CHAPTER
IV
Operation
of Your Mental Picture
THE operation
of a large telephone system may be used
as a simile. The main, or head central
subdivides itself into many branch centrals,
every branch being in direct connection
with the main central, and each individual
branch recognizing the source of its existence,
reports all things to its central head.
Therefore, when assistance of any nature
is required: new supplies, difficult repairs
to be done, or what not, the branch in
need goes at once to its central head.
It would not think of referring its difficulties
(or its successes) to the main central
of a telegraph system, though they might
belong to the same organization. These
different branch centrals know that the
only remedy for any difficulty must come
from the central out of which they were
projected and to which they are always
attached.
If we, as
individual branches of the Universal Mind,
would refer our difficulties in the same
confident manner to the source from which
we were projected, and use the remedies
which it has provided, we would realize
what Jesus meant when he said, “Ask
and ye
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