Our thought, our imagination, our words, are creative. We did not hang the stars in space nor set the lofty peaks overlooking the sea, but we do experience an outward manifestation of our inward convictions. The greatest discovery ever made is the discovery of the power of thought. Thought is an Energy of which only this may be said: It is.
Our thought operates independently of conditions and has the possibility of transcending circumstances as they now are and causing new ones to be created. However, we should bear in mind that the creative Power is only set in motion by our thought. The Power Itself belongs to the Universe, and no man made It. All that we can do is to accept it, believe and use It.
But while we continuously remould our thought according to the pattern of ancient ideas, we remain bound to previous opinion, bias, and prejudice. We must do something to break down limiting experience and to expand our inner vision. Here our imagination comes into play, enabling us to conceive greater good.
Neither the will nor the intellect are creative, they simply decide that to which the thought, the emotion, and the imagination shall respond. He who would rise above previous conditions, transcend limitations, and create a better situation for himself, must deliberately turn, in his imagination and thought, from the old order; and with a calm, but flexible, determination endeavour to contemplate only the good, the beautiful, and the true.
He should refuse to admit into his consciousness any controversy or argument, but should compel himself to know and to accept that through the genius of his thought he is moulding an individualised destiny out of That from which all form emanates.
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