Simple and Practical Steps to Heal Your Spirit Now: Of God, In His Works

OF GOD, IN HIS WORKS

What is the great Power that formed and sustained all things? and Who is still framing new worlds and universes of worlds.

This great unknown and unseen Being, so constantly at work, never tiring, is in our midst.

He pervades all space.

He is everywhere―

He is nowhere.

He is in the highest heavens―

He is in the lowest hell.

He is all-wisdom―

All-love—

So great—

Worlds and universes are evoked from His thought!

God everywhere, yet nowhere.

Seeming contradiction, yet perfectly true.

He is a mighty Magician―

An incomprehensible Being―

So wise―

So great―

So good―

So full of love for all things―

Only to be found in His works, yet never absent from them.

In the manifold gifts He bestows upon us—

He is there.

In the air we breathe, in the food we eat, God is manifested.

Myriads and myriads, yet more myriads multiplied until the mind fails to follow the idea of worlds are dependent on Him―

He sustains—

He pervades them with His pure spirit.

Here―

There―

Everywhere—

God is—

God is.

And let Him create to all eternity, still His spirit will extend to these new worlds and His watchful and loving care will be over them.

From the fullness of His own love, He endows, blesses His creatures—

He has no higher happiness than this.

His wisdom creates spheres and peoples them with organic life, and gradually develops in each one, higher and higher forms.

When a climax is reached, creation stops, but progression goes on and the love-principle comes into more immediate action.

This system of progression, designed by the All-wise at the beginning is the way He takes to spread the blessings of His love on the countless myriads He creates.

None will be finally miserable.

God could not―would not―have it so.

All―however erring―ultimately emerge from their sad, dark and terrible places, and realise the beauty and holiness of the God-principle hidden, but not dead within them.

This great power that pervades everything is the essence or God-principle of life or motion.

This subtle essence is the light of life―a portion of deity―

The boundless sphere of His power means that He has always been a Creator.

Boundless space, like eternity, has no end, so that creations, like eternity, may go on forever.

The great Centre, the Fountain whence this Divine essence flows, is God.

Not a personal being, yet containing and originating in Himself all the qualities, the passions, the feeling—

All the wisdom and love that go to design and form so many worlds and fill them with such beautiful creations, both animate and inanimate.

You know there are unnumbered universes and stars to your confined vision, and you know that the fixed stars you look upon from our little earth are in reality centres of other solar systems.

All had their origin in the same way from the same great Fount of Light—God.

And far more than you can picture are pursuing their equal course in regions too remote for us to obtain the slightest glimpse of.

It is this magnetism of deity, so unseen and unfelt, that brought about the changes that developed worlds out of the darkness.

This light, shining in the darkness, brought beautiful creations gradually into existence.

If you can realise to your satisfaction what constitutes a flower's fragrance or the life-principle you destroy when you crush an insect, then you may with equal satisfaction find out what constitutes deity.

The same life-principle that pervades the insect and the flower brought worlds into existence.

The God Who could make the one could just as easily make the other.

Nothing is impossible with God.

The thought of deity is the only matter used in the creation of the multitudinous spheres that crowd in space.

He is a All-pervading, All-penetrating, and yet unknown to each one of us.

But though we do not know Him, we know His works and we know to a certain extent how they originated.

Has He not said His thoughts are not as our thoughts?—neither are His ways like our ways?

God's thoughts are not like our thoughts.

The way in which these stupendous works are carried out, the simplicity, the beauty, the order of the whole arrangement, is perfect and complete in every part.

God, the great First Cause of All, sent forth His Light, His Essence, bid it work, animating the chaotic masses of darkness.

As this penetrated them, they condensed and hardened.

Still further did the Light go on in its work—

After hardening, it penetrated what it had condensed, broke it up and made other kinds of formations.

This Light, this essence, working in and through its great Creator, continued on steadily, effecting the wondrous changes that led to the present results.

The thought that originated so many, such various beauties, retained its central situation, as the soul does in our bodies—

The Light evolved from Thought did the work.

Is God thought?

He is.

What is thought?

Thought is inspiration.

It is the Essence or Light of God in your soul.

In Him, it is much more, much grander, nobler, diviner.

You partake, in a very, very slight degree, of the nature of God's thoughts in your own thoughts, for through them, He originates whatever you have of new and novel conceptions on our plane.

God is the impersonation of All-wisdom, All-love and All-knowledge, so our teachers say—

He may rather be considered as the Source or Fount whence these things flow, for He is certainly not a personal deity.

He can give from His Fount all that is needful to all parts of his many universes, and still, there will be no lack of supply.

His Light pervades all things. It can penetrate into the darkest and deepest abysses of creation, into the lowest and most degraded human mind.

Christianity has always taught that God is a being to be referred to in troubles and difficulties—that help can be obtained from Him to sustain and support in such cases. This was good, as far as it went.

But how far short of the real and tangible benefits we might obtain from Him if we understood more clearly the true nature and power of the great unknown and misunderstood principle that rules our planet in connection with all other worlds or spheres.

You are a miniature microcosm of the deity.

You are possessed of the same powers—

The same feelings, the same elements for thought, the same undying life-principle, the same capabilities of action—

Ye are gods was not said in a figurative sense.

We are all gods in the making.

When you have developed higher and higher in the scale of progression, you likewise may create and multiply creations from His thought plane.

Spirit will be etherealised into still more ethereal spirit, still again refine, over and over, the purification will be renewed until the God-spirit is attained, and when this takes place, you may be said to merge into deity and become part and parcel of the divine and mystical essence, and united to it share and assist, devise and execute works, wondrous, noble, grand, beneficent, like those we now from our low and untaught sphere admire with awe and veneration.

