|
Part II. The Teachings, Essays, Metaphysics and Secrets. - Modules
Laws of Attraction &
Mental Attitude
We must assert
that all thinking, observant people have noticed the operation of the
ancient mental
Law of Attraction, whereby “Like Attracts Like.” A man’s Mental Attitude
acts as a magnet,
attracting to him the things, objects, circumstances, environments, and
people in harmony with that
Mental Attitude. Fix your mind firmly upon anything, good or bad, in the
world, and you attract it to you or are
attracted to it in obedience to the LAW. You attract to you the
character, ideals, people, and things you expect, think
about and hold in your Mental Attitude with strong desire.
Desire is the
motivating force that moves the Will into action, and which cause the
varied activity of
life, men and things. Desire-Force is a real power in life, and
influences not only tracts, influences
and compels other persons and things to swing in toward the center of
the Desire sending forth the
currents. In the Secret of Success, Desire plays a prominent part.
Without a Burning Desire for
Success, there is no Direction. The Law of Attraction is set into motion
by Desire. What is the
pattern upon which the Law of Attraction builds under the force of
Desire? The Mental Image, of
course. The method of the action of Mental Attitude towards Spiritual
Abundance may be called
the working of the Law of Attraction. Now without attempting to advance
any wild theories, I must
assert that all thinking, observing men have noticed the operation of a
mental Law of Attraction,
whereby "like attracts like." A person’s Mental Attitude acts as a
magnet, attracting the things,
objects, circumstances, environments, and people in harmony with that
Mental Status and Attitude.
Fix your mind firmly upon anything, good or bad, in the world, and you
attract it to you or are
attracted to it in obedience to the LAW. You attract to you the things
you expect, what you think
about, what you are willing to have, and to whatever you direct and
focus in your Mental Energy.
The person who
thinks, talks, and expects health and prosperity attracts these good
things into their
life. Sweep out from the chambers of your mind any negative thoughts and
FILL up the mind with
the strong, constructive, positive, invigorating, helpful, forceful,
compelling thoughts and ideas such
as: Success, Confidence, Health, Peace of Mind, and The Expectation of
that which you desire.
And, just as the steel fillings fly to the attraction of the magnet, so
will that which you need fly to
you in response to this great natural principle of mental action - the
Law of Attraction. Begin this
very moment and build up a new a new character of thinking and ideal -
that of Peace, Health,
Financial Independence and Abundance. See it mentally - expect it -
demand it! This is the way to
create it in your Enhanced Spiritual & Mental Attitude of Prosperity.
The laws of life await your
unlocking of the treasure chest of prosperity and abundant life.v Change
your thoughts, and you will
change your Destiny. [4]
Karma and Correspondences
We see how very
important is the Thoughts, Attention and The Feelings we have concerning
anything, for upon the quality of our thought and concentration hinges
the results and destiny that
we manifest for ourselves. As a mental exercise, REMEMBER: All is right
with the world. It is
perfect and advancing to completion. I will contemplate the facts of
social, political, and industrial
life only from this high viewpoint. Behold, it is all very good. I will
see all human beings, all my
acquaintances, friends, neighbors, and the members of my own household
in the same way. They are
all good. Nothing is wrong with the universe; nothing can be wrong but
my own personal attitude,
and henceforth I keep that right. My whole trust is in God. The only
service you can render God is
to give expression to what he is trying to give the world, through you.
The highest service you can
render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may
live in you to the utmost of
your possibilities. In this way of mental and spiritual health, you can
best serve those you love.
Overall, it has been said that repeated thoughts become tendencies or
habits, willingness can
become action, and repeated experiences lead to wisdom. Our thoughts,
actions, inactions and
omissions are what creates our character. If we desire good Karma
Energy, we must be willing to
put out good thoughts, praise others, become thankful, see things in a
opportunistic light, have faith
in the regeneration of mind and body and take right actions. Our every
action and thought of
goodness is very powerful. Acts of kindness, service to others, and self
development are all
extremely powerful energies. Thoughts of negative things are weak
thoughts which are 100 times
less powerful that acts of creation and constructiveness. If we maintain
a harmonious relationship
with the Supreme Intelligence while keeping a peaceful relationship with
our externals, life will, of
course, be much easier. Further, when we are avoiding wasteful thinking
and actions, our spiritual
energies maintain a laser focus and power. As with Physics, it is
possible to neutralize a sound wave
by setting up another sound wave of the same pattern which comes from
the opposite pole.
Therefore, it is possible to conjure and visualize ideas, thoughts and
images that can completely
neutralize old attitudes. By changing our outlook, you can change your
future. Every cause has its
effect and every action has its results, but it is desire that is the
link that connects the two.
Atonement and Purity of Mind
The Rosicrucian Mystery teaching gives a scientific method whereby an
aspirant may purge himself
continually of negative Karmic Energy. Each night after retiring the
pupil reviews his life during the
past day in reverse order. He starts to visualize as clearly as possible
the scene which took place just
before retiring. He then endeavors to impartially view his actions in
that scene examining them to
see whether he did right or wrong. If there is something that needs
improvement, realize what you
have done as vividly as possible, and try to feel exactly as that one
felt whom was wronged and at
the very earliest opportunity attempt to make amends or mental atonement
for the hasty expression.
Then, call up the next scene one by one, and endeavor to overcome any
counterproductive habits. [7]
Other Steps to the Mastery of Attunement
1. Humility, remaining teachable, and being right sized with regard to
ego.
2. Developing character through change and growth
3. Honesty and Integrity (doing what you say and being honest with
yourself)
4. Purity of Thought Heart and Intentions i.e. right thinking toward
sobriety
5. Selflessness through giving without expectation of return through
service and non-hoarding
of yourself
6. Development of purpose, making healthy decisions, and being definite
toward self
improvement
7. Gratitude - Being thankful for the gifts you have received, praising
others, blessing your
home, family, and world
8. Willing to engage self analysis and evaluation for the purposes of
growth
9. Attunement toward harmony with others through amends, restitution,
mental catharis,
character development, and right action.
10. Use of visualization, prayer, or meditation to enable a mental
vision of a fuller life and
connection to the universe.
11. Willingness to be open minded toward accepting a state of well being
and peace of mind.
12. Allowing harmony in your life and a sincere belief that life is
abundant.
The Power of Prayer and Meditation
Prayer and meditation must be for the good of all concerned. To
effectively pray, you must petition
the universal intelligence. You must create a harmonious relationship
with the supreme so that you
can release your creative thoughts and prayers to the universe. You must
form a clear and definite
mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you
have it yourself. You must
have it before you can give it, and many people fail to impress
universal intelligence because they
have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want
to do, to have, or to
become. It is not enough that you should have a general desire for
wealth “with which to do good.”
Everybody has that desire.
It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, live
more, etc. Everybody has
those desires also. If you were going to send a wireless message to a
friend, you would not send the
letters of the alphabet in their order and let him construct the message
for himself, nor would you
take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherent
sentence, one, which had real
specific meaning. When you try to impress your wants upon the thinking
substance, remember that
it must be done with a coherent statement. You must know what you want
and be specific and
definite. You can never get rich or start the creative power into action
by sending out unformed
longings and vague desires. Go over your desires and objectives clearly
and specifically. See just
what you want and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish it to
look when you get it. That clear
mental picture you must have continually in mind.
As the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship,
you must keep your face
toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than the
helmsman loses sight of the
compass. It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to
set apart special times for
prayer and affirmation, nor to “go into the silence,” nor to do occult
stunts of any kind. Some of
these things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want
and to want it badly enough
so that it will stay in your thoughts. Spend as much of your leisure
time as you can in contemplating
your picture. But no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind
on a thing, which he really
wants. It is the things you do not really care about which require
effort to fix your attention upon
them. And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is
strong enough to hold your
thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds the needle
of the compass, it will hardly
be worthwhile for you to try to carry out the instructions given in this
book.
The methods set forth here are for people whose desire for growth and
expansion is strong enough
to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and to make them work.
The more clear and
definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it,
bringing out all its delightful
details, the stronger your desire will be. And the stronger your desire,
the easier it will be to hold
your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want. Something more is
necessary, however, than
merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a
dreamer, and will have little or
no power for accomplishment.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it, to bring it
out in tangible expression. And
behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the
thing is already yours
that it is “at hand” and you have only to take possession of it. Live in
the new way or home,
mentally, until it takes form around you physically. In the mental
realm, enter at once into full
enjoyment of the things you want.
"Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them,”
said Jesus. See the things you want as if they were actually around you
all the time. See yourself as
owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will
use them when they are
your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is
clear and distinct, and then take
the mental attitude of ownership toward everything in that picture. Take
possession of it, in mind, in
the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this mental ownership.
Do not waiver for an instant in
the faith that it is real. And remember what was said in a proceeding
chapter about gratitude: Be as
thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.
The person who can sincerely
thank God for the things that as yet he owns only in imagination has
real faith. He will get rich. He
will cause the creation of whatever he wants.
You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want. It is not
necessary to tell God about it every
day. Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things
which make for a larger life and
to get these desire arranged into a coherent whole, and then to impress
this whole desire upon the
formless substance, which has the power and the will to bring you what
you want. You do not make
this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding
the vision with unshakable
PURPOSE to attain it and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it.
The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are
talking, but according to your faith
while you are working. Keep yourself focused and thinking in the certain
way with of words; you
make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it and
with steadfast FAITH that
you do attain it. The answer to prayer is not according to your faith
while you are talking, but
according to your faith while you are working. You cannot impress the
mind of God by having a
special Sabbath day set apart to tell him what you want, and then
forgetting him during the rest of
the week. You cannot impress him by having special hours to go into your
closet and pray, if you
then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour of prayer comes
again. Oral prayer is well
enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, in clarifying your
vision and strengthening your
faith, but it is not your oral petitions that get you what you want. In
order to get rich you do not
need a “sweet hour of prayer;” you need to “pray without ceasing.” And
by prayer I mean holding
steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into
solid form, and the faith that you
are doing so. “Believe that ye receive them.”
Once you have clearly formed your vision, the whole matter turns on
receiving. When you have
formed it, it is well to make an oral statement, addressing the supreme
in gratitude. Then, from that
moment on you must, in mind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new
house, wear the fine
clothes, ride in the automobile, go on the journey, and confidently plan
for greater journeys. Think
and speak of all the things or ideals or health that you have asked for
in terms of actual present
ownership. Imagine an environment and a condition exactly as you want
them, and live all the time
in that mental environment and financial condition until they take
physical shape. Mind, however,
that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder. Hold to
the FAITH that the imaginary
is being realized and to your PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it is
faith and purpose in the
use of the imagination that make the difference between the scientist
and the dreamer. [8]
7 Cosmic Principles - Rosicrucian & Hermetic – The Kyballion Laws
The Kybalion was first published in December of 1908 by The Three
Initiates who was probably
Dr. William Walker Atkinson and his associates. The book addressed
Hermeticism and the Ancient
Mysteries of the Greek and Egyptian Empires. The Kybalion states that
the book was published by
Yogi Publication Society. Some calculate that the Kybalion is an work of
an older Greek manuscript
called the Kabalyon from several thousand years ago. These 7 laws are
said to be the essence of the
teachings of Hermes Trismegistus and his Alchemy. These laws are also
published in almost
identical fashion in various Rosicrucian Manifestos.
The Kybalion speaks of 2 major metaphysical issues: 1) The ALL in All
and 2)
Correspondences and Cause and Effect.
The “All in All” can be related to the reasoning that we are part of ALL
and the Supreme. We are
however, connected to ALL and we contain a part of it. It is
self-evident therefore, that we are
connected to all being, life, and universal substance. The ALL,
moreover, contains all of what we
are. With this in mind, it parallels many of the Ancient Eastern Mystics
such as: Christians such as
Meister Eckhart, Buddha, Vedic Teachings, Socrates, Swedenborg, and
more. Additionally, if we are
part and connected to all, we can communicate to all via the Hermetic
Teachings of Mentalism,
Vibration, Cause and Effect and our Mind Thoughts and Actions.
With the law of cause and effect, we know that even Plato and Aristotle
realized that every effect has
a cause. There is a chain of events and mind stuff that leads to every
outcome. Although we may
not cause every specific outcome, we play a part in each chain of
causation.
With vibrations, many teachers are explaining to students how to affect
their personal vibratory and
rhythmic rates of thinking, moods, and even prayer and meditation. With
concentration, focus, and
mental imaging, we can affect our future and the energy that precedes
us.
Notes on The Seven Hermetic Principles
I. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM
We are Spirit and are part of ALL, our minds must work in tune with the
infinite. Thus, we have a
duty to mentally work in harmony with the spirit within and without. The
closer we bring ourselves
to the source of all, the closer it will draw to us. There is a
connecting link between us and the ALL
that we can clog up or block with the emotions of: pride, fear, or anger
etc. Thus, the goal is that
mind and spirit within can work in accordance with the spirit throughout
and surrounding us. We
must meet the All half-way with our thought and action
II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.
“As above, so below; as below, so above.”–The Kybalion – With this
statement we determine that
our present and past mind function and focus corresponds with our
reality. We can will our minds
to focus or concentrate in any direction with which corresponding energy
will meet us in the future.
The Mind is the creator of the reality that we have and will have.
Various influences may affect the
path, but we can be in continuous contact with the universal forces
which alters the journey.
Realizing that the spirit energy of ALL is contained within is the
breakthrough, but having a
harmonious relationship with the spirit energy within and without is the
key to initial & long-term
prosperity.
III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION.
Your vibration can be at many levels. To say the least, you can enhance
your mental vibration
through various actions. Higher levels of mental and spiritual
vibrations include: Love, Gratitude,
Praise, Faith, Feel good emotions and more. Many practitioners work on a
daily basis to enhance
and bring their mental and spiritual vibration to a higher level.
