Friday 24 September 2010

Working the Law (7)

(continued)  All failures in life are due to taking sides with the finite around us. All success in life is due to taking sides with the Law within us. Thus working with the Law may be considered the same as taking the Law into our minds and lives as a silent partner. We are then conscious of the source and creator of all power, and realize and receive the many benefits that surround us.
You who are searching and grasping any and every idea that comes along, in the hope that it will be a short- cut method to solve the problems of life, you who condemn and blame every misunderstood person or thing for your failures and defeats, will never find a satisfying life that way. You will find only an existence, and at its best it will be variable and changing. Life with all its attributes of good is a something that doesn’t
just happen to touch a fortunate few. It is a something you must create. It is a something you must plan, mentally picture, and think about. You, who are seeking love, fortune, happiness and success, must understand that it is not something you may find, you cannot buy it nor borrow it from another. No one can give it to you; you must create it within yourself. Your desires and ideas are like seeds you plant in the soil, but
these are planted in the soil of mind. After planting the thought- seeds, you cultivate them, nurture them, and guard them well until the harvest time. Then you will reap all that you have sown, and abundantly. Of course he who has the cleanest and most fertile garden will enjoy the best returns.
We may realize from this lesson that we have the capacity, for we can think, and in our thinking, create desires and ideas. We have the equipment; it comprises the ideas and thought-seeds that we plant in the soil of the mind. We have the power, for the Universal power of mind is endowed within each and every one of us. All that we may ever desire to have and to be is ours for the asking as we correctly apply the Law
of life, the Law of Mind. When a circumstance arises we are not to come under it, to submit to it in servitude, but we are to surmount it, to overcome and master it, by exercising the creative law of thinking, and thus grow in wisdom and power. For, as Dr. John Murray so often said, “We are according to our system of ideas.”  (End of "Working the Law")

Friday 16 July 2010

Working with the Law (6)

continued (6)
Next we may ask, if there is such a law of mind, what is the Law’s intention? Some may think that the Universal Mind has no intention because It is impersonal. Yet Jesus tells us that the Universal Mind has definite intentions. He says, “Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Thus we see that the Universal Mind’s intention is for the universal good; therefore, our intention must take the same direction, knowing that whatever works for the universal good will work for the individual good, for the individual’s health and happiness, on this same principle. The principle, that which blesses the whole, will bless all its parts. When our intention becomes reconciled or cooperative with the Universal intention, then we become an expression of that good. This is working with the Law.
When man’s intention is as God’s intention, and not just a mere personal caprice, a force is called into action which gives direction to the undirected mind power. Working with the Law, when we understand it, may become as simple as touching the light button, like the electrician, which, when we do, floods our mentality with illumination and understanding. We hear much today about cooperation, united effort, merging of forces, and pulling together as a single unit or team. We know the advantage of team work in our games of sport and play. We learn from our games that no grandstand play or individual “show-off” is dependable. It is likewise true with the game of living life. No man can play the game alone. He must conform with the Law, and it is better to cooperate with it than to be used blindly by it. Someone said: “Man with himself as a partner is a fool, but with God (Law) is a majority.” Thus, when man is able to combine or direct all his thoughts, ideas, and desires for good, he will be able to bring forth a continued stream of good.
Again referring to the Master, and appreciating all the good work and miracles He accomplished, we see that He never took personal credit for the results. He knew the Law and, by working with it, was able to perform miracles to the amazement of the unenlightened public. He said: “It is not me, but the Father (Law) in me that doeth the work.” Thus all things work together for them that love good (live the Law), because
the love of good unites itself with a stream of good, and not because good steps out of its way to show its gratitude. (continue)

