For example: A woman came to me in great distress. Her daughter had
determined to take a very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled
with fear.
She said she had used every argument, had pointed out the dangers to be
encountered, and forbidden her to go, but the daughter became more and
more rebellious and determined. I said to the mother, “You are forcing
your personal will upon your daughter, which you have no right to do,
and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for man attracts what
he fears.” I added, “Let go, and take your mental hands off; _put it
in God’s Hands, and use this statement_:” “I put this situation in the
hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan,
I bless it and no longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned,
I give thanks that it is now dissolved and dissipated.” A day or two
after that, her daughter said to her, “Mother, I have given up the
trip,” and the situation returned to its “native nothingness.”
It is learning to “stand still,” which seems so difficult for man. I
have dealt more fully with this law in the chapter on nonresistance.
I will give another example of sowing and reaping, which came in the
most curious way.
A woman came to me saying, she had received a counterfeit twenty-dollar
bill, given to her at the bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said,
“The people at the bank will never acknowledge their mistake.”
I replied, “Let us analyze the situation and find out why you attracted
it.” She thought a few moments and exclaimed: “I know it, I sent a
friend a lot of stagemoney, just for a joke.” So the law had sent her
some stagemoney, for it doesn’t know anything about jokes.
I said, “Now we will call on the law of forgiveness, and neutralize the
situation.”
Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness—Christ has redeemed
us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is
his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions.
So I said: “Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of forgiveness and give
thanks that she is under grace and not under law, and cannot lose this
twenty dollars which is hers by divine right.”
“Now,” I said, “Go back to the bank and tell them, fearlessly, that it
was given you, there by mistake.”
She obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized and gave her another
bill, treating her most courteously.
So knowledge of the Law gives man power to “rub out his mistakes.” Man
cannot force the external to be what he is not.
If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.
For example: A woman came to me asking treatment for prosperity. She
did not take much interest in her household affairs, and her home was
in great disorder.
I said to her, “If you wish to be rich, you must be orderly. All
men with great wealth are orderly—and order is heaven’s first law.”
I added, “You will never become rich with a burnt match in the
pincushion.”
She had a good sense of humor and commenced immediately, putting her
house in order. She rearranged furniture, straightened out bureau
drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made a big financial demonstration—a
gift from a relative. The woman, herself, became made over, and keeps
herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful of the _external
and expecting prosperity, knowing God is her supply_.
Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are
investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.
“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that
withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.”
For example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a fur-lined overcoat. He
and his wife went to various shops, but there was none he wanted. He
said they were all too cheap-looking. At last, he was shown one, the
salesman said was valued at a thousand dollars, but which the manager
would sell him for five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.
His financial possessions amounted to about seven hundred dollars. The
reasoning mind would have said, “You can’t afford to spend nearly all
you have on a coat,” but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.
He turned to his wife and said, “If I get this coat, I’ll make a ton of
money!” So his wife consented, weakly.
About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar commission. The
coat made him feel so rich, it linked him with success and prosperity;
without the coat, he would not have received the commission. It was an
investment paying large dividends!
If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give, the same amount of
money will go in an uninteresting or unhappy way.
For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day, she informed her
family that they could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the
money, but decided to save it.
A few days later, someone entered her room and took from the bureau
drawer the exact amount the dinner would have cost.
The law always stands back of the man who spends fearlessly, with
wisdom.
For example: One of my students was shopping with her little nephew.
The child clamored for a toy, which she told him she could not afford
to buy.
She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack, and not recognizing
God as her supply!
So she bought the toy, and on her way home, picked _up, in the street,
the exact amount of money she had paid for it_.
Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully trusted, but
faith or trust must precede the demonstration. “According to your faith
be it unto you.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen—” for faith holds the vision steady, and
the adverse pictures are dissolved and dissipated, and “in due season
we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there was a
higher law than the law of Karma—and that that law transcends the law
of Karma. It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law which
_frees man from the law of cause and effect—the law of consequence.
“Under grace, and not under law.”_
We are told that on this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the
gifts of God are simply poured out upon him. “All that the Kingdom
affords is his.” This continued state of bliss awaits the man who has
overcome the race (or world) thought.
In the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: “Be
of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
The world thought is that of sin, sickness and death. He saw their
absolute unreality and said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and
death itself, the last enemy, be overcome.
