The ancients knew that the secret name of God had power. Now we do.
The Universal Mind is the Self-Conscious, Self-Knowing, purposeful activity of Spirit. It is at work everywhere and in everything. Even the lowest forms of life reveal the Omnipresent Mind at work. The moneron, the lowest form of independent life, is a perfect model in miniature of our modern submarine. As it inflates and deflates its body in order to rise and sink in the water, it betrays a wonderful intelligence. The spider and the bee show engineering skill that is amazing. The dahlia knows that it must store up starch for the winter while it is growing in the summer. Mind is at work everywhere. It becomes the Consciousness of whatever it contacts. The tree, flower and blade of grass are alive with the Consciousness and Substance of the Universal Mind of God. It is the color, perfume, life and beauty of everything that is. It is the medium through which man comes ultimately to know the truth. Spiritual energy comes from within. The I AM is the source of Divine Energy. It flows through the consciousness of man as an impersonal, silent and Omnipresent Power. Through his soul (subjective mind), man makes his conscious approach to the Universal Mind. To be conscious of It is to be in vital touch with It, to give It conscious direction in body and affairs. Mind meets us at the level of our own understanding and manifests according to our consciousness. Since It cannot give us more than we can receive, we must be consciously receptive to It. Our work in the Silence is dynamic, the results differing according to our various states of consciousness.
“I AM the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.” Read these words carefully. They are not my words, they are the inspired words of men who discovered that consciousness is the only reality. If I AM hurt, I AM self hurt. If there is darkness in my world, I created the darkness and the gloom and the depression. If there is light and joy, I created the light and the joy. There is no one but this I AMness that does all. You cannot find a cause outside of your own consciousness. Your world is a grand mirror constantly telling you who you are. As you meet people, they tell you by their behavior who you are. Your prayers will not be less devout because you turn to your own consciousness for help. I do not think that any person in prayer feels more of the joy, the piety, and the feeling of adoration, than I do when I feel thankful, as I assume the feeling of my wish fulfilled, knowing at the same time it is to myself that I turned. In prayer you are called upon to believe that you possess what your reason and your senses deny. When you pray believe that you have and you shall receive.
I AM the Father of the Living, not the Dead.” Jesus made this so plain to His disciples; and it is the same today as it was yesterday, and will be the same tomorrow. As the evolutionary process of the great human family progresses, so the various senses that are at present dormant will come to life. When this body is more spiritualized the “I AM,” which is the Consciousness in the Substance, will bring them forth, for they are already there. Spirit is all. Then you will see the so-called dead.
It is to consciousness (I AM) that we must turn as to the only reality. For there is no clear conception of the origin of phenomena except that consciousness is all and all is consciousness. You need no helper to bring you what you seek. Do not for one second believe that I am advocating escape from reality when I ask you to simply assume you are now the man or the lady that you want to be. If you and I could feel what it would be like were we now that which we want to be, and live in this mental atmosphere as though it were real, then, in a way we do not know, our assumption would harden into fact. This is all we need do in order to ascend to the level where our assumption is already an objective, concrete reality.
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
The bread spoken of here refers not alone to food, clothing and money, but to the Bread of Life. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. The law of increase is in the word. I AM is the active agent of creation. It externalizes itself in the substance that coexists with it. I AM the bread of life. Give us this day our daily bread. These words literally mean to you, “I AM positive to the Substance of the I AM here and now. I AM receptive to It. My needs are met.” The word give is a command to Substance. You are not begging, pleading or beseeching. You are affirming the Truth, identifying yourself with It and accepting It.
We must not bring forth untrue expressions. This is what the majority of people are doing every day by their thoughts, words and actions . . even a word that is unkind is an untrue expression. Do you know what a word really means? Do you know that sound has color and form; that every form has a color and sound; that every audible sound has an invisible color, every visible color an inaudible sound? Even our thoughts have form, color and sound. You have formed the outer expression, but the inner also exists. Realize what your thoughts, words and actions mean. When you understand the power of expression and know the Truth, your knowledge adds power to your word and thought. The “I AM” creates in the invisible world by the voice and by the thoughts; even in the silence we create sound, form and color.
