INTRODUCTION

I feel it a great honour to be the bearer of this message to the world; but I do not claim any special privilege, nor do I claim any
spiritual quality that makes me any different from my fellow men.

For many years I have been an earnest worker and a student of the Inner Teachings, healing the sick and teaching what I
knew of the truth all over the world, and I have met with a very large measure of success. For this I alone was not wholly
responsible—as I now know—having been spiritually helped and guided throughout all these years of probation.

It was not until one night when a mysterious Visitor appeared to me that I knew what my real mission was. He spoke these
words: “I have been with you a long time but you knew it not. But now the time has come for me to make myself known to
you. I will guide you to the Himalayas in Tibet, where you shall receive instructions for your real mission. Many are called but
few are chosen; are you prepared to leave all and follow me? Fear not, for the world will rejoice—the Message you will bear
will take away the confusion from the minds of the people; and those who will hear you are my people. I will be by your side
and your strength shall not fail, for whom God has chosen He shall sustain.” Then he took his departure as silently as he had
come.

From that time on I was directed step by step to the great Himalayas in Tibet; and there in the hidden recesses of the
majestic snow-clad mountains, where the atmosphere is so clear and the vibrations so pure that heaven opens on to the earth,
in that glorious state where heaven and earth are as one, I was instructed what to do and where to go. During my sojourn
there I witnessed spiritual manifestations so wonderful that words utterly fail to describe them. Later I will present to the
world, in book form,* details of these happenings—what I saw and heard, also my travels and experiences, with pictures of the
way to the most inaccessible parts of the Great Tibetan Himalayas.
I shall also reveal the joys and ecstasy of meeting daily with the Masters, whose love, sympathy and simplicity is the secret
of their Mighty Power. For Love is God and God is Love. “For He so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son
that they who harken unto Him will find eternal immortality.” When the Soul is ready the Master appears, and those who are
ready will hear and know the Master’s voice proclaiming all nations one nation, all peoples one people, all life one life; one
Tree with many branches, but the same Life in all: One in all and all in One.

I, myself, make no claim; I am just a voice in the wilderness calling to the sons and daughters of God to harken unto the
Truth. For this I was told I was born.

Love and Peace be with you.
M. MACDONALD-BAYNE.
The Masters course
on the higher power you can use.
By MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE,  M.C., Ph.D., D.D.
The Masters’ Course
on
The Higher Power You Can Use
by
MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE,  M.C., Ph.D., D.D.

LESSON 1

This Course is written for the express purpose of leading you along the path of the Masters; freeing you from limitation and
imitation in the world of forms, creeds, dogmas, ideas, theories, concepts, etc., that limit and confuse the mind, thereby
distorting the Truth. You cannot discern or understand unless the mind is free and unlimited, for it is the Natural Intelligence
that opens the way to the understanding of life. You cannot perceive the Truth because it is beyond your perception; what you
perceive is only in your imagination, an idea, a sensation, an image; whereas Truth is none of these. But through the super-
technique, as explained in this Course, there comes a supreme understanding. Then there is no more rushing here and there;
there is no anxiety in case you cannot find the way; there is no more strife, striving to be something that you imagine you
should be to ensure eternal life and all that goes with it; no more trying to force your mind to comprehend something that it
cannot comprehend because it is beyond mind. You cannot search out something that is ever present: that is like trying to find
yourself beside yourself; it is like running after your own shadow. The Inner Teachings of the Master Christ will be revealed:
“I am the Way, the Truth and the Light.”

The Power of the Truth can only be established when we free our minds from all concepts and, preconceived ideas. The Truth
will then set us free, and, although we live in the world of phenomena and shadows, we are not bound by it. “I am not of this
world,” the Master said.

Ideas conceived in the Divine Mind come forth into expression in Form, and Form may be transformed through a change of
consciousness in regard to it. This is the Law revealed by the Master.

The “I am” is the door through which the Consciousness, Intelligence and Substance of the Great “I AM,” which is God,
comes forth into expression in Form through the individual. This “I AM” Being is Consciousness, Intelligence and
Substance, and is given form through Consciousness. Consciousness is the Father, Intelligence is the Mother, and the
Substance is the vehicle of expression, and the Divine expression is the Child—the Three in One. Consciousness is the Will
which makes the mould and the Life Intelligence and Substance fill the mould. Consciousness directs, Intelligence fulfils the
direction in the Substance, and Form comes forth; the Divine Perfect Image is expressed without effort. The Master said:
“According to your faith so be it unto you.” This faith is in the Consciousness, in the Perfect Divine Image; fully comprehend
this and you will know the Christ Power. All things are possible to them that
believe. You must grasp this fundamental principle, then these lessons will give you the understanding and use of the Christ
Power, or the Power of the Masters.

