THUS FAR HAVE I GONE

[Liberal Catholic]

THUS FAR HAVE i GONE
by Bo Pirie

There is One Life. That Life is omnipresent; that is, it is at every
point in the universe.

For want of a name it is called God and there is no place, then, that
God is not.

Man, we are told, is made in the image and likeness of God and,
therefore, has
all the attributes and powers of the Father.

All humanity having the same father, brotherhood becomes a fact in
Nature and not a thing merely for attainment.

The force which draws things to each other and binds the universe
together is -- Love. Love is positive -- an attribute of the One Life.
Ever flowing, it cannot be created. Like brotherhood, Love is.

Every visible thing on the material plane has been created and brought
into being from the invisible realm by thinking man; and everything
that comes within
his ken is a world of his own making.

Presently he is making his world of the future, and the mind with wich
he is
making it is the same mind which created the universe in the
beginning. It is omnipotent -- limitless in capacity -- a mind capable
of creating any concievable thing.

As the Life is at every point in the universe, there could be NO OTHER
MIND than the mind of God. Man, then, in His image, is an extension of
God at the physical level.

Thus each man becomes the creative god of his own world.

Remember the words of the Master Jesus," I and the Father are One,"
and "The works that I do ye shall do also, and greater works than
these shall ye do."

And His were no idle words: "The word that ye hear is not Mine but the
Father which sent me."

First, desire, and the thought of the thing desired takes form in the
invisible realm and begins to densify: until finally it materializes
in the plane of the
physical -- all by the immutability of Divine Law.

And it matters not how grandoise the desire, how extensive in scope,
it MUST materialize for that is the Law.

There is however a necessary ingredient -- and that ingredient is
faith.
But not the vague ephemeral emotion so often experienced in church
worship.

Faith is practical realism -- the matter of being completely sold on
the immutability of
Divine Law.

One must understand for a certainty that failure is an impossibility.

The Law can never vary it its response to the positive power of
directed
thought.

Remember again the words of the Master, " Ask and it shall be given to
you, Seek and ye shall find, Knock and the door shall be opened." At
no time did he say "Maybe."

There is a reason the law so often seems to be inoperative. It is
because the
human who has directed the positive thought for fulfillment of a
desire had
permitted doubts to enter his mind.

Doubt and fear are qualities of hate ( It is natural to dislike what
one fears ) and are at the far end of the spectrum from Love.

A negative thought, placed in the invisible, negates the forming
positive thought and, by the certain immutability of the Law, the
entire creation is cancelled.

With this understanding of man's place in the universal scheme -- not
a "miserable sinner" but a creative God in extension -- there grows an
appreciation of the necessity for universal Love which, up to now, had
seemed utterly unattainable.

If one is to work within, the undeviating laws of Nature and be
sucessful, his
thinking must always be positive -- with no oppositions for negation.

One does not look for faults in his brother, he seeks to observe his
strength.

By the working of the Law, to fear him, to doubt, is to bring into
manifestation
the very thing feared.

Looking for his strength, his hidden beauty, is positive action, an
expression in the realm of Love. And the qualities of universal Love
must then, in time,
become a part of one's own world.

Thinking must never arise from a base assumption. One never assumes
his brother to be so-and-such.

Before an opinion is formed one must know, definitely.
One must be as absolutely
certain of his facts as he is sure that the Laws which respond to
thoughts are IMPOSSIBLE of variance.

Only thus does man, as the Christ, serve as a channel for the flow of
Divine
Love to the world; thus does he serve the One Source in whom he lives
and moves and has his being.

Knowing that he himself is nothing, that "It is the Father within who
doeth the work" -- thus does he attain to the height of self-
knowledge.

And the words
inscribed above the doorway of the Ancient Mystery Temple are at last
for him fulfilled..

"MAN KNOW THYSELF"

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