Part 2

You are one with the great "I AM" of the universe. You are part of God. Until you realize that — and the power it gives you — you will never know God. "We are parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul." God has incarnated Himself in man. He seeks expression. Give Him work to do through you, give Him a chance to express Himself in some useful way, and there is nothing beyond your powers to do or to attain.

It matters not what your age, what your present circumstances or position. If you will seek your help outside your merely physical self, if you will put the God in you into some worthwhile endeavor, and then BELIEVE in Him, you can overcome any poverty, any handicap, any untoward circumstance. Relying upon your personal abilities or riches or friends is being like the heathen of old, whom the Prophet of the Lord taunted. "You have a God whom you must carry," he derided them. "We have a God who carries us!"

The God of personal ability or material riches or friends is one that you must continually carry. Drop him, and immediately you lose everything. But there is a God in you who will carry you — and in the doing of it, provide you with every good thing this world can supply. The purpose of this book is to acquaint you with this God in you, The God That Only The Fortunate Few Know.

As the poet so well expressed it:

"In your own self lies Destiny. Let this

Vast truth cast out all fear, and prejudice,

All hesitation. Know that you are great,

Great with Divinity. So dominate

Environment and enter into bliss.

Love largely and hate nothing. Hold no aim

That does not chord with Universal Good.

Hear what the voices of the Silence say —

All joys are yours if you put forth your claim.

Once let the spiritual laws be understood,

Material things must answer and obey."

Some might think that merely a poet's dream, but along comes Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University to prove it scientific fact as well.

In his new book "The Reach of the Mind," Dr. Rhine points out that in the past, Science seemed to feel that man was entirely material. It had discovered how glands regulate personality through their chemical secretions; it had shown that the child mind matures only as the brain develops; that certain mental functions are linked with specific areas of the brain, and that if one of these is injured, the corresponding mental function is lost.

So Science believed that it had accounted for all the processes of thought and action, that it could show a material basis for each.

But now Dr. Rhine and other experimenters have proved that knowledge can be acquired without the use of the senses! Not only that, but they have also proved that the powers of the mind are not bound by space or limited by time! Perhaps their greatest discovery is that the mind can influence matter without physical means.

This has been done through prayer, of course, since time began, but such results have always been looked upon as supernatural. Dr. Rhine and other experimenters show that any normal person has the power to influence objects and events.

To quote "The Reach of the Mind" — "As a result of thousands of experimental trials, we found it to be a fact that the mind has a force that can act on matter. . . . There must, therefore, be an energy convertible to physical action, a mental energy."

The one great essential to the successful use of this mental energy seems to be intense interest or desire. The more keyed up a person is, the more eager for results, the more he can influence those results.

Dr. Rhine showed through many experiments that when the subject's interest is distracted, when he lacks ability to concentrate his attention, his mental energy has little or no power over outside objects. It is only as he gives his entire attention to the object in mind, as he concentrates his every energy upon it, that he gets successful results. (Ed. I AM, Meditation and silence are all of benefit here)

Dr. Rhine's experiments prove scientifically what we have always believed — that there is a Power over and above the merely physical power of the mind or body, that through intense concentration or desire we can link up with that Power, and that once we do, nothing is impossible to us.

It means, in short, that man is not at the mercy of blind chance or Fate, that he can control his own destiny. Science is at last proving what Religion has taught from the beginning — that God gave man dominion and that he has only to understand and use this dominion to become the Master of his Fate, the Captain of his Soul.