Magic of Faith

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

BOOKS BY DR. JOSEPH MURPHY
The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power
The Cosmic Energizer: Miracle Power of the Universe
The Cosmic Power Within You
Great Bible Truths for Human Problems
The Healing Power of Love
How to Attract Money
How to Pray with a Deck of Cards
How to Use the Power of Prayer
How to Use Your Healing Power
Infinite Power for Richer Living
Living Without Strain
Love is Freedom
Magic of Faith
Mental Poisons and Their Antidotes
The Miracle of Mind Dynamics
Miracle Power for Infinite Riches
Peace Within Yourself
The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind
Pray Your Way Through It
Prayer is the Answer
Psychic Perception: The Meaning of Extrasensory Power
Quiet Moments with God
Secrets of the I Ching
Songs of God
Special Meditations for Health, Wealth, Love, and Expression
Stay Young Forever
Supreme Mastery of Fear
Telepsychics: The Magic Power of Perfect Living
Why Did This Happen to Me?
Within You is the Power
Write Your Name in the Book of Life
Your Infinite Power to be Rich

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 12, 2010
• ISBN: 9781465329059

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MAGIC OF FAITH

Dr. Joseph Murphy

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Contents

CHAPTER 1

THE SONG OF TRIUMPH

CHAPTER 2

THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD

CHAPTER 3

REALIZING YOUR DESIRE

CHAPTER 4

THE MAGIC OF FAITH

CHAPTER 5

HIGHLIGHTS OF PSALM 27

CHAPTER 6

STEPS TO HAPPINESS

CHAPTER 7

HARMONIOUS HUMAN RELATIONS

CHAPTER 1

THE SONG OF TRIUMPH

"Tell me, O thou whom my soul loved, where thou feeds, where thou makes THY FLOCK to rest at noon?"

"Behold, thou ART fair, my love; behold, thou ART fair; thou HAST doves’ eyes."

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his right hand doth embrace me."

My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Raise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over AND gone;

"The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of BIRDS is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

"Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

"My beloved IS mine, and I AM his: he feedeth among the lilies.

"Until the day break, and the shadows flea away."

IT IS INCONCEIVABLE that any anthology could be written wherein The Song of Solomon would not be included. It is really one of the most inspired parts of the Bible. The Song of Solomon reveals God as the Great Lover. It is ecstatic and thrilling.

In order to lead the triumphant life, you must be moved by Love. You can go wild in the joy of being actually drunk with the Spirit. In other words by singing the Song of God, you become God-intoxicated and fired with Divine enthusiasm, thereby expressing more and more of Divine love and joy every day.

You sing the Song of God, or the mood of triumph, when you subjectively feel that you are that which your five senses tells you, you are not; you are then God-intoxicated and seized with a Divine frenzy—a sort of mad joy.

Haven’t you at times seen a person bubbling over with enthusiasm and intoxicated with joy? That person is singing the Song of God at that moment. "In thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."

When you sing a song, you are expressing your whole nature. Your mind and body enter into the song. When your heart is full of love and good will, and you are radiating peace, you are truly singing God’s Song; it is the song of the jubilant soul.

The real you are a spiritual, eternal, perfect being. You are a living expression of God now. "I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most high."

Psalm 96:1:   O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the Earth.

Psalm 96:2:   Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; show forth his salvation from Day to day.

The keynote to this Psalm is rejoicing in God because you know how the Divine Presence responds to you when you call upon it. The name is the nature of God, which is boundless love and infinite intelligence, and its nature is to respond to your thought. When you know this truth, you have cause for rejoicing. You can change your world by your habitual thinking and thereby modify your circumstances. When the dominant quality of your inward life is joy that is what you will experience in your external world.

When you begin a new assignment with joy, the result will be very successful. Joy means harmony, peace, beauty, symmetry, balance and humor. The Bible says: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine . . . (Proverbs 17:22). This is marvelous spiritual medicine. Your inner joy governs and controls all other emotions, harmonizing all the urges, drives and impulses of your personality.

Your religious beliefs and convictions should give you joy and inner peace. Your religion should lift you up above the noise and confusion of the day, because true religion is the practice of the Presence of God.

When you pray, it is a romance with God or your Good. Your desire, when realized, brings you joy and peace. In order to realize the desire of your heart, which is depicted in The Song of Solomon as your beloved, you must woo it; let that desire of yours captivate, hold, and thrill you. Let it fire your imagination. You will always move in the direction of the desire which dominates your mind.

