214 THE UNIVERSE 



of our soul to love we inhale the perfume from other 

 souls, and the breath of life from Deity Himself. 



Thoughts are forces, and through them we have 

 creative power ; but they must be winged with love 

 to manifest divine energy. Every act is preceded 

 and given birth to by a thought, the act repeated 

 forms the habit, the habit determines the character, 

 and character determines the life and destiny. 



Everything in the material universe has its origin 

 first in the spiritual concept or thought, and from 

 this it takes its form. The spoken word and the 

 mighty deed spring from the potency of living 

 thought, and life is a tireless swimmer in an ocean 

 of thought. Thought is the conscious energy of the 

 soul, the subtle, invisible force of the reasoning, re- 

 sistless mind, and, to be potent with life, must be 

 winged with love. Thought is everywhere and sur- 

 rounds us like the atmosphere we breathe. When 

 we want a thought we should reach up into the 

 air for it with the caressing hand of love, and it will 

 come like an invisible messenger from spirit land. 

 We should seek thought and wisdom in the intellectual 

 zenith of our own minds, and not from mediums or 

 clairvoyants, for they have never revealed any great 

 truths. 



Thus our great poets, sages and prophets have 

 reached up into the spiritual altitudes and gathered 

 wisdom and truth as the stars are gathered and 

 sparkle in the glittering mirror of night's far off 

 and measureless spaces. They come with the speed 

 of light from all suns and spheres in the jewelled 

 crown of God's eternal expanse of love and life, 

 they whisper wonderful things to the listening 

 spirit in the silent chambers of the dreaming soul, 



