When the
book and subsequent movie ‘The Secret’ came out, people everywhere were buzzing
about its’ revelation: the Law of Attraction. Revealed as the key to the
prolific success of some of history’s greatest minds, like Michelangelo and
Thomas Jefferson, the Law of Attraction is a powerful insight into the workings
of nature that can be consciously, intentional used as a tool for
manifestation. A tool whose ideas underlie the manifestation processes.
However,
utilizing the guidelines surrounding the Law of Attraction can be obtained via
invocation and evocation; invocation being the safer ‘white magic’, and
evocation the ‘black magic’ requiring a sacrifice. The sacrifice evocation
requires is one of placing power outside the center; outside the divine within.
It is equivocal to worshiping false gods. There are better ways to utilize the
guidelines that the Law of Attraction lays out. It is only through lack of
wisdom, knowledge and a dwelling in the dark that we are caused to error, which
brings about lack and suffering. We can obtain our desires and pay a price for
obtaining them if we use an evocation method; but the price is not necessary if
you have the wisdom of divine perspective. The Law of Attraction works whether
or not we dwell within the light.
Neville
Goddard taught causative imagining. The premise is that we can ’create’ our
futures by ‘imagining’ what we want with feeling, gratitude, and the absolute
belief that what we wanted ‘presently’ exists. We need to give our imagined ‘post-end’
all the tones of reality in our imagined experience. It needs to be real, a ’present’
experience of what we desire already existing. This is what the Bible said in
the ancient Aramaic, according to Neil Douglas Klotz (Prayers of the Cosmos,
pages 86-87; also noted in Braden's ‘Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer’, pages
166-167).
According
to Klotz, John 16: 23-24, has been expurgated and this method was removed in
edits. The passage originally said:
"All things that you ask straightly and directly from
inside my name you shall be given. So far you have not done this. Ask without
hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped by what you
desire, that your gladness be full."
"All things that you ask straightly and directly from
inside my 'name' you shall be given (name/face/nature/imagination). So far you
have not done this (asking with our voice is not doing this: we need to ‘ask’
by ‘imagining’ the condition we want). Ask without hidden motive (i.e., do not
be judgmental, but forgive the present with grace) and ‘be surrounded by your
answer (in fervent, vivid, '3D' imagining). Be ‘enveloped’ by what you desire
(the end-state having already been established), that your gladness be full
(belonging to you)."
"The great secret of prayer is ‘thinking from’, rather
than ‘thinking of’.”
- Neville Goddard
This form of
utilizing the Law of Attraction that Neville Goddard proposes is technically an
invocation. This is the practice most who practice the ritual and spell-work of
the Law of Attraction utilize. However, to do so without spiritual discipline
and acceptance of all things will often result in detrimental possibilities
being drawn to you as well as your desires. This is the universe presenting
lessons to you in order to widen your perspective. It is our duty to grow
spiritually by widen our perspective, and once obtaining acceptance of all
things, to not fall from that divine state; to continue to pray without end.
I
Thessalonians 5: 17 commands, “Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks
for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” How can we pray without
ceasing? Does it mean we should be uttering a prayer all the time mentally or orally?
No, it most assuredly does not mean this, for that would be absurd vain
repetition. But prayer without ceasing does mean turning our heart toward God
often in our daily lives.
We pray
successfully when we do not ask amiss by asking for something to spend upon our
selfish pleasures; that is upon our ego needs. Our egos hunger for approval
from the world. Ego needs are thus always centered upon objects such as
persons, accomplishments, situations, things, money, etc. We center upon
objects because we are looking for approval. All object or ego centeredness is
based upon fear. The preacher wants the successful church so he can have more
approval. You may want a new situation to increase your approval rating.
James
4: 3 speaks to ego centered prayer. He says it is asking amiss or missing the
mark. He says, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may
spend it upon your pleasures.”
Proper
prayer, and proper invocation of the Law of Attraction, is to be filled with
and project compassion. Compassion is the language of God and the universe.
Feeling and projecting compassion is the way to pray successfully without
ceasing at all times. In the Old Testament it is said, “Be holy for God is
holy!” But Jesus teaches, “Be compassionate for God is compassionate!” Consistently
throughout history, spiritual teachings must be reworded to fit the language of
our times.
Compassion
is the key to praying successfully because our thoughts and emotions have the
power to influence matter. The universe was created and is sustained by a ‘mind
over matter’ principle; as taught in the first Hermetic Principle of Mentalism.
Three
major experiments in the 90’s proved that our thoughts and emotions can affect
our DNA’s behavior instantaneously. In each case, extracted live DNA was taken from
a subject’s cells and placed in a vacuum tube and moved from 100 feet to 350
miles away from the subject. Then the subject was exposed to material that
evoked emotions that ranged from horror and revulsion to ecstasy, love and
compassion. An atomic clock was used to time the response of the DNA’s response
to its’ owner’s thoughts and emotions. In each case the DNA responded
immediately to the subject’s reactions. Feelings of horror and revulsion
twisted the DNA into a knotted like mass. Feelings of joy, love and compassion
relaxed the DNA into its’ relaxed ladder like position.
Prayer
and meditation that focuses on love and acceptance works wonders. We live in a
magical enchanted universe because the Divine Conscious Spirit and source field
that creates it connects everything together. Quantum physics has demonstrated
that our observation actually changes the behavior of sub-atomic particles. A
photon is ordinarily a wave of light but when we observe it, it becomes a
particle. Deciding to usurp a feeling of sincere compassion can affect the
nature in which we live, move and have our being.
