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CHAPTER THREE THE LAWS OF MIND: CAUSE, ATTRACTION & MANIFESTATION/EFFECT

Prayers work because they set into motion certain universal spiritual Principles which, when fully comprehended, can be consciously and proactively used and directed. Just as there are unseen but very real scientifically measurable laws of physics which propel and govern the physical universe, there are also underlying, unseen, and very real scientifically measurable spiritual Laws which move and govern all of Life and Creation. Perhaps the most significant and powerful of these Principles is the Law of Mind and as aspects of it, the Laws of Cause, Attraction and Manifestation/Effect.

The Law of Mind is an aspect of Spirit which, although intelligent, is not conscious and has no volition of its own. It is triggered by our thoughts and words, mechanically taking them and transforming them into a form, situation, condition, circumstance, outcome or event. It takes what it receives literally, impartially and without judgment. Allowed to work without interference, it manifests exactly what is thought into It.

The Law of Cause is what the Infinite Intelligence or Mind of Spirit brings into action. In Spirit, it is the Word or Divine Idea, backed by intention or desire. Spirit is the ultimate First Cause of all creation. In us, Cause is triggered by our own ideas, intentions or desires, and molded by our beliefs, thoughts or statements.

Immediately following Cause, the Law of Attraction is set into motion as soon as a thought or statement, backed by belief and intention, is expressed. This Law has a “magnetic” effect, and its nature is to attract (rather than to create from nothing) people, situations or things to you that may already exist. Once an intention is expressed, the Law of Attraction begins arranging the ways and means for your intention to be fulfilled, pulling in the necessary circumstances, opening the right doors, providing the perfect opportunities, people and things into your sphere of reality, often from what might seem to be out of thin air!

Working in conjunction with the Law of Attraction is the Law of Manifestation, and they might sometimes be perceived as one and the same. Both are the natural consequence of the Law of Cause. The Law of Manifestation (like the Law of Attraction) takes the “seed” (thought) that is planted by you and makes it sprout (manifest). When allowed to perform its function without interference, such as another thought or statement canceling out the first one, the Law of Manifestation literally and exactly takes the mental equivalent of whatever was thought into it and transforms it into physical form.

As mentioned earlier, it would not be inaccurate to say that all form, all Life, the entire manifest universe around you is, at its core, a gigantic and ever-changing series of Effects, the result of an incalculable, mind-boggling number of Causes, stretching back into infinity. What seems solid and permanent is, on an infinite universal scale, a transitory, temporary condition. You, or at least your body, is the Effect of an underlying mental and spiritual Cause, Spirit. The physical you is patterned after, and is the resulting out-picturing of, a whole, perfect blueprint (Cause) in the Mind of Spirit. In fact, all physical disease is the Effect, and as such has no power in and of itself, of an underlying condition of “dis-ease” or negative belief and emotions within. Seemingly “outside” causes of illness such as germs or viruses are also simply the Effects of other Causes which can impinge upon you. It is the consciousness within – and particularly the race consciousness