Truth of Life, Love, Liberty E-Book

Mary C. Ferriter

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• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Truth of Life, Love, Liberty

Mary C. Ferriter

Contents

INTRODUCTION

It is in response to the earnest desire often expressed by both teachers and students that this little text book is put out. In my own school of New Thought I myself have often in the last five years felt the need of a text book touching on these sub­jects that I could place in the hands of my students, and finally the need grew so urgent that I prepared these lessons. The sub­ject matter naturally falls into three parts. At the root of one’s search for Truth, Philosophy comes first.

Philosophy furnishes us with something like a creed and helps us to determine what it is that we believe, to really be the princi­ple of life. Any belief that is worthy of the name of religion recognizes a principle from which the Divine order eminates, a principle powerful enough to change chaos into the orderly uni­verse. In part I will be found such matter as should help the student to a working philosophy, a foundation upon which to build his life, and a fundamental knowledge upon which his work can be based.

In Part II is taken up the study of Metaphysics, here we are dealing with the science of the real as distinguished from the phenomenal being. There is always a correspondence between the laws of phenomena and the various planes of Being and Life. Formed and formless, “As above so below,” is one of the oldest principles of Metaphysics, the truth that will lead you into uni­versal consciousness. The purpose of this work is not the enun­ciation of any special philosophy of doctrine, but rather to give the student a statement of Truth, a foundation. Having built upon the foundation provided in the philosophical teachings con­tained in Part I, the student, if he has builded well, will be un­obstructed by any prejudice of superstition. He can look beyond the phenomenal world and will see the real, the orderly universe, which is fashioned according to God’s great plan. He will see his own place in that universe with a clear understanding of his relationship to God and to man.

The study of Metaphysics leads to a better knowledge of man, a more intimate knowledge of God. Once we truly know our relationship to our brother, we shall better serve both him and ourselves, and once we realize that the highest worship to God is service to man, our worship will be finer, truer, more sincere.

Part III is devoted to Psychology. The science of the power and functions of the human soul leads us naturally back to the practical wisdom of Philosophy. Once we have a clear outlook on life and a measure of understanding regarding the laws that govern the universe, it is time to bring that outlook to bear on our life problems, to bring that understanding into practice and apply it in everyday life; and I have tried to make the lessons on psychology of breathing, eating, exercise, etc,, as practical and simple as possible.

As more sorrow and suffering comes from man’s ignorance of the laws of life—the laws of involving sex—than of almost anything else, I have devoted one chapter to that subject; not that all which should be said on that subject can be crowded in that short space, but if in the minds of even a few shall be estab­lished a realization that sex, in its purity, is as clean and fine a thing on the physical plane as gender is on the mental and spirit­ual planes, I shall be satisfied.

Perhaps there is little strictly original in this text book; rather, it is matter condensed and presented in a fresh way, but

hope in a way which will meet the needs of the progressing student of life.

Old methods have grown stale, old formulas have lost their virtue in the march of human progress. The old worn-out creeds and tasteless practices have but little that is stimulating to the swiftly changing consciousness of the age; we must have new methods to fit this consciousness that is so rapidly unfolding. Each day, each minute, almost, brings an altered viewpoint as we progress in understanding, even our daily modes of living must needs undergo some change. Fundamentals will ever remain the same, since Truth never changes; I have here to acknowledge in all gratitude my indebtedness to the older teachings and the older teachers, many of whom have had me for a pupil.

And this book in its concise form contain much that reflects the teachings of these modern masters that are awakening a new consciousness in the minds of the people. What I have gathered from their books and lectures and personal training has enabled me to gather all loose ends of faith together and bind them into one strong cord of Truth; and it is my duty and greatest pleasure here to acknowledge my indebtedness. In this little work I have endeavored to pass them on to you, and may it carry some message of Truth to each one that opens its pages.

MARY C. FERRITER.

Berkeley, California, 1922.

Part One

CHAPTER I

THE NEW IDEA OF GOD

The New World movement, of which these lessons teach, is a progressive idealism. It believes in all religions and is itself a blending into one grand symphony of all great spiritual truths. You can take the fundamentals of this teaching into your own church and the better understand your own religion, and the study will make you see how you may create your own destiny and control your own life, for to have understanding is to have power and dominion—that dominion which in the beginning God ordained that man should have over all things. If we have failed in that dominion it is because we have failed in under­standing.

