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The Power of Thought
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from “Your Heritage” by Walter C. Lanyon
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 desire 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 atonement 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 oneness 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 is 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.
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