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you may
feel, as many others do, that someone else
may be forming the same picture you are,
and that, naturally, would not suit your
purpose. Do not give yourself any concern
about this.
Simply try to realize that your picture
is an orderly exercise of the Universal
Creative Power specifically applied. Then
you may be sure that no one can work in
opposition to you. The universal law of
harmony prevents that.
Endeavor to bear in mind that your mental
picture is Universal Mind specifically exercising
its inherent powers of initiative and selection.
God, or Universal Mind, made man for the
special purpose of differentiating Himself
through him. Everything there is, came
into existence in this same way, by this
self-same law of self-differentiation, and
for the same purpose. First came the idea,
the mental picture, or the prototype of
the thing, which is the thing itself in
its incipiency.
The Great
Architect of the Universe contemplated Himself
as manifesting through his polar opposite—matter—and
the idea expanded and projected itself
until we have not only a world, but many
worlds.
Many people
ask, “But why should we have a physical
world at all ?” The answer is:
“Because
it is the nature of Originating Substance
to solidify, under directivity rather than
activity, just as it is the nature of wax
to
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