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The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire. The key to progress in life and to the fulfillment of dreams lies in ready obedience to its voice. Unhesitating obedience to its voice is an immediate assumption of the wish fulfilled. To desire a state is to have it.
As Pascal has said,
“You would not have sought me
had you not already found me.”
Man, by assuming the feeling of his wish fulfilled, and then living and acting on this conviction, alters the future in harmony with his assumption.
Assumptions awaken what they affirm. As soon as man assumes the feeling of his wish fulfilled, his four-dimensional self finds ways for the attainment of this end, discovers methods for its realization.
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The question is often asked,
“What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and its realization?”
Nothing.
It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realization of your desire.
You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing.
The illusion of the free will to do, is but ignorance of the law of assumption, upon which all action is based.
Everything happens automatically.
All that befalls you, all that is done by you . . happens.
Your assumptions, conscious or unconscious, direct all thought and action to their fulfillment.
To understand the law of assumption, to be convinced of its truth, means getting rid of all the illusions about free will to act.
Free will actually means freedom to select any idea you desire.
By assuming the idea already to be a fact, it is converted into reality. Beyond that, free will ends, and everything happens in harmony with the concept assumed.
13.
A change of fortune is a new direction and outlook, merely a change in arrangement of the same mind substance . . consciousness.
If you would change your life, you must begin at the very source with your own basic concept of self.
Outer change, becoming part of organizations, political bodies, religious bodies, is not enough. The cause goes deeper. The essential change must take place in yourself, in your own concept of self.
You must assume that you are what you want to be and continue therein, for the reality of your assumption has its being, in complete independence of objective fact and will clothe itself in flesh if you persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
When you know that assumptions, if persisted in, harden into facts, then events which seem to the uninitiated mere accidents will be understood by you to be the logical and inevitable effects of your assumption.
The important thing to bear in mind is that you have infinite free will in choosing your assumptions, but no power to determine conditions and events.
You can create nothing, but your assumption determines what portion of creation you will experience.
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“Let the weak man say, ‘I AM strong'”,
for by his assumption, the cause-substance . . I AM . . is rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms. This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social, financial, intellectual, or spiritual.
I AM is that reality to which, whatever happens, we must turn for an explanation of the phenomena of life. It is I AM’s concept of itself that determines the form and scenery of its existence.
Everything depends upon its attitude towards itself; that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot awaken in its world.
15.
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,
saith the Lord of hosts.”
Get into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you want to be. As you capture the feeling of the state sought, you are relieved of all effort to make it so, for it is already so.
There is a definite feeling associated with every idea in the mind of man.
Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.
Faith is feeling,
“According to your faith (feeling) be it unto you.”
You never attract that which you want but always that which you are. As a man is, so does he see.
“To him that hath it shall be given
and
to him that hath not it shall be taken away…”
That which you feel yourself to be you are, and you are given that which you are. So assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your wish, and your wish must be realized.