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brings about these results. The Spirit knows what is really best for the man,
and when it sees his lower nature running away with him, tries to swing
him from his course, or to bring him to a sudden stop if necessary. This is
not as a punishment, remember, but as the greatest kindness. The Spirit is
a part of that man, and not an outside power, although it is of course the
Divine part of him, that part of him in nearest touch with the great
overruling Intelligence which we call God. This pain is not brought about
because of any feeling of righteous indignation, revenge, impatience or any
similar feeling on the part of the Spirit, but is akin to the feeling of the most
loving parent, who is forced to take from the hands of the little child some
dangerous thing which may injure the little one - it is the hand which
draws back the child from the brink of the precipice, although the little one
screams with rage and disappointment because its desires are frustrated.
The man or woman in whom the Spiritual Mind is developed, sees this
condition of things, and instead of fighting against the Spirit, yields himself
or herself to it without friction, and obeys, its guiding hand, and is thus
saved much pain. But those who know not, rage and rebel at the restraining
and guiding hand, strike at it, and attempt to tear away from it, thereby
bringing upon themselves, bitter experience made necessary by their
rebellion. We are so apt to resent outside influence in our affairs that this
idea of restraint is not pleasant to us, but
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if we will only remember that it is a part of ourselves - the higher part of us
- that is doing this directing, then we may see the thing in a different light.
And we must remember this: That no matter how adverse circumstances or
conditions seem to be for us, they are exactly what we need under just the
circumstances. of our lives, and have for their only object our ultimate
good. We may need strengthening along certain lines, in order to round us
out - and we are apt to get just the experiences calculated to round out
that particular part of us. We may be tending too much in one direction,
and we are given a check and an urge in another direction. These little
things - and great things all mean something. And then our interests are
bound up more or less with those of others, owing to the laws of attraction;
and our acts may be intended to reflect upon them, and theirs upon us, for
our mutual development and ultimate good. We will have more to say on
this subject a little later on.
If we will stand still, and calmly consider our past life (the present life, we
mean) we will see that certain things have led to certain other things, and
that small things have led to great things - that little turning points have
resulted in an entire change in our life. We may trace back the most
important thing in our life to some trifling incident or occurrence. We are
able to look back and see how the painful experiences of the past have
strengthened us, and have brought us to a larger and fuller life. We are
able to see how that par-
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ticular thing in the past, which seemed needlessly cruel and uncalled for,
was the very thing which has brought us to some great thing in the present.
All that is needed is the perspective of years. And if we get so that we are
able to see this, we will be able to bear with a far greater degree of
philosophy the pains and disagreeable occurrences of the present, knowing
that they mean ultimate good. When we cease to think of these things as
punishment, or a wanton interference of some outside power, or the cruelty
of Nature, and begin to see them as either the consequences of our own
past lives, or the result of the Spirit's directing hand, we will cease to protest
and struggle as we have been doing in the past, and will endeavor to fall in
with the working of the great Law, and will thereby avoid friction and pain.
And no matter what pain, sorrow or trouble we may be undergoing, if we
will open ourselves to the guidance of the Spirit, a way will be opened out
for us - one step at, a time - and if we follow it we will obtain peace and
strength. The Law does not heap upon a back more than it can bear, and
not only does it temper the wind to the shorn lamb, but tempers the shorn
lamb to the wind.
We have spoken of our interests being bound up with those of others. This
also is a principle of the law of Spiritual Cause and Effect. In our past lives
we have attached ourselves to certain others, either by love or hate - either
by kind action or by cruelty. And these people in this life have certain
relation-
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ships to us, all tending toward mutual adjustment and mutual
advancement and development. It is not a law of revenge, but simply the
law of cause and effect which causes us to receive a hurt (when a hurt is
needed) from the hands of someone whom we have hurt in some past life
- and it is not merely a law of reward for good, but that same law of cause
and effect, that causes some one to bind up our wounds and comfort us,
whom we have comforted and helped in some past life. The person who
is caused to hurt us, may have no intention of doing so, being a perfectly
innocent party, but we are brought into conditions whereby we receive
pain from the acts of that person, although he be unconscious of it. If he
hurts us consciously, and still in obedience to the law, it is because he is
still on that plane, and is willing to hurt us, and is brought by the Law of
Attraction into a condition whereby we may receive hurt from him. But
even that hurt is calculated to benefit us, in the end, so wonderful is this
law of cause and effect constituted. Of course, if we once reach the
position where we see the truth, we do not need so many of these
lessons, and their necessity having passed, the law allows us to escape
that which would otherwise, have given us pain.
