Post by WalksInSpirit on Jul 24, 2005 22:41:53 GMT -5
Consciously Creating Circumstances, Part 14: 07-20-05
(08:22:02) (HostLoryGG) “Let there be PEACE on earth, and let it BEGIN with me and GOD’S LOVE in my heart.”
(08:22:05) (HostLoryGG) Amen
(08:23:02) (HostLoryGG) GOD is different to different men, for man creates his own conception of God.
(08:23:26) (HostLoryGG) One of the most penetrating truths of religion was voiced by an avowed critic of it. You have heard, no doubt, the saying that “an honest man is the noblest work of God”.
(08:23:53) (HostLoryGG) Robert Ingersoll very cleverly, if cynically, reversed that saying, and in doing so, pointed out to mental scientists what really sums up their entire creed. He said: “An honest God is the noblest work of man”. Think that over.
(08:24:54) (HostLoryGG) If you have followed these discussions carefully, you must see that in a sense each man does create his own God. I say it with all due reverence, for you understand that this means that he decides for himself what God shall be to him ~~ or, if you prefer, what the Universal Mind shall do for him.
(08:25:57) (HostLoryGG) Do you wonder that theologians for centuries have fought over definitions of God? How could they possibly have agreed among themselves, since they differed in their own natures from each other?
(08:26:34) (HostLoryGG) However, we need not pause over their disputes. All we need know is that each of us has the almost miraculous power of creating our own individual conception of God. Do we say that He is just ~~ and do we act and speak daily as though we believe Him just? Then He is just.
(08:27:27) (HostLoryGG) Do we believe that He will supply us with all good things ~~ and do we act daily as though we believe that? Then He DOES supply us with all good things. Do we believe that He will answer a constructive thought-form by bringing it to pass ~~ and do we act DAILY as though we believe it? Then He DOES bring it to pass.
(08:28:37) (HostLoryGG) This is how simple it is! And that is the meaning of the scriptural warning that “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”. Not what he says he thinks. Not what he thinks occasionally when he remembers to think it. But what he thinketh in his heart ~~ daily, habitually and without reserve. That is what he is ~~ in the world of thought ~~ and that is what he becomes in the objective world.
(08:29:43) (HostLoryGG) The mental scientist who is alive to his task will, curiously enough, exhibit to the world a perfect bevy of the homely virtues. He will be anything but spectacular in his actions, and perhaps seem even stupid to some bright minds because he is not continually scheming to advance his interests.
(08:30:37) (HostLoryGG) But how incredibly superior is such a mental scientist? That one great lesson he has learned leads him to leave ways and means to the Universal Ways and Means Committee, once he has decided the direction and manner in which that power shall manifest in his life.
(08:31:24) (HostLoryGG) This does not mean that he sits back and does nothing! Far from it!!! He will be decidedly active in discharging his duties, and doing well the thing at hand. But the greatest Master who has yet appeared to us said, “Take no anxious thought for the morrow” and the mental scientist lives strictly by that rule.
(08:32:06) (HostLoryGG) Longfellow has well summed up this thought in an immortal stanza in his Psalm of Life: Trust no future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!”
(08:32:53) (HostLoryGG) The worker in thought-forms leaves to others all worry as to whether he will get his just reward. He KNOWS that he will. He radiates good cheer and confidence ~~ not because some “pep-up-artist” has told him to, but because he cannot be any other way.
(08:33:43) (HostLoryGG) He know that life has a real meaning, and he is eager to enter its experiences on the credit side of his ledger. He seeks every opportunity to enlarge the useful sphere of those experiences, both with ideas and with people.
(08:34:33) (HostLoryGG) He knows that Love and Beauty walk hand in hand down the by-ways of life, as twin agents of the Universal Mind, and he finds them equally in the song of a lark or the glad cry of a child, in a lump of soft clay or a dancing sunbeam, in the caress of a loved one or the smile of a friend.
(08:35:26) (HostLoryGG) Such a person, who has come to AT-ONE-MENT with Universal Mind, and who understands its infinite bounty, truly inhabits a world of the wondrous, “far surpassing wealth unspoken”.
(08:35:56) (HostLoryGG) Aren't these words encouraging?(08:36:26) (HostLoryGG) Does anyone doubt that such a world is indeed possible? It awaits only the will to find it, to open the door ~~ in short, to use the key which already has been placed in your hands.
(08:37:06) (HostLoryGG) It requires mainly the formation of your basic thought-form, and then living your life in full confidence that this thought-form is working out in your life. Though you hear countless talks on this subject, and read all the books ever written about it, you will never be closer to the essence of the idea than you are right now.(08:37:46) (HostLoryGG) Many further details need consideration, but that is the vital essence of the idea.(08:38:19) (HostLoryGG) Next week we will get down to cases and discuss some practical examples of how to use thought-forms ~~ and how NOT to use them.
(08:38:59) (HostLoryGG) Thank you for coming and participating.
