The Universal Principles of Success Defined

These success principles I write about, teach and help people identify and verify are actually the Universal Laws of Life. Each has many facets like the face of a well cut diamond. Where do they come from? Who instituted or caused these Laws to be in effect? How do we know they are the framework of our existence? I can point you in the direction of the answers. What I can tell you of my experiences might inspire you to look to your own experiences but my experiences will not verify the Universal Laws for you. Like the law of gravity, a law of physics, we can verify the Universal Laws only through our understood life experiences. These principles are aspects of the Creative Force that we can understand only through our own efforts to know our inner Being.

Fundamental to the understanding of this Creative Force is our understanding of who and what we are. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF BEING shows us that we have certain innate powers, with which we can come into harmony with the Universal Laws. It is said a single cell in our body can be used to create another individual just like us. In other words, all the power to recreate us is in one cell. Likewise, we are cells of Universal Being, and all the power of Universal Being is in us for creation. Creation is not over. WE ARE THE CONTINUING CREATION. You, out of all the billions who have lived on earth, are unique. Nowhere is there another individual exactly like you, yet you are a part of the whole.

“Polarity” is often confused with “duality”. The philosophy of “duality” found in most organized religions creates an adversary who is comparable to God. To them, Satan is an almost equal but evil force who wars against God. What they call evil is actually the absence of light. Ignorance is an absence of light. Fear is at the root of all our failures and all our problems. Fear is the great Satan. Like the allegorical Beast in the book of Revelation, it comes from the abyss, the bottomless pit. With no bottom, there is no foundation. What is a bottomless pit but something with no basis in truth? THE ONLY POWER FEAR HAS IS THE POWER WE GIVE IT. There is only one power in the Universe, and that is the Creative Force many call God. This is the UNIVERSAL LAW OF ABSOLUTE UNITY, and any form of dualistic thinking stretches the boundaries of logic.

People who think they are being wise in the ways of the world often fall back on such sayings as, “Everything is relative”. These are the same people who say, “It is a matter of perspective”. From our experience, we have to admit that everything in life appears to depend upon our attitudes and the position from which we are observing. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF PROPER PERSPECTIVE refers to the fact that we attract the lessons we need. Life is made up of, and is the result of, the choices we make. When we are aware of who we are and what we are, our perspective is very different from our relative, mechanical and physical perspective.

The influence and pressure of pseudo-science accepts the human brain as some sort of god, a phenomenon that can figure its way out of this trap we are in on earth and the process of living and dying. It is a great instrument, but that is all it is, an instrument of the mind. The brain and the mind are dependent upon each other for creation, but they are not the same. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF PURE POTENTIALITY goes beyond the saying that “anything the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” Thought creates form, and without thought, there can be no form. Everything, including the trees outside, had to first exist in thought. In order to raise our conscious thought from the relative level, it is necessary to still the mind. The Buddhist says we have to reach “no thought”, and in the Hebrew Scriptures, we are told to “be still and know”. All thoughts create constructively or destructively, one as easily as the other. We must take full responsibility for what we are creating. It is our lives.

Those on a spiritual path seek the experiential event that goes beyond the senses. Many, however, want to be entertained or titillated by psychic experiences. Jesus told us to seek the kingdom first (the I AM consciousness within), and all else would be added. If we seek the peripheral benefit, he said that this would be our only reward. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF EVOLUTION AND UNFOLDMENT, when understood, reveals our purpose for being here. Jesus called these understood life experiences “treasures that are to be laid up in heaven instead of on earth”. Our understood life experiences are all that we take with us. Our purpose is to experience, learn and continue the creative process.

We do not need fear based thinking or a fear based attitude toward life and God. The extended carrot in one hand and the stick that will rain down upon us for an eternity if we make a mistake is a concept found in most organized religions. There are those who reward themselves and beat themselves up with good and bad karma. True understanding of karma is an understanding of balance. It is the law of cause and effect. Where we have an imbalance in nature, it moves to fill the void. Where we have spiritual imbalances, THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF BALANCE AND EQUALIZATION brings the experience we require for our learning.

