Dynamic belief
It is in fact a commonplace to say that every kind of human endeavour will only be successful if the belief in the possibility, indeed in the certainty of its success, supports it.
Those who have not experienced this themselves – and there will be few who have not had to experience it again and again during their lives – will not need to look for long to find people around them who provide positive and negative examples.
The most pronounced talent, justifying every hope, fails and does not reach its goal only because there is a lack of belief in its own power, whereas alongside it the scarcely mediocre talent goes from one success to another, spurred on by belief in its ability…
And how often does an idea only become victorious after the death of its creator whose life was bled dry in realising it, upon it having been adopted by uncreative ones in themselves, who have, however, added that belief missing in the unsuccessful originator despite his energetic striving. – –
Although such experience is indeed easily gained, one can nevertheless meet on every street corner very many who are certainly men of good will and striving towards their goal with complete determination, yet hardly believing themselves that they will ever be able to reach it.
Is it not amazing that so few reach the goal I describe in all my books, a goal which all can reach who carry the belief within them: – the belief in themselves!? –
The proverb speaks the truth when it says:
“God helps those who help themselves!”
Divine help is not in any way being questioned here, but the condition is being indicated which must be fulfilled if divine help is to be made possible. – –
And so all apparent ‘belief in God’ is but self-deception as long as it is not justified by the rock-hard belief in oneself.
But belief is will; those who do not know it as a form of will know nothing of ‘belief’!
However, here we must resist the folly which equates obstinate and contorted desire with ‘will’. –
Ordinary speech may well speak casually about ‘will’ where only untamed desire strives to attain its goal, whilst the will which could attain it rests in a deep sleep.
When we say: “belief is will” we must add that: – will as here required is nothing other than the exalted power of the ‘imagination’ through which man creates within himself the form of his destiny, whether with respect to his outward existence or to his attainment of his highest goal in the spiritual world. – –
This has long been recognised in the healing of the body’s ailments, and able doctors try above all else to liberate the patient’s will to be cured from the shackles the patient himself has forged for it.
If ‘miraculous’ cures once conferred the highest reputation on the sanctuary of Asclepius at
Epidaurus, or today Lourdes enjoys the same reputation among its faithful: – in both cases the ‘miraculous’ agent is the stimulation of the will to cure, the freeing of the imagination, the belief in the possibility of a cure, even though it may only provide the precondition for opening access to other kinds of helping powers. – –
In all ages similar stories have been told not only of ‘holy’ places where the sick have been cured, but also of people who have even been able to cure when potions and remedies were unsuccessful. With the often very beneficial efficacy of these people the ‘miracle’ can be seen in the success they had in arousing genuine dynamic belief in the patient, belief which is the ‘will’ to be cured and which replaces, the picture of sickness created by the same – misled – will, with that of regained health.
It has never been the case that every illness could be cured in this way, and enthusiasts ignored too readily the fact that both human healers and those ‘places of grace’ visited by pious believers had to let some tormented patients leave uncured or with their condition only temporarily improved. –
Yet only folly would deny that the power of belief can have a quite remarkable effect on the human body. –
Whatever dynamic belief can achieve, where applicable, by influencing the physical body, is greatly exceeded by the effects that can be produced by properly guided belief in the invisible organism of the spirit. – –
Just as the sick person whose illness is of the type which can be healed through belief must create the picture of health within himself, using the same power through which he has hitherto created the picture of illness, so too must the seeker who wants to reach his highest goal in the realm of the spirit create from the power of belief in himself the spiritual form into which he seeks to change himself…
Never has even the most ardent desire made a seeker into a finder in the realm of the spirit!
Here too the possibility of finding must first have become certainty before the high goal can be attained.
Belief in oneself is the only effective will to God, and this creative will alone establishes ‘the likeness of what he is to become’ in the inner being of the seeker. –
The invisible spiritual organism of the seeker will transform itself according to this likeness so that he becomes more and more capable of finding.
Mistaken teaching and the utmost lack of trust in oneself have diverted the belief of the vast majority into creating within their inner being the picture of themselves as inherently excluded from supreme and assured spiritual knowledge. In place of this false picture correctly guided belief must put the picture of the called – called to be one with God!
Trust and certainty in the possibility of attaining his highest goal must from the very start become
alive in a person if he really is to approach the realm of the essential pure spirit and whatever awaits him there!
All timidity is no good, for eternal salvation can not have any efficacy in ‘fear and trembling’, even if these words, so very far removed from every reality, have been given such significance here on earth for thousands of years!
Many have sought for all their lives and yet could not find, only because they have put their trust in such evil words and thereby held back all trust in themselves!
Without the belief I speak of here, it is impossible for anyone born on earth to reach the spirit again; this dynamic belief can only become properly effective if it finds man with the most unshakeable confidence in himself, confident that he can reach his high spiritual goal.
All spiritual help, which is continuously available to man so that it can compensate whatever he still lacks when, setting out from earthly darkness, he turns to the path leading to the light, remains completely impotent as long as it fails to find within the seeker that confidence in himself at work. –
Only he who trusts himself can also trust the exalted help which is indispensable to him on his steep path. –
Only he who trusts himself is capable of proper dynamic faith: – stands within the will to his redemption, released from mere desire!
In all my guidance and counsels I assume in my pupils this yes-saying to oneself, disregarding all the faults and failings which he knows well enough.
Many passages in my books most clearly demonstrate how man must first become certain that he originates from the eternal, substantial spirit, before he can entertain the hope of returning ‘to the spirit’.
With the best will in the world the seeker can not make use of the instructions I have given him if he has not yet created within himself the solid belief in himself and his eternal spirituality.
Yet this belief must not be an assumption of truth or a mere supposition.
Only dynamic belief: – this belief which is power and propagates power from itself, – can also give the inner assurance every one must possess who wants to walk upon the path to the spirit.
On the other hand, ‘belief’ in products of the imagination – whether they correspond to reality or not – are more a hindrance than a help.
Not to help creating imaginary pictures in the pupil’s brain I seek to portray in words worlds invisible to the physical eye, but to build a bridge for the preliminary understanding of the demands I must make on his will to act, in the interest of the seeker.
Where the reader thinks he finds ‘contradictions’ in these depictions – something which may on occasions not be difficult – he should leave everything at rest for the time being until his own dynamic belief teaches him to resolve what seems to be an error.
Dynamic belief is assured in itself and can never be shaken by the misinterpretation of an image of words.