The secret of all health, prosperity, and happiness is being in conscious union with the Divine.
The late Professor Shaler, of Harvard University, said that the greatest discovery of the last century was that of the unity of everything in the universe, the oneness of all life.
This idea that there is but one principle running through the universe, one life, one truth, one reality, that this power is divinely beneficent, and that we are in this great current principle, which is running Godward, is one of the most inspiring, encouraging, and fear-killing that ever entered the human mind.
Life will take on new meaning when we come into the realization of our at-one-ment with this great creative, sustaining principle of the universe.
The realization that in the truth of our being we are actually a part of this great principle, a necessary, inseparable part of it, and that we can no more be annihilated than can the laws of mathematics, that we must partake of all of the qualities which compose our Creator, that we must be perfect and immortal because we were created by Perfection, are a part of immortal Principle, solves the greatest mysteries of life and gives us a wonderful sense of security, safety, satisfaction, and contentment, which nothing else can give.
The constant contemplation of our union with the Infinite life, the realization that literally “I and my Father are one,” helps to establish a certainty, an assurance that we are not the playthings of chance, the puppets of accident or fate, that we are not tossed hither and thither in the universe the victims of a cruel destiny which we cannot control.
Just in proportion as we realize this oneness with the Divine, this at-one-ment with our Maker, do our lives become calm, confident, creative.
There is no doubt that St. Paul had a glimpse of the union of man with this great creative sustaining Principle when he said: “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God. ”
“Ye shall know the truth (of your divinity) and the truth shall make you free,” that is, free from the slavery of fear, anxiety, care, free from the bondage of superstition, uncertainty, and limitation, free from the thought of poverty and distress.
The coming man will lose all sense of fear because he will be conscious of his oneness with Omnipotent Power.
The art of all arts is to be so entrenched, so poised in principle, so anchored in faith in everybody and everything—faith in the final triumph of harmony, truth, and justice—and to be so centered in truth that nothing can possibly shake us or disturb our equilibrium.
I have seen a delicate woman pass through sufferings and trials which would have sent most strong men and women to an insane asylum, and yet she never wavered or complained, but was always, even during the darkest hours, poised, helpful, serene, kindly, always full of love for her fellow men. There was a light in her eye which was not born of earth, because she was so entrenched in principle, in truth, so conscious of her oneness with the Divine, so completely in tune with the Infinite, and her faith was so gigantic, that nothing could happen to throw her off her center. Not even torture or starvation, or ostracism, could snuff out that divine light which shone in her eyes, or destroy her equanimity or serenity. She felt the presence of a Divine hand leading, guiding, protecting her, and she was not afraid.
It has ever been a mystery to the world that martyrs and prisoners could go through such sufferings and tortures, not only without a tremor of fear, but even with the assurance of victorious triumph. The reason is that they were anchored in eternal principle, buttressed by truth, justice, and right. Nothing could happen seriously to disturb them, because the hand that held them fast was Omnipotent, Divine.
The mind that has once caught a glimpse of its at-one-ment with Divinity, that has felt in tune with the Infinite, is never again afraid of anything that can happen to it, because it knows the closing of one door may only mean the opening of another, perhaps to infinitely greater and grander opportunity.
The closer we are to Divinity, the nearer we are to the limitless source of things. When we feel strongest, when we feel conscious of the power which is back of the flesh, but not of it, when we feel that we are in touch with Divinity, our power is greater and our supply larger.
If we could only open ourselves without stint, without restraint, fully to this divine inflow of power, what forces our lives could and would become!
We are so weak and inefficient because we shut off this power by our wrong-thinking, our vicious-living. No man can be really strong while conscious of wrong-doing.
Every time a man does wrong he weakens himself by so much. In this way, many men cut themselves almost entirely off from their conscious divine connection by severing the strands, the cable of justice, truth, love, right, and are thus shorn of their power.
Much of our greatest dishonesty is with ourselves. Each wrong act cuts a strand in the cable which connects us with our God. This accounts for the cowardice of a criminal who was once a hero. He has cut himself loose from his Creator Father, and the consciousness of this separateness from the great principle which he inherited from Him gives him a sense of isolation, uncertainty, helplessness, and the feeling that he is no longer a complete man.
Every time we do wrong, every time we depart from the truth, every time we commit a dishonest, unworthy act, do a mean, contemptible thing, we lessen the Omnipotent grip upon us, and then we become a prey to all sorts of fears, apprehensions, dreads, and doubts.
