LAWS OF MANIFESTATION

 

These universal laws are what we work with every day of our lives, for this is how the universe works, governed by universal laws. We understand gravity as a law that is consistent in nature. But these laws, described herein, based on the pioneering work of Charles Fillmore in his classic book Christian Healing, first published in 1906, describe how it works. By this I mean how we manifest things in our lives and in our world. Understanding this helps us to know that we do not have good health, success and quality relationships by sheer chance or mere luck: if we do then it’s a gift. But we can consciously apply the principles described below with certain practices and enter into the process and see it happen consciously. So let’s take a sample look at the Laws of Manifestation.

 

THOUGHT

Thoughts held in mind produce their kind. Thought creates.

“Whatever things are true and honest… think on these things”  Phil 4:8.

“As a man/woman thinks in his/her heart, so is he/she.” Proverbs

Thoughts are things, they have power, they have energy, they have life.

 

WORD

Word is the “Creative action of Universal Mind”

“And God said, Let there be light” Gen. 1:3

“In the beginning was the word and that word was with God” John 1:1

Affirmations of what is true instill in mind the truth that you deserve and can manifest in your life what is good, healthy and happy.

 

IMAGINATION

Imagination is the creative workshop of the mind.

“God created man in his own image” Gen. 1:27

Imagine what is possible for you as a child of God, a child of the Universe.

 

FAITH

Faith is the perceiving power of mind, the power to see what is possible.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen.” Hebrews 11:1

Faith is the connecting power of mind in that it connects you with the Source and draws upon the resources to manifest what you desire/deserve.

 

LOVE

Love is what you are, you were created in love, by love and as love.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your might and all your soul and love your neighbor as yourself.” Mat 22:37

Be the love you are.

 

WILL

Will is the executive power – it is the doer in you.

“Thy will be done” Matthew 6:10

Will is like the bus driver, like our personal ego, but it must take direction from headquarters.

 

APPRECIATION/GRATITUDE/PRAISE

Appreciation and gratitude express and enhance value

Express love, appreciation and gratitude and then let it be.

Praise God. Praise those you love. Praise the good in others.

“In all things give thanks.” I Thes. 5:16

 

Life is Consciousness

 

“Life is Consciousness” is commonly said in Unity and similar spiritual orientations today. But what does this mean, beyond rhetoric and platitudes? Consciousness means more than being alive or being awake. Consciousness means all the attributes and aspects that comprise the mind, both conscious and subconscious mind. Some of the aspects of the functioning mind are beliefs, opinions, attitudes and habits including mental - emotional conditioning.

 When we look at the world we live in, we know life is consciousness. Whether it is the mountaintop mining destroying the Appalachian Mountains or banks and brokers mining mortgages other financial resources we know the mind set of greed and expedient profits were involved. All the wars and resulting suffering and starvation, sickness and slavery are results of consciousness of fear, power mongering and control. These are not things that just happen our of the blue but as manifestations of consciousness. 

 Likewise when we look at the life of a beloved teacher who manifests love and touches the hearts and souls of all those open and receptive students, we know there is one living or manifesting the consciousness of love. A mother caring for her infant, watching it, holding it, nursing it, letting it play, even bump its head, is manifesting love consciousness. 

The world we see and experience is the result of all that we do, think, believe, feel, want and need. And the life we live is the outcome of all we believe, think, feel, want and need with a dash of attitudes, opinions and everyone and everything else.

Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, 

flowing from the throne of God... and the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelations

Tree of Life and the Leaf

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life

with its taproot above and its branches below.

Sri Krishna (The Bhagavad Gita)

Most of the Tree of Life is not physical. The whole phenomenal universe - matter, energy, mind - is only it canopy of countless little leaves. This is all we can see. Each leaf grows from a twig, which grows from a branch, which in turn grows from a vast trunk. And supporting the trunk and all its twigs and branches - completely hidden - is the taproot extending into pure being. The taproot of this tree is the Lord, the eternal, changeless self.

This image is more than poetry - it is personal and practical. As long as we live on the surface of life we believe we are separate individual leaves. We lead private lives that bear little relation to the rest of the tree even though when we are cut off from that tree we have no life. Driven by self-will, we cannot imagine that we are forfeiting the whole of life for the individual leaf we call our individual personality. So when you get up in the morning, remind yourself of this magnificent simile which asks us to which asks us to claim the whole Tree of Life and not be content with being one seasonal leaf.    

Eknath Easwaran

Thought

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts

give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in a inhabitual way.

William James

It is done unto you according to your beliefs.

Jesus

As a man (woman) thinks in his (her) heart, so is he (she).

Proverbs

We are what our thoughts have made us;

so take care about what you think.

Words are secondary. 

Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

All that we are

is the result of what we have thought.

Buddha

You are what your deep, driving desire is.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

All mystics speak the same language,

for they come from the same country.

Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

LOVE

Love one another as I have loved you.

