Acting on the WORD, or acting driven by our circumstances or problems.
The fact is: -I have this illness, or this addiction.
The fact is: – I have these neighbors who harass me…
“The facts” are what you live by, and this is post is about how you turn Gods light out in your life, so that you can’t see where you are going, and to stop living by the facts and start living by faith.
Acting on the TRUTH of God’s word.
This post is dedicated to a reader who has this problem of acting on her problem.
Whenever there is a problem, this individual acts on the problem. Is this you? Do you also act on your problems? Right now, she hates the way her neighbor make her feel, so she wants to move out even before she has another place to live. In the past she gave up a job that she didn’t like only to find that she doesn’t have money to pay the rent, she contacted me a few days before eviction… She is acting on her PROBLEM.
Act on the truth of God, don’t act on your problem.
Faith in God’s Word
Act on THE WORD, in faith. Don’t act ON YOUR PROBLEM in faith. There is a difference, and the difference is in the outcome.
Your blessing doesn’t come if you act on your problem, your disease, your demons, or your addiction. Your blessing comes when you act IN FAITH ON THE WORD.
So many people read a sentence or two out of the Bible and then act like an expert in “manifesting”… My eyes have really opened to the confused thinking that people have been operating under. Maybe you stumbled on manifesting, and now, suddenly you know everything. You quote the Bible left and right, with authority, but you have NEVER read the Bible. Is this you?
When I say, ACT ON THE WORD, the word I am talking about is the Bible. MEDITATE on the word. Become the word. Read the word everyday. This is your manual. It is the law of the kingdom of heaven. Let the word IN to your heart and soul so that you know what the word says BY YOUR SPIRIT. The word will change you and you will walk by faith in the word, not faith in the facts. You will walk by faith in the Holy Spirit, not faith in your problems.
You are not God and you do not have the perspective that God has.
God will NEVER bless your problems. God’s word exists in the heavens, in the kingdom of God, and because it exists there, it is already settled here.
Your blessing is only one action away, an action IN GOD’S word.
A refusal to act on your problem, circumstance, illness or addiction. Because you are not God, you don’t know the repercussions of s single act of faith. Even if it seems small or insignificant, act on the word of God. You don’t know the repercussions of acting on one problem. DON’T act on the problem.
Stop acting out your doubt!
So you don’t ‘feel it” yet? You don’t hear the word of God?
You will.
AFTER you stop acting on your problems.
It comes little by little, sometimes it comes as one big revelation, either way it comes AFTER you stop acting on your doubt, so stop. You take the first step, of acting in faith and obedience to his word.
You asked for ALL OF THOSE BLESSINGS but when you come upon what is a necessary circumstance you freak out and you act on the problem, you start going all Karen on people, you make phone calls and ask for the manager, you start talking about lawsuits… is this you?
You ask for the Blessings, NOW you have to be led by the Holy Spirit. Act in FAITH OF THE WORD.
“Turn at my rebuke, surely I will pour out my spirit on you, I will make my words known to you.”-Proverbs.
Yes, this means STOP acting on your doubts, and turn around, instead BE STILL, and walk in the truth, and the truth will set you free. YOU have to take the first step by NOT acting on that doubt.
I Want to hear God’s Voice
When you read the Bible every day, a little bit at least, God is reading you, and he tends to your needs.
“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word WAS God. “
The word is the Bible. The Bible IS GOD. The word IS the Holy Spirit of God.
To know God’s voice you must know his will, and his will is his word. You don’t have to guess, you just have to read.
You do not have to break a mental sweat, because you are not so much understanding, as you are letting HIM read YOU.
His will is his inheritance for you. Think of will as a will that your parents leave you.
His word is the password to the vault where your will has been left.
His WILL (inheritance) is his WORD (password to the vault). When you read his word, you are receiving his inheritance even if you don’t understand what you are reading. You are receiving the password into your heart, by giving access to the Holy Spirit into your heart, mind and soul. The word IS the Holy Spirit. By reading, you are hearing the voice of God.
It is easy, don’t listen to people who say that this is hard, or that it takes time. Just have faith in GOD’S word, read it, and walk in his word.
Lie: “Christ” means “oily secretion of endogenous DMT”
If you have dabbled in the “spiritual movement” as most of us have, you most likely came across THIS lie at some point: “Christ means, secretly and unknown to anyone but a very select few, a brain chemical DMT release, which happens after for example Kundalini yoga practice.”
The God Molecule
First off, the DMT release does not really equal the natural anointing of the holy Spirit of God which Jesus Christ anointed us with. But if you don’t know that OF COURSE it can seem like it is the same…If it feels good it must be good, we think. If it is good, it must be the ULTIMATE good. No. It is not, and DMT is not God. I feel that I am 20 years late in making this argument, but better late than never.
For all the folks who are in such a thick fog of spiritual jambalaya that you recoil at “organized religion: when I say the words JESUS CHRIST, here is a sobering view point. Do you want DISORGANIZED religion? Disorganized absence of religion? Chaotic Spiritual Highs? I know, it is so easy to get caught up in these catch phrases. Resist THE MAN, and the establishment and the ORGANIZED religion. Yes, there is something that we should want to resist, but it isn’t the organized part, and it is not even the religion part, it is the lie. Resist the lie.
-But I thought that that is what I was doing?
– I know, me too.
Let’s keep looking for some facts, keep reading:
Facts:
The word “Christ” originates from the Greek word “Christos,” which translates to “anointed one” or “chosen one.” In ancient Jewish tradition, kings, priests, and prophets were anointed with oil as a sign of their consecration and appointment by God for a particular role or task. The title “Christ” therefore carries significant religious and symbolic meaning, representing the belief that Jesus of Nazareth was the long-awaited Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures.
More facts:
The term “Christ” underscores Jesus’ unique role and authority in Christian theology. It does NEGATE IT. It does not MEAN THAT HE WAS MERELY AN ENLIGHTENED BUDDHA WHO RECEIVED SOME DRIPS OF DMT INSIDE OF HIS BRAIN. Have you stopped to think about how absurd it would be to change the numbering of the years, to the year ZERO for him, ot that the WHOLE world talks about him, religions all over the world talk about Him, heck even the spiritual folks who say he was JUST an enlightened dude, talk about him. That is a whole lot of hoopla for some guy. Too much ado about nothing you might say. Keep in mid also, that Jesus does not return the favor. He is not interested in the “many paths to God” slogan, he is only interested in the “to God” part of that statement. He is the Way, The Truth and Life. HE is The Resurrection. No one comes to God but Through HIM.
Naming Jesus t’he Christ”, highlights his divine mission, it does not negate it.
It identities him as the Son of God, sent to fulfill God’s plan of redemption for humanity.
Never read the Bible? Then you wouldn’t know God’s plan of redemption, or how Jesus exist from the very first page in the book of Genesis now would you?
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus is frequently referred to as “Jesus Christ,” by the apostles that KNEW him in person, emphasizing his status as the long-awaited Messiah who brings hope, salvation, and eternal life to believers. Eternal life what is that? Well, it is the same as striving for “liberation” from the karmic wheel of birth and death. Why are you trying to become more spiritual? It is to get off that hamster wheel is it not? Or is it just to get high off of DMT?
Anointed By Crism Oil?
Yeah, this is where the DMT is The God Molecule has led us. Deep into a Cul De Sac. A dead end street. There are no roads out of here.
Here is an example of where this disinformation has gone:
“What is the scientific name for Christ oil?
The Sacred Secretion, also called ‘Chrism’, ‘Christ Oil’, ‘Endogenous DMT’ and ‘The Honey And Milk’, is the title given to a natural, spiritual mechanism of rejuvenation within the human body. During the monthly cycle, when lunar energy empowers the starsign energy that clothed you at birth, the brain releases a brew of chemicals. The psychedelic concoction descends down the spine’s 33 vertebrate before ascending back up again to the place where God can be met face to face (the mind – Pineal). The secretion’s increases its vibrational potency throughout the process, changing in and out of form. Finally, after being preserved in a blissed body, the secretion is released, enhancing the senses of the individual and raising their conscious awareness.”
This might seem completely fine to you, where is the problem? Well, the discourse on GOD, (or Consciousness to borrow the God term from Vedanta which might be more palatable to you) is that God can not be confined to the brain anatomy, or brain synapses.
There ARE brain synapses, and the IS such a thing as DMT and its subsequent “high” and feelings of oneness, but that is not God, and that is not consiousness. Yes, it can seem that way, but it is not.
God does not go away just because your brain chemicals are not secreting DMT. Abiding in God’s presence give a sense of peace more than a feeling of high. Fully abiding in God, as mush as is possible for a human being, also gives the oneness with God and his creation sensation, but it feels different from the “yoga high”
Jesus Christ was indeed anointed
But his anointing was by the Holy Spirit, and this is a different experience. Jesus also gave us, through him, the anointing by the Holy Spirit, which gives us simultaneous with a sense of PEACE and Love and FAITH, also wisdom, understanding, knowledge and counsel. He (The holy spirit) has the ability to completely heal us. When you hear of miracles, this is the work of the Holy Spirit.
Worship of self or worship of God?
The striving to produce spiritual highs by our own practice is a self worship, and it will give you what us are striving for. We will feel better, and happier hopefully. We will feel oneness, and you will have an experience called Bhav or Bliss. But it IS NOT THE ANOINTING of the Holy Spirit. It is not even close. This is where the shoe doesn’t fit. It is good, but the secretions of the pineal gland, or any other brain chemical is not the same as and equal to Jesus Chrsit, or the Holy Spirit of God that he anointed us with.
There is no way to have the anointing by the Holy Spirit but though God.
When we are anointed with the Holy Spirit, it brings several significant blessings and empowerments, but no one receives this BUT THROUGH Jesus Christ:
Empowerment for Service: The Holy Spirit equips us with spiritual gifts and abilities to serve God and others effectively. These gifts may include teaching, prophecy, healing, speaking in tongues, and more, which enable us to fulfill our unique roles in the body of Christ.
Guidance and Wisdom: The Holy Spirit provides guidance, wisdom, and discernment aligned with God’s will. Through prayer and a yielded heart, we can rely on the Spirit’s leading to guide our paths.
Spiritual Transformation: The Holy Spirit works within us to produce spiritual fruit, such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). We don’t actually do any of this work, the holy Spirit does it through us, it is a miraculous healing of the heart. We become more like Christ, by his help.
Comfort and Strength: The Holy Spirit comforts and strengthens us. The Spirit’s presence brings assurance of God’s love, peace even in trials, and hardships.
Unity with God: Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we experience a deepening intimacy with God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son. The Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are children of God, fostering a close relationship marked by communion and fellowship.
Boldness in Witnessing: The Holy Spirit empowers us to be bold, and to share the truth, even when people mock it. With the Spirit we overcome fear, and testify to the transforming power of Christ. Christ the PERSON, not the oily secretion in the brain….
Seal of Redemption: The Holy Spirit seals believers as God’s own possession and guarantees their inheritance in Christ (Ephesians 1:13-14). This seal signifies God’s ownership, protection, and preservation of those who belong to Him, ensuring their eternal security. You might call this liberation. True and real liberation, not based on our own works….
The side effects of the anointing by the Holy Spirit
The anointing of the Holy Spirit instantly changes us, from the inside and out, and surprisingly, it leads to a transformation in our attitudes and behaviors for several reasons. You will discern the difference between Th Holy Spirit and DMT by the aversions that the Holy SPirit produces:
Spiritual Awareness: The Holy Spirit brings about a heightened spiritual awareness within us. This awareness helps us recognize the areas in our lives where we fall short of God’s standards and prompts us to seek His forgiveness and guidance. When we receive the Holy Spirit, our hearts become sensitive to the presence of sin in our lives, leading to a deep sense of repentance. Repentance is a BYPRODUCT of the spirit, not a precursor.
Renewed Mind: The Holy Spirit renews our minds and transforms our thinking (Romans 12:2). As we yield to the Spirit’s work, our perspectives and priorities begin to align more closely with God’s Word, leading us to view attitudes and behaviors with greater clarity and disdain. We see more and more through the eyes of God. What was fine before, is repulsive suddenly.
New Heart: Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we receive a new heart and nature (Ezekiel 36:26). This is so literal, you won’t believe the change that you go though unless you’ve gone through it. No yoga practice or meditation practice does this. Nothin but the Holy Spirit of God. No DMT molecule does this. The Spirit’s anointing leads to a genuine hatred for sin and a desire to live righteously.
Empowerment for Holiness: The Holy Spirit empowers us to live holy and righteous lives when before we couldn’t or didn’t want to. (Galatians 5:16). As we surrender to the Spirit’s leading, we are enabled to resist temptation, overcome bad habits. Addictions are healed.
Healing and Deliverance: The anointing of the Holy Spirit brings healing and deliverance from attachment to sin and addiction (Isaiah 61:1). Through the power of the Spirit, individuals experience a supernatural freedom and transformation in a matter of moments. Nothing else heals in a moment, but the Holy spirit.
Spiritual Discernment: The Holy Spirit grants us spiritual discernment to recognize the destructive nature of sin and its consequences. You can see cause and effect more with the perspective of God. (1 Corinthians 2:14). With the Spirit’s guidance, we see behaviors for what they truly are and we understand the harmful effects.
Empathy and Compassion: Through the love of the Holy Spirit shed abroad in our hearts (Romans 5:5), we develop empathy and compassion towards others who are trapped in lies. Our own experiences of God’s grace and deliverance motivate us to reach out with love and understanding to those who are still struggling.
Truth about Jesus Crist
The anointing by the Holy Spirit, bestowed upon those who love Jesus Christ, is not the same as the DMT molecule or Chrism oil. The anointing by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual empowerment that brings about a significant transformation, coupled with conviction, and a deepening relationship with God, an intolerance for previous bad behavior and attitudes, and a deep love, for piety whereas DMT and Chrism oil are substances with different properties and effects, just like any other substance.
The False Spirituality Jesus
It’s such a common misconception that experiences induced by substances like DMT or practices such as yoga can equate to the presence or power of the Holy Spirit, or that Jesus Christ’s significance can be reduced to a mere state of consciousness achievable through such means.
The historical reality of Jesus, his documented life, teachings, and the profound impact he had on human history and culture make it utterly ridiculous to equate him with someone who simply pursued personal enlightenment through smoking some weed, or doing some yoga and meditation practices.
The uniqueness of Jesus Christ’s identity and his role in various religious traditions underscore the inadequacy of such comparisons. How many cool and alright dudes reset the way we number our years?
The thing is, this false Jesus, just like ALL false Jesus versions that are in circulation, only serve to block our experience with the real Jesus.
The experience with the real Jesus Christ and the anointing of the Holy Spirit far surpasses the “Yoga Jesus”, or the “DMT and Crism Oil Jesus…”
God in a Brain Scan?
The concept of God or consciousness transcends the physical and cannot be confined to brain scans or chemical reactions. If God were merely a product of biochemical processes in the brain, then His existence would be limited to the lifespan of the physical body. However, God is eternal, and exists independently of bodily functions. This understanding aligns with the notion of God as transcendent and eternal, beyond the scope of scientific measurement or physical explanation.
Haw Many False Jesuses are There?
Truly, there is no end to how many false renditions of Jesus Christ there are and they run the gamut, from “communist Jesus” to ‘republican Jesus”, from ” nonexistent only consiousness Jesus” to “just a prophet Jesus”, Hippie Jesus that encourages promiscuity” and as we just covered, The “DMT endogenous secretion Jesus” or “Crism Oil Jesus”….ever wonder why HE is so incredibly misrepresented?
Here are some bullet points to help fact-check and identify a false representation of Jesus or a false gospel:
Contradiction with Scriptural Teachings: Any interpretation of Jesus or his teachings that directly contradicts scripture is a false gospel.. Example; “Hippie Jesus” or “socialist Jesus.”
Denial of Core Christian Beliefs: Denial of fundamental Christian beliefs such as the divinity of Jesus, his resurrection, or the existence of sin and redemption should raise immediate red flags. Example Islam, Mormonism, Jehovas witness.
Focus on Material Gain or Worldly Success: If the message emphasizes material wealth, worldly success, or personal gain rather than spiritual growth and moral integrity, is a false gospel. Example, prosperity gospel.
Lack of Historical or Scriptural Support: Claims about Jesus or his teachings that lack historical or scriptural support should be approached with caution, especially if they rely solely on personal revelation or esoteric knowledge. Example, “Yoga Jesus”.
Absence of Love and Compassion: True teachings of Jesus emphasize love, compassion, and forgiveness. Any message that promotes racism, sexism, discrimination, or violence is a false gospel. Example; bombing abortion clinics.
Unverifiable Claims of Miracles or Divine Revelation: Claims of miraculous powers and especially CHANNELING of Jesus or other entities in His name, that cannot be verified should be approached with utmost skepticism. Example; “The I am discourses of St Germain” Jeus.
Lack of Personal Transformation: The authentic Jesus brings complete transformation from within, any spiritual teachings should through prayer, lead to personal transformation, as well as fostering of qualities such as humility, kindness, and inner peace. If all the teaching gives you is a rabbit hole of conspiracies, it is a false Jesus. example; “The church hid His true identity conspiracy” Jesus.
