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 Charles Fillmore noted that spiritual power is about demonstrating dominion, or mastery over our own thoughts and emotions. Spiritual power is about choice, choosing what we are going to focus our attention on, choosing whether and how we are going to react to external events and circumstances. It is about choosing a higher, more-empowered state of consciousness.
Exercising spiritual power requires us to remember who, and what, we truly are. We are not just bodies. We are not small, vulnerable, limited beings at the mercy of events that happen to us. We are extensions of the Creator, expressions of God itself, and God is not an “out-there”, separated being wielding power; God is Divine power.
Our magnificent planet is a glorious demonstration of Divine power. We feel that power at the awesome sight and sound of towering waves crashing onto rocky beaches. The fire and fury of volcanoes astonish. The tremendous tenacity of a thin, tender blade of grass demonstrates creative life-force power cracking asphalt as it reaches for sunlight.
We tap into our own, unique inner light as we develop spiritual power and gain muscles for extending our own creative expression
Power, we must understand is not an end in itself, not a goal to be sought. Rather, it is simply a means that enables us to attain the end of bringing forth God ideas on earth. It is not to be used for selfish gain of satisfaction of the personal ego, but for the forward spiritual movement of the whole.”
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Winifred Wilkenson Hausman: Your God-Given Potential: Unfolding the Twelve Spiritual Powers
We live in a time on this Earth when it has become clear that humankind’s utilization of egoic power is doing significant harm to Creation; it is not benefitting the whole.
Genesis 1:26 – 30 reads:
“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’ So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ 
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God said, ‘See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.’ And it was so.”
These verses have been dubbed the dominion scriptures and many have used them to justify the exploitation of nature and non-human species and to set humans apart from the rest of Creation. Charles Filmore turned that interpretation on its head with the metaphysical understanding that the birds, fish, cattle, and wild animals represent our thoughts and emotions and the key is taking dominion, personal mastery, over those thoughts and feelings. Through this lens, the teaching is not about having power over the natural world but rather becoming empowered in how we navigate our own human natures.
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When it comes to humanity’s relationship with the rest of Creation, we have often misused physical and technological power to “subdue” nature. We have wielded power without enough wisdom and love to create health and strength. It is now clear that we need a new way of thinking about our place within all of Creation. Spiritual power is our capacity to develop new ways of thinking.
From Divine Mind a person inherits power over the forces of his {or her} thought – in truth, power over all ideas
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Charles Filmore : The Twelve Powers of Man