From HOme Study Course, Lesson 9

FIRST PRINCIPLES

In the first eight lessons I have purposely laid the foundations for a better understanding of God--the nature of God--the relationship of God to man and to His universe--the structure of the material universe and God's processes of creation.

Now again I wish to strongly emphasize the fact that what you will find as I gradually take you behind the scenes of God's cosmic stage IS UTTERLY SIMPLE and as fully comprehensible to you--WHEN YOU FINALLY GET IT--as adding two and two together.

Do P L E A S E take my word for it and never for a moment say it is over your head, or that you cannot understand it--for you can understand it. Remember that new knowledge always seems over your head. You have got to think it over and over again, then meditate upon it until what you now read with your senses you will gradually KNOW in your Soul. IT WILL THEN BECOME A PART OF YOU.

The more you can become illumined with Cosmic Consciousness the more you will find yourself using God's Mind as YOUR Mind--and God's hands as YOUR hands.

To become a master of creative expression--by being able to make the short cuts to achievement that I have been enabled to make by my knowing--you must master each step as you go--each idea as you absorb it--by going back to it time after time until you begin to wonder WHY you could ever have thought any part of it difficult, for I again say that all of its seeming complexity will lead you to the most surprising simplicity.

To again accentuate the simplicity of it I will yet again say that if your intelligence is great enough for you to add up to nine, or to understand that you breathe inward and outward from a balanced center in you, you can understand the workings of most complex phenomena in all Nature. I say this to you seriously-- and mean what I say--for God never passes nine in any creative expression nor does any phenomena in Nature ever exceed the principle upon which your breathing, or heartbeat is based.

Anything in Nature, or in your life's problems, which might have one million parts and one million complexities, if taken apart, will be found to constitute one simple principle of three elements. God multiplies these three by three to make nine, but never more than that. So if you can understand the principle of the basic three, and if you can multiply that three by three, you can become the greatest chemist, metallurgist, electrical engineer, poet, painter, philosopher or inventor in the whole world if no one but you in the world did understand it.