Working the Law (5)

continued(5)
How this is done in a simple and effective manner is explained throughout these lessons. Our main object is to arouse the individual to think for himself, to cultivate his own powers, and thereby to take the sure path of self-development and true culture. The great, self-evident fact, which cannot be too often repeated, is that when we change our thinking for the better, we automatically change our lives for the better. Modern psychology has conclusively demonstrated that a change of thought must precede every change in the life and in the affairs of man. In the course of our studies we have discovered that the more a mind is undeveloped, the more materialistic or lower its individual point of view; while the more developed the mind, the higher its individual point of view. It does not follow that, because a person is worldly-wise and has retained a large number of facts and experiences, such a one has a well developed or highly evolved mind. On the contrary, that person may have an undeveloped mind and be largely dominated by the lower instincts. Narrowness of thought, limited views, prejudiced convictions, and materialistic opinions are signs of a lack of real development. Breadth of thought, wide and tolerant views, wholesome convictions, and expanding conceptions are signs of growth. The small mind, however, need not remain small or undeveloped. It can grow and expand and ultimately become great. The path is clear and simple. Let such a one form his own clear conceptions and strong convictions from the loftiest point of view he can reach, and then proceed to think and act accordingly. Advancement will follow as a natural sequence. The law is that the mind is no greater that its conceptions. As you improve and enlarge your ideas and mental pictures, you improve and enlarge your mind. As you aspire to realize the larger truth, you must inevitably grow in understanding. Again, the greater your power of mind, the better you will be able to conduct the affairs of life to use and advantage.

Monday 7 June 2010

Working the Law! (4)

  continued (4)                                              

An electrician, for example, does not pray and wait for the electric energy to make up its mind to serve him. He learns first hand the laws of conduction and transmission in order to know how to cooperate with the law that governs electric energy. After gaining this knowledge, he can go ahead and set up the machinery which provides the means to generate and direct the power. Then he can snap in a switch and
operate giant machines, create heat, set in motion countless other devices, or flood a room with light. He can do this, not once or twice, but as many times as he chooses, so long as he does not disturb the mechanics or violate the law governing the energy. The same principle holds true in all other sciences, including the science of mind.
There is a scientific way of thinking about everything, a true and a right way that
prevents the needless waste of mental energy and produces the desired results on all
occasions. As explained, all things and events, all experiences and conditions of life, are
results. All results, however, will vary in quality and in quantity in accordance with the
degree of knowledge possessed and in the measure of the mind’s activity.
The quality of the results produced by the individual thinker may be good, bad,
or indifferent, as may be determined by conscious direction and choice, or lack of such;
some results being harmonious and favorable, while others are discordant and
unfavorable, or there may be a medley of the whole. It is absolutely essential to give
intelligent direction to the creative powers of the mind to obtain the best and largest
results in our particular sphere of active expression. In fact, it is highly important, from
the standpoint of usefulness and common duty, that we should endeavor to understand
the mind and its workings, and learn how to cultivate and develop those processes of
thinking that will give us mastery over life and its conditions.
Thinking is a perpetual process. It is a creative function of life that is ever going
on. We are engaged in it and are producing results of some kind every hour and day
that we live, registering within ourselves the exact effects of all our thinking. While we
cannot stop thinking, we possess the supreme privilege of being able to determine the
sort of results it is desired to experience by regulating the form and quality of our
thought.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Working the Law! (3)

Working with the Law! (3) (continued)


This creative principle is summarized in a sentence found in Proverbs.
It reads:
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” You may have read or heard the statement before. It has been taught and expounded by philosophers of every age. You may have tried to prove the statement by ridding from your memory all negative thoughts, but because it took determined and persistent effort, you wearied. Then you dropped back into the current of old conditions and ideas and, if anything, became worse off than before.
Others, hearing the statement, were not impressed, for they could not accept the assertion that all inharmonies of life are the results of their own beliefs, or of their past thinking crystallized into beliefs. They prefer to blame this upon something, or someone else. Even God is given a share of the blame. There are others who believe that in God’s good time all things will eventually work out to their satisfaction, but this is not so.
These people are planning for a heaven to be gained at some future time, when it is actually a condition and state of mind that can be had now as well as hereafter. In fact, unless it is gained here and now, it can never be had in the future.
At some time in a man’s life he is forced to reckon with this creative law. There is no alternative.
Everyone is governed by the Law, whether he knows it or not. Possibly it is the same idea that some have concerning prayer. They think it is God’s fault, will, or desire, when they do not get the answer they seek. They use God as their scapegoat and excuse when their prayers are unanswered, or when they are unable to explain some act of God or of Nature. “God’s will be done,” is one of the most overworked and least understood statements in our day. Some use the idea as a crutch to lean upon, when in
reality it is a powerful bridge over which man may cross the deepest chasms and mysteries. It is man’s failure if his prayers are unanswered. The creative Law is ever ready to answer and cannot fail to respond when approached rightly and wisely. At the moment that man is able to contact and to realize the Law, he will at once enjoy the benefits. It is the realization of the Law in action that determines manifestation.

