New York, N. Y.
7 September, 1955

Dear . . . .

You are away overdue for a letter.  Mrs. . . . . said I would write you, about this great unfolding of the “cct.” to its fullness as spiritual conception only never material, with HWE; and in reference specially to this James C. Cassell, who had a brief association with Mr. Eustace from March to April 26th, when HWE stopped it and disowned any further association or responsibility for Cassell.

In March this year God began a mighty moving of the “cct.” With HWE., to its final fullness as conception spiritual not material, the immaculate conception the only conception in the “understanding and demonstration of divine Truth, Life, and Love” (Man)  A brief background will make clear where we are in the “cct.” for this marvelous unfoldment and demonstration HWE this spring was called upon to give, only because of course of his constant full “fidelity to Truth” and Love.  My delay in writing has been due to 3 things, partly the extraordinary hot weather leading to our staying mostly at our country place and so much there to be done; but chiefly, to wanting to send you some material in writing on this mighty moving in the “cct.”, and not having quite the material yet to send.  This still must wait, but I must delay no longer a word on it, and other material I will send you later on.  No harm has come in the delay, for what is unfolding will continue to unfold fully to be seen, for quite a spell.

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Brief background WHOSO READETH you recall was published Sept. 1939, just before start of World War II.  It gives the full final analysis, the full public discussion, of malicious animal magnetism Mrs. Eddy prophesied in the August 1890 Journal would appear in about half century.  That seemed to make the full “cct.” unraveling complete, the “cct.” CLASS DRILL five years before having laid the full base for what had gone before but above all for WHOSO.  Completion with the infinite to finite sense is indeed a very big thing.  Eight years after WHOSO HWE was to give us A LETTER, 1947, an absolutely correct Founding statement, of both Principle and Practice, profoundly short but the one correct Founding statement made thus far.  When this Letter is grasped, those trying to come out as it were of belief in Christian Science as ecclesiastical organization, material organization, will so turn from the old, there will be only the new bottles for the new wine, and they will find their wings Spiritward soaring as the eagle’s.

The next addition to our “cct.” books is that following year, 1948 September, THE EVIL AND ABSURDITY OF THINKING MAN IS GOD OR EVER COULD BECOME GOD.  This comes on the 9th year of WHOSO, 6 years before THE THREE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS, in which this man trying to be God lie is so marvelously dealt with, and 7 years before this marvelous demonstration this spring by HWE proving man is not God, a perfect completion in time (see Mess. 1900), of the “cct.” “Evil and Absurdity” 1948 Letter.  I could go into these years from 1948 right to this spring in its straight line of unfolding light, but here will touch only its last two.

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You know the four Meetings including ours here Dec. 7th, ’52 all so wondrously impersonally put as THE FALSE PROPHET, a veritable 50 year outpouring of the Spirit from HWE’s work (his 1st Class April 1903).  We soon were to find this outpouring was to bring all the “cct.” books into its final ONE COMPLETE.  That certainly in April 1953 as it appeared, appeared to be so very very complete.  But only to mortal finite sense.  In rapid order within its 1st year, HWE gave us the 3 pamphlets:  CHRON. DATA, showing the full impersonality of all in and as of the O.V. “C.C.T.” COMPLETE; CONSECRATION; then THE THREE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS, the last out by April, 1954.  You recall but you will want to most carefully reread and study these articles, how fully HWE., 1st in CONSECRATION, then above all in THE THREE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS, goes into man trying to be but not being God.

We are shown that evil’s main final broadest channel, the now exact negation of final realization of, in, and as the “C.C.T.”, is man trying to be God, that this lie is the lie in the broadest now to handle and destroy, evil’s now negation trying to stand between man and his now final realization of the “clear, correct teaching of Christian Science” as divine Science, the only knowing and healing there is.  You recall THE THREE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS WAS NO SOONER ISSUED, than HWE added its now (yellow buff ed.) pages 4-5.  Here we get so fully uncovered and laid out,that the key to handling evil trying to operate as man being God, effect thus taking over Cause as man and the universe, is the fact that man’s mind is not man, but mind is ever mind and man is ever man.

