What is your knowing?

What is your knowing?
Your  knowing is your Mind  Self.  Your  Mind  Self  is  you, the  eternal  Being.  Your  Self  is  not  your  body,  nor  is  your  knowing  In  your  brain,  but  it controls your  body  and  your  brain  as  its absolute  master. 

Is there REINCARNATION?

What are the actual facts about reincarnation,–facts which we can see clearly, not strain to see through a fog of abstract theories? Where do we really go when we die? What really happens after death of the body? What is that interval like between death and rebirth? Is there a heaven? Do we have some other kind of body?

The whole idea is quite simple when we understand the mechanism of the making of bodies— and of taking them apart to remake.

Perhaps a very simple analogy would help to clarify this idea. We show you a photograph of yourself, and ask: “What would you do if we tore up this photograph of you?”

You would answer: “I have the negative and can make another positive, so it would not matter.”

“How could the negative give you another positive?” we ask.

“I would project the sunlight through the patterned negative and the reverse of it would give me the positive pattern”, you would reply.

In principle reincarnation is as simple as that, and all of the above questions regarding what happens after death can be answered by the same simple analogy.

Let us compare the familiar principle of photography with the unfamiliar principle of reincarnation and see if one will not help explain the other.

Everyone knows that every positive photograph has a negative counterpart. Everyone knows, also, that the negative is the reverse of the positive. Also everyone knows that the pattern of the negative is reproduced (might we say “reincarnated”) exactly the same in pattern in the positive as in the negative, except that each is the reverse of the other.

Not only is the PATTERN of the positive reversed in the negative but every element which composes that photographed body is in reverse. White light in the positive half of the body is black light in the negative half. The right arm in the positive is a left arm in the negative. 

 

This is the polarity. It is the division of ONE into a seeming TWO reversed opposites of each other which simulate the ONE? Every body ever created is polarized into its positive and negative counterparts, each being the reversed opposite of the other. 

 

Now substitute the human body in place of the photograph of a human body. Instead of destroying the positive photograph of the human body, leaving only the negative counterpart, the human body itself is “destroyed”. It “dies”, we say. At any rate it has disappeared as a visible, positive body.

We now ask: “Where has it gone?” “It has disappeared, but has it ceased to be?”

No–it has not ceased to be. Its negative counterpart still exists, just as the negative of the destroyed photograph still exists. 

All bodies, human and otherwise, are composed of spheres of white light surrounded by cube wave-fields of black light. 

 

The photograph negative is flat and light penetrates that flat plane of zero curvature and reproduces a reversed body on another flat plane of zero curvature. 

 

What you consider to be your dead body is merely the fading out of the positive image of you into its living negative counterpart in the cube wave-field of your dual body. Every minute detail of the pattern which is your positive body still exists–and LIVES–in reverse in the cube of space which surrounds the conscious Soul of that body.

When we say that the negative counterpart still LIVES as the positive half has lived we mean JUST THAT. The negative still pulses within its own long wave sense range just as the positive pulsed within its short wave sense range. Moreover it pulses under the conscious control of its conscious center of desire in its Soul-seed which is as eternal as God is eternal. 

 

Nothing can ever happen to that–even though many years pass before its regermination again occurs.

You must learn to think of the negative body as the thought-body–or thought-record of the material body. And you must learn to think of your thought-body in space as the reversed opposite of yourself.

You must learn to think of loved ones who have “passed on”–and all things else which have had material bodies–as but having interchanged from their positive to their negative counterparts–or from their material body to their thought-body. 

 

Likewise, you must think of the range of sensing of thought-bodies as beyond YOUR range of sensing, as your range of sensing is beyond the range of sensing of thought-bodies. 

What is Seed or Soul?

In the SEED is the eternally living SOUL of the IDEA which the body but manifests. The seed is an ultra microscopic focal point of DESIRE in the ZERO UNIVERSE. The pattern of idea is not in the seed. 

The moment that any focal point of desire to create a positive body from a negative pattern in space “germinates” in the womb of earth something takes place which we call “growth”. The microscopic invisible point of gravity begins to multiply its body. It “grows” bigger and bigger. 

