6. CHILDREN OF LIGHT...Wheels of Truth
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All man-made laws have penalties attached to them. God made all things and pronounced them good. The Law of God is Truth. A law in the usual sense presupposes two parties and an agreement, but these are all man-made. If man throws a stone in the air and it falls to the earth, this is a law or truth, and contains no reward or punishment. If you permit the stone to fall upon you, it simply means that you failed to get out of the way.
It is utterly false to say that God makes laws which man disobeys. Man believes a lie and the disease and misery that follow are based on his belief in the lie. We have made a law unto ourselves and are now bound by the chains of our own false beliefs. The laws of nature are not different or separated from the laws of man’s inner life. None of the forces of the universe exist outside man. The innermost reality in man is the One Identity, within which the whole world moves, lives, and has its being.
The center of this great wheel is always at rest, it is the Sphinx, or the formless awareness in man which remains unmoved throughout all the cycles of transformation. “Ye shall delight in the Sabbath.” The Sabbath is our conviction;—the rest of the Lord, the stillness which follows the inner knowing that our prayer is answered. We must not hear anything but good. When you hear a person criticize another, you are actually hearing him tell you who he is. You do not have to check on his references; he has completely revealed his character to you, and character is destiny. All the things he criticized were within himself.
At a Truth lecture, members of the audience frequently say, “I’m exceedingly glad I brought my husband (or wife, as the case may be) tonight, for what you said certainly applied to him (or her).” The listener never thinks that what is said applies to himself, or that he is in any way to blame.
We believe if we lose an article that cost five dollars, we have lost something of value because we are constantly thinking in terms of dollars and cents. But when we lose a joyful state, which is the greatest loss we can sustain, we don’t mind that, because we seem to expect the sad, gloomy state and look upon it as inevitable.
The writer is frequently asked to say grace at meals, particularly when invited to homes, or sometimes by Truth students. “Go thy way and eat thy food with joy.” The only real thanks is a joyful state; it is the great digester and assimilator. It is the silent inner knowing that there is abundance of God’s bounty. Mechanical repetition of some fancy prayer is meaningless and distasteful, and gives rise to indigestion in some instances. If you are in a joyful mood, the natural secretions will play their role to perfection and the food that you eat will be completely digested. If you believe the food is bad, or if you are in a dejected, critical, or angry mood, the food will become a lump in the esophagus and stomach. The gastric juices will dry up. This can be proven readily under hypnosis. If you are worried, it makes no difference what you eat, the result is usually ulcers of the stomach or duodenum. Become relaxed and happy, and you are cured, the ulcers vanish, as they never really were. The ulcers existed because you continued to believe a lie and the opinions of man. Disease is what follows a belief. Some pray to entities in space for a cure, others take pills, others pray to a God outside themselves wondering whether they are worthy. Praying is a hit or miss proposition to most people; they don’t know whether their prayer is answered or will be answered. It is true that if a person believes in a pill, a cure will follow. It is the belief that cures, not the pill. A belief is one thing, and Truth is another. “The children of this day are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” (Matt.16:8)
“And I say unto you Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.” (Luke 16:9) This means that it is better for a man to believe in something rather than not have faith in anything. For the children of this day are those who have worldly beliefs such as the superstition that a rabbit’s foot will protect them from all harm while driving. If man believes this implicitly, so long as he has the rabbit’s foot he will be immune to harm. Of course, the stupidity and falsity of this belief are manifest to the Truth student who knows that when the rabbit’s foot is lost or stolen, the owner’s God is lost and misfortune follows. However, such a man, though he may believe that if he lights a candle or several candles someone will be healed, is wiser than the children of light; meaning a person who has heard and acknowledged Truth, but fails to apply it, is no wiser than he was before.
Unfortunately there are thousands of these children of light who can pass an examination in metaphysics and get 100%, or at least 99%, and at the same time can’t demonstrate over a toothache. They never apply it; just talk about it and around it. Therefore, the man who believes in the power of talismans, amulets, candles, spiritual entities walking in space with healing in their wings is wiser and better off than these children of light. We must become men of light, and let our light shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father Who is in heaven.
The food that we eat must be spiritual, the bread from heaven which is the living Truth. This gives us health and happiness. When we sit down to eat, let us believe that what we are eating is good for us. If we are eating under protest it will do us harm. If we drink a cocktail to please our hostess and we feel it is bad for us, it will work harm. It is not what we would like to believe, but what we really believe that matters. Some people like to tilt tables while they eat and to produce sounds at will in different parts of the table. This procedure is due to a certain state of consciousness and not due to spirits. It is due to a law of disassociation: It is the peculiar passive state where you begin to write on the Ouija board, while waiting for it in the attitude of expectancy. Man and no one else operates the Ouija board. There are no discarnate entities, and persons practising automatic writing, Ouija board readings, and mediumistic operations are usually living in fear of evil entities in space. Consequently this fear and negative state result in a split personality, or so-called schizophrenia. The above is bad food, and the scripture points out, “Thou shalt not eat any abominable food.” We must take our ideas which are facts of consciousness and secrete the emotions necessary to assimilate wonderful food. This is the happy, joyous mood, and if we go to sleep in that state, the desert will blossom as the rose.
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Wheels of Truth, Dr. Joseph Murphy
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