Mind is, as has been given, both spiritual and physical.
In the material world, where we find expressions of the
physical and of the spiritual, we find Mind. Yet what
is known as the Group Mind - or that of the plant kingdom,
the mineral kingdom and the animal kingdom or group - returns
(as its Destiny) to the Creative Force which is its author,
its maker. MAN - the free will agent; man made to become
a companion to the Creator through the purification, by
manifestation of the love of God as may be manifested in
the earth - makes his Destiny as to whether his Mind (that
accompanies his soul) is one with or in opposition to the
Creative Forces. For he, for weal or woe, gives expression
of same in his activity. And his Destiny - his Mind's
Destiny - is in Him if he, man, will but make the Mind one
with that which is creative in its essence, in its activity,
in its flow. For Mind is the dividing line between that
which is human, that which is man, and that which is animal
- or of that division of a group soul or consciousness.
Hence the variation in that He taught as He gave to
Nicodemus, "Know ye not ye must be born again?" Born of
water and of blood; that is, of the spirit - yet the spirit
making manifest in the flesh the last command, the whole
command as He gave, "A new commandment I give, that ye love
one another" - that ye be of one mind, of one purpose, of one
aim, of one desire. That each must approach from his or her
own vision, his or her own status of development, does not
alter that as has been spoken, "As the man thinketh in his
heart, so is he." So does the Mind bring health, wealth,
happiness; in that it is made ONE WITH Constructive Force,
one with the Creator; and thus fulfill its Destiny - to
become One in Him, One with the Father. Not by other than
that "abiding in me, as I in the Father, ye in me." And
what ye ask, what ye seek, what ye live, what ye ARE will be
one with that force. Thus is the Destiny of Mind. Thus is
the variation that lies between East and West; that of the
old tenet yet ever new, presented in MIND IS THE BUILDER.
Yea, Mind is that which makes for the Destiny in the
experience of all; not by denial alone but rather by an
active, positive assurance of the Mind's activity being One
in Him. As He abides in the Father, ye may abide in the
Father also. For as He is the Way, He is the Light, He is
the bread of Life, He is the water of Life, He is the Vine,
we abide in that Mind, that Flow of Life as of Him, and we
then are One with Him.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Please explain that given in reading of March 10, 1935,
"If there is the concept gained here, ye may through these
lessons set many aright as respecting same." [
262-79,
Par. 3]
(A) As has just been given; that those thoughts, those
expressions of creation, those expressions of manifestivity
in materiality - in flesh, in matter, in activity - are the
variations. Not that which entereth into the man defileth,
but that which cometh out of the man - IN thought, in act,
in word. As He gave, then, set others aright.
We are through for the present.
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