 

The patterned body which that seed records surrounds it in space–a very large amount of space– miles of space for the seed of a man or tree–and millions of miles for a planet or sun.

The seed is the SOUL. It is desire in the Soul for creative expression. 

What is growth?

Instead of thinking of it as something which is GROWING try to imagine it as a positive image which is being photographed into its positive form from the negative form which surrounds it.

Now try to think of it as a “time exposure”. Just as it takes time to project light through a two dimensional negative to print a positive so, likewise, it takes time for light-waves in space to “gravitate” toward the center of desire which the seed is.

Consider your own body, for example. It took millions of years of desire of your Soul to build your body, one little thought at a time,–one little desire at a time. You cannot reproduce it instantaneously, it takes time.

It takes about forty years for your negative body to “print” a positive one, and another forty years for the positive to “fade out” into its negative.

Light-waves built your body. Long light-waves came out from the dark of your wave-field in space and shortened into smaller waves as they built up the materials called for by the negative pattern of your body which entirely surrounds its center of desire in its eternal Soul-seed.

Calcium must be formed for bones–hydro-carbons for flesh, and many other elements of alkaline or acid base, or negative and positive polarity for other parts of our complex bodies.

In other words it takes TIME to project the timeless zero of IDEA into a three dimensional time- space universe of motion to build a negative and positive pair of bodies which eternally interchange to manifest idea of thinking Mind. 

What is consciousness, sleep and pain?

• God is consciousness. Consciousness is static.
• Consciousness is the spiritual awareness of Being, of all-knowing, all-power and all-presence.
• Man is the only unit in Creation who has conscious awareness of the Spirit within him and electrical awareness of dually conditioned light acting upon his senses.
  • All other units of creation (eg animals) have electrical awareness only.

 

• Man alone can be freed from body to think with God, to talk with God and be inspired by His centering Light.
  • All other units of Creation are limited in their actions to automatic reflexes from sensed memories built up through ages of sensing and recording such sensing as instinct.

 

UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SLEEP AND PAIN

 

• There is much confusion regarding the supposedly possible condition known as “being unconscious.” When we sleep, or are anesthetized, we say we are “unconscious.”
• We cannot be unconscious. We have always been conscious without the slightest awareness of it.
• Our confusion in this respect lies in mistaking sensation and thinking for consciousness.
• When we stop thinking, whether asleep or awake, we do not stop KNOWING (being aware of God), nor do we cease being consciously aware of our Being. We but cease to set our knowledge in motion to express idea through the pulsations of thinking.
• Conscious Mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of the wave cycle of electrical awareness of sensation (of our body for example). Wakefulness is the positive half.
• All nature sleeps when the sunlight lessens the ability of all things to manifest life. Sleep is the death half of the life-death cycle.
• One may say, “I am unaware of this or that,” but one cannot say “I am unconscious” when one is always conscious.
• Sleep and wakefulness are positive-negative waves parts of a wave cycle, just as birth and death are opposite ends of a life cycle.
• Sleep is but an anesthetic. Sleep can be induces chemically, either to the whole body or any part of it by desensitizing its cells. When the body or parts of it are thus “put to sleep,” they have not been rendered “unconscious”; their voltage has merely been lowered.
• The dentist does not refer to a local anesthetic as having produced unconsciousness; he refers to it as a desensitizing condition, but when the surgeon desensitizes the body, it is then supposed to be “unconscious.” We assume that the brain has stopped thinking The brain does not think (it can only sense), therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does. We assume that bodies cease to be conscious, but consciousness is never in bodies.
• A local anesthetic stops pain. Pain is a too intense electric current. The voltage is too great for the nerve wires to stand the strain. They burn out, and the over-charge of burning out causes the pain.
• When the nerves of the body FEEL an electric current running through them, the body is aware that something is happening to throw it out of balance. When the body is in balance, it has no sensation. When the body is unbalanced, sensation informs it when and where, otherwise it could not function.
• Wakefulness and sleep are merely the charging and discharging of the uncountable electric batteries of the body. If these batteries were kept constantly charged, there would be no such alternating conditions as sleep and wakefulness.