Practitioners do this so that they may
lead a more harmonious life, but also to attract people, events and
things of the same or higher
vibration. The end result of healthy vibrations is the attraction of
more constructive events,
outcomes, and possibilities.
IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY.
All things and issues have 2 sides. As stated by the Hermetics, cold and
heat are degrees or
fluctuations of the same thing such as climate. Other examples include
love and dislike or truth or
half-truth. There are 2 sides to everything, thus looking beyond what is
apparent and searching
deeper for the truth is important. Why is this important? The
understanding of the poles and truths
allows us to flow with the world instead of fighting events. This is
because we are able to respond in
a spiritual manner until we understand the event better. As an example,
something may happen that
is NOT a result that we wanted. However, after continuing our efforts
and moving forward with
action, we may find that something better is coming to us in due time.
When we are in tune with
the spirit and energy of all, we are able to best respond to happenings
in a spiritual way. Without
reacting, we maintain our composure, focus on today and continue to move
forward without
engaging a senseless battle. From this flow and patience, we are able to
bring even higher
prosperity, greater success, and peace of mind to ourselves.
V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM.
Life and events can swing like a pendulum. A practitioner can learn to
control their mind and spirit
energy to keep harmony through life’s ebb and flow of events,
personalities and thought. As an
example, you can neutralize your destructive thoughts with thoughts of:
Blessing, Praise, Love,
Gratitude, Acceptance, and Faith. Even in instances of envy or doubt, we
must continue to praise
our homes, spouses, children, & other people of success and wealth, and
friends. When we bless
and mentally praise others, we dissipate any fears and jealous thoughts
and therefore attract wealth,
health and peace of mind in our own field of energy.
VI. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
For every thought, action or inaction, there is a corresponding thought
and event. Your heartfelt
emotions when mixed with constructive thought and action carry more
force than the average
thought and action. Building a foundation is vital to this step. At
first, we must change our
mentality from one of lack to a consciousness and mind of possibility.
Our minds and hearts evolve
and begin to believe in opportunity and abundance. Instead of thinking
why, we transcend to a
spiritual position of why not. At this juncture, we begin to take action
in accordance with our
dreams. Each mental and physical action we take on a daily basis adds to
the momentum of our
spiritual force. Our spiritual force in conjunction with our harmonious
and constructive thinking
begins to manifest higher realities in our days to come.
VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER.
Each person or event may have a gender-like energy built into it.
Learning what energy is at the
heart of each issue or situation is very helpful. The practitioner may
be able to better work with
events and people if they understand the underlying energy of it.
Understanding the feelings,
emotions, logic, and purpose of each person, place or event can allow us
to work better with it or
even allow us to avoid it if necessary. The teachings herein include
statements about the Conscious
and Subconscious Mind and the I and Me. Thus, there is a WITHIN
component to this principle.
Each person must understand that their mind is like a computer but you
are the operator. You must
realize that what you engrave upon your hard drive can affect your
Operating System and your
Memory and function.
Further, if you clear your mind and spirit via exercises of prayer,
affirmations, good diet, exercise,
and self examination you can also improve your spiritual and mental
function much like a virus
software or a charged battery can clear out the junk from your computer
and improve performance.
Once again, in your mind is both the computer and the [I AM] operator of
the computer.
Both have a voice. Knowing which one is speaking to you takes some
effort and concentration. As
a note, many people have been pre-programmed from family, friends, and
exposure. This
programming may have your hard drive overloaded with no room for
advancement. Knowing how
to clear out the hard drive and defragment the drive is important. Your
intuition will speak to you if
you need to work on this type of catharsis.
The Synthesis of the Ancient Greco-Egyptian Hermetic Principles
It can be said that a master of the 7 principles has become spiritually
awakened from the state of
illusions. When effectively working the Hermetic steps herein, the
practitioner’s awareness can be
opened where they are in tune with the infinite. When a person opens
their eyes, mind, senses, and
heart to opportunity, life, bliss, creation and love, the world can
blossom before their eyes on each
waking day. Instead of waking up believing in doom and gloom, the
practitioner is waking up
expecting the cooperation of the world, universe and spirit. While
recognizing the source of the
power, the adherent also manages his or her thoughts, mental vibration,
and spirit rhythm so as to
radiate only the best energy to the source and to others operating on
this physical plane.
Remember, your force and energy is yours to protect and strengthen.
Don’t let others tap into it and
try and drain you. Using these principles, you see that your energy can
be augmented, drained or
tainted. Other people who do not understand your force, may carry
negative energy or particles that
can enter your wave or field. You understand that your mental and
spiritual focus on strength,
happiness, success, prosperity, health, faith and confidence will keep
your field strong. However,
other tainted people may carry particles that are somewhat contagious.
Examples are: Complainers,
Fear Mongers, and Pessimists. The only way for you to deal with these
people is to convey your
optimism, avoid them, or neutralize them with thoughts and feelings of
love, compassion, and
peace. Never bother fighting them and simply allow them to be. All is
right with your world, and
you need not try to change them in any drastic manner. Your action,
faith, character, and prosperity
will eventually gain their attention and respect. If not, it is wise to
avoid their manipulation. As with
probabilities, each person may have many destinations but engages only
one plane of the journey at
a time. Thus, simple actions and causes can put you on another fork of
possibility in the chain of
causation. Knowing how to take action or maneuver the energies and
opportunities in the external
world will allow you to make positive and constructive choices on your
path. As you know, faith is
an expectation of something better and good on a daily basis. Faith
involves confidence and resolve
over your constructive beliefs. As an example, scientists say that the
earth has magma at its core, but
nobody has ever been to earth’s center. We just take it as fact.
The Hermetic Master knows that pure spirit is at the core of the Source
of All there is based on
their experience and working with the art of cooperating with the Source
of ALL. In the same way,
every person of intellect knows that bad germs and parasites can destroy
an unhealthy host.
Scientists also know that there are healthy forms of inner agents such
as white blood cells or other
natural immunities. Therefore, the master understands how to strengthen
inner supply, attract
healthy agents, and also to become immune to unhealthy forces by
neutralizing them. By doing this,
you can enter the 4th dimension of peace, love, confidence, and
prosperity. Understanding the
energy of other beings or forces, allows the master to interrelate on
this earthly plane in the most
effective manner without harm. The person who best employs these secrets
will reach heightened
awareness and keep a calm focus on their purpose using their powers
effectively each day. The end
result is prosperity, health, harmony, growth, and peace. [9]
Hermes Trismegistus, floor mosaic in the Cathedral of Siena
Emerald Tablets
The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina,
or The Secret of Hermes, are
ancient writings that may reveal the secrets of the fundamental
substance and the alchemical
attributes thereof. It claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus
("Hermes the Thrice-Great"),
The most famous Egyptian guru.x Using these tablets is what has allowed
philosophers to utilize the
7 Hermetic Principles.
1. True, without error, certain and most true 2. That which is below is
as that which is above, and
that which is above is as that which is below, to perform the miracles
of the one thing. 3. And as all
things were from [the] one, by [means of] the meditation of [the] one,
thus all things of the daughter
from [the] one, by [means of] adaptation. 4. Its father is the sun, its
mother[,]the moon, the wind
carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth. 5. The father of all
the initiates of the whole world is here.
6. Its power is integrating if it be turned into earth. 7. Separate the
earth from the fire, the fine from
the dense, delicately, by [means of/to] the great [together] with
capacity. 8. It ascends by [means of]
earth into heaven and again it descends into the earth, and retakes the
power of the superior[s] and
of the inferior[s]. 9. Thus[,] you have the glory of the whole world.
10. Therefore[,] may it drive-out
by [means of] you of all the obscurity. 11. This is the whole of the
strength of the strong force,
because it overcomes all fine things, and penetrates all the complete.
12. Thus[,] the world has been
created. 13. Hence they were wonderful adaptations, of which this is the
manner. 14. Therefore[,] I
am Hermes the Thrice Great, having the three parts of the philosophy of
the whole world. 15. What
I have said concerning the operation of the Sun has been completed.
Desire and Purpose
Desire is the motivating force that runs the world; as little as we care
to admit it in many cases. Look
around you and see the effects of Desire in every human act, good or
bad. As a writer has
said:"Every deed that we do, good or bad, is prompted by Desire. Desire
is the motivating power
behind all actions – it is a natural law of life. Everything from the
atom to the monad; from the
monad to the insect; from the insect to man; from man to Nature, acts
and does things by reason of
the power and force of Desire, the Animating Motive. " All the above at
the first glance would seem
to make of man a mere machine, subject to the power of any stray desire
that might happen to come
into his mind. But this is far from being so. Man acts not upon EVERY
desire, but upon the
STRONGEST Desire, or the Average of his Strongest Desires. This FOCUS of
your Desires is that
which constitutes your Nature or Character. And here is where the
Mastery of the "I" comes in.
Man need not be a slave or creature of his Desires if he will assert his
Mastery. He may control,
regulate, govern and guide his Desires in any directions that he
pleases. Nay, more, he may even
CREATE DESIRES by an action of his Will, as we shall see presently. By a
knowledge of
psychological laws he may neutralize unfavorable Desires, and grow and
develop – yes, practically
Create New Desires in their place – all by the power of his Will, aided
by the light of his Reason and
Judgment. Man is the Master of his Mind.
"Yes," but some close reasoning critic may object; "yes, that is true
enough, but even in that case is
not Desire the ruling motive – must not one Desire create these new
Desires before he can do so –
is not Desire always precedent to action? "Very close reasoning this,
good friends, but all advanced
metaphysicians know that there is a point in which the Principle of
Desire shades and merges into
companion Principle, Will, and that a practitioner may imagine a mental
state in which one may be
almost said to manifest a WILL to Will, rather than to merely Desire to
Will. This state must be
experienced before it can be understood – words cannot express it.
Dismiss the old negative ideas of mind and create new ones in their
places. And here is how it may
be done: In the first place, one must think carefully over the tasks
that he wishes to accomplish,
then, using his judgment carefully, judicially and impartially –
impersonally so far as is possible – he
must take mental stock of himself and see in what points he is
deficient, so far as the successful
accomplishment of the task is concerned. Then let him analyze the task
before him, in detail,
separating the matter into as many clear defined divisions as possible,
so that he may be able to see
the Thing as It Is, in detail as well as in its entirety. Then let him
take a similar inventory of the
things, which seem necessary of the accomplishment of the task – not the
details that will arise only
as the work progresses, day by day – but the general things, which must
be done in order that the
task is brought to a successful conclusion. Then having taken stock of
the task, the nature of the
undertaking, and one’s own qualifications and shortcomings – then Begin
to Create Desire,
according to the following plan: The first step in the Creation of
Desire is that of the forming of a
clear, vital Mental Image of the qualities, things and details of the
undertaking, as well as of the
Completed Whole. By a Mental Image we mean a clear-cut, distinct mental
picture in the
Imagination. Imagination is a real thing – it is a faculty of the mind
by which it creates a matrix,
mold, or pattern of things, which the trained Will and Desire afterward,
materializes into objective
reality. There has been nothing created by the hands and mind of man
which did not have its first
origin in the Imagination of some one. Imagination is the first step in
Creation – whether of worlds
or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
And so it is in the Creation of
Desire. Before you can Create a Desire you must have a clear Mental
Image of what you need to
Desire.
Practice makes perfect. Each time you try to form the Mental Image it
will appear a little clearer and
more distinct, and the details will come into a little more prominence.
Do not tire yourself at first,
but lay aside the task until later in the day, or tomorrow. But practice
and persevere and you need,
just as clearly as a memory picture of something you have already seen.
We shall have more to say
on this subject of Mental Imagery and Imagination in subsequent lessons.
Then, after having
acquired the clear Mental Image of the things you wish to Desire, and
thus attain, cultivate the
focusing of the Attention upon these things. The word attention is
derived from the Latin word
"Attendere," meaning "to stretch forth," the original idea being that in
Attention the mind was
"stretched forth," or "extended" toward the object of attention, and
this is the correct idea for that is
the way the mind operates in the matter. Keep the ideas before your
attention as much as possible,
so that the mind may take a firm grasp upon them, and make them a part
of itself – by doing this
you firmly impress the ideas upon the wax tablet of the mind. Thus
having fixed the idea clearly in
your mind, by means of the Imagination and Attention, until as we have
said, it becomes a fixture
there, begin to cultivate an ardent DESIRE, LONGING, CRAVING DEMAND for
the
materialization of the things. Demand that you grow the qualities
necessary for the task – demand
that your mental pictures materialize – Demand that the details be
manifested as well as the Whole,
making allowance for the "something better" which will surely arise to
take the place of the original
details, as you proceed – the Inner Consciousness will attend to these
things for you. Then, proceed
to hold your Desire in mind, firmly, confident, and earnestly. Be not
half-hearted in your purpose
and desires – claim and demand the WHOLE THING, and feel confident that
it will work out into
material objectivity and reality. Think of it, dream of it, and always
LONG for it – you must learn to
want it the worst way – learn to "want it hard enough. "You can attain
and obtain many things by
"wanting them hard enough" – the trouble is with most of us that we do
not want things hard
enough, and we mistake vague cravings for real wants or purposeful
desires . Get to Desire and
Earnestly Want the Essence of the Thing just as you demand and Desire
your daily meals. That is
what we mean by: "wanting it the worst way.” People need food, water,
sunshine, love and more.
Your purpose and the will behind you true place is demanding expression
inside of you. You spirit
is seeking natural unfoldment.
