Let’s break it down:
Perpetual: continually occurring, going on forever
Trans- (prefix): this or that to change or transfer
Mutation: a significant and basic alteration
In other words, continuous and permanent change. The Law of Perpetual Transmutation states that everything enters or leaves a physical form. It is evident in the physical world around us, such as in the water cycle. But it is also related to thought: those thoughts that we devote time, energy and emotion to are the thoughts that will manifest physically in our lives.
Early in our marriage, my husband decided he wanted to attend graduate school in another state. At that time, we had a house. We had purchased it with a federally subsidized loan that stipulated that this house had to be our primary residence. Since we were leaving the state, that meant we had to sell. Although we planned to return after my husband’s graduate school, we couldn’t rent the house, or even leave it vacant for the 18 months we would be away. The real estate market at the time was good and houses in our area were selling, on average, in about four months. But when we were informed that my husband had been accepted into his graduate program, school was only two months away from the start of school. We had to sell the house faster than average. It was possible, but would it happen for us?
At that time I did not know anything about the Law of Perpetual Transmutation. I did not know that having a dream and believing in its realization as if it had already happened would change the circumstances around me so that they were favorable to the desired result. But as a natural law, he didn’t have to understand it to be subject to it. My husband and I knew, however, that if we achieved this goal of selling our home, it would be because of our faith, not because we could do anything to make our house is sold in a specific period of time. We did what was in our control: we beautified the yard and interior, and hired a real estate agent to sell for us. The day we hired our realtor, I actually struggled with that decision. I knew I was ceding control of the situation to someone who didn’t feel the same urge to sell my house as I did. Mine wasn’t the only house she was responsible for selling. I felt like I had to do everything in my power to make this dream come true, but would my agent work as hard as I did? I remember realizing that while I couldn’t control the situation directly, I might increase my efforts to do the things I believed God wanted me to do. So I increased the frequency and sincerity of my prayers. He studied the scriptures every day. I served in my church, making special efforts to do the best I could with the assignments I had been given. And I believed. Sometimes a negative thought appeared in my mind: “what if it doesn’t sell? Then what?” But I knew it. My husband had a good job. If we couldn’t sell our house, we would just stay. We liked our life the way it was. It would be good. But after having those thoughts, I knew, I KNEW in my gut that the house would sell. So my “negative” moments always ended with “But it will sell.” And he knew he would.
Four weeks before we leave for graduate school, we close on the sale of our house. The entire process had taken only a month. Although I knew nothing about the laws of prosperity, I knew that the work that had happened in our minds was a key part of what had happened in our lives. And now I know that believing in the idea, keeping it there, and trusting God to take care of the things he couldn’t control was exactly what he needed to do for our dream to manifest in physical form. It was the Law of Perpetual Transmutation in action.
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