助人恒助己
每个人都不可能独立存在，而必须以一定的社会角色存在。每个人都有可能同时扮演着不同的角色。一个男人，可能既是父亲又是儿子，既是丈夫又是兄弟；女人也是如此，既是母亲又是女儿，既是妻子又是姊妹。不同角色赋予他（她）们不同的责任和义务。因此，一个人要想很好地发展，就必须与他所处的人群、环境很好地融为一体。
很显然，个体不能脱离整体，因此，我们必须找到恰当的与别人相处的方式，这样我们就必须学会使用“互惠行为”的法则，这一法则也是最基本的自然法则之一，掌握了它，我们就会得道多助，让我们希望得到的帮助、支持自然地围绕在我们周围，成功会变成一件简单易行的事情；但是如果不能掌握这一法则，我们就会失道寡助，帮助、理解、支持就会离我们远去，失败也就离我们不远了。
- 只有变化是永恒的
“人不会两次踏入同一条河流”，一切都在变，不变的只有变化。
- 社会在变革
- 一切都在变化
- 知识也在变化
- 只有一种力量是绝对正确并且永恒
一种来自我们内心的全新力量却越来越引起人们的注意，它以令人难以置信的意志和决心唤醒我们尚处于睡眠中的内心世界，让我们不得不对自己的内心重新审视。
- 精神的量子
从分子到原子，从原子到量子，有形世界已经被人们探索到了极致，它的内部构造人们已经看得非常清楚。而接下来，我们要做的事情要找到精神的基本结构，即，找到精神的量子。“能量，就其终极本质而言，只有当它表现为像我们所说的‘精神’和‘意志’那样直接运转时，才是最合情合理的。”安布罗斯·佛莱明爵士如是说。
- 一切皆是思想的产物
精神是栖息于我们内心世界的终极能量。它存在于物质也存在于心灵。究其本质，它与维持一切、使生命充满能力、无处不在的宇宙能量是一致的。
- 智慧的人拥有更高层次的思想
- 个人智慧与自然法则
万事万物有其运行的自然法则，所有的生命个体都靠着这种全能的宇宙智慧而生存。一个人智慧程度越高，他对自然法则的理解就越是透彻，他就拥有更高更强的能力。
- 调适自己，以认知宇宙精神
心灵若想变得伟大，就必须进行调适，如同钟表需要对时一样。此所谓调适，其含义只有一个，就是使自己的思考方法与自然法则，与宇宙精神现存的秩序相协一致。我们要明白：只有首先遵从宇宙精神，宇宙精神才会与我们融为一体。
- 宇宙精神会自然地对你的需求做出回应
一旦你能够领悟自然法则并与其保持一致，它就能够对你的一切需求作出积极的回应。对自然法则的认知我们能够跨越时空的距离，使我们的心灵能够在高天之上翱翔。
- 个体思想的能量与宇宙保持一致
人类的个体通过潜意识与宇宙相联系，因此人类具有掌握并利用自然法则的天然能力。宇宙是一切能量的源泉；而个体不过是宇宙能量分流的渠道而已。
- 思想是人类的第一特征
思想使个体与宇宙紧密联系在一起。人类能够感觉、思想、获得知识乃至行动，这些都是因为思想的魔力。思想是人类的第一特征。
- 思想拓展了人类的视野
随着科技的进步和发展，人的视野越来越宽；同样，人类凭借自身的领悟能力与思考能力，就能够与自然法则这一宇宙一切能量的源泉建立起联系。
- 要去思考与领悟
如果没有思考与领悟，人类的认识就好比一个内部没有胶片的放映机，尽管照常运转，却什么也不会留下。
- 信念要被实践所验证
食人族也有他们的信念，但这种信念又怎到能够算作是真理呢？惟一对人有价值的信念，就是能够被实践所检验证明的信念。经过验证后的信念就不再仅仅是信念而已，它转化成了有生命、有价值的真理。我们所熟知的那些时间长久而不褪色的真理，正是因为它们经历了成千上万人的检验，我们所要做的，只是通过合适的方法手段将它们加以运用。
- 知识在进步
- 对精神世界的了解也在延伸
- 互惠导致成长
生长是生命力得以彰显的结果，这种彰显的结果就是得到了我们这个美丽壮观的生命世界。为了生长，我们就必须获得生长所不能离开的必需品，因此，成长是建立在互惠行为的基础之上。只有互惠，我们才能够得到我们所需要的、同时自己又不具有的东西。互惠的前提又是相互吸引。在精神层面上，精神的振动只对那些与它们保持和谐一致的振动作出回应，对与它相悖的事物却视而不见。
