THE GREAT AWAKENING
"And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough, and to spare, and I perish with hunger!"
"And when he came to himself." This is the great awakening, the moment in which we now live; in this moment we are asking this question of ourselves! Is there not plenty in the universe? Why do we want? In this divine awakening there seems to be an inner witness who remembers that we came from a heavenly state. There seems to be an answer from that great within which says the Father's House is filled with peace, power and plenty. The universe is not limited. It is abundance. It is lavish. It is extravagant, nothing can be taken from, nor added to it. Creation is the play of life upon itself.
We know, by intuition, that there is something beyond what we have so far consciously experienced in this world. Poets have sung of it and there are moments, in the life of all, when the veil seems thin between and we almost enter into the heavenly state. This is the meaning of coming to one's self. We are still in the awakening state. We have not yet consciously entered the state of perfect wholeness. We know that it is a reality, and that we shall yet attain this reality. Nothing can dislodge this inner and intuitive perception from our mentality; we know it as certainly as we know that we live. This is God in us knowing Himself. We are awakening to the realization (page 115) that the universe is perfect. It is complete. It gives. It is love. It is good and wills only good to all alike.

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