Quote from dtan1e:
to all the skeptics, the secret makes lots inferences to the bible and christ's sayings, does that make christianity a big bs too?
This universe is made by faith.
Withdraw faith from it and it disappears.
The "Secret" talks about how to use faith to influence a faith-based environment.
Holding a thought in mind will have an effect.
This universe is the result of holding a thought in mind.
The thought was not true. So it's effects are not true.
The universe is the effect of a previous wish.
The "Secret" talks about the power of wishing.
Wishing is a tool for maintaining a faith-based environment.
When something wished for becomes manifest in experience, it is said to be "realized"...as if it is now "real".
So the universe is said to be "real".
Yet if it is built on a thought that is not real, how real can it be?
When you hold true thoughts in your awareness, you use the "Secret" to see that what seems real is not real at all.
This is helpful if it is your purpose to leave unreality behind.
The "Secret" advises how to arrange experiences within an unreal, faith-based environment.
In brief, it offers how to have a preferred experience of hell.
Faith in truth will yield experiences that correspond and reinforce it.
Faith in truth will show you that this world is unreal.
In reality, faith is not called upon. What is real needs no faith.
The "Secret" is magic.
Magic made this universe.
The "Secret" is an attempt to use magic to rearrange the furniture within a magical universe.
In the long run, magic weakens.
So the individual capacity to "manifest" anything of consequence seems weakened.
It may be helpful to use the "Secret" to reawaken oneself to the idea of strength of mind.
If the strength is used to continue doing magic, it may weaken you again.
Healing is the answer to magic. Use strength to heal and it will strengthen you.
Jesus