The ancients knew that the secret name of God had power. Now we do.
Don’t say . . “When this bill is paid . . or this crisis past . . I shall feel so relieved.” Instead, say . . “I AM relieved, I feel so content and peaceful now that this load is off my shoulders.” How will you act when you get the thing you want? Well, act that way now, think that way . . and before you know it, you will BE that way.
In the Silence, you step out of yourself and into God. You reach the fullness of God, your unity with the Whole, through the realization that I AM, alone, speaks, thinks and acts. The more spiritual your growth, the greater your capability for perceiving the things of the spirit. The loftier your spiritual enlightenment, the finer and higher your perception until you come to realize, know and comprehend the ever-hovering Presence.
These are the two names which give you dominion. You have dominion if, as you walk the earth, you know that your consciousness, your I AMness is God, the one and only reality. You become aware of something you would like to express or possess. You have the ability to feel that you are and possess that which but a moment before was imaginary.
“The sun shines on the good and the evil, and the rain falls on the just and the unjust.” It does not matter whether you are black or white, illiterate or educated, or which church you belong to . . the sun shines on all and the rain, when it falls, falls on all. So with Mind . . it is universal. We are all surrounded by the same thinking Substance. We are all immersed in the same Presence. Mind power is the cause of physical energy. Your physical energy depends not so much upon what you eat as upon what you are thinking. As you think, the very atoms begin to vibrate in the muscles; your nerves vibrate . . you vibrate and you move.
The old idea of the universe was that the Creator had made the universe like a watch, and after establishing it, had wound it up, put it into operation and had then gone away. The newer idea is that divine Wisdom and Intelligence are in the watch. Mind is everywhere. Everything thinks. That includes everything. You are in a thinking world; man has needed this knowledge . . that all is Mind and its infinite Manifestation. The universe is alive with this thinking Substance.
All we shall ever want or ever possibly desire is in the Invisible now. When you have (in your hand) the object which you have desired, do not say . . “Now I have it.” You will never have it in your possession materially, until you realize that you have it in the Invisible first. I AM, God (Invisible Substance called Spirit) is the Giver and the Gift. It is not more things we want but more of the consciousness of the Substance (God . . underlying Principle) of the thing. I AM is Cause and Effect, so that it is all Cause, for I AM is All and in All.
Know that your consciousness, your I AMness, is the only reality. Then know what you want to be. Then assume the feeling of being that which you want to be, and remain faithful to your assumption, living and acting on your conviction. Always make it fit that pattern.
In our study it is very important that we not only hold the fixed idea . . “There is Plenty” but this advanced one . . “There is Plenty everywhere.” The belief in space has been responsible for our belief in lack. The student understands now that if the subconscious mind believes in lack of any kind, such conditions of lack will be vibrated to the individual who entertains the thought.
Once more I offer scientific data showing conclusively that “lack” is not true. As the mind is convinced at first, intellectually, it accepts the Absolute more easily and without conscious resistance. The invisible Spirit Substance is found to be not only abundant, but everywhere. Of course since it is everywhere, lack can be nowhere.
Instead of believing in vacancies, we discover that the whole universe is filled with “that something” out of which everything comes and is made into form. Therefore there is no lack; no want; only in consciousness. There is not one place in the universe where there is lack. A hole in the ground is filled with “that something” which is invisible; which is intangible; “that something” out of which things are made . . therefore space does not exist.
It is now easy to see that your desire in the without must through “the silence,” or in prayer be carried to the inner sanctuary of the soul (“thy closet”) and there placed as a definite request before the Father . . the I AM. This is “asking.” The Spirit asks, ”What shall I do for thee?” You answer by naming your desire, . . by asking.
Lifted to the spiritual plane, your request is there quickened by the Spirit and becomes a conception in your soul. Now it is a conceived idea, . . a seed planted in the soil of your soul. As any other seed, it will germinate, develop first in the invisible, and in “fullness of time” come forth.
The mind, conscious of this, expects the fulfillment, as does a mother her child, or a farmer his harvest. This is “believing.” It is “holding in mind” the form of the perfected expression. The mother believes she has her child, even when it is being formed in the invisible.
The farmer believes he has his harvest, even while it is growing beneath the soil. We must “believe we have” our demonstration while it is being formed for us in the inner realms of consciousness, for it is “believing we have” that holds definitely in mind the form of our desire, and gives it the desired form. When we believe we have, seeing in faith, “the invisible,” we have.
In fullness of time, this thought form is delivered upon the physical plane. As a mother’s birth effort delivers her child, so you through physical effort perfect your demonstration. It requires strength to speak and act in a way that is true to the conception, and to carry out the idea held in mind.
