The game of life and how to play itShinn, Florence Scovel
Religion
The game of life and how to play it
Shinn, Florence Scovel
Conduct of life; New Thought; Spirituality; Success -- Psychological aspects
Man’s only enemies are within himself. “And a man’s foes shall be
they of his own household.” Personality is one of the last enemies
to be overcome, as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It
was Christ’s message—“Peace on Earth, good will towards man.” The
enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his
neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out good-will and blessings
to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he
has no power to harm him.
For example: A man came to me asking to “treat” for success in
business. He was selling machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene
with what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my friend feared
defeat. I said, “First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know
that God protects your interests, and that the divine idea must come
out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be sold, by the
right man, to the right man.” And I added, “Don’t hold one critical
thought towards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to sell
your machine, if it isn’t the divine idea.” So he went to the meeting,
fearless and nonresistant, and blessing the other man. He said the
outcome was very remarkable. The other man’s machine refused to work,
and he sold his without the slightest difficulty. “But I say unto you,
love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.”
_Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends
it, and “No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper.” In
other words, love and good-will destroy the enemies within one’s self,
therefore, one has no enemies on the external!_
“_There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to man!_”
THE LAW OF NONRESISTANCE
“Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil,
but overcome evil with good.”
Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.
The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is
perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before
it.
Jesus Christ said, “Resist not evil,” for He knew in reality, there
is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man’s “vain
imagination,” or a belief in two powers, good and evil.
There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of “Maya the Tree of
Illusion,” and saw two powers instead of one power, God.
_Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for himself, through
psychoma or soul sleep._ Soul sleep means, that man’s soul has been
hypnotized by the race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.) which
is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have outpictured his
illusions.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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