Is There a Preimmant Principle Among the 13 Universal Principles?

Among the 13 Universal Laws can we say that one is more important than the others? Can anyone one of the invariant principles exist without the other? Certainly, there are groups and teacher of imperfect understanding that proclaim one is more important that the other. They claim one is primary and he rest subserviant to this primary principle.

It seems that every Master in his time was here for a particular reason and that their primary message seemed to stress one principle as premere, but a careful study of their lives and teachings shows that all were talking about the Laws of Creation. This Law of Creation was expressed as 13 to make it possible for our finite minds to take them in, associate them and connect them in order to come to understanding of the whole.

When Jesus was asked which was the most important law he is quoted as saying, “You should love the Lord your God with all your heart soul and mind and your neighbor as yourself.” The Law of Love appears to hold these principles together, to be the cohesive element or the connector. It is noteworthy that the only real discription of God that we have the capability of visualizing is that He is Love. At other times Jesus seems to stress other principles above all others.

The Buddha appears to appreciate the Universal Law of Evolution and Unfoldment to a greater degree than the others. He says that the world is full of suffering and what would this suffering be for except as part of a learning process. He points to the fact that everything changes as the first principle and that our resistence to this change as being the source of all our problems.

When studying the teaching of Lao Tzu it becomes apparent that the Universal Law of Balance and Equalization was held to be of the utmost importance. From his teachings come the Ying and the Yang. Balance and harmony are held to be the prerequsite for evoluiton and unfoldment. It was this middle way that caused the close working relationship betwee
Buddhism and Taoism in China which was a melding that has lasted for centuries.

The teaching that Mohammed held to be of the highest importance and his biggest bone of contention with Christianity was the Universal Law of Absolute Unity. This Law is understood by Muslims as part of duality – the good versus the evil. Over and over the cry goes forth, “Alla Wo Akbar” meaning that God is one and Great. In the Unity movement we have one of the only Christian groups that states flatly that there is only one power in the universe and denies duality. They deny that there is God and his angelic host on one hand and the Devil and his demonic forces on the other in a giant battle for the hearts and minds of humankind.

We have groups like The Law of One who seem to have the right idea about the Law of Absolute Unity but in the very beginning of their instruction they fall back on duality with their discription of the Sons of Light in a war with the Sons of Beliel. They revert to this myth about a war in heaven as if this was a reality instead of an explanation of polarity. If God is omnipresent, where in hell could the devil be? If God is omnipotent what remote corner of the universe in any dimentsion could the devil hide? The devil is the negative forces put into action by our fear based thinking. This devil – fear cannot not exist in the presence of light and love. It has only the power we give it to affect us. It is like mould that cannot exist is light and fresh air.

In Judaism faith and obedience above all is held to be tantamout to Godliness. Over and over again throughout the Hebrew text (The Old Testament) the scriptures deal with examples of those who failed in their faith in God or who excelled because of their faith and obedience to his commands. No other Universal Principle comes so close to dominating these ancient texts. This makes the Universal Law of Believing and Knowing preimanant with a twist. Blind faith was required. It was not for the Children of Israel to reason why. They were to do or die. They were not expected to know God. They were expected to do what they were told where they had any understanding of him or not.

I will get to the point of this article with an explanation of the Law of Believing and Knowing. Regardless of the retreat from defeat at the hands of science, religion has raised the white flag of surrender by saying this is a matter of faith. It does not require proof or knowledge. Faith is supreme and as long as you do what we are telling you to do you will be rewarded in heaven. If you do not, you will burn in hell. In other words, they have adopted fear to control and thus are using the the real satan as their whip. You cannot separate belief (faith) and knowledge (understanding). These two elements are like two sides of the same coin. Where you have one the other exists. The Bible makes it clear that faith comes by hearing. If you don’t know something, how can you believe in it. You can have all the faith in the world but if that faith is in some man’s experience, and not yours, it will have little value for you. It is not real for you. You can have all the knowledge in the world but if you don’t have the faith to do anything with it, as in the parable of the talent, it will have no value for you. It will mean that fear dominates and you do not exist in any real sense of the word. You would exist only as a walking, talking paralysis.

There is no way to understand the Universal Laws as separate unconnected principles. This is why so many were disappointed in the movie, The Secret, which stressed the Law of Attraction above all the other Universal Laws. There was something missing! As Paul Harvey used to say, “There was the rest of the story.” The 13 Universal Laws are irrevocably, permanantly linked, invariant in nature and indivisible aspects of the Law of Creation. They are literally aspects of God – the Creative Force. Many Masters called the Universal Laws the Laws of Creation. The Universal Law of Creation is the process of the unmanifested becoming manifested. Creation was not over in 7 days or 7 billion years – it is still in process and will always be in process. We are intimately entegral parts of the process. This can only be described as the Divine Self-expression.