- 自然法則無處不在
- 與自然法則保持一致
永恒的自然法則，才是偉大的造物者。我們都是由它創造出來的，它雖然無聲無息，卻在莊嚴的寂靜中發揮著作用。而我們所能做到的，就是讓自己與它保持和諧一致，然後就可以享受自然的饋贈。
- 既要索取，也要給予
世界在冥冥之中存在一種索取與給予的平衡，這種平衡要求我們既要索取，同時也要忽視給予，才能得到自己所希望的。而一切困難、混亂、障礙的產生都是因為我們違反了這一法則，要麽是不願將自己多餘之物施予他人，要麽是拒絕承認我們自己所需要的是什麽。
- 分享成功
每一個人的成功都是一個共贏互惠的過程，將根須交叉，分享彼此的養料和水分，這種能力決定著我們能否把資源的利用達到最大化，並且最終決定著我們能否成功。
- 把目光投向外部
如果總是把目光盯著我們已經擁有的，就不可能看到我們所缺失的、更多的寶貴的東西。隻有把眼光放開，放到更廣闊的外部環境中去，才能夠有意識地控製利用我們的外部環境，從那裏汲取我們進一步生長所需要的養分。
- 獲取養分的能力在逐漸增強
獲取我們的成長所需要的養分的能力，會隨著我們境界的提升和視野的開闊而逐步增強。隨著這種能力的增強，我們就能夠識別和吸收我們需要的一切養分，滿足我們成長的所需。
- 經曆是最大的財富
一切的境遇和經曆都是自然有意安排給我們的，無論是好是壞，對於我們都是有益的。好的為我們提供坦途，壞的為我們提供經驗與教訓。無論是運氣和順利，還是困難和險阻，都能讓我們從中受益。
- 幾分耕耘，幾分收獲
付出和收獲永遠都成正比。我們為戰勝困難付出多大的努力，就會得到多大的成功。不勞而獲和勞而無獲都是不可能發生的。
- 去吸引那些與我們自身和諧一致的東西
生命生長的不可動搖的法則，要求我們盡最大的努力，去吸收那些我們自身和諧一致的東西。通過領悟這個法則並且嚴格地遵守它的教誨，我們才能獲取最大程度的幸福。
- 愛給思想以活力
有血有肉的生命都有愛，愛是情感的產物。在愛中誕生的思想，將會充滿生命的活力。愛賦予思想以生命力，使思想變得積極活躍、富有朝氣，它能夠為思想的發芽生長、開花、結果帶來必要的養料。
- 語言是思想的載體
思想經由語言表達出來，話語承載思想，就像大海承載輪船一樣。話語是思想的表達形式，我們的言談也必須特別謹慎，不良的話語背後會隱藏著消極的思想。我們的心靈就像是一部照相機，而對語言的運用就好比是按下快門。當我們不假思索地按下快門，出言不慎，說一些違背我們的福祉的話語時，效果不良的影像也就被記錄在我們心靈的底片上，很難抹去了。
- 優美的語言是美好思想的載體
優美的語言能使人賞心悅目，一切完美的知識都通過它們來表達。我們今天擁有的這些文字，是宇宙精神通過人的心靈得以彰顯的工具。語言是最充滿活力的信使，人類的一切知識、智慧、思想都由它來傳遞。
- 智者言智
最智慧的思想也必須靠語言才能表達。我們的語言越是清晰、優美，它對我們思想的表達就越是清晰明確。能夠通過語言表達自己的思想，是區分人與動物的重要區別。
- 思想引導行為
無論是什麽樣的行為，都是靠思想引導的。如果我們想要得到理想中的情境，我們就應當首先懷有合適的想法才對。如果我們希望得到富足的生活，首先就要有實現富足生活的想法。首先要在思想上富足起來，生活才能跟著走進富裕。
- 思想通過語言來表達
貧瘠的語言隻能夠建成陋室，而優美豐富的語言可以建成不朽的精神殿堂。偉大的智者無一例外同時又是優美語言的運用者。
- 凝煉我們的語言
智慧的語言表達的是智慧的思想，因此它也是一種無影無形，卻戰無不勝的力量。它被賦予怎樣的形式，最終也會在客觀環境中以怎樣的形式被實現。如果希望我們的將來是美好而又強大的，我們就必須認識到：要凝煉我們的語言，出言三思。
- 有生命力的思想
真話是講原則的，謊言早晚要被戳穿。
- 真理使我們強大
凡是快樂存在的地方，就不會再有憂傷；如果我們知道什麽是真理，我們就不會受到謬誤的欺騙，因為真理與謬誤勢不兩立，不能共存。
- 真理幫助我們排除混亂與匱乏
凡是有真理可循的地方，謬誤就不再有落腳之處。正確的思想都是有生命的，因此它能夠紮根、生長，最終必然會驅逐那些錯誤的觀念。凡是謬誤的思想都是無根之草，是不能夠長久生存的。真理必然可以戰勝謬誤，這個事實可以幫助我們趕走一切的混亂、匱乏和局限。
- 要領悟真理
毫無疑問，那些能夠領悟真理的人，就會擁有足夠的智慧，他將很快認識到：思想的創造力把一件所向無敵的武器放在了他的手上，讓他成為自己命運的主人。
- 有索取，也要付出
自然界遵循著能量的平衡，在任何地方出現了一定的能量，就意味著在其他地方一定會消失了多少能量，這讓我們懂得，我們有付出才能夠有所得，一味地索取而拒絕付出，就會打亂自然界的平衡。
- 自動自發的潛意識
