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Secret Door To Success, Chapter 2, Florence Scovel Shinn

Chapter 2 - Bricks Without Straw

Date: 12/27/2007 10:59:05 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 1605 times

Chapter 2 - Bricks Without Straw
"There shall no straw be given you, yet ye shall
make bricks without straw." --Exodus 5:18
In the 5th chapter of Exodus, we have a picture of
every day life, when giving a metaphysical
interpretation.
The Children of Israel were in bondage to Pharaoh,
the cruel taskmaster, ruler of Egypt. They were
kept in slavery, making bricks, and were hated and
despised.
Moses had orders from the Lord to deliver his
people from bondage - "Moses and Aaron went in and
told Pharaoh -- Thus says the Lord God of Israel,
Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto
me in the wilderness."
He not only refused to let them go, but told them
he would make their tasks even more difficult:
they must make bricks without straw being provided
for them.
"And the task-masters of the people went out, and
their officers, and they spoke to the people,
saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you
straw."
"Go, get you straw where you can find it: yet not
ought of your work shall be diminished."
It was impossible to make bricks without straw.
The Children of Israel were completely crushed by
Pharaoh, they were beaten for not producing the
bricks -- Then came the message from Jehovah.
"Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no
straw be given you, yet shall you deliver the tale
(number) of bricks."
Working with Spiritual law they could make bricks
without straw, which means to accomplish the
seemingly impossible.
How often in life people are confronted with this
situation.
Agnes M. Lawson in her "Hints to Bible Students"
says -- "The Life in Egypt under foreign
oppression is the symbol of man under the hard
taskmasters of Destructive thinking, Pride, Fear,
Resentment, Ill-will, etc. The deliverance under
Moses is the freedom man gains from the
taskmasters, as he learns the law of life, for we
can never come under grace, except we first know
the law. The law must be made known in order to
be fulfilled."
In the 111th Psalm we read in the final verse,
"The fear of the Lord (law) is the beginning of
Wisdom: a good understanding have all they that
do his commandments: his praise endures forever."
Now if we read the word Lord (law) it will give us
the key to the statement.
The fear of the law (Karmic law) is the beginning
of wisdom (not the fear of the Lord).
When we know the whatever we send out comes back,
we begin to be afraid of our own boomerangs.
I read in a medical journal the following facts
telling of the Boomerang this great Pharaoh
received.
It would appear that flesh is indeed heir to a
long and ancient line of ills, when, as was
revealed by Lord Monyahan at a lecture at Leeds,
that the Pharaoh of the oppression suffered from
hardening of the heart in a literal sense. Lord
Monyahan showed some remarkable photographic
slides of results of surgical operations a
thousand years before Christ, and among these was
a slide of the actual anatomical remains of the
Pharaoh of the Oppression.
"The large vessel springing from the heart was in
such a well-preserved state, as to enable sections
of it to be made recently from the lantern slide.
It was impossible to distinguish between the
ancient and modern vessel. Both hearts had been
attacked by Atheroma, a condition in which calcium
salts are deposited in the walls of the vessel,
making it rigid and inelastic."
Inadequate expanse to the stream of blood from the
heart caused the vessel to give way; with this
condition went the mental changes that occur with
a rigid arterial system: A narrowness of outlook;
restriction and dread of enterprise, a literal
hardening of the heart.
So Pharaoh's hardness of heart, hardened his own
heart.
This is as true today as it was several thousand
years ago -- we are all coming out of the Land of
Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.
Your doubts and fears keep you in slavery; you
face a situation which seems hopeless. What can
you do? It is a case of making bricks without
straw.
But remember the words of Jehovah, "Go therefore
now, and work; for there shall no straw be given
you, yet shall ye deliver the tale (number) of
bricks."
You shall make bricks without straw. God makes a
way where there is no way!
I was told the story of a woman who needed money
for her rent. It was necessary to have it at
once, but she knew of no channel, she exhausted
every avenue.
However, she was a Truth student, and kept making
her affirmations. Her dog whined and wanted to go
out, she put on his leash and walked down the
street, in the accustomed direction.
However, the dog pulled at his leash and wanted to
go in another direction.
She followed, and in the middle of the block,
opposite an open park, she looked down, and picked
