LESSON III
WORDS, THEIR USE AND POWER.

GOD is supreme Intelligence, Wisdom, Understanding, Reason, all of which can be comprehended in the one word, Mind. God is Mind, and since God is the great first cause, therefore Mind is the great first cause. Divine Mind is the one creative power and source of all true manifestation.

What can be predicated of God is true of Man, who is the image and likeness of God.

Mind, the great cause.

Man’s mind is the cause of all that is in his life. Solomon says, “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23 :7), and the Dhammapada expresses the same idea in the following words:

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

Thoughts are the product of Mind, and the means through which Mind works. The thoughts of divine Mind are pure and good, true, and full of life and health, and they produce heavenly conditions. In the

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