Emmet Fox E Zine
June - July
Emmet Fox: once said. "As time
passes, you will realize it more and more, that you will not be any nearer to
Him than you are now. God will never love you more than He does now." You are
progressing, no matter how much or how little you know of Truth. "Seek, and ye
shall find." The very fact that you are reading these words is evidence that
you are seeking. Whether you have been seeking for a year, or for an hour, you
are better now than you were before. Your life has more of blessing, less of
lack; more of health, less of ailing; more of harmony, less of unhappiness.
Affirmation - Florence Shinn ~
"Be undisturbed by a situation, and it will fall away
of its own weight."
Affirmation ~ Joseph Murphy
"God is the source of my supply. His riches
flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs
are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine
surplus."
From The Writings of Nona
Brooks
Let us bring God (our Father) as near as we can get
Him. When we do this we shall see reality instead of appearances. When there is
something unsightly in that which we see before us, what should be our reaction?
So often the seeming difficulty is all that we see. Our first impulse is to
think that God is not there. Why not look through the unsightliness? It is only
our concept of the experience - our
misconception. True insight proves to us that what we are seeing imperfectly,
God is seeing perfectly. The one Creator is bringing forth perfectly. We are
worshiping today a perfect God. Let us keep true to the ideal of perfection in
every experience as well as in every thought. Always ask yourself this question,
"is the difficulty in the condition, or is it in my seeing?" The answer will
come immediately, if you have kept your attitude true, "I am looking upon that
which is by nature perfect."
Freedom
Rev. Elaine Hibbard, Minister Calif.
The answer to every question is within man, because
man is within Spirit, and Spirit is an Indivisab1e Whole!.
Nothing in your life moves until your mind moves! No form, condition, or
experience comes into your life until your mind thinks and accepts it.
Seeing,sensing,fee1ing, and accepting act as catalysts that provide the necessary
fuel to project your thoughts into Mind. The Divine
Creative Power rests with you like a priceless jewel, moving according to your
direction. It doesn't do any good to stand back of a closed door and expect to
go through it. If you want to go somewhere ••• open the door- then you can walk
through it. If you would like to make changes in your life but do not feel free
to take the risk, there is a need to open the doorway of your mind and accept
your freedom- from within! You can hold yourself a prisoner to past mistakes and
errors in judgement which have cost you untold misery and grief. Instead, all
mistakes should be released, forgiven, and forgotten. Perhaps these experiences
took place in order to get you back on track. The composer, Brauns, once said,
"So often I had to hit the wrong note before I was able to find the right one!"
So let it be. Let your outer world be reshaped by new ideas and new attitudes,
rather than dwelling on past mistakes, for it is today's thoughts that provide
the framework for tomorrow's demonstrations.
July 4th Prayer for the U.S, Dr. Ernest Holmes
.. .I offer this, my prayer for my country:
I know that Divine Intelligence governs the destiny of the United States of
America , directing the thought and the activity of all who guide its affairs.
I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are the gifts of freedom, and are
the Divine heritage of everyone in this country.
I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are now operating in the affairs
of every individual in this country.
I know that Divine guidance enlightens the collective mind of the people of this
country,
causing it to know that economic security may come to all without the loss of
either personal freedom or
individual self-expression.
I know that no one can believe or be led to believe that freedom must be
surrendered in order to ensure economic security for all.
The All-Knowing Mind of God contains the answer to every problem which confronts
this country.
I know that every leader in this country is now directed to this All-Knowing
Mind and has the knowledge of a complete solution to every problem, and each is
compelled to act upon this knowledge to the end that abundance, security, and
peace shall come to all.
And I know that this spiritual democracy shall endure, guaranteeing to everyone
in this country personal
liberty, happiness, and self-expression. And so it is, Amen.
INDIVIDUALITY ~ From: "You and Your Future" by Ernest
Holmes, 1968.
Life has set the stamp of Individuality on your soul.
