Rosicrucian Heritage Magazine - 2011-09 - AMORC

The Seeds of
Self-Fulfillment
by Mary Ann Fowler, SRC
As Within - So Without
As seekers of greater
spiritual realisation know,
the mind has a profound
effect on their lives.
Whatever their outward
circumstances, the
material expression about
them is only a reflection of
beliefs and attitudes they
have held in the past. In
other words, it all began in
the mind.
The kind of BODY YOU HAVE, THE KIND
of home you live in, the type of work you do, the kind
of people you meet, are all conditioned by and correspond
to the images in your mind. As there can be no plant
without a seed, so the circumstances in your life spring
from the hidden seeds of your thought. Every one of your
actions is always preceded by thought.
Action then, could be thought of as the flowering of
thought; joy and suffering are its fruits. So when choosing
the fruits of your life…, a healthy body, a satisfactory job,
friends and opportunities…, you must first plant the seed
of thought and supply yourself with the proper image in
your mind before the thing will be manifested in your life.
Without the mental image within, you cannot have the
material expression without…; “as within, so without.”
There are probably things you would like to change
or eliminate in your life, and let’s face it, we all have them!
Perhaps there’s some part of your body you would love
to change or some habits. If you rid your mind of the
mental image, that is, stop thinking about the unwanted
condition, you will have taken the first step towards
removing it from your life. The secret of successful living is
to build up or visualise the mental image you want, whilst
at the same time getting rid of the mental image you don’t
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