Gen. 2:4-5
THE question uppermost in the world of thought today is whether a man has the capacity, equipment, and power to control his life; whether he can be what he wants to be; or whether he is a drop in the great ocean of life. Millions are affected by unemployment, poverty, and want.
Can they help it? Where we have thousands of homes broken on the rocks of
matrimony, can such a breach be repaired? Millions complain of sickness and disorder in countless forms. All this gives rise to the belief that we are victims of circumstance over which we have no control. Such belief makes of us fatalists and karmic addicts instead of masters and controllers of our destinies.
A fatalistic belief is contagious, and when man submits to its influence, believing that the circumstances around him are stronger than the power within him, that man is defeated before the race IS run.
In the history of the race and the biography of man, there is a long list of evidences of man overcoming circumstances and meeting his problems of life. Evolution and anthropology alike furnish the truth that man is responsible for what he is. He has power to control his circumstances, and by using this power he has created other circumstances more necessary in his upward climb. Yet some, not sure that we create our circumstances, are rather prone to think that they are caused by heredity, karma,
environment, or numerous other external things. These are the real reasons, they think, for our failures. They believe in the natural limitations of life; they live in the conviction that as we are, so we must remain; they are sure that what is to be will be.
The scientist on the other hand, searching into the mysteries of human life, reveals to us a wonderful world of power, possibility, and promise.
He tells us that the mind is the creative cause of all that transpires in the life of man, that the personal conditions are the results of man’s action, that all the actions of man are the direct outcome of his ideas, that we never make a move of any kind until we first form some image or plan in the mind. These plans or ideas are powerful, potent; they are the causes - good, bad, or indifferent, of the following effects, which in
turn correspond to their natures. He tells us that these ideas liberate a tremendous energy. Hence, when we learn to employ our minds constructively, we use correctly these hidden powers, forces, and faculties. This, the scientist tells us, is the KEY to success in living life. (Continue)