潛意識並不具備推理能力，它隻是聽從顯意識的引導。一旦我們構想了藍圖，潛意識就會把我們的構想自動自發地變成現實。但這決不意味著潛意識是無能的，相反，它一旦采取行動，其能量是無窮的。
- 洞察力
洞察力是心靈的一種判別能力，它是專屬於人類的望遠鏡，借助於它我們能夠審時度勢，看到遙遠的未來。洞察力能使我們在困境中發現機遇，化逆境為順境；借助於它，我們可以權衡利弊，妥善規劃，提前做好迎接挑戰的準備。在這些障礙還沒有化成足以阻擋我們的坷途之前，我們就已經跨越了它們。
- 鍛煉自己的洞察力
本課重點
１、最強有力的主宰是什麽？
——是自然法則。
２、獲得成功的必由之路是什麽？
——理解並掌握自然法則。
３、麵對自然法則我們應該做的是什麽？
——讓自己與它保持和諧一致，然後就可以享受自然的饋贈。
４、美好思想、人類智慧的載體是什麽？
——是優美的語言。
５、為什麽要凝煉我們的語言？
——因為語言表達的是思想的力量，而思想的力量借助於語言來彰顯。隻能通過抱持令人滿意的念頭來獲得令人滿意的境況。
６、真理的作用是什麽？
——凡是有真理可循的地方，謬誤就不再有落腳之處。真理幫助我們排除混亂與匱乏。
７、潛意識的功能是怎樣運作的？
——接受顯意識的引導，自動自發地運行。
８、為什麽要訓練我們的洞察力？
——因為借助於它我們能夠審時度勢，看到遙遠的未來。借助於它能使人們在困境中發現機遇，化逆境為順境。
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Part Fifteen
Experiments with parasites found on plants indicate that even the lowest order of life is enabled to take advantage of natural law. This experiment was made by Jacques Loch, M.D., Ph. D., a member of the Rockefeller Institute.
"In order to obtain the material, potted rose bushes are brought into a room and placed in front of a closed window. If the plants are allowed to dry out, the aphids (parasites), previously wingless, change to winged insects. After the metamorphosis, the animals leave the plants, fly to the window and then creep upward on the glass."
It is evident that these tiny insects found that the plants on which they had been thriving were dead, and that they could therefore secure nothing more to eat and drink from this source. The only method by which they could save themselves from starvation was to grow temporary wings and fly, which they did.
Experiments such as these indicate that Omniscience as well as Omnipotence is omnipresent and that the tiniest living thing can take advantage of it in an emergency.
Part Fifteen will tell you more about the law under which we live. It will explain that these laws operate to our advantage; that all conditions and experiences that come to us are for our benefit; that we gain strength in proportion to the effort expended, and that our happiness is best attained through a conscious cooperation with natural laws.
