Within You is the Power | Page 2

mind are dealt with in other chapters. The Powers of
the Spirit are far greater and finer than those of the sub-conscious mind.
Thought is a spiritual power of tremendous potency, but this is not the power of which
we speak. By thought, man can either raise himself up and connect himself with the
"Power House" of the Universe, or cut himself off entirely from the Divine Inflow. His
thought is his greatest weapon, because, by it he can either draw on the Infinite or sever
himself (in consciousness, but not in reality) from his Divine Source.
Through the Divine Spark within him, which is really his real Self, man is connected with
the Infinite. Divine Life and Power are his, if he realizes that they are his. So long as he is
ignorant of his oneness with the Divine Source of all life, he is incapable of appropriating
the power that is really his. If, however, he enters into this inner knowledge, he finds
himself the possessor of infinite power and unlimited resources.
This Power, then, is God's, yet it is also man's, but it is not revealed to him until he is fit
to be entrusted with it. It is only when man realizes his oneness with his Divine Source
that he becomes filled with Its power. Many teachers and initiates lament the fact that
certain secrets are being spread broadcast to-day; secrets that, in the past, were kept
closely guarded. They fear that unillumined and un-evolved people may make destructive
use of spiritual power. This, to the writer, appears to be improbable. It is true that strong
personalities, who have a great belief in their own power to achieve and succeed, draw
unconsciously on hidden powers, and thus are able to raise themselves high above their

fellows. The use, however, that they can make of spiritual power for base purposes is
limited, and is not to be feared. There are others, of course, who are misusing their
powers. These are black magicians, and while they may do a certain amount of harm,
they become reduced, ultimately, to beggary and impotence. There are also others who
spend the whole of their spare time searching for knowledge of this very subject. They
read every occult book they can lay hands on, but they never find that for which they seek.
There are spiritual powers and influences that withhold the eyes of the seekers from
seeing, until they are ready for the revelation. When man, in his search for Truth, has
given up all selfish striving after unworthy things, and has ceased to use his self-will in
conflict with the greater Will of the Whole, he is ready for the revelation of his oneness
with the Infinite. Yielding implicitly to the Will of the Whole may seem, to the
unillumined, an act of weakness, yet it is the entrance to a life of almost boundless power.
Man is not separate from his Divine Source and never has been. He is, in reality, one with
the Infinite. The separation which he feels and experiences is mental, and is due to his
blindness and unbelief. Man can never be separated from Spirit, for he himself is Spirit.
He is an integral part of one complete whole. He lives and moves and has his being in
God (Universal, Omnipresent Spirit), and God (Spirit) dwells in him. The majority of
people are unaware of this intimate relationship with the Divine, and, because they are
unaware, or because they refuse to believe it, they are, in one sense, separated from the
inner life of God. Yet this separation is only in their thoughts and beliefs, and not in
reality. Man is not separated and never can be, yet so long as he believes that he is
separate and alone, he will be as weak and helpless as though he actually were. As soon
as man realizes the truth of his relationship to the Infinite, he passes from weakness to
power, from death unto life. One moment he is in the desert, afar off, weak, separate, and
alone; the next, he realizes that he is nothing less than a son of God, with all a son's
privileges and powers. He realizes, in a flash, that he is one with his Divine Source, and
that he can never be separated. He awakens also to the fact that all the Power of the
Infinite is his to draw upon; that he can never really fail, that he is marching on to victory.
It will thus be seen how great is the power of man's thought. While thought is not the
power of the Spirit, it is the power by which man either connects himself up with the
Infinite Power, opening himself to the Divine Inflow, or cuts himself off