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Just reread all this to the full, it will be so clear.  What I send later adds to it wonderfully but not to your now clarity on it.  God called on HWE personally to demonstrate this now last great fundamental right now at the heart of destroying evil, malicious mind.  Jesus had to give his demonstration to bring to final fullness, There is no matter, no material sense, no death, God is Life the Father.  Mrs. Eddy had to give her demonstration, There is no malicious Animal magnetism, no malicious mental malpractice, no malicious mind, God is Love divine the Mother.  You know how wondrously in the latter part of THE FALSE PROPHET HWE describes those two marvellous demonstrations, that their Revelation, teaching, and life-light in sacrifice, would go on to its fullness, not be lost in the lethargy and earthward drift of mortals.  That the Light of the personal and then impersonally seen Christ or spiritual idea, with the mortal would as Isaiah says “go through, go through the gates”, of understanding.

In Feb. this year Mrs. Johnston because of her editorial work decided she must be in California in March, both S.F. and L.A., and I could confer with HWE on my Founding work, as well as herself having some real Mind chats.  We arrived in L.A. March 19th just as this great moving on the “cct.” began with HWE.  He saw us daily for a full week, but confined his seeing to us, and it proved to be so divinely appointed to be there, most important too in respect to this Founding work.  Mr. Eustace’s experience-demonstration came to its climax April 26th.  I having left L.A. the 12th; and then in June I returned for nearly two weeks of full day sessions with him.  I returned to explore to the full some of the points on conception spiritual only; but the visit was most timely

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in seeing fully the negative statement that went with his great positive moving, the divinely perfect example it gave of “man trying to be God.”

“Offenses must come, but woe unto him by whom they come”.  Jesus had to have his negative statement as Judas.  Cassell played the negative role here, but of course it couldn’t touch Mr. Eustace, only to show us more fully conception is spiritual, there is no mortal man, thus no such man that is or can be God.  On the P.M. of April 26th, Cassell led a plot, sending police officers out with a warrant to arrest HWE, have him legally committed to a psychopathic ward, legally to be declared “insane” in some degree of mental unbalance.  Even as evil thus moved, simultaneously though all unknown to HWE, God moved him to a special declaration of his absolutely full sanity, legally recorded before the very same Court expected to commit him to legal insanity.  You have never seen a more marvellous example of God’s hand moving simultaneously to handle the mortal’s negative, as His negative statement more fully to declare His one great ever Positive, positive moving!  The hyena in heaven-there is the hyena of course and it must be the only one there is, the one of God in heaven-laughed a sound splitting the diabolical ear-drum of the mortal plotters of malicious mind!  Remember always, the negative statement but declares and enforces to awakening mortal sense what God is not unfolding, moving, declaring.

Wondrous things at once then unfolded for HWE, in his larger freedom, more impersonal position with those of the “cct.” and in relation to the ONE VOLUME “C.C.T.” COMPLETE.  In this ex-

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perience a Dr. said to HWE, “you’ll be dead in three hours.”  That Dr. while I was there in June had to face HWE on the Street, “accidentally” passing, and forced to stop to look at the man who would not live three hours!  This letter would be far too long, were I to go into many of the wonders of this great moving of the “cct.” to full spiritual conception only, the handling of man is not God in seeing man’s mind is not man!

This is enough however to show you Cassell is no friend or defender of the “cct.”, let alone of the ONE VOLUME “C.C.T.” COMPLETE.  You note this letter to you slyly suggests his close relation to HWE and to the O.V.—how I place it etc. in the libraries, how in that to protect it from evil!  This liar, thief, and attempted mental assassinator of HWE!  But keep this negative statement as Cassell and all he did related solely to Truth, its necessary negative statement to drive home the one Positive, his role the “offenses must come”.  His is but a belief devoid of the slightest understanding of Christian Science, its every fundamental as the “cct.” foreign to his slightest sense.  His is a sly slippery pamby thought, and I note he seems to especially work on “women”, as in the way he wrote you.  I have letters of the same sort to others, and he even tried that on Mrs. Johnston.

Whereas the moving, the “demonstration” was to show man is not God by knowing his mind is not man, how more can you negatively state this, than to try to say HWE’s mind is insane, and that mind is HWE!  But that position violates any fundamental you can name of the “cct”.  As evil has no embodiment, is never person, place or thing.  See Mess. ’01, 12-13, a statement Mrs. Eddy puts

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in the 1st Edition of SCIENCE AND HEALTH, page 22.  What about a 3rd?   God and His idea or man, and then an insane man, a mortal of any kind for that matter?  And on and on, this whole lie Cassell so stood and stands for!