Personal interpretation
Personal interpretation is inevitable, we are persons after all, but if we use the ACTUAL Bible as a source of accurate information, not YouTube videos, cults or social movements, we will have an easier time at approaching the truth, wich in the case of Jesus, is mind blowing exactly the way that the Bible tells it. No false rendition comes close to. it
Leave a comment if you have experienced a false Jesus.
Yes, this is a real thing. Read this blog to the end to find out how you are being deceived, willingly.
First, let’s look at some straight fax:
1. Ranking from least to most deviation from traditional . Christianity and Judaism:
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Christianity
Protestantism
2. Plagiarized And Altered:
Plagiarizing, meaning copying, altering, adding, removing but STILL using the Bibles as a source:
Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Bahá’í Faith
Rastafarianism
Unitarian Universalism
Certain Spiritual Movements Theosphy etc
Islam
This ranking is based on the degree of deviation each religious group has from traditional Christian and Jewish beliefs, practices, and scriptures, WHILE STILL SHAMELESSLY USING THE BIBLE AS A SOURCE! Imagine if you were writing your thesis at university and you did this, you would get an f and you would be expelled.
More straight FAX
3. Some religions and their date of creation:
(Dates are approximate, not all religions are included)
Judaism (c. 2nd millennium BCE)
Christianity (c. 1st century CE)
Catholicism (1st century CE)
Eastern Orthodoxy (1st century)
Gnosticism (1st to 2nd century CE)
Arianism (4th century CE)
Oriental Orthodoxy (5th century CE)
Islam (c. 7th century CE)
Lutheranism (16th century CE)
Anglicanism (16th century CE)
Anabaptists (16th century CE)
Calvinism (16th century CE)
Presbyterianism (16th century CE)
Baptist (17th century CE)
Quakers (17th century CE)
Deism (17th to 18th century CE)
Rosecrucianism (early 17th century CE)
Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) (1830 CE
Seventh-day Adventist Church (1863 CE)
Jehovah’s Witnesses (1870s CE)
Bahá’í Faith (mid-19th century CE)
Unitarian Universalism (1961 CE, consolidated)
Rastafarianism (c. 1930s CE)
Pentecostal (early 20th century CE)
Methodist (18th century CE)
Liberal (political) Christianity (19th century CE)
New Thought (19th century CE)
Theosophy (19th century CE)
Messianic Judaism (20th century CE),( Really, 1st century)
Conservative (political) Christianity (20th century CE)
OTHER Spiritual Movements / New Age / More (various and ongoing)
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!
Galatians 1.6-9
The disinformation campaign against the authority of the Torah:
A Smear Campaign
The smear campaign does not end with plagiarism which is blatant, and somehow acceptable to society, but it also extends to calling THE TORAH a plagiarized work. Go figure! This is the playbook of NARCISISSM. Throw shade on the innocent party to cover up what you are doing
It’s very important to address concerns about misinformation and antisemitism, especially when it involves the integrity of religious texts like the Torah. Why? Have you not seen what happens when you let the lies flourish?
FACT: Creation stories and other narratives can bear similarities across different cultures and there might be a reason for that that we won’t go into hear.
FACT: There are commonalities among many creation myths, this does not mean plagiarism.
“Presenting work or ideas from another source as your own, with or without consent of the original author, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition, as is the use of material generated wholly or in part through use of artificial intelligence (save when use of AI for assessment has received prior authorisation e.g. as a reasonable adjustment for a student’s disability). Plagiarism can also include re-using your own work without citation. Under the regulations for examinations, intentional or reckless plagiarism is a disciplinary offence.”
University Of Oxford
FACT: The Torah, as a sacred text of Judaism, holds deep significance for millions of people worldwide.
FACT: It contains unique teachings, distinct values, and very specific perspectives on creation, morality, and spirituality
FACT: The Torah’s portrayal of the world’s creation, the relationship between humanity and the divine, and the ethical principles it espouses are distinctive to Jewish tradition.
The smear campaign claims that the Biblical stories are “stolen” but not so fast. Again, many creation myths bear some similarities, but this does not mean that they are either false or even borrowed from one another. Without evidence that any culture stole the creation myth of another, it is nothing but an elaborate smear campaign to bury one religion, in this case, Judaism. To make a case for creation myths being identical is a stretch, they have SOME similarities, but that is all. Don’t make so much out of it, and instead of getting all information from “some website’ or “some influencer” try getting into the real texts. you will find out all on your own what is stolen and what is not. It is not a secret, anyone can read creation myths.
Antisemitism and anti-Christ smears go hand in hand
Claims of plagiarism against the Torah are often disguised as a campaign against THE BIBLE, or THE OLD TESTAMENT, and the claims are rooted in a DELIBERATE a misunderstanding and DELIBERATE misinterpretations of historical and cultural contexts.
Deception:
The act of deliberately making someone believe something that is not true.
Oxford’s Learners Dictionaries
This is actually a deception with pretty high stakes. As a human race, we have seen the fallout of the twisting of THIS specific truth before, and it has ended in genocide. I highly recommend learning about the Torah, by for example … READING IT ….. through and through, front to back, before engaging in any conversations pertaining to the content of the text and how it compares to other, contemporary, religious and spiritual texts.
“Blessed are the peace keepers for they shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
The Greatest Secret Is Out In The Open?
Gnosticism is a complex religious movement that emerged in the early centuries of the Common Era, influenced by various philosophical and religious traditions of the time, including Judaism, Christianity, and Hellenistic mysticism. Its origins can be traced back to the diverse cultural and intellectual milieu of the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly in regions such as Egypt, where different religious ideas and spiritual practices coexisted and interacted.
The term “Gnosticism” derives from the Greek word “gnosis,” meaning “knowledge” or “insight.” Gnosticism emphasizes the “attainment of spiritual knowledge” or “enlightenment” as a means of salvation. Gnostics believe that this knowledge enables individuals to “transcend the material” world.
Constituted in a state of holiness, man was destined to be fully “divinized” by God in glory. Seduced by the devil, he wanted to “be like God”, but “without God, before God, and not in accordance with God
CCC §398
Gnostic beliefs often include cosmological dualism, which posits a fundamental opposition between the material world, seen as the domain of darkness and ignorance, and the spiritual realm of light and knowledge. According to Gnostic cosmology, the material world was created by a lesser or ignorant deity known as the Demiurge, who is often portrayed as an inferior or malevolent being. In contrast, the true divine reality lies beyond this material realm and is accessible only through spiritual enlightenment.
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18.9-13
Gnosticism is a sign of humanity’s rebellion and refusal to be reliant on God and it reflects a particular religious perspective that is contrary to the beliefs and practices of orthodox understandings of divine authority and human obedience. From this viewpoint, the emphasis on acquiring secret knowledge and transcending the material world without acknowledging divine sovereignty is a form of spiritual pride and disobedience. (For more discourse on spiritual pride and ego, Eastern religions hold value, particularly Vedanta.)
The passage from the Torah above emphasizes the importance of maintaining love and loyalty to God’s commandments and avoiding practices associated with pagan religions and occultism. True devotion to God requires adherence to His laws and avoidance of idolatry (such as Gnosticism). Gnostic beliefs and practices that diverge from orthodox teachings are incompatible with the faith in God and the ethical framework outlined in the Old Testament.
Gnosticism incorporates elements from various religious traditions, not just Judaism and Christianity. Some Gnostic texts reinterpret biblical stories and characters, presenting alternative perspectives on familiar narratives such as the creation, the fall of humanity, and the nature of salvation. Gnostics often view the God of the Old Testament as an inferior deity or demiurge responsible for creating the flawed material world.
In relation to Christianity, Gnosticism continued to develop alongside with early Christian communities, particularly during the first few centuries of the Common Era. Gnostic texts often feature reinterpretations of Christian themes and figures, including Jesus Christ, whom Gnostics regard as a “divine revealer of hidden knowledge” rather than a savior who died for the redemption of humanity’s sins. Gnostic interpretations of Jesus vary widely, with some emphasizing his role as a spiritual teacher or revealer of secret wisdom. The relationship between Gnosticism and secrecy is complex and multifaceted. Gnostic groups embraced secrecy as a means of “safeguarding esoteric knowledge”. There are no Jewish, Roman, or early Christian texts to support these beliefs. Jesus is portrayed either as the messiah or as a nuisance, but never as ” a spiritual teacher”, so where are they getting this information? Oh, wait…. It is SECRET.
Secrets or Lies?
Within secret and initiation based organizations, rituals play a significant role. The creation of mysticism around the transmission of spiritual teachings, and the promise of enlightenment contribute to their allure. These organizations often employ symbolic rituals, ceremonial practices, and a re-interpretation of hierarchical structures to guide initiates through stages of spiritual development and self-discovery. Sadly, there is no revelation at higher levels. Nothing ever comes of it, and most individuals, who manage to come back to sanity after diving onto secrets groups leave disappointed. If they are able to leave.
The Greatest Mystery
Now, as far as mystical experiences, and Gods immense power, I have to say that nothing is really MORE mystical that the resurrection of Jesus. Nothing is MORE mystical than God as Man,. Yet, THAT particular mystery is REJECTED, and a promise of ANOTHER presumably BETTER mystery will be revealed in higher levels. Nope, No such thing happens. The let-down is real, and the only discover is usually only that you have been taken for a ride. And for some, they have also shelled out money. It appears to be an elaborate disinformation campaign dating back 2000 years, a desperate attempt to make us believe in ANYTHING at all, but JUST DON’T believe that Jesus is the Son Of God and the Messiah. NOW I AM CURIOUS!
Why So much Shade On Jesus?
Something about smear campaign always makes me wonder WHY it is so important that we hate THAT person, THAT religion, THAT ideology…
How about you, do you ever want to go down a rabbit hole that has been dug….deliberately… almost as if it was a trap?
The deep dive reveals that no historian denies the existence of Jesu, or his crucifixion, OR his death on the cross, OR the fact that his disciples saw him AFTER death, for forty days in the flesh and blood. Of course, and atheist historian does not believe that Jesus resurrected, but they do believe that the disciples believe that they saw him.
THIS is a better mystery to me, than the poverty stricken non-mystery of Gnosticism. Sorry folks of the secret Gnostic knowledge, I tried to buy what you are selling, but no deal. The secrets seem to be mostly lies.
The Spiritual Ego Trip Makes Us Trip
While the idea of secrecy may hold a tremendous allure for some seekers of spiritual wisdom, and CLEALRY it does, just look at the tremendous success of sects and cults that profess deeper knowledge the higher in level you are….. Just look at the success of Scientology in Hollywood, or Freemasonry in politics.
The allure of a secret boys club that has your back, AND promotes your success, AND holds the “most secretest of all secrets of the mother of all secrets “? -SIGN ME UP screams the ego! Oh, and if you are a Freemason you get to seek for a long lost temple too, and voila, you are just like Indiana Jones.
Hold up.
Genuine spiritual insight is not dependent on exclusive access to hidden knowledge or secret doctrines. No initiation to another level is needed. No money needed. No levels exist. It is all a smokescreen. An elaborate hoax, but WHY? WHY???
The Real Mystery In Plain Sight
The mystery of Christ, transcends human comprehension and invites believers into a deeper relationship with God, through faith, prayer humility, and love.
God promises a constant heart to heart intimacy with him, if we only spend a little time with him.
Could it be that the deepest secret is already out in the open, but it requires what we drop that difficult rebellious EGO? It requires us to cultivate the one thing that we don’t want to cultivate, namely HUMILITY? Hmmm…. I wonder.
You Do You Though.
Ultimately, the pursuit of the “deepest spiritual truth” is a personal journey that unfolds only through sincere seeking, genuine self-reflection, and contemplation on God, rather than through the attainment of secret knowledge or esoteric rituals.
Not everything can be intellectualized to dust, and some secrets are held deep in our hearts.
For example: The discovery of the TRUTH of Jesus Christ, his love for us, and his sacrifice for humanity was always right in front of my face, but the REAL meeting of the REAL Christ, that took place within, and boy was it deeply humbling. He touched my heart like no secret information ever could, healed me, broke open my heart, performed spiritual heart surgery that left be whole.
What Of The Smoke Screen then?
The misinformation campaigns, well I see them for what they are now. The devils attempt at taking us away from the love of God, our loving father and creator. (heart emoji to God)
You do you though. When you go down the rabbit holes of smear campaigns against the Bible, the Church, The early church fathers, or The Torah and what have you, remember this…
Like a still small voice. God is already there, He sees your searching, He already knows you. God already loves you. He is not out there somewhere, he is in your heart, waiting for you to receive him and for you to let him love you. No secrets, no levels, no pretense, and no previous good standing to be initiated into a boys club. Nothing. Just your bare-naked heart, in truth, like a child. You can come as you are, and receive him today.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The Gospel Of Matthew
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The Label You Create | Is That REALLY a THIRD PARTY???
I have over 300 posts on vast spiritual topic I write about manifesting, and about God, and I share my favorite authors with you all, and I hope that you are enjoying browsing my MANIFEST MAGAZINE!
HOWEVER…
The MOST read Post, and the most searched term:
By far, the most searched term is “How to get rid of a third party”. THIS IS SAD, and I will tell you why:
This means that people are STRUGGLING to come to terms with their relationships.
CERTAINLY, if I look around me, I see a changed world, and I can understand the chaos that you might be navigating through.
I don’t envy younger people, my generation never had to face the issues that you are facing, and I fully empathize with your reality.
BUT, this is REALITY CREATION, and let’s take power back, YOU are STILL master of your own life.
You do not have to buy any ideology wholesale just because 99 % of your peers are. So….let’s talk about what a third party IS and what a third party ISN’T.
THIRD PARTY | The Manifesting Community’s Own Label
A third party is someone who has come into your marriage, while you were happily married….or you were married and somehow you started to take each other for granted, on of you didn’t feel fulfilled or appreciated anymore, and instead started to find emotional connection outside of marriage and next thing you know….
Back in the day, divorce was a very last resort, now I think it is part of the general throw away culture and so divorce is as normal as throwing away an old pair of shoes. It is nothing. THIS is where the real issue with YOUR definition of a third party begins. ARE YOU MARRIED? If no, You do not have a third party, here is why.
A few weeks ago I had a client who claimed that his “baby mama” was mad at his side chick, calling him a cheater…. THIS is what you are up against,
THIS is a mindset that is GARBAGE. You are up against a garbage mindset, and if this is your mindset, THIS is what HAS TO CHANGE.
Treating people like garbage in general.
When you treat people like garbage you treat yourself like you are garbage by default, it is part of the unconscious assumption. …Law of assumption….
I won’t even go into the fact that we also have BABIES in these situations….
Why am I making this bold claim?
Listen to me.
IF YOU ARE NOT MARRIED YOU DO NOT HAVE A THIRD PARTY. If you are not married, you are what? Dating? Chilling? FWB? In a RELATIONSHIP? What IS that? What are you in? Explain it to me please.
Really stop here, and think about this for a minute.
If you can’t handle what I am saying, maybe this whole manifesting thing is not for you. We manifest who we are, and your ASSUMPTIONS about yourself is a key component of YOUR self concept This is about YOU, and how you treat yourself. If your assumption is this garbage assumption don’t be surprised if your life turns out to be exactly that.
What I started writing this blog and the YouTube, which I may or may not restart, my concept of romantic life was THIS: You are in a relationship only when you are married, or planning to get married. I have witnessed the rapid decline in human mindsets first hand, and don’t fool yourself, people were not always like this, and the grass most certainly is greener on the other side. The other side being where morals still exist.
Anything other tha marriage, does NOT warrant fidelity.
Okay. I get that you don’t have any clue what I am talking about, but ou are just a product of your generation, everyone does the same thing, namely, buy into whatever your teenage years tell us to think.
Peer pressure and oeer beliefs create FOR us, but HELLO!
You said that you wanted to create YOUR reality, so is this what you want? To treat relationships like it is something filthy you just throw on the ground, and kick around?
Your heart is the most precious thing that you have. Imagine that it is pristine and pure, beautiful and shiny and clean. You do not want to throw that to the dirty ground. This is what I mean by treating relationships like garbage.
Your own heart becomes like garbage but it is your own doing.
You do it because your WHOLE culture has bought into a lie wholesale.
Unless you are married, you should NOT be wondering how to “get rid of a third party”, and to be clear, even after you are married the goal is obviously not have these kinds of problems, BUT most marriages have some kind of problems, and this is the time to do all that you can to save it. For the FWB situation you have agreed to? Not so much. With a bit of perspective you can easily see that what began as a movement of atheism and science over God turned into a movement of “I”theism and myself over God. Here we are and boy is it an ugly place, and you are asking for help with your THIRD PARTY.
Unless you are married, You. Do. Not Have. A. Third Party.
Capish?
The DESPERATION:
Desperately unhappy people are vulnerable.
IF this is you, happiness will NOT COME FROM ANY OTHER PERSON.
Many of you have found manifesting teachings because you’re desperate to get an “ex back” or want someone else that you are obsessed with, OR YOU just have an awful live and want you want to make it better, and you think that controlling someone supernaturally will do the trick. It will not.
