"And whatsoever you desire when you pray, BELIEVE THAT YOU RECEIVE IT AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT!" So promised the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the ruler of this divine Kingdom of new Creations. "And if you ask anything of the Lord, and DOUBT NOT IN YOUR HEART, YOU SHALL HAVE WHATSOEVER YOU ASK."
The real, true power of prayer, that invitation to ask, does not necessarily need to be in words. The deepest, truest prayers are the yearning desires held forth in a human heart as they evolve into HOPE, which, when held forth without wavering or changing or doubting will be clothed in the spiritual essence of that primal substance and fashioned into reality according to the pattern held forth in the mind of man.
Hope IS Faith, the element or substance of all fulfillment as it is generated, by thought, into the condition of its full materialization, or until the Father rewards you openly.
Think upon your heart's desire! "Lay hold of it" with all your mind, which should be conditioned to vibrate only LOVE. LOVE that desire as you nourish it always in your heart! Thank God for it continually and it will become your own.
Do more! Live as though you have it! This brings forth its accomplishment more speedily! Rejoice in it! Let the tenderness of your heart embrace it in thanksgiving and singing appreciation. This purifies the very essence of its materialization and keeps it unsullied from the darkness of doubts, which have the power to destroy it utterly, like noxious weeds in a garden. Doubts are death to the spiritual growth of anything. And all existing things were created spiritually first. And that spiritual creation is held in the thought or the plan of their forming. Doubts are like the hoar-frost, blighting the tender sprouts -- and they perish -- unfulfilled. Doubts are also the noxious weeds.
And this is the PROMISE, or the COVENANT of God: "If you chase darkness (which is doubting and unbelief and negation) from among you (or out of your life) YOU SHALL BE ORDAINED OF GOD, and all things will be subject unto you, both in heaven and on earth: the Life and the Light; the Spirit and the power, sent forth by the will of the Father through Jesus Christ His Son."
Hold to the vibration of enthusiasm. This is the fundamental key as the element of "HOPE" is generated into the form of your own planning. Remember "doubting is of the devil and is the sister of sadness!" And "despair cometh because of iniquity!" And enthusiasm is the creative vibration set in operation by the HOPES of man.
HOPE is the perfection of the vision and the desire as it matures and becomes established. This is why "He that is without HOPE must needs be in despair, and despair cometh because of iniquity," or because one has walled himself out into an exiled condition of darkness.
Without HOPE life is a blank. It is a purposeless, meaningless experience of grubby mortal existence. It is, at best, only an ugly shadow when compared to a life with vibrant HOPE holding forth the PROMISE of its divine accomplishments. And anyone who Permits himself to be thus cheated, drifting through life in the dark void of unbelief is already "DAMNED" for his progress is stopped.
With an understanding of HOPE THE vision becomes the dream, and the dream can take form in the awakening desire. And when desire is developed into a HOPE, FAITH becomes the fulfilling factor of achieving all that one can possibly envision, dream of, imagine, desire or HOPE for!
In the perfecting of a HOPE the primal substance takes form as FAITH swings into action. HOPE is the body, the form, the pattern and FAITH is the Spirit, or the element which makes alive.
Faith is the very substance and the required life energy or force as It begins to manipulate the element of things "waiting to become." Faith generates the LIGHT, transforming it into atoms as they are drawn, through thoughts, into the pattern of their fulfilment.
Then the words of St. James must be remembered always: One must ask, or hope or desire, "Without wavering; for he that wavereth (changes his desire, or weakens in the strength of his hope) is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. And let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord." He has failed to lay claim to the eternal elements that were but awaiting the fulfilling of his own command.
In that most ancient temple of Egypt is engraved this dynamic truth: "O my son, matter becomes; formerly it was, for matter is the vehicle of becoming. Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate and foreseeing God. Having been endowed with the germ of becoming, matter is brought into Birth, for the creative force of thought fashions it according to the ideal forms. Matter not yet engendered has no form; it becomes when it is put into operation by the mind of man." This is a perfect analysis of the primal element and how it is acted upon by desire or HOPE.
