The Subconscious is the most
wonderful thing in the human mind, and perhaps in
all the world we know; for it is the omnipotent part
of man. A single illustration will suffice to show
this transcendent quality.
Did you ever
go to bed at night desiring to awaken at a certain
hour in the morning! The time may be altogether
different from your usual arising hour, but is it
not a fact that whatever it is, you generally awaken
exactly on the dot. It may be two o'clock, three
o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock, or
any other o'clock; but in nine cases out of ten you
open your eyes on time.
This involves
an operation of the omniscient part of man. The
subconscious mind knows everything though, of
course, it must be properly directed. If you wish to
awaken at five o'clock in the morning, and are not
used to rising at that hour, your conscious mind
gives a strong suggestion which the
subconscious
takes up, and as a result you actually do emerge
from sleep at the right moment, though without
visible or external cause. Notice the omniscient
(all-knowing) part of this again. You do not have to
take out your watch and say ''eight hours from now
will be five o'clock Standard Time--I shall get up
at five o'clock." No, it doesn't make any difference
whether it is two hours or five hours, whether it is
eight minutes or 800 minutes. At the appointed time
you will awaken. Just pause a moment and see what
this means.
You awaken at
the appointed time, and there you are.
Time Changes
Travel westward, if you will,
where the time changes. You go to bed saying to
yourself that you will awaken at five o'clock in the
morning. You are traveling by sleeper on a fast
express. You go to bed by Eastern Time, and while
crossing the land enter the belt of Central Time,
which is an hour slower; yet you awaken at literally
five o'clock--not four o'clock, the absolute hour
which would have been five for you had you remained
in the Eastern belt; but the actual five o'clock of
the new region, which is the Eastern six o'clock.
Marvelous are the understandings and workings of the
subconscious mind!
Upon giving
this illustration in my campaigns, I have often been
asked with some perplexity how is it that, if the
subconscious mind is the omniscient and divine part
of man, this sensitive medium may take up wrong
suggestions, such as fear, worry, doubt, sorrow,
fright, lack, limitation or poverty. The answer is
very simple. All life is orderly and scientific, and
works according to certain rules and regulations of
nature. The same omniscient spirit which is within
man is also within the acorn and the tree. The
principle of life is God-Power. The God-Power in the
acorn makes the oak; in you, it makes the man.
Divine In Man
There is a vast difference
between the oak tree and man, just as there is a
vast difference between the primitive savage and the
great example of the divine in man as manifested by
Jesus of Nazareth. All men have the divine in them.
Jesus is the highest exemplification of this
divinity but it would be absurd to say that because
the primitive- man is not the Christ, the God spirit
is not within him. In fact, Scripture tells us that
man was made in the image of God--that is, that the
spirit within man rather than the mere flesh of his
body is the image. God spirit is in all living
creatures, but is manifested differently according
to the planes on which they live.
But to return
to the question of my perplexed auditors--if the
spirit of man is omniscient, why does his
subconscious mind receive wrong impressions, and why
must he make conscious suggestions for their
correction? The answer is really very simple. You
see the God power in the oak and know that the oak's
growth is the result of what God and the law of the
tree can do. Similarly, the God power in man can
accomplish as much as man and God can do.
In other
words, the omniscient part of man must work in
accordance with the natural laws of life. The spirit
as within man is obviously different from the pure
spirit as emancipated from all earthly trammels. Of
the one we may expect only inclinations toward
complete divinity; the other is pure divinity
itself.
The butterfly
has only those same potentialities within it which
were once encased by the lowly cocoon. The same God
power was at work with the life in the cocoon, as
that which is at work in the well developed
butterfly; but for a while that now gorgeous and
active spirit was limited and made outwardly dull by
the sluggish primitiveness of the cocoon
environment. So with man.