The Game of Life and How to Play It
by
I N D E X
1. The Game
2. The Law of
Prosperity
3. The Power of
the Word
4. The Law of Nonresistance
5. The Law of Karma
and the Law of Forgiveness
6. Casting the
Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)
7. Love
8. Intuition or
Guidance
9. Perfect
Self-Expression or the Divine Design
Most people consider life
a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
It
is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge
of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the rules of the game
with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it was a great game of Giving
and Receiving.
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." This means that
whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he
will receive.
If he gives hate, he will
receive hate; if he gives love, he will receive love; if he gives criticism, he
will receive criticism; if he lies he will be lied to; if he cheats he will be
cheated. We are taught also, that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in
the game of life.
Keep thy heart (or
imagination) with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov. 4:23.)
This means that what man
images, sooner or later externalizes in his affairs, I know of a man who feared
a certain disease. It was a very rare disease and difficult to get, but he
pictured it continually and read about it until it manifested in his body, and
he died, the victim of distorted imagination.
So we see, to play
successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. A person with
an imaging faculty trained to image only good, brings into his life "every
righteous desire of his heart" - health, wealth, love, friends, perfect
self-expression, his highest ideals.
The imagination has been
called, "The Scissors of The Mind," and it is ever cutting, cutting,
day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own
creations in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must
understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said: "Know Thyself."
There are three
departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious. The subconscious, is simply power,
without direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is
directed to do; it has no power of induction.
Whatever man feels deeply
or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
For example: a woman I
know, when a child, always "made believe" she was a widow. She
"dressed up" in black clothes and wore a long black veil, and people
thought she was very clever and amusing. She grew up and married a man with
whom she was deeply in love. In a short time he died and she wore black and a
sweeping veil for many years. The picture of herself as a widow was impressed
upon the subconscious mind, and in due time worked itself out, regardless of
the havoc created.
The conscious mind has
been called mortal or carnal mind.
It is the human mind and
sees life as it appears to be. It sees death, disaster, sickness,
poverty and limitation of every kind, and it impresses
the subconscious.
The superconscious
mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.
In it, is the "perfect
pattern" spoken of by Plato, The Divine Design; for
there is a Divine Design for each person.
There is a place
that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which
no one else can do."
There is a perfect
picture of this in the superconscious
mind. It usually flashes across the conscious as an unattainable ideal
- "something too good to be true."
In reality it is man's
true destiny (or destination) flashed to him from the Infinite Intelligence
which is within himself.
Many people, however, are
in ignorance of their true destinies and are striving for things and situations
which do not belong to them, and would only bring failure and dissatisfaction
if attained.
For example: A woman came
to me and asked me to "speak the word" that she would marry a certain
man with whom she was very much in love. (She called him A. B.)
I replied that this would
be a violation of spiritual law, but that I would speak the word for the right
man, the "divine selection," the man who belonged to her by divine
right.
I added, "If A. B.
is the right man you can't lose him, and if he isn't, you will receive his
equivalent." She saw A. B. frequently but no headway was made in their
friendship. One evening she called, and said, "Do you know, for the last
week, A. B. hasn't seemed so wonderful to me." I replied, "Maybe he
is not the divine selection - another man my be the
right one." Soon after that, she met another man who fell in love with her
at once, and who said she was his ideal. In fact, he said all the things that
she had always wished A. B. would say to her.
She remarked, "It
was quite uncanny."
She soon returned his
love, and lost all interest in A. B.
This shows the law of
substitution. A right idea was substituted for a wrong one,
therefore there was no loss or sacrifice involved.
Jesus Christ said,
"Seek ye first the
The Kingdom is the realm
of right ideas, or the divine pattern.
Jesus Christ taught that
man's words played a leading part in the game of life. "By your words ye
are justified and by your words ye are condemned."
Many people have brought
disaster into their lives through idle words.
For example: A woman once
asked me why her life was now one of poverty of limitation. Formerly she had a home,
was surrounded by beautiful things and had often tired of the management of her
home, and had said repeatedly, "I'm sick and tired of things - I wish I
lived in a trunk," and she added: "Today I am living in that
trunk." She had spoken herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind has no
sense of humor and people often joke themselves into
unhappy experiences.
For example: A woman who
had a great deal of money, joked continually about "getting ready for the
poorhouse."
In a few years she was
almost destitute, having impressed the subconscious mind with a picture of lack
and limitation.
Fortunately the law works
both ways, and a situation of lack may be changed to one of plenty.
For example: A woman came
to me one hot summer's day for a "treatment" for prosperity. She was
worn out, dejected and discouraged. She said she possessed just eight dollars
in the world. I said, "Good, we'll bless the eight dollars and multiply
them as Jesus Christ multiplied the loaves and fishes," for He taught that
every man had the power to bless and to multiply, to heal and to
prosper.
She said, "What
shall I do next?"
I replied, "Follow
intuition. Have you a 'hunch' to do anything, or to go anywhere?"
Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring
guide, and I will deal more fully with its laws in a following chapter.
The woman replied:
"I don't know - I seem to have a 'hunch' to go home; I've just enough
money for carfare." Her home was in a distant city and was one of lack and
limitation, and the reasoning mind (or intellect) would have said: "Stay
in
Through this friend, she
received thousands of dollars in a most miraculous way. She has said to me
often, "Tell people about the woman who came to you with eight dollars and
a hunch."
There is always plenty
on man's pathway; but it can only be brought into manifestation
through desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ brought out clearly that
man must make the first move.
Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall
find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you. (Mat. 7:7).
In the scriptures we
read:
Concerning the works of
my hands, command ye me."
Infinite Intelligence,
God, is ever ready to carry out man's smallest or greatest demands.
Every desire, uttered or
unexpressed, is a demand. We are often startled by having a wish suddenly
fulfilled.
For example: One Easter,
having seen many beautiful rose-trees in the florists' windows, I wished I
would receive one, and for an instant saw it mentally being carried in the
door.
Easter came, and with it
a beautiful rose-tree. I thanked my friend the following day, and told her it
was just what I had wanted.
She replied, "I
didn't send you a rose-tree, I sent you lilies!"
The man had mixed the
order, and sent me a rose-tree simply because I had started the law in action,
and I had to have a rose-tree.
Nothing stands between
man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.
When man can "wish without worrying," every desire will be instantly
fulfilled.
I will explain more fully
in a following chapter the scientific reason for this and fear must be erased
from the consciousness. It is man's only enemy - fear of lack, fear of failure,
fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane.
Jesus Christ said: "Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?" (Mat.
8:26) So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only
inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
The object of the game of
life is to see clearly one's good and to obliterate all mental pictures of
evil. This must be done by impressing the subconscious mind with a realization
of good. A very brilliant man, who has attained great success, told me he had
suddenly erased all fear from his consciousness by reading a sign which hung in
a room. He saw printed, in large letters this statement - Why worry, it
will probably never happen." These words were stamped indelibly
upon his subconscious mind, and he has now a firm conviction that only good can
come into his life, therefore only good can manifest.
In the following chapter
I will deal with the different methods of impressing the subconscious mind. It
is man's faithful servant but one must be careful to give it the right orders.
Man has ever a silent listener at his side - his subconscious mind.
Every thought, every word
is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer
making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and
tone of the singer's voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is
registered also. So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious
mind, the records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make new and
beautiful ones.
Speak these words aloud,
with power and conviction: "I now smash and demolish (by my spoken word)
every untrue record in my subconscious mind. They shall return to the dust-heap
of their native nothingness, for they came from my own vain imaginings. I now
make my perfect records through the Christ within - The records of Health,
Wealth, Love and perfect self-Expression." This is the square of
life, The Game completed.
In the following
chapters, I will show how man can change his conditions by
changing his words. Any man who does not know
the power of the word, is behind the times.
Death and Life are
in the power of the tongue."
(Prov. 18:21.)
Chapter
2: The Law of Prosperity
One of the greatest
messages given to the race through the scriptures is that God is man's supply
and that man can release, through his spoken word, all that
belongs to him by divine right. He must, however, have perfect faith in
his spoken word.
Isaiah
said, "My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that
where it is sent." We know now, that words and thoughts are a tremendous
vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.
A woman came to me in
great distress and said she was to be sued on the fifteenth of the month for
three thousand dollars. She knew no way of getting the money and was in
despair.
I told her God was her
supply, and that there is a supply for every demand.
So I spoke the word! I
gave thanks that the woman would receive three thousand dollars at the right
time in the right way. I told her she must have perfect faith, and act her perfect
faith. The fifteenth came but no money had materialized.
She called me on the 'phone
and asked what she was to do.
I replied, "It is
Saturday, so they won't sue you today, Your part is to
act rich, thereby showing perfect faith that you will receive it by
Monday." She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her courage. When I
joined her at a restaurant, I said, "This is no time to economize. Order
an expensive luncheon, act as if you have already
received the three thousand dollars."
"All things
whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."
"You must act as if you had already received." The next
morning she called me on the 'phone and asked me to stay with her during the
day, I said "No, you are divinely protected and God is never too
late."
In the evening she
'phoned again, greatly excited and said, "My dear, a miracle has happened!
I was sitting in my room this morning, when the doorbell rang, I said to the
maid: 'Don't let anyone in.' The maid however, looked
out the window and said, 'It's your cousin with the long white beard.'
So I said, 'Call him
back. I would like to see him.' He was just turning the corner, when he heard
the maid's voice, and he came back.
He talked for about an
hour, and just as he was leaving he said, 'Oh, by the way, how are finances?'
I told him I needed the
money, and he said, 'Why, my dear, I will give you three thousand dollars the
first of the month.
I didn't like to tell him
I was going to be sued. What shall I do? I won't receive it till the first of
the month, and I must have it tomorrow." I said, "I'll keep on
'treating.'"
I said, "Spirit is
never too late. I give thanks she has received the money on the invisible plane
and that it manifests on time." The next morning her cousin called her up
and said, "Come to my office this morning and I will give you the
money." That afternoon, she had three thousand dollars to her credit in
the bank, and wrote checks as rapidly as her excitement would permit.
If one asks for success
and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for. For
example: A man came to me asking me to speak the word that a certain debt would
be wiped out.
I found he spent his time
planning what he would say to the man when he did not pay his bill, thereby
neutralizing my words. He should have seen himself paying the debt.
