and it has been operating there ever since. That warfare is waging grandly and evil is being seen for just what it is, the negation of good, and it is being reversed and translated back to its origin, God.

What does this all mean? Simply, that the Christian Scientist must not be deceived by appearances. What is now appearing as warring nations is the highest religious sense of good fighting its sense of evil—the attempt to completely dominate and eventually abolish all material freedom. But, of course, this is all in the realm of materiality, and has nothing to do with spirituality except as the negation of it. This war is the highest sense of good of the human mind conquering and destroying that mind’s sense of greed and control.

The Christian Scientist must rise above materiality, and must not be mesmerized into thinking that this war has anything to do with the former war. Evil would like to say it has—that it is an aftermath of that war, and that the work of that war was not properly finished. Watch that you are not deceived. Differentiate between Manasseh, your religious sense interpreted as England, and Ephraim, your spiritual sense interpreted as America. The temptation is to confuse the two and make one erroneously think that Manasseh and Ephraim are Israel. They are not.

Until my eyes were open I fell into this error. I suppose it was the Manasseh desire to make a larger sense of Israel. But Israel cannot be enlarged. Jesus was forced to that conclusion after trying to improve the religious sense, for he finally said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” and also, “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.” That which seems lost to material sense is spiritual sense. Israel is pure spirituality. It is that, alone which begins with “your consciously being” and never for one instant departs from the “plumb line.” It is your spiritual sense only that is Israel, the “Shiloh” of Mind. Religious sense and spiritual sense can only be found united as the religious sense is reversed by the spiritual sense and the human concept of good yields to Divine good.

It is perfectly true that, as Mrs. Eddy states, “God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies,” and so your Ephraim, the true spiritual idea, appears as supplying your Manasseh fighting for a better sense of human good, with all that Manasseh is able to interpret as enabling it to overcome its enemies. But you no longer interpret Ephraim as being involved in the actual so-called fighting for Ephraim’s battle is raging far above the human concept of good in the pure realm of Mind, and there it will continue.

Be sure that you are happy and contented to keep it there, and not to drop it to the level of human belief. No progress can be made with human belief.

Neutrality, like Jesus’ command to “agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him,” means agreeing with thine adversary by reversing the false material sense and replacing it with the true spiritual sense.

Neutrality means being every instant on the side of God as the only cause and never personalizing anything but finding God as All-in-all, the one alone from whom all activity proceeds. This is true neutrality and keeps you actively on the side of good until your religious sense yields to spirituality.

Manasseh, religious good, naturally leads all fighting for a better sense of human good. But Ephraim is fighting for the pure good of Spirit and is not deceived by malicious suggestion into forsaking its spiritual vision. It knows that only as the spiritual vision is maintained can the religious sense of good yield to the reality, in other words see “all these things added.” Religiousness finds it difficult to recognize that true spirituality is always right, and there is often a severe struggle not to turn to the human sense of good, as being better than your spiritual sense.

Manasseh is not always, at first, at peace with Ephraim and in accord with Ephraim’s ways. But eventually it has to acknowledge that spiritual sense is always superior to the highest human sense of good, and in being superior it helps that sense by drawing it to higher levels.

Keep clearly and continuously as your thought that, as Science and Health points out, “The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals,—separated by believe from man’s divine origin and the true idea,—will through much tribulation yield to the activities of the divine Principle of man in the harmony of Science.” The twelve tribes of Israel, including as they do, Dan; (who is defined in Science and Health as “Animal magnetism; so-called mortal mind controlling mortal mind; error, working out the designs of error; one belief preying upon another,)” operate as the mind of every mortal, and in the same way, the twelve disciples, including Judas, operate as the mind of every mortal.

In this realization there is no room for self-complacency. It is serious fact, and fact that must be met by each one and worked out by translating the erroneous interpretation back to its “divine origin,” and truly becoming “Stars in the crown of rejoicing. . . lamps in the spiritual heavens of the age,” as stated in Science and Health.

Thus you understand why, what you call England (Manasseh, religiousness) is today involved in its fight for a better sense of good, while America (Ephraim, spirituality) is going forward in its capacity of spiritual unfoldment, untouched by materiality.

All this is “here” not “there” and is going on individually. It operates as your thinking. Keep it as such and never forget, as Mrs. Eddy points out, “The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things” and Jesus’ statement in referring to John the Baptist’s teaching, “he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he,” in other words the least spiritual sense is greater than the highest human concept of good.

