Four Natural Laws
In addition to the three core concepts we discussed in the previous post (see The Conscious Universe), there are also several “natural laws” which govern the way the universe works. These include:
The Law of One
In the realm of physicality, the human race appears to be made up of separate individuals. Whilst it is true that we all have unique personalities, opinions and so on, from a spiritual perspective we are all one. Think of individual people (and animals too) as being different facets of a single, glorious diamond and you will go a long way towards comprehending this.
It is because of this Law that the world’s greatest teachers have advised us to love others as ourselves – because we are, on a deeper level – very much connected to each other.
The Law of Cause and Effect
We sometimes like to believe that we can think, say and do things without it affecting anyone or anything. This is not true. Every cause has an associated effect, and whatever we “put out” into the universe will come back to us many times over. This is good news if we routinely think positive thoughts, speak encouraging words and perform helpful, loving deeds. But if we are negative in thought, word and deed then all of that negativity will come back into our lives one way or the other. We reap what we sow – always.
The Law of Sustained Focus
Whatever you focus on regularly will expand in your life. If you focus on all the good things that you have with a sense of gratitude then you will soon have even more good things to be thankful for. If you worry or think constantly about all the things that you don’t have, then you will just as surely have even greater lack.
The more sustained your focus, the more powerful this Law seems to be. This is not good news if you tend to think negatively, because you will only end up manifesting even more things to be negative about. However, this Law provides tremendous potential, because the more we deliberately focus on good things, the more good we will experience in life. By developing our ability to focus clearly, we will begin to enjoy something called, “the miracle-power of doubtless faith”. We will of course talk more specifically about this in a future post.
The Law of Detachment
This is a tricky law to understand, because it seems so paradoxical, but basically it can be said that the less attached we are to getting something, the faster we will attract it into our lives.
It is because so few people understand this law that they fail to get results even from sound metaphysical techniques and principles. They want results so desperately that they actually drive what they want away from them. If these people would only learn to detach themselves from their desire, what they want would show up a great deal faster. Again, we will discuss this fully in the future.
The Concepts and Laws that we have outlined here are not comprehensive. There are many other “lesser” truths which are just as useful to know and understand.
Our aim in these first two posts has simply been to provide the necessary groundwork so that we can go on to discuss these things in more detail in the future.
Until then, take a little longer to ponder over the material just presented. It may well be that your understanding of “why things happen the way they do” is already becoming much clearer.
