I carry papers from several ministries, several churches in Los Angeles. I did that because it gave me an opportunity to bring science to those poor people in the churches; not that I gained anything from this but it gave me a chance to teach those people who were ready to accept something that was not the same old balderdash that had been handed down to them for age after age. Those are pagan beliefs which were born out of the primitive jungles of yesterday, the bowing down and worshipping, all of these indulgences and hypocrisies that people not only experience but what they let others tell them.

You might say that I am opposed to orthodoxy, and in a sense of the word I would take any opportunity that was within my power to show anyone a better way who is ready for it. But I also know the value of orthodoxy to those who are not ready for this better way. I respect their position on their path of evolution very much as a sensitive whereby certain people can begin the first stages of their evolution in the recognition of greater forces, mystical forces or whatever you wish to call them. My position is not radical; it is not fanatical; it is realistic and it works. I would not be that big a hypocrite to get up on any platform and teach anyone a better way of life if I have not demonstrated it myself. And I have not seen a minister yet who could demonstrate what he taught or even half of what he taught. I used to see a certain and quite popular minister of a large Unity Church in Los Angeles step down from the platform and he could not get into the back room quickly enough before he had a cigarette lit and would stomp up the aisle to check out his people. Not that I am any better than he but I would not smoke a cigarette; I think too much of myself and I'd not have the unmitigated gall to ascend any platform and try to tell people a better way of life that I did not understand and practice myself, or that I could not demonstrate what I taught. There is nothing worse in this world to me than a hypocrite; and it speaks of them in the New Testament: "Beware ye in the latter days of false prophets and teachers and of wolves in sheep's clothing."

By the time I was five years old, I had read the Bible through three times. I had a father who was about as well versed on the religions of the world as anyone was and we had many a good argument about them, also many an agreement. It is fine for those who need a crutch, who need some sort of a moral opiate—and that is all religion is. It is only an escape mechanism; it is only a way in which they can relieve their psychic pressures. They can hand all their burdens, their guilt's onto some fancied savior and it is very unrealistic. There is not anyone in this world who is going to be any more than what he develops within his own self. Take the words of Jesus; "Seek ye the Kingdom of Heaven which is within and all things shall be added unto you," and that is exactly what it meant. He did not mean that any priest in any temple was going to hand it out to you with or without fees. He meant that you and you alone are going to have to live life and learn about it; and in living life you will find that Kingdom of Heaven. As you live that life, you assume your own moral responsibility for every act, for every thought, everything that you manifest, because that becomes part of your psychic anatomy; that is what you construct for yourself in that great invisible world which supplies everything. Your thought and your action constructs or destroys any suitable or unsuitable body to live in any other world.