Separated from the Divine Power, we feel as helpless as a little child left alone in the dark.
Man is beginning to learn that his power, his success, his happiness are in proportion to the completeness of his consciousness of this divine connection, and that he is mighty or weak as he keeps it inviolate and sacred, or breaks it.
All our troubles come from our sense of separateness from the Infinite Source.
The moment we feel conscious that our union with the Great Source of things is broken, we are filled with uncertainty and apprehension; we feel a sense of helplessness, which makes us weak, timid, apprehensive. Fear, anxiety, worry, are positive evidence that we have lost our divine connection and strayed from home, that we are out of tune with the Infinite, and in discord with principle.
Our strength comes from the conscious oneness with Omnipotence.
Perfect love casteth out fear, because perfect love annihilates all the idea of separateness between ourselves and Infinite love.
When we sense our at-one-ment with Him, when we become fully conscious of this divine reunion, all of our troubles flee, all of our diseases and our sins are healed.
When we are in such close contact with Deity that we actually feel God (good) all sense of weakness, limitation, fatigue, timidity, doubt, will vanish, and we shall have that perfect fearlessness which comes from the consciousness of our at-one-ment with Truth.
The nearer man approaches to the recognition of this union, he expresses in his being the principles of life, of truth, of beauty, everything that builds, that is constructive, creative, and the farther he is from all that is destructive—the deadly, the discordant.
The moment we become thoroughly conscious that we are connected with this Divine current running heavenward, the great underlying Principle of the universe, that we are a part of the great Truth, we take on new power, our courage and confidence multiply our ability.
Man is great in proportion as he reflects truth, justice, right. He is a weakling, a nobody when he depends upon his own power and does not recognize this divinity principle.
No man can attain to the maximum of his power until he recognizes that he is a part of the great Principle of the universe.
“The Divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves, it is our very self.”
The very holding of the thought that we are truth itself, that error is abnormal to us, that we are harmony and not discord, that we are the principle of life, the very essence of love, justice, truth, beauty, gives us peace, serenity, a steadfastness and spiritual uplift which no material things can bestow.
Just in proportion as we have perfect connection, are at-one-ment with the Divine, shall we receive the life current, the health current which can heal all our diseases. This is the secret of all healing, of all health, prosperity, and happiness, the conscious union with the Divine. There is no harmony, no health, no genuine happiness that is lasting and worthwhile outside of this at-one-ment. If we could only constantly live in the consciousness of it, we could always maintain physical and mental harmony. This is the secret of all human blessedness.
In this consciousness we do not grow old. Instead of declining with the years, we perpetually renew our youth, and constantly advance to greater and greater blessedness. Nothing can sever our Divine connection, separate us from God (good) except sin. In so far as we depart from the qualities which make up divinity and which we have inherited, such as justice, truth, harmony, love, just so far do we break our connection with the current running God-ward.
What a comforting and sustaining thought it is that an Infinite power presides over us which is kinder to us than we are to ourselves, kinder than we can be to those we love best; a force which is always ready to heal our hurts and to restore us, no matter how we have sinned in violating nature’s law!
When one feels that his hand is gripped by the Omnipotent hand he is “too near to God for doubt or fear” and he knows that no harm can come to him from any finite source. To feel that we are held always, everywhere, by this Divine hand and protected by Omnipotent Wisdom steadies the life wonderfully and gives a poise and confidence that nothing else can.
The realization of all this will help us to live the life worthwhile, and will show us the barrenness, the hollowness, the emptiness of the selfish, greedy struggle in which most of us are engaged. The consciousness that we actually do live, move, and have our being in Divinity will elevate our standards and multiply our powers marvelously.
A piece of well-magnetized steel will lift another, un-magnetized, eight times its own weight. A man in touch with the Divine Principle, magnetized by the consciousness of his oneness with the great creative force of the universe, in touch with Omnipotence has many times the power of the man who depends upon his own puny strength. In comparison they are like a motorman who puts up his trolley pole and draws from the great wire the help of the mighty electrical current, and one who tries to push his car by his own strength.
“Let the mind be in you which was also in Christ,” that is, the mind that gives health, peace, and happiness; the thought that gives harmony, justice, truth, and beauty. This is impossible unless we live, move and have our very being in Him, unless we abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
The very idea of persistently holding the thought that one is divinely upheld, the thought that no harm can possibly come to him while he is thus ensconced in the Divine Presence destroys all fear and worry; restores confidence, and multiplies power.
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