Reality creation, again, is only about discovering that your assumptions about yourself either work against you or they work for you.
Don’t take this to the point where you spiral even deeper into your own personality flaws like obsessing over random people. Yes random. Unless you are manifesting a better relationship with your SPOUSE you are just trying to manifest a STRANGER.
And THIS is the point that you need to take home. YOUR SPECIFIC PERSON MIGHT BE A STRANGER. Yes, you think that they are your “soulmate”, but how long have you known them?
Heal your heart
I am willing to bet that not only are you trying to control a stranger, but you are also spending money on psychics and tarot readers. Answer this honestly to yourself please. Have you spent money on a psychic?
This is a total opposite of law of assumption, you know that right?
MOST people who are into ;aw of attraction are unhappy and desperate and they want something that they feel they can not have. Very few people who are living happy, fulfilled lives are dependent on tarot readers or psychics to make them feel better or give them ‘advice’. If your heart is broken, it needs to heal. This is what you need. Heal from heartbreak.
If you knew how to use the law of assumption you would understand that your concept of yourself, and your worth, is what is at stake here. If you understood this, you would never even consider going to a psychic again in your life.
The community groups
The manifesting community is the worst place to go for any advice, you can see how delusional and toxic it is in less than a minute. The communities main aim seem to be to blame and shame anyone who is in a life situation that is broken, painful, and powerless.
Again, let me point out, GETTING that person is not your ticket to happiness.
If a law of assumption or Neville community’s main method is to blame the individual, they have NOT understood anything. It is convenient for scammers though, because when manifesting teachings fail, they DO blame the individual. You MUST hear this. YOU HAVE TO FIND HAPPINESS FROM WITHIN. It has become known as “self concept”.
Precious Heart, made in the Image Of God
YOU are human. You are not God.
We are made in the image of God, not as a carbon copy of God.
OUR access point TO God, WITH God, is though our heart,
This is called “the point in the heart”, and it contains your God Spark.
It is located inside YOUR heart.
If your heart is treated like the treasure that it is, you will have contact with God,
You will feel that calm and love that continuously pours out from Him to YOU. Yes. That is correct. You will feel God keeping you calm and safe, like a baby in its mothers arms.
YOU have personal access TO God, THE God. This is different from “I am God of my reality”, that statement gives you NO sense of love.
To notice and feel and experience the love that is continuously pouring from God to you, you must treasure and protect your heart.
If you don’t safe-guard your heart from love-predators, you have to build walls around your heart, you have to become tough. You become glib, or bitter. Or you have to become “sexy” or manipulative.
Then you can’t hear or feel God, and you feel alone….lonely…. desperate….obsessed…. Then you want to manifest your ex back…See how that works?
We manifest who we are…
Only the loving find love…
Rejection HURTS
No-one likes being rejected, hurt or treated badly. I sure don’t and I know that you don’t either.
Yes, I knwo that what seems to be the solution is to get that person back, to validate us. It is not. You think that this will prove that you’re good enough. In fact, you ARE good enough but that person has nothing to do with your goodness.
Yes, I see that EVEN if they were shitty to you, you think that they will make you happy when they come back.
Yes, even coaches think this way and the most popular YouTube coaches are not only TEACHING this, they are living proof of how sick and twisted life becomes if you are stuck on a “CHEATER”…
One coach comes to mind, she said she manifested a notorious non attached dude to commit to her, and even marry her, AND a change in his RELIGION, and the next thing you know she has changed to HIS religion, all the while he was cheating behind her back.
They got married even though he continued to cheat.
Is THIS what you want?
I don’t believe that it is.
When you get married you need to make sure that you choose the right person from the start because marriages get rocky, a lifetime together is difficult, and if you have picked someone who treats you like garbage it is MUCH harder. Pick the right person first, then be aware that down the line it will be difficult, but you will have a chance to make it.
So my point here is, when you’re thinking, this person, your ex, is an a-hole, but THEY don’t want YOU! and your EGO or your HEART is hurt that a horrible person has dumped you.
You SHOULD be celebrating.
Let them GO.
Discover instead how precious your heart is and begin to treat it right.
If you manifest them back again and again you have won nothing.
EVERYONE has gone through what you are going through
Who hasn’t had a relationship break down, you thought you were “dating”, and in the first few weeks or months it broke down and fell apart.
I have been there too, of course, if this happens, let that person go. It is precisely within the first few months that you discover that it will or won’t work.
Learn how to go on dates without committing to this stranger, Protect your heart until you have found a person who will treasure it.
So don’t be desperate to fix it. Instead, be desperate to treasure your heart.
Go after safe-keeping your heart like a precious gemstone with the same fervor that you were going after that stranger. LOVE your heart. It is a gift from God, and only very few people will deserve it.
And…YES they are a stranger.
You don’t know what they do on their spare time, most likely you would hate what they are all about. Fast forward ten years you won’t even remember that they existed. That’s a stranger.
It Wasn’t That Great
You have glorified them. They treated you like crap, and you put them on a pedestal, but trust me, that relationship, if you can even call it that, was not that great.
They might have love bombed you and you were on that high, I get it, but love bombing is a fraud.
.Once that initial period dies down you start to see the real them. That is real, the love bombing was not real.
Rather than try to get them back, start to heal and look at it objectively. You will realize that you wanted and deserved better. It happens quicker than you think, if you put your focus on your self worth.
They weren’t all that anyway. This is the truth.
I have taken a couple of exes back, and regretted it so quickly, you immediately realize that it ended for a GOOD reason. HEAL, and you will ask yourself what you ever saw in them!
Limerence and infatuation creates oxytocin, which is a powerful bonding hormone, but once this hormone dies off, your stuck with the facts… and you realize that was all it was. A high!
Toxic Reddit
The problem with the Neville Goddard SP community is that this sobering up from the hormone high never happens.
Instead of sobering up, healing, putting your dignity back on, and reminding your precious heart of how beautiful and shiny and new it is, you keep yourself stuck in a rollercoaster of artificial oxytocin highs, by indulging in “vibrational” manifestation work.
Here is a fact for you. If you will be with this person, married, for life, it doesn’t matter if you break down and cry, if you heal and move on, if you move across the globe. They will find you,
God will bring you together, whatever needs to happen will happen, and your vibration makes no difference. NONE. Just get sober, and make decisions that are wise, not foolish. I did absolutly NONE of these crazy things when I got married. It makes no difference if your “vibration is high”, in fact I suspect that it would be off-putting. Repelling.
I know, what you HAVE been doing is manifesting them back, visualizing, affirming, scripting, whatever you can do, to constantly tell yourself that THIS is the person for you, this a-hole, will be perfect, and you’ll have the perfect relationship, if only you can just figure out how to make this manifestation stuff work.
….How to vibrate precisely right…
Let me once again remind you of one of the most popular coaches and her rollercoaster ride through marriage with a cheater, and then after that failed, one sp after another. This is the result of obsessing about the WRONG person.
A stranger.
Don’t you ever take a step back and think ‘is this person really what I want?’ How much more of a beating can my heart take?
Keep the image of your pristine heart, and imagine that you throw it on the ground, in the mud. That is what you are doing.
Now, ask yourself: ” WHY do I want this person who has hurt me, treated me badly, l who has completely let me down and who simply, just doesn’t want me?”
Why?
I remember seeing someone on REDDIT who was manifesting an ex for 10 years. That is, they spent ten years completely stuck in life, living in the end of a fantasy with someone who forgot that they exist years ago. Ten years that could have been ten amazing yesr doing just about anything else. Maybe being happily single, who knows? Ten years married to a wonderful match. Ten years raising a family with a spouse. Ten years getting a PhD, or writing a book, or travelling the world. YOUR heart is a treasure. God gave you this hear, and He says to guard it, not throw it away like trash.
I know a woman who missed her ex also, for ten years, and then learned about manifesting and got him back. She immediately realized what a gross slob he is, and boom, she was over him in a second and she broke up with him.
Learn how to heal. How to keep your ego out of your hearts business. This isn’t about one-upping someone, it isn;t about showing them who’s best. It is about cherishing your own life and your own heart enough to know when and who it is worth investing in.
I know that I missed my first boyfriend so much after we broke up, and it was only after I found something out about him that I was able to let go. Like discovering the truth behind a delusion.
Love cause you to have rose colored glasses, we are made this way, and it is so that we can overlook all the human normal flaws in a person long enough to actually get married and procreate. this means that initially, we idealize them, but that wears off. If they have love bombed you and then treated you badly, you still have those rose colored glasses on. Remember. That person is a stranger. You prematurely allowed yourself to get emotionally attached to a stranger, and now you have to heal your heart, this doesn’t have to happen, if you understand that you must CHOOSE who your partner will be.
YES right and wrong exists, and mental health is real
I know I know, in this weird era, we say “there is npo good or bad, only thinking makes it so”, but it doesn’t mean what you think it does. If someone has hurt you you know instantly that you think that was “bad”. It is still that simple. Trying to make a bad into a “oh.. its fine” will make you nuts.
SOME of you are manifesting someone who is happily married to someone else, this is wrong. I see the most toxic groups make this into a “There is no good or bad, only thinking makes it so” situation. You will break your own heart. Yes, I know that all the people out there say that you can do anything you want, but is destroying your mental health what you want? AND, it also means that you don’t value the sanctity of marriage, and this is going to backfire if you get married.
Some of you are manifesting changing someone’s sexual orientation…. um…okay?
Some of you are manifesting t someone on IG or a celebrity who don’t even know that you exist…. Then you go from forum to forum, from REDDIT group to Facebook group, and endlessly try to get advice, and yes, you go from coach to coach. Endlessly seeking a new approach or a new technique a new “it”, and surely, you spend money on psychics too. Every time you see a success story, you get a dopamine high, and for every video that says ”THIS is the secret sauce” you go on and try that method for a while, as if it is sorcery or spell casting. This is very damaging for your mental health. Meanwhile, most likely you are getting shamed on those same forums for failing to get that total stranger. Yikes. To what end are you doing this?
Come back to life
Take your life back by healing. “Oh but do I HAVE to heal to manifest love”….read back from the top please.
Take your heart back from the wrong hands. That stranger has filthy hands, why are you letting him/her touch your pristine shine beautiful heart? GROSS!
Take control over your physical body and decide to not give it away to strangers anymore. It is a temple, it is sacred.
Your heart is given to you by God, and your body is His temple, so treat t like the pristine treasure that it is.
You can start brand new, you have that power. Let go of the desperation and hopelessness, and give yourself and new clean slate. Start over, be more vigilant. Know your value more.
So who is REALLY a third party? Let’s see if you read this article… Certainly NOT THAT stranger that your ex is with. Your ex was not even yours to begin with, and that is where you have to buckle down and get very real. That person who was not your spouse owes you absolutely nothing. YOU made the choice that your heart was trash, don’t make that choice again.
Dating and relationships are NOT on par with marriage.
Only marriage is marriage.
If you are not married, technically, that person can not cheat on you because you are not in if for life. you are just in it for the time being, and time being is up as far as they are concerned. YOU have to learn how to value yourself a lot higher. You do not HAVE a third party problem, you have a problem giving up your commitment to strangers.
I know, I get critisism when I question the lack of morality in the manifesting communities, but that is fine. Someone has to say something, and it may as well be me. IF YOU ARE OUT THERE just having fun, just sleeping around, make sure that your intentions are completely clear. Don’t pretend that you are in a relationship if you know this isn’t the one for you.
So get this. Unless you are married, you CAN not have a third party, and THAT so is a stranger.
If you realize that they are a complete stranger, for all you know, that AHOLE that love bombed you is Ted Bundy on his spare time.
Some people are even married and they don’t know that their souse is a part time serial killer.
LEARN HOW TO BE DISCERNING!
Chose your spouse wisely. YES, that person that you went on a date with is a stranger. YES that person you were in a two month love bombing fest with is a STRANGER.
Learn how to care for your heart, and learn how to be discerning when CHOSING a partner, because this choice is for life, hopefully.
Affirmations:
I am worthy of a loving and respectful marriage, and I can discern a partner who values and cherishes me for who I am.
I am discerning in my dating choices.
My heart is precious, and I guard it with wisdom.
I release any attachment to relationships that do not align with my values.
I am manifesting a spouse who communicates openly, and shares my values.
I am now ready to love and be loved in a healthy and fulfilling marriage.
I am patient in my search for a life partner, knowing that the right person will come into my life at the perfect time.
I manifest a marriage built on trust, mutual love, mutual, respect, mutual attraction, mutual adoration and shared values.
I release any pain from past relationships and I know that it has served its purpose now.
My heart is my direct communication with God and I keep it safe, soft, and loving.
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In The Cloud of Unknowing, the encouragement of contemplative prayer and meditation can be seen as a form of devotion that goes beyond conceptual knowledge. The work advocates for a prayerful state where the practitioner surrenders intellectual understanding and enters into a deep, experiential communion with the divine. By emphasizing the cloud of unknowing as a symbol of the incomprehensibility of God.
Man’s word is his wand filled with magic and power!
Jesus Christ emphasized the power of the word; “By thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned,” and “death and life are in power of the tongue.” So man has power to change an unhappy condition by waving over it the wand of his word. In the place of sorrow appears joy, in the place of sickness appears health, in the place of lack appears plenty.
For example: A woman came for a treatment for prosperity. She possessed just two dollars in the world. I said: “We bless the two dollars and know that you have the magic purse of the Spirit; it can never be depleted; as money goes out, immediately money comes in, under grace in perfect ways. I see it always crammed, jammed with money: yellow bills, green bills, pink checks, blue checks, white checks, gold, silver and currency. I see it bulging with abundance!” She replied: “I feel my bag heavy with money,” and was so filled with faith that she gave me one of her dollars as a love offering. I did not dare refuse it and see lack for her, as it was important that I hold the picture of plenty. Shortly afterwards she was made a gift of six thousand dollars. Fearless faith and the spoken word brought it to pass. The affirmation of the magic purse is very powerful, as it brings a vivid picture to the mind. It is impossible not to see your purse or wallet filled with money when using the words, “crammed, jammed.” The imaging faculty is the creative faculty and it is important to choose words which bring a flash of the fulfillment of the demand.
Never force a picture by visualizing; let the Divine Idea flash into your conscious mind; then the student is working according to the Divine Design. (See The Game of Life and How to Play It) Jesus Christ said: “Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free.” This means that man must know the Truth of every situation which confronts him. There is no Truth in lack or limitation. He waves over it the wand of His Word and the wilderness rejoices and blossoms as the rose. Fear, doubt, anxiety, anger, resentment pull down the cells of the body, shock the nervous system and are the causes of disease and disaster. Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. Power moves but is never moved. When man stands calm and serene, has a good appetite, feels content and happy when appearances are against him, he has reached mastery. Then he has power to “rebuke the winds and the waves,” to control conditions. His word is his wand and he transmutes apparent failure into success. He knows his universal supply is endless and immediate and all his needs manifest instantly on the external. For example, a woman at sea awoke in the morning hearing the foghorns blowing. A dense fog had settled on the ocean with no apparent signs of clearing. She immediately spoke the word: “There are no fogs in Divine Mind, so let the fog be lifted! I give thanks for the sun!” Soon the sun came out, for man has dominion over “the elements—over all created things.” Every man has power to lift the fog in his life. It may be a fog of lack of money, love, happiness or health. Give thanks for the sun!
SUCCESS
There are certain words or pictures which impress the subconscious mind.
For example: A man called asking me to speak the word for his right work. I gave him the statement: “Behold I have set before thee the open door of destiny and no man shall shut it!” It didn’t seem to make much impression, so I was inspired to add: “And no man shall shut it for it is nailed back!” The man was electrified and went out walking on air. Within a few weeks he was called to a distant city to fill a wonderful position which came about in a miraculous way.
I give another example of a woman who fearlessly followed a “hunch.” She was working for a small salary when she read my book, The Game of Life and How to Play It. The thought came in a flash, to start in business for herself and open a Tearoom and Candy Shop. The idea staggered her at first, but it persisted, so she boldly went forth and procured a shop and assistants. She “spoke the word for supply,” for she did not have money to back her enterprise. It came in miraculous ways, and the shop opened! From the first day it was filled with people, and now it is “crammed jammed”; they stand in line and wait. One day, being a holiday, her assistants became gloomy and said they could not expect to do much business. My student, however, replied that God was her supply and every day was a good day. In the afternoon an old friend came in to see the shop and bought a two pound box of candy. He gave her a check and when she looked at it she found it was for a hundred dollars. So it was indeed a good day! One hundred dollars for a box of candy! She says every morning she enters the shop with wonder and gives thanks that she had the fearless faith that wins!
AFFIRMATIONS:
The decks are now cleared for Divine Action and my own comes to me under grace in a magical way.
I now let go of worn-out conditions and worn-out things. Divine order is established in my mind, body and affairs. “Behold, I make all things new.”
My seemingly impossible good now comes to pass, the unexpected now happens!
The “four winds of success” now blow to me my own. From North, South, East and West comes my endless good.
The Christ in me is risen, I now fulfill my destiny.
Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
I clap my cymbals and rejoice, for Jehovah goes before me making clear, easy and successful my way!
