助人恒助己
每個人都不可能獨立存在，而必須以一定的社會角色存在。每個人都有可能同時扮演著不同的角色。一個男人，可能既是父親又是兒子，既是丈夫又是兄弟；女人也是如此，既是母親又是女兒，既是妻子又是姊妹。不同角色賦予他（她）們不同的責任和義務。因此，一個人要想很好地發展，就必須與他所處的人群、環境很好地融為一體。
很顯然，個體不能脫離整體，因此，我們必須找到恰當的與別人相處的方式，這樣我們就必須學會使用“互惠行為”的法則，這一法則也是最基本的自然法則之一，掌握了它，我們就會得道多助，讓我們希望得到的幫助、支持自然地圍繞在我們周圍，成功會變成一件簡單易行的事情；但是如果不能掌握這一法則，我們就會失道寡助，幫助、理解、支持就會離我們遠去，失敗也就離我們不遠了。
- 隻有變化是永恒的
“人不會兩次踏入同一條河流”，一切都在變，不變的隻有變化。
- 社會在變革
- 一切都在變化
- 知識也在變化
- 隻有一種力量是絕對正確並且永恒
一種來自我們內心的全新力量卻越來越引起人們的注意，它以令人難以置信的意誌和決心喚醒我們尚處於睡眠中的內心世界，讓我們不得不對自己的內心重新審視。
- 精神的量子
從分子到原子，從原子到量子，有形世界已經被人們探索到了極致，它的內部構造人們已經看得非常清楚。而接下來，我們要做的事情要找到精神的基本結構，即，找到精神的量子。“能量，就其終極本質而言，隻有當它表現為像我們所說的‘精神’和‘意誌’那樣直接運轉時，才是最合情合理的。”安布羅斯·佛萊明爵士如是說。
- 一切皆是思想的產物
精神是棲息於我們內心世界的終極能量。它存在於物質也存在於心靈。究其本質，它與維持一切、使生命充滿能力、無處不在的宇宙能量是一致的。
- 智慧的人擁有更高層次的思想
- 個人智慧與自然法則
萬事萬物有其運行的自然法則，所有的生命個體都靠著這種全能的宇宙智慧而生存。一個人智慧程度越高，他對自然法則的理解就越是透徹，他就擁有更高更強的能力。
- 調適自己，以認知宇宙精神
心靈若想變得偉大，就必須進行調適，如同鍾表需要對時一樣。此所謂調適，其含義隻有一個，就是使自己的思考方法與自然法則，與宇宙精神現存的秩序相協一致。我們要明白：隻有首先遵從宇宙精神，宇宙精神才會與我們融為一體。
- 宇宙精神會自然地對你的需求做出回應
一旦你能夠領悟自然法則並與其保持一致，它就能夠對你的一切需求作出積極的回應。對自然法則的認知我們能夠跨越時空的距離，使我們的心靈能夠在高天之上翱翔。
- 個體思想的能量與宇宙保持一致
人類的個體通過潛意識與宇宙相聯係，因此人類具有掌握並利用自然法則的天然能力。宇宙是一切能量的源泉；而個體不過是宇宙能量分流的渠道而已。
- 思想是人類的第一特征
思想使個體與宇宙緊密聯係在一起。人類能夠感覺、思想、獲得知識乃至行動，這些都是因為思想的魔力。思想是人類的第一特征。
- 思想拓展了人類的視野
隨著科技的進步和發展，人的視野越來越寬；同樣，人類憑借自身的領悟能力與思考能力，就能夠與自然法則這一宇宙一切能量的源泉建立起聯係。
- 要去思考與領悟
如果沒有思考與領悟，人類的認識就好比一個內部沒有膠片的放映機，盡管照常運轉，卻什麽也不會留下。
- 信念要被實踐所驗證
食人族也有他們的信念，但這種信念又怎到能夠算作是真理呢？惟一對人有價值的信念，就是能夠被實踐所檢驗證明的信念。經過驗證後的信念就不再僅僅是信念而已，它轉化成了有生命、有價值的真理。我們所熟知的那些時間長久而不褪色的真理，正是因為它們經曆了成千上萬人的檢驗，我們所要做的，隻是通過合適的方法手段將它們加以運用。
- 知識在進步
