“We have here endeavored to give a little of the history of that wondrous name and of its relatedness to the active agency in the human organism, but the world is in the habit of looking to authority, and if the authority for a thought, according to its judgment, is found insufficient, the thought is thrown aside as worthless. But we wish to impress upon the reader that the authority for this name in itself amounts to nothing. We have likened revelation to a light, mere authority has no light in it, but the thought embodied in the word-formation is the light.
In carefully examining our own bodies, we find that we cannot move a muscle without the consent of the will. We find also that while physiologists discourse very learnedly about the mechanical structure of the voluntary and involuntary muscles of the human organism, yet the real factor is not understood. What physiologist has been able to describe the modus operandi of the mind and the will upon the muscular system? A dead body has no power to use its muscles. Electricians have experimented upon the bodies of men just executed and have been able to cause them to throw the limbs about in a reckless, uncertain manner, but they applied a power outside of and beyond the power of the mind – this power had no knowledge or order to guide it.
Experiment with your own body. Take hold of an object weighing ten, twenty, or fifty pounds, and lift it by bending your arm. Observe carefully where the power comes from. By careful observation you will find that the power is in the brain, and by still more careful analysis you will find that the power is in the will. We will, and then we act, or we will to act.
Herein is a manifestation of the name of God in our own organism. Whence did we get that will power, that power to act? From the creative source, did we not? Certainly. As we look out into the broad realm of nature, we see the noble horse pulling a great load; we see his muscles contract and expand. What power is it that is pulling the load? Yahveh, the will of the universe – this power is one manifestation of the great name. But as we shall consider in succeeding chapters its manifestation in all its wondrous ramifications, we wish here only to impress upon the mind of the reader, the force and function of the will, of that revealed power, the “I will be, what I will to be.”
The Goal of Life, by Hiram Butler, 1908
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