Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
The Seven Main Aspects of God
Build a clear, living sense of God by meditating on one of seven aspects each day — Life, Truth, Love, Intelligence, Soul, Spirit, Principle — and claiming each as the truth of your own being.
Seven aspects, one a day: Day 1 Life, Day 2 Truth, Day 3 Love (the most important), Day 4 Intelligence, Day 5 Soul, Day 6 Spirit, Day 7 Principle. Each day, understand the aspect, feel it as real, and claim it as true of God and of yourself, then carry it through the day. All other qualities (Wisdom, Beauty) are compounds of these seven. Repeat the cycle.
What it is
Fox taught that the word “God” is too vague to pray with effectively, so he broke the divine nature into seven graspable aspects: Life, Truth, Love, Intelligence, Soul, Spirit, and Principle. Every other divine quality, he said, is a compound of these — “Wisdom is the perfect balance of Intelligence and Love,” “Beauty is the perfect balance of Life, Truth, and Love.” The practice is to take one aspect per day and dwell on it: understanding what it means, feeling it as real, and claiming it as the truth of your own being (since you are God’s individualization).
Over a seven-day cycle the practitioner builds a concrete, many-sided, felt sense of God that makes scientific prayer and treatment far more vivid than addressing a blank abstraction.
The Method
From The Seven Main Aspects of God (faithfully described; short quotes only):
- Take one aspect each day, in order. Day by day cycle through Life, Truth, Love, Intelligence, Soul, Spirit, Principle.
- Day 1 — Life. Dwell on God as Life itself: “God is not just living, nor does God give life, but God is Life” — the source of health, joy, and vitality, which is also your life now.
- Day 2 — Truth. God as Truth: “God is not truthful but Truth itself.” Recall that knowing the Truth about any condition heals it — “the truth shall make you free.”
- Day 3 — Love. Dwell on divine Love, which Fox calls the most important aspect to practise: “There is no condition that enough Love will not heal.” Extend it to all, including yourself.
- Day 4 — Intelligence. God as the perfect Intelligence ordering all things; in a truly intelligent universe “all ideas must work together for the common good.” You share in this creative intelligence.
- Day 5 — Soul. “Soul is that aspect of God by virtue of which He is able to individualize Himself.” You are an individualization of God, distinct yet never separate.
- Day 6 — Spirit. God as Spirit: that which “cannot be destroyed or damaged”; your true self as Spirit was never born and cannot die.
- Day 7 — Principle. God as changeless Principle: “Prayer is answered because God is Principle, eternally manifest in the same way” — dependable as a law of nature, never capricious.
- Claim, don’t just define. Each day, after understanding the aspect, affirm it as true of God and of yourself, then carry it through the day. Begin the cycle again on day eight. (Sourcing note: the seven aspects and compound examples are Fox’s; phrases above are attributed quotation/paraphrase, not full reproduction.)
Source & Lineage
Emmet Fox (1886-1951) set out the seven aspects in his booklet The Seven Main Aspects of God and used them throughout his teaching as the analytical backbone of scientific prayer.
Several aspects (Life, Truth, Love, Principle) echo Mary Baker Eddy’s synonyms for God in Christian Science (Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle), reworked in Fox’s New Thought / Divine Science idiom., (Eddy / Christian Science).
The Traditions' versions
“Meditate in turn on the names/attributes of God to build a concrete sense of the divine” recurs across traditions; Fox’s version is distinctive in reducing them to seven and treating all other qualities as compounds: - The Beautiful Names of God (Sufi dhikr) — cycling through the 99 divine names.,
- Christian Science synonyms for God (Eddy) — Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle as the seven synonyms.
- Andersen’s “Three Magic Words” / I-AM meditations — dwelling on aspects of one’s divine nature.
- Saraydarian’s seed-thought meditation — taking one idea daily and meditating it through.
- Fox’s own treatment — this builds the content that scientific prayer then “knows.”
Common refinements
Defining without feeling. Reciting “God is Life” intellectually does little; the work is to realize and claim the aspect until it feels real.
- Skipping the claim about yourself. Fox’s point is that each aspect is the truth of your being too; leaving yourself out makes it abstract theology.
- Treating it as theology to debate rather than a practice to do. The aspects are tools for building a usable sense of God, not doctrine to argue.
- Rushing all seven at once. One per day lets each sink in; the cycle’s repetition is part of the mechanism.
- Using it to bypass action. Contemplating Intelligence or Supply is not a substitute for thinking and acting wisely in the world.