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If the first warp thread, or law,
involved the step from the physical to the mental, that is because God is Mind
and demands that we put on the Mind of Christ in order to think creatively and
intelligently.
Then the second thread, or law,
was that this mental state is in fact spiritual. We find that something bigger
than ourselves takes over. This happens because God is Spirit, and we start to
distinguish between our mortal concept of ourselves and what we actually are in
God.
Then the third thread was the
regeneration of our sense of self. We find a new selfhood coming into our
experience, just as Jacob and Esau found that the Israel-self transcended the
old private sense of self that each of them had held. That is because God is
Soul, the source of our real identity.
The fourth thread, or law, was the
principle of right relationship, where the divine Principle, which is God, is
found to be in us and is our I, our ego, so that it, as far as we allow it,
takes the responsibility in our lives - the responsibility for right and for
authority and for will.
The fifth law was that because God
is Life, life is abundant, without beginning or end. We are the living of that
inexhaustible source and are therefore constantly being renewed.
The sixth law was wholeness.
"Behold thou art made whole." God is Truth and man is God's image and likeness,
therefore man experiences this in health and in restoration.
Finally, the seventh law was
loving the fact that perfection is already here. We learn to accept our divine
worth and to experience the completeness and satisfaction of ever-present
divine Love.
The operation of these laws is God's
nature in expression. As the likeness of God we reflect all the God-qualities.
So, if for any reason, we have turned away from the face of God and seem to
experience sickness or an unhappy situation, we can return as surely and
naturally as the earth turns to face the sun. For, like the sun that is always
shining, these laws are always available. It is our recognition of them that
brings them into our experience. This then enables us to say in the words of
the Psalm: "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness" (17:15).
I would like to finish with a little
story of a man who was a minister of a church. He was busy preparing his sermon
for Sunday and his small daughter came in and said, 'Daddy, give me something
to do.' He said, 'I can't now, darling, I'm too busy.' Like any little daughter
she persisted, and said 'Daddy, give me something to do.' So he said, 'All
right,' and he went to his wastepaper basket and pulled out a large piece of
paper on which was a map of the world. He tore it up into little pieces and
mixed them up together and said, 'There you are, put them together.' Then he
went back to writing his sermon. In a very short time she said, 'Daddy, I've
done it.' 'Good heavens,' he said, 'Do you mean to say you've put the world
right in a few minutes and we've been working at it for two thousand years? How
did you do it?' 'Oh,' she said, 'it was quite simple. On the back of the map
there was a picture of a man, and I knew if I got the man right, the world
would come right.'
What we have been talking about together
has been trying to get the man right. If in some small degree we can work like
that from the divine view of man and see him as the very selfhood of God in
living expression, then surely our world will respond.
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