The author says about this book:
'This book is a product of the Christian Mystical Association, as my teacher Joshua called it.
That is not an organization in the world, but an organization in the mind.'
People who are looking for spiritual ways to increase success and personal wealth,
often overlook a very present help which is available all the time. This book guides you
to enter into a relationship with the Light, the Holy Spirit, Who will help you to be totally succesfull,
in ways you never imagined possible.
In chapter 7 about temptation the essential problem with the belief in evil is
characterized in the following way:
'As long as we believe in evil we are in the ego's trap. There is no way out, because we
can never be certain if we are not manipulated by a power outside of us. And because
it will always be done unto us according to our belief, we will experience evil. But when we realize
that God is the only power and every apparent evil an illusion without any real basis,
we will experience that which comes from God. Nevertheless, there is a way to see
if your faith in God is justified.
What are its fruits? Your belief in God can give your the experience of different phenomena.
You can have differing light experiences and experience in many ways that there is another
reality. But that is only the beginning. Because then divine Infinity is revealed to us more and
more.
Every revelation is a knowing, knowing the Truth, that cannot be altered in any way.
Those who were still in the ego's hold, hated Jesus, because he had an irrefutable
answer to everything. His reasoning was watertight. He knows the Truth and nothing
can oppose that. Knowing the Truth gives you certainty, with which the weak,
hypothetical gibberish of the ego does not know how to cope. When you realize the
divine presence in your consciousness, both you and the external circumstances
change. Your life is then filled with wonder and beauty and fulfillment. You live free,
carefree and joyful.'
To the argument that evil would be necessary to appreciate good, Margareth Lee
has the following answer:
'When we are not conscious of the way in which we shape our experiences, we
completely live through every experience we draw to ourselves; we undergo all
possible aspects of them. And we notice; everything passes, this too. But this is
not the way we want to continue on our earthly journey anymore. We have
suffered enough, we don't want to live in fear any longer. An argument in favor
of dualism often presented is that the experience of evil would be necessary to
know and appreciate the good. The truly good has no opposite, however.
It is unlimited and all-encompassing. We no longer need the supposed evil, problems,
to experience the supposed good. You don't have to torture yourself to experience
how pleasant it is when it stops. But as soon as you feel pain you can receive help,
so the experience does not have to be repeated. That is why we must become
conscious that thinking is creating and how we can create in accordance with
our true being.'
This book also offers practical methods for dealing with everyday problems
and seeming lack. It helps you to attract what you desire, love and great relationships,
prosperity, health, insight and Knowledge.
In the next passage Margareth Lee uses problems with body weight to illustrate how
convictions shape reality and how people can handle that.
We experience what we believe. For those who believe that much eating and fondness
of sweets makes fat, the evidence for that will be abundant. If you believe that you
catch the flu every year, it will seem as if you have a subscription. Many believe that
you gain weight from eating much and heavy food. That often seems to be the case.
But some people can eat anything they want without gaining an ounce. How does
that happen?
You can look for the answer in genetic differences, but the real cause is the way you
view yourself. Day in day out your thought patterns form your life and your body. Many
have a love-hate relationship with their bodies. Their negative patterns refrain them
from loving their body. They project their discontent about themselves onto their bodies.
And they believe everything they are told about sickness and aging.
Many people who went through programs like those from Louise Hay, form the proof
that after deprogramming people can really eat anything they want without gaining
an ounce.
It is not the size of your body or your weight that can determine your happiness. We do
anything to be happy. Let us be it now and not wait until the body is healthy. Are you
free if your body is healthy or if you have the perfect waist? Or if you have a lot of money?
A healthy body is no guarantee for happiness. The experience of a sick and painful body
is an attempt to keep your mind outside divine reality and the divine light that is always
all around you. For those who have ears to hear: pain and pleasure have the same function.
As long as you identify with a body, you are concerned with survival, health and pleasure.
In the mortal world there is no difference between pain and pleasure. In mortal thinking
the body is a source of worry and fear.
Your body is an instrument to experience this world and does that perfectly. Everything
you see in it is an experience that apparently was very attractive for you. The point of
experiences here is that we can try them out until we really don't want them anymore
and that we learn how we can draw other experiences to us.
Your body is in agreement with your self-concept, your inner image of your body and
what you think of it. That usually depends on current norms regarding the physical
appearance. In this way your body expresses how you think about yourself, including
all your negative convictions about yourself and your body. Your negative thoughts are
old, corroded patterns in which you relapse again and again.
In order to change that, a complete thought reversal is necessary. The aim is to replace
all your negative thoughts by positive ones.
Positive thoughts are not at all what people think they are. For most positive thoughts
are not positive at all. They contain an opposite, so the negative thoughts are maintained.
Therefore they can resurface any moment. Moreover, every conviction is also maintained
by other, so-called supporting thoughts. If for instance you believe that you are too fat,
it is no use trying to change that in a conviction that you are thin. If you don't approve
of yourself just the way you are, there is no guarantee that that will change when you
have the desired measurements. If you want your body to be different, you are not at
peace with it. You then do not enjoy it enough. Let your body be just like it is. If you accept
your body, you appreciate yourself, for your body expresses the way you feel about
yourself.
You have the body you wanted, to learn the things you wanted to learn in your life.
Everything that is painful for us, can help us to look for our true self. As soon as we
begin to remember who we really are, our convictions about ourselves change and
therefore also our body-image. The body then is no longer sick or healthy, thin or fat,
it is only a useful instrument for our transformation. That is why we can love our bodies,
regardless of the state it is in.
If you would want something about your body to be different, you could ask yourself why.
