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they all Life, Being, Intelligence, and Substance. The
fruit of these branches is the body, perfect and complete
in all good when the branch abides in the vine.
Thought is the busy worker; gathering material from
within, from Source and Cause Invisible, from the I am
that is always Wholeness and Perfection, it conveys what
it has gathered into the visible, or fruit.
Thought is building the visible universe, and it it
turns only to spirit for its knowledge, the outer will be
in the very likeness of Spirit.
If we see in our visible "world" things contrary to
or God, then thought has turned away from Spirit
to gather its material for building, and brings forth other
than Spirit's fruit, "For the fruit of the spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth." -- Eph. 5:9.
Misery, error, and evil, are not fruits of Spirit. Has
thought power to bring forth these?
It is written, Jer. 6:19, "Behold I will bring evil upon
this people, even the fruit of their thoughts," and again
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."
The soul of man is the power God has given him to
think divinely, and thus image all Good. If thought has
been wedded to something beside Spirit, it has failed to
image God in the earth. Among the wonders shown to
Christian in the Interpreter's home, was a man raking
in the dust, and so intently was his attention fixed upon
this, that he did not see held just above him a crown,
waiting for the upward look of his eye, and the lifting of
his head.
"Thou hast crowned him (man) with honor and
glory. Thou hast put all things under his feet," but,
thought has been so busy looking into the "dust" of its
own stirring up, so intent upon seeing man as a "worm of
the dust," "that it has not seen the crowning of man by
