the form; he never creates or even manifests, -- this is, of himself; there is something that does all this for him. His sole activity is the use of this power. This power is always at hand ready to be spoken into and at once ready to for the words into visible expression. But the mold that most of us provide is a very poor one, and we change it so quickly that it is more like a motion picture than anything else.
Already we have the power; it is the gift of the Most High in its Finite Expression. But our ignorance of its use has cursed us to create the wrong form, which in its turn has caused mind to produce the form which have thought into it. From this law of cause and effect we may never hope to escape; and while we may think of it as a hard thing, at first, yet, when we understand, we shall see it as absolute justice without which there could be no real self-acting, individual life at all. Because of our divine individuality, even God may have to wait our recognition of Him and His laws.
People in business will do well to remember this and so to form their thought that they will be willing to receive what they send out. No thought of discouragement or disorder should ever be created, but only positive assurance, strong thoughts of success, of Divine activity, the feeling that with God all things are possible, the belief that we are One with that Great Mind. These are the thoughts that make for success.
The realization that we are dealing with one and not two powers enables us to think with clearness. We are not troubled about competition or opposition or failure because there is nothing but life, and this life is constantly
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