Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person. The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it. Jesus Christ said, "Resist not evil," for He knew in reality, there is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man's "vain imagination," or a belief in two powers, good and evil. There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of "Maya the Tree of Illusion," and saw two powers instead of one power, God. Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for himself, through psychoma or soul sleep. Soul sleep means, that man's soul has been hypnotized by the race belief (of sin, sickness and death, etc.) which is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have outpictured his illusions. We have read in a preceding chapter, that man's soul is his subconscious mind, and whatever he feels deeply, good or bad, is out pictured by that faithful servant. His body and affairs show forth what he has been picturing. The sick man has pictured sickness, the poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.
People often say, "Why does a little child attract illness, when it is too young even to know what it
means?" I answer that children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often
out picture the fears of their parents. I heard a metaphysician once say, "If you do not run your
subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you."
Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and disaster to their children, by continually holding them in
thoughts of fear, and watching for symptoms.
For example: A friend asked a woman if her little girl had had the measles. She replied promptly, "not
yet!" This implied that she was expecting the illness, and therefore, preparing the way for what she did
not want for herself and child. However, the man who is centered and established in right thinking, the
man who sends out only goodwill to his fellowman, and who is without fear, cannot be touched or
influenced by the negative thoughts of others. In fact, he could then receive only good thoughts, as he
himself, sends forth only thoughts.
Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a "state of torment."
A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe for taking every trick in the game of life, it is the acme
of non resistance. He gave it in this way: "At one time in my life, I baptized children, and of course, they
had many names. Now I no longer baptize children, but I baptize events, but I give every event the same
name. If I have a failure I baptize it success, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost!" In this, we see the great law of transmutation, founded on nonresistance. Through his spoken
word, every failure was transmuted into success.
For example: A woman who required money, and who knew the spiritual law of opulence, was thrown
continually in a businessway, with a man who made her feel very poor. He talked lack and limitation and
she commenced to catch his poverty thoughts, so she disliked him, and blamed him for her failure. She
knew in order to demonstrate her supply, she must first feel that she had received a feeling of opulence
must precede its manifestation. It dawned on her, one day, that she was resisting the situation, and seeing
two powers instead of one. So she blessed the man and baptized the situation "Success"! She affirmed,
"As there is only one power, God, this man is here for my good and my prosperity" (just what he did not
seem to be there for).
Soon after that she met, through this man, a woman who gave her for a service rendered, several
thousand dollars, and the man moved to a distant city, and faded harmoniously from her life. Make the
statement, "Every man is a golden link in the chain of my good," for all men are God in manifestation,
awaiting the opportunity given by man, himself, to serve the divine plan of his life. "Bless your enemy,
and you rob him of his ammunition." His arrows will be transmuted into blessings.
This law is true of nations as well as individuals. Bless a nation, send love and goodwill to every
inhabitant and it is robbed of its power to harm. Man can only get the right idea of nonresistance, through
spiritual understanding.