Schools of philosophy, notably that founded by Schopenhauer, have also
postulated the presence of
a Universal Spirit (whose chief attribute is Desire-Will) from whom the
universe of creatures has
proceeded. This Universal Spirit is held to be filled with a longing,
craving, seeking, striving desire to
express itself in phenomenal existence. Schopenhauer calls it "The Will
to Live." It is described as
instinctive rather than intellectual, and as creating intellect with
which to better serve its purposes of
self-expression. Other philosophers have proceeded along the main lines
of the concept of
Schopenhauer, with various modifications. The same idea is expressed by
some of the old Vedic,
Taoist or Buddhistic philosophers, the very term Tao being used to
express the essential nature of
the Universal Spirit. But, it must be noted, in such philosophies, the
Universal Spirit is considered
rather as the Eternal Parent than as its First Manifestation. In the
same way a certain school of
thinkers postulate the existence of a "Living Nature," which expresses
itself in innumerable living
creatures and things--all Things in the universe being held to possess
Life in some form and degree,
as, indeed, the Rosicrucian creatures also hold.xi Accordingly, even in
today’s attitudes where science,
philosophy, and religious metaphysics cross paths, most have acknowledge
that purpose, natural
expression, mission, and finding your true place are all major factors
in self-expression and spiritmanifestation.
Where a persons’ true purpose is frustrated, reactions take place and
most people are
guided and again re-directed by their burning desires toward their
highest ideal of creativeness and
function. [12]
Reincarnation, Reinvention, and Rebirth
Many people may debate about what happens to the soul after the death of
the body. To put this
discussion in a form that we all can understand, let us imagine that
each day is a new birth and a new
opportunity to live again and do the right thing while living under your
highest ideals. Each night,
our past-self can be allowed to die out and re-incarnate upon the
following morning, and we can be
born anew. Moreover, the purification, catharsis and sharpening of the
mind is all part of the
Rosicrucian transformation and transmutation methods. This discussion is
particularly important
with regard to karma and our actions each day. All men and women have
the opportunity to:
change, atone, grow, regenerate, become reborn and become awakened.
However, to be sure, some information on the subject in contained here.
And so, Reincarnation is
the great opportunity of man to start to build where construction has
ceased. After a death of the
ego-self which can happen at any moment, the soul can be malleable and
in flux. Some call it
openness or a “moment of clarity”. We may be in this “rebirthing like”
stage, much as the caterpillar
in the cocoon. Our character and spirit can then act only through the
law of desire, purpose,
vibration & attraction. Dynamic changes and growth can occur rapidly
from this state.
The soul must develop through the instrumentality of the mind. The Soul
receives its impressions
through the five senses of the body, and at birth, the period of
development starts. Man is given that
governor, that guide, that director, which has the power to use or
discard all the forces of the
universe in his ongoing. And that Director is the Mind. There can be no
building without an ideal, a
plan, and that plan, that ideal must be held by the mind. The mind
thinks, and it sets to work all the
great substances, the universe toward the accomplishment of its purpose,
whether that purpose be
toward construction or destruction.
Without the mind and spirit, the body would be as inert and inanimate as
a piece of clay, without the
power to create, or even move. The Mind is the governor, the
constructor, the tool which shapes
the destiny of man towards everlasting life, or toward the destruction
of the body, in which latter
event the soul must again go through the process of perfection in order
to again have the
opportunity which in its last incarnation rejected. And in this
opportunity which is given man, he is
placed, as is everything else in the universe, plant, planet, animal,
God, under the law of cause and
effect. God has endowed man with the greatest of all natural faculties,
the Mind. As a man thinks, he
creates, and he has the power and opportunity to create that which he
wills. If he, through the
knowledge of this law, and the love and ideal in his heart, should miss
the mark of perfection, he,
through the law of “change, catharsis, and rebirth”, will be of such
high vibration that he will be
attracted in his next reinvention/incarnation to opportunities/parents
who will give his soul every
opportunity to express, in the highest environment, that which his soul
craves. Do you remember
how clearly the Bible states this, when Christ asks his disciples "Whom
do men say that I am?"
And the answer is given that some said he was Elisha, and various of the
other spiritually developed
men who had lived before him. But when he asks his disciples, his
faculties who he really believed
himself to be, the answer, came, "Thou are the Christ, the son of the
living God;" the goal, the ideal
was thus established in his mind, and the building continued for its
attainment.
Then what is the true lesson of Reincarnation? Is it necessary for us to
die in order to be given
another opportunity to build the ideal which should be in every heart ?
Does God wish us to die?
Can God die? Friends, true Reincarnation is the conscious, unceasing,
unfaltering building into the
mind and body, the ideal of the illumined Soul, and through the bringing
forth of the illumined Soul,
the inner spark of faith and enlightenment, the spiritual awakening, the
becoming a child of God,
the unchangeable, the imperishable energy of the supreme that which is
through all time, and has all
of the properties and powers of the universal spirit.
This awakening can occur by virtue of a shift of consciousness, a
sacramental initiation, a molecular
regeneration, a release of poison by private confession, a confirmation
of your path, or a rebirth of
the spirit.
Reincarnation to the student of the Soul, is the transmuting of the
baser desires, the baser ideals, the
baser metal, into that fine & pure ideal, and the conscious, loving,
all-engrossing desire of the mind
and heart to build that ideal here and now. Then there will be no more
need to return and perfect
that which before had been a failure; then will all the things be
subject to the dominion of the soul
which has attained spiritual peace and abundance. Then will the work
have been finished, and
sorrow and distress will have been banished from out of the life of such
a one. [13]
The Leading Metaphysical Law
Whatever enters the consciousness of man will express itself in the
personality of man. This is one
of the most important of all the laws of life, and when its immense
scope is fully comprehended
thousands of perplexing questions will be answered. We shall then know
why we are as we are and
why all things about us are as they are; and we shall also know how all
this can be changed. When
we examine the principle upon which this law is based we find that our
environments are the results
of our actions, inactions and our omissions and are the results of our
thoughts. Our physical and
mental conditions are the results of our states of mind and our states
of mind are the results of our
ideas. Our thoughts are mental creations patterned after the impressions
that exist in consciousness,
and our ideas are the mental conceptions that come from our conscious
understanding of life. Thus
we realize that everything existing both in the mental field and in the
personality, as well as in
surrounding conditions, have their origin in that which becomes active
in human consciousness.
We may define consciousness by stating that it is an attribute of the
Ego through which the
individual knows what is and what is taking place. Consciousness may
usually be divided into three
phases, the objective, the subjective and the absolute. Through absolute
consciousness the Ego
discerns its relationship with the universal—that phase of consciousness
that is beyond the average
mind and need not necessarily be considered in connection with this law.
Through subjective
consciousness the Ego knows what is taking place within itself, that is,
within the vast field of
individuality. And through objective consciousness the Ego knows what is
taking place in its
immediate external world. Objective consciousness employs the five
external senses, while
subjective consciousness employs all those finer perceptions which, when
grouped together are
sometimes spoken of as the sixth sense.
To employ this law properly nothing must be permitted to enter the
subjective mind unless we wish
to have it reproduced in ourselves. We should refuse therefore to take
into consciousness that which
we do not wish to see expressed through mind or body. We should allow
ourselves to spiritually
“LET GO” of the things that may continue to injure us. We should train
consciousness to respond
only to those external impressions that are desirable; and we should
train our own imaging faculties
to impress deeply and permanently in consciousness every good thing or
desirable quality that we
wish to see reproduced in ourselves and expressed through our
personality. [14]
How the Mind Creates Your World and Character
Man gradually grows into the likeness of that which he thinks of the
most.
Man is the reflection of all his thought; that is, his body, his
character, his mind, his spiritual
nature—all are fashioned according to his thought; This explains why
refined thought refines every
fiber of the body, improving the quality and perfecting the structure.
We should love the perfect, the divine and the spiritual in every soul
in existence, and give the whole
heart to the love of the sublime qualities of the Supreme. Thus we shall
find that body, mind and
soul will respond to the perfect thought that we thus form while living
on the mental heights.
Gradually we shall find all the elements of our nature changing for the
better, becoming more and
more like those sublime states of mind of which we are so vividly
conscious. [15]
The highest service you can render God is to give expression to what he
is trying to give the world,
through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very
most of yourself in order that
God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities. As with a child
on the piano for the first
time attempting to express inner music, the music in a person’s soul may
not find expression
through untrained hands. This is a good illustration of the way the
Spirit of God is over, about,
around, and in all of us, seeking to do great things with us, so soon as
we will train our hands and
feet, our minds, brains, and bodies to do his service.
WITHOUT faith it is impossible to have a harmonious and cooperative
relationship with the God
Force,” and without faith it is impossible for you to become great and
have a constructive worldview.
The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is
an unwavering faith and
knowingness of expectation. Faith-not a faith in one’s self or in one’s
own powers but faith in
principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be
relied upon to give us the
victory in due time. Without this faith, it is not possible for anyone
to rise to real greatness. The man
who has no faith in principle will always be a small man. Whether you
have this faith or not depends
upon your point of view. You must learn to see the world as being
produced by growth change and
expansion, as a something that is evolving and becoming, not as a
finished work. Millions of years
ago “The Creator” worked with very low and crude forms of life, low and
crude, yet each perfect
after its kind. Higher and more complex organisms, animal and vegetable,
appeared through the
successive ages; the earth passed through stage after stage in its
unfolding, each stage perfect in
itself, and to be succeeded by a higher one. What I wish you to note is
that the so-called “lower
organisms” are as perfect after their kind as the higher ones; but God’s
work was not finished. This
is true of the world today. Physically, socially, and industrially, it
is all good, and it is all perfect. It is
not complete anywhere or in any part, but so far as the handiwork of God
has gone, it is perfect.
THIS MUST BE YOUR POINT OF VIEW: THAT THE WORLD AND ALL IT CONTAINS IS
PERFECT, THOUGH NOT COMPLETED. “All’s right with the world.” That is the
great fact.
There is nothing wrong with anything; there is nothing wrong with
anybody. All the facts of life you
must contemplate from this standpoint. There is nothing wrong with
nature. Nature is a great
advancing presence working beneficently for the happiness of all. All
things in Nature are good; she
has no evil. She is not completed; for creation is still unfinished, but
she is going on to give to man
even more bountifully than she has given to him in the past. Nature is a
partial expression of God,
and God is love. She is perfect but not complete.
So you see it makes a vast difference to you, this matter of the social
viewpoint. “All’s right with the
world. Nothing can possibly be wrong but my personal attitude, and I
will make that right. I will see
the facts of nature and all the events, circumstances, and conditions of
society, politics, government,
and industry from the highest viewpoint. It is all perfect, though
incomplete. It is all the handiwork
of God; behold, it is all very good.”
Make a thought-form of yourself, as you desire to be, and set your ideal
as near to perfection as your
imagination is capable of forming the conception. Let me illustrate: If
a young law student wishes to
become great, let him picture himself as a great lawyer, pleading his
case with matchless eloquence
and power before the judge and jury; as having an unlimited command of
truth, of knowledge and
of wisdom. Let him picture himself as the great attorney in every
possible situation and contingency.
While he is still only the student in all circumstances, let him never
forget or fail to be the great
lawyer in his thought-form of himself. As the thought-form grows more
definite and habitual in his
mind, the creative energies, both within and without, are set at work,
and he begins to manifest the
form from within and all the essentials without, which go into the
picture, begin to be impelled
toward him. He makes himself into the image and God works with him;
nothing can prevent him
from becoming what he wishes to be.
In the same general way the musical student pictures himself as
performing perfect harmonies, and
as delighting vast audiences; the actor forms the highest conception he
is capable of in regard to his
art, and applies this conception to himself. The farmer and the mechanic
do exactly the same thing.
Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself; consider well
and be sure that you make
the right choice; that is, the one that will be the most satisfactory to
you in a general way. Do not
pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you:
do not believe that any
one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to
what others have to say, but
always form your own conclusions. DO NOT LET OTHER PEOPLE DECIDE WHAT
YOU
ARE TO BE. BE WHAT YOU FEEL THAT YOU WANT TO BE. Do not be misled by a
false
notion of obligation or duty. You can owe no possible obligation or duty
to others that should
prevent you from making the most of yourself. Be true to yourself, and
you cannot then be false to
any man. When you have fully decided what thing you want to be, form the
highest conception of
that thing that you are capable of imagining, and make that conception a
thought-form. Hold that
thought-form as a fact, as the real truth about yourself, and believe in
it.
Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call
you a fool and a dreamer.
Dream on. Remember great leaders and entrepreneurs that have come from
nothing. Ideas are what
is your power, and all you need is to continue to grow, be open minded,
decide what you want to be
and become bold as to the development of your character.
Affirmation: There is THAT in me of which I am made, which knows no
imperfection, weakness,
or sickness. The world is incomplete, but God in my own consciousness is
both perfect and
complete. Nothing can be wrong but my own personal attitude, and my own
personal attitude can
be wrong only when I disobey THAT which is within. I am a perfect
manifestation of God so far as
I have gone, and I will press on to be complete. I will trust and not be
afraid.” When you are able to
say this understandingly you will have lost all fear and you will be far
advanced upon the road to the
development of a great and powerful personality. [16]
How Mental Pictures Become Realities
A person is a thinking centre and can originate thought. All the forms
that a person fashions with
his hands must first exist in his thought. He cannot shape a thing until
he has thought that thing.
Thought is the only power which can produce tangible results from the
formless substance. The
stuff from which all things are made is a substance that thinks, and a
thought of form in this
substance produces the form. Original substance moves according to its
thoughts; every form and
process you see in nature is the visible expression of a thought in
original substance. As the formless
stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it
makes that motion. That is the
way all things were created.
We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe. The
thought of a moving universe
extended throughout formless substance, and the thinking stuff — moving
according to that
thought — took the form of systems of planets, and maintains that form.
Thinking substance takes
the form of its thought, and moves according to the thought. Holding the
idea of a circling system
of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, and moves them as
it thinks. Thinking the
form of a slow-growing oak tree, it moves accordingly, and produces the
tree, though centuries may
be required to do the work. In creating, the formless seems to move
according to the lines of
motion it has established. In other words, the thought of an oak tree
does not cause the instant
formation of a full-grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces,
which will produce the tree,
along established lines of growth.
Every thought of form, held in thinking substance, causes the creation
of the form, but always, or at
least generally, along lines of growth and action already established.
