The Law of Forgiveness or Grace

The following excerpts are from The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn.  Any emphasis is original.

[M]an has power to forgive or neutralize his mistakes. (p. 23) 

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[T]he law of forgiveness … neutralize[s] … situation[s]. 

Christianity is founded on the law of forgiveness—Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions. (p. 43) 

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Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there was a higher law than the law of Karma and that that law transcends the law of Karma.  It is the law of grace, or forgiveness.  It is the law which frees man from the law of cause and effect—the law of consequence.  “Under grace, and not under law….”  

[O]n this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the gifts of God are simply poured out upon him.  “All that the Kingdom affords is his.”  This continued state of bliss awaits the man who has overcome the race (or world) thought. 

In the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”  

The world thought is that of sin, sickness and death.  He saw their absolute unreality and said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and death itself, the last enemy, be overcome. … 

[F]rom a scientific standpoint … death could be overcome by stamping the subconscious mind with convicting of eternal youth and eternal life. 

The subconscious, being simply power without direction, carries out orders without questioning.   

Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God within man) the “resurrection of the body” would be accomplished. 

Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be transformed into the “body electric,” sung by Walt Whitman, for Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of sins and “an empty tomb.” (p. 46-47)

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