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Underneath all of the surface differences, tension, and conflicts that separate different faith traditions, there are a number of fundamental similarities that underpin virtually every religion. In the volume In Tune with the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty, prominent New Thought writer Ralph Waldo Trine explores the timeless moral and ethical precepts that the world's religion's share.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 avril 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781775414575
Langue	English

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IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE
FULLNESS OF PEACE, POWER, AND PLENTY
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RALPH WALDO TRINE

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In Tune with the Infinite Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty From a 1903 edition.
ISBN 978-1-775414-57-5
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Contents
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Preface Prelude The Supreme Fact of the Universe The Supreme Fact of Human Life Fullness of Life—Bodily Health and Vigor The Secret, Power, and Effects of Love Wisdom and Interior Illumination The Realization of Perfect Peace Coming into Fullness of Power Plenty of All Things—The Law of Prosperity How Men Have Become Prophets, Seers, Sages, and Saviours The Basic Principle of All Religions—The Universal Religion Entering Now into the Realization of the Highest Riches

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Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.
Preface
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There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world.There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachingsof all the prophets, seers, sages, and saviours in the world's history,through the lives of all men and women of truly great and lastingpower. All that they have ever done or attained to has been done infull accordance with law. What one has done, all may do.
This same golden thread must enter into the lives of all who today, inthis busy work-a-day world of ours, would exchange impotence for power,weakness and suffering for abounding health and strength, pain andunrest for perfect peace, poverty of whatever nature for fullness andplenty.
Each is building his own world. We both build from within and weattract from without. Thought is the force with which we build, forthoughts are forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In thedegree that thought is spiritualized does it become more subtle andpowerful in its workings. This spiritualizing is in accordance withlaw and is within the power of all.
Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested inthe seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in thespiritual before it shows forth in the material. The realm of theunseen is the realm of cause. The realm of the seen is the realm ofeffect. The nature of effect is always determined and conditioned bythe nature of its cause.
To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great lawsunderlying the workings of the interior, spiritual, thought forces, topoint them out so simply and so clearly that even a child canunderstand, is the author's aim. To point them out so simply and soclearly that all can grasp them, that all can take them and infuse theminto every-day life, so as to mould it in all its details in accordancewith what they would have it, is his purpose. That life can be thusmoulded by them is not a matter of mere speculation or theory with him,but a matter of positive knowledge.
There is a divine sequence running throughout the universe. Within andabove and below the human will incessantly works the Divine will. Tocome into harmony with it and thereby with all the higher laws andforces, to come then into league and to work in conjunction with them,in order that they can work in league and in conjunction with us, is tocome into the chain of this wonderful sequence. This is the secret ofall success. This is to come into the possession of unknown riches,into the realization of undreamed-of powers.
R.W.T.
Prelude
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The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs fromthe other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each isright from his own particular point of view, and this point of view isthe determining factor in the life of each. It determines as towhether it is a life of power or of impotence, of peace or of pain, ofsuccess or of failure.
The optimist has the power of seeing things in their entirety and intheir right relations. The pessimist looks from a limited and aone-sided point of view. The one has his understanding illumined bywisdom, the understanding of the other is darkened by ignorance. Eachis building his world from within, and the result of the building isdetermined by the point of view of each. The optimist, by his superiorwisdom and insight, is making his own heaven, and in the degree that hemakes his own heaven is he helping to make one for all the worldbeside. The pessimist, by virtue of his limitations, is making his ownhell, and in the degree that he makes his own hell is he helping tomake one for all mankind.
You and I have the predominating characteristics of an optimist or thepredominating characteristics of a pessimist. We then are making, hourby hour, our own heaven or our own hell; and in the degree that we aremaking the one or the other for ourselves are we helping make it forall the world beside.
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell , meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled wasto be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony theremust be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be inright relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, ifthere is such a thing as being helled , shut off, separated from,there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, orseparated.
The Supreme Fact of the Universe
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The great central fact of the universe is that Spirit of Infinite Lifeand Power that is behind all, that animates all, that manifests itselfin and through all; that self-existent principle of life from which allhas come, and not only from which all has come, but from which all iscontinually coming. If there is an individual life, there must ofnecessity be an infinite source of life from which it comes. If thereis a quality or a force of love, there must of necessity be an infinitesource of love whence it comes. If there is wisdom, there must be theall-wise source behind it from which it springs. The same is true inregard to peace, the same in regard to power, the same in regard towhat we call material things.
There is, then, this Spirit of Infinite Life and Power behind all whichis the source of all. This Infinite Power is creating, working, rulingthrough the agency of great immutable laws and forces that run throughall the universe, that surround us on every side. Every act of ourevery-day lives is governed by these same great laws and forces. Everyflower that blooms by the wayside, springs up, grows, blooms, fades,according to certain great immutable laws. Every snowflake that playsbetween earth and heaven, forms, falls, melts, according to certaingreat unchangeable laws.
In a sense there is nothing in all the great universe but law. If thisis true there must of necessity be a force behind it all that is themaker of these laws and a force greater than the laws that are made.This Spirit of Infinite Life and Power that is behind all is what Icall God. I care not what term you may use, be it Kindly Light,Providence, the Over Soul, Omnipotence, or whatever term may be mostconvenient. I care not what the term may be as long as we are agreedin regard to the great central fact itself.
God, then, is this Infinite Spirit which fills all the universe withHimself alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothingthat is outside. Indeed and in truth, then, in Him we live and moveand have our being. He is the life of our life, our very life itself.We have received, we are continually receiving our life from Him. Weare partakers of the life of God; and though we differ from Him in thatwe are individualized spirits, while He is the Infinite Spiritincluding us as well as all else beside, yet in essence the life ofGod and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one .They differ not in essence, in quality; they differ in degree.
There have been and are highly illumined souls who believe that wereceive our life from God after the manner of a divine inflow. Andagain, there have been and are those who believe that our life is onewith the life of God, and so that God and man are one. Which is right?Both are right; both right when rightly understood.
In regard to the first: if God is the Infinite Spirit of Life behindall, whence all comes, then clearly our life as individualized spiritsis continually coming from this Infinite Source by means of this divineinflow. In the second place, if our lives as individualized spiritsare directly from, are parts of this Infinite Spirit of Life, then thedegree of the Infinite Spirit that is manifested in the life of eachmust be identical in quality with that Source, the same as a drop ofwater taken from the ocean is, in nature, in characteristics, identicalwith that ocean, its source. And how could it be otherwise? Theliability to misunderstanding in this latter case, however, is this: inthat although the life of God and the life of man in essence areidentically the same, the life of God so far transcends the life ofindividual man that it includes all else beside. In other words, sofar as the quality of life is concerned, in essence they are the same;so far as the degree of life is concerned, they are vastly different.
In this light is it not then evident that both conceptions are true?and more, that they are one and the same? Both conceptions may betypified by one and the same illustration.
There is a reservoir in a valley which receives its supply f