The
nearer we are to Omnipotence the greater our strength.
Life
will take on new meaning, greater dignity, a higher power
when we live in constant realization of our at-one-ment
with our Creator, our at-one-ment with the One, our partnership
with the All-Good.
When
Christ emphasized the fact that the kingdom of Heaven is
within us, He meant that this kingdom within is identical
with the great cosmic intelligence of the universal mind,
and that here we tap the source of all supply. The kingdom
that is within us is the kingdom of power. It is in the
great within of us that we make wireless connections with
Omnipotence, with Omniscience, with Omnipresence. Here is
where we actually feel the pulsation of the allness and
the everywhereness of God, and are conscious of our connection
with the One, our oneness with the All-good.
The
greatest discovery of the centuries is the discovery of
the identity, the oneness of the mind in our subconscious
selves with the great universal mind, the cosmic intelligence.
“What
discovery in twenty centuries,” says Dr. Abel T. Allen
“compares with this, that man has learned to tap the
universal mind, the infinite reservoir of his own soul and
thereby create health, ability, character, or any other
quality he may desire?”
The
idea that man can control and adapt to his own growth and
enlargement the cosmic intelligence which flows to him through
his subconscious self; that by his own power of choice and
will this cosmic, creative intelligence everywhere present
can be utilized by man as a creative force, is one of the
most astounding truths that has ever come to the human mind.
Years
ago Henry Ward Beecher said that thinking is creating with
God. Yet how few of us realize even today that we cannot
think without creating and that if we think helpful thoughts,
unselfish thoughts, love thoughts we are creating with God.
The
new thought of God takes God into partnership, and when
we realize the divine cooperation in our lives we think
as “we,” not ‘‘I.”
This
new thought of God gives us a new conception of man and
of his relation to his God. It teaches us that we are a
vital, inseparable part of Deity; that we are a part of
the great creative Mind, and that we are creating everyday,
because we cannot think, we cannot feel, we cannot act without
creating something.
The
new philosophy of life teaches us that there is something
in man that is inviolable, something that was never born
and will never die, something that cannot be contaminated,
that cannot sin. It teaches us that there is a divinity
within us which is never impaired; that no matter what happens
to the rest of us, this divinity, the God in us, is untarnished,
inviolable.
A
human being’s power depends very largely upon his God-consciousness,
upon his conscious partnership with his Creator. The closer
the relation, the closer the man’s God-consciousness,
the consciousness of his oneness with the One, the more
power he can express, because he draws upon the limitless
resources of his Infinite Partner.
Many
people seem to have an idea that the creative intelligence
out of which everything we know has been created was, in
the beginning, localized somewhere in a Creator’s mind,
but we now know that this great creative intelligence or
force is everywhere. We know that it exists in every cell
in our bodies, and in every created object.
Just
as the entire man with all the traits and characteristics
of his ancestors, and with his own possibilities and his
own destiny, was wrapped up in the microscopic protoplasm
which unfolds into the full-grown man, so the future lily,
the rose, the tree, the fruit, the vegetable, lives in the
apparently unorganized protoplasmic germ from which it started.
In these microscopic germs creative intelligence dwells.
Every atom, every electron in the universe is the home of
the divine intelligence which creates and sustains all things.
This
intelligence is not fragmentary in the atom or electron,
any more than certain parts of the oak are fragmentary in
the acorn. The whole of the mighty oak lives in possibility
in the acorn. There is nothing added to the oak which was
not an amplification of the cell life in the acorn. What
the soil, the chemistry of the sun, the moisture and the
atmosphere have added to it were mere helps to the unfolding
of the germs in the acorn.
What
is true of the oak, or any other created thing is true of
man. The entire Lincoln lived in the protoplasmic germ from
which he sprang. All his possibilities were there. His environment,
his education, the part he played in life were merely helps
to unfold, to bring out that possible Lincoln which existed
in the protoplasmic germ.
The
new thought of God shows us that creation has never been
finished; that it is a perpetual process which never ceases
to be operative. It teaches that the Creator is never separate
from His creation, that man is not a separate unit thrown
off to sink or swim at the mercy of chance, or a cruel destiny,
but that he is one with his Maker, united with Him in creative
work. It declares that he is a part of the infinite intelligence,
of the universal mind, and that he expresses so much of
the great universal intelligence as he can appropriate and
utilize.
Anything
we ever can need or want is in us awaiting release, awaiting
expression. The thought of separateness from our divine
Source robs us of power to express or create, because we
can only have that degree of power which our consciousness
embodies. Only that is ours which we can express. All of
our weakness, our troubles, our worries, our fears, our
sufferings, and our diseases come from our conscious separation
from our living, vital, throbbing, creative force.
