I read this article on a blog from Megan Jenifer. The site is called
www.thelawofattractionstation.com
The article is written by someone
named Adrian. If you are confused
about the law of attraction and
its relevancy to the Bible,
I think you will appreciate this post. Enjoy!
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Here is the main subject this week:
—–The Bible and Law of Attraction—–
Every week I receive many messages from people who clearly wish for
a better life, the life that they believe God should automatically
provide in return for their devotion.
These same people, upon learning of The Law of Attraction are
afraid of using their natural God-given inner powers lest it go
against their religion and therefore God Whom they wish to appease.
In previous newsletters I know I have from time to time been
negative towards the Christian religion, due to its influence over
mankind during the last 2000 years or so.
The fact is, all religion, as with all experiences in life be they
very small or very large, during times of peace or war and whether
people feel justified or not exist for one reason; experience.
Everything in life including all the religions and belief systems
of the world are a learning experience, a primary principle of why
we are here. Accordingly experiences, including the experience of
religion are neither right or wrong, they simply Are.
All experience including religion is a valuable stepping stone
towards a greater experience,without which there can be no progress.
Many people have chosen at some level to learn by the collective
experience of a religion, just as they may learn by any other
collective experience, and have been granted the freewill by God to
do so.
In future therefore I will be emphasising the positive aspects of
this large-scale learning experience known as “religion”.
It is evident from the numerous messages I receive that many people
would really like to use The Law of Attraction to make their lives
better in some way, but are afraid that their church would not
approve or the bible does not provide for it, and would therefore
bring some sort of retribution upon themselves from above.
The Bible, regardless of its origins which are unimportant, both
old and new testaments do in fact contain considerable wisdom and
historical record, much of which however is written in symbolic or
metaphoric terms, terms which have been taken often too literally,
and their meaning accordingly lost.
One thing I would really like to do is to decode the true meaning of
the Bible, thus producing a modern version that people can use in a
practical way. This of course would be a massive task due to the
size of the bible.
I receive many messages from people pointing why a certain
Universal principle does not agree with the Bible.
Let me say from the outset that the approach of reconciling the
Universe with the bible will always lead to frustration. This is
attempting to make the infinite agree with the finite.
A much better approach is to reconcile the bible with the Universe;
i.e. reconcile the finite with the infinite.
So this week we will make a start by looking at how the Bible
teaches The Law of Attraction.
Before we begin we need to recognise some important fundamental
teachings of the Bible and in particular these:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created them” — Genesis 1:27
Note: “male” and “female” gender are only relevant to life in the
physical world, a creation of nature as a method of perpetuating
physical vehicles of life. Although the concepts of “male” and
“female” also exist in the Astral worlds, they do so because the
people living their still believe that the physical world is
reality, and they perpetuate that illusion in the next phase of
life in order to feel comfortable, or “at home”.
As immortal Spirits we are neither male or female, we are
androgynous as is The Source or God. Our Higher Self Who is the sum
of all physical lives has experienced numerous physical lives as
both male and female gender. Anyone who thinks that “male” is
superior in any way to “male”, usually because they believe “God”
is “male”, is being driven by the ego and lack of knowledge of
their true Spiritual nature.
“For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your
own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring’” — Acts 17:28
“In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me,
and I in you” — John 14:20
So what do these phrases tell us exactly?
These all demonstrate one fundamental truth; that each and every one
of us is “made” in the Spiritual image of God, not in a physical
sense as people often believe; God is not “male”.
The principle that has become known as “God”, i.e. what I will
refer to as the “God principle” may be thought of as everything in
existence, all that Is. Nothing exists outside of the Universe, and
therefore of God, and everyone and everything has its Being within
the Universe, within the infinite Mind of “God”.
The God principle is therefore The First Cause, our Prime Creator,
infinite, conscious,intelligent, vibrating Energy.
We “live and move and have our Being” within this great Energy field
as individuated Energy fields “made” in the image of God, the
macrocosm,and as such we share the same powers of Creation as
“children of God”, the microcosm. I should point out that as Energy
we were never “created” as such; Energy cannot be created or
destroyed.
