Your
Power to
Demonstrate
What
Is
It
That Heals
The
Power of
Thought
Let
There Be
The
Thing
That Sinneth It Shall Die
Come,
Let Us
Reason Together
The
Father
Within
Your
I
Am
Right
Thinking
The
House of Darkening Shadows
Your Power to
Demonstrate
If
in a fit of insanity a ship's captain should destroy or cut loose
the rudder of his boat while in mid ocean at what port would he finally
land? At the port of chance. And who can say what that port would be.
Perhaps
it would be the harbor of his dreams. Possibly by some wild fate
the wind and waves might carry him, rudderless, into the desired haven,
but the odds would be so great against him that no one would care to
take such a hazard. For a ship without a rudder, though it might have
on board minds of the most trained excellence and the most perfect
instruments of nautical science, would fittingly resemble many a man
whose mind is full of practical truth, and is yet being
shipwrecked on the shoals of indecision and "waiting."
It
is certainly true that the rudderless ship in mid ocean meets with
no opposition as to the direction of its course. All ways are open to
it. Any port is available. It may turn about in any direction, without
hindrance, and yet be making no real progress, because it has lost its
rudder. With all the power in the world stored in its mighty hull it
will yet get nowhere and will at last run on a reef, going down to
shipwreck and disaster.
Just
such will be the fate of hundreds of honest Truth Seekers. They have
the letter, but not the spirit' to direct, and because of this are all
their lives counted among the Listless Waiters, lacking the guidance of
the Unseen Hand, which is but hazily formulated in their minds, and the
lack of which leaves them derelicts on the world's trackless ocean. They are
lacking in that essential innate power which, when used aright, enables
a man to accomplish almost what he will. One ship, as we all know, is
able to sail west, and another to take its course eastward, both
carried onward by taking advan tage of the same favoring wind. But it
is the knowing how to use this power and the ability to subject it to
our needs that carries us to the desired port and enables us to make
life's journey a success.
Just as all will concede that no ship
ever starts on a voyage without having a destination definitely in
view, so it should be with us. None of us should start in to
demonstrate an indefinite truth. We follow too much the careless habit
of letting Truth do the work of guiding . us; which is like tearing off
the rudder of our ship and trusting to a favorable wind to blow us into
a satisfactory port.
Every one should have before him the
chart of what he expects to accomplish. He should cleave to the line
and stand as captain at the wheel, not for one moment doubting that he
will reach the high goal of his ambition and desire.
No evil can come from a well-formulated
plan or outline, and these will be found necessary and
advantageous in all lines of life. What would we think of a
railway company that would start out to build its tracks without having
decided upon a destination and with no fixed end in view other than
building from town to town. Yet this is just exactly what you do when
you set out on a demonstration that has no definite end in view.
Here is, for instance, a man whose
demonstration is along the line of health. He knows exactly what he
wants. His aim is to possess that well feeling that snaps with vitality, and he goes after it
mentally. His end and aim are clearly defined, and he realizes that he
has but to apply the principle in the right way to get results. But if
it is wealth that he wants he does not set about it so definitely. You
find him saying: "What is right for me to have will come." He fails to
realize that unless he in some measure shapes his desires, he cannot
receive, and when the oil starts running he will have no measure in
which to receive because he has not formed the cup of his desire.
A haphazard, aimless, waiting state of
mind is precisely what kept the man at the Pool of Bethesda from
getting his health. Instead of placing himself in the pool, and thereby
stirring the waters into healthful activity, he waited until the waters
were first stirred, with the result that some active mind always rushed
off with the prize.
When man makes his contact with God,
the infinite sea of substance which surrounds him-that whole sea of
substance-starts to move in the direction of that mind, as when a small
hole is made in a dam all the water of a river or lake moves towards
that opening, ready and willing to pour out floods.
Man, then, in contact with God must
feel the inexhaustible urge of substance which is pressing towards
him, desiring to be expressed. "Prove me, and see if I will not pour
out a blessing so large that ye will not be able to receive it."
But just how to put this rudder into
action is what puzzles the minds of the masses. They are burdened with
Metaphysical Fat, that is, of reasoning and pondering truth
without practical results, but knowing not how to put it into good use
in demonstration. If a statement
is not demonstrable to you, you have either come upon a false
statement, or else have not grown to it and are not ready for its
fruitage.
