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Atom-Smashing Power of Mind
Chapter 6
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Thou Shalt Decree a Thing
Chapter VI
As imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
--SHAKESPEARE
TO DECREE with assurance is to establish and fix an ideal
in substance. The force behind the decree is invisible,
like a promise to be fulfilled at a future time; but it
binds with its invisible chains the one who makes it. We
have only a slight conception of the strength of the
intangible. We compare and measure strength by some strong
element in nature. We say "strong as steel." But a very
little thought will convince us that mental affirmations
are far stronger than the strongest visible thing in the
world. The reason for this is that visible things lack
livingness. They are not linked with energy and
intelligence as are words. Words charged with power and
intelligence increase with use, while material things
decrease.
It is not necessary to call the attention of metaphysicians
to the fact that all visible things had their origin in the
invisible. The visible is what remains of an idea that has
gradually lost its energy. Scientists say that this
so-called solid earth under our feet was once radiant
substance. Nothing is really "solid"
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but the atomic energy latent in everything. They tell us
that it takes some six billion years for uranium to
disintegrate and become lead, and this rate of
disintegration has helped scientists determine the age of
the earth as about two billion years.
Since nothing is lost in the many transformations that
occur in nature, what becomes of the energy that is being
released in the disintegration that is going on in our
earth? The answer is that a new earth is being formed in
which matter will be replaced by atomic energy. This
process of refining matter into radiant substance is taking
place not only in the natural world but in our bodies also.
In fact the speed with which the transformation takes place
depends on the character of the thoughts that we project
into our brains and through them into our bodies and the
world about us. This is why we should spiritualize our
thoughts and refine the food we eat to correspond. The
press announces a great shortage of meat all over the
world, with alarming predictions of malnutrition and race
deterioration. Instead of a calamity this meat shortage
will prove a blessing. New and better foods will be found
to replace the corrupt flesh with which people have been
stuffing their stomachs. The call for stimulants that the
fermenting mess produces in digestion will diminish, and a
purer, sweeter body and saner mind will follow. The peoples
of Europe, forced by the economic conditions brought about
by wars, are adopting a
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simpler diet, with better health; so says the public press.
Thus what seems calamity turns out to be a source of joy.
At the present writing there is a housing shortage
everywhere and the lack of materials and competent labor
indicate that several years will elapse before the need is
met. This is counted a calamity; but is it? The inventive
genius of man is planning houses of glass and other
materials that will be much less expensive--more durable
and in every respect superior to the present homes. When
man gets his ingenious mind into action he always meets
every emergency with something better. These many examples
of the power of man's mind should make us pause when we are
tempted to consider any situation disastrous or nearly so.
Every adverse situation can be used as a spur to urge one
to greater exertion and the ultimate attainment of some
ideal that has lain dormant in the subconsciousness. The
pessimist moans, "I could make a better world than this."
The optimist sings, "Go to it; that's what God put you here
for."
People everywhere on earth are now realizing as never
before that the well-being of this world rests with its
inhabitants. It is no longer a religious dogma or a
philosophical theory that the destiny of the race is in the
hands of man. God has given all things to us to use as we
shall determine. We can use the atomic energy to destroy or
construct as we decree. "Behold, I set before you the way
of life and the
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way of death."
The dominion and authority God gave to His
image-and-likeness man has assumed such reality that even
the most trivial person can understand it and tremble at
the prospect of what might come to pass if that dominion
were used by vicious men.
Those who have recklessly gone on living without seeking
the wisdom of the source of life are now asking what shall
be done to save us from the insanity that would destroy our
world.
The one and only answer, of course, is that the moral and
spiritual standard of the race must be raised the world
over as the one and only ultimate source of safety. This
means that every person must begin on himself and, as it
dawns, let the light shine by imparting it to others. If
this method were followed universally the millennium would
be upon us in a marvelously short time.
This is not a religious question but a matter of life or
death; not a question of hell after death but of survival
here and now of everybody and everything one holds dear.
There are Hitlers still alive and others reincarnating.
They must all be educated morally and taught the nearness
of the spiritual man and the necessity of his incorporation
into the consciousness of the natural man before permanent
life can be established in the individual. This work is to
be done for our race right here on this planet, and for
this reason we who love the Lord and greatly
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desire that His law be fulfilled are calling on all people
to make haste and accept the abundant life and light that
He so freely offers.
The Bible records many instances where marvelous results
followed the observance of religious rites in which
trumpets took a leading part. The priests under Moses were
ordered to blow trumpets before the Ark; Gideon and his
three hundred overcame a large army of Midianites by
flashing lights, shouting, and blowing trumpets; the walls
of Jericho fell as the result of trumpet and voice
vibrations. Isaiah says: "And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall
come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria [the
psychic realm], and they that were outcasts in the land of
Egypt [materialism]; aud they shall worship Jehovah in the
holy mountain in Jerusalem [spirituality]."
The trumpet sets up sharp vibrations in the ether, which
cause disintegration when they impinge upon an object in
the mental or material realms. These realms Isaiah
symbolically refers to as Assyria and Egypt. Trained
metaphysicians produce like results through the spiritual
word, uttered audibly or silently or both. It is in this
field of Spirit that Unity people are destined to do a
great work in helping to educate people everywhere. By
declaring and decreeing spiritually the words of Jesus and
Jehovah we send into the ether a spiritual force that
shatters
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the fixed states of consciousness holding millions in evil
ways. In this way the doors of mental prisons will be
opened to multitudes of sin-bound souls. Anyone who has
faith in Spirit and the power of the word spoken in faith
can send it forth, and like the radio oscillation, it will
be picked up by receptive minds everywhere.
"Let your light shine before men; that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."
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