Monday, October 21, 2019

in the awareness that so-called evil can befall them men are apprehensive

  What then is fear? First of all fear is vibration, negative vibration, a sense of misapprehension of life and its purposes.  But it is more than that--it is wrong custom.  Many of mankind’s recurring experiences have been undesirable, therefore in the awareness that so-called evil can befall them men are apprehensive about their future.  They question whether they will attain success and whether they will retain success once it is meted out to them….Understanding the Father’s true plan is ever beneficial in eradicating fear from an individual’s world….
  If I might paraphrase one of your poets, “I drew a circle and shut Him out; He drew a circle and took me in.”  I would point to the fact that the divine Self is the initiator of the human self, and all experiences that occur in the life of man are intended to polish the “diamond in the rough” in order that this diamond might be placed in full view in a proper setting.  A propos of this Jesus said “Ye are the light of the world.  A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”…
  Fear of death comes to man when he thinks he will no longer be a part of the great mainstream of the familiar which in his limited way he knows as life.  When he understands that the experiences of life and death are not far removed from one another he realizes that that which is truly life cannot die, he understands that all experience is but a sea through which man passes to greater opportunity….
  You know that an iron core is wrapped with coils of wire through which a current is passed enabling the magnetic field to be extended in concentrated lines of flux and to draw objects into close proximity to the coil.  In a like manner the vibration of fear held, sustained or prolonged by an individual draws to him the fear of others….By mankind’s continual revolving of ideas of apprehension or fear he is strengthening the magnetic field which draws the object of his fear into the orbit of his world….
  Let us now take up the first principles in removing fear.  If the strength of fear is directly related to the number of times the object of one’s fear has been revolved, then would it not be the part of wisdom to unwind each turn of the wire upon the pole of being?  
I ask you in God’s name!…
  To remove fear is to remove the deep-seated resistance to the flow of light and light’s possibilities in the being of man….Let me tell you, beloved ones, that truth is always stranger than fiction.  


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