 

Conscious awareness is KNOWING. Unawareness means that one does not yet know. Knowledge is within him which he can know when he desires to know.

 

 

What is the brain and what is thinking?

What is the brain?

• The brain is but the electric recording mechanism of conscious Mind thinking
• It is also man’s storage warehouse of electric records of memories and thoughts since his beginning.
• It is the servant of Universal Intelligence. Its purpose in this respect is to keep the body electrically informed of the condition of the body, through electrical messages.
  • Such messages are not mental. They are purely electrical. They produce sensation. The brain senses and records every message. It sends counteracting messages to other parts of the body.
• What he calls his objective human mind is but the seat of electric sensations of his body.
• The brain does not think, nor does it know. It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remembers” these records for man’s usage as he needs them, and for fulfilling the requirements of his
  body.
• The brain is a complex state of motion expressed by waves of light pulsing in cycles. States of motion cannot KNOW anything, nor can they THINK anything.
• The brain is part of a machine, a human machine.
  • Machines can express thoughts which are electrically projected through them, but machines areincapable of thinking the thoughts thus projected.
  • Likewise machines can express knowledge but they cannot have knowledge.
  • Likewise machines can do marvelous things when patterned and controlled by knowledge, but they cannot KNOW what they do.

 

What is thinking?

• What he mistakes for thinking is but an electric awareness of things sensed and recorded within the cells of his brain for repetitive usage through what is termed “memories.” Memories have no more relation to knowledge of Universal Mind which is in man than Victorola records are related to the source of their recordings.
• We sense electrically and mistake that electrical sensing of observed effects for thinking Sensing is not thinking Sensation is but an electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves.
• We mistake the electrical records of the information which our brains have recorded as sensation, for thinking and for knowledge.
• In this body and its electric recording brain, man thinks that he thinks and lives, loves and dies. He thinks himself conscious while awake and unconscious when sleeping; unaware that in all Nature there is no such condition as unconsciousness when sensation ceases in sleep.
• His consciousness never sleeps, never changes, for consciousness in man is his immortality. It is the Light which he is unknowingly seeking but assumes that the sensation of his brain is his thinking
• The centering conscious Mind of man’s soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine.

What should one do?

• How often you have heard the expression “Be still and know.” To be still for the purpose of knowing is to think your information back into the Light of your inner Self until you have stopped thinking. Silent meditation fixes that information into your Consciousness as knowledge. Very few people do that. They are quite content with storing vast quantities of information upon their brains.Very few know that they can talk it over with God by thinking it back into His still Light which they also are. Those who do know that acquire great knowledge and power to co-create with God.
• Thinking is not easy. If you study music for the first time, you will find that out. You will be lucky if in half an hour your brain is not too tired to remember any more. You have only learned a few  notes and made a few sounds which are not music.
• For this reason, everyone should bend every effort to make the transition from sensing to knowing so that his creations can be powerful and masterly interpretations of the Light of ALL-KNOWING instead of being parrot-like repetitions of memories stored in one’s brain as information is stored in an encyclopedia
• It is only through thus adding to our knowledge that we become transformed to a greater awareness of our immortality. Like the little parts of the complex machine that serve their purpose only when they become one whole, so do we know our purpose on this journey only when we are enabled to forget our separateness by knowing the whole.
• A brook comes from the sea by way of the heavens. It seems to be a unit which is separated from everything else, but it is forever connected with the heavens and the sea. Likewise man cannot see his connection with his source in the universal sea of Light, but he can know it.

 

 

 

 

 

How do we gain knowledge?

• Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without; it must be “recollected” from within the consciousness of self. Gradually dawning conscious awareness is but gradual recollection of the all- knowing which has always been within man.
• The advance of man since the first messengers of God appeared on earth to kindle an awakening spark in him, has been based upon information gained by his senses and stored in his electric brain as memory records of sensed observations. These observations he has reasoned into sensed conclusions by an electrically sensitized brain.

What is the function of the brain?

