Text: "In the manifestation of all power, force, motion, vibration, that which impels, that which detracts, is in its essence of one force, one source, in its elemental form. As to what has been done or accomplished by or through the activity of entities that have been delegated powers in activity, is another story. "As to the one source or one force, then, are the questions presented in the present. "God, the first cause, the first principle, the first movement, IS! That's the beginning! That is, that was, that ever will be! "The following of those sources, forces, activities that are in accord with the Creative Force or first cause - its laws, then - is to be one with the source, or equal with yet separate from that first cause. "When, then, may man - as an element, an entity, a separate being manifested in material life and form - be aware or conscious of the moving of that first cause within his environ? "Or, taking man in his present position or consciousness, how or when may he be aware of that first cause moving within his realm of consciousness? "In the beginning there was the force of attraction and the force that repelled. Hence, in man's consciousness he becomes aware of what is known as the atomic or cellular form of movement about which there becomes nebulous activity. And this is the lowest form (as man would designate) that's in active forces in his experience. Yet this very movement that separates the forces in atomic influence is the first cause, or the manifestation of that called God in the material plane! "Then, as it gathers of positive-negative forces in their activity, whether it be of one element or realm or another, it becomes magnified in its force or sources through the universe. "Hence we find worlds, suns, stars, nebulae, and whole solar systems, moving from a first cause. "When this first cause comes into man's experience in the present realm he becomes confused, in that he appears to "have an influence upon this force or power in directing same. Certainly! Much, though, in the manner as the reflection of light in a mirror. For, it is only reflected force that man may have upon those forces that show themselves in the activities, in whatever realm into which man may be delving in the moment - whether of the nebulae, the gaseous, or the elements that have gathered together in their activity throughout that man has chosen to call time or space. And becomes, in its very movement, of that of which the first cause takes thought in a finite existence or consciousness. "Hence, as man himself applies himself - or uses that of which he becomes conscious in the realm of activity, and gives or places the credit (as would be called) in man's consciousness in the correct sphere or realm he becomes conscious of that union of force with the infinite with the finite force. "Hence, in the fruits of that - as is given oft, as the fruits of the spirit - does man become aware of the infinite penetrating, or interpenetrating the activities of all forces of matter, or that which is a manifestation of the realm of the infinite into finite - and the finite becomes conscious of same. "As to the application of these as truths, then: "It may be said that, as the man makes in self - through the ability given for man in his activity in a material plane - the will - one with the laws of creative influence, we begin with: "Like begets like - As he sows, so shall he reap - As the "man thinketh in the heart, so is he." "These are all but trite sayings to most of us, even to the thinking man; but should the mind of an individual (the finite mind) turn within his own being for the law pertaining to these trite sayings, until the understanding arises, then there is the consciousness in the finite of the infinite moving upon and in the inner self. "So does life in all its force begin in the earth. The moving of the infinite upon the negative force of the finite in the material, or to become a manifested force." Cayce (262-52)

See Also: FIRST CAUSE

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