The individual, in order to be thoroughly satisfied with his life, his religion, himself, must have a tangible life philosophy, something understandable for a working basis. In the past we have been called on to have faith, and with the blind faith required of us we came through the childhood of the race; today we find the modern practitioners quite ignorant compared to the old masters, from the reason they lack the fundamental knowl­edge upon which the work is based.

Today, to be a success, we must have a working faith and an understanding of the things in which we believe, and that understanding we may acquire through a study of these lessons.

Every religion has been built upon man’s idea of God. It is man’s highest ideal of God and his relation to God which builds his religion; his highest ideal of life build his civilization, and both bring him back and bind him to the very center of his own consciousness. As man’s consciousness has unfolded his ideals have progressed, and as they have progressed, old civilization and old religions have gone down and new have come in their place. This is the natural law of spiritual growth.

Every religion agrees on Deity, the one first cause, the princi­ple back of all, above all, the Creator of all—the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent source of all. This has been the message of every great Master, although, in the childhood of the race, man was able to perceive God only as God was represented in form; so we have had many gods and gods in many forms— gods made to represent Deity and symbolic of the different aspects in which Divinity unfolds. But we have come to the end of the old dispensation; our childhood has passed; we must now touch life at a higher level of consciousness, and in order to do so, we must have a new idea of God, a new idea of ourselves, and a new idea of life.

First, what is God? God is All. Projecting from himself his consciousness, from it he has created all that ever was created. Each spark of God consciousness in the universe is a creative center. In the beginning, this All, the trinity of Life, Love and Unity, rayed out as mind, breath and substance. The Universe is mental, rooted and grounded in the AH.

Out of omnipresent substance was man created, and in it he lives and moves and has his being. This substance consists of earth, air, fire and water, controlled by currents—the east and the west the current of fire and air, the north and the south the current of earth and water. The east and west current is electri­cal, positive; it burns and destroys. The north and south cur­rent is magnetic; it builds and preserves. Where the currents came together—the positive and negative, the electric and mag­netic—they perpetuate the life substance of the planet; and both are good. It is the working of the law of polarity. And this substance is God substance.

There is only one thing in existence and that is God—God the Spirit, and God Manifest. His triple power is the power to create, the power to preserve and the power to destroy, and his power is exercised by the use of intelligence, force and sub­stance. In the oldest of occult records, The Secret Doctrine, we find written out the Akashi records of Genesis, and there learn that the solar system has spirit life which unfolds through cosmic law into a triple aspect of Divinity, the power that creates, preserves and destroys. The One forms the three and its essence is Divine mind. In the One are Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience united. The all-embracing consciousness is not divided into three; rather, it ensouls them, unites them. In past ages this One was called the Logos (Greek for “word”); and man is this three in One, for the powers of God are centered in him, and when he learns that truth, he is “illuminated.” Everything in the universe is in constant motion, {vibration). All the various manifestations of life are due to the varying rates of intelli­gence.

In considering the power to create, we go back to the begin­ning, when the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. There we have motion—force. And when He said, Let there be light, he gave expression to thought (intelligence). Following these two actions there was light—the great white light; and from it spread a halo of consciousness, in colors, called the Elohim, or the seven spirits around the throne. Our universe was created under the law of seven. In seven days, or ages, God created it and rested. Life itself manifests in seven things and only seven. Later in the lessons we will take these things up, one by one, and discuss them fully. The law of involution and evolution is a law of rhythm; we come into a life of action and go back into a life of rest, repeating the experience until we are masters. And for your comfort you may remember that an experience once mastered never faces you again.

In the beginning were the days, ages, or generations, of crea­tion—the ‘“imaging” in the consciousness of God; then followed formation, which took place during the “seven days,” through the power of the “seven rays,” or Elohim; thus did the conscious images of God take form, by means of motion and intelligence working on substance. The law of polar opposites (the law of creation, the law of love) was established when God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. Thus was substance divided into two great currents, and the heavens became the electric and the dry land which appeared was the magnetic; and it was Mother Earth which brought forth life; and every living thing yielded fruit after its kind. When God divided the dark­ness from the light, the morning from the evening, and the waters above from the waters below, he established the law of “Polarity,” and he made the sun and moon as symbols of that law—the one to rule the day and the other to rule the night. The stars he made as the symbols of the seven rays, the laws of evolution. God created all animal life and blessed it and com­manded it to multiply. After that God created man, saying, Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness. Gender is manifested in everything, “gender” is derived from the Latin root meaning “To beget; to procreate; to generate; to create; to produce.” It does not mean “Sex”—sex is a manifestation of  gender on the Physical Plane. When Deity manifested on the plane of generation it was in accordance with the one law of all Being, Polarity (Our Image).

