POWER ~

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 today; 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.

Indeed, strong personalities, who have a great belief in their power to achieve and succeed, draw unconsciously on hidden powers, and thus can 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.

Others spend the whole of their spare time searching for knowledge of this very subject. They read every occult book they can lay their hands on, but they never find that for which they seek.

Some spiritual powers and influences 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.