- 内在的富足是外在富足的秘密
一个人的外在的财富与他的内在的财富是一致的。内在的富足是外在富足的秘密，它吸引着更多的外在财富来到你身边，同时拒贫穷于千里之外。人类真正的财富资源在于他的生产能力。他越是不断地付出、给予，他就得到越多的回报。因此，如果一个人投入全部的身心于他的工作之中，他的成功就会没有止境。
- 思想是一切财富之源
思想是借助引力法则运行的一种能量，正是它导致了丰富多彩的现实世界。
- 认识我们的精神力量
我们所有的力量都取决于我们对精神力量的认知。如果我们不去运用力量，我们就会失去它，但如果我们不认识力量，又怎么能够运用它们呢？要想恰当地运用精神力量，就要集中你的意念。意念集中的程度决定我们获取知识的能力，而知识不过是力量的代名词，更多的知识将会导致更强大的力量。
- 专注导致成功
专注是现在的热门话题，也是许多人成功的秘诀。意念的集中是一切天才共同拥有的特征。要想获得专注的能力，就必须经常地、反复地练习与实践。
- 吸引更多的能量
人体就像一部不停运转的复杂机器，需要吐纳，需要新陈代谢，才能够保持它的活力。因此，我们需要吸引一种更为微妙的能量，才能让我们的生命机器继续精密地运转。
- 有播种，才会收获
没有种子，就不会长出幼苗，更不会有日后的参天大树。在精神世界中也是如此，只有播下种子，才能结出果实。而结什么样的果实，则取决于种子的性质。所以，你一切的境遇都取决于你对自然法则的领悟，一旦能够领悟到这些自然法则，你将达到人类意识的最高境界。
本课重点
１、最永恒的东西是什么？
——变化。
２、真正永恒并且绝对正确的力量是什么？
——来自我们内心的力量。
３、个体生命之中的差异如何衡量？
——通过衡量他们生命之中所彰显的才智。
４、个体通过服从什么法则，才得以掌控其他形式的种种才智？
——通过认知自我是宇宙智慧的个体化。
５、面对宇宙精神我们该做的是什么？
——调适自己，以认知宇宙精神。
６、为什么宇宙精神会自然地对你的需求做出回应？
——因为人类天生就具有掌握并利用宇宙智慧的能力，实现他所想达到的目标。
７、人类的第一特征是什么？
——思想。
８、为什么信念要被实践所验证？
——因为只有被验证的信念才会成为真理，历经时间而不褪色。
９、导致成长的秘密是什么？
——互惠行为，即，我们付出的是什么，收获的是什么。
１０、我们付出的是什么呢？
——思想。
１１、我们收获的又是什么？
——思想和一切物质上的富足。
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Part Eighteen
In order to grow we must obtain what is necessary for our growth. This is brought about through the law of attraction. This principle is the sole means by which the individual is differentiated from the Universal.
Think for a moment, what would a man be if he were not a husband, father, or brother, if he were not interested in the social, economical, political or religious world. He would be nothing but an abstract theoretical ego. He exists, therefore, only in his relation to the whole, in his relation to other men, in his relation to society. This relation constitutes his environment and in no other way.
