The Good Time Coming E-Book

Jane W. Yarnall

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Jane W. Yarnall with this unforgettable book.

Leseprobe

The Good Time Coming

Jane W. Yarnall

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

The many readers of the author’s prior work, “Practical Healing for Mind and Body,” will welcome this supplementary volume, the sub-title of which is “The Way Out of Bondage.” It is a most helpful and beautiful blending of science and religion, being largely devoted to the theological aspects of the present metaphysical movement. Mrs. Yarnall’s well-founded contention is that “the good time” is already here for those who are spiritually awakened and are conscious of the eternal principles of being on which human life is based. She shows the futility of relying upon any external power for the attainment of health or happiness, or even worldly prosperity, and proves that the vivid realization, of universal Truth is the only practical remedy for all ills. The development of the Higher Self is shown to be a fundamental requisite to progress on any line. The book contains a half-tone portrait of the author.

Introduction

Something over five years ago we published and offered to the public the book “Practical Healing for Mind and Body,” and during those years there have come to the writer such words of appreciation, and such assurances of the good it has done, and the help it has given, that we feel encouraged to offer another volume with the hope that it may be equally helpful to its readers.

The former book being devoted more to the rudiments of Mental Science and its practical uses, there was necessarily less space given to what may be called the theological side of the question; and notwithstanding the tendency among theologians to be more lenient toward such innovations as have been made by the promulgation of these metaphysical ideas, there is still much room for improvement in that line, and much need for a more thorough acquaintance with the principles we teach.

When we look back upon the practices of bigotry and intolerance, and the persecution every new innovation has had to suffer from such sources, we discover that every worthy movement has quietly triumphed over all such persecution and misrepresentation, and has withstood the assaults of calumny and prejudice, and gradually risen into prominence and usefulness nothing daunted by the efforts made to bring it into disrepute.

So it has been with the growth of this metaphysical movement.

It has been stoned and pelted with filthy innuendoes, and every indignity has been heaped upon it that jealousy, envy and malice could invent; but it grows, and thrives, and its influence for good widens and expands in beauty and utility day by day.

It has been found to serve the needs of mankind as nothing else has ever done; and while it may be said to be still in its infancy, it is opening up new and glorious vistas for the students of truth to profit by continually.

We call this little volume “THE GOOD TIME COMING,” because it has not as yet come to all consciously.

While in the song of the African slave, as he caught a glimpse of the freedom soon to be proclaimed for his race, he sang “The good time coming is almost here,

It was long, long, long on the way,” etc. many of us can rejoice in deliverance from another kind of bondage.

The good time is already here for all who will open the door and let it in.

The good time coming is when the principles we have aimed to set forth in these pages shall be known and acknowledged by every living soul.

The good time consists in the knowledge of eternal principles that are of practical value in the solution of the life problem. Not a solution of the financial problem at all; but when a man understands the truth of his real being, as all may understand it, the financial problem is already solved for such.

The good time consists in the realization of freedom now, which means a liberation from the false ideas and mistaken methods that have kept the human race in bondage to limitation and helplessness on every hand, and to the false belief that such was the common and inevitable lot of all mankind.

The multitudes of people of sound mental caliber who are learning the more excellent way constitutes the best evidence that truth is the power back of the movement.

We, as a people, have great reason for rejoicing that we live in an age of progressive thought; in an age that pushes mankind to investigate; in an age that honest students of truth are not satisfied with the traditions of the past, but rather seek to “prove all things and hold fast to that which is good,” knowing that all truth is good.

The traditions of men, and the popular teachings of creed and dogma, have not been satisfying to the majority of thinking people, because of the errors and discrepancies that completely overshadow the practical good that might be brought out by the teaching.

The nature and character of God, and the law of God, as generally expounded, has been found so at variance with the spirit of godliness that reasoning souls could not remain so clouded by ignorance; could not be satisfied to grovel in the limitations such teachings imposed, however sincerely it may have been taught.

The whole civilized world, as a people, have believed in a God; have talked, written and preached about God, and formed and expressed opinions pro and con about God; and yet with all that has been taught, said, written or preached, comparatively few have fully agreed in their conceptions of God.

