16.  The Noble Creed

It is strange when one reads something that suddenly has the ring of truth, because man is hearing knowledge he already possesses but has forgotten, and his bad habits, his misdirected negative energy, his indoctrination has made him look outside instead of inside for his real development.  Undoubtedly the Western mind has become so materialistic that it finds it difficult to even comprehend any metaphysical knowledge because it has not developed the necessary vibratory brain cells that must be developed in order to receive it.  This has never been taught in our schools, yet is has been known throughout the ages, particularly in ancient Egypt.

Knowledge is of priceless value.  That is why knowledge is power.  By applying knowledge we can literally make our future what we wish it to be.   When we fully appreciate, through the development of additional energy, that our present character, our present environment, our present ability, our present physical conditions are all the results of methods of thinking, we will amaze ourselves.  Let us remember that every thought produces an impression on the mind.  Every impression is a seed which will sink into the subconscious mind and form an attitude or a tendency.   This attitude or tendency will be to attract other similar thoughts and before we know it, we have have a crop which must be harvested - the metaphysical law of sowing and reaping.

Through the law of vibration the mind exercises control over the body.  Therefore, any given vibration can immediately modify every atom in the body.   Every life cell is affected and an entire chemical change is made in every group of life cells.  Everything in the universe is what it is by virtue of its rate of vibration.  Change the rate of vibration, and you change the quality and form.   We can change the vibration of our thoughts and thus produce any condition we desire to manifest in our body.  We are all using this power every minute.  The trouble is that most of us are using it unconsciously, and thus producing undesirable results.  The problem is to use it intelligently and possess only desirable thoughts.   This is not as difficult as it seems because we all have sufficient experience to know what thoughts produce pleasant vibrations in the body and we also know the causes that produce unpleasant and disagreeable vibrations.  We must consult our own experience when we uplift our thoughts and make them progressive and direct our energy into constructive, courageous, and noble thoughts.  Thus we set in motion vibrations which bring about positive reactions.  When our thoughts are filled with cynicism, envy, hatred, jealousy, criticism, or any of the other thousand and one negative thought forms, certain vibrations are set in motion which bring about certain other negative thoughts of a different nature and each of these rates of vibration, if kept up continually in our thought process, crystallize in form.

In the first case, the positive results will result in mental, moral, and physical well-being.  The negative thoughts will create discord, disharmony, and disease.  When we fully understand this, we understand something of the power of the mind over the body.  You must believe and have faith in the fact that the way to health is founded on the law of vibration.  It is a matter of individual effort and practice.  Our real world of power is within.  If we are wise we will not waste time and effort in trying to deal with effects as we find them in the world without, which is only an external reflection.  We shall always find the cause in the world within, and by changing the cause we change the effect.  Remember and believe that every cell in your body is enlightened and will respond to your direction.  The cells are all creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them.  Therefore, when perfect images are placed before the subjective, the creative energy will build a perfect body.  The quality of the brain is covered by the state of mind, your mental attitude, so that if undesirable mental attitudes are conveyed to the subjective, they will in turn be transferred to the body.  We can therefore readily see that if we wish our body to manifest health, strength, and vitality this must always be our predominant thought because we know that every element of the human body is the result of the rate of vibration.  Knowing this, we then know how to make any physical changes in the body we desire, because we know the higher rate of vibration covers, modifies, controls, changes, or destroys the lower rate of vibrations, and this rate of vibration is covered by the character of brain cells, and we know how to create these brain cells.   Therefore, we now know how to make any physical change in the body we desire, if we place ourselves in inner harmony.

There can be no doubt that most patients at present being treated in hospitals are unaware of what they can do for themselves.  By calming the mind and by developing increased energy through meditation, new feelings of joy, hope, faith, and love could be aroused by suggesting to their subconscious positive motives and thereby diverting their thoughts from their illness.  This of course, is the basic theory behind the Christian Scientist teachings which are valid; but like most teachings they have somehow been misinterpreted and viciously attacked by others who simply lack the willingness or the desire to create and develop the new brain cells necessary.