First, then, when you desire to
demonstrate the principle of truth a cleansing process must go on
in the mind. Gently brush from your mind by denial all that which is
clogging the way. Deny, forget and forgive, and presently you come to a
wholly mental realm. It is almost a state of mind which is typified by
children when they say, "play-like." You take for granted, accept and
acknowledge the desired state, which is not as yet manifest in the
flesh, or in your affairs. Once in this
receptive state of mind, you are ready for the second state.
Next you press out further than the
narrow confines of your mind and find God everywhere present. You
meditate for a moment on what God is and where He is, and now that you
are in contact with Him, the whole sea or substance of love is moving
towards you, as the water moves towards the small opening in the dam.
Further you realize that the Father is
just as eager to be expressed bountifully in your life as the water is
to force its way through the opening in the
dam. We feel the great urge of spirit
upon us fulfilling our desires (filling full our desires) which arc
very much like balloons uninflated. Now the inrush of this substance
fills them until they are lifted completely off the earth or material
base, and people say it is a miracle or a demonstration has taken
place, for it is materially impossible.
When you have your contact with God,
the infinite power, the next step is set forth in the Scriptures:
"Ask." We are told to "ask," and there is no doubt but the translation
of the work which appears so often is
correct. Suppose
a child stood by a table loaded with food, hungry and desiring nutriment,
but afraid to ask, would he not more than likely wait long and perhaps
in vain for that which he desired? How many of us have not heard some
grandmother say, "Why didn't you ask for it, child, long ago; you could
have had all you wanted." So it is with demonstration, we are told to
literally ask, and like the child who wanted cake, he would probably
make a specific demand for it rather than asking for the ingredients
which go to making it
up. So we must ask direct. This is the difference in having an aim, a
destination, or a well-formed desire in mind when
demonstrating. You might have placed in your hands all the
materials which go to make a loaf of bread, and yet be as helpless as
if you had not asked, and almost starve because you failed to make your
desire known.
When you need bread, wheat, yeast,
water and sugar do not suffice. You want the finished product. So when
you need money, an indefinite asking for supply and substance makes a
disturbance on the sea of substance, but the cup of your desire
not being formed your demonstration is very much like dipping water
with your hands-most of it gets away from you.
When Jesus demonstrated sight for the
blind he did not ask for the indefinite thing called healing. Yet sight
is contained in health. He said: "Receive thy sight." So we must
learn to use the cup of our desire, and ask, knowing what we desire.
When you have asked-when you-have
"spoken the word"-your next step is to "believe" just accept the thing
and cling steadfastly to the completed work, meeting all
objections with the firm assertion: "It is done."
From this state of mind follows a
natural state, that of gratitude and thanksgiving, which is the first
and last step in your demonstration. You give thanks that the
"Word" is made flesh and is now in your possession.
But you say: "Perhaps I might be asking
for a thing that is not good for me." "Perhaps I maybe
unconsciously taking that which belongs to another." You .begin
your demonstration with your one-ness with God. When this is
established, when you forget, forgive and bless all mankind, then you
innately know whether or not you are trying to put God's power into a
material, selfish desire.
Gradually, as you hold conscious
communion with the Father which is within you, you 'will learn to
recognize whether the desire is from beneath or above, and
instantly you will either destroy or fulfill.
"Thanks be to God for His Unspeakable
Gift."
What is the unspeakable gift which Paul
refers to in the above quotation? Is it not for grace, for
continuing we read:
"And God is able to make all grace
abound unto you, that ye having always a sufficiency in everything, may
abound unto every good work."
It is plain that the "Gift," of which
so much is said, is the coming into possession of unlimited supply,
whether it be money, health, contentment or love. There is no
limitation in the thought: "God is able to make all grace abound unto
you." It does not say that He is able to make a part of the whole, or a
limited amount; but all. The Bible is full of promises that great
riches shall be bestowed upon us; that great riches are already ours.
"And I
will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret
places."
"Thou openest Thy hand and satisfiest
the desire of every living thing."
"Delight thyself also in the Lord, and
He shall give thee the desires of thy heart."
How many times have you read these
promises over and over and then wondered why it is that you should have
to struggle along in the most limited sense of things? Perhaps your
barest needs are met, but always with the strictest economy. Something
is wrong with the way we apply the rule, for the rule is correct. The
whole trouble lies with ourselves in the application of the laws laid
down for us in the demonstration of prosperity.