Now it is absolutely impossible for you to make this power do anything. You cannot by sheer force of will bend this power to suit your needs. You are not greater than God. You cannot either stop or start this power in its creating, for it is greater than you are and it moves according to law. You cannot say, “I AM going to make money” with all the determination and ferociousness you can muster and expect that you are creating in your experience anything other than belligerence and opposition. You’ve got to accept, not demand. You can’t will anything. This does not mean a doctrine of resignation, far from it. It simply means that you recognize that it is not you who does the creating; it is a power greater than you are. This power creates what you believe and manifests to you what you are prepared to accept. I AM That power.
Where the consciousness, your I AM, is placed, you do not have to take the physical body; it gravitates there in spite of you. Things happen to compel you to move in the direction where you are consciously dwelling.
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I AM, there ye may be also.”
The many mansions are the unnumbered states within your mind, for you are the house of God. In my Father’s house are unnumbered concepts of self. You could not in eternity exhaust what you are capable of being. If I sit quietly here and assume that I AM elsewhere, I have gone and prepared a place. But if I open my eyes, the bilocation which I created vanishes and I AM back here in the physical form that I left behind me as I went to prepare a place. But I prepared the place nevertheless and will in time dwell there physically. You do not have to concern yourself with the ways and the means that will be employed to move you across space into that place where you have gone and mentally prepared it. Simply sit quietly, no matter where you are, and mentally actualize it.
No matter what concepts you hold of yourself it is a limitation. The Truth is not a concept. Dissolve away all limitations, dissolve away all crystallized concepts of Reality and let yourself be I AM That I AM.
Behold, I AM He that should come… And the government shall be upon his shoulders. The Presence that will finally rule our lives is now offering a full salvation through our consciousness; but flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom. Whilst we are at home in the body (material thought), we are absent from the Lord. All flesh must be spiritualized. We must surrender all ideas of bondage. Our senses are really God’s senses; when we realize this, we cannot have poor eyesight, poor hearing, poor health or poor anything. I AM sees through our eyes, hears through our ears, thinks through our minds, works through our bodies. He is All-in-All. I AM declares health and power in every corpuscle, every vein, every cell, every nerve and every atom of the body saying unto them, Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect. I AM will fill the body to overflowing with Divine power and Health, for I AM is within every cell, and every cell is alive with the Universal Substance of I AM.
Like the writer who authors a story, each of us authors his own life by his choice of what thoughts he will accept and which he will reject. Each of our lives is a story, unfolded by the silent contemplative author who dwells within us, who does nothing more than accept and reject, who is involved only in making choices. This indwelling Self says, “This is so,” “This is not so,” “I believe this,” I feel fine in this circumstance,” “I feel badly in this circumstance,” “I AM great,” “I AM nothing,” “There is hope,” “There is despair.” And each of these choices is manifested in the physical world.
All I AM Quotes From The Power of I AM Volume 2 are from the following Authors
Fay Adams, U. S. Andersen, Raymond Charles Barker, M. MacDonald-Bayne, Joseph Benner, Kate Atkinson Boehme, Thomas Parker Boyd, Louise Brownell, H. Emilie Cady, Robert Collier, Florence Gloria Crawford, Mrs. Dan M. Davidson, Walter Devoe, Franklin Fillmore Farrington, Charles Fillmore, Emmet Fox, John Seaman Garns, Harry Gaze, Neville Goddard, Henry Hand, Shirley Bell Hastings, Ernest Holmes, C. W. Kyle, Christian D. Larson, Elinor S. Moody, Joseph Murphy, Janeski Robenoff, Robert A. Russell, John Milton Scott, Elizabeth Towne, Thomas Troward, Helen Wilmans