The above mentioned condition of affairs may be illustrated by the case
of one who in a past incarnation deliberately won the love of another, for
selfish reasons, and then having gratified the desire willfully threw aside
the other one, as one
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brings about these results. The Spirit knows what is really best for the man,
and when it sees his lower nature running away with him, tries to swing
him from his course, or to bring him to a sudden stop if necessary. This is
not as a punishment, remember, but as the greatest kindness. The Spirit is
a part of that man, and not an outside power, although it is of course the
Divine part of him, that part of him in nearest touch with the great
overruling Intelligence which we call God. This pain is not brought about
because of any feeling of righteous indignation, revenge, impatience or any
similar feeling on the part of the Spirit, but is akin to the feeling of the most
loving parent, who is forced to take from the hands of the little child some
dangerous thing which may injure the little one - it is the hand which
draws back the child from the brink of the precipice, although the little one
screams with rage and disappointment because its desires are frustrated.
The man or woman in whom the Spiritual Mind is developed, sees this
condition of things, and instead of fighting against the Spirit, yields himself
or herself to it without friction, and obeys, its guiding hand, and is thus
saved much pain. But those who know not, rage and rebel at the restraining
and guiding hand, strike at it, and attempt to tear away from it, thereby
bringing upon themselves, bitter experience made necessary by their
rebellion. We are so apt to resent outside influence in our affairs that this
idea of restraint is not pleasant to us, but
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if we will only remember that it is a part of ourselves - the higher part of us
- that is doing this directing, then we may see the thing in a different light.
And we must remember this: That no matter how adverse circumstances or
conditions seem to be for us, they are exactly what we need under just the
circumstances. of our lives, and have for their only object our ultimate
good. We may need strengthening along certain lines, in order to round us
out - and we are apt to get just the experiences calculated to round out
that particular part of us. We may be tending too much in one direction,
and we are given a check and an urge in another direction. These little
things - and great things all mean something. And then our interests are
bound up more or less with those of others, owing to the laws of attraction;
and our acts may be intended to reflect upon them, and theirs upon us, for
our mutual development and ultimate good. We will have more to say on
this subject a little later on.
If we will stand still, and calmly consider our past life (the present life, we
mean) we will see that certain things have led to certain other things, and
that small things have led to great things - that little turning points have
resulted in an entire change in our life. We may trace back the most
important thing in our life to some trifling incident or occurrence. We are
able to look back and see how the painful experiences of the past have
strengthened us, and have brought us to a larger and fuller life. We are
able to see how that par-
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ticular thing in the past, which seemed needlessly cruel and uncalled for,
was the very thing which has brought us to some great thing in the present.
All that is needed is the perspective of years. And if we get so that we are
able to see this, we will be able to bear with a far greater degree of
philosophy the pains and disagreeable occurrences of the present, knowing
that they mean ultimate good. When we cease to think of these things as
punishment, or a wanton interference of some outside power, or the cruelty
of Nature, and begin to see them as either the consequences of our own
past lives, or the result of the Spirit's directing hand, we will cease to protest
and struggle as we have been doing in the past, and will endeavor to fall in
with the working of the great Law, and will thereby avoid friction and pain.
And no matter what pain, sorrow or trouble we may be undergoing, if we
will open ourselves to the guidance of the Spirit, a way will be opened out
for us - one step at, a time - and if we follow it we will obtain peace and
strength. The Law does not heap upon a back more than it can bear, and
not only does it temper the wind to the shorn lamb, but tempers the shorn
lamb to the wind.
We have spoken of our interests being bound up with those of others. This
also is a principle of the law of Spiritual Cause and Effect. In our past lives
we have attached ourselves to certain others, either by love or hate - either
by kind action or by cruelty. And these people in this life have certain
relation-
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ships to us, all tending toward mutual adjustment and mutual
advancement and development. It is not a law of revenge, but simply the
law of cause and effect which causes us to receive a hurt (when a hurt is
needed) from the hands of someone whom we have hurt in some past life
- and it is not merely a law of reward for good, but that same law of cause
and effect, that causes some one to bind up our wounds and comfort us,
whom we have comforted and helped in some past life. The person who
is caused to hurt us, may have no intention of doing so, being a perfectly
innocent party, but we are brought into conditions whereby we receive
pain from the acts of that person, although he be unconscious of it. If he
hurts us consciously, and still in obedience to the law, it is because he is
still on that plane, and is willing to hurt us, and is brought by the Law of
Attraction into a condition whereby we may receive hurt from him. But
even that hurt is calculated to benefit us, in the end, so wonderful is this
law of cause and effect constituted. Of course, if we once reach the
position where we see the truth, we do not need so many of these
lessons, and their necessity having passed, the law allows us to escape
that which would otherwise, have given us pain.
The above mentioned condition of affairs may be illustrated by the case
of one who in a past incarnation deliberately won the love of another, for
selfish reasons, and then having gratified the desire willfully threw aside
the other one, as one
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would a worn-out toy. While not pretending to explain the exact working of
the law in any particular case, we have been informed by those who have
watched these matters from a higher point of view, that in such a case as
above mentioned, the betrayer would probably in this life, fall violently in [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]