The majority of students of psychology know that The Song of Solomon is a beautiful description of the wonderful romance of the conscious and subconscious mind (Solomon and Sheba).

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loved, where thou feeds? You realized desire is he whom your soul loved. You are asked, Where thou feeds? In other words what are you mentally dwelling upon? The flock represents your thoughts, ideas, opinions, and beliefs. You are to feast on nothing but the joy of the answered prayer.

If you are saying to yourself, I can’t. It is too late now. I am too old, and I don’t know the right people—in other words if you are mentally feeding on all the reasons why you cannot do something, or be what you want to be, you are not making thy flock to rest at noon.

At noon the sun casts no shadow; likewise, when you pray, you are not to permit any shadow of fear or doubt to cross your path, or deflect you from your goal or aim in life. The world of confusion shall be rejected, and you shall mentally eat of, or meditate on the reality of your desire.

"Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes." The dove is a symbol of God’s inner peace.

Today, you are what your thoughts have made you. You are the sum total of your thinking. You have charge of your own life, and other people, conditions, and events have nothing whatever to do with your success, happiness, or destiny.

You can make yourself sick, poor, and unhappy by the nature of your habitual thinking; you can even kill yourself by your thoughts.

Lazarus represents any dead state, the desire, plan, enterprise, or goal which is frozen within and has not been made alive and resurrected in your world of experience. It may also represent your desire for health which has failed to materialize.

Jesus at the grave of Lazarus represents you and your awareness of the Power which can resurrect your ideal which has been covered with the grave clothes of fear, doubt, and anxiety for a long time, and has been suppressed in the tomb of the subconscious.

Jesus said, Take ye away the store. The stone of superstition, fear, and ignorance must be removed. Martha, representing the worldly viewpoint says to you, "By this time he stinted: for he hath been dead four days." Four represents the completed state, the termination, the manifestation. According to sense-evidence the situation seems absolutely hopeless, or the condition may seem to be incurable. Regardless of the external circumstances, even though the whole world would deny what you pray for, if thou woods believe, though should see the glory of God.

In other words, if you will turn away from sense-evidence and go within and contemplate the reality of what you pray for, and sing the song of triumph, you will see the Glory of God—you will see the answer to your prayer. To believe is to live in the state of being or having what you pray for. Your thought is your belief, and whatever you think, you become. Live with the thought and reality of the answered prayer, and there will be an atomic and molecular change in the diseased body to conform to the new mental pattern.

The stone is lifted as you positively refuse to give power to sickness, disease, or fear. As you give all power to God, the stone is removed and you are no longer weighted down with the burdens of the world. Your new mental attitude is the angel who rolls away the stone of fear and false belief.

You are now Jesus, lifting up your eyes saying, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always. He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. John 11:41-43. These latter verses give a magnificent formula for prayer. The thankful attitude works miracles.

Many years ago, a friend of mine who had tuberculosis took these wonderful words of the Bible, I thank thee Father that thou hast heard me, and I knew that thou hearest me always. He reasoned it out this way. His human father always gave him whatever he promised him. At one time his father promised him a trip to France (he lived in Ireland). The trip was to take place in August, but the promise was made in May. He remembered how joyous and enthusiastic he was. He recalled bubbling over with the expectancy and being thrilled beyond words. This happened even though the trip had not taken place. All he had was the promise; he knew it was certain because his father never failed him.

He said to himself, Why shouldn’t I be thankful and grateful to my Heavenly Father for the promise of perfect health, for ‘I know that he heareth me always,’ ‘I will restore health unto thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds saith the Lord.’ Two or three times a day he would still his mind, relax, and let go. Then he would imagine he was talking to the Invisible Healing Presence within, and he began to whisper, Thank you, over and over again. He did this until his mind was saturated with the feeling of thankfulness. At the end of three weeks the sputum test and all the others were completely negative. He cast God’s Spell over himself. He became magnetized as he contemplated the harmony and he would experience perfection of God, which he knew, as God already gave it to him. When he contemplated the Peace, Order, and Healing Power of God within him, there was a complete rearrangement of the atoms of his body. He became like a magnetized piece of steel which draws to itself other steel, and not nickel and other metals. In the diseased state he was demagnetized, the atoms were still present, but he ceased to vibrate harmony, health, and peace. His feeling of thankfulness and sense of confidence in the One Healing Power drew like a magnet the conviction that made healthy, vital, harmonious, and whole.