And God created man, Male and Female created he them, and blessed them and commanded them that they be faithful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it. Man has the three powers of the Trinity—the power to create, the power to preserve and the power to destroy; he has the four elements of substance God gave him to work with, and as he multiplies the three by the four, there he comes into the twelve faculties of the human mind, and through the power of the human mind man will literally subdue and replenish the earth.

When God followed his own Divine, command to multiply he made the twelve constellations, which man has used to symbolize the twelve months in the year. Physically, mentally and spirit­ually, man, after his own fashion, has worked the same, with the results that he has perpetuated the stream of humanity, and has harnessed the very elements and subdued them and made them his servants.

The Triune God is expressed in Life, Love and Unity, or spirit, soul and body, or mind, breath and substance. The three powers shine out from the One, and when those powers come into action they produce light. It was the Trinity which divided into the seven rays of consciousness—the Elohim. While these uni­versal powers belong to all nature, man alone is conscious of them, conscious of life as an eternal principle, expressed as spirit, soul and body in man; in God as Life, Love and Unity, Intelli­gence, Force and Substance, Father, Son and Holy Mother, or, as we have it in the orthodox Christian churches of today, Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

In the beginning God projected Intelligence (mind) and Force (breath, or vibration) upon the face of the waters (ethers, or substance), and brought forth all that is. From God to man the principle of creation is the same, and in every act of our lives the trinity is repeated. Because God is All, then whatever God is, I AM, and whatever God does, I have within me the power to do. And if we discover God’s purpose in creation, then we shall have discovered what we ourselves were created for; we shall know why we are here and how to solve life’s problem.

What was the first thing God did after he had formed man? He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. He so desired a counterpart of himself that he created man in his own image; he so loved, that he desired opportunity to perpetuate his love  through man, to live through man. We were created in love, for the purpose of loving, for the purpose of perpetuating. We had the breath of life breathed into us in order that we might perpetuate. When God breathed his breath into man, man became a living soul, with the creative power of IMAGINATION; and by the power of reason and the power of choice he could pre­serve or destroy his creations; and it is as good to destroy as it is to preserve or create; often indeed it is not well to preserve our own creations. In man the Trinity is repeated. He has a Spirit (breath) and a Soul (mind) and a Body (substance). In this sense is he the image and likeness of God. He is God’s Word, made flesh. Spirit is the set Principle, Soul the growing Princi­ple, and Body the Temple in which Spirit and Soul stand forth as an expression of the LIVING GOD.

Our powers of creation are used by us both consciously and unconsciously, and the law of perpetuation in man takes more than one form. In early youth the life in us is used to build the body; next comes the period of generation, in which we may pro­duce other bodies; and following that comes the age in which we may again use life with which to build up our own body—to perpetuate it. The principle that works in perpetuation is always the Father-Mother principle. In all things do we see this: in fire and air, in water and earth, the electric-magnetic, the posi­tive and negative, Father-Mother Principle is at work creating. Every created thing is the objective side of God; the formless is his subjective side. Nor are God and his creations ever separ­ated, although man in his ignorance is ever trying to separate them, trying to separate spirit and matter, trying to separate the subjective from the objective, God from man. They are all one substance, manifesting in different ways, just as does water when it becomes ice, or steam or vapor. Yet it always remains water; and as vapor may be condensed to the point where it forms ice, so may spirit be crystallized into form and still remain spirit; and so we may truly say that all is one substance at differ­ent vibratory rates. God pronounced all that he created good; he gave the creative power to man and man has created a world for himself, but he has not pronounced it all good. He has called good only those experiences which pleased him; those which were unpleasant he has called evil. That is because he has lost his centralized point of consciousness (his equilibrium), and in­tellectually he has separated himself from the great atomic mind of substance; he has separated spirit and matter in his thought. He has tried to put asunder that which God joined together and  that is why in his consciousness he has established good and evil, God and devil. The only devil there is is fear. God is unity and God is All. The only quality there is consists of the things that are and the things man thinks there are, the good that exists and the evil man thinks about it. Man lost his word of good when he tried to see evil in the law of ‘‘Polarity,” crea­tion, which is expressed in the very essence of The All.

Yet in every form God-consciousness is touching life at its own level of good, for there is nothing but good in either positive or negative action—good fulfilling its own law of attraction and repulsion. The breath of the Almighty gives life; with every breath we take in the infinite life; we exhale only our finite con­sciousness, impregnated with life; if our finite consciousness is of love, unity and tolerance, we exhale those qualities; and we radiate our own law of attraction. We attract to ourselves our own good, and our attractions are the soul’s means of growth.

