The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-11-17
Mr.. TRINE's LECTURE.
The vital Law of True Life. Greatness !,
Power and Happiness

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"The Vital Law of True Life, Great
ness, Power and Happiness Mr.. Urine
has made his life work the study of
truth, and it's expression, and is vigorous
and scholarly is the presentation of his
lecture. He has very bright, clear,
expressive eye, and his features are finely
lined. Like the orators of the olden
time, he disoards beard and moustache.
The speaker took his starting point III
clear exposition of the great and
supreme fact of tho oneness of all life
with the Infinite Life, in the fact that
God is spirit. the Infinite Spirit. The
Infinite Life back of all these physical
manifestations we see in this changing
world about US, and of which all, includ-
ing we. ourselves, is the body or outer
form; the one Infinite Spirit which
fills all this universe with Himself, so
that all Is He, since He is all. All is
He in the sense of being part OF Him;
for If He is all, there can be nothing
that is outside of, that is not part OF
Him, SO that each one is part of this
Eternal God who is not separate from
US, and if not separate from us, then
not far off, for in Him we live, and
move and have our being. He is the life
of our life, our very life itself.
The life of God is in US, we are In the
life of God; but that life transcends US
SO as to include all else, every person,
every animal every grass blade, every
flower, every particle of earth. every
particle of everything both animate and
inanimate. So that God is all and it
all then each individual; you and, l
must be vital part of that all, since
there can be nothing separate from 1T,
and II part, then the same in nature.
in characteristics. the same as tumbler
of water taken from the ocean is, in
nature, in qualities in characteristics.
the same as that ocean. It's source. God,
then, is the infinite life or spirit Of
which each one is part in the form of
an individualized spirit.
The most powerful agent in charao-
ter building, Is this awakening to the
true self, to 1.-THE fact that man is a
spiritual being-nay more, that I, this
very eternal /, am a spiritual being,
right here and now, at this very mo-
ment, with the God-powers that can be
quickly called forth, while this awaken
ing life in all this manifold manifesto
tion become wonC erfully simplitied, and
as to the powers, the full recognition of
this fact that man is spiritual being
and living as such brings, they are
without limit, increasing lin direct pro-
portion as the higher self. the God-self,
assumes the mastery, and as this higher
standardization of life goes on, and why
should We not today leave the powers of
the foremost in the days of old? The
great universe in which we live is the
same, the great laws under which we
live are identically the same, God the
Same and working in His world now
Just as then. The only difference we
shall find is in ourselves, in that we have
taken our lives out of harmony with the
higher laws of our being, and conse-
ouently have lost the higher laws
through not losing them. Mighty men
we are told they were, mighty men who
walked with God, and in the last clause
lies the secret of the former, men who
lived in the spirit, men who followed
after the real life instead of giving all
time and attention to the mere eternal,
men who lived in the higher stories of
their beings instead of in the basement.
, But here and there are exceptions we
reverse the process, we live in the valley,
so to speak, often disease infected val
: leys when we might mount up to the
| tot fOr, mn fl6Ta dwell H.
, ally in the warm and mellow sunlight
of Gods, OF If you please, of natures
. great, Interchangeable laws, and find our
selves rising ever higher and higher, and
. revelations coming new every day.
, The master teacher, never claimed fol-
himself anything he did not claim for
all mankind. But that great 1ncarna-
sion of spiritual power and insight knew
f of the great spiritual laws and forces
under which we live, and also that
supreme fact of the universe, that man
is spiritual being, born to have domin
8 ion, and that by recognizing the true
, self, and by bringing it into complete
and perfect harmony with the hignel
spiritual laws and focers under wnlct
2 he lives he can so touch these laws AND
t forces that they will respond at every
call and bring him what soever he wills
The fact that thoughts are forces, anc
that through them we have creative
power Is one OF the mosu Vltai lacbs u
8 the universe.
Each individual life is part OF, ant
hence is one with the Infinite Life, ant
Q the highest intelligence and power be
longs to zach in just the degree that h
, recognizes his oneness and lays claim t.
and uses it.
The speaker then went on to speak o
the drawing power Of mind; the Law
operating here is one with that great Law
of the universe; that like attracts like
SO that one continually attracts to him
self forces and influences most akin t.
those of his own life, and his own lif
is determined by the thoughts ant
i emotions be habitually entertains.
After clearly showing how the interior
thought forces can be taken and infused
n into SO as to literally mold every daa
b life as we will, this speaker then spok
among other things. of the secret o
: character building. Each act is precede
" and given birth to by thought, the ao
o repeated forms the habit, the hab1
i determines the character, and characte
- determines the life, fhesdestiny. This
~ the secret of character building. Ho,
IS wonderfully simple, though what vlgl
1T lence 1t demands.