Like the man mentioned above, give up the false belief that other powers can make you will without your consent. Contemplate yourself the way you want to be, happy, healthy, radiant, and strong. Identify yourself with these qualities, and accept nothing else. Give up completely all fear in any other so-called causes or powers. Reject categorically and dynamically all false beliefs. Turn in confidence to the Supreme Power within which moves your feeling, your faith, and trust. When you do this, you are becoming a marvelous mental and spiritual magnet and you will inevitably attract harmony, health, peace, and joy.

The three steps in raising Lazarus from the dead are:

1. Recognition of your consciousness as supreme cause.

2. Accept the idea of perfect health and live with it in your mind. To

3. Believe is to live with the idea, i.e., make it alive.

4. The inevitable conviction which follows the previous two steps. You are now filled with the feeling of being what you want to be.

Your mood is now one of authority and you say inwardly, Lazarus, come forth.

This is the command from the inside of the one who knows that I and my Father are one.

Affirm frequently as follows: My faith is in God, His Cosmic Wisdom, and in all things good. I live in the joyous expectancy of the best, and marvelous and unforeseen wonders come into my life every day. Wonders will happen in your life as you write these truths in your book of life (your subconscious mind). Have faith in the responses of your deeper mind to your conscious mind’s thinking, and you will prosper along all lines.

Once I talked to an alcoholic who said, Don’t say anything about this God-stuff to me. I don’t want God. I want a healing. This man was deeply resentful toward a former wife who had remarried; moreover, he was full of grudges against several people. He needed the doves’ eyes, which means he needed to see the truth which would give him peace of mind.

I asked him, Will you pray with me now? All I ask is that you be sincere; if you are, you will experience an inner peace which passeth all human understanding.

He relaxed his body, and I said to him, Imagine you are talking to the Invisible Presence within you—the Almighty Power which created the Cosmos. It can do all things. Say, ‘Thank you, thank you, for this inner peace.’ Say it over and over again.

After ten minutes in silent meditation, he was blinded by an interior, Inner Light. It seemed to come from the floor where he was. The whole room was flooded with Light!

He exclaimed, All I see is Light! What’s wrong? Then he relaxed into sleep in my office, and his face did truly shine as the sun. He awakened in about fifteen minutes and was completely at peace saying, God truly is! God is! This man had found his Beloved; it had doves’ eyes.

As you fall asleep at night, tell your desire how fair it is, and how wonderful you would feel in realizing it. Begin to fall in love with your ideal. Praise it; exalt it. Arise my Love! Feel that you are what you want to be. Go to sleep in the consciousness of being or doing what you long to do.

I told a man in one of the islands one time to sleep on the idea of success. He was selling magazine subscriptions. He became a great success by following this procedure: I suggested that he think of success prior to sleep; i.e., what success meant to him; what he would do if he were successful. I told him to use his imagination; then as he was about to go to sleep, fall in love with the idea of success this way: Repeat the one word, Success, over and over again. He should get into the mood of success; then fall off to sleep in the arms of his Everlasting Lover. Your Lover—your Divine Presence—will bring to pass whatever you accept as true. The conditions, experiences, and events of your life are called children of your mind.

Many people say, If I affirm, ‘I am successful’ when I am a failure, or if I say to myself, ‘I am wealthy’ when I am broke, I am lying to myself, and I seem to get worse and experience the opposite of what I affirm or claim to be true.

The reason for this is that the belief in lack, failure, and limitation is dominant in their subconscious mind, and every time they affirm wealth, they resurrect the thought of lack. They fail to understand how to tap the riches of the infinite, because they don’t know the workings of their mind.

Your subconscious mind takes you literally. I know a man, a builder, who is about fifty-five years of age. His wife complains that he is constantly saying, I am getting old. I’m not as strong any more as I used to be. My memory is failing. I can’t take it any more. This man looks to be over eighty years old and is experiencing weakness, decrepitude, lack of vitality and the joy of living. She reminds him of the working of his subconscious mind, but he ridicules it and says that there is no such thing as a subconscious mind. His mind is closed and he is expressing what he is impressing on his subconscious mind.

Life never grows old. Age is not the flight of years but the dawn of wisdom. Love, faith, confidence, joy, goodwill, laughter and inspiration never grow old. Life is always seeking expression through you at higher levels whether you are ninety or nine. Learn to listen to the impulses from within. These are the urges of the Spirit, or God, in you, saying to you, Come on up higher. I have need of you. Welcome the soft tread of the unseen guest in your heart.