We
now know that man is like a partner in an enormous concern.
His resources are not limited to his own little capital.
He can draw upon the firm as long, as there is anything
to draw. We are all God’s partners, and our capacity
for creation depends very largely upon our consciousness
of our divine partnership.
“When
man discovers his identity with Spirit he begins to manifest
Creation on his own account,” says one writer. “No
longer a passive instrument, tool, or chessman in the cosmic
life, he becomes a center of creative power in himself.
It is true that he sees the phenomenal world for what it
really is; he sees that prizes and rewards of life are mere
baubles and trinkets; and he strives no longer for them
for themselves. But, in place of the old illusion, he sees
a creative purpose in the cosmic activities, a meaning in
the universal ‘becoming,’ and he smiles and takes
his place again on the stage of life, playing his part willingly,
cheerfully, confidently, and understandingly. His peep behind
the scenes does not interfere with his characterization
and the portrayal of his appointed part; on the contrary,
he plays his part all the better by reason of his knowing.”
When
we have taken God into partnership we are conscious that
we are God-polarized, that we are in the current which runs
God-ward. The consciousness of God, of being reinforced
and buttressed with infinite power, supported by infinite
wisdom, gives a wonderfully increased sense of power. When
you realize your divine partnership, it will enlarge your
life and multiply your effectiveness, because it will take
away from you all sense of uncertainty, all feeling of inability
to buffet the storms of life, all sense of hopelessness
in the presence of overwhelming odds. It will give a new
meaning to living because you will know that you are not
a victim of Fate, but that your life is founded upon infallible
fundamental principles.
When
you take God into full, complete partnership you will never
fear. Your life’s venture cannot end in chagrin. You
will never suffer lack or want, because you will then know
that if you want success, prosperity or anything needful,
you must take the material into your mind which will create
what you desire. You will head toward your ideals, toward
the material which you hold in your mind, and this is the
stuff life is made of. You will be led in green pastures
and beside the still waters, and you will fear no evil;
no pestilence can touch you because you are God-polarized,
you are immune from all of the ills of the flesh.
Holding
steadily in mind the ideals of the things you want to bring
to pass, the ideal of the man you want to be and the things
you want to accomplish, is actually necessary to the further
process of creating.
Think
of the miracles man has wrought by holding his ideal in
mind and working in cooperation with his God! Compare, for
instance, our fruits and vegetables of today with the same
kind of fruits and vegetables as they were before man focused
his mind upon improving them and lifting them to higher
levels! Compare the luscious Indian River orange today with
the sour, gnarled, bitter wild orange, the best that nature,
unassisted by man, could give us!
We
know, of course, that man alone, without the creative power
implanted in him by God, never could have evolved the luscious
fruits and succulent vegetables of all sorts which we enjoy
today out of the original inferior products as unassisted
nature left them.
The
marvelous improvements man has made upon the earth in lifting
the things which God originally created to higher and higher
and ever higher levels can only be accounted for through
his co-partnership with his Creator. It is the God in man
working with the God in the great cosmic intelligence which
has lifted them to such heights.
The
work which man has accomplished in a multitude of different
ways proves that he is one with God, that he is a co-creator
with Him, and that together they can do what neither could
do alone. They are working together for the betterment of
the race. Without the God power which, consciously or unconsciously,
is flowing through him, man could do nothing. Alone he would
be powerless; and yet it is a strange thing that some of
our greatest inventors and discoverers have been skeptics,
unbelievers in God, when it was the God in them that helped
them to make their inventions or their discoveries.
As
a matter of fact, when a man invents or discovers that which
benefits his fellow men, whether he acknowledges it or not,
it is because the creative force in him is cooperating with
the divine force in the universal intelligence which is
everywhere present.
It
is the creative force of divinity in Edison that has produced
these marvelous inventions and facilities for eliminating
drudgery from, and beautifying, life, which Edison and his
Maker together have given to the world.
Did
you ever stop to think that practically all of the great
inventions and discoveries, improvements and facilities
which are emancipating human beings from drudgery and hard,
painful conditions, and lifting mankind to a higher level,
were once regarded as “impossibilities”? Did you
ever realize that at one time those who attempted to make
these “impossibilities” realities were ridiculed,
called cranks or insane? People thought they were obsessed,
but they were obsessed only with the divine urge to create.
This obsession would not let them rest until they had realized
in the actual the model which they had first formed in the
mind. Think of the innumerable things man has accomplished,
even within the past century, how he has triumphed over
the obstacles that to the great majority seemed insuperable,
and succeeded by his creative energy in literally bringing
the ends of the earth together!