The thought of a house of a
certain construction, if it were impressed upon formless substance,
might not cause the instant
formation of the house, but it would cause the turning of creative
energies already working in trade
and commerce into such channels as to result in the speedy building of
the house. And if there were
no existing channels through which the creative energy could work, then
the house would be
formed directly from primal substance, without waiting for the slow
processes of the organic and
inorganic world.
Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you
want than you are to get it.
To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself. When
you know what to think and
do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to think and do the
right things. That is the
legitimate use of the will in getting what you want — to use it in
holding yourself to the right course.
Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the certain way.
Do not try to project your will,
or your thoughts, or your mind out into space to “act” on things or
people. Keep your mind at
home. It can accomplish more there than elsewhere. Use your mind to form
a mental image of what
you want and to hold that vision with faith and purpose. And use your
will to keep your mind
working in the right way. The more steady and continuous your faith and
purpose, the more rapidly
you will get rich because you will make only POSITIVE impressions upon
substance, and you will
not neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by
the formless, and permeates
it to great distances — throughout the universe, for all we know. As
this impression spreads, all
things are set moving toward its realization. Every living thing, every
inanimate thing, and the things
yet uncreated are stirred toward bringing into being that which you
want. All force begins to be
exerted in that direction. All things begin to move toward you. The
minds of people everywhere are
influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of your
desires, and they work for you,
unconsciously. [17]
The mind is very large. It is therefore possible to form mental pictures
of as many ideals as we like,
but at first it is best to choose only a few. Begin by picturing a
perfect body, an able mind a strong
character and a beautiful soul; after that an ideal interior life and an
ideal external environment. Thus
you have the foundation of a great life, a rich life and a wonderful
life. Keep these pictures
constantly before your mind—in fact, train yourself to actually live
joyfully and knowingly in
conjunction with your mental pictures. And you will find all things in
your life changing daily to
become more and more like those ideal images in your mental possession.
In the course of time you
will realize in actual life the unique likeness of those pictures; that
is, what you have constantly seen
upon your mental picture screen is what you will realize in actual life.
Then you can form new and
more beautiful images to be realized in like manner as you build for a
still greater future. [18]
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in
its original state, permeates,
penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this
substance produces the thing
that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in his thought,
and, by impressing his
thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to
be created. In order to do
this, a person must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he
must form a clear mental
picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts
with the fixed PURPOSE to get
what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants,
closing his mind against
all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his
faith. And in addition to all this,
we shall now see that he must live and act in a certain way.xix As you
go forward in an effective way,
opportunities will come to you in increasing number, and you will need
to be very steady in your
faith and purpose, and to keep in close touch with the supreme mind by
reverent gratitude.
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without
haste, worry, or fear. Go as
fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin
to hurry you cease to be a
creator and become a competitor. You drop back upon the old plane again.
Whenever you find
yourself hurrying, call a halt. Fix your attention on the mental image
of the thing you want and begin
to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will
never fail to strengthen
your faith and renew your purpose.
The Seventh Aphorism of Rosicrucianism
THE SEVENFOLD SOUL OF MAN
In the Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians, we find the following
Seventh Aphorism:
The Soul of Man is Sevenfold, yet but One in essence; Man's Spiritual
Unfoldment has as its end the
Discovery of Himself beneath the Sevenfold Veil. In this Seventh
Aphorism of Creation, the
Rosicrucian is directed to apply his attention to the concept of the
Sevenfold Soul--One in essence--
of Man; which in the figurative language of the mystic constitutes the
seven veils which conceal
from (yet reveal to) Man his real Self. This concept is represented by
the Rosicrucians by means of
the symbol of the figure of a man surrounded by seven outlined
shapes--the man, himself in his
essence, is represented by the blank space disclosed by the inmost
outline, and each one of the
"concealing but revealing veils" is represented by an outlined figure,
each being but one of the series
of seven. The series of outlines, be it noted, is enclosed in the circle
representing the Infinite
Unmanifest.
Summary
The student must not fall into the error of supposing that man really
has seven separate and distinct
souls, either tied together like a bundle of twigs, or else worn as one
would wear seven overcoats,
one over the other. The symbol is only figurative, and must not be
construed literally. There are not
seven selves in man–but only One Self concealed by seven veils, each of
which while serving to
conceal the real nature of the Self yet serves to disclose the presence
and power thereof to some
degree. It is as if seven planes of variously colored glass, ranging
from the darkest to the almosttransparent
and colorless, were to be placed before a brilliant light. The darker
glass would almost
entirely obscure the Light, though yet revealing its presence in some of
its rays; the next lighter
would reveal more, and obscure less; and so on to the last in which the
obscuration was but slight,
and the revelation almost perfect. All illustrations of this ineffable
fact of the Eternal are, by the very
nature of things, imperfect, faulty, and misleading if taken too
literally.
The lesson to the student is that in every man there lie concealed the
potentiality of Godhood, and
stages less than Godhood though above that of ordinary Manhood; and that
in every man also abide
the lower phases of manifested existence, even the very lowest of all.
The wise man uses the lower,
but does not allow the lower to use him; he maintains a positive,
masterful mental attitude toward
the lower planes of being, while opening himself receptively to the
influences of the higher planes of
his Self.
In conclusion, you are asked to once more consider the Seventh Aphorism:
“The Soul of Man is
Sevenfold, yet but One in essence: Man’s spiritual Unfoldment has as its
end the Discovery of
Himself beneath the Seven-fold Veil.”
Originally written by Magus Incognito 1918
www.magusincognito.com
Oriental Rosicrucian Success Principles with a Western Interpretation
1) Cause & Effect – Your actions and the reactions of the World”: You
must be aware of
your choices of mind and action. With each action, you should be able to
ask the following
question: “What are the potential consequences of this Choice?” To begin
with, constructive actions
will create and build opportunity and positive outcomes. View each
choice with the end result in
mind. Your choices allow you to mentally visualize or feel the outcome.
Therefore, you can judge
the circumstance or end result in your mind’s eye and in your heart.
With each choice there are
questions. Will it bring me peace of mind? Right action is the right
response or choice for any given
situation or moment. Some of us can ask our body, heart, or Spiritual
center if the choice is right.
Does the choice allow us to feel comfortable sensations in our Spirit?
The area of the center body
gives tiny emotions or feelings that will help us make decisions if we
ask in mind and heart so that
we can feel our inner response. With our individual journey we can have
times of joy and hardship
resulting from any decision. We must be able to ask ourselves what we
have learned from our
journey or choices. Be aware of your choices with mindfulness. Then, try
and make decisions, take
action, and move ahead with your journey.
2) Allow Your True Place to Appear: We must live according to
providence. There are
things that we are meant to do. We must dig deep into our souls to
determine what our true purpose
on earth is. Our being wants us to live and express our true talents and
inner desires. You may have
a dream to build hospitals, write poetry or create music. You may even
have a calling to minister to
the sick or poor. Whatever it is, be sure and express this before you
leave this world. Many people
find this true place in their labor. They call this a “labor of love or
“right livelihood”. This type of
joyous work is easy and enjoyable regardless of how stressful it may be
for others. This is because
your purpose energizes your work and you are having fun.
3) Prayer, Contemplation, Meditation, Self-Evaluation: What do we want
from life? We
want more happiness and an ability to fulfill desires. Most of us desire
abundance and a flow of
goodness into our lives. In the larger scheme of life, we want and
desire health and a rich life in the
physical, Spiritual, and mental realms. We want peace of mind and to
nurture our Spirituality. Some
believe that true success is the unfolding of our Spiritual life where
oneness is attained with all.
The source is the Spirit and the process is the mind. We are Spiritual
mind. With the mind, we have
unlimited possibilities of creative thinking. Fear and doubt is also
creative but limits possibilities
because it can cause paralysis in your growth. Ego and control is also a
block to Spiritual growth and
connection with higher powers. Real power is pure, without fear, and
fueled by love. Meditation,
silence, and simply being are the first and primary ways to engage and
receive pure power. Nonjudgment
creates peace in mind. Spiritual masters often suggest that you try and
not judge others
just for the day in thought, word, and deed.
Further, many authors recommend meditation for thirty minutes a day,
twice a day. While doing so,
listen to your inner and creative thoughts and intuition that come from
silence. Many teachers
suggest communing with nature and becoming aware of nature. Thus, open
your eyes to creation.
From an internal standpoint great teachers often reveal that all
external relationships are a mirror of
relationship with your inner self. Therefore, it is critical to obtain
inner peace so that you are at
peace with others. Mastering this will allow you to respond to others
with awareness and
compassion. With self-realization comes wealth. What is wealth? The
essence of wealth is being
blessed with life energy or the Holy Spirit, and you will know it when
this occurs.
4) The Law of Spiritual Detachment: Detachment and Non-resistance means
to not resist
moving ahead in harmony with the currents of life while maintaining and
growing a sense of peace.
Not allowing simple external things to hold you back. How do you achieve
flow? Great teachers
discuss many methods of relaxation or meditation. Men commune with
nature at times to reflect on
life, atone, or tune into the universal Spirit. Many Spiritual masters
sincerely believe that giving
attention to the “source of all” is vitally important. Further, they
imply that it is highly important
to develop a harmonious relationship with the Universal Spirit or Force.
This can be done, of
course, through the cultivation of gratitude, prayer, and meditation.
Moreover, through living a life
of love, tolerance, and peace, our actions will bring us closer to the
source of all.
Overall, people who actively engage a Spiritual life can become very
efficient and effective because
they are focused and have a state of well-being. Thus, the very
experienced soul can do much less
work to achieve the same degree of success as the average soul. When a
person is in harmony and
non-resistance with the world and motivated by love and joy, life will
flow to him or her with
powerful rewards. Overall, the body generates and expends energy.
Selfishness and the desire to
control others is a great waste of precious energy. Seeking validation
and approval from everyone is
also a big waste of energy. Becoming who you really are is a lifelong
journey. In sum, doing
esteemed actions will create esteem in your life. Unfolding to your
highest level will be your reward.
The Ancient Circle of Perfection of Craft Masonry
5) Some Elements of The Laws of Acceptance and Attraction:
-
Acceptance of people, places, and things. Find the good in all.
Develop gratitude for what is
good in all things.
-
Take responsibility for things as they are, and quit blaming external
forces.
-
Cultivate constructive thoughts and mental energy. Focus your
thoughts on what you really
want and not upon what you do not want.
-
Truly feel gratitude and allow emotions of thankfulness and
constructive expectation to
emerge from within.
-
Feel gratitude for what you desire as if you had it already.
-
See in your mind’s eye what you want, send it into the Universe like
a letter of thanks.
-
Relinquish the need to argue with others regarding your point of
view. This saves and builds
energy.
-
Remain open minded and willing for life to unfold in abundance.
-
Keep specific goals, but release your desire to control exact
outcomes, because the Universe
may provide a better result than you could have possibly hoped for.
6) Flow of Life and Love Energy: Giving and Receiving: Circulate your
energy and
Spiritual flow by giving. By giving, we receive. By doing more than the
cosmos expects us to do, we
are rewarded by the unbounded goodness of Karma. Give something to all
persons such as the
following: kind thoughts, compliments, affection, gifts of no real
monetary value, compassion,
radiations of your love, or bless them mentally. Giving should be
unconditional without wild
expectations of return of any favors or the like. Your harmonious and
loving action towards others
will be received and complimented in many ways. Mostly, your reward will
be peace and joy, but
most often, the fruits of flow come from other people who are not even
related to the recipient of
the initial gifts. After giving, you must be capable of receiving.
Receive life’s gifts and remain truly
open to receive compliments, things, help, love, or even money.
7) The Manifestation of Your Dreams: Your body is part of the Universe
and the Universe
is an extension of your body. Both influence each other. You are
connected to all through energy.
Therefore, your mind and Spirit are directly linked to the world. Your
consciousness allows you to
effect and cooperate with the Universe. Focus your attention on what you
really want from life and
believe that it is possible. The quality of your focus and your intent
has great power. Attention plus
real burning desire allows you to forge ahead, organize plans, and
complete major tasks. You must
do all of this with a sense of love, thankfulness, and a desire to
benefit mankind. Attention, intent,
and desires should have fixity of purpose. This means to hold attention
on a positive outcome.
Avoid directing your attention toward your obstacles and hardships.
These difficulties can be
changed to opportunities if you are paying attention.
8) Some Steps to Manifesting Your Desire:
-
Go into silence.
-
Focus your attention upon your dreams and objectives.
-
Release your carefully chosen desires.
-
Don’t be influenced by others’ opinions, and keep your desires to
yourself.
-
Cultivate gratitude toward the world and allow the universe to help
you.
-
Relinquish attachment or anxiety toward the exact outcome.
-
Allow a higher or better outcome to come into your life.
-
Make a list of your desires and read them each day and night.
-
Pay attention to people, places, and things that are sent to assist
you in your journey.
9) The Laws of Release and Cooperation: Relinquish attachment and
surrender your desires
to the greater all. But, you should still maintain your desire,
attention, and focus. Just continue to
send the desire into the greater world with great faith, much like
sending a mental telegram to the
great force. Releasing allows you to continue to create and improve on
your original desire as you go
along.
There is a big materialistic flaw in this Philosophy – “When I get the
next thing, I will be happy.”
This type of statement can be destructive because it can become a cycle
of frustration, and we may
never be satisfied. Thus, work hard and allow life to unfold while not
being be too controlling, i.e.,
be flexible. In sum, allow all of the best possibilities or
alternatives, and try not to force things to
happen, staying alert to the options and possibilities. When you are
prepared and meet the options
that life gives you, this is excellent fortune.
10) Success in the Now: There is not other time but now. Your truth is
what is here but
sometimes beyond what you may see. We must stay aware to opportunity and
possibility today.
