Excerpt of Vol I
Unveiled Mysteries
“The Truth of Life is, you cannot desire that which is not possible of manifestation somewhere in the Universe. The more intense the feeling within the desire, the more quickly it will be attained. However, if one be foolish enough to desire something that will injure another of God’s children or any other part of His Creation, then that person will pay the penalty in discord and failure somewhere in his own Life’s experience.
“It is very important to realize fully that God’s intent for every one of His children is abundance of every good and perfect thing. He created Perfection and endowed His children with exactly the same power. They can create and maintain Perfection also, and express God Dominion over the earth and all that is therein. Mankind was originally created in the Image and Likeness of God. The only reason all do not manifest Dominion is because they do not use their Divine Authority—that with which each individual is endowed and by which he is intended to govern his world. Thus they are not obeying the Law of Love by pouring out peace and blessing to all creation.
“This comes about through their failure to accept and acknowledge themselves as Temples of the Most High Living God and to hold this acknowledgment with eternal recognition. Humanity, in its present seeming limitation of time, space, and activity, isin the same condition a person in need would be to whom someone held out a handful of money. If the needy one did not step forward and accept the money held out to him, how in the world could he ever have the benefit which it could bring?
“The mass of mankind is exactly in this state of consciousness today and will continue in it until they accept the God within their hearts as the Owner, Giver, and Doer of all the Good that has ever come into their lives and world.
“The personal self of every individual must acknowledge completely and unconditionally that the human or outer activity of consciousness has absolutely nothing of its own. Even the energy by which one recognizes the Great God Within is radiated into the personal self by the Great God Self.
“Love and praise of the Great Self Within and the attention maintained focused upon truth, health, freedom, peace, supply, or any other thing that you may desire for right use, persistently held in your conscious thought and feeling, will bring them into your use and world as surely as there is a Great Law of Magnetic Attraction in the Universe.
“The Eternal Law of Life is: ‘What you think and feel, you bring into form; where your thought is, there you are, for you are your consciousness; and what you meditate upon, you become.’
“When one allows his mind to dwell upon thoughts of hate, condemnation, lust, envy, jealousy, criticism, fear, doubt or suspicion, and allows these feelings of irritation to generate within him, he will certainly have discord, failure, and disaster in his mind, body and world. As long as he persists in allowing his attention to be held by such thoughts—whether they be about nations, persons, places, conditions or things—he is absorbing those activities into the substance of his mind, his body and his affairs. In fact, he is compelling—forcing—them into his experience.
“All these discordant activities reach the individual and his world through his thought and feeling. Feeling often flashes before one is aware of the thought in the outer consciousness, which he might use to control it; and this kind of experience should teach him how great is the energy within his many creations which has accumulated through habit.
“The feeling activity of Life is the most unguarded point of human consciousness. It is the accumulative energy by which thoughts are propelled into the atomic substance, and thus thoughts become things. I tell you, the need of guarding the feeling cannot be emphasized too strongly; for control of the emotions plays the most important part of anything in Life in maintaining balance in the mind, health in the body, success and accomplishment in the affairs and world of the personal self of every individual. Thoughts can never become things until they are clothed with feeling.
“The Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, is the feeling side of Life—God—the Activity of Divine Love, or the Mother Expression of Deity. This is why the sin against the Holy Ghost is referred to as that which brings such great distress, because any discord in the feeling breaks the Law of Love, which is the Law of Balance, Harmony, and Perfection.
“The greatest crime in the Universe against the Law of Love is humanity’s almost ceaseless sending forth of every kind of irritable and destructive feeling.
“One day the race will come to realize and recognize that the sinister destructive forces manifesting on this earth and in its atmosphere—generated, mark you, by human thought and feeling—have only entered the affairs of individuals or nations through lack of control in the emotions in everyone’s daily personal experience. Even destructive thoughts cannot express themselves as action, events, or become physical things, except by passing through the world of feeling; for it is in this phase of manifestation that the activity of coalescing the physical atom upon thought forms takes place.
“As the noise from a sudden explosion shocks the nervous system of one who hears it—setting up a trembling sensation in the cellular structure of the body—in exactly the same way do the flares of irritated feeling shock, disturb, and disarrange the finer substance in the atomic structure of the mind, body, and world of the person who sends them out—consciously or unconsciously—intentionally or unintentionally.
“Discordant feeling is the producer of conditions we call disintegration, old age, lack of memory, and every other failure in the world of human experience. The effect upon the body structure is the same as that produced upon a building if the mortar holding the bricks together were to receive repeated shocks, and each day those were to be increased. This continued shock would shake apart the particles composing the mortar; the building would collapse into a chaotic mass, and the form be no more. That is what mankind is constantly doing to the atomic structure of the human body.
“To give expression to the discordant thoughts and feelings in oneself is the course of least resistance, and the habitual activity of the undeveloped, undisciplined and willful individual who refuses to understand the Law of his own Being and to bring the personal self, which is but his instrument of expression, into obedience to That Law.
“He who cannot or will not control his thoughts and feelings is in a bad way; for every door of his consciousness is wide open to the disintegrating activities thrown off by the minds and the emotions of other personalities. It takes neither strength, wisdom nor training to give way to unkind, destructive impulses; and the full-grown human beings who do this are but children in their development of self- control.
