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The Laws of Manifestation

Key Quotes from the Book by David Spangler

The process of working the Law of Manifestation may be divided up for easier discussion into four stages: Right Identification, Right Imagination, Right Attunement, and Right Action.

Right Identification is knowing that one is divine Spirit, at one with the Whole, one with abundance… It comes from stripping away from one anything that would obscure one’s true identity, that would wrap oneself in illusion and glamour. This will require a discipline, but it is important to remember that a true discipline is never a restriction, only an affirmation. To discipline means to learn, to affirm the true vision of identity so strongly that anything else falls away…

Right Imagination is right identification of the need itself and the formation through the attunement of the Soul of the proper image which will concentrate the creative energies and allow them to take form on some level. If a person is rightly identifying himself with his Soul reality, his oneness with the Whole, then he will not see a need as a form alone, something which he lacks; he will see it as an opportunity, an opening through which God can reveal himself. The starting point for creativity is Silence. …Thus the first step in Right Imagination is Meditation. …He must know that within himself is the fulfilment of that need and he must identify with that fulfilment, allowing it, like a seed, to build up energy within him.

Right Attunement means the alignment of the personality to the vision generated through Right Imagination and the working of creative laws to give that vision form.…Right Attunement means the aligning of the emotions to the intuitive knowing, which generates the energy of faith. This is not blind faith, based on simple trust in God; it is the powerful conviction born of knowledge. …This generally means the release of enthusiasm, of positivity, of energy to work and to accomplish. This energy is then available to the creative process, the inner plane Builders, to use in accomplishing the manifestation. …It means that one manifests in harmony with one’s surroundings, not in spite of them.

Right Action means the willingness and ability to do whatever is necessary on physical levels to bring the manifestation about, to assist the birth process of the divine will which the need represents. One other aspect of Right Action is very important: this is giving thanks for what one has received and then loving and caring for the manifestation, using it with skill and wisdom.

Manifestation and the Will

“Will is generated through the relaxed yet single-pointed use of the imagination to form an image and to summon all the forces of consciousness to flow into and through that image for a certain period of time.”

“The essential nature of this kind of will-power is that it does not dominate or manipulate; it clarifies and vibrates through a situation, making possible the revelation and unfoldment of the perfect divine pattern inherent in that moment. It strikes a note to which lesser sounds can align themselves to form the chord of manifestation. It is like a magnetic field around which iron filings can arrange themselves. It is like a sound wave that causes sand particles to form geometric patterns corresponding to crystalline properties potential within them.”

“Another useful seed-thought for further meditation is the esoteric association of the energy of divine will with the creative spirit and essence of Beingness itself. That quality which, in one of its aspects, we call ‘will’ is at the core of existence itself, lying at the heart of the mystery of ‘Divinity’ and of the primal manifestation of creation.”

“In this sense, we might say that many forms of manifestation (if not all) consist really of a process of stripping away that which prohibits or clouds realization of what is there, rather than in drawing something to us. The core of ‘working the laws’ is basically an overcoming of the illusion of separation, an overcoming of the limitations of the personality consciousness.”

“Will creates through revelation of what is the nature of the Source and the Centre, the ultimate authority. Rather than acting as a pressure upon the surface of things, it acts as a magnet drawing the comparable divine nature from out of the heart of things.”