Sunday 23 May 2010

Working the Law! (2)


Working with the Law (2) (continued)

I knew a woman who once lived in a beautiful home in an exclusive suburban district with every comfort that wealth could supply to make her happy. This home was a large rambling house, facing a beautiful lake, with green terraces sloping to its edge.
Flower gardens, perfectly kept, were scattered freely along each path throughout the estate. She had many servants to help her, and from observation her life was just about *Instant website promotion! Free color text links!as complete as one might dream about. But, with all this wealth and beauty, the woman was heard to remark to her friends that she hoped the day would come when she would be relieved of the big house and all its problems and could live in a trunk.
She wanted a room to herself, for herself, and just large enough to move about without
any extra space to dust and to keep clean.
A few years elapsed. Her husband died and left the estate to her. She sold the
home at a sacrifice. Her other holdings depreciated so much in value through unwise
investments and transfers that she had but a small income left.
She went to live with a sister, and, true to her wish, she now has a small room
on the third floor and practically lives in a trunk. Whether she is happier now than
before I do not know, but I doubt it. One thing I do know; that is, she gradually led
herself to the small room and privations when her consciousness began to grow small
and limited. She unconsciously touched the creative principle and supplied it with ideas
of smallness and privacy and limitation which materialized within a few years’ time.
As we assimilate in mind these ideas or mental pictures, we, knowingly or
unknowingly, exercise a power to produce them. This creative process continues
working night and day until the idea is completed. We cannot picture thoughts of
poverty, failure, disease and doubt, and expect in return to enjoy wealth, success,
health, and courage. It just can’t be done, any more than the photographer can take a
beautiful picture of a homely creature.

Friday 30 April 2010

Working the Law! (Continued)

There is a marvelous inner world that exists within man, and the revelation of such a world enables man to do, to attain, and to achieve anything he desires within the bounds or limits of Nature. I believe the reason the famous English literary genius, William Shakespeare, is the leading dramatist of the world lies in this realm. The great Greek dramatists with their noted insight always saw the causes in some external fate or destiny that brought about the downfall of their characters, but Shakespeare saw something within the man as the cause of his failure or success.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.”
We see Hamlet wrestling with his reluctant, indecisive soul. Macbeth is being pulled and driven by his ambition. Othello is torn and discomfited by his jealousy.
Always the characters were battling with their inner selves as though the dramatist were saying: “You are the master of your circumstance; call forth your power, initiative, and ingenuity, and be the master. Fate is in your hands, determine it.” If every man has the power and privilege to determine his fortune, what is that power? How can we recognize it?
If all conditions are the result of our actions, and all actions are the outcome or the fruit of our ideas, then our ideas must determine the conditions in our daily lives.
An idea is a thought or a group of thoughts. An idea is an image or a picture in the mind. There must have been an idea, a mental picture, back of every well known achievement and invention. From the beginning this is the creative plan. We read in the first book of the Bible that the Great Architect, God, saw a finished pattern or idea before it grew. There was a mental picture established within the mind of the Creator before it became a reality on the without in some form of a creature.
“The Lord God made the earth and the heavens and every plant of the field
BEFORE it was in the earth, and every herb of the field BEFORE it grew.”
Every architect and builder follows the same plan whether he is building or planning a house, a bridge, an institution, or his own life. Every man is his own designer and builder; like the Creator, he makes his creations within before they materialize on the outside. All fears of sickness, poverty, and old age, are impressions, ideas, and mental pictures, long before they become painful realities. Every idea and mental picture must produce after its own kind whether the picture is good or bad; the Law determines it so. The Law does not question or challenge the kind of picture we give to it. It only knows that it must take what is offered or planted, and then proceed to materialize it into a visible form. Some men can visualize great engineering achievements, yet they do not know that by the same method they can overcome their diseases and despairs and enjoy the health and happiness they long for. Mechanical engineering is the same as mental engineering; they are both dependent wholly upon a creative intelligence. Mental photography, like mechanical photography, produces exactly what it sees. A picture of a homely, unsightly person never turns out to look like a Beauty Pageant winner; nor does the little, short person look tall and large on a photograph. A picture of black will not be white; neither can negative, destroying ideas produce constructive and positive results. If the ideas are negative, they will in turn create negative results.