I am sending this copy on to HWE mentioning your April letter sending him money in thanks for the pamphlets.  From the accounting of Cassell’s I saw, I am sure there was no crediting of any monies received by Cassell for HWE, but it will all be established.

This is longer than I hoped, and doubtless shorter than in some things you would like; but enough for you to dig, more than ever, for the light is rising as never before, ours in the “cct.” to reflect.  All this of course had to precede the full Founding Facts’ statement, which in time will come.  Spiritual conception and sense alone will fully fathom it.  In our one wholly spiritual “cct.” “indissoluble bond” (Mis. 77), I am

Sincerely,

Joseph E. Johnston

P.S.  This cannot be mailed until I get in town tonight for your address, so with this space, I shall add a bit you will want to know if not already.  When you have a moment I shall be glad to hear what you had previously heard if anything of this great spiritual moving with HWE, and also if Cassell has written you further, or if you know of others he is trying to “siddle up” to.

You know how wonderfully God directed Mr. and Mrs. HWE. in San Jose over the end of ’50 into ’51 though it had been their old manse-home for a half century, to throw out all that “matter”, and go to L.A. for their simple living at the Gaylord.  It was all so perfect for Mrs. Eustace’s good-bye to mortal sense in November 1951.  That led immediately (see CHRON. DATA) to HWE’s starting toward the ONE VOLUME (Dec. 17, ’51).  His small but lovely Apt. was perfect for this work, and for its necessary preliminary, the four Meetings as THE FALSE PROPHET.  It was perfect for the year more for the THREE PAMPHLETS.  With the year leading to their demonstration by HWE, this lovely spot ended its use for Mind, for it was cramped, and so bound up with Mrs. Eustace in what was to become the full finishing of the “C.C.T.” COMPLETE, the negation for present realization fully faced and established for destruction in now practice.  If you go through THE FALSE PROPHET, you will see a never before how all practice, all healing is seen beyond the “clear, correct” letter at the point only of Spirit, and there only at the point as realization.  Nothing new here, see “CCT” Class Drill 206; but Oh how driven home!  What blocks realization now, then had to be the last great point, battle, understanding,-and that is the insanity, the pure idiocy, as evil’s

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claim of man being and trying to be God.  That is the awful negative role of “offense” Cassell and those with him had to play.

Almost at once in the meeting of this attempted legal mental assassination HWE was led to the most beautiful lovely cute little cottage on a winding Lane everywhere full of flowers, with his one fine yard where he can and does work hours every day, flowers to his heart’s content.  His simple little cottage is perfect in its furnishings, and he has a fine Christian woman to care for it, an honest sincere woman of character.  No longer is HWE cooped up in a small apartment, though that too was perfect when God used him to complete the ONE VOLUME with its “trimmings”.  This home is God’s reward of His especial love to him for all that fidelity, through all this century, through all this strenuous stirring year!  I wish you and Mrs. J. and Mrs. . . . all could have seen this home, as I spent day after day with HWE there the last half of June (to get to the full on spiritual conception).

It is fine HWE has no Scientist directly around him.  Being too close to HWE as Science, is a little akin to “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”.  The Mind-level is over their heads, at a point well beyond, yet being a Scientist and the mortal always tempted with conceit and unconsciously tempted trying to be God, the temptation is strong to meddle with some supposed “knowing” and “treating”, but only confusion in the ignorance.  Mrs. Eddy had to tell those around her what to work on, how to work on it, and usually to mentally let her alone.  Though I was with HWE through the 1st main phase of his great moving, I saw so clearly God was moving on spiritual conception, I was not tempted to mentally

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“butt in”, and God after our great meetings on the Founding Facts’ work, kept me strictly out of it, though I let HWE fully know I was ready at all times for any service.

HWE said to me, One big reason he saw (amongst imp. ones) for a big move was, that he was getting too far ahead of those around him and in general, that the further he moved (witness THE FALSE PROPHET and the 3 pamphlets above all the final one!), the more the fear and leaning on him.  All this has been a marvelous feast set before us for our learning, of Mind!

J.E.J.

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