up a roll of bills, which exactly covered rent.
She looked for ads, but never found the owner.
There were no houses near where she found it.
The reasoning mind, the intellect, takes the
throne of Pharaoh in your consciousness. It says
continually, "It can't be done. What's the use!"
We must drown out these dreary suggestions with a
vital affirmation!
For example take this statement: "The unexpected
happens, my seemingly impossible good now comes to
pass." This stops all argument from the army of
the aliens (the reasoning mind.).
"The unexpected happens!" That is an idea it
cannot cope with.
"You hast made me wiser than mine enemies." Your
enemy thoughts, your doubts, fears and
apprehensions!
Think of the joy of really being free forever,
from the Pharaoh of the oppression. To have the
idea of security, health, happiness and abundance
established in the subconscious. It would mean a
life free from all limitation!
It would be the Kingdom which Jesus Christ spoke
of, where all things are automatically added unto
us. I say automatically added unto us, because
all life is vibration; and when we vibrate to
success, happiness and abundance, the things which
symbolize these states of consciousness will
attach themselves to us.
Feel rich and successful, and suddenly you receive
a large cheque or a beautiful gift.
I tell the story showing the working of this law.
I went to a party where people played games, and
whoever won, received a gift. The prize was a
beautiful fan.
Among those present, was a very rich woman, who
had everything. Her name was Clara. The poorer
and resentful ones got together and whispered: "We
hope Clara doesn't get the fan." Of course Clara
won the fan.
She was care-free and vibrating to abundance.
Envy and resentment short-circuit your good and
keep away your fans.
If you should happen to be resentful and envious,
take the statement: What God has done for others
He now does for me and more!
Then all the fans and things will come your way.
No man gives to himself but himself, and no man
takes away from himself but himself. The "Game of
Life" is a game of solitaire; as you change, all
conditions will change.
Now to go back to Pharaoh the oppressor; no one
loves an oppressor.
I remember a friend I had many years ago, her name
was Lettie. Her father had plenty of money and
supplied her mother and herself with food and
clothes, but no luxuries.
We went to Art School together, and all the
students would buy reproductions of the "Winged
Victory," "Whister's Mother" or something to bring
art into their homes.
My friend's father called all these things
"plunder." He would say, "Don't bring home any
plunder."
So she lived a colorless life without a "Winged
Victory" on her bureau or "Whistler's Mother” on
the wall.
He would say often to my friend and her mother,
"When I die, you'll both be well off."
One day someone said to Lettie, "When are you
going abroad?" (all art students went abroad.)
She replied, cheerfully, "Not 'till Papa dies."
So people always look forward to being free from
lack and oppression.
Let us now free ourselves from the tyrants of
negative thinking. We have been slaves to doubts,
fears and apprehension and let us be delivered as
Moses delivered the Children of Israel and come
out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of
Bondage.
Find the thought which is your great oppressor;
find the "king-pin".
In the logging camps in the Spring, the logs are
sent down the rivers in great numbers.
Sometimes the logs become crossed and cause a jam.
The men look for the log causing the jam (they
call it the king-pin), straighten it, and the logs
rush down the river again.
Maybe your King-Pin is resentment. Resentment
holds back your good.
The more you resent, the more you will have to
resent; you grow a resentment track in your brain,
and your expression will be one of habitual
resentment.
You will be avoided and miss the golden
opportunities which await you each day.
I remember a few years ago, the streets were
filled with men selling apples.
They got up early to get the good corners.
I passed one several times on Park Avenue. He had
the most disagreeable expression I have ever seen.
As people passed he said, "Apples! Apples!" but no
one stopped to buy.
I invested in an apple and said, "You'll never
sell apples unless you change your expression."
He replied, "Well that guy over there took my
corner."
I said, "Never mind about the corner, you can sell
apples right here if you'll look pleasant."
He said, "O.K. lady," and I went on. The next day
I saw him, his whole expression had changed. He
was doing a big business selling apples with a
smile.
So find your king-pin (you may have more than
one); and your logs of success, happiness and
abundance will go rushing down your river.
Go therefore now and work, for there shall no
straw be given you, yet ye shall make bricks
without straw.

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