I am therefore at one with God and all spirit.  Nothing can separate me from the love of God, but my own mental attitude.  Nothing can separate me from abundance, happiness, success, prosperity and love, but my own wrong thinking.  Love is dealt in the world in the spirit of God and, therefore, recognizing this unity of love, I am a part of it and have perfect love, success, prosperity, abundance and health.

The ocean is composed of water.  If I take a bucket of water from the ocean, it still is the water of the ocean.  I may take this water to an island in the sea.  Though I have separated this water from the main body of the ocean, it still is the water from the sea.  But, as the water is separated from the main body of the ocean, it loses its power, its strength and many of its cardinal properties.  I am the same as the sea water when I, by wrong thinking:—­whether it be jealousy, envy, hatred, misunderstanding, worry or fear—­separate myself from the spirit of God.  I am as one going upon an island of humanity.  I am still of that same spirit; but it has been separated, so that within me, it has lost many of its cardinal virtues.  These virtues are there, but I do not recognize them.  Separation has lessened my strength, my vitality, my power, my health, my happiness, my prosperity and my joy.

Just as it is necessary for the bucket of water to remain in the ocean in order to contain all of its original power and to retain all of its original strength, to be intact, so is it necessary for man to keep in the spirit of at-one-ment with the Father, that we may manifest daily God’s principle of Unity with God, man and nature.

When we have maintained that attitude of one-ness with the Father in all respects, we are then recognizing and expecting, in this act, the fullness of our spirit.  This fullness of our spirit will, therefore, give us health, prosperity and happiness.

When I have a mind that is filled with negative, discordant or inharmonious thoughts, I am separating myself from the full expression of the Divine within me.  I am the bucket of water going stale on a human island; but, when I make my spirit at one with the Father by harmonious thinking, by love, kindness, good will, fellowship and co-operation, I am not only maintaining all of my original properties, but I am in correspondence with the Infinite Spirit so that I can manifest and express His original spirit in every particular.

Where there is a unity of spirit, there is unity of all the good things of life.  Perhaps I am not drawing from the bank of life’s experience everything that I ought to have—­because I have separated myself from the spiritual board of directors in this bank of life, and am not getting my dividends on time.  My mental attitude is the cause; therefore, as I enter the Silence this time, I am going to maintain the faith and the love-spirit of my unity with all things.  I maintain, therefore, my at-one-ment with God, with man and nature.  I maintain that all of the original strength of spirit is mine.  I hold that the manifestations of this original spirit will produce everything in my life for my ultimate good, because I am at one with the Father.  All things are mine.