Let us examine the nature of the thing
called thought. We have already come to a place where we recognize that
thought is productive of its own kind; that when we think a kind
thought it is accompanied by a gentle word or deed, or vice versa; that
when we think of action, the body moves; and when we think "I can" it
produces an entirely different state of feeling and action from "I
can't." And soon through the whole category of thoughts we find them
productive of their own kind. If you plant a radish seed you expect a
radish, not a turnip; and here we see a conscious or unconscious faith
set into operation. We never plant seeds knowing that they will not
grow and that our whole garden will be a failure. We see, then, that
one of the elements of growth is Faith.
Of course, you already know all this,
and when you are asked what it is that demonstrates prosperity, you
reply, " Divine Mind," or God, and you have already learned that Divine
Mind is Right Thinking, and that God is no longer afar off in the
heavens, but close at hand.
You have learned that you now have a conscious unity with Him, that you
and the Father are one, and you begin your operations from the center
of your being instead of trying to work a mystic chain by saying,
"There is no lack; God is everywhere," and then "waiting" for
something from without to happen. True, certain conditions external to
us do operate and act, but only because we place ourselves in the way
of these conditions. We place a seed in the ground when we are ready
for it to start growth. In another place, in a sack -for
instance, it manifests no growth. This is also true of us; when we get
the inside right we automatically find the exterior conditions
such that we cannot fail to grow.
Thought, then, is the formless
substance out of which things are molded. The cup of
our desire is that which shapes it. A child at the seaside with molds
fills them over and over again with sand. All about us is the unformed
substance, and when we get into consciousness with the Father within,
and realize that the Divine Self and the Father is one we begin molding
and shaping this formless substance into the formed.
Try this, dear reader. Go within and
unify yourself with the Father, and start to decree and declare
mentally without the physical or material counterpart entering into it.
Satisfy yourself mentally that you possess all good; that you are now
bringing into existence that which you need. "Ye shall decree a
thing and it shall come to pass." "Decree" does not mean that ye shall
wish a thing or desire a thing, but shall declare it as a thing which
is inevitable. How many times have you done this? Not many. You have
thought what is right for me to have I will have, and sledded along
under a burden of poverty and limitation which was very painful and
altogether distressing. There is no virtue in poverty. It does not
help in a single way and is as much a sin as anything else, for it is a
belief in a limited, selfish and personal God, who deals bounteously
with some and is sparing with others. Some have declared they have all
substance without the slightest concept of the mentality of a
hundred dollars. They have spoken in terms of millions and held in mind
at the same time a few dollars. Now to become conscious of substance is
to let go and give up and take for granted, as it were, that you
possessed all. You have no fear or thought when you get in your
bath that you will remain dry. It has long since passed the stage when
you would think of that, and likewise the demonstration of substance
must come. When you know that you are one with the Father within,
and are speaking out this new authority, you learn that you can
actually "Decree a thing and it shall come to pass." So must you get
yourself in a mentality that refuses, for a single moment, to
acknowledge defeat or limitation of any sort. Assume a
mentality which is rich and abundantly prospered. Place yourself in
your desired mental surroundings and bring out the vision which is
shown to you on the mount. Remember that your very desires,
insofar as they are good, are of God, and 'do not originate in you.
Praise the first appearance of the
operation of this new law, however small it may seem; praise every bit
of substance which comes your way-your health, your contentment, your
happiness; praise and bless it all, and pass it along. Get very busy
giving out joy. Be a giver. See how many happy people you can make during the day. Never let the evil thought
of limitation crowd you out into the cold. You have returned to your
Father's house, and "All that I have is thine."
Try it for one day. Refuse to let the
least limiting thought enter your mind. When the appearances of
limitation come to you, say, "I shall not judge from appearances. I
shall judge righteous judgment."
It may help you to take a check on your
treasures at the present time. Take
a pencil and paper and list the wonderful things you have to give
thanks for. They will increase and
increase until they will become more numerous than the sands of the
sea, and you will have a glorious praise-giving, and even the ground
you are standing on will become so holy you will thrill with a new life.