With this new idea of God man has modified his old idea of the devil. He has not quite done away with him, but he has taken away the red clothing and the horns, and now calls him the sense man, the unreal man, mortal mind, and so on; this gives him something to which he may shift his own responsi­bility when he is not expressing one hundred per cent health or prosperity or love. In reality, the entire responsibility of human life lies with the individual; he can live his life as he chooses; Whatever he creates in imagination he will express; and each expression is the soul’s means of growth. It is the opportunity to reach higher and higher levels of life. Since the time that man started on his upward climb toward God-consciousness, he has had many experiences, subjective and objective; he has ex­pressed many levels of consciousness, and at each level he has interpreted God and life to fit his own unfolding consciousness; through his own creative power of imagination he has made a world for himself. From the beginning he created, expressed, experienced and included his world and turned it all into a store­house of wisdom. Then who is the devil, the mortal mind, the unreal man? Who is the father of the unreal?

God created all that is and blessed it and called it good. The thought that there could be anything evil or anything not real came from a misunderstanding of the laws of life. There are three rays of life, of which spirit is the set principle. That which it represents on a certain plane, it represents always. The universe is mental, mind is the creative ray, the director and con­troller of every atom of substance; mind is the growing principle. And substance under the action of spirit (breath) and mind, is ever changing, form after form being evolved as mind unfolds and reaches higher consciousness. Things are unreal only in the sense that they are not permanent. All things manifest in our life are facts; they may not be the truth, in the sense of per­manency, which is the law of truth; nevertheless, they exist as facts; they are the outcome of law, and the law is good. “God has one great plan, and that plan has no errors.” Through that plan life is evolving, unfolding and developing into higher and higher reaches of God-consciousness, and it will continue to un­fold and develop until it has grown completely God-conscious.

As for the devil, when we learn to make at-one-ment with him, as did St. Francis, we shall find ourselves face to face with an angel and know the lesson he has to teach. St. Francis said it was the lesson of persistence. Let us repeat, there is nothing hut God-consciousness; and man cannot go very far in his search for the truth until he finds that he himself is that consciousness. Then he can turn to the kingdom within himself and touch God-consciousness in the center of his own being. When he has con­sciously touched the currents of life within himself, there comes illumination, and when he knows the truth—that he is One with God—man is free. In order to attain to freedom we have to know the truth about everything; we have to have all experience, painful as well as pleasant. If we never had known sorrow we could never know joy in its fullness; if we had never had pain we would not know pleasure for what it is—the polar opposite of pain itself, since all things manifest through the law of polarity. Good and bad are hut life experiences sent from one Source, and the destructive force is as good as the force that creates.

CHAPTER II

MAN AND HIS RELATION TO GOD

For centuries man has been bound by the tradition that he was a worm of the dust and that through sin he had been separ­ated from God; and for ages he has been groping his way back, unconscious of the fact that it was his mind which had separated him; that he was separate in thought only. It was his imagina­tion which actually drove him out of Eden, that kingdom of heaven within the self.

The belief in separation came about when man began to note the two actions of his own mind and to believe that one action was good and the other bad. When he was living in imagination and desire he was living in the “carnal mind,” as he chose to call it, thinking it evil; and when he was living in thoughts of God he was living in the spiritual mind, which he saw as good. Now it was when he saw flesh as evil and spirit as good, that he com­mitted the unpardonable sin, for he was attempting to put asunder what God had joined together under an immutable law as body and spirit (breath and substance). In spite of man’s effort to improve upon that law, it still remains—God’s law; and high or low, rich or poor, sick or well, no man has ever suc­ceeded in separating himself from his God or in losing his soul, for he is the very essence of God and ever one with the Divine. Man is the only channel through which God can serve the world, man may be lost to service, but never lost to God.

When we understand the mental nature of the universe, we shall understand all of the varied mental and psychic phenomena that is interesting the mass of people today, and we shall have learned the lesson that Jesus the Christ came to teach; for he was the greatest teacher of the Mental Laws we have ever had. He taught the power and majesty of man and the unity of man and God. He explained the true nature of Spirit, Mind and Matter, and how all was subordinate to the power of mind. The I AM, is that something which calls forth the power that con­trols and directs both body and mind; the source of all power is within yourself. When we can grasp this idea of the principle of mentalism, with this new idea of mind, man has a knowledge of his relation to the principle that governs the universe and the simple method by which he can consciously identify himself with it. This is the law which shall set you free from limitation and disease.

