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What is called creativeness is only becoming aware of what already is. You simply become aware of increasing portions of that which already exists.
The fact that you can never be anything that you are not already or experience anything not already existing explains the experience of having an acute feeling of having heard before what is being said, or having met before the person being met for the first time, or having seen before a place or thing being seen for the first time.
The whole of creation exists in you, and it is your destiny to become increasingly aware of its infinite wonders and to experience ever greater and grander portions of it.
If creation is finished, and all events are taking place now, the question that springs naturally to the mind is
“what determines your time track?”
That is, what determines the events which you encounter?
And the answer is your concept of yourself. Concepts determine the route that attention follows.
Here is a good test to prove this fact. Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows. You will observe that as long as you remain faithful to your assumption, so long will your attention be confronted with images clearly related to that assumption.
For example;
if you assume that you have a wonderful business, you will notice how in your imagination, your attention is focused on incident after incident relating to that assumption. Friends congratulate you, tell you how lucky you are. Others are envious and critical. From there, your attention goes to larger offices, bigger bank balances, and many other similarly related events.
Persistence in this assumption will result in actually experiencing in fact that which you assumed.
The same is true regarding any concept. If your concept of yourself is that you are a failure, you would encounter in your imagination a whole series of incidents in conformance to that concept.
Thus it is clearly seen how you, by your concept of yourself, determine your present, that is, the particular portion of creation which you now experience, and your future, that is, the particular portion of creation which you will experience.
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And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
Ask, seek, and knock mean assuming the consciousness of already having what you desire.
Thus the scriptures tell you that you must persist in rising to (assuming) the consciousness of your wish already being fulfilled.
The promise is definite that if you are shameless in your impudence in assuming that you already have that which your senses deny, it shall be given unto you . . your desire shall be attained.
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It is of great significance that the truth of the principles outlined in this book have been proven time and again by the personal experiences of the Author.
Throughout the past twenty-five years, he has applied these principles and proved them successful in innumerable instances. He attributes to an unwavering assumption of his wish already being fulfilled every success that he has achieved.
He was confident that, by these fixed assumptions, his desires were predestined to be fulfilled. Time and again, he assumed the feeling of his wish fulfilled and continued in his assumption until that which he desired was completely realized.
Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination; disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire.
Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for, in that determined assumption, you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being (God) all things are possible. God never fails.
“For who can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou?”
Through the mastery of your assumptions, you are in very truth enabled to master life.
It is thus that the ladder of life is ascended: thus the ideal is realized.
The clue to the real purpose of life is to surrender yourself to your ideal with such awareness of its reality that you begin to live the life of the ideal and no longer your own life as it was prior to this surrender.
“He calleth things that are not seen as though they were, and the unseen becomes seen”.
Each assumption has its corresponding world.
If you are truly observant, you will notice the power of your assumptions to change circumstances which appear wholly immutable.
You, by your conscious assumptions, determine the nature of the world in which you live.
Ignore the present state and assume the wish fulfilled.
Claim it; it will respond.
The law of assumption is the means by which the fulfillment of your desires may be realized.
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The ideal is always waiting to be incarnated, but unless we ourselves offer the ideal to the Lord, our consciousness, by assuming that we are already that which we seek to embody, it is incapable of birth.
The Lord needs his daily lamb of faith to mold the world in harmony with our dreams.
“By faith Abel offered unto God a
More excellent sacrifice than Cain.”
Faith sacrifices the apparent fact for the unapparent truth.
Faith holds fast to the fundamental truth that through the medium of an assumption, invisible states become visible facts.
“For what is faith unless it is to
believe what you do not see?”
. . . St. Augustine
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“A miracle is the name given, by those
Who have no faith, to the works of faith.
Faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen.”
The very reason for the law of assumption is contained in this quotation.
If there were not a deep seated awareness that that which you hope for had substance and was possible of attainment, it would be impossible to assume the consciousness of being or having it.
It is the fact that creation is finished and everything exists that stirs you to hope, and hope, in turn, implies expectation, and without expectation of success, it would be impossible to use consciously the law of assumption.
“Evidence” is a sign of actuality.
Thus, this quotation means, that faith is the awareness of the reality of that which you assume, a conviction of the reality of things which you do not see, the mental perception of the reality of the invisible.
Consequently, it is obvious that a lack of faith means disbelief in the existence of that which you desire. Inasmuch as that which you experience is the faithful reproduction of your state of consciousness, lack of faith will mean perpetual failure in any conscious use of the law of assumption.