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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind
Chapter 4
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I AM or Superconsciousness
Chapter IV
SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS is the goal toward which humanity is
working. Regardless of appearances there is an upward trend
continually active throughout all creation. The
superconsciousness is the realm of divine ideas. Its
character is impersonal. It therefore has no personal
ambitions; knows no condemnation; but is always pure,
innocent, loving, and obedient to the call of God.
The superconsciousness has been perceived by the
spiritually wise in every age, but they have not known how
to externalize it and make it an abiding state of
consciousness. Jesus accomplished this, and His method is
worthy of our adoption, because as far as we know, it is
the only method that has been successful. It is set forth
in the New Testament, and whoever adopts the life of purity
and love and power there exemplified in the experiences of
Jesus of Nazareth will in due course attain the place that
He attained.
Jesus acknowledged Himself to be the Son of God. Living in
the superconsciousness calls for nothing less on our part
than a definite recognition of ourselves as sons of God
right here and now, regardless of appearances to the
contrary. We know that we are sons of God; then why not
acknowledge it and proceed to take possession of our God
heirdom?
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That is what Jesus did in the face of the most adverse
conditions. Conditions today are not so inertly material as
they were in Jesus' time. People now know more about
themselves and their relation to God. They are familiar
with thought processes and how an idea held in mind will
manifest itself in the body and in affairs; hence they take
up this problem of spiritual realization under vastly more
favorable conditions. An idea must work out just as surely
as a mathematical problem, because it is under immutable
law. The factors are all in our possession, and the method
was demonstrated in one striking instance and is before us.
By following the method of Jesus and doing day by day work
that comes to us, we shall surely put on Christ as fully
and completely as did Jesus of Nazareth.
The method by which Jesus evolved from sense consciousness
to God consciousness was, first, the recognition of the
spiritual selfhood and a constant affirmation of its
supremacy and power. Jesus loved to make the highest
statements: "I and the Father are one." "All authority hath
been given unto me in heaven and on earth." He made these
statements, so we know that at the time He was fully aware
of their reality. Secondly, by the power of His word He
penetrated deeper into omnipresence and tapped the deepest
resources of His mind, whereby He released the light, life,
and substance of Spirit, which enabled Him to get the
realization that wholly
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united His consciousness with the Father Mind.
In making His great overcoming Jesus applied the principles
of Being scientifically, and He instructed His followers to
do as He did. No one can get a copyright on the principles
of Truth any more than he can get a corner on the air.
Truth is free; it is Spirit, and cannot be kept from the
spiritually minded, nor can it be confined within the
bounds of any religious organization. In the light of
modern science the miracles of the Bible can be rationally
explained as Mind acting in an omnipresent spiritual field,
which is open to all men who develop spiritually. "Ye who
have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man
shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me
in my throne."
Overcoming is a change of mind from error to Truth. The way
of overcoming is first to place one's self by faith in the
realization of Sonship, and second, to demonstrate it in
every thought and act.
The Word is man's I AM. The Holy Spirit is the "outpouring"
or activity of the living Word. The work of the Holy Spirit
is the executive power of Father (mind) and Son (idea),
carrying out the creative plan. It is through the help of
the Holy Spirit that man overcomes. The Holy Spirit
reveals, helps, and directs in this overcoming. "The Spirit
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searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." It
finally leads man into the light.
The work that the overcomer does for the world is to help
establish a new race consciousness, "new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." By being true to
his highest understanding of Truth the overcomer never
swerves to the right nor left for any reason.
As an illustration, a friend of mine who lives in a large
American city, an executive of a manufacturing corporation,
dotes on standing at a bar with a group of his associates;
and after they have all ordered liquor in one form or
another, he calls out so everyone can hear, "Buttermilk!"
This has been going on for a number of years. Whenever they
undertake to joke him about his seemingly tame choice he is
overjoyed. He feels he is testifying for the Lord and is
thankful just for the opportunity. However he says that
first one and then another of his friends has come to him
privately and asked him how he has the nerve always to turn
down the drinks. He tells them he stands in the strength of
the Lord and that it is no problem at all for him. They
usually admit they wish they had as much backbone as he.
This gives him the opportunity to present a word for the
practical use of Truth.
The mind of man is built on Truth, and the clearer man's
understanding of Truth is the more substantial his mind
becomes. It is through progressive,
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step-by-step spiritual unfoldment that Truth is
demonstrated. The truths of Being are scientific, and
undoubtedly Jesus understood and taught the properties of
the cosmic ether under the name of "the kingdom of the
heavens."
Science rightly understood is of inestimable value to
religion, and Christianity in order to become the world
power that its founder envisioned, must stress the
unfoldment of the spiritual mind in man in order that he
may do the mighty works promised by Jesus.
