“… there is perfect justice in the universe.”
The Bible says that “you reap what you sow.” In other words, when you sow seeds of compassion, you harvest peace and harmony; with seeds of hate, you harvest violence and hostility.
Seth describes the American P-B worldview that influences our sense of justice: “Hate is seen as far more efficient than love. The male in your society is taught to personify aggressiveness with all of those anti-social attitudes that he cannot normally demonstrate. The criminal mind expresses these for him, hence the ambiguous attitudes on the part of society, in which renegades are often romanticized. The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask. Following such ideas (of cause and effect), you end up with segregations in which the ill being powerless, are isolated; the criminals are kept together; and the old are held in institutions or in cultural ghettos with their own kind.”[i]
Again from Seth, “Each person chooses for himself the individual patterns within which he will create this personal reality. But inside these bounds are infinite varieties of actions and unlimited resources.”[ii] In other words, we choose our worldview and identity, which lead to the actions we take, and quite naturally, we “suffer” the consequences of our choices. That’s cause and effect.
Emmet Fox agrees with Seth that we create our own reality: “All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind [cause] … are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression [effect] of inner thought.”[iii]
Insight # 94 comes to us from Emmet Fox (1886-1951). He was an Irish New Thought spiritual leader. His Divine Science church services were held in New York City.
“We can choose how we shall think—in point of fact, we always do choose—and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man’s original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.”[iv]
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Additional Reading:
- Cause and Effect, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
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[i] Roberts, Jane. The Nature of Personal Reality. New York: Bantam, 1974, p. 352.
[ii] Ibid., p. 82.
[iii] Fox, Emmet. The Sermon on the Mount. New York: Harper, 1934, p. 13.
[iv] Ibid.
