Practicing the Presence
Page 51, God The Only Power
To give power to anything external to consciousness is idolatry. It is to recognize a power apart from God. We must come to the inner conviction that power does not exist in form-any form, no matter how good the form may be. The form may come and the form may go, but the Spirit goes on forever, renewing and re-forming. As human beings brought up in the material sense of life, we hold ourselves in bondage to form, and thereby we commit idolatry. In other words, we bow down and worship or fear some kind of a form. Let us not love, hate, or fear that which exists in the external realm, because it is not power. Once we see that God is the only cause, we shall not fear some other cause. Once you understand God to be the only substance, we shall not fear on over-substance or an under-substance. Life is an activity of consciousness reflected by the body, but life is not in the body. Love, peace, health, wholeness, and perfection are all activities of consciousness. There lies all power.
