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
Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from sin, but admonished the
leper after the healing, to go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come
upon him.
So man’s soul (or subconscious mind) must be washed whiter than snow,
for permanent healing; and the metaphysician is always delving deep for
the “correspondence.”
Jesus Christ said, “Condemn not lest ye also be condemned.”
“Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness through condemnation
of others.
What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.
For example: A friend came to me in anger and distress, because her
husband had deserted her for another woman. She condemned the other
woman, and said continually, “She knew he was a married man, and had no
right to accept his attentions.”
I replied, “Stop condemning the woman, bless her, and be through
with the situation, otherwise, you are attracting the same thing to
yourself.”
She was deaf to my words, and a year or two later, became deeply
interested in a married man, herself.
Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises or condemns, and may
expect a shock.
Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway. In order to
overcome it, make the statement, repeatedly, “_I am always under direct
inspiration; I make right decisions, quickly._”
These words impress the subconscious, and soon one finds himself awake
and alert, making his right moves without hesitation. I have found it
destructive to look to the psychic plane for guidance, as it is the
plane of many minds and not “The One Mind.”
As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes a target for
destructive forces. The psychic plane is the result of man’s mortal
thought, and is on the “plane of opposites.” He may receive either good
or bad messages.
The science of numbers and the reading of horoscopes, keep man down on
the mental (or mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic path.
I know of a man who should have been dead, years ago, according to his
horoscope, but he is alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements
in this country for the uplift of humanity.
It takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy of evil. The
student should declare, “Every false prophecy shall come to naught;
every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and
dissipated, the divine idea now comes to pass.”
However, if any good message has ever been given one, of coming
happiness, or wealth, harbor and expect it, and it will manifest sooner
or later, through the law of expectancy.
Man’s will should be used to back the universal will. “I will that the
will of God be done.”
It is God’s will to give every man, every righteous desire of his
heart, and man’s will should be used to hold the perfect vision,
without wavering.
The prodigal son said: “I will arise and go to my Father.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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