Part Fourteen - Study Question with Answers

131. What is the source of all Wisdom, Power and Intelligence?
     The Universal Mind.
132. Where do all motion, light, heat and color have their origin?
     In the Universal Energy, which is one manifestation of the Universal Mind.
133. Where does the creative power of thought originate?
     In the Universal Mind.
134. What is thought?
     Mind in motion.
135. How is the Universal differentiated in form?
     The individual is the means by which the Universal produces the various combinations which result in formation of phenomena.
136. How is this accomplished?
     The power of the individual to think is their ability to act upon the Universal and bring it into manifestation.
137. What is the first form which the Universal takes so far as we know?
     Electrons, which fill all space.
138. Where do all things have their origin?
     In mind.
139. What is the result of a change of thought?
     A change in conditions.
140. What is the result of a harmonious mental attitude?
     Harmonious conditions in life. Thought, immaterial though it may be, is the matrix that shapes the issues of life.

The mind has been active in all fields during this fruitful century, but it is to science we must look for the thoughts that have shaped all thinking.

Part Fourteen - Page 3

12. Electrons manifest in the body as cells, and possess mind and intelligence sufficient for them to perform their functions in the human physical anatomy. Every part of the body is composed of cells, some of which operate independently; others in communities. Some are busy building tissue, while others are engaged in forming the various secretions necessary for the body. Some act as carriers of material; others are the surgeons whose work it is to repair damage; others are scavengers, carrying off waste; others are constantly ready to repel invaders or other undesirable intruders of the germ family.
13. All these cells are moving for a common purpose and each one is a living organism, and has sufficient intelligence to enable it to perform its necessary duties. It is also endowed with sufficient intelligence to conserve the energies and perpetuate its own life. It must, therefore, secure sufficient nourishment and it has been found that it exercises choice in the selection of such nourishment.
14. Each cell is born, reproduces itself, dies and is absorbed. The maintenance of health and life itself depends upon the constant regeneration of these cells.
15. It is therefore apparent that there is mind in every atom of the body; this mind is instinctive mind, and the power of the individual to think makes them reason, so that they can control this instinctive mind. This is the scientific explanation for metaphysical healing, and will enable anyone to understand the principle upon which this remarkable phenomenon rests.
16. This instinctive mind, which is contained in every cell of the body, has been called the subconscious mind, because it acts without our conscious knowledge. We have found that this subconscious mind is responsive to the will of the conscious mind.
17. All things have their origin in mind, and appearances are the result of thought. So that we see that things in themselves have no origin, permanency, or reality. Since they are produced by thought, they can be erased by thought.

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8. We know that scientists have resolved matter into an immense number of molecules; these molecules have been resolved into atoms, and the atoms into electrons. The discovery of electrons in high vacuum glass tubes containing fused terminals of hard metal, indicates conclusively that these electrons fill all space; that they exist everywhere, that they are omnipresent. They fill all material bodies and occupy the whole of what we call empty space. This, then, is the Universal Substance from which all things proceed.
9. Electrons would forever remain electrons unless directed where to go to be assembled into atoms and molecules, and this director is Mind. A number of electrons revolving around a center of force constitutes an atom; atoms unite in absolutely regular mathematical ratios and form molecules, and these unite with each other to form a multitude of compounds which unite to build the Universe.
10. The lightest known atom is hydrogen and this is 1,700 times heavier than an electron. An atom of mercury is 300,000 times heavier than an electron. Electrons are pure negative electricity, and as they have the same potential velocity as all other cosmic energy, such as heat, light, electricity and thought (189,380 miles per second), neither time nor space require consideration. The manner in which the velocity of light was ascertained is interesting.
11. The velocity of light was obtained by the Danish astronomer Roemer in 1676, by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons. When the earth was nearest to Jupiter, the eclipse appeared about eight and one-half minutes too soon for the calculations, and when the earth was most remote from Jupiter, they were about eight and one-half minutes too late. Roemer concluded the reason to be that it required 17 minutes for light from the planet to traverse the diameter of the earth's orbit, which measured the difference of the distances of the earth from Jupiter. This calculation has since been verified, and proves that light travels about 186,000 miles a second.