Man breaths the “breath of life” into his nostrils, he becomes a living soul with the latent power to reach out with every breath and draw to himself Infinite Life, and exhale with every breath Infinite Love, then he becomes a “son of God.” Remem­ber, however, that you do not exhale (radiate) that which you merely think. You must feel your one-ness with Divine Life and feel the infinite love if you would contact the “Kingdom” within you. The breath is the essence of the I AM; it is pure being in the two actions of the great Law of Rhythm. With an under­standing of the workings of this law you will find that your mental states are subject to these great rhythmic swings of feeling and what you feel, you radiate or send out, and draw to you the substance of that feeling, this is the connection between spirit and matter joined as God joined them.

Jesus was once asked by a lawyer how he might inherit eternal life and Jesus told him to obey that which was written in the law. Obey the law, recognize it, and don’t try to put asunder that which God has joined together. Spirit and matter are of the one substance. The objective mind is merely the outer court of the temple; the subconscious, the soul mind is the inner court or the holy place; and spirit is the Holy of Holies. Enter into the Holy of Holies—enter into the spirit of things and draw in the breath of life; draw in the reality, make union with the superconscious. It is the conscious unity which enables us to receive what the Father has for us. All that he has is ours, but we must learn to receive it. Whenever we inhale the ethers of space we take in the breath of life; the Yogi calls it “pranic energy,” but call it what you will, it is the connecting link between spirit and body, mind and substance.

Not only through breath, but through mind and form, man is consciously connected with the universe, of which he is the likeness in miniature. The solar plexus represents the sun of the solar universe, and is the center of mental equilibrium. The heart is the physical center of man, the point of equilibrium for the blood stream. The moon represents the feminine in nature, the polar opposite of the sun; all gestation is governed by the moon and the lunar months. And the seven centers in  man correspond to the seven planets, which represent the lights of the world—the Elohim—and the laws through which man must evolve and unfold.

Astrology bas lost its place among the sciences; we know little of its laws now. But numbers of the old philosophers, including Plato, were great astrologers, and some day the scientists will work out the half-truths for us, as they have worked out other half-truths of the occult world, and then astrology will have its place with us, as it once had with the Brahmins.

Our Christian Bible is not merely a book founded upon the wisdom of its writers; it is an expression of a cosmic law. It begins with the seven days or ages of creation and ends with the opening of the seven seals, through which will come the final understanding of the law. The Kabala is not merely a game of figures called “numerology”; it treats of the great law of plane­tary influences, which are the crystalling causes of color, sound and form. It will not be going too deeply into the subject to mention a few significant numbers and their association with familiar things. The three rays of the God-head divided into the seven rays or Principles. Three times seven equal twenty-one,— the age of maturity. There are four elements, and four times seven equals twenty-eight—the number of days in a lunar month. Each of the six rays of color projected from the Great White Light has its polar opposite, and from them spring the twelve powers, the twelve constellations, the twelve months of the year, the twelve tribes, and the twelve gates to the Eternal City. The old prophets understood the law of numbers and planetary in­fluences. They saw all as a projection from the Absolute Cod and they saw man as an epitome of the universe. Nature has no life apart from the Absolute. The light from the sun, moon and planets reaches us; how, then, can we say, that we are not under the influence of their vibrations?

Consider for a moment the changing consciousness in the religious world from one era to another. Four thousand years ago there was a great urge to reach at-one-ment with Cod through burnt offerings and sacrifices. The solar system was then under the influence of fire vibrations, for we were in the Arian age. Early in the Christian era we came into the vibra­tions of Pisces, a water sign, and correspondingly the conscious­ness of the religious world changed, and water baptism became the custom. We are now entering the Aquarian age, which is pre-eminently a spiritual age, and we hear much of the “baptism of the Holy Spirit,” and of worshipping God as Spirit, instead of as a person. If the universal urge be so great, then the vibra­tions of each planet much affect us individually. Our very being is under the law of vibratory force, and working with the law is the soul’s means of growth. Through the law we gain a sense of unity, of harmony and balance.