The more one uses the gift or element or substance of FAITH, which is the power of creation, the more proficient he becomes until, "all things are added unto him," or until "All things become subject unto him." And then it is that his every need and every righteous desire is fulfilled. This is the PROMISE given under Covenant to those who will but seek that glorious Kingdom of God. And such will no longer need to "labor for the things that perish," or be satisfied with the treasures that can be stolen or corrupted by moth and rust devouring them.
It was this law of FAITH in action which Christ used in producing wine, feeding the five-thousand and in every miracle He ever wrought.
This is the substance and the law upon which it works that must be comprehended and accepted in order that one can receive the reward of fulfilment. It requires time, at first, but as one becomes more proficient the time required is diminished until the divine requests are answered speedily and at length only the spoken word, or thought is needed for the immediate accomplishment. Yes! "Before they ask I will answer!"
This is the divine law of fulfilment which Almighty God has established for man's use. It is man's privilege to bring forth or create with as he learns to use this unspeakable power in humble, joyous understanding. And he who masters it will be using it henceforth and forever, even to the end of eternity. As one progresses the requirements for his needs expand according to his own growth and enlarged visioning until he comprehends fully that the worlds themselves were formed of the LIGHT, generated by FAITH.
As one uses the divine, holy law of creation, he passes from dull, mediocre mortality as he "changes his carnal flesh to flesh divine without descending through the gates of death."
And so my assignment is to share these great truths of creation with all those whom God has sanctified and ordained unto the power of receiving. No others will be able to lay hold upon these glorious realms of light and everlasting power or be able to fulfill the glory of the PROMISE contained in them through the eternal Covenant of our loving, Heavenly Father.
And so I stood upon the threshold of the unformed and gazed in reverent awe into the realm of primal matter, into that region composed of the very elements of God in all the wonder of their primal glory as they are "Waiting to become" all that anyone could ever dream of or desire. This kingdom of primal matter, pure and undefiled is exquisite beyond thought or all imagining. It is as vast as all existence and as boundless as space. It is pure perfection, unmarred and unsullied in its uncreated state of glorious, spiritual "awaiting" for an existence in tangible form according to the patterns held forth to shape it into concrete reality.
This primal substance contains the essence of all things as yet unformed, which God established in the far eons of beginnings and the breathtaking glory of all endings. And since there is no beginning and will be no end it is established forever and forever, awaiting man's desire to fashion it into reality. It is the realm of fulfilling as all HOPES take form in the primal substance of things that are to come.
It is yours to use! It always has been! Its essence and power is limitless and perfect beyond the dreams of man, for only qualified HOPE, which is FAITH in action can fashion it into birth.
This realm contains the element of all materials, the fragile essence of a humming bird's song, the elusive magic of a sunbeam flickering through a tiny crack, the whisper of a breeze, the vanishing colors of a sunset, the dewy moisture of the dawn, the sighing of a fleeting wish, the fulfillment of every HOPE deep hidden in the soul of man.
It also contains the concrete elements of which cities were formed upon the lands God has before-time imagined into being. Or as the ancient philosopher, Plotinus stated: "My thoughts took form as though they fell from my broodings."
And within this realm of eternity is also contained the very substance of man's own soul's perfection as he evolves into the glory of his own waiting heritage.
This realm contains the substance of all existing things -- and of all things as yet unformed that will ever come into existence. "FAITH is the substance of things hoped for." It is also composed of the power, when activated upon by burning desire, to mold it into any form possible to imagine, including man's own perfection. It is as fragile and as delicate as the breath of angels, yet more powerful than the greatest lightning bolt. It consists of a material so ethereal, so heavenly and so divinely celestial it can never be looked upon by mortal eyes. Yet this very element contains within itself the very "evidence of things unseen" as they hold forth the patterns of their own becoming. This glorified element or substance is generated into form by thought as it is acted upon by man himself in the expanding vision of his own creating.
This great realm of primal element is established on the threshold of eternity, yet every individual is surrounded by it, enfolded in it. It belongs to every living soul who will only believe and purify himself that he might handle it with touch unsullied and undefiled, lest he destroy himself with its misuse.
Truly, "All that the Father has is yours!" And it is so! This supreme, primal substance of all created forms or creative ideas is awaiting but the touch of man's own high thoughts as he takes hold of it and molds it into form according to the righteous desires held within his soul.