You must separate yourself from all your external faculties, from your mind, from your body, because they are but instruments
that you use. The Consciousness must analyse everything external to itself. When you say “I am,” realize that it is the Real.
The “I am” enables you to move, think, act; and you are using your instruments as a means of expression.

The Substance of the Great “I AM” is the perfect Substance out of which all things are made, brought forth by
Consciousness and Intelligence in the Substance. This perfect Substance is the foundation of and supports all forms. In the
Consciousness the Divine Idea exists; the Intelligence completes the Idea in detail, and the Idea is expressed in the Substance
in all planes of manifestation, including the spiritual, mental, astral and physical planes, each being but a modification of the
one above it. Substance having no power of its own, changes, fulfilling the expression of the Intelligence directed by the
Consciousness. God is all there is—Consciousness, Intelligence and Substance. God is expressing Himself through the
particular centre of Consciousness that you are. Everything is given form by consciousness—your consciousness is the
Consciousness of God. It is the realization of this that enables you to say “I and the Father are one.”

Perfection is Reality: imperfection is not real. Reality always exists, and always has existed; please recognize this truth. Gaze
upon it, and bring it forth. As your Divine Consciousness brings forth form in Substance so is the Intelligence within the
Substance. There is only one God, and God is not divisible. There is one basic Substance and that Substance is indivisible.
All things are created out of the Perfect Substance; therefore this Substance underlies all things.

I want you to grasp this Truth: all is Spirit. Out of Him Who is Spirit all things have been made. Spirit in its essence is
perfect; the substance out of which your bodies and everything has been created is a perfect Substance, with perfect
Intelligence. This Intelligence acts automatically and has the power of expression. The Consciousness is in this Great
Intelligence and is the Will which causes Form to come forth. Consciousness, Intelligence, Substance are three in one; and
out of the Three in One all things are created. Life is the combined action of Consciousness and Intelligence in Substance,
and its motion is Love.

You may ask how does all the imperfection come about. Well, this Consciousness, this Intelligence, this Substance—Divine
Mind—is that out of which all things have been created. All things are Mind; everything you see, however large or small, has
come from the one Source. There is no other source it could come from.

The basic Substance in its essence is perfect and is the only reality of substance. This is the secret, and the Masters grasp the
truth in its entirety. They act from Life; their words are Life, because they touch the Life that creates everything. Form of itself
has no power of its own, neither does it claim any power of its own.

In the Infinite Consciousness of God is held the Perfect Image, therefore the Perfect Image is always in existence. The “I
AM”  in you is the point through which you contact this
Divine Consciousness, and this Consciousness becomes, as it were, apparently an individual consciousness to each and
every one, but it is not a separate consciousness.

When you think separation, and have accepted it, then you have separated yourself mentally from the one great Infinite
Consciousness, but it is a false conception. The great Master said: “I and the Father are One.” He not only said it, He knew
it; it was not a platitude; to Him it was an actual reality. When you recognize this mighty truth, the realization of it gives you
control, and everything obeys you. The elements respond to your call, and form according to the image held with this
understanding. When this state of consciousness is held, the idea or image held in the consciousness is produced by the
Intelligence, and the work is done without effort, the Intelligence always fulfilling the direction of the Consciousness. We
make a success of our life when we know this law and apply it with faith. We make a failure of our life when we do not know
this law and let in fear and doubt which cause a vacillating action of the Intelligence—the Mother. But when in Divine
meditation with a faithful consciousness, this Mother—Intelligence—does the work perfectly and changes the whole nature
automatically.

Why is it possible for one person to do what another person cannot do? Because the one realizes and recognizes it possible
and the other does not. When you realize that there is only one Consciousness, one Intelligence, one Substance (God
Infinite), and that you are an expression of God Infinite, you can say: “I and the Father are one”—in body, in mind, in spirit.
But when you accept separation, you usurp the authority of the great “I AM”—God. When you usurp that authority you
begin thinking imperfectly, and, by that same “I AM” within you, you bring forth that which is not perfect. How is it possible
to bring forth that which is perfect? Allow God, with His Perfect Intelligence, to work through you. The simplicity of it is so
great that it over-whelms us. Aspiration is the method you must use to begin with, then you become filled with Divine Love,
Wisdom and Power which act together in perfect harmony, and growth becomes as natural as that of the flowers.

