Speaker 1: Identification. Having recognized God as the advancing presence in nature, society,
and your fellow man, and harmonize yourself with all these,
and having consecrated yourself to death within you, which impels
you toward the greatest and the Highest. The next step
is to become aware of and recognize fully the fact
that the principle of power within you is God himself.
You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest. This is
not some fault or untrue position to be assumed. It
is a fact to be recognized. You are already one
with God. You want to become consciously aware of it.
There is one substance, the source of all things, and
this substance has within itself the power that creates all things.
All power is inherent in it. This substance is conscious
and thinks it works with perfect understanding and intelligence. You
know that it is so because you know that substance exists,
and that consciousness exists, and that it must be substance
that is conscious. Man is conscious and things. Man is substance.
He must be substance, as he is nothing and does
not exist at all. If man is substance and things
and is conscious, then he is conscious substance. It is
not conceivable that there should be more than one conscious substance.
So man is the original substance, the source of all
life and power, embodied in a physical form. Man cannot
be something different from God. Intelligence is one and the
same everywhere, and must be everywhere and attribute of the
same substance. There cannot be one kind of intelligence in
God and another kind of intelligence in Man. Intelligence can
only be an intelligent substance, and intelligent substance is God.
Man is of one and the same, stuck with God.
And so all the talents, powers, and possibilities that are
in God are in man, not just in a few
exceptional men, but in every one. All power is given
to man in heaven and on earth. Is it not
written ye are gods? The principle of power in man
is man himself, and man himself is God. But while
man is original substance and has within him all power
and possibilities, his consciousness is limited. He does not know
all there is to know, and so he is liable
to error and mistake. To save himself from these, he
must unite his mind to that outside him, which does
know all. He must become consciously one with God. There
is a mind surrounding him on every side, closer than breathing,
nearer than hands and feet. And in this mind is
the memory of all that has ever happened, from the
greatest convulsions of nature in prehistoric days to the fall
of a sparrow in this present time. And all that
is in existence now as well, howth in this mind
and is the great purpose that is behind all nature,
So it knows what is going to be. Man is
surrounded by a mind that knows all there is to know, past,
present and to come. Everything that men have said, or
down or written is present there. Man is of the
same one, identical stuff with this mind. He proceeded from it,
and he can so identify himself with it that he
may know what it knows. My Father is greater than
I said Jesus, I come from him. I and my
Father are one. He shows the Son all things, the
spiritual guide you into all truth. Your identification of yourself
with the infinite must be accomplished by conscious recognition on
your part. Recognizing it is a fact that there is
only God and that all intelligence is in the one's substance.
You must affirm some what after this wise, there is
only one, and that one is everywhere. I surrender myself
to conscious unity with the Highest, not I but the Father.
I will to be one with the Supreme and to
lead the divine life. I am one with infinite consciousness.
There is but one mind, and I am that mind.
I that speak unto you am he. If you have
been thorough in the work as outlined in the preceding chapters,
if you have attained to the true viewpoint, and if
your consecration is complete, you will not find conscious identification
heart to attain. And once it is attained, the power
you seek is yours, for you have made yourself one
with all the power there is