We have been taught of a personal God, of an angry God, a God of wrath, a jealous God, a vengeful, vindictive God, etc., and the same teachers have called the same God a God of love, and have said that he was yesterday, today and forever the same.

We cannot deny that such contradictory ideas and opinions constitute much of the teaching called religious, and which teaching treats of the character and laws of God, and our own relation to, and duty toward, Him, as the Supreme Ruler of the universe.

That such teaching has not satisfied the reasoning men and women of today is a well known fact that has been the great incentive for seeking deeper into the problem of man’s being.

The seeking has not been in vain.

It has been discovered by men of great learning and unquestioned scholarship that the choice of words used by the translators of Scripture has not always expressed the true spirit of the word, hence the confusion of ideas as the result.

The personal pronoun He and Him, used so profusely throughout the Scriptures when referring to God, or the Lord, leaves the reader with an impression of a personal God, and a personal Lord, so long and so persistently taught throughout Christendom. This conception of God and the Lord has been so misleading, and has made such deep impressions upon the minds of men, that we are very apt to lose sight of the spirit of the word.

We are apt to forget that “God is Spirit,” and that He must be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth.

By logical reasoning we find that God means the absolute good as a whole.

When we say absolute good, we mean that which cannot be qualified; it is absolute.

The good may be divided and subdivided into various principles and aspects that are eternally the same, that nothing can change, separate or destroy, and between which there can be no disagreement.

The principle of Life, of Love, of Truth, of Wisdom, Power, Health, Strength, Peace, and many more too numerous to mention, all belong in the category of eternal, incomparable principles that constitute God.

These principles are expressed in the law of the good, which in Scripture is called the Lord, and in reality as a combination of eternal principles is Lord over all.

It is to this ever acting law of the good that we are to look for deliverance from the not good, or the negative we call evil; that is, act and live in harmony with it, agree with it, and depend upon it as supreme.

All the civilized world as a people have called upon the God of their conceptions for help or relief, and the fact that so many have made their appeals in vain is the best evidence that their conceptions were false, and therefore their appeals were made to a false God.

It was this law of God (the Lord) that spoke through the prophet Isaiah when he said “Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth.”

This appeal was made to a people who were worshiping false gods, just as many are doing unconsciously in our day.

We are told that the spirit of wisdom and truth spoke through Isaiah at such times, and that this was a message direct from the author of this law to the children of earth, and that Isaiah was inspired to see that their mistaken ideas of God, and of worship, were the primary cause of the miseries they suffered; and the only way to be saved from such misery was to look to the law that was the natural and inevitable expression of those eternal principles of truth and goodness that tend continually to peace and harmony.

We are not to suppose that the knowledge of this law was confined to the prophets and the holy men of Israel. It is for all to know and understand if only we will open the windows of the souls and be taught of the Spirit to know ourselves.

To pursue the study of man, as the offspring of the great Source of being, and trace the unfoldment from the lowest plane of consciousness to the present status of man (though it has taken ages to reach the present stage) the door begins to open and unnumbered mysteries are revealed; and man begins to find that every mystery is hidden within himself, and only awaits his action to unfold and reveal its true nature, and then he says, “How strange that we never discovered these things before.”

Health, strength and vigor of mind and body are the rightful inheritance of every child of earth, and none are deprived of that inheritance except through ignorance of the law that makes for health and harmony, which is the law we have aimed to set forth in these pages.

We trust the readers of this little volume will be able to solve many a problem by a practical knowledge of the principles herein set forth, and that strength and light will be given to clear away the falsity that has heretofore obscured the mental vision for us all.

To know that even one has found the way out of bondage by the truths we have given in this form will be a pleasure and blessing to the AUTHOR.

Chapter 1 – Cause and Effect

All there is in the universe is cause and effect. It has been the habit of the world for mankind to attach very little importance to what is called trifles; but it is not well to lose sight of the fact that it is the apparent trifles that go to make up the sum of human experience.

That which seems the most trivial of all things sometimes opens the door to the most stupendous events in life.

