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The Gift of Faith
The secret to hardening your desire into fact
In all the ages of history, faith has played a major role. It permeates all the great religions of the world, it is woven all through mythology, and yet today it is almost universally misunderstood.
Here is one example:
And Jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief; for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
-Matthew 17:20
This faith of a grain of mustard seed has proven a stumbling block to man. He has been taught to believe that a grain of mustard seed signifies a small degree of faith. So he naturally wonders why he, a mature man, should lack this insignificant measure of faith when so small an amount assures success.
The grain of mustard seed is not the measure of a small amount of faith. On the contrary, it is the absolute in faith. A mustard seed is conscious of being a mustard seed and a mustard seed alone. It is not aware of any other seed in the world. It is sealed in the conviction that it is a mustard seed in the same manner that the spermatozoa sealed in the womb is conscious of being man and only man.
A grain of mustard seed is truly the measure of faith necessary to accomplish your every objective; but like the mustard seed you too must loose yourself in the consciousness of being only the thing desired. You abide within this sealed state until it bursts itself and reveals your conscious claim. Faith is feeling or living in the consciousness of being the thing desired; faith is the secret of creation.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
-Hebrews 11:1
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
-Hebrews 11:3
It is faith which enables you to become conscious of being the thing desired, it is faith which seals you in this conscious state until your invisible claim ripens to maturity and expresses itself, is made visible. Through feeling the consciousness desiring is joined to the thing desired.
Faith is feeling, “According to your faith (feeling) be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29). You never attract that which you want, but always that which you are. As a man is, so does he see. “To him that hath it shall be given and to him that hath not it shall be taken away” (Matthew 13:12; 25:29; Mark 4:25; Luke 8:18; 19:26).
That which you feel yourself to be, you are, and you are given that which you are. So assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your wish, and your wish must be realised.
