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Divine Principles

Beloved Cosmic Being Faith

WHAT FAITH CAN DO FOR YOU

September 1955

Faith is a quality that is inherent within life. There is no one who does not have faith in something. In its primal essence, life contains - undeveloped - every quality that is constructive. The evolving egos seem to lose the use of some qualities (temporarily at least) during their long journey through the Earth plane, such as Freedom, Victory, Purity. However, there is no evolving ego who ever entered the pathway of life's experience, who has been without Faith by which he has molded daily the energy of his own being. Individuals have always had, now have and will always have faith in something.

Here we come to the clear understanding of the quality representing Faith. It is a channel through which the life energy of the evolving ego flows to energize whatever the individual chooses to accept as being true for him and, according to his faith, as Jesus said repeatedly, it shall be done unto him.

The directive power of the attention and the receptive power of the sense are instruments of Faith. However, Faith itself is a conscious pouring forth of life essence which energizes and magnifies that which the evolving ego believes to be real and to which, through his faith, he gives his own God Power whereby it is enabled to live in this world of experience. If you will examine the great men of all ages, as well as the tyrants of history, you will see that they all had Faith — one in God power acting through them — and the other in their own ability to achieve glory and dominion. Each of them used the quality of Faith to achieve their respective ends.

It is not a matter of acquiring Faith, but it is a matter of training the evolving ego to all the Faith of that one's being to flow ONLY into those manifestations which he or she wishes to sustain.

In his intellectual arrogance, humankind is so prone to use the reports of his senses as irrefutable law to prove his faith is founded in fact. When such an one sees an appearance of illness, such an one feels justified in his own mind - "I have seen it with my own eyes and it is therefore childish for me to affirm that it is not real". The faith of his evolving ego thus joins his energies with the discordant appearance and Faith, being the energizing power of God, then makes the condition real to him, by the very quality and pressure of his acceptance.

This same man, looking at an individual walking down a road, sees that individual seem to diminish in size until he becomes no larger than a thumb-nail! His physical sight reports that his friend has shrunken to the size of a thumb-nail, yet the man has no faith in the report of his physical sight because he knows that it is an optical illusion. Therefore, should the visionary faculties of humanity be taken as infallible conductors of Truth to affect the quality of a person's faith?

To take another simple illustration, let us use the faculty of hearing. An individual will accept the report of a gun, an explosion or a cry of pain as real because he heard it with his physical ears; yet he is constantly moving in an atmosphere filled with music but does not hear that music until the medium of the radio lowers its vibratory action to a point where the hearing sense can absorb it. Then is the hearing faculty accurate enough to allow it to mold the quality of humanity's faith? You might follow the same trend in regard to the senses of touch, smell and even further into the realm of feeling. For instance, a person may have a strong feeling of fear concerning an impending disaster or distressing circumstances over which one seems to have no control.

These fear feelings prevent the individual's placing his faith in God's power to protect and supply him. Therefore the pressure of his faith is flowing forth into that discordant condition to energize it and make it seem real to him. This is because the feeling nature is also subject to erroneous reports which have no foundation in truth or fact.

If humanity could learn the truth of Jesus' statement — "according to your faith be it unto you" — he would realize what a powerful force is the quality of his faith and how the natural state of his consciousness of being determines continually the manifestation he is energizing.

The attention is a spiritual faculty which is constantly directed by the mind and is the channel through which God's energy flows.

The attention carries on the beam of its own magnetic force the radiation of the sender to the object upon which the beam is played. Faith is a constant state of ones being every second of eternity.

When the evolving ego is so impregnated with the inner conviction of consciousness that GOD IS THE ONLY POWER THAT CAN ACT, such as one's faith is constantly energizing that God Power flowing through all appearances. The treatment is not a matter of a few days or month's concentration, but a constant outpouring of that quality of faith in which the Masters and ALL Perfected Beings eternally dwell.

ALL the Celestial Hierarchy and in fact all life (except that evolving upon the Earth plane) abides in perfect faith in GOOD.

There is no "house divided against itself" except in the human kingdom. It is this human kingdom that has imparted fear, uncertainty and doubt to the animal and elemental kingdoms through giving faith to a power opposed to God. The cycle has come again when the quality of Faith will be used ONLY to expand the radiation of the God Power.

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