When you come to recognize that all
about you is a living, vibrating substance out of which things are
created, you begin to feel the unspeakable peace which comes from
true understanding. Now in order to have abundance, you must talk
abundance. Never let your conversation get shabby and poor, any more
than you would think of indulging in discourses on disease. Keep your
thought rich and your conversation rich. Someone has said: "Talk
abundance, have abundance." Not that the mere talking will bring you
.money any more than it does health, but it will mirror forth the
thought, and gradually the mind will become so saturated with
abundance that it will speak it forth in that which it desires.
Be very consistent in this matter. Be
willing to start anew with the rule. If you were to decide to write a
letter, you would not put down "Dear Sir," and then say, " Well, I have
done my work and the letter will be written." No, you would continue
writing letter upon letter, word after word, line after line until it
was complete. So it is with demonstration of Prosperity. We must keep
right after it consistently, and not let down until it is made. Refuse
to accept lack as a reality; it is only a belief that there is a place
where Mind is not, and this, you know, is an utter impossibility. What
a man can conceive, he can bring to light if he be consistent and
persistent in his thought world.
Rejoice at every evidence of wealth,
whether it be yours or your neighbor's. When another gets it, it only
makes your opportunity that much greater, and should make you seek a
closer knowledge of the law of prosperity. "Be not envious one of
another." Be glad-be glad and rejoice. All about you is the
inexhaustible source of supply.
Do not fix the channel through which
substance can be made manifest to you. There are infinite ways and
means. All you have to do is to get hold of the idea of limitless
substance, and press it forth into expression. Let no limited or
selfish idea enter in. Use this wonderful substance like you do the air
and sunshine. You never think of wasting
it.
Yet you use it in any quantity and without encroaching on the rights of
others. It is abundant and is yours. Think it into your life. Make it
your very own. Claim it as an heir. Decree it as a master. Dwell in the
thought until it becomes as much a part of you as health does.
Remember, that every visible idea of
wealth which now exists-be it house or lands or jewels-can be
directly traced to the mental. "Every good and every perfect gift
is from above, and cometh down from the Father of light, with whom is
no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
What Is It
That Heals
What heals and is healed is a question
that often starts discussion. What actually is Mortal Mind-error,
carnal thought; and what is Immortal Mind-God, Good, as understood in
metaphysics?
When you say you "know the truth" what
do you actually do? Many
times have you pondered this subject, and perhaps have dismissed
it all with a feeling that you could not give a clear statement of just
what knowing the truth is.
Now it is true that when you think
health, your body manifests health, as it does happiness, etc., and
since all right thinking originates in and is of God, and since thought
is the modus operandi of God, the current or point of communication, we
find that Immortal Mind, to which we attribute our healing, is composed
of Right Thinking. Then Immortal Mind is really Right Thinking;
and it follows, inversely, that evil thinking is mortal mind or error.
It further follows that since evil thinking constitutes the mortal
mind, which you fear, this very mortal mind is not, as you supposed, a
universal instrument which attacks you from the outside, but a
recording disk of wrong thinking, so to speak, which is in sympathy
with all other minds of the same standard, and is universally
susceptible and impressionable by the cross currents of mortal thought.
Knowing the truth, then, resolves
itself into one thing, that of thinking right. When you are thinking
right about a thing, you are knowing the Truth about it. How simple,
then, to know the Truth. The moment we change our thought about a
thing and place it in the right, we are at that moment "knowing the
Truth" of that thing, and as soon as our mind becomes thoroughly
saturated with that idea, the demonstration comes out into the flesh.
For "you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you
free." The truth of the whole matter is
that you are already free, and have only to put on the practice of
freedom to acquire it in the
flesh.
No more will you have to reach for God,
to strain and feel after a thing called Divine Mind which is
somewhere outside yourself, but immediately you start thinking
right you are in the presence of the Most High, of the Father within,
and your seed of demonstration is lacing planted. "He is a very present
help." We understand why accidents are unknown to this
understanding, since we have the guidance right with us- all the
while, the power which never slumbers, and which is striving to make
itself manifest in our lives.
Instantly, then, we can start thinking
right. If you are ill you can begin thinking right about yourself, and
that moment you tap the reservoir of all healing, and it, figuratively,
starts moving towards you. As you make this opening larger, more and
more of it pours in upon you, and you have the completed
demonstration. But the keynote is that you are instantly brought
into the source of all health when you begin thinking right about the
situation.
