Water Into Wine: This Beginning of Miracles.... - Part 4

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Water Into Wine: " This Beginning of Miracles.... " - Part 4

 

Control over atomic

matter by the power

of Universal Mind

 

(p.220) All of God's creation operates according to law. Events and processes

governed by already discovered " natural " laws are no longer considered

miraculous; but when the law of cause and effect operates too subtly for man to

discern how something comes to pass, he calls it a miracle.

 

By the ordinary mechanical process we know how wine is made: through

fermentation caused by microscopic organisms that change sugar into alcohol. But

to convert a substance made of certain elements (such as water) into one made of

different elements (such as wine) requires atomic control. Jesus knew that

underlying and controlling all atomic matter is the one unifying and balancing

power of Divine Intelligence and Will--that all matter can be followed back to

its origin in consciousness if dissolved into its constituent parts. Jesus

understood the metaphysical relation of matter to thought, and demonstrated that

one form of matter could be changed into another form not only by chemical

processes, but by the power of Universal Mind. By his oneness with the Divine

Intelligence that permeates all creation, Jesus changed the arrangement of

electrons and protons in the water and thus turned it into wine.

 

According to modern scientists, there are more than a hundred different elements

of which material stuff is composed. Though possessing a multiplicity of

properties and characteristics, all these elements can be resolved into

electrons, protons, neutrons, and other subatomic building blocks; and subtle

units of energy and light. Water and wine and all things else in material

creation are made of the same particles, but in different combinations and with

different rates of vibration, thus constituting creation's endless variety of

substances and forms.

 

The law of causation of all material manifestations can be traced to the

activity of subatomic particles; but beyond that the operation of the law of

cause and effect is lost sight of--scientists do not know why electrons and

protons arrange themselves into different molecular forms to create diverse

kinds of matter. Herein nature submissively makes room for a Divine

Intelligence, says the scientist, inasmuch as there must be some Power that

directs the subtle electronic-protonic bricks to arrange themselves in different

combinations, creating innumerable substances in exceedingly complex

configurations, including intelligent life-forms.

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 11, pg. 220

Paramahansa Yogananda

Printed in the United States of America 1434-J881

ISBN-13:978-0-87612-557-1

ISBN-10:0-87612-557-7