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thing that matters. How are we thinking about life and our conditions? Are we
receiving the race suggestion; are we saying that there is not enough to go
around? If we are saying this, it is our belief, and there is something that will see
that it becomes a part of our expression. Most people, through ignorance of the
higher laws of their
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being, are suffering from the thoughts imposed upon them from a negative and
doubtful world. We who are claiming the use of the greater law must emancipate
ourselves from all sense of limitation. We are not to be governed by the outer
confusion but by the inner realization. We are to judge life not from the way that
things in the past have been done, but from the way that the Spirit does things.
THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT.
AGAIN let us say that the Spirit creates by becoming the thing that it thinks.
There is no other possible way in which it could work. Since it is all and there is
no other, the thought of opposing forces never enters into its mental working;
when we are judging from the outer we are not working in line with the power
that we should be using. We must come to see that there is only One Power and
that we are touching it at all points, for there is not a power of poverty and a
power of prosperity. There is the one becoming the many; it makes and it
unmakes that a higher form may appear to express through it. All that is not in
line with its forward movement will soon pass away, for it recognizes no
opposite. As far as we are concerned what we are and what we are to become
depends only upon what we are thinking, for this is the way that we are using
creative power. The sooner we get away from the thought that we have to create,
the sooner we will be able to work in line with the Spirit. Always man uses; he
never creates anything. The united intelligence of the human race could not
make a single rose-bud; it does not know enough. But our slightest thought
adrift in mind
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causes the same power that makes all things to create for us. The great error of
the race is, and always has been, that men have thought to give a physical reason
for things. When that reason has not answered the problems of life they have
sought out some other reason just as physical. The fact that they are all wrong is
shown in that every generation has found a different reason. When truth is found
it will also be found that it never changes to suit the whims of the human fancy.
This is proven by the fact that whatever of the real truth the race has discovered
has never been changed. The truth that was revealed to the prophets of old has
never changed; it is the same to-day as it was thousands of years ago. Whoever
touches truth, no matter in what generation, will always get the same answer.
The great truth that was revealed from Moses to the time of Jesus is the same
truth that is still revealed to all who will accept it; it is simply this: we are now
living in a Spiritual Universe governed by mental laws of cause and effect.
Moses saw it mostly from the standpoint of the Law of cause and effect, an eye
for an eye. What does this mean? It means, as Jesus said, "As a man sows, so
shall he reap." Moses saw the law. Jesus saw not only the law ("I am come not
to destroy but to fulfill"), but he saw behind the law the reason for it, and
revealed behind all law the Great Law-giver, a God of love working out the
great inner concepts of His own being in harmony and in beauty, filled with
peace, causing the sun to shine alike upon the just and the unjust. Jesus did not
try to overcome the use of law; He understood all law and He well knew that all
law was at His command; He did not break the law, He fulfilled it. So we must
find that all is at our
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command through these same laws. The man who understands law and complies
with it will have no difficulty in demonstrating that it is as true for him as it ever
was for any one else. What, then, are the laws underlying prosperity? The first is
this, and we must not try to escape it: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before
me." This Me is Spirit. We are, then, to trust only in the activity of Spirit for
what we need. But the world will say. "Human things come through human
agencies." This may be true, but we must realize that the power we are dealing
with also has within its own mind all people and all things. We do not have to
treat people; what we have to do is to embody principle. Principle may use
people, but that is no part of our responsibility. Ultimately all is Spirit, and Spirit
which is the beginning is also the end of all manifestation. "I am the Alpha and
the Omega." Our life, then, is to be governed by Spirit. We need look no further.
It will do for us all that we will ever ask, provided we believe. Why, then, has it
not done so? The answer is that it has already done so, but we have not received
it. The Spirit may offer, but we must accept the gift before it can be made.
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock." We must understand that this receiving
is a mental process; it is one of mentally taking.
The way, then, that we are using mind through our thought is the way that we
are treating ourselves for prosperity. So simple, and yet we have not understood
it! If a man says, "I have not." he will not receive; if he says, "I have," he will
receive. "To those who have shall be given, and to those who have not shall be
taken away even that which they have." This is a veiled statement
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of the law of cause and effect. When you send out into mind the thought that
you have not, it accepts the idea and takes away from you even that which you
have. Reverse the process and say, "I have," and it will at once set to work to
create for you even more than you now possess. You will readily see then that
you are not dealing with two powers but with one, and that it operates through
your own thought, doing unto all even as they believe.
THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
SINCE all is mind, and it is done unto us as we mentally think, all life is simply
a law of thought--activity of consciousness. In our life the power flows through
us. If we provide a big receptivity, it will do a big thing; if, on the other hand,
we only believe in a small way, the activity must be a small one. The Spirit can
do for us only what it can do through us. Unless we are able to provide the
consciousness, it cannot make the gift. Few people have a great consciousness,
and this explains why so few excel. The power behind all things of itself is
without limit; it is all-power; in us it has to become what we make it. We carry
within our own soul the key to all expression, but few enter in. The door is not
seen with the physical eye, and as yet but few have gained the ability to see; the
majority merely look. Realizing, then, that while the power is limitless it must
become operative through our own thought, we shall see that what we need is
not some greater power, but that what we really need is a greaterconsciousness,
a deeper realization of life, a grander concept of being. We must unify ourselves
with the great whole. The man
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who dares to fling his thought out into universal intelligence with the positive
assurance of one who knows and dares to claim all there is will find that it will
be done. God will honor his request. On the other hand, the one who fears to
speak lest God will smite will find himself smitten of the law, not because God
is angry, but because it is done as he believes.
We have a right to have and should expect to have in this world all that will
make for the comfort and for the luxuries of life. What matter how much we
have, if we rob no other soul to get it? Shall not the Power that so lavishly
spreads Itself out into nature give to us Its highest expression, all that we can
ask? We dishonor God when we claim less than all. Until we can expand our
thought so that we shall be able to say also, "I am," we need not expect to get
great results.
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