Crower is teaching in condensed form from Thomas Howard intimate memoir of
the teacher in the man by Harry gays one first of all judge Trower teaches that
there are higher in deeper definitions of spirit and so-called matter life's
intelligence and life's living this are one spirits essential quality of thought
and form is the quality of matter to the form we see extends in space that its
borders are of a limited nature thought on the other hand is not limited by
boundaries and is everywhere or to quote trousered at every point of space
simultaneously spirit is thought and equally present everywhere as we
increase our perception and awareness this higher development controls lesser
developed intelligence the distinction between universal intelligence and
individual intelligence concerns the will of the individual the work of new
thought is to learn to know the relations of our will to the universal
will developing the power of abstract reasoning we grow to see the truth of
the principle of evolution this is now reaching the higher stage of evolution
which Trower describes as intelligent individual evolution up to this time we
have evolved unconsciously now we become interested and participate in evolution
from this time forward though from the standpoint of the five physical senses
there seems to be a definite line of separation between things there is
always a fundamental unity the basic principle of the new thought is if there
is just one power it is possible for us to use our intelligence and volition to
condense spirit into any point anywhere anytime and individualize or specialize
it as we desire trou 'red like Hudson taught the control
of the subjective by the object of mind today we would express this modern
vocabulary by saying the control of the subconscious mind by the power of the
conscious mind the subjective mind has remarkable psychic powers telepathy or
thought reading clairvoyance or clear seeing independent of time and space the
subjective mind knows infinitely more about the conditions under which disease
develops and can accurately diagnose and excel the most intelligent and skillful
doctors and reveal the true and perfect remedy the subjective mind is the
chemist and the Builder of the body because of its amenability to thought
patterns that will manufacture the desired chemistry and build the
personality that we learned to impress upon it before this knowledge has fully
developed in the mind and secured adequate realization wisely selected
medicine will serve a good purpose on the other hand when we have trained our
minds and learned to coordinate these spheres of the one mind we will have
discovered the true fountain of everlasting life we must think of the
mind is such a fountain of Perpetual living Ness and health judge showered
Tov that the individual subjective mind or subconscious mind is our share of the
universal mind as universal mind the cosmic mind is not in itself work on the
individual plane but when we are working for some definite purpose we are using
the power of the universal mind to do so to control conditions we must learn to
control the relative by the absolute to control conditions we must learn to
control the relative by the absolute the first step in making any attainment
or securing any good is to construct a spiritual prototype archetypal idea or
mental equivalent this faithfully practiced will come into the practical
world of visible form and use these correspondences or prototypes must be
good and constructive for the law will work out for the manifestation of the
undesirable as well as the desirable each seed will bring forth after its
Connie the desirable thoughts of Health and healing or success in prosperity can
be aided by the trained power of imagination and visualization judge
Trower carefully explained how the universal mind does not have a self
recognition of personality in itself yet must have the quality of personal Ness
or we could not be centers of personal intelligence he made a distinction
between personality and individuality the infinite underlying all producing
mind is ready immediately to respond to all who realize their true relation to
it Crower emphasizes the wonderful power of
deep heartfelt feeling the whole position summed up is that we do not
want to run the whole universe but draw particular results of a happy nature
spiritual mental physical social in regard to your own individual
requirements face the universal subjective power and make up its mind
for his when its mind is thus made up it continues to exercise its creative power
and sense to work to carry out the purpose for which you have concentrated
it carefully distinguish between the
universal first cause on the one hand and secondary causes on the other the
underlying and youth the understanding and use of this power is the whole
subject of metal science a condition or the positive or negative is never
primary cause and the primary cause of any series can never be negative for
negation is the condition which arises from the absence of active causation it
will be seen that all error or in harmony is typify by darkness you do not
have to turn out the darkness you simply turn on the light for where there is
light there is no darkness secondary causes are mere reflections image the
desired idea and the realm of the absolute and you can cheerfully await
the desired results as spirit operates independently of space and time work
cannot be formed in the future it must be accomplished here and now
there should be no fearful anxious thought about the conditions to be
replaced for the desirable you must work but take no anxious thought we must not
fly in the face of the law by expecting to do for us well it can only do through
us and we must therefore use our intelligence with the knowledge that it
is acting as the instrument of the greater intelligence anxiety and toils
and labour will be replaced by states that are a permanent source of all that
is good intuitive power by which we perceive truth
is the right path to travel in for this we have to be trained in the right way
it is very important to have a real understanding of intuition and to
distinguish will intuition from groundless fears and distorted
imagination before the conscious or objective minds charge to argue or
object the mind is like the waters of a still lake with fear the image is
blurred as when a stone is thrown into the lake the basic principle of all new
thought and metal and spiritual healing is a change of belief from falsity to
faith in truth the wrong belief which externalizes as
sickness is the belief that some secondary cause which is really only a
condition is a primary cause the healer tells the patient to take a receptive
attitude the healer also relaxes but for the purpose of flowing out and the
patient relaxes to permit a flowing in realize the importance of the will while
imagination is of a creative nature the will does the work of keeping it to a
given path or center the will guides your Faculty of imagination rightly the
power of concentration is not a strenuous proceeding the law of force is
not to be used from this standpoint we see that all is life and all is good
nature is one vast storehouse of life and good entirely devoted to our
individual youths we have the key to all her treasures realizing this we shall
draw from it streams of vital energy which will make the very sensation of
living this a joy to get into a state of atonement with the universal mind we
should think of ourselves as pure being we are spiritual beings in a spiritual
universe here and now we are expressions of the infinite mind sons of God we must
make a proper identification of ourselves the conscious mind reasons by
