Consciously Creating Circumstances#16,17: 08-10-05

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Consciously Creating Circumstances, Parts 16 & 17: 08-10-05

(08:17:37) (HostLory) Let us start with a prayer and then I shall review a bit the last two paragraphs or so of last week.

(08:18:17) (HostLory) OUR FATHER, OUR GOD! Hear us now. Be not far from us. Comfort us in our distresses of every nature. Give us of peace and love; that our bodies, our minds, may be the greater channel to manifest that love which JESUS showed in the earth. Amen. 281-50
(08:18:37) (merri) Amen
(08:18:40) (patricia) Amen
(08:18:40) (WalksInSpirit) Nunwe
(08:18:49) (newbie) Amen
(08:19:00) (ron) amen
(08:19:46) (HostLory) If you will remember this gentlemen decided he wanted a specific job and this is what he did.
(08:21:00) (HostLory) There was a certain office where he felt sure he could be useful. He had once worked there, could do certain things for that organization, and believed that he might, without loss to anyone, well be employed there.
(08:21:23) (HostLory) So he set up a picture of himself at work there, right in the office and at a certain desk he knew was not then being used. He clearly outlined the kind of papers he would be working on. He visualized himself receiving a pay envelope. He built up many details of the picture, and then impressed it hard and often on the Universal Mind. HE GOT THE JOB.
(08:21:52) (HostLory) Was that a successful thought-form? Apparently so, for he got what he was after. But he failed in one important point, and soon afterwards lost the job!. What was the thing he did wrong and which, therefore, brought him only temporary and mild success with that thought-form? Do you see it?
(08:22:02) (newbie) sounds almost like metaphysics
(08:22:29) (Rosie) didn't see himself in the job long term?
(08:22:40) (HostLory) His mistake was in specifying the particular office he was to be employed at. He believed they needed him, and the power of his thought created a temporary condition that agreed with his idea. But basically he was wrong ~~ they did NOT need him, and his thought-form could not permanently overcome that fact.
(08:23:02) (HostLory) It is metaphysical, newbie and yes Rosie you are right.
(08:23:17) (HostLory) Here is what he should have done.
(08:24:04) (HostLory) Just what he did, EXCEPT that he should not have specified the office. He should first have meditated fully on the manner in which his talents could well be used by somebody ~~ not a specific person. He should have pictured himself in an office doing the kind of work he wanted, as part of a chain of effort that was giving his community a real service of some kind ~~ and receiving a pay envelope.
(08:24:49) (HostLory) What is really the essence of employment? Is it not service? That is a much-abused word these days, but it is an honorable one, nevertheless. If you desire ~~ honestly and completely ~~ to be useful, and impress that idea on the Universal Mind, the way will be found.
(08:25:23) (HostLory) The answer may be entirely different from what you expect, but, when it comes, accept it whole-heartedly and put all of yourself into whatever it suggests.
(08:26:03) (HostLory) The story about the man which I have just related ~~ a true one, by the way ~~ has a happy ending. After being discharged from the job he secured, he had wit enough to realize his error. He went right to work on another thought-form of a more general nature, without specifications as to how or where it would work out. His emphasis was put on himself as really serving.
(08:26:13) (Rosie) I think I can say that's what happened with me recently in getting a new job. I had to take the scenic route so to speak but it eventually worked.
(08:26:46) (HostLory) A close friend of his soon came to him and hired him for a totally unexpected kind of work, which he was glad to undertake, and that job he has held, with his pay increased twice since.
(08:27:16) (HostLory) I cannot tell you the exact nature of the thought-form you should set up to get yourself a job. I can and have told you what to do in a general way ~~ which is all anyone can tell you.
(08:27:55) (HostLory) Perhaps when we finish this text, Rosie, you will share with us just what your thought-form was. :-)
(08:28:23) (HostLory) Now let me add a few Don’ts.
(08:28:48) (HostLory) Do not see yourself replacing anyone in a job. That would probably be bad for the other person and so could not do you any good.
(08:29:14) (HostLory) Do not specify minutely the kind of work you want to do. There may be a better kind of work for you.
(08:29:44) (HostLory) Do not say that you are going to get a job by such a time. Your best work may not be ready for you, and no matter what your present needs may be, your best work will be better for you in the long run if you have the courage to wait for it!