You are different from any other person who ever lived. You are individualized
center in the Consciousness of God. You are a personal activity in the action of
God. You are you; you are eternal, and you are free. There is a Presence at the
center of your being that knows neither lack, limitation, nor fear. There is a
Power forever responding to your mental attitudes. You are either attracting or
repelling according to your mental attitudes. You are identifying yourself
either with abundance or with lack, with love and
friendship or with indifference. You cannot keep from attracting into your
experience that which corresponds to the sum total of your thoughts. This Law of
Mind works automatically, like the law of attraction and repulsion. It is also
like the law of reflection. Just as a reflection in a mirror corresponds to the
image held before the mirror, so the Law of Mind reflects in your experience the
forms of your own acceptance. How careful, then, you should be to guard your
thoughts. Not only to keep them free from doubt and fear by accepting the good,
but also to repel every thought
which denies that good. Realize that all action starts in, and is a result of,
consciousness; therefore prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to
offer.
It is not easy in the midst of pain to think health, in the midst of poverty to
think abundance, in the midst of unhappiness to think joy. But if you can do this
you will meet with success. Stop blaming anyone or anything-persons,
circumstances, or situations-for what may be happening to you. Your
accumulated thought-patterns are automatically sowing their own seeds in the
creative medium of your mind. They will keep on doing this until you change
them. Your hope lies in the fact that you can change these patterns. This is not
a process of merely making affirmations or holding
thoughts. It is a process of the gradual reeducation of·your whole mental
reactions to life. You have been told that all things are possible to him
who believes. Accept this as a principle of your being.
Stake Your Claim
You can have true success and happiness in life
if you consistently put these truths into practice in your daily living. It is
your God - given duty to Stake Your Claim to peace, poise,
power, prosperity and health - and God expects you to be satisfied with nothing
less. (Herman Wolhorn)
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God, bless all the fathers in the world. May each be
guided to be good role models to all their children. May they be a mentor and a
protector. May they be filled with love and understanding. May they turn to God
at the first sign of inharmony. May they always seek grace and patience to
handle all situations in a loving way. May they look upon their lives with
renewed strength and hope, may they always seek to climb higher in consciousness
and may they come to know that Universal Father looks upon them always with
loving eyes.
How to Bring About Peace
From the writings of: Emmet
Fox
Is
it not a
wonderful thought that you, perhaps an undistinguished and unknown, everyday
person, can sit quietly in your room and do more to save the world from the
inconceivable horrors of another war than can all the statesmen and diplomats
put together ?
Yet, such is the
case.
Many
people are speaking today as though another war were inevitable. Others, on the
contrary, declare optimistically that such a thing is impossible. The actual
fact is that another war is neither inevitable nor impossible. There can be
another war (and if there is, the destructions and horrors entailed will eclipse
anything dreamed of up to the present, owing to the extraordinary advance of
natural science and engineering in the past two decades), and such an event
would almost certainly be the end of Western Civilization as we have known it.
On
the other hand, there is not the least necessity for another war. It could
happen, but it is not
necessary.
There is at hand
a means by which a comparatively small number of people, if they so desire, can
prevent war from breaking out. In this pamphlet I intend to show exactly how
that can be done.
To
understand intelligently the problem that we have to face, we need to inquire
why war ever does break out. Most people suppose that a war occurs as the result
of certain definite acts on the part of certain individuals. They think that
National leaders in a position of authority decide to make war on a neighbor
because they feel that they are strong enough to conquer him; or that they
declare war in self-defense with the object of forestalling such an attack upon
themselves. Or it may be that they are drawn into a war already in progress
between their neighbors, in spite of all efforts to keep out. This is the common
view of history; but it is, however, quite wrong. The fact is that the concrete
acts of individuals, such as ultimatums, declarations of war, and so forth, are
never in themselves causal, but are merely the results of wide and deep currents
of thought and feeling already existing in the masses of the peoples concerned.
War breaks out between two countries because, for a long time beforehand, the
hearts of thousands of people on both sides of the frontier have been filled
with hatred and fear, and sometimes also with greed, satanic pride, and the rest
of the Seven Deadly Sins. The war itself, and all the horrors that go with the
shooting and bayoneting, the maiming and gassing, the destruction of property,
and so forth-are but the aftermath or outpicturing on, the physical plane of the
evil passions which preceded it.
