The ancients knew that the secret name of God had power. Now we do.
In the Infinite Consciousness of God is held the Perfect Image, therefore the Perfect Image is always in existence. The “I AM” in you is the point through which you contact this Divine Consciousness, and this Consciousness becomes, as it were, apparently an individual consciousness to each and every one, but it is not a separate consciousness. When you think separation, and have accepted it, then you have separated yourself mentally from the one great Infinite Consciousness, but it is a false conception. The great Master said: “I and the Father are One.” He not only said it, He knew it; it was not a platitude; to Him it was an actual reality. When you recognize this mighty truth, the realization of it gives you control, and everything obeys you. The elements respond to your call, and form according to the image held with this understanding. When this state of consciousness is held, the idea or image held in the consciousness is produced by the Intelligence, and the work is done without effort, the Intelligence always fulfilling the direction of the Consciousness. We make a success of our life when we know this law and apply it with faith. We make a failure of our life when we do not know this law and let in fear and doubt which cause a vacillating action of the Intelligence . . the Mother. But when in Divine meditation with a faithful consciousness, this Mother . . Intelligence . . does the work perfectly and changes the whole nature automatically.
You are one with the great “I AM” of the universe. You are part of God. Until you realize that . . and the power it gives you . . you will never know God. “We are parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul.” God (I AM) has incarnated Himself in man. He seeks expression. Give Him work to do through you, give Him a chance to express Himself in some useful way, and there is nothing beyond your powers to do or to attain.
It matters not what your age, what your present circumstances or position. If you will seek your help outside your merely physical self, if you will put the God in you into some worthwhile endeavor, and then BELIEVE in Him, you can overcome any poverty, any handicap, any untoward circumstance. Relying upon your personal abilities or riches or friends is being like the heathen of old, whom the Prophet of the Lord taunted. “You have a God whom you must carry,” he derided them. “We have a God who carries us!”
The God of personal ability or material riches or friends is one that you must continually carry. Drop him, and immediately you lose everything. But there is a God (I AM) in you who will carry you . . and in the doing of it, provide you with every good thing this world can supply. The purpose of this book is to acquaint you with this God in you, The God That Only The Fortunate Few Know.
As the poet so well expressed it:
“In your own self lies Destiny. Let this
Vast truth cast out all fear, and prejudice,
All hesitation. Know that you are great,
Great with Divinity. So dominate
Environment and enter into bliss.
Love largely and hate nothing. Hold no aim
That does not chord with Universal Good.
Hear what the voices of the Silence say —
All joys are yours if you put forth your claim.
Once let the spiritual laws be understood,
Material things must answer and obey.”
Some might think that merely a poet’s dream, but along comes Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University to prove it scientific fact as well.
In his new book “The Reach of the Mind,” Dr. Rhine points out that in the past, Science seemed to feel that man was entirely material. It had discovered how glands regulate personality through their chemical secretions; it had shown that the child mind matures only as the brain develops; that certain mental functions are linked with specific areas of the brain, and that if one of these is injured, the corresponding mental function is lost.
So Science believed that it had accounted for all the processes of thought and action, that it could show a material basis for each.
But now Dr. Rhine and other experimenters have proved that knowledge can be acquired without the use of the senses! Not only that, but they have also proved that the powers of the mind are not bound by space or limited by time! Perhaps their greatest discovery is that the mind can influence matter without physical means.
This has been done through prayer, of course, since time began, but such results have always been looked upon as supernatural. Dr. Rhine and other experimenters show that any normal person has the power to influence objects and events.
To quote “The Reach of the Mind” . . “As a result of thousands of experimental trials, we found it to be a fact that the mind has a force that can act on matter. . . . There must, therefore, be an energy convertible to physical action, a mental energy.”
The one great essential to the successful use of this mental energy seems to be intense interest or desire. The more keyed up a person is, the more eager for results, the more he can influence those results.
Dr. Rhine showed through many experiments that when the subject’s interest is distracted, when he lacks ability to concentrate his attention, his mental energy has little or no power over outside objects. It is only as he gives his entire attention to the object in mind, as he concentrates his every energy upon it, that he gets successful results. (Ed. I AM, Meditation and silence are all of benefit here)
Dr. Rhine’s experiments prove scientifically what we have always believed . . that there is a Power over and above the merely physical power of the mind or body, that through intense concentration or desire we can link up with that Power, and that once we do, nothing is impossible to us.
It means, in short, that man is not at the mercy of blind chance or Fate, that he can control his own destiny. Science is at last proving what Religion has taught from the beginning . . that God gave man dominion and that he has only to understand and use this dominion to become the Master of his Fate, the Captain of his Soul.
“Except a man be born again he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
What is the second birth?
I quietly appropriate that which no man can give me, no woman can give me. I dare to assume that I AM God. This must be of faith, this must be of promise. Then I become the blessed. As I begin to do the things that only this presence could do, I know that I AM born out of the limitations of Ishmael, and I have become heir to the kingdom.
You may have practiced exercises, studied philosophies, etc., and no doubt you have gained by them; but when you say I AM That I AM, I AM All there is, my Father and I are one . . you will find that the Divine Intelligence will lead you, it always has and always will. Do not seek for yourself alone, but that others shall also find the way; for he who seeks for himself alone is selfish and limited.
“He who seeks to save his Soul alone
May find the Path but will not reach the Goal;
But he who works in Love may wander far,
Yet God will bring him where the Blessed are.”
Man is conscious mind or spirit; this stands for his objective faculty. The objective mind of man is his recognition of life in a conscious state . . it is the only attribute of man that is volitional, or self-choosing. Consequently, it is the spiritual man. The conscious mind of man is the contemplator. Let us bear in mind what we have already learned: that the Universe is the result of the contemplation of the Divine Mind, or the Holy Spirit, which is God. God creates by contemplating His own I AMness, and this contemplation, through Law, becomes the objectification of the Self-Realization of the Infinite Mind. The Divine Nature is reenacted in man; he is conscious mind and spirit, and, as he contemplates, he reflects his thought into the Universal Subjectivity where it is received and acted upon. As Mind, or Soul, accepts these images of thought, It operates upon unformed substance and causes it to take definite form as body, which is unconscious form. It becomes definite form, but the form itself is unconscious, because it is made of immaterial substance. Body, of itself, without Mind, has neither consciousness nor volition. Devoid of mentality, the body neither thinks, sees, hears, feels, touches nor tastes. Take the mentality away from a body and it becomes a corpse. Having no conscious intelligence, it at once begins to disintegrate and to resolve into the Universal Substance, or unformed matter, from which it came.
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