Self Help explains the entire theory and practice of every system of Metaphysics.
Self Help tells how to express harmony, how to express health, how to express abundance.
Self Help explains the nature of all conditions, and how they may be changed or removed.
Self Help explains how every difficulty, no matter what it is or where it is, can be removed or dissolved, and it explains the only way in which this is ever done or can be done.
Self Help tells of the "Self Help" formula by which 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 sacrifice exacted, may enter and partake.
...ask GodŽ be the best you can be
If you have practiced each of the GodScope Meditation exercises a few minutes every day, as suggested, you will find that you get out of life exactly what you wish by first putting into life that which you wish.
The fruit of this knowledge is, as it were, a gift of the Gods; it is the "truth" that makes you free, not only free from every lack and limitation, but free from sorrow, worry and care. Is it not wonderful to realize that omnipotent law is no respecter of persons; that it makes no difference what your past habit of thought may have been. The way has been prepared.
If you are inclined to be religious, the greatest religious teacher the world has ever known made the way so plain that all may follow. If your mental bias is toward physical science, the laws will operate with mathematical certainty. If you are inclined to be philosophical, Mr. Plato or Mr. Emerson may be your teacher; but, in each case, you may, by "Self Help" means and understanding, you may reach degrees of energy, force and power which it is possible to assign any limit, because it explains how gold in the mind may be transmuted into gold in the heart and in the hand.
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1. When the scientists first put the sun in the center of the solar system and sent the Earth spinning around it, there was immense surprise and consternation. The whole idea was self evidently false; nothing was more certain than the movement of the sun across the sky, and anyone could see it descend behind the western hills and sink into the sea; scholars raged and scientists rejected the idea as absurd.
2. You speak of a bell as a "sounding body", yet you know that all the bell can do is to produce vibrations in the air. When these vibrations come at a rate of sixteen a second they cauce a sound to be heard in the mind. It is possible for the mind to hear vibrations at the rate of 38,000 a second. When the number increases beyond this all is silence again; so that you know that the sound is not in the bell, it is in your own mind.
3. You speak and even think of the sun as giving light. Yet you know it is simply giving forth energy causing what are termed light waves, so that you know that what you call light is simply a form of energy and that the only light there is, is the sensation caused in the mind by the motion of the waves. When the number increases, the light changes in color, each change in color being caused by shorter and more rapid vibrations; so that although you speak of the rose as being red the grass as being green, or the sky being blue, you know that the colors exist only in your mind, and are the sensations experienced by you as the result of the vibrations of light waves. When the vibrations are reduced below four hundred trillion a second, they no longer affect you as light, but you experience the sensation of heat. It is evident, therefore, that you cannot depend upon the evidence of your sences for your information concerning the realities of things.
4. The whole range then of the theory and practice of any system of Metaphysics consists in knowing the truth concerning yourself and the world in which you live; knowing that in order to express harmony, you must think harmony; in order to express health, you must think health; and in order to express abundance, you must think abundance; to do this you must reverse the evidence of the senses.
5. When you come to know that every form of disease, sickness, lack and limitation are simply the result of wrong thinking, you will have come to know "the truth which shall make you free", you will see how mountains may be removed. If these mountains consist only of doubt, fear, distrust or other forms of discouragement, they are none the less real, and they need not only to be removed but to be "cast into the sea".
6. Your real work consists in convincing your Self of the truth of these statements. When you have succeeded in doing this, you will have no difficulty in thinking the truth, and as has been shown, the truth contains a vital principle and will manifest in yourself.
7. Those who heal disease by mental methods have come to know this truth, they demonstrate it in their lives and the lives of others daily. They know that life, health and abundance are omnipresent, filling all space, and they know that those who allow disease or lack of any kind to manifest, have as yet not come into an understanding of this great law.
8. As all conditions are thought creations and therefore entirely mental. Disease and lack are simply mental conditions in which the person fails to perceive the truth; as soon as the error is removed, the condition is removed.
9. The method of removing this error is to go into "GodScope Meditations" silence and know the truth; as all mind is one mind. If you have learned to form mental images of the conditions desired, this will be the easiest and quickest way to secure results; if not, results can be accomplished by argument, by the process of convincing yourself absolutely of the truth of your statement.
10. Remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patients but yourself; you have nothing to do but to convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifested.
11. This is an exact scientific statement in accordance with every system of Metaphysics in existence, and no perminent results are ever secured in any other way.
12. Every form of concentration, forming mental images, argument and auto-suggestion are all simply methods by which you are enabled to realize the truth.
13. Remember that thought is creative and consequently every time you allow your thought to rest on any inharmonious condition, you must realize that such conditions are apparent only, they have no reality; that spirit is the only reality and it can never be less than perfect.
