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Secret Door To Success, Chapter 5, Florence Scovel Shinn

Chapter 5 - The Long Arm of God

Date: 12/27/2007 10:44:48 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1375 times

Chapter 5 - The Long Arm of God
"The Eternal God is your refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms." --Deut. 33:27
In the bible, the arm of God always symbolizes
protection. The writers of the bible knew the
power of a symbol. It brings a picture which
impresses the subconscious mind. They used the
symbols of the rock, sheep, shepherds, vineyard,
lamp, and hundreds of others. It would be
interesting to know how many symbols are used in
the bible. The arm also symbolizes strength.
"The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms, and he shall thrust out
the enemy from before you and shall say, Destroy
them."
Who is the enemy "before you"? The negative
thought-forms which you have built up in your
subconscious mind. A man's enemies are only those
of his own household. The everlasting arms thrust
out these enemy thoughts and destroy them.
Have you ever felt the relief of getting out some
negative thought-form? Perhaps you have built up
a thought-form of resentment, until you are always
boiling with anger about something. You resent
people you know, people you don't know, people in
the past and people in the present, and you may be
sure that the people in the future won't escape
your wrath.
All the organs of the body are affected by
resentment - for when you resent, you resent with
every organ of the body. You pay the penalty with
rheumatism, arthritis, neuritis, etc., for acid
thoughts produce acid in the blood. All this
trouble comes because you are fighting the battle,
not leaving it to the long arm of God.
I have given the following statement to many of my
students. "The long arm of God reaches out over
people and conditions, controlling this situation
and protecting my interests.
This brings a picture of a long arm symbolizing
strength and protection. With the realization of
the power of the long arm of God, you would no
longer resist or resent. You would relax and let
go. The enemy thoughts within you would be
destroyed, therefore, the adverse conditions would
disappear.
Spiritual development means the ability to stand
still, or stand aside, and let Infinite
Intelligence lift your burdens and fight your
battles. When the burden of resentment is lifted,
you experience a sense of relief! You have a
kindly feeling for everyone, and all the organs of
your body begin to function properly.
A clipping quoting Albert Edward Day, D.D. reads,
"That loving our enemies is good for our spiritual
health is widely known and accepted. But that
negation and poisonous emotions destroy physical
health, is a relatively new discovery. The
problem of health is often an emotional one.
Wrong emotions entertained and repeated are potent
causes of illness. When the preacher talks about
loving your enemies, the man on the street is apt
to dismiss the idea as unendurable and pious. But
the fact is, the preacher is telling you something
which is one of the first laws of hygiene, as well
as ethics. No man even for his body's sake can
afford to indulge in hatred. It is like repeated
doses of poison. When you are urged to get rid of
fear, you are not listening to a moon-struck
idealist; rather you are hearing counsel that is
as significant for health as advice about diet."
We hear so much about a balanced diet, but without
a balanced mind you can't digest what you eat,
calories or no calories.
Non-resistance is an art. When acquired, The
World is Yours! So many people are trying to
force situations. Your lasting good will never
comes through forcing personal will.
"Flee from the things which flee from you
Seek nothing, fortune seeks you
Behold his shadow on the floor
Behold him standing at the door!"
I do not know the author of these lines.
Lovelock, the celebrated English athlete, was
asked how to attain his speed and endurance in
running. He replied, "Learn to relax." Let us
attain this rest in action. He was most relaxed
when running the fastest.
Your big opportunity and big success usually slide
in, when you least expect it. You have to let go
long enough for the great law of attraction to
operate. You never saw a worried and anxious
magnet. It stands up straight and hasn't a care
in the world, because it knows needles can't help
jumping to it. The things we rightly desire come
to pass when we have taken the clutch off.
I say in my correspondence course, Do not let your
heart's desire become your heart's disease." You
are completely demagnetized when you desire
something too intensely. You worry, fear, and
agonize. There is an occult law of indifference -
"None of these things move me." Your ships come in
over a don't care sea.
Many people in Truth antagonize friends, because
they are too anxious for them to read the books