• Electric awareness of observed effects of matter in motion is registered in the brain.
• The brain does not think, nor does it know. It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remembers” these records for man’s usage as he needs them, and for fulfilling the requirements of his body.
• The brain is part of a machine, a human machine. The body is a vast and complex mechanism. The brain is an electrical recorder, distributor, broadcaster and receiver for all operational parts of that multi-celled machine, but its actions have no relation to intelligence.
• The brain records sensations of experiences and observations which the senses convey to it. Such sensations are mistaken for thinking and knowing. Sensation arising from electrical motion is purely automatic.
• The mistake in assuming that the brain thinks and knows is due to the fact that man believes himself to be thinking when he is only sensing. Man also believes that he is acquiring knowledge through sensed observation of sensed EFFECT, when he is but recording electrical sensations which inform him as to the nature of things observed by his senses.
• when the surgeon desensitizes the body, it is then supposed to be “unconscious.” We assume that the brain has stopped thinking The brain does not think, therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does.
  • The misconception of the so-called state of unconsciousness is based on the premise that the brain is the Mind, instead of being only a “switchboard” through which the Mind can think, or the senses can operate when it is sufficiently charged.
• Man’s confusion concerning this differentiation lies in his long assumption of the reality of matter. His assumption that his body is his Self, that his knowledge is in his brain, and that he lives and dies because his body integrates and disintegrates, has been so fundamental a part of his thinking that it is difficult for him to reverse his thinking to the fact that matter is but motion and has no reality beyond simulating reality.

How does the human brain evolve and where then is the seat of consciousness?

• As the body extends in complexity and mass (evolution from a single cell into more complex life forms), its centering seat of sensation, which we call the brain, also enlarges its two growing electric battery cells which act as “self-starters” for body activities. This two-lobe electric storage battery, which the brain is, has no knowledge whatsoever. It is no more related to Intelligence than one’s fingernail.
• The seat of Intelligence, or Mind, or Soul, is located in the pituitary gland.
• When Mind thinks, it expresses its desires electrically through the brain when the body batteries are sufficiently charged to motivate the brain (this only happens when we are alive).
  • Very few people think with their Mind, however. They sense with their brain by releasing its stored-up records which we call memories.
• The entire office of the brain is to receive, transmit and record sensations when it has sufficient electrical charge (ie we are alive) to operate the body machine.

What should one do?

• How often you have heard the expression “Be still and know.” To be still for the purpose of knowing is to think your information back into the Light of your inner Self until you have stopped thinking. Silent meditation fixes that information into your Consciousness as knowledge. Very few people do that. They are quite content with storing vast quantities of information upon their brains.Very few know that they can talk it over with God by thinking it back into His still Light which they also are. Those who do know that acquire great knowledge and power to co-create with God.
• Thinking is not easy. If you study music for the first time, you will find that out. You will be lucky if in half an hour your brain is not too tired to remember any more. You have only learned a few  notes and made a few sounds which are not music.
• For this reason, everyone should bend every effort to make the transition from sensing to knowing so that his creations can be powerful and masterly interpretations of the Light of ALL-KNOWING instead of being parrot-like repetitions of memories stored in one’s brain as information is stored in an encyclopedia
• It is only through thus adding to our knowledge that we become transformed to a greater awareness of our immortality. Like the little parts of the complex machine that serve their purpose only when they become one whole, so do we know our purpose on this journey only when we are enabled to forget our separateness by knowing the whole.
• A brook comes from the sea by way of the heavens. It seems to be a unit which is separated from everything else, but it is forever connected with the heavens and the sea. Likewise man cannot see his connection with his source in the universal sea of Light, but he can know it.

 

 

 

 

 

Where Do I Go When I Die?

Death has been the greatest mystery of the ages. “Where do I go when I die”? is one of the great unsolved questions of the ages.

Every one of these various concepts is founded on the false premise that the body is the person, the identity, the being. As the body is not the person, or the identity, these conceptions fall apart by sheer logic.