It
is the great God force working with and through them that
has enabled men in every age to accomplish the “impossible.”
This force is back of the telephone, back of wireless telegraphy,
back of the steamship, the automobile, the airship, back
of the moving picture, the phonograph, and every invention
that has helped the world along its upward path.
No
inventor can take personal credit for the vision which came
to him ready made. It is in his personal effort, in his
persistent self-sacrificing struggle to make his vision
a reality that man’s strength and divinity are manifested.
He is the working medium, but still only the medium, through
which the electric light power, the telephone, the wireless
and all the other marvelous things we are now enjoying came
to the world.
Mr.
Edison says that he regards himself merely as a channel
between the great cosmic intelligence and the race for the
passing along of inventions which benefit mankind. Other
great benefactors of the race felt as he does. They did
not believe that they really originated the wonderful things
which they passed along to posterity, but that their minds
were particularly adapted to reaching into the great cosmic
ocean of intelligence and attracting the things which they
gave to the world. They felt, like Edison, that they were
mediums for the transmission of special blessings to man.
It
is man working with God, the divine force, the God in man
working with the great creative divinity that is lifting
the race and improving mankind. Man is not doing this as
a separate unit.
There
is a power in him back of the flesh but not of it, working
with the divine intelligence in the great cosmic ocean of
thought, of cosmic intelligence. This power is everywhere
operative and is destined to lift every created thing up
to the heights of its greatest possibility.
This
is what is going, above all, to help every man to play his
part to the limit of his ability in the great universal
drama, to make his highest possible contribution to the
universe. This is how the millennium will be brought about,
by the cooperation of the divinity in man with the divine
intelligence in the cosmic world.
There
seems to be no limit to man’s possibilities as a miracle
worker when he works with his God. The brainiest man that
ever lived has never yet exhausted in any one direction
the cooperative marvels of his Maker. Who can imagine what
our fruits, our flowers, our vegetables, our cereals, our
animals, will be after another thousand years of the cooperative
effort of man with God!
The
chrysanthemum which takes the prize at flower shows today
is a miracle of size and beauty compared with the tiny,
scrubby chrysanthemum from which it sprang centuries ago.
The same thing is true of the rose, the carnation, the pansy,
and all garden flowers. At the same rate of improvement
who can foretell what these things will develop into even
a hundred years from now! The marvelous creations which
Luther Burbank, cooperating with his God, has produced in
the kingdom of flowers and plants are but indications of
what the future will bring.
“Nature
unaided fails” is the dictum of science. Luther Burbank
is a partner with his Creator. Together they are doing what
neither could do alone.
Man
is a necessary instrument in the creative process. The Creator
alone never has produced such wonderful things as Burbank
and the Creator together have produced. Nor are Burbank,
Edison and other noted men exceptions in this respect. We
are all co-creators with the great Creator of all.
Man
as God’s partner is performing miracles all over the
world. He mixes his brains with the soil, and behold, what
marvelous creations he calls out, as if he had touched it
with a magic wand! By his genius in selecting and combining
stocks in the animal and the vegetable world, he evolves
the perfect plant, the thoroughbred animal. The same mysterious
cosmic intelligence that pushes into the inventor’s
mind the image and the plan of a great invention is helping
the horticulturist, the agriculturist, the stock breeder,
the scientist,—all who are engaged in creative and
productive work.
Every
great writer, artist, inventor,—everyone who has done
a really great thing,—has felt conscious of receiving
suggestions from outside of his own brain, quite apart from
what he has received from other sources,—books, people,
nature, study, etc. In other words, he is conscious of being
helped by some great power back of his brain.
Great
writers, for example, do not deliberately think out in detail
the things they are going to write. Pictures come to them,
ideas flood their brains. Sometimes with such an onrush
do ideas come that they cannot write them all down or even
dictate them. In moments of inspiration like this the poet,
the author, the musician, is merely a sort of secretary
for the mysterious intelligence back of his brain.
Call
it what we will, divine force or the cosmic intelligence,
that exists back of all atoms, in all electrons, there is
certainly a formative intelligence that plans, and makes
the creative artist feel that he is merely the wireless
receiving station taking off an immortal message, a message
that has been flashed from a divine station somewhere in
the universe.
How
often have messages been transmitted to the inventor during
sleep, when he has been totally unconscious of trying to
think or plan an invention! How often has the poet received
in a dream, as by a flash of illumination, the line or the
words he needed to complete a poetic image!