and go to the lectures. The meet opposition.
A friend took my book, "The Game of Life and How
to Play It" to her brother's house to read. The
young men of the family refused to read it. No
"nut stuff" for them. One of these young men
drives a taxi cab. One night he drove a taxi
which belonged to another man. In going over the
car he found a book stuffed away somewhere. It
was "The Game of Life and How to Play It". The
next day he said to his aunt, "I found Mrs.
Shinn's book in the taxi last night. I read it
and it's great! There's a lot of good reading in
it. Why doesn't she write another book?" God
works in roundabout ways, his wonders to perform.
I meet unhappy people and a few grateful and
contented people. A man said to me one day, "I
have a great deal to be thankful for. I have good
health, enough money and I'm still single!"
The eighty-ninth psalm is very interesting, for we
find that two individuals take part, the man who
sings the psalm (for all psalms are songs or
poems), and Lord God of Hosts answers him. It is
a song of praise and thanksgiving, extolling the
strong arm of God.
"I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever!"
"O Lord God of Hosts, who is a strong Lord like
unto you?"
"You hast a mighty arm, strong is your hand, and
high is your right hand."
Then the Lord of Hosts replies:
"With whom my hand shall be established, mine arm
also shall strengthen him."
"My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my
covenant shall stand fast with him."
We only hear the words "for evermore" in the bible
and in fairy-tales. In the absolute, man is
outside of time and space. His good is "from
everlasting to everlasting." The fairy-tales came
down from the old Persian legends which were
founded upon Truth.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp is the out-
picturing of the Word. Aladdin rubbed the lamp
and all his desires came to pass. Your word is
your lamp. Words and thoughts are a form of radio
activity and do not return void. A scientist has
said that words are clothed in light. You are
continually reaping the fruits of your words.
A friend in one of my meeting said that she had
brought a man to my class who had been out of work
for a year or more. I gave the statement: "Now is
the appointed time. Today is the day of my
amazing good fortune." It clicked in his
consciousness. Soon after, he was given a
position which paid him nine thousand dollars a
year!
A woman told me that when I blessed the offering I
said that each offering would return a
thousandfold. She had put a dollar in the
collection. She said with great realization,
"That dollar is blessed and returns a thousand
dollars." She received a thousand dollars a short
time afterwards, in a most unexpected way.
Why do some people demonstrate this Truth so much
more quickly than others? It is because they have
the ears that hear. Jesus Christ tells the
parable of the man who sowed the seed and it fell
upon good ground. The seed is the word. I say,
"Listen for the statement that clicks; the
statement that gives your realization. That
statement will bear fruit."
The other day I went into a shop where I know the
employer quite well. I had given one of his
employees an affirmation card. I said to him,
jokingly, "I wouldn't waste an affirmation card on
you. You wouldn't use it." He replied, "Oh sure,
give me one. I'll use it." The following week I
gave him a card. Before I left he rushed up to me
excitedly and said, "I made the statement and two
new customers walked in." It was: "Now is the
appointed time; today is the day of my amazing
good fortune." It had clicked.
So many people use their words in exaggerated and
reckless statements. I find a great deal of
material for my talks in the beauty parlor. A
young girl wanted a magazine to read. She called
to the operator, "Give me something terribly new
and frightfully exciting." All she wanted was the
latest moving picture magazine. You hear people
say, "I wish something terribly exciting would
happen." They are inviting some unhappy, but
exciting, experience into their lives. Then they
wonder why it happened to them.
There should be a chair of metaphysics in all
colleges. Metaphysics is the wisdom of the ages.
It is the ancient wisdom taught all through the
centuries in India and Egypt and Greece. Hermes
Trismegistus was a great teacher of Egypt. His
teachings were closely guarded and have come down
to us over ten centuries. He lived in Egypt in
the days when the present race of men was in its
infancy. But if you read the "Kybalion"
carefully, you find that he taught just what we
are teaching today. He said that all mental
states were accompanied by vibrations. You
combine with what you vibrate to, so let us all
now vibrate to success, happiness and abundance.
Now is the appointed time. Today is the day of my
amazing good fortune.

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