Yes, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness and all else will be added unto you!" Such is the COVENANT! Today it may be but a request for the fulfilling of your daily needs; tomorrow the vision of your own fulfilling as your own view expands; the next day may come the desire to OVERCOME MORTALITY AND DEATH, and so, quite naturally is one's self fulfilled and glorified as he lays claim to this heritage so exquisitely divine. This is how one "evolves from the man kingdom into the God Kingdom," or the method of "changing his carnal flesh to flesh divine without descending through the gates of death."
All that is required is that man accepts the boundless gift of all fulfilling. With it goes the responsibility of self-purification as one naturally "overcomes the evils of his life and loses every desire for sin, and like the ancients, arrives at the point of FAITH where he is wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him." And this Promise too was given under COVENANT! It is irrevocable!
To comprehend fully the wonders of this realm of full-forming one will naturally evolve as FAITH ITSELF is transposed from the UNSEEN condition into the experience of full KNOWING. And no one can actually KNOW anything until he himself experiences it. This involves the experience of stepping out and beyond the mortal realm of shadows and sorrows into that which is forever perfect.
As one begins to use the endless, eternal, potential power of creation he begins to experience his own degree of FAITH as he grows into perfection, and then he will henceforth have access to this realm of all-fulfilling. LIGHT is this realm, the very fulness of it as it is fashioned into form, according to the plan or pattern held forth by the mind of man, as it is generated by FAITH.
FAITH, the wonder word! "The glory of existence." It is a word so simple its meaning has been lost in the dim ages of man's forgetting. Yet it is so powerful its substantial reality has been uncomprehended. However, as one begins to "Lay hold of this best gift,” this patent energy of FAITH, he can become the master, for its purpose and nature is to obey! AND LIGHT IS ITS SUBSTANCE!
The sublime substance of Creation is molded into form by the vibrations of thought, as FAITH is activated by believing.
Vibrations are generated by thoughts, either noble or degenerate and when put into action they go forth to fulfill and bring forth their own results. Evil vibrations can take hold of the creative material and in their darkness congeal it into man's vicissitudes and ills and sorrows. Man himself is the creator of that which befalls him. Wrinkles, old age, sickness, poverty and DEATH are of negative thought vibrations and become congealed into form and made manifest when man clings to the evils and the darkness. Encouraged DOUBTS are destroyers of perfection as they are released to mar and desecrate the glorious materialization of one's HOPES and dreams.
If one is pure and noble "All things will work together for his good" and will be fashioned unto him for glory and honor.
Faith and love generate the highest vibrations possible and transform or solidify that supreme, HOLY element of LIGHT into the highest perfection of one's HOPES or dreams or desires as they take form in the tangible world of mortal reality.
Thoughts are the generator of vibrations or of FAITH when used with love and understanding. Wishes and dreams and HOPES, when holy and pure, are held within the solidifying power of FAITH as it vibrates with the energy released to fashion and to form and to bring forth. And 'NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE” to him who learns to use it aright. Wishes and dreams and desires and HOPES are formed into realities as they reach the point of their own fulfilling. Faith takes hold and vibrates them into their own patterns of released perfection according to the firmness of the plan held forth in LIGHT!
The veil has been rent, that dismal veil of unbelief, that has shut man out from experiencing or KNOWING the GREAT TRUTH! Man has been tricked and cheated down the centuries. He has accepted mortality and the evils and vicissitudes and suffering and the fulness of its trials and heartbreaks. He has accepted misery and darkness and anguish as he has reached out his very arms to embrace death. And he has been mocked. He has been duped and pummeled by mortality and the evils thereof as he has plodded his blind, weary way along that long desolate trail of increasing problems and remorse to the grave -- unfulfilled and unfulfilling.
"For we are saved by HOPE; but HOPE that is seen is not HOPE; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet HOPE for?" (Rom. 8:24).
Each living soul is now invited to step into this new spiritual realm of understanding and unspeakable glory to stake out his own claim in the realms of eternal Light. But in doing so he must be sure that his desires injure no one and carries with them none of the clutterings of his own evils. Thus in reaching into this higher realm of divine fulfilling he automatically "OVERCOMES the evils of his life!" They are left behind.
