Miscellaneous Writings

God, Infinite Power, might have thought about all these things till doomsday. He might have wished during an indefinite time that they were formed and made visible. Nothing would ever have been created in visible form had there not been the Spoken Word put forth into this formless ether. It took the definite, positive “Let there be” to bring forth order out of chaos, and to establish in visible results the thoughts and desires of even an Infinite, Omnipotent Creator.

To create is to bring into visibility; to form something where before there was nothing; to cause to exist or to take form that which before was without form and void. To exist (from ex, out from, and sistare, to stand) is to stand out. Being always is; existence (Latin, existare, to stand forth, emerge, appear) is that which stands forth as a visible entity.

God creates. Because man was created or brought into the visible universe in the image and likeness of God, he, spiritually, has like powers with God: he has this power of creating, of bringing into visible form that which before did not exist. As God created by the Spoken Word, “without which was nothing made that was made,” so man can create by his Spoken Word. In fact, there is no other way under heaven to bring into existence the visible conditions and the things which we each want.

Today it is agreed by all scientists—material as well as spiritual—that there is but one universal Substance out of which all things are made. That Substance is Divine Stuff which, though invisible and intangible, is lying all about us as is the atmosphere we breathe. This Divine Substance is without form and void as is also this same physical atmosphere. It is waiting, forever waiting, for man to form it as he wills, by his Spoken Word.

What is Liquid Air? It is compressed invisibility, is it not? It is invisible, formless substance pressed into form by a definite and continued process until it becomes visible and tangible. This God Stuff, Divine Substance, is likewise subject to the pressure of man’s thought and word.

There are three realms in the universe: the spiritual, the mental, or psychic, and the physical, or material. These three, while in a way distinct, are so blended into one that it is difficult to know where one ends and the other begins. All created things have Spirit, soul and body. All things which we desire, already are now in being in the spiritual or invisible. But, as someone has said, “Thought and the Spoken Word stand between the Invisible and visible. By the action of these two—thought and the Spoken Word—is the Invisible made visible.

When we desire anything—I use this word “anything” advisedly, for did not the Master in divine things say, “Whatsoever ye desire,” “If ye ask anything,” etc?—we must take our thought entirely off from the visible world and center it upon God. We begin, as God began in creation, by speaking out into this formless Substance all about us with faith and power, “Let there be so and so” (whatsoever we want). “Let it come forth into manifestation here and now. It does come forth by the power of my word. It is done; it is manifest,” etc. We continue this with vehemence a few moments, and then let go of it. This should be repeated with firmness and regularity, and with definite persistence at least morning and evening. Continue it, perfectly regardless of any evidence or want of evidence. Faith takes hold of the Substance of the things hoped for, and brings into evidence the things not seen.

Our spoken word first hammers the thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body. The first action brings that which is desired forth from the formless toward the external as far as the psychic; the continued action brings it forth still further and clothes it with visible form or material body.

This was forcibly illustrated to the writer a few years ago. A lady, Miss C., had been for days vigorously “speaking the word” out into the great universe of Substance, of something she much desired. She had no confidante and recognized no human help.

One day she wrote an ordinary business letter to a friend in the country. This friend, on receipt of the letter, immediately replied, saying: “What is this strange thing about this letter of yours? When I took it from the postoffice it had the appearance to me of being covered with so and so” (the very thing which the writer had been shaping in the Invisible by her spoken word). “I opened the letter,” she continued, “and for some minutes the opened letter took the form, to my sight, of a ‘horn of plenty,’ pouring out in unlimited quantity this same thing. Have I gone crazy, or what does it mean?”

Do you not see? The Word spoken alone in the silence of her own room by Miss C. had shaped and brought forth toward the external as far as the psychic realm the thing desired. The vibrations of her thought had permeated, all unconsciously to herself, everything that she had touched. The friend, having some psychic power developed, saw plainly surrounding this letter the shape Miss C. had created, though it was yet quite invisible to the natural eye. It is needless to say that the continued Word very soon brought this shape forth another step into the visible world as a solid manifestation of exactly what Miss C. desired.

In this process, however, there are two conditions which must be carefully observed. One is, do not talk with anyone about what you are doing. Talk scatters and wastes all this precious Divine Substance; and what we want to do is to focus it. Much needless talk diffuses and wastes all of one’s power. One might as well pierce full of holes the boiler of a steam engine, letting the steam ooze at dozen of pores, and then expect any power in the engine to draw the train. It is impossible to both diffuse and focus at the same time.