Reality Creation – Before the Law of Attraction
Based on Thomas Troward THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN THE INDIVIDUAL copyright, 1915
Thomas Troward was the Founder of New Thought and the creation of reality.
Troward was a major influence on the works of Ernest Holmes, Frederick Bailes, Joseph Murphy, and Emmett Fox, and has been cited by many other writers. His writing is both a bit archaic and very, very strict, with each sentence building logically on the previous idea. We will do our best to make his thinking about the creation of reality more palatable to the modern reader.
Reality Creation is exciting because it pushes the boundaries of spiritual beliefs and quantum physics. This is where the Law of Attraction becomes blood and heartbeat. That’s why Ho’oponopono can teach that we all have 100% responsibility and why one person’s cleansing prayer can change another’s life forever.
reality creation
Thomas Troward teaches that in the beginning the Spirit has a Thought that created the matter for self-expression and self-recognition. This was the creation of the original reality. In the beginning there was only an intelligent spirit, without time, without movement, without self-awareness and without matter. This original creation established an original polarity between Universal Substance and Universal Spirit. Spirit provides Selection and Movement, energy, and Substance provides matter, the material from which everything, all of reality, is created.
There are four steps in evolution as the Law of Tendency indicates that the Cosmic Mind tends to be active rather than absorbed in a consciousness of being. This activity includes the Law of Polarity that maintains a current flow, a movement, and the Law of Reciprocity that requires a similar movement as balance, just as stars maintain their circular motion, so do our atoms. However, the Cosmic Mind, the Source, wanted more than circles and that is why evolution produces more and more progressive steps:
Step One: Mineral Life in Rotation
Step Two: Plant Life
Step three: animal life
Fourth Step: Human Life. Selection and initiative are the first principles. The third is for an ever-increasing enjoyment of life.
Step Five: ?
Troward believed that there is a Cosmic Mind that ensures that Universal Laws are respected. Euclid’s theorem that two things that are equal to each other are equal to each other is what explains the Cosmic Mind’s ability to ensure that what we see is what our neighbor sees. Otherwise, he explains, the wooden boards would arbitrarily change length and nothing would be possible to build. So, once created, matter tends to remain stable. Beyond these laws that maintain the stability of the Universe, we are all free in all other respects to pursue the creation of reality.
Reality Creation begins with the Spirit’s conception or declaration of something, which necessarily brings it into existence! The Law of the Whole and the Law of the Part ensure that we humans are just as capable of manifesting as the original Spirit of which we are a part. We do this every day. Everything in our lives is a creation of our spiritual mind.
Some argue that abuse and illness are not the creation of the victim.
This is the point of conflict for many, we understand. Troward admits that there is the possibility of negativity in the spirit world, which he calls inversions. “A reversal of the Life Principle will transform the current of energy into something poisonous and deadly. The essential condition for receiving the Perfect Fullness of Life is to present ourselves before the Eternal Spirit free from all traces of reversal. Before the creation of reality we must present ourselves ourselves in the likeness of the Eternal Ideal. To project into the Eternal Mind the conception of yourself as identical with the Eternal Ideal.”
The qualities of the Noun Being are Love, Light, Power, Beauty and Joy. The Active Power Qualities are Initiative and Selection. When we are free from investments, we will not select or initiate any manifestation that does not come from Love, Light, Power, Beauty and Joy. The Buddha said, “To end suffering completely, one must eliminate desire, ill will, and ignorance.” This is the way to clear ourselves of investments to prepare for the creation of a healthy reality.
Some say that the Force is the perceptual interpretation of the ego, it is the inversion, of Love.
In Conversations with GodGod says that we choose the circumstances of our lives. If that sometimes seems harsh, imagine that we are only partially in this physical world, because we are also always connected to the source. If so, then we can come out of this consciousness at any time, as Jesus could have done. We do not speak of his suffering as victimization, but as sacrifice. Try to imagine that we all have this strength and choice, choosing love over strength.
ho’oponopono
Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian method of cleansing and problem solving and is taught by The Foundation of I, Inc. “I” come out of the void into the light… The indefinable atom of creation. “I” am the “I”.
As Dr. Hew Len taught,
The Void is the foundation of the Own Identity, of the Mind, of the cosmos. It is the precursory state of the infusion of Inspirations of Divine Intelligence into the Subconscious Mind.
All scientists know is that the cosmos was generated from nothing and will return to the nothing from which it came. The universe begins and ends with zero. (Charles Seife, ZERO: The biography of a dangerous idea.)
The reproduction of memories displaces the Emptiness of the Own Identity, which prevents the manifestation of the Inspirations. To remedy this displacement, to reestablish the Self Identity, the memories need to be transformed into emptiness through transmutation by the Divine Intelligence.
To clear the unconscious of memories that prevent clarity and connection to Spirit (or Noun Being and Active Power in Troward’s parlance) we can consciously request Divine Intelligence to transmute our memories into emptiness. We do this by praying. As Dr. Hew Len explained to Joe Vitale, we start by telling our memories that we love them. We say sorry to the Divine, ask for forgiveness and then end with a “thank you”.
Troward advocates Spirit versus Matter and does not discuss levels of consciousness or awareness. Ho’oponopono, or The Foundation of “I”, describes the higher mind, which communicates directly with the Divine Spirit and receives information or delivers our requests. The lower or unconscious mind stores the memories and feelings associated with those memories and directs our everyday bodily functions. The conscious mind is where we reside in awareness.
Awareness
This is a bit strange, because consciousness is the movie that we produce. Consciousness is the game we are playing with our friends. Consciousness is the book we “got lost” in, but our higher mind is never separate from Spirit. Our lower mind is continually monitoring our body and our location in space so we don’t have to worry. If, at the movies, someone kicks our chair, our lower mind is on the alert and can notify our conscious mind if it continues. If, on the road, someone swerves into our lane, our lower mind will alert our conscious mind, which might be “lost” in some thoughts about an upcoming meeting we’re having.
Our conscious mind is full of thoughts, and our unconscious mind is full of our sensory “reality” and memories, and only our higher mind is free to access Divine intelligence.
In a video by Jill Bolte Taylor for TED (http://www.mindbridge-loa.com/who-are-we.html), she explains how she experienced the right side of her brain missing the left hemisphere due to a massive stroke. in the left hemisphere. Her right side was aware of all the energy outside of her body and was not clear about the limits of her body. She was aware of being one with all other beings in the Universe. She took in all the sensory data of touch, hearing, and sight and was in the moment without thinking about the past or the future. She was connected and ecstatic as she was in her right brain.
What he lost when he lost his left brain was language. She didn’t realize this until she tried to converse with a colleague and realized that she sounded “like a golden retriever” and that she did too when she tried to respond. She lost her ability to decipher numbers and letters significantly. She lost her sense of past and future. It was her left brain, flickering on and off like a light with a loose wire, that alerted her to seek help.
She didn’t talk about this, but we suspect she lost her reality creation. The Active Power she selects and initiates appears to be a function of the part of the brain that sees time and progress in a linear, horizontal fashion. This was gone. The right hemisphere resembled the Substantive Being and connected all Love, Light, Power, Beauty and Joy. This was intact, but the polarity had disappeared.
And so, without polarity, there is no Creation of Reality.