09/09/2026
From 2007:
The Power of Word
by Crafty Dog/Marc F. Denny
Scientific Progress is achieved by REDUCING the number of principles
necessary to explain the physical world. Spiritual Progress is this process
applied to the discernment of the essential principles by which to live.
Taking an understanding taken from The Church of Religious Science
and putting it into my own words: To the extent that a religion is true,
it can be reduced to a body of principles/rules which can be applied
scientifically. An interesting thought this!
Of course, these principles/rules are never the exclusive purview of any one
group or discipline-- quite the contrary-- so it is no surprise that the
Pope should recently have stated that the God must be a god of Reason.
The Church of Religious Science and the Catholic Church may come from
different parts of the religious spectrum, but it seems they seek the same
essence.
In the story of my people, at the time of the creation of the Covenant, God
gave us the 10 Commandments. Seems reasonable to think that the our God
thought these rules real important, as did later on the God of the
Christians.
And, as time goes by, I begin to realize that I am still working on them.
So lets look at one of them, the one that speaks of not taking the Lord's
name in vain:
In Genesis, before the beginning there was nothing. Into that nothingness
came the word of God. On each of the first six days, this is what happened:
"And God SAID let there be , , , , and it was so." To create, God had only
to speak-- the Power of Word, the Crystallization of Thought. Using his
word, he made us in his image and breathed the breath of life into us and
told us, once fruitful, to multiply. By receiving the breath of life from
the Creator, we become part of the Creator.
In other words, WE SPEAK WITH THE CREATIVE POWER OF WORD
GIVEN US BY GOD.
This I think is the true meaning of the Commandment commonly translated
from the original ancient Hebrew though the Greek, the Latin, the various
permutations of English into "Thou shall not take God's name in vain." It
is not that God cares whether we cuss, it is that we should take care to
what we put the Power of our Word.
I would add an additional point: THIS WORD MUST BE EXPRESSED
IN POSITIVES, NOT NEGATIVES. For example, God does not say
"No more darkness". He says what he DOES want: "Let there be , , ,"
Similarly in our lives the idea is to express ourselves positively. For
example, to say "Remember to , , ," instead of "Don't forget to , , ,"
To apply this to everything in one's life is a transformational experience.
One example of the creative power of word is Prayer. Many people doubt
prayer. They are good people; they pray for something; and then it doesn't
happen.
There is an old Jewish parable about this of the man who follows all the
detailed rules of the Torah. He's a good man. For many years he regularly
prays to God to win the lottery. No lottery. Finally he gets mad and
demands of God why, after his good life and his respect for God's rules,
does not God grant his prayer to win the lottery.
God answers, "Help me out. Buy a ticket."
We note in passing the idea that in this parable Man can and does argue
with God, but that is a discussion for another day. For our purpose here,
the moral of this tale is that "Our Action must be Aligned with
our Prayer and our Word to Create its Reality".
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