It is evident, therefore, that the individual is simply the differentiation of the one Universal Mind "which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and his so-called individuality or personality consists of nothing but the manner in which he relates with the whole.
This we call his environment and is brought about by the law of attraction. Part Eighteen, which follows, has something more to say concerning this important law.
PART EIGHTEEN
1. There is a change in the thought of the world. This change is silently transpiring in our midst, and is more important than any which the world has undergone since the downfall of Paganism.
2. These present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men, the highest and most cultured of men as well as those of the laboring class, stands unparalleled in the history of the world.
3. Science has of late made such vast discoveries, has revealed such an infinity of resources, has unveiled such enormous possibilities and such unsuspected forces, that scientific men more and more hesitate to affirm certain theories as established and beyond doubt or to deny other theories as absurd or impossible.
4. A new civilization is being born; customs, creeds, and precedent are passing; vision, faith and service are taking their place. The fetters of tradition are being melted off from humanity, and as the impurities of materialism are being consumed, thought is being liberated and truth is rising full robed before an astonished multitude.
5. The whole world is on the eve of a new consciousness, a new power, and a new realization within the self.
6. Physical Science has resolved matter into molecules, molecules into atoms, atoms into energy, and it has remained for Mr. J. A. Fleming, in an address before the Royal Institution, to resolve this energy into mind. He says, "In its ultimate essence, energy may be incomprehensible by us except as an exhibition of the direct operation of that which we call Mind or Will."
7. And this mind is the indwelling and ultimate. It is imminent in matter as in spirit. It is the sustaining, energizing, all pervading Spirit of the universe.
8. Every living thing must be sustained by this omnipotent Intelligence, and we find the difference in individual lives to be largely measured by the degree of this intelligence, which they manifest. It is greater intelligence that places the animal in a higher scale of being than the plant, the man higher than the animal, and we find that this increased intelligence is again indicated by the power of the individual to control modes of action and thus to consciously adjust himself to his environment.
9. It is this adjustment that occupies the attention of the greatest minds, and this adjustment consists in nothing else than the recognition of an existing order in the universal mind, for it is well known that this mind will obey us precisely in proportion as we first obey it.
10. It is the recognition of Natural Laws that has enabled us to annihilate time and space, to soar in the air and to make iron float, and the greater the degree of intelligence the greater will be our recognition of these Natural Laws and the greater will be the power we can possess.
11. It is the recognition of the self as an individualization of this Universal Intelligence that enables the individual to control those forms of intelligence which have not yet reached this level of self-recognition; they do not know that this Universal Intelligence permeates all things ready to be called into action; they do not know that it is responsive to every demand, and they are therefore in bondage to the law of their own being.
12. Thought is creative and the principle on which the law is based is sound and legitimate and is inherent in the nature of things; but this creative power does not originate in the individual, but in the universal, which is the source and foundation of all energy and substance; the individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy.
13. The individual is simply the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena, which depends upon the law of vibration, whereby various rates of rapidity of motion in the primary substance form new substances only in certain exact numerical ratios.
14. Thought is the invisible link by which the individual comes into communication with the Universal, the finite with the Infinite, the seen with the Unseen. Thought is the magic by which the human is transformed into a being who thinks and knows and feels and acts.
15. As the proper apparatus has enabled the eye to discover worlds without number millions of miles away, so, with the proper understanding, man has been enabled to communicate with the Universal Mind, the source of all power.
16. The Understanding which is usually developed is nothing more than a "belief", which means nothing at all. The savages of the Cannibal Islands believe something; but that proves nothing.
17. The only belief which is of any value to anyone is a belief that has been put to a test and demonstrated to be a fact; it is then no longer a belief, but has become a living Faith or Truth.
18. And this Truth has been put to the test by hundreds of thousands of people and has been found to be the Truth exactly in proportion to the usefulness of the apparatus which they used.
