Eugene introduces the analogy of the projectionist in the cinema. When we hear the word ‘God’ we should forget all we have been taught and just think “Generative, Intelligent Power.” The Universe we now know is entirely energy, power at work, and this power is sentient, it feels itself. We can prove this to ourselves quite easily by pressing a finger into any part. We immediately are aware of the pressure in our body at that point. This intelligent power has condensed into the entire universe and into all life-forms. Knowing that it is sentient means that we can talk to it. We can order a muscle to relax and/or to tense, and it will do so. (He invites the audience to prove this to themselves.) As we relax a muscle it lapses from our consciousness. Conversely, when we tighten a muscle, hard, we become very aware of it. Christ differentiated between the ‘quick’ and the ‘dead’. ‘Dead’ means inert, routine, asleep. “Matter is energy, energy is sentient, sentient energy is spirit, spirit is initiative.” So how, then, does inertia come about? “It’s a very simple solution.” “Spirit initiative re-posits itself deliberately like this: first, you make a fist, then let go; fist, let go; fist, let go” So first, you thump, to get your own way, then you get thumped by another of the same mind. The next thing is that we think. “Thinking is a direct product of frustrated will.”
Truth, Beauty, Goodness. “If you have a truth that you love, you will act on it. Have the truth, love it because it’s true, activate it because you love it.” “Truth is form, intellectual form. Beauty is your feeling, (liking/disliking), and Good refers to the will. “If it is true, love it, it is beautiful. If it is beautiful, will it, do it.”
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