Sunday 18 April 2010

Working the Law...

“The Lord God made the earth and the heavens and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.”
Gen. 2:4-5


THE question uppermost in the world of thought today is whether a man has the capacity, equipment, and power to control his life; whether he can be what he wants to be; or whether he is a drop in the great ocean of life. Millions are affected by unemployment, poverty, and want.
Can they help it? Where we have thousands of homes broken on the rocks of
matrimony, can such a breach be repaired? Millions complain of sickness and disorder in countless forms. All this gives rise to the belief that we are victims of circumstance over which we have no control. Such belief makes of us fatalists and karmic addicts instead of masters and controllers of our destinies.
A fatalistic belief is contagious, and when man submits to its influence, believing that the circumstances around him are stronger than the power within him, that man is defeated before the race IS run.
In the history of the race and the biography of man, there is a long list of evidences of man overcoming circumstances and meeting his problems of life. Evolution and anthropology alike furnish the truth that man is responsible for what he is. He has power to control his circumstances, and by using this power he has created other circumstances more necessary in his upward climb. Yet some, not sure that we create our circumstances, are rather prone to think that they are caused by heredity, karma,
environment, or numerous other external things. These are the real reasons, they think, for our failures. They believe in the natural limitations of life; they live in the conviction that as we are, so we must remain; they are sure that what is to be will be.
The scientist on the other hand, searching into the mysteries of human life, reveals to us a wonderful world of power, possibility, and promise.
He tells us that the mind is the creative cause of all that transpires in the life of man, that the personal conditions are the results of man’s action, that all the actions of man are the direct outcome of his ideas, that we never make a move of any kind until we first form some image or plan in the mind. These plans or ideas are powerful, potent; they are the causes - good, bad, or indifferent, of the following effects, which in
turn correspond to their natures. He tells us that these ideas liberate a tremendous energy. Hence, when we learn to employ our minds constructively, we use correctly these hidden powers, forces, and faculties. This, the scientist tells us, is the KEY to success in living life.  (Continue)

Friday 2 April 2010

Working the Law!

Continued...

I went to the Greenwood Inn and sat down at the meeting. Within a few
minutes, I felt a kind of exhilaration. A remembrance of how I had felt when I first met Raymond Holliwell began to dawn in my awareness. It was the knowing that I was in presence of the kind of greatness of being that one rarely, if ever, is gifted to experience. The man I was sitting with had spent his life studying the great Laws Of Life and devoting his efforts to assisting others in incorporating the freedom, abundance
and well-being that is the natural result of living in harmony with these Laws. As we discussed our individual exploration into these Laws, he mentioned that he had often turned for inspiration to a great book of understanding, “Working With The Law”, by Raymond Holliwell. My jaw dropped and my heart opened. Clearly the universe had more in mind for this meeting than a casual breakfast that would soon be forgotten.
The man with whom I was sitting would become one of the great teachers and best friends of my life. His name: Bob Proctor.
For many years, Bob and I talked about creating an opportunity for others to have access to the power and freedom that studying “Working With The Law” offers.
You are now holding that opportunity in your hands.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Tuesday 30 March 2010

Working with the Law!