I give thanks for my whirlwind success. I sweep all before me for I work with the Spirit and follow the Divine Plan of my life.
My Spiritual Sporting blood is up! I am more than equal to this situation.
I am awake to my good, and gather in the harvest of endless opportunities.
I am harmonious, poised and magnetic. I now draw to myself my own. My power is God’s power and is irresistible!
Divine order is now established in my mind, body and affairs. I see clearly and act quickly and my greatest expectations come to pass in a miraculous way.
There is no competition on the Spiritual plane. What is rightfully mine is given me under grace.
I have within me an undiscovered country, which is revealed to me now, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Behold! I have set before thee the open door of Destiny and no man shall shut it, for it is nailed back.
The tide of Destiny has turned and everything comes my way.
I banish the past and now live in the wonderful now, where happy surprises come to me each day.
There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shut another door opened.
I have a magical work in a magical way, I give magical service for magical pay.
The genius within me is now released. I now fulfill my destiny.
I make friends with hindrances and every obstacle becomes a stepping stone. Every-thing in the Universe, visible and invisible, is working to bring to me my own.
I give thanks that the walls of Jericho fall down and all lack, limitation and failure are wiped out of my consciousness in the name of Jesus Christ.
I am now on the royal road of Success, Happiness and Abundance, all the traffic goes my way.
I will not weary of well-doing, for when I least expect it I shall reap.
Jehovah goes before me and the battle is won! All enemy thoughts are wiped out. I am victorious in the name of Jesus Christ.
There are no obstacles in Divine Mind, therefore, there is nothing to obstruct my good.
All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the Kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.
Rhythm, harmony and balance are now established in my mind, body and affairs.
New fields of Divine activity now open for me and these fields are white with the harvest.
Man’s will is powerless to interfere with God’s will. God’s will is now done in my mind, body and affairs.
God’s plan for me is permanent and cannot be budged. I am true to my heavenly vision.
“The Divine Plan of my life now takes shape in definite, concrete experiences leading to my heart’s desire.”
I now draw from the Universal Substance, with irresistible power and determination, that which is mine by Divine Right.
I do not resist this situation. I put it in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom. Let the Divine idea now come to pass.
My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.
There are no lost opportunities in the Kingdom. As one door shuts another door opens.
“There is nothing to fear for there is no power to hurt.” I walk up to the lion on my pathway and find an angel in armor, and victory in the name of Jesus Christ.
I am in perfect harmony with the working of the law. I stand aside and let Infinite Intelligence make easy and successful my way.
The ground I am on is holy ground; The ground I am on is successful ground.
New fields of Divine Activity now open for me. Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free.
What God has done for others He can do for me and more!
I am as necessary to God as He is to me, for I am the channel to bring His plan to pass.
I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.
Giving precedes receiving and my gifts to others precede God’s gifts to me.
Every man is a golden link in the chain of my good.
My poise is built upon a rock. I see clearly and act quickly.
God cannot fail, so I cannot fail. “The warrior within me” has already won.
Thy Kingdom come in me, Thy will be done in me and my affairs.
The Florence Scovel Shinn Collection
Florence Scovel Shinn was born September 24, 1871 in Camden, New Jersey and she was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years.
In New Thought circles, Shinn is best known for her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925). She expressed her philosophy as:
“The invisible forces are ever working for man who is always “pulling the strings” himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.” -The Game of Life, Florence Scovel Shinn
Her books put forward New Thought beliefs, with the use of Biblical references, all presented in short, succinct chapters.
Some of the ideas discussed in Florence Scovel Shinn’s books are:
The Law of Assumption, The Law Of Attraction, The Law of Expectancy, The Power of Words, The Divine Pattern and Intuition, The Law of Substitution, The Law of Karma, The Law of Non Resistance, The Law of Forgiveness, The Law of Use, and The Law of Love.
HAPPINESS
In that wonderful moving picture, “The Thief of Bagdad,” we were told in letters of light that happiness must be earned! It is earned through perfect control of the emotional nature.
There can be no happiness where there is fear, apprehension or dread. With perfect faith in God comes a feeling of security and happiness. When man knows that there is an invincible power that protects him and all that he loves, and brings to him every righteous desire of the heart, he relaxes all nervous tension and is happy and satisfied. He is undisturbed by adverse appearances, knowing that Infinite Intelligence is protecting his interests and utilizing every situation to bring his good to pass. “I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in a desert.” Uneasy lies the head that wears a frown.
Anger, resentment, ill-will, jealousy and revenge rob man of his happiness and bring sickness, failure and poverty in their wake. Resentment has ruined more homes than drink and killed more people than war.
For example: There was a woman who was healthy and happy and married to a man she loved. The man died and left part of his estate to a relative. The woman was filled with resentment. She lost weight, was unable to do her work, developed gall-stones and became very ill. A metaphysician called upon her one day. He said: “Woman, see what hate and resentment have done to you; they have caused hard stones to form in your body and only forgiveness and good-will can cure you.” The woman saw the Truth of the statement. She became harmonious and forgiving and regained her splendid health.
AFFIRMATIONS:
I am now deluged with the happiness that was planned for me in the Beginning. My barns are full, my cup flows over with joy.
My endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way, and my wonderful joy has come to stay.
Happy surprises come to me each day. “I look with wonder at that which is before me.”
I walk boldly up to the lion on my pathway and find it is a friendly airedale.
I am harmonious, happy, radiant; detached from the tyranny of fear.
My happiness is built upon a rock. It is mine now and for all eternity.
My good now flows to me in a steady unbroken, ever-increasing stream of happiness.
My happiness is God’s affair, therefore, no one can interfere.
As I am one with God I am now one with my heart’s desire.
I give thanks for my permanent happiness, my permanent health, my permanent wealth, my permanent love.
I am harmonious, happy and Divinely magnetic, and now draw to me my ships over a calm sea.
God’s ideas for me are perfect and permanent.
My heart’s desire is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, incorruptible and indestructible, and now comes to pass, under grace in a magical way.
With love usually comes terrific fear. Nearly every woman comes into the world with a mythical woman in the back of her mind who is to rob her of her love. She has been called “the other woman.” Of course it comes from woman’s belief in duality.
So long as she visualizes interference, it will come. It is usually very difficult for a woman to see herself loved by the man she loves, so these affirmations are to impress the truth of the situation upon her subconscious mind, for in reality there is only oneness. (See The Game of Life and How to Play It.)
AFFIRMATIONS:
As I am one with God, the Undivided One, I am one with my undivided love and undivided happiness.
The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God’s love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to myself.
Divine Love, through me, now dissolves all seeming obstacles and makes clear, easy and successful my way.
I love everyone and everyone loves me. My apparent enemy becomes my friend, a golden link in the chain of my good.
I am at peace with myself and with the whole world. I love everyone and everyone loves me. The floodgates of my good now open.
Unless marriage is built upon the rock of oneness it cannot stand; “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” The poet understood this, for unless man and wife are living the same thoughts (or living in the same thought world), they must inevitably drift apart.
Thought is a tremendous vibratory force and man is drawn to his thought creations. For example: A man and woman married and were apparently happy. The man became successful and his tastes improved, but the wife still lived in a limited consciousness. Whenever the man bought anything he went to the best shops and selected what he needed regardless of price. Whenever the wife went out she haunted the Five and Ten Cent Stores. He was living (in thought), on Fifth Avenue and her thought world was on Third Avenue. Eventually the break and separation came.
We see this so often in the cases of rich and successful men who desert their faithful, hard working wives later in life. The wife must keep pace with her husband’s taste and ambitions and live in his thought world, for where a man thinketh in his heart there is he.
There is for each person his “other half’ or divine selection. These two are one in their thought worlds. These are the two “whom God has joined together and no man shall (or can) part asunder.” “The twain shall be made one,” for in the superconscious mind of each is the same Divine Plan.
AFFIRMATION:
I give thanks that the marriage made in heaven is now made manifest upon earth. “The twain shall be made one” now and for all eternity.
FORGIVENESS
AFFIRMATIONS:
I forgive everyone and everyone forgives me. The gates swing open for my good.
I call on the law of forgiveness. I am free from mistakes and the consequences of mistakes. I am under grace and not under karmic law.
Though my mistakes be as scarlet, I shall be washed whiter than snow.
What didn’t happen in the Kingdom never happened anywhere.
PROSPERITY
(See also The Game of Life and How to Play It.) Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. “If thou canst believe, all things are possible.”
For example: A woman came to me one day, to tell me of her experience in using an affirmation she had read in my book, The Game of Life and How to Play It. She was without experience but desired a good position on the stage. She took the affirmation: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.” She was given a very important part in a successful opera. She said: “It was a miracle, due to that affirmation, which I repeated hundreds of times.”
AFFIRMATIONS:
I now draw from the abundance of the spheres my immediate and endless supply. All channels are free! All doors are open!
I now release the gold-mine within me. I am linked with an endless golden stream of prosperity which comes to me under grace in perfect ways.
Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of abundance forever.
My God is a God of plenty and I now receive all that I desire or require, and more.
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
My supply is endless, inexhaustible and immediate and comes to me under grace in perfect ways.
All channels are free and all doors fly open for my immediate and endless, Divinely Designed supply. My ships come in over a calm sea, under grace in perfect ways.
I give thanks that the millions which are mine by Divine Right, now pour in and pile up under grace in perfect ways.
Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.
I spend money under direct inspiration wisely and fearlessly, knowing my supply is endless and immediate.
I am fearless in letting money go out, knowing God is my immediate and endless supply.
WORDS OF WISDOM
AFFIRMATIONS:
“Faith without nerve is dead.”
There is never a slip ’twixt the right cup and the right lip.
Never look or you’d never leap.
God works in unexpected places, through unexpected people, at unexpected times, His wonders to perform.
Power moves but is never moved.
Loving your neighbor means not to limit your neighbor in word, thought or deed
“Never argue with a hunch.”
Christopher Columbus followed a hunch.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the realm of perfect ideas.
It is dark before the dawn but the dawn never fails. Trust in the dawn.
When in doubt play trumps, do the fearless thing.
It is the fearless things that count.
Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.
It’s a great life if you don’t reason.
Regard your neighbor as yourself.
Never hinder another’s hunch.
Selfishness binds and blocks. Every loving and unselfish thought has in it the germ of success.
Be not weary of make-believing. When you least expect it you shall reap.
Faith is elastic. Stretch it to the end of your demonstration.
Before you call you are answered, for the supply precedes the demand.
What you do for others you are doing for yourself.
Every act committed while angry or resentful brings unhappy reaction.
Sorrow and disappointment follow in the wake of deceit and subterfuge. The way of the transgressor is hard. “No good thing will be withheld from him who walks uprightly.”
There is no power in evil. It is nothing; therefore can only come to nothing.
Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.
Drown the reasoning mind with your affirmation. Jehoshaphat clapped his cymbals so that he wouldn’t hear himself think.
All bondage is an illusion of the race consciousness. There is always a way out of every situation, under grace. Every man is free to do the will of God.
Sure-ism is stronger than Optimism.
“Divine ideas never conflict.”
It is dangerous to stop in the middle of a hunch. Infinite Spirit is never too late.
Hope looks forward, Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.
In my classes I often emphasize the importance of digging ditches (or preparing for the thing asked for) which shows active faith and brings the demonstration to pass. (See The Game of Life and How to Play It.) A man in my class, whom I called “the life of the party,” because he always tried to find a question I couldn’t answer, but he never succeeded, asked: “Why is it then, a lot of women who prepare Hope Chests never get married?” I replied: “Because it is a Hope Chest and not a Faith Chest.” The prospective bride also violates law in telling others about it. Her friends come in and sit on the Hope Chest and either doubt or hope she’ll never succeed. “Pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” The student should never talk of a demonstration until it “has jelled,” or comes to pass on the external. So a Hope Chest should become a Faith Chest and be kept from the public eye, and the word spoken for the Divine Selection of a husband, under grace in a perfect way. Those whom God hath joined together no thought can put asunder.
AFFIRMATIONS:
Adverse appearances work for my good, for God utilizes every person and every situation to bring to me my heart’s desire. “Hindrances are friendly” and obstacles spring boards! I now jump into my good! As I am one with the Undivided One, I am one with my undivided good.
As the needle in the compass is true to the north, what is rightfully mine is true to me. I am the North!
“I am now linked by an invisible, unbreakable magnetic cord with all that belongs to me by Divine Right!
Thy Kingdom is come, Thy will is done in me and my affairs.
Every plan my Father in heaven has not planned is dissolved and obliterated and the Divine Design of my life now comes to pass.
What God has given me can never be taken from me for His gifts are for all eternity.
My faith is built upon a rock and my heart’s desire now comes to pass, under grace in a miraculous way.
I see my good in a golden glow of glory. I see my fields shining white with the harvest.
God is my unfailing and immediate supply of all good.
I am poised and powerful, my greatest expectations are realized in a miraculous way.
I water my wilderness with faith and suddenly it blossoms as the rose.
I now exercise my fearless faith in three ways—by thinking, speaking and acting. I am unmoved by appearances, therefore appearances move.
I stand steadfast, immovable, giving thanks for my seeming impossible good to come to pass, for I know, with God, it is easy of accomplishment, and His time is now.
God’s plans for me are built upon a rock. What was mine in the beginning, is mine now and ever shall be mine.
I know there is nothing to defeat God, therefore, there is nothing to defeat me.
I wait patiently on the Lord, I trust in Him, I fret not myself because of evildoers (for every man is a golden link in the chain of my good) and He now gives to me the desires of my heart! (See 37th Psalm.)
I have now the fearless faith of the Christ within. At my approach barriers vanish and obstacles disappear.
LOSS
If man loses anything it shows there is a belief of loss in his subconscious mind. As he erases this false belief, the article, or its equivalent will appear on the external.
For example: A woman lost a silver pencil in a theater. She made every effort to find it but it was not returned. She denied loss, taking the affirmation: “I deny loss, there is no loss in Divine Mind, therefore I cannot lose that pencil. I will receive it or its equivalent.” Several weeks elapsed. One day she was with a friend who wore about her neck on a cord, a beautiful gold pencil, who turned to her and said: “Do you want this pencil? I paid fifty dollars for it at Tiffany’s.” The woman was aghast, and replied (almost forgetting to thank her friend) “Oh! God aren’t you wonderful! The silver pencil wasn’t good enough for me!” Man can only lose what doesn’t belong to him by Divine Right, or isn’t good enough for him.
AFFIRMATIONS:
There is no loss in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot lose anything that is rightfully mine. Infinite Intelligence is never too late! Infinite Intelligence knows the way of recovery.
There is no loss in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot lose anything which belongs to me. It will be restored or I receive its equivalent.
DEBT
If a man is in debt or people owe him money, it shows that a belief of debt is in his subconscious mind. This belief must be neutralized in order to change conditions.
For example: A woman came to me saying a man had owed her a thousand dollars for years which she could not compel him to pay. I said: “You must work on yourself, not the man,” and gave her this statement: “I deny debt, there is no debt in Divine Mind, no man owes me anything, all is squared. I send that man love and forgiveness.” In a few weeks she received a letter from him saying he intended sending the money and in about a month came the thousand dollars.
If the student owes money, change the statement: “There is no debt in Divine Mind, therefore, I owe no man anything, all is squared. All my obligations are now wiped out, under grace in a perfect way.”
AFFIRMATIONS:
I deny debt, there is no debt in Divine Mind, therefore, I owe no man anything. All obligations are now wiped out under grace in a miraculous way.
I deny debt, there is no debt in Divine Mind, no man owes me anything, all is squared. I send forth love and forgiveness.
SALES
A woman who lived in a country town wished to sell her house and furniture. It was in the winter with snow so deep it was almost impossible for cars or wagons to reach her door. As she had asked God to sell her furniture to the right person for the right price she was unmindful of appearances. She polished the furniture, pushed it into the middle of the room and prepared to sell it. She said: “I never looked out of the window at the blizzard, I simply trusted God’s promises.” In miraculous ways people drove up and all the furniture was sold, and the house also, without paying any commission to an agent. Faith never looks out of the window at the blizzard, it simply prepares for the blessing asked for.
AFFIRMATION:
I give thanks that this article (or property) is now sold to the right person or persons for the right price, giving perfect satisfaction.
INTERVIEWS
AFFIRMATIONS:
There is no competition on the Spiritual plane. What is mine is given me, under grace.
I am identified in love with the Spirit of this person (or persons). God protects my interests and the Divine Idea now comes out of this situation.
GUIDANCE
Always on man’s pathway is his message or his lead.
For example: A woman was very troubled over an unhappy situation. She thought to herself, “Will it ever clear up?” Her maid was standing near and commenced to tell her of her experiences. The woman was too worried to be interested but listened patiently. The maid was saying: “I worked in a hotel once where there was a very amusing gardener, he always said such funny things. It had been raining for three days and I said to him: ‘Do you think it will ever clear up?’ And he replied, ‘My God, doesn’t it always clear up?'” The woman was amazed! It was the answer to her thoughts. She said reverently, “Yes, with my God it always clears up!” Soon after, her problem did clear up in an unexpected way.
