“Law of Magnetism”
You’ve been given a field of dominion by the Universe and in the Universe. How you use that dominion determines what you experience and the quality of your effect upon the world.
“So God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them. . . and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’ . . . And God saw everything he had made and behold it was very good.”
Dominion over earth – the realm of outer experience - begins in the Spiritual realm, the realm of ideas corresponding to outer forms. “Every living thing that moves” includes the molecules and atoms of apparently “inanimate objects” and living organisms too small to see with eyes.
Dominion begins with first understanding laws; how things work. Then how you use your understanding of laws and the nature of things is how you exercise your dominion.
God’s Laws are the laws of consciousness or spiritual laws and the laws of nature, which are the laws of consciousness appearing through physical form.
Laws are Divine Ideas in Divine Mind. We are given the privilege of understanding and working with laws; that is our dominion.
Jesus used his dominion; he attracted what he loved, what his thought flowed toward, which was the Divine Presence - Divine Love, Wholeness, Purity, and Substance. By reflecting upon what we know about natural law, we can gain insight into Spiritual Law. That is why Jesus used stories about human relationships and nature - to provoke reflection upon the natural world in search of spiritual insight.
Jesus knew that we seek what we think we are missing. We seek what we love. In that seeking, we find; we attract or are attracted to the outer correspondent to our inner seeking. This is one meaning of the parables about the lost sheep and the lost coin. The shepherd does not seek what he already has; he seeks what he thinks or feels he is missing and he finds it. The woman seeks and finds what she is missing: the lost coin. Those parables illustrate an important aspect of the nature of the law of magnetism.
Electromagnetism is the result of motion of electrically charged particles. Like charges repel and unlike charges attract. A changing electric field produces a magnetic field and a changing magnetic field produces an electric field.
Think of atoms as wanting to be full; they seek to have a full outer shell of electrons. Electrons go wherever they are needed. When “hungry,” atoms seek electrons; that is the basis of magnetic attraction. When “full,” atoms reject electrons; that is the basis of magnetic repulsion.
It is exactly like human behavior. When hungry, we seek food. When full, we refuse and reject food.
Electromagnetism - attraction and repulsion - has wide range of creative uses. Electromagnetism is used for: compasses, generators, storing information (in magnetic strips on credit cards and computer software), refrigerator magnets, TV images, radio waves, light waves, etc.
The earth has an electromagnetic field which is generated by its iron core. That field protects the earth from solar flares; without the field, life would quickly be destroyed.
Light is caused by propagating oscillatory disturbance in the electromagnetic field; i.e. light is generated by electromagnetic waves.
Radio waves are also electromagnetic radiation at a different oscillation frequency.
Inventors have recently developed a device to control computers directly with brain-waves. A wireless device with sensors is attached near the occipital lobe, which sends electrical responses from vision in the brain to computer. The computer responds to the brain’s responses, literally responding to brain activity.
Brain waves are just the measurable physical form of your mental states; the waves are not your thoughts but the result of how your thinking is affecting your mental and physiological states. Thoughts have specific content and qualities not revealed by brain states.
The Spiritual Law of magnetism is like the physical law, but is a matter of consciousness. Thoughts are like electrons, carrying a current to and through ideas. Outer forms and experiences are like “positively charged” objects, in relation to thought’s “negative charge.” There is a mutual attraction between “magnetized” ideas and their corresponding outer forms and experiences.
Ideas are magnetized or demagnetized by the flow of your thoughts. Whatever your thought flows toward, receives a “magnetic charge” of attraction. Whatever your thought flows away from, receives a “magnetic charge” of repulsion. Just as electrons flow toward the need for electrons – to atoms that need electrons for satisfaction - you tend to magnetize what you desire or have affection for; so love tends to be a like a magnet.
If your thoughts flow to what you love, you magnetize the idea of what you love to attract the physical experience. However, if your thought flows to what you hate, you attract that. If your thought flows away from what you love, you repel what you love.
Socrates and Plato had some understanding of the relationship of love to magnetic attraction: “everything longs for what it lacks and . . . nothing longs for what it doesn’t lack.” This is a good description of magnetism at the atomic level; atoms “long for” electrons that they lack for fullness.
“Love is always the love of something, and . . . that something is what he lacks.” This is one way we experience love humanly – we long for what we feel we lack. If we feel we lack health, we long for it; the same with wealth, happiness, and the longing for a “significant other.”
“Love never longs for either the half or the whole of anything except the good . . . for what we love is the good and nothing but the good.” This describes how love leads the ascent of the soul from love of mere earthly beauty to a vision of the true everlasting good and beautiful; a vision that is “neither words, nor knowledge, nor a something that exists in something else . . . but subsisting of itself and by itself in an eternal oneness.” (The above quotations are from Plato’s Symposium)
In human consciousness, love is experienced in part as longing – longing for the good. Divine Love is universal eternal oneness, wholeness, compassion, and benevolence. Love as “longing” is Divine Love in human consciousness drawing us ultimately to Itself. Desire for good is God attracting your soul up higher.
How can you magnetize ideas and attract what you love, and demagnetize ideas to repel what you do not want? This is the practical question.
It is helpful to open your soul to the awareness of the specific forms of good you would like to attract. That is the value of regular affirmative prayer, visualization, and sitting receptively in the Silence for the Wisdom of Spirit. Those forms of prayer get your thought flowing in the direction of your good. Creative visualization is helpful for directing your thought to specific ideas of good and helps magnetize your consciousness to attract those good things into your life.
Consider letting this affirmation be one of your mottos in life: “Divine Love, flowing through me, makes me a magnet for Good.”
Does not this statement describe what must have been in the consciousness of Jesus? Is it not a beautiful description of the Christ consciousness – the consciousness of the image and likeness of God?
This statement will direct the flow of your thought toward the ideas you truly love and seek to magnetize. It will bring to mind the importance and power of giving from a consciousness of love. It will direct the flow of your thinking away from ideas you do not want to attract; those ideas will then be magnetized to repel anything unlike the good you seek.
“Divine Love, flowing through me, makes me a magnet for Good.”
And so it is, right here, right now.