Why put so much emphasis on the Universal Laws?

In many of my books I have referred to the Universal Laws as “The Basis of the Study”. This is because the Universal Laws are the basis of any study of Self. How can one identify these Laws to the point of making application to the 13 Universal Principles of Success unless we can internalize them, recognize them in our life experiences These principles are an application of the Universal Laws to a level we can relate to. I have come to understand these principles to be the basis of the First Field of Knowledge, which is awareness of Self. Without understanding of the First Field, there is little chance of understanding the Second Field (knowledge of others) or the Third Field (knowledge of how others see you.) Finally, the Fourth Field (knowledge of the manifested world about us) is the only one most people recognize as scientific or provable. We can advance to great lengths in science and technology, but without understanding of the First Field, the Fourth Field could destroy us. So, the study of the Universal Laws and the process of identifying and verifying them in our life experiences is the most important study we could possibly undertake.

Since all evidence from the Masters indicates the eternal nature of Infinite Being, we cannot really talk about a beginning for this creative force we call God, or even for human beings, who come from God, cannot be separated from God and return to God in an eternal cycle. We can find scripture that tries to describe a point in time before time began as is the case in Proverbs 8:22. The writer tells us The Universal Laws, the rules of the game of life had to exist first. Without the Universal Laws, there could have been no game of life. The rules are the Divine Self-expression. They had to exist before there was matter or life of any kind except the eternal life of Universal Being. They are, in fact, aspects of God we can understand to some degree by understanding our own life experiences. With this in mind, let us read the passage.

"The Lord begot me, the first born of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; From of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth, When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water; Before the mountains were settled into place before the hills, I was brought forth; While as yet the earth and the fields were not made, nor the forest clouds of the world. When he established the heavens I was there, when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep; When he made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth; When he set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not transgress his command; Then was I beside him as his craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, Playing before him all the while, playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in the sons of men."

Fundamentalist Christians are quick to say this was talking about Jesus. I maintain that every time Jesus told a story, answered a question or took any kind of action, he was illustrating and explaining the Universal Laws. I see correspondence between this verse and the following verse: John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” If the Word became flesh, what would you expect the Word (Universal Laws) to talk about but aspects of God, the Divine Self-expression?

Asking why one should put so much emphasis on the Universal Laws is like asking why pay any attention to the law of Gravity? You can be sure that if you do not pay attention to gravity it will mean dire consequences for your survival! A law that is permanently in place and unchangeable is a Universal Law. You might ask, why do I have to refrain from breaking the laws of man? Why can I not kill as I please? You can, but you can expect to draw a large force who will attempt to arrest or kill you and when arrested the punishment may involve your own death. Still, the laws of man are changeable. What might be acceptable in one country may not be in the next. Even the law of gravity used as an example of something approaching a Universal Law will be different on other planets. The Universal Laws are aspects of God and are invariant.

How can we fathom this creative force that we call God by looking out into space. Where do we look? We see this power around us but how can we possibly understand or explain God when we can’t even explain good, truth, beauty without attaching them to something we can understand? We can say, “He is a good man.” Or “She is a beautiful woman, or maybe, “That is a true statement.” We must bring these abstracts into our dimension – our level of understanding. How can we possibly understand or explain the creative force without realizing in our own life experiences? If we can identify and verify the Universal Laws in our life experiences we can begin to understand who and what we are. If we can do that we can begin to understand the nature of this force we call God.

To become aware of the Universal Laws as well as identify and verify them in our own life experiences is to come into a state of knowing which brings harmony. When one is in harmony with the Laws there are no obstacle to our purpose and objectives in this life.
The need for emphasis on the Universal Laws is, therefore, to gain understanding of ourselves and through this process gain rudimentary understanding of the Laws of life. This is necessary for us to have any meaningful concept of life or God.