The question: “Where do I go when I die”? has two answers. It has one answer for the idea that the body is the person, and another answer for the idea that the Mind is the person. Let us answer the last question first. The answer is that you do not die. You are a Soul–which is a unit idea of immortal Mind. You are an Identity within The Universal Oneness, but you are that Oneness. You are the thinking of the Thinker who centers a body which records the thoughts of the Thinker.

You are desire in Mind to manifest Mind. You are the Universe, manifesting the whole universe at one pinpoint Soul of all the universe. That which you manifest at your one pinpoint of the universe is remanifested in all of the universe. You cannot manifest separateness for there is no separateness to manifest.

You are divinity dwelling in the impenetrable dark of motion for long ages of seeking to penetrate the dark. You are the genius who has penetrated the dark to henceforth dwell in the Light. You are Conscious Mind, fully knowing the Light of your immortality, fully commanding your thinking and the body which images your thinking.

Let us now reconstruct the question to read: “Where does my body go when it dies?” The answer to that question is that your body does not die. It lies down to rest periodically for the purpose of renewal but its life and the body pattern, and the record of every thought you have ever given birth to, is enfolded in your Soul seed.

If you will but realize that your living body is but a machine which performs the work decreed for it to do by the Mind Intelligence which centers it, you will not have any concern about what happens to it. The only reason you have concern about your body is because of the long habit of thinking of your body as you.

Another thing which confuses you is that you think of your body as it is today. All you see of it is that part which is still living today, which weighs about 150 pounds. You never think of those parts of your body which are not living today. Every day of your whole life your body has been dying while you were constantly renewing it with more of your body than you took from the ground with which to renew it. You call it nourishment, but it is a constant renewal and repair process. That part of your body which has died has to be renewed with living tissue. That part of your machine which has worn out has to be repaired with new material.

One or two pounds of your body dies every day and is eliminated by its various processes. If you are seventy years old your body would weigh about twenty tons if parts of it had not died. Over nineteen and nine tenths of your body has already died. There are only one hundred and fifty pounds left of your body.

Why should you be more concerned about what happens to the few pounds of your body which are going to die, than you are concerned about the many tons of your body which have already died? The parts which have died have been returned to the ground. The small part which still remains should be returned to the ground in order that your new body and other bodies can be reborn from it.

Why should you be concerned about a few pounds of calcium, iron, manganese, iodine, nitrogen and other materials which built your body? They are not you. They are not your identity. They are the house you live in, but the house can burn down without affecting you. You can build another house to live in. That is what you do when your house of clay dissolves into its clay. You build an- other house of clay, another body. You are never without a body except during those periods of rest when you are repairing and replacing worn-out parts of your body, or building an entirely new one when the old one becomes too worn-out to renew or repair.

Let us look at it from this angle. It is a new angle of thought which should give you an entirely different idea of your body than the generally accepted one. Instead of thinking of your body as living and dying, think of your eternal Soul which is eternally living. Your Soul extends its life to your body to manifest the life which your Soul is. The body regives to the Soul that which has been extended to it. That is neither life nor death of the body. It is eternal life of the Soul expressed as two directions of life by the body.

You must, therefore, learn to think of life as action, and death as rest from action. Every day of your life is divided into action and rest from action. You are awake and active all day. Your body is thoroughly aware of its existence. But you rest each night and your body is as thoroughly unaware of its existence as though it were dead. The only reason you rest at night is to renew and repair your body. When your body is entirely worn-out you rest a longer time between periods of full renewal than between partial renewal. During those periods of acquiring an entirely new body, it is also unaware of bodily existence for a long period, instead of just one-night periods.

Nature tells the story of rebirth of bodies in very plain language. When you plant a seed in the ground for a flower, for a tree, or for a field of grass, these forms unfold from their seed into bodies. You think of these bodies as growing, dying and disappearing, but it almost escapes your notice that as every body unfolds from its seed it refolds back into it. For every branch and leaf of the oak tree you see with your eyes there is another branch and leaf which you do not see. What does that mean? It means that whatever unfolds from the seed to become a part of the visible universe, simultaneously refolds into its seed to disappear into the invisible universe. The Soul does not wait to take your body back after it is all dead, it takes it back as fast as it gives it out. There is your answer to what happens to your body when you die. Your Soul is your Self. You extend your body from your Soul-Self several billion times each second, and you return your body to your Soul-Self for rebirth at that same speed.