19. A man would not expect to locate stars hundreds of millions of miles away without a sufficiently strong telescope, and for this reason Science is continually engaged in building larger and more powerful telescopes and is continually rewarded by additional knowledge of the heavenly bodies.
20. So with understanding; men are continually making progress in the methods which they use to come into communication with the Universal Mind and its infinite possibilities.
21. The Universal Mind manifests itself in the objective, through the principle of attraction that each atom has for every other atom, in infinite degrees of intensity.
22. It is by this principle of combining and attracting that things are brought together. This principle is of universal application and is the sole means whereby the purpose of existence is carried into effect.
23. The expression of growth is met in a most beautiful manner through the instrumentality of this Universal Principle.
24. In order to grow we must obtain what is essential for our growth, but as we are at all times a complete thought entity, this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give; growth is therefore conditioned on reciprocal action, and we find that on the mental plane like attracts like, that mental vibrations respond only to the extent of their vibratory harmony.
25. It is clear, therefore, that thoughts of abundance will respond only to similar thoughts; the wealth of the individual is seen to be what he inherently is. Affluence within is found to be the secret of attraction for affluence without. The ability to produce is found to be the real source of wealth of the individual. It is for this reason that he who has his heart in his work is certain to meet with unbounded success. He will give and continually give; and the more he gives, the more he will receive.
26. What do the great financiers of Wall Street, the captains of industry, the statesmen, the great corporation attorneys, the inventors, the physicians, the authors -- what do each of these contribute to the sum of human happiness but the power of their thought?
27. Thought is the energy which the law of attraction is brought into operation, which eventually manifests in abundance.
28. The Universal Mind is static Mind or Substance in equilibrium. It is differentiated into form by our power to think. Thought is the dynamic phase of mind.
29. Power depends upon consciousness of power; unless we use it, we shall lose it, and unless we are conscious of it, we cannot use it.
30. The use of this power depends upon attention; the degree of attention determines our capacity for the acquirement of knowledge which is another name for power.
31. Attention has been held to be the distinguishing mark of genius. The cultivation of attention depends upon practice.
32. The incentive of attention is interest; the greater the interest, the greater the attention; the greater the attention, the greater the interest, action and reaction; begin by paying attention; before long you will have aroused interest; this interest will attract more attention, and this attention will produce more interest, and so on. This practice will enable you to cultivate the power of attention.
33. This week concentrate upon your power to create; seek insight, perception; try to find a logical basis for the faith which is in you. Let the thought dwell on the fact that the physical man lives and moves and has his being in the sustainer of all organic life air, that he must breathe to live. Then let the thought rest on the fact that the spiritual man also lives and moves and has his being in a similar but subtler energy upon which he must depend for life, and that as in the physical world no life assumes form until after a seed is sown, and no higher fruit than that of the parent stock can be produced; so in the spiritual world no effect can be produced until the seed is sown and the fruit will depend upon the nature of the seed, so that the results which you secure depend upon your perception of law in the mighty domain of causation, the highest evolution of human consciousness.
There is no thought in my mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
Emerson
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Study Questions with Answers
171. How is the difference in individual lives measured?
By the degree of intelligence which they manifest.
172. What is the law by which the individual may control other forms of intelligence?
A recognition of the self as an individualization of the Universal Intelligence.
173. Where does the creative power originate?
In the Universal.
174. How does the Universal create form?
By means of the individual.
175. What is the connecting link between the individual and the Universal?
Thought.
176. What is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect?
The Law of Love.
177. How is this principle brought into expression?
By the law of growth.
178. Upon what condition does the law of growth depend?
Upon reciprocal action. The individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give.
179. What is it that we give?
Thought.
180. What do we receive?
Thought, which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly being differentiated in form by what we think.
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Part Eighteen
In order to grow we must obtain what is necessary for our growth. This is brought about through the law of attraction. This principle is the sole means by which the individual is differentiated from the Universal.