Foreword...

I first met him in 1973 at a conference where he was a keynote speaker at the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada. I was twenty-three years old. The first thing I noticed were his hands. As he spoke, at first I was mesmerized more by his hands than his words. These were hands not only large in size but they literally seemed to have rays of light pouring forth into the room as he shared his message. As I began to turn my attention to what he was saying, I felt myself lifted, inspired and wanting for myself whatever this man knew. He clearly possessed a deep confidence of knowing and an aura of power and well-being. His life demonstrated such a mastery of liberation and abundance, that when he finished speaking, I dashed to be the first in line to speak to him. In this one conversation, I learned that he was president of a seminary where one could study the laws of life and be instructed in their application. Four months later, I was living six blocks from the seminary and was registered for the fall semester.
Raymond Holliwell was a student and master of the Laws of Living. He was informed by years of study and research in all the great religions and philosophies as well as modern psychology and the new science. He authored many books, the cornerstone of which is his classic offering, “Working With The Law.” While his writing was done at a time before we had politically correct gender balancing in the words chosen, I had first hand experience to know that Raymond Holliwell was deeply honoring of women as well as men. When he used the word “Man” in his writing, he was speaking to every one of us.
During the two years I studied, lived and breathed the teachings of this man, I knew I was in the rarefied air of greatness. He not only spoke the words, he lived and demonstrated the mastery that comes only with an incorporation of the liberating Truths of Life that he had discovered and taught. When I graduated from the seminary two years later and moved back to Northwest to begin my own teaching, I felt saddened to leave. I wondered if, ever again, I would have the privilege of such closeness to one who not only knew, but was a living example.
Ray Holliwell was so in harmony with the Law of Life, that his life radiated mastery and abundance in all that matters. Just to be around him or have the honor of receiving his message was to be offered Keys to the Kingdom of one’s deepest hopes and desires. He died in the early 1980’s. A few years following his death, his seminary would close and the church he built became another denomination. I grieved at what I thought of as a loss.
In 1995, I answered the phone. A woman I knew casually asked if I would be willing to join her and a man she knew, who was visiting my home city, for breakfast. I told her how very busy my week was and suggested maybe next time he came to town we could work it out. She asked again with a new insistence in her voice and wanting to help her out, I reluctantly agreed. I would later find out that the man, with whom the breakfast was planned, had agreed to breakfast with the same reluctance, only wanting to help out the woman making the invitation.

Saturday 27 March 2010

Part 3 (End of Preface)

A line of distinction, however, should be drawn between mere surface thought, that is, ordinary, trivial and commonplace thinking, and real thought, which is associated with the understanding of Truth. The latter is deep thinking which arouses dormant powers, quickens the perceptions, and leads to the enlargement of the understanding. The former is but a passing phase of mental activity, while the latter governs the life of man. The shallow, surface thought that we give to the ordinary duties and small things of daily life is not the thought that reforms our character, develops our mind or changes our destiny. It is the positive, deep, and penetrating thought that comes from profound and strong conviction born of a higher perception and a clearer realization of the Truth.
The surface idea is not the real thought.
The inner convictions which control one’s aims, desires, and motives, constitute the real thought of the individual and wholly determine the course of his life and personal destiny.
Psychologists tell us that every individual is controlled by his convictions, whether he is aware of it or not. Such convictions largely determine the nature of his thinking; the inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the causes of action. If his ideas or convictions are wholesome and true to his higher nature all will be well, and he will reflect something of the harmony and beauty and utility of his constructive and superior views in his personal life. If his convictions or ideas are not wholesome and true, he will reflect something that is discordant, inharmonious, and evil.
Always make it a point of moving forward in your mind, ever seeking to unfold your power of thought and to develop hidden possibilities.

