Gazing in the Mirror

October 13 - An Appreciation for the Creator

Concerning all acts of initiative
(and creation), there is one
elementary truth ... the moment
one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
~ W H Murray
(often misattributed to Goethe)

There is a Power to which all
things are possible. This Power
or Law of Mind is right where
we are, and we use it with
every thought we think.
~ Ernest Holmes

The quote above which I always thought was by Goethe is a long time favorite of mine. A dear friend of mine who I call OM recently described the Creator this way – "there is a power or something by virtue of which, something exists, and continues to come into being, rather than there being only 'nothing'. That power creates 'because it can', ... and since its ability appears infinite, anything and everything which can be created, will be, sooner or later, or is, if we regard space-time as merely one creation!!!". There is a power – these words echo often within Science of Mind concepts. This is an acknowledgment of an energetic intelligence which exists beyond our individual use of it.

More than a decade ago, I was attempting to create my older son and feeling a bit desperate at my failure to do so naturally I did something deep and mysterious, a ritual of magic, not something I was ever inclined towards before and which because of perceived outcomes I've not done since nor am I ever inclined to do anything of the sort ever again. I had read about a magic ritual to facilitate conception and so deeply desiring that I conceive a child I went to a secret place in the forest. The place was deep and dark with a looming large rock that was almost a cliff in its style and placement. At the base of that large rock I did my ritual with eggs and candles and invocations.

Shortly after that, my long-time feline companion was "lost". He'd been banished out of doors by my husband due to an increasing incontinence. When he failed to return home after 3 days absent my husband did go out and searched everywhere in the woods near our home for him but failed to find any evidence of him. In my heart, I felt punished for attempting magic when I was so ignorant about such powerful practices. There was this sense in me of having caused the disappearance of my beloved cat Neeto and it simply stayed with me and even now I've never been able to fully release that feeling inside of me entirely regardless of its being an obviously coincidental occurrence. In my most rational understandings I know that I had nothing to do with his disappearance but in my deepest fears and metaphysical beliefs I cannot lose that feeling of having some responsibility in its occurrence. This lingering guilt probably isn't helped by the fact that I was actually successful and not very long after that in conceiving my older son. This feeling of guilt has simply endured even though only the processes of medicine are rationally all that can be given, even so, an incomplete credit for our success at becoming parents. There remains regardless in my own understanding that an element of "magic" – that true grace and blessing of the Creator – had a hand in fulfilling my yearnings to become his parent.

Still troubled at heart, eventually before going to sleep one night I asked my dearly loved and likely departed feline beloved for some understanding of what had befallen him. I was given in return a dream that he was walking along the road singing the blues with such an emotional absorption that he was failing to remain alert and aware of his environment. Suddenly before him there were two large canines and I understood that he knew instantly that any attempt to run was futile. He was a warrior and hunter and he died as he had lived. From this dream, regardless of the actual events, I was able to understand that my dear cat was telling me that his leaving was entirely a part of the natural order of things. The Creator cannot simply create and create without dissolving some of Its creations in order to make space for newer creations. Oftentimes it is noted that a child is often born about the same time as some elderly relation takes their leave of physicality. Our seasonal cycles are meant to inform us gently that all things created do eventually pass out of sight. The new takes its own material form out of the dissolved ingredients of former things once solid and eventually re-assimilated into earth. Even our consumption of food follows such a natural order and cycle of existence.

Ernest Holmes describes the natural Laws that bring about creation thus – "when our consciousness lifts itself above confusion and enters the peace of the Spirit, then our word spoken from this center is acted upon immutably, producing the desired effect. We are not making the prayer work or using spiritual mind treatment to force things to happen any more than we would be compelling a reflection of our likeness to be cast from a mirror when we stand in front of it. Such reflection is automatic; it is certain to look exactly like the image. In just such a manner, our thought reflects into a creative medium which returns its image."

Our beliefs and desires are out-pictured from our Divine Center and are laws only unto our own self. That is why our efforts, our unconscious misunderstandings or even our intentional hatred, can never harm another (even though our physical actions could). That is why my desire to conceive a child did not actually kill my cat. We do not create because it is the Creator that does that work. We simply align our emotions, our beliefs, our desires – our collective and accumulated vibrational state of beingness – with the harmony of All That Is (which even includes what is only potential and that which is not physical) and by that Power we see the manifestation unfold for us.

~ perspective

There is a Power of Creation
that I can utilize by my clearest
understandings to affect and
create the conditions and
circumstances I desire.
I understand clearly that I am
not coercing or influencing this
Law to act.
Since I myself am a creation of
the living Spirit I am at ONE
with its expression.
I realize that my thoughts create
things and my beliefs illustrate
themselves for me.
By using my understanding of this
Law constructively only good returns
to me.

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