A Talk given by Dr. M.W. Lewis in San Diego on August 9, 1953
Are Miracles Possible Today? Yes, miracles are possible today, if we conform to the law, the Law of Miracles. Not too many years ago, if you told someone that machines would be flying around the way they are now, they wouldn’t believe you. But when we conform to the law, and offset gravity, then those things, which are seeming miracles at the time become facts, and realities. So miracles are possible, if we conform to the law.
At this time I’d like to just give you the definition of miracles: “A miracle is an event, or effect, in the physical world, beyond, or out of the ordinary course of things; deviating from, or transcending, the law of nature.” I’ll give one or two illustrations just to show you how a miracle means that some other law entered the picture, rather than the ordinary physical law with which we are familiar.
One example
One winter’s evening in Boston–where we have lots of ice and snow–I was driving fast to the center meeting in a borrowed car–my sister’s car. She was in the car, and one other lady, Sister Yogamata, who both are still living. And as we came up over the incline on this bridge–narrow bridge covered with ice–halfway across the bridge was this car that had skidded. And it stayed there, blocking the road.
Ordinarily, according to ordinary laws, there was no way of stopping. But I remember somehow just feeling in my heart, “Well, here’s the borrowed car; I am rushing to do God’s work; and look what’s going to happen.” As I came up over the bridge, it was just like a big giant stood there and just pushed. And that car stopped within just two or three feet of the other car. In other words, another set of laws was brought into play.
Both of the people are living–you can ask them. All felt the intercession of God’s higher law, which prevented that accident; because the pranic force of God’s great Power and His omniscience is everywhere, if you appeal to Him. His Power does not need wires, or instruments of hands and feet, or machines. It can work according to higher law in the way in which we would call a miracle.
Another example
One other instance comes to my mind, which you read of in the last Self-Realization Magazine. I wrote about the sound of the voice in my father’s home that spoke to me. When I was a young fellow, into lots of mischief, doing lots of things I shouldn’t be doing, this voice came right out of the ether–distinctly, loudly, not from any point in space, but from all around–and told me to behave myself and be a good boy. And not only I heard it, but others heard it in the house; showing that the ordinary law of sound, of speech, was superseded by a higher law of God’s omniscience. And so, there you have in a few words two illustrations of what a miracle is, of what miracles are.
Perhaps the greatest miracle is what we have right with us now. How, from the one great Light of God’s omniscience His Mind, His Thought, has produced this universe upon universe, with all its various and multitudinous manifestations. From light; because science has proved–those of you who are familiar with it–that matter resolves into energy and finally into light. And they have also now brought it back the other way–produced from light, energy and matter.
So that’s the greatest miracle, and that’s what we have to deal with in this subject: “Are Miracles Possible Today?” The entire phenomenal world is under the law of polarity, of duality. It’s that duality that has caused all the trouble and all the delusion–the duality which comes from the characteristic of the Light of God.
This subject is a little scientific, so I shall have to refer to a few references. I will try though, not to make it too boring. But just never mind–grasp the important parts, and remember that Jesus didn’t say, “Now you must know all about the Law of Miracles.” He didn’t say, “If you want to enter the kingdom heaven,” which is a miracle. No. All he said was, “Be like little children.” Be humble. You have to get above outward consciousness, above ego consciousness, then you can enter the kingdom of heaven. So if these scientific facts are too much, just forget them. In your heart, feel the Presence of God, and you will get the same result. You will know “the Light beyond the atoms,” from which all things have come.
Science and religion together
Duality, as I have said, is based on the electromagnetic phenomena of light. This cosmos, is simply the varied expression of that Light. The various things, which you see–this solid pulpit and all the things, automobiles, this church, this microphone–everything, is simply made from that one great Consciousness of God. The first manifestation of which is that electromagnetic force of Light.
In the beginning God created light (Genesis 1:3). First, “the Spirit of God moved” (Genesis 1:1). That’s the Thought of God. Then His Thought produced Light. And from that Light all things are made. Science is finding it out, now, that everything can be proved–that we come from that One Light. And so, the thing is that this varied experience we know as the cosmos is the different expressions of the Light. But in that Light–and this is the important thing–is the omniscience and the intelligence of God. So you can see, now, if you are going to perform miracles, what you’ve got to do. I’ll come to it in a minute.
Now, this Light, and the delusion; if you become one with this delusion, if you attach yourselves to this delusion, you have to obey the laws of delusion. Isn’t that so? If coming up over that bridge, I had forgotten all about God, or wasn’t trying to be in His Consciousness, I’d have followed the laws of this delusion, and we’d had a nice smashup. But somehow, by the grace of God, a higher law worked, and I was guided–not by outward laws, but the higher law. And so, if we cling to the laws of this delusion, we’ll be governed by that; but if you cling to the higher law, you’ll be governed by that higher law. Then you can produce miracles.
And so, that’s just what the saints did. The saints have shown, by their lives, and in spite of this delusion in which they found themselves–in spite of being in the world–they lived beyond the world, above the world. And they have shown that instead of being governed by the laws of this life, with the necessities of life, and being governed by the laws of the paradoxes and the injustices of life, they rose above that and took a long range view, and were governed by the higher law of God’s omniscience. They put the tremendous faith they had, in eternal things; in the value of eternal things; not these worldly things. That’s an important point.
So, likewise, Self-Realization will teach you how to contact the eternal things of life, that you may be guided, not by worldly laws, and outward laws, but by higher laws of God. And so, miracles occur when you get out of this dream of God, and are governed by higher laws.
