Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-19

God for ever and eyer: for wis
dom and might are his. and when
|aui said, TO God only wise. be
! glory, they both admitted infinite
/ Mind which alone possesses in
finite wisdom and makes it mani
fest.
DIVINE MIND AND DIVINE
IDEA
In order that we may better un-
deiStand the operation, the activity,
OF Infinite Mind let us illustrate
the divine Mind by using the or
binary conception of It human
mind as an example. You say
Your friend has Il fine mind. You
Say YOU know this because he has
many fine ideas which he express
rS, You have never seen his MIND
but you have WnOwn the CXpress-
ion of it in ideas. If he never
moved muscle, never spoke Il
word, you would rightly conclude
that there was no mind there. So
Il mind to be called mind musl
be filled with ideas. and an idea
by virtue Of being an idea must
conceive of a mind filled with ideas,
yet uneXprcsSed; for mind with
no expression is not a mind but al
blank. How do you know that Il
rock has no mind and no idea ?
Why simply because 1t has no ex-
preston. for where there are
ideas there is expression. The in
finite Mind therefore, is filled with
an infinite number of ideas or
Thoughts, which must he expressed. |
and the activity, the expression. !
the manifestation Of these ideas
man and the universe !
Gods IDEAS express Him in count !
IDEAS we exist in Him and because |
we exist in Him the Scriptures so |
declare that in him we live, and |
move. and have our being"
There is a further quality of an
idea which ii will he necessary for
us TO consider. An idea has no
ability to do anything or to he any
mind in which ii exists. 1t cannot
change itself and so become more
or less, or different, than mind in |
tended it should be. because ii has
no volition of its own and must of
necessity express exactly what /
mind intends it should express For |
Example: If YOU have a thought, /
Of love for your neighbor, this /
Idea cannot get away from you
and change itself into thought
If hate. The ideas in Mind must
)f necessity express exactly what
Mind intends they should express
Now the real man is, as we have
Mind, and has only divine volition.
he has therefore no ability 70
'hoose to do evil or to be sick
lor can he ever become separated
rom the Mind which contains him.
Nan, then Gods idea, Gods image
md likeness, has all the qualities o?
iOd. and not a single quality that is
lot of Him. He is therefore health ,
ul and holy; perfect, spiritual, Z
nd immortal.
What are these qualities which {
nan as the idea Of infinite Mind | [
must manifest? The various terms {
or God define. His nature. and &
very synonym is used because it t
Expresses some quality of Dieevi /
which was not so readily apparent {
u any other term. Life, Truth, love, {
oul, Spirit, Principle, Father il
IOther are but other terms forl i
lind, each expressing it's own a
eculiar character yet readily In !
archangeablc with any other term. a
0 that it is just rs correct to savi
hat man is the idea of Life or =
+ Love as to say that he is the Y
lea of Mind. il
Life, Truth, and Love are the d
lrec terms that together express 0
lind most completely. and man f
ho is Minds idea Expresses Life n
perfect, healthful, immortal L
yistence, expresses Truth in his 81
of spiritual being. V
hich alone is real and true. and a
lprcsses Love in the infinite mani b
station OF the goodness of God. L
UNHEALTHY or MATTER is
Because it is true that man Is z
Ie idea of infinite Mind he can a
IT be material, and this MATERIAL
,dy will have to be accounted for o
some other way. Matter seems u
ry real to the human mind. yet 9
@ deepest material thinkers main y,
in that matter has no existence n,
and OF itself. They say that Il VI
simply a manifestation of law. G;
ir education has been such that ol
. have accepted any material OBJ b,
CT such as iron. or wood. ori al
1ne. to be very real and sub ri
initial and having this reality anl n,
within itself. II can OF
ldily be- seen that the seeming 81
Of piece Of iron N
not within the iron. for il the e
iterial laws Of cohesion and a. m
ictfon which bind the atoms and IN
liccules together. the law Of
ivitation which gives the iron nj
light and the various other laws wi
Itch go TO make up its material co
peariHg were removed the inon AL
uld vanish into nOthingness. So th
-se material thinkers see and nc
mit that matter is simply "a or
nifestation Of material thought. 70.
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