Think for a moment, what would a man be if he were not a husband, father, or brother, if he were not interested in the social, economical, political or religious world. He would be nothing but an abstract theoretical ego. He exists, therefore, only in his relation to the whole, in his relation to other men, in his relation to society. This relation constitutes his environment and in no other way.
It is evident, therefore, that the individual is simply the differentiation of the one Universal Mind "which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and his so-called individuality or personality consists of nothing but the manner in which he relates with the whole.
This we call his environment and is brought about by the law of attraction. Part Eighteen, which follows, has something more to say concerning this important law.
PART EIGHTEEN
1. There is a change in the thought of the world. This change is silently transpiring in our midst, and is more important than any which the world has undergone since the downfall of Paganism.
2. These present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men, the highest and most cultured of men as well as those of the laboring class, stands unparalleled in the history of the world.
3. Science has of late made such vast discoveries, has revealed such an infinity of resources, has unveiled such enormous possibilities and such unsuspected forces, that scientific men more and more hesitate to affirm certain theories as established and beyond doubt or to deny other theories as absurd or impossible.
4. A new civilization is being born; customs, creeds, and precedent are passing; vision, faith and service are taking their place. The fetters of tradition are being melted off from humanity, and as the impurities of materialism are being consumed, thought is being liberated and truth is rising full robed before an astonished multitude.
5. The whole world is on the eve of a new consciousness, a new power, and a new realization within the self.
6. Physical Science has resolved matter into molecules, molecules into atoms, atoms into energy, and it has remained for Mr. J. A. Fleming, in an address before the Royal Institution, to resolve this energy into mind. He says, "In its ultimate essence, energy may be incomprehensible by us except as an exhibition of the direct operation of that which we call Mind or Will."
7. And this mind is the indwelling and ultimate. It is imminent in matter as in spirit. It is the sustaining, energizing, all pervading Spirit of the universe.
8. Every living thing must be sustained by this omnipotent Intelligence, and we find the difference in individual lives to be largely measured by the degree of this intelligence, which they manifest. It is greater intelligence that places the animal in a higher scale of being than the plant, the man higher than the animal, and we find that this increased intelligence is again indicated by the power of the individual to control modes of action and thus to consciously adjust himself to his environment.
9. It is this adjustment that occupies the attention of the greatest minds, and this adjustment consists in nothing else than the recognition of an existing order in the universal mind, for it is well known that this mind will obey us precisely in proportion as we first obey it.
10. It is the recognition of Natural Laws that has enabled us to annihilate time and space, to soar in the air and to make iron float, and the greater the degree of intelligence the greater will be our recognition of these Natural Laws and the greater will be the power we can possess.
11. It is the recognition of the self as an individualization of this Universal Intelligence that enables the individual to control those forms of intelligence which have not yet reached this level of self-recognition; they do not know that this Universal Intelligence permeates all things ready to be called into action; they do not know that it is responsive to every demand, and they are therefore in bondage to the law of their own being.
12. Thought is creative and the principle on which the law is based is sound and legitimate and is inherent in the nature of things; but this creative power does not originate in the individual, but in the universal, which is the source and foundation of all energy and substance; the individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy.
13. The individual is simply the means by which the universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of phenomena, which depends upon the law of vibration, whereby various rates of rapidity of motion in the primary substance form new substances only in certain exact numerical ratios.
14. Thought is the invisible link by which the individual comes into communication with the Universal, the finite with the Infinite, the seen with the Unseen. Thought is the magic by which the human is transformed into a being who thinks and knows and feels and acts.
15. As the proper apparatus has enabled the eye to discover worlds without number millions of miles away, so, with the proper understanding, man has been enabled to communicate with the Universal Mind, the source of all power.
16. The Understanding which is usually developed is nothing more than a "belief", which means nothing at all. The savages of the Cannibal Islands believe something; but that proves nothing.
17. The only belief which is of any value to anyone is a belief that has been put to a test and demonstrated to be a fact; it is then no longer a belief, but has become a living Faith or Truth.