all methods of reasoning but not always correctly the subconscious reasons
deductively only and his deductions are perfect that is they are true to the
major premise laid down by the conscious mind
the master teacher Jesus has given rules which rightly interpreted and applied
solve all our problems whether they are business health love marriage or
abilities the old Elizabethan poet says the soul is form and off the body make
the body must be included and complete integration only so we can have
wholeness of personality the evolution of the individual fully depends on the
universal mind working on the plane of the individual the supreme all
originating spirit is essentially creative in the eternal now the life
spirit seeks expression of its perfect and everlasting living this beauty is
eternally in the divine mind we are here to give it expression
principle is not bound by precedent the future is in no way limited by the past
in the present the multitudes know that certain good things are utterly
impossible but fortunately someone is always born who does not know they are
impossible so this goes ahead this one goes ahead and does them there
is always a new order in which things can be arranged this is familiar to us
but what is now known as is that the personal factor can be introduced you
can always make something better our manifest life is a process of becoming
we can move on to new excellence we have now got at some reason why concrete
material form is a necessity of the creative process without it the perfect
self recognition of spirit from the individual standpoint which we shall
presently find is the means by which the creative process is to be carried
forward would be impossible here we find the initial polarity of universal spirit
and universal substance if being the complementary of the other spirit
supplies selection and motion substance supplies something from which selection
can be made and to which motion can be imparted so it is a scenic wanna for the
expression of spirit
spirit wants to enjoy the reality of its own life not merely to vegetate this
spirit does by self contemplation thinking of itself as having the
enjoyment it wishes gives it reality when we contemplate the spirit doing
this we have more and more joy in our lives
think of the all originating mind of a great artist creating through us let
your mind dwell on the relationship between the universal manifesting
principle and its individual manifestation this is the essence of the
matter we may contemplate spirit and reorient ourselves in true creative
fashion the creative power is the spirit of the affirmative the divine ideal is
that of individuality but recognizes its source we are to become channels of its
inexhaustible supply of life love wisdom joy youth abundance and beauty unless we
get the good results we have introduced interferences by our thought we have
brought in the negative element of wrong thinking spirit creates by self
contemplation therefore what it contemplates itself is being that it
becomes you are individualized spirit therefore what you contemplate is the
law of your being becomes the law of your being
hence contemplate a life of death and you die contemplate a law of life is
inherent in the very being of the spirit and you are building up a healthier and
happier personality and mind body and circumstances express this by initiative
and selection but it is an eternal principle as active as ever it is
available now by God we must express the pure affirmative spirit we are to evolve
from the necessary race thought to individualized practiced initiative race
thought would let us all become ill grow agent and die we must saturate ourselves
with the spirit and really truly live when we are open to the spirit vivifying
thoughts ideas and feelings will flow in there will be eternal progress through
more highly developed form of expression in man people read and interpret the
Bible imperfectly and imagine it teaches inevitable death this arises through
careless reading there are good well-meaning people limited idea which
they read into the Bible man possesses a
joyous and immortal life permeating spirit soul and body life is a gay
adventure and God is on our side regeneration can be accomplished here
and now we are to keep a full free circulation between us and God creation
is produced by the action of divine will upon nature death will sometimes use to
be for the simple reason that life alone to meet the enduring principle true
worship is communion with supreme life of the universe jesus said I am the
resurrection of life we too must learn to say it and mean it the divine power
is the I am this is the word you read up in the Gospel of st. John which is also
the light and the Word was with God and was God the light that lighteth every
man that cometh into the world the light the word that was with God and was God
is our divine light knowing then the divine word within us as God Himself we
will speak our words with divine authority knowing that these words are
conceived and spoken by God in us life and death are in the power of the tongue
of over law is immutable and we cannot change it we can introduce the personal
factor by changing our word we can change our relationship to the law the
law itself never changes but we can specialize it by realizing the principle
involved the law cannot be changed and the word can from the law and the word
we should secure one freedom from worry and anxiety to something to look forward
to and feel an interest in rather these two conditions be fulfilled I think we
should all be well pleased to go on living
odd infinitum the way to fulfill these two conditions is to use the word of
confidence constructiveness and in perfect harmony be sure it is the right
word and harmony with the principle of unity
this will give freedom from anxiety then if we always have a succession of new
ideals we will have a continual interest in life new vision is new life the
promises of the Bible comprise all sorts of desirable things health of body peace
of mind earthly prosperity prolongation of life and finally even the conquest of
death itself but always on one condition perfect confidence in the power of the
all originating spirit in response to our reliance on the word there must be
true quality of faith we must always bear in mind the law is set in motion by
the word the word does not make the law but it gives it something to work on
this is true of the negative as well as the positive so we have the power of
choice death and taxes are typical expressions of the race mind but it is
not true that they are inevitable certainly not in the eternal plan of
things how can I know that I am NOT speaking my own word instead of that of
creative spirit the word of the Spirit is always based on the idea of becoming
the word of the smaller personality is always based on the idea of possessing
if we base our speaking of the word and the promise of spirit we may be sure
that we are on the right track the true interpretation of the Bible is within us
the true word will make us freer the quality of that freedom being the
liberty of the sons and daughters of God the great truth concerning man is that
he is the image and likeness of God and is at first ignorant of this truth and
this ignorance is his fall man at last come to the perfect knowledge of this
truth and this knowledge is his rising again
these principles will expand until they bring us to the life that is in us all
distinguish between the personal name of Jesus and the Christ the Christ is with
in all men the Christ is within all men the word man means the measurer
consciousness is the cup which measures the degree of love wisdom joy power life
and peace we pour out for ourselves