We have a wonderful
illustration of this in the bible, relating to the three kings who were in the
desert, without water for their men and horses. They consulted the prophet Elisha, who gave them this astonishing message:
"Thus saith the Lord - Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye
see rain, yet make this valley full of ditches."
Man must prepare for the
thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in
sight.
For example: A woman
found it necessary to look for an apartment during the year when there was a
great shortage of apartments in
She spoke the words: "Infinite
Spirit, open the way for the right apartment." She knew there was
a supply for every demand, and that she was "unconditioned," working
on the spiritual plane, and that "one with God is a majority."
She had contemplated
buying new blankets, when the "tempter," the adverse thought or
reasoning mind, suggested, "Don't buy the blankets, perhaps, after all,
you won't get an apartment and you will have no use for them." She
promptly replied (to herself): "I'll dig my ditches by buying the
blankets!" So she prepared for the apartment - acted as though she already
had it.
She found one in a
miraculous way, and it was given to her although there were over two
hundred other applicants.
The blankets showed
active faith.
It is needless to say
that the ditches dug by the three kings in the desert were filled to
over-flowing. (Read, II Kings)
Getting into the
spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the average person. The adverse
thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious. They are the "army
of the aliens" which must be put to flight. This explains why it is so
often, "darkest before the dawn."
A big demonstration is
usually preceded by tormenting thoughts.
Having made a statement
of high spiritual truth one challenges the old beliefs in the subconscious, and
"error is exposed" to be put out.
This is the time when one
must make his affirmations of truth repeatedly, and rejoice and give thanks
that he has already received, "Before ye call I shall answer." This
means that "every good and perfect gift" is already man's awaiting
his recognition.
Man
can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
The
children of
The
children of
However, the one who knows spiritual law, is undisturbed by
appearance, and rejoices while he is "yet in captivity." That is, he holds to
his vision and gives thanks that the end is accomplished, he has received.
Jesus Christ gave a wonderful example of this. He said to
his disciples: "Say not ye, there are yet four months and then cometh the
harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for
they are ripe already to harvest." His clear vision pierced the "world of
matter" and he saw clearly the fourth dimensional world, things as they really
are, perfect and complete in
Divine Mind. So man must ever hold the vision of his journey's end and demand
the manifestation of that which he has already received. It may be his perfect,
health, love, supply, self-expression, home or friends.
They are all finished and perfect ideas registered in
Divine Mind (man's own superconscious mind) and must come through him, not
to him.
For
example: A man came to me asking for treatments for success. It was imperative
that he raise, within a certain,
fifty-thousand dollars for his business. The time limit was almost up, when he
came to me in despair. No one wanted to invest in his enterprise, and the bank
had flatly refused a loan.
I
replied: "I suppose you lost your temper while at the bank, therefore your
power. You can control any situation if you first control yourself."
"Go
back to the bank," I added, "and I will treat." My treatment was: "You are
identified in love with the spirit of everyone connected with the bank. Let the
divine idea come out of this situation."
He
replied, "Woman, you are talking about an
impossibility. Tomorrow is Saturday; the bank closes at twelve, and my
train won't get me there until ten, and the time limit is up tomorrow, and
anyway they won't do it. It's too late."
I
replied, "God doesn't need any time and is never too late. With Him all things
are possible." I added, "I don't know anything about business, but I know all
about God." He replied: "It all sounds fine when I sit here listening to you,
but when I go out it's terrible."
He
lived in a distant city, and I did not hear from him for a week, then came a letter. It read: "You were
right. I raised the money, and will never again doubt the truth of all that you
told me."
I
saw him a few weeks later, and I said, "what happened? You evidently had plenty of time,
after all." He replied, "My train was late, and I got there just fifteen minutes
to twelve. I walked into the bank quietly and said, 'I have come for the loan,'
and they gave it to me without a question."
It
was the last fifteen minutes of the time allotted to him, and Infinite Spirit
was not too late. In this instance the man could never have demonstrated alone.
He needed someone to help him hold to the vision. This is what one man can do
for another.
Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said: "If two
of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall
be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." One gets too close to his own
affairs and becomes doubtful and fearful.
The
friend or "healer" sees clearly the success, health, or prosperity, and never
wavers, because he is not close to the situation.
It
is much easier to "demonstrate" for someone else than for one's self, so a
person should not hesitate to ask for help, if he feels himself wavering.
A
keen observer of life once said, "no man can fail, if some one person sees him
successful." Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man owed his
success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who "believed in him" and held without
wavering to the perfect pattern!
Chapter 3:
The Power of the Word
A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his conversation. He
has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do "not return
void." Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
I knew a man who said, "I
always miss a car. It invariably pulls out just as I arrive."
His
daughter said: "I always catch a car. It's sure to come just as I get there."
This occurred for years. Each had made a separate law for himself, one of
failure, one of succes.. This is the psychology of
superstitions.
The
horse-shoe or rabbit's foot contains no power, but man's spoken word and belief
that it will bring good luck creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and
attracts a "lucky situation." I find however, this will not "work" when man has
advanced spiritually and knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put
away "graven images."
For
example: Two men in my class had had great success in business for several
months, when suddenly everything "went to smash." We tried to analyze the
situation, and I found, instead of making their affirmations and looking to God
for success and prosperity, they had each bought a "lucky monkey." I said: "Oh I
see, you have been trusting in the
lucky monkeys instead of God." "Put away the lucky monkeys and call on the law
of forgiveness," for man has power to forgive or neutralize his mistakes.
They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a coalhole,
and all went well again. This does not mean, however, that one should throw away
every "lucky" ornament or horse-shoe about the house, but he must recognize that
the power back of it is the one and only power, God, and that the object simply
gives him a feeling of expectancy.
I
was with a friend, one day, who was in deep despair. In crossing the street, she
picked up a horse-shoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy and hope. She said
God had sent her the horsehoe in
order to keep up her courage.
It
was indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that could have registered in
her consciousness. Her hope became faith, and she ultimately made a wonderful
demonstration. I wish to make the point clear that the men previously mentioned
were depending on the monkeys, alone, while this woman recognized the power back
of the horseshoe.
I
know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a belief that a certain
thing brough disappointment. If
the thing happened, disappointment invariably followed. I found the only way I
could make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting, "There are not two
powers, there is only one power, God, therefore, there are not disappointments,
and this thing means a happy surprise." I noticed a change at once, and happy
surprises commenced coming my way.
I
have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk under a ladder. I said,
"If you are afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers, Good and Evil,
instead of one. As God is absolute, there can be no opposing power, unless man
makes the false of evil for himself. To show you believe in only One Power, God,
and that there is no power or reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you
see."
Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to open her
box in the safe-deposit vault, and there stood a ladder on her pathway. It was
impossible to reach the box without passing under the ladder. She quailed with
fear and turned back. She could not face the lion on her pathway. However, when
she reached the street, my words rang in her ears and she decided to return and
walk under it. It was a big moment in her life, for ladders had held her in
bondage for years. She retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder was no
longer there! This so often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is
afraid to do, he does not have to.
It
is the law of nonresistance,
which is so little understood.
Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic.
Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of
its own weight.
The
explanation is, that fear
attracted the ladder on the woman's pathway, and fearlessness removed it.
Thus the invisible forces are
ever working for man who is always "pulling the strings" himself, though he does
not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he
begins to attract. People who
continually speak of disease, invariably attract it.
After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his
words. For example: I have a friend who often says on the 'phone, "Do come to
see me and have an old-fashioned chat." This "old-fashioned chat" means an hour
of about five hundred to a thousand destructive words, the principal topics
being loss, lack, failure and sickness.
I
reply: "No, I thank you. I've had enough old-fashioned chats in my life, they
are too expensive, but I will be glad to have a new-fashioned chat, and talk
about what we want, not what we don't want." There is an old saying that man
only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What
man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is
wishing for himself.
"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost."
If
a man wishes someone "bad luck," he is sure to attract bad luck himself. If he
wishes to aid someone to success, he is wishing and aiding himself to success.
The
body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and clear vision,
and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness. The metaphysician
knows that all disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the
body one must first "heal the soul."
The
soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be "saved" from wrong thinking.
In
the twenty-third psalm, we read: "He restoreth my soul." This means that the subconscious
mind or soul, must be restored
with the right ideas, and the "mystical marriage" is the marriage of the soul
and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind. They must be one. When the
subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the superconscious, God and man are one, "I and the
Father are one." That is, he is one with the realm of perfect ideas; he is the
man made in God's likeness and image (imagination) and is given power and
dominion over all created things, his mind, body and affairs.
It
is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the
law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and in the
Game of Life, love or good-will takes every trick.
For
example: A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible skin
disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in despair. she was on the stage, and she feared she
would soon have to give up her profession, and she had no other means of
support. She, however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night,
made a great "hit." She received flattering notices from the critics, and was
joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal. A man in the
cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her to be sent away. She
felt hatred and resentment taking complete possession of her, and she cried out,
"Oh God don't let me hate that
man." That night she worked for hours "in the silence."
She
said, "I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at peace with
myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued this for two
following nights, and on the third day I found I was healed completely of the
skin disease!" In asking for love, or good will, she had fulfilled the law,
("for love is the fulfilling of the law") and the disease (which came from subsconscious resentment) was wiped
out.
Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical,
inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the
joints.
False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease
is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, "There is no use
asking anyone 'What's the matter with you?' we might just as well say, 'Who's
the matter with you?' "Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease.
It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are
endless ills.
I
called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten a poisoned
oyster. I replied, "Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the oyster.
What's the matter with you?" She answered, "Oh about nineteen people." She had
quarrelled with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious that she
attracted the wrong oyster.
Any
inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental
inharmony. "As the within, so the without."
Man's only enemies are within himself. "And a man's foes
shall be they of his own household." Personality is one of the last enemies to
be overcome, as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It was Christ's
message - "Peace on Earth, good will towards man." The enlightened man,
therefore, endeavors to perfect
himself upon his neighbor. His
work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the
marvelous thing is, that if one
blesses a man he has no power to harm him.
