William Cooper Oct 2020
What is spiritual power?
Spiritual power is something you never expected to have, even in your afterlife. However, it is something you already have. The spiritual power you have for the most part is not the power to do miracles in defiance of laws of science. The spiritual power you “have” is an attractive power and a transformative power which you can exercise by doing and championing goodness. It is not something you control but rather a power inherent in mind that causes goodness to be attractive. It doesn’t compel. It attracts. It doesn’t overwhelm will. It appeals as an attractive choice.
Spiritual power has a consequence when someone experiences goodness and appreciates it. You can be the beneficiary of your own appreciation of goodness. But you can also be the vector of spiritual power by portraying goodness to others. It is in these ways that you “possess” spiritual power. The experience of Spiritual power provides energy and motivation to love and serve others and to love and become like God. It does this by influencing your emotions and your process of thinking. It has the ability to transform a person from within by confirming rightness and by bestowing warm spiritual pleasure as a consequence of righteous desires and behavior. It is an instinct placed in mind as a gift from deity for you to exercise spiritual power by doing good – fostering godlikeness.
What does it do?
It works in at least three circumstances that I have experienced or observed in others.
- When a person chooses to do unselfish good for others, that opens a channel from spiritual sources that brings ability to the unselfish person to express spiritual blessings such as tolerance, faith, forgiveness, service, etc. These behaviors and attitudes simply seem more appropriate and become easier to express and do. So there is spiritual power in unselfish service.
- When a person observes that another is expressing spiritual virtues, spiritual power causes an attraction or lure for the observer to want to live that way too. There are spiritual effects on both the actor and the intended beneficiary as well as on third party observers.
- When one person prays for spiritual blessings for another, spiritual power touches the mind and soul of the other person and causes those blessings to become more easily available to the other person and the other person is helped to realize that they have choices to live more spiritually, more fully and more joyously.
What do we do to implement it?
Spiritual power is not magical. It operates according to spiritual laws. Sometimes it results automatically like gravity or magnetism operate automatically according to physical laws. Sometimes spiritual power works more like chemistry where manifestation of spiritual power results from mixing faith, love, and other higher values in appropriate proportions to react together and express goodness. We probably are not ready to actually be allowed authority to exercise control over undirected spiritual power but we can cooperate with the limited spiritual power made available to us so that its consequences can “automatically” happen. Except they do not automatically happen. They only happen if we act in ways that cause them.
The power made available for us to exercise is significant to our personal spiritual growth, to the progress of our planet in becoming more advanced and in the achievement of the goals of our cosmic family. There is spiritual power attached to all of the following which need our cooperative involvement.
- Spreading the Gospel has magical spiritual power because the gospel message, when understood, unlocks life changing spiritual ministries directly to the mind and soul of the recipient.
- Living a life of loving service, tolerance, and forgiveness activates spiritual power because this attracts similar behavior in others.
- There is power in living by reasonable and appropriate faith because this leads to rich personal relationship with God and our cosmic family.
- There is power in trusting others because this causes them to want to be trustworthy.
- There is a power in falling in love with goodness because this expels evil desires.
- There is power in all higher values because they breed friendliness and peace.
- There is power in optimism and reasonable self-confidence because they cause confidence in positive change.
- Reliable concern for the benefit of others fosters trust and cooperation and that is powerful.
So you have a considerable amount of spiritual power available for your exercise. But it does not happen independently of your reliable, generous, and loving actions and attitudes.