Mind Power and Miracles
Whether we can make miracle in our life?
Jesus said, 'God is Spirit'; He
also said, 'The kingdom of God is within you.' Science tells us that there is a
universal life that animates and sustains all the forms and shapes of the
universe. Science has broken into the atom and revealed it to be charged with
tremendous energy that may be released and be made to give the inhabitants of
the earth powers beyond expression, when its law of expression is discovered.
"Jesus evidently knew about
this hidden energy in matter and used His knowledge to perform so-called
miracles.
"Our modern scientists say
that a single drop of water contains enough latent energy to blow up a
ten-story building. This energy, existence of which has been discovered by
modern scientists, is the same kind of spiritual energy that was known to
Elijah, Elisha, and Jesus, and used by them to perform miracles.
"By the power of his thought
Elijah penetrated the atoms and precipitated an abundance of rain. By the same
law he increased the widow's oil and meal. This was not a miracle--that is, it
was not a divine intervention supplanting natural law--but the exploitation of
a law not ordinarily understood. Jesus used the same dynamic power of thought to
break the bonds of the atoms composing the few loaves and fishes of a little
lad's lunch--and five thousand people were fed.
"Science is discovering the
miracle-working dynamics of religion, but science has not yet comprehended the
dynamic directive power of man's thought. All so-called miracle workers claim
that they do not of themselves produce the marvelous results; that they are
only the instruments of a superior entity. It is written in I Kings, 'The jar
of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of
Jehovah, which he spake by Elijah.' Jesus called Jehovah Father. He said, 'The
works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.'
"Jesus did not claim to have
the exclusive supernatural power that is usually credited to Him. He had
explored the ether energy, which He called the 'kingdom of the heavens'; His
understanding was beyond that of the average man, but He knew that other men
could do what He did if they would only try. He encouraged His followers to take
Him as a center of faith and use the power of thought and word. 'He that believeth
on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
he do.'
"The great modern revival of
divine healing is due to the application of the same law that Jesus used. He
demanded faith on the part of those, whom He healed, and with that faith as the
point of mental and spiritual contact He released the latent energy in the
atomic structure of His patients and they were restored to life and health.
"Have faith in the power of
your mind to penetrate and release the energy that is pent up in the atoms of
your body, and you will be astounded at the response. Paralyzed functions
anywhere in the body can be restored to action by one's speaking to the
spiritual intelligence and life within them. Jesus raised His dead bodies in
this way, and Paul says that we can raise our body in the same manner if we
have the same spiritual contact.
"What have thought
concentration and discovery of the dynamic character of the atom to do with
prayer? They have everything to do with prayer, because prayer is the opening
of communication between the mind of man and the mind of God. Prayer is the
exercise of faith in the presence and power of the unseen God. Supplication,
faith, meditation, silence and concentration, are mental attitudes that enter
into and form part of prayer. When one understands the spiritual character of
God and adjusts himself mentally to the omnipresent God-Mind, he has begun to
pray aright.
"Audible prayers are often
answered but the most potent are silently uttered in the secret recesses of the
soul. Jesus warned against wordy prayers--prayer uttered to be heard of men. He
told His disciples not to be like those who pray on the housetop. 'When thou
prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy
Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense
thee.'
"The times are ripe for
great changes in our estimate of the abiding place and the character of God.
The six-day creation of the universe (including man) is described in Genesis is
a symbolic story of the work of the higher realms of mind under divine law. It
is the privilege of everyone to use his mind abilities in the super realms, and
thereby carry out the prayer formula of Jesus: 'Seek ye first his kingdom, and
his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.'"
Of all the comments on or
discussions of the indescribable power of the invisible force released by the
atomic bomb none that we have seen mentions its spiritual or mental character.
All commentators have written about it as a force external to man to be
controlled by mechanical means, with no hint that it is the primal life that
animates and inter relates man's mind and body.
The next great achievement of
science will be the understanding of the mental and spiritual abilities latent
in man through which to develop and release these tremendous electrons,
protons, and neutrons secreted in the trillions of cells in the physical
organism. Here is involved the secret, as Paul says, "hid for ages and
generations . . . which is Christ [superman] in you, the hope of glory."
