The Principle of Guidance

 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.  John 16:3

    The Principle of Guidance ranks first among the hierarchy of spiritual principles. This is not so because it is more essential than any other power, but because it is first in order of sequence, because it gives value to all the other powers by placing them in their proper relation to one another.

   When you look to the Infinite Mind part of yourself as a Superior Intelligence from which you may receive guidance, you are not looking to an external source. On the contrary, you are looking at the innermost spring of your own Being. You are also looking with a confidence in its action which enables you to move forward to the execution of your plans with firmness and assurance that are the very guarantees of your success.

   The action of the spiritual principles within you follows the order which you impose upon them by your Thought. Therefore, the order of your realization will reproduce the order of your desire.

   The awakening to consciousness of your mysterious internal powers will sooner or later take place, and will result in your using them whether you understand the law of their development or not.

   Your internal powers are natural powers as much as your external ones. You can direct how they are used by knowing their laws. Thus, it is extremely important that you have some sound principle of guidance in the best use of these higher powers as they begin to manifest themselves.

   If you want to safely and profitably possess the great inheritance of power that is opening out before you, you must realize Superior Intelligence within yourself. This will become an unfailing principle of guidance, if you will only recognize it, embrace it, and cling in faith to it.

   One path to actually begin to feel that you are being guided by Supreme Intelligence is to memorize and repeat hourly the following: “My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression; and this means the production of something that has not gone before, something entirely new, not included in past experience, though proceeding out from it in an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same way in me. Consequently, in my own special world, of which I AM the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.”