Now be not discouraged or overcome if
the first good thought you put out does not instantly put to flight the
"armies of the aliens." "Stand fast and see the salvation of the Lord," for it is
bound to come. It is inevitable and cannot be withheld. The simplicity
of it all at first is too great to be comprehended, but as you try this
rule you will find that the reaching after God has ceased, that the
straining and worrying to become spiritually minded has been actually
replaced by a knowledge that right thinking is spiritual thinking and
is knowing the Truth.
Furthermore, you turn your affirmations
within. You address the Father within and immediately you feel a
nearness of this living principle, and feel consciously at-one with it.
All with years you have been reading
the Scripture: "Behold I stand at the door and knock," wondering how
you could let the Savior of mankind into your life, never dreaming that
He was already within your life, waiting for an opportunity to be
brought out, to be "let loose in your Garden," as it were, to be
acknowledged as the Master of the Temple, and that now, when you
say "Father," directing your thought within, the response "Son"
completes the perfect union or contact.
As the word is the thought clothed, and
is the seed which is planted, gradually there dawns upon you the
importance of guarding your words. These are the little stones that go
into or spiritual building, and if they are weak and selfish, they
crumble soon and fall into the dust, thereby weakening our whole
structure and making our existence shaky and uncertain.
The Power of
Thought
Which was first: the egg or the birds?
the flower or the seed? You have but to resolve the whole thing into
thought to find that first of all, before either flower or seed, bird
or egg, was the idea, which rested in the mind of God. For we know that
these .things were formed and created out of the invisible "substance
of things hoped for."
All about us is this invisible unformed
substance Mind from which Jesus drew that which He needed, by first
forming the desire into an$ idea and impressing this or pressing this
out, to expression in the flesh. He knew that it was inexhaustible and
unlimited; that as long as He drew from the unseen substance he would
be supplied.
But the injunction comes, "Judge not
from appearances." In holding an acorn in your hand, if you say,
"This little seed has no strength," and "Such a small thing could never
in any way aid the wheels of progress" you are passing similar judgment
to that which is passed by the world at large on right thinking. People
say, "Yes, it is all right if you want to delve in pretty theories and
thoughts, they perhaps tend to make your life sweeter and more
harmonious, but as far as actually producing results they are nil." But
you know that this is judging from appearances, and that when the seed,
thought or acorn is properly planted and cared for, before long these
very people find themselves dependent upon the sturdy oak tree to assist them
in some way either to furnish shelter or to give light and heat.
So with your desire: it is the seed
thought which must be planted, with all the faith that you plant your garden.
It must be cared for with the same confidence that you have in the
future of your garden. A lady who each year planted flowers always
said: "Flowers never grow for-me; they get spindly and die." They
followed in results her lack of faith in them. In the same yard another
member of the family reaped a plentiful harvest of whatever she
planted. But she had loved her flowers, and had long before won the odd
comment: "If you were to plant a stick of wood it would grow and
flourish."
So with our mental gardens. We look out
and see gardeners all about us who are planting with differing results.
We often hear the remark: "I do my work; I know the truth; and yet when
it comes to actual results, I must confess they are disappointing." And
unconsciously this very gardener, when he plants his mental
garden, had watered it with the thought: "It always turns out this
way. "What could such a one hope for?
Suppose you undertook to instruct a
child and always after giving the lesson, you would say: "You will
never play well, but you can go on through these tiresome exercises."
How far would such a one get? And with what results?
So we come to a place in our thinking
when we must add to our work an absolute faith. A positive
application of cause and effect must be the principle with which
we are guided, and let no doubt or fear overshadow the results. Do not
water the ground with tears of doubt. Tears are salt and will kill life.
"That which is born of the spirit is
spirit." First and foremost in your mind is the fact that the work must
all be done on a mental plane. You must disregard absolutely the
material. Do your work from a mental plane. If necessary, call in that
undeveloped faculty, imagination, for your first work must be
absolutely mental. If you are working upon a case of
sickness, you must first defeat the thing in your own mind and on
a purely mental plane; then bring it out into the flesh and sec it
manifested. If you are desiring a home first form it perfectly
mentally, and cling to it like Jesus did. He stood there and said in
the case of Lazarus: "I thank thee, Father, that thou hast heard me,"
before the slightest manifestation of demonstration was made. He
finished his work mentally; then he added, "Lazarus, come forth."
