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Understanding the Law of Mind isn't as important as being aware
of how it is working continuously through our life experiences.
Our inherent volitional ability to choose causes each of us to
put the Law of Mind into action every day in a multitude of ways
as we think the thoughts throughout each day. Experts tell
us that we think 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts each day or 2,500 to
3,300 thoughts per hour. It would be amazing if we could
be conscious of each of these thoughts but we know that for the
most part we are only aware of a few of them. These
thoughts that we are both conscious and unconscious of, create
the Law of our Mind. All the way back to the ancient
wisdom from the Book of Proverbs we can read "For as he thinketh
in his heart, so is he."
Ernest Holmes brought forth the concepts of the Law of Mind and
taught that it was intermingled with the Law of Cause and
Effect. This is what he wrote in his teaching manual "How
To Use The Science of Mind":
The Law of Mind demands, by Its very nature, that we
affirmatively believe in and accept Its operation. It would be
useless to argue why this is so, just as it would be useless to
argue why there is a law of gravitation. These laws exist and
all scientific advance is based on the supposition that any law
of nature will respond to us when we comply with it.
When the Master Mind Jesus said that we should believe even
before we receive, he was explaining the operation of the mental
Law of cause and effect. If nothing is believed in It, then
nothing is acted upon by It. But since there is such a Law, and
since we are always believing something, the Law will always be
operating upon what we believe, in the way we believe it. It is
not that we introduce a new law, but that we bring the Law we
are always using under conscious control, whether it be for
ourselves or for someone else.
The Law of Mind in action is a natural law. The Law is set
in motion consciously. Its reaction is mechanical and
mathematical. In such degree as one sees harmony instead of
discord, s/he will demonstrate this harmony without having to
create it. This is of utmost importance. Literally, mankind
creates nothing at all, s/he merely uses creative forces. Our
obligation, having discovered the way laws work, is to use them
intelligently. The responsibility for what is to take place is
always in the law. Therefore, spiritual mind practice calls not
only for definite attention and active awareness, but equally
for a sort of relaxation because of implicit confidence in the
Law.
Quite the reverse to the popular concept of holding thoughts
[thoughts and prayers], this calls for thinking them and then
loosing them into the Law. The only will power used in the
process — if it could be called will power — is a determination
to keep the thought clear, to think about what ought to happen
rather than about what ought not to happen, to be actively aware
of harmony rather than discord, to believe that good will always
overcome evil as light dissipates darkness.
Let us know this together:
"I will fear no evil for thou art with
me.” Today Divine Love and infinite tenderness sustain me. In
order that I shall not separate myself from this love, I
endeavor to see it reflected in everyone and everything. I shall
permit only that which is loving, kind and true to find entrance
or exit through my consciousness. Thus I shall be assured that I
am bathed in the warm glow of that Love which casts out all
fear.
Today I bestow the essence of love upon everything. Everyone
shall be lovely to me. My soul meets the soul of the universe in
everyone. Nothing is ugly; everything is beautiful, everything
is meaningful. This love is a healing power touching everything
into wholeness, healing the wounds of experience with its divine
balm.
I know that this Love
Essence, the very substance of Life, the creative Principle back
of everything, flows through my whole being, spiritual,
emotional, mental and physical. It flows in transcendent
loveliness into my world of thought and form, ever renewing,
vitalizing, bringing joy and harmony and blessing to everything
and everyone it touches."
- credit Ernest
Holmes
I believe if we think on the words that Ernest Holmes included
in this marvelous meditation, our heart will be aligned with the
Spirit in a greater way and our thoughts will cause an action of
good and more good to be made visible in our life experiences.
Keep the Faith!
Henry Lee Bates
(Reverend Dr.)
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