The Secret of Power

Here then is the secret of power, of personal mastery.

To overcome does not mean to go without things. Self-denial is not success. We cannot give unless we get; we cannot be helpful unless we are strong. The infinite is not a bankrupt and we as the representatives of Infinite power should not be bankrupt either, and if we wish to be of service to others we must have power and more power, but to get it we must give it; we must be of service.

The more we give, the more we shall get; we must become a channel whereby the Universal can express activity. The Universal is constantly seeking to express itself, to be of service, and it seeks the channel whereby it can find the greatest activity, where it can do the most good, where it can be of greatest service to mankind.

The Universal cannot express through you as long as you are busy with your plans, your own purposes; quiet the senses, seek inspiration, focus the mental activity on the within, dwell in the consciousness of your unity with Omnipotence. "Still water runs deep," contemplate the multitudinous opportunities to which you have spiritual access by the omnipresence of power.

Visualize the events, circumstances and conditions which these spiritual connections may assist in manifesting. Realize the fact that the essence and soul of all things is spiritual and that the spiritual is real, because it is the life of all there is; when the spirit is gone, the life is gone; it is dead; it has ceased to exist.

These mental activities pertain to the world within, to the world of cause; and conditions and circumstances which result are the effect. It is thus that you become a creator. This is important work, and the higher, loftier, grander and more noble ideals which yolu can conceive, the more important the work will become.