Divine Library is a free online public library that includes free eBook downloads and free audio books.
We work with New Thought Seekers and Sharers around the world
insuring that all New Thought Texts in the Public Domain
are available for you to read on the web for free, forever!
Navigate through this book by clicking Next Page or Previous
Page below the text of the page & jump directly to chapters using the chapter numbers above the text.
vital power; and it is a fact that it receives its vital power in deep; and necessarily, from some source outside itself. Life comes to us from somewhere; we do not make it; we receive it. I do not say that it is received only in sleep; I do not know but that there are conditions under which we may receive it when awake. Neither do I say that we always receive it directly from the unknown source; there may be individuals who can become so charged with it as to be this to communicate it to others; I do say however, that no individual has power to create it in himself he can only give what he has received, so that ultimately we will receive from the unknown source.
Now, as to the importance of all this: Hold up your finger, and examine it carefully. What made it? It is made of different ehemical elements taken from the food you have eaten; but what combined those elements and built them into a finger, Life! You slept, and your brain was charged with power; that power was applied to the stomach and bowels and digested your food; it took the separate elements and emptied them into the blood; your heart, which beats by brain power, forced them along through the arteries until they came to the finger; and vital energy from the brain built them into bone, muscle, nerve and connective tissue. Life built the finger; and nothing can make another like it. All the science in the world cannot duplicate it; we may make something
