New Thought Lectures, Volume 2 E-Book

F.W. Sears

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Experience the life-changing power of F. W. Sears with this unforgettable book.

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New Thought Lectures, Volume 2

F.W. Sears

CONTENTS

THE LAW OF ABUNDANCE

F. W. Sears, M. P.

General Lecturer, New Thought Church,

New York.

“Where there is God there is no need.” “Abundance is the natural law of the universal life.”

The key with which we may unlock any occult law is recognition.

When we want to understand this ” Law of Abundance ” we must recognize that such a law exists, and when we stop and think for a moment this is not so difficult for us to do.

Nature produces an abundance of evidence of this universal law. The trees, the leaves, the grass, the flowers, the rocks, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the oceans, the fishes, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, the vast expanse of undeveloped land, the waste of waters in seas and oceans, all tell us the story of profusion. Everywhere Nature is prodigal, extravagant, with everything she produces; nowhere do we find Nature exercising economy. God has never shown economy in any created thing.

We may examine the mineral kingdom from its very lowest to the highest form of manifestation, and nowhere does Nature stint or become frugal therein. We may examine the vegetable kingdom, from its lowest to the highest form of manifestation, and nowhere is Nature penurious in her expressions. And so through the animal kingdom, and on through to mankind.

When we look back to primitive man, at what we call savagery, we find Nature prolific in providing everything the savage wants or needs, and not until man begins to get what we call civilized do we begin to find economy practiced anywhere. And civilized man, possessing reason, logic, intellect, the very faculties he should use to help him, has instead used them to reason himself away from the abundance of supply to a point where he has to practice economy, or at least thinks he has, in his environment.

As we look through Nature and analyze her manifestations through all these various kingdoms, we must believe in this abundance of supply. The billion billion blades of grass, the thousands upon thousands of seeds, trees and flowers, the thousands of eggs produced to the one used in the scheme of reproduction, the vast amount of food, both animal and vegetable, which goes to waste each year, all are evidences of the lavishness of Nature in her manifestation of this Law of Abundance.

And man, who possesses the great creative power of the universe within himself and who is the only conscious creator in the four kingdoms, is the only one who separates himself from this abundance of supply and manifests lack and poverty in his environment.

So, “where there is God, there is no need” being true, man must have separated himself from God and the abundance of supply which He has furnished and gotten very far away from God in his consciousness in order to manifest poverty in his life.

There are thousands of persons here in New York City this morning who are staying away from their particular church services because they do not have clothes suitable to wear and not because there is any lack in the abundance of the supply of clothing nor because the supply of clothing here would not cover every man, woman and child lavishly and beautifully. They have failed to establish a relationship in their consciousness with the supply and can therefore only materialize what they recognize, which is lack.

There are thousands of persons who went without breakfast this morning, not because there was any lack in the supply of food in this city, but solely and entirely because they have separated themselves in their consciousness, their thought world, from the supply.

And what is true of New York City is true of the whole world. Thousands upon thousands of persons die annually everywhere from lack of food, not because there is any shortage of the food supply, for these United States alone waste enough each year to feed the starving poor of the whole world.

There are thousands of persons who are sick and diseased because they do not have shoes or stockings or clothing sufficient and proper to protect them during the winter, although the big stocks of these articles which are constantly kept on hand in the stores and shops attest to the abundance of the supply. Those who lack a sufficient supply do so because they have separated themselves in their thought world from the abundance of supply.

How do we separate ourselves? How do we get away from this abundance of supply?

A young man about twenty-three years old came into my office the other day; he was strong, sturdy, healthy, well-built, well clothed, and of good appearance. He wanted a position, and this is the story he told. He had come to New York about six weeks before with $50 in his pocket; he had been tramping the streets of the city day after day during all that time and had not been able to secure a position. Here in New York City where every morning the papers are filled with advertisements for the employment of thousands of men and women; where the cry is always for men and women to work; here in New York City a man could walk the streets for six weeks without securing employment? That is the story he told and I have every reason to believe it was true, because the moment he came into the door I felt his atmosphere of failure. He carried failure around with him.

When he first came to New York City, he was more or less filled with fear. He was worried, he was anxious, he was fearful that he would not get a job, and as he walked the streets day after day that fear took possession of him stronger and more powerfully; and as the days went by and he did not secure a position, and his little store of money began to dwindle away, his fear kept increasing.