Transcending limitation
Now, the manifestations of electricity and gravity are known. Scientists know all about them, but how about the Force itself? How about electricity and gravity itself? No. You have to know the Sole Operator, if you want to know that. You have to rise above these trillions of manifestations in this life. If you want to know what electricity is, you’ve got to know the Operator Himself. You’ve got to know the omniscience of God. In that omniscience is the Power that has made universe upon universe. But greatest of all, in that omniscience is His divine love. That’s the greatest thing.
Now, you have to know that. If you want to know how electricity works, you can. Follow the scientists if you want to know what electricity is; what gravity is; what the power that holds the atom together is. Then you’ve got to be one with that Power, which is the atom itself; which is the Force which holds the atom together; which is the Force in the atoms of life, from which all things have come. And so, as I have been pointing out, you can see that we must get above outward things and know the Sole Operator. Know the man, or the one rather, who has made all these things. We must know His omniscience and His love.
And so, I will hurry along, and say this; that delusion, and outward consciousness, can be removed only by merging in the omniscience of God. How to do it is the point. By being in, going through, being one with, and passing through the Divine Eye at this point [between the eyebrows]. That is the Door from outward laws to inner laws, and the omniscience of God.
On the other side
On this side of the door what do you have? You have insecurity, paradoxes, injustices, uncertainty. On the other side what do you have? You have the peace and the security of God, and you can then be subject only to God’s Laws. That’s why the saints say one thing when they get beyond the door on the other side. The yogis you know “sail their consciousness into the omniscience of God.” That’s beautiful; yogis “sail their consciousness,” float it “into the omniscience of God. And in that omniscience you are subject to the laws of God, which are just, and which are exact, and which are eternal, and which are not subject to duality. That’s the important thing.
Now going on a little further to just a little bit about creation. Remember, the greatest miracle is creation. When you think about it, how, from this one Force of God’s Light, these things come with solidity, and all that. It doesn’t seem possible. But they have proved that the light atoms, from which all things have come, are made of nothing but free electrons, or the Light spoken of in Genesis, “God created light.” And there is a certain reason for that, which I will tell you in a minute.
Now as regards Creation, “…and the Spirit of God moved.” In other words, God created things first in His Thought. Then He condensed that Thought into Light, as spoken of in the Bible. Now that Light is made of free electrons. This is very important. There is no duality yet. But those electrons have a dual personality, a dual character. This is important. They have one characteristic of a particle, and the other characteristic is of a wave. And that gives them the characteristics of light. First from His Thought He condensed this substance known as light–just free little electrons. But those electrons have two characteristics: one is that of forming particles, the other is the wave action.
Now matter itself has those two characteristics of duality: one of forming particles of solidity; and the other the wave action–or light. Light and shadow come, because light is made up of the electrons with those two characteristics. That’s a very important point. And from that comes all the dualities.
Let there be Light
Now going on with the creation. From His great Thought and Consciousness, God first created Light. Then the Light was further condensed into atoms. And the essential part of atoms is Light. Light atoms is the substance from which even solid iron is made. That doesn’t seem possible, does it? From the Light atoms everything is produced. Then those atoms form into particles.
There you have the creation in a few words. But remember that the electrons have that dual personality of forming particles, solid substances, and the wave action of light. From that we get this world of light and shadows. This Dream of God, this Cosmic Delusion, and everything in this world, whether it be a good or a bad automobile, a person you like or don’t like, health or sickness, or wealth or poverty–all those opposites come because those little electrons have that dual personality; and from the atoms of light, all things have come.
This light that I have spoken of is the essence of the atom. The electron microscope has proved that atoms are formed from light, and then from that, due to the intelligence of God, all things are made–though how He does it is beyond us. And so, we have in a few words, the story of Creation from the standpoint that it is made from Light. There is no material universe–it is simply light and shadow.
Now light is the essence of the atom–free electrons with their dual characteristics, plus the Will of God, made the atom. Remember, the energy that holds the atom together is nothing but what Einstein is trying to prove in his “Unified Field Theory,” that the atomic energy which is in, and which has made and sustains the light atoms, is nothing butt he Thought of God. Mind Stuff, triggered by the Will of God, produces His Thought. That is Einstein’s “Unified Field Theory,” which the Master spoke of in that little poem “Thy Secret Throne.”
Thy Secret Throne
Behind the screen
Of all things seen
How dost Thou hide–
Elude the tide
Of marching human eyes,
That ’round Thee rushing hies?
’Twill not be long
Ere will be known
Thy hiding place
By children with Thine eyes and grace.Sage science splits
Each atom knit
By Thee, to find apace
Thy hiding place.
Is heart of atom–electron,
Thy secret throne?
Deep we bore
To find Thy art, and lore
Of doings all sublime;
E’er hidden betimes.Yet Thy abode
Seem far remote;
’Tis still to find
With deeper mind.
So you can see there, step-by-step, how the yogis knew years and years ago. Now science is saying it–that it comes from the one omniscience of God, nothing else.
And we have proof of this, which I will not go into due to the shortness of time. There are certain equations which show these things. One is that only a material body whose mass is infinite, could equal the velocity of light. What does that mean? In simple terms it simply means that you and I must expand our consciousness to the omniscience of God; then, as God does, we can do.
Now that’s the key to the Law of Miracles. The key to the Law of Miracles is to be the omniscience of God. Be that Light. Then you’re not subject to the light in this shadow world–to the law in this shadow world–you are not subject to that at all. You’re subject to the laws of omniscience, which means that your consciousness is everywhere, and that the Force of the Universe is your consciousness. Because Jesus said, “These things I do ye shall do and greater things, because I go to my Father” (John 14:12)
Next: Are Miracles Possible Today? (Part Two)
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