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Foreword

Bruce McArthur reminds me of a country lawyer I once knew who never attended law school but ended up as a distinguished lawmaker in the United States Senate. He simply “read law,” as they used to call it, in the office of a practicing attorney in the little Oregon logging town where he grew up, and when he had learned enough to qualify he began to practice law. I believe Abraham Lincoln entered the legal profession by a similar route.

That’s how the author of this fine book became a universal lawyer. An engineer by profession, he nonetheless “read law” for many years in the A.R.E. Library at Virginia Beach. His sources were neither Blackstone nor Gladstone, but the Edgar Cayce readings. From these documents, packed with the wisdom of the spheres, he derived a fascinating perspective on how the universe works.

Specifically, Mr. McArthur discovered these laws by studying the profound recommendations that Edgar Cayce gave to thousands of people who came to him with all sorts of personal problems. Of the 14,000 and some readings Mr. Cayce gave, over 8,000 were for physical conditions. Time and time again, he offered his clients wise and compassionate counsel; but he also put their problems into the context of the cosmic order to suggest how they might avoid repeating them. When giving a physical reading, for example, he often began by inviting the individual to look at his or her own attitude. As he put it in reading 3312-1, “… if one would correct physical or mental disturbances, it is necessary to change the attitude and to let the life forces become constructive and not destructive. Hate, malice and jealousy only create poisons within the minds, souls and bodies of people.”

As Bruce McArthur began collecting these cosmic truisms one by one, he found patterns that we could all apply in our own lives. Here were the laws which govern the Universe and its movements—and ours in it. Thus, he was able to see why our lives turn out the way they do—and to suggest what we might do to improve them.

Next thing we knew, he had codified these metaphysical laws just as more celebrated personages, Hammurabi and Napoleon, had codified the civil laws of ancient Babylon and 18th-century France.

There is, of course, a significant difference, in what Mr. McArthur has accomplished. The cosmic laws are not made by us. They can’t be repealed or modified, so far as we know, except by the Almighty Lawmaker. These laws are not punitive but descriptive. Like the law of gravity, they describe how things work. But, if you believe as I do that the Universe cares about us, you will discover that the Universal Laws are not a threat to our pursuit of happiness if we are on the spiritual path. As the author puts it, they “always work for the highest good of all” and are “just and beneficial for everyone at all times and in all places.” We stand to be punished, or instructed, by them only as we ignore and transgress them.

Mr. McArthur began telling us about Universal Laws from the lecture platform and in articles published in The A.R.E. Journal years ago, so that he is recognized as the resident specialist in this metaphysical field. Now at last he has given us his magnum opus on the subject, compiling and illuminating the Universal Laws in a handy, instructive text that offers us much-needed guidance for the years of change that lie ahead.

Serious attention to his wise findings offers rich rewards.

A. Robert Smith

Editor, Venture Inward

Virginia Beach, Virginia