. . . I am come that they might have life. And that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). This is the urge of the Life Principle within you. It is the Infinite Presence causing you to be aware of the murmurings, whisperings, inspiration and dreams enabling you to move onward, upward and God ward.

Triumph of Principles

Emerson said, Nothing will give you peace but the triumph of principles. You would not wire your house unless you understood and applied the principles of electricity. You would not manufacture chemicals unless you understood the principles of chemistry; in building a house, you must be initiated into the principles of construction. If you decide to become a musician, you must study music and practice, and as time goes on, perhaps you can play a classical piece of music even though blindfolded. You will have established the equivalent in your subconscious mind, which enables you to play automatically.

Your mind is a principle. Think good and good follows; think of lack and limitation and you experience lack and impoverishment. You are what you think all day long. Learn the laws of your mind and practice them. For example, any idea you have which is emotionalized and felt as true enters into your subconscious mind and comes to pass. Knowing that, you are careful how you impress your subconscious mind.

For those who honestly feel that lack of understanding, I recommend a very simple procedure by asking them a simple question: Do you believe in wealth, that bountiful wealth exists, and that the Infinite cannot fail? It is all-powerful and there is nothing to oppose it. Therefore, success is a principle of life. For example, walk down the street or go out into the country. All you see is wealth, created either by man or by God. All created things were ideas, either in the mind of man or God. I suggest, therefore, two words, which are not mere abstractions, but words (thoughts expressed) which have tremendous power, as they relate to the inexhaustible power and wisdom of the Infinite. By repeating the two words slowly, quietly, feelingly, and knowingly—success, wealth—and doing this over and over again many times a day, you get your ego out of the way, and there is no contradiction in your conscious or subconscious mind, as you agree there are such things as wealth and success.

When you use certain constructive words—words which stand for and represent eternal truths of God—then your mind becomes anchored on the only Presence, Cause, Power, and Substances, and results follow. Use these words regularly, systematically, and repetitiously, and you will discover you are on a sound, scientific path. Remember, it is your attitude of mind that is to be overcome, not your circumstances. When you possess the right mental attitude, your conditions, experiences, and financial status will automatically right themselves.

Your Subconscious Mind as a Partner in Success

Success means successful living. A long period of peace, joy, and happiness on this plane may be termed success. The external experience of these qualities is the everlasting life spoken of by Jesus. The real things of life, such as peace, harmony, integrity, security, and happiness are intangible. They come from the Deep Self of man. Meditating on these qualities builds these treasures of heaven in our subconscious. It is where moth and rust do not consume, and where thieves do not break through and steal. Matt.6:20.

The Three Steps to Success

Let us discuss three steps to success: The first step to success is to find out the thing you love to do, then do it. Success is in loving your work. Although, if a man is a psychiatrist, it is not adequate for him to get a diploma and place it on the wall; he must keep up with the times, attend conventions, and continue studying the mind and it’s workings. The successful psychiatrist or doctor must have the interest of his patients at heart.

Someone may say, How can I put the first step into operation? I do not know what I should do. In such a case, pray for guidance as follows: The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life. Repeat this prayer quietly, positively, and lovingly to your deeper mind. As you persist with faith and confidence, the answer will come to you as a feeling, a hunch, or a tendency in a certain direction. It will come to you clearly and in peace, and as an inner silent awareness.

The second step to success is to specialize in some particular branch of work and know more about it than anyone else. For example, if a young man chooses chemistry as his profession, he should concentrate on one of the many branches in this field. He should give all of his time and attention to his chosen specialty. He should become sufficiently enthusiastic to try to know all there is available about his field; if possible, he should know more than anyone else. The young man should become ardently interested in his work and should desire to serve the world.

He that is greatest among you, let him become your servant. There is a great contrast in this attitude of mind in comparison to that of the man who only wants to makes a living or just get by. Getting by is not true success. Man’s motive must be greater, nobler, and more altruistic. He must serve others, thereby casting his bread upon the waters.

The third step is the most important one. You must be sure that the thing you want to do does not redound to your success only. Your desire must not be selfish; it must benefit humanity. The path of a complete circuit must be formed. In other words, your idea must go forth with the purpose of blessing or serving the world. It will then come back to you pressed down, shaken together, and running over. If it is to benefit yourself exclusively, the circle or complete circuit is not formed, and you may experience a short circuit in your life which may consist of limitation or sickness.

