Resting in the Omnipresent Substance

Faithfully synthesised from Life and Teaching, Vol. 2 (short quotes only):

1. Become still and drop the ledger. Stop the anxious counting of what is running out. Settle into quiet.
2. Recognize the one Substance as omnipresent. Contemplate that there is a single divine Substance everywhere present — not stored in one bank, job, or condition, but omnipresent.
3. Know it as part of you. Hold that “that Substance is a part of God and, therefore, a part of you, and in that Substance there is everything you need.” You are not outside it, petitioning; you are within it.
4. Hold the image of it ever-pressing toward you. Steady the felt sense that “God is pressing that Substance out to you just as fast as you can use it” — supply meeting use, continuously, without lag.
5. Know it cannot be depleted. Rest in the conviction that “you can never deplete the supply” — the source is inexhaustible, so fear of running out has no object.
6. Receive boldly, not as a beggar. Carrying Spalding’s wider instruction, approach this “knowing that the help you stand in need of is already yours” — accept rather than plead.
7. Re-enter when fear returns. Whenever scarcity-thought rises, return to the still recognition of the omnipresent, ever-pressing, non-depletable Substance. (Sourcing note: the “Substance… part of you… God is pressing that Substance out to you… you can never deplete the supply” lines are attributed quotation from Vol. 2; the numbered sequence is a faithful paraphrase, not a verbatim reproduction.)

Baird T. Spalding (1872–1953) gave this teaching in Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Vol. 2 (1927), attributed to the Masters’ understanding of supply.

The framing is almost certainly fictional (see Safety), but the practice restates the New Thought “God is the one Substance / omnipresent supply” current (Charles Fillmore, Emmet Fox, the Ponder/Price prosperity line).

Distinct from its neighbours: Spalding’s stamp is the contemplative recognition of an omnipresent, inexhaustible Substance “pressed out as fast as you can use it,” held in stillness — a cosmological-perception shift, not an identity decree or a dated plan.

This sets it apart from John Randolph Price’s God-Self-as-Source, which is an identity relocation (“I AM the Source,” ) and his dated, and from Ponder’s spoken prosperity decree. It is a close cousin of contemplative “inflow” stillness practices.

The move — settle into stillness and recognize an inexhaustible indwelling/omnipresent supply — recurs across New Thought: - God-Self as Source (John Randolph Price) — relocating “source” from externals to the indwelling Self (identity-first).

• Tuning in to the inflow of life (Agnes Sanford) — quieting to receive the inflow of divine life.
• Receptive silence (Ralph Waldo Trine) — entering the silence to receive from the Infinite.
• The Father within doeth the works (Walter Lanyon) — letting the indwelling Presence supply and act.

Turning it into demand. This is recognition of an already-present Substance, not a covert command for cash; demanding reinstates lack-consciousness.

• Spiritual bypass. “I can never deplete the supply” is not a reason to ignore a real bill, debt, or income problem. Let the calm steady practical action, not replace it (see Safety).
• Counting while contemplating. If you keep one eye on the dwindling balance, you are contemplating scarcity, not Substance. Drop the ledger during the sitting.
• One-and-done. A single sitting rarely undoes a lifelong scarcity habit; re-enter the recognition whenever fear returns.