(08:30:20) (HostLory) Do not see yourself hoarding the results of your labors. There is plenty for All ~~ even though few know it. There is certainly plenty for YOU. See yourself USING the fruits of your labors constructively ~~ to help others, to serve the community, to build up the business you become a part of.
(08:30:51) (newbie) excuse me, but aren't we supposed to specify in some area
(08:30:53) (HostLory) These are a few of the principal errors to be avoided. There are others that you will find for yourself unless you stay close to the general rules laid down. And above all,
(08:31:22) (HostLory) remember that after you have made up your thought-form correctly, and consistently stamped it on the Universal Mind, you must act in full confidence that is HAS become a fact in the world of thought, and WILL come true before your very eyes.
(08:32:32) (HostLory) . It is easy to form a mental picture. Everyone has done so and continues to do so to a greater or lesser extent. Day dreams are such pictures. Even the most “unimaginative” person forms pictures in his mind of their desires or longings closest to his heart.
(08:33:06) (HostLory) Ideas MUST express themselves, and in order to become full fledged ideas they MUST picturize themselves in one’s consciousness. If you propose to build a house, you may be hazy about details but you have some IDEA of about how you expect it to look, and you try to convey your general mental picture to your architect, leaving the detailed drawings and specifications to him, if you are wise.
(08:33:47) (HostLory) In forming thought-forms you are commending your ideas to the Great Architect of the Universe.
(08:34:18) (HostLory) The more you retain your pictured idea in your mind, seldom letting it out of your consciousness, even though you may be engaged on other matters, the stronger that picture becomes. It grows by its own nature, for growth is a cosmic law that applies to things on the mental plane as well as on the physical.
(08:35:00) (HostLory) We keep our mental picture or thought-form in continuous, healthy growth by the process and faculty of concentration. An eastern philosopher, Patanjali, defines concentration as “the hindering of the modifications of the thinking principle”.
(08:36:00) (HostLory) In plainer words, it means the prevention of thoughts that interfere with any important matter on which we have set our minds. It means devoting one’s unhindered mental energies to the particular matter that stands out in importance above all other things in our life at any one time.
(08:36:24) (HostLory) Sounds like our lesson in meditation on Monday doesn't it?
(08:36:53) (HostLory) Concentration means being of “one mind” for the period in which you are holding your thought-form for impression upon the Universal Mind. There must be no confusion.
(08:37:12) (newbie1) Lory-if I may be so bold- it sounds like science of mind to me
(08:37:26) (HostLory) You CANNOT develop your thought-form and impress it upon the Universal and at the same time allow side thoughts to flit across your mental vision. Development of concentration is natural to some, difficult for others: but any normal person CAN develop it by simple perseverance.
(08:37:29) (Rosie) science of spirit as well
(08:37:56) (HostLory) This material was written by George Winslow Plummer, a Rosicrucian, newbie.
(08:38:06) (newbie1) Rosie-science of mind is actually a new age religion
(08:38:27) (HostLory) If, at the start, your mind wanders, bring it back to focus again and again until your picture remains clear and unobscured. Again, if your mind persists in wandering, in spite of all your efforts, it shows what you THINK you desire does not take the precedence it should and that it is not, for the moment, the all-absorbing interest in your life. To be successful, it MUST be the all-absorbing interest, to the exclusion of all else at that time
(08:39:00) (BlackWolf) Concentration is developed during meditation as well as other exercises.
(08:39:35) (HostLory) This does not mean that you must think of nothing else at any time. Go about your ordinary affairs, but with the knowledge that the thought-form upon which you are working is very close beneath your surface consciousness and can be brought up to focus at any moment. Have an underlying consciousness of your supreme desire, and as many times as possible each day bring it to focus and impress it again and again upon the Universal Mind.
(08:40:19) (Rosie) nothing is new with regard to universal energies...we simply attach different labels to them as time marches on
(08:41:16) (HostLory) That is what I prepared for tonight, however, we can go on, if everyone wishes to do so.
(08:42:54) (Rosie) as my brother likes to say, the universe is just one big Xerox machine. What we create with mind and spirit is dutifully copied back to us
(08:43:06) (HostLory) I should imagine whatever happens to work for us as individuals, Roz, would work.
