different
element between them; but as there is
nothing different from God. the unity
of God and man is firmly extablished forever.
"My father and I are One" is
a simple statement of a great soul who
perceived life as it really is and not
from the mere standpoint of outer conditions.
Taking
as the starting point that man has the
same life as God, it follows that he used
the same creative process. Everything
is one, comes from the same source and
returns again to it. "The things
which are seen are not made of the things
which do appear." What we see comes
from what we do not see. This is the explanation
of the whole visible universe, and is
the only possible explanation.
As
God's thought makes worlds and peoples
them with all living things, so does our
thought make our world and peoples it
with all the experiences we have had.
By the activity of our thought things
come into our life, and we are limited
because we have not known the truth; we
have thought that outside things controlled
us, when all the time we have had that
within which could have changed everything
and given us freedome from bondage.
The
question, then, naturally arises: Why
did God create man and make him a
free agent? If God had created us
in such a way as to compel us to do or
to be anything that was not of our choosing,
we should not not have been individuals
at all, we should be automatons. Since
we know that we are individuals, we know
that God made us thus; and we are just
discovering the reason why. Let any man
wake up to this, the greatest truth in
all ages, and he will find it will answer
all questions. He will be satisfied that
things are what they are. He will perceive
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