Instead of seeing himself in a position, he kept seeing himself out of one; he kept seeing himself walking the streets and not being able to get a position, and he continued to relate with just what he visualized or created.

I said to him, “Why don’t you see yourself in a position? ” He said he could not get anything to do because he did not have any local city references. “Why,” I said, ” my dear boy, that isn’t the reason; the reason is solely and entirely because you cannot see yourself in a position; because you will not see yourself having work. You are ready and willing enough to see yourself out of a position; you have seen yourself tramping these streets day after day and going into place after place and being refused everywhere you went; that is what you have built, for that is the kind of energy you have generated; that is the kind of atmosphere you carry around with you; that is the kind of atmosphere you brought into my office, and God himself cannot give you a job until you have created it for yourself in your own consciousness. When you will learn to see yourself in a position, with half the persistency you see yourself out of one, you will then not remain idle very long.”

He said, ” That’s all very fine for you, a man who has a good business, to sit and talk like that.”

I said, ” My dear boy, how do you suppose a man gets a good business? Do you think it comes to him by luck or chance? What do you know about my business? Whatever I have is the result or the effect of my own creation, and whatever you have to-day is the materialization of your own vision.”

He said it was “just his luck,” and I said, ” My dear boy, as long as you live in that state of consciousness, as long as you continue building that in your thought world, it will be impossible for you to get a position. There is only one way for you to get one, and when you will follow that way, I will guarantee you will have a position inside of the next twenty-four hours, notwithstanding the negative, destructive energy yon have generated in the past.” Well, he was going to have a position that day or he was going to do something dreadful.

Don’t you see how life after life gets in that negative, destructive thought current. No matter what we say to them, until they have worked out at least some of the effects of their negative energy, until they have perhaps drunk the very dregs of misery as a result of it, they will not learn. They will hold on to their old thought ideas, their old thought habits, their old thought customs, and we cannot break them away; it is useless to try, because even could we pull them away by force, they would not stay away; they go back again and again. We can lay our hands on their lives and take them out of the condition in which they find themselves; we can take care of their immediate wants with money and give them a position, but again and again do those lives go back into those negative, destructive thought currents, until the day comes when they see for themselves the truth of this law, that they are separating themselves from the universal abundance of supply through every thought they think and then they come back into the recognition of their oneness with the universal supply, and make for that oneness more and more.

There are three laws under which the mass mind works; the one is the law of under-supply to the demand; the second is the law of supply being equal to the demand; and the third is the law of supply being greater than the demand; this third is the universal law of life. The second law—supply equal to the demand—there is where the mass mind is working. Only a comparatively small portion of mankind are under the first law, where the demand is greater than the supply, where the demand for even necessities is not met with suflicient supply.

The young man referred to belongs to that class, but the larger part of the mass mind belongs to the middle class, where we put out our demands for a moderate supply, believing they will be met and living in the consciousness that they will be met, and by that very act we build for them to be met. But when there is anything a little extra that we want, that we have a great desire for, only a very few of this class ever make their demand believing and knowing they can have it. They make it hoping and wishing they might, but they never make their demand believing right down deep in their hearts that they can have it.

They have not come into an understanding of what Jesus meant when he said “All that my Father hath is mine;” they have not come into a realization of the oneness of all life, nor the universality of all substance ” the earth and the fullness thereof;” they have not come into the realization that there is absolutely nothing in the universe but what we may have when we recognize our union with it; neither have they learned that there is absolutely nothing we want that will be possible for us to obtain as long as we continue to live in a recognition of our separation from it.

But the moment we place anything— no matter how impossible the attaining of it to-day may seem to us—upon the list of things which we believe and know we may obtain, that moment we start causes in motion which will relate us with that thing, and sooner or later it will embody in material form around us and be ours. The time will depend solely and entirely upon how strongly and powerfully we vitalize the desire, how fully and completely we live in the consciousness that it is ours now, not that it will be ours next week, or next month, or next year, or in some far-off distant future. When we learn to live in that consciousness now, instead of building for the future, we find that we make ourselves one now with the things we desire; but when we build for the future, when we build for next week, or next month, or next year, we find that there are very few of us who ever catch up with our future.

Then there is this third class of persons who live in the over-supply to the demand; that is the Universal Law; the abundance of supply to the demand. These people believe—not only believe, but they know— that they can have what they want, they can have it when they want it, and as long as they want it; there is no question, no doubt about it. Why, they attract to themselves again and again the abundance of supply, and they attract it over many, many different lines of transference.