(08:43:44) (HostLory) Shall I pull up text #17?
(08:44:09) (Roz) isnt this a bit like playing God?
(08:44:24) (newbie1) I personally like to tack my "images" to the end of my meditations
(08:44:36) (HostLory) We are part of God, Roz. We are contacting the Universal Mind.
(08:44:42) (Rosie) We ARE God :o)
(08:45:03) (Rosie) *dives for the bunker*
(08:45:32) (HostLory) Shall we go on? A show of hands please.
(08:45:33) (patricia) yes, Jesus said, Have I not told you, ye are Gods
(08:45:40) (ron) hand
(08:45:46) (merri) ok with me Lory
(08:45:47) (Roz) but not all of God hey you under the bunker
(08:45:47) (patricia) hand
(08:45:50) (newbie1) I wonder if this is the right place for me, I beleive that God acts in us and thru us but that we have free will
(08:45:51) (BlackWolf) paw :o)
(08:46:04) (Rosie) of course we have free will
(08:46:12) (BlackWolf) I would agree newbie
(08:46:33) (newbie1) ty black wolf :)
(08:46:36) (HostLory) newbie, this is just another topic of discussion. You are in the right place if you are spiritual.
(08:47:08) (Rosie) that's what this discussion has been all about...one can simply be careless or careful about what is created with that free will
(08:48:21) (Roz) cooperation w/ the Universal mind not directing it
(08:48:30) (HostLory) In concentrating upon your thought-form, hold it steady, clear and fixed. But there is another way in which you can help. Meditate upon it. Meditation is somewhat like concentration but not the same
(08:49:09) (Roz) meditation is allowing not concentrating
(08:49:16) (HostLory) In concentration the thought or picture is held fixed. In meditation the general idea is held, but one allows the mind to revolve the idea in every direction developing its possibilities, and then adding such developments to the fixed idea. Meditate first to build up a fine thought-form. Then contemplate calmly and expectantly its working out.
(08:49:50) (Rosie) Yes, newbie. We have been given free will in order to create whatever we choose. One can be careless with thoughts and feelings, creating resulting chaos, or one can be careful by consciously directing it
(08:50:11) (HostLory) Now notice carefully that it is NOT by concentration or meditation that you consciously create circumstances, It is ONLY by impressing your thought-forms on the subjective and visualizing them worked out that you bring them about.
(08:50:53) (HostLory) Concentration and meditation are needed to help you do this stamping. Your WILL holds the thought constant to its purpose ~~ but the thought alone CREATES.
(08:51:23) (HostLory) Do the above paragraphs help to clear up some of your doubts?
(08:51:54) (HostLory) Probably you have seen a steel die or copper plate from which stationery is engraved. The surface of the metal is hollowed out in the form of the monogram to be printed. As a die alone it is practically worthless. Yet when the ink is put into it, and transferred under pressure to the paper, the finished product is useful.
(08:51:57) (newbie1) didn't Rosie just say she was G-d?
(08:52:00) (Rosie) I disagree with that just a bit...I feel emotion and thought work together in creating
(08:52:20) (ron) quite a God
(08:52:23) (Rosie) Yes, I DID...I'm God...we're all God because we have the creative ability
(08:53:29) (HostLory) Conceive of your thought-form as the die. When the proper materials come to hand, the die or thought-form impresses your life with events as determined by its own form. The common expression, “The die is cast” takes on greater significance in this connection.
(08:53:58) (BlackWolf) Alea jacta est :o)
(08:54:06) (HostLory) Sometimes concentration is taught by having the student fix his attention outwardly on some physical object, like a glass of water, or a point within a circle. While this may be of value, resort to mechanical means is unnecessary, and the resulting phenomena are not in the long run as constructive as direct training of the mind, BY the mind, IN the mind.
(08:56:04) (HostLory) The sort of concentrative ability you need must be the vigorous, active kind that will operate anywhere and under any conditions without an external stimulus. In seeking this, first relax. Close the eyes. Take a comfortable posture. In other words, remove external distractions. Allow your mind to calm down. Then ~~
(08:56:58) (HostLory) DEVELOP THE PICTURE OF YOUR DESIRE. Fill in as many details as you can without specifying how they shall come about. Gradually, like a photographic film developing, the picture will take on more and more meaning, until it suddenly jumps into completion. Then FIX IT. Hold on to is for a few minutes. Then banish it and forget it. RELAX.
