The Universal One

by Walter Russell

Man has been so trained to look for God outside the realms of nature, as an incomprehensible, substanceless God, separate and apart from himself and from that which he knows as the physical universe, that it has become a tradition of his thinking, a fixed habit of his thinking. It may be a shock therefore to the outer mind of man to find a comprehensible God, of which he himself and all phenomena of nature are One.

Man is ever concerned regarding his “soul” and its habitation “after death.” Man need have no concern. Man’s soul is but the memory of the evolving idea of man. Out of the soul the body is again born. The soul is but the record of man’s thinking. The evolving idea of man cannot forever be held in suspense in inertia. The soul of a “dead” man is but the record of a man asleep for a while, awaiting the renewal of his body.

Death is just a longer sleep than the daily sleep. The difference is in the duration of the sleep.

Death is a life period of sleep for total bodily regeneration, just as the daily sleep is for partial bodily regeneration. Regeneration of the soul is reincarnation of the body.

Creation is just a swing of the cosmic pendulum between sleep and sleep, between awakening and awakening, and one follows the other as the night follows the day and the day again follows the night. While sleeping for a night man does not cease to be. Nor does he fear to sleep, for he knows that sleep is beautiful, and he will awaken at the dawn of a new day.

Since the beginning man cried aloud, “WHO AM I?” And the Voice answered, “Thou Art I. I, the universal One, am thou whom thou art creating in my image.”

The Voice within man, insatiable, asks forever: “WHO AM I?” And the still small Voice answers: “I am I. I am I whom I am creating. I am the universal I.” “I am all that is, and Thee. “I am He that is One with me. “I am the empire of I that am I.” Since the beginning the Voice within man

“WHENCE CAME I?” And the Voice forever answers: “I am of the universal passion of creation. “I came from God. “I am of God. “I am soul, record of idea. “Wh...

“WHAT AM I?” And the familiar Voice answers: “I am of the body of God, born of his substance. “God is Mind I am Mind. “God is Truth. I am Truth. “God is Love. I am Love. “God is Life. I am Life. “God is Light. I am Light. “God is Power. I am Power. “What God is, I am. What He commands, I command. “My purpose is His purpose.” “God lives in me. My inheritance is from God and of God.” “He gives all to me. He withholds nothing.” “The Divinity of me is thine and mine. It is that which is recorded within the soul of me. It is the Holy Spirit within the sanctuary of me.” “I am an idea of thine. The body of me is the idea of the soul of me. It is mine and thine.” “I am the master sculptor. My body is the plastic clay. My soul is the mother-mould of my body, the matrix for my regeneration.” “I am what I am. “I shall be what I desire to be. “What I am I have desired to be. “I am the sum of my own desire. “I am thou, creator of myself. “Thou art I, creator of all.”

“I am man, self creating. “I am God, creator of man. “I am father of myself. “I am son of the living God.”

“God created me that I should fulfill his purpose. God gave me desire to create and the power of creation.” “God dwells within me. I shall not deny the power within me which is God within me.”

Is not that which we call “heaven” but an image of man’s thinking. If the statement herein made that form has no existence, and that nothing in this universe has time, place or position, is in accord with the laws of motion herein formulated then it must follow that man’s “heaven” and “hell” must be illusions. If such places exist they must be somewhere in the universe. They cannot be extraneous to it. If they exist within the universe their existence must have dimension. If they are dimensionable they must be subject to the laws of changing things. There is no “part” of the universe which enjoys the special privilege of immunity from the laws of gravitation and radiation. Man’s “heaven” and “hell” are but illogical concepts of the outer mind. The inner Mind rejects such unwholesome imaginings. They are traditions, inherited from an age of superstition, of ignorance of nature’s laws, of fear, of belief in an avenging God, and of an attitude of mind which demanded the miraculous as a deific qualification.

When man learns that God is Mind, that Mind is the One living, pulsing, thinking force, and that HE is that force, then man will have arrived at another stage in his evolution.

When man learns that this universe of solid things is but a reflection of the ideas of those things, and that he is but a simulation of the idea of himself being thought out in eternity by himself, then he will know the ecstasy of inner thinking.