This higher realm is only for the PURE IN HEART! And the heart itself becomes purified as one lays hold of these "best gifts" and develops the attribute to BELIEVE -- and doubt not!
I. Peter 1:6-7: "Wherein rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
"For the trial of your faith, being MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD THAT PERISHETH, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, "Whom not having seen, ye love * * *." All perfection, all glory, all achievement must first come through belief and not through seeing. It is FAITH that turns into KNOWLEDGE and knowledge turns into POWER -- even the power of creating.
And LIGHT is the basic element of all TRUTH and all existing things. Light is the pure radiance of a great idea springing forth in the mind of man. Light is Intelligence in action. "It was not created nor made, neither indeed can be." And man himself was that LIGHT or idea or intelligence in the beginning. He was the spirit of Truth, the intelligence, the Light of glory which was co-existent with God.
Man was brought forth into being by the reaching desires he developed within himself. Each man is the sum total of his own thoughts. He is a nothing, a knave, a cheat, a sex-pervert, a criminal or monster or just an ordinary mortal according to his own selected level of thought. Or he is already evolving into divinity and can ultimately reach it according to the use he makes of the ideas or thoughts of the Light he is willing to accept and nurtures in the temple of his heart.
Man can become so filled with LIGHT, as he casts out the darkness, that he will "COMPREHEND ALL THINGS." And only the doubting and negation and darkness, which one encourages within himself, can keep him from his highest destiny.
When the Light becomes subject unto one, by overcoming the darkness, the Cosmic Rays can be used to form atoms with which to create material things and to fulfill one's needs.
This method of transforming the Cosmic, divine Light into atoms or tangible material substance has been fully revealed.
Now there is a higher, even more glorious purpose or reason for one to overcome the darkness that he might have the Light and consequently the Life become subject unto him. When one "transforms his carnal flesh into flesh divine" or is "Born of the Spirit" he becomes completely spiritualized. This can only be accomplished by fulfilling that First and Great Commandment. Only as one loves with all his heart can it be softened and melted in-so-much that "The Love of God can be shed forth through his heart, which is indeed the Fruit of the Tree of Life." And only in righteousness can one partake of this glorious gift of Life Eternal!
And as one lets that love pour out through his own heart into the cells and atoms of his body he is beginning to transfigure his body. This is the LOVING with all the soul, which is the body and the spirit united. It is in this great LOVE that the very atoms of the flesh will be changed into flesh divine, or the carnal flesh be transformed into flesh divine without descending through the gates of death.
The atoms, which were originally composed of the Cosmic Rays of Light, as those rays curled upon themselves, locking the glory and the power of God within the very center or nucleus of their beings are transmuted back into the Light, glorified, perfected and forever indestructible. This is the power known of old as "ascension," "transfiguration," or "translation," for it is the glorification of one's own being as it is transformed or spiritualized.
This is the goal for which the hungering souls of men are forever yearning and which is awaiting those who will only perfect their faith and fulfill the laws pertaining to it. And this work is given unto man by the Most Holy Covenant of Almighty God. It is true and faithful! It is irrevocable! It is everlasting! It cannot fail!
This is the purpose of FAITH and of Creation and is Perfection. This is how the Light and the Life become subject unto one as he becomes the Master of the Light and the Life and the Spirit and the Power as he overcomes the evils of his life and reaches the point of FAITH where he is literally wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him.
This is how all things truly become subject unto one, "Both in heaven and on earth!"
The things of earth become subject unto one as he uses the Light Rays to form earthly, tangible substance or matter. The things of heaven become subject unto him as he uses the Power to transform the tangible atoms back into the great Cosmic Light of all perfection. By this method one can literally clothe himself in the great Celestial Light of all glory. Or as the writer of the Odes of Solomon testified: "I clothed myself in Light and acquired a body free from sorrow or affliction or pain!"
This is the purpose and the meaning of Life. And it is sealed by that most Holy Spirit of Promise upon all those who cast out the darkness of doubting and exercise the great and mighty Faith that contains the power to manipulate the Light and to fulfill all things. So be it, Amen!