AFFIRMATIONS:
Infinite Spirit, give me wisdom to make the most of my opportunities. Never let me miss a trick.
I am always under direct inspiration. I know just what to do and give instant obedience to my intuitive leads.
My angel of destiny goes before me, keeping me in the Way.
All power is given unto me to be meek and lowly of heart. I am willing to come last, therefore, I come first!
I now place my personal will upon the altar. Your will, not my will; Your way not my way; Your time not my time— and in the twinkling of an eye it is done!
There are no mysteries in the Kingdom. Whatever I should know will now be revealed to me, under grace.
I am a perfect non-resistant instrument for God to work through, and His perfect plan for me now comes to pass in a magic way.
PROTECTION
AFFIRMATIONS:
I am surrounded by the White Light of the Christ, through which nothing negative can penetrate.
I walk in the Light of the Christ and my fear giants dwindle into nothingness. There is nothing to oppose my good.
MEMORY
AFFIRMATION:
There is no loss of memory in Divine Mind, therefore, I recollect everything I should remember and I forget all that is not for my good.
THE DIVINE DESIGN
(See also The Game of Life and How to Play It.) There is a Divine Design for each man! Just as the perfect picture of the oak is in the acorn, the divine pattern of his life is in the superconscious mind of man.
In the Divine Design there is no limitation, only health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression. So on man’s pathway there is always a Divine Selection. Each day he must live according to the Divine Plan or have unhappy reactions.
For example: A woman moved into a new apartment which she had almost furnished, when the thought came to her: “On that side of the room should stand a Chinese cabinet! Not long after, she was walking by an antique shop. She glanced in and there stood a magnificent Chinese cabinet about eight feet high, elaborately carved. She entered and asked the price. The salesman said it was worth a thousand dollars but the woman who owned it was willing to take less. The man added: “What will you offer for it?” The woman paused and the price “Two hundred dollars” came into her mind, so she answered: “Two hundred dollars.” The man said he would let her know if the offer were satisfactory. She did not want to cheat anyone or get anything which was not rightfully hers, so going home she said repeatedly: “If it’s mine I can’t lose it and if it isn’t mine, I don’t want it.” It was a snowy day and she said she emphasized her words by kicking the snow from right to left, clearing a pathway to her apartment. Several days elapsed when she was notified that the woman was willing to sell the cabinet for two hundred dollars. There is a supply for every demand, from Chinese cabinets to millions of dollars. “Before ye call I shall answer,” but, unless it is the Divinely Selected cabinet or millions they would never bring happiness. “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” (Psalm 127-1.)
AFFIRMATIONS:
I let go of everything not divinely designed for me, and the perfect plan of my life now comes to pass.
What is mine by Divine Right can never be taken from me. God’s perfect plan for me is built upon a rock.
I follow the magic path of intuition and find myself in my Promised Land, under grace.
My mind, body and affairs are now molded according to the Divine pattern within.
“God is the only power and that power is within me. There is only one plan, God’s plan, and that plan now comes to pass.”
“I give thanks that I now bring forth from the Universal Substance everything that satisfies all the righteous desires of my heart.”
The divine Design of my life now comes to pass. I now fill the place that I can fill and no one else can fill. I now do the things which I can do and no one else can do.
I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life; I am more than equal to the situation.
All doors now open for happy surprises and the Divine Plan of my life is speeded up under grace.
HEALTH
When man is harmonious and happy he is healthy!
All sickness comes from sin or violation of Spiritual Law. Jesus Christ said: “Be thou healed, your sins are forgiven.” Resentment, ill-will, hate, fear, etc., etc., tear down the cells of the body and poison the blood. (See The Game of Life and How to Play It.) Accidents, old age and death itself, come from holding wrong mental pictures. When man sees himself as God sees him, he will become a radiant being, timeless, birthless and deathless, for “God made man in His likeness and in His image.”
AFFIRMATIONS:
I deny fatigue, for there is nothing to tire me. I live in the Kingdom of eternal joy and absorbing interests. My body is “the body electric,” timeless and tireless, birthless and deathless. Time and space are obliterated!
I live in the wonderful now, birthless and deathless! I am one with The One!
Thou in me art: Eternal joy. Eternal youth. Eternal wealth. Eternal health. Eternal love. Eternal life.
I am a Spiritual Being—my body is perfect, made in His likeness and image. The Light of the Christ now streams through every cell. I give thanks for my radiant health.
EYES
(Imperfect vision. Correspondences—Fear, suspicion, seeing obstacles. Watching for unhappy events to come to pass—living in the past or future—not living in the NOW.)
AFFIRMATIONS:
The Light of the Christ now floods my eyeballs. I have the crystal clear vision of the Spirit. I see clearly and distinctly there are no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the fulfillment of my heart’s desire.
I have the X-ray eye of the Spirit. I see through apparent obstacles. I see clearly the miracle come to pass.
I have the crystal clear vision of the Spirit, I see clearly the open road. There are no obstacles on my pathway. I now see miracles and wonders come to pass. I give thanks for my perfect sight. I see God in every face, I see good in every situation.
I have the crystal clear vision of the Spirit. I look up and down and all around, for my good comes from North, South, East and West.
My eyes are God’s eyes, perfect and flawless. The Light of the Christ floods my eyeballs and streams on my pathway. I see clearly there are no lions on my way, only angels and endless blessings.
ANAEMIA
(Correspondence—Unfed desires—lack of happiness.)
AFFIRMATION:
I am nourished by the Spirit within. Every cell in my body is filled with light. I give thanks for radiant health and endless happiness. (This statement may be used in the healing of any disease.)
EARS
(Deafness—Correspondence—Strong personal will, stubbornness and a desire not to hear certain things.)
AFFIRMATION:
My ears are the ears of Spirit. The Light of the Christ now streams through my ears dissolving all hardness or malformation. I hear clearly the voice of intuition and give instant obedience. I hear clearly glad tidings of great joy.
RHEUMATISM
(Correspondence—Fault finding, criticism, etc.)
AFFIRMATION:
The Light of the Christ now floods my consciousness, dissolving all acid thoughts. I love everyone and everyone loves me. I give thanks for my radiant health and happiness.
Every plant my Father in Heaven has not planted shall be rooted up. All false ideas in my consciousness are now obliterated. The Light of the Christ streams through every cell and I give thanks for my radiant health and happiness now and forevermore.
HEART DISEASE
(Correspondence—Fear, Anger, etc.)
AFFIRMATION
My heart is a perfect idea in the Divine Mind and is now in its right place, doing its right work. It is a happy heart, a fearless heart and a loving heart. The Light of the Christ streams through every cell and I give thanks for my radiant health.
ANIMALS
(Dog: for example)
AFFIRMATIONS:
I deny any appearance of disorder. This dog is a perfect idea in the Divine Mind and now expresses God’s perfect Idea of a perfect dog.
Infinite Intelligence illumines and directs this animal. It is a perfect idea in the Divine Mind and is always in its right place.
THE ELEMENTS
Man is made in God’s likeness and image (Imagination) and is given power and dominion over all created things. He has power to “rebuke the winds and the waves,” check floods or bring rain when it is needed.
There is a tribe of American Indians who live in the desert country and depend on the power of prayer only, to bring rain to water their crops. They have a rain dance, which is a form of prayer, but no chief is allowed to take part who has any fear. They give exhibitions of courage before they are admitted to the ceremonies. A woman, who was an eye-witness, told me that out of a blue sky came a deluge of rain; the sun still shining.
FIRE AFFIRMATION
Fire is man’s friend and is always in its right place doing its right work.
DROUGHT AFFIRMATION
There is no drought in Divine Mind. I give thanks for the right amount of rain to nourish these crops or garden. I see clearly this gentle downpour and the manifestation is now.
STORMS AFFIRMATION
The Christ within now rebukes the winds and the waves and there comes a great calm. I see clearly peace established on land and sea
JOURNEY
AFFIRMATION
I give thanks for the Divinely planned journey under Divinely planned conditions with the Divinely planned supply.
MISCELLANEOUS
The thing you dislike or hate will surely come upon you, for when man hates, he makes a vivid picture in the subconscious mind and it objectifies.
The only way to erase these pictures is through non-resistance. (See The Game of Life and How to Play It.)
For example: A woman was interested in a man who told her repeatedly of his charming women cousins. She was jealous and resentful and he passed out of her life. Later on she met another man to whom she was much attracted. In the course of their conversation he mentioned some women cousins he was very fond of. She resented it, then laughed, for here were her old friends “the cousins” back again. This time she tried non-resistance. She blessed all the cousins in the Universe and sent them good-will, for she knew if she didn’t, every man she met would be stocked up with women relations. It was successful for she never heard cousins mentioned again. This is the reason so many people have unhappy experiences repeated in their lives.
I knew a woman who bragged of her troubles. She would go about saying to people; “I know what trouble is!” and then wait for their words of sympathy. Of course, the more she mentioned her troubles, the more she had, for by her words she “was condemned.” She should have used her words to neutralize her troubles instead of to multiply them.
For example—had she said repeatedly: “I cast every burden upon the Christ within and I go free,” and not voiced her sorrows, they would have faded from her life, for “by your words you are justified.”
“I will give to thee the land that thou seest.” Man is ever reaping on the external what he has sown in his thought world.
For example: A woman needed money and was walking along the street making the affirmation that God was her immediate supply. She looked down and at her feet was a two dollar bill, which she picked up. A man standing near (a watchman in a building), said to her: “Lady, did you pick up some money? I thought it was a piece of chewing-gum paper. A lot of people walked over it, but when you came it opened up like a leaf.” The others, thinking lack, had passed over it, but at her words of faith it unfurled. So with the opportunities in life—one man sees, another passes by.
“Faith without works (or action) is dead.” The student, in order to bring into manifestation the answer to his prayer must show active faith.
For example: A woman came to me asking me to speak the word for the renting of a room. I gave her the statement: “I give thanks that the room is now rented to the right and perfect man for the right price, giving perfect satisfaction.” Several weeks elapsed but the room had not been rented. I asked: “Have you shown active faith? Have you followed every hunch in regard to the room?” She replied: “I had a hunch to get a lamp for the room, but I decided I couldn’t afford it.” I said: “You’ll never rent the room until you get the lamp, for in buying the lamp you are acting your faith, impressing the subconscious mind with certainty.” I asked: “What is the price of the lamp?” She answered: “Four dollars.” I exclaimed: “Four dollars standing between you and the perfect man!” She became so enthusiastic, she bought two lamps. About a week elapsed and in walked the perfect man. He did not smoke and paid the rent in advance and fulfilled her ideal in every way.
Unless you become as a little child and dig your ditches you shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of manifestation. (See The Game of Life and How to Play It.)
“Without the vision my people perish.” Unless man has some objective, some Promised Land to look forward to, he begins to perish. We see it so often in small country towns, in the men who sit around a stove all winter, who “Ain’t got no ambition.” Within each one is an undiscovered country, a gold mine. I knew a man in a country town called “Magnolia Charlie,” because he always found the first magnolia in the spring. He was a shoemaker, but every afternoon left his work to go to the station to meet the four-fifteen train, from a distant city. They were the only romances in his life, the first magnolia and the fourfifteen train. He felt vaguely the call of the vision in the superconscious mind. No doubt, the Divine Design for him included travel and perhaps he was to become a genius in the plant world. Through the spoken word the Divine Design may be released and each one fulfills his destiny. “I now clearly see the perfect plan for my life. Divine enthusiasm fires me and I now fulfill my destiny.” The Spiritual attitude towards money is to know that God is man’s supply, and that he draws it from the abundance of the spheres, through his faith and spoken word. When man realizes this he loses all greed for money, and is fearless in letting it go out. With his magic purse of the Spirit, his supply is endless and immediate, and he knows also that giving precedes receiving.
For example: “A woman came to me asking me to speak the word for five hundred dollars by the first of August. (It was then about the first of July.) I knew her very well, and said: “The trouble with you is you don’t give enough. You must open your channels of supply by giving.” She had accepted an invitation to visit a friend and did not want to go on account of the formality. She said: “Please treat me to be polite for three weeks, and I want to get away as soon as possible, and be sure to speak the word for the five hundred dollars.” She went to the friend’s house, was unhappy and restless and tried continually to leave, but was always persuaded to stay longer. She remembered my advice, however, and gave the people about her presents. Whenever possible she made a little gift. It was nearing the first of August and no signs of the five hundred dollars, and no way of escape from the visit. The last day of July she said: “Oh God! maybe I haven’t given enough!” So she tipped all the servants more than she had intended. The first of August, her hostess said to her: “My dear, I want to make you a gift,” and she handed her a check for five hundred dollars! God works in unexpected ways his wonders to perform.
AFFIRMATIONS
God is incapable of separation or division; therefore, my good is incapable of separation or division. I am one with my undivided good.
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in a perfect way under Grace.
God’s work is finished now and must manifest.
I serve only faith and my unlimited abundance is made manifest.
I am undisturbed by appearances. I trust in God—and He now brings to me the desires of my heart.
My good now overtakes me in a surprising way.
The Divine Plan of my life cannot be tampered with. It is incorruptible and indestructible. It awaits only my recognition.
There is no there—there is only here.
Reveal to me the way, let me see clearly the blessing which Thou hast given me.
Let Thy blessed will be done in me this day.
Hunches are my hounds of Heaven—they lead me in the perfect way.
All things I seek are now seeking me.
Divine Activity is now operating in my mind, body and affairs, whether I see it or not.
Since I am one with the Only Presence, I am one with my heart’s desire.
I now have the single eye of the Spirit and see only completion.
I am a perfect idea in Divine Mind and I am always in my right place doing my right work at the right time for the right pay.
The Columbus in you will see you through.
I am an irresistible magnet for checks, bills and currency—for everything that belongs to me by Divine Right.
Thou in me art completion. As I have asked I must receive.
The law of God is the law of increase and I give thanks for increase under grace in perfect ways.
I dwell in a sea of abundance. I see clearly my inexhaustible supply. I see clearly just what to do.
My “World of the Wondrous” now swings into manifestation and I enter my Promised Land under grace! Great peace have I who love thy law of nonresistance and nothing shall offend me. Thou in me art Inspiration, Revelation and Illumination.
CONCLUSION
Nothing is too good to be true
Nothing is too wonderful to happen
Nothing is too good to last
Choose the affirmation which appeals to you the most and wave it over the situation which confronts you. It is your magic wand, for your word is God in action. “It shall not return unto me void but shall accomplish that whereunto it is sent.” (Isaiah 55-11.) “But I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the end of the world.” (Romans 10-18.)
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In this 14th-century text on contemplation, called “The Cloud Of Unknowing”, the author discusses the power of imagination as the first secondary faculty.
Imagination is described as the ability to depict images of both absent and present things. In the” pre-sin” era, imagination was obedient to reason and never presented disorderly images. However, after the introduction of sin (ie Humanities fall from Grace), imagination became disobedient unless restrained by the light of grace in reason.
Take a moment and appreciate the astonishing insights that this anonymous Catholic monk provided 6-700 years ago…
The author of The Cloud Of Unknowing explains that imagination, when unrestrained, constantly generates disorderly images or fanciful notions. This is particularly noticeable in individuals newly devoted to a spiritual life during their prayers. The struggle arises as the imagination continues to produce various unregulated thoughts and images, which are considered false and akin to errors.
The disobedience of imagination emphasizes the need for divine grace to restrain it and bring it into harmony with reason.
“IMAGINATION is a power through the which we portray all images of absent and present things, and both it and the thing that it worketh in be contained in the Memory. Before ere man sinned, was Imagination so obedient unto the Reason, to the which it is as it were servant, that it ministered never to it any unordained image of any bodily creature, or any fantasy of any ghostly creature: but now it is not so. For unless it be refrained by the light of grace in the Reason, else it will never cease, sleeping or waking, for to portray diverse unordained images of bodily creatures; or else some fantasy, the which is nought else but a bodily conceit of a ghostly thing, or else a ghostly conceit of a bodily thing. And this is evermore feigned and false, and next unto error.
This inobedience of the Imagination may clearly be conceived in them that be newlings turned from the world unto devotion, in the time of their prayer. For before the time be, that the Imagination be in great part refrained by the light of grace in the Reason, as it is in continual meditation of ghostly things—as be their own wretchedness, the passion and the kindness of our Lord God, with many such other—they may in nowise put away the won- derful and the diverse thoughts, fantasies, and images, the which be ministered and printed in their mind by the light of the curiosity of Imagination. And all this inobedience is the pain of the original sin.”
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Imagine a boy who was give a guitar by his parents. For no reason. Just like that, out of the blue. It wasn’t his birthday, nor was it Christmas. This is an act of grace, The parents are “like God” in this analogy, the boy of course is you or us. You are undeserving, there is no occasion, you haven’t done any chores to earn it. Nothing. In fact you have skipped some of your chores. Nonetheless, they just decided to give you a guitar.
This happens to all people, no matter what life circumstances they are in. We receive undeserved gifts left and right, and usually we don’t notice it, because we are so used to it.
You might say that every morning starts out with a multitude of blessings ready to come to you, regardless of your situation. Ready to show up FOR NO REASON.
