growth
have appeared? There is nothing manifest
but that there is a cause for the manifestation.
Investigation proves that behind every
condition, whether of body or environment,
there has been some thought, conscious
or unconscious, which produced that condition.
In the case of this woman the thought
was not conscious. But creation is going
on all the time; we should realize this
and learn how to control it so that there
may be created for us the things that
we desire and not those that we do not
want. Is it any wonder that the Bible
says, "With all thy getting get understanding"?
Jesus
understood all this, and so it was no
more effort for Him to do what He did
than it is for us to breathe or to digest
our food. He understood, that
is all. Because Jesus did understand and
did use these great laws with objective
consciousness, people thought He must
be God. And when to-day something unusual
occurs, people think that a miracle has
been performed. Jesus was not God. He
was a manifestation of God; and so are
all people. "I say ye are gods, and
every one of you sons of the Most High."
A
thinking person will be compelled to admit,
in view of all this, that creation is
first spiritual, through mental law, and
then physical in manifestation.
Man
does not really create. He uses creative
power that already is. Relatively speaking,
he is the creative power in his own life;
and so far as his thought goes, there
is something that goes with it that has
the power to bring forth into manifestation
that thing thought of. Hitherto men have
used this creative power in ignornance
and so have brought upon themselves all
kinds of conditions, but
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