PART FIFTEEN
1. The laws under which we live are designed solely for our advantage. These laws are immutable and we cannot escape from their operation.
2. All the great eternal forces act in solemn silence, but it is in our power to place ourselves in harmony with them and thus express a life of comparative peace and happiness.
3. Difficulties, inharmonies, and obstacles, indicate that we are either refusing to give out what we no longer need, or refusing to accept what we require.
4. Growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new, of the good for the better; it is a conditional or reciprocal action, for each of us is a complete thought entity and this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give.
5. We cannot obtain what we lack if we tenaciously cling to what we have. We are able to consciously control our conditions as we come to sense the purpose of what we attract, and are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our further growth. Our ability to do this determines the degree of harmony or happiness we attain.
6. The ability to appropriate what we require for our growth, continually increases as we reach higher planes and broader visions, and the greater our abilities to know what we require, the more certain we shall be to discern its presence, to attract it and to absorb it. Nothing may reach us except what is necessary for our growth.
7. All conditions and experiences that come to us do so for our benefit. Difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until we absorb their wisdom and gather from them the essentials of further growth.
8. That we reap what we sow is mathematically exact. We gain permanent strength exactly to the extent of the effort required to overcome difficulties.
9. The inexorable requirements of growth demand that we exert the greatest degree of attraction for what is perfectly in accord with us. Our highest happiness will be best attained through our understanding of, and conscious cooperation with natural laws.
10. In order to possess vitality thought must be impregnated with love. Love is a product of the emotions. It is therefore essential that the emotions be controlled and guided by the intellect and reason.
11. It is love which imparts vitality to thought and thus enables it to germinate. The law of attraction, or the law of love, for they are one and the same, will bring to it the necessary material for its growth and maturity.
12. The first form which thought will find is language, or words; this determines the importance of words; they are the first manifestation of thought -- the vessels in which thought is carried. They take hold of the ether and by setting it in motion reproduce the thought to others in the form of sound.
13. Thought may lead to action of any kind, but whatever the action, it is simply the thought attempting to express itself in visible form. It is evident, therefore, that if we wish desirable conditions, we can afford to entertain only desirable thoughts.
14. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that if we wish to express abundance in our lives, we can afford to think abundance only, and as words are only thoughts taking form, we must be especially careful to use nothing but constructive and harmonious language, which when finally crystallized into objective forms, will prove to our advantage.
15. We cannot escape from the pictures we incessantly photograph on the mind, and this photography of erroneous conceptions is exactly what is being done by the use of words, when we use any form of language which is not identified with our welfare.
16. We manifest more and more life as our thought becomes clarified and takes higher planes. This is obtained with greater facility as we use word pictures that are clearly defined, and relieved of the conceptions attached to them on lower planes of thought.
17. It is with words that we must express our thoughts, and if we are to make use of higher forms of truth, we may use only such material as has been carefully and intelligently selected with this purpose in view.
18. This wonderful power of clothing thoughts in the form of words is what differentiates man from the rest of the animal kingdom; by the use of the written word he has been enabled to look back over the centuries and see the stirring scenes by which he has come into his present inheritance.
19. He has been enabled to come into communion with the greatest writers and thinkers of all time, and the combined record which we possess today is therefore the expression of Universal Thought as it has been seeking to take form in the mind of Man.
20. We know that the Universal Thought has for its goal the creation of form, and we know that the individual thought is likewise forever attempting to express itself in form, and we know that the word is a thought form, and a sentence is a combination of thought forms, therefore, if we wish our ideal to be beautiful or strong, we must see that the words out of which this temple will eventually be created are exact, that they are put together carefully, because accuracy in building words and sentences is the highest form of architecture in civilization and is a passport to success.
21. Words are thoughts and are therefore an invisible and invincible power which will finally objectify themselves in the form they are given.
22. Words may become mental places that will live forever, or they may become shacks which the first breeze will carry away. They may delight the eye as well as the ear; they may contain all knowledge; in them we find the history of the past as well as the hope of the future; they are living messengers from which every human and superhuman activity is born.
23. The beauty of the word consists in the beauty of the thought; the power of the word consists in the power of the thought, and the power of the thought consists in its vitality. How shall we identify a vital thought? What are its distinguishing characteristics? It must have principle. How shall we identify principle?
