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Human pens can but write words. They cannot write their knowing into those words for others who have not that knowing. A symphony can be as well heard by moron and animal as by the genius, but the Soul of the composer is not heard by one and is movingly heard by the other. To some of you these words, which we have just written, are but words - and will be for thousands of years hence - but not to all of you. There are some who will understand and be greatly moved. To all of you, however, we may begin your comprehension by opening the doors to the invisible unknown just a little bit farther by more fully explaining the office and purpose of the inert gases.

It will help you much in this respect if you will but use your imagination in relation to an effect in Nature with which very few are familiar, the effect of ultra microscopic smallness. Man-in-the-mass thinks in terms of bigness of dimension. His senses are geared to dimension. He sees thousands of objects for miles about him and for millions of miles out into space. His senses are geared to motion, also, and the many lights and sounds which are one with motion. His senses are, likewise, geared to extension. They see only the unfolding extensions which are projected from the seed. He does not even realize that what he views in big scale out there is enfolded within him so near to zero scale in motion and pattern that all of it occupies only a

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microcosmic-scale image in one's eye. Is this clear to you? Do you realize that the bigness out there is identical with the smallness within your eye? If so, can you not begin to accustom your thinking to the fact that the entire cone of the visible universe is enfolded within, and extended from its apex by the mere spiritual mechanics of creative imagining?

As your power of thinking grows to this magnitude you will then soon be ready to ask of yourself the following question: If objectivity and dimension are but imaginings, what then shall we say about the motion which created them? If you fully comprehend these facts you can, also, fully comprehend that the bigness out there is an extended radial enlargement of the zero smallness within you. If you will but add to this thought the fact that the small image is a recording of the other, you are coming closer to a comprehension of that great secret of Nature. Now we ask that you add one more thought to this picture. Add to it the fact that the large and small image are not two. They are one. The same light which created one created the other, and the rays of that projected light connect the two as substantially as light-waves connect the sounds of a man's voice to the tape which is recording it. In other words, whatever is seemingly happening anywhere "out there" in extended space is being simultaneously recorded within the zero universe upon the four rings of the inert gas series, which bridge God's knowing to His thinking.

Now add to this thought the fact that every thought and action taking place in the extended universe of motion is simultaneously taking place everywhere in it. If that is so - and your radio and television have long told you it is so - can you ever again think of the universe as any more than ONE? If you have now arrived at this stage of comprehension in your knowing you can complete your knowledge of the Cosmos by including in it the One Source of that extended image you now know God, and man, and all things else, as ONE.

That which is transient in motion is eternal in the translucent Light of the inert gases which divides the Magnetic Light of Mind to produce pairs of electric bodies. These inert gases

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record all effects of creative thinking upon their four rings as precisely as the rings of a phonograph disc records extended effects. If you fully understand this you can now comprehend that as the oak unfolds from its zero seed to extend into space, the oak tree patterns of old and new growth simultaneously refold into its seed. Every leaf and branch are as perfect in the invisible oak as they are in the visible one. The marvelous thought about this is the fact that the extended one can perish, but the seed-record is imperishable. Nothing can hurt or affect that seed even though its planet may perish along with its extended "mortal" image. In other words, God's thoughts are not transient. They are immortal image-forms of immortal Idea. They repeat themselves in Nature eternally, for that is what Nature is. Nature is a light-extension of the Light of Mind-Idea.

The next step for you to take in greater preparation for your Cosmic knowing is to translate the effect of the oak tree body to the body of man. The projected image of a baby begins by the unfolding of the eternal record of itself, which eternally exists in God's Mind-universe. All of the thousands of detailed forms of cells and body parts are but repeated extensions of eternally existent thought-conceptions. If you will but realize their oneness in the light which they are, you understand that the body of man is but a projected thought-image in motion of an eternal thought-image in God's Mind. That being so, can you not now fully comprehend that man cannot die? The light which images him may be shut off from its projected Source for a time, but it will again be projected from its eternal Source until its purpose for seeming existence has been fulfilled. That is what is meant by the verse from 1st. Corinthians which headed this part of our narrative.

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