Law of Thought Transmission
“He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from
their destructions.”
He transmitted the consciousness of health and awoke its
vibratory correlate in the one toward whom it was directed. He mentally
represented the subject to himself in a state of health and imagined he heard
the subject confirm it. “For no word of God shall be void of power; therefore
hold fast the pattern of healthful words which thou has heard.”
To pray successfully
you must have clearly defined objectives. You must know what you want
before you can ask for it. You must know what you want before you can feel that
you have it, and prayer is the feeling
of the fulfilled desire.
It does not matter what it is you seek in prayer, or where
it is, or whom it concerns.
You have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth of that which you desire to see
manifested.
When you emerge from prayer, you no longer seek, for you have, if you have prayed correctly,
subconsciously assumed the reality of the state sought, and by the law of
reversibility your subconscious must objectify that which it affirms.
You must have a conductor to transmit a force. You may
employ a wire, a jet of water, a current of air, a ray of light or any
intermediary whatsoever. The principle of the photophone or the transmission of
the voice by light will help you to understand thought transmission, or the
sending of a word to heal another. There is a strong analogy between a spoken
voice and a mental voice. To think is to speak low, to speak is to think aloud.
The principle of the photophone is this: A ray of light is
reflected by a mirror and projected to a receiver at a distant point. Back of
the mirror is a mouthpiece. By speaking into the mouthpiece you cause the
mirror to vibrate. A vibrating mirror modifies the light reflected on it. The
modified light has your speech to carry, not as speech, but as represented in
its mechanical correlate. It reaches the distant station and impinges on a disc
within the receiver; it causes the disc to vibrate according to the
modification it undergoes - and it reproduces your voice.
“I AM the light of the world.” I AM, the knowledge that I
exist, is a light by means of which what passes in my mind is rendered visible.
Memory, or my ability
to mentally see what is objectively present, proves that my mind is a mirror,
so sensitive a mirror that it can reflect a thought. The perception of an
image in memory in no way differs as a visual act from the perception of my
image in a mirror. The same principle of seeing is involved in both.
Your consciousness is
the light reflected on the mirror of your mind and projected in space to the
one of whom you think. By mentally speaking to the subjective image in your
mind you cause the mirror of your mind to vibrate.
Your vibrating mind modifies the light of consciousness
reflected on it. The modified light of consciousness reaches the one toward
whom it is directed and impinges on the mirror of his mind; it causes his mind
to vibrate according to the modification it undergoes. Thus, it reproduces in him what was mentally
affirmed by you.
Your beliefs, your fixed attitudes of mind, constantly
modify your consciousness, as it is reflected on the mirror of your mind. Your consciousness, modified by your
beliefs, objectifies itself in the conditions of your world. To change your world, you must first change
your conception of it. To change a man, you must change your conception of
him. You must first believe him to be the man you want him to be and mentally
talk to him as though he were. All men are sufficiently sensitive to reproduce
your beliefs of them.
Therefore, if your word is not reproduced visibly in him
toward whom it is sent, the cause is to be found in you, not in the subject. As soon as you believe in the truth of the
state affirmed, results follow. Everyone can be transformed; every thought
can be transmitted; every thought can be visibly embodied.
Subjective words -
subconscious assumptions - awaken what they affirm. They are living and active
and “shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that which I please,
and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent them.” They are endowed with the
intelligence pertaining to their mission and will persist until the object of
their existence is realized; they
persist until they awaken the vibratory correlates of themselves, within
the one toward whom they are directed, but the moment the object of their
creation is accomplished they cease to be. The
word spoken subjectively in quiet confidence will always awaken a corresponding
state in the one in whom it was spoken; but the moment its task is
accomplished it ceases to be, permitting the one in whom the state is realized
to remain in the consciousness of the state affirmed or to return to his former
state.
Whatever state has
your attention holds your life. Therefore, to become attentive to a former
state is to return to that condition. “Remember not the former things, neither
consider things of old.”
Nothing can be added to man, for the whole of creation is
already perfected in him.
“The kingdom of
heaven is within you.” “Man can receive nothing, except it be given him
from heaven.”
Heaven is your
subconsciousness. Not even a sunburn is given from without. The rays
without only awaken corresponding rays within. Were the burning rays not
contained within man, all the concentrated rays in the universe could not burn
him. Were the tones of health not contained within the consciousness of the one
whom they are affirmed, they could not be vibrated by the word which is sent. You do not really give to another, you
resurrect that which is asleep within him. “The damsel is not dead, but
sleepeth.”
Death is merely a sleeping and forgetting. Age and decay are
the sleep, not death, of youth and health. Recognition
of a state vibrates or awakens it.
Distance, as it is cognized by your objective senses, does
not exist for the subjective mind. “If I take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me.”
Time and space are
conditions of thought; the imagination can transcend them and move in a
psychological time and space. Although physically separated from a place by
thousands of miles, you can mentally live in the distant place as though it
were here.
Your imagination can easily transform winter into summer, New York into Florida,
and so on.
Whether the object of your desire be near or far, results
will be the same. Subjectively, the object of your desire is never far off; its
intense nearness makes it remote from observation of the senses. It dwells in
consciousness, and consciousness is closer than breathing and nearer than hands
and feet.
Consciousness is the
one and only reality. All phenomena are formed of the same substance vibrating
at different rates. Out of consciousness, I as man came, and to
consciousness, I as man return.
In consciousness all
states exist subjectively, and are awakened to their objective existence by
belief. The only thing that prevents us from making a successful subjective
impression on one at a great distance, or transforming there into here, is our
habit of regarding space as an obstacle.