“It is a blight upon the Life of mankind that, so little control of the emotions is taught humanity from the cradle to the grave. Attention to this particular point is the greatest need in the Western World today. It is easy to give way to discordant thoughts, feelings, and activities because the mass of mankind are submerged, as it were, by environment and association entirely created by themselves.
“The individual, through his control of the outer consciousness, must make the effort to rise out of this condition by his own free will in order to transcend these limitations permanently, and no one can hope to rid his life and world of misery, discord, and destruction until he leashes his own thought and feeling. In this way, he refuses to let the Life flowing through his mind and body become qualified by the discord resulting from every little disturbing occurrence in the world about him.“The mass of mankind is exactly in this state of consciousness today and will continue in it until they accept the God within their hearts as the Owner, Giver, and Doer of all the Good that has ever come into their lives and world.
“The personal self of every individual must acknowledge completely and unconditionally that the human or outer activity of consciousness has absolutely nothing of its own. Even the energy by which one recognizes the Great God Within is radiated into the personal self by the Great God Self.
“Love and praise of the Great Self Within and the attention maintained focused upon truth, health, freedom, peace, supply, or any other thing that you may desire for right use, persistently held in your conscious thought and feeling, will bring them into your use and world as surely as there is a Great Law of Magnetic Attraction in the Universe.
“The Eternal Law of Life is: ‘What you think and feel, you bring into form; where your thought is, there you are, for you are your consciousness; and what you meditate upon, you become.’
“When one allows his mind to dwell upon thoughts of hate, condemnation, lust, envy, jealousy, criticism, fear, doubt or suspicion, and allows these feelings of irritation to generate within him, he will certainly have discord, failure, and disaster in his mind, body and world. As long as he persists in allowing his attention to be held by such thoughts—whether they be about nations, persons, places, conditions or things—he is absorbing those activities into the substance of his mind, his body and his affairs. In fact, he is compelling—forcing—them into his experience.
“All these discordant activities reach the individual and his world through his thought and feeling. Feeling often flashes before one is aware of the thought in the outer consciousness, which he might use to control it; and this kind of experience should teach him how great is the energy within his many creations which has accumulated through habit.
“The feeling activity of Life is the most unguarded point of human consciousness. It is the accumulative energy by which thoughts are propelled into the atomic substance, and thus thoughts become things. I tell you, the need of guarding the feeling cannot be emphasized too strongly; for control of the emotions plays the most important part of anything in Life in maintaining balance in the mind, health in the body, success and accomplishment in the affairs and world of the personal self of every individual. Thoughts can never become things until they are clothed with feeling.
“The Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, is the feeling side of Life—God—the Activity of Divine Love, or the Mother Expression of Deity. This is why the sin against the Holy Ghost is referred to as that which brings such great distress, because any discord in the feeling breaks the Law of Love, which is the Law of Balance, Harmony, and Perfection.
“The greatest crime in the Universe against the Law of Love is humanity’s almost ceaseless sending forth of every kind of irritable and destructive feeling.
“One day the race will come to realize and recognize that the sinister destructive forces manifesting on this earth and in its atmosphere—generated, mark you, by human thought and feeling—have only entered the affairs of individuals or nations through lack of control in the emotions in everyone’s daily personal experience. Even destructive thoughts cannot express themselves as action, events, or become physical things, except by passing through the world of feeling; for it is in this phase of manifestation that the activity of coalescing the physical atom upon thought forms takes place.
“As the noise from a sudden explosion shocks the nervous system of one who hears it—setting up a trembling sensation in the cellular structure of the body—in exactly the same way do the flares of irritated feeling shock, disturb, and disarrange the finer substance in the atomic structure of the mind, body, and world of the person who sends them out—consciously or unconsciously—intentionally or unintentionally.
“Discordant feeling is the producer of conditions we call disintegration, old age, lack of memory, and every other failure in the world of human experience. The effect upon the body structure is the same as that produced upon a building if the mortar holding the bricks together were to receive repeated shocks, and each day those were to be increased. This continued shock would shake apart the particles composing the mortar; the building would collapse into a chaotic mass, and the form be no more. That is what mankind is constantly doing to the atomic structure of the human body.
“To give expression to the discordant thoughts and feelings in oneself is the course of least resistance, and the habitual activity of the undeveloped, undisciplined and willful individual who refuses to understand the Law of his own Being and to bring the personal self, which is but his instrument of expression, into obedience to That Law.
“He who cannot or will not control his thoughts and feelings is in a bad way; for every door of his consciousness is wide open to the disintegrating activities thrown off by the minds and the emotions of other personalities. It takes neither strength, wisdom nor training to give way to unkind, destructive impulses; and the full-grown human beings who do this are but children in their development of self- control.
“It is a blight upon the Life of mankind that, so little control of the emotions is taught humanity from the cradle to the grave. Attention to this particular point is the greatest need in the Western World today. It is easy to give way to discordant thoughts, feelings, and activities because the mass of mankind are submerged, as it were, by environment and association entirely created by themselves.
“The individual, through his control of the outer consciousness, must make the effort to rise out of this condition by his own free will in order to transcend these limitations permanently, and no one can hope to rid his life and world of misery, discord, and destruction until he leashes his own thought and feeling. In this way, he refuses to let the Life flowing through his mind and body become qualified by the discord resulting from every little disturbing occurrence in the world about him.