It
is not possible for an act of violence to take place in the outer world of
experience unless there is first a thought of violence (fear, hatred, etc.) in
the inner world of thought. And it is equally true that it is not possible for
thoughts of violence to hold sway in men's souls without being sooner or later
enacted in the outer.
It
naturally follows from this that the scientific method for the prevention of war
must lie in the changing of the mentality of the people; and there is no other
way. But how is this mental change to be brought about? Can it be done by the
educational efforts of books and pamphlets, the holding of peace meetings, the
convening of international conferences, and so forth? Well, all these things are
efforts in the right. direction, of course, but it has to be admitted that their
practical results are usually very meagre and out of proportion to the expense
and effort involved. We know that all recent wars were preceded by efforts of
this kind, which, nevertheless, completely failed to prevent them. Nay, there is
a very definite danger lurking among these good intentions, because many
spiritually-minded people are lulled into a false sense of security by trusting
in them.
There is, however, a method
of preventing war which is both simple in its application and unfailing in its
results. It costs absolutely nothing to apply, and it can be put into effect by
anyone, anywhere, who is. prepared to give a little time to it. That method is
Scientific Prayer.
Let me say here that I cannot
too strongly emphasize the fact that it must be Scientific Prayer if it is to be
of any practical use. Other methods of prayer, while excellent in their own time
and place for other purposes, are of little practical use for the prevention of
war. They will comfort the individual, purify and develop his soul, and arm him
with fortitude to meet his troubles; but they will not prevent war. Only
Scientific Prayer will do that-and that it will do it is beyond any question. It
is only necessary that enough people (and not a very large number numerically)
should pray in the right way, and war will not come.
But what is Scientific
Prayer? Scientific Prayer may be briefly described as the Practice of the
Presence of God. In order to prevent war, you should devote at least five
minutes a day to the realization of the Presence of God in all the peoples
constituting the half dozen Great Powers. Do not work in this way for the whole
of humanity, but only for the peoples of what are called the Great Powers, as it
is desirable to concentrate the work where it is needed. War will not come
unless some of the Great Powers become involved.
You
may begin your prayer by reading a few verses of the Bible, or any spiritual
book that appeals to you, or by repeating a favorite hymn or spiritual poem.
Then declare that God is everywhere, and that all men, in Absolute Truth, are
now spiritual and perfect, expressing only Love, and
that all men, in Absolute Truth, are now
spiritual and perfect, expressing only Love, and Wisdom, and Intelligence. That
in Reality there are no separate nations, because all men belong to the One
Nation, the Divine Family. That there are no frontiers because God is One, and
cannot be separated against Himself. That in Truth the only armaments are the
forces of Love and Intelligence.
Then
declare that God is fully present in every man, woman, and child in Britian,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States, (taking them
alphabetically)
and that they can
only know and express Serene Peace, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love. To do
this is to concentrate the work where it is needed and will be effective. You
may conclude by giving thanks to God for the glory of His Own Divine Perfection,
which never can change. If you wish to go on longer, use one of the last half
dozen Psalms all of which deal with praise and thanksgiving.
Having
finished your prayer or treatment, drop the subject out of your mind until next
day. It will be seen that this prayer is exclusively concerned with a
realization of good. On no account must you allow yourself to dwell upon the
horrors of war, the danger of war, or the causes of war, or think about war
under any pretext
whatever
during the treatment. In fact, the whole prayer or treatment in itself is
nothing but an effort to get away in thought from the concept of war. To say
something like this--"Please God, do not allow another terrible war to happen,"
is to think of war, even though it sounds pious and edifying, and to think of a
thing is to help to create or perpetuate that thing.
Understand clearly that you
are not asked to maintain this uplifted state of mind all day long, but only for
the few minutes that you are praying. Of course, you will, in a general way,
avoid dwelling upon horrors at any time, for your own sake but provided you get
right away from them during the period of prayer, you will have done all that is
necessary to prevent war.
Be
faithful to this daily prayer. Unstable people usually start off such a plan by
praying too long for several days, and then, having grown tired of it, drop it
altogether. One is praying too long when he gets a sense of burden and fatigue.
Five minutes a day will do for most people. Remember that the joy
of
the Lord is your strength.
This practice will bring a great blessing into your own life.