, does not do away with or minify
these, but which, on the contrary, brings them to their highest
perfection and to their powers of keenest enjoyment. The divine will
is the will of the higher self, the will of the one who recognizes his
oneness with the Divine, and who consequently brings his will to work
in harmony, in conjunction with the divine will. "The Lord thy God _in
the midst of thee_ is mighty."

The human will has its limitations. So far and no farther, says the
law. The divine will has no limitations. It is supreme. All things
are open and subject to you, says the law, and so, in the degree that
the human will is transmuted into the divine, in the degree that it
comes into harmony with and so, acts in conjunction with the divine,
does it become supreme. Then it is that "Thou shalt decree a thing and
it shall be established unto thee." The great secret of life and of
power, then, is to make and to keep one's conscious connection with
this Infinite Source.

The power of every life, the very life itself, is determined by what it
relates itself to. God is immanent as well as transcendent. He is
creating, working, ruling in the universe today, in your life and in
mine, just as much as He ever has been. We are too apt to regard Him
after the manner of an absentee landlord, one who has set into
operation the forces of this great universe, and then taken Himself
away.

In the degree, however, that we recognize Him as immanent as well as
transcendent, are we able to partake of His life and power. For in the
degree that we recognize Him as the Infinite Spirit of Life and Power
that is today, at this very moment, working and manifesting in and
through all, and then, in the degree that we come into the realization
of our oneness with this life, do we become partakers of, and so do we
actualize in ourselves the qualities of His life. _In the degree that
we open ourselves to the inflowing tide of this immanent and
transcendent life, do we make ourselves channels through which the
Infinite Intelligence and Power can work_.

It is through the instrumentality of the mind that we are enabled to
connect the real soul life with the physical life, and so enable the
soul life to manifest and work through the physical. The thought life
needs _continually_ to be illumined from within. This illumination can
come in just the degree that through the agency of the mind we
recognize our oneness with the Divine, of w