Jesus

Love seeks no cause beyond itself

and no fruit: it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment.

I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Saint Bernard

This is the true joy in life,

the being used for a purpose recognized

by yourself as a mighty one.

George Bernard Shaw

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul is made of love

and must ever strive to return to love.

Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness 

in other things. It must lose itself in love. 

By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

Buddha

When you discover the divine core of your being:

call is Christ, or the Buddha, or Krishna, the Higher Self

or simply the Infinite - you are transformed and in process

of complete change from the inner to the outer you.

You are no longer in love merely with people, you become

love itself. You live in the consciousness of love.

Every person on earth calls you to love. This is your true nature.

You strive to live your life so that you never infringe on the happiness

or the well being of anyone. You make contributions to solving the immense problems that face the whole of humanity today. And to work to relieve suffering. This is loving.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare  

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains:

whenever any of these hundred yields less, 

your pleasure is diminished. 

But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you,

no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Jalaluddin Rumi

To be a Sufi

is to cease from taking trouble;

and there is no greater trouble for you

than your own self, for when you are occupied 

with yourself, you remain away from God.

Abu Sa'id

The secret of health for both mind and body 

is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future,

or not to anticipate troubles, but to live 

the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

This life of separateness may be compared to

a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow,

a crop of dew, a flash of lightning. 

Buddha

The grace of God

is a wind

which is always blowing.

Sri Ramakrishna

The control of the palate 

is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

A human being has so many skins inside,

covering the depths of the heart.

We know so many things,

but we don't know ourselves!

Why, thirty or forty skins or hides,

as thick and hard as an ox's or a bear's,

cover the soul. Go into your own ground 

and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

A mind that is fast is sick.

A mind that is slow is sound.

A mind that is still is divine.

Meher Baba

There is hunger for ordinary bread,

and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; 

and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe,

so no thought or action is without its effects,

present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Norman Cousins

Be vigilant:

guard your mind

against negative thoughts.

Buddha

Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Hindu Proverb

The Sanskrit word for nonviolence is ahimsa: 

a - means "not" or "without": himsa is violence.

This may sound negative, but in Sanskrit a word

constructed in this way stands for a state both

perfect and positive. Ahimsa implies that when 

every trace of violence is removed from the mind,

what is left is our natural state of consciousness: pure love.

Unfortunately, that love has been buried under layer 

upon layer of ill will and selfish conditioning.

To have love bubble up to the surface of our life, 

all we have to do is systematically remove all those layers.

There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds;

two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts.

Most of what we call violence is in the form of action,

and it is with our actions that nonviolence, naturally begins.

But as long as our minds harbor violent thoughts,

that incipient violence will find its way somehow into 

our speech and behavior. 

The root of violence is in the world of thoughts,

and that is why training the mind is so important.

Eknath Easwaran

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, 

him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.

The Buddha

From the Bible

Love the Lord your God with all your heart 

and with all your soul and with all your might

and with all your mind. 

This is the greatest and the first commandment.  

And the second is like to it, 

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus

Love the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy

From the Bhagavad Gita

I look upon all creatures equally;

none are less dear to me and none more dear.

But those who worship me with love live in me,

and I come to life in them.

Sri Krishna

Love seeks not itself to please,

Nor for itself has any care,

But for another gives its case,

And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. 

William Blake

Buddy Dog, Loyal Lover, Friend, Philosopher

"I'm a dog," said Buddy,

"I love my friends, I love my humans,

I love my neighbors, cats, dogs, birds, squirrels, raccoons,

coyotes, foxes..."

"So, why is that?" asked Miss Kitty.

"Cause we are all one. 

As that Avatar of old, Baba said:

'You and I are not we. You and I are one.'

Now that's the way a good dog thinks."

Love all that has been created by God,

Both the whole and every grain of sand.

Love every leaf and every ray of light.

Love the beasts and the birds,

Love the plants, love every separate fragment.

If you love every single fragment,

You will understand the mystery 

Of the whole resting in God.

F.M. Dostoevsky

Cats and Dogs

Getting along...

or living with others

Mia the Cat and Buddy Dog lay in the solarium of the house.

Oz come bounding up barking: "Let's go play! Let's go play!

Play! Play! Play! Play!"

Mia says: "Leave me be. I just want to sit quietly. I'll stay."

Buddy says: "OK! OK! Let's play!"

Oz asks: "What about you Mia? Don' cha wanna play?"

Mia looks away: "No. I want to do yoga and meditate. Leave me."

Bob, their human, comes into the solarium. "Hey you wanna go for a walk?"

"Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! My favorite! Come on Oz! Let's go!" Buddy barks.

"Come on Oz!"

"Yoga? Meditate?" queries Oz. "Does she yoga? Does she meditate? What is that anyway? Yoga? Meditate?"

"Aw, don't worry." offers Buddy. That's what she does. She sits, rolls around the floor and stretches into all these weird positions and then she relaxes. I think she just sits and thinks about nothing. Don't worry. She's cool."

