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Dynamics for Living
The Spoken Word
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IN PURE metaphysics there is but one word, the Word of God.
This is the original creative Word, or thought, of Being.
In the original it includes wisdom, judgment, power, and
all the inherent potentialities of Being.
Divine Mind creates under law; that is, mental law. First
is mind, then the idea in mind of what the act shall be,
then the act itself. In Divine Mind the idea is referred to
as the Word.
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Man is the consummation of the Word. The perfect Word of
God is Spiritual Man. It is through Spiritual Man that all
things are made. There is but one idea of man in Divine
Mind. That idea is the perfect pattern of man's character.
As an imitator of Divine Mind, man has power to form and
make manifest whatsoever he idealizes. Unless his thoughts
are unified with Divine Mind and guided in their operations
by infinite wisdom, his thought forms are perishable.
Surroundings and Thought Vibrations
The self of man is spiritual. When it is in direct
conscious unity with the Father-Mind it has permanent
formative power. Even in his ignorant use of thought, man's
mind is forming conditions, even to the changing of the
face of nature itself. Every thought that goes forth from
the brain sends vibrations into the surrounding atmosphere
and moves the realm of things to action. The effect is in
proportion to the ability of the thinker to concentrate his
mental forces.
The average thought vibration produces but temporary
results. Under intense mind activity, conditions more or
less permanent are impressed
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upon the sensitive plate of the universal. Through this
activity they are brought into physical manifestation.
Spoken Word
Every idea originating in Divine Mind is expressed in the
mind of man. Through the thought of man the Divine Mind
idea is brought to the outer plane of consciousness.
Through movement on what is termed the conscious, or most
outer, plane of action, the thought takes expression as the
spoken word. There is in the formed conscious man, or body,
a point of concentration for this word. Through this point
the word is expressed in invisible vibrations.
Following the creative law in its operation from the
formless to the formed, we can see how an idea fundamental
in Divine is grasped by the man ego, how it takes form in
his thought, and how it is later expressed through the
spoken word. If man conformed to the divine law, his word
would make things instantly. He has lost, in a measure,
knowledge of the steps in the creative process from the
within to the without.
The mental emanation and the creative word are the forces
that stimulate the receptive intelligence of nature. When
we believe what we hear, there is formed in us the
substance of the word.
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Words and Zeal
Words of Truth from a zealous man possess dynamic power to
heal and bless because the spiritual man enters into them.
This is why they move multitudes and are not stayed by
conditions of time. When the zone of Spirit, from which
healing words emanate, is unobstructed, they feed the souls
of men and are creative as well as re-creative.
This is why the sayings of the prophets and mystics have
such enduring qualities. They are attached by invisible
currents of life to the one Great Spirit. They have within
them the germ of perfect wholeness that keeps them
perpetually increasing.
The true prophet of God does not even have to write his
words down. He may speak them and through their own
inherent power of perpetuation and growth they will find
their way into the minds of men to uplift and heal. Jesus
did not write a line except in the sand, yet His words are
treasured today as the most precious that we have.
Living Words
The word of Truth has life in it. It has power to restore
and make whole. It cannot perish or grow less with the
changes that come with the fleeting years. The more
spiritual the individual is who
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gives forth the words the more enduring they are, and the
more powerfully the words move men the more surely they
awaken them to their divine nature.
The words of Jesus were given to common people--according
to the world's standard--by a carpenter in a remote corner
of the earth. Yet these words have moved men for more than
nineteen hundred years to realize, to dare, and to do as no
other words that were ever uttered.
The Inner Word
Jesus spoke in terms of that inner Word which creates all
things. He knew that His words were vivified with a life
essence and a moving power that would demonstrate the truth
of His statement.
These words have rung through the souls of men and set them
afire with God's Spirit throughout the ages. This is
because they are spiritual words, words that have within
them the seeds of a divine life, of a perfect wholeness.
They grow in the minds of all who give them place.
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