God In You

 

At birth, you are given a spark, an everlasting element of divinity, emanating from God.

This spark is your thinking, reasoning and investigating part, holding immortality as a loan, which must be paid by returning to the Source whence it was given. It was embodied in humanity, for the purpose of giving individuality, and rearing a structure, serving the end of progression, for such are all manifestations of God.

His spirit is diffused throughout His works, and all are brought to a higher type of representation, and whenever separated from the material, which subserves its use, gravitates or returns back and is united with the original Source whence it came.

This cannot be otherwise, for its nature is to seek its own, and it is called wherever those properties exist, which it possesses within itself.

When the death of the body takes place, the spirit returns to a spiritual sphere, and the body to dust—each obeying the laws of its own innate qualities.

The spirit holds an existence of its own independent of the body and does not even blend or coalesce with it, but holds it as a machine subject to its use.

This is God in you, and He has clothed it in flesh that it might better serve His purposes, and when its mission in that direction is accomplished, He receives it again to Himself.

You can never take from, obliterate or destroy the purity of its nature. It is only the manifestations, arising from its use and the advantages you receive from it, that you have to do with and possess the power to control. If it were not so, you would be a degenerating and corrupting power over God Himself.

It was given to you for an exalted purpose and to be made use of in a way befitting the object of its possessor. If not rightly used, it reflects upon the possessor, and not upon the giver.

As surely as that element exists, so surely will it demand an unfolding in the direction whence it came. Years, ages may pass away before some will be prepared to accept and practice the purity and Godlike virtues, which this spark has imparted to their nature. 

The power given may be perverted, but not destroyed—its manifestations dwarfed, but itself not crushed, obstacles placed in its way of progression here, but not eternally so, living and acting, but not creating, taking away or making whole, but simply serving its use both in this and the life to come.