ined common tendency towards the increasing of
Life--whether in ourselves or in others--and if we keep this steadily in
view, all our powers, whether interior or exterior, will be found to
work so harmoniously together that there will be no sense of independent
action on the part of any one of them. The distinctions drawn for
purposes of study will be laid aside, and the Self in us will be found
to be the realisation of a grand ideal being, at once individual and
universal, consciously free in its individual wholeness and in its
joyous participation in the Life of the Universal Whole.

XXIV

WHAT IS HIGHER THOUGHT?

Resolution passed October, 1902, by the Kensington Higher Thought
Centre.

_"That the Centre stands for the definite teaching of
absolute Oneness of Creator and Creation--Cause and
Effect--and that nothing which may contradict or be in
opposition to the above principles be admitted to the 'Higher
Thought' Centre Platform._

_"By Oneness of Cause and Effect is meant, that Effect (man)
does consist only of what Cause is; but a part (individual
personality) is not therefore co-extensive with the whole."_

This Resolution is of the greatest importance. Once admit that there is
_any_ Power outside yourself, however beneficent you may conceive it to
be, and you have sown the seed which must sooner or later bear the fruit
of "_Fear_" which is the entire ruin of Life, Love and Liberty. There is
no _via media_. Say we are only reflections, however accurate, of The
Life, and in the admission we have given away our Birthright. However
small or plausible may be the germ of thought which admits that we are
anything less in principle than The Life Itself, it must spring up to
the ultimate ruin of the Life-Principle itself. We _are_ It itself. The
difference is only that between the generic and the specific of the
_same_ thing. We must contend earnestly, both within ourselves and
outwardly, for the _one great foundation_ and never, now on to all
eternity, admit for a single instant any thought which is opposed to
this, the Basic Truth of Being.

The leading ideas connected with Higher Thought are (I) That Man
controls circumstances, instead of being controlled by them, and (II) as
a consequence of the foregoing, that whatever teaches us to _rely_ on
power _borrowed_ from a source _outside_ ourselves is _not_ Higher
Thought; and that whatever explains to us the _Infinite_ sou