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Living in a state of grace:
The boy receive much more than just a guitar. He also receives free lessons for life, and free tune ups and repairs for life. Again, he has done nothing to earn this, it isn’t a reward for having been good or gotten good grades. His parents love him and they want everything good for him.
We are always in a state of grace with our Creator too, and we always have been.
The story of the garden of Eden symbolizes a “fall” of mankind”, signifying a break in our consiousness where we loose sight of this constant bond. This Love bond. This love that we are bestowed becomes hidden by deception. You might call it ”The veil of illusion”. Because of this symbolic fall, we flip flop between seeking God’s mercy, and wanting to BE God ourselves. The Law Of Assumption community has taken an unfortunate turn, where coaches are now teaching fasle teachings, WE do NOT have to BE GOD. He already exists, and wants our best. It is US that have broken the connection in consiousness, nothing else. God never asked for your tit for tat relationship, and he never said that he will not give you perfect grace, YOU are the one who stepped away from the State Of Grace with your unbelief.
This constant pendulum swing between seeking for mercy, seeking for “getting things” and trying to be God on your own, is common, but unnecessary. A state of Grace is a place where you feel praise, devotional love, and gratitude regardless of your circumstances. You turn FROM the world, to WITHIN, to God. There is Grace. Have you mindlessly repeated the phrase “circumstances don’t matter” all the while still focusing on your what…your CIRCUMSTANCES. This is NOT a state of grace.
The Tale of the Tw Birds:
In the tale of the two birds from the Mundaka Upanishad, there are two birds perched in the same tree. One bird is situated on the lower branches of the tree, and is actively enjoying the sweet fruits of the tree, symbolizing the individual self (Jiva) immersed in the activities of life. There are many yummy fruits, but there are some sour and rotten ones too. The other bird simply observes, from the highest branches, this bird is representing the universal consciousness, the part of human consiousness that is intricately connected to God, this bird remains disinterested in eating the fruits. The bird on the higher branch, is in a state of serene observation. This bird represents Ishvara, or God, and is more peaceful due to its greater awareness and connection to the divine consciousness. The higher bird is in a State Of Grace. While the lower bird is engrossed in the ups and downs of life, the higher bird maintains a tranquil demeanor, untouched by the fluctuations of the fruits of lower branches.
The higher bird symbolizes God’s connection to us through consciousness. The peace and joy of the observing bird represent the divine perspective, which remains undisturbed by the fleeting experiences of the lower branches, good fruit or bad fruit. It suggests that God, as the higher bird, observes our journey with a serene loving awareness, offering a source of tranquility and guidance amidst the activities of life on the lower branch of the shared tree. The fruits are your circumstances. Once in a while the lower bird looks up at the higher bird, especially when he eats a sour fruit, and he thinks “I wish I was more like that”, and decides to hop up to the higher branches. But he quickly gets distracted by a good and tasty looking fruit, and begins to eat again. Good fruit and bad fruit. As long as the fruit is good he is absorbed in the world, only when the fruit tastes bad does he look uop again and spots the higher bird, and once again he thinks -“I wish I was more like that, serene, loving and peaceful”. He hops up yet one more branch to get closer to the higher bird. Once more he sees a tasty fruit and quickly forgets the higher bird….. and so it goes.
This metaphor illustrates the coexistence of the finite and infinite within each person. The joy of the observing bird, the higher bird, free from worldly engagements, is portrayed as more peaceful and even blissful, than the active bird. Notice that bird is NOT representing GOD (or Ishvara Himself) but rather OUR human consious AWARENESS of God. THIS is where La Of Assumption coaches make a mistake. You can relax my friend, YOU are not God, God is in fact God, and still is in charge, and He’s got this. YOU are free to simply receive goodness, as per your understanding and as per your focused awareness.
Two Natures
Within everyone, there exists both an involved self and a contemplative self. The story of the birds prompts reflection on the idea that the shift of focused awareness can bring ja joy that is more fulfilling than the objective involvement in life’s activities. It is the ultimate circumstances don’t matter parable. It underscores the role of emotional and imaginative aspects of the mind in perceiving the true essence of reality, and it tells us that we alone can make the decision to “look up” to see our divine consiousness, and to notice what abiding in a state of Grace will do for us. We alone can make the commitment to hop up to those higher branches. We can also deduce that getting distracted by the fruits of the world is normal, and something that everyone goes through. But we look up again, and we wish again, and we hop up a little higher….again. And so it goes. Regardless of what WE do, God is constant, He never moved, HE never stopped loving. We have to make the effort to move OUR awareness onto him. HE is always there. HIS peace is always there. An When we decide to shift our awareness, just like this higher bird, we CAN live in a State Of Grace.
The higher bird is living in a State of Grace.
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Show up for your gift
The boy in our story, he doesn’t go to his lessons.
You see, the boy also gets free lessons for life, and free repairs and tune ups for life. It is freely given, out of the loving hearts of his parents.
Everything is there, freely given to us, because God has CREATED the world and US to be able to live in a constant state fo Grace, but WE have to show up for the connection that He established.
We STILL have to show up. Showing up for our state of Grace actually DOES have action steps on our part. We have to express the gratitude, and we have to show our love for God. NOT love for God because he is like an ATM, not because if we don’t show up we won’t get our “stuff”, but simply out of our constant love.
MULTIPLE LOA hacks hint to this but for SOME REASON the divinity behind the reason for this phenomenon is removed. Abraham Hicks NOTORIOUSLY talks about “source” and how much source loves us. Source is God our creator. This rebellion against God is what caused our fall from grace, in the Eden story. Imagine the boy WANTS his guitar and his free lessons, but he wants to get rid of his parents. This is how we are. He now also wants to just know how to play it without ever picking up the guitar. It just sits there. For years its collecting dust, and he doesn’t speak to his parents anymore, since he rebelled. He feels lonely and he feels like he isn’t the famous guiter player that he had dreamed fo being. Now he says “It wasn’t meant to be”.
This is how we are with our blessings. We won’t show up for the increased responsibility (the lessons) and we rebel against God because we “manifested it on our own so we don’t need him”.
Come Back To a State Of Grace
Noticing the state of Grace is only possible when we invite God in to ever area of our life.
If you only show up for begging and pleading prayer when something big and beyond your control is happening, or if you imagine that God is so distant that he doesn’t give a rats ass about your sad and pitiful little life, you will not experience it. Grace is still there, but you don’t see it, you are completely blind.
Many people think that God is too busy to listen to every little prayer, that if you are to pray it should only be for “world peace”, but not so fast! Didn’t we establish that He wants a CONSTANT LOVING CONNECTION? Just like your parents do?
This false beleif that God doesn’t listen to our mundane small prayers is silly, he wants nothing more for us that to always reach out to him first. Imagine if your spouse never wanted to bother you with his or her stuff, and they instead constantly went to someone else to confess their struggles. Don’t you seek for THEM first when something happens? isn’t your spouse the very first person you talk to when you are in need? God is our spouse, and he WANTS constant connection. Constant connection IS a state of grace. Pray for EVERYTHING.
God is all-encompassing, omnipresent, all loving. How can you say that he is all loving if he doesn’t show up? It is up to us to invite him in.
He is not loud like Tony Robbins, or a football coach. He is gentle and loving. Soft spoken. Whispering, just like when you have gone to bed at night, turned out the lights and you are laying face to face whispering to your spouse. He is nearer to you than your own heart. How will you hear someone so gentle and loving if you don’t try to silence yourself a little, if you don’t try to hear his voice more consistently? It is up to you to tone it down a notch and to start communicating more often. Turn to him in prayer much more often, for the littlest thing.
Doing it the wrong way
The boy learned the wrong way because he doesn’t go to his lessons, he practices daily but his hand position is off, his fingers hit the wrong places, and it doesn’t sound right…. now his muscle memory is well trained, but it is trained wrong. He can either keep powering through, even though it is difficult and the sound just doesn’ improve. OR he can FINALLY show up for his lessons. If he goes to his lessons he will discover that his muscle memory is already formed and that he not only has to learn but he has to UNLEARN as well.
For MANY of us us, in fact for MOST of us this is exactly what happens. We develop a host of false beliefs or limiting beliefs. We have NO IDEA that tjis has happened, we are so accustomed to our “muscle memory’ of our beliefs, that we keep powering though, by sheer force we keep on trying and trying. OR we give up. We should go to “our lessons” here….but by and large, we never attempt to challenge our beliefs. Letting go of a belief system is beyond challenging, for many, it is even painful. Imagine that you have been raised in a cult, and one day you find out that it was all a lie. The anger that comes up is real. This should happen for most of us, we SHOULD feel some anger that we have been spoon-fed a lie, and that we now have to take responsibility for the deprogramming that HAS to happen. what are YOUR false beliefs? Challenge yourself to undo all of this.
Just like the boy certainly can continue to play all worng, so can you continue to live your life with a false belief system, isn’t that how most of us get through life anyway? But you don’t have to, and now that you know that you can just start going to your lessons, you are well on your way to making life easier.
Showing up for your lessons of course is a metaphor for showing op to commune with God. Start talking to him everyday, seek for his love, and you will find it.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matthew 11
Your Perception Of God:
Some parents are distant and uncaring, and give their children nothing, some parents are cruel and beat their children, some parents are abuse and harm their own children in hatred and rage, and others do even worse things than that. Some don’t feed their children. and I know a man who’s mother is in prison because she locked him in a closet and didn’t feed him. He is very lucky to have survived. Here is the thing…. we form our concept of God based on our parents…. Who is YOUR God?
This boy grew up with a very different idea of God than I did.
The way we personalize God is unconscious. It is caused not ONLY by theological teachings, and maybe we didn’t have any, but it is also shaped by how our PARENTS are.
We unwittingly form an image of God based on our own parents. This is called “God of our own understanding”. This unconscious assignment of God’s attributes based on our parents causes us to have a faulty image of God. God is not the same as your good parent or your evil parent.
There are also people who say “there is no good or evil only thinking makes it so”. These people have never seen or experienced evil. Disregard all statements like that if you are struggling with this difficult concept of God.
If you have experience evil you know that it is real. it is another false catchphrase in LOA it is used to excuse and justify all of those manifestations that will harm others. For example, someone who is lusting for a married person will use this catchphrase to justify why they should break up a marriage and soon have their “sp” in their own bed, or all of those who has made GREED their IDOL, and so on. Use the Golden Rule, and harm no-one. Making excuses like this harms everyone, just do good, manifest good things, and don’t justify your lust, greed, clinging, or whatever it is that you try to elevate into: “No good or evil, only thinking makes it so”. We’re not buying what you are selling. If you want to manifest evil things, it’s on you, but I still call it evil.
God is not like your parent. Begin to seek for him in earnest, by spending time in prayer, asking him to show you who he truly is. He will. You should only be concerned bout YOUR relationship with god first and foremost. Do not worry about what endless misconceptions are out there, just continue to seek, and ask, and pray. How can you come to know him, if you have a cold relationship with him? If you don’t seek you will not find, if you don’t knock, the door will not open.
Don’t confuse God for a cult, church congregation, or ideology either, other people are not God either. Maybe the congregation are gossips, maybe they have political agenda’s, there are all sorts of religious cults out there, this is not what I am talking about. When I say seek God. I mean to sit down, and close your eyes and go within. Contemplation. Meditation. Prayer. Who cares what those other people are up to, this is time spent in intimacy, just you and God.
Who is God?
“I am” has been highjacked by LOA to mean that the little “I” is God” but this is wrong. It is a theological mistake, and if you want to understand more about how the Biblical “I am” should be interpreted, based on reading THE WOLE Bible, not just one or two sentences, readTHIS blog post….I won’t go into it here.
This idea of “I AM” is an exploration of atheism, and a deification of our own intellect. (even those whose intellect is not particularly impressive has made a God out of their own mind)
The “I am” REALLY means something like this: We are the same as God and different from God at the same time. God is near and God is far at the same time. The way that sunlight is the same as and different from the sun at the same time.
It takes exploration to know God and to know this constant state of Grace that I have talked about. Making a deity of intellect will only take you farter from experiencing this. Itheism has relaced atheism, and now we seem to think that we ARE God.
Whether you are reading the Veda’s or the Bible, the “I AM” is MUCH greater than something that you can intellectualize to dust, these are inspired spiritual texts.
The Boy and His Guitar
Your gifts are already given.
Just like the boy already got his guitar, his free lessons for life, and all the tune ups and repairs that he will ever need. But he still has to go to the lessons, and he has to sit down everyday to practice, even if just a little bit at first. Over time, he will come to look forward to his lessons, and more and more he wants and even craves these lessons, and this time spent with the guitar. it is no longer a chore. It becomes a source of joy.
Your gifts were given at the beginning of time, and they are there within reach, but you still have to come to your moments of contemplation, your intimacy with God. Just like a boy who comes to love his guitar, and the music that he can make with it, so you will you come to love your intimate connection with God and this State Of Grace. More and more, this time spent with God will become something you long for and cherish.
In this blog, I made several points:
The Gift of Grace: I used the analogy of a boy receiving a guitar as a gift for no reason to illustrate the concept of grace. The idea is that we often receive undeserved gifts from life, and these gifts come from a source analogous to God.
Constant State of Grace: I emphasize that we are always in a state of grace with our Creator, but our awareness of this connection may be clouded by illusions and false teachings. The fall of mankind, as symbolized by the story of the Garden of Eden, represents a break in consciousness where we lose sight of the constant bond of love.
Tale of Two Birds: The metaphor of two birds in the Mundaka Upanishad illustrates the coexistence of the finite and infinite within each person. One bird represents the individual self immersed in life’s activities, while the other represents universal consciousness connected to God. The higher bird symbolizes living in a state of grace, untouched by the fluctuations of life.
Showing Up for Grace: I stress the importance of actively showing up for the connection with God. Expressing gratitude, love, and constant communion with God are seen as essential actions to maintain a state of grace.
Challenging Beliefs: I discuss the need to challenge and unlearn false beliefs that may hinder personal and spiritual growth. Just as the boy learning to play the guitar needs to correct his muscle memory, individuals should challenge and correct their false beliefs.
Perception of God: I addresses how our perception of God is often shaped by our experiences and relationships, especially with our parents. I Encourage individuals to seek a personal and intimate connection with God, separate from societal and familial influences.
Exploration and Knowing God: I touch upon the idea that knowing God and experiencing a constant state of grace requires exploration and intimate connection through contemplation, meditation, and prayer. The concept of “I am” is explored in the context of understanding our relationship with God.
Gifts Already Given: The analogy of the boy and his guitar is used to convey the idea that our gifts are already given, but we need to actively engage in practices such as contemplation and intimacy with God to realize and make use of these gifts.
I have made these points to emphasize the importance of recognizing and actively participating in the connection with the divine to live in a constant state of grace. Yes, it is agift freely given, but we must engage with it to know its full beauty.
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Is it even possible to experience inner peace in todays world?
More so than ever before, in everyday life , we face challenges that disrupt our inner peace. These are simple steps to overcome these challenges and find tranquility. Nothing new here, but all to easily dismissed. Back to the basics of inner peace!
I t is easier that we think to:
1. Spot the Minds Deception Tricks
Recognize Deception:
Identify forces that divide.
Know where anger, hatred, self hatred, anxiety and depression comes from.
Overcome Discouragement, and self defeating thoughts..
2. Choosing Positivity
Embrace “Good Vibes “by choice:
Know where GOOD thoughts come from.
Chose to believe in God.
Focus on love and joy by choice.
Make positive choices consciously.
Positivity is not an accident, it is a byproduct of consious choices, it takes awareness of focus
3. Balance Daily Living
Focus on What Matters:
Avoid negativity, especially on the internet.
Strive for daily balance.
Avoid toxic politics and focus only on what you can do, ie vote etc but let go of constantly being up to date.
4. FIVE Steps for Inner Peace
Stay Present:, right now all is well, look around, notice what is good
Practice Gratitude, find at least three things that you are grateful for every morning, and every night…Be grateful for ALL things, but start with 3.
Be Mindful Daily, stop and take a deep breath, say a prayer..
Connect with Others in ways that are not about complaining about politics or the state of the world.
Prioritize Self-Care by removing yourself immediately from toxicity. Online and IRL.
But How?
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A Practical Guide:
CREATE a Positive Outlook!
Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them. Help them see that the Master is about to arrive. He could show up any minute! Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. Philippian 4 MSG
These words resonate with truth—finding joy in life is essential. In everyday challenges, negativity is constantly trying to creep in from all directions, from within and from without. It comes down to making a choice. Choices about what information we allow ourselves to consume, and what foundational belief system we decide to have, The Bible verse tells us these things:
No, living with constant fear is NOT natural. Our natural state is a state of inner peace. How do we find it?
1. Challenges
Be gentle.
Share positivity with everyone.
Remember, God near. (Within)
Don’t succumb to worry, instead: Pray.
Don’t go toe to toe in every battle instead: be diplomatic.
You don’t have to agree or disagree.
2. Actively Cultivating Inner Peace As A Practice:
Pray and Be Thankful:
Instead of worry, pray. If you have time to worry you have time to pray.