The Measure of True Success

Some people may say, But, Mr. James made a fortune in selling fraudulent oil stock. A man may seem to succeed for a while, but the money he obtained by fraud usually takes wings and flies away. When we rob from another, we rob from ourselves, because we are in a mood of lack and limitation, which may manifest itself in our body, home life, and affairs. What we think and feel, we created. We create what we believe. Even though a man may have accumulated a fortune fraudulently, he is not successful. There is no success without peace of mind. What good is man’s accumulated wealth if he cannot sleep nights, is sick, or has a guilt complex?

I knew a man in London who told me of his exploits. He had been a professional pickpocket and had amassed a large amount of money. He had a summer home in France and lived in a royal fashion in England. His story was that he was in constant dread of being arrested by Scotland Yard. He had many inner disorders which were undoubtedly caused by his constant fear and deep-seated guilt complex. He knew he had done wrong. This deep sense of guilt attracted all kinds of trouble to him. Subsequently, he voluntarily surrendered to police and served a prison sentence. After his release from prison, he sought psychological and spiritual counsel and became transformed. He went to work and became an honest, law-abiding citizen. He found what he loved to do and was happy.

A successful person loves his work and expresses himself fully. Success is contingent upon a higher ideal than the mere accumulation of riches. The man of success is the man who possesses great psychological and spiritual understanding. Many of the great industrialists today depend upon the correct use of their subconscious minds for their success.

There was an article published some years ago about Flagler, an oil magnate. He admitted that the secret of his success was his ability to see a project in its completion. For instance, in his case, he closed his eyes, imagined a big oil industry, saw trains running on tracks, heard whistles blowing, and saw smoke. Having seen and felt the fulfillment of his prayer, his subconscious mind brought about its realization. If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided with the necessities, in ways you know not of, through the wonder-working power of your subconscious mind.

In considering the three steps to success you must never forget the underlying power of the creative forces of your subconscious mind. This is the energy in back of all steps in any plan of success. Your thought is creative. Thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective faith or belief, and according to your belief is it done unto you. Matt. 9:29.

Knowledge of a mighty force in you, which is capable of bringing to pass all your desires, gives you confidence and a sense of peace. Whatever your field of action may be, you should learn the laws of your subconscious mind. When you know how to apply the powers of your mind, and when you are expressing yourself fully and giving of your talents to others, you are on the sure path to true success. If you are about God’s business, or any part of it, God, by His very nature, is for you, who can be against you? With this understanding there is no power in heaven or on earth to withhold success from you.

How He Made His Dream Come True

A movie actor told me that he had very little education, but he had a dream as a boy of becoming a successful movie actor. Out in the field mowing hay, driving the cows home, or even milking them he said, I would constantly imagine I saw my name in big lights at a large theatre. I kept this up for years until finally I ran away from home. I got extra jobs in the motion-picture field, and the day finally came when I saw my name in great, big lights as I did when I was a boy! Then he added, I know the power of sustained imagination to bring success.

His Dream Pharmacy Became a Reality

Thirty years ago I knew a young pharmacist who was receiving forty dollars a week plus commission on sales. After twenty-five years, he said to me, I will get a pension and retire.

I said to this young man, Why don’t you own your own store? Get out of this place. Raise your sights! Have a dream for your children. Maybe your son wants to be a doctor; perhaps your daughter desires to be a great musician.

His answer was that he had no money! He began to awaken to the fact that whatever he could conceive as true, he could give conception.

The first step toward his goal was his awakening to the powers of his subconscious mind, which I briefly elaborated on for his benefit. The second step was his realization that if he could succeed in conveying an idea to his subconscious mind, the latter would somehow bring it to pass.

He began to imagine that he was in his own store. He mentally arranged the bottles, dispensed prescriptions, and imagined several clerks in the store waiting on customers. He also visualized a big bank balance. Mentally he worked in that imaginary store. Like a good actor he lived the role. Act as though I am, and I will be. This pharmacist put himself wholeheartedly into the act, living, moving, and acting on the assumption that he owed the store.

The sequel was interesting. He was discharged from his position. He found new employment with a large chain store, became manager, and later on, district manager. He saved enough money in four years to provide a down payment on a drugstore of his own. He called it his Dream Pharmacy.

It was, he said, exactly the store I saw in my imagination. He became a recognized success in his chosen field, and was happy doing what he loved to do.

Using the Subconscious Mind in Business

Some years ago I gave a lecture to a group of businessmen on the powers of imagination and the subconscious mind. In this lecture I pointed out how Goethe used his imagination wisely when confronted with difficulties and predicaments.

His biographers point out that he was accustomed to fill many hours quietly holding imaginary conversation. It