UniversalLaws

We may have earthly laws, but we must live according to the Universal Laws
to become one with the creator. These laws are written within each one of
our hearts. We are all born with this, the problem lies within our childhood.

This topic, broadcast on October 2nd 1987, examines twenty primary
Universal laws that when applied, assists us in maintaining the balance in
our lives. This is an extract from Dick Sutphen's book Lighting the Light
Within.

The Universe is perfectly balanced by natural and moral laws with regulatory
vibrations to maintain order, when you work within the laws you can be
assured of an eventual positive outcome. When the laws are transgressed
you can be assured of suffering; the only purpose of this is to teach you a
better way.

1. The Law of Harmony. This law supersedes even the fundamental law of
Karma, for harmony is the supreme potential of balance. The purpose of
Karma is to attain harmony. If you through a rock into a pond you disturb the
harmony of the pond, you are the cause, the effect is the splash and the
ripples that flows out and back until harmony is restored. Similarly, your
disharmonious actions flow out into the Universe and back upon you,
lifetime after life time, until eventually your own harmony is restored.

2. The Law of Reincarnation and Karma. Until you have resolved your Karma
and fulfilled your Dharma, which are the deeds you must do, you will
continue to reincarnate into sequential lifetime upon the earth. Neither God
nor the Lords of Karma bestow suffering upon you during these lives, you
and you alone decide what you most need to learn and in your earthly
sojourns, and for each life experience you seek out other souls, often with
shared histories, and always with Karmic configurations matching your
needs. Whenever you act with intention you create Karma. Actions are
considered to be thoughts, emotions, words and deeds, and the motive,
desire and intent behind each. Disharmonious acts must be balanced in the
future in this life or in a future lifetime, to have Soul growth.

3. The Law of Wisdom, wisdom erases Karma. If you have the wisdom to
learn your lessons through love and wisdom you can mitigate your
suffering. Sadly, we seem to learn the fastest through pain, through directly
experiencing the consequences of our actions. As an example, you greedily
take from others, and instead of learning through wisdom and love that this
is wrong, you have to experience from others someone greedily taking from
you, whether later in this life or in a future lifetime.

Example 1: In your last life you were married to a Soul who is your mate
today, and whom you cruelly left far another in that previous lifetime. Before
you were born into your current life, you agreed to be left by your mate,
under similar circumstances—this will allow you to balance your Karma—
and directly experience the pain of abandonment. If through the wisdom of
Master-Life-Awareness it is easier to detach consciously from the
relationship with love, you will ease the pain of parting while also passing
your own test, and thus absolving Karma and evolving from within.

Example 2. Assume that you have Astrologically destined a severe
relationship test for May of your 35th year. If you have learned through past
life awareness, as well as present life learning, to be positive, non-
judgmental and without expectations in your relationship you may only
experience an argument with your mate on that fateful day in May, but if you
haven't learned your past lessons, and have intensified your disharmony
during your relationship you might experience a divorce in may of your 35th
year.

4. The Law of Grace. Karma can be experienced to the letter of the law or in
mercy and grace. In other words if you give love, mercy and grace to others,
you will receive the same in return.

5. The Law of Soul Evolution. Everyone on Earth shares the goal of Soul
evolution whether they realize it or not. We have reincarnated because we
desire to evolve spiritually. By rising above all of our fear based emotions
and in so doing learning how to express unconditional love we raise our
vibrational rate, and move closer to a state of harmony. Even where it
appears that we are not evolving we are in reality making progress. We learn
through the pain of our disharmonious acts, which can be viewed as our
mistakes or failures. This is the law of Soul evolution.

6. The Law of Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva is a Sanskrit term commonly
accepted by most Metaphysical adepts today. It means one who has
transcended the need of Earthly incarnations but who has chosen to return
to the earth to support others in achieving enlightenment. A Bodhisattva
knows he will never really be free until all souls are free. Most serious
students of metaphysics have entered the Bodhisattva Development Stage
of their evolution.

