SPIRITUAL FORGIVNESS TREATMENT
By Emmet Fox
Sit for half an hour every night and mentally
forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
If you fear or if you are prejudiced
against even an animal, mentally ask forgiveness of it and send it thoughts of
love.
If you have accused anyone of injustice, if you have discussed anyone
unkindly, if you have criticized or gossiped about anyone, withdraw your words
by asking him, in the silence, to forgive you.
If you have had a falling out
with friends or relatives, if you are at law or engaged in contention with
anyone, do everything in your power to end the separation.
See all things and
all persons as they really are—pure Spirit—and send them your strongest
thoughts of love.
Do not go to bed any night feeling that you have an enemy in
the world.
Be careful not to
think a thought or to say a
word that will offend.
Be patient, loving, and
kind, under all
circumstances.
You can do this if you are faithful to the
silent hour, because there you will be helped to overcome the selfishness of
the carnal sense.
There is an immutable
law lying back of this healing method.
God is love, and love is manifest as
life.
God is thus manifest in and through all His creations.
If we do aught to
cut off the love of any person
we are cutting off the love of God;
hence, we
are cutting off the life that flows
through all.
When we, by withdrawal from
our fellows,
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in any way cut the cords of love that bind us
together as men and women,
we at the same time sever the arteries and veins through which the universal
life flows.
We then find ourselves mere bundles of strained nerves, trembling
and shaking with fear and weakness, and finally dying for the lack of God’s
love.
But omnipresent Spirit ever seeks to flow into us and to stimulate us in
every faculty.
We must, however, by our words and acts acknowledge this
all-powerful Presence as the moving factor in our lives, because each of us has
inherent free will, which welcomes or rejects all, even God not being excepted.
Self-condemnation is
also a great error,
leading to dire results. If you have accused
yourself of
ignorance, foolishness, fear,
sickness, anxiety, poverty, anger, jealousy,
stinginess, ambition, weakness, or if you are melancholy and indulge in the
“blues,” ask forgiveness, for each, of the loving Father in whose image and
likeness you spiritually have perfect life.
Say often to this omnipresence:
I do now sacrifice
these human limitations
unto Thee, O Father! I am obedient unto the
law of my
being, and I know that in Thee I am brave, true, energetic, wise, pure,
perfect, strong, rich, and courageous.
Thou art my almighty Resource, and I do
trust Thee utterly.
Forgiveness is the
process of giving up the false for the true; erasing sin and error from the
mind and body.
It is closely related to repentance, which is a turning from
belief in sin to belief in God and righteousness.
A sin is forgiven when one
ceases to sin, and true forgiveness is only established through renewing the
mind and body with thoughts and words of Truth.
Forgiveness really
means the giving up of
something.
When you forgive yourself, you cease doing
the things that you should not do.
Jesus said that man has power to forgive
sin.
Sin is the falling short of divine law, and repentance and forgiveness are
the only means that man has of getting out of sin and its effect and coming
into harmony with the law.
It is through
forgiveness that true spiritual
healing is accomplished.
Forgiveness removes
the errors of the mind,
and bodily harmony results in consonance
with divine
law.
The law is Truth, and
Truth is all that is good.
There is no power or no reality in sin.
If sin were
real and enduring, like goodness
and Truth, it could not be forgiven but would
hold its victim forever.
When we enter into the understanding of the
real and
the unreal, a great light dawns on us,
and we see what Jesus meant when He
said,
“The Son of man hath authority on earth to
forgive sins.”
The necessity of
forgiveness is our first work
in any demonstration is to contact God;
therefore, we must forgive all men their
transgressions.
Through the divine law
of forgiveness we cleanse our mind so that the Father can forgive us.
Anyone can verbally
attack another.
Anyone can be a smart aleck.
Anyone can be angry and tell other
people things that will hurt them.
Anyone can be sarcastic, devaluating and belittling , but it takes real strength to be silent.
Forgiveness is so
powerful and can be so loving.
My value and worth today doesn’t come from what
others think of me..
It only comes from my relationship with God…
Be still and
know.
If you feel hurt
because someone insulted
you.
This is ego.
Feel great with praise?
This is ego.
A managed ego state (or egoless state) is free
from emotional attachment and
reaction from
the judgment of others.
When ego is attacked or hurt, it does
what ego
does: fights and hurts back for ego is not
love, it is separation.
Ego only wants to
play with problems, there
is no such thing as a grateful ego, happy ego or problem
solving ego.
Ego: the optical illusion of consciousness.
The only problem
(ego): conscious separation from God.
The only solution (God): Conscious
contact/awareness with God.
Everyone is You and You are they.
The bodies create
the illusion of separate being; but consider the fingers of a hand: they all
look different, but they’re all part of the hand.
Look beyond the outer
appearance; release the imprisoned splendor!
Here are some
Metaphysical definitions and
uses of the word ‘ego’: ego is the I.
The ego is man, and by reason of his divinity he makes and remakes as he wills. In this
lie his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
The ego of itself is
possessed of nothing.
It is a mere ignorant child of innocence floating in the
Mind of Being, but through the door of its consciousness must pass all the
treasures of God.
An adverse ego
happens when the ego
attaches itself to sense consciousness, it
builds the
antichrist man, who has no basis in
reality.
This is known as the adverse ego.
It is the adverse ego that causes all the
trouble in the world.
Its selfishness
and greed make men grovel in
the mire of materiality, when they might soar
in
the heavens of spirituality.
A Spiritual Ego is
the true self; an
individualized center of God consciousness;
I AM; conscious
identity…. it is the opposite of
egotism, the state of consciousness built up
by the will functioning in the sense world.
In this false
expression it looks
upon itself as
great, honorable,
mighty.
Supreme egotism stops the flow of
spiritual life in the organism, and body atrophy sets in.
