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
For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day, she informed her
family that they could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the
money, but decided to save it.
A few days later, someone entered her room and took from the bureau
drawer the exact amount the dinner would have cost.
The law always stands back of the man who spends fearlessly, with
wisdom.
For example: One of my students was shopping with her little nephew.
The child clamored for a toy, which she told him she could not afford
to buy.
She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack, and not recognizing
God as her supply!
So she bought the toy, and on her way home, picked _up, in the street,
the exact amount of money she had paid for it_.
Man’s supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully trusted, but
faith or trust must precede the demonstration. “According to your faith
be it unto you.” “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen—” for faith holds the vision steady, and
the adverse pictures are dissolved and dissipated, and “in due season
we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there was a
higher law than the law of Karma—and that that law transcends the law
of Karma. It is the law of grace, or forgiveness. It is the law which
_frees man from the law of cause and effect—the law of consequence.
“Under grace, and not under law.”_
We are told that on this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the
gifts of God are simply poured out upon him. “All that the Kingdom
affords is his.” This continued state of bliss awaits the man who has
overcome the race (or world) thought.
In the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: “Be
of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
The world thought is that of sin, sickness and death. He saw their
absolute unreality and said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and
death itself, the last enemy, be overcome.
We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that death could be overcome
by stamping the subconscious mind with the conviction of eternal youth
and eternal life.
The subconscious, being simply power without direction, _carries out
orders without questioning_.
Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God
within man) the “resurrection of the body” would be accomplished.
Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be
transformed into the “body electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for
Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an empty
tomb.”
CASTING THE BURDEN
Impressing the Subconscious
When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind, his great
desire is to find an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious
with good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the Truth will not
bring results.
In my own case, I found the easiest way is in “casting the burden.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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