In cases of healing, different people require different methods. One requires mud, one requires water, and another only the
spoken word, according to their unfoldment. I have healed people without saying a single word to them. I have affirmed all is
Spirit. “God is perfect, therefore allow God who is perfect to be made manifest now”—and the person has become perfectly
well. The perfect expression of God within dispersed that which was false. The Real always exists. The false is only a
concept, an idea, while the Truth is none of these. It is and that which is, is perfect.

Christ knew the secret of healing intensely; also He knew that if two agree upon the same thing, so it is unto them that
believe. That is why He asked: “Do you believe?” Yes, well
according to your belief so shall it be unto you. Why? Because the Consciousness, Intelligence and Substance of God is
perfect and is your foundation. When you recognize this truth you dismiss everything else; all negative thoughts, all inferior
and imperfect conditions are lies and have no existence in Reality.

God is immovable, unlimited, unchangeable. The “I AM” within you never changes, it is always the same, but the external
form changes because it is relative. Yet the Substance which; is the basis of the form is a Perfect Substance. Relative things
are not realities. Therefore I want you to recognize that Reality exists everywhere, and is the basis and the essence of
everything. If the external form seems to you imperfect, the Substance and basis of it all is perfect. You have heard of miracles,
yet they are nothing more than the perfect action of a Perfect Law that exists eternally and is omnipresent: present
everywhere always.

To realize that the Perfect is, enables it to manifest. Allow the “God Intelligence” to manifest through your mind, through
your body, through your affairs. That does not mean that you are not to do anything; it means that you begin to think and act
with God until such time as your thoughts and works become God’s, until such time as you do not utter a word that is not of
God. Remain silent under all circumstances unless you can give Divine counsel is the ruling of the Masters.

By your own consciousness, by your spoken word, you have created form. And you speak words so lightly! You allow your
imagination to run rampant, you create with your own consciousness forms that are imperfect. Realize that there is a perfect
consciousness within you and a perfect substance in use. It does not require to be made perfect; the Perfect cannot be made
more Perfect. “Then be ye perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” What you “gaze” upon, you bring forth. When you
realize your oneness with the Father you are one with Him, unlimited and free, and there is no power external to yourself
greater than the Power within you.

Spiritualize your mind and body with this Supreme Consciousness, allow it to permeate your mind and body as it was with
the Master Jesus. Many people wonder why His physical body disappeared—His Body was raised to such a rate of vibration
that when the Consciousness holding it together left it, the atoms were not attracted by the vibrations of the earth, but were
absorbed into a higher state; they did not belong to the earth because He raised them beyond the vibration of the earth. The
same law applied to Moses and Elijah. The same law exists today. God the Manifestor and His Manifestation are one,
always have been and always will be. It is of this you must be conscious.

If you take a piece of earth substance up into the atmosphere and drop it, it will fall to the ground. It falls to the ground
because here you have a small piece of “matter” that is vibrating
at the same rate of vibration as a larger piece of: “matter” which is attracting it. They fly together because of the law of
attraction. The inherent attraction is the vibration in the material, and that attraction is in the ether. Vibration is energy, and
it is this energy or vibration that attracts. According to the rate of vibration, so is the attraction. When you have raised the
vibration of a piece of matter to the vibration of its atomic rate, it would pass into atmosphere because of this law of
attraction. The invisible Substance is the Perfect Substance out of which all is created. Christ raised His body to that rate.
Hence Christ’s body is our body, His Spirit our spirit, and His Life our life: which is all God’s—all in all. Christ manifested
His God Power as we can do if we believe as He did.

This is the law—this is how the body of the Master disappeared; and when He met His disciples afterwards, He did not meet
them in the physical garment but in the resurrection body. He passed through the doors and appeared to them. As He raised
His physical body to its atomic state, so He could attract by the power of His will atoms of ether, reduce the vibration, and
the physical appeared. Matter is ether modified.

There is soon coming a period when certain laws will be in operation which will supersede the existing laws. Although these
laws have always existed, man has not raised his consciousness sufficiently to contact them.

