by Robert Wilkinson
From the remarkable Magic of Space, something to ponder for the weekend. We really can and do create thought-forms, from which spring future realities. From Chapter 1, Creative Space:
We find that Divine Mind is precisely analogous to a sensitive plate, and that each human thought makes a picture on that plate. By thought you make the exposure, and the thing pictured will in time become your own, for you are attached to your creations, and time develops the picture for you. If you hold the image you have made long enough, you will get a perfect picture -- if you think idly, then you have made what the photographers would call an under-exposure, and the picture is not full, clear and perfect, many details being left out. By holding the picture firmly and strongly you make it a permanency, and then it is yours -- for thoughts become "things."
Mental pictures are first mental things, but after a time they become physical things, or draw physical things to them, for the great Consciousness gives back to us precisely what we send into it. It gives to us whatever we ask of it, and our ignorance in making demands will be no protection to us. The only way evolution can go on is by Divine Mind granting every request that we persistently make: it is in this way that we gain wisdom through experience. This automatic action, as it were, of Divine Consciousness, was fully taught by Jesus, but it is as little understood or believed in by his present so-called followers as it was by those whom he originally tried to teach. You will remember that he said, "Judge not, that ye be not judged; for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again." He also said, "Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." And when he said these things he was stating what he knew was a Law, which could be put into operation then or at any time afterwards.
Consciousness is limited in its manifestation by the medium or media through which it manifests. For an illustration, let us take the consciousness of a flower, an animal, and a man. There is a limitation of the expression in each of these, by reason of the form in which it manifests. It accentuates that particular portion of the Universe, or planet, or man, in which it manifests. If you will concentrate your consciousness, or mind, on your right foot and hold it there for a time, you will draw the blood from other parts of the body into the foot, until it will become swollen and red. You are thinking of your foot to the exclusion of all the rest of your body. That portion of your consciousness which is functioning in your foot has been accentuated above the consciousness which remains in the rest of the body. If we carry this a step further we will find that the law operates in exactly the same manner with the entire man. Consciousness accentuates that portion of the man in which its greatest expression is. For that reason, ever since the early Christian centuries the body has been mistaken for the man, because it was the last medium through which his cnsciousness or mind expressed itself -- it was that portion of the man which was accentuated by the consciousness.
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