Yesterday and tomorrow cannot be acted upon today. Seek joy and
happiness now. Allow your
mind to engage bliss and contentment. In this day, you can do what is
necessary toward your dreams
and goals. However, be your best and do what you do well. As time moves
forward, your
harmonious actions will add up and your character will be more than it
ever was. Character is the
totality of your actions, thinking, omissions, and energy. If you are
building character and
momentum in your mind and world, other people and the Universe will
instinctively know this.
Therefore, your powers of attraction and usefulness to humanity will be
appreciated, valued, and
utilized. With your energy in the now and your consciousness directed
and pointed at growth, you will
begin to flow effortlessly with life. Provided that you maintain a sense
of peace and wholeness, you
will maintain a connection to the universal power. In sum, your will can
fuse and be energized by the
true guidance of the world.
Rosicrucians Americana - Virtues by: Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin sought to cultivate character using a methodology of
thirteen virtues, which he
developed at age twenty (in 1726) and continued to hone and practice his
system in some form for
the rest of his life. Franklin was a wise master, mystic and member of
various secret esoteric lodges
and societies. In 1773-74, Franklin was one of the members of the Great
or World Council of
the Fraternitas Rosæ Crucis. In 1775 Franklin was chosen a member of the
Continental
Congress. [20]
1) "TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."
2) "SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid
trifling or frivolous
conversation."
3) "ORDER. Let all your assets have their places; let each part of your
business have its time."
4) "RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you must do; perform without
fail what you
resolve."
5) "FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself;
i.e., avoid waste."
6) "INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut
off all unnecessary
actions."
7) "SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and,
if you speak, speak
accordingly."
8) "JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that
are your duty."
9) TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or
unavoidable."
10) CLEANLINESS. Do not tolerate bad hygiene in body, clothes, or
habitation."
11) "MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as
you think they
deserve."
12) "CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to
dullness, weakness, or
the injury of your own or another's peace and reputation.”
13) "HUMILITY.
Imitate Christ and Socrates. [21]
The Rose Croix & Rosicrucian Principles of Healing
Health Exercise
Take a time when you can have from twenty minutes to half an hour secure
from interruption, and
proceed first to make yourself physically comfortable. Lie at ease in a
Morris chair, or on a couch, or
in bed; it is best to lie flat on your back. If you have no other time,
take the exercise on going to bed
at night and before rising in the morning.
First let your attention travel over your body from the crown of your
head to the soles of your feet,
relaxing every muscle as you go. Relax completely. And next, get
physical and other ills off your
mind. Let the attention pass down the spinal cord and out over the
nerves to the extremities, and as
you do so think: - “My nerves are in perfect order all over my body.
They obey my will, and I have
great nerve force.” Next bring your attention to the lungs and think: -
“I am breathing deeply and
quietly, and the air goes into every cell of my lungs, which are in
perfect condition. My blood is
purified and made clean.” Next, to the heart: - “My heart is beating
strongly and steadily, and my
circulation is perfect, even to the extremities.’ Next, to the digestive
system: - “My stomach and
bowels perform their work perfectly. My food is digested and assimilated
and my body rebuilt and
nourished. My liver, kidneys, and bladder each perform their several
functions without pain or
strain; I am perfectly well. My body is resting, my mind is quiet, and
my soul is at peace.
“I have no anxiety about financial or other matters. God, who is within
me, is also in all things I
want, impelling them toward me; all that I want is already given to me.
I have no anxiety about my
health, for I am perfectly well. I have no worry or fear whatever.
“I rise above all temptation to moral evil. I cast out all greed,
selfishness, and narrow personal
ambition; I do not hold envy, malice, or enmity toward any living soul.
I will follow no course of
action which is not in accord ‘with my highest ideals. I am right and I
will do right.”
VIEWPOINT
All is right with the world. It is perfect and advancing to completion.
I will contemplate the facts of
social, political, and industrial life only from this high viewpoint.
Behold, it is all very good. I will see
all human beings, all my acquaintances, friends, neighbors, and the
members of my own household
in the same way. They are all good. Nothing is wrong with the universe;
nothing can be wrong but
my own personal attitude, and henceforth I keep that right. My whole
trust is in God.
CONSECRATION
I will obey my soul and be true to that within me that is highest. I
will search within for the pure
idea of right in all things, and when I find it I will express it in my
outward life. I will abandon
everything I have outgrown for the best I can think. I will have the
highest thoughts concerning all
my relationships, and my manner and action shal1 express these thought
s. I surrender my body to
be ruled by my mind; I yield my mind to the dominion of my soul, and I
give my soul to the
guidance of God.
IDENTIFICATION & RECOGNITION
There is but one substance and source, and of that I am made and with it
I am one. It is my Father;
I proceeded forth and came from it. My Father and I are one, and my
Father is greater than I, and I
do His will. I surrender myself to conscious unity with Pure Spirit;
there is but one and that one is
everywhere. I am one with the Eternal Consciousness.
IDEALIZATION
Form a mental picture of your self as you want to be, and at the
greatest height your imagination can
picture. Dwell upon this for some little time, holding the thought:
“This is what I really am; it is a
picture of my own perfect and advancing to completion. I will
contemplate the facts of social,
political, and industrial life only from this high viewpoint. Behold, it
is all very good. I will see all
human beings, all my acquaintances, friends, neighbors, and the members
of my own household in
the same way. They are all good.
Nothing is wrong with the universe, nothing can he wrong but my own
personal attitude, and
henceforth I keep that right. My whole trust is in God.
REALIZATION
I appropriate to myself the power to become what I want to be, and to do
what I want to do. I
exercise creative energy; all the power there is, is mine. I will arise
and go forth with power and
perfect confidence; I will do mighty works in the strength of the Lord,
my God. I will trust and not
fear, for God is with me. [22]
-
Remember that simple pains and discomforts are sometimes signals to
take action to better
your physical health; however, many pains are the body at work healing
and regenerating
itself on a cellular and molecular level.
-
As a note, you may be able to work this positive person in your MIND
for other people.
Rosicrucians and Mind Skills and Oriental Virtues
The Rosicrucians do a much better job than masons in instructing members
on the benefits of:
Goals, Desires, Visualization Exercises, Meditation etc. Generally
speaking, the Orthodox
Rosicrucian model is much more esoteric but also has many other
practical methodologies for
obtaining success and building character. The Masonic model is more like
an ecumenical seminary
to develop a working knowledge of metaphysical, religious and
philosophical history to grow
character in men. As for cause and effect, Rosicrucians place great
value on observing the aspects
and rules of Karma such as: Its causes, Its working out or effects, How
it may be molded, The steps
to be taken to be liberated from it. The great Rosicrucian Teacher
Joseph Weed stated in 1941, “In
considering the causes of Karma, we must first understand quite clearly
that every thought, every
emotion or wish and every action creates Karma. If these thoughts,
ideas, desires, passions are
benevolent, good Karma is created. If they are malevolent, evil Karma is
created. Thus good or evil
Karma attaches itself to us and remains in our life current until we
have satisfied or counteracted it.”
Professor Weed also stated that, “Reduced to its simplest terms our
duty, our dharma, is to bring
light into the minds of men and love into the hearts of men.” “The ways
to develop the mind are
many. You can study. This is natural and beneficial. You can memorize
five lines or ten lines of
poetry every day. This requires energy as all mental effort does but it
is very rewarding. The mental
nature is nourished and grows and the memory stays alive and active. But
I would like to suggest a
technique which everyone of you can practice with little effort and
great benefit to yourself.” [23]
1) Meditate for ten minutes daily – no more, no less. It must be daily.
Not three days a week,
not just week days with Sundays and holidays excluded, but daily. Every
day. And it must be
meditation, which means constructive thinking and not day dreaming. The
Meditation for
the first year should be what is known as "meditation with seed". In
other words you start
with a single thought and work around it. I would suggest that you
select twelve words
expressive of ideals or higher emotions and use a different one as the
seed thought for each
month. These could be words like, "wisdom, peace, love, courage,
strength, compassion,
gratitude" and so forth.
2) Review your actions and decisions of the day each night. Spend not
more than ten minutes
each night on this. Don't become morbid or self accusing. You will
probably discover plenty
to find fault with if you are honest with yourself but don't waste a lot
of good time on vain
regrets. When you find something wrong, say to yourself – "that was a
mistake – it mustn't
happen again" and pass on to the next thought. If we are fair and honest
in our selfappraisal,
we will he able to see ourselves quite impersonally and in this manner
correct our
mistakes and raise the entire standard of our conduct. In addition to
the raising of our
vibratory rate which will coincide with the lifting of our ethical
standards, this nightly resume
will also lift the consciousness into the mental realm and out of the
emotional. A
Rosicrucian Speaks, Live Lectures Published Online, Joseph J. Weed
(1941-63)
Rosicrucian Exercises
Concentration Exercise
1. Find a relaxed part of your home
2. Sit and quiet the mind and begin to relax each part of the body (that
you can think of) from
head to toes.
3. Shut your eyes & take a few deep breaths.
4. Think of a room that you lived in as a child or that you are
presently in.
5. Begin to see and visualized in your mind the entire room and its
contents and where things
are located. (Whatever you can recall)
6. It is also good to imagine the exact color of things in the room with
your eyes closed.
7. This is also a good exercise to do even after you have entered a new
building or place.
8. Do this for a few minutes each day and your focus and concentration
will increase. These
days, there is computer software that actually runs programs to help
concentration in this
same way..
9. As a note, this same type of exercise is also very good to relax and
vividly recall wonderful
people or possessions that you have in your past or present.
Open your eyes when done with any of these exercises ☺
Active Meditation Exercise for Intuition and Guidance
1. Engage steps 1, 2 & 3 above.
2. With eyes closed and imagining, see yourself going into a sacred
castle.
3. As you enter the main chamber, you see the (helpful person of your
choice).
4. This person could be alive or from the past.
5. You then discuss with her or him in your minds eye. [imagination]
6. You ask questions and your Friendly Guru answers these questions.
7. Try and sense the answers from your core (heart and stomach).
8. When you are finished, thank your friend for the help and guidance.
9. You may have an overwhelming sense that this voice or person is from
a higher or different
viewpoint than your own.
Exercise for Energizing or Healing Yourself.
1) Engage steps 1,2, and 3 above. (Relaxing in a chair with spine
straight) relax your hands on
your lap.
2) Close your eyes and visualize a peaceful lake that has no ripples.
Then see yourself
surrounded by bright white particles of energy that also permeates your
body.
3) In your mind, see the bright light move toward and focus on the area
of discomfort or pain.
Allow this white light to fill any affected area and flow thought your
body.
4) Know that the white light brings all of your body’s healing power to
work most effectively
for you.
5) Take a few breaths.
6) Then, allow this bright light to act like water and flow though your
body.
7) Allow the “fluid of light” purify and wash the entire body.
8) Feel and see in your minds eye that the washing fluid of white light
is “pure love” and
cleanses you of ANY AND ALL fear, resentment, hurt, and dis-ease.
9) Say to yourself, I forgive myself and everyone for the past.
Thank the light of the universe for removing any impurities from your
body.
10) Claim mental freedom from all problems in your mind and spirit.
Thank the universe for
your health and peace.
11) See others in your mind’s eye walking up to you and congratulating
you on your healing and
success.
12) That’s it….. & Open your eyes.
13) ** To do this exercise for others, pretend that they are the person
in a chair in front of you
as you have your eyes closed and send a mental request of peace and
health for them.
Five Exercises to Augment Peace of Mind and Mental Abilities
One: get in a quiet place where there are no distractions and think of
the alphabet. Think of a letter.
Select the letter “J” for instance. Think of a person in your family or
in your childhood with a “J” in
their name who you were very fond of or even loved. Ponder that loving
emotion. Think of the
happy times you had with this person. Bless that person in your mind.
Consider the ability to
transfer this feeling to another person in your current life.
Two:, think of a color, for example, blue. Think of something blue that
you owned that gave you
happiness in the past. Harvest that emotion. Feel it. Try and re-live
the joy of having the thing.
Three: Consider one of the five senses (tasting, touching, smelling,
hearing, seeing). Select one, such
as smell. Remember your favorite aroma. Think back about the flavor or
pleasant smell. Ponder the
joys of enjoying that aroma again, for example, a great cup of espresso
in Venice, Italy. Experience
the moments in the past that you enjoyed in conjunction with the feeling
and senses. Allow gratitude
to fill the mind, Spirit, and body.
Four: Consider the following several methods to achieve the harmonious
relationship with your
world to be in tune with spiritual abundance:
-
Start blessing and praising what is yours.
-
Harvest a thankful heart and mind for all of your good fortune such
as the ability to do
simple things such as think, taste, smell, hear, see, and do, and more.
-
Get into nature and wilderness to be still and feel the presence.
-
Take a moment to sit or kneel and make a prayer of thanksgiving.
-
Write out a list of things that you are thankful for and keep them in
your wallet to read
whenever you need to refocus on how you are truly blessed and protected
by the Universe.
-
Quit complaining and begin praising or complimenting others.
-
Complement or praise somebody or a family member.
-
Think of a person who was truly kind to you.
-
Try and remember a person who you think really loves you.
-
Think of all those who love or care for you now.
-
Do something for another person to help him or her, or simply write
the person a letter or
give him or her a flower.
-
Spend time with a spouse, loved one, or child and focus only on
wonderful, beautiful,
encouraging thoughts about this person.
Five: See Yourself in Your Mind’s Eye
-
See yourself doing what you want to do. Imagine a labor of love.
-
See yourself living where you want to live.
-
See yourself fulfilled in your relationships
-
Act, feel, and think as if you are whom you want to be. This will
assist in the growth and
enhancement of your total character in reaching Spiritual abundance.
Imagine yourself in the occupation of your dreams. What would it be
like? How would you feel?
Harvest the emotion of having all you desire. The mind’s eye is the
picture screen of creation. The
more clearly and powerfully you project your images in and onto your
consciousness and then to
your subconscious, the more easy it will be for your ideals and goals to
manifest. As a secret
teaching, I would imagine exactly what you want with specificity.