(08:57:47) (HostLory) Later on, recall the picture to your mind. Repeat this process often. There is no such thing as too much concentration, unless you do so much of it at any one time that you become over-tired.
(08:58:31) (HostLory) Remember that the Universal Mind is constructive. Yet because Universal Mind is impersonal, it has no choice but to follow the plan laid down in the charge, mission or burden that is given it by you. Therefore it will work for you, and on returning your plan or thought-form completed and in objective manifestation, it will involve you just as you wanted to be involved.
(08:59:23) (HostLory) . If, therefore, your thought-form has in it any element of personal grievance or harm for another, it will come back to you and you will still be involved, which is just what you do NOT want. So make sure that your plans are right and worthy, for be it week, month, year or centuries, the bread cast on the waters will return.
(09:00:35) (HostLory) Sometimes the question is asked: “Can I function more than one thought-form at a time?” The answer is that only one thought-form can be impressed upon the Universal Mind at one “stamping”. But having with deep concentration impressed the Universal Mind with a fundamental thought-form there is nothing to prevent you from making other impresses upon the Universal Mind for other purposes.
(09:01:22) (HostLory) The real test is whether you can focus your objective mind on more than one purpose without weakening the varied purposes you have in mind. Sometimes a person may have several desires which, when properly put into definite shape, indicate that one single, well-expressed thought-form will furnish the basic essentials to cover all those desires.
(09:03:16) (HostLory) If it is desired to develop two thought-forms and to impress them upon the Universal Mind, the individual must make sure that his mind is entirely clear of the one while he devotes it to the other.
(09:03:56) (HostLory) Otherwise “confusion in the craft” will result. It is better to set one well-defined thought-form into activity and wait until it is firmly started on the way to externalization, and then later impress the second thought-form as a distinct entity by itself.
(09:04:22) (HostLory) Take the first steps slowly. Ponder your objectives carefully. Then work hard on one basic thought-form before you clutter up your mental workshop with a lot of half-built, weak structures.
(09:04:54) (HostLory) That finishes the authors thoughts on Concentration. Next week we will cover FEAR and FAITH
(09:05:25) (merri) thankyou Lory that was great information
(09:05:48) (patricia) yes, thank you Lory. Lots for me to think about!
(09:06:15) (WalksInSpirit) Thank you, Grandmother. Awesome chat once again! :-)
(09:06:30) (BlackWolf) Thanks Lory, great chat.
(09:13:53) (Rosie) The job I started this week I had applied for two times previously but someone else was chosen instead. Though I know what I was doing at the newspaper was important the negativity was weighing me down and I really wanted to do something else where I could put my energies to more positive use in helping the community.
(09:14:44) (Rosie) I had decided even if the job came open again I would not apply...don't hafta hit me upside the head with a 2x4 TOO many times, ya know ;o)
(09:14:55) (HostLory) a good thought-form Rosie.
(09:14:55) (BlackWolf) What happened to the two people who got the job instead of you, Rosie?
(09:16:14) (Rosie) All of a sudden, out of the clear blue sky, I was offered the job outright with no application necessary
(09:16:29) (Rosie) They didn't work out, Nick...lol...guess it was just a timing thing after all
(09:16:34) (ernie) good fur you
(09:16:34) (BlackWolf) Awesome
(09:16:36) (patricia) WOW Rosie!
(09:16:42) (ernie) good luck rosie
(09:17:00) (BlackWolf) Well, if they became basket cases we would be worried about you Rosie. :o)
(09:17:09) (Roz) couldnt happen to a better gal
(09:17:31) (HostLory) Terrific, Rosie. But obviously that timing through the Univeral Mind was not ready.
(09:17:40) (Rosie) thanks all! I'm still kind of in shock...just shows you have to be patient and know it will come
(09:17:51) (WalksInSpirit) Coolness, Ro!
(09:18:12) (ernie) yes it came because you wanted it and desrved it