- 對精神世界的了解也在延伸
- 互惠導致成長
生長是生命力得以彰顯的結果，這種彰顯的結果就是得到了我們這個美麗壯觀的生命世界。為了生長，我們就必須獲得生長所不能離開的必需品，因此，成長是建立在互惠行為的基礎之上。隻有互惠，我們才能夠得到我們所需要的、同時自己又不具有的東西。互惠的前提又是相互吸引。在精神層麵上，精神的振動隻對那些與它們保持和諧一致的振動作出回應，對與它相悖的事物卻視而不見。
- 內在的富足是外在富足的秘密
一個人的外在的財富與他的內在的財富是一致的。內在的富足是外在富足的秘密，它吸引著更多的外在財富來到你身邊，同時拒貧窮於千裏之外。人類真正的財富資源在於他的生產能力。他越是不斷地付出、給予，他就得到越多的回報。因此，如果一個人投入全部的身心於他的工作之中，他的成功就會沒有止境。
- 思想是一切財富之源
思想是借助引力法則運行的一種能量，正是它導致了豐富多彩的現實世界。
- 認識我們的精神力量
我們所有的力量都取決於我們對精神力量的認知。如果我們不去運用力量，我們就會失去它，但如果我們不認識力量，又怎麽能夠運用它們呢？要想恰當地運用精神力量，就要集中你的意念。意念集中的程度決定我們獲取知識的能力，而知識不過是力量的代名詞，更多的知識將會導致更強大的力量。
- 專注導致成功
專注是現在的熱門話題，也是許多人成功的秘訣。意念的集中是一切天才共同擁有的特征。要想獲得專注的能力，就必須經常地、反複地練習與實踐。
- 吸引更多的能量
人體就像一部不停運轉的複雜機器，需要吐納，需要新陳代謝，才能夠保持它的活力。因此，我們需要吸引一種更為微妙的能量，才能讓我們的生命機器繼續精密地運轉。
- 有播種，才會收獲
沒有種子，就不會長出幼苗，更不會有日後的參天大樹。在精神世界中也是如此，隻有播下種子，才能結出果實。而結什麽樣的果實，則取決於種子的性質。所以，你一切的境遇都取決於你對自然法則的領悟，一旦能夠領悟到這些自然法則，你將達到人類意識的最高境界。
本課重點
１、最永恒的東西是什麽？
——變化。
２、真正永恒並且絕對正確的力量是什麽？
——來自我們內心的力量。
３、個體生命之中的差異如何衡量？
——通過衡量他們生命之中所彰顯的才智。
４、個體通過服從什麽法則，才得以掌控其他形式的種種才智？
——通過認知自我是宇宙智慧的個體化。
５、麵對宇宙精神我們該做的是什麽？
——調適自己，以認知宇宙精神。
６、為什麽宇宙精神會自然地對你的需求做出回應？
——因為人類天生就具有掌握並利用宇宙智慧的能力，實現他所想達到的目標。
７、人類的第一特征是什麽？
——思想。
８、為什麽信念要被實踐所驗證？
——因為隻有被驗證的信念才會成為真理，曆經時間而不褪色。
９、導致成長的秘密是什麽？
——互惠行為，即，我們付出的是什麽，收獲的是什麽。
１０、我們付出的是什麽呢？
——思想。
１１、我們收獲的又是什麽？
——思想和一切物質上的富足。
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Part Eighteen
In order to grow we must obtain what is necessary for our growth. This is brought about through the law of attraction. This principle is the sole means by which the individual is differentiated from the Universal.