A friend a thousand miles away is rooted in your
consciousness through your fixed ideas of him. To think of him and represent
him to yourself inwardly in the state you desire him to be, confident that this
subjective image is as true as it were already objectified, awakens in him a
corresponding state which he must objectify. The results will be as obvious as
the cause was hidden. The subject will express the awakened state within him
and remain unaware of the true cause of his action.
Your illusion of free will is but ignorance of the causes
which make you act. Prayers depend upon
your attitude of mind for their success and not upon the attitude of the
subject.
The subject has no
power to resist your controlled subjective ideas of him unless the state affirmed
by you, to be true of him, is a state he is incapable of wishing as true of
another. In that case it returns to you, the sender, and will realize itself in
you. Provided the idea is acceptable, success depends entirely on the
operator not upon the subject who, like compass needles on their pivots, are
quite indifferent as to what direction you choose to give them. If your fixed idea is not subjectively
accepted by the one toward whom it is directed, it rebounds to you from whom it
came.
“Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that
which is good? I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” “There shall no evil happen to
the just.” Nothing befalls us that is
not of the nature of ourselves.
A person who directs
a malicious thought to another will be injured by its rebound if he fails to
get subconscious acceptance of the other.
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
Furthermore, what you can wish and believe of another can be
wished and believed of you, and you have no power to reject it if the one who
desires it for you accepts it as true of you. The only power to reject a subjective word is to be incapable of
wishing a similar state of another - to give, presupposes the ability to receive.
The possibility to impress an idea upon another mind
presupposes the ability of that mind to receive that impression. Fools exploit
the world; the wise transfigure it.
It is the highest
wisdom to know that in the living universe there is no destiny other than that
created out of imagination of man. There is no influence outside of the mind of
man.
“Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever are of good
report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these
things.”
Never accept as true
of others what you would not want to be true of you. To awaken a state
within another it must first be awake within you. The state you would transmit
to another can only be transmitted, if it is believed by you. Therefore to give
is to receive.
You cannot give what
you do not have and you have only what you believe. So to believe a state
as true of another not only awakens that state within the other but it makes it
alive within you. You are what you
believe.
“Give and ye shall receive, full measure, pressed down and
running over.”
Giving is simply believing, for what you truly believe of
others you will awaken within them. The
vibratory state transmitted by your belief persists until it awakens its
corresponding vibration in him of whom it is believed. But before it can be transmitted it must first be awake within the
transmitter. Whatever is awake within your consciousness, you are. Whether
the belief pertains to self or another does not matter, for the believer is defined by the sum total of
his beliefs or subconscious assumptions.
“As a man thinketh in his heart” - in the deep subconscious
of himself - “so is he.”
Disregard appearances
and subjectively affirm as true that which you wish to be true. This
awakens in you the tone of the state affirmed which in turn realizes itself in
you and in the one of whom it is affirmed. “Give and ye shall receive.” Beliefs invariably awaken what they
affirm. The world is a mirror, wherein everyone sees himself reflected. The
objective world reflects the beliefs of the subjective mind.
Some people are self-impressed best by visual images, others
by mental sounds, and still others by mental actions. The form of mental
activity which allows the whole power of your attention to be focused in one
chosen direction, is the one to cultivate, until you can bring all to play on
your objective, at the same time.
Should you have difficulty in understanding the terms,
“visual images,” “mental sounds” and “mental actions,” here is an illustration
that should make their meanings clear:
‘A’ imagines he sees a piece of music, knowing nothing at
all about musical notations. The impression in his mind is purely visual image. ‘B’ imagines he sees the
same piece, but he can read music and can imagine how it would sound when
played on the piano; that imagination is mental
sound. ‘C’ also reads music and is a pianist; as he reads, he imagines
himself playing the piece. The imaginary action is mental action.
The visual images,
mental sounds and mental actions are creations of your imagination, and though
they appear to come from without, they actually come from within yourself.
They move as if moved by another but are really launched by your own spirit
from the magical store-house of imagination.
They are projected
into space by the same vibratory law that governs the sending of a voice or
picture. Speech and images are projected not as speech or images but as
vibratory correlates.
Subjective mind vibrates according to the modifications it
undergoes by the thought and feelings of the operator. The visible state created is the effect of the subjective vibrations.
A feeling is always accompanied by a corresponding vibration, that is, a change
in expression or sensation in the operator.
There is no thought or feeling without expression. No matter
how emotionless you appear to be, if you reflect with any degree of intensity,
there is always an execution of slight muscular movements.
The eye, though shut, follows the movements of the imaginary
objects and the pupil is dilated or contracted according to the brightness or
the remoteness of those objects; respiration is accelerated or slowed,
according to the course of your thoughts; the muscles contract correspondingly
to your mental movements.
This change of vibration persists until it awakens a
corresponding vibration in the subject, which vibration then expresses itself
in a physical fact.
“And the word was made flesh.”
Energy, as you see in the case of radio, is transmitted and
received in a “field,” a place where changes in space occur. The field and
energy are one and inseparable. The field or subject becomes the embodiment of
the word or energy received.
The thinker and the
thought, the operator and the subject, the energy and the field are one. Were
you still enough to hear the sound of your beliefs, you would know what is
meant by “the music of the spheres.”
The mental sound you hear in prayer as coming from without
is really produced by yourself. Self-observation
will reveal this fact.
As the music of the spheres is defined as the harmony heard
by the gods alone, and is supposed to be produced by the movements of the
celestial spheres, so, too, is the harmony you subjectively hear for others
heard by you alone is produced by the movements of your thoughts and feelings
in the true kingdom or
“heaven within you.”
Neville Goddard,
Prayer, The Art of
Believing