Express gratitude daily. Every morning and every night, but also, whenever you remember, speak words of gratitude.
Let God know ALL your requests. Trust that he listens, not just to big request but also the small daily mundane requests. God is within, all your thoughts are known, but express them to him anyway.
Love your neighbor as yourself implies that we should love ourselves as God loves us. Love yourself as God loves you.
Love others implies that they are God’s child just like we are. Remember that God loves them. Instead of arguing, learn how to pray for them.
Instead of arguing for your political side, learn how to pray for the leaders of the country.
Always bring your mind back to God, with a spirit of gratitude, and everything else will take care of itself.
If you get a negative thought always assume that it false. Focus back on God.
Always focus on God, he gives peace. It is experiential, not logical or intellectual.
3. Experiencing Incomprehensible Peace
The Peace that Guards:
Embrace peace beyond understanding, in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God, like you would to a spouse. Rush first to be near to God.
Guard your heart and mind: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Have boundaries.
This comes from focusing on God. “The more you focus on yourself, the more distracted you will be from the proper path. The more you know Him and commune with Him, the more the Spirit will make you like Him. The more you are like Him, the better you will understand His utter sufficiency for all of life’s difficulties. And that is the only way to know real satisfaction.” -John Mc Arthur
Read scriptures daily. A small verse. A few sentences. Nothing arms us better against insecurity and doubts than being sure. “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Living Positively Every Day
The simplicity of daily practices is the answer to finding inner peace.
Small acts of reading a Bible verse instead of watching a Tiktok, of reminding ourselves that thoughts of division, hatred or fear are a product of the Deceiver, while we allow them, he has won, and when we turn to God, he has lost.
All thoughts of defeatism, self hatred, anxiety and fear are from The Deceiver: “For I have not given you a spirit of fear,but of power, and oflove, and ofasound mind“ and thus these thoughts are not true. Daily reminding ourselves to “Be Still and Know” and to “lean not on our own understanding” both during small moments of discouragement, and big moments of division, we find a profound impact. Apply these simple and practical steps rooted in faith, and watch how your heart mind becomes calmer. It is said that the deceivers greatest trick is to make humanity believe that he is not real. Does anger or scorn arises when you hear that God exist, or that Jesus is Christ? Pause, and ask yourself why.
Understand the Kingdom of God:
Negative imagination and rumination IS equal to the “devils mind“, and conversely consciously choosing to align with the Kingdom of Godproduces inner peace..
The Kingdom of God is associated with positive virtues and qualities, such as the fruits of the spirit.
The other kingdom, the deceivers kingdom produces fear, anger, depression, self hatred, discord, division and discouragment.
Learn to recognize which kingdom is in your mind.
Earth : an Intersection of Heaven and Hell:
The balance between heaven and hell on Earth depends on our focus. If we focus on world things, negative things, political things, etc we feel better about something that is negative, and it produces the 4 D’s Deception, Division, Diversion, Discouragement. Focusing INWARD, on God does the opposite. Sometimes it feels negative, like you are being deprived, a craving for the opinions of the world shows up, but focusing on wholesome and good produces the 9 Fruits of the spirit. Our Focus creates Heaven Or Hell.
Overcoming Negative Influences:
Reliance on prayer, gratitude, humility and thanksgiving to God.
This aligns with the notion that shifting one’s focus towards spiritual and positive attributes can counteract the negative influences associated with the 4 D’s.
1. Recognize the 4 D‘s of the lies of “the Devil’s mind”:
Deception: Acknowledge moments of deceit, both external and internal.
Division: Notice when forces seek to divide, creating disharmony among people.
Diversion: Be aware of distractions that divert focus from our inner peace, purpose and goals.
Discouragement: Recognize when discouragement hampers spiritual growth and learn how to reach for a Bible verse. Replace TikTok with a Bible app, and a positive thoughts app.
Recognize the 9 “Fruits of The Spirit’s”, The Mind Of The Kingdom Of God:
The fruits of the spirit are virtues and qualities associated with a positive and spiritual way of living. They come about as a RESULT of a spiritual focused mind.
The fruits of the spirit
Love: Unconditional and selfless affection for others.
Joy: A deep sense of happiness and contentment.
Peace: Inner calm and tranquility, even in the face of challenges.
Forbearance (Patience): The ability to endure difficulties with a calm and composed demeanor.
Kindness: Showing compassion and goodwill towards others.
Goodness: Acting with moral integrity and virtue.
Faithfulness: Remaining loyal and committed in relationships and beliefs.
Gentleness: Approaching others with a considerate and tender demeanor.
Self-Control: Exercising restraint over one’s actions and impulses.
These fruits are considered to be the natural outcomes of a life lived in accordance with spiritual principles and are a guide for knowing if we are on the right track or if we have fallen into deception.
A recent study from Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews gives us clues to why mindfulness, NLP, and certain mental processes such as ; Revision, Prayer, Imagination, and Inner Conversations have such power to shape out lives. Our brains constantly engaging in a process called ” perceptual reality monitoring”.
Some common mental tools used to consciously navigate this process are for example meditation, mindfulness techniques, manifesting, NLP, CBT and many other modalities.
1. The Neural Challenge of Perceptual Reality Monitoring
Our cognitive function, especially mental simulation plays a role in allowing us to imagine alternative scenarios beyond our immediate surroundings. (circumstances) However, the overlap in neural mechanisms between imagination and perception poses a challenge for our brains – the task of distinguishing what is real from what is imagined.
The article explores how perceptual reality monitoringis implemented in the brain, pointing to higher-level cortical circuits that evaluate sensory and cognitive factors to determine the source of our sensory experiences.
2. Source Confusions and the Intricacies of Imagination
The research presented by Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, sheds light on the intricacies of perceptual reality monitoring, revealing instances of source confusion where internally generated experiences are mistakenly attributed to external sources or vice versa.
Examples like hallucinations and dreams illustrate the nature of this process, For individuals, determining whether a sensory experience has an internal (imagined) or external (real) source is prone to errors in all people.
Our brains are constantly working at in differentiating between imagination and perception.
The capacity for mental simulation, defined as the ability to imagine alternative scenarios beyond our immediate surroundings, is a cornerstone of human cognition. This cognitive ability includes many processes such as memory, future planning, and circumstance navigation.
When we engage in mental simulation, such as imagination, we transport ourselves into states of possibilities. A “what if” immediately allows us to explore potential scenarios that diverge from our current reality. This imaginative process is a powerful tool in shaping our perceived reality, allowing us to revisit past experiences, revise, and to imagine and strategize for the future, and navigate our environment.
In terms of memory, mental simulation enables us to reconstruct and relive events that have shaped our lives, it allows us to focus on good, and defuse the negative. It is a mechanism for not only recalling factual details but also re-experiencing the emotions and context associated with those memories, and if the actual events are traumatizing, mental stimulation can alter the size, color, tone and shape of past memories.
In terms of future planning, mental simulation is a forward-looking compass. We can imagine various courses of action, anticipate potential outcomes, and make decisions based on these simulated scenarios. This cognitive tool is instrumental in our ability to strategize, set goals, and adapt to changing circumstances.
Navigation, both in physical and metaphorical terms, benefits significantly from mental simulation. For example, in navigating decision-making, the ability to imagine alternative scenarios enhances our capacity to make informed choices.
3. Implications for Behavior and Cognitive Function
Imagine walking in a dimly lit forest, the shadows playing tricks on your senses. In the ancient teachings of Eastern traditions, there’s a profound analogy often used to illustrate the challenge of distinguishing between imagination and reality – the analogy of the stick and the snake.
In this forest, you come across a long, slender object on the ground. Your immediate perception tells you it’s a snake, triggering a surge of fear and adrenaline. However, upon closer inspection, you realize it’s just a harmless stick. The initial perception, although incorrect, had a tangible impact on your emotions and actions.
Here, the stick represents imagination, and the snake symbolizes the external, real-world stimuli. The mind, sometimes misinterprets the stick as a snake – an example of source confusion.
Our brains can sometimes attribute imagined qualities to real-world stimuli or vice versa. For practical purposes, we do not often encounter sticks that look like snakes, but even the smallest interactions engages this inner vs outer perception monitoring. The stick-snake analogy captures the essence of how our perception, influenced can lead to moments of confusion between what is internally generated and what is externally present. We imagine that someone had “a tone of voice” that means that they are angry, for example.
Understanding this analogy (from Vedantic tradition), deepens our awareness of perceptual reality monitoring. Our perceptions, influenced by our thoughts, may sometimes cast imaginary snakes where there are only sticks.
The brain’s ability to update its internal model of the world based on the nature of sensory signals showcases the critical role of perceptual reality monitoring in shaping our actions and understanding of the environment.
Reality Navigation Tools
The article on “Perceptual reality monitoring: Neural mechanisms dissociating imagination from reality” underscores the importance of distinguishing between real and imagined experiences, and that this is an ongoing process in humans. The neural mechanisms discussed in the article highlight the challenges our brains face in navigating the line between what is perceived externally and what is internally generated through imagination.
Mental simulation (examples; mindfulness, NLP, imagination, revision, etc) is a crucial tool in perceptual reality monitoring. Mental simulation, is the ability to imagine alternative scenarios.
Our brains constantly navigate the interplay of perception and imagination. The research encourages further research to expand our understanding of perceptual reality monitoring. These common mental tools are used in meditation, mindfulness techniques, manifesting, NLP, and many other modalities to gain distance from fear, rumination, negativity and to focus on stability, possibilities and positivity. Will research back up these common techniques?
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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
“People don’t know, every line of the Hanuman Chalisa is a mahamantra. “
– Sri Neem Karoli Baba
In the Ramayana, the exiled Lord Rama and his wife, Sita, take refuge in the forest. They are living happily as hermits when the demon king of Lanka, Ravana, discovers them and abducts Sita, beginning a great war.
As with all great parables, the surface level of the story is the children’s version, but hiding underneath there are layers of wisdom and divine bliss to be found….in this story:
Sita represents the mind, or individual consciousness.
Rama represents Ishvara, or universal consciousness.
Ravana is the egoic mind.
(And later, Hanuman enters to save the mind…)
The ego is likened to Ravana who is a demon, with his ten heads and ten arms, symbolizing the senses.
Individual Consciousness, Sita, and Universal consciousness (Ishvara), Rama, should always be united. (Sita and Rama should always be united), but Ravana, the demon, comes to separate them. Ravana, the ego, represents our own obstacles to achieving one-pointedness.
(Patanjali’s list of obstacles (Yoga Sutra 1:30-1:32) includes: carelessness, inability to withdraw from sense cravings, confused understanding, and mental distractions.)
Ravana represents these obstacles.
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This is the story:
“The exiled Lord Rama and his wife, Sita, take refuge in the forest. They are living happily as hermits when the demon king of Lanka, Ravana, discovers them and abducts Sita, beginning a great war.
Aided by a demon disguised as an enchanting golden deer, Ravana lured Rama away from the hut. Suspicious—he knew there were demons in the forest—Rama refused at first to go after the deer. But Sita begged him, “It’s so sweet! You know I never ask for anything, but it would be such a darling pet for me here in exile.” “All right,” said Rama, “but be safe! Don’t cross this threshold until I return.” And he set off uneasily.
As soon as Rama was out of sight, Ravana appeared, standing shyly at the door in the shape of an aged holy beggar. Although Sita had been warned not to step one toe outside the door (which was protected by magical mantras), she was deceived by Ravana’s innocent appearance. She crossed the threshold and fell into his trap.
At first he tried to flatter Sita. He admitted that he was no ascetic, but a king, so smitten by her beauty, that he had resorted to this ruse in order to be near her. He swore his love and offered her a prominent place in his harem. Sita, horrified, rejected his advances. Then Ravana bared his fangs, assumed his own horrific ten-headed form, seized Sita in his ten arms, and hauled the screaming, struggling queen up into his vimana, his flying chariot, and zoomed away like an evil meteor streaking toward Lanka.
As they flew, Sita cried desperately to the trees, the birds, and the animals: “I am Sita, wife of Rama! Bear witness, brothers and sisters, children of my mother Earth! Tell Rama! Mark my trail!” And, one by one, she flung pieces of her jewelry over the edge of the vimana.”
“The Indian epics refer to these flying machines (vimanas), and unlike the classic horse-drawn chariots that carried warriors into battle, these multi-storied constructions flew of their own accord, like birds.
The most famous was the Pushpaka (“flowery”) vimana designed by the divine architect Vishvakarman for the god of wealth, Kubera, but co-opted by Ravana. Pushpaka is said to have been two stories high, not unlike Lufthansa’s super-modern A380 airbus. Its elegant exterior sheltered spacious, windowed rooms from which the occupants could view the scenery in comfort. It made a musical sound as it passed like a bright cloud through the sky. And its most special feature was this: no matter how many passengers it carried, there was always a vacant seat.”
The Vimana represents the flight our minds and ego’s take when we are seduce by all that glitters…..Not all “dreams: are perfect for us, and the true life path is always clear as long as we stay balanced in our minds, consciousness, mind, and ego.
What happens in the story?
Ravana can’t “get it on” with ShaktI, that is, unless Shakti agrees, which she of course doesn’t.
There is only ONE MAN for Sita, and it is RAMA. This causes Ravana’s head to explode in a thousand pieces.
THE EGO can’t GET IT ON. This means that you will never reach one pointedness, samadhi, enlightenment, BLISS, by letting the EGO take the lead, or take your individual mind into flights of fancy, or to inflate, (and fly off in a vimana). If the ego takes the lead, it will take over the individual consciousness, (INTELLECT / MIND / Nature) and the ego will grow so large that it forms a giant wall between your mind and your divine consciousness. In a nutshell.
SHAKTI is divine feminine, but she is not “woman” as such. She is in men and women both, she represents life giving earthly dimensional sensorial existence. Without Shakti, (Sita) we have no life, we are just divine consciousness.
The western concept of mind is different from the Hindu concept of mind in the following way, and Patanjali gives three functions of the MIND:
The EGO, Ahamkara, literally means the I-maker. It is not like the ego in the west. The I-maker can be inflated, sure, just like in the west, but it also means “identification with”. This is a function that the west does not recognize, and the path to enlightenment inevitably leads through a doorway in the mind where the veil of illusion is lifted. This veil can only be lifted if we have understood the concept of the ego as the “I-maker”, the part of mind that says “I am this”.
Behind the veil, we see, through our third eye, that identifications of the earth plane are false. This aspect is important to understand, because the ego, Ravana, although he does have his place in the forest, can not come into the abode of Lord Rama; One pointedness. Ego has its place in our mind, but it can not enter divine consciousness, it stays behind as we enter samadhi.
Identification ceases.
Ravana (ego) exists but there is one palace where he (it) can not go. Ravana is also unable to enter into a willing love with Sita, she is not interested in anything but one pointed consciousness, awareness and Bliss. She got carried away, by a moment of letting the MIND take over. (the three functions of mind are: EGO, MIND, INTELLECT)
Once again:
“Sita represents mind, or individual consciousness; Rama represents Ishvara, or universal consciousness; and Ravana represents the obstacles to one pointedness, or the ego; with his ten heads and ten arms symbolizing the claims of the senses. “
Consciousness and Ishvara should always be united. When ego, or desire for sense objects, takes over, the mind gets separated from Ishvara and carried away in a fantasy, symbolized by VIMANA, the flying vehicle. Flying off in vimana means letting your thoughts and ego run rampant. “I will do this, I will have that, I will be rich, successful, envied…” There is always room for one more seat in Pushpaka, (Vimana) just as there is no end to uncontrolled thoughts. There is ALWAYS just one more useless thought waiting…
Can you recall a time when you were swept off your feet by a person, a train of thought, or a set of circumstances which appeared compelling but proved to be false and dangerous?
Has a “golden deer” or someone, or something, appeared in your life, too beautiful to be real but too attractive to ignore? Too enticing. Maybe your gut instinct said no, but it was quickly covered by lust or greed.
Do you ever catch yourself engaging in addictive thinking or behavior? Of course you do; we all do.
What helps “bring you back to earth”? Every faith system has their own eightfold path, or ten commandments, put in place, exclusively for this circumstance. We got carried away, right from wrong disappears, and suddenly we FEEL like wrong is right. If you followed the wrong path even once in your life, you know how it might have left a trail of destruction behind.
These concepts are not speaking judgment into your lifestyle, they are here to protect you from yourself, your own inner demon, an inflated ego.
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How does the story end, and what is the way out of this conundrum:
Hanuman, the great monkey God of the Ramayana is a symbol of the mind that has become disciplined and filled with devotion.
Hanuman is the evolved state of our unruly monkey mind that constantly jumps from thought to thought. This mind is fully focused on the presence of the Divine Self, the Lord of Life within the heart.
Sita will never be with anyone but RAMA…However, it is not real Sita that was kidnapped by Ravana the demon, The real Sita has been switched out by a cursed goddess.
SIta is actually in subtle form and this other cursed goddess being, is the one who is actually kidnapped.
Meanwhile, Rama is forlorn and broken hearted, he doesn’t know where Sita is.
He meets Hanuman, the great monkey the ambassador of the king of monkeys in the woods. An alliance is made.
