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In Tune With The Infinite - Ralph Waldo Trine

1. Preface To The First Edition

2. A New Message From The Author

3. Prelude

4. The Supreme Fact Of The Universe

5. The Supreme Fact Of Human Life

6. Fullness Of Life - Bodily Health And Vigor

7. The Secret, Power And Effects Of Love

8. Wisdom And Interior Illumination

9. The Realization Of Perfect Peace

10. Coming Into Fullness Of Power

11. Plenty Of All Things - The Law Of Prosperity

12. How Men Have Become Prophets, Seers, Sages And Saviors

13. The Basic Principle Of All Religions - The Universal Religion

14. Entering Now Into The Realization Of The Highest Riches

15. “The Way”

16. A Resolve For Today

A Preface to the First Edition

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 teachings to all the

prophets, seers, sages, and saviors in the world's history, through the lives of

all men of truly great and lasting power. All that they have ever done or

attained to has been done in full accordance with law.

What one has done, all may do. This same golden thread must enter into the

lives of all who today, in this busy work-a-day world of ours, would exchange

impotence for power, weakness and suffering for abounding health and

strength pain and unrest for perfect peace, poverty of whatever nature for

fullness and plenty.

Each is building their own world. We both build from within and we attract

from without. Thought is the force with which we build, for thoughts are

forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In the degree that thought is

spiritualized does it become more subtle and powerful in its workings. This

spiritualizing is in accordance with law and is within the power of all.

Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested in the

seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in the spiritual before it

shows forth in the material. The realm of the unseen is the realm of cause.

The realm of the seen is the realm of effect. The nature of effect is always

determined and conditioned by the nature of its cause.

To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great laws underlying

the workings of the interior, spiritual, thought forces, to point them out so

simply and so clearly that even a child can understand, is the author's aim. To

point them out so simply and so clearly that all can grasp them, that all can

take them and infuse them into everyday life, so as to mold it in all its details

in accordance with what they would have it, is his purpose That life can be

thus molded 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 and above

and below the human will incessantly works the Divine will. To come into

harmony with it and thereby with all the higher laws and forces, 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 to come into the chain of this

wonderful sequence. This is the secret of all success. This is to come into the

possession of unknown riches, into the realization of undreamed-of powers.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into

the full realization of your own awakened inner powers is to be able to

condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.

A New Message From the Author

WE are born into a strange time - a time that tries men's souls. Bewilderment

and fear hold many; change and uncertainty stalk through the land - all lands.

Those who keep their courage up and go serenely on are coming through in a

way that those who weaken or lie down cannot know. But to do this many

lives need help—real concrete help. A remark by an old college friend some

years ago has come to my mind every now and then of late. 'After all,' said he,

'it is well for one to have a little philosophy in ones life. A farm boy, eager for

a better education and to get ahead pushing his way through college in the

face of great odds, he has been doing a splendid work in a great city, and for

his country, and yet has always remained humble. His own character indicates

to me he has in goodly measure the philosophy which he commended.

'Yes' I replied 'if it has the element of use.' For I had even then read much in

the philosophies of the present and of earlier times, and was forced to the

conclusion that very large parts of them are of little real value—interesting,

but of little real value—because of their lack of the element of use; use in the

everyday problems of life.

Each of us has their problems of one sort or another, and no life is free from

them. We all need help. This is particularly true at present because of the

peculiar time we have been born into.

I have often said to friend and acquaintance during the last two or three years

that there is perhaps no one quality men need so much, and right down in their

hearts long for so much, as the quality of courage. For courage to me is

nothing more or less than a positive, creative type of thought. It not only

keeps us going, but all the time works out effects on the course of our

journeying. Thoughts are forces, subtle, vital, creative, continually building

and shaping our lives according to their nature. It is in this way that the life

always and inevitably follows the thought.

Thoughts of strength engender strength from within and attract it from

without. Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness within and attract it from

without. Courage therefore begets success, as fear begets failure.

There is something in the universe that responds to intrepid thinking. The

POWER that holds and that moves the stars in their courses sustains,

illumines and fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and

magic in it. Faith and hope and courage are great producers—we cannot fail if

we live always in the brave and cheerful attitude of mind and heart. He alone

fails who gives up and lies down.

To open ourselves to this sustaining POWER, to live continually under its

guidance, this is our part. Those of us who do our part will keep free from

fear, and therefore from a weakening, corroding worry, the two black twins

that carry the germs of despair and defeat, costly for ourselves, unfair for our

families, our friends and as our neighbors, costly even for our country.

Years ago, shortly after this book was written, I used on the title page of a

little book, as a sort of keynote, the sentence: 'The moment we fully and

vitally realize who and what we are, we then begin to build our own world

even as God builds His.'

What is the fundamental fact, the fundamental principle of life, the real basis

of any healthy or even worthy philosophy of life—Can we find it and know

it? There's the rub. But long ago there came one who with a great aptitude for

discerning the things of the mind and the spirit, a great clarity of perception

that enabled Him to understand the reality of life, the One Life, and to identify

His own life with it—the Infinite Spirit of life and power that is back of all,

animating and working through all, the life of all.

So direct and intimate was His understanding of it that He used the term

Father: I and my Father are one. And to make it of value in that it was not for

Him alone, He said: As I am you shall be. My consciousness of the One Life

shall be your consciousness, My insight and power shall be your insight and

power, if you will receive My message and do the things I tell you. And truly

He handled the stuff of life with a wonderful artistry. This is the message that

the Master, Jesus of Galilee, tried so hard to get over into the world. It is

through this that He becomes the supreme Way-revealer, the Way-revealer to

us men of earth.

The Way He showed is what man so sadly needs for a higher and a more

efficient individual life, and what the world needs for a more efficient and

harmonious and co-operative life. Here is the basis of all idealistic philosophy

-a philosophy, a religion of power, of concrete creative power and therefore of

use. All are partakers and individual expressions of the One Life, all related

and interrelated. As we open ourselves fully to the realization of this we bring

harmony into our individual lives, and out of that harmony we create a world

of harmony and co-operation, in which each individual and each country

enjoys freedom and the fruits of labor, instead of enslavement, of disruption,

and of eventual destruction.

Yes, from the conception of the One Life flows the inevitable reality that all

men are brothers. There is great gain, there is even an obvious self-interest in

building our individual lives and our world life upon that reality. If we do so,

we will establish a just and therefore more lasting peace.

What a frightful price we have now to pay for our ignorance, our negligence,

our self-seeking, our forgetting that the good of all is the only real and lasting

good! Out of all the travail good may come, but again that will depend on us.

We must keep our courage up, must keep our vision clear, must keep our

balance, so that we may free ourselves and others with us from the frightful

dangers dislocation and disorder that are the results of the great world

conflicts.

A single stanza by Edwin Markham voices the poet's inspiration:

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky,

And flinging the clouds and the towers by,

Is a place of central calm.

So, here in the roar of mortal things

I have a place where my spirit sings,

In the hollow of God's palm.

This was the poet's way of expressing the great truth we are considering and I

know he believed it thoroughly, for we talked it over many times together.

This was his belief as to the mission and the revelation of the Master, and the

Kingdom of God that comes into being when all men realize they are

brothers, and are wise enough to live and to act as brothers.

In this again lie the truth and the song that arose from it and sang itself

through our earlier poet Whittier, good Quaker and true always to the "Inner

Light":

I know not where His islands lift

Their fronded palms in air,

I only know I cannot drift

Beyond His love and care.

A dark age can come only if we men of earth fail to do our part. We will not

fail. We cannot fail. But the sands in the hour-glass may be running lower

than we know. We must bestir ourselves.

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