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Dynamics for Living
Spiritual Law
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ALL SANE persons acknowledge the necessity of observing law
in their daily living. The great majority have a human
standard. Now the whole race is awakening to the knowledge
of a higher source of existence. More people every day are
giving attention to the law of Spirit in their life.
We find in the Scriptures constant reference, in symbols
and also in direct language, to order as a fundamental law
of the universe and of man. All peoples have observed this,
and especially
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the people of God. Paul said, "All things should be done
decently and in order."
Remedy
Suggestion is systematically used in the business world,
and unless you are strong in your own convictions as to
what your needs are, you will be loaded up with many things
for which you have no use. The remedy is to establish
yourself in the spiritual law. You will come under one or
the other of these laws, the manmade or the spiritual, and
it is for you to choose which is best.
Whatever there is in mind, body, or affairs that is out of
harmony is easily adjusted when you open the way in your
mind for the manifestation of divine order.
Jesus' Birth
The birth of Jesus was foretold and arranged beforehand. It
was not left to chance. His mother "magnified" the Lord
before He was born. This illustrates the truth that it is
necessary to have order from the very beginning. The
bringing forth of John the Baptist is an example of the
coming of another state of consciousness and of the
necessity of law and order in prenatal culture.
The same law holds good in our body and our affairs. The
power of the word should be
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expressed in our homes. We should surround ourselves with
words suggestive of spiritual things. If words count, and
we know they do, we should be careful of every belief taken
into consciousness through the eye as well as through the
ear.
Suggestion
From their inception to their expression, words are
important. The law is fulfilled not only in mind but in
manifestation also. Every suggestion that enters the mind
brings forth like expression in act. The time is coming
when it will be unlawful to print in the daily papers any
record of crime or of anything that will bring discord into
the minds of readers.
Once I read of a man who committed a crime, and in his
pocket was found a newspaper clipping describing almost
identically the same criminal act. His crime was the fruit
of suggestion. How many such suggestions does one large
daily paper carry to its thousands of readers in its
recital of the daily horrors that make up the news?
As the world comes more and more under the spiritual law
editors and publishers will not ask their readers what they
want, but will give them what they should have for mental
food. And as the people are raised to higher
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planes of consciousness they will demand reading of an
uplifting character. They will be just as careful as
regards what they read as they are now beginning to be in
reference to food. There will be the same demand for pure
reading as for pure food. If it is against the law of the
land to adulterate food, how much more is it against the
law of right thinking to adulterate the truth! We can see
the necessity of order and law according to Spirit. If we
would demonstrate health, every deleterious thought should
be kept out of our mental atmosphere even more carefully
than harmful elements are kept out of our material food.
Food and Clothing
This spiritual law is operative in food and clothing. If we
think about order and harmony our taste in material things
will change. We shall desire the purest foods, and there
will be more harmony in the colors we choose to wear. Man
stands above all creation. He has power to clothe himself
in the richness and glory of Spirit. Out of the air we may
manufacture the things we eat and wear. This is not a
flight of fancy. It is not an assumption of theoretical
metaphysics that we may be able to make our food and
clothing from the air, but a logical conclusion that
follows the understanding of
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God as the omnipresent source of all that appears.
If you are disorderly and indefinite along any line, put
yourself at once under the order of Divine Mind by
affirming daily that the same law that swings the stars is
operative in and through your life and your affairs.
One Law
All people who have studied metaphysics and understand
somewhat the action of the mind recognize that there is one
underlying law and that through this law all things come
into expression; also that there is one universal Mind, the
source and sole origin of all real intelligence. First is
mind, then mind expresses itself in ideas, then the ideas
make themselves manifest. This is a metaphysical statement
of the divine Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The
trinity Mind, the expression of Mind, and the
manifestations of Mind are found in simple numbers and
complex combinations everywhere.
I Am
In the King James Bible the Hebrew "Jehovah" has been
translated "Lord." Lord means an external ruler. Bible
students say that Jehovah means the self-existent One, the
I AM. Then instead of reading "Lord" we should read "I AM."
It makes a great difference
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whether we think of I AM, self-existence within, or "Lord,"
master without.
All Scripture shows that Jehovah means just what God told
Moses it meant: I AM. So instead of "Lord" say "I AM"
whenever you read it and you will get a clearer
understanding and realization of what Jehovah is.
