Excerpt from All Is One

Author: Margaret Laird Publisher: The Margaret Laird Foundation Year Published: 1957 Number of Pages: 37	Paperback $9.00

Truth evolving as individual conscious being (Mind) makes it increasingly difficult for this that calls itself man to live comfortably and happily in two worlds:  the 'material'; and the 'Spiritual.'  In this modern age, there can be no straddling of the fence.  In fact, as the knowledge unfolds that ALL IS ONE it will not only be difficult to be double-minded and live, but impossible.  In this atomic age, we are called upon to deal intelligently with duality as two points of view of the one Reality. 

Truth is Infinity, meaning Unchanging Change.  "The more it changes, the more it is the same." Each explosion of an atom bomb, each jet plane that annihilates space and time, each guided missile that hits the mark points to the fact that the concept of man as human cannot live when separated from its divinity (Mind).  Without Man - the conscious identity of being - for its life, the concept is face to face with self-destruction.  Each 'wonder drug,' each discovery of a vaccine to protect from disease, each heart massaged and life restored, each successful functioning of a new plastic heart valve or a new hip socket, the meta-physical healing of physical disease, identifies the fact that humanity self-destroying and humanity self-preserving are not two occurrences, but two ways of looking at the One Infinite Life.  Disappearance and appearance are both alike to Mind.  Emptiness is fullness, loss is gain.  Life is Mind -- Self-existent, Self-renewing, Self-disclosing, Self-preserving.  What is seen in spiritual evolution as a self-destroying and self-preserving human race, is the 'human' or personal point of view giving place to the divine (the Real).

"All is Mind" - "All is One" - whether you see it as the destruction of the human race or its preservation, what you are seeing is always Preservation, never destruction.  If you believe the human race, the concept of Life, exists apart from Mind as a "material" something, you will see Preservation as destruction.  But if you believe that the human race exists spiritually in and as Mind, you will see the vanishing of the concept as its Preservation.  All the contradictions and conflicts you see when the I is identified personally vanish with the identification of the I as Mind.

One may believe that life is saved by blood plasma, or by a surgical operation, or by metaphysical treatment, but none of these is the case.  This is the way you may see it but the fact appearing in the language of that discernment is that life is saved because it is Life, Good (God).  Life itself is the reason for the various human steps that evolve for the preservation of life.  Living Life as conscious identity, as impersonal thinking, as Man, you will intuitively take whatever human steps are of value for your preservation.  But if you are not consciously living as Man, you are only living in belief and will intuitively take the steps that lead to the crucifixion of the belief.