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.
