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Every moment of your life, consciously or unconsciously, you are assuming a feeling. You can no more avoid assuming a feeling than you can avoid eating and drinking.
All you can do is control the nature of your assumptions. Thus it is clearly seen that the control of your assumption is the key you now hold to an ever expanding, happier, more noble life.
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The outer, physical events of life are the fruit of forgotten blossom-times, results of previous and usually forgotten states of consciousness. They are the ends running true to oft-times forgotten imaginative origins.
Whenever you become completely absorbed in an emotional state, you are at that moment assuming the feeling of the state fulfilled.
If persisted in, whatsoever you are intensely emotional about, you will experience in your world. These periods of absorption, of concentrated attention, are the beginnings of the things you harvest.
It is in such moments that you are exercising your creative power, the only creative power there is.
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Remain faithful to the knowledge that your consciousness, your I AMness, your awareness of being aware of the only reality. It is the rock on which all phenomena can be explained.
There is no explanation outside of that. I know of no clear conception of the origin of phenomena save that consciousness is all and all is consciousness.
That which you seek is already housed within you. Were it not now within you eternity could not evolve it. No time stretch would be long enough to evolve what is not potentially involved in you.
You simply let it into being by assuming that it is already visible in your world, and remaining faithful to your assumption. it will harden into fact. Your Father has unnumbered ways of revealing your assumption. Fix this in your mind and always remember,
“An assumption, though false, if sustained will harden into fact.”
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Everything we do, unaccompanied by a change of consciousness, is but futile readjustment of surfaces. However we toil or struggle, we can receive no more than our assumptions affirm. To protest against anything which happens to us is to protest against the law of our being and our rulership over our own destiny.
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“Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer
of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man
beholding his natural face in a glass and goeth
his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of
man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect
law of liberty, and continue therein, he being not
a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed.”
The word, in this quotation, means idea, concept, or desire.
You deceive yourself by “hearing only” when you expect your desire to be fulfilled through mere wishful thinking.
Your desire is what you want to be, and looking at yourself “in a glass” is seeing yourself in imagination as that person.
Forgetting “what manner of man” you are is failing to persist in your assumption.
The “perfect law of liberty” is the law which makes possible liberation from limitation, that is, the law of assumption. To continue in the perfect law of liberty is to persist in the assumption that your desire is already fulfilled.
You are not a “forgetful hearer” when you keep the feeling of your wish fulfilled constantly alive in your consciousness.
This makes you a “doer of the work”, and you are blessed in your deed by the inevitable realization of your desire.
You must be doers of the law of assumption, for without application, the most profound understanding will not produce any desired result. Frequent reiteration and repetition of important basic truths runs through these pages.
Where the law of assumption is concerned . . the law that sets man free . . this is a good thing. It should be made clear again and again even at the risk of repetition. The real truth-seeker will welcome this aid in concentrating his attention upon the law which sets him free.
The parable of the Master’s condemnation of the servant who neglected to use the talent given him is clear and unmistakable.
Having discovered within yourself the key to the Treasure House, you should be like the good servant who, by wise use, multiplied by many times the talents entrusted to him.
The talent entrusted to you is the power to consciously determine your assumption. The talent not used, like the limb not exercised, withers and finally atrophies.
What you must strive after is being. In order to do, it is necessary to be. The end of yearning is to be. Your concept of yourself can only be driven out of consciousness by another concept of yourself.
By creating an ideal in your mind, you can identify yourself with it until you become one and the same with the ideal, thereby transforming yourself into it.
The dynamic prevails over the static; the active over the passive. One who is a doer is magnetic and therefore infinitely more creative than any who merely hear.
Be among the doers.