This then is where The Law of Attraction becomes important to the
way we create our experiential reality.
Everyone, without exception as a “Son” or “Daughter” of God has the
same powers of creation, but in order to realise those powers,
certain principles need to be observed.
One of these principles is faith. The Bible or Jesus teach the
importance of faith time and time again. But it is important to
first define the word “faith” in the context in which it is written
in the Bible.
“Faith” is not some abstract “belief” based upon what someone else
has said, faith is rather a very powerful feeling, a knowing and
trusting beyond all doubt that we do indeed have God-given powers
which will manifest anything at all in accordance with our thoughts.
Here is what the Bible says on faith:
“Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he
shall have whatsoever he saith”. — Mark 11:23
And Jesus admonished his disciples for not being able to achieve
their wishes due to a lack of faith in their own God-given powers:
“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I
say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall
say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall
remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” — Matthew.17:20
Here Jesus is saying that nothing is impossible, and that we are
only limited by our belief in our ability to create in accordance
with thought. In fact we have no limitations; moving a mountain
would be simple to anyone who had the faith in their own God-given
ability to do so.
The source of our ability to achieve anything we desire is the
Subconscious Mind. The Subconscious Mind is infinitely powerful,
beyond the comprehension of most who fail to understand the powers
of their own Subconscious Mind.
The Subconscious Mind is not a separate Mind, but rather an aspect,
by far the largest aspect of our total Mind. I should point out
that the brain is not the Mind; the Mind resides in every cell,
molecule, atom, subatomic particle and quanta of Energy that
comprise the Energy field that constitutes what we perceive with the
five physical senses as our “body”.
The Subconscious Mind will accept any sustained impression,
particularly fuelled by emotion, and therefore any sustained
thought, and bring it into manifestation without question. It is
the task of the conscious Mind therefore to choose carefully which
sustained thoughts and impressions impressions the Subconscious
Mind receives.
This is what the Bible says about these important truths:
“Marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well”.
– Psalm 139:14
The “Soul” in this context is the Subconscious Mind.
The Subconscious Mind controls every aspect of our body as well as
our individual experiential reality, and has so from the moment of
conception. The Subconscious Mind originally created our body from
the genetic blueprint contributed by both parents, maintaining
every function including for example, heartbeat, breathing,
digestion, immune system, cell regeneration and much more; in fact
every component of the body is controlled by the Subconscious Mind
by communicating the levels of Mind that comprise them.
This is the basis of true healing. If we wish to heal ourselves we
simply impress our wishes on the Subconscious Mind as if it is a
reality Now, and the Subconscious Mind then executes the wish
immediately and completely. We therefore have total control over
every aspect of our body including health, healing and bodily
characteristics, appearance and function; they are not subject to
some external factor, although of course wrongful eating for
example will result in disease if left under the control of the
cravings and ego driven desires of the conscious Mind.
Likewise if we wish for something to manifest into our experience,
the Subconscious Mind will do this every time through its intimate
connection with the Universal Mind; the Mind of God.
However, it is absolutely crucial that we know these powers
beyond any doubt.
Doubt is a powerful vibration which tells the Subconscious Mind
that your conscious Mind, your ego, does not believe the
subconscious Mind can achieve your wishes, which, as many have
already discovered, will become your experience, a reason why The
Law of Attraction does not appear to work for some people.
An excellent way of impressing your wishes on the Subconscious Mind
is by prayer. Now prayer is a whole new subject and one which I
will discuss in the future, but let us define what “prayer” is not.
Prayer is not mechanically reciting a verse either from memory,
read from a book, or by repeating words after someone else. These
things might ce called “prayer”, but in reality they will have
very little or no effect beyond a personal satisfaction.
True prayer is designed to influence reality, for example changing
something in our lives. This is what the bible says about prayer:
Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
– Matthew. 21:22
Now it is important to note here that “believing” does not mean a
dogmatic belief in for example “God”. Many people think that if
they “believe” in God or Jesus or the Bible or some other religious
icon or concept, that alone would be sufficient to “please” God
enough to deliver the request and later admit them to “Heaven”.
