Ever have an opportunity to read something really obtuse… then on studying it discover an amazing clarity?  A clarity which would have been utterly missed without further study and review?  And, it would have been so easy to go ahead and pass the little bit of obtusion bye… and you studied it anyway, or perhaps passed it bye…?

Recently in reading The Science of Mind, by Ernest Holmes, I came to just such a baffling passage:

“as we depend upon any condition, past present or future, we are creating chaos,

because we are then dealing with conditions (effects) and not with causes.”

Wow thought I, how obtuse is Ernest…? 

Then I worked, worked and reworked the phrase, turning it over and over and voila, it started to make a perfect sense to me and has applied amazingly for me to so much since my reading.

On deconstruction and reconstruction, here is what I understand:

Depending on any condition is looking at what is, has been or might be and viewing this condition as a cause. 

The word “depending” is key here with regards to conditions.  While we have discussed “allowing” ( http://choose.ws/2009/06/11/allowing/positive-realism/yucel/ ), “gratitude” and “presence” ( http://choose.ws/2009/09/09/what-is-reality/presence/presence-and-gratitude/yucel/ ), all of which are well suited for conditions, these are distinct from “depending”. 

Another key is the word “cause.”  A cause can be a reason or an excuse for something.  A cause affects things and  makes things happen.

Taken together, by depending on conditions, we are treating the conditions as a cause.

Holmes’ posits that conditions are not affects, rather they are effects.  That is, conditions do not cause things, they are in effect caused by something.

Whenever we focus on something we set The Law ( aka:  LOA or Law of Attraction ) into motion.   Whatever we focus on we thus give energy to and create more of it through The Law.

By focusing on any condition, we then create more of the like condition through The Law. 

So we get more of the condition through depending on it by our focus on it.  While we might view the condition as cause, the real cause is our focus on the condition.

As thought creates everything in our life, in all our lives, and in effect everything in creation, the condition itself was created by thought. 

Focus of mind puts The Law into action to create conditions.   Conditions are effects of our choosing.

Thus depending on conditions creates chaos through our focus by creating additional similar conditions through action of mind via The Law.

To create positively we may place focus on what we want.  This sets The Law into creating conditions of our choosing as all conditions are effects caused by thought.

Yours in creation,

Yucel