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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind
Chapter 8
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Is This God's World?
Chapter VIII
WHY DOESN'T God do something about it?" This oft-repeated
query, uttered by the skeptical and unbelieving, is heard
day in and day out. Imitating the skeptics, Christian
believers everywhere are looking to God for all kinds of
reforms in every department of manifest life and also are
charging Him with death and destruction the world over.
One who thinks logically and according to sound reason
wonders at the contradictions set up by these various
queries and desires.
Is God responsible for all that occurs on this earth, and
if not all, how much of it?
The Bible states that God created the earth and all its
creatures, and last of all man, to whom He gave dominion
over everything. Observation and experience prove that man
is gaining dominion over nature wherever he applies himself
to that end. But so much remains to be gained, and he is so
small physically that man counts himself a pygmy instead of
the mental giant that he is.
All the real mastery that man attains in the world has its
roots in his mind, and when he opens up the mental realm in
his being there are no unattainables. If the conquests of
the air achieved in the last quarter of a century had been
prophesied the
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prophets would have been pronounced crazy. The fact is that
no one thinking in the old mind realm can have any
conception of the transformation of sound waves into
electromagnetic waves and back again into words and
messages of intelligence. Edison admitted that his
discovery of the phonograph was an accident and that he
never fully understood how mechanical vibrations could be
recorded and be reproduced in all forms of intelligent
communication.
Reasoning in terms of matter, no one can understand how
words and music and pictures can be carried over long
distances through space without conflict and then be
reproduced by a mechanical device with perfection and
accuracy.
Now that man has broken away from his limited
visualizations and mentally grasped the unhampered ideas of
the supermind, he is growing grandly bold and his technical
pioneers are telling him that the achievements of yesterday
are as nothing compared to those of tomorrow. For example,
an article by Harland Manchester condensed in the Reader's
Digest from Scientific American tells of the "micro-waves"
that are slated for a more spectacular career in the realm
of the unbelievable than anything that has preceded them.
This article describes in detail some of the marvels that
will evolve out of the utilization of microwaves, among
which may be mentioned "private phone calls by the hundreds
of thousands sent simultaneously over the same wave
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band without wires, poles or cables. Towns where each
citizen has his own radio frequency, over which he can get
voice, music, and television, and call any phone in the
country by dialing. Complete abolition of static and
interference from electrical devices and from other
stations. A hundred times as much 'space on the air' as we
now have in the commercial radio band. A high-definition
and color television network to cover the country. And,
perhaps most important of all, a nation-wide radar network,
geared to television, to regulate all air traffic and
furnish instantaneous visual weather reports to airfields
throughout the land."
Add to this the marvels promised by the appliers of atomic
energy and you have an array of miracles unequaled in all
the bibles of all the nations of the world.
It is admitted by those who are most familiar with the
dynamic power of these newly discovered forces that we do
not yet know how to protect our body cells from the
destructiveness of their vibrations. Very thick concrete
walls are required to protect those who experiment with
atomic forces. One scientist says that the forces released
from the bombs that were used on the Japanese cities in
1945 may affect those who were subjected to them and their
descendants for a thousand years. Experimentation proves
that we have tapped a kingdom that we do not know how to
handle safely.
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It is quite obvious that these forces, if they could be
utilized, would vastly improve our standard of living and
that they were planned for us by creative Mind. If we
cannot control them, why did God allow us to discover them?
And now that we are turning them loose in space all about
us, what are we going to do about it? Also how do we
reconcile this situation with the observation of the
Psalmist:
"Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands;
Thou hast put all things under his feet."
The fact is that we have reached a point in race evolution
where we are forced to give attention to the refinement of
the body. Our religion has too long taught that the body is
dust and ashes and that it is its destiny to die and be
left to the worms. The deterioration of the body cells must
be arrested and a new and more powerful life force injected
into the physical organism. This is plainly part of the
teaching of Jesus. He said, "I came that they may have
life, and may have it abundantly." He told his followers
that when they went to that upper room in Jerusalem they
would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with power.
The original Greek says that they would receive dynamic
energy. All baptisms with Spirit impart vitalizing life to
the recipient, and the joy of quickened vitality should be
felt and retained as part of the physical regeneration.
The divine unction imparted by spiritual baptism
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also contains all the healing forces of X rays, ultraviolet
rays, sunshine, and in fact all the radiant restorative
forces now so widely used as healing agents. But the energy
imparted by Spirit is so tempered that it never injures but
always heals. That this is not true of the shocks given by
mechanical generators is evidenced by the scars they often
leave. A prayer treatment by an experienced spiritual
healer is a baptism, with power proportioned to the
spiritual understanding of the healer. The lowest method of
imparting spiritual baptism is by the laying on of hands
and prayer. The highest is realizing the Holy Spirit
presence and its expression through the power of the word.
Jesus began His ministry by doing the former, but at the
end He sent His word and healed by means of it.
God created the fundamental ideas culminating in the idea
of ideal man. This ideal man has power to mold God's
creation into any manifestation he may choose. If he
consults the Father and projects his thoughts in accordance
with the law, perfect manifestation follows. As Jesus said,
"My Father worketh even until now, and I work."
One who understands this relation of man to his creator can
assert with confidence that this is man's world and always
will be. By right thinking man can have the co-operation of
God in producing manifestations and thereby can set up the
kingdom of God in the earth; or he can ignore God and
attempt
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to form a world and govern it without divine aid. We are
now living in a civilization dominated by human thought,
and confusion is the result.
How many ages and aeons have passed since man lost contact
with God no one can tell. We have about six thousand years
of history and no heavenly conditions are recorded. Caves
and sand drifts reveal the remains of man in combat with
the gorilla for half a million years, with man himself sunk
almost to the level of the monkey. When man dropped out of
the ethers and became one of the primates mortal
understanding has not yet discerned, but the distortions in
the earth and all nature bear evidence of a terrible shock.
We know that our home is not altogether on the earth but
also in the air, over which we must gain dominion before we
can have a fit dwelling place. We are now gaining this
dominion by mechanical means. This will be followed by the
development of a human organism that, unified with Spirit,
will transport us everywhere in air and on earth.
The great and most important issue before the people today
is the development of man's spiritual mind and through it
unity with God. There seem to be things in more immediate
need of being done to alleviate present conditions, but the
taproot of all this confusion is our failure to use our
minds intelligently. We can only think as God would have us
think by adjusting our thoughts to divine ideas. Religion
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and all that it implies in prayer and recognition of God in
idea and manifestation is the one and only way out of the
chaos in which we find ourselves. We must therefore begin
at once to develop this unity with the Father mind by
incorporating divine ideas into all that we think and speak.
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