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not making myself become anything, it is becoming more
and more conscious of what I am.
Because we have not recognized the truth of our
Life and Being, thought has become filled with images
of false being, which have obscured the true idea. Our
visible world rests under the shadow of such false belief;
for it is an acknowledged fact, by many thinkers, that
creation, or the visible, is mysteriously linked with man's
thought.
"The student of nature observes, that all things in
nature -- the animals, mountains, seas, and stones -- have a secret relation to man's thought and his life. Nature
gives him a copy of every mood and shade in his character and mind. Every object he beholds is the mask of man. Nature is the immense shadow of man." -- Victor
Hugo.
"The soul spreads its own hue over everything; the
shroud or wedding garment of nature is woven in the
loom of our own feelings." -- F. W. Robertson.
The visible world returns to us our own opinions and
beliefs.
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking
makes it so." -- Shakespeare.
"There is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that
esteemeth a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean." -- Paul. His thinking makes it so to himself. We may as
truly say, "There is nothing hurtful of itself, but to him
that esteemeth a thing to be hurtful, to him it is hurtful."
To change our world, therefore, we must change our thoughts about it. "The things that are seen are temporal," because our way of seeing things shall change!
"The creation is on wheels, always passing into
something else, streaming into something higher; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new