14. All thought is a form of energy, force and power, a rate of vibration, but a thought of the truth is the highest rate of vibration known and consequently destroys every form of error in exactly the same way that light destroys darkness; no form of error can exist when the "truth" appears, so that your entire mental work consists in coming into an understanding of the truth. This will enable you to overcome every form of lack, limitation or disease of any kind.
15. You can get no understanding of the truth from the world without; the world without is relative only; truth is absolute. You must therefore find it in the "world within".
16. To train the mind to see truth only is to express true conditions only. Your ability to do this will be an indication of the progress you are making.
17. The absolute truth is that the "I" is perfect and complete; the real "I" is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation or disease. The flash of genius does not have origin in the molecular motion of the brain; it is inspired by the ego, the spiritual "I" which is one with the universal mind, and it is your ability to recognize this power which is the cause of all inspiration, all genius.
18. Truth is not the result of logical training or of experimentation, or even observation; it is the product of a developed consciousness. Your life and your actions and your influence in the world will depend upon the degree of truth which you are enabled to perceive, for truth will not manifest in creeds, but in conduct.
19. Truth manifests in character, and the character of a human should be the interpretation of their religion, or what to them is truth, and this will in turn be evidenced in the character of their possesions. If a person complains of the drift of their fortune, they are just as unjust to themselves as if they should deny rational truth.
20. Your environment and the innumerable circumstances already exist in the subconscious personality which attracts to itself the mental and physical material which is congenial to its nature. Thus is your future being determined from your present, and if there should be apparent injustice in any feature or phase of your personal life, you must look within for the cause, discover the mental fact which is responsible for the outward manifestation.
21. It is this truth which makes you "free", and it is the conscious knowledge of this truth which will enable you to overcome every difficulty.
22. The conditions with which you meet in the world without are invariably the result of the conditions obtaining in the world within ; therefore it allows with scientific accuracy that by holding the perfect ideal in mind, you can bring about ideal conditions in your environment.
23. If you see only the incomplete, the imperfect, the relative, the limited, these conditions will manifest in your life; but if you train your mind to see and realize the spiritual ego, the "I" which is for ever perfect and complete, harmonious, wholesome and healthful conditions only will be manifested.
24. As thought is creative, and the truth is the highest and most perfect thought which anyone can think, it is Self evident that to think the truth is to create that which is true and it is again evident that when truth comes into being, that which is false must cease to be.
25. The universal mind is the totality of all mind which is in existence. Spirit is mind, because spirit is intelligent. The words are therefore, synonymous.
26. The difficulty with which you have to contend is to realize that mind is not individual. It is omnipresent. It exists everywhere. In other words, there is no place where it is not. It is, therefore, UNIVERSAL.
27. People have, heretofore, generally used the word "GOD" to indicate this universal, creative principle; but the word "GOD" does not convey the right meaning. Most people understand this word to mean something outside of themselves, whilst exactly the contrary is the fact. It is your very life. Without it you would be dead. You would cease to exist. The moment the spirit leaves the body, you are nothing. Therefore, spirit is really all there is of you .
28. Now, the only activity which the spirit possesses is the power to think. Therefore, thought must be creative, because spirit is creative. This creative power is impersonal and your ability to think is your ability to control it and make use of it for the benefit of yourself and others; but remember that only you who are wise enough to understand, broad enough to weigh the evidence, firm enough to follow your own judgement, and strong enough to make the sacrifice exacted, may enter and partake.
QUOTE : " Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy person may pay others for doing their work for them, but it is impossible to get their thinking done for them by another, or to purchase any kind of self culture."
GodScope Meditations # 24.
Now, realize that this is truly a wonderful world in which you live, that you are a wonderful human being, that many are awakening to a knowledge of the Truth; the splendour which exists for those who find themselves in the "Promised Land", and have found that all you ever willed or dreamed was but a faint concept of your dazzling mind reality to "be", "do", and "have" glory to your Almighty God.
Daily Blessing Suggestion :
Asking God to bless the food before a meal has been an acceptional ritual handed down from generation to generation. It has been thought by "believers" to promote better nutritiion and healing by raising the vibration of the food.
Better if we ask God to bless our proper selection of more complete foods as we go shopping for that which will advance our physical and our spiritual needs.
Ask Him to bless the preparation of the food, and the temperance in eating, so as to unable our bodies to receive the utmost of value from what God has so abundantly supplied for our daily use.
Better to ask God to give us knowledge to keep our bodies strong and healthy so we have no need to ask Him to heal a sick and ailing body that we produced ourselves by not originally obeying His simple laws.
Blame not God for the many illnesses and diseases you have created, they are not "Acts of God".
Better to ask God for His blessings and forgiveness -- and to give strength and wisdom to properly apply the inner knowledge of His simple laws.
NOTE
The following Blessing is given solely as a suggestion; anyone who follows it does so voluntarily. Since each person, naturally reacts differently, each individual must use his/her own judgement as to its use.
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