There is nothing accidental in the law of the universe, and every event that transpires in human experience is due to that universal unvarying law; and no pleading, begging, or beseeching can avail to change the action of the law; we can only change our attitude to the law.

The law of harmony is the inevitable product of a perfect cause, and is the expression of the nature of First Cause, expressed through the image or ideal man.

There are many aspects or qualities in First Cause, every one of which are principles that are eternal and unchangeable; every one of which are unceasingly active, and by their action must produce an expression that corresponds with the nature and character of the cause. That expression is Spiritual Man of the first chapter of Genesis, the image of God, to whom was imparted life, power and dominion over the material world, before the representative man on the Adam plane was formed. Those different aspects expressed in the image are Life, Love, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Intelligence, Health, Strength and many more, all of which stand as eternal verities that nothing can change, destroy or weaken.

This combination of eternal principles constitutes God, and may very properly be called First Cause, which it is; or it may be called Primal Energy as expressive of its ceaseless activity; it may be called Cosmic Force expressive of its universal power; it all means God, because it embraces all good, and we cannot detract one iota from the majesty and glory of God by the use of any name that better expresses the various aspects and powers of the Infinite.

To trace the effect of First Cause we find that Spiritual Man has potential within him – all the qualities, powers, activities and possibilities of First Cause, which fact does not accord with old theology, hence the reluctance with which it is accepted, but truth is true, and only by knowing truth can we be made free from the effects of error.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” said the Lord (the law) through the prophet Isaiah.

First Cause, Primal Energy, or Cosmic Force is the Father; is that ceaseless energy that never slumbers nor sleeps.

The image or Spiritual Man is the Son; and the Son says, “My Father worketh hitherto and I work.”

The Father creates; the Son makes that creation manifest in objective form.

The ideal creation is the work of the Father who created all things spiritual and ideal; and the form on the visible plane is the work of the Son, or Lord God. The man of flesh called Adam in the Allegory is the visible representation of that which is Spiritual, and is not a creation in the spiritual sense. Power and dominion were not imparted to the Adam nature, but to the Spiritual nature which the man of flesh represents.

A conscious department of mind was given to the man of flesh, with power to reason and unfold. It was as if the Lord God had said to Adam, “I have given you the power of reason and I leave you to search out the origin, source and cause of all things, and the freedom to choose between the true and the false.”

Understand: The Adam plane represents the infancy of the soul, and on that plane man is ignorant of his origin, ignorant of his powers, ignorant of his inheritance in every particular, and ignorant of anything higher than the fact of his form of flesh and the visible world and objects around him.

This suppositious Adam was placed in conditions and surroundings of perfect harmony which was named the Garden of Eden, expressive of the perfection and harmony that surrounded him, and his experience (whether an actual fact or a myth) is a type of the experience every soul has to go through in one way or another. While we believe that flesh, blood and bones is man, we are conscious of limitation on every hand, and we can never unfold to the Christ within, nor awaken those powers that assure us of dominion over the flesh.

The Adam plane of consciousness is a representation of weakness, ignorance, limitation and inability; hence the saying, “In Adam all die;” while to unfold to a consciousness of the Christ within, and know the truth of Being, is to be made alive. “In Christ ALL are made alive.”

These simple statements of Scripture have rarely been analyzed to any extent, and the real significance has been overlooked in a great measure, although we hear them quoted frequently. There is a great deal involved in those statements that would, if allowed, carry the mind in reason back to an investigation of what is meant by the Adam plane, and why it should end in death; and how to understand why “in Christ all are made alive.”

The Adam plane of consciousness is one of falsity, and all falsity tends to confusion, discord and death. The Christ consciousness is the way out of falsity. It is the way, the truth and the life, in which all are made alive.

The physical ills that overtake us are usually accounted for on the plane of materiality. The average minds have thought so little and reasoned so largely from the standpoint of sense perception that only those who look deeper into principles can comprehend the truth of the matter.

The result of false reasoning can never be harmonious; and whether people are ready to admit the fact of mental causation or not, it makes no difference with the result, or with the truth of the statements regarding it; the proof is in demonstration.

