living
person can answer this question. This
is something that is known only of the
Father. We might suppose that God made
man to live with Him and to enjoy with
Him, to be one with the Father. It is
true, indeed, that those who have felt
this most deeply have had a corresponding
spiritual power that leads us to suppose
that God really did make man as a companion.
Man is the individual and God is the Universal.
"As the Father hath life within himself."
Man's mind is made out of God's mind,
and all that man is or ever will be, all
that he has or ever will have, must partake
of the Divine nature. Man did not make
it so, but it is so, and he must accept
that face and see what he can do with
it. If he has the same power in his individual
life that God has in the Universal, then
this discovery will mean freedom from
all bondage when he learns how to use
his power. As God governs His Universal
world so will man govern his individual
world, always subject to the greater law
and life. This could not be otherwise
if we realize what follows from it,for
so realizing we find ourselves living
in a very different world from the one
in which we thought we were living. God
governs not through physical law as reult,
but first by inner knowing -- then the
physical follows. In the same way, man
governs his world by the process which
we will call, for want of a better name,
the power of his thought.
Man's
inner life is one with the Father. There
can be no separation, for the self-evident
reason that there is nothing to separate
him from God, because there is nothing
but life. The separation of two things
implies putting a
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