There is a Power inside of you which if you could discover and use would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
The same Power that created us sustains and repairs us, and this Power is right inside of us.
I have seen a man of ordinary strength, hypnotized and suspended by head and ankles on the edges of two chairs, support half a dozen or more heavy men on his body. Sometimes a horse is thus supported on a seesaw board placed across the subject’s body.
These are mostly mental feats, because a man of average strength could no more sustain a twelve-hundred-pound horse or half-a-dozen heavy men on his body thus suspended than he could fly without a machine. He could not be made to believe that he could do such a thing. Yet while under the powerful suggestion of a hypnotist that he can do it, he does it easily.
Now, from whence came the power which enabled the subject to do this marvelous thing? Certainly not from the hypnotist, for he merely called it out of the subject; it did not come from space outside of him. It was latent in the man himself.
Such experiments give us glimpses of enormous powers within us about which we know very little, and which, if we could use, would enable us to do marvelous things.
Without being able to define it, we instinctively feel that there is a great power within us, a power beyond the human that is guiding us, a subconscious soul power which presides over our destinies and which lends us superhuman aid when we make a great call upon it in danger or an emergency, a desperate strait, or when in great stress in prayer.
It is this soul power which makes a giant out of an invalid in an instant’s time when the house takes fire or some great catastrophe occurs, when a child, dearer to the mother than life, is in imminent danger. There are many instances where very delicate invalids, who were not supposed to be able to sit up, have, in a fire or some other great danger or emergency, done that which under ordinary circumstances would have been difficult even for the strongest men to do.
From whence came this power, almost within the twinkling of an eye? It came from the Great Within, and these instances reveal—as the falling apple did to Newton—a wonderful law. They make it certain that we all possess marvelous, unused powers.
The new philosophy is trying to show people how to discover and utilize the wonderful powers in the Great Within of themselves which they have hitherto been unable to use, or except in a very limited way.
There are powers inside of you, which if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
If we only knew what tremendous forces are locked up inside of us, we should not be so surprised when a tramp or a hobo becomes transformed into a hero almost in an instant, in some great railroad wreck, or fire, or other emergency. The hero was there all the time; the catastrophe simply revealed it.
We none of us know what wonderful things we could do if an emergency great enough, imperative enough, were to make a sudden call upon us.
It is from this Great Within that the power comes which does immortal deeds. We are conscious that there is something in us but not of us which is never sick, never tired, which never goes wrong. All principle, truth, love, live in this Great Within. Here is the home of beauty and justice. Here is where spiritual beauty dwells. Here abides “the peace which passeth all understanding,” and here shines “the light that was never on sea or land.”
We are all conscious of something within us that is deathless, something immortal, divine. We all feel this, the living Christ, this silent messenger which accompanies us through life, trying to warn us, advise us, protect us, no matter where we go, or how low we fall.
Many feel just as sure of this blessed mothering Presence, this messenger of peace and good will as though they could see Him with their eyes.
There is something in the Great Within of us that tells us we are at one with the power that made all things and that we shall sometime, somewhere, come into at-one-ment with this power, that when we have once drunk at this great fountainhead, we shall never know thirst or want again.
Many people pass out of this plane of consciousness with enough health latent in the billions of cells in the body to restore them to life, if it could only be aroused. There are cases in medical history where patients have been apparently restored to life, even at the moment of impending dissolution, by a relative or a physician calling to them imperatively, vehemently, to return to life. But generally the victim’s conviction that he can not get well and that he must die paralyzes and destroys the disease-resisting power of the body, so that there is nothing to check the malady, which may be fatal only because of the loss of faith and the patient’s conviction that he cannot recover.
In the same way there are multitudes of shiftless people, in the great failure army today, with scarcely energy enough to keep them alive, who have forces slumbering deep within themselves which, if they could only be awakened, would enable them to do wonderful things.
