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WHAT FAITH CAN DO FOR YOU
By the Cosmic Being Faith
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the
evidence of things not seen."
Paul (Heb. 11:1)
"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed... nothing shall be impossible unto
you."
Jesus (Matt. 17:20)
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 upon 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
senses 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 others 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 allow the Faith of that one's being to flow ONLY
into those manifestations which he or she wishes to sustain.
In his intellectual arrogance, man is so prone to use the reports of
his senses as irrefutable law to prove his faith is founded in fact. When such a
one sees an appearance of illness, such a 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
thumbnail... his physical sight reports that his friend has shrunken to the size
of a thumbnail, 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 man 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 a man'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 man 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 one's 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 a
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.