CHAPTER 9: IDENTIFICATION
HAVING
recognized God as the advancing presence in nature, society,
and your fellow men, an d harmonized yourself with all these,
and having consecrated your self to that within you which
impels toward the greatest and the highest, the next step is to
become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle
of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously
identify yourself with the Highest. This is not some false or
untrue position to be assumed; it is a fact to be recognized.
You are already one with God; you want to become consciously
aware of it. There is one substance, the source of all things,
and this substance has within itself the power that creates all
things; all power is inherent in it. This substance is
conscious and thinks; it works with perfect understanding and
intelligence. You know that this is so, because you know that
substance exists and that consciousness exists; and that it
must be substance that is conscious. Man is conscious and
thinks; man is substance, he must he substance, else he is
nothing and does not exist at all. If man is substance and
thinks, and is conscious, then he is
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