PUPIL: Am I right then in believing that if I could really think myself into an unshakable conviction that God IS ever-present in me, and that all of His Creative Power is mine to draw from at my own will and pleasure, I could accomplish anything and everything that i might wish, and could be and have whatsoever I might desire?

MASTER: Yes, you are right. The Creative Power of God in us is unformed with respect to what we may wish to accomplish until we ourselves give it definite direction with our thought and feeling. It is always responsive, remember, to any and all of our thoughts and feelings. These things being true, and they are true, any person may BE, do and have whatsoever that one may desire, if, of course, one actively works in a corresponding direction.

It is logic, it is purest gospel, that there is no other way than the one that Life's true purpose in us is to be forever seeking to express itself through us as freedom! Remember always, I urge you, that our thoughts and feelings do become things, and that they determine the shape that the unformed substance of the Spirit takes in its living expression in our individual lives.

It is, as Troward says, like water flowing through a pipe; the water always assumes the shape and the size of the pipe through which it is sent.

It is like harnessed electricity which always manifests in exact correspondence with the kind of instrument through which it passes as it works. In the light-bulb the electricity actually becomes light; in the doorbell it rings the bell; in the refrigerator it generates cold; in the stove it becomes heat. It is the same electricity, the same Power, in every case; and the instrument through which it passes determines what the Power is and what it does!

Once a person truly grasps the real meaning of the Spirit's Principles, then one realizes fully that we as individuals are actually sent out from the very Heart of God Himself in order that we may become and be new and perfect centers through which He can operate in joy, in ever-increasing joy.

This and this only, is the will of God towards us! Yes, the exalted mission of each of us is that we may be new instruments for divine expression. If we will to become that, and will make the necessary mental and physical effort to realize this Truth, then we will know that we are filling our right place in life. we shall experience true and lasting happiness then because we shall be doing the things we most enjoy doing. There will be an ever present-sense of growth in our lives also.

Only a very few individuals have ever reached this empyrean height in consciousness while on the earth-plane; still it is possible to all. Because so few attain this exalted level most people have the merest existence, one that is filled with seemingly continual and perplexing problems of one sort or another.