LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
— Psalms 90:1, 2
King James Version of the Bible
"Reflections From
Infinite Mind"
Infinite Mind"
God’s Sublime Presence … p. 11
Mankind has been given the key, but has failed to use it. The Scriptures tell us in St. Matthew 6:24 : "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other … Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (materialism). And, in St. Mark 8:18 we read : “Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?”
Such admonitions of the Christ have particular application to the mind. If we are to know peace within, harmony of mind, body and soul, our very well-being demands that we make a choice: Either we choose to nourish the soul, or we pursue crass materialism; conflicting viewpoints, each vying for supremacy.
We might liken the mind, in its great legion of time and space, as the host of two opposing, though interdependent, camps. The one, that of paying homage to mortal senses through intemperate pursuit of worldly matters, where thoughts of the mind all-too often wander aimlessly, ofttimes without purpose. Foremost in the second encampment is that of coming to “Know Thyself”. Introspection, ever questing for truth, mindful that thought be considered, reasoned and restrained. Inner quietude, prayer and selfless humility in asking God that His will be done, contribute as well to the certain knowledge that there is yet another Mind: Divine Mind, encompassing the irrefutable laws of nature, and putting the lie to worldly materialism: God’s sublime presence within all.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
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