Imagine successfully earning the
best outcome. Then, I would project that image and feeling into the
world, like sending out a letter.
Imagine the exact completed successful outcome. You are finished and you
can do this exercise later
or each day until you have achieved your desire.
Perception and Awareness Exercise
1. Sit is a relaxed position
2. Relax each part of the body and take a few deep breaths.
3. Imagine a warm energy radiating through your body.
4. Enter what we call the Alpha State – which is Relaxed Daydreaming and
Right Brain.
5. Now, begin to feel or sense each part of the body.
6. Direct your attention to your toes or hands or ears.
7. Notice how each part of the body feels.
8. Now close your eyes and notice any sounds either of your body or
around you.
9. See if you can hear something far away.
10. Now, refocus and imagine just one sound or image.
11. Focus all of your thought on seeing, hearing, feeling, or
tasting/smelling only one
thing that you imagine.
12. Imagine this one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
13. As an example, try to imagine just the sound of a soft trumpet or
French horn
playing a song.
14. After a few minutes, relax again and come back to your BETA state of
mind and
consciousness. Left Brain
Affirmations and Exercises
1. Affirmations are meant to be in the affirmative. Each affirmation can
be written in
an “AS IF” phrase or sentence in the present tense using the “I Am or I
Will” if
possible. There is no need to use the “I am Not” style because negative
reinforcement is not as effective as Positive Reinforcment”.
2. Affirmations can be for health, success, peace, safety,
relationships, or even supply in
the form of money.
3. Affirmations can be said out loud or in silence. Some people love to
do their
affirmations in the mirror.
4. A prime example of an affirmation could be, “ I am healthy, happy,
successfully,
loved and whole. I am part of the Supreme Intelligence and the Supreme
only creates
beauty and perfection.”
5. Keep in mind, you should have the idea of the “essence in back of
affirmations”. As
an example, a supply affirmation could say, “I will earn an extra 5000
dollars in the
next 4 weeks by providing excellent service as a salesperson or expert
or by
effectively serving others….” Money is the object but the service and
becoming
excellence is the essence in back of the object or goal.
6. As you can see, the above affirmation specifies some distinct
creative work and
cooperation related to your prosperity, and it is not a blind or hopeful
demand to
receive something for nothing. You can always affirm mentally or out
loud for
possibilities and opportunities.
7. There are primary reasons against blind affirmations for things or
money of which
we will not discuss at length. However, if a person demands 100 thousand
dollars
from the supreme, it may come in the form of an injury settlement which
might not
be your first choice.
8. Overall, we should state our affirmations with confidence, love,
harmony, gratitude,
and faith. With this combination, the universe will gladly begin working
to unfold
opportunities and blessings for you.
9. As such, a clear thought or idea that is repeated again and again is
almost certain to
manifest a replica of itself in the future. If the thought is held
strongly, with gratitude
and feeling, and in a creative way that does not hurt others, your
desire will come
quickly as the imagined formulation or something even better will
unfold.
List of affirmations to improve energy, peace, and confidence.
-
I am living in acceptance. I am willing to accept the best in my life.
-
I will let myself enjoy the pleasures of life. I use my senses to be
aware of the beauty of my
surroundings. I will use my free will constructively. I will radiate
love.
-
I will remain open minded and this will make me more teachable.
-
A good humor belongs to me. I approach life with cheer. I radiate a
enthusiastic attitude to
those that I care for.
-
I am respectful to others and therefore, others are respectful to me.
-
I have a new awareness that affords me the ability to think and be
creative.
-
I am a compassionate person and I am concerned about the welfare of
others. Others are in
turn concerned about my welfare. My service to others gives me a great
release and a great
strength. I serve others because I have a duty to pass on what was so
freely given to me. By
doing this, others are healed through the grace of the Higher Power.
-
I have surrendered my reckless will to the care of my higher power.
With this surrender, I
have achieved a new sense of freedom and happiness. I can turn my ego
over to a power
greater than myself. I do not allow my ego to block me from my faith.
-
I have made a commitment to my spiritual path, health, and state of
mind. I am proud of
my sincere commitment that I have made to the program of renewal and
serenity.
-
I understand that the causes of my success come from my higher power.
The source of my
success is by the grace of the universal spirit that flows through me.
-
I radiate abundance; therefore, abundance is attracted to me. I
believe in the infinite
possibilities of life and success. Abundant life is a divine right and
choice. Health and
happiness are mine today. I do all that I need to do today, and I do not
worry about
tomorrow.
-
I am loving and tolerant. I never know what is going on at this moment
with another
human being. The other person may be in the middle of a terrible
situation or trauma.
-
I am a responsible person. I am self-reliant. I take pleasure in being
able to take care of
myself and those who rely on me. I am proud to be able to do this. I
receive great joy in
having the ability through my Higher Power to be responsible.
-
I make healthy choices. I am aware of my actions today. I make choices
that I need not
regret today. I receive great self-respect through my action today. My
honesty and actions
are good for all and good for me.
-
I am forgiving. I will allow the seeds of resentment and discomfort to
diffuse. I do not
want to waste my time being a non-forgiving person. I have so much to do
in this life
without being preoccupied with non-forgiveness. I have learned a lesson,
and I have moved
on from the past event.
-
Patience is a part of my life today. Good things will come to me in
time. Opportunity is not
limited, and I can be patient with regard to other people. I can also
take action to
accomplish my goals, but after I have done the best that I can do, I
will allow the result to
unfold.
-
I have received the gift of spiritual strength from my Higher Power.
This grace is the source
of my happiness, love, and serenity.
-
Today, I have the courage to speak up for myself. I do not need to
live in a reactionary way;
however, if there is a situation where I need to stand up for my
principles, I can do so. I
have the ability to say no when I need to. Further, this ability frees
me from commitments
that I need not participate in.
-
I seek out new and different things in life. I have a sense of
adventure and joy in what I do
with my free time. I love life today because I view life as interesting
and fun.
A Mesopotamia “Wall Relief” – Louvre Museum
Twelve Meditations and Affirmations for Peace of Mind - Affirmations
Each Statement can be said silently or out loud. These meditations are
designed to bring you closer to harmony with
the universe, improve your self-esteem, and augment peace & abundance.
The first 12 meditations are a flowing but simple affirmation
methodology to purify your mind an
soul. Some people may want to go the most traditional route and read and
meditate on one per day.
1st Meditation -. I surrender to the love of the Universe. I now am free
to live, learn, love, laugh,
and listen. I have changed and improved myself. I love and respect
myself. I have stopped
resisting the Supreme Spirit and now cooperate with its power, and this
has given me the victory of
harmonious living. Today, I will live in harmlessness. Life will unfold
for constructively for me
2nd Meditation - I have serenity and peace. The Universal Spirit has
granted me freedom and clarity.
I am calm, relaxed, and cool. I am not in a hurry. My sense of well
being keeps me in harmony with
all. The universe has restored me to wholeness and satisfaction. I have
all that I need for today.
The Supreme Intelligence takes care of me. I am a child of God. God
loves me. God is the Great
Spirit that protects me.
3rd Meditation - Today, I serve the Great Spirit instead of my ego. I am
connected with The Great
Power. The great power gives me courage and wisdom. The great universal
power is the force and
source of my prosperity. Abundance is mine now. Everything I need will
be provided by the
abundance of the great power. I give my financial, relationship, work,
family, and other issues over
to the care of the Universal Spirit. I continue to do my part to be the
best I can be. I am free
because I release all of my problems or challenges to the power greater
than myself.
4th Meditation - I work to keep a clear and free conscious. I will
continue to engage in self-analysis.
I will identify the good things about myself. I will also find where I
have done harm or caused
discomfort. I have worked to mend and clear up the past. I live a self
respecting life today. I can
improve and I have self-respect. I have values today that give me
satisfaction because the standards
that I have are good for me and all involved. I take care of myself. I
make healthy decisions. Thus,
I am vigorous in mind, spirit, and soul.
5th Meditation - I have discussed my past wrongs with another and with
my higher power. I have
been given great relief from working through this process of freeing my
mind and forgiving myself
and others. I have freed my heart and mind from the old resentments,
jealously, hatred, envy, pride,
greed, lust and so on. I have diffused the old negative thoughts by
discussing issues with another in
confidence. I have now made room for more good in my life. I am grateful
for this release and this
process. I am happy, enthusiastic, and energetic.
6th Meditation - I am willing to identify parts of my character that are
not good for others and me. I
am willing to work on improving my character and being a better person.
Today, I am much better
because I have lessened or eliminated some of these destructive
behaviors. I am grateful that the
Universal Force allows me to change for the better. My conscious
connection to spirit has helped
me change and improve many facets of my life. Today, I view myself as
strong, vital, whole,
complete, beautiful, and loving.
7th Meditation - I remember who is in charge. I am not the Supreme
Master and I have learned
how to co-create by cooperation. The Universe is the source of my
happiness. I engage harmonious
living today. I am a loving and tolerant person. I am happy because I am
comfortable with myself.
I take time today to be grateful for the things that I have. I have
health. I have love. I care about
others and myself. I remember where I came from. I am willing to be good
to myself and help
others today. I am strong and happy because of all of the work I have
done to get where I am right
now. I cooperate with the universal spirit.
8th Meditation - I live in harmony with others today. I love myself, and
I radiate love because of
this. I am willing to make amends to the people that I have harmed. .
Today, my heart and mind
are free because of my spiritual work. I feel so happy today because I
have cleared a path to
freedom. I am grateful that I have the tools and strategies to live a
harmless and loving life. People
respect and love me because I am respectful and loving. I have rebuilt
many bridges, and I will
create and improve relationships for the rest of my life.
9th Meditation - I am willing to apologize and forgive sincerely if
needed. I admit my wrongs in my
heart, mind, and in person. The recipient of my atonement at some point
will understand my
actions. Today, I can correct a mistake affecting another and take
action to free us both of this
situation.
10th Meditation - If and when I act wrongly, I will try to clean up the
mess right then. I can live in
harmony and humility while being a strong and intelligent person. I am
stronger because I have
dissolved a weakness. Today, I live in harmony. Today, I am at peace. I
need not retaliate. My
silence can be a skill. I can delay my reaction or retaliation. I do not
need to be right all of the time.
I can be a listener instead of the talker. I have a plan, and the plan
will make me a greater person
and give me peace.
11th Meditation - I take time to meditate. I take time for prayer. Even
if it is only for one minute
before I go to sleep or upon awakening. Today, I serve the will of my
Universal Spirit, Higher Path
and Purpose, or Supreme Power. I am connected to the source. I am now
close to my Higher
Power. This connection grants me strength, courage, serenity, health,
love, and the ability to work
hard. I can do all things through my higher power because my higher
power protects and loves me.
12th Meditation - I am totally awake spiritually. I am new, and I have
returned. I feel so blessed. I
practice humility, gratitude, and love in my life. I try to live in
harmony with all. My service to
others has given me life and strength. I live a constructive and
self-respecting lifestyle. I am
responsible. Other people who need my help remind me of where I came
from. I am grateful for
these people. Today, I realize that I have received a spiritual
revitalization, and I am thankful for it.
I look back and identify all of the changes that I have made, and I
realize the sum of the changes is
the miracle of my life.
Manifesting Your Dreams – An Exercise of Realization
This is a list of Ancient Mystical, Rosicrucian and Masonic Steps for
Manifestation of Goals and
possibilities. Generally speaking, this is a methodological form or
meditation, visualization and
prayer.
-
Cultivating a Peaceful Mind and Heart in Recognition of the Universal
Energy
-
Desire – Select an Idea that you have strong feelings about. Something
that you want or
need that you are willing to take action upon. i.e. a burning desire.
-
Specificity, Purpose and Decision – Specifying exactly what you want.
Specify pure health,
peace, harmonious interactions, or specific attributes of a thing or
object.
-
Have it in Mind, Spirit and Mental Images – Know and see the desired
outcome and results
on your picture screen of your mind.
-
Asking for Help/Cooperation with Spirit or Supreme Intelligence.
-
Feel Unity - I AM part of and in spiritual unification with the Higher
Path and Supreme. i.e
You are not separate. (Can be meditations or affirmations). Knowing that
you are connected
allows your mental petition to be directed into the creative powers.
-
Release/Send the petition to the Supreme (let it go, as you can
request again anytime)
-
Consecration – A surrender to the process with an affirmation of
thanks and willingness.
-
Willingness – Willing to do what is needed to facilitate the receipt
or participate in the follow
through. E.g. go to the dentist if you need to have the decay removed
and a new filling
inserted, or become an expert in a given field to prepare for
opportunity.
-
Belief and Confident Expectation – Believe that your dream, ideal, or
objective is possible.
-
Open your mind and heart to receiving the abundant good that the
universe wants to send
to you.
-
Work at it while being Contemplative in Action. E.g. Go to the gym
each day if you have a
goal of better health or physical appearance. One thing at a time with
your highest focus and
concentration.
-
Feel Gratitude - Thanksgiving toward the request and toward the
Universe. The greater your
gratitude and peace of mind, the faster the results will occur.
-
This is a process that can be done in a sitting/exercise much like a
meditation. *If you like,
each day you can Re-affirm or even hone your objectives mentally with
images, with prayer
and meditation, with writing, or discussion with trusted advisor.
Things to Remember about Co-Creating and Manifesting Your Life
1. Be sure to know exactly what conditions that you wish to produce.
Then analyze carefully what
further results the accomplishment of your desire will lead to.
2. By letting your thought dwell upon a mental picture, you are
concentrating the Creative Action of
Spirit upon this desire, where mental forces are directed and expanded.
3. Visualizing brings your objective mind into a state of equilibrium,
which enables you to
consciously direct the flow of Spirit to a definitely recognized
purpose, and to carefully guard your
thoughts from allowing a flow in the opposite direction.