Think for a moment, what would a man be if he were not a husband, father, or brother, if he were not interested in the social, economical, political or religious world. He would be nothing but an abstract theoretical ego. He exists, therefore, only in his relation to the whole, in his relation to other men, in his relation to society. This relation constitutes his environment and in no other way.
It is evident, therefore, that the individual is simply the differentiation of the one Universal Mind "which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and his so-called individuality or personality consists of nothing but the manner in which he relates with the whole.
This we call his environment and is brought about by the law of attraction. Part Eighteen, which follows, has something more to say concerning this important law.
PART EIGHTEEN
1. There is a change in the thought of the world. This change is silently transpiring in our midst, and is more important than any which the world has undergone since the downfall of Paganism.
2. These present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men, the highest and most cultured of men as well as those of the laboring class, stands unparalleled in the history of the world.
3. Science has of late made such vast discoveries, has revealed such an infinity of resources, has unveiled such enormous possibilities and such unsuspected forces, that scientific men more and more hesitate to affirm certain theories as established and beyond doubt or to deny other theories as absurd or impossible.
4. A new civilization is being born; customs, creeds, and precedent are passing; vision, faith and service are taking their place. The fetters of tradition are being melted off from humanity, and as the impurities of materialism are being consumed, thought is being liberated and truth is rising full robed before an astonished multitude.
5. The whole world is on the eve of a new consciousness, a new power, and a new realization within the self.
6. Physical Science has resolved matter into molecules, molecules into atoms, atoms into energy, and it has remained for Mr. J. A. Fleming, in an address before the Royal Institution, to resolve this energy into mind. He says, "In its ultimate essence, energy may be incomprehensible by us except as an exhibition of the direct operation of that which we call Mind or Will."
7. And this mind is the indwelling and ultimate. It is imminent in matter as in spirit. It is the sustaining, energizing, all pervading Spirit of the universe.
8. Every living thing must be sustained by this omnipotent Intelligence, and we find the difference in individual lives to be largely measured by the degree of this intelligence, which they manifest. It is greater intelligence that places the animal in a higher scale of being than the plant, the man higher than the animal, and we find that this increased intelligence is again indicated by the power of the individual to control modes of action and thus to consciously adjust himself to his environment.
9. It is this adjustment that occupies the attention of the greatest minds, and this adjustment consists in nothing else than the recognition of an existing order in the universal mind, for it is well known that this mind will obey us precisely in proportion as we first obey it.
10. It is the recognition of Natural Laws that has enabled us to annihilate time and space, to soar in the air and to make iron float, and the greater the degree of intelligence the greater will be our recognition of these Natural Laws and the greater will be the power we can possess.
11. It is the recognition of the self as an individualization of this Universal Intelligence that enables the individual to control those forms of intelligence which have not yet reached this level of self-recognition; they do not know that this Universal Intelligence permeates all things ready to be called into action; they do not know that it is responsive to every demand, and they are therefore in bondage to the law of their own being.
12. Thought is creative and the principle on which the law is based is sound and legitimate and is inherent in the nature of things; but this creative power does not originate in the individual, but in the universal, which is the source and foundation of all energy and substance; the individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy.
13. The individual is simply the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena, which depends upon the law of vibration, whereby various rates of rapidity of motion in the primary substance form new substances only in certain exact numerical ratios.
14. Thought is the invisible link by which the individual comes into communication with the Universal, the finite with the Infinite, the seen with the Unseen. Thought is the magic by which the human is transformed into a being who thinks and knows and feels and acts.
15. As the proper apparatus has enabled the eye to discover worlds without number millions of miles away, so, with the proper understanding, man has been enabled to communicate with the Universal Mind, the source of all power.
16. The Understanding which is usually developed is nothing more than a "belief", which means nothing at all. The savages of the Cannibal Islands believe something; but that proves nothing.
17. The only belief which is of any value to anyone is a belief that has been put to a test and demonstrated to be a fact; it is then no longer a belief, but has become a living Faith or Truth.
18. And this Truth has been put to the test by hundreds of thousands of people and has been found to be the Truth exactly in proportion to the usefulness of the apparatus which they used.
