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The Law of Righteous Thinking

by Charles Fillmore

According to this great contemporary mystic, all the limitations we face in our lives are just misperceptions of reality caused by past conditioning,and they keep us from fully realizing our true divine, perfect nature. In his overpowering words still burns the alchemic fire of an inspiration that transcends any obstacle (or limiting thought) in the reader's mind.

A great number of things that you look on as realities are simply transient shadows that can be dissipated into nothingness by your telling them the truth as to their unreality.

The one cause, the unmanifest mind, from which springs all manifestation, is Principle whose inherencies are potentially perfect. That is, Principle is supreme good, absolute substance, mind, life, love, intelligence. Its ideals are like it, perfect.

The ideal man, the perfect man of Divine Mind thus appears in the process of manifestation as subject to the conditions produced by his conscious thinking.

Although potentially perfect and incapable of producing a single condition of permanent consciousness out of harmony with divine Principle, many persons are impregnated with a belief of limitation, and they are deceived into thinking that they are indeed bound, and the unhappy conditions claimed do show forth in them.

This is only consciousness entangled in its own effects. We know that pure mind cannot be subject to lack in any form, and that which so appears must in some way be a departure from creative Mind.

If consciousness departed from Principle and formed images that were manifested as disease, discord, any limitation of the perfect, is it not possible for that same consciousness to undo its faulty work and build anew according to wisdom's plan?

It certainly is, and we know by experience that when guided by the Spirit of truth, or Christ within, our consciousness rebuilds the weak and tottering structures of materiality and vivifies them with an undying energy and life.

You have been deceived into believing that you were born of fleshly parents, and that you are subject to the peculiar mental and moral trials and physical ills of your ancestors.

You have been deceived into believing that mind is subject to matter. You have been told that the brain produces thought, and that mind is evolved from matter.

You have not taken these claims right home to your own innermost intelligence and thought about them logically.

Now that your identity as mind, as invisible unconditioned spiritual substance, is made clear to you, these surrounding delusions are cleared away. You now say daily and hourly, "All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth."

You have been deceived into believing that there are those among your associates who are your mental, moral, or social superiors; that they have by acquired or conferred authority the right to dictate to and to influence you in matters religious, social, or moral.

But the meek and lowly yet dignified and all-wise Spirit within you now burns with its own clear light, and you henceforth understand that you are one with the supreme mind that knows only original thought--that is influenced by nothing outside of itself.

You have been deceived into believing that you have certain traits of character to which you are bound by nature, and through them are confined or hampered in life.

You may suppose, for instance, that you are naturally timid and fearful, therefore nervous and unfitted to face the world; or that you are cold and unsympathetic; or that you lack language or expression for your ideas; or that your memory is poor; or that you lack perfection in some other way.

You now know the law of righteous thinking that will bring you into a consciousness of your perfect dominion.

Life is worth living because you can surround yourself with your highest ideals. Henceforth you are to keep in mind the consciousness of your spiritual origin.

Now that you know your being is pure transparent mind, you can intelligently deny any undesirable trait and center your consciousness on the perfect Spirit within.

We have been burdened too long with the rubbish of antiquity. Cast it out of your consciousness and assume the mental dominion that was yours before the worlds were formed and you were one with the consciousness of the Father.

The same Holy Spirit that glorified Jesus, and through which He overcame the world, is now right here with us. It is here awaiting our recognition. It will cleanse our mind of all beliefs of heredity if we acknowledge its presence and power.

Bathe yourself in this boundless ocean of wisdom, love, and light by holding for a few moments in the silence the thought: "Thy Spirit sets me free: Thou, only, healest me."

You are not afraid when your consciousness is centered in the principle of good. You know that God is all; that there can be no opposing power. The plague and pestilence do not then reach you, for you have nothing in common with the cause that brings them about.

Man ought never to show forth sickness, poverty, discord, or death, and he never would have done so had his consciousness remained in its primitive relation to cause.

It is now dawning on the consciousness of those who in these latter days listen attentively to Spirit, that, when understood in its right relation, even the form symbol or body will take on the appearance of immortality.

Consciousness will become so intensely alive and so thoroughly at one with the supreme life that the form idea, which is potential in mind, will reflect bodies whose perfection will be divine.

Progressive men in the ranks of physical science are being led by analogy to the conclusion that this is a possibility. Edison said that his investigations had convinced him that atoms are centers of intelligence; that the human body being composed of atoms (each of which is an intelligent entity), a man could, by getting control of these atoms through the will, live forever.

This is the legitimate outworking of perfect Principle--the steady onward march of mind from stage to stage in the unfoldment of its infinite possibilities. In the harmonious working of life's problems according to Principle, there are no backward steps.