"I don't meditate. I play." barks Oz.

"Exactly!" agrees Buddy. "Ours is not to do what others do or be what others are, but to be ourselves. We are here to be ourselves, to be happy and to love everybody."

"Here comes Pippin! Hiya!" The three become more as they walk down the lane.

"All Right! I'm playing with Freddy!" Pippin romps with them.

"Here's Spooky! What's happening?"

"There's Alicia with all her little puppies!" Buddy turns to her, "How are the little rascals?"

They get to a road and run down the road ahead of Bob, to have a good bark with Sadie and Gus. "Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark........"

Moving along the road they see a deer at the crest of the hill. It turns and bounds into the forest.

At a trail they see a raccoon rambling on. They try to talk with it, but it just growls, doesn't understand their language.

Birds sing and chatter from tree to tree. Pilleated woodpecker pounds into body of an old dead tree deeper in the woods. 

"I just love these dogwood trees. Don't you Buddy?" says Bob.

"Dogwood? What's a dogwood?" wonders Oz.

"It's that tree with lovely white flowers. Look up. They flower now in spring." Buddy smiles.

"So, why call them dogwood?" asks Oz.

"'Cause they have such great bark." chuckles Buddy.

"What's that?" Oz turns her head as a gray and brown four-legged crosses the road and scampers up a deer trail into the forest.

"Think it's a coyote." offers Buddy.

"Do they like to play?" suggests Oz as she starts to run.

"No." Buddy stops Oz, "They are wild. Might hurt you if challenged or cornered. To each their own. Let it be. Leave them alone in nature. You tell by their vibes. If they come up to you happy and friendly you have to read their energy to see if they are real, friendly and happy or not. Be careful with all creatures.

A great bald eagle perched atop a giant douglas fir opens its wings and takes to the air to fly. It swoops down, waves it's wings and soars above them and over the forest.

"Come on, let's go home and I'll fix you dinner." says Bob. Buddy, Oz and Bob go home.

A Celtic Blessing

Deep peace of the Running Wave to you.

                     *         *        *

Deep peace of the Flowing Air to you.

                     *         *         *

Deep peace of the Quiet Earth to you.

                     *         *         *

Deep peace of the Shinning Stars to you.

                     *         *         *

Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.

The Blue Sky

"Eastward from here,

beyond Buddha-worlds ten times as

numerous as the sands of the Ganges

there is a world called

PURE AS LAPIS LAZULI

its Buddha is called Master of Healing,

AZURE RADIANCE TATHAGATA"

It would take you twelve thousand summer vacations 

driving a car due east all day every day

to reach the edge of the lapis lazuli realm of

Medicine Old Man Buddha;

East. Old Man Realm,

East across the sea, yellow sand land

Coyote Old Man land

Silver, and stone blue.

*

Blue, Belo, "bright colors of the flames"

flamen / brahman,

beltane, "blue fire" --

Sky.

[The dappled cloud zone --

Sanskrit sku "covered"

skewed (pied) skewbald (..."Stewball")

skybald / piebald] --

 

Horse with lightening feet!

A mane like distant rain,

the turquoise horse,

a black star for an eye

white shell teeth.

Pony that feeds on the pollen of flowers

may he

make thee whole,

Heal, hale... whole.

The Spell of the Master of Healing.

Namo bhagavate bhaishajyaguru-vaidurya-

  prabharajaya tathagata arhate samyak

  sambuddhaya tadyatha om bhaishajye

    bhaishajye bhaishajya samudgate

svaha.

"I honor the Lord, the Master of Healing,

shining like lapis lazuli, the king, the

Tathagaata, the Saint, the perfectly enlightened

one, saying OM TO THE HEALING

TO THE HEALING TO THE HEALER HAIL!

svaha."

*

Shades of blue through the day.

T'cu chueh a border tribe near China

Turc

Turquise: a hydrous phosphate of aluminum

  a little copper

  a little iron --

*

In the reign of Emperor Nimmayo

when Ono-no-Komachi the strange girl poet

was seventeen, she set out looking for her father

who had become a Buddhist wanderer. She took ill

on her journey, and sick in bed one night saw

AZURE RADIANCE THUS-COME MEDICINE MASTER

in a dream. He told her she would find a hot springs

on the bank of the Azuma river in the Bandai mountains

that would cure her; and she'd meet her father there.

"Enchantment as strange as

the Blue up above" my rose of San Antone

Tibetans say that goddesses have lapis lazuli hair.

Azure Old French azur,

Persian lazhward, "lapis lazuli"

-- blue bead charms against the evil eye--

(Tim and Kim and Don and I were talking about

what an awful authoritarian garb Doctors

and Nurses wear, really, how spooky it is.

"What should they wear?"

-- "masks and feathers!"

Gary Snyder from "Mountains and Rivers Without End"