19. A man would not expect to locate stars hundreds of millions of miles away without a sufficiently strong telescope, and for this reason Science is continually engaged in building larger and more powerful telescopes and is continually rewarded by additional knowledge of the heavenly bodies.
20. So with understanding; men are continually making progress in the methods which they use to come into communication with the Universal Mind and its infinite possibilities.
21. The Universal Mind manifests itself in the objective, through the principle of attraction that each atom has for every other atom, in infinite degrees of intensity.
22. It is by this principle of combining and attracting that things are brought together. This principle is of universal application and is the sole means whereby the purpose of existence is carried into effect.
23. The expression of growth is met in a most beautiful manner through the instrumentality of this Universal Principle.
24. In order to grow we must obtain what is essential for our growth, but as we are at all times a complete thought entity, this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give; growth is therefore conditioned on reciprocal action, and we find that on the mental plane like attracts like, that mental vibrations respond only to the extent of their vibratory harmony.
25. It is clear, therefore, that thoughts of abundance will respond only to similar thoughts; the wealth of the individual is seen to be what he inherently is. Affluence within is found to be the secret of attraction for affluence without. The ability to produce is found to be the real source of wealth of the individual. It is for this reason that he who has his heart in his work is certain to meet with unbounded success. He will give and continually give; and the more he gives, the more he will receive.
26. What do the great financiers of Wall Street, the captains of industry, the statesmen, the great corporation attorneys, the inventors, the physicians, the authors -- what do each of these contribute to the sum of human happiness but the power of their thought?
27. Thought is the energy which the law of attraction is brought into operation, which eventually manifests in abundance.
28. The Universal Mind is static Mind or Substance in equilibrium. It is differentiated into form by our power to think. Thought is the dynamic phase of mind.
29. Power depends upon consciousness of power; unless we use it, we shall lose it, and unless we are conscious of it, we cannot use it.
30. The use of this power depends upon attention; the degree of attention determines our capacity for the acquirement of knowledge which is another name for power.
31. Attention has been held to be the distinguishing mark of genius. The cultivation of attention depends upon practice.
32. The incentive of attention is interest; the greater the interest, the greater the attention; the greater the attention, the greater the interest, action and reaction; begin by paying attention; before long you will have aroused interest; this interest will attract more attention, and this attention will produce more interest, and so on. This practice will enable you to cultivate the power of attention.
33. This week concentrate upon your power to create; seek insight, perception; try to find a logical basis for the faith which is in you. Let the thought dwell on the fact that the physical man lives and moves and has his being in the sustainer of all organic life air, that he must breathe to live. Then let the thought rest on the fact that the spiritual man also lives and moves and has his being in a similar but subtler energy upon which he must depend for life, and that as in the physical world no life assumes form until after a seed is sown, and no higher fruit than that of the parent stock can be produced; so in the spiritual world no effect can be produced until the seed is sown and the fruit will depend upon the nature of the seed, so that the results which you secure depend upon your perception of law in the mighty domain of causation, the highest evolution of human consciousness.
There is no thought in my mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
Emerson
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Study Questions with Answers
171. How is the difference in individual lives measured?
By the degree of intelligence which they manifest.
172. What is the law by which the individual may control other forms of intelligence?
A recognition of the self as an individualization of the Universal Intelligence.
173. Where does the creative power originate?
In the Universal.
174. How does the Universal create form?
By means of the individual.
175. What is the connecting link between the individual and the Universal?
Thought.
176. What is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect?
The Law of Love.
177. How is this principle brought into expression?
By the law of growth.
178. Upon what condition does the law of growth depend?
Upon reciprocal action. The individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give.
179. What is it that we give?
Thought.
180. What do we receive?
Thought, which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly being differentiated in form by what we think.
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Part Eighteen
In order to grow we must obtain what is necessary for our growth. This is brought about through the law of attraction. This principle is the sole means by which the individual is differentiated from the Universal.
