The former Unity Correspondence Course Annotations to How I Used Truth say, “Man is created in the image of God...[and] is the highest manifestation of God because he has the ability to conceive images through the power of thought. He also has the power of speech by which he brings into manifestation in the visible world the forms that he conceives with his mind.” By the way we think, feel and speak, we make or form our bodies and our world. In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God felt “good” and even “very good” as he went about the process of creation by speaking the Word.

In man, feeling represents the natural impulse in consciousness and speaking is the expression or projection of thought into visibility. When God called everything good it was because all divine ideas are perfect and whole. However, ideas come through the individual in one of three ways depending upon one’s attitudes and beliefs. Those three ways are: whole and complete; somewhat distorted or incomplete; or totally twisted. All ideas are perfect, but by the time they come through the various filters of experience or training in the consciousness, they may not be recognizable. For example, an idea of love may be so distorted that it is expressed as control and manipulation.

Jesus said, “I tell you, on the day of judgment men shall render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:36) That is a strong statement of the importance of watching what we say—and think! Judgment day is not in the far future; it is here and now. Each day is judgment day in that we are experiencing the results of yesterday’s words. Each day we are faced with the results of the creative power of thoughts and words. The best news is that what one thought made, another thought can unmake or remake. If you do not like today’s experience, look at the tone of your thoughts and words. We do not have to continue to pollute our own environment

Remember Charles Fillmore’s statement in Revealing Word, “The thinking faculty in you makes you a free agent, because it is your creative center; in and through this one power you establish your consciousness—you build your world” (RW/thinking)

The Unity Correspondence Course material says:

Man has “whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:23 KJV) regardless of whether he thinks and expresses from the human consciousness or from the consciousness of the Christ ... man being like God also forms or produces by the power of his thought-word.
—Series 2, lesson 6, Annotation 7.