7. The Law of Vibrational Attainment. The entire Universe operates on the
same principle of vibrational energy. When Einstein discovered that "matter
is energy." he opened the door to merging science and metaphysics. The
scientists have proved that energy cannot die, it can only transform
(reincarnate), and, by its very nature, energy must go forward or backwards,
it cannot stand still, for to do so is stagnation, resulting in transformation.
You are energy. Your skin, which appears solid, is actually trillions of swiftly
moving molecules orbiting each other at a specific vibrational rate; a
physical life rate you have earned in the past as a result of how
harmoniously—or dis harmoniously you have lived your past lives and your
current life up until this moment in time. When you are harmonious for a
lifetime, you will have attained the highest vibrational rate—the God level.

8. The Law of Free Will. The law of free will operates in three ways.

1. Although many of the major events in your life are Astrologically
predestined, you always have free will to mitigate the impact of the event, or
to transcend it entirely. This will result from how you live your life up to the
situation you have destined for yourself to experience. If you give grace and
mercy to others, are positive, loving, compassionate, and demonstrate by
your action that you have learned past lessons, you can minimize
disharmonious experiences!

2. As you obtain Master of life awareness and develop conscious
detachment, you will be far less affected by worldly events than in the past.
A Master of Life enjoys all the warmth and joy that life has to offer, but
detaches from the negativity by allowing it to flow through him without
affecting him.

3. You always have free will in how you respond to any situation. If you
respond with positive emotions, compassion and integrity, you have
probably learned your karmic lessons and will not have to experience a
similar situation in the future.

9. The Law of One. Every Soul, living and discarnate, is connected at the
level of the collective unconscious, deep within the Higher-Self. We are all
part of a great energy gestalt called God, and because we are part of God,
we are God. It is the goal of the gestalt to move the energy forward, creating
more energy. So, in living harmoniously, we each increase our vibrational
rate and intensify the vibration of the entire gestalt. When we are
disharmonious, we decrease the vibration of the entire gestalt, because we
are one, everything you think, say and do, affects every other Soul.

10. The Law of Manifestation. Everything manifest begins as a thought, an
idea. Ideas and experiences create beliefs which in turn, create your reality.
If you are unhappy with your current reality, you must change your beliefs
and your behavior. Beliefs can be changed when you recognize those that
are not working for you, and begin programming what will create success
and harmony in your life. The unlimited creative power of your mind,
through dedication, awareness and training, can be the wisdom to rise
above your Karma. Within physical and spiritual laws, you can manifest any
reality you desire to experience. In regard to changing your behavior, you
must decide which disharmonious behavior you want to eliminate. Then be
aware that you don't have to change how you feel about something to affect
it, if you are willing to change what you are doing.

11.The Law of Conscious Detachment. Buddha's earthly teachings are best
summarized with one of his statements, "It is your resistance to what is that
causes your suffering." and by suffering, he meant everything that doesn't
work in your life; relationship problems, loss of loved ones, loneliness,
sickness, accidents, guilt, monetary hardship, unfulfilled desires, and so on.
When you accept what is, you accept the unalterable realities in your life
without resisting them. Some things are facts. They exist, and no matter how
much you resist them, there is nothing you are going to be able to do about
them. Change what you can change, but have the wisdom to accept
unalterable situations as they are, without wasting mental or physical
energy attempting to change what you cannot change. Out of acceptance
comes involved detachment. The ability to enjoy all the positive aspects of
life, but to allow the negative to flow through you with out resistance and
without affecting you.

12. The Law of Gratitude. From the perspective of Karma and the Law of
One, the more you give, the more you will receive. The more you assist
others, the more you will assist yourself. The power of this Law also works
in your day-to-day life.

13.The Law of Fellowship. When two or more people of similar vibration are
gathered for a shared purpose, their combined energy directed to the
attainment of that purpose is doubled, tripled, quadrupled or more. This
esoteric awareness has been used by covens, esoteric religions, healing
groups, and recently, worldwide meditations for world peace.

14. The Law of Resistance. That which you resist you draw to you, and you
will perpetuate its influence upon your life. Resistance is fear, so it is
something you need to Karmically resolve. The Law of Resistance assures
that you let go of the fear by encountering it until you are forced to deal with
it by learning conscious detachment.