When you are using your Power of
Thought, when you recognize this tremendous power, which operated in
every direction for Jesus, even to the control of the elements, then
you will begin to awake, and arise from the dead to a glorious
at-one-ment with the Father within. You will begin to speak out to the
storm-tossed sea of affairs, and immediately a calm will come which
will prove to you beyond a doubt that the Right Power is at last
working. " I and My Father
are one, and the Father being in the Kingdom, the Kingdom within me, I
have but to turn and connect or contact this wondrous source of power
with myself to "move mountains" and "still tempests."
Jesus said: "Who touched me" when he
perceived that virtue had gone out of him in healing. We all know that
merely touching the physical Jesus would no more heal .than it would to
touch a tree. But He was so closely allied with the Father "within"
that he was actually one with Him in power, and the contact with this
power set right any wrong condition that came near it, just as surely
as a thing thrown into the sea gets wet and partakes of the conditions
of the water into which it was thrown. It is inevitable.
To further show his one-ness with the
Father, and to give us an idea of what a tremendous power is ours, he
said: "I am the Resurrection and the Light." So closely allying himself
again with the Father within that he used the " I Am" in speaking about
himself without reference to the Father.
"There is a spirit in man, and the
inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding." There is within
you that Spirit which shall suddenly break through your limited
thinking, and accomplish in a minute what you have worked months on in
the old way of reaching for a power outside yourself.
But some have declared that God is not
within you, and with the same breath declared that He is infinite and
everywhere present. What hopeless reasoning this, when you view it
directly and see that the statements are contrary. Either God is
infinite and within you or else there is a place where He is not. Yet
Jesus made .no hesitancy in saying where the Father was. He plainly
defined Him as dwelling within man.
"All things are possible to him who
believes." What does this mean? Are we going on from year to year
accepting certain conditions as real and others as unreal and
unnatural, and wait? Nothing is so stupefying, nothing more harassing,
nothing more destroying to real life than waiting, when we see nothing
coming our way. Hundreds there be who are daily praying this unknown
principle to bring something to pass "which will be best for them." Are
you one of these who study, read and wait? Then let it be told you that
your results will be exactly the same as if you sat yonder at the
well and prayed the bucket to dip down and bring you up some water.
It is all there, your supply and the
means of getting it, but the power which is resident in you, the Father
within, must be brought into active service, and then the results are
sure and certain.
Way back there in the recesses of the
most humble and weakened mind is a dream of dominion. In day dreams
they mount up the conqueror of every situation, the master of every
condition. A triumph and success in every line. This is, dear reader,
more than a day dream, after all. It is the spirit of the real You
which is speaking and trying to gain admittance into your visible life.
Where did these glorious thoughts of dominion originate? In the
mind of another? No, they were born within you. It is your birthright
which has remained all these years wrapped in the swaddling clothes of
ignorance. Yonder in that gorgeous palace sits a master of three
hundred slaves. He is weak and puny, and there is not a man among his
slaves but could break him with the greatest ease. Yet, unconscious of
their power, raised in slavery, they cringe and slink away from his
very approach. So with us, this mortal slave master is in reality a
weakling, and he has stood there with whip in hand, tyrannizing over
us, while resident in us is that magnificent power which could break
him into pieces without a conscious effort, if we would but use this
power.
Dominion, Dominion, that is the song of
your soul, it is the song of your life-it is the teaching of the Master.
When you come to ally yourself with
this Father within, a great unselfishness comes to you; a feeling that
all the world is your home, and you would no more think of hoarding
this precious knowledge and keeping it in selfish reserve than you
would desire to preserve for your own personal use- a certain quantity
of air. If you did this you would soon sicken and die; you would stifle
in your selfishness, for your power would again be sent back into
chains of material making and the air would become poisonous with
repeated use. Selfishness must be flung to the wind. The great doors of
your mind must be opened to the world so that mankind may come and go
at pleasure. Love must radiate through you in such a way that it will
magnetize your very life for good. "You shall draw all men unto
you." Not for personal, selfish ends, but for the glorification of God.
No longer do you insist on My this
and
that; you detach all this and dwell in the. absolute. You guard your
words as you would select your seeds. You
can either grow roses or thistles by choice in the same piece of
ground. You can always begin anew, and though the ground be tilled to
weeds they can be uprooted and new seeds dropped in at once. Such is
the glorious progression of man, forever flowing upward and
outward, and gathering new and fresh impetus as it moves along.