On Feeling and Thought

 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing.  John 15:54

    When you thoroughly realize the true nature of your relation to Affirmative Power, you will possess the key to the great secret. You can feel its presence in the innumerable life forms that you see all around you. You can feel it as the very fountain of life in yourself.

   Then one day the truth will finally dawn on you: the revelation that you can wield this Affirmative Power of life by the simple process of Thought. Once you fully realize this, you will begin to recognize how important it is for you to regulate and control your Thoughts.

   You ask yourself what this Thought process is and you discover that it is thinking Affirmative Force into forms which are the product of your own Thought. You mentally conceive the form and then you think life into it.

   This is always the nature of the creative process, no matter what the scale. It is the same process at the Universal Macrocosmic Mind Level and the individual microcosmic mind level.

   You are free to picture the mental machinery by which this is done in any way that satisfies your intellect. For it is the satisfaction of your intellect that will give you confidence in your own mental action, without which you can do nothing.

   However, the actual physical manifestation of your Thought is the result of something more than your mere intellectual understanding. That “something more” is your emotional conception of yourself. The great law is true: You cannot outperform your image of yourself—what you feel yourself to be at your core. Whom you feel yourself to be is the self that takes on the forms you create. This is why your Thought must be grounded in not only your intellect but also in your emotions. You must feel the truth of what your intellect knows is true.

   If you do not feel at an emotional level, the truth of the knowledge you have acquired at the level of your intellect, then you will not be able to produce in yourself the condition which you desire to externalize.

   You cannot think into manifestation a different life than you actually realize in yourself. You cannot give what you do not have. Neither can you stop creating forms by your mental activity and think life into them. As you think, so you are, and so is the fruit you produce in your life. Thus, you cannot sit still and create nothing. Your mental machinery will keep on creating forms, but it is up to you to determine what kind, quality, and feeling of form it will be.