Chapter 4 The Law Of Nonresistance

In this chapter, Scovel offers affirmations for daily living, reminding us that everyone is a golden link in the chain of our good. We are all God in manifestation, each awaiting the opportunity—given by ourselves—to serve the divine plan. In this brilliant chapter, she teaches us to bless our day, and even our enemies, as part of living in alignment with divine law.

Transcript

Hello,

And welcome to today's Read Aloud.

Today we will be reading Chapter 4 of Florence Skoban Shin's book,

The Game of Life and How to Play It.

It was written back in 1925.

The Law of Non-Resistance.

Resist not evil,

Be not overcome of evil,

But overcome evil with good.

Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element because it is perfectly non-resistant.

It can wear away a rock and sweep all before it.

Jesus Christ said,

Resist not evil,

For he knew in reality there is no evil,

Therefore nothing to resist.

Evil has come of one's vain imagination or a belief in two powers,

Good and evil.

There is an old legend that Adam and Eve ate of Maya,

The tree of illusion,

And saw two powers instead of one power,

God.

Therefore,

Evil is a false law one has made for themselves through psychoma or soul sleep.

Soul sleep means that one's soul has been hypnotized by the race belief of sin,

Sickness and death,

Etc.

,

Which is carnal or mortal thought,

And their affairs have out-pictured their illusions.

We have read in a preceding chapter that one's soul is one's subconscious mind,

And whatever they feel deeply,

Good or bad,

Is out-pictured by that faithful servant.

Their body and affairs show forth what they have been picturing.

The sick person has pictured sickness,

The poor person poverty,

The rich man wealth.

People often say,

Why does a little child attract illness when it is too young to even know what it means?

I answer that children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them,

And often out-picture the fears of their parents.

I heard a metaphysician once say,

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself,

Someone else will run it for you.

Mothers often unconsciously attract illness and disaster to their children by continually holding them in thoughts of fear and watching for symptoms.

For example,

A friend asked a woman if her little girl had had the measles.

She replied promptly,

Not yet.

This implied that she was expecting the illness,

And therefore preparing the way for what she did not want for herself and child.

However,

The one who is centered and established in right thinking,

The one who sends out only good will to his fellow human,

And who is without fear,

Can be touched or influenced by the negative thoughts of others.

In fact,

They can only receive good thoughts,

As they themselves send forth only good thoughts.

Resistance is hell,

For it places one in a state of torment.

A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe for taking every trick in the game of life.

It is the acme of non-resistance.

He gave it in this way.

At one time in my life,

I baptized children,

And I,

Of course,

They had many names.

Now,

I no longer baptize children,

But I baptize events,

But I give every event the same name.

If I have a failure,

I baptize it success,

In the name of the Father,

And the Son,

And of the Holy Ghost.

In this,

We see the great law of transmutation founded on non-resistance.

Through His spoken word,

Every failure was transmuted into success.

For example,

A woman who required money,

And who knew the spiritual law of opulence,

Was thrown continually in a business way with a man who made her feel very poor.

He talked lack and limitation,

And she commenced to catch his poverty thoughts,

So she disliked him,

And blamed him for her failure.

She knew,

In order to demonstrate her supply,

She must first feel that she had received a feeling of opulence must precede its manifestation.

It dawned upon her one day that she was resisting the situation,

And seeing two powers instead of one.

So she blessed the man,

And baptized the situation success.

She affirmed,

As there is only one power,

God,

This man is here for my good and my prosperity,

Just what he did not seem to be there for.

Soon after that she met,

Through this man,

A woman who gave her,

For services rendered,

Several thousand dollars,

And the man moved to a distant city,

And faded harmoniously from her life.

Make the statement,

Every man,

Every human,

Is a golden link in the chain of my good.

For all humans are God in manifestation,

Awaiting the opportunity given by one themselves to serve the divine plan of their life.

Bless your enemy,

And you rob them of their ammunition.

Their arrows will be transmuted into blessings.

This law is true of nations as well as individuals.

Bless a nation,

Send love and goodwill to every inhabitant,

And it is robbed of its power to harm.

One can only get the right idea of non-resistance through spiritual understanding.

My students have often said,

I don't want to be a doormat.

I reply,

When you use non-resistance with wisdom,

No one will be able to walk over you.

Another example,

One day I was impatiently awaiting an important phone call.

I resisted every call that came in and made no outgoing calls myself,

Reasoning that it might interfere with the one I was awaiting.

Instead of saying,

Divine ideas never conflict,

The call will come at the right time,

Leaving it to infinite intelligence to arrange,

I commenced to manage things myself.

I made the battle mine,

Not God's,

And remained tense and anxious.

The bell did not ring for about an hour,

And I glanced at the phone and found the receiver had been off that length of time,

And the phone was disconnected.

My anxiety,

Fear,

And belief in interference had brought on a total eclipse of the telephone.

Realizing what I had done,

I commenced blessing the situation at once.

I baptized it success and affirmed I cannot lose any call that belongs to me by divine right.

I am under grace and not under law.

