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THE CONFLICT OF OUR THOUGHT-FEELING
AND ACTION*

“With wisdom did the Eternal found the earth.” Prov. 3: 19

We cannot separate the inner from the outer or the material from the
Spiritual. Is one not the product of the other? The inner becomes the outer,

what is visible is but the invisible, what we create within comes to the
outer. Whether we like it or not we are responsible for good or bad for they
are both the expression of the inner. Only in the creation of Reality is there

freedom from good or bad.
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore Love is the fulfilling
of the Law. Many people are deprived of the fulfilment, the satisfaction and the

happiness they anticipate from the fulfilment of their desires. This is due to
the methods they ignorantly employ, methods which interfere with the growth,
development and happiness of their neighbours.

While the Law of Creation fulfilled their desires yet in their ignorance
they overlooked the most necessary element of success and happiness, so all
their accomplishments were beset with difficulties. They did not realize that
“Love your neighbour as yourself” was the fulfilment of the Law. In other

words the first consideration in the fulfilment of desire, is your neighbour,
when you think this out you will see how necessary it is.
When we take this higher law into our operations the things that beset

us rearrange themselves in a wonderful way, they straighten out in the most
unexpected fashion, we need not designate special ways and means. The
Higher Intelligence is capable of leading us into avenues more wonderful
and infinitely more satisfactory than we ourselves could have chosen. But

first we must fulfil this one most important part of the bargain, “do unto others
as you would have them do unto you.”
When man’s thought is purified through understanding of the Law

of Love—to love his neighbour as himself—he will love God in a practical
way, and to love God is to be lifted to the throne of wisdom and power. Yet
nearly everyone is restricted by their limited understanding arising out of their

reactions to conditions in Life, so they further perpetuate these conditions
against which they rebel. Wrong reaction to things external limits our creative
ability. “Trust your affairs to the Eternal and your plans will prosper.” In

the proportion that we know ourselves so shall we know God. This is not a

* See Notes page 333 329