Choose, then they destiny and wait, For love brings love and hate brings hate.

The Thinker

Back of the beating hammer,

By which the steel is wrought,

Back of the workshop’s clamor,

The seeker may find the Thought;

The thought that is ever master

Of iron and steam and steel,

That rises above disaster

And tramples it under heel!

-Berton Braley

God-consciousness - four stages.

1. One is when, by total surrender to the divine will, the ego is dissolved completely. Then we know that we and that Spirit are one.

2. After that comes the vision of the Divine everywhere in the manifestation. The whole universe is seen thereafter as the expression of that Spirit. We see God everywhere.

3. There is a third stage in that we see the manifest and the unmanifest as the two aspects of .one Truth which is beyond both, which is unthinkable, incomprehensible and inexpressible. We can express something about the static and the dynamic or the formless and the form aspects, but that which is beyond these is incomprehensible and ineffable. The dynamic, the static and the unthinkable all together make the supreme God-head. He is all-inclusive and all-transcendent.

4. Even after realizing that, there is the fourth stage in which we keep up a relationship with God. It is purely personal. He is our constant companion. We can talk to Him. We can feel His presence. That is the best and the sweetest relationship. Having had all the earlier experiences, we still enjoy a close relationship with the Divine in His personal presence. But it is very difficult to define It. He is the Impersonal Person.
From  WORLD IS GOD (Ramdas conversation with Henry Thomas Hamblin of Chichester, England)

I hold it true that thoughts are things;

They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings;

And that we send them forth to fill

The world with good results, or ill.

That which we call our secret thought

Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,

Leavings its blessings or its woes

Like tracks behind it as it goes.

We build our future, thought by thought,

For good or ill, yet know it not.

Yet, so the universe was wrought.

Thought is another name for fate;

Choose, then they destiny and wait,

For love brings love and hate brings hate.
Thoughts Are Things - Henry Van Dyke

we offer you the following prayer as one way that you may properly ask and pray to Your loving Father to help anyone who has sought help from you and whom your heart strongly urges You out of a deep compassion to help.

"Dear Father-God, we know that ___________ is Thy beloved child, and that being Thy child Thou hast a rich abundance of all good things waiting for him-every good thing that he (or she) needs.

"Dear Father, open their Spiritual eyes so that they may see and know and thereby may receive these blessings that await-that are all ready to out manifest, when they thus becomes ready to accept them. Help them to know the truth, that they may be free forever from all lack and limitation of every kind.

"This we ask in Christ Jesus' name, for we know that as we have asked believing, our brother has received.

"We thank Thee, beloved Father, and we praise and glorify Thy Son in him, that He may now come forth and be His Self in our brother. Amen."

Joseph Sieber Benner ~ The Way to the Kingdom(1932)

"When ye have lifted up the son of man, then ye shall know that I am he, that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father hath taught me."-John 8:28.

Truly when we have lifted up our human mind so that it knows the I AM or Christ within, then it knows that it is nothing and can do nothing that the Father, through His Spirit in us-the I AM, does not lead or cause us to do. It is when lifted to that consciousness that Paul refers to in the 10^th to 12^th verse of the 13^th chapter of 1^st Corinthians:

"But when that which is perfect is come (the perfect understanding as quickened and taught by God's Spirit -the I AM, in awakened man) then that which is in part shall be done away with.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.

"For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I also am known." Joseph Sieber Benner ~ The Way to the Kingdom(1932)