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The third meditation in U.S. Andersen’s THREE MAGIC WORDS closes the discussion on the topic of MIND, in which Andersen explains that the human mind is dualistic in nature, comprised of the Subconscious and the Conscious Mind.

Beyond The Pain & Pleasure Principle

The Conscious Mind is ruled by the PAIN & PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, in which it constantly “imagines escape from pain and flight into pleasure.” The sole purpose of the Conscious Mind is to ensure the survival of the organism. The Subconscious Mind, on the other hand, is composed of the very substance of infinite creation and is our connection to the divine.

Why Meditate?

I like this chapter because he really explains why daily meditation is so important. As we begin to understand that it is our thoughts that fuel the reality we experience, we discover that if we can consciously control our thoughts, our mental chatter, the endless cacophony of the monkeymind, we can begin to manifest in the physical world that which we think about. Meditation is the tool with which we learn to control our thoughts and thereby control our world.

ANDERSEN’S THIRD MEDITATION

For more information on the topic of the Mind, Andersen suggests The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward, a turn-of-the-century text that was supposedly the inspiration behind the film, “The Secret.”

Here’s the meditation:

I know and recognize my oneness with all things. I know that all form and all circumstance are the creation of an infinite intelligence that is in and around me. I know that all things are the result of conception and desire, that my world is ordered according to my own thoughts and convictions. Therefore I concentrate on harmony. I see nothing but cooperation and assistance. I know that we all seek the same answers and the same goals. I know that each person must follow a different path toward his vision, and I understand the searchings and the copings of everyone I know and see. I have sympathy and tolerance for all things and all people. i know that inasmuch as I help others I help myself. In my brother’s eye there is my own soul. In my friend’s smile there is my own humor. In my neighbor’s sorrow there is my own loss. I have compassion and understanding for all things, fore this life in which I have my being strives for understanding of itself. I deny error; it is simply progress toward truth. I know that it is impossible to fail when faith is present. I do not order things to be made in my time or in my place, but trust the Universal Mind in its own great knowledge of the time and the place and the need and the way. Each moment of each day brings my life closer to realization. The objects of my work are being accomplished this very minute. Success and harmony, peace, and confidence are mine.

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Now that we understand the nature of the Lock, the Prompters in our mind that prevent us from accessing the power of the infinite Universal Mind, we can now begin to assess the nature of reality, and more specifically the dynamic between good and evil, or more accurately, between reality and illusion.

In his book THREE MAGIC WORDS, Uell Stanley Andersen proposes that Evil is an Illusion, a creation of the disrupted mind, and that all we need to do to dispel Evil in our world, as it expresses itself in our consciousness, is to divert our attention away from it, towards what we perceive to be the “Good.”

The Second Meditation

But don’t take my word for it.  Here’s what Andersen wrote in the Second Meditation.

“I know that I am one with the Universal Mind.  I know this mind is perfect and I may rely upon it for complete guidance in all of my daily affairs.  This Universal Mind, the great Subconscious Mind, the mind of God knows no evil or limitation or lack.  It simply creates in my experience that which I believe and accept.  Therefore I deny all evil and all error.  When my eyes and my senses are deluded with the apparent circumstance of evil, I turn away, lifting my thoughts to the perfection and abundance and love of all the universe.  I know that God does not create evil; and I know that by using the power of God I am able to deny evil, which is only illusion, simply error, and will not stand before truth.  For the great reality is good, which is always attempting to manifest itself.  I know that error or evil is the result of my own thought, is the result of error on my part, is the result of isolating myself from the power of the Universal Mind.  I know that the Universal Mind is constantly creating in my experience that which I think, and if evil is manifested, it has come from my own thought; and my own thought may as quickly deny it.  I do not will anything to happen, for I am not bigger than God.  I simply understand that the law of creation is bigger than I am and that I cannot help my thoughts and beliefs from becoming real in my experience.  Therefore I hold my thoughts steadfastly on the good.  I do not do this with effort, as if I were commanding something to act.  I simply relax in contemplation of the good, secure in the knowledge that everything rests with a power much greater than I am.  I trust this power.  I have complete faith and confidence in this power.  I rely upon this power for guidance in all my daily affairs.  I refuse to accept evil, and evil is gone.  I accept good, and the supply and love of the universe are mine.”