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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind
Chapter 7
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Thinking in the Fourth Dimension
Chapter VII
SCIENTISTS TELL us that the discoveries that their efforts
are revealing convince them that they are just on the verge
of stupendous truths. Christianity spiritually interpreted
shows that Jesus understood the deeper things of God's
universe. He understood exactly what the conditions were on
the invisible side of life, which is termed in His teaching
the "kingdom of God" or the "kingdom of the heavens." We
are trying to connect His teaching with modern science in
order to show the parallel; but as He said in Mark 4:23,
"if any man hath ears to hear, let him hear." This means
that we must develop a capacity for understanding in terms
of the atomic structure of the universe.
Unless we have this spiritual capacity we do not
understand. We think we have ears, but they are attuned to
materiality. They do not get the radiations from the
supermind, the Christ Mind. Physiology working with
psychology is demonstrating that hearing and seeing can be
developed in every cell in the body, independent of ears
and eyes. We hear and see with our minds working through
our bodies. This being true, the capacity to hear may
extend beyond the physical ear into the spiritual ethers,
and we should be able to hear the voice of God. This
extension of hearing is what Jesus taught. "If any man
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hath ears to hear, let him hear."
Then we are told that we must "take heed" what we hear.
Many of us have found that as we develop this inner,
spiritual hearing, we hear voices sometimes that do not
tell the truth. These deceptive voices can be hushed by
affirming the presence and power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
As you unfold your spiritual nature, you will find that it
has the same capacity for receiving vibrations of sound as
your outer, physical ear has. You do not give attention to
all that you hear in the external; you discriminate as you
listen. So in the development of this inner, spiritual ear
take heed what you hear: discriminate.
Jesus said, "For he that hath, to him shall be given: and
he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that
which he hath." How can what a man has not be taken away?
We believe in our mortal consciousness that we have
attained a great deal, but if we have not this inner,
spiritual consciousness of reality our possessions are
impermanent. Then we must be careful what we accumulate in
our consciousness, because "he that hath, to him shall be
given." The more spiritual Truth you pile up in your mind,
the more you have of reality, and the larger is your
capacity for the unlimited; but if you have nothing of a
spiritual character, what little you have of intellectual
attainment will eventually be taken away from you.
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The kingdom of the heavens, the new dimension of mind and
energy that is being unfolded today in the spiritual ethers
by the discoveries of the scientists, should not be
divorced from the kingdom of heaven taught by Jesus. Jesus
taught in parables because His listeners were not trained
in science.
We know that the kingdom of the heavens or kingdom of God
is not a place in the skies but an ideal state in creative
mind, ready to be ushered into the minds of men.
We have thought that this kingdom of God was to be
introduced into the world in a miraculous way. At the very
beginning of His ministry Jesus announced, "The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand"; but it did
not then appear. He said, "The kingdom of God cometh not
with observation." Its source is not in outer things; it
comes from sources within man. So we know that we must
develop spiritual understanding and spiritual power in some
respects exceeding that of Jesus. "He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater." Man is
the outpicturing of the infinite and creative Mind, and all
the capacity of this great Mind is his by inheritance.
Jesus taught that man is the light of God. Without man God
should be deaf and dumb and blind. Did you ever think that
you are God's ears and God's mouth and God's eyes? You have
doubtless heard these statements before, but you have taken
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them metaphorically; but it is true that man is God,
formulated.
God is Spirit, it is plainly taught, and the omnipotent,
omnipresent essence from which all things proceed. Both
science and religion agree on the fundamental fact that God
is the source of all creation. Just how God puts Himself
into His creation is not so universally understood or
accepted. But Paul says that God is in us all and through
us all and above us all; that is, God saturates us. God as
Spirit is the ether or soil in which we grow as human
plants.
Jesus compared this soil of God to the soil necessary to
the vegetable kingdom, in which seed is cast and springs up
and grows and unfolds by a series of orderly stages: "first
the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear."
This seed is the God word, and it is tremendously prolific,
much more so than any material seed.
When man points his mind toward God and allows his zeal to
run in a single channel, he may become God-intoxicated.
Peter the Hermit became intoxicated with the idea that God
wanted Jerusalem rescued from Moslem rule, and he rode up
and down Europe on his little mule shouting, "God wills
it." His fanatical zeal started the Crusades that rolled
from Europe to Palestine for nearly two hundred years.
When we recognize that great teachers and leaders of the
race have really developed and expressed
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a superconsciousness that is potential in all persons, we
have raised the hopes and the capacities of men from the
human to the divine. These scientific discoveries are
proving that God is impartial and absolutely just in all
His relations with humanity. When the natural world is
scientifically and universally revealed, a great school of
instruction in soul unfoldment will be established right
here in our midst, and its results will be beyond all our
present imaginings.
The mysteries of the supermind have always been considered
the property of certain schools of occultists and mystics
who were cautious about giving their truths to the masses
for fear that in their ignorance these might misuse them.
But now the doors are thrown wide open, and whosoever will
may enter in.
Our attention in this day is being largely called to the
revolution that is taking place in the economic world, but
a revolution of even greater worth is taking place in the
mental and spiritual worlds. A large and growing school of
metaphysicians has made its advent in this generation, and
it is radically changing the public mind toward religion.
In other words, we are developing spiritual understanding,
and this means that religion and its sources in tradition
and in man are being inquired into and its principles
applied in the development of a new cosmic mind for the
whole human family. So we need
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a larger realization of the importance of man and the
importance of every one of us in manifesting the God who is
Spirit.
We have thought that the burden rested on God alone and
that we were merely puppets in His hands; but Jesus taught
otherwise, and our science proves that man dominates nature
when he affirms his mental supremacy. We are told that
today we have invented machines that can produce faster
than we yet know how to use, that our markets may be
glutted with the products of these mechanical inventions,
and that the products may become so cheap that those who
produce them will come to want. We have wished that
everything we touched might turn to gold; it has come to
pass and we are paralyzed by the pressure of the stuff we
have piled up in our ingenuity and selfishness. We cannot
eat it ourselves, and our greed makes us fearful that we
shall lose all of it if we pass it out freely to others.
So the great need of the whole human family is to know this
one supreme law of God as Spirit manifesting itself in the
mind of man. It is then necessary that we understand our
own importance as God manifestations. We should understand
that we are not separate nor insignificant but the vital,
important, integral parts of a mighty whole. Jesus realized
the importance of the superman as a thinking power
expressing God-Mind when He said, "No one cometh unto the
Father, but by me."
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We have thought that we were to accept Jesus as our
Saviour, that He made propitiation for our sins, and that
that was what He meant when He said we could not reach the
Father except through Him. We have thought that He meant
His personality and His great sacrifice; and we now have to
admit that in its deeper, spiritual significance this is in
a measure true. But in a more personal and intimate way we
are vitally and spiritually intersphered with the Christ
Mind in God, and we cannot measure up to and express our
divinity unless we accept Jesus' standard of the importance
of man and the necessity of man in the great creative
scheme of life.
All persons in rare moments catch glimpses of this creative
plan as a whole, and of man's importance in its beauty and
perfection.
But this subject is so deep and so far-reaching that it can
be realized in small degree only by those who have
developed spiritual sight and feeling, and practice
thinking in the fourth dimension, or kingdom of God.
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