24. There is a principle of Mathematics, but none of error; there is a principle of health, but none of disease; there is a principle of truth, but none of dishonesty; there is a principle of light, but none of darkness, and there is a principle of abundance, but none of poverty.
25. How shall we know that this is true? Because if we apply the principle of Mathematics correctly we shall be certain of our results. Where there is health there will be no disease. If we know the Truth we cannot be deceived by error. If we let in light there can be no darkness, and where there is abundance there can be no poverty.
26. These are self-evident facts, but the all-important truth that a thought containing principle is vital and therefore contains life and consequently takes root, and eventually but surely and certainly displaces the negative thoughts, which by their very nature can contain no vitality, is one which seems to have been overlooked.
27. But this is a fact which will enable you to destroy every manner of discord, lack and limitation.
28. There can be no question but that he who "is wise enough to understand" will readily recognize that the creative power of thought places an invincible weapon in his hands and makes him a master of destiny.
29. In the physical world there is a law of compensation which is that "the appearance of a given amount of energy anywhere means the disappearance of the same amount somewhere else," and so we find that we can get only what we give; if we pledge ourselves to a certain action we must be prepared to assume the responsibility for the development of that action. The subconscious cannot reason. It takes us at our word; we have asked for something; we are now to receive it; we have made our bed, we are now to lie in it; the die has been cast; the threads will carry out the pattern we have made.
30. For this reason Insight must be exercised so that the thought which we entertain contains no mental, moral or physical germ which we do not wish objectified in our lives.
31. Insight is a faculty of the mind whereby we are enabled to examine facts and conditions at long range, a kind of human telescope; it enables us to understand the difficulties, as well as the possibilities, in any undertaking.
32. Insight enables us to be prepared for the obstacles which we shall meet; we can therefore overcome them before they have any opportunity of causing difficulty.
33. Insight enables us to plan to advantage and turn our thought and attention in the right direction, instead of into channels which can yield no possible return.
34. Insight is therefore absolutely essential for the development of any great achievement, but with it we may enter, explore and possess any mental field.
35. Insight is a product of the world within and is developed in the Silence, by concentration.
36. For your exercise this week, concentrate on Insight; take your accustomed position and focus the thought on the fact that to have a knowledge of the creative power of thought does not mean to possess the art of thinking. Let the thought dwell on the fact that knowledge does not apply itself. That our actions are not governed by knowledge, but by custom, precedent and habit. That the only way we can get ourselves to apply knowledge is by a determined conscious effort. Call to mind the fact that knowledge unused passes from the mind, that the value of the information is in the application of the principle; continue this line of thought until you gain sufficient insight to formulate a definite program for applying this principle to your own particular problem.
Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
Horatio Bonar
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Study Questions with Answers
141. What determines the degree of harmony which we attain?
Our ability to appropriate what we require for our growth from each experience.
142. What do difficulties and obstacles indicate?
That they are necessary for our wisdom and spiritual growth.
143. How may these difficulties be avoided?
By a conscious understanding of and cooperation with Natural laws.
144. What is the principle by which thought manifests itself in form?
The Law of Attraction.
145. How is the necessary material secured by which the growth, development and maturity of the idea take form?
The law of love, which is the creative principle of the Universe, imparts vitality to the thought, and the law of attraction brings the necessary substance by the law of growth.
146. How are desirable conditions secured?
By entertaining desirable thoughts only.
147. How are undesirable conditions brought about?
By thinking, discussing and visualizing conditions of lack, limitation, disease, inharmony and discord of every kind. This mental photography of erroneous conceptions is taken up by the subconscious and the law of attraction will inevitable crystallize it into objective form. That we reap what we sow is scientifically exact.
148. How can we overcome every kind of fear, lack, limitation, poverty and discord?
By substituting principle for error.
149. How may we recognize principle?
By a conscious realization of the fact that Truth invariably destroys error. We do not have to laboriously shovel the darkness out; all that is necessary is to turn on the light. The same principle applies to every form of negative thought.
150. What is the value of Insight?
It enables us to understand the value of making application of the knowledge which we gain. Many seem to think that knowledge will automatically apply itself, which is by no means true.
To every man there openeth a way, And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low; And in between on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.