No comprehension of evil and its methods can be attained, unless the fact is clearly understood that evil has only one enemy and that enemy is Truth. Evil never hates a person, place or thing. Evil hates Truth for Truth is Being, Spirit, and evil, matter is Spirit’s opposite, in belief, hence the carnal mind’s enmity and perpetual warfare against Spirit and its hatred of all that pertains to spirituality. Evil does not hate a mortal who is its servant, but it does hate your “young child” true spirituality and to destroy that “child” is its only purpose. You know this.

Just a word further. It is interesting to remember what the Great pyramid graphically portrays in its upper passage way leading to the chamber or sanctuary above the King’s Chamber. It is most significant that the ceiling of this sanctuary is red granite (usually supposed to typify in stone the highest spiritual sense) beautifully polished whereas the floor is rough and jagged, indicating that it could not be occupied except by those who could rise above materiality, or as one early writer inspiringly expressed it, “attainable only by beings who can move upwards like the angels of God.”

As you know this small upper passage way commences at the top of the twenty-eight foot Grand Gallery with no possible material means of reaching it, and which according to Pyramid chronological measurements would give its date as beginning somewhere about the year 1876 to 1882. Is it not tremendously illuminating that 1875 was the year that Science and Health was given to the world, and is not Science and Health the “Upper passage way” leading to the “sanctuary” of Mind, attainable only by those who are willing to rise above matter and “move upward like the angels of God?”

It is this “upper passage way” Science and Health, that has enabled its follower to preserve the even tenor of his way, free and undisturbed amidst all the anguish of the worldly thought,—the anguish of following the lower passage way to the King’s Chamber—the Hall of the Judgment of the Nations.

As the Christian Scientist you dwell with Mind, the one cause. You do not deal with effect and consequently you do not and never will enter the King’s Chamber, for you are safe and fearless in the “sanctuary” above it all. The King’s Chamber, is emblematical of the religious thought struggling out of its bondage into a fuller sense of light. He who bases his being on the allness of Mind does not have to struggle through material belief to attain the goal of Spirit for he finds himself as already at the goal where he has always been as the activity of God.

—H. W. E.

Dear Mr. W—:

Your letter of the 11th. inclosing cheque and reply stamped envelope reached me a little while ago and I am answering it at once because you evidently are in a hurry for a line.

From what you write it would seem as if this was probably as good a time as any for going forward with what you have been planning for a number of years.

Your plan to offer to buy the rental part of the firm for a fifty percent of the commissions for the first year sounds all right and since you know they themselves have bought another farm’s rental business on that same basis it would seem as though that set a precedent for you on which to buy theirs. Anyway no harm can come from doing it that way and it will give you a good start on building your own business. Of course rental business is much a very personal matter and therefore has little real asset value.

You are wise to make ample plans for taking care of at least a year’s necessities. I should think it would be better for you to take the business out of their office to one of your own as you want to build up a regular real estate business of your own and if you do not take it away it will still be associated with their firm and therefore not really your own. Of course it adds to your expense but the freedom and completely having it as your own, wholly divorced from anyone else will make it worth while I should think.

I should approach Mr. Huston about it most naturally and frankly; say that you have always expected to go into business for yourself as you feel every young fellow with responsibilities should do and that you are sure he must feel the same way about it and go forward in talking to him from that basis and knowing as you do know that all you are ever dealing with is divine Mind. You do not have to do a lot of talking. Be natural and the less you say the better. State what you wish frankly and practically with as few words as possible and expect cooperation naturally.

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace
Over.

P. S.

Any right step always carries with it the way to carry out the step. That does not mean that you do not demonstrate every step of the road because as a metaphysician you will of course have to, but it does mean that as Science and Health says, “God is never absent from the wisdom He bestows”. In other words the way of Mind is clearly discernible by the one looking to Mind.

When once it is clear to you to take a step then take it with unbounded confidence and assurance having no fear whatever. You can succeed in every and any right endeavour. Deal with cause never effect.
H.W.E.

1940 Letters

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When once we realize that what actually appears as a claim of sickness or of some untoward circumstance or condition is really nothing of the kind, but instead is just an opportunity that divine Mind, which is always infinite Love, is giving us to prove our ones with Him as All-in-all, then every such opportunity will be seized upon eagerly as one not to be lightly passed up or let go of until every blessing has been gained from it that there is in it for us.

