First Causes Part 2

 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  Genesis 1:1 

   Your creative process will begin with your thought, but the raw materials you will need will develop on their own without help from you. When you engage in creative thought, what you have imagined begins to form itself. The invisible forms you create will be nurtured by another.

   How is it that the raw materials that your thought has produced will develop on their own? Who or what will nurture these invisible forms that your thought has produced? These questions follow naturally from last week’s discussion of first causes.

   You can begin to answer these questions by understanding and applying a few basic principles. First, every thought that has ever been thought from the beginning of time is still here. This means that all completed and unfinished thought-forms are available to you. King Solomon was not wrong when he stated that there is nothing new under the sun.

   Second, you are in Oneness with the All-Originating Spirit of God. This means that your thoughts are empowered because your thinking is not done in isolation—you have Divine help. Third, the Divine help you receive is not predicated upon whether your thought is good and productive or bad and destructive. Remember that you are not functioning in the realm of religion, but in the reality of Universal Law and its dictates.

   If your thoughts are in opposition to the Law of your own Being—i.e., if they are an inversion of what is good, true and beautiful—then you will reap in manifestation what you have sown in contemplation.

   You have the power to do good or evil. You will manifest what you choose: whether the narrow path that leads to life, or the broad road that leads to death. Consequently, your own thought determines your destiny.

   This is the key principle that determines your life journey: you have the power to create your own destiny through what you think. This power, that flows from the image and likeness of the Spirit of God within you, is the manifestation of you as first cause at your microcosmic individual level.