When you pray, you must already accept the fact that the prayer has already been answered, the condition you wish has already been obtained.  It is the power to believe and have faith before the materialization of the desire.  The absolute truth is that the "I" is complete and perfect.  The real "I" is spiritual and therefore can never be anything else but perfect.  It can never have any lack of limitation or desire.  The flash of genius does have origin in the molecular motion of the brain.  It is inspired by the ego, the spiritual "I" which is one with the Creative Intelligence and which is our ability, through meditation, to recognize this unity which is the cause of all inspiration and genius.  Truth is not the result of logical training, experimentation, or observation.  It is a product of developed consciousness.  Your life and your actions will depend upon the degree of truth which you are capable of perceiving, for truth will not manifest in creeds by any conduct.  It is this truth that shall make you free.  For it is the conscious knowledge of this truth which will enable you to overcome every difficulty.  The conditions which you meet in the world without are invariably the results of the conditions obtained in the world within.  Therefore it follows that by holding the perfect ideal in mind, you can bring about ideal conditions in your environment.  If you see only the incomplete, the imperfect, the limited, these conditions will manifest in your life.  But through additional energy development, if you train your mind to see and realize the spiritual ego, the "I" which is the perfect, complete, wholesome, and healthy condition, this knowledge will be manifested.

It is difficult for man to accept that the universal mind, or superior consciousness is the totality of all minds in existence.  Spirit and mind are there synonymous.  It is extremely difficult and has been the problem of all of us to understand and indeed to accept that mind in this sense is not individual.  It is omnipresent.  It exists everywhere.  It is universal.

Man has always used the word God to indicate this universal creative mind and therefore has been confused because he thinks of God as something outside, and this is exactly contrary to the fact.  The individual spirit is the reflection when it leaves the body that we know.  Therefore, spirit is all there really is of us, and the only activity which the spirit possesses is the power to think.  Therefore, thought must be creative because spirit is creative.  Yet this creative power is impersonal and your ability to think is your ability to control it and to make use of it for the benefit of yourself and others.

When the full truth of this information is understood and appreciated, you will have come into possession of what is called the master key of your own development.  But it has been said that only those who are wise enough to understand, broad enough to weigh the evidence, firm enough to follow their own judgment, and strong enough to make the sacrifices exacted may enter and partake.  It is true, as Marden has said, that the possibilities of thought training are infinite.  Its consequences are eternal and yet very few ever take the pains to direct their thinking consciously into good channels that will do them good.  As Haddock said, "The power to think constructively, deeply, and clearly is an avowed and deadly enemy to mistakes and blunders, superstitions and fanaticism".  We must constantly remember that thought is creative vibration and the quality and the conditions created will depend upon the quality of our thought, because we cannot express powers which we do not possess.  We must therefore be, through our ability to develop energy and inner harmony, before we can do, and we can do only to the extent that we are, and so that what we do will necessarily coincide with what we are, and what we are depends on what we think.

All mental discovery and attainments are the result of desires because concentrated desire is the strongest mode of action.  The more persistent the desire, the more authoritative the revelation.  Desire added to concentration will wrench any secret from nature.  Concentration does not mean merely thinking on practical values.  The average person has literally no conception of concentration.   There is always the cry to have, but never the cry to be.  Men fail to understand that they cannot have one without the other.  They must first find the Kingdom before they can have the things added.  Momentary enthusiasm is of no value.   It is only by undenied self-confidence and by perseverance that any goal is reached.  To quote Horatio Bonar, "Think truly and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly and each word of think shall be a fruitful seed.   Live truly and they life shall be a great and noble creed".

REMINDER

The mind cells cannot hold information with only one reading. 
Re-read this book again in two months and new material
will appear as you start to practice the development
of building new brain cells. 
A third reading will be more valuable than the second. 
Discover and enjoy.

Have a divine life this time around ... and help bring in the New Age.

- G.W.S.