The idea of health and the thought form of health must not be denied by the action of sickness or by resorting to external means to try to get well. The thought form is perfect health now.
If the soul conception is abundance, the action must carry out that idea. The spirit of the action must conform to the image. Until abundance manifests the amount of expenditure need not be increased, but the spirit of the mind must be one of richness, and what is spent must be allowed to leave the hands cheerfully and willingly in no consciousness of loss or of self-denial, but rather in the attitude of trust and thanksgiving because of the ever present supply now being made manifest. Be true. Spirit, soul, mind and body must agree to bring forth even as you have conceived, exactly “according to your faith.” “Ye shall reap in due time (the time of fulfillment) if ye faint not. “Be not faithless, but believing.”
One great difference between the subjective mind and the subconscious mind is to be noted, namely, the subconscious mind creates and objectifies all that it believes; the subjective mind does not. Since the subconscious is the creative mind it begins to work out forms in the visible world, according to the patterns given it by the I AM Self.
If the subconscious mind received all the impressions of the objective mind and created them, what a confusion we would have! If all the false beliefs regarding sickness, and all the false ideas of lack were to be received in the subconscious mind, man would live in constant poverty while here and pass on not having learned the Truth.
Word, thought, idea and Spirit-power bear exactly the same relation to each other that the key, hammer, string and vibration bear to each other in a piano. The vibration, or power within the string is released as sound to the ear only as the key in connection with it is struck. The key C moves the hammer C which touches the string C and releases the vibration C. In no other way can that particular tone be brought forth. If we want the tone C, we must be particular to strike the key C. In the same way, the word health moves the thought health, and awakens the idea health until the vibration or feeling of health is released in consciousness.
It is for this reason that the weak are told to say “I AM strong.” Strength is what the weak wish to experience, therefore they must say it and think it and in exact fulfillment of the law of faith they will feel it, but they will not do so as long as they persist in saying “weak.”
These true words, or words declaring the truth of Being, are the “keys of the kingdom” to which Jesus referred when he told Peter, the man of faith, that they would be given to him. They are given to every faithful soul who will lift the consciousness above the testimony of the senses, or the opinions of others, and voice the Truth from the prompting of the Spirit within. In no other way can the “church” of Christ which is the “temple of the body” be built, for it must be formed from within, but can be only as the word which calls it forth is spoken from without.
The kingdom of heaven is within, and the keys which unlock this kingdom to the consciousness of man are the good words or words of God which we speak. We must speak the words that are true of Being, then will the true become manifest, and the false will pass away.
Not only does it take faith to disregard the appearance and call forth the ideal, but it takes a continuance of faith to establish the ideal in consciousness and make it real in experience. The word we speak is but a seed. Like every seed it grows first beneath the soil, hidden from view. When the seed-word is spoken it takes root in the soil of the mind. It will surely bring forth after its kind, and we will “reap in due time, . . if we faint not.”
Often we miss the fruit of faith because we have not continued in faith, or awaited the fulfillment of faith. No farmer would plant his grain and not await his harvest. Instead he would make preparation for his harvest. He would plant his seed believing that he would receive.
Even so a mother who has conceived a child trusts that interior growth which takes place and which is hid from her view, and prepares for the birth of the child, believing she has received.
So, when we speak the word of Truth which is the seed of the ideal we wish to see manifest, we must believe we have, and with no doubt in the mind, trust that first growth which always takes place within, hid from view. Fear, doubt and uncertainty prevent the perfect “holding in mind” of the thing desired, and until it is established, or made firm, in mind it cannot take form in the external.
“What can one do, who is a victim of past mistakes, to rid himself of his undesirable conditions?” “Just change the thought; try to realize the mistakes . . stop thinking failure and suggest optimism.” “I wish you would tell me how to stop thinking a thing which is always in front of one?” “Easy. Just don’t see; become blind to all without and realize only the beauties of the great within, which is Truth itself.” “Easier said than done, I am afraid, for the way is dark to me, I tell you.” “Ah, my friend, the way can never be dark to him whose inner consciousness is lit by spiritual illumination.”
“But how can I gain this great height which seems so far away? How am I, who has never realized the truth of a spiritual illumination, to enter that state of mind in which I see, feel and know this that you are saying is a ‘Truth,’ a ‘Divine Truth’?” “Become as a little child, lay aside your previous beliefs; all prejudice; all the authorities of great men and the opinion of friends and stand forth alone, leaning not upon the broken staff of another for support. No longer pin your blind faith to the opinion of others, but let wisdom mount the throne of reason and become a willing pupil to the inner consciousness, and as the wheel of evolution slowly evolves you will become conscious of the omnipresent mind, the I AM part of you, which will lead you on and on until all is clear to your hitherto befogged vision.”
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