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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind
Chapter 1
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The Atomic Age
Chapter I
THE MAJORITY of people have crude or distorted ideas about
the character and the location of Spirit. They think that
Spirit plays no part in mundane affairs and can be known by
a person only after his death.
"But 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
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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
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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, 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
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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 superrealms, 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.'"
The foregoing extract is from the "Health and Prosperity"
column in Unity for May, 1927. These comments are
peculiarly applicable to the present and also to a subject
that has been agitating the public mind for some time, the
atomic bomb.
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
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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 interrelates 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
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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 an
energy as it passes through the brain cells, and this
machine measures the force of
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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
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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
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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."
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