The Creative Power of Thought

 

  The Scottish historian, Thomas Carlyle famously wrote: “Man is, and always was, a block-head and dullard, much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider.” Apparently, Carlyle was laying emphasis on the fact that man seldom uses the creative capacity of his thoughts; he would rather incline to his emotions.

“Thinking is the highest function of which a human being is capable,” says Bob Proctor. “Yet, unfortunately, very few people think. They merely trick themselves into believing that because there is some mental activity taking place in their mind, they are thinking. But the truth is, most people are simply exercising the mental faculty called memory.”

The truth of the matter is that you never can tell what your thought will do in shaping circumstance and condition. Your thought shapes your world and creates your reality; and their airy wings are swift as the carrier dove, and fast as the speed of light.

There is nothing on earth that is more creative than a thought. Thoughts are the arbiter of fatethey remand, based on conservative mentality; they also acquit, based on innovative mentality. In the riveting words of the first century Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” Stated slightly differently, your circumstance and condition, and perhaps your life experiences are all functions of your own very thoughts.

Your thought is creative. And it follows the immutable laws of the universe, that is, to every cause there is an effect equal in magnitude and in proportion. Another is what you sow, that you shall reap. And also, each thing must create its kind. These laws extend across space and time to bring back whatever you persistently harbour in your mind.

Every thought, imagination, word, feeling and deed is orchestrating your next place in the creator’s magnificent universe. Your thoughts are cultivated as seed in your mind, but spring up in the physical plain to fill the barren earth. And it speeds o’er the track to bring you back whatever is preponderate in your mind.

From the foregoing, it suffices to say, the universe and everything in it was and is orchestrated and governed by the principles of the occults. By occult I don’t mean devilish Nollywood’s fraternity nor sorority. It’s no surprise today that the world occult has been maligned and over-franchised in its usage. The word occults from the Latin occultus “hidden.” It could also mean ‘secret.’ It seemingly suggests that the world is controlled by the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places. Simply put, the world is ruled by hidden mysteries beyond the physical realm of cognitive perception and empirical understanding.

Scarcely one in every one thousand persons realizes that the occult forces about us are not unlike human beings. Whenever one makes an assertion that one can achieve a particular task, the forces and treasures of darkness gives one a chance to prove it, because, the laws of nature are immutable, inevitable and cannot be broken; to every cause there’s an effect almost equal in magnitude. 

As previously established, Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and the laws of nature: the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places are absolute and eternal in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. For as a man thinketh persistently in his mind, so is the manas within, so without; what is above is as what is below. These statements corroborate the saying; the tangibles were created from the intangiblesthe microcosm [thoughts] evolves into the macrocosm [reality].

Since everything must create its kind, your thoughts will produce in conformance to the laws of nature the same magnitude your reality. For instance, the Apple seed must perpetuate an Apple tree. Therefore, your thought will create and perpetuate your reality. It materializes that which you secretly harbour in your mind. A historical case scenario is the biblical account of the maladies that came upon and afflicted Job. Could it be that Job’s straitened circumstance and condition were a function of his mental habituation? Pause and think about this for a moment.

Job in his testimony said, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.” Could it be that Job had at several occasions mentally rehearsed and imagined his worst nightmare? You may want to have a second look at Job’s testimony above.

 Nevertheless, since the mind attracts that which it secretly harbours; it could be plausible that Job’s insecurities had permeated and dominated his thoughts that it creates the thing he greatly feared. You might want to think about this.

 “Facts can take you from point A to B.” Albert Einstein says. “But thoughts [imagination] will take you round the world and back.” I couldn’t agree more. The first time I experienced the effective power of thoughts and imagination, I was shocked to the marrow; how their airy wings are swift in shaping reality. Many years ago, while working as a supervisor in a company, I was involved in a situation that was a potential Police case. Now if there’s anything I abhor as a thinking person is to get involved with the Police. I detest it vehemently. And my mind tends to run off on a little tangent.

However, in this case, I was a culprit to the accusations being levelled against me, this I say with all honesty. One evening the Chief Security Officer of the company came to me and said, “Some of my colleagues and I have been invited to the Police station for interrogation the next day.” Perplexed and confounded, I muttered under my breath the very words of Job, “My God that which I greatly feared has finally come upon me.”

That night I went home in hushed gloom; my head bowed toward the earth in quiet desperation. All I could think of was any apparent possible escape. I thought of evading the police, but on a second thought, I fell into a muse on the consequences of my action. I could hardly contain myself with these thoughts that it made me restive for the few hours I got home.

I realized that I have no choice than to honour the invitation of the police. Then I said to myself only the divine can help me and lead me out of this darkness into light. Not oblivious of this fact, I got down on my knees and say a short prayer, “Dear God I know I’m guilty of what is being levelled against me, but I promise if you help me I will not get involve with anything that has to do with it again.” And I said, “As I walk into the police station tomorrow, let the police officer say I am not involve, and that I’m free.”

After my short prayer, I sat down and in my thoughts and imagination I saw myself walking into the police station and the police officer telling me I’m free. The next day I walked into the police station, to my surprise my colleagues that were invited were already seated, and some were being quizzed. Immediately I stepped into the reception, my presence caught the attention of the officer. He abandoned those he was interrogating, called me, and ask for my name. No sooner had I told the officer my name than he said, “You’re not involved in this case.” I was shocked as to the profundity of his certainty without even interrogating me for a second.

The police officer discharged me without a question, and asked me to go that I’m not involved. As I walk out of the station I recalled the prayer that I made few hours earlier and how I had imagined myself in my thoughts seeing myself walking out of the police station and the officer telling me I should go, I’m not involved.

In this story, in my thoughts and imagination I saw myself walking out of the police station with the words, ‘You are not involved.’ And since the drama of life is a psychological one in which all conditions and circumstances are orchestrated by thoughts and imagination, my thoughts by every means create my desired reality.

Thus, your thought and imagination places you psychologically where you are not physically; and as things they shape your reality and cause your senses to pull you back from where you were psychologically to where you are physically. Put somewhat differently, your thought produce a psychological forward motion that produce in proportion a physical forward motion in space and time.