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Let us register this in our mind right now: "Assume the
consciousness of already having what you desire."
Most of us have been taught not to assume or to make assumptions
but this is a psychological idea not a spiritual one. When we
work with spiritual principles we are dealing with only one
thing, consciousness. Our own consciousness. That which we
are to assume for ourselves is synonymous with acceptance and
faith.
In his ground-breaking book written in 1952, "The Power of
Awareness" Neville wrote the following: "You must be
conscious of being healthy if you are to know what health is.
You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what
security is. Therefore, to incarnate a new and greater value of
yourself, you must assume that you already are what you want to
be and then live by faith in this assumption - which is not yet
incarnate in the body of your life - in confidence that this new
value or state of consciousness will become incarnated through
your absolute fidelity to the assumption that you are that which
you desire to be. This is what wholeness means, what integrity
means. They mean submission of the whole self to the feeling of
the wish fulfilled in certainty that that new state of
consciousness is the renewing of mind which transforms."
Several years ago I had a woman come to me for counseling who
desired to get married. She had not had a date in several years
and was worried that she would end up an "old maid" .. her words
not mine, and she also desired to have children and felt that
her time was running out. I found her to be a very attractive
woman and she had an amiable personality. I must confess I was a
little surprised that she was having this difficulty. As our
counseling session progressed she told me that she had come from
divorced parents and was estranged from both her mother and
father for years. She admitted that she did not have much faith
in marriage and had never really given it much thought until
recently. I encouraged her to displace this idea with thoughts
of a beautiful wedding, being part of a loving and happy couple
taking their vows to love and cherish each other. I suggested to
her that she had the power to do just this by making use of the
most powerful force that is inherent within each and everyone of
us, her imagination. I further suggested that she purchase
Wedding and Bridal Magazines and use the photos contained within
them to trigger her imagination to become lively and spirited.
This she agreed to do with enthusiasm. Within a year of our
first counseling session, she invited me to officiate at her
wedding to take place on the island of St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin
Islands.
From the mystical Neville: 'You are free to choose the
concept you will accept of yourself. Therefore, you possess the
power of intervention, the power which enables you to alter the
course of your future. The process of rising from your present
concept to a higher concept of yourself is the means of all true
progress. The higher concept is waiting for you to incarnate it
in the world of experience."
Neville was one of a number of mystics that believed that our
imagination is the "Christ in you, the hope of glory." The
Master Mind Jesus told us that "the kingdom of G-d is within
you." I believe this Christ and this kingdom of G-d is our
consciousness strengthened by our powerful imagination. You may
not agree with me, but "assume" that I am correct and begin
right where you are to transform your life.
Keep the Faith!
Henry Lee Bates
(Reverend Dr.)
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