Remember this because it will then make life so interesting, and it was exactly this that Paul was meaning when he said he counted it all joy, etc. Be sure you do the same and hold the angel of God until the dawn breaks, as Jacob was wise enough to do, and make that angel tell you his name; and that name you know right now is that “Mind is All-in-all”. That is the name in which you triumph, for it is the destruction of all that is unlike good, ever appearing as matter and material belief.
H.W.E.

Dear Mrs. W—,

Thank you for yours of the 21st enclosing check for 3 copies of The Search. I have ordered these sent to you directly from the publishers in New York, as I didn’t have any copies on hand myself, but I am sure you will receive them promptly.

I think you were probably pretty wise to abandon the sewing and knitting, because as you say it does keep before you the thought of the war. However, the right sense of war is the eternal unfoldment of a larger sense of good, and that is what you want to think of war as. It is only destroying the finite sense and letting the infinite appear.

Keep your thought on what you understand Christian Science to be, and I wouldn’t mix it up with very much reading of people who are trying to explain what it all is. You know what to think, and that is more valuable than anything else.

I am glad to know you are presenting your sense of Christian Science to those you come in contact with, and always remember when anyone talks about leaving organization or church that what they really mean is that they are seeing church or organization in a larger way all the time. You can’t leave anything; you can only find the true sense of everything, and that true sense is the kingdom of heaven right there.

Let me know when you receive the books, so I will know you have them.

Mrs. Eustace joins me in kindest remembrances.

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Dear Mrs. – – –

Thank you for yours of the 29th.

I am only just back from being away for six weeks.

There is no reason why you should not be in touch with Mrs. C. in New York. You doubtless know she now lives at the Hotel Imperial. I hear from her quite frequently, for she is always ordering books. Why don’t you write her, and get in touch with her?

I am sorry I haven’t any copies of The Search, but if you send to the publishers, Dutton and Co., Publishers, New York City, they will send you them promptly; the price was $2.75.

No, I have not published any books since Whoso Readeth.

Stand firmly on what you understand yourself, starting your every thought from God, as nomenon and phenomenon of all being, never dealing with effect, always dealing with cause, and you will go steadily forward.

Mrs. Eustace joins me in kindest remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Dear Mrs. __,

Thank you for your letter of the 15th.

You have the only pressure there is. The pressure of God, and whether it appears as “high” or “low”, make not one bit of difference. That pressure has not a thing to do with the heart. The heart, like the pressure is governed absolutely and entirely by God, showing forth Him to the minutest detail.

You can hear only what God hears, and He hears His own heart beating perfectly, for hearing and knowing are one and the same thing. You do not live in your body. Your body is your servant, or as Science and Health says, “body is the restful servant of Mind”. Jesus took it through a closed door, then how much so-called material substance was there to that body of his? He had body as the substance of Spirit, in that it shows forth Spirit, and that same body is your body. If you begin in any way to be sorry for yourself, that is the first little touch of direction by malicious minds as the negative of direction by divine Mind. Now, interpret everything from the standpoint of God. Start your every thought from Him, and you will find you are then building on a foundation that can never be washed away.

With our united remembrances,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Herbert Willoughby Eustace
1600 THE ALAMEDA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
TELEPHONE BALLARD 518
June 24, 1944

Dear Mrs. –

Thank you for yours of the 16th. All that you say in it is so correct and true that you don’t need me to say anything more. Of course you are conscious of heart beating, for heart is the very beat of divine Life, it keeps pace with it every instant, and is God’s impartation of Himself to you, His own idea. Then rejoice that you are aware of all that God is, and have no fear of any kind. You are dealing every instant with God and He is interpreting Himself to you as perfect body every moment. You know this; have supreme confidence in what you know.

The copy of Clear, Correct Teaching that you asked for is being sent to you today. The price of the book is $4.00. Stick closely to what Whoso Readeth brings out about what is always the only claim, direction by malicious minds. You know this; then stand on what you know.

Some anonymous person has been sending me since last August from Washington, D.C., pamphlets issued by “Paul Revere”, Lock Box 1621, Washington, D.C. I have received 10 of them up to the present time since last August. They are written in a very earnest and kindly way. They are on church matters, and what they would like to see changed in Boston, etc. I don’t know who is sending them to me and I don’t want to know, for I would not be mixed up in them in the slightest, but it is evident that blind eyes are beginning to open and are desirous of seeing a larger sense of church as the man of God. In their fourth pamphlet they said that extra copies could be obtained for 10 cents a copy. You might enjoy reading them all. If so, all you have to do is to enclose a dollar and your address and ask them to send you the 10 pamphlets they have issued. You might find them interesting as a sign of the times. I don’t know that you would though, you might. It is an old story to you, of course; a tale that is told.