Everywhere in Nature you see rebirth of roses, of trees and of grass. Last year you picked an apple from this branch. This year you behold another apple where you plucked one last year, and the next year, and the next you can still pluck one. And if you open one you will find the same apple that you are going to eat all folded up in the seeds of other apples not yet born that will repeat the bodies of the apples which have long been born. That is Nature’s eternal process of repeating eternal life. She divides eternal life into eternal repetitions of life. We call them life and death, but both of them are opposite expressions of life. Is not that a wonderful thing to know? Is it not wonderful to know that every day you live in the visible world of bodies, your every thought and action is also simultaneously repeated and recorded in the invisible world of Mind?

During all the ages of your unfolding as an individual entity you have repeated your own Self in each new body and every experience which has progressed or retarded you is also repeated. Whatever progress you now make in this life makes your next life expression easier for you. You continually advance as you learn new lessons.

You do not remember the nonessentials of each life, for that would be a terrible punishment. You would but live a life of continual remorse if you had to relive the experiences of the hard struggles which brought you out of the jungle into today’s pleasant meadows. You do remember the essentials, however. If you have been a musician for several lives, and have thought music more than any other thought during those lives, you will undoubtedly think music again in succeeding lives. It is quite understandable why a musical prodigy exhibits such great musical talent at four or five years of age, if one thinks of it that way.

It is also quite understandable why some people are ahead of others and some so far behind. When you look over the human race you see many who exhibit the qualities of masters and leaders, while many more are but followers. That does not mean that some are “older Souls” than others, it simply means that some have made more of each life than others.

The great and wonderful thing about life is to learn to live it by profiting by every experience one must have on the long journey from body realization to Mind knowing, which also means from physical man to divine Spirit within man. The more you learn in each period of unfolding the more speedily you become aware of the kingdom of heaven within you as the goal of life. From that moment on the road is clear, for knowing the glory of life each period of it leads nearer and nearer to full illumination of Divine Consciousness in that Light.

SUMMARY

The first part of the journey of man from the dark of complete ignorance to the Light of Omniscience is entirely centered upon the import of his body. He knows naught else but body and requirements for body survival. His body works for him, fights for him, and provides him with its varying sensations and emotions.

After the dawn of Consciousness in him he acquires knowledge which he thinks of as being a part of his body. He believes that his brain is that part of his body which thinks and knows. He builds a concept which links his identity and personal powers to his body. Together with that concept he thinks that body is reality and that all reality is limited to what the senses of the body can detect. This growing concept of early man gradually built up a reverence and concern for his body. When he died he thought that his identity died with him. His reverence for his dead self led him to build great tombs and sepulchers–even to such monuments for the dead as the great pyramids of Egypt.

As spiritual man unfolds, he gradually loses his sense of body reality until that great day of his awakening to Mind Consciousness when he loses all body reverence as full knowledge of its unreality dawns upon him. The highest moments of exaltation of the genius are those of complete forgetfulness of body. It must never be forgotten, however, that our bodies are marvelous instruments given to us to manifest our spiritual identity and as such should be revered and cared for as a means of expressing the beauty of God’s Creation. The more we know how to care for it and keep it in balance with God’s law, the more we can forget it to express Mind creativeness.

As the divinity of man awakens in him and he knows his Self as Mind which centers motion, his concern as to what happens to his body will wholly pass away from him. That will be the great day of real knowing, the day when power in man is purely spiritual, the day when inner vision can see reality in the invisible CAUSE of the visible. This unfolding will some day come to man. He cannot avoid it, but the knowledge given herein will hasten its too slow unfolding by the hard way of paying for it through painful experience. It could save man many reincarnations by thus illumining his dark road with new Light.

Universal Oneness From The Divine Iliad

The highest spiritual emotion which is possible for you or any human to experience comes in those moments of deep exaltation and inspiration in which you have that glorious feeling of being at one with all the universe. When you have that ecstatic feeling of Oneness with God and all Creation, you have crossed the threshold which divides the world of sensation from the blissful heaven of Mind Consciousness.