To many (at first especially), it seems a very absurd and arbitrary statement to say “there is no such thing as physical causation,” but in truth we cannot afford to agree with the materialist who reasons from a false basis.

The statement is true. All causation is of the mind PRIMARILY, but we admit that a secondary cause on the physical plane may precipitate the result in sickness and pain where some mental cause has opened the door and prepared the way for a disturbance.

For instance, a person may be perfectly free from any indication or fear of taking cold, and free from any thought or suggestion of it, at the same time that person may have had some perplexing trouble, some worry, anger, fright, or some emotion that disturbed the tranquility and peace of mind.

In that condition he is liable to be seized with every symptom of a bad cold, and he will say he doesn’t know how in the world he came to take such a cold.

That condition, in such a case, is the effect of a mental cause although the patient may not be able to recall any mental inharmony whatever.

In another way one may be attacked with a similar condition that is superinduced by some mental influence from without; but we must understand that we have no business to leave an open door for such influences to enter; we can and should always be fortified against any evil influence by loyalty to – and trust in – the law of harmony.

If at a loss how to keep in line with the law of harmony allow yourself to become as a little child, and seek the teaching that will set your feet in the path of knowledge. Set aside your great learning for the time, and understand that demonstration over the ills and discords in life does not depend upon your fine education.

When first principles are mastered, and the law of your being is apprehended, the unfoldment begins, and you will soon realize how much of that fine education is of use in solving the life problem.

Your unfoldment will be rapid or slow, in proportion to your devotion to principle.

A fine education is very desirable; but a knowledge of first principles – cause and effect, the law of our being – is absolutely essential in the matter of starting right, but has been overlooked in the education of a vast number who are accredited with the most profound scholarship.

No matter how much book learning one has, nor how many degrees one has taken in the great institutions of the world, if one has no conception of the Science of Being, the whole career on this plane is shadowed by that ignorance.

The study of divinity (so called) has not enabled our theologians to live exempt from the ordinary ills of the flesh any more than those who have not studied divinity; nor has it enabled them to heal, or teach the way of health according to divine law.

They are no less alarmed at the approach of an epidemic, or contagion, than the uneducated grave-digger of the parish.

They are, as a rule, more given to anxiety and precaution concerning health than other people are; they sicken and die with no apparent conception of the real cause, and consider it the will of God, or a dispensation of Providence, although they have tried every material means to thwart what they call the will of God.

Now there is no better reason given for the inharmonies on the earth’s plane than the saying of Gautama Buddha, viz.: “Ignorance of truth is the cause of all misery.” So let us consider the study of truth in all its bearings as the summum bonum of all learning.

Truth is God, and God is omnipresent good, so the sooner we recognize only the good as reality, the sooner we shall understand the truth of Being, and with that knowledge we leave behind us the cause, of which misery and discord is but the effect, and we are free.

Chapter 2 – The New Dispensation

Solomon said: “There is nothing new under the sun,” which is true when speaking of principles and things; as principles are eternal, and things are the expression of those eternal principles, thus there is nothing new or old except in human consciousness, and when we speak of a New Dispensation we mean a newer and better conception of the manner of dispensing law and knowledge of things divine.

It is the nature of all principle to express itself.

All principle is divinely perfect, eternally active, unchangeable and mathematically scientific, and nothing can prevent its full expression except man’s perversity, and then only to human consciousness.

We need to understand the working of the law that proceeds from, and expresses those eternal principles we call God.

In other words, we need to understand the law of “First Cause” and its effect in expression.

The story of creation has been understood by most of us as a literal fact of history, and we have overlooked the lesson contained in the allegory, thus losing the more beautiful conception of the origin and nature of man as a direct offspring of the creative power.

We have been taught to consider the account of creation given in the first chapter of Genesis as the actual beginning of all things, and that our planet “Earth” is but six thousand years old, although it is now very well known that this ancient theory has been gradually giving place to a more rational view of the subject, especially among people who reason from cause to effect, which reasoning does not destroy one iota of the veneration and homage due to the creative source of all knowledge and wisdom we call God.