2. To recognize this intelligence is to acquaint yourself with the knowing quality of mind, and through it to move upon the universal substance, and bring it into harmonious relations in your affairs.
3. This is something that the most learned physical science teacher has not attempted, a field of discovery upon which they have not yet launched; in fact, but few of the materialistic schools have ever caught the first ray of this light. It does not seem to have dawned upon them that wisdom is just as much present everywhere as are unity and substance.
4. Some will say, if these principles are true; as the fundamental principle is obviously correct, why do you not get proper results? You do! You get results in exact accordance with your understanding of the law and your ability to make the proper application. You secure no results from the laws governing electricity until someone formulated the law and showed you how to apply it.
5. This puts you in an entirely new relation to your environment, opening up possibilities hitherto undreamed of, and this by an orderly sequence of law which is naturally involved in your new mental attitude.
6. Mind is creative and the principle upon which this law is based is sound and is inherent in the nature of things; but this creative power does not originate in the individual but in the universal, which is the source and fountain of unity substance. The individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this fountain source. The individual is the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena.
7. You know that scientists have resolved matter into an immense number of molecules; these molecules have been resolved into atoms, and the atoms into electrons. The discovery of electrons in high vacuum glass tubes containing fused terminals of hard metal, indicates conclusively that these electrons fill all space ; that they exist everywhere, that they are omnipresent. They fill all material and occupy the whole of what you call empty space. This, then, is the universal substance from which all things proceed.
8. Electrons would for ever remain electrons unless directed where to go to be assembled into atoms and molecules, and this director is mind. A number of electrons revolving around a center of force constitutes an atom; atoms unite in absolutely regular mathematics ratios and form molecules, and these unite with each other to form a multitude of compounds which build the universe.
9. Electrons are pure negative electricity, and as they manifest in the body as cells, and possess mind and intelligence sufficient for them to perform their offices in the human physical anatomy. Every part of the body is composed of cells, some of which operate independently; other in communities. Some are busy building tissue, while others are engaged in forming the various secretions necessary for the body. Some act as carriers of material; others are the surgeons whose work it is to repair damage; others are scavengers, carrying off waste; others are constantly ready to repel invaders or other undesirable intruders of the germ family.
10. All these cells are moving for a common purpose and each one is not only a living organism, but has sufficient intelligence to enable it to perform its necessary duties. It is also endowed with sufficient intelligence to conserve and perpetuate its own life. It must, therefore, secure sufficient nourishment and it has been found that it exercises choice in the selection of such nourishment.
11. Each cell is born, reproduces itself, dies and is absorbed. The maintenance of health and itself depends upon the constant regeneration of these cells.
12. It is therefore apparent that there is mind in every atom of the body; this mind is negative mind, and the power of the individual to think makes them positve, so that you can control this negative mind. This is the scientific explanation for metaphysical healing, and will enable anyone to understand the principle upon which this remarkable phenomenon rests.
13. This negatine mind, which is contained in every cell of the body, has been called the subconscious mind, because it acts without your conscious knowledge. You have found that this subconscious mind is responsive to the will of the conscious mind.
14. All things have their origin in mind, and appearances are the result of thought. So that you see that things in themselves have no origin, permanency or reality. Since they are produced by thought they can be erased by thought.
15. In mental, as in natural science, experiments are being made, and each discovery lifts mankind one step higher towards possible goal. You find that every person is the reflection of the thought they have entertained during its lifetime. This is stamped on their face, their form, their character, their environment.
16. Behind every effect there is a cause, and if you follow the trail to its starting point, you shall find the creative principle out of which it grew. Proofs of this are now so complete that this truth is generally accepted.
17. The objective world is controlled by an unseen and, heretofore, unexplainable power. You have, heretofore, personalized this power and called it God. You have now, however, learned to look upon it as the permeating essence or principle of all exists is the infinite or universal mind.
18. The universal mind, being infinite and omnipotent, has unlimited resources at its command, and when you remember that it is also omnipresent, you cannot escape the conclusion that you must be an expression of manifestation of that mind.
19. A recognition and understanding of the resources of the subconscious mind will indicate that the only difference between the subconscious and the universal is one of degree. They differ only as a drop of water differs from the ocean. They are same in kind and quality; the difference is one of degree only.
20. Do you appreciate the value of this all important fact; do you realize that a recognition of this tremendous fact places you in touch with omnipotence? The subconscious mind being the connecting link between the universal mind and the conscious mind, is it not evident that the conscious mind can consciously suggest thoughts which the subconscious mind will put into action, and as the subconscious is one with the universal, is it not evident that no limit can be placed upon its activities?
21. A scientific understanding of this principle will explain the wonderful results which are secured through the power of prayer. The results which are secured in this way are not brought about by any social dispensations or providence, but on the contrary, they are the results of the operation of a perfectly natural law. There is, therefore, nothing either religious or mysterious about it.
22. Yet there are many who are not ready to enter into the discipline necessary to think correctly, even though it is evident that wrong thinking has brought failure.
23. Thought is the only reality; conditions are but the outward manifestations; as the thought changes, all outward or material conditions must change in order to be in harmony with their creator, which is thought.
24. But the thought must be clear-cut, steady, fixed, definite, unchangeable; you cannot take one step forward and two steps backward, neither can you spend twenty or thirty years of your life building up negative conditions as the result of negative thoughts, and then expect to see them all melt away as the result of fifteen or twenty minutes of right thinking.
25. If you enter into the discipline necessary to bring about a radical change in your life, you must do so deliberately, and then you must allow nothing to interfere with your decision.
26. This discipline, this mental attitude will not only bring you the material things which are necessary for your highest and best welfare, but will bring health and harmonious conditions generally.
27. If you wish harmonious conditions in your life, you must develop an harmonious mental attitude.
28. Your world without will be a reflection of your world within.
