The Philosophy of The
Institute
What is the philosophy of the Institute? Where are the Universal Laws
found? Are
the Laws like the Ten Commandments?
What are the Universal Laws? Why are they so important to
identify and verify?
The Institute, while not a religious organization, recognizes the contribution of many
religions and philosophies in the effort to understand Universal Being, the Divine Self-expression, and the
purpose of life. It provides an avenue where one can identify and verify the Universal Laws in life
experiences.
Where the Laws are absent, or the
context is not in harmony with the Laws, it is a “ho hum” book. Only the Laws have the power to attract and move people in
an appreciable way.
When doctrines and dogmas are removed, these pristine principles are seen to be the only real
guide.
Our objective is to encourage each person to identify these principles that have always been
present. Each must confirm the existence of the Laws based upon his own life experiences. This work on Self is our
primary purpose and there are no short cuts. Fundamental to our efforts to know God is our understanding of who
and what we are. We can begin with just a basic understanding of what the Universal Laws
are:
1)
The Universal Law of Being shows us that we have certain innate powers with which we can come
into harmony with the Universal Laws. A single cell
in our body can be used to create another individual just like us. In other words, all the power to recreate us is in one
cell. Likewise, we are cells of Universal Being and
all the power of Universal Being is in us for creation. Creation is not over. We are the
continuing creation.
2) Most religions espouse some form of duality. Duality creates an adversary who is comparable to
God, but what we call evil comes from the absence of light or ignorance. Where there is the absence of
light there is fear. Fear is at the root of all our failures and all our problems. The only power fear has is
the power we give it. There is only one power in the Universe and that is Universal Being. This is
the Universal Law of Absolute Unity.
3) We have to recognize that everything in life appears to depend upon our attitudes and the
position from which we are observing.
The Universal Law of Proper Perspective is a fact as permanent in our lives as the physical law of gravity. Life is made up of,
and is the result of, the choices we make.
When we are aware of who we are and what we are, our perspective is very different
from our relative, mechanical and physical perspective.
4) The brain is a great instrument but that is all it is, an instrument of the mind or the Being
utilizing the body. The Universal Law of Pure Potentiality goes
beyond the saying that “anything the mind of man can conceive and believe – it can
achieve”. Thought creates form and without thought there can be no form. All thoughts create
constructively or destructively, one as easy as the other. We are to take full
responsibility for what we are creating – our lives.
5) Belief can be negative or it can be positive. Blind faith can lead to
disaster and all the knowledge in the world without the faith to act is useless. The Universal Law of Believing
and Knowing brings one to the realization that belief and
knowledge are two sides to the same coin.
In fact, belief and knowledge equal wisdom.
6) When we take responsibility for what we have attracted, it is easier to see
The Universal Law of Abundance. We have already been given everything we could possibly want and it has always been there for
the taking. We need only come into harmony with the Laws. This is not a world of
shortages. The only limitations we face are the ones we create and
believe.
7) The ultimate “blame game” is to lay the fault with God. “The Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh away.” In other words, everything is God’s fault. Our lives are a series of obstacles that constantly
bombard us and we fend off disaster or succumb to the will of a harsh God. The Universal Law of
Attraction, when understood, gives the lie to this
doctrine. This Universal Principle means that we attract what we require, when we require it, and for
our evolution and unfoldment.
8) Taking hard and fast positions of an absolute nature can be dangerous to our spiritual
unfoldment, but to fall back on the claim that everything is “relative” is a way of avoiding individual
responsibility. The Universal Law of Relativity is a fact we
come to know – that every action has a reaction and all is related to all.
9) We must move past the idea of reward and punishment because we do not need a fear based
attitude toward God. True understanding of karma is simply an understanding of balance. Where we have spiritual
imbalances, The Universal Law of Balance and
Equalization constantly attracts the experience we require for our
learning.
10) No one of sound mind will dispute the value of experience. The Universal Law of Evolution and Unfoldment when understood explains our purpose for being here. Jesus called these understood
life experiences “treasures that are to be laid up in heaven instead of treasures on earth where thieves and
weather can get to them.” Our understood life experiences are all that we take with
us.
11)
The Universal Law of Giving is a truth. In order to receive abundantly, we must give. Successful people recognize fairly early in life that you get
out something what you have put in to it and usually in multiples.
12) Metaphysical studies are for those who desire contact with the real
world. The Universal Law of Righteous Self-interest has to do with fulfilling our primary purpose for being here: “To thine own self be
true.”
13) According to the Masters, The Universal Law of
Love is the interconnecting energy. It is the make up of
God. Quantum
Physicists call it a unified field, Native Americans named it “all that is” and the Chinese call it
Tao. Jesus
said it was the way, the truth and the light.
The Universal Laws were so important that all of the sayings of
Jesus and all of his parables were explanations and illustrations of these Laws. All the stories of Buddha
pertained to the Laws. The Vedas are pure Universal Laws and even the father of Science, Aristotle, wrote a book about
them he called The First Philosophy. There is something critical about these Laws that goes beyond any discipline, any doctrine and
any dogma. There
is simply nothing more important for us to understand than how to be in harmony with them.
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