Think for a moment, what would a man be if he were not a husband, father, or brother, if he were not interested in the social, economical, political or religious world. He would be nothing but an abstract theoretical ego. He exists, therefore, only in his relation to the whole, in his relation to other men, in his relation to society. This relation constitutes his environment and in no other way.
It is evident, therefore, that the individual is simply the differentiation of the one Universal Mind "which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and his so-called individuality or personality consists of nothing but the manner in which he relates with the whole.
This we call his environment and is brought about by the law of attraction. Part Eighteen, which follows, has something more to say concerning this important law.
PART EIGHTEEN
1. There is a change in the thought of the world. This change is silently transpiring in our midst, and is more important than any which the world has undergone since the downfall of Paganism.
2. These present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men, the highest and most cultured of men as well as those of the laboring class, stands unparalleled in the history of the world.
3. Science has of late made such vast discoveries, has revealed such an infinity of resources, has unveiled such enormous possibilities and such unsuspected forces, that scientific men more and more hesitate to affirm certain theories as established and beyond doubt or to deny other theories as absurd or impossible.
4. A new civilization is being born; customs, creeds, and precedent are passing; vision, faith and service are taking their place. The fetters of tradition are being melted off from humanity, and as the impurities of materialism are being consumed, thought is being liberated and truth is rising full robed before an astonished multitude.
5. The whole world is on the eve of a new consciousness, a new power, and a new realization within the self.
6. Physical Science has resolved matter into molecules, molecules into atoms, atoms into energy, and it has remained for Mr. J. A. Fleming, in an address before the Royal Institution, to resolve this energy into mind. He says, "In its ultimate essence, energy may be incomprehensible by us except as an exhibition of the direct operation of that which we call Mind or Will."
7. And this mind is the indwelling and ultimate. It is imminent in matter as in spirit. It is the sustaining, energizing, all pervading Spirit of the universe.
8. Every living thing must be sustained by this omnipotent Intelligence, and we find the difference in individual lives to be largely measured by the degree of this intelligence, which they manifest. It is greater intelligence that places the animal in a higher scale of being than the plant, the man higher than the animal, and we find that this increased intelligence is again indicated by the power of the individual to control modes of action and thus to consciously adjust himself to his environment.
9. It is this adjustment that occupies the attention of the greatest minds, and this adjustment consists in nothing else than the recognition of an existing order in the universal mind, for it is well known that this mind will obey us precisely in proportion as we first obey it.
10. It is the recognition of Natural Laws that has enabled us to annihilate time and space, to soar in the air and to make iron float, and the greater the degree of intelligence the greater will be our recognition of these Natural Laws and the greater will be the power we can possess.
11. It is the recognition of the self as an individualization of this Universal Intelligence that enables the individual to control those forms of intelligence which have not yet reached this level of self-recognition; they do not know that this Universal Intelligence permeates all things ready to be called into action; they do not know that it is responsive to every demand, and they are therefore in bondage to the law of their own being.
12. Thought is creative and the principle on which the law is based is sound and legitimate and is inherent in the nature of things; but this creative power does not originate in the individual, but in the universal, which is the source and foundation of all energy and substance; the individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy.
13. The individual is simply the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena, which depends upon the law of vibration, whereby various rates of rapidity of motion in the primary substance form new substances only in certain exact numerical ratios.
14. Thought is the invisible link by which the individual comes into communication with the Universal, the finite with the Infinite, the seen with the Unseen. Thought is the magic by which the human is transformed into a being who thinks and knows and feels and acts.
15. As the proper apparatus has enabled the eye to discover worlds without number millions of miles away, so, with the proper understanding, man has been enabled to communicate with the Universal Mind, the source of all power.
16. The Understanding which is usually developed is nothing more than a "belief", which means nothing at all. The savages of the Cannibal Islands believe something; but that proves nothing.
17. The only belief which is of any value to anyone is a belief that has been put to a test and demonstrated to be a fact; it is then no longer a belief, but has become a living Faith or Truth.