With kindest remembrances from us both,

Very sincerely yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

Herbert Willoughby Eustace
1600 THE ALAMEDA, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
TELEPHONE BALLARD 518
August 2nd. 1944.

Dear Mrs.—

Thank you for your letter of 21st. inclosing Express Order for eight dollars. I was very glad to answer your letters so there was no charge for that, so instead of returning the extra four dollars to you I sent you an additional copy of C.C.T. which will be useful in loaning to your friends, if you wish to do so.

I am glad you are finding WHOSO READETH helpful. You will find it more so as you more carefully think it all out for yourself and stick closely to what Mrs. Eddy has laid down as the basis of all successful work, the recognition that every claim is direction by malicious minds and not what it always seems to be, a person, a place or a thing, circumstance, condition or something. Handle it for what it really is and you will make progress. You destroy the false sense of malicious minds’ direction by the realization that God, the one Mind is all the director there is or can be. The one Mind embraces within itself all action and being and this must be realized.

Our united remembrances,
Yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

July 20, 1948

Dear Mr. and Mrs. _,

Thank you for your letter of the 16th.

God is and is ALL that is and so must guide every event of your career as Mrs. Eddy points out in UNITY OF GOOD. You do not have to adjust anything, you simply look to the beyond for the real and the real is instantly expressed and why, because good is and nothing else ever is or can be.

Never outline a single thing. You cannot know what is exactly the best for you or anyone but you can and do know that only good is for one and all, all the time and on that you stand casting out every suggestion of any presence or power apart from God.

Isn’t God All there is to every doctor or surgeon, then are you afraid of God? Afraid that He might give a decision contrary to what you propose. He will not if you propose only good and that which is wholly spiritual no matter what form it takes or seems to take.

If a Christian Scientist can not stand up to any test or anything else any one wishes or is authorized so-called to make, he needs to get more Christian Science, especially to see that he never deals with any one but God. You know this and so are free and fearless.

Best to you both,
Yours,
Herbert W. Eustace.

August 25th, 1948

Dear Mrs. Loftus:

Your package of copies of Analysis of “C.C.T” by Joseph E. Johnston has just arrived and I want to write you at once and thank you so much for them and for the perfect way in which you have done them. I appreciate it very much and because it is on C.C.T. I want you to please accept a copy from me of “C.C.T.” which I am mailing you under separate cover.

This analysis is right to the point and I think can be made very useful to one taking an interest in the book C.C.T. and getting down to business to make it their own. So few people know how to study and C.C.T. is no special use unless it is carefully thought out step by step by its reader. It is merely a school room as it were and its only purpose is to remind its reader of what he has learned in SCIENCE AND HEALTH, to such an extent that he will use it practically. The text-book SCIENCE AND HEALTH is the stater of the divine Principle of Christian Science; “C.C.T.” is to thrash over and argue out the statements of the text-book until it becomes the students very own through its own understanding.

Now you have gone through this letter very carefully and you have a copy of it I am sure. Will you please write me frankly where you see it could be made plainer or simplified in any way or added to. It should be so plain as the Biblical saying is that the wayfaring man though a fool cannot err therein. Do not be a bit afraid to speak frankly out I shall appreciate your doing so immensely.

Thank you also for the two copies of that letter attributed to Mrs. Eddy. You will get great benefit from committing it to memory. Try doing so. It is excellent.

Mrs. C—just got out another edition of her Primer. It is now in the Congressional Record as you will see.

Our united remembrance to you both.

Yours,
Herbert W. Eustace

A LETTER WRITTEN TO M.B.

Thank you for your note of the 24th.

Regarding your question. Fear is simply hypnotic suggestion. It isn’t your fear, or for that matter, anybody’s fear. It is the negation of the confidence that is divine Mind, and of course the negative of divine Mind is fear. Consequently in getting rid of fear, we translate malicious mind, the negation of divine Mind, back to its origin, divine Mind; then fear becomes absolute confidence.

Food is not something that you eat. That is only the mesmerism that says that. Food is the assimilation of truth. That is why Jesus said, “I have meat to eat that you know not of. My meat is to do the will of the Father who sent me.” Your meat is to do exactly the same thing, and you assimilate that food perfectly and you cannot be afraid of that which is of God. And you wouldn’t know one atom of food, unless it were God with you because that is all that brings it as consciousness to you. Now, you know this, so don’t let malicious argument fool you in the slightest and make you deal with things.

Herbert W. Eustace

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