This is a complete misinterpretation of the true meaning of prayer.
God, the Universe is incapable of being flattered, or “pleased” or
gratified in some way; they are all very human concepts that do not
apply to the Infinite.
So let us look at that statement again:
“Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”
This is saying that if when you pray, in other words you “ask” for
something, knowing beyond all doubt it is already yours, then so
shall it be.
Another of the disciples confirms this when he said:
What things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them — Mark 11:24
So you see; these important truths for using The Law of Attraction
are emphasised time and again throughout the Bible.
The reason is this; true prayer is not and never was intended to be
dogmatic in nature, or conform to the creed or dogma of others, it
is rather a science, in other words true prayer is used in the
unshakable knowledge that immutable Universal principles will be
influenced in the direction of the prayer, or rather the thoughts
and emotions behind the prayer which must always be stated as if
you have already received the object of the prayer.
Another important aspect of prayer is “faith”.
Now again “faith” has been very misunderstood in the past taken
by people to mean that providing they have faith to their chosen
religion, or to an icon of that religion, they will be duly
rewarded by having a request granted, and eventually be allowed
into “Heaven”.
This is not the meaning of true faith. True faith is an absolute
faith in the infinite power of the Subconscious Mind, that whatever
you wish for has already manifested, and is not subject to some
external influence.
Now this is a very important point to note; the power of Jesus as a
healer was due to the faith that his followers placed in him. They
believed that Jesus was Divine and the “son of God”, of course we
all are, and that he had special God-given powers of healing.
If the people he healed had not believed this, then they would not
have been healed. Here is an excellent demonstration of this:
“And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him:
and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this?
They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying,
according to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened;
and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, see that no man know it”.
Matthew 9:28-30.
The blind man was healed by the power of his own Subconscious Mind
due to his faith that Jesus possessed special Divine powers. He
knew, beyond doubt, he would regain his site and so it was. Had the
blind man not believed that Jesus possessed very special healing
powers, he could not have regained his sight, because he would not
have sent the impression of “sight” to the Subconscious Mind to
restore.
Jesus knew this when he said “see that no man know it” he was
cautioning about telling others lest they mock him, and cause him
to lose his faith in the healing process.
If he lost his faith in the healing powers of Jesus, upon which his
healing rested, and started to believe it could not be true, then
his Subconscious Mind would have receive the thought that “his
sight could not be true”, that would be his reality, and he would
lose his sight again.
Mark confirms this when he said:
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that
believeth” — Mark 9:23
Again though; a word of caution here as with “faith”. “Believe”
does not mean some abstract belief in God or Jesus or any other
external agency, it means belief in who we are and the powers we
accordingly have available to us through our own Mind in particular
subconscious Mind, powers that are infinite and unlimited, powers
that are only restricted by the ability to believe in those powers.
As Matthew rightly said;
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you”.– Matthew 7:7
We have confirmation of these truths in this passage:
“Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto
thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways”. Job 22:28.
What this means is simple; once you have experienced the power of
The Law of Attraction by utilising Universal principles, then you
will know beyond doubt it is real and true, and will go forth in
joy in realisation of being a Divine creator.
This is why it is important to achieve your first success; when you
do your life will change and your life will rejoice from that
point on in the knowledge that you really do control your own
reality and your own destiny.
As Mark said:
“Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole” — Mark 10:52
And again; “faith” does not mean in religious terms; faith means
true faith in the knowledge of our true reality and our infinite
powers of the Subconscious Mind as an integral aspect of the
Universal Mind to manage our own life and destiny.
It is important to reconcile the union of conscious and
Subconscious Minds.
Very often the the ego or the conscious Mind will object to your
use of The Law of Attraction because it prefers to be in control,
and will want to convince you that it is all fantasy.
An important part of progression is to subjugate the ego
completely. The first step however is to silence your conscious
Mind when using The Law of Attraction, because your first success
will quell the doubt of the ego.