Why do religious leaders emphasize the word “faith” when referring to religion? It is a retreat from defeat at the hands of the high priest of science. As long as religious leaders can say that religion is a matter of faith, proof is unnecessary. What they are referring to is “blind faith” in their creeds, doctrines and dogmas. Blind faith can lead to disaster, and all the knowledge in the world without the faith to act is useless. Christian texts say wisdom comes from God. Buddhist texts say that this wisdom is without words and comes directly from our Buddha nature, the one within. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF BELIEVING AND KNOWING brings one to the realization that belief and knowledge are two sides of the same coin. In fact, true faith and Self-knowledge equal wisdom.

The ultimate “blame game” is to lay the fault with God. “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.” In other words, everything is God’s fault? Many see the world as one of random chaos even while professing a belief in God and Divine Order. Those with this mind-set view their lives as a series of obstacles that constantly bombard them, and they fend off disaster or succumb to the will of a harsh God. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF ATTRACTION, when understood, exposes the fallacy of this doctrine. It means that we attract what we require, when we require it, for our process of evolution and unfoldment. When we take responsibility for what we have attracted, it is easier to see THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF ABUNDANCE. We have already been given everything we could possibly need, and it has always been there for the taking. We need only come into harmony with the Laws. Seek first the Being within, and all else will be added. This is not a world of shortages. THE ONLY LIMITATIONS WE FACE ARE THE ONES WE CREATE AND BELIEVE.

There is an element in society that avoids steps toward clarity. They like to obfuscate any attempt toward any degree of certainty about anything. It is under the guise of avoiding absolutism that they are heard to say, “It is all relative.” Taking hard and fast positions of an absolute nature can be dangerous to our spiritual unfoldment, but to fall back on the claim that everything is “relative” is a way of avoiding individual responsibility. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF RELATIVITY refers to the fact that every action has a reaction and that all is related to all. It is from the oneness of Absolute Unity that the diversity of many is expressed.

Metaphysical studies are for those who desire contact with the real world. Living in a world of illusion and relative conscious thought, many think that the real world is “looking out for number one” because no one else will. Advocates of this worldview are generally talking about material matters. We do have a primary purpose that we cannot allow others to interfere with, but this is not a matter of selfishness. Selfishness goes against the Law of Giving. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF RIGHTEOUS SELF-INTEREST has to do with fulfilling our primary purpose for being here: “To thine own self be true.”

Loving and caring people say, “The world is about giving, about sharing with those less fortunate.” THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF GIVING is a true and divine principle. In order to receive abundantly, we must give. If we are not givers, we cannot expand our receptacle for receiving. If we want wisdom or material abundance, the same process is in affect. We are responsible for the preparation to receive. When we share our wealth or knowledge, we are making room for receiving this abundance. Those who have achieved success in any field of endeavor recognized that you get out of something what you have put in to it, and usually in multiples.

There is more to the Law of Love than simply saying, “We all need to love our fellow man.” We must experience it. We can express and experience it in many ways. According to the Masters, THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF LOVE is the interconnecting energy. It is the make up of the Creative Force – God. Quantum physicists talk about a unified field but, not recognizing what it is, they are still looking for it. Native Americans named it “all that is”, and the Chinese call it Tao. Buddhists call it Dharma, and Jesus said it was “the way, the truth and the light.”

We cannot afford blind faith in what someone else believes. We can come to know Universal Being through coming to know who we are. We can do this by identifying incidents in our lives in relation to the Universal Laws. This is our study, our life and our creation. These Laws are not the exclusive property of a cult or secret conclave of mystics. They have been discovered, taught and written about down through the ages.

The Universal Laws are the single most important and convincing evidence of the existence of Universal Being – God. The laws of nature verify them, and we humans illustrate them. The Universal Laws were important enough that all of the sayings and parables of Jesus, the stories of Buddha, the Vedic writings and The First Philosophy as revealed by Aristotle, are about them. There is obviously something critical about these Laws. These Universal Principles go beyond any discipline, any doctrine and any dogma. THERE IS SIMPLY NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THAN HOW TO BE IN HARMONY WITH THEM.