Why do you think you would be happier if your body was fatter, thinner, taller, shorter or
whatever? You don't have to concern yourself with what you would like to change
about it, for that actually perpetuates the situation. Inside you are constantly telling
yourself then that your body does not measure up. And so you stay in that experience.
Everything you see in your body is only a symptom of another complaint. It is your mind
that has to be healed. And you will know that that is done, when joy and peace flow
through you.
You did not think: 'Now I will make my body fat or skinny or sick or handicapped.' You felt
sorrow and resistance and you have tried for so long to push it out of your consciousness
that it had to manifest in another part of you, your body.
Every resistance always comes to the surface, so you can look at it. That does not mean
that you have to continuously grovel in self-pity and wallow in sorrow. You can only lack
something by drawing it to you, by attuning to it. Look at your world. What are you
attuned to? What have you drawn to you in your experience?
Ask yourself which experiences you want more often and hold onto them in your mind.
Think of them and be grateful for them. Count your blessings. If nothing in your body
functions properly anymore, you can still be grateful for your breathing or maybe just
for your consciousness.
Then look into the mirror without telling yourself how you should look and meet the
eyes of God. Try it. How would you feel if you would do that? Let go of every judgment
that says that you are too skinny or too fat, too old or too young, too short, too tall, sick,
this is ugly, that is wrong and all your condemning destructive comment. Do not wait for
your body to become perfect, for perfection does not last long, as long as you hold onto
this place of mortality in your consciousness. And what does it give you anyway? Why
would you want to be 'slim' whatever that may be. You may say that you are then able
to buy the clothes you would like to wear. But for what reason do you want to wear
those particular clothes? Is it not to present a certain image? And what do you want
to achieve by that?
Do not wait for something outside of you to be happy. Happiness is in you, it does not
arise out of something outside of you. It is joy for living, thankfulness, love and radiant
peace, flowing through you when you see the divine in everything. Without judging you
really live, you live in the glorious present.
The author has refrained from labeling this book a 'channeled' work. In her own words:
'I take responsibility for everything I have written. I would rather call it an inspired work.
Read what Emmet Fox says about channeling in
You have a Divine Agency
from "Find and Use Your Inner Power"
Some students of metaphysics are fond of referring to themselves as 'channels', channels
of Spirit, channels of Divine Will, and so forth. The idea is quite correct, but I am not sure
that the word is well chosen. To me a channel seems to be rather a hollow thing. To be a
channel does not seem interesting or inspiring. I prefer to think of man as the agent of God,
for that is what he is.
A Western Union boy, for example, could be well called a channel, in that sense, because
he conveys a message from one person to another, but he doesn't know what the message
is, and, of course, has no interest in it, and no responsibility; a telephone operator could also
be thought of as a channel between the two subscribers whom she connects. Compare
these positions with the agent of, say, a business firm. The head office is, let us suppose,
in Chicago. The firm sends an agent to Denver to transact its business there, perhaps to
open a branch office or store. He represents the firm. He transacts its business - well or ill.
If be is industrious and wise, he makes a great success; if he is stupid or lazy, he fails, and
the firm gets no business in that town. He is responsible, he has discretion, and such an
agency has an absorbing interest to the right man.
Or a government sends an agent
to a foreign country where he represents the home government, negotiates all kinds of
important arrangements, and, according to his management of the business, advances
or retards the cause of those who sent him.
You are the agent of God at the place were you find yourself. You have reason, intuition,
free will, and se1f-determination, and you can be a good and efficient agent, a poor agent,
or a positive detriment, according to the way in which you conduct your life.
To be an agent of God is the most wonderful destiny that you could ever dream of.
Practice His Presence in all that you do and you will indeed be His agent and the living
witness to the glory of His Name.
Acknowledgements:
The author was first introduced to this way of thinking by Marianne Williamson and
Louise Hay through the program of Oprah Winfrey on television. Wayshowers
who next came on her path include dr. Herbert Beierle, James Allen whose books are
filled with positive affirmations, Unity Church and some inspirational books published by
them, like 'Lessons in Truth' by H. Emilie Cady;
Gardner Hunting; the meditations taught by Joel Goldsmith and his Infinite Way, the words
of wisdom of Annie Rix Militz,
dr. Joseph Murpy, A Course in Miracles, the Masters from the Far East,
the inspiration from Iyanla Vanzant, the version of the Lord's Prayer by Emmet Fox, The Science
of Mind by Ernest Holmes: The work
of Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, the spiritual work of W. John Murray, Wayne Dyer,
Martin Kojc who was an early self help author in Europe, Ralph Waldo Trine; the guiding light
of Mary Baker Eddy and her book 'Science and Health with key to the Scriptures':
Masaharu Taniguchi; the life and work of Henry Thomas Hamblin,
the inspired work of Lee Coit;
the Endeavor Academy and the awakened teachers there, Joshua and Liberty, the leader
of Endeavor Academy, Greta, Robert Jan Visser, Ritah, Arty, Clark and many others. This book
contains some quotes from them.
And of course Jesus,
who taught us to communicate with the Father in us.
INDEX
Foreword
Introduction
1 Divine Fatherhood: the love of the Almighty, our oneness and our divine attributes
2 The location of God: what is Heaven?
3 Hallowing and healing the Name of God.
4 - What is the Will of God?
5 - What is our daily bread?
6 - Forgiveness; letting go of fear and grievances.
7 - Temptation: the chimeras of evil and other stumble-blocks on the spiritual path.
8 - Asking God to deliver us from our evil thoughts.
9 - The Thoughts of God.
10 -Acknowledging the divine power and denying dualism. There is no good or bad, there is
only God.
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