2. All wealth is the offspring of power; possessions are of value only as they confer power. Events are significant only as they affect power; all things represent certain forms and degrees of power.
3. Knowledge of cause and effect as shown by the laws governing electricity, chemical affinity and gravitation, enables mankind to plan courageously and execute fearlessly. These laws are called Natural Laws, because they govern in the physical world, but all power is not physical power; there is also mental power, and spiritual power.
4. Spiritual power is superior because it exists on a higher plane. It has enabled mankind to discover the law by which these wonderful forces of nature could be harnessed and made to do the works of hundreds and thousands of people. It has enabled mankind to discover laws whereby time and space have been annihilated and now apparently the law of gravitation is to be overcome. The operation of this law is dependent upon spiritual contact.
5. In the physical world as you know it, there exists the organic and the inorganic. The inorganic or the mineral world is absolutely cut off from the plant or animal world; the passage is hermetically sealed. These barriers have never yet been crossed. No change of substance, no modification of environment, no chemistry, no electricity, no form of energy, no evolution of any kind can ever endow a single atom of the mineral world with the attribrute of life.
6. Only by the bending down into this dead world of some living form can those dead atoms be gifted with the properties of vitality; without this contact with life they remain fixed in the inorganic sphere for ever.
7. Physical laws may explain the inorganic, biology explains and accounts for the development of the organic, but the point of contact science is silent. A similar passage exists between the natural world and the spiritual world; this passage is heretically sealed on the natural side. The door is closed; no person can open it, no organic change, no mental energy, no moral effort, no progress of any kind can enable any human being to enter the spiritual world.
8. But as the plant reaches down into the mineral world and touches it with the mystery of life, so the universal mind reaches down into the human mind and endows it with new, strange, wonderful and even marvellous qualities. All people who have ever accomplished anything in the world of industry, commerce or art have accomplished it because of this process.
9. Thought is the connecting link between the infinite and the finite, between the universal and the individual. You have seen that there is an impassable barrier between the organic and the inorganic, and that the only way that matter can unfold is to be impregnated with life; as a seed reaches down into the mineral world and begins to unfold and reach out, the dead matter begins to live, a thousand invisible fingers begin to weave a suitable environment for the new arrival, and as the law of growth begins to take effect, you see the process continue until the lily finally appears.
10. A thought is dropped into a invisible substance of the universal mind, that substance from which all things are created, and as it takes root, the law of growth begins to take effect and you find that conditions and environment are but the objective form or your thought.
11. The law is that thought is an active vital form of dynamic energy, force and power which has the unity to correlate with its object and bring it out of the invisible substance from which all things are created into the visible or objective world. This is the law by which, and through which, all things come into manifestation ; it is "GodScope Meditations" by which you are admitted into the secret place of the most high and are "given dominion over all things". With an understanding of this law you may "decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee".
12. It could not be otherwise; if the soul of the universe, is the universal spirit, then the universe is simply the condition which the universal spirit has made for itself. You are simply individualized spirit and are creating the conditions for your growth in exactly the same way.
13. This creative power depends upon your recognition of the potential unity of spirit or mind and must not be confused with evolution. Creation is the calling into existence of that which does not exist in the objective world. Evolution is simply the unfolding of potentialities involved in things which already exist.
14. In taking advantage of the wonderful possibilities opened up to you through the operation of this law, you must remember that you contribute nothing to its efficacy, as the great teacher said: "it is not I that doeth the works, but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works". You must take exactly the same position; you can do nothing to assist in the manifestation, you simply comply with the law, and the all-originating mind will bring about the result.
15. The great error of the present day is the idea that humanity has to originate the intelligence whereby the infinite can proceed to bring about a specific purpose, plan or prayer result. Nothing of this kind is necessary; the universal mind can be depended upon to find the ways and means for bringing about any necessary manifestation. You must, however, create the ideal, and this ideal should be perfect.
16. You know that the laws governing electricity have been formulated in such a way that this invisible power can be controlled and used for your benefit and comfort in hundreds of ways. You know that messages are carried around the world, that ponderous machinery does its bidding, that it now illuminates practically the whole world, but you know, too, that if you consciously or ignorantly violate its law by touching a live-wire, when it is not properly insulated, the result will be unpleasant and possibly disastrous. A lack of understanding of the laws governing in the invisible world has the same result, and many humans are suffering the consequences all the time.
17. It has been explained that the Law of Causation depends upon polarity, a circuit must be formed; this circuit cannot be formed unless you operate in harmony with the law. How shall you operate in harmony with the law unless you know what the law is? How shall you know what this law is? By study, by observation.
18. You see the law in operation everywhere; all nature testifies to the operation of the law by silently, constantly expressing itself in the Law of Growth. Where there is growth, there must be life; where there is life there must be harmony, so that everything that has life is constantly attracting to itself the conditions and the supply which are necessary for its most complete expression.
19. If your thought is in harmony with the creative principles of nature, it is in tune with the infinite mind, and it will form the circuit, it will not return to you void; but it is possible for you to think thoughts that are not in tune with the infinite, and there is no polarity, the circuit is not formed. What, then, is the result? What is the result when a dynamo is generating electricity? The circuit is cut off and there is no outlet. The dynamo stops.
20. It will be exactly the same with you, if you entertain thoughts which are not in accordance with the infinite and cannot be polarized; there is no circuit, you are isolated, the thoughts cling to you, harass you, worry you, and finally bring about disease and possibly death; the physician may not diagnose the case exactly in this way, they may give it some fancy name which has been manufactured for the various ills which are the result of wrong thinking, but the cause is the same nevertheless.
21. Constructive thought must necessarily be creative, but creative thought must be harmonious, and this eliminates all destructive or competitive thought.
22. Wisdom, strength, courage and all harmonious conditions are the result of unity and you have seen that all energy, force and power is from within; likewise, every lack, limitation or adverse circumstance is the result of weakness, and weakness is simply absence of unity; the remedy then is simply to develop unity, and this is accomplished is exactly the same manner that all energy, force and power is developed in the silence of "GodScope Meditation" exercises.
23. These exercises consists in making an application of your knowledge. Knowledge will not apply itself. You must make the application. Abundance will not come to you out of the sky, neither will it drop into your lap, but a conscious realization of the Law of Attraction and the intention to bring it into operation for a certain, definite and specific purpose, plan or prayer, and the will to carry out this goal will bring about the materialization of your desire by a natural law of transference. If you are in business, it will increase and develop along regular channels, possibly new or unusual channels of distribution will be opened and when the law becomes fully operative you will find that the things you seek are seeking you .
