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You may find it helpful to think of these
threads rather like the steps of doing a jigsaw puzzle. You begin by taking the
lid off the box and you do not cheat by looking at the picture on the lid but
you turn it over on its face. The first step is that you pour out the
pieces-let there be ideas, let there be thoughts. The second thing you do is to
turn them all up the right way. That is getting what you might call the
spiritual view, so that none of them is upside down anymore. The third step is
that you begin to identify edge pieces or sky pieces· or brown pieces;
you start to gather them into their proper groupings and begin to sense where
they belong.
The fourth thing that happens is that you
realize that there is a principle to be obeyed and that you cannot force the
bits in where you would like them to go because it would only rupture the
integrity of the whole. So you learn to obey the principle. The moment you obey
the principle it starts to move into life, a fifth step; a new sense of action
and freedom and movement happens. The sixth step is where the last piece goes
in and the work is done. It is perfectly whole. But there is a seventh step and
that is when you pick up the lid of the box and you turn it over and say, Of
course, the picture was always whole! You rejoice in the fact that there was
always a goal of perfection, which made it possible for you to fulfil those
steps leading to perfection. Unless perfection was there, we would never go
looking for it.
The seventh law in spiritual healing is
loving the perfection, mothering our divinity. So many of our human troubles
arise because we do not exercise motherhood. We love this creative fatherhood
urge; we have drive and energy, ambition and creativity, but we do not always
pause to mother our project or ourselves. Look at men who are brilliant at
inventing but very seldom have the patience to carry their invention through to
fruition. It is the mother instinct, which carries the idea to birth and
fruition. So we need to have this sense of mothering our divinity, of mothering
our true selves as God mothers us.
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