When Jesus went up into the mount to pray He was
transfigured before His apostles Peter, James, and John.
True prayer brings about an exalted radiation of energy,
and when it is accompanied by faith, judgment, and love,
the word of Truth bursts forth in a stream of light that,
when held in mind, illumines, uplifts, and glorifies.
Jesus recognized Mind in everything and called it "Father."
He knew that there is a faith center in each atom of
so-called matter and that faith in man can move upon the
faith center in so-called matter and can remove mountains.
He developed spiritual faith in His own mind, which moved
upon the cells of His body and released the power He used
in His resurrection and ascension.
We cannot separate Jesus Christ from God or tell where man
leaves off and God begins in Him. To say that we are men as
Jesus Christ was a man is not exactly true, because He had
dropped that personal
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consciousness by which we separate ourselves from our true
God self. He became consciously one with the absolute
principle of Being. He proved in His resurrection and
ascension that He had no consciousness separate from that
of Being, therefore He really was this Being to all intents
and purposes.
Yet He attained no more than what is expected of every one
of us. "That they may be one, even as we are" was His
prayer.
This is all accomplished through the externalization of the
superconsciousness, which is omnipresent and ever ready to
manifest itself through us as it did through Jesus. Let
"Christ be formed in you."
In Acts 1:8 Jesus said: "But ye shall receive power, when
the Holy Spirit is come upon you."
Through the Holy Spirit, man not only has power to keep the
words of Jesus but also to do the works that He did, even
"greater works."
Modern science tells us that in the trillions of cells in
our body there are imprisoned electronic energies beyond
all possibility of estimate; that a single teardrop has
within its atoms dynamic force enough to blow up a
six-story building. Man is coming into an understanding of
how to release these mighty powers and use them in
regenerating soul and body.
Jesus taught that the realities of God are capable of
expression here in this world and that man within himself
has God capacity and power.
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Jesus was crucified because He claimed to be the Son of
God. Yet the Scriptures, which the Pharisees worshiped, had
this bold proclamation, which Jesus quoted to them from
Psalms 82:
"I said, Ye are gods,
And all of you sons of the Most High."
Jesus differed from other men in that He proved by His
works that He was the Son of God, while the average man is
still striving to attain that excellency.
The reports by His followers of what He taught clearly
point to two subjects that He loved to discourse upon. The
first was the Son of God: He was the Son of God. Secondly:
We might all become as He was and demonstrate our dominion
by following Him in the regeneration.
In order to follow Jesus in the regeneration we must become
better acquainted with the various phases of mind and how
they function in and through the body.
He who has caught the significance of man, and who and what
man is, never allows himself to accept any erroneous
conclusions as to his final destiny. He does however know
there is a way provided by which he can not only free
himself from the claims of materiality but also by his
efforts open the way for many others to do likewise. No
person ever demonstrated his God-given powers in even a
small way but what he helped others to do the same.
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Preaching is good, but precept is better. "I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself."
In Isaiah 65:17 we read: "Behold, I create new heavens
[ideals] and a new earth [manifestation]; and the former
things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
The body that is formed in regeneration absorbs the
substance of the body of flesh, and makes out of it a new
body in divine order, under the law of the Christ Mind. In
this process the physical body dies so that the Christ body
may live; but the spiritual ego, the I AM, remains
consciously active throughout the process of development
that Paul referred to when he said: "I die daily."
In spiritual understanding we know that all the forces in
the body are directed by thought and that they work in a
constructive or a destructive way, according to the
character of the thought. Medicine, massage, and all the
material means accomplish but incomplete, unsatisfactory,
temporary results, because they work only from the outside
and do not touch the inner springs that control the forces.
The springs can only be touched by thought. There must be a
unity between the mind of man and Divine Mind so that ideas
and thoughts that work constructively unto eternal life may
be quickened in the mind and organism of man.
Jesus unfolded the consciousness of the Absolute.
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Through the quickening of the Spirit we are loosed from all
limiting ideas and are set free in the Christ consciousness
or realization of the Absolute. The consciousness of the
Lord Jesus Christ is of limitless life, strength, power,
wisdom, love, and substance that are everywhere present,
always present.
We are told in John that the world could not contain the
books that would be written if all the things that Jesus
did were put into writing. But enough is given in the story
of His life and in the writings of the apostles concerning
Him to bear witness to that which is daily being revealed
in this day of fulfillment. Those who are consecrated to
Truth and fully resolved to follow Jesus all the way are
spiritualizing the whole man, including the body, which is
being redeemed from corruption. Those who are living as
Jesus lived are becoming like Him. "God is not the God of
the dead, but of the living."
Resurrection takes place in people who are alive. One does
not go into the grave to be resurrected and to enter the
heavenly state of those raised in Christ.
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