Most people have latent ability enough to accomplish wonders, but often only a fraction of this power is aroused; it lies dormant unless fired into action by some great inspiration, emergency, or by some life crisis which drives them to desperation, and forces them to make a supreme call upon their interior forces.
We are all surprised sometimes in our lives—through some great crisis or when in a desperate situation—to find that a tremendous reserve power comes to our assistance from somewhere; that from somewhere in the Great Within, from mysterious depths of our natures, come marvelous powers when the call is loud enough and strong enough, powers of which we may never before have been conscious.
The time will come when we shall be able to use at will all the latent potencies slumbering in the Great Within of us, which we get at so unconsciously in a great crisis or desperate situation but which at other times it seems impossible for us to reach.
One great trouble is that we do not have sufficient faith in the immense reserve power in our sub consciousness, and do not take proper means to arouse this slumbering power to action, although we sometimes see examples of the possibilities of great dynamic forces being aroused in people who never dreamed that they possessed them.
There is something in man that never deteriorates, never becomes demoralized or smirched, that is always true and always clean the divine in him, the regenerative principle or force, which, if aroused, will work like a leaven in the life of the most depraved, until it brings that person back to his lost God (good), to his normal condition; and when a person is normal, he wants to do right, because he is built upon the principle of justice, honesty, and truth.
It is not normal for a man to go wrong. It is just as natural for a perfectly normal person to want to do right as it is for a flower to fling out its fragrance and beauty; the flower that is blighted and withholds its fragrance and beauty is abnormal.
It does not matter how far a human being may wander from the right, the divine something in him will sometime, somewhere, bring his whole life into absolute harmony; and that is heaven harmony.
If there is anything in this universe that is evident, it is that the Creator’s plans are beneficent, and that human beings are constructed along the lines of right and justice, truth and virtue, and any deflections from these are abnormal.
A human being who is wicked, dishonest, greedy, or selfish is no more the man God made than discord is music.
Man must be in harmony with justice and truth and right because he is made to be just and true and right. That is his birthright. That is the divine in him. This divinity in man will ultimately triumph.
It is just as certain as that truth will sometime triumph over error, that harmony will triumph over discord; for truth is the everlasting fact, and error, untruth, is not a fact; it is the absence of truth. Discord is not a fact; it is merely the absence of harmony, the great fact in the universe.
No friend was ever so unselfish, so true to us as is this great healing, beneficent life principle, this mysterious Power which created us and which maintains us, and we find that we are supported, sustained, in proportion to our conscious oneness with it.
The Power that created us is the same Power that makes us over new every night during sleep. It is the same Power that is constantly re-creating every cell in the body. “Je Ie ponsez et Dieu Ie guarit” (I dressed the wound and God healed it), was written by Ambroise Pare on the walls of the Ecole de Medicine at Paris.
“I am the Lord thy God (thy good), that healeth thee.” Here is the secret of all cures. The Bible is full of accounts of mental healing. People who have never made a study of this phase of the healing philosophy would be surprised to find to what extent it is scattered all through the Scriptures.
“He forgiveth all thine iniquities and healeth all thy diseases.”
“If a man keep my saying (that is, keep in His thoughts, the truth thought, the love thought), he shall never see death.” (John 8:51).
How instinctively we turn to this Divine healing power when in trouble, when overwhelmed with sorrow and failure!
“Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Think what this invitation from the Almighty means! Peace that passeth understanding; immunity from all discords; freedom from all the enemies that have hitherto dogged our steps through life, blocking our progress, and destroying our happiness!
True prayer repairs the broken wires of our Divine connection, reassures us, brings us into harmony with the Infinite. This is the secret of all mental healing.
Think of the ridiculousness of any inert drug taken into the system competing with the immortal creative principle of all life! This creative principle does not inhere in any drug or any physical remedy. Mind is the only creator. Nothing ever was or ever will be created or re-created except through mind.
Only the Creator of the original tissues of our body can restore these tissues when diseased or destroyed.