Whence
come these things? What formed that divine image which lives
first in the artist’s brain? He did not deliberately
plan that picture which came to him full-orbed, perfect!
His own brain did not fashion the ideal. He merely reproduced
it on canvas.
Whence
came that model in the sculptor’s brain, which his
imagination holds until with chisel and mallet and deft
hand he calls it out of the marble in a wonderful statue
that all but breathes and lives. The sculptor did not deliberately
make his mental model. It came to him. He used it to help
him call his idea out of the block of marble. Without it
there would be no statue.
There
is no other explanation than that it came to him through
the great creative Mind. All of these things go to show
that man and God are one, that they are working together,
that they are partners, co-creators, that everywhere they
cooperate in producing, creating, improving, uplifting.
No
one is a real success until he takes God (Good) into partnership,
until his own purpose and ambition are squared with the
divine plan. That is, a man’s vocation must at least
not run counter to the purpose of the universe, which is
based on the unity of all things, which means team work.
If
you are doing things which in some way benefit the race,
contribute to its highest welfare, then your career is in
tune with the Infinite plan. You are cooperating with the
Creator in the team work of the race. You are a success.
But if you are doing something which runs counter to God’s
world plan, to this great cooperative team work of the race,
you are a failure, and you cannot be really happy, because
you are working in opposition to your Creator.
There
is something inside of a man which protests against doing
that which tends to injure another, that which does not
square with his God nature, with the best thing in him;
that which is not working in response to his highest aspiration.
This
is why men who are in questionable vocations never feel
quite right about their work. They are never proud of it.
Their hearts are not in it. They would rather strangers
would not know what they are doing, unless they see in them
the marks of the brute, those things which have an affinity
for their own animality.
I
have met professional gamblers, liquor dealers, bar tenders,
dive keepers, and I have never known one who did not really
feel ashamed to have decent people know how they got their
living.
When
a man is selling useful merchandise, working as a section
hand on a railroad, as a street cleaner, as a day laborer
in any useful field, he is not ashamed of his work—unless,
through lack of ambition or for any other reason he is doing
the lower thing when something very much higher is possible
to him. But, no matter how humble, needful service, work
which helps the race along, is dignified, and, if done in
the right spirit, will be an opening to something higher.
When
you take God into partnership, when you are conscious that
you are doing His work, you have a feeling of peace and
security. You walk as one who sees a great light because
you feel that you have a great Partner, One with whom you
cannot lose your way. You do not fear failure because you
know that your divine Partner is the very Source of all
supply, and you feel safe, reassured. You know that nothing
can prevent your success as long as you and your Partner
are in harmony.
Taking
God into partnership means that you must not only be honest,
but that you must be robustly honest. You know that you
cannot lie or cheat or steal. You know that you cannot take
advantage of anybody. You know that you must be kind and
considerate to all. You know that you cannot be greedy or
grasping, and at the same time work with God.
If
you take God into partnership you know that you must be
clean and pure-minded. You know that you cannot indulge
in low, sensual pleasures. You know you cannot do anything
which will degrade another or push further down one who
is already on the downgrade. Your plea that that one is
already bad is no excuse for you. If you take God into partnership
you cannot despoil or desecrate His creature. She is your
sister. You cannot take advantage of God’s child and
have God for a partner, because you will then be working
against Him instead of with Him.
Thousands
of young men start with God as a partner and lose Him because
He will not do business with a man who is not clean, pure,
and honest. If you would keep God as a partner you must
do right and be right.
“I
am the life and substance of the Greater’ Mind,”
says Paul Ellsworth, “and the recognition of this truth
frees me from every false desire.” When you realize
that you are one with the Greater Mind, you will naturally
take God into partnership, and work in perfect harmony with
Him. This will give a new meaning to your life, and will
turn you around completely so that you will see the things
that are really worthwhile. You will see a new world. You
will have a new zest in life, a new ambition, an ambition
for the attainment of the higher things, the things that
give enduring satisfaction. You will lose interest in that
which before you thought essential, imperative, to your
happiness.
The
things you drop will not be wrenched away from you. You
will drop them voluntarily for something better, just as
the child will drop the apple for the orange, the orange
for the toy, and the toy in turn for something better, something
bigger and more attractive. Your motto will then be, “The
best of everything belongs to me because I am working in
harmony with the Creator and inherit the best from the King
of kings.”
When
we have a Partner who is the reality of wisdom, of love,
of justice, a Partner who is the very source of all supply,
we do not fear want, we do not fear poverty, we do not fear
sickness or death. We fear nothing because we know we are
united with Omnipotent Power, and that nothing but ourselves
can sever this divine connection.
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