Seat of the Soul
It has taken Humanity thousands of years to learn that it has the power to control its own destiny. From the Bible we have the assurance ‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he’. The old Greek philosophers understood something of the meaning of thought.
‘What we expect’ said Aristotle, ‘that we find’. ‘What we wish, said Demosthenes, ‘that we believe’. And Shakespeare is credited with the saying ‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’
It is one thing to know a principal, another to apply it. Throughout the ages people have realized that causation is from within.
We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative something . . . call It what you will. It is the sum total of all thought, will, purpose, and belief, creating a tendency. It is this Law that causes It to react to us, according to the sum total of that belief.
Today in this moment The Law responds to my thought. My word is one of affirmation, rising from the knowledge that the good, the enduring and the true are eternalities in my experience. I cannot be separated from that which is my good. My good is assured to me by God, the indwelling essence of my life.
And So It Is