A friend rushed out to the nearest telephone to notify the company to reconnect.

She entered a crowded grocery,

But the proprietor left his customers and attended to the call himself.

My phone was connected at once,

And two minutes later I received a very important call.

In about an hour afterward,

The one I had been awaiting.

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

So long as one resists a situation,

One will have it with them.

If one runs away from it,

It will run after them.

For example,

I repeated this to a woman one day,

And she replied,

How true that is.

I was unhappy at home.

I disliked my mother,

Who was critical and domineering,

So I ran away and was married.

But I married my mother,

For my husband was exactly like my mother,

And I had the same situation to face again.

Agree with thine adversary quickly.

That means agree that the adverse situation is good.

Be undisturbed by it,

And it falls away of its own weight.

None of these things move me is a wonderful affirmation.

None of these things move me.

The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within one themselves.

When there is,

In one,

No emotional response to an inharmonious situation,

It fades away forever from their pathway.

So we see one's work is ever with themselves.

People have said to me,

Give treatments to change my husband or my brother.

I reply,

No,

I will give treatments to change you.

When you change,

Your husband and your brother will change.

One of my students was in the habit of lying.

I told her it was a failure method,

And if she lied,

She would be lied to.

She replied,

I don't care.

I can't possibly get along without lying.

One day she was speaking on the phone to a man with whom she was very much in love.

She turned to me and said,

I don't trust him,

And I know he's lying to me.

I replied,

Well,

You lie yourself,

So someone has to lie to you,

And you will be sure it will be just the person you want the truth from.

Sometime after that,

I saw her,

And she said,

I'm cured of lying.

I questioned,

What cured you?

She replied,

I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did.

One is often cured of their faults by seeing them in others.

Life is a mirror,

And we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.

Jesus Christ said,

Behold,

Now is the accepted time.

Now is the day of salvation.

Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

One should bless the past and forget it,

If it keeps them in bondage,

And bless the future,

Knowing it has in store for them endless joys,

But live fully in the now.

For example,

A woman came to me complaining that she had no money with which to buy Christmas gifts.

She said,

Last year was so different.

I had plenty of money and gave lovely presents,

And this year I have scarcely a cent.

I replied,

You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic and live in the past.

Live fully in the now and get ready to give Christmas presents.

Dig your ditches and the money will come.

She exclaimed,

I know what to do.

I will buy some tinsel twine,

Christmas seals,

And wrapping paper.

I replied,

Do that and the presents will come,

And stick themselves to the Christmas seals.

This too was showing financial fearlessness and faith in God as the reasoning mind said,

Keep every cent you have,

As you are not sure you will get any more.

She bought the seals,

Paper,

And twine,

And a few days before Christmas received a gift of several hundred dollars.

Buying the seals and twine had impressed the subconscious with expectancy and opened the way for manifestation of the money.

She purchased all the presents in plenty of time.

One must live suspended in the moment.

Look well,

Therefore,

To this day.

Such is the salutation of the dawn.

One must be spiritually alert,

Ever awaiting one's leads,

Taking advantage of every opportunity.

One day I said continually,

Silently,

Infinite Spirit,

Don't let me miss a trick,

And something very important was told to me that evening.

It is most necessary to begin the day with the right words.

Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.

For example,

Thy will be done this day.

Today is a day of completion.

I give thanks for this perfect day.

Miracles shall follow miracles,

And wonders shall never cease.

Make this a habit,

And one will see wonders and miracles come into their life.

One morning I picked up a book and read,

Look with wonder at that which is before you.

It seemed to be my message for the day,

So I repeated again and again,

Look with wonder at that which is before you.

At about noon a large sum of money was given me,

Which I had been desiring for a certain purchase.

In a following chapter I will give affirmations that I have found most effective.

However,

One should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely satisfying and convincing own consciousness,

And often an affirmative is changed to suit different people.

For example,

The following has brought success to many.

I have wonderful work in a wonderful way.

I give wonderful service for wonderful pay.

I gave the first two lines to one of my students,

And she added the last two.

It made a most powerful statement,

As there should always be a perfect payment for perfect service,

And a rhyme sinks easily into the subconscious.

She went about singing it aloud,

And soon did receive wonderful work in a wonderful way and gave wonderful service for wonderful pay.

Another student,

A businessman,

Took it and changed the word work to business.

He repeated,

I have a wonderful business in a wonderful way,

And I give wonderful service for wonderful pay.

That afternoon he made a $41,

000 deal,

Though there had been no activity in his affairs for months.

Every affirmation must be carefully worded and completely cover the ground.

For example,

I knew a woman who was in great need and made a demand for work.

She received a great deal of work,

But was never paid anything.

She now knows to add wonderful service for wonderful pay.

It is one's divine right to have plenty,

More than enough.

Our barns should be full,

And our cup should flow over.

This is God's idea for us.

And when we break down the barriers of lack in our own consciousness,

The golden age will be ours,

And every righteous desire of our heart fulfilled.

Thank you for joining me today.

Namaste.

Namaste.

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