2. You may have all the wealth in christendom, but unless you recognize it and make use of it, it will have no value; so with your spiritual wealth; unless you recognize it and use it, it will have no value. The one and only condition of spiritual power is use or recognition.
3. All great things comes through recognition; the sceptre of power is consciousness, and thought is its messenger, and this messenger is constantly moulding the realities of the invisible world into the conditions and environments of your objective world.
4. Thinking is the true business of life, unity is the result. You are at all times dealing with the magical power of thought and consciousness. What results can you expect so long as you remain oblivious to the energy, force and power which has been placed within your control?
5. So long as you do this you limit yourself to superficial conditions, and make of yourself a beast of burden for those who think; those who are willing to recognize their power; you know that unless you are willing to think you shall have to work, and the less you think the more you shall have to work, and the less you shall get for your work.
6. The secret of energy, force and power is a perfect understanding of the principles, laws, methods and combinations of mind, and a perfect understanding of your relationship to the universal mind. It is well to remember that this principle is unchangeable; if this were not so, it would not be reliable; all principles are changeless.
7. This stability is your opportunity; you are its active attribrute, the channel for its activity; the universal can act only through the individual.
8. When you begin to perceive that the essence of the universal is within yourself ~ is you; you begin to feel your power; it is the fuel which fires the imagination; which lights the torch of inspiration; which gives vitality to thought; which enables you to connect with all the invisible energies, forces and powers of the universe. It is this unity which enables you to plan fearlessly, to execute masterfully.
9. But perception will come only in the silence of "GodScope Meditations" this deems to be the condition required for all great purposes, plans and prayers results. You are a visualizing entity. Imagination is your workshop. It is here that your ideal is to be visualized.
10. As a perfect understanding of the nature of this unity is a primary condition for its manifestation, visualize the entire method over and over again, so that you may use it whenever occasion requires. Supreme wisdom is to follow the method whereby you may have the inspiration of the omnipotent universal mind on demand at any time.
11. You can fail to recognize this world within, and so exclude it from your consciousness, but it will still be the basic fact of all existence; and when you learn to recognize it, not only in yourself, but in all persons, events, things and circumstances, you shall have found the "Kingdom of Heaven" which you are told is "within" you.
12. Your failures are a result of the operation of exactly the same principle; the principle is unchangeable; its operation is exact, there is no deviation; if you think lack, limitation, discord, you shall find their fruits on every hand; if you think poverty, unhappiness or disease, the thought messsengers will carry the summons as readily as any other kind of thought and the results will be just as certain. If you fear a coming calamity, you shall be able to say with job, "the thing I feared has come upon me"; if you think unkindly you shall thus attract to yourself the results of your ignorance.
13. This power of thought, if understood and correctly used, is the greatest mental-saving device ever dreamed of, but if not understood or improperly used, the result will in all probability be disastrous; by the help of this power, you can confidently undertake things that are seemingly impossible, because this unity is the secret of all inspiration, all genius.
14. To become inspired means to get out of the beaten path, out of the rut, because extraordinary results require extraordinary means. When you come into a recognition of the unity of all things and that the source of all unity is within, you tap the source of inspiration.
15. Inspiration is the art of imbibing, the art of self realization; the art of adjusting the individual mind to the universal mind; the art of attaching the proper mechanism to the source of all eternity; the art of differentiating the formless into form; the art of becoming a channel for the flow of infinite wisdom; the art of visualizing perfection; the art of realizing the omnipresence of omnipotence.
16. An understanding and appreciation of the fact that the infinite energy, force and power is omnipresent and is therefore in the infinitely small as well as the infinitely large will enable you to absorb its essence; a futher understanding of the fact that this energy, force and power is spirit and therefore indivisible will enables you to appreciate its presence at all points at the same time.
17. An understanding of these facts, first intellectually and then emotionally, will enable you to drink deeply from this ocean of infinite power. An intellectual understanding will be of no assistance; your emotions must be brought into action; thought without feeling is cold. The required combination is thought and feeling.
18. Inspiration is from within. The silence is neccessary, the senses must be stilled, the muscles relaxed, repose cultivated. When you have thus come into possession of a sense of poise and power you will be ready to receive the information or inspiration or wisdom which be necessary for the development of your future purpose, plans or prayers.
19. Do not confuse these methods with those of the clairvoyant; they have nothing in common. Inspiration is the art of receiving and makes for all that is best in life; your business in life is to understand and command these invisible energies, forces and powers instead of letting them command and rule you. Power implies service; inspiration implies power; to understand and apply the method of inspiration is to become a super-human.
20. You can live more abundantly every time you breathe, if you consciously breathe with that intention. The "IF" is a very important condition in this case, as the intention governs the attention, and without the attention you can secure only the results which everyone else secures. That is, a supply equal to the demand.
21. In order to secure the larger supply your demand must be increased, and as you consciously increase the demand the supply will follow, you will find yourself coming into a larger and larger supply of life, energy, force, power and vitality.
22. The reason for this is not difficult to understand, but it is another of the vital mysteries of life which does not seem to be generally appreciated. If you make it your own, you will find it one of the greatest realities of life.
23. You are told that (Bible) "In him you live and move and have your being", and you are told that "He" is a spirit, and again that "He" is love, so that everytime you breathe, you breathe this life, love and spirit. This is pranic energy, or pranic ether; you could not exsist a moment without it. It is the "Cosmic Energy" ; it is the life of your solar plexus.
24. Everytime you breathe you fill your lungs with air and at the same time vitalize your body with this pranic ether which is life itself, so that you have the opportunity of making a conscious connection with all life, all intelligence, all substance.
25. A knowledge of your relation and oneness with this principle that governs the universe and the simple method whereby you can consciously identify yourself with it gives you a scientific understanding of a law whereby you may free yourself from disease, from lack or limitation of any kind; in fact, it enables you to breathe the "Breath of Life" into your own body.
26. This "Breath of Life" is a superconscious reality. It is the essence of the "I am". It is pure "Being" or "Universal Substance" and your conscious unity with it enables you to localize it, and thus exercise the energies, forces and powers of this creative offering.
27. Thought is creative vibration and the quality of the conditions created will depend upon the quality of your thought, because you cannot express energies, forces and powers which you do not possess. You must "be" before you can "do" and you can "do" only to the extent to which you "have" and what you "have" depends upon what you "think".
28. Everytime you think, you start a train of causation which will create a condition in strict accordance with the quality of the thought which originated it. Thought which is in harmony with the universal mind will result in corresponding conditions. Thought which is destructive or discordant will produce corresponding results. You may use thought constructively or destructively, but the immutable law will not allow you to plant a thought of one kind and reap the fruit of another. You are free to use this marvellous creative energy, force and power as you will, but you must take the consequences.
29. This is the danger from what is called; will power. Those of you who seem to think that by force of will they can coerce this law, that they can sow seed of one kind and by "will power" make it bear fruit of another, but the fundamental principle of creative power is the universal, and therefore the idea of forcing a compliance without wishes by the power of the individual will is an inverted conception, which may appear to succeed for a while but is eventually doomed to failure, because it antagonizes the very power which it is seeking to use.
30. It is the individual attempting to coerce the universal, the finite in conflict with the infinite. Your permanent well-being will be best conserved by a conscious co-operation with the continuous forward movement of the great whole-mind.
