f your soul. As it
breaks in upon and takes possession of the soul, it will manifest
itself to your mind, and from this you will feel its manifestations in
every part of your body. Then in the degree that you open yourself to
it you will feel a quiet, peaceful, illuminating power that will
harmonize body, soul, and mind, and that will then harmonize these with
all the world. You are now on the mountain top, and the voice of God
is speaking to you. _Then, as you descend, carry this realization with
you_. Live in it, waking, working, thinking, walking, sleeping. In
this way, although you may not be continually on the mountain top, you
will nevertheless be continually living in the realization of all the
beauty, and inspiration, and power you have felt there.

Moreover, the time will come when in the busy office or on the noisy
street you can enter into the silence by simply drawing the mantle of
your own thoughts about you and realizing that there and everywhere the
Spirit of Infinite Life, Love, Wisdom, Peace, Power, and Plenty is
guiding, keeping, protecting, leading you. This is the spirit of
continual prayer. This it is to pray without ceasing. This it is to
know and to walk with God. _This it is to find the Christ within_.
This is the new birth, the second birth. First that which is natural,
then that which is spiritual. It is thus that the old man Adam is put
off and the new man Christ is put on. This it is to be saved unto life
eternal, whatever one's form of belief or faith may be; for it is life
eternal to know God. "The Sweet By and By" will be a song of the past.
We will create a new song--"The Beautiful Eternal Now."

This is the realization that you and I can come into this very day,
this very hour, this very minute, if we desire and if we will it. And
if now we merely set our faces in the right direction, it is then but a
matter of time until we come into the full splendors of this complete
realization. To set one's face in the direction of the mountain and
then simply to journey on, whether rapidly or more slowly, will bring
him to it. But unless one set his face in the right direction and make
the start, he will not reach it. It was Goethe who said:

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute:
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage and then the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed."