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Friday, January 3. 1964
Page Three
MIRROR
MEDITATION
By EMMITT L. BRINSON
What Is mind? Does anyone
really know? The activity of
thought, oi awareness, of mind.
It Is not material! Then what
Is It? That evasive something
which we use the most In our
lives, consciously and subcon
sciously Is the least understood.
Every person has feelings,
forms opinions, thinks, has In
tentions, decides Issues, makes
choices, reasons, arrives at
conclusions, understandings;
He reflects, contemplates,
meditates, sets goals and ob
jectives; he percleves through
his senses; There are count
less descriptions of mind, but
what Is It? There Is no phys
ical substance to it.
Yet mind Is as real and
tangible as Is the physical be
ing Itself. It Is like a univer
sal electricity. When accepted
In this light the body or brain
Is not the producer of this cur
rent through which thought ac
tion flows, but can be under
stood only as the conductor
of such mental activity. It Is
a control center. So, mind Is
not the product of the brain,
but operates through the brain.
Maybe It can better be ex
plained In the light of the elec
tronic brains or computers.
They are very intricately and
mechanically designed. With the
current turned off, they are life
less, these machines are use
less, regardless of construc
tion. It Is only when the current
flows through that they become
useful and can perform the
tasks intended.
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The material brain Is a high
ly developed organism, much
more complicated In detail than
man can Imagine, and man Is
dependent on Its proper func
tioning. Yet the energy that
flows through the brain and
causes the body to act is as
universal as electricity Itself.
It Is llfe-lt Is splrlt-lt must
be God,
No man-no thing-has a mind
or llfe-that Is exclusively Its
own, but that which he uses Is
a part of a universal energy,
or mind of God. Emerson real
ly touched on this when he said
“There is one mind common
to all Individual men. Every
man Is an Inlet to the same
and all of the same. What Plato
has thought, he may think; what
a saint has felt, he may feel
what at any time has befallen
any man, he can understand.
Who hath access to this univer
sal mind Is a party to all that
Is-or can be done, for this Is
the only Sovereign agent.”
So mind Is not something that
belongs to us but something
that finds expression through
us. No one knows what It real
ly Is, only what It does; The
way It operates through the in
dividual as his mind. It Is
given direction by the many
mental actlvities-the Individ
uals atmosphere of thought-
relative to envlronment-or in
dividualized field of activity.
In mind-all men are related,
proven by the control of another
through hypnotism. We are Im
mersed In the great universal
sea of mind. This mind Is all
powerful-all creative. It awaits
direction of the Individual. It
Is that ever present spirit.
I sometimes wonder when
prayer Is not answered If It Is
pecause we have not subjected
ourselves to this divine as
sistance. It Is not because
God does not want to answer
the prayer. It Is because we
some how block the way for It
to be answered, God will only
do for us that which he does
through us, and that which we
sincerely are willing to ac-
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So long as the Individual’s
attention Is centered upon other
channels ofthoughtsuch as self
ishness, poverty, unhappiness,
and other frustrations the uni
versal power of mind-of God-ls
forced to flow through these
channels, 'So' mind expresses
Itself as we want It expressed-
for good, or for bad.
In this New Year-we should
project a mental picture of
Peace on earth, of happlness-
of success-In short we should
open our minds to the whole
some Christian principle. The
Master Artist will fill In the
rest, working through our de-
slres-maklngout mental picture
take form.
Ah yes, and the most Im
portant thought of all expressed
by an unknown Poet; “I asked
the New Year for some mes
sage sweet; some rule of life,
with which to guide my feet.
I asked and paused; he answered
soft and low: Gods will to-
know. Will knowledge then suf
fice—New Year? I cried. And,
ere the question Into silence—
died. The answer came; Nay,
but remember too; God’s will
to-Do, Once more I asked; Is
there no more to tell? and
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sure again the answer sweetly
fell. Yes! this thing, all other
things—above; God’s will to—
“Love”.
Have a wonderful, happy and
successful New Year.
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