The Bible teaches this in the following verse:
“If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they
shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in
heaven”. — Matthew 18:19
The “two of you” referred to in this passage are the conscious and
Subconscious Minds. Before anything can be achieved, both need to
be in harmony. The Subconscious Mind is always in harmony and never
argues about anything, so it is the conscious Mind, the ego, that
needs to be convinced.
The Law of Attraction and other Universal principles are always in
immutable operation. Every thought, every emotion is a cause with a
corresponding effect whether intended or not.
So if your thoughts towards others are not of a positive nature, or
worse you wish them harm in some way, the result will be such that
whatever you thought of others will be attracted into your own
experience.
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge,
ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you again”. Matthew 7:1-2
The fact is this; from a purely temporal perspective you cannot
know why a person is who they are, or why they are acting in the
way they do. Judging people by your own standards, expectations or
prejudices is a serious mistake, and one which has to manifest in
your own experience in the same way sooner or later.
This is the meaning of “karma” which is not a punishment and reward
system, but rather the immutable, perfect operation of the
Universe through which we learn by experience.
Very often the emotion that blocks people achieving their desires
is fear in one of its numerous manifestations. As the saying goes
“there is nothing to fear but fear itself”.
Fear is a destructive emotion alongside its close relative “worry”.
There is nothing to fear because we all control, manage and create
our own reality.
If you are experiencing fear, then the best action, rather than
fight it, is to ask your Subconscious Mind to free you from fear.
The bible in fact teaches exactly this:
“I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my
fears”. Psalm 34:4.
The “Lord” in this case is again a metaphor for the Subconscious
Mind.
One of the most common fears of people next to the illusion of the
change known as “death” is the perceived inevitability of “ageing”.
In fact people only age because they believe they can, as a result
of programming from an early age.
People believe that at a certain age you must gain gray hair, teeth
fall out, wrinkled skin and then comes mental degradation and
senility before finally the release of “death”.
Here is the truth; our entire physical body renews itself
constantly. Some parts renew in hours, some days, some weeks,
others perhaps months, but after a short time we have a brand new
body; this applies to everyone in physical life
So why is it then that people age?
The reason is because they believe they will age the Subconscious
Mind happily accepts that belief and manifests the signs of aging
in accordance with those beliefs.
Some might say that it is due to oxidation of tissue due to free
radicals in the blood. This may or may not be true, but even if it
is, the Subconscious Mind will use whatever mechanism the
Subconscious Mind deems appropriate to achieve the desire in the
quickest, most efficient and most effective way, and if that is by
free radicals then so be it.
The body cells are forming body parts in accordance with the
instructions of the Subconscious Mind. If the Subconscious Mind
instructs the intelligent skin, hair and eye cells to form
wrinkled skin, gray hair and poor eyesight, that is what they will
do.
“Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved
me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I
walked through darkness; As I was in the days of my youth, when the
secret of God was upon my tabernacle”. Job 29:2-4.
This passage from the bible demonstrates that once you know that you
cannot truly age then that will be the reality, and the reality
will be:
“His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the
days of his youth” — Job 33:25.
I could say much more about the true teachings of the Bible, but I
will return to this subject from time to time in the future.
I am happy to do this in the knowledge that, as in the title and
subject of my book, their is only one ultimate reality and one
truth, a truth so infinitely powerful that its light will penetrate
where no false teaching can ever go, a truth so intense and
unmistakable for what it is that there is no need to point out the
false truths, creed and dogma originating at a time when the
originators either did not understand, or sought to distort the
truth for their own convenience.
Every belief system, religion and tradition has elements of truth,
but the absolute truth is a thread that runs through all.
Be conscious of one most important truths. It is fine to desire
material things that genuinely help the learning process, and to
bring genuine joy. No material thing however, in and of itself,
obtained by the demands of the ego, or vanity, or to look better
than others can bring true happiness, fulfilment and above all the
very reason we are here; Spiritual progress.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such
there is no law” — Galations 5:22-23
And finally always remember; only you can create your own reality by
the thoughts you hold in your Mind; the Bible also knows this truth:
“For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” — Proverbs 23:7.
Until next week.
In Lak’ech. - Mayan for “I am another Yourself”
In Peace, Light and Truth,
Adrian
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