We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that death could be overcome
by stamping the subconscious mind with the conviction of eternal youth
and eternal life.
The subconscious, being simply power without direction, _carries out
orders without questioning_.
Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God
within man) the “resurrection of the body” would be accomplished.
Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be
transformed into the “body electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for
Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an empty
tomb.”
CASTING THE BURDEN
Impressing the Subconscious
When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind, his great
desire is to find an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious
with good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the Truth will not
bring results.
In my own case, I found the easiest way is in “casting the burden.”
A metaphysician once explained it in this manner. He said, “The only
thing which gives anything weight in nature, is the law of gravitation,
and if a boulder could be taken high above the planet, there would be
no weight in that boulder; and that is what Jesus Christ meant when he
said: ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light.’”
He had overcome the world vibration, and functioned in the fourth
dimensional realm, where there is only perfection, completion, life and
joy.
He said: “Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.” “Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my
burden is light.”
We are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to “cast thy burden upon the
Lord.” Many passages in the Bible state that the _battle is God’s_ not
man’s and that man is always to _“stand still” and see the Salvation of
the Lord_.
This indicates that the superconscious mind (or Christ within) is the
department which fights man’s battle and relieves him of burdens.
We see, therefore, that man violates law if he carries a burden, and
a burden is an adverse thought or condition, and this thought or
condition has its root in the subconscious.
It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the
subconscious from the conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning
mind (the intellect) is limited in its conceptions, and filled with
doubts and fears.
How scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon the superconscious
mind (or Christ within) where it is “made light,” or dissolved into its
“native nothingness.”
For example: A woman in urgent need of money, “made light” upon the
Christ within, the superconscious, with the statement, “I cast this
burden of lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have plenty!”
The belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast it upon the
Superconscious with its belief of plenty, an avalanche of supply was
the result.
We read, “The Christ in you the hope of glory.”
Another example: One of my students had been given a new piano, and
there was no room in her studio for it until she had moved out the
old one. She was in a state of perplexity. She wanted to keep the old
piano, but knew of no place to send it. She became desperate, as the
new piano was to be sent immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no
place to put it. She said it came to her to repeat, “I cast this burden
on the Christ within, and I go free.”
A few moments later, her ’phone rang, and a woman friend asked if she
might rent her old piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before
the new one arrived.
I knew a woman, whose burden was resentment. She said, “I cast this
burden of resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be
loving, harmonious and happy.” The Almighty superconscious, flooded
the subconscious with love, and her whole life was changed. For years,
resentment had held her in a state of torment and imprisoned her soul
(the subconscious mind).
The statement should be made over and over and over, sometimes for
hours at a time, silently or audibly, with quietness but determination.
I have often compared it to winding-up a victrola. We must wind
ourselves up with spoken words.
I have noticed, in “casting the burden,” after a little while, one
seems to see clearly. It is impossible to have clear vision, while in
the throes of carnal mind. Doubts and fear poison the mind and body and
imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and disease.
In steadily repeating the affirmation, “I cast this burden on the
Christ within, and go free,” the vision clears, and with it a feeling
of relief, and sooner or later comes _the manifestation of good, be it
health, happiness or supply_.
One of my students once asked me to explain the “darkness before the
dawn.” I referred in a preceding chapter to the fact that often,
before the big demonstration “everything seems to go wrong,” and
deep depression clouds the consciousness. It means that out of the
subconscious are rising the doubts and fears of the ages. These old
derelicts of the subconscious rise to the surface, _to be put out_.
It is then, that man should clap his cymbals, like Jehoshaphat, and
give thanks that he is saved, even though he seems surrounded by the
enemy (the situation of lack or disease). The student continued, “How
long must one remain in the dark” and I replied, “until one _can see in
the dark_,” and “_casting the burden enables one to see in the dark_.”
In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.
“Faith without works is dead.” In these chapters I have endeavored to
bring out this point.
Jesus Christ showed active faith when “He commanded the multitude to
sit down on the ground,” before he gave thanks for the loaves and the
fishes.
I will give another example showing how necessary this step is. In
fact, active faith is the bridge, over which man passes to his Promised
Land.
Through misunderstanding, a woman had been separated from her husband,
whom she loved deeply. He refused all offers of reconciliation and
would not communicate with her in any way.
Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she denied the appearance
of separation. She made this statement: “There is no separation in
Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and
companionship which are mine by divine right.”
She showed active faith by arranging a place for him at the table
every day; thereby impressing the subconscious with a picture of his
_return_. Over a year passed, but she never wavered, and _one day he
walked in_.
The subconscious is often impressed through music. Music has a fourth
dimensional quality and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes
wonderful things seem _possible, and easy of accomplishment_!
I have a friend who uses her victrola, daily, for this purpose. It puts
her in perfect harmony and releases the imagination.
Another woman often dances while making her affirmations. The rhythm
and harmony of music and motion carry her words forth with tremendous
power.
The student must remember also, not to despise the “day of small
things.”
Invariably, before a demonstration, come “signs of land.”
Before Columbus reached America, he saw birds and twigs which showed
him land was near. So it is with a demonstration; but often the student
mistakes it for the demonstration itself, and is disappointed.
For example: A woman had “spoken the word” for a set of dishes. Not
long afterwards a friend gave her a dish which was old and cracked.
She came to me and said, “Well, I asked for a set of dishes, and all I
got was a cracked plate.”
I replied, “The plate was only signs of land. It shows your dishes are
coming—look upon it as birds and seaweed,” and not long afterwards the
dishes came.
Continually “making-believe,” impresses the subconscious. If one makes
believe he is rich, and makes believe he is successful, in “due time he
will reap.”
Children are always “making believe,” and “except ye be converted, and
become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
For example: I know of a woman who was very poor, but no one could
make her _feel poor_. She earned a small amount of money from rich
friends, who constantly reminded her of her poverty, and to be careful
and saving. Regardless of their admonitions, she would spend all her
earnings on a hat, or make someone a gift, and be in a rapturous state
of mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful clothes and
“rings and things,” but without envying others.
She lived in the world of the wondrous, and only riches seemed
real to her. Before long she married a rich man, and the rings and
things became visible. I do not know whether the man was the “Divine
Selection,” but opulence had to manifest in her life, as she had imaged
only opulence.
There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased all fear
from the subconscious.
Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into
Faith.
Jesus Christ said, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” “All
things are possible to him that believeth.”
I am asked, so often by my students, “_How can I get rid of fear?_”
I reply, “_By walking up to the thing you are afraid of_.”
“The lion takes its fierceness from your fear.”
Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after
you.
I have shown in previous chapters, how the lion of lack disappeared
when the individual spent money fearlessly, showing faith that God was
his supply and therefore, unfailing.
Many of my students have come out of the bondage of poverty, and are
now bountifully supplied, through losing all fear of letting money go
out. The subconscious is impressed with the truth that _God is the
Giver and the Gift_; therefore as one is one with the Giver, he is one
with the Gift. A splendid statement is, “I now thank God the Giver for
God the Gift.”
Man has so long separated himself from his good and his supply, through
thoughts of separation and lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to
dislodge these false ideas from the subconscious, and the dynamite is a
big situation.
We see in the foregoing illustration, how the individual was freed from
his bondage by _showing fearlessness_.
Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is
fear or faith.
“Choose ye this day whom we shall serve,” fear or faith.
Perhaps one’s fear is of personality. Then do not avoid the people
feared; be willing to meet them cheerfully, and they will either prove
“golden links in the chain of one’s good,” or disappear harmoniously
from one’s pathway.
Perhaps one’s fear is of disease or germs. Then one should be fearless
and undisturbed in a germ-laden situation, and he would be immune.
One can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the
germ, and fear drags men down to the level of the germ. Of course, the
disease laden germ is the product of carnal mind, as all thought must
objectify. Germs do not exist in the superconscious or Divine Mind,
therefore are the product of man’s “vain imagination.”
“In the twinkling of an eye,” man’s release will come when he realizes
_there is no power in evil_.
The material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world,
the “World of the Wondrous,” will swing into manifestation.
“And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth—and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain;
for the former things are passed away.”
LOVE
Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love. “A new
commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.” Ouspensky
states, in “Tertium Organum,” that “love is a cosmic phenomenon,” and
opens to man the fourth dimensional world, “The World of the Wondrous.”
Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours itself out upon
the object of its affection, without demanding any return. Its joy is
in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest
magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish love _draws to itself
its own_; it does not need to seek or demand. Scarcely anyone has the
faintest conception of real love. Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful
in his affections, thereby losing the thing he loves. Jealousy is the
worst enemy of love, for the imagination runs riot, seeing the loved
one attracted to another, and invariably these fears objectify if they
are not neutralized.
For example: A woman came to me in deep distress. The man she loved had
left her for other women, and said he never intended to marry her.
She was torn with jealousy and resentment and said she hoped he would
suffer as he had made her suffer; and added, “How could he leave me
when I loved him so much?”
I replied, “You are not loving that man, you are hating him,” and
added, “_You can never receive what you have never given. Give a
perfect love and you will receive a perfect love._ Perfect yourself on
this man. Give him a perfect, _unselfish_ love, demanding nothing in
return, do not criticise or condemn, and _bless him wherever he is_.”
She replied, “No, I won’t bless him unless I know where he is!”
“Well,” I said, “that is not real love.”
“When you _send out real love_, real love will return to you, either
from this man or his equivalent, for if this man is not the divine
selection, you will not want him. As you are one with God, you are one
with the love which belongs to you by divine right.”
Several months passed, and matters remained about the same, but she
was working conscientiously with herself. I said, “When you are no
longer disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as you are
attracting it through your own emotions.”
Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who never said, “Good
morning” to each other. They used these words: “_I salute the Divinity
in you._” They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the wild
animals in the jungle, and they were never harmed, for they _saw only
God in every_ living thing. I said, “Salute the divinity in this man,
and say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees you,
perfect, made in His image and likeness.’”
She found she was becoming more poised, and gradually losing her
resentment. He was a Captain, and she always called him “The Cap.”
One day, she said, suddenly, “_God bless the Cap wherever he is._”
I replied: “Now, that is real love, and when you have become a
‘complete circle,’ and are no longer disturbed by the situation, you
will have his love, or attract its equivalent.”
I was moving at this time, and did not have a telephone, so was out of
touch with her for a few weeks, when one morning I received a letter
saying, “We are married.”
At the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My first words were,
“What happened?”
“Oh,” she exclaimed, “a miracle! One day I woke up and all suffering
had ceased. I saw him that evening and he asked me to marry him. We
were married in about a week, and I have never seen a more devoted man.”
There is an old saying: “_No man is your enemy, no man is your friend,
every man is your teacher._”
So one should become impersonal and learn what each man has to teach
him, and soon he would learn his lessons and be free.
The woman’s lover was teaching her selfless love, which every man,
sooner or later, must learn.
Suffering is not necessary for man’s development; it is the result
of violation of spiritual law, but few people seem able to rouse
themselves from their “soul sleep” without it. When people are happy,
they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set
in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.
I knew a woman who had a very nice husband, but she said often, “I
don’t care anything about being married, but that is nothing against my
husband. I’m simply not interested in married life.”
She had other interests, and scarcely remembered she had a husband. She
only thought of him when she saw him. One day her husband told her he
was in love with another woman, and left. She came to me in distress
and resentment.
I replied, “It is exactly what you spoke the word for. You said you
didn’t care anything about being married, so the subconscious worked to
get you unmarried.”
She said, “Oh yes, I see. People get what they want, and then feel very
much hurt.”
She soon became in perfect harmony with the situation, and knew they
were both much happier apart.
When a woman becomes indifferent or critical, and ceases to be an
inspiration to her husband, he misses the stimulus of their early
relationship and is restless and unhappy.
A man came to me dejected, miserable and poor. His wife was interested
in the “Science of Numbers,” and had had him read. It seems the report
was not very favorable, for he said, “My wife says I’ll never amount to
anything because I am a two.”
I replied, “I don’t care what your number is, you are a perfect idea in
divine mind, and we will demand the success and prosperity which are
_already planned_ for you by that Infinite Intelligence.”
Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position, and a year or two
later, he achieved a brilliant success as a writer. No man is a success
in business unless he loves his work. The picture the artist paints
for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The pot-boiler is always
something to live down.
No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in
poverty by saying: “Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt
for people who have it.”
This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their contempt for money
separates them from it.
I remember hearing one artist say of another, “He’s no good as an
artist, he has money in the bank.”
This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his supply; he
must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.
Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but
it must be always kept in circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding
and saving react with grim vengeance.