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Consecration in its true sense simply means obedience to the soul. We have within us something that is always impelling us toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; we must obey it without question.

No one will deny that if you are to be great, the greatness must be a manifestation of something within and that greatness does not come from the mind, or the intellect, or the reason.

Reason knows neither principle nor morality. Your reason is like a lawyer in that it will argue for either side.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

Use intellect and reason without regard to principle, and you may become known as a very able person, but you will never become known as a person whose life shows the power of real greatness.

But By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship. To be great and to have power it is only necessary to conform your life to the pure idea as you find it in the GREAT WITHIN. Every compromise on this point is made at the expense of a loss of power. This you must remember.

We know there are many ideas in our minds that we have outgrown, and which, from force of habit we still permit to dictate the actions of our lives.

Cease all this; abandon everything you have outgrown.

There are many ignoble customs, social and other, which we still follow, although we know they tend to dwarf and belittle us and keep us acting in a small way. Rise above all this.

I’m not saying that you should absolutely disregard conventionalities, or the commonly accepted standards of right and wrong. You cannot do this; but you can deliver your soul from most of the narrow restrictions that bind the majority of your fellow people. Do not give your time and strength to the support of obsolete institutions, religious or otherwise; do not be bound by creeds in which you do not believe.

Be free.

You have perhaps formed some sensual habits of mind or body; abandon them. You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them. You still act selfishly in many ways and on many occasions; cease to do so. Abandon all these, and in place of them put the best actions you can form a conception of in your mind. If you desire to advance, and you are not doing so, remember that it can be only because your thought is better than your practice. You must do as well as you think.

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

Let your attitude in business, in politics, in neighborhood affairs, and in your own home be the expression of the best thoughts you can think.

Let your manner toward all men and women, great and small, and especially to your own family circle, always be the most kindly, gracious, and courteous you can picture in your imagination.

Remember your viewpoint; you are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly. The steps to complete consecration are few and simple. You cannot be ruled from below if you are to be great; you must rule from above. Therefore you cannot be governed by physical impulses; you must bring your body into subjection to the mind; but your mind, without principle, may lead you into selfishness and immoral ways; you must put the mind into subjection to the soul, and your soul is limited by the boundaries of your knowledge; you must put it into subjection to that Our soul which needs no searching of the understanding but before whose eye all things are spread.

That constitutes consecration.

Say: “I surrender my body to be ruled by my mind; I surrender my mind to be governed by my soul, and I surrender my soul to the guidance of God.” Make this consecration complete and thorough, and you have taken a great step in the way of greatness and power.

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Without faith it is impossible for you to become great.

The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith. We see this in every man and woman who has attained a place on the muster roll of the great ones of the world. Faith-not a faith in one’s self or in one s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time.

Without this faith it is not possible for anyone to rise to real greatness. The person who has no faith in principle will always be a small person. Whether you have this faith or not depends upon your point of view. You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution, as a something that is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Millions of years ago God worked with very low and crude forms of life, low and crude, yet each perfect after its kind. Higher and more complex organisms, animal and vegetable, appeared through the successive ages; the earth passed through stage after stage in its unfolding, each stage perfect in itself, and to be succeeded by a higher one.

Pease note that the so-called “lower organisms” are as perfect after their kind as the higher ones; that the world in the Eocene period was perfect for that period; it was perfect, but God’s work was not finished.

This is true of the world today. Physically, socially, and industrially it is all good, and it is all perfect. It is not complete anywhere or in any part, but so far as the handiwork of God (The Source) has gone it is perfect.

THIS MUST BE YOUR POINT OF VIEW:

THAT THE WORLD AND ALL IT CONTAINS IS PERFECT, THOUGH NOT COMPLETED.

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There are undreamed of possibilities in the common lives all around us. In a large sense, there are no “common” people. We know in times of national stress and peril we see ordinary people become heroes through the quickening of the Principle of Power within them. There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

You and I know THERE is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, we can develop our own mental faculties.

We have an inherent power by which we may grow in whatever direction we please, and there aren’t any limits to the possibilities of our growth.

No one has yet become so great that it is impossible for someone else to become greater. That’s because the possibility is in the Original Substance (God, The Source) from which we are all made.

Great people are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve of power that is without limit.

We do not know where the boundary of our mental powers is; we do not even know that there is a boundary.

The power of conscious growth is not given to the animals. The animals can, to a great extent, be trained and developed by us, and we can also train and develop ourselves. We alone have this power, and we have it to an apparently unlimited extent.

Just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth The purpose of life for you is growth also. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; you can grow, as you will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; you can develop any power, which is or has been shown by any person, anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that you can think is impossible-in action. Nothing that you can imagine is impossible of realization.
You are formed for growth, and you are under the necessity of growing. It is essential to your happiness that you should continuously advance.

There is no possibility in any person that is not in every person; but if they proceed naturally, no two persons will grow into the same thing, or be alike. That’s because everyone comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for her along those lines than in any other way. This is a wise provision, for it gives endless variety to humankind. Not everyone wants to be rich and not everyone wants to be famous.

It is as if a gardener should throw all his bulbs into one basket; to the superficial observer they would look alike, but growth reveals a tremendous difference. So of people, they are like a basket of bulbs. One may be a rose
and add brightness and color to some dark corner of the world; one may be a lily and teach a lesson of love and purity to every eye that sees; one may be a climbing vine and hide the rugged outlines of some dark rock; one may be a great oak among whose boughs the birds shall nest and sing, and beneath whose shade the flocks shall rest at noon, but every one will be something worthwhile, something rare, something perfect.

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it. If we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

But beware of undertaking great things in a small way: of that we shall speak farther on.

There are two mental attitudes people may take. One makes you like a football. It has resilience and reacts strongly when force is applied to it, but it originates nothing; it never acts of itself. There is no power within it. Person of this type are controlled by circumstances and environment, their destinies are decided by things external to themselves. The Principle of Power within them is never really active at all. They never speak or act from within.
The other attitude makes person like a flowing spring. Power comes out from the center of her. She has within her a well of water springing up into everlasting life, she radiates force; heist felt by her environment. The Principle of Power in her is in constant action. She is self-active. “She has life in herself.”

No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by The Source to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.

In our lowest stage, we are the children of chance and circumstance and the slave of fear. Our acts are all reactions resulting from the impingement upon us of forces in our environment. We act only as we are acted upon; we originate nothing. But even at our lowest stage have within us a Principle of Power sufficient to master all that we fear; and if we learn this and becomes self-active, we become as one of the gods.

The awakening of the Principle of Power in us is the real conversion; the passing from death to life. It is the resurrection and the life. When it is awakened, we become a son of the Highest and all power is given to us in heaven and on earth.

Nothing was ever in any person that is not in you; no one ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be

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