The Power of The Spoken Word

The Word

The question of the Word of God, its character and its office, its relation to man, is one widely discussed by the theological world. The statement made by John at the opening of his Gospel is of deep metaphysical import; it has always been a stumbling block to believers in a personal God.  Only one who understands mind, its laws and its inherencies, can grasp the relation between God and His word, as here presented by John.

It is interpreted to mean Jesus of Nazareth; and so it does, in a free application of a universal consciousness manifesting itself through an individual.  But this is a limited view of the question and does not touch the vital points of the Word and its relation to man and all other aspects of creation. John says: "All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made." But this does not cover the point; it omits to state that there is a vital connection still existing between the things made and their maker.

This is where theology has wandered away from the very present, sentient, and vitally active Spirit permeating all things, man not excepted.  It is here also that the very essence of the pure metaphysical doctrine propounded and demonstrated by Jesus has its greatest virtue.  It is not a doctrine of "has been," not a statement of creation in post mortem terms.  It lives with the life and vigor that is sin no wise lost in the recital of what occurred in the misty past and that cannot be defeated by speculations of what may occur in the problematical future.

Notes From A Skylark, by Skylar Cronley

Speaking of Stars

Someone, I believe it was Emerson, once said: “Hitch your wagon to a star.” The difficulty in this for most people comes in trying to decide which star. The Star of Bethlehem is always a good one to start with – then you won’t have to hitch and unhitch so many times.

Who Do You Think You Are?

Many people have asked this question of one another a great many times and received many varied answers. If you want a real “Stumper” answer to this question the next time someone asks it of you, you could say, “I am a son of God” – Of course, there is only one catch to that, and that is that you have to live and act like one to prove it.