The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JULY 1935
the Universe is My Body, all Intelligence there is emanates from My Mind, all the Love there is flows from My Heart, all the Power there is, is but My Will in action.
“The three-fold Force, manifesting as all Wisdom, all Love, all Power; that which holds together all forms and is back of and in all expressions and phases of life, be those phases creative, cohesive or destructive, is but the manifestation of My Self in act or state of Being.
“Nothing can BE without manifesting and expressing some phase of me, Who AM not only the Builder of all forms, but AM the Dweller in each. In the heart of each I dwell; in the heart of the human, in the heart of the animal, in the heart of the flower, in the heart of the stone. In the heart of each I live and move and have My Being, and from out the heart of each I send forth that phase of Me I desire to express, and which manifests in the outer world as a stone, a flower, an animal, a man.
“Is there nothing, then, but this great I? Am I to be permitted no individuality for myself? I hear you ask.
“No, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that is not a part of Me, controlled and ruled eternally by Me, the One Infinite Reality.
Can anyone, truly meditating upon and fully realizing the real meaning of these wonderful words, fail to acknowledge God as responsible for all that goes on in His Universe?
If the I AM thus speaking is God and He is All there is, then how can man be or do anything of himself? If God is All in all, then He must be man, must be all man is, must be all humanity; and man is not separate nor apart from it or from Him. All that man is, all that humanity is, must be God in expression—if man or humanity are anything at all.
But you must remember that man is not what he thinks he is; and what he thinks he is, is not what God created him and still knows him to be. In other words what man thinks he is, he is not; for he thinks and therefore sees wrongly—seeing only the thought-pictures in his own mind.
The human mind we know is full of error, caused by wrong teaching from the beginning, filling the mind with wrong beliefs or
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