Learn to train the mind to clear and exact thinking. Your ability to do so will grow rapidly by regular exercise and discipline. No normal person wants to decrease in power and ability. Therefore, strive to cultivate your intelligence and to express better, bigger, and superior thought on all matters about which you may think. There is so much good in the world that it can out balance the evil; therefore, you can go on thinking more
constructive and good thoughts every day, about yourself, your fellowman, life, and all natural things, to the constant enrichment of your mind and the improvement of your whole being.
You cannot get the most out of these lessons by reading them once or twice. They should be read often and studied with scrutiny. You will find with each reading something clearer than before.

Raymond Holliwell

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Sharing the words of Raymond Holliwell !

Preface - Part 2

Aim to adjust the two, and to strive to be on the outside what you idealize on the inside. Your thoughts make you; and your ideals, principles, or ruling desires will determine your destiny.
Learn to use your powers unless you wish to be used by them. Make a daily effort to use the knowledge you have gained. Try to improve upon all your opinions. Endeavour to obtain a truer and larger conception of each of your personal views.
This process entails effort, but all such mental discipline is highly constructive. It leads to a steady increase of mind-power, and it is the mind that matters most among life’s actualities. You may occasionally blunder. We are all inclined to do this, more so inthe earlier stages of our mental development. However, we learn by our mistakes.
Then by the constant use of our intelligence we cause our faculties to grow so strong and alert that in time, we are able to avoid further errors.
Man’s problems are mental in nature; they have no existence outside of
themselves, and it has been discovered that nearly all will yield up their solutions whensubjected to a broad and exact analysis.
You can acquire this ability by studying the Law of life and its modes of
expression. Then by constant effort use your thinking faculty in constructive ways asyou work with these Laws. Have good and sound reasons for all the views you hold.As you try to find these, many of your old-time views will fall to pieces. Form clear and definite ideas regarding your convictions as to why you do as you do, and as to why you think as you think. Such practice is like conducting a mental house cleaning.

Friday 19 March 2010

Working With The Law ! The Other Law!

P o w e r f u l  P r i n c i p l e s f or A b u n d a n t  L i v i ng !

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Part 1
STUDENTS for many years have come to this School asking for a betterunderstanding of God, and desiring knowledge of the best way to get the most out oflife. They have heard God spoken of as being afar off, when He is as close to us as thebreath we breathe, closer than our hands and feet. They have heard Him spoken of as:Love, Divine Mind, Divine Intelligence, Jehovah, God, Lord, First Cause, PrimalSubstance, and other names. Being of an analytical mind, I too, have wanted to knowthe facts of a Truth. If it is a Truth, there are facts to be had, and they can provethemselves, not alone in Spirit but in a very practical way.It is my intention to present these lessons simply, without high-minded words orvague statements that sound pretty and promising. The terms above named are allsynonymous. They mean one and the same thing, and I choose to use a simpler namethat everyone will understand.I shall call God working in our lives “LAW.” Interpreting the Law in several waysshould bring it more clearly into our way of thinking. Then as we strive to work with theLaw we are living closer to God, and such living brings a better understanding.As you grow in knowledge and are able to form better opinions, do not hesitateto change your views. Remember, “The wise man changes his mind; the fool never.”There can be no progress without change, no growth without renewal.There must be a constant stream of new thought, better thought, and truerthought to insure progression in life. As soon as you perceive the better, let go of theold, grasp the new. To continue to hold on to the old and inferior when the new andsuperior is at hand is to retard growth, and to this one cause may be traced many ofthe ills of man.Proceed to use your thinking faculty and take care that it does not use you.Master your mind and guide it intelligently; that is, exercise discrimination in all yourthinking. Learn to think as you ought to think, give your mental life to the matters thatare absolutely essential to your welfare, and the balance of your thought to themes ofbeauty, truth and progress. In other words, live with the ideal, but do not neglect the practical.

Love n prosperity,

J Amado

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>>>>>>>Invictus<<<<<<<<<

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of Chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet this menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll.
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

W. E. Henley