For
example: A man came to me asking to "treat" for success in business. He was
selling machinery, and rival appeared on the scene with what he proclaimed, was
a better machine, and my friend feared defeat. I said, "First of all, we must
wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your interest, and that the divine
idea must come out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be sold, by
the right man, to the right man." And I added, "Don't hold one critical thought
towards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to sell your machine, if
it isn't the divine idea." So he went to the meeting, fearless and nonresistant, and blessing the other
man. He said the outcome was very remarkable. the other man's machine refused to work, and he sold
his without the slightest difficulty. "But I say unto you, love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which spitefully use you and persecute you."
"Good-will produces a great aura of
protection about the one who sends it, and "No weapon that is formed against him
shall prosper." In other words, love and good-will destroy the enemies with
one's self, therefore, one has no
enemies on the external!
<>"There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to
man!"
Chapter 4:
The Law of Non-resistance
Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.
The Chinese say that water is
the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all
before it.
Jesus Christ said, "Resist not evil," for He knew in
reality, there is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man's "vain imagination," or a belief in
two powers, good and evil.
There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of "Maya the
Tree of Illusion," and saw two powers instead of one power, God.
Therefore, evil is a false law
man has made for himself, through psychoma or soul sleep. Soul sleep means, that man's
soul has been hypnotized by the race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.)
which is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have out-pictured his
illusions.
We
have read in a preceding chapter, that man's soul is his subconscious mind, and
whatever he feels deeply, good or bad, is outpictured by that faithful servant. His body and
affairs show forth what he has been picturing. The sick man has pictured
sickness, the poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.
People often say, "why does a little child attract illness, when it is
too young even to know what it means?"
I
answer that children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about
them, and often outpicture the
fears of their parents.
I
heard a metaphysician once say, "If you do not run your subconscious mind
yourself, someone else will run it for you."
Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and disaster
to their children, by continually holding them in thoughts of fear, and watching
for symptoms.
For
example: A friend asked a woman if her little girl had had the measles. She
replied promptly, "not yet!" This implied that she was expecting the illness,
and therefore, preparing the way for what she did not want for herself and
child.
However, the man who is centered and established in right thinking, the man
who sends out only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is without fear, cannot
be touched or influenced by the
negative thoughts of others. In fact, he could then receive only good
thoughts, as he himself, sends forth only thoughts.
Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a "state of
torment."
A
metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe for taking every trick in the game
of life, it is the acme of non
resistance. He gave it in this way: "At one time in my life, I baptized
children, and of course, they had many names. Now I no longer baptize children,
but I baptize events, but I give
every event the same name. If I have a failure I baptize it success, in
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!"
In
this, we see the great law of transmutation, founded on nonresistance. Through his spoken word, every
failure was transmuted into success.
For
example: A woman who required money, and who knew the spiritual law of opulence,
was thrown continually in a business-way, with a man who made her feel very
poor. He talked lack and limitation and she commenced to catch his poverty
thoughts, so she disliked him, and blamed him for her failure. She knew in order
to demonstrate her supply, she must first feel that she had received - a feeling of
opulence must precede its manifestation.
It
dawned on her, one day, that she was resisting the situation, and seeing two
powers instead of one. So she blessed the man and bapized the situation "Success"! She affirmed, "As
there is only one power, God, this man is here for my good and my prosperity"
(just what he did not seem to be there for). Soon after that she met, through this man, a woman
who gave her for a service rendered, several thousand dollars, and the man moved
to a distant city, and faded harmoniously from her life. Make the statement,
"Every man is a golden link in the chain of my good," for all men are God in
manifestation, awaiting the
opportunity given by man, himself, to serve the divine plan of his life.
"Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition." His
arrows will be transmuted into blessings.
This law is true of nations as well as individuals. Bless a
nation, send love and good-will to every inhabitant, and it is robbed of its power to harm.
Man
can only get the right idea of nonresistance, through spiritual understanding. My
students have often said: "I don't want to be a door-mat." I reply "when you use
nonresistance with wisdom, no one
will ever be able to walk over you."
Another example: One day I was impatiently awaiting an
important telephone call. I resisted every call that came in and made no
out-going calls myself, reasoning
that it might interfere with the one I was awaiting.
Instead of saying, "Divine ideas never conflict, the call
will come at the right time," leaving it to Infinite Intelligence to arrange, I
commenced to manage things myself - I made the battle mine, not God's and
remained tense and anxious. The bell did not ring for about an hour, and I
glanced at the 'phone and found the receiver had been off that length of time,
and the 'phone was disconnected. My anxiety, fear and belief in interference,
had brought on a total eclipse of the telephone. Realizing what I had done, I
commenced blessing the situation at once; I baptized it "success," and affirmed,
"I cannot lose any call that belongs to me by divine right; I am under grace, and not under law."
A
friend rushed out to the nearest telephone, to notify the Company to reconnect.
She
entered a crowded grocery, but the proprietor left his customers and attended to
the call himself. My 'phone was connected at once, and two minutes later, I
received a very important call, and about an hour afterward, the one I had been
awaiting.
One's ships come in over a
calm sea.
So
long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs away from
it, it will run after him.
For
example: I repeated this to a woman one day, and she replied, "How true that is!
I was unhappy at home, I disliked my mother, who was critical and domineering;
so I ran away and was married - but I married my mother, for my husband was
exactly like my mother, and I had the same situation to face again." "Agree with
thine adversary quickly."
This means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be
undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its own weight. "None of these things
move me," is a wonderful affirmation.
The
inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself.
When there is, in him, no emotional response to an
inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.
So
we see man's work is ever with himself.
People have said to me, "Give treatments to change my
husband, or my brother." I reply, "No, I will give treatments to change you; when you change, your
husband and your brother will change."
One
of my students was in the habit of lying. I told her it was a failure method and
if she lied, she would be lied to. She replied, "I don't care, I can't possibly
get along without lying."
One
day she was speaking on the 'phone to a man with whom she was very much in love.
She turned to me and said, "I don't trust him, I know he's lying to me." I
replied, "Well, you lie yourself, so someone has to lie to you, and you will be
sure it will be just the person you want the truth from." Some time after that,
I saw her, and she said, "I'm cured of lying."
I
questioned: "What cured you?"
She
replied: "I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did!"
One
is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others.
Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in
our associates.
Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of
spiritual law.
Jesus Christ said, "Behold, now is the accepted time." "Now
is the day of Salvation."
The
robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and
forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in
store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.
For
example: A woman came to me, complaining that she had no money with which to buy
Christmas gifts. She said, "Last year was so different; I had plenty of money
and gave lovely presents, and this year I have scarcely a cent."
I
replied, "You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic and live in
the past. Live fully in the now, and get ready to give Christmas presents. Dig your
ditches, and the money will come." She exclaimed, "I know what to do! I will buy
some tinsel twine, Christmas seals and wrapping paper." I replied, "Do that, and
the presents will come and stick
themselves to the Christmas seals."
This too, was showing financial fearlessness and faith in
God, as the reasoning mind said, "Keep every cent you have, as you are not sure
you will get any more."
She
bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few days before Christmas, received a
gift of several hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine had impressed the
subconscious with expectancy, and opened the way for the manifestation of the
money. She purchased all the presents in plenty of time.
Man
must live suspended in the moment.
"Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the salutation
of the Dawn."
He
must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his leads, taking advantage of every
opportunity.
One
day, I said continually (silently), "Infinite Spirit, don't let me miss a
trick," and something very important was told to me that evening. It is most
necessary to begin the day with right words.
Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.
For
example: "Thy will be done this
day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle
shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease."
Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles
come into his life.
One
morning I picked up a book and read, "Look with wonder at that which is before
you!" It seemed to be my message for the day, so I repeated again and again,
"Look with wonder at that which is before you."
At
about noon, a large sum of money, was given me, which I had been desiring for a certain purpose.
In
a following chapter, I will give affirmations that I have found most effective.
However, one should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely satisfying
and convincing to his own consciousness, and often an affirmation is changed to
suit different people.
For
example: The following has brought success to many:
"I
have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service, for wonderful pay!"
I
gave the first two lines to one of my students, and she added the last two.
It
made a most powerful
statement, as there should always be perfect payment for perfect
service, and a rhyme sinks easily into the subconscious. She went about singing
it aloud and soon did receive wonderful work in a wonderful way, and gave
wonderful service for wonderful pay.
Another student, a business man, took it, and changed the
word work to business.
He
repeated, "I have a wonderful business, in a wonderful way, and I give wonderful
service for wonderful pay." That afternoon he made a forty-one thousand dollar
deal, though there had been no activity in his affairs for months.
Every affirmation must be carefully worded and completely
"cover the ground."
For
example: I knew a woman, who was in great need, and made a demand for work. She
received a great deal of work, but was never paid anything. She now knows to
add, "wonderful service for
wonderful pay."
It
is man's divine right to have plenty! More than enough!
<>"His barns should be full, and his cup should flow
over!" This is God's idea for man, and when man breaks down the barriers of lack
in his own consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and every righteous desire
of his heart fulfilled!
Chapter 5:
The Law of Karma and The Law of Forgiveness
Man receives only that which he gives. The Game of Life is
a game of boomerangs. Man's thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or
later, with astounding accuracy.
This is the law of Karma,
which is Sanskrit for "Comeback." "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
For
example: A friend told me this story of herself, illustrating the law. She said,
"I make all my Karma on my aunt, whatever I say to her, someone says to me. I am
often irritable at home, and one day, said to my aunt, who was talking to me
during dinner. 'No more talk, I wish to eat in peace.'"
"The following day, I was lunching with a woman with whom I
wished to make a great impression. I was talking animatedly, when she said: 'No
more talk, I wish to eat in peace!'"
My
friend is high in consciousness, so her Karma returns much more quickly than to
one on the mental plane.
The
more man knows, the more he is responsible for, and a person with a knowledge of
Spiritual Law, which he does not practice, suffers greatly, in consequence. "The
fear of the Lord (law) is the beginning of wisdom." If we read the word Lord,
law, it will make many passages in the Bible much clearer.
"Vengence is
mine, I will repay saith the
Lord" (law). It is the law which takes vengeance, not God. God sees man perfect,
"created in his own image," (imagination) and given "power and dominion."
This is the perfect idea of man, registered in Divine Mind,
awaiting man's recognition; for man can only be what he sees himself to be, and
only attain what he sees himself attaining.
