Mystic Immanence, the Indwelling SpiritWilberforce, Basil
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Mystic Immanence, the Indwelling Spirit
Wilberforce, Basil
Immanence of God; Mysticism
Intercession does not mean that you have importuned an objective
Omnipotent Being to do a kindness to one of His subjects, though in
human language we seem thus to express it. It is, that having found
your true relation as an individual to the Universal Originating Spirit,
and your sympathy and pity being drawn to some case of need, you
specialize, by the power of your thought, the All-surrounding Infinite
Love, and focus it, direct it, to the particular case of need, and
Infinite Love thinks, wills, and expresses Himself through you. When
Paul said, "Brethren, pray for us," he knew that loving, sympathizing,
healing thoughts, projected like wireless-telegraphy vibrations from
united God-inhabited hearts, were the life of God in man reaching forth
to quicken, stimulate, and support a brother man. I have been upheld in
physical and mental weakness by a stream of kindly sympathy, radiating
Divine creative energy. I once before expressed my gratitude in the
words of an American divine:
"Beneath the shelter which your prayers have reared,
Quiet and blest,
The storm which struck me down no longer feared,
Secure I rest."
That is what this wireless spiritual telegraphy does—it frees the mind
from fear. To free the mind from fear is to strike at the root of many
a physical and mental trouble.
I have been withheld recently from taking an active part in this Divine
work, but I have a sheaf of letters of thanksgiving. I give extracts
from two:
You prayed for a young girl who was about to face an examination for a
post and who was tormented with nervous headache. The letter says: "It
was a positive miracle; there was not a headache after that night, and
the examination was passed most successfully."
Again, you prayed two Sundays in succession for a youth in the North of
England. The letter says: "He was dying; the doctors had given him up,
and he himself had no thought of recovery. He is well and a new man;
people are expressing the greatest astonishment, declaring that no one
understands it. They do not know the explanation." These cases are not
that an Objective external God did something kind because we asked Him,
but that the Immanent Universal Mind used our sympathy, and our yearning
to help, in bringing about that which He also desired, but for the
fulfilment of which He needed the focussed love and desire of the
individual life-centres in which He is Immanent. That is one way of
"coming to the help of the Lord against the Mighty."
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