4. You must always bear in mind that you are dealing with a wonderful
potential energy, which is not
yet mold into any particular form, and that by the action of your mind,
you can differentiate it into
any specific form that you will. Your picture assists you to keep your
mind fixed on the fact that the
inflow of this Creative Energy is taking place. Also, by your mental
picture, you are determining the
direction you wish the Creative Power to take, and by doing this, you
make the externalization of
your picture a certainty of design.
5. Remember when you are visualizing properly that there is no strenuous
effort to hold your
thought-forms in place. A straining of mental effort defeats your
purpose, and suggests the
consciousness of an adverse force to be fought against, and this creates
conditions that may weaken
your focus.
6. By holding your picture in a cheerful frame of mind, you shut out all
thoughts that would disperse
or dissipate the spiritual nucleus of your picture. Because the law is
Creative in its action, your
pictured desire is certain of unfolding in cooperation with the Great
Spirit.
7. The seventh and great thing to remember in visualizing is that you
are making a mental picture for
the purpose of determining the qualities that you are giving to the
previously undifferentiated
substance and energy, rather than to arrange the specific circumstances
for its manifestation. i.e.
Allow your existing idea or something
even better to materialize. [24]
Thoughts on Manifesting your Future and Increasing Faith
Manifestation is the work of Creative Power itself. Creation will build
its own forms of expression
quite naturally, if you will allow it, and save you a great deal of
needless anxiety. What you really
want is expansion in a certain direction, whether of health, wealth. or
what not, and so long as you
get it—as you surely will, if you confidently hold to your picture —what
does it matter whether it
reaches by some channel which you thought you could count upon, or
through some other of
whose existence you had no idea. You are concentrating energy of a
particular kind for a particular
purpose. Keep this in mind and let specific details take care of
themselves, and never mention what
you are doing to anyone. Remember always, that “Nature, from her clearly
visible surface to her
most arcane depths, is one vast storehouse of light and good entirely
devoted to your individual
use.” Your conscious Oneness with the great Whole is the secret of
success, and when you have
fathomed this, you can enjoy your possession of the whole, or a part of
it, at will, because by your
recognition you have made it, and can increasingly make it, yours. Never
forget that every physical
thing, whether for you or against you, was a sustained thought before it
was a thing. Thought, as
thought, is neither good nor bad; it is Creative Action and always takes
physical form.
Therefore, the thoughts you dwell upon become the things you possess or
do not possess. BUT
you ask, “How can I speak the word of Faith when I have little or no
faith?” Every living thing has
faith in something or somebody. Faith is that quality of Power which
gives the Creative Energy a
corresponding vitality, and the vitality in the word of Faith you use
causes it to take corresponding
physical form. Even intense fear is alive with faith. You may fear
poverty and loneliness because
you believe them possible for you. It is the Faith which understands
that every creation had its birth
in the womb of thought-words, that gives you dominion over all things,
your lesser self included,
and this feeling of faith is increased and intensified through observing
what it does. Your constant
observation should be of your state of consciousness when you did; not
when you hoped you might,
but feared it was too good to be true. How did you feel that time when
you simply had to bring
yourself into better frame of mind and did, or you had to have a certain
thing and got it? Live these
experiences over again and again—mentally—until you really feel in touch
with the your “self”
which knows and does, and then the best there is, is yours. [25]
“Gratitude and Thankfulness leads to greater constructive expectation in
our daily living. Positive
expectation and confident expectation IS FAITH. Repudiate miracles and
you will receive NONE.
Recognize possibility and IT WILL APPEAR. Praise others, Bless Others
and Bless and Praise
YOURSELF and THE MIRACLE OF YOUR CREATION. Blended with Humility, your
harmonious connection to universal spirit and supply, will allow a
pipeline of grace upon you. A
Thankful Heart is HIGHLY conducive to Faith, Confident Expectation, and
Living with JOY.
Know forgiveness in your heart. Feel that the Supreme forgives you.
Realize that you have forgiven
all transgressions “once and for all”. With your forgiveness, you free
your mind’s mental and
spiritual power. What you think about is EXPANSIVE in your LIFE. Your
focus on the good and
the great will bring the good and the great into your perception and
your world.” [26] Magus
“Being contemplative in action is the key. Having a focus and harmonious
connection to the
universal spirit and mind while working effectively toward your ideals,
will continually reveal results.
You are connected and part of all possibility. Seize upon your divine
rights to supply and success.
Allow yourself to be great and to do great things. There is no need to
compete. YOU MUST
CREATE. Create new ways of doing things, quality service, create
solutions, provide opportunity
and help others. Follow your true place and your dream and your talents
will be exposed. If you
exercise the practical steps of gratitude, faith, visualization and
action, the sixth sense will emerge
and you will know when to take action on ideas and fulfill them to
completion.” [27] Magus
“Be patient and live harmoniously in a state of gratitude. The picturing
of your ideals coupled with
action and faith, will lead to great things. Ask and you shall receive
and be ready to receive what you
desire. You may have challenges or even be dealt a blow of rejection,
however, universal mind
allows for even bigger and better unfolding. You may not get exactly
what you want, but something
better may be available for your receipt and cultivation. You will be
protected from bad deals and
afforded opportunities for even better ones. [28] Magus
Personal Magnetism
We hear much about Personal Magnetism these days. It is a peculiar
quality of the mental being of
the individual that serves to bring other persons into a mood or state
of mind sympathetic with that
of the magnetic person. Some men have this quality developed to a
wonderful extent, and are able to
bring about a harmonious agreement on the part of other persons in a
short time, while others are
almost entirely deficient in this respect and their very presence tends
to arouse antagonism in the
minds of others. The majority of people accept the idea of Personal
Magnetism without question,
but few will agree upon any theory attempting to account for it. Those
who have studied the matter
carefully know that the whole thing depends upon the mental states of
the individual, and upon his
ability to cause others to "catch" his mental vibrations. This
"catching" is caused by what is known
as Mental Induction. Induction, you know, is "that property or quality,
or process by which one
body having electrical or magnetic polarity produces it in another
without direct contact. "And
Mental Induction is a manifestation of similar phenomena on the mental
plane. People’s mental
states are "catching" or "contagious," and if one infuses enough life
and enthusiasm into his mental
states they will affect the minds of persons with whom they come in
contact.
It seems to us that the prime factor in successful Mental Induction, or
manifestations of Personal
Magnetism, is Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives Earnestness to the person,
and there is no mental state
so effective as Earnestness. Earnestness makes itself felt strongly, and
will often make a person give
you attention in spite of himself. "It will be found that all men
possessed of personal magnetism are
very much in earnest. Their intense earnestness is magnetic. "And nearly
every student of the subject
has noted this fact. But the earnestness must be more than a firm,
confident, honest belief in the
thing being presented to the attention of the other person. It must be a
live, contagious earnestness,
which can best be described as Enthusiasm. This Enthusiastic-Earnestness
has much emotion
in it – it appeals to the Emotional side of human nature, rather that to
the Thinking - Reasoning
side. And yet an argument based upon reason and conducted upon logical
principles, may be
presented with Enthusiastic Earnestness with much greater effect than if
the appeal to the reason is
conducted in a cold, unemotional way. The average person is so
coldly-constituted mentally that he
thaws out under a manifestation of live, enthusiastic "feeling," under
the term of Personal
Magnetism. The "feeling" side of mentality is as important as the
"thinking" side – and it is far more
common and universal, for the majority of people really think very
little, while everyone "feels. " If
you will notice the man and woman who are considered the most
"magnetic," you will find that
almost invariably they are people who have what is called "soul" about
them – that is, they manifest
and induce "feeling," or emotion. They manifest traits of character and
nature similar to that
manifested by actors and actresses. They throw out a part of themselves,
which seems to affect
those coming in contact with them. Notice a non-magnetic actor who is
missing that "certain
something," and that something may be seen to be the ability to
communicate "feeling. If you will
investigate the top actors, you will see that in studying their parts
and practicing the same privately,
these people induced a stimulated emotion, such as the part called for,
and held it firmly in their
minds, accompanying it with the appropriate gestures, etc. , until it
became firmly "set" there –
impressed upon the tablets of the mentality as the record of a
phonograph is likewise impressed
upon the wax.
Practitioners who seek to enhance their “attractive powers”, will find
it to their advantage to
endeavor to work up the desired feeling of Enthusiastic-Earnestness, in
private, fixing the mental
impression by frequent private rehearsals and practice, until it becomes
registered in their "habit
mind," to be reproduced upon occasions when needed. Be a good actor –
that is the advice in such
cases; and remember this, that frequent practice and private rehearsal
makes the good actor.
It is a far better thing to be able to induce feeling and enthusiasm in
this way, rather than be lacking
of it, on the one hand; or to be an "emotional inebriate" on the other
hand. One may be rationally
Enthusiastically-Earnest, without being filled full of
overly-sentimental emotionalism. We think that
the careful student will see just what is meant here, and will not
misunderstand us. And remember,
that through this repeated "practice" the desired quality will often
become real and "natural."
As for charismatic energy, the great American author Napoleon Hill
implies that we all have many
forms of inner-energy which include our forces of magnetism-attraction
or sexual energy. Hill’s
years of research of the most successful and richest persons revealed
this astounding secret. Thus,
concentration is critical to focus all forms of your inner energy toward
your goals, influence,
leadership and desires. As you know, if you are focusing your primary
energies in scattered areas,
you are “in essence” distracted or diffusing your power. To prevent
distraction, a practitioner must
be able to transmute and direct their: mental, spiritual, physical, &
attraction/sexual energies.
EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Take a piece of white writing paper about six inches square,
upon which you have
drawn a circle about the size of a silver quarter-dollar, the circle
then being filled in with black ink so
that the spot will stand out black and distinct upon the white
background. Pin the paper upon the
wall at about the height of your eyes when are seated. Place you chair
in the middle of the room and
seat yourself directly facing the paper. Fix your eyes steadily upon the
black spot, and gaze at it
firmly, without winking, for one minute. After resting the eyes,
practice the exercise again. After
resting the eyes, practice the exercise again. Repeat five times. With
the chair in its original place,
move your paper three feet to the right of its original position. Seat
yourself and fix your gaze on the
wall directly in front of you, then, without moving the head, cast the
eyes to the right and gaze
steadily at the spot for one minute. Repeat four times. Then, placing
the paper on the wall three feet
to the left of its original position, gaze steadily at the spot for one
minute. Repeat five times.
Continue this exercise for three days, and then increase the time of the
gaze to two minutes. At the
end of three more days, increase the time to three minutes; and so on,
increasing the time in one-minute
increments every three days. Some persons have acquired the power of
gazing steadily for
twenty to thirty minutes, without winking or having their eyes fill with
water, but I do not advise
extending the limit beyond fifteen minutes. The man, who can maintain
the gaze for fifteen minutes,
can direct as powerful a gaze as he who has attained the thirty-minute
record.
This exercise is the most important one, and, if faithfully followed up,
will enable you to gaze
steadily and earnestly at anyone with whom you are talking. It will
impart a strong, masterful
expression to the eye, and enable you to maintain a steady gaze, which
few will be able to withstand.
Dogs and other animals will quail before your gaze, and its effect will
manifest itself also in
numerous other ways. The practice of the exercises is somewhat tedious,
but anyone will be amply
repaid for the time and trouble bestowed upon it. If you are practicing
hypnotism, you will find this
gaze most helpful to you. It will have the further effect of causing the
eye to appear fuller, by
increasing the space between the eyelids.
Exercise 2. You may supplement the first exercise with the following,
which will add variety, relieve
the monotony, and accustom you to gaze into the eyes of others without
embarrassment. Stand in
front of your mirror and gaze into the reflection of your own eyes, in
the manner mentioned in
Exercise No. 1. Increase the time as in the previous exercise. This
exercise will accustom you to bear
the gaze of others, and also will enable you to obtain the best
expression of the eye, and in other
ways will be useful to you. It will enable you to see the growth and
development of the characteristic
expression of your eye when it is acquiring the magnetic gaze. By all
means practice this exercise,
systematically. Some authorities prefer this exercise to the preceding
one, but, in my opinion, the
best results are obtained by a combination of the two.
Exercise 3. Stand erect, facing the wall at a distance of three feet.
Place your sheet of paper in front
of you, with the spot directly in front of the eyes. Fix your gaze upon
the spot, and then move your
head around in a circle, keeping your gaze fixed upon the spot. As this
exercise causes the eyes to
roll around and keeping the gaze steady, the nerves and muscles receive
considerable exercise. Vary
the exercise by circling the head in different directions. Use the
exercise mildly at first, and avoid
tiring the eyes.
Exercise 4. Stand with you back against the wall, and, facing toward the
opposite wall, shift your
gaze rapidly from one point of the wall to another - right, left, up,
down, zigzag, circle, etc. This
exercise should be discontinued when the eyes begin to feel tired, the
best plan for concluding the
exercise being to gaze intently at one point, which will rest the eyes
after the previous motion. This
exercise is calculated to strengthen the muscles and nerves of the eye.
Exercise 5. After having acquired a firm gaze, you will gain confidence
by persuading a friend to
allow you to practice your gaze upon him. Place your friend in a chair
opposite your own; sit down
and gaze calmly, steadily and firmly into his eyes, instructing him to
look at you as long as he can.
You will find that you will easily tire him out, and that by the time he
cries "enough" he will be in an
almost hypnotic condition. If you have a hypnotic subject, he (or she)
will answer still better. You
also may try the strength of your gaze on a dog, cat or other animal,
provided that you are able to
induce it to stand still or lie still. You will find, however, that most
animals will move away, or turn
the head, in order to avoid you steady gaze.
You of course will distinguish between a steady, calm gaze, and an
impudent stare. The first is
indicative of the man of strong psychical power whilst the latter
denotes the cad.
You will find, at first, that your strong, steady gaze may somewhat
disconcert those with whom you
come in contact, and may embarrass those at whom you are directing your
gaze, causing them to
become uneasy and "rattled" You will soon accustom yourself to your new
power, and will use it
discreetly, so as to avoid embarrassment to others whilst producing an
effect on them. I would
caution you against discussing or speaking of your eye exercises, or
practice of Personal Magnetism,
to others, as that course would result only in making people suspicious
of you, and in other ways
proving a serious detriment to the proper use of your powers of
influencing people. Keep your own
secrets, and let your force manifest itself by results, not by boasting.
