The Law of Mind reacts to thoughts of insecurity by making a person experience jeopardy. Why does it do this? It is because it reacts to what we believe about ourselves. In other words, the Law of Mind is a servant, a very good servant, for it acts with precision to do what we expect. We cannot change this action any more than we can force gravity to float our bodies in the air. We can comply with gravity by building airplanes, which have wings that can be made to receive greater air pressure beneath the wings to lift it and lesser air pressure beneath the wings to cause its descent. Compliance means to cooperate with the laws of nature. Then, often in some unforeseen way, those laws serve us as we desire. The Law of Mind never functions supernaturally anymore than the law of gravity does. Yet there is something super about nature. It is that universal laws always act in accordance with nature; their reliability can be trusted. When something happens that appears to be a miracle, it is never that nature has relinquished any of its laws. Rather, at that time, the laws permit such marvelous things to happen in ways that we have only partially begun to understand. Similarly, by complying with the Law of Mind we will continually discover ways new to us that are for our good. The Law of Mind always functions precisely as Jesus declared: “It is done unto us as we believe.” Gradually people are discovering this law and using it. In comparison, let us remind ourselves that gravity was unknown a few hundred years ago. People would not have believed us if we had tried to explain it to them then. Those who were able to provide us with this awareness, such as Copernicus and Galileo, were terribly harassed and even greatly threatened for the ideas that led to the law of gravity as a basic fact of nature. Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for his contributions to this valuable understanding. Today, many people are quite ignorant of how it is that the Law of Mind is subject to our thoughts, as Ernest Holmes taught during this last century. Those who are presently interested to look into this will find it not only true, but also the means to demonstrating a happy, successful, and healthy life. Another manner of reaction is the vindictive way that many people react to others when they do not like their experiences. These kinds of reactions are not beneficial but downright harmful, most particularly to people who express them. The Law of Mind reacts to our reactions by giving us more and more of what we think we do not desire. We are wise as we respond with amazing kindness to others who act in ways we do not think we like. This stops the cycle of offensiveness. For those who must react with vengeance there is a continual round of hardships. On the other hand, for those of us who return kindness when we feel hurt, a growing consciousness of good living takes its place. The Law of Mind makes it so. It is within all of us to return good regardless of what others do. Back to Previous Page | Back to Royal Lessons
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