God was known to the Israelites as Jehovah-shalom: "I am
peace." You can demonstrate peace of mind by holding the
words "I am peace."
If we start any such demonstration and try to apply the I
AM to personality, we fall short. This is frequently the
cause of lack of results in carrying out the laws that all
metaphysicians recognize as fundamentally true.
The mind does not always comprehend the I AM in its
highest, neither does it discern that the all-knowing,
omnipotent One is within man. This recognition must be
cultivated, and everyone should become conscious of the I
AM presence. This consciousness will come through prayer
and meditation upon Truth. In Truth there is but one I AM,
Jehovah, the omnipotent I AM that is eternally whole and
perfect.
If you take Jehovah-shalom into your mind and hold it with
the thought of a mighty peace, you will feel a
consciousness, a harmonizing stillness, that no man can
understand. This consciousness
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is healing in itself. It must be felt, realized, and
acknowledged by your individual I AM before the supreme I
AM can pour out its power. Then you will know that you have
touched something; but you cannot explain to another just
what it is, because you have gone beyond the realm of words
and made union with the divine cause. It is the quickening
of your divinity through the power of the word. This divine
nature is in us all, waiting to be brought into expression
through our recognition of the power and might of the I AM;
to Jehovah-rapha, which is "I am he that healeth thee."
Inner and Outer
We should not fail to think always of the spiritual law
under which the I AM moves. It is possible for man to take
I AM power and apply it in external ways and leave out the
true spiritual law. We are proclaiming that man can use I
AM power to restore health and bring increased happiness;
in fact, that through righteous, lawful use of the I AM he
can have everything that he desires. But some people are
using this power in a material way, neglecting soul
culture, building up the external without taking the
intermediate step between the supreme Mind and its
manifestation in the outer.
We should remember that the soul must
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grow as well as the body. For example, a man was overtaken
with physical disability and loss of eyesight some years
ago. In his extremity he turned to the spiritual law for
help and was very faithful in its mental application. Time
passed before I saw him again; his physical condition was
unchanged, but there was a great change in his mind. He had
found the light and he was filled with inward rejoicing. He
had become blind that he might see. However his family
thought all his dependence upon Truth had been a failure
because his physical sight had not been restored. During
all these years he managed his business, and it prospered,
and his family was well provided for. He was himself for a
time disappointed and rebellious because his eyes were not
healed. Then he became glad, because through the prayers
and meditations he found the inner light. His physical
sight will be restored when he has made the complete
connection between mind and body.
If you find yourself disappointed because you do not at
once demonstrate health or success, be at peace and know
that your earnest prayers and meditations are working out
in you a soul growth that will yet become manifest beyond
your greatest hopes.
It is easier to seek the Truth willingly and be watchful
and obedient than it is to be forced
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by some severe experience. Hard experiences are not
necessary if we are obedient to the Truth that saves us
from them. Time should be given to prayer and meditation
daily. We cannot grow without them, and no man who neglects
them will successfully develop his spiritual powers.
Unification
Before you can realize the mighty power of ideas you must
unify them. All must pull together. Get your ideas in
divine order, and a mighty mind force will begin to work
for you right away. This divine order is necessary to the
upbuilding of both mind and body. This divine order is the
"kingdom of heaven" so often referred to by Jesus. To
attain this unity and harmony of mind it is necessary to
have perfect statements of Truth and to adhere to them in
thought and word.
Ideas change the race thought atmosphere. Jesus had a grasp
of divine ideas. If we believe in and follow Him we shall
come into the Christ state of mind. We become like-minded
by entering into the absolute Mind. In the absolute Mind
there is only harmony.
As man unifies his own mind forces in the one Mind his body
is lifted up into a new state of harmony. If he is not
demonstrating this principle, it is because he is not
unified with the
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one great harmonious Mind. He is not expressing this Mind
as he should because he is not realizing his oneness with
it.
Resolve to become one with God through Christ. Harmonize
yourself with Him and all your world will be in harmony. Be
on the alert to see harmony everywhere. Do not magnify
seeming differences. Do not keep up any petty divisions but
continually declare the one universal harmony. This will
insure perfect order and wholeness. The Christ Mind is here
as the unifying principle of this race. We must believe in
this mind working in us and through us and know that
through it we are joined to the Father-Mind. In the
consciousness of the Father-Mind the unity of God and man
is demonstrated.
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