18. And this Truth has been put to the test by hundreds of thousands of people and has been found to be the Truth exactly in proportion to the usefulness of the apparatus which they used.
19. A man would not expect to locate stars hundreds of millions of miles away without a sufficiently strong telescope, and for this reason Science is continually engaged in building larger and more powerful telescopes and is continually rewarded by additional knowledge of the heavenly bodies.
20. So with understanding; men are continually making progress in the methods which they use to come into communication with the Universal Mind and its infinite possibilities.
21. The Universal Mind manifests itself in the objective, through the principle of attraction that each atom has for every other atom, in infinite degrees of intensity.
22. It is by this principle of combining and attracting that things are brought together. This principle is of universal application and is the sole means whereby the purpose of existence is carried into effect.
23. The expression of growth is met in a most beautiful manner through the instrumentality of this Universal Principle.
24. In order to grow we must obtain what is essential for our growth, but as we are at all times a complete thought entity, this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give; growth is therefore conditioned on reciprocal action, and we find that on the mental plane like attracts like, that mental vibrations respond only to the extent of their vibratory harmony.
25. It is clear, therefore, that thoughts of abundance will respond only to similar thoughts; the wealth of the individual is seen to be what he inherently is. Affluence within is found to be the secret of attraction for affluence without. The ability to produce is found to be the real source of wealth of the individual. It is for this reason that he who has his heart in his work is certain to meet with unbounded success. He will give and continually give; and the more he gives, the more he will receive.
26. What do the great financiers of Wall Street, the captains of industry, the statesmen, the great corporation attorneys, the inventors, the physicians, the authors -- what do each of these contribute to the sum of human happiness but the power of their thought?
27. Thought is the energy which the law of attraction is brought into operation, which eventually manifests in abundance.
28. The Universal Mind is static Mind or Substance in equilibrium. It is differentiated into form by our power to think. Thought is the dynamic phase of mind.
29. Power depends upon consciousness of power; unless we use it, we shall lose it, and unless we are conscious of it, we cannot use it.
30. The use of this power depends upon attention; the degree of attention determines our capacity for the acquirement of knowledge which is another name for power.
31. Attention has been held to be the distinguishing mark of genius. The cultivation of attention depends upon practice.
32. The incentive of attention is interest; the greater the interest, the greater the attention; the greater the attention, the greater the interest, action and reaction; begin by paying attention; before long you will have aroused interest; this interest will attract more attention, and this attention will produce more interest, and so on. This practice will enable you to cultivate the power of attention.
33. This week concentrate upon your power to create; seek insight, perception; try to find a logical basis for the faith which is in you. Let the thought dwell on the fact that the physical man lives and moves and has his being in the sustainer of all organic life air, that he must breathe to live. Then let the thought rest on the fact that the spiritual man also lives and moves and has his being in a similar but subtler energy upon which he must depend for life, and that as in the physical world no life assumes form until after a seed is sown, and no higher fruit than that of the parent stock can be produced; so in the spiritual world no effect can be produced until the seed is sown and the fruit will depend upon the nature of the seed, so that the results which you secure depend upon your perception of law in the mighty domain of causation, the highest evolution of human consciousness.
There is no thought in my mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
Emerson
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Study Questions with Answers
171. How is the difference in individual lives measured?
By the degree of intelligence which they manifest.
172. What is the law by which the individual may control other forms of intelligence?
A recognition of the self as an individualization of the Universal Intelligence.
173. Where does the creative power originate?
In the Universal.
174. How does the Universal create form?
By means of the individual.
175. What is the connecting link between the individual and the Universal?
Thought.
176. What is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect?
The Law of Love.
177. How is this principle brought into expression?
By the law of growth.
178. Upon what condition does the law of growth depend?
Upon reciprocal action. The individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give.
179. What is it that we give?
Thought.
180. What do we receive?
Thought, which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly being differentiated in form by what we think.