"Nothing ever happens without an on-looker" is an ancient saying.
Man
sees first his failure or success, his joy or sorrow, before it swings into
visibility from the scenes set in his own imagination. We have observed this in
the mother picturing disease for her child, or a woman seeing success for her
husband.
Jesus Christ said, "And ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free."
So,
we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions) comes through knowledge - a knowledge of Spiritual Law.
Obedience precedes authority, and the law obeys man when he
obeys the law. The law of electricity must be obeyed before it becomes man's
servant. When handled ignorantly, it becomes man's deadly foe. So with the laws of Mind!
For
example: A woman with a strong personal will, wished she owned a house which
belonged to an acquaintance, and she often made mental pictures of herself
living in the house. In the course of time, the man died and she moved into the
house. Several years afterwards, coming into the knowledge of Spiritual Law, she
said to me: "Do you think I had anything to do with that man's death?" I
replied: "Yes, your desire was so strong, everything made way for it, but you
paid your Karmic debt. Your husband, whom you loved devotedly, died soon after,
and the house was a white elephant on your hands for years."
The
original owner, however, could not have been affected by her thoughts had he
been positive in the truth, nor her husband, but they were both under Karmic
law. The woman should have said (feeling the great desire for the house),
"Infinite Intelligence, give me the right house, equally as charming as this,
the house which is mine by
divine right."
The
divine selection would have given perfect satisfaction and brought good to all.
The divine pattern is the only safe pattern to work by.
Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed in the
right channels, or chaos ensues.
In
demonstrating, the most important step is the first step, to "ask aright."
Man
should always demand only that which is his by divine right.
To
go back to the illustration: Had the woman taken this attitude: "If this house,
I desire, is mine, I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me its equivalent," the
man might have decided to move out, harmoniously (had it been the divine
selection for her) or another house would have been substituted. Anything forced
into manifestation through personal will, is always "ill-got," and has "ever bad
success."
Man
is admonished, "My will be done not thine,"and the curious thing is, man always gets
just what he desires when he does relinquish personal will, thereby enabling
Infinite Intelligence to work through him.
"Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord" (law).
For
example: A woman came to me in great distress. Her daughter had determined to
take a very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled with fear.
She
said she had used every argument, had pointed out the dangers to be encountered,
and forbidden her to go, but the daughter became more and more rebellious and
determined. I said to the mother, "You are forcing your personal will upon your
daughter, which you have no right
to do, and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for man attracts what he
fears." I added, "Let go, and take your mental hands off; put it in God's Hands, and use this
statement:" "I put this situation in the hands of Infinite Love and
Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan, I bless it and not longer resist, but
if it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is now dissolved and
dissipated."
A
day or two after that, her daughter said to her, "Mother, I have given up the
trip," and the situation returned to its "native nothingness."
It
is learning to "stand still," which seems so difficult for man. I have dealt
more fully with this law in the chapter on nonresistance.
I
will give another example of sowing and reaping, which came in the most curious
way.
A
woman came to me saying, she had received a conterfeit twenty-dollar bill, given to her at the
bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said, "The people at the bank will never
acknowledge their mistake."
I
replied, "Let us analyze the situation and find out why you attracted it." She
thought a few moments and exclaimed: "I know it, I sent a friend a lot of stagemoney, just for a joke." So the law had sent
her some stagemoney, for it
doesn't know anything about jokes.
I
said, "Now we will call on the law of forgiveness, and neutralize the
situation."
Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness -
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within
each man is his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions.
So
I said: "Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of forgiveness and give thanks that
she is under grace and not under law, and cannot lose this twenty dollars which is hers by divine right."
"Now," I said, "Go back to the bank and tell them,
fearlessly, that it was given you, there by mistake."
She
obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized and gave her another bill, treating
her most courteously.
So
knowledge of the Law gives man power to "rub out his mistakes." Man cannot force
the external to be what he is not.
If
he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.
For
example: A woman came to me asking treatment for prosperity. She did not take
much interest in her household affairs, and her home was in great disorder.
I
said to her, "If you wish to be rich, you much be orderly. All men with great wealth are orderly -
and order is heaven's first law." I added, "You will never become rich with a
burnt match in the pin-cushion."
She
had a good sense of humor and
commenced immediately, putting her house in order. She rearranged furniture,
straightened out bureau drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made a big financial
demonstration - a gift from a relative. The woman, herself, became made over,
and keeps herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful of the external and expecting prosperity,
knowing God is her supply.
Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and
things are investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.
"There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."
For
example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a fur-lined overcoat. He and his wife
went to various shops, but there was none he wanted. He said they were all too
cheap-looking. At last, he was shown one, the salesman said was valued at a
thousand dollars, but which the manager would sell him for five-hundred dollars,
as it was late in the season.
His
financial possessions amounted to about seven hundred dollars. The reasoning
mind would have said, "You can't afford to spend nearly all you have on a coat,"
but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.
He
turned to his wife and said, "If I get this coat, I'll make a ton of money!" So
his wife consented, weakly.
About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar
commission. The coat made him feel so rich, it linked him with success and
prosperity; without the coat he would not have received the commission. It was
an investment paying large dividends!
If
man ignores these leadings to spend or to give, the same amount of money will go
in an uninteresting or unhappy way.
For
example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day, she informed her family that they
could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the money, but decided to save
it.
A
few days later, someone entered her room and took from the bureau drawer the
exact amount the dinner would have cost.
The
law always stands back of the man who spends fearlessly, with wisdom.
For
example: One of my students was shopping with her little nephew. The child clamored for a toy, which she told him
she could not afford to buy.
She
realized suddenly that she was seeking lack, and not recognizing God as her
supply!
So
she bought the toy, and on her way home, picked up, in the street, the exact amount of money she had paid
for it.
Man's supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully
trusted, but faith or trust must precede the demonstration. "According to your
faith be it unto you." "Faith is
the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen - " for faith
holds the vision steady, and the adverse pictures are dissolved and dissipated,
and "in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there
was a higher law than the law of Karma - and that that law transcends the law of
Karma. It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law which frees man from the law of cause and
effect - the law of consequence. "Under grace, and not under law."
We
are told that on this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the gifts of God
are simply poured out upon him. "All that the Kingdom affords is his." This
continued state of bliss awaits the man who has overcome the race (or world)
thought.
In
the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: "Be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world."
The
world thought is that of sin, sickness and death. He saw their absolute
unreality and said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and death itself, the
last enemy, be overcome.
We
know now, from a scientific standpoint, that death could be overcome by stamping
the subconscious mind with the conviction of eternal youth and eternal life.
The
subconscious, being simply power without direction, carries out orders without questioning.
Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God within man) the
"resurrection of the body" would be accomplished.
<>Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be transformed into the
"body electric," sung by Walt Whitman, for Christianity is founded upon the
forgiveness of sins and "an empty tomb."
Chapter 6:
Casting the Burden -
Impressing
the Subconscious
When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind,
his great desire is to find an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious
with good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the Truth will not bring
results.
In my own case, I found the
easiest way is in "casting the burden."
A
metaphysician once explained it in this manner. He said, "The only thing which
gives anything weight in nature, is the law of gravitation, and if a boulder
could be taken high above the planet, there would be no weight in that boulder;
and that is what Jesus Christ meant when he said: "My yoke is easy and my burden
is light."
He
had overcome the world vibration, and functioned in the fourth dimensional
realm, where there is only perfection, completion, life and joy.
He
said: "Come to me all ye that are labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest." "Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
We
are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to "cast thy burden upon the Lord." Many
passages in the Bible state that the battle is God's not man's and that man is always to "stand still" and see the Salvation
of the Lord.
This indicates that the superconscious mind (or Christ within) is the
department which fights man's battle and relieves him of burdens.
We
see, therefore, that man violates law if he carries a burden, and a burden is an
adverse thought or condition, and this thought or condition has its root in the
subconscious.
It
seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the subconscious from the
conscious, or reasoning mind, as
the reasoning mind (the intellect) is limited in its conceptions, and filled
with doubts and fears.
How
scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon the superconscious mind (or Christ within) where it is
"made light," or dissolved into its native nothingness."
For
example: A woman in urgent need of money, "made light" upon the Christ within,
the superconscious, with the
statement, "I cast this burden of lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to
have plenty!"
The
belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast it upon the Superconscious with its belief of plenty, an
avalanche of supply was the result.
We
read, "The Christ in you the hope of glory."
Another example: One of my students had been given a new
piano, and there was no room in her studio for it until she had moved out the
old one. She was in a state of perplexity. She wanted to keep the old piano, but
knew of no place to send it. She became desperate, as the new piano was to be
sent immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no place to put it. She said it
came to her to repeat, "I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free."
A
few moments later, her 'phone rang, and a woman friend asked if she might rent
her old piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before the new one arrived.
I
knew a woman, whose burden was resentment. She said, "I cast this burden of
resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be loving, harmonious and
happy." The Almighty superconscious, flooded the subconscious with love,
and her whole life was changed. For years, resentment had held her in a state of
torment and imprisoned her sould
(the subconscious mind).
The
statement should be made over and over and over, sometimes for hours at a time,
silently or audibly, with quietness but determination.
I
have often compared it to winding-up a victrola. We must wind ourselves up with spoken
words.
I
have noticed, in "casting the burden," after a little while, one seems to see
clearly. It is impossible to have clear vision, while in the throes of carnal
mind. doubts and fear poison the
mind and body and imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and disease.
In
steadily repeating the affirmation, "I cast this burden on the Christ within,
and go free," the vision clears, and with it a feeling of relief, and sooner or
later comes the manifestation of
good, be it health, happiness or supply.
One
of my students once asked me to explain the "darkness before the dawn." I
referred in a preceding chapter to the fact that often, before the big
demonstration "everything seems to go wrong," and deep depression clouds the
consciousness. It means that out of the subconscious are rising th doubts and fears of the ages. These old derelicts of the subconscious rise to
the surfact, to be put
out.
It
is then that man should clap his cymbals, like Jehoshaphat, and give thanks that he is saved, even
though he seems surrounded by the enemy (the situation of lack or disease). The
student continued, "How long must one remeain in the dark" and I replied, "until one can see in the dark, and "casting the burden enables one to
see in the dark."
In
order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.
