49/115 SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS By FRANK H. SPRAGUE

If, then, one is to satisfactorily determine or control his experiences, he must have access to the key to all experience, the basis of all that is thought or perceived the spiritual consciousness; for all definite mental states and thoughts are evolved from it, as are forms of matter from the ether. It is only from this subjective viewpoint that we are able to perceive the unity and true relations of objective phenomena.

In proportion to the degree in which we realize this consciousness, are we able to work changes which shall appear objectively in things; just as the chemist, by dealing with the elementary basis of a certain substance, is able to transmute it into another; i.e., by so altering the structure of its molecules, through agencies which operate in their atomic substratum, the substance is made to assume a different form.

Now, if the spiritual, God-consciousness is assumed as the basis of all experience, we have here a factor underlying all individual lives, and therefore common to all minds, a sort of common multiple of all, as it were an elementary, ideal substance out of which all specific forms of experience are evolved.

According to the degree to which one realizes this fundamental consciousness, is he able to produce the objective results he desires. There is no place here for caprice or wantonness. As his consciousness deepens, and he approaches the absolute center of life in God, he knows only unity of purpose, singleness of aim, uniformity and consistency in results.

As the superficial, ephemeral consciousness produces symptoms of disease (the disintegrating force), so a deeper consciousness gives rise to expressions of wholeness. By reaching in one’s own life the common basis, in consciousness, beneath all individual lives, and, from the position thus gained, touching the springs of expression underlying another’s life, it may be made to assume a more normal character.

Jesus said to one whom he healed, “Thou art loosed from thine infirmity”; i.e., through singleness of thought and purpose, recognizing only the ideal in his own consciousness, he was able to reach the deeper Self of the sick person, and thereby to accomplish a transformation of his outward expression.