You have cast aside the shell of your outer self and become aware of the Light which centers you. When you are in that spiritual state you are attaining the Conscious state of divine Mind which all mankind is seeking to attain, whether he is aware of it or not. The consummate state of spiritual exaltation in man is that state of ecstasy where the two interchanging expressions of love are no longer divided. They find unity and cessation from interchange through balanced interchange. When love is one in man, then man is Love as God is Love.

When a genius, or Cosmic Conscious mystic, is uplifted to that exalted state he knows that ecstasy which is the one unchangeable divine Mind emotion. He then becomes One with the Creator and his creations are enduring, for they are divinely inspired and have God in them. To the extent in which you can be thus exalted in your moments of aloneness with God you can know that state of ecstasy in which God’s Mind is yours. Your creations will then be enduring because your thinking is one with God’s thinking.

All people have great moments of baring their very Souls to the urge within them to forever seek that Oneness of divine Mind which centers their Consciousness. When you hear a happy child cry out its love for all the world and everything in it, that is its great moment of response to the Soul urge to attain Oneness with God. When you hear the whisperings of the forest, and the sweet music of warbling birds, the buzzing and droning of bees and insects’ wings, and the majestic pounding of surf on great rocks and sandy shores with inner ears attuned to the Infinite, you are responding to that urge of your Soul to attain your divine state of universal Oneness. Deep love of Nature is an expression of universal oneness in man for it is love expressed universally. When man expresses love for other humans he individualizes them and measures his love out to each one in different measure, but his love for Nature is love for ONE. The Voice of Nature is God’s Voice speaking to us His way and in His language. He whose inner ears are attuned to its mighty rhythms knows in them only the harmonies of God’s love.

When Beethoven became one with the mood of the night he had attained Oneness with God’s rhythms. He became transcendent because of his exaltation and he, in turn, inspires you to become transcendent and exalted. When a dear friend dies your deep grief at his passing tells of your oneness of love for him and for the world. Another friend is sorely distressed and love repeats his distress in you. A plane crashes with many people you have never known but the agony of your severance from them comes from the fact of your oneness with them. You feel that you have lost something of yourself. These moments of grief and distress are great moments of exaltation where love is all that is and all else ceases. These are your high moments when you are very close to God– and God is very close to you.

Many of our students write us that even though they have experienced flashes of cosmic exaltation they cannot hold that ecstatic condition, neither can they recall it at will. This exalted state, however, cannot be recalled at will for even when you find such heights you may soon lose them. Few humans can leave their bodies to become wholly Mind for very long periods, but one such hour is worth all the travails of a whole human life. It matters not whether this cosmic severance from sensation and Consciousness lasts but a moment, or for days, you will be completely transformed and know a power within you which you had never known before.

Countless thousands have forever asked The Buddha, and every sage and wise man through the centuries: “How shall I attain? Show me the way”, thinking that if they are shown the way they can attain it by desire alone. To those who ask I say: Yes, the way may be shown, but life must be lived to first manifest that which you desire to attain. As you live life that which you see must be divided from that which you know. Each moment that you live you see many things, but in your great moments these all disappear. You then know but ONE. If then I show you the way it can only be by showing you the many things you see and dissolve them into that one thing you know.

If we look out upon the vast ocean we can see countless numbers of waves. That is all we can see, just waves, for that is all there is to see. We can count them into billions.

They are of many dimensions and of varying powers of expression in motion. That which your eyes see are many separate waves, but that which you know is that all are but one, each wave extending from every other wave. You see power expressed by these waves, but you know that the power they express is ocean’s power and not theirs. Activity ceases. The countless many waves disappear. They withdraw into their source. You can no longer see or count them for they are the one ocean. They have found unity by losing separateness. They have found identity by losing individuality, as man, the individual, will likewise lose his individuality to find immortal Identity.

Your body and mine, and the body of every other man on earth, are each but one wave of God’s mighty ocean. As we look about us we can see countless millions of seemingly separate wave identