Here’s an interesting quote by Thomas Troward:
“A CORRECT understanding of the law of growth is of the highest importance to the student of Mental Science. The great fact to be realized regarding Nature is that it is natural. We may pervert the order of Nature, but it will prevail in the long run, returning, as Horace says, by the back door even though we drive it out with a pitchfork; and the beginning, the middle, and the end of the law of Nature is the principle of growth from a vitality inherent in the entity itself.
If we realize this from the outset we shall not undo our own work by endeavoring to force things to become that which by their own nature they are not.
For this reason when the sacred books says that “he who believeth shall not make haste,” it is enunciating a great natural principle that success depends on our using, and not opposing, the universal law of growth.
No doubt the greater the vitality we put into the germ, which we have agreed to call the spiritual prototype, the quicker it will germinate; but this is simply because by a more realizing conception we put more growing power into the seed than we do by a feebler conception.
Our mistakes always eventually resolve themselves into distrusting the law of growth. Either we fancy we can hasten it by some exertion of our own from without, and are thus led into hurry and anxiety, not to say sometimes into the employment of grievously wrong methods; or else we give up all hope and so deny the germinating power of the seed we have planted.
The result in either case is the same, for in either case we are in effect forming a fresh spiritual prototype of an opposite character to our desire, which therefore neutralizes the one first formed, and disintegrates it and usurps its place.
The law is always the same, that our Thought forms a spiritual prototype which, if left undisturbed, will reproduce itself in external circumstances; the only difference is in the sort of prototype we form, and thus evil is brought to us by precisely the same law as good.”
Thomas Troward is making a point that maps directly onto the magnetic development we discuss here: growth has its own timing, and the moment you try to force it, either by pushing anxiously from the outside or by giving up entirely, you create an internal state that works against what you are trying to build.
The energy you hold around your own development is itself shaping the outcome. Impatience and doubt are not neutral, instead, they are energetic inputs that undermine the very thing you are working toward.
The work is to plant the right internal state and trust the process enough to let it grow.