It is through release of these hidden life forces in his organism that man is
to achieve immortal life, and in no other way. When we finally understand the
facts of life and rid our minds of the delusion that we shall find immortal
life after we die, then we shall seek more diligently to awaken the spiritual
man within us and strengthen and build up the spiritual domain of our being
until, like Jesus, we shall be able to control the atomic energy in our bodies
and perform so-called miracles.
The fact is that all life is
based upon the interaction between the various electrical units of the
universe. Science tells us about these activities in terms of matter and no one
understands them, because they are spiritual entities and their realities can
only be understood and used wisely by the spiritually developed man.
Electricians do not know what electricity is, although they use it constantly. The
Christian uses faith and gets marvelous results, the electrician uses
electricity and also gets marvelous results, and neither of them knows the real
nature of the agent he uses so freely.
The man who called electricity
faith doubtless thought that he was making a striking comparison when in fact
he was telling a truth, that faith is of the mind and it is the match that
starts the fire in the electrons and protons of innate Spirit forces. Faith has
its degrees of voltage; the faith of the child and the faith of the most
powerful spiritual adept are far apart in their intensity and results. When the
trillions of cells in one's body are roused to expectancy by spiritual faith, a
positive spiritual contact results and marvelous transformations take place.
When Jesus asked His patients, "Believe ye that I am able to do
this?" He was making such a contact. Also when He told those to whom He
ministered, "Thy faith hath made thee whole," He used the same law. When
He turned water into wine and fed five thousand by multiplying a few loaves and
fishes, He performed in a masterly and beneficial way what our scientists made
possible in a destructive way by releasing through the atomic bomb the pent-up
forces of Spirit.
Scientists have invented a
machine that records the forces of thought. Every thought expressed by the mind
radiates energy as it passes through the brain cells, and this machine measures
the force of these radiations. Sir James Jeans, the eminent British scientist,
gives a prophecy of this in one of his books. He says in substance that it may
be that the gods determining our fate are our own minds working on our brain
cells and through them on the world about us. This will eventually be found to
be true, and the discovery of the law of release of the electronic vitality
wrapped up in matter will be the greatest revelation of all time.
When we awake to the fact that
every breath we draw is releasing this all-potent electronic energy and it is
shaping our lives for good or ill, according to our faith, then we shall begin
to search for the law that will guide us aright in the use of power.
People the world over were amazed
and terrified when they read of the destruction wrought on the cities and
people of Japan
by two atomic bombs. But do we realize that millions of people are killed every
year by atomic force? Doctors tell us that it is the toxin generated in our own
bodies that kills us. What produces this destructive force? It must be our own
minds, and the remedy must also be in a change in mind. Paul expressed this
when he said, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."
All persons who have dismissed
the idea of miracle in the marvelous works of Jesus and His followers, have
looked forward to a time when the law they used would be explained, but nearly
all expected it to come through spiritual means. But now science has opened up
a kingdom having all the possibilities of the kingdom of heaven taught by
Jesus. However Jesus said this kingdom is within us and would be exercised
constructively through our minds under divine law. The latest discovery of
science shows that through the development of the atom a power will be cast
right into our midst that will in its physical aspect make the earth equal to
our wildest dreams of heaven. Broadcasting stations sending out on the ether
light, heat, power, will be established the world over, and every householder
will have receiving sets which he can turn on or off at will. The cost will be
negligible. Lighter-than-air forms of building material will be discovered and
our dwellings will float in the air and be transported from place to place like
airplanes. Even the climate of the whole planet may be transformed, destructive
forces no longer possible, and peace reign forever. Labor as we now have it
will disappear, production will become so easy that a man will in a week raise
enough food to last him a year. Everybody will produce abundantly. Everybody
will have everything he wants, and no one will slave for wages. Art, science,
religion, music, and the finer things of life will be for all the people and
those who do not expand their minds to enjoy the finer things of life will be
out of step with the times.
Our men of science have found the
key that unlocks the door to the physical realm in the kingdom of the heavens,
but the spiritual domains are yet to be found and their doors unlocked by the
multitude. There must be a change of mind by
the people of the earth before the tremendous uplift to be wrought by atomic
energy can become beneficial and permanent. Greed and selfishness will find a
way to exploit it to boost their ambition unless they are taught the truth. We
should therefore redouble our efforts to show man that the power that rules the
world is within him. "Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the
world."
"Now think yourself- We can do miracles? Yes, if You have Strong Faith"