"Faith without works is dead." In these chapters I have
endeavored to bring out this
point.
Jeses Christ showed active faith
when "He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground," before he gave
thanks for the loaves and fishes.
I
will give another example showing how necessary this step is. In fact, active
faith is the bridge, over which man passes to his Promised Land.
Through misunderstanding, a woman had been separated from
her husband, whom she love deeply.
He refused all offers of reconciliation and would not communicate with her in
any way.
Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she denied the
appearance of separation. She made this statement: "There is no separation in
Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot
be separated form the love and companionship which are mine by divine right."
She
showed active faith by arranging a place for him at the table every day; thereby
impressing the subconscious with a picture of his return. Over a year passed,
but she never wavered, and one day he walked in.
The
subconscious is often impressed through music. Music has a fourth dimensional
quality and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes wonderful things seem
possible, and easy of
accomplishment!
I
have a friend who uses her victrola, daily, for this purpose. It puts her in
perfect harmony and releases the imagination.
Another woman often dances while making her affirmations.
The rhythm and harmony of music and motion carry her words forth with tremendous
power.
The
student must remember also, not to despise the "day of small things."
Invariably, before a demonstration, come "signs of land."
Before
For
example: A woman had "spoken the word" for a set of dishes. Not long afterwards
a friend gave her a dish which was old and cracked.
She
came to me and said, "Well, I asked for a set of dishes, and all I got was a
cracked plate."
I
replied, "The plate was only signs of land. It shows your dishes are coming -
look upon it as a birds and seaweed," and not long afterwards the dishes came.
Continually "making-believe," impresses the subconscious.
If one makes believe he is rich, and makes believe he is successful, in "due
time he will reap."
Children are always "making believe," and "except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the
For
example: I know of a woman who was very poor, but no one could make her feel
poor. She earned a small amount of money from rich friends, who constantly
reminded her of her poverty, and to be careful and saving. Regardless of their
admonitions, she would spend all her earnings on a hat, or make someone a gift,
and be in a rapturous state of mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful clothes and "rings and
things," but without envying others.
She
lived in the world of the wondrous, and only riches seemed real to her. Before
long she married a rich man, and the rings and things became visible. I do not
know whether the man was the "Divine Selection," but opulence had to manifest in
her life, as she had imaged only opulence.
There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased
all fear from the subconscious.
Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or
transmuted into Faith.
Jesus Christ siad, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?"
"All things are possible to him that believeth."
I
am asked, so often by my students, "How can I get rid of fear?"
I
reply, "By walking up to the thing you are afraid of."
"The lion takes its fierceness from your fear."
Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he
runs after you.
I
have shown in previous chapters, how the lion of lack disappeared when the
individual spent money fearlessly, showing faith that God was his supply and
therefore, unfailing.
Many of my students have come out of the bondage of
poverty, and are now bountifully supplied, through losing all fear of letting
money go out. The subconscious is impressed with the truth that God is the Giver and Gift;
therefore as one is one with the Giver, he is one with the Gift. A splendid
statement is, "I now thank God the Giver for God the Gift."
Man
has so long separated himself from his good and his supply, through thoughts of
separation and lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to dislodge these false
ideas from the subconscious, and the dynamite is a big situation.
We
see in the foregoing illustration, how the individual was freed from his bondage
by showing fearlessness.
Man
should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.
"Choose ye this day whom we shall serve," fear or faith.
Perhaps one's fear is of personality. Then do not avoid the
people feared; be willing to meet them cheerfully, and they will either prove
"golden links in the chain of one's good," or disappear harmoniously from one's
pathway.
Perhaps one's fear is of disease or germs. Then one should
be fearless and undisturbed in a germ-laden situation, and he would be immune.
One
can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the germ, and fear
drags men down to the level of the germ. Of course, the disease laden germ is
the product of carnal mind, as all thought must objectify. Germs do not exist in
the superconscious or Divine
Mind, therefore are the product of man's "vain imagination."
"In
the twinkling of an eye," man's release will come when he realizes there is no power in evil.
The
material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world, the "World of
the Wondrous," will swing into manifestation.
"And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth - and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more
pain; for the former things are passed away."
Chapter 7:
Love
Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love.
"A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another." Ouspensky states, in "Tertium Organum," that "love is a cosmic phenomenon," and
opens to man the fourth dimensional world, "The World of the Wondrous."
Real love is selfless and free
from fear. It pours itself out upon the object of its affection, without
demanding any return. Its joy is in the joy of giving. Love is God in
manifestation, and the strongest magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish
love draws to itself its own; it does not need to
seek or demand. Scarcely anyone has the faintest conception of real love. Man is
selfish, tyrannical or fearful in his affections, thereby losing the thing he
loves. Jealousy is the worst enemy of love, for the imagination runs riot,
seeing the loved one attracted to another, and invariably these fears objectify
if they are not neutralized.
For
example: A woman came to me in deep distress. The man she loved had left her for
other women, and said he never intended to marry her. She was torn with jealousy
and resentment and said she hoped he would suffer as he had made her suffer; and
added, "How could he leave me when I loved him so much?"
I
replied, "You are not loving that man, you are hating him," and added, "You can never receive what you have never given. Give a
perfect love and you will receive a perfect love. Perfect yourself on
this man. Give him a perfect, unselfish love, demanding nothing in return, do
not criticise or condemn, and bless him wherever his is."
She
replied, "No, I won't bless him unless I know where he is!" she said.
"Well," I said, "that is not real love."
"When you send out real love, real love will return to you,
either from this man or his equivalent, for if this man is not the divine
selection, you will not want him. As you are one with God, you are one with the
love which belongs to you by divine right."
Several months passed, and matters remained about the same,
but she was working conscientiously with herself. I said, "When you are no
longer disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as you are
attracting it through your own emotions."
Then I told her of a brotherhood in
She
found she was becoming more poised, and gradually losing her resentment. He was
a Captain, and she always called him "The Cap."
One
day, she said, suddenly, "God
bless the Cap wherever he is."
I
replied: "Now that is real love, and when you have become a 'complete circle,'
and are no longer disturbed by the situation, you will have his love, or attract
its equivalent."
I
was moving at this time, and did not have a telephone, so was out of touch with
her for a few weeks, when one morning I received a letter saying, "We are
married."
At
the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My first words were, "What
happened?"
"Oh," she exclaimed, "a miracle! One day I woke up and all
suffering had ceased. I saw him that evening and he asked me to marry him. We
were married in about a week, and I have never seen a more devoted man."
There is an old saying: "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher."
So
one should become impersonal and learn what each man has to teach him, and soon
he would learn his lessons and be free.
The
woman's lover was teaching her selfless love, which every man, sooner or later,
must learn.
Suffering is not necessary for man's development; it is the
result of violation of spiritual law, but few people seem able to rouse
themselves from their "soul sleep" without it. When people are happy, they
usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set in action. Man
often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.
I
knew a woman who had a very nice husband, but she said often, "I don't care
anything about being married, but that is nothing against my husband. I'm simply
not interested in married life."
She
had other interests, and scarcely remembered she had a husband. She only thought
of him when she saw him. One day her husband told her he was in love with
another woman, and left. She came to me in distress and resentment.
I
replied, "It is exactly what you spoke the word for. You said you didn't care
anything about being married, so the subconscious worked to get you unmarried."
She
said, "Oh yes, I see. People get what they want, and then feel very much hurt."
She
soon became in perfect harmony with the situation, and knew they were both much
happier apart.
When a woman becomes indifferent or critical, and ceases to
be an inspiration to her husband, he misses the stimulus of their early
relationship and is restless and unhappy.
A
man came to me dejected, miserable and poor. His wife was interested in the
"Science of Numbers," and had had him read. It seems the report was not very
favorable, for he said, "My wife
says I'll never amount to anything because I am a two."
I
replied, "I don't care what your number is, you are a perfect idea in divine
mind, and we will demand the success and prosperity which are already planned
for you by that Infinite Intelligence."
Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position, and a year
or two later, he achieved a brilliant success as a writer. No man is a success
in business unless he loves his work. The picture the artist paints for love (of
his art) is his greatest work. The pot-boiler is always something to live down.
No
man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in poverty by
saying: "Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for people who have it."
This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their contempt
for money separates them from it.
I
remember hearing one artist say of another, "He's no good as an artist, he has
money in the bank."
This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his
supply; he must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.
Money is God in manifestation,
as freedom from want and limitation, but it must be always kept in circulation
and put to right uses. Hoarding and saving react with grim vengeance.
This does not mean that man should not have houses and
lots, stocks and bonds, for "the barns of the righteous man shall be full." It
means man should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion arises, when money
is necessary. In letting it go out fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way
for more to come in, for God is man's unfailing and inexhaustible supply.
This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great
Bank of the Universal never fails!
We
see an example of hoarding in the film production of "Greed." The woman won five
thousand dollars in a lottery, but would not spend it. She hoarded and saved,
let her husband suffer and starve,
and eventually she scrubbed floors for a living.
She
loved the money itself and put it above everything, and one night she was
murdered and the money taken from her.
This is an example of where "love of money is the root of
all evil." Money in itself, is good and beneficial, but used for destructive
purposes, hoarded and saved, or considered more important than love, brings
disease and disaster, and the loss of the money itself.
Follow the path of love, and all things are added, for God is love, and God is
supply; follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the supply
vanishes, or man is separated from it.
For
example; I knew the case of a very rich woman, who hoarded her income. She
rarely gave anything away, but bought and bought things for herself.
She
was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once asked her how many she possessed.
She replied, "Sixty-seven." She bought them and put them away, carefully wrapped
in tissue paper. Had she used the necklaces it would have been quite legitimate,
but she was violating "the law of use." Her closets were filled with clothes she
never wore, and jewels which never saw the light.
The
woman's arms were gradually becoming paralyzed from holding on to things, and
eventually she was considered incapable of looking after her affairs and her
wealth was handed over to others to manage.
So
man, in ignorance of the law, brings about his own destruction.
All
disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's
boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and
sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art, but the man with the knowledge of
spiritual law knows it must be regained, for without it, he has "become as
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals."
For
example: I had a student who came to me, month after month, to clean her
consciousness of resentment. After a while, she arrived at the point where she
resented only one woman, but that one woman kept her busy. Little by little she
became poised and harmonious, and one day, all resentment was wiped out.