Example: You may have a strong resistance toward people of the Asian
race; Black race, Jewish race, your mother-in-law. Your resistance is fear.
The quickest way to overcome that which you fear is through direct
experience, thus you will reincarnate as an Asian, Black, Jew, or mother in-
law in a future lifetime. When you attain Master of Life awareness and stop
resisting [your fear] by consciously detaching from the negativity, the
problem will be resolved. Most disharmonious situations are solved through
a change in your viewpoint. By changing your perspective, you can usually
eliminate the effects of a problem, and if you are no longer affected by a
problem, you no longer have a problem, although nothing about the
problem situation may have changed. Another aspect of the Law of
resistance states, that which you resists, you become, if not in this lifetime,
in a future incarnation.

15. The Law of Attraction. "Where your attention goes, your energy flows."
You attract what you are and that which you concentrate upon. If you are
negative, you draw in and experience negativity. If you are loving, you draw
in and experience love. You can attract to you only those qualities you
possess. So, if you want peace and harmony in your life, you must become
peaceful and harmonious.

16. The Law of Reflection. This Law says that the traits you respond to in
others, you recognize in yourself, both positive and negative. It has four
primary manifestations:

1. That which you admire in others, you recognize as existing within
yourself;

2. That which you resist and react to strongly in others is sure to be found
within yourself;

3. That which you resist and react to in others is something which you are
afraid exists within you; and,

4. That which you resist in yourself, you will dislike in others.

In other words, you have chosen to incarnate upon the manifest plane to
learn to rise above the effect of fear. Those fears will always be reflected in
your reactions to others, Thus your goals are very obvious once you
recognize how to perceive them. As you let go of the fear, you automatically
open to expressing more unconditional love.

17. The Law of Unconditional Love. The expression of unconditional love
will eventually result in harmony. Unconditional love is not romantic love. It
is the acceptance of others as they are without judgment or expectations. It
is total acceptance of others without attempting to change them, except by
our own positive example. The law of unconditional love says, "If you go out
of your way to express unconditional love, you automatically rise above
fear, and, as you transcend your fears, you automatically open to the
expression of unconditional love.

18.The Law of Magnetic Affinities. By Astrologically choosing the time and
place of your birth, you determine the nature or the effects you will
experience in your life. On the other side, before we are born, we make
decisions about the lifetime we will be entering into. You chose your
parents, other souls to interact with you, and the Astrological configurations
of your birth which determine your character, personality, abilities,
restrictions, and timing for strengths and weaknesses. If all of this seems
too complicated to be real, be aware that you are only using five to ten
percent of the capacity of your brain. And the brain-mind researchers say
the human brain has 200,000 times the capacity of the greatest computer
ever built. Such calculations as I've just described would be no problem for
such a computer.

19. The Law of Abundance. You have within yourself everything required to
make your earthly incarnation a paradise if you choose to accept that which
is your divine birth-right. We live in a Universe of abundance, although the
majority of those populating our planet appear to view it as a Universe of
scarcity.

20. The Law of Divine Order, If you seek to understand the Law of Divine
Order, study the natural balance of nature, for it works very much the same
way. Everything is as it should be, although mankind (our energy gestalt) is
far from experiencing its potential of total harmony. There are no accidents.
Your energy, translated into thoughts, words, emotions, and deeds, causes
all your experiences. This assures that you always have the learning
opportunities you require to resolve your Karma, and, as with you, the
collective thoughts, words, emotions, and deeds of mankind create the
environment for us all. If enough souls focus their energy upon peace, we
will have peace. If the majority of souls are filled with anger, we may all have
to experience war. We are all one, and like the many sub-personalities within
you, the dominant traits of mankind (the entire gestalt) will emerge to resolve
our group Karma.

At this moment, a born-again Christian evangelist preaches fear from a
pulpit in West Virginia while a yoga instructor directs a loving group
meditation in Oregon. One is directing the energy of the gestalt into dis-
harmony, the other into harmony. Hopefully, at least one can cancel out the
other. If we can't attain harmony, maybe we can balance the disharmony.
Certainly, as New Ager's, we must not give up, individually or collective. As
always, fear is the problem and love is the answer. Your resistance to what
is causes your suffering. That's it. It's very simple. There are no exemptions.

20 Universal Spiritual Laws
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