When Christ went up the Mount, Moses and Elijah visited Him and told Him what was forthcoming. Similar things happen
today, and during my visit to the Himalayas I spoke to many of the Great Intelligences, because there the opportunities and
facilities exist. Even in the West I have had wonderful experiences.

Since my sojourn with the Masters of the East I am convinced more than ever of the truth of Christ’s teachings. But how few
can read them with understanding, even those who profess Him.

There is the invisible influence with you always, directing you. You will find that you will get a better understanding by
trusting it. The world may be affected by wars, storms and earthquakes, but that is not to say it will not end in good. Some
people say that civilization shall be destroyed. That is not so. A civilization shall arise and the Truth will be made known to
mankind. The physical form of many may be destroyed, but not the consciousness, nor the substance, nor the resurrection
body, for they will be intact. This is what the Master showed. The “you”—the real You—is the eternal Reality, the
Manifestor in the Manifestation.

Just as the resurrection body was visible to the disciples, so shall the resurrection body be visible to the forthcoming
civilization. And the so-called dead, who are living, will mingle with the so-called living, who are dead. Why are they dead?
They are dead to the truth that life exists eternally, that consciousness exists forever—they are dead to themselves. But it is a
false concept, and has no foundation in truth. “I am the Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I am the Father of the Living,
not the Dead.” Jesus made this so plain to His disciples; and it is the same today as it was yesterday, and will be the same
tomorrow.

As the evolutionary process of the great human family progresses, so the various senses that are at present dormant will come
to life. When this body is more spiritualized the “I AM,” which is the Consciousness in the Substance, will bring them forth,
for they are already there. Spirit is all. Then you will see the so-called dead.

Some scientists would like you to believe that the universe is running down like a clock: who wound it up? They have started
at the wrong end. Perpetual motion has always existed.

God is perpetual motion.

Has everything a beginning? Everything relative has a beginning, but the Reality never had a beginning. A relative thing has a
beginning and will have an ending, but how could God have a beginning? How could the Infinite have a beginning? If the
Infinite had a beginning, there would have to be a greater Infinite to have created it, and so back and back, ad infinitum. Then
God would be relative, and your existence in God would be relative. But your existence in God is not relative; it is eternal.
Your existence on this plane is relative. All relative things are changeable phenomena; Divine Consciousness is the only
eternal reality. It is necessary then that we should realize and recognize it in this life.

The human brain cannot comprehend the immensity of the Infinite, and never will, because if the human brain could
comprehend the Infinite, the Infinite would become human, and therefore would be relative. The “truth” that you can perceive
is only in your imagination, an idea, a sensation, whereas Truth is none of these things. It is useless trying to force your mind
to comprehend something that is beyond it. Life is. It does not have to be—IT IS. You are it, yet you cannot comprehend it
with your mind, but only know that you are. Live in faith, believing, knowing. Let wisdom and love guide you; listen deeper in
your soul, and wait, not anxiously but with faith.

You have the power of reason, but your reasoning power is unable to grasp the whole truth. Yet the Truth does not run
contrary to your reason, but goes beyond it. All great men and women recognize this fact. They see things beyond their
reason. Whenever you limit Truth, you limit yourself. Great men and women see no limit. These things do not go contrary to
your reason; then do not limit them by your reason.

Trying to find your real Self outside yourself is like trying to catch your own shadow. Be still, know your real Self to be
yourself, and you will find that Self.

You cannot define Reality; there is nothing in or out of mind to compare it with. It is beyond all things seen or heard. Let your
self-consciousness be expansive; be aware of it as the whole, and the “I” loses itself—the “I” no longer arises. Then the true
Intelligence transforms the nature and a spiritual world is seen before your eyes. The King and his Kingdom become one,
doubt and fear disappear. The nature is transformed without effort. Yet there must be continued effort to be expansive. Freed
from limitation and illusion, a constant awareness must be held lest limitation enter in. When this complete living is
established you will move with faith. Love, wisdom and power are expressed as one and are as natural as the breath of life.
You are “King Life,” free. How glorious is the freedom of Life—Truth.