An
outstanding Tibetan Buddhist monk was asked by a computer scientist, religious
and philosophical researcher Greg Braden “Is compassion a force of creation or
is it an experience?” Thoughtfully, the monk answered with great force, “It is
both a force in the universe as well as a human experience.”
Truly,
all thoughts, feelings, emotions and acts we choose are forces within the
universe as well as human experiences. These are the primal forces that
surround the center.
Living
in non-judgment of all things with deep compassion is the most exciting
adventure we can ever enter into. Do not judge what the answer to your prayer
should be; just live envisioning your prayer as if it is already answered. Live
the answer as if it is a current reality. See it in your imagination. Feel it
with compassion for all concerned, including yourself. Stay open to all
possibilities. Do not judge what exact possibility you should receive. Accept
with thanksgiving whatever comes; because the frequency of your heart will draw
in its’ match, and the result is the fulfillment of the prayer.
We receive
what we need in order to grow spiritually; and if we’ve grown spiritually we
receive our comforts that sustain that divine outlook. We do this at all times,
just as Osiris judges the hearts of the dead by weighing them against a
feather. The spiritually dead receive detriments to widen their perspective.
Jesus
said, “Therefore I say unto you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe
that you receive them, and you will have them.” Little do most of Jesus’
followers know, that they are always praying. The marriage of thought and
emotion is what manifests in the world around us. Utilizing compassion and
feeling our desires fulfilled is akin to making your eye one. When we do this
we can move mountains. Let us illustrate this from two other writings.
John
16: 23 says, “And in that day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly, I say
unto you, whatever you ask the Father in my name; He will give you. Until now
you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive that your joy may
be full.” What does it mean to ask in Jesus’ name? And how may your joy be
full?
An
ancient Aramaic translation of John 16: 23-24 gives explanation of these words
and what asking in Jesus name means and how your joy may be full. It says, “All
things that you ask straightly and directly…from inside my name you will be
given. So far you haven’t done this…so ask without hidden motive and be surrounded
by your answer. Be enveloped by what you desire, that your gladness be full.”
Asking
in Jesus’ name means asking according to his character, his way of life and his
attitudes; it is to align oneself with divine consciousness and act as the
Messiah yourself. (W.W.J.D.?) As we have said, this means first getting your
selfish, fear based ego desires out of the way. Ego repels the power to receive
desired results; it is asking with hidden motives and not straight and direct.
Selfish motives receive ‘nothing’ or ‘darkness’; acting from the ego self still
attracts the intention of the heart, and that is detriments from the universe.
Your
joy becomes full by you surrounding yourself with your answer. This is done by
practicing the greatest principle in psychology, the “as if” principle. You
must live and think always as if you have the answer already, surround yourself
with your answer. Do not demand any certain answer. Just live as if you already
have all that you need. Surround yourself constantly with this assurance.
Envelope yourself with the feeling of already having obtained your desires. Though
negative possibilities exist, you do not repel them, but thank them for their
perspective and accept them as being possible. Focus on the feeling of health,
wealth, success or material things that you want. Surround yourself with the
sense and belief that you have what you desire already. This draws the answer,
solution to you.
Be open
as to what form the answer shall come in and then accept what comes with
gratitude. To demand the answer in a certain form causes you to miss it and
reap detriments. You must live with the uncertainty of how your answer will
come to you but with the certainty that the correct answer that is best for
your soul will come. This enables you to live with peace, knowingness, and
compassion for all. Being enveloped with compassion is praying without ceasing.
The
only prayer we were told to utilize according to Jesus is the ‘Our Father’ or ‘Lord’s
Prayer’. It is appropriately dubbed the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ because it is a method
of the Law of Attraction utilized by wise and knowledgeable ‘lords’. This is a
nod to the fact that we are the ones responsible for our position in life. This
is an interpretation of it as found in Matthew 6:
“Our Father (progenitor) that resides within the center (heaven),
hallowed be your name (face/image), your kingdom come (what is built upon the
center), your will be done (becomes manifest), on earth as it is in heaven
(mirrored energy/ as above, so below/ the tesseract like quality of the cosmic
egg). Give us today our daily bread (deliver nourishment). And forgive us our
debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.”
In
Matthew 6 is a wonderful interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer. It identifies
more properly in the English language the feelings our consciousness should take
on to better understand and utilize the Divine source and manifest our desires.
The word ‘debt’ instead of ‘sin’, as used in Luke 11, reflects a better
understanding of the weight we put on our hearts. It also more appropriately identifies
evil to be a singular concept, as there is but one cause to evil; and that is
darkness. Where there is lack of light, lack of knowledge and wisdom, there is
fear and misinterpretation. Speculation in darkness and acting on fear is the
cause which makes us sin against one another. Acts of fear adds the weight of a
karmic burden that must be relieved in order to dwell in the light once again.
The sense of guilt we put on ourselves makes us feel like we don’t deserve our
desires, and so to with ones who we blame. This is why forgiveness of self and
others is so important.
So what
is the secret of prayer? In a nutshell: you’re doing it right now. You’ve
always been praying, and you will always continue to pray. The secret is to always
be mindful of what you’re praying for, and to develop a method of self control.