A Supreme Power and Wisdom govern the Universe. The Supreme Mind is measureless and pervades endless space. The Supreme Wisdom, Power and Intelligence are in everything that exists from the atom to the planet.

The Supreme Power and Wisdom are more than in everything. The Supreme Mind is everything. The Supreme Mind is every atom of the mountain, the sea, the tree, the bird, the animal, the man, the woman. The Supreme Wisdom cannot be understood by man or by beings superior to man. But man will gladly receive the Supreme Thought and its wisdom, and let it work for happiness through him, caring not to fathom its mystery.

The Supreme Power has us in its charge, as it has the suns and endless systems of worlds in space. As we grow more to recognize this sublime and exhaustless wisdom, we shall learn more and more to demand that wisdom, draw it to ourselves, make it a part of ourselves, and thereby be ever making ourselves newer and newer. This means ever perfecting health, greater and greater power to enjoy all that exists, gradual transition into a higher state of being and the development of powers which we do not now realize as belonging to us.

We are the limited yet ever growing parts and expressions of the Supreme Never Ending Whole. It is the destiny of all in time to see their relation to the Supreme and also to see that the straight and narrow path to ever-increasing happiness is a perfect trust and dependence on the Supreme for the all round symmetrical wisdom and idea which we individually cannot originate. Let us then daily demand faith, for faith is power to believe and power to see that all things are parts of the Infinite Spirit of God, that all things have good or God in them, and that all things when recognized by us as parts of God must work for our good.

"And God said, Let us make MAN in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

Thus it was God's intent that EVERYTHING HE CREATED UPON THE EARTH was for MAN'S use. Thus the growing plants were for food, the animals for beasts of burden in addition to their adding to beauty and interest in MAN'S environment.

The use of trees for lumber, the plants for food, the beasts for labor or ANY OTHER UTILIZATION OF GOD'S CREATION, was not only permissible but in God's Plan so long as their use was for GOOD. It is only when we MISuse His Creations that we come to grief.

It is not the purpose of this text to try to have MAN revert to primitive ways of living but to bring about an understanding and APPRECIATION OF what has been given us so that we may best use it to His Purpose and our greatest good.
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