Self-Multiplication Principle Through Thought-Power

After a lifetime spent in search of what constitutes greatness in a man, and for words which will inclusively define that which we call “greatness,” I have finally concluded that the following is a perfect definition: Man’s power lies in his ability to demonstrate a principle.

Upon the structure of the above definition, this is written to probe as deeply as possible into what makes one man superior or inferior to another.  The author believes that one may multiply himself at will by multiplying his power.

One cannot multiply one’s power without a greater knowledge of what constitutes power.  Let us question this in order that we may multiply ourselves without limit.

Fear and Change

Fear of thought and fear of change are the two great anchors which hold civilization back, and hold the individual back.  Civilization is about to undergo the greatest change in two thousand years.  Men fear it.  Maeterlinck says: “At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.”

This imminent change is due to the rapidly evolving greater race of THINKERS which began to people the world about one hundred years ago in preparation for this day.  Bertrand Russell says:  “Men fear THOUGHT, as they fear nothing else on earth.”  Civilization is once more about to redivide and subdivide itself into THINKERS who lead and non-thinker followers.

Periodically civilization thus divides its progeny into the favored and the unfavored, and each person is himself the determining factor in his own classification.  This pending re-division and reclassification of the world’s great thinkers and followers is the most stupendous which has ever taken place in the history of man.

The THINKER has always ruled, possessed, owned, commanded and become exalted above the follower, who has always been exploited as the laborer, impoverished, enslaved and oppressed.  Gradually, however, the narrowing social and economic gap between the two has lessened the misery of the laborer, but the division between thinker and follower remains.  Why?  Because the coming new cultural age of greater luxury and higher standards of living than the world has ever known before will demand a greater percentage of thinkers and a lesser percentage of followers.

Creative Thinking

This creating universe of all that is, or ever has been, is the result of balanced thought and action.  Thinking alone is not creative thinking.  If the Universal Mind were limited to thinking alone, the universe of form and motion would never have been.  It would not have been created.  It would have been limited to the idea of itself, the concept of itself, without form and void.

When the God-force of creation acts upon the thought-idea of the universe, the God-force demonstrated the principle contained in the divine Idea and the universe comes into being—forever “creating.”  The Supreme Ruler of all things can do only two things: THINK and ACT.  Out of balanced thought and action, God’s creating universe appears.

Man can also do only two things: THINK and ACT.  Out of the more or less balanced thoughts and actions of man his universe of created things appears.  These two things the Universal Mind does, man must also do in order to express power. 

The dependability of Natural Law grows out of the balance of power between the two creative principles of Nature.  The undependability man’s creations grows out of his lack of ability to balance his thinking with his acting.  Nature is absolute.  Without Natural Law there is no room for unbalance.  Every portion of the universal concept must come into being (or form) true to concept.  Man’s aspirations and concepts rarely come into being true to concept.  His thoughts and actions rarely balance themselves.  When any man who conceives a great principle can balance the power of that thought-principle with an equally balanced series of actions to give perfection of form to that principle, he is heralded by all men as a genius.

The success of such a person lies in his relative ability to demonstrate a thought-principle by creating a form for it. The greater a man’s ability to express himself creatively by demonstrating the thought-principles which flow through him, the greater his power.  The Universal Creative Force, as evidenced in Natural Law, should be man’s standard, his guide, and his goal.

The nearer man’s approach to the absolute balance between universal creative thought and universal creative action, as expressed by the electric interrelation between space and material form of this electric universe of balanced thought and action, the greater the power of man.

Knowledge of itself is not power, as the proverb states, nor does one’s ability to think great thoughts constitute power, for thinking without action creates nothing. No principle has been demonstrated.  The thinker has not demonstrated creative ability until he has acted to bring the form of his idea into being.

This is a thought-wave universe.  All matter and masses of matter are the bodies of thought.  More simply stated, matter is pure thought.  All matter has a meaning which tells of the IDEA it manifests.  Thinking is for the purpose of building thought-bodies to symbolize thought-imaginings and creating bodies by thought-wave motion to image those thoughts.  Your body is the image of your thinking.  Its state of health or strength is a record of your thinking.  If you inherited an imperfect body, you can think your knowing in the direction of its perfection.

You can think only that which you know, or imagine, or desire.  Likewise, you can create or express or give out only that which you know.  Your power lies in true knowledge from the still source within rather than information from the sensed world without.  Your ability to express that power in building bodies lies in what knowledge your Consciousness is aware of.  Knowledge will build for you a stable life. You can continually transform yourself, and your life condition, only through continually acquiring greater knowledge, then thinking that knowledge into the form of you.  What you think, you become.

“Knowledge” is that which you can dynamically and scientifically explain—and then demonstrate.  Knowledge is  idea—and  “balanced thinking” is the power to think idea into balanced effect in the perfect image of the idea which is its cause.

The mold of your life depends upon your ability to emulate the balance of Nature in your thinking.  Likewise, the status of world civilization is dependent upon its ability to balance its thinking as gravity balances Nature’s actions with its reactions.  All creative action requires much effort given in love in order to build the desired expression. Power lies in successful use of the science of creative thinking.

- Walter Russell 1935