Equilibrium is attained when the two departments of the mind contact, so that the objective mind works in harmony with the subjective, or submerged mind, which, in turn, is ever at one with the cosmic mind. When man reaches that point he knows that he is not nor ever can be separated from God, for then he understands the unity of God with his creations. There is one mind in God and that mind is my mind now, has been the affirma­tion of sages throughout the centuries. But the one mind has two actions, the objective and the subjective, the positive and the negative. They are equally good; they are the law, and the law is no respecter of persons. When you understand the law you are positive toward it and can make it your servant. When you do not understand it, it is positive toward you and you serve it through many experiences until you do understand. What we call evil is merely that which results when we resist the law. It is through pain, which follows our ignoring of the universal laws, that we learn to think; and we shall have painful experiences so long as we persist in attempting to create and express in opposi­tion to the law. Our necessity for learning the Truth is this: that ignorance of the law excuses no one.

In considering the laws of mind we will take up first the sub­jective side. The subjective mind is the storehouse of all memory, the kingdom of wisdom. There is God-consciousness; and “before Abraham was, I AM,” is true of every spark of individualized consciousness. Therefore, within your own mind is all knowledge. You may know anything you will when you consciously enter that realm. The subjective phase of man’s mind has always been guided by cosmic consciousness and is at one with it. The life functions are controlled by the subjective mind and all the involuntary activities of the body are under its guidance. Its law is the law of suggestion; and, since it works through obedience and will, it is ever open to suggestion and will carry out for the objective mind any suggestion planted in it. The subjective mind never sleeps: “There is no night there.”

The law of the objective mind is stimulation. It works through desire and imagination and, since it is the sense mind, and contacts the world of color, sound and form, it is ever open to stimulation from without. The imaging power of man’s mind is the secret of his creative power. Man thinks in images. Think of a rose, and you see its color and form. And the reason that we have so many random thoughts to contend with is that our objective mind is so easily stimulated. It is by our desire to think only along certain lines that we may control the imagination and refuse to harbor any thought or fancy we do not want. And, in order to protect ourselves from working into our lives that which we do not want, we must be careful, first, to control the desires, for the desire, once it becomes a suggestion to the subjective mind, is obediently willed into form. The two phases of mind are in perpetual interaction and every desire that comes into con­scious imagination is by natural law passed into the sub-conscious mind as a suggestion and becomes part of our being.

The two minds (as we call the two departments of mind, for convenience) may be likened to an interlaced triangle, the upper triangle with the point downward, representing the conscious mind; the lower, with the point upward, representing the sub­conscious mind. Where the two minds meet (where the triangle interlaces) is the home of the super consciousness. There is the dwelling place of the I AM. There is the kingdom of heaven, all-harmony; there is the consciousness of unity, there the “all-seeing eye” of the occultist.

Man is just coming into a consciousness of his mental creative powers; he uses the powers but his brain in its present state of development is inadequate to think out the laws of breath, mind and substance in their fullness, though he has but to study the radio there to get a glimpse of the action of breath and mind upon substance. Breath is the vibratory force of all nature; mind is the directing, controlling and creating power, while sub­stance is the great space-sea of electrons. The law is not mys­terious, but it is almost unthinkable. Mind, breath and substance are “all that the Father hath”; and all that the Father has is mine. Therefore my creative powers are as his own. Because God is, I AM.

And now, understanding something of how things are created, you will be very careful what you place after I AM for it will be either a blessing or a curse. There is a signed and sealed agree­ment between the two minds to work your affirmation into form. Whenever you say “I am sick” you are cursing yourself, for you have taken in vain the name of the Father (Creator) within.

Mind, the great creative ray of the universe, is ever acting, ever directing and assembling the atoms of substance; everything takes form according to its own vibratory law; everything is what it is, where it is, and the color it is, according to its own rate of intelligence. All Nature is the form of God’s idea (or image); and every individualized center of consciousness is work­ing out God’s plan through natural laws. The greatest discovery of the age is the discovery of the truth about conscious ideation or imaging as a power by means of which we can make ourselves, our environment, our entire world what we want them to be.

Every thought produces an image, and the image is the “sub­stance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Whenever you say “I am,” no matter what thought follows the words, you are transforming thought into suggestion and the sub-conscious mind obediently transmutes it into form. Thought, backed by feeling, forms an image in the objective mind and when that image is passed into the subjective mind and there sanctioned and sealed, the two minds have agreed, and “When two shall agree on earth as touching anything it shall be done to them in heaven.” When the two minds have agreed, under the immutable law the universal will carry out that agreement. The law is not mocked and it will not let you plant a thought of one kind and reap fruit of another. If, however, thought is sent out without feeling, it merely joins itself to cosmic energy at its own rate of vibration. In order to create, thought must be strong with feeling. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.