18. And this Truth has been put to the test by hundreds of thousands of people and has been found to be the Truth exactly in proportion to the usefulness of the apparatus which they used.
19. A man would not expect to locate stars hundreds of millions of miles away without a sufficiently strong telescope, and for this reason Science is continually engaged in building larger and more powerful telescopes and is continually rewarded by additional knowledge of the heavenly bodies.
20. So with understanding; men are continually making progress in the methods which they use to come into communication with the Universal Mind and its infinite possibilities.
21. The Universal Mind manifests itself in the objective, through the principle of attraction that each atom has for every other atom, in infinite degrees of intensity.
22. It is by this principle of combining and attracting that things are brought together. This principle is of universal application and is the sole means whereby the purpose of existence is carried into effect.
23. The expression of growth is met in a most beautiful manner through the instrumentality of this Universal Principle.
24. In order to grow we must obtain what is essential for our growth, but as we are at all times a complete thought entity, this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give; growth is therefore conditioned on reciprocal action, and we find that on the mental plane like attracts like, that mental vibrations respond only to the extent of their vibratory harmony.
25. It is clear, therefore, that thoughts of abundance will respond only to similar thoughts; the wealth of the individual is seen to be what he inherently is. Affluence within is found to be the secret of attraction for affluence without. The ability to produce is found to be the real source of wealth of the individual. It is for this reason that he who has his heart in his work is certain to meet with unbounded success. He will give and continually give; and the more he gives, the more he will receive.
26. What do the great financiers of Wall Street, the captains of industry, the statesmen, the great corporation attorneys, the inventors, the physicians, the authors -- what do each of these contribute to the sum of human happiness but the power of their thought?
27. Thought is the energy which the law of attraction is brought into operation, which eventually manifests in abundance.
28. The Universal Mind is static Mind or Substance in equilibrium. It is differentiated into form by our power to think. Thought is the dynamic phase of mind.
29. Power depends upon consciousness of power; unless we use it, we shall lose it, and unless we are conscious of it, we cannot use it.
30. The use of this power depends upon attention; the degree of attention determines our capacity for the acquirement of knowledge which is another name for power.
31. Attention has been held to be the distinguishing mark of genius. The cultivation of attention depends upon practice.
32. The incentive of attention is interest; the greater the interest, the greater the attention; the greater the attention, the greater the interest, action and reaction; begin by paying attention; before long you will have aroused interest; this interest will attract more attention, and this attention will produce more interest, and so on. This practice will enable you to cultivate the power of attention.
33. This week concentrate upon your power to create; seek insight, perception; try to find a logical basis for the faith which is in you. Let the thought dwell on the fact that the physical man lives and moves and has his being in the sustainer of all organic life air, that he must breathe to live. Then let the thought rest on the fact that the spiritual man also lives and moves and has his being in a similar but subtler energy upon which he must depend for life, and that as in the physical world no life assumes form until after a seed is sown, and no higher fruit than that of the parent stock can be produced; so in the spiritual world no effect can be produced until the seed is sown and the fruit will depend upon the nature of the seed, so that the results which you secure depend upon your perception of law in the mighty domain of causation, the highest evolution of human consciousness.
There is no thought in my mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
Emerson
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Study Questions with Answers
171. How is the difference in individual lives measured?
By the degree of intelligence which they manifest.
172. What is the law by which the individual may control other forms of intelligence?
A recognition of the self as an individualization of the Universal Intelligence.
173. Where does the creative power originate?
In the Universal.
174. How does the Universal create form?
By means of the individual.
175. What is the connecting link between the individual and the Universal?
Thought.
176. What is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect?
The Law of Love.
177. How is this principle brought into expression?
By the law of growth.
178. Upon what condition does the law of growth depend?
Upon reciprocal action. The individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give.
179. What is it that we give?
Thought.
180. What do we receive?
Thought, which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly being differentiated in form by what we think.
