the word of God and do it. Then follows all. We are wise in the
degree that we live according to the higher light.

All the prophets, seers, sages, and saviours in the world's history
became what they became, and consequently had the powers they had,
through an entirely natural process. They all recognized and came into
the conscious realization of their oneness with the Infinite Life. God
is no respecter of persons. He doesn't create prophets, seers, sages,
and saviours as such. He creates men. But here and there one
recognizes his true identity, recognizes the oneness of his life with
the Source whence it came. He lives in the realization of this
oneness, and in turn becomes a prophet, seer, sage, or saviour.
Neither is God a respecter of races or of nations. He has no chosen
people; but here and there a race or nation becomes a respecter of God
and hence lives the life of a chosen people.

There has been no age or place of miracles in distinction from any
other age or place. What we term miracles have abounded in all places
and at all times where conditions have been made for them. They are
being performed today just as much as they ever have been when the laws
governing them are respected. Mighty men, we are told they were,
mighty men who walked with God; and in the words "who walked with God"
lies the secret of the words "mighty men." Cause, effect.

The Lord never prospers any man, but the man prospers because he
acknowledges the Lord, and lives in accordance with the higher laws.
Solomon was given the opportunity of choosing whatever he desired; his
better judgment prevailed and he chose wisdom. But when he chose
wisdom he found that it included all else beside. We are told that God
hardened Pharaoh's heart. I don't believe it. God never hardens any
one's heart. Pharaoh hardened his own heart and God was blamed for it.
But when Pharaoh hardened his heart and disobeyed the voice of God, the
plagues came. Again, cause, effect. Had he, on the contrary,
listened,--in other words, had he opened himself to and obeyed the
voice of God, the plagues would not have come.

We can be our own best friends or we can be our own worst enemies. In
the degree that we become friends to the highest and best within us, we
become friends to all; and in the degree that we become enemies to the
highest and best within us, do we become enemies to all. In the degree
that we open ourselves to the higher powers and