2006-9-26 05:40:00
[Editor's Note: The text of the original article was edited by JJ Dewey and re-published below.]
Hope at least a few of the group attempted working with seed thoughts. My guess is that few have, but if one does it right he can receive much benefit.
One more thing one can do to make use of this principle is to memorize on a regular basis. I memorized quite a few scriptures and what I saw as profound thoughts when I was younger. They have been invaluable to me over a lifetime. Sometimes twenty years after I memorized a phrase it will be passing through my mind and further light will come.
Here is the next principle:
The realization that this is a true principle is a discovery of truth in itself, but when this truth gets firmly planted many other discoveries are possible.
One may ask, how does this aid in the discovery of truth?
When one realizes that good dominates he can eliminate a common teaching that causes much illusion which is this. It is believed by many that good and evil are exact opposites -- that they cancel each other out. But if evil canceled out good then what would we have? There would be no room for joy and happiness.
The correspondence of the dominating good lies in the manifestation of the universe itself. Scientists tell us that in the beginning of the Big Bang that if positive and negative forces were exactly equal then nothing would have manifest -- that we would have only empty space. Now most of the universe is apparently empty space, but if we look up in the sky we see clumps of matter called stars and galaxies which were formed because of the dominance of one force over the other.
Now the universe is over 99.99 percent empty space so the dominating force barely tipped the scales, but that slight edge was enough to create all there is around us in all its beauty.
Even so, that which is good, which creates with intelligence, which moves us forward in our evolution dominates over mindless destruction and collapse of intelligent building and creation.
The realization of this principle is the beginning of faith. If one learns an ideal, which is good and desirable, then he can believe with certainty that sometime in the future the ideal will manifest. Will it manifest right away? Probably not, for the destructive forces are almost as powerful as the building ones. But because good dominates the disciple has faith that in the end the good will securely manifest.
For instance, the idea of peace on earth good will to man spoken 2000 years ago still seems impossible to many -- but not to the faith of a disciple. The reason is the disciple knows that this good and beautiful ideal has to eventually manifest because in the end good does dominate.
Good dominates because intelligence gravitates toward the good and seeks to manifest it. When intelligent activity is focused on an ideal then it is only a matter of time before it manifests and achieves relative perfection.
Here is a quote from one working against the dominating good of humanity:
"To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible."
-- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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