She
came in radiant, and exclaimed "You can't understand how I feel! The woman said
something to me and instead of being furious I was loving and kind, and she
apologized and was perfectly lovely to me.
No
one can understand the marvelous
lightness I feel within!"
Love and good-will are invaluable in business.
For
example: A woman came to me, complaining of her employer. She said she was cold
and critical and knew she did not want her in the position.
"Well," I replied, "Salute the Divinity in the woman and
send her love."
She
said "I can't; she's a marble woman."
I
answered, "You remember the story of the sculptor who asked for a certain piece
of marble. He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied, 'because there is an
angel in the marble,' and out it he produced a wonderful work of art."
She
said, "Very well, I'll try it." A week later she came back and said, "I did what
you told me to, and now the woman is very kind, and took me out in her car."
People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done
someone an unkindness, perhaps
years ago.
If
the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralized by doing some one a
kindness in the present.
"This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind and reaching forth unto things where are before."
Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body,
and poison the atmosphere of the individual.
A
woman said to me in deep sorrow, "Treat me to be happy and joyous, for my sorrow
makes me so irritable with members of my faimily that I keep making more Karma."
I
was asked to treat a woman who was mourning for her daughter. I denied all
belief in loss and separation, and affirmed that God was the woman's joy, love
and peace.
The
woman gained her poise at once, but sent word by her son, not to treat any
longer, because she was "so happy, it wasn't respectable."
So "mortal mind" loves to hang
on to its griefs and
regrets."
I
knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always
had something to brag about.
The
old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was not a good
mother.
Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of
the diseases and accidents which come into the lives of children.
For
fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these pictures
objectify, if not neutralized.
Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts
her child in God's hands, and knows therefore, that he is divinely protected.
For
example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the night, feeling her brother was in great
danger. Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced making statements of
Truth, saying, "Man is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, and is always in his right
place, therefore, my borther is
in his right place, and is divinely protected."
The
next day she found that her brother had been in close proximity to an explosion
in a mine, but had miraculously escaped.
So
man is his brother's keeper (in thought) and every man should know that the
thing he loves dwells in "the secret place of the most high, and abides under
the shadow of the Almighty."
"There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling."
"Perfect love casteth out fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in love," and "Love is
the fulfilling of the Law."
Chapter 8:
Intuition or Guidance
There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man
who knows the power of his word, and who follows his intuitive leads. by the word he starts in action unseen
forces and can rebuild his body or remold his affairs.
It is, therefore, of the
utmost importance, to choose the right words, and the student carefully selects
the affirmation he wishes to catapult into the invisible.
He
knows that God is his supply, that there is a supply for every demand, and that
his spoken word releases this supply.
"Ask and ye shall receive."
Man
must make the first move. "Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you."
I
have often been asked just how to make a demonstration.
I
reply: "Speak the word and then do not do anything until you get a definite
lead." Demand the lead, saying, "Infinite spirit, reveal to me the way, let me
know if there is anything for me to do."
The
answer will come through intuition (or hunch); a chance remark from someone, or
a passage in a book, etc., etc. The answers are sometimes quite startling in
their exactness. For example: A woman desired a large sum of money. She spoke
the words: "Infinite Spirit, open the way for my immediate supply, let all that
is mine by divine right now reach me, in great avalanches of abundance." Then
she added: "Give me a difinite
lead, let me know if there is
anything for me to do."
The
thought came quickly, "Give a certain friend" (who had helped her spiritually)
"a hundred dollars." She told her friend, who said, "Wait and get another lead,
before giving it." So she waited, and that day met a woman who said to her, "I
gave someone a dollar today; it was just as much for me, as it would be for you
to give someone a hundred."
This was indeed an unmistakable lead, so she knew she was
right in giving the hundred dollars. It was a gift which proved a great
investment, for shortly after that, a large sum of money came to her in a
remarkable way.
Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create
activity in finances, one should give. Tithing or giving one-tenth of one's
income, is an old Jewish custom, and is sure to bring increase. Many of the
richest men in this country have been tithers, and I have never known it to fail as an
investment.
The
tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed and multiplied. But the gift or tithe
must be given with love and cheerfulness, for "God loveth a cheerful giver." Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent
forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
This attitude of mind makes man master of money. It is his
to obey, and his spoken word then opens vast reservoirs of wealth.
Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision.
Sometimes the student has a great realization of wealth, but is afraid to act.
The
vision and action must go hand in hand, as in the case of the man who bought the
fur-lined overcoat.
A
woman came to me asking me to "speak the word" for a position. So I demanded:
"Infinite Spirit, open the way for this woman's right position." Never ask for
just "a position"; ask for the right position, the place already planned in
Divine Mind, as it is the only one that will give satisfaction.
I
then gave thanks that she had already received, and that it would manifest
quickly. Very soon, she had three positions offered her, two in
The
time was almost up and was still undecided, when one day, she telephoned, "When
I woke up this morning, I could smell
I
replied: "Well, if you can smell
One
day, I was walking down the street, when I suddenly felt a strong urge to go to
a certain bakery, a block or two away.
The
reasoning mind resisted, arguing, "There is nothing there that you want."
However, I had learned not to reason, so I went to the
bakery, looked at everything, and there was certainly nothing there that I
wanted, but coming out I encountered a woman I had thought of often, and who was
in great need of the help which I could give her.
So
often, one goes for one thing and finds another.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but
simply points the way.
A
person often receives a lead during a "treatment." The idea that comes may seem
quite irrelevant, but some of God's leadings are "mysterious."
In
the class, one day, I was treating that each individual would receive a definite
lead. A woman came to me afterwards, and said: "While you were treating, I got
the hunch to take my furniture out of storage and get an apartment." The woman
had come to be treated for health. I told her I knew in getting a home of her
own, her health would improve, and I added, "I believe your trouble, which is
a congestion, has come from having
things stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body. You have
violated the law of use, and your body is paying the penalty."
So
I gave thanks that "Divine order
was established in her mind, body and affairs."
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body.
There is a mental correspondence for every disease. A person might receive
instantaneous healing through the realization of his body being a perfect idea
in Divine Mind, and, therefore, whole and perfect, but if he continues his
destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing, condemning, the disease will return.
Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from sin, but
admonished the leper after the healing, to go and sin no more, lest a worse
thing come upon him.
So
man's soul (or subconscious mind) must be washed whiter than snow, for permanent
healing; and the metaphysician is always delving deep for the "correspondence."
Jesus Christ said, "Condemn not lest ye also be condemned."
"Judge not, lest ye be judged."
Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness through
condemnation of others.
What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.
For
example: A friend came to me in anger and distress, because her husband had
deserted her for another woman. She condemned the other woman, and said
continually, "She knew he was a married man, and had no right to accept his
attentions."
I
replied: "Stop condemning the woman, bless her, and be through with the situation, otherwise, you are attracting
the same thing to yourself."
She
was deaf to my words, and a year or two later, became deeply interested in a
married man, herself.
Man
picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises or condemns, and may expect a shock.
Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway. In order
to overcome it, make the statement repeatedly, "I am always under direct inspiration; I make right
decisions, quickly."
These words impress the subconscious, and soon one finds
himself awake and alert, making his right moves without hesitation. I have found
it destructive to look to the psychic plane for guidance, as it is the plane of
many minds and not the "The One Mind."
As
man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes a target for destructive forces.
The psychic plane is the result of man's mortal thought, and is on the "plane of
opposites." He may receive either good or bad messages.
The
science of numbers and the reading of horoscopes, keep man down on the mental
(or mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic path.
I
know of a man who should have been dead, years ago, according to his horoscope,
but he is alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements in this country for
the uplift of humanity.
It
takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy of evil. The student should
declaire, "Every false prophecy
shall come to naught; every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be
dissolved and dissipated, the
divine idea now comes to pass."
However, if any good message has ever been given one, of
coming happiness, or wealth, harbor and expect it, and it will manifest sooner or
later, through the law of expectancy.
Man's will should be used to back the universal will. "I
will that the will of God be done."
It
is God's will to give every man, every righteous desire of his heart, and man's
will should be used to hold the perfect vision, without wavering.
The
prodigal son said: "I will arise and go to my Father."
It
is indeed, often an effort of the will to leave the husks and swine of mortal
thinking. It is so much easier, for the average person, to have fear than faith;
so faith is an effort of the
will.
As
man becomes spiritually awakened he reconizes that any external inharmony is the correspondence of mental inharmony. If he stumbles or falls, he
may know he is stumbling or falling in consciousness.
One
day, a student was walking along the street condemning someone in her thoughts.
She was saying mentally, "That woman is the most disagreeable woman on earth,"
when suddenly three boy scouts rushed around the corner and almost knocked her
over. She did not condemn the boy scouts, but immediately called on the law of
forgiveness, and "saluted the divinity" in the woman. Wisdom's way are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are
peace.
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must
be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality,
it is going right.
For
example: A woman was told that there was no loss in divine mind, therefore, she
could not lose anything which belonged to her; anything lost, would be returned,
or she would receive its equivalent.
Several years previously, she had lost two thousand
dollars. She had loaned the money to a relative during her lifetime, but the
relative had died, leaving no mention of it in her will. The woman was resentful
and angry, and as she had no written statement of the transaction, she never
received the money, so she determined to deny the loss, and collect the two
thousand dollars from the Bank of the Universal. She had to begin by forgiving
the woman, as resentment and unforgiveness close the doors of this wonderful
bank.
She
made this statement, "I deny loss, there is no loss in Divine Mind, therefore, I
cannot lose the two thousand dollars, which belong to me by divine right. "As one door shuts another door opens."
She
was living in an apartment house which was for sale; and in the lease was a
clause, stating that if the house was sold, the tenants would be required to
move out within ninety days.
Suddenly, the landlord broke the leases and raised the
rent. Again, injustice was on her pathway, but this time she was undisturbed.
She blessed the landlord, and said, "As the rent has been raised, it means that
I'll be that much richer, for God is my supply."
New
leases were made out for the advanced rent, but by some divine mistake, the
ninety days clause had been forgotten. Soon after, the landlord had an
opportunity to sell the house. On account of the mistake in the new leases, the
tenants held possession for another year.