Most people try to comprehend the Truth with a background of ideas caught up from Christianity with its changing
interpretations. When one theory is worn out a new one is created. One time it is hell and brimstone and the devil, and later
this is modified and then cast aside altogether and something else takes its place—and so on, from one thing to another. Or
the background is Hinduism or Buddhism with their many gods and demi-gods and incantations; or Theosophy, where the
intellect is filled with so many ideas that the mind becomes confused. In trying to comprehend the Truth with this background,
the reaction generally creates a conflict in the mind because of preconceived ideas; people try to make Truth conform to these
ideas, and they judge everything on what they already believe to be true. These beliefs are only ideas—images in the mind—
and must remain as such, but Truth is none of these. It is beyond mind; greater than all creation; yet you are one with it.

The majority pattern their lives after what they have heard or read or believed, and say: “This is the Truth.’ Others do the
same, and say: “No, this is the Truth.” Now where can there be truth where there is confusion of thought? The whole thing is
wrapped up in ideas and theories, and none of them is the Truth. Truth is Life—are you trying to find it in some system,
philosophy or creed? If so, your conception of Truth is but a continual movement from one illusion to another illusion in the
world of form and phenomena. Even a sinner and a saint are but illusions, the one only higher than the other in the world of
illusion.

Your cravings lead you from one illusion to another. You want to be something that will ensure your place in the eternal, so
the craving leads you from one teacher to another teacher, or from one system to another system, and what you find is only
form and phenomena, or the action of life—not life itself. This goes on, and at each stage a pause is made; there is a feeling of
satisfaction, you think you have found the Truth, but only for a moment does this state exist. Shortly the hunt begins again
with renewed effort along the path of illusion. Again I say, if you try to find the Truth in the world of form and phenomena you
will fail. Know that you are the Truth. It is freedom from all illusion you are really seeking. Know the world of illusion for what
it is; do not be deceived by it, thinking it is Reality itself. It is but the form expressed in Substance.

When Jesus was teaching His disciples of the Father, Philip asked, “Master, show us the Father.” The Master replied, “Philip,
have I been with you this long while and you know not what I say to you? When you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.
I and the Father are one”—meaning the life and expression in form, not the form itself. The cause being not seen is not
recognized, yet it is the Reality. On another occasion He said, “What is it you have come out to see, a man?”—meaning,
cannot you see behind the form and there find Reality? The outer man is nothing, it is the power behind him that is real—“I of
myself am nothing, it is the Spirit of the Father within me that doeth the work.”

Oh, my beloved one, know the life to be yourself. In this is the ecstasy of the eternal immortality. This everlasting Reality can
only be understood in the fullness of the Present, not in some distant future which is but a passing fantasy. Reality cannot be
imagined or fancied; that which can be explained is not Truth. The joy and freedom of Truth is spontaneous, it comes
naturally, without effort, without introspection. It is the ever new joy, being perfect joy itself. It is sweet and silent in the
completeness of your daily living. Living, acting spontaneously, is as natural as the breath of life. To understand this
completeness there must be non-attachment to ideas, beliefs, the past or future, for when you pattern your life on these there is
fear and conflict, which destroy true understanding, and you are held within the walls of a prison you yourself create.

In the world of illusion, which includes creeds, dogmas, etc., you become irresponsible—on the one hand you give up yourself to
authority, you lose your individuality, you allow others to do your thinking for you spiritually; and on the other hand you
become like a wild beast fighting for your welfare and existence. To know Reality you must be entirely free in mind and heart
from all authority, limitation and imitation, from all cravings both spiritual and material. You must strip yourself naked
spiritually, mentally and materially—empty your mind and heart. If you look into them you will find inherited theories of right
and wrong. What is spiritual and what is not spiritual? The heart may be so filled with religion that there is no room for love,
and the mind so filled with theories that there is no room for Truth. Truth is. It does not have to be. What is necessary is an
effort to keep the mind and heart free so that Truth and Love can manifest. They do when we free ourselves from concepts,
theories, cravings, imitation and limitation. The Truth—Life—is free and natural, and manifests itself without our personal
effort.

Consciousness and Intelligence co-ordinating are one in the Life which organizes the Substance; and according to the image
held in the Consciousness so is the form created. Life
itself being perfect in itself is expressing itself. When we realize our oneness with the Father—Consciousness, Intelligence
and Substance—the Manifestor and the Manifestation become one. One is real while the other is relative and changeable;
but every change is dominated by a Perfect Love. The Perfect will be established by its own power when we allow Love to
dominate every act, word and thought, with our minds free for the complete expansion of ourselves in God. How inadequate
are words in expressing the eternal reality of glorious Life. Live it fully and freely—then you will know it.

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