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Divine Principles
Beloved Cosmic Being Faith
FAITH IS THE ACTUAL SUBSTANCE OF WHAT YOU DESIRE
July 1959
Even the most discerning and contemplative student has not tied into a fragmentary part of my Nature and capacity through them to draw forth manifestation.
Without raw material such as coal, iron, timber, such as wool, silk and fur, you could not have a manifestation of the particular third dimensional forms which have blessed humanity in the essential requirements of life, the comforts and the luxuries.
When the student receives the Divine Idea from the Presence - the blue print of some desire or design or form by which to enrich or beautify life, his own or the universal - there must be provided the substance, the raw material from whence, according to the efficacy of his designing faculties, the finished product will ensue. We come, then, to the time-worn statement which has been glossed over by the thinking mind for centuries.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for — the evidence of things not seen."
The desire and design released to the intellectual consciousness from the Presence represents the THING hoped for. We see then, that FAITH is the raw material - is the ACTUAL SUBSTANCE which is emanated from the lifestream working upon the manifestation through cooperation with my Cosmic Ray and that this substance becomes the electronic force that fills the thought and feeling form.
Saint Germain, in his endeavors to impress upon the mind of the student this point, defined FAITH thus:
"Faith is a conquering, emanating Power."
The word "emanation" signifies radiating forth from a center. These two phrases when joined, give a tremendous blessing in precipitation.
Faith is the substance that emanates from some center and the substance thus emanated becomes the evidence or manifestation of the idea not seen.
I marvel that humankind so long has prattled about faith without realizing its palpability, its tangibility, its moldability, and its essential presence before manifestation can ensue.
How, we will say, does faith emanate from the timid outer self? By co-relating the mind with the realization that the Divine idea comes from God and presses through into the intellectual consciousness as a message from the Father to the Son that more beauty is God's design by the Son's Hand in the world. Then by disabusing the human consciousness again, again and again of undue responsibility and unconscious arrogance as being the doer, the doing and the deed.
We then have the Mind Consciousness accepting the desire of the Father into the Mental Body. We must then turn the Faith Nature to the Power of the Presence as the ONLY POWER that can act and this self surrender begins the radiation of Faith which is a release of substance from the Presence, which puts at ease the outer self and actually draws, coalesces and precipitates the electronic light which will form the clothing of the manifestation.
The love of the outer self for the Presence allows the Conquering Emanating Power from the Presence, which becomes the quality known as FAITH to flow through the individual.
Of course, when one is acquainted with myself as a definite, intelligent God Focus of this quality, you can couple your invocation to me with your Devotion to the Presence and the Faith of my Cosmic Ray will flow forth freely.
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