The
agent offered each tenant two hundred dollars if he would vacate. Several
families moved; three remained, including the woman. A month or two passed, and
the agent again appeared. This time he said to the woman, "Will you break your
lease for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars?" It flashed upon her, "Here comes
the two thousand dollars." She remembered having said to friends in the house,
"We will all act together if anything more is said about leaving." So her lead
was to consult her friends.
These friends said," Well, if they have offered you fifteen
hundred they will certainly give two thousand." So she received a check for two
thousand dollars for giving up the apartment. It was certainly a remarkable
working of the law, and the apparent injustice was merely opening the way for
her demonstration.
It
proved that there is no loss, and when man takes his spiritual stand, he
collects all that is his from this great Reservoir of Good.
"I
will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten."
These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for "No man gives
to himself but himself, and no man takes away from himself, but himself."
Man
is here to prove God and "to bear witness to the truth," and he can only prove
God by bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of justice.
"Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough
to receive it."
Chapter 9:
Perfect Self Expression
or The Divine Design
There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a
place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do,
which no one else can do; it is his destiny!
This achievement is held, a
perfect idea in Divine Mind, awaiting man's recognition. As the imaging faculty
is the creative faculty, it is necessary for man to see the idea, before it can
manifest.
So
man's highest demand is for the Divine Design of his life.
He
may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is, possibly, some
marvelous talent, hidden deep
within him.
His
demand should be: "Infinite
Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest; let the
genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan."
The
perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression. This is
the square of life,
which brings perfect happiness. When one has made this demand, he may find great
changes taking place in his life, for nearly every man has wandered far from the
Divine Design.
I
know, in one woman's case, it was as though a cyclone had struck her affairs,
but readjustments came quickly, and new and wonderful conditions took the place
of old ones.
Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will
seem almost like play. The student knows, also, as man comes into the world
financed by God, the supply needed for his perfect self-expression will
be at hand.
Many a genius has struggled for years with the problem of
supply, when his spoken word, and faith, would have released quickly, the
necessary funds.
For
example: After the class, one day, a man came to me and handed me a cent.
He
said: "I have just seven cents in the world, and I'm going to give you one; for
I have faith in the power of your spoken word. I want you to speak the word for
my perfect self-expression and prosperity."
I
"spoke the word," and did not see him again until a year later. He came in one
day, successful and happy, with a roll of yellow bills in his pocket. He said,
"Immediately after you spoke the word, I had a position offered me in a distant
city, and am now demonstrating health, happiness and supply."
A
woman's perfect self-expression may be in becoming a perfect wife, a perfect
mother, a perfect home-maker and not necessarily in having a public career.
Demand definite leads, and the way will be made easy and
successful.
One
should not visualize or force a mental picture. When he demands the Divine
Design to come into his conscious mind, he will receive flashes of inspiration,
and begin to see himself making some great accomplishment. This is the picture,
or idea, he must hold without wavering.
The
thing man seeks is seeking him - the telephone was seeking
Parents should never force careers and professions upon
their children. With a knowledge
of spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken for, early in childhood, or
prenatally.
A
prenatal treatment should be: "Let the God in this child have perfect
expression; let the Divine Design of his mind, body and affairs be made manifest
throughout his life, throughout eternity."
God's will be done, not man's; God's pattern, not man's
pattern, is the command we find running through all the scriptures, and the
Bible is a book dealing with the science of the mind. It is a book telling man
how to release his soul (or subconscious mind) from bondage.
The
battles described are pictures of man waging war against mortal thoughts. "A
man's foes shall be they of his own household." Every man is Jehoshaphat, and every man is David, who slays
Goliath (mortal thinking) with the little white stone (faith).
So
man must be careful that his is not the "wicked and slothful servant" who buried
his talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for not using one's ability.
Often fear stands between man and his perfect
self-expression. Stage-fright has hampered many a genius. This may be overcome
by the spoken word or treatment. The individual then loses all
self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a channel for Infinite
Intelligence to express Itself
through.
He
is under direct inspiration, fearless, and confident; for he feels that it is
the "Father within" him who does the work.
A
young boy came often to my class with his mother. He asked me to "speak the
word" for his coming examinations at school.
I
told him to make the statement: "I am one with Infinite Intelligence. I know
everything I should know on this subject." He had an excellent knowledge of
history, but was not sure of his arithmetic. I saw him afterwards, and he said:
"I spoke the word for my arithmetic, and passed with the highest honors; but thought I could depend on
myself for history, and got a very poor mark." Man often receives a set-back
when he is "too sure of himself," which means he is trusting to his personality
and not the "Father within."
Another one of my students gave me an example of this. She
took an extended trip abroad one summer, visiting many countries, where she was
ignorant of the languages. She was calling for guidance and protection every
minute, and her affairs went smoothly and miraculously. Her luggage was never
delayed nor lost! Accomodations
were always ready for her at the best hotels; and she had perfect service
wherever she went. She returned to
Everything went wrong, her trunks delayed, amid inharmony and confusion. The student
must form the habit of "practicing the Presence of God" every minute. "In all
thy ways acknowledge him;" nothing is too small or too great.
Sometimes an insignificant incident may be the turning
point in a man's life.
Robert Fulton, watching some boiling water, simmering in a
tea kettle, saw a steamboat!
I
have seen a student, often, keep
back his demonstration, through resistance, or pointing the way.
He
pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates just the way he desires the
manifestation to come, which brings things to a standstill.
"My
way, not your way!" is the command of Infinite Intelligence. Like all Power, be
it steam or electricity, it must have a nonresistant engine or insturment to work through, and man is that engine
or instrument.
Over and over again, man is told to "stand still". "Oh
We
see this in the incidents of the two thousand dollars coming to the woman
through the landlord when she became nonresistant and undisturbed, and the woman who won
the man's love "after all suffering had ceased."
The
student's goal is Poise! Poise is Power, for it gives God-Power a chance to rush
through man, to "will and to do Its good pleasure."
Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes "right decisions
quickly." "He never misses a trick."
Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of
many diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure.
It
has been named one of the worst "sins," as its reaction is so harmful. The
student learns that in metaphysics sin has a much broader meaning than in the
old teaching. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin."
He
finds that fear and worry are deadly sins. The are inverted faith, and through distorted mental
pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears. His work is to drive out these
enemies (from the subconscious mind). "When Man is fearless he is finished!"
Maeterlinck says, that "Man is God afraid."
So
as we read in the previous chapters; man can only vanquish fear by walking up to
the thing he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army prepared to meet the enemy,
singing "Praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever," they found their enemies had
destroyed each other, and there was nothing to fight.
For
example: A woman asked a friend to deliver a message to another friend. The
woman feared to give the message, as the reasoning mind said, "Don't get
mixed-up in this affair, don't
give that message."
She
was troubled in spirit, for she had given her promise. At last, she determined
to "walk up to the lion," and call on the law of divine protection. She met the
friend to whom she was to deliver the message. She opened her mouth to speak it,
when her friend said, "So and So
has left town," This made it unnecessary to give the message, as the situation
depended upon the person being in town. As she was willing to do it, she was not
obliged to; as she did not fear, the situation vanished.
The
student often delays his demonstration through a belief in incompletion. He
should make this statement:
"In
Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore, my demonstration is completed.
My perfect work, my perfect home, my
perfect health." Whatever he demands are perfect ideas registered in
Divine Mind, and must manifest, "under grace in a perfect way." He gives thanks
he has already received on the invisible, and makes active preparation for
receiving on the visible.
One
of my students was in need of a financial demonstration. She came to me and
asked why it was not completed.
I
replied: "Perhaps, you are in the habit of leaving things unfinished, and the
subconscious has gotten into the habit of not completing (as the without, so the
within)."
"I'll go home and finish something I commenced weeks ago,
and I know it will be symbolic of my demonstration."
She
sewed assiduously, and the article was soon completed. Shortly after, the money
came in a most curious manner.
Her
husband was paid his salary twice that month. He told the people of their
mistake, and they sent word to keep it.
When man ask,
believing, he must receive, for
God creates His own channels!
I
have been sometimes asked, "Suppose one has several talents, how is he to know which one to choose?"
Demand to be shown definitely, Say: "Infinite Spirit, give me a definite lead, reveal to me my perfect
self-expression, show me which talent I am to make use of now."
I
have known people to suddently
enter a new line of work, and be fully equipped, with little or no training. So
make the statement: "I am fully
equipped for the Divine Plan of my life," and be fearless in grasping
opportunities.
Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They
refuse gifts through pride, or some negative reason, thereby blocking their
channels, and invariably find themselves eventually with little or nothing. For
example: A woman who had given
away a great deal of money, had a gift offered her of several thousand dollars.
She refused to take it, saying she did not need it. Shortly after that, her
finances were "tied up", and she found herself in debt for that amount. Man
should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water - freely ye
have given, freely ye shall receive.
There is always the perfect balance of giving and
receiving, and though man should give without thinking of returns, he violates
law if he does not accept the returns which come to him; for all gifts are from
God, man being merely the channel.
A
thought of lack should never be held over the giver.
For
example: When the man gave the one cent, I did not say; "Poor man, he cannot
afford to give me that." I saw him rich and prosperous, with his supply pouring
in. It was this thought which brought it. If one has been a bad receiver, he
must become a good one, and take even a postage stamp if it is given him, and
open up his channels for receiving.
The
Lord loveth a cheerful receiver,
as well as a cheerful giver.
I
have often been asked why one man is born rich and healthy, and another poor and
sick.
Where there is an effect there is always a cause; there is
no such thing as chance.
This question is answered through the law of reincarnation.
Man goes through many births and deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him
free.
He
is drawn back to the earth plane through unsatisfied desire, to pay his Karmic
debts, or to "fulfill his
destiny."
The
man born rich and healthy has had pictures in his subconscious mind, in his past
life, of health and riches; and the poor and sick man, of disease and poverty.
Man manifests, on any plane, the sum total of his subconscious beliefs.
However, birth and death are man-made laws, for the "wages
of sin is death"; the Adamic fall
in consciousness through the belief in two powers. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was
born and has never died - "As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall
be!"
So
through the truth, man is set free from the law of Karma, sin and death, and
manifests the man made in "His image and likeness." Man's freedom comes through
fulfilling his destiny, bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of his
life.
