Believing and Knowing
The Magic Twins
How would you like to be a magician? I don't mean a simple pull-the-rabbit-out-of-the-hat type magician. I mean a worthy-of-going-down-in recorded history magician.
How would you like to say to yourself, "We need a new house, because my family has grown so much we're beginning to develop fins from living like sardines," and with a certain working of your magic and no luck involved, you would have it?
The only things you will need in your magician's kit are the MAGIC TWINS - BELIEVING AND KNOWING. These MAGIC TWINS are the keys of mind that cause those golden, magical doors to the abundance of the Universe to open wide!
You may feel that to be a pretty broad statement. Wee it is - but it is not a false or unreachable one.All right, you say - put your money where your pen is. Agreed! So let's begin!
The First Step - Believing
There are two major divisions of this great mind of ours that we use to establish the Believing and Knowing quality in ourselves.
Before we can thoroughly understand and utilize the Magic of Knowing, we must work with and establish Believing.
The part of our mind that we use for Believing is the Conscious Mind. This mind is our outward expression, our antenna, so to speak, with which we observe, involved ourselves and react to external situations and environment.
We extend this mind antenna from the time we are born; seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, hearing all that goes on around us. Through this method we formulate ideas, opinions and most significantly, desires.
We assimilate the results of all the kinds of activity that touch our lives. Through this observance and assimilation we build our houses of belief.
As children we observe our parents walking and talking, encouraging us to do the same. This stimulates a desire, and as we begin to gain coordination and strength in our bodies, our desire increases, and soon we achieve the belief that we too can walk and talk. At this point the child takes its first independent step, forms its first words.
He also comes to the belief that parents and home represent security. As he advances in age and enters his schooling years, the results of his mental and physical efforts establish belief in his ability to accomplish the goals set for him by parents and school.
A pattern then is formed in his conscious mind of the sense of satisfaction and gratification in accomplishment.
This is the groundwork or foundation from which we, as individuals, begin to develop our belief. As we initiate our own goals, stemming from the desires created by our contact with the world, we use this foundation to measure our successes and failures. If our activity results in a sense of satisfaction - a "job-well-done" - we add stature to our confidence. If not, our foundation of confidence is somewhat shaken, and often we hesitate to strike out again on what now may seem the rocky road toward achievement.
This is the point where we must retrace the steps taken when striding the paths which led to achievement, no matter how small or large they were.
Jog the memory to recall the persistence, the anticipation and the determination you called forth as you made your way to the goal and success. Recall the stimulation and expansion you experienced as you saw yourself fulfilling a desire, whether it was for some material object or for the development of an abstract quality you wished to have as part of yourself.
Command your attention to focus entirely on this positive mental activity, taking a firm stand to bar any negative thought or remembrance from your mind.
The phrase "Today is the first day of the rest of your life" can well be applied here. The unpleasant, negative activities and attitudes of the past which led to failure or lack of fulfillment have no place in your thinking. Only the recognition of the understanding and the wisdom gained from those experiences can play a winning rose in this confidence-building exercise. Any thought of a negative nature must go!!
Step Number Two - Knowing
Now we must call upon Sub-Conscious Mind to provide the second Magic Key - KNOWING!
First it is necessary to come to some understanding of why we, as individuals, have the right to have the things we need and desire as we live our human, physical lives.
Each thing that exists has, as an integral part of it, the essence of its Creator. A house, for example, has, in its original design, the intention and personality of the architect who envisioned and then recorded that vision as a blueprint. As the blueprint took shape in the hands of the contractor, his personality became also a part of the developing structure of the house.
The workmen, carrying out the orders of the contract, finally added their own expression to the fulfillment of the work.
All through this whole process, the original design of the author of this work, the architect, continued to be the dominant factor in the achievement of the finished structure.
The house was built according to his intent and his vision, and for his purposes, and ultimately to be used to express that purpose.
Everything that went into building the house was a part of that original intention and purpose.
As a part of the plan, the contractor had the right to expect the plan to be a workable one, and that the materials called for would be available. The workmen, in turn, had the right to expect those materials to blend together as they worked with them and to be available in sufficient supply to enable them to produce a well-formed, finished structure - a physical manifestation of the thought of the architect - complete in every detail.
Now, considering the preceding example, let's put the Creator in the position of the architect and Mind, our mind, in the contractor's place. As we live our physical lives, we assume the roles of the workmen.
That great architect, our Creator, had intention and purpose as he saw us in his own image and likeness, a blueprint of love, fulfillment, and perfection. Our Minds, forever in the supervisory and directing position, hold the Keys that unlock every door of that overflowing storehouse of life's material.
As the workmen, producing, through our activity, the visible expression of the architect/Creator's plan, we look to mind to open those storehouse doors.
Because we are so conditioned to believing only what we see with our physical eyes, it is often very difficult to reach that stage of confidence in the ability of mind, an abstract, nonphysical part of ourselves, to open those doors for us. We say, "How can I believe or know a thing that I have not experienced as realty in my life?"
I'll give you some very good examples of how often you do ---
When you are thirsty and get a drink of water, you not only believe, you know, that the water goes down your throat and into your stomach. How many of you have every seen that happening?
If you have a rock in your hand and you drop it, you believe and you know it will fall to the ground. Have you ever seen the magnetic force of the earth or the part of Universal Law that causes that to happen?
At night, when you turn on a light switch and you believe and you know that the light bulb will come on. If it does not, you examine the bulb to see if it is burned out; you may check the switch or the wiring for defect or you may wonder if the electricity bill is unpaid. But do you ever doubt the presence of electricity? How many of us have seen the currents of electricity flowing around the wires to provide the light in the bulb?
How many of us have seen of felt the complex movements of nerve and brain in our bodies as they perform their constant receiving and sending motions? Yet we believe and know that it happens.
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