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.

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)

Working the Law!

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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