His
lord will say unto him: "Well done thou good and faithful servant, thou has been
faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things (death
itself); enter thou into in the joy of thy Lord (eternal life)."
Chapter 10:
Denials and Affirmations
"Thou shalt
decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee."
All the good that is to be
made manifest in man's life is already an accomplished fact in divine mind, and
is released through man's recognition, or spoken word, so he must be careful to
decree that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees,
through his "idle words," failure or misfortune.
It
is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to word one's demands correctly, as
stated in a previous chapter.
If
one desires a home, friend, position or any other good thing, make the demand
for the "divine selection."
For
example: "Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right home, my right friend, my
right position. I give thanks it
now manifests under grace in a perfect way."
The
latter part of the statement is most important. For example: I knew a woman who
demanded a thousand dollars. Her daughter was injured and they received a
thousand dollars indemnity, so it did not come in a "perfect way."
The
demand should have been worded in this way: "Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that
the one thousand dollars, which is mine by divine right, is now released, and
reaches me under grace in a perfect way."
As
one grows in a financial consciousness, he should demand that the enormous sums
of money, which are his by divine right, reach him under grace, in perfect ways.
It
is impossible for man to release more than he thinks is possible, for one is
bound by the limited expectancies of the subconscious. He must enlarge his
expectancies in order to receive in a larger way.
Man
so often limits himself in his demands. For example: A student made the demand
for six hundred dollars, by a certain date. He did receive it, but heard
afterwards, that he came very near receiving a thousand dollars, but he was
given just six hundred, as the result of his spoken word.
"They limited the Holy One of Isreal." Wealth is a matter of consciousness. The
French have a legend giving an example of this. A poor man was walking along a
road when he met a traveler, who
stopped him and said: "My good friend, I see you are poor. Take this gold
nugget, sell it, and you will be rich all your days."
The
man was overjoyed at his good fortune, and took the nugget home. He immediately
found work and became so prosperous that he did not sell the nugget. Years
passed, and he became a very rich man. One day he met a poor man on the road. He
stopped him and said: "My good friend, I will give you this gold nugget, which,
if you sell, will make you rich for life." The mendicant took the nugget, had it
valued, and found it was only brass. So we see, the first man became rich through feeling rich,
thinking the nugget was gold.
Every man has within himself a gold nugget; it is his consciousness of gold, of
opulence, which brings riches into his life. In making his demands, man
begins at his journey's end,
that is he declares he has already received. "Before ye call I shall
answer."
Continually affirming establishes the belief in the
subconscious.
It
would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect
faith! One should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks repeatedly, that he
has received.
"The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." This
rejoicing which is yet in the desert (state of consciousness) opens the way for
release. The Lord's Prayer is in the form of command and demand, "Give us this
day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors," and
ends in praise, "For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the
Glory, forever. Amen." "Concerning the works of my hands, command ye me." So
prayer is command and demand, praise and thanksgiving. The sutdent's work is in making himself believe that "with God all things are
possible."
This is easy enough to state in the abstract, but a little
more difficult when confronted with a problem. For example: It was necessary for
a woman to demonstrate a large sum of money within a stated time. She knew she
must do something to get
a realization (for realization is manifestation), and she demanded a "lead."
She
was walking through a department store, when she saw a very beautiful pink
enamel papercutter. She felt the
"pull" towards it. The thought came. "I haven't a paper cutter good enough to open letters containing large
cheques."
So
she bought the papercutter, which
the reasoning mind would have called an extravagance. When she held it in her
hand, she had a flash of a picture of herself opening an envelope containing a
large cheque, and in a few weeks, she received the money. The pink papercutter was her bridge of active
faith.
Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious when
directed in faith.
For
example: A man was spending the night in a farmhouse. The windows of the room
had been nailed down, and in the middle of the night he felt suffocated and made
his way in the dark to the window. He could not open it, so he smashed the pane
with his fist, drew in draughts of fine fresh air, and had a wonderful night's
sleep.
The
next morning, he found he had smashed the glass of a bookcase and the window had
remained closed during the whole night. He had supplied himself with oxygen, simply by his thought of
oxygen.
When a student starts out to demonstrate, he should never
turn back. "Let not that man who wavers think that he shall receive anything of
the Lord."
A
colored student once made this
wonderful statement, "When I asks the Father for anything, I puts my foot down,
and I says: Father, I'll take nothing less than I've asked for, but more!" So
man should never compromise: "Having done all - Stand." This is sometimes the
most difficult time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to give up, to turn
back, to compromise.
"He
also serves who only stands and waits."
Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour because man
then lets go, that is, stops reasoning, and Infinite Intelligence has a chance
to work.
"Man's dreary desires are answered drearily, and his
impatient desires, long delayed or violently fulfilled.
For
example: A woman asked me why it was she was constantly losing or breaking her
glasses.
We
found she often said to herself
and others with vexation, "I wish I could get rid of my glasses." So her
impatient desire was violently fulfilled. What she should have demanded was
perfect eye-sight, but what she registered in the subconscious was simply the
impatient desire to be rid of her glasses; so they were continually being broken
or lost.
Two
attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation, as in the case of the woman who did
not appreciate her husband, or
fear of loss, which makes a picture of loss in the subconscious.
When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his
burden) he will have instantaneous manifestation.
For
example: A woman was out during a very stormy day and her umbrella was blown
inside-out. She was about to make a call on some people whom she had never met
and she did not wish to make her first appearance with a dilapidated umbrella.
She could not throw it away, as it did not belong to her. So in desperation, she
exclaimed: "Oh God, you take charge of this umbrella, I don't know what to do."
A
moment later, a voice behind her said: "Lady, do you want your umbrella mended?
There stood an umbrella mender.
She
replied, "Indeed, I do."
The
man mended the umbrella, while she went into the house to pay her call, and when
she returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is always an umbrella mender at
hand, on man's pathway, when one puts the umbrealla (or situation) in God's Hands.
One
should always follow a denial with an affirmation.
For
example: I was called on the 'phone late one night to treat a man whom I had
never seen. He was apparently very ill. I made the statement: "I deny this
appearance of disease. It is unreal, therefore cannot register in his
consciousness; this man is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, pure substance
expressing perfection."
There is no time or space, in Divine Mind, therefore the
word reaches instantly its destination and does not "return void." I have
treated patients in
I
am asked so often the difference between visualizing and visioning. Visualizing
is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a
spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind. The student should train his
mind to receive these flashes of inspiration, and work out the "divine
pictures," through definite leads. When a man can say, "I desire only that which
God desires for me," his new set of blueprints is given him by the Master
Architect, the God within. God's plan for each man transcends the limitation of
the reasoning mind, and is always the square of life, containing health, wealth,
love and perfect self-expression. Many a man is building for himself in
imagination a bungalow when he should be building a palace.
If
a student tries to force a demonstration (through the reasoning mind) he brings
it to a standstill. "I will hasten it," saith the Lord. He should act only through
intuition, or definite leads. "Rest in the Lord and wait patiently. Trust also
in him, and he will bring it to pass."
I
have seen the law work in the most astonishing manner. For example: A student
stated that it was necessary for her to have a hundred dollars for the following
day. It was a debt of vital importance which had to be met. I "spoke the word,"
declaring Spirit was "never too late" and that the supply was at hand.
That evening she phoned me of the miracle. She said that
the thought came to her to go to her safe-deposit box at the bank to examine
some papers. She looked over the papers, and at the bottom of the box, was a new
one hundred dollar bill. She was astounded, and said she knew she had never put
it there, for she had gone through the papers many times. It may have been a materialization, as Jesus Christ
materialized the loaves and fishes. Man will reach the stage where his "word is
made flesh," or materialized, instantly. "The fields, ripe with the harvest,"
will manifest immediately, as in all of the miracles of Jesus Christ.
There is a tremendous power alone in the name Jesus Christ.
It stands for Truth Made
Manifest. He said, "Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in my name, he will
give it to you."
The
power of this name raises the student into the fourth dimension, where he is
freed from all astral and psychic influences, and he becomes "unconditioned and
absolute, as God Himself is unconditioned and absolute."
I
have seen many healings accomplished by using the words, "In the name of Jesus
Christ."
Christ was both person and principle; and the Christ within
each man is his Redeemer and Salvation.
The
Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional self, the man made in God's image
and likeness. This is the self which has never failed, never known sickness or
sorrow, was never born and has never died. It is the "resurrection and the life"
of each man! "No man cometh to the Father save by the Son," means, that God, the
Universal, working on the place of the particular, becomes the Christ in man;
and the Holy Ghost, means God-in-action. So daily, man is manifesting the
Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Man
should make an art of thinking. The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful
to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and he paints
these pictures with masterly strokes of power and decision, having perfect faith
that there is no power to mar their perfection and that they shall manifest in
his life the ideal made real.
All
power is given man (through right thinking) to bring his heaven upon his earth, and this is the goal of the "Game of Life."
The
simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
May
each reader be now freed from that thing which has held him in bondage through
the ages, standing between him and his own, and "know the Truth which makes him
free" - free to fulfill his
destiny, to bring into manifestation the "Divine Design of his life, Health, Wealth, Love
and Perfect Self-Expression." "Be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."
Denials and Affirmations
For Prosperity
God
is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly, under grace,
in perfect ways.
For Right Conditions
Every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be
dissolved and dissipated, and the
Divine Idea now comes to pass.
For Right Conditions
Only that which is true of God is true of me, for I and the
Father are ONE.
For Faith
As
I am one with God, I am one with my good, for God is both the Giver and the Gift. I cannot separate the Giver from the gift.
For Right Conditions
Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every wrong
condition in my mind, body and affairs. Divine Love is the most powerful
chemical in the universe, and dissolves everything which is not of itself!
For Health
Divine Love floods my consciousness with health, and every
cell in my body is filled with light.
For the Eyesight
My
eyes are God's eyes, I see with the eyes of spirit. I see clearly the open way;
there are no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the perfect plan.
For Guidance
I
am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and give instant obedience to Thy
will.
For the Hearing
My
ears are God's ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to be led I hear glad
tidings of great joy.
For Right Work
I have a perfect work
In a perfect
way;
I
give a perfect service
For perfect pay.
For Freedom from all Bondage
I
cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free!