In addition to these reasons,
there are good occult reasons why you should keep your own council about
your new
accomplishments. A neglect to observe this advice will be a source of
regret to you. Take your time
in practicing these exercises, and do not rush things unduly. Follow
Nature's rule and develop your
power gradually but surely. [29]
Cycles of Life
There are many mystics historically involved with Rocrucianism that have
advocated the cycles of
life theories and methods. One could speculate that it is based on
astrology, but it is more founded
on your birthday, life growth, and your life span. As such, Man is
purported to be designed to live
140 years with cyclic periods of 7 years each. We have discovered that
the particles of our bodies are
constantly changing; that at least once in seven years there is a change
in every atom of matter
composing them. Thus, in the first 3 periods of 7 years, each person is
growing, maturing and
developing physically, mentally, and spiritually. From 21 to 28 and then
to 35, persons are also
developing skill, mastery and other wisdom. By the time we are 42 years
old, we have had ample
time to become alchemists and magi over our destiny if we have embraced
certain virtues and
metaphysical laws. Below is a list of 7 periods of the year after your
birthday. The year starts with
your birthday and goes forward 52 days. The year is comprised of 7
periods of 52 days. Each
person can calculate their own 7 yearly periods.
1 Period: Opportunity, Ask For Favors, Seek Jobs
2 Period: Travel, Short Projects, No Big Changes
3 Period: Energized, Compete, Stamina
4 Period: Mental, Imagination, Creative, Spiritual
5 Period: Can Achieve Great Success, Receive
6 Period: Relaxation. Rest, Holiday Time
7 Period: Catharsis, Attone, Growth, New Cycle
We will leave these words and periods above to your imagination. The
metaphysical rule is that we
should continually grow and engage action in each season and period of
the year. Further, don’t let
these periods distract you. They are merely a guide for each year to:
Grow, Change, Rest, Reflect,
Engage Life, See the beauty of the world and much more.
7 Levels of Metaphysical Development of the Spiritual Seeker – Laws of
Seven.
1. Raw Form
2. A model or form (physical component)
3. The Breath of Life or Thought – Spark of Creation
4. Desire or Impelling force of Thought and Will
5. Ego thought consciousness (Needs to be refined)
6. To awaken, enlighten, know i.e. Refined Thinking
7. The seventh is called Atman (Sanskrit). Pure consciousness. It is the
feeling and knowledge
of "I am," pure thought and cognition/mind.
This analysis above also applies to the 7 stages of growth of man. Each
of us has cycles which easily
correlate to our growth, puberty, manhood/womanhood, intelligence and
wisdom development.
Philosophy of Harmony and Gratitude
To convey the idea of your wants to the universe, it becomes necessary
to relate yourself to the
formless intelligence in a harmonious way. To have a harmonious
relationship with the cosmic is to
develop a command and true communication with the supreme elements. To
secure this
harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vital importance
that I shall give some space to
its discussion here and give you instructions which, if you will follow
them, will be certain to bring
you into perfect unity of mind with the Supreme Power, or God. The whole
process of mental
adjustment and attunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.
First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which
all things proceed. Second, you
believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And third,
you relate yourself to it by a
feeling of deep and profound gratitude. Many people who order their
lives rightly in all other ways
are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift
from God, they cut the wires
which connect them with the Supreme by failing to make acknowledgment.
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of
wealth, the more wealth we shall
receive, and it is easy also to understand that the soul that is always
grateful lives in closer touch with
God than the one which never looks to the SUPREME in thankful
acknowledgment. The more
gratefully we fix our minds on the supreme when good things come to us,
the more good things we
will receive, and the more rapidly they will come. And the reason simply
is that the mental attitude
of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which
the blessings come.
If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into
closer harmony with the
creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see
that it is true. The good things you
have already have come to you along the line of obedience to certain
laws. Gratitude will lead your
mind out along the ways by which things come, and it will keep you in
close harmony with creative
thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought. Gratitude
alone can keep you
looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of
thinking of the supply as
limited — and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.
There is a law of gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you
should observe the law if you are
to get the results you seek. The law of gratitude is the natural
principle that action and reaction are
always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of
your mind in thankful praise to
the Supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It
cannot fail to reach that to which
it addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.
"Draw nigh unto God, and he will draw nigh unto you." That is a
statement of psychological truth.
And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in formless
substance will be strong and
continuous; the movement of the things you want will be always toward
you. Notice the grateful
attitude that Jesus took, how he always seems to be saying, "I thank
thee, Father, that thou hearest
me." You cannot exercise much power without gratitude, for it is
gratitude that keeps you connected
with power. But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in
getting you more blessings in the
future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought
regarding things as they
are.
The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon
things as they are, you begin
to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the
poor, the squalid, and the
mean — and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will
transmit these forms or
mental images to the formless. And the common, the poor, the squalid,
and the mean will come to
you.
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and
to surround yourself with
inferior things. On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is
to surround yourself with the
best, and to become the best. The creative power within us makes us into
the image of that to which
we give our attention. We are of thinking substance, too, and thinking
substance always takes the
form of that which it thinks about.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends
to become the best. It takes
the form or character of the best, and will receive the best. Also,
faith is born of gratitude. The
grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes
faith. The reaction of
gratitude upon one's own mind produces faith, and every outgoing wave of
grateful thanksgiving
increases faith. The person who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long
retain a living faith, and
without a living faith you cannot attain true prosperity by the creative
method.
It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for
every good thing that comes to you
and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed
to your advancement, you
should include all things in your gratitude. Do not waste a lot of time
thinking or talking about the
shortcomings or wrong actions of those in power. Their organization of
the world has created your
opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them. Do not
rage against corrupt politicians.
If it were not for politicians we should fall into anarchy and your
opportunity would be greatly
lessened.
The Supreme Intelligence has worked a long time and very patiently to
bring us up to where we are
in industry and government, and he is going right on with his work.
There is not the least doubt that
he will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates, captains of industry,
and politicians as soon as they
can be spared, but in the meantime, they are all very necessary.
Remember that they are all helping
to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches will come
to you, and be grateful. This
will bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything,
and the good in everything will
move toward you. [30]
The Philosophy of Wealth
There is a spiritual energy and force in every thought, from which all
things are made, and which, in
its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of
the Universe. A thought in this
substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Persons can
form things in their
thought, and by impressing their thoughts upon formless substance
(interspaces of the Universe)
can cause the thing he they think about to be created. In order to do
this, people must pass from the
competitive to the creative mind. Otherwise they cannot be in harmony
with formless intelligence,
which is always creative and never competitive in Spirit. i.e. Being for
the Creation of something and against
nothing. People may come into full harmony with the formless substance
by entertaining a lively and
sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon them. Gratitude
unifies the mind of man with the
intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the
formless. People can remain
upon the creative plane only by uniting themselves with the formless
intelligence through a deep and
continuous feeling of gratitude. People must form a clear and definite
mental image of the things
they want to have, to do, or to become, and they must hold this mental
image in their thoughts
while being deeply grateful to the supreme that all their desires are
granted. People who desire
abundance must spend their leisure hours in contemplating their vision,
and in earnest thanksgiving
that the reality is being given to them. Too much stress cannot be laid
on the importance of
frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering
faith and devout gratitude.
This is the process by which the impression is given to the formless and
the creative forces set in
motion. The clear and defined image can be sent into the universe as a
confident petition for help.
We should know how we will use the resulting abundance and understand
the essence of how the
prosperity will be used.
The creative energy works through the established channels of natural
growth, and of the industrial
and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely
be brought to people who follow
the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver. What they
want will come to them
through the ways of established trade and commerce. In order to receive
their supply when it is
ready to come to them, people must be in action in a way that causes
them to more than fill their
present place. They must keep in mind the clear purpose of prosperity
through emotionalized
realization of their mental image. And they must do, every day, all
which can be done that day,
taking care to do each act in a successful manner. They must give to
every person a use value in
excess of the value they receive, so that each transaction makes for
more life, and they must hold the
advancing thought so that the impression of increase will be
communicated to all with whom they
comes into contact. The men and women who practice the foregoing
instructions will certainly
achieve abundance, and the riches they receive will be in exact
proportion to the definiteness of their
vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and
the depth of their gratitude. [31]
The Philosophy of Greatness
We are made of the one intelligent substance, and therefore all contain
the same essential powers
and possibilities. Greatness is equally inherent each unique individual,
and may be manifested by all.
Every person may become great. Many of the highest constituents of the
Supreme Intelligence are
also the constituents of man. We must learn to tap into these unused and
latent spiritual powers.
We may overcome both heredity and circumstances by exercising the
inherent creative power of the
soul. If we are to become great, the soul must act, and must rule the
mind and the body over the
simple ego thoughts. Our knowledge is limited, and we fall into error
through spiritual ignorance.
To avoid this illusion and unawareness, we must connect our soul with
Universal Spirit. Universal
Spirit is the intelligent substance from which all things come. It is in
and through all things. All
things are known to this universal mind, and we can so unite ourselves
with it as to enter into spirit
and higher knowledge. To do this we must cast out of ourselves
everything that separates us from
the Supreme. We must have sheer willingness to live the divine and
abundant life, and we must rise
above all simple, trivial, & moral temptations. The seeker of spiritual
abundance must forsake,
repudiate, or transcend every course of action that is not in accord
with our highest ideals. We must
reach the right viewpoint, recognizing that God is all, in all, and that
there is nothing wrong. We
must see that nature, society, government, and industry are perfect in
their present stage, and
advancing toward completion; and that all men and women everywhere are
good and perfect while
each on their own journey.
We must know that all is right with OUR world, and unite with the
Supreme for the engagement of
perfect expression & work. It is only as we see the Universal Spirit as
the Great Advancing Presence
in all and see the good in all, that we can shift our consciousness to
real greatness. The seeker must
consecrate themselves to the service of the highest that is within,
obeying the voice of their heart
and spirit. There is an Inner Light in everyone that continuously impels
us toward the highest, and
we must be guided by this light if we would become great. We must
recognize the fact that we are
one with the Supreme, and consciously affirm this unity for ourselves
and for all others. We must
know ourselves to be a “child of God” among “children of God”, and act
accordingly. We must
have absolute faith in our own perceptions of truth, and begin at home
to act upon these
perceptions. As we see the true and right course in small things and
actions, we must take that
course. We must cease to act unthinkingly, and begin to think; and we
must be sincere and honest
in our thought. We must form a mental conception of ourselves at the
highest, and hold this
conception until it is our habitual thought-form of ourselves. This
thought-form we must keep
continuously in view. We must outwardly realize and express that
thought-form in our actions. We
must do everything that we do in a great way. In dealing with our
family, neighbors, acquaintances,
and friends, we must make every act an expression of our ideals or
highest good. The person who
reaches the right viewpoint and makes this full consecration, and who
fully idealizes their self as
great, and who makes every act, however trivial, an expression of the
ideal, has already attained to
greatness. Everything we do will be done in a great way. We will
inherently make ourselves known
by our good work and thinking, and will be recognized as a personality
of power. We will receive
knowledge by inspiration, and will know all that we need to know. We
will benefit from and receive
all the wealth we form in our thoughts, and will not lack for any good
thing. We will be given ability
to deal with any combination of circumstances that may arise, and our
growth and progress will be
continuous and rapid. [32]
Harmony and Creation
We should cultivate this habit in moments of mediation, when we may
escape from the people and
crowd, and thus be able to listen to the voice that sounds from within.
Here are a few directions
for entering into harmony with the Universal Rhythm of Force; First,
your mental attitude must be
right. You must have gained control of your thoughts and words, so that
your mind is open and
receptive to the great good of the world. There must be no hate there,
no discouragement, no
pessimism, no negative, cringing, worm-of-the-dust or poverty
thought—your frame of mind must
be that of good will, encouragement, optimism, with positive thoughts,
expectant of wealth,
prosperity, and all of the good things that a person should have as an
heir of the universe. This
constructive and peaceful mental attitude will surround you with a
personal thought atmosphere
which repels from you the negative or toxic things and attracts you to
the positive or good energy
from the world.
Early in the morning just after your bath, close the doors of your room,
shutting out everybody and
everything for just a few moments. Take precautions that you shall not
be disturbed, and put away
from your mind the fear of interruption and disturbance. Take a position
of restful and peaceful
calm. Relax every muscle, and take the tension off every nerve. Take a
few deep restful breaths
which will seem like sighs, and will tend to relax your body and mind.
Then detach your thoughts
from the outer world, the things, and turn the mind inward upon
yourself. Shut out all the material
cares, worries and problems of the day, and sink into a mental state of
a peaceful calm. Think “I
open myself to the inflow of the universal rhythmic harmony,” and you
will soon begin to feel a sense of
relationship with that harmony coming into you, filling your mind and
body with a feeling of rest
and peace, and latent power. Then shortly after will come to you a sense
of new strength and
energy, and a desire to once more emerge upon the scene of your duties.
This is the time for you to
close your meditation.
Here it is; a few moments spent with your inner self and the Great
Universal Power each day, as
described above, if practiced assiduously, will establish within you the
Creative Mind—that
wonderful thing which marks the difference between the miserable realist
who is determined to be
right about ‘all that is wrong” and the master of destiny to refuses to
view the world through
anything but rose colored glasses. The more you practice, the more you
will open up that great
subconscious reservoir of yours which is overflowing with original
ideas. In time you will gain the
power to get in touch with your inner self and tap that reservoir where
ever you may be—in a car—
out for a walk—while you are shaving—and there will be a flash through
to your subconscious
mind, in vivid outlines, ideas that when worked out will mean for you
prosperity and independence.
Go to Next Page |