When Hanuman comes to the rescue here in the story, he is representing the value of physical practice (sitting in chant, meditation, yoga practice etc) as a vehicle for “rescuing” the distracted mind and restoring its unity with the spirit.
The monkeys, led by Hanuman, search for Sita, until only Lanka (land of demons, egoic mind) remains to look in.
Lord Hanuman jumps over the ocean and finds Sita.
After a fierce battle the negative forces of the ego are destroyed.
(Hanuman is also equal to Prana, theSon of the wind, and this is the life force, the pranic breath, the essential energy in the body.)
This life-force-energy called Prana, flows through 84000 channels or Nadis, without any block, and this free flowing energy is accomplished by by for example:
Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa.
Chanting changes fate.
Changes Karma.
Frees us of our negative Karma.
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“The great Indian epics of Gods and demons are in fact the most sublime psychology of the higher Self. With the key to their true meaning these ancient blockbusters will reveal to us the great perennial wisdom taught by the highest sages.”
– Ram Dass.
Each God in Hinduism represents an aspect of our enlightened mind.
(Compare this to concepts of God, or the creation of ascended masters etc, this complex and evolved ancient spiritual tradition of Hinduism always hides something deeper, and even more divine wisdom. The more you learn the more aha moments you have.)
This is the process of the dynamics of SOUL, and ego, the process of DEVOTION and higher intelligence, the development of faith and removal of ignorance. In this story the aspects have come into form, the form of Gods and demons, and it is taught this way so we can understand ourselves.
This mind represented by HANUMAN, is fully focused on the presence of the Divine Self within the heart. The three minds, EGO, MIND and INTELLECT are under the control of DEVOTION. The mind can now find Bliss within one-pointedness.
This is a story of the heart of mankind. The doorway to our soul. The path to experiencing our own divinity.
When Rama asks Hanuman, “How do you look upon me?” the great monkey gives a three-part answer;
When I believe I am the body, then I am your faithful servant.
When I know I am the soul, I know myself to be a spark of your eternal Light.
And when I have the vision of truth, you and I, my Lord, are one and the same.
With this answer, he shows us three states that we flow through in our spiritual quest.
It is not just a one way straight and then we are there, we flow in and out of these states, each state holding but a faint memory of the other two. The latter holds the one-pointedness of conscious awareness and Bliss. You and God are one and the same, in love, in unity, the veil drops, and you see the one consciousness that looks out of every pair of eyes is one and the same. Handyman is the vehicle that we use for the removal of the veil.
When I believe I am the body, then I am your faithful servant:
Many times, most often, we identify with our person, the body – mind – ego and we think we are that. At those times we can realize that we are here to do God’s work, to serve that higher Self in us, and in everything. This is the foundation of Karma Yoga, the yoga of service. The service must be done FOR the divine, (not merely as an ego trap to make ourselves feel high and mighty)…Service for the divine, and the divine only, helps us stay out of this trap.
When I know I am the soul, I know myself to be a spark of your eternal Light.
One level up and we realize we are not as separate from divine intelligence as we thought, that there is a higher knowing and presence working through us. We sense we are not separate from other beings and that our existence is an expression of the indescribable presence of God in us. This is where Bhakti and Raja Yoga open us further.
And when I have the vision of truth, you and I, my Lord, are one and the same.
The most dramatic shift in our perception occurs when all veils lift and we have the vision of truth. Then we know that we are all that exists. We are the Source; we are One. Jnana Yoga aims at this direct perception.
What allows Hanuman to have this complete vision, this fullness of knowing oneness?
It is faith.
Hanuman is the manifestation of faith that gives us strength.
Strength which transforms our minds and memories, and leads us through samadhi to perfect wisdom and one-pointedness.
True faith is not belief, or “a belief system”. Belief is the same as “not knowing”, and faith is the same as knowing and trusting. Faith is not what we have been told in the west, nor is faith equal to “belief in someone else’s belief, therefore it has nothing to do with the faith of a church doctrine, for example, it is much more real than that. Faith is a personal experience of truth. Faith is based on the direct experience of Truth and therefore more solid than a rock.
Faith is rock-solid knowing.
“For those on the devotional path, faith is born out of love, and love grows our faith. We know we are onto something most real, most important.”
Ram Dass
As our strength grows, it changes our subconscious imprints, (samskaras), and our “divine center” grows. Our memory evolves. (Smriti).
“Realizing the crucial importance of our spiritual practice, our commitment becomes increasingly stable and we approach a state of continuous remembrance of our Source”.
Ram Dass
When we engage in spiritual practice, it does more than just cause a few moments of inner peace, it changes our whole brain and nervous system, it stills useless thoughts and gives us a higher perspective that allows us to let the thoughts pass by without falling for the seeming realness and importance of those thoughts. We are onto them now, and we let them go.
“Rather than falling for our stressful thoughts, we witness the mind and become less vulnerable to its distractions. Instead, we are able to surrender to the Divine at our core again and again. With that, we come to taste states of meditative absorption in the Divine presence within (samadhi) and our mind becomes settled and unperturbed.
The sage Vyasa tells us that the awareness that we are constantly loved by the Divine, is the greatest force that allows us to surrender spontaneously to the inner Source. We realize what we have been seeking is what we are. The joy of that realization frees us from temptations and distractions and we embrace the fullness of our true nature. Our attachment to a God outside us melts away and, held in the embrace of our spiritual family (Satsang), we discover the true inner presence of guru and Self.
Focused on the Divine presence within we realize we are the giver and receiver of love – the lover and the beloved – in one. This is the blossoming of perfect wisdom (prajna), the clear perception of the enlightened state. We discover we are all that exists. We are one appearing as many and able to give ourselves fully to love because we realize there is no possibility to be hurt in this inner union.
As we are filled from inside, we shed the need for love, for attention and acknowledgment from outside and therefore we are able to share ourselves with great abundance. We have become infinitely rich. Happiness is not something we seek. It is what we are. It is our timeless and indestructible essence.
This inner wealth of love wants to share itself because that is its nature. It is the nature of Hanuman, the faith that moves mountains, that heals and serves God in all things. The mind fully focused on the Divine knows itself and is free of all fear.
with love,”
Ram Dass
What Qualities does Lord Hanuman Represent?
According to legend, reciting the Hanuman Chalisa daily bestows positivity, inner strength, and purification. Lord Hanuman is a highly revered and powerful deity, known for his ingenuity in overcoming challenges posed by malevolent forces, protecting the weak and innocent.
Here are some of the inspiring qualities depicted in the Hanuman Chalisa that beckon us to follow this ardent devotee of Lord Rama:
1. Humility, Purity, and Strength:
The opening lines of the Chalisa emphasize the purification of the mind by submitting oneself to Lord Rama, the seventh avatar of Maha Vishnu. Despite his immense power, Hanuman’s complete dedication and humble devotion at the feet of his Lord display rare humility.
2. Rare Combination of Bravery and Wisdom:
Hanuman’s wisdom and bravery are praised throughout the Universe. His courageous deeds and verses glorifying his accomplishments are celebrated by his devotees.
3. Complete Surrender to Divine Consciousness:
Hanuman’s unwavering devotion and complete surrender to Divine Consciousness, symbolized by Lord Rama, exemplify the depth of his spiritual connection and selflessness. As a loyal messenger and devoted ally, Hanuman’s actions resonate with the essence of pure consciousness, reflecting his profound understanding of the divine nature within and around him. This quality inspires us to cultivate a sense of surrender and reverence towards the higher spiritual truth, embracing the path of selfless service and inner awakening.
4. Always at Service:
When Laxmana, Lord Rama’s brother, was in dire need, Hanuman spared no effort to fetch the lifesaving Sanjivani Buti from a distant hilly area. His unwavering dedication to fulfill his duties inspires us to persevere in our tasks.
5. Incomparable Dynamism of Hanuman:
Hanuman’s multifaceted personality and mastery of various arts, from writing poems to playing musical instruments, exemplify his versatility and adaptability.
6. Be a Friend in Need:
Hanuman played a pivotal role in facilitating the alliance between Sugreeva and Lord Rama, demonstrating the importance of supporting friends and promoting goodwill.
7. Be a Good Guide and a Listener:
Hanuman’s advice to Vibhishan, Ravana’s brother, illustrates his role as a wise listener and guide, always eager to help others find solutions.
8. Unlimited Powers:
Hanuman’s incredible powers, including swallowing the sun and crossing the vast sea, teach us to shoulder great responsibilities with determination.
9. Makes Impossible Possible:
With Hanuman’s support, fear becomes obsolete, as he is capable of turning the most impossible tasks into realities.
10. Purity of Soul:
Hanuman’s limitless reach extends to those who call him with pure intentions, reflecting his compassionate nature and selfless attitude towards the destitute.
11. Dedicated Devotion for Achieving Moksha:
Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa with dedication and devotion leads to liberation from the cycle of life and death, exemplifying Hanuman’s compassionate heart and desire to ease others’ sorrows.
12. Pray Regularly and Get Blessings from Hanuman:
Regular recitation of the Hanuman Chalisa brings blessings, happiness, and freedom from fear, providing a spiritual connection with Lord Hanuman.
Incorporating the virtues of humility and strength, Lord Hanuman serves as an inspiring symbol for us to emulate in our lives. His unwavering devotion, valor, and willingness to aid the needy impart valuable life lessons that resonate across time and space. Regular recitation and reflection on the Hanuman Chalisa allow us to draw closer to the divine and embark on a path of spiritual growth.
Shri Hanuman Chalisã
Mangala mürati maruta nandana sakala amangala múla nikandana
Son of the Wind, embodiment of blessings and joy, you destroy the root of all that is inauspicious.
Shri guru charan saroja raja
nija mana mukura sudhari
baranau raghubara bimala jasu
jo dayaka phala chari
Having polished the mirror of my heart with the dust from my Guru’s lotus feet,
I sing the pure flame of the best of Raghus, which bestows the four fruits of life.
buddhihina tanu janike
sumirau pavana kumar
bala buddhi vidya dehu mohi
harahu kalesha bikar
I know I have no intelligence, I recall the Son of the Wind. Please give me strength, intelligence, and wisdom and remove my suffering and impurities.
sivã vara ramachandra pada iava sharanam
Hail to the refuge of the feet of Sita’s husband, Ramachandra.
1 Jaya hanumana jana guna sagar
jaya kapisa tihu loka ujagar
Glory to you Hanuman, ocean of wisdom and virtue.
Hail to the Lord of the Monkeys, the illuminator of the three worlds.
2. Rama dúta atulita bala dhama
añjani putra pavanasuta nama
Ram’s emissary, abode of matchless power,
Anjani’s son, named Son of the Wind.
3. Mahabira bikrama bajarangi
kumati nivara sumati ke sangi
Great hero, mighty as a thunderbolt
remover of negative thoughts and companion to thegood.
4. kanchana barana biraia subesa
kanana kundala kunchita kesa
Golden hued and splendidly adorned with heavy earrings and curly locks.
5. hatha vajra au dhwaja biraje
kandhe munja jane-u sajai
In your hands shine mace and a banner;
a sacred thread of munja grass adorns your shoulder.
6. shankara suvana kesari nandana
teja pratapa maha jaga bandana
You are Shiva’s incarnation and Kesari’s son
Your glory is renowned throughout the world.
7 vidyavana gunati chatura
râma kaja karibe ko atura
You are the supremely wise, virtuous, and clever.
You are ever intent on Ram’s work.
8. Prabhu charitra sunibe ko rasiyã
râma lakhana sita mana basiya
You delight in hearing of the Lord’s deeds.
Ram, Lakshman, and Sita dwell in your heart.
9. Sukshma rupa dhari sivahî dikhava
bikata rüpa dhari lanka jarava
Assuming a tiny form you appeared to Sita,
and in an awesome guise you burned Lanka.
10. Bhima rupa dhariasura sanhare
rāmachandraji ke kaia sanvāre
Taking a dreadful form,
you slaughtered the demons and completed Lord Ram’s mission.
11. Lava sajivana lakhana jivāye
shri raghubir harashi ura laye
Bringing the life-giving sanjivani herb,
you revived Lakshman, and Shri Ram joyfully embraced you.
12. raghupati kinhi bahuta bara-i
tuma mama priva bharathi sama bha-i
Greatly did the Lord of Raghu’s praise you saying,
“You are as dear to me as my brother Bharat.”
13. Sahasa badana tumharo jasa gavaï
asa kahi shripati kantha lagavee
“Thousands of mouths sing your praise,”
So saying, Sita’s Lord drew you to himself.
14. Sankadika brahmadi munisa
nârada sharada sahita ahisA
Sanak and the sages, gods, Brahma, great saints,
Narada, Sharada, and king of the serpents,
15. Yama kubera digapala jahan te
kabi kobida kahi sake kahan te
Yama, Kubera, and the guardians of the quadrants,
poets and scholars – none can express your glory.
16. tuma upakara sugrivahi kinha
Rama milaya rajapada dinhA
You rendered great service to Sugriva.
Introducing him to Lord Rama, you gave him kingship.
17. Tumharo mantra vibhishana manã
Tankeshvara bhaee saba jaga jana
Vibhishana heeded your counsel
and became the lord of Lanka as all the world knows.
18. Yuga sahasra yojana para bhanu
lilyo tahi madhura phala janù
Even though the sun is millions of (eons) miles away,
you swallowed it, thinking it to be a sweet fruit.
19. Prabhu mudrika meli mukha mahin
jaladhi lānghi gaye acharaja nahin
Holding the Lord’s ring in your mouth,
it is no surprise you leapt over the ocean.
20. Durgama kaja jagata ke jete
sugama anugraha tumhare tete
Every arduous task in this world
becomes easy by your grace.
21. Rama duare tuma rakhavare
hota na ajna binu paisare
You are the guardian at the door of Ram’s abode,
no one enters without your leave.
22. Saba sukha lahai tumhāri sharanã
tuma rakshaka kahú ko dara nã
Taking refuge in you, one finds complete contentment.
Those you protect know no fear.
23. Apana teja samharau apai
tind loka hanka te kanpai
You alone can withstand your own splendor.
The three worlds tremble at your roar.
24. bhüta pisacha nikata nahi avee
mahavira iaba nama sunavai
Ghosts and goblins cannot come near,
great hero, when your name is uttered.
25. Nasai roga hare saba pira
japata nirantara hanumata bira
All disease and pain is eradicated
by the constant repetition of your name.
26. Sankata se hanumana chhurāvai
mana krama bachana dhyana jo lavai
Hanuman releases from affliction
those who remember him in thought, word and deed.
27. Saba para rama tapasvi raja
tina ke kaia sakala tuma saia
Ram the renunciate king reigns over all.
You carry out all his work.
28. Aura manoratha jo ko-i lavai
so-i amita jivana phala pavai
One who brings any yearning to you
obtains the four fruits of life.
29. Charo yuga paratapa tumhara
hai parasiddha jagata ujivarã
Your splendor fills the four ages;
your glory lights up the world.
30. Sādhu santa ke tuma rakhavāre
asura nikandana rama dulare
You are the protector of saints and sages,
the destroyer of demons, and the darling of Ram.
31. Ashta siddhi nau nidhi ke datã
asa bara dina janinaki mata
You grant the eight powers and the nine treasures
by the boon you received from Mother Janaki [Sita].
32. Rama rasayana tûmhare pãsã
sada raho raghupati ke dasã
You hold the elixir of Ram’s name
and are forever his servant.
33. Tumhare bhajana rāmaji ko pavai
janma janma ke duhkha bisaravai
Singing your praise,
onefinds Ram and the sorrows of lifetimes are left behind.
34. Anta kala raghubara pura iã-i
jahān janma hari-bhakta kaha-i
At death one goes ot Ram’s own abode, born as God’s devotee.
35. Aura devatã chitta na dhara-i
Hanumata se-i sarva sukha kara-i
There is no need to remember any other deity;
worshiping Hanuman one gains all happiness.
36. Sankata katai mitai saba pira
jo sumirai Hanumata bala bira
Al suffering and pain vanish when one remembers the brave Hanuman
37. Jai jai jai hanumana gosã-i
kripa karahu gurudeva ki nã-i
Glory, glory, glory to you Lord Hanuman.
Bestow your grace on me as my Guru!
38. Jo shata bara pâtha kara ko-i
chhütahi bandi mahā sukha ho-i
Whoever recites this 100 times
is freed from bondage and enjoys bliss.
39. Jo yaha pare hanumana chalisã
hoya siddhi säkhi gaurisã
These who read this Hanuman Chalisa
gains abilities and success, as Gauri’s Lord (Siva) bears witness.
40. Tulasidasa sada hari cherã
kijai natha hrdaya mahã dera
Says Tulsidas, Hari’s constant servant,
“Lord, please make your home in my heart.”
Pavana tanaya sankata harana mangala mürati rûpa
râma lakhana sit sahita hrdaya basahu sura bhüpa
Son of the Wind, king of gods, banisher of sorrow and embodiment of blessings,
dwell in my heart together with Ram, Lakshman, and Sita.
Siya vara râmchandra pada jaya sharanam
Hail to the refuge of the feet of Sita’s husband, Ramachandra.
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