You cannot see God, for He is not a being to be seen, but a principle pervading all space.

At the same time, developed humanity will attain to that perfection of holiness and love when entirely pervaded by this God-principle, merged, as it were, in Deity.

Nothing is impossible to you.

The God who formed you as you are foresaw His creation would rise to this height and become like Him.

And you will continue to accelerate the speed of your progress the higher you advance because more light can reach you from the great Fountain of All-progress, the Almighty Framer and Governor of the Universe.

You are designed for higher life and nobler purposes—You have more work to do, more good to perform, more to receive—

You are the crowning creation of God, the ultimatum, the finishing stroke to your great work on this earth of ours, as you are on every other.

Humanity is the perfection of all—the animal, vegetable, and the mineral combined, superior to the whole in possessing the soul or God-principle in you that is to develop up to the God who gave it.

God's mind is unlike ours—His is the Mind of All.

It is impossible for us to understand God as He really is.

As you progress higher and higher in His Light, becoming more and more imbued with it, more and more like Him, He will still be an unknown God to you, for He is everywhere, yet nowhere.

Have not all animals progressed in the ascending ratio from the first simple mollusca and infusoria?

Has not vegetation progressed with them to supply their wants—from the mosses and ferns to our present fauna and flora?

If God so ordained and arranged in His Wisdom for animals and vegetables, why should He not finish His work with humanity—His masterpiece?

Is it any degradation to humanity that it has developed up to its present high standard from so low a one?

By our beautiful formation, so like and yet so unlike the animals, we are fitted, admirably fitted, for what we were designed.

Every organ was brought to its highest perfection in us, and in addition to the instincts of the animal, reason and a soul were added.

Why should this be impossible to a power that had already done so much?

It was the work of ages upon ages to develop the other forms of life, so that we might spring from them, perfect in body to receive his mental gifts.

After we had received our endowments, it took ages yet to develop the embryos in us and show us our own superiority over the animal kingdom.

Gradually, the Light entered our souls.

Like a newborn babe, we were unconscious of the gifts we possessed and ignorant as a child would now be of their value unless taught by its parents and tutors, for you must know that every individual child receives this Godspirit now, just as much as the first developed ape or man did.

Reason is quite another thing.

That you have cultivated for yourself.

Instinct first supplied its place, but as the soul shone forth in you, higher thoughts and aspirations arose and you cultivated the intellect into its present state of progress.

God, in all His works, sends down His Divine afflatus to us, and it pervades all the extended regions of space, benefits and beautifies wherever it penetrates.

See the beauty, order, love that designed and perfected our earth and its inhabitants.

Read the book of Nature with profit and facility, and you yourself will be taught to rightly appreciate His own high eminence in the structure—

The crowning and finishing touch of the vast edifice.

To think of God in His works—the multitude and infinity of which should fill your mind with awe—

Wondering admiration exalts and benefits your soul.

To dwell on His greatness brings you more nearly into communion with Him, and fills you with a portion of His own Pure Spirit.

You are benefitted from the smallest approach you can make to this Mind of God—

There is no better method for you to pursue in your endeavours to progress than studying Him in His works.

You may say you cannot understand much that you see, much that you hear in relation to them.

True, you cannot.

But none are so ignorant that they cannot see beauty in a flower, a leaf, a human eye, a human hand—

You can do more, for you can see, not the beauty only, but their appropriateness, fitness, adaptedness for their various uses.

Can anything be more wonderfully and judiciously contrived than the eye?

So delicately organised to receive impressions from surrounding objects at the same time, so carefully protected from injury by its judicious position in the head and its covering lid and eyelashes?

Did not the thought that originated it show the highest wisdom?

And can you not find profit and pleasure combined in thinking about these things?

Or are you so accustomed to the offices and appearance of this organ that you have ceased to regard it?

If so, refresh your ideas on this point by visiting some institution for the blind and you will then see more plainly the blessing you enjoy without appreciating its possession.

Then your hand—

Have you ever thought about its varied uses—its beautiful adaptedness to the numerous offices it is required to perform?

Or have you allowed that also to pass by unheeded, playing out its part in a regular and methodical manner, as you might require its services—

Your willing docile slave to do your bidding—

You, entirely unconscious of the wondrous beauty of the organism that thus works for you, accept its services and never pause for a moment to dwell on the wisdom and love that designed it—to consider what that being must be who so multiplies His benefits to all that we take them as a right and entirely overlook and neglect the giver?

Some of us may be attracted by the wonders of the heavens and look there for evidence of God's power and thoughtful love, and we may fancy it is more mightily displayed there—or again, others may examine the beauties of the deep and see its workings there.

Any, everywhere, you will find them—

All display, in an equal degree, the power of thought, wisdom, beneficence of the being who planned them.

In the smallest blade of grass, in the tiniest flower, apparently so useless, but yet which has its office, the same careful thought is traced and in the same perfection.

God, the great Thought of the Universe, sees no difference in men—

He, in creating all His bountiful provisions for the happiness of mankind, intended them for all, equally.

Go forth into the world of Nature and find God there.

Note well the formation and design apparent in every portion of His works—

The beneficent kindness and overflowing love that planned the whole.

The omnipresence of Deity not only controls and guides our actions, but the vital, living, acting principle in all Nature.

God everywhere—wonderful thought!

Incapable of our understanding, yet when looked upon by our simple intuitions in a natural state, easily understood.

See and feel the presence of the great Spirit in every effort of Nature, not only in the rushing wind or the storm, but in all the beautiful outpourings of His goodness—in the flowers, the leaves, the gently flowing stream, the shady forest.