In the final analysis all cures are self-cures, all healing is self-healing. The potency resides in the Great Within of us, in our God connection, in our oneness with Divinity. What a boon to the race, what a blessing to humanity if everyone knew this one truth, that the only healing possible must come through the rousing of the recuperative, restorative forces within himself, and that this healing power is that which heals all his hurts and wounds, and which is perpetually renewing every cell in the body, and that it is the same power which created him, and keeps him alive every instant of his existence!
The coming physician will teach the patient that the creative processes are always going on within him, that the same power which has created him is in the perpetual act of re-creating, restoring him all his life, as is shown the moment he breaks a bone or lacerates his flesh, when the healing processes begin immediately, and if our education, prejudices, and convictions did not antagonize this creative process, but were trained to aid it, the healing would be quickly, perfectly done.
We are all conscious that there is a current deep within us that runs God ward, that this current carries unlimited supply. The poorest of us are in the very midst of plenty and in touch with Omnipotent Power, but we do not know it. If, with open mind and heart, we put ourselves in the success current, the current of good, of abundance, the supply will flow to us naturally, abundantly. The mind that is open to its inflow will never want.
It sometimes happens that men who purchase farms on the prairies find that some of their predecessors attempted to drive wells, and, failing to find water, sold out. But the more enterprising purchaser drills down deeper and strikes the living stream.
Multitudes of people go through life without ever going deep enough into their inner consciousness to strike the great living stream of supply. Hence, their lives are parched, dry, and unproductive. But if we dip deep enough into the Great Within of ourselves, we shall strike the stream of living water, of which, if we once drink, we shall never thirst, never lack, or want again.
We all have moments when we get glimpses of the great possibilities within ourselves. It may sometimes be an experience which takes away a loved one, which opens up a rift in our nature and gives us a glimpse of power which we never before knew we possessed. It may be the reading of an inspiring book, or an encouraging friend that gives us a glimpse of our possible selves, but, whatever it is, we are never quite the same again after we have once felt the thrill of power from the very source of things.
When man feels the mighty principle of truth, of justice pulsating through him, he knows that even with all the world against him he and this principle are a majority.
This was why Lincoln was such a power in the world. It was not merely what was in his brain; it was the mighty principle behind the man back of the flesh, it was Truth and Justice which acted through him, that made him such a power.
Lincoln was conscious that there was something inside of him, something back of him which was more than human, a power which carried divine authority, and that if he disobeyed it he would instantly be robbed of his power and peace of mind. He felt that truth and justice were speaking through him; that he was simply a medium.
Did you ever realize that you are a part of the universal intelligence that underlies all things, the intelligence which furnishes the pattern for the rose before it pushes out into objective reality, the intelligence which shapes every flower and plant and tree and blade of grass, and that this great ocean of intelligent energy that fills the universe exists in the Great Within of you, is at your disposal to produce what you will?
One man shapes this intelligent activity into a statue which enchants mankind, another into an architectural wonder, another into a railroad, another into a telephone or sewing machine, another into hideous forms which contaminate and demoralize every beholder.
The one great Mind which pervades the universe originates every flower pattern, every tree, every animal, every living thing. It is from this same mind, this power in the Great Within of us, that we create everything which goes to make up our life.
If man could only harmonize with the Divine Principle within, the Principle which never dies, which is never sick and never sins, he could reach his greatest efficiency, his highest state of blessedness.
Most people do not half realize how sacred a thing a legitimate ambition is. What is this eternal urge within us which is trying to push us on and on, up and up? It is the God urge, the God push in the Great Within of us, which is perpetually prodding us to do our best, and bids us refuse to accept our second best.
When we come into the realization of that great, silent, vital energy within us which is able to satisfy all the soul’s desires, all its yearnings, we shall no longer hunger or thirst, for all the good things of the universe will be ours. No life can be poor when enfolded in the Infinite Arms, and living in the very midst of abundance, the source of all supply.
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