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“God is Love.”

God, or love, is the law of every being. By love every being was created; by love he is held together; by love he grows.

Through lack of love man is weak; through lack of love he is ignorant; through the waning of love he dies.

Love is the emotive power of every being; the power which proceeds forth from the central sun of himself, giving life to his body and environment; just as the sun-power proceeds forth and gives life to the planets. As the sun is the source of life, light, power, in the planets, so is the soul-center the source of life, light, power, to the members of the human body.

Love is soul-radiance, the only power for accomplishment.

Love makes worlds go round; it keeps hearts throbbing and children growing.

Love is wisdom. Love is will.

Wisdom and will are twined, like two strands in a cable,

Wisdom and will, twined in One, issue forth from the soul-center as rays from the sun.

The soul-center of being manifests as the “solar plexus” a great ganglion back of the stomach; from which nerves radiate to even the backwoods neighborhoods of the body. The solar plexus is the power house of the individuals. God, or love, is the power.

The brain is the central station where the individual sits and controls the power. He rings it off, or on, little or much, with a single thought. The individual at the brain controls the power house and all its workings, in a general way, just as Uncle Sam at Washington controls in a general way the power of the United States.

But the individual’s brain is not the only brain he has, any more than Washington is the only directing center Uncle Sam has. Every city, little or big, is a directing center; it draws its own appropriation of power and uses it as it pleases—within its limits—which are set by the intelligence at Washington.

Every ganglion in the body is a little brain which governs in a measure the use of its own appropriation of power from the soul-center, the solar-plexus; but always with the consent of the central intelligence, the brain—the Washington, D. C., of the body.

Money represents power, the will-strand of love. Whenever a city needs more money than it can draw by its own wisdom, it calls on Washington to send a special appropriation. Washington may pass a law enabling the needy city, or state, to draw more money; or it may appropriate the amount direct from the government source; or, when these processes are too red-tapey, it might make a general call to all hands to dispense with routine and send the money anyhow. This was what happened when Roosevelt called for help for the Mt. Pelee refugees. Money was poured in from all directions, instead of being sent through regular channels.

Whenever one of the lesser brains of the body, one of the ganglia, records a condition of want among its cells it tries to draw power to overcome the difficulty. If it cannot do this on its own account it sets up a cry that is heard at the central station of consciousness and government—the brain. When that cry comes we say we feel pain in the region of that particular ganglion. If we give our stomach more than it can do we hear a loud call for power—we feel a dull or painful sensation there.

When that call comes it draws special attention from the seat of general government—the brain.

Now, if the individual whose seat of government is in that brain happens to be wise enough and “strenuous” enough, he will do just what Roosevelt did; he will call for POWER from any and all directions, to relieve the want of power in the stomach. And he will call in perfect faith that the demands will be met with an overflowing abundance.

This is the method of self-healing.

Of course, if the individual whose seat of government is in that brain happens to be a weakling fraidie-cat, he will do nothing but groan over the conditions in his stomach; he will lament and ache with it, instead of bracing up and demanding power to change those conditions.

Wherever the individual’s ATTENTION goes his power goes too. All the individual needs to do is to say the word for his power to pitch in and make things straight. Until he does that his power stands around and waits, just as all the pocketbooks in the United States just waited until Roosevelt pulled himself together and called resolutely for money. That call set up an electric thrill which ran through all the little pocketbooks and set them to pouring out the help called for.

When the individual takes that same positive, resolute, commanding and full-offaith. attitude, he may ask what he will and it shall be done unto him. He may say the word which will send through his body an electric thrill of health, with a concentration of power in any desired spot.

He may open up every one of those ganglionic centers of power and send their surplus of energy to any given point, for any given purpose. In his own domain he may arise a greater than Roosevelt.

Every ganglion in the body is a storage battery of both wisdom and will, drawn originally through the central battery of the solar plexus.

The solar plexus draws its power from the Great Unseen. The intangible becomes tangible at the solar center; the hitherto undirected power of space and eternity here begins to be directed; the uncontrolled here comes under control; the unexpressed begins here to express.

You can readily see that great power depends primarily upon a free solar plexus. Great power can never be expressed under a tight corset, which binds and packs the solar plexus.

Great power, of mind or body, can never be expressed under either a binding corset or binding thoughts.

Fear thoughts are the only binding thoughts there are. Every little fear gives a pucker to the solar plexus, and shuts out just that much power. A starved and distressed body is the direct result of shutting off the solar radiance by fear thoughts—or cinches.

Get rid of fear as fast as you can, and your expanding solar plexus will burst every band, mental or physical.

The first step toward getting rid of fear is to know that your source of power and wisdom is the same great and limitless source from which all men must draw; and that your point of contact with this boundless supply is within you, not on the outside of you. When you remember this you are not scared by the outside appearance of anything or anybody. You do not look to money or a “pull” for power to accomplish; you are not afraid the money or “pull” of another will be stronger than your pull on the infinite source of all things. You know that his money and pull came by way of his own private pull on the universal, and instead of growing scared and kicking and threshing around in a desperate attempt to grab some of the results of his pull, you just quietly get down to business and your own pull on the universal.

When you look at the results of other people’s pulls on the infinite source, comparing them with your own, you are sure to grow discouraged, or desperate and fearful. One reason is that you belittle your own results; another is that you cannot see what the other man FAILED to get. You see the results of his successful pulls on the infinite, but you compare them with your own unsuccessful attempts, instead of comparing with your successes. You are unfair to yourself, and you exaggerate what he has accomplished.

Desire governs what one draws from the uncreate. Your desire and his were not alike; so his outward appearances will not stand judgment from your standpoint.

Let him alone and find yourself. You are unique. You cannot be compared with anything under heaven. Your pull on the infinite is infinite. But it’s different. Tend to it strictly, and see what the results are. Quit looking at the other fellow and generating fear thoughts—fear that he will get ahead of you. Look at your own ideals and desires, and rejoice in your own pull on the universal.

When you remember your source, and your different-ness, you are not afraid. When you go about your own work in your own way you rejoice in it all, and your solar plexus expands and power flows in and radiates to every corner of your body and on out to the outermost edge of your atmosphere; and away beyond-who knows how far beyond? Ah, then you enjoy what you do; you enjoy yourself; you LOVE; you are radiating love; and love, you know, is God, the only power and the only wisdom. And the chief end of you is to enjoy God, or love, forever.