The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-05-19

life of all. The one Divine Being;
and this is the true Reality in all ex-
istence and therefore remains in all
Eternity. And there is nothing REAL
that is, or, indeed, that can be, out
side of it. This Being which is In
finite is in truth, tn n, the Infinite
Being. Literally, the I Am, as is sig
niied by the name Jehovah, which
is derived in the Hebrew from the
words To Be.
You and | in our true selves are
Life. We cannot that we have
life, for we are Life-Life that man
ifests itself in the form of existence
that we denominate by the term body.
1t is only by reason of our own thought
that our life is separate from the life
of the Infinite Being, only by reason
of our own thought that we live in
this separation, if indeed we can use
the term LIVE where the FULL life is
not consciously realized and enjoyed.
How is it then, we hear it asked,
that man has the limitations that he
has, that he is subject to fears and
forebodings, that he is liable to sin
and error, that he is the victim of
disease and suffering? There is but
one reason: He is not living, except
in rare cases here and there, in the
CONSCIOUS REALIZATION OF his W n
true Being, and hence of his own true
self. We must in THOUGHT be con-
scious of who and what we are be-
fore the qualities and powers of our
real Being and hence our real selves,
actualize or reven manifest themselves.
Thought is the atmosphere, the ele
ment, in sense the very substance,
of the phase of Divine Being that we
call human life. 1t is through thought
and through thought alone, that we
are able to conceive of Divine Being
as the Life of our Life and then to
live in the realization of our oneness
with it. When Divine Being mani
tests itself in physical human form,
it does so through the agency of phys
ical senses, and precisely for this
reason, it is that for time our real
inward Essential Nature and Life,
are concealed from us, but this again,
only by reason of our limited COM
prehension. We see and ogn ize
through and by means of the phys
ical senses, when we are born into
this world, and the natural physical
world becomes to us for time, the
real world. By and by, however,
through these very senses we are able
to conceive of the One and Eternal
Source of Life as our real and there
fore our only life and then, through
them to hold ourselves in this living
realization. Now, if this state of full
life is really possible of our realiza-
ton, what can be said regarding the
method of entering into it? There is
only one thing in all the wide uni
, verse that will enable you, as well as
all the world, to d o it effectually
, BE We therefore transformed by the
the renewing of your minds" This
is the force, the transforming power
, so far as the form of life we demon.
, mate by the term human, is concern
J ed, this and this alone. Accordingly
the mind is everything; what you
think, you become" Surely then
| thought rightly used and rightly di
. rected has within it the true regen
= Grating and hence redeeming, power
, through it alone are we able to make
for ourselves new heaven and {
; new earth, which, when once truly
realized, can never be lost
| The majority of us are not awake
} it is only here and there that we fine
one even partially awake. AS a re
suit, practically all of us are living
t lives, that are unworthy almost of th'
| names of lives compared with those
s we might be living and that lie with
4 in our easy grasp. While it is tru'
2 that each life is in and of Divine Be
: ing, hence always one with it, in or
J. der that this great fact may bea
e fruit in individual lives, e c h on
t must be conscious of it, WE MUS,
:, KNOW IT IN THOUGHT and then liv,
e continually in this consciousness.
|, An neagle has been chained for man,
1 weary months to the perch just out
o side his cage; SO long has he beel
+ conscious of the fact that he is boun'
t by the little silver chain which hold
It him, that he has given up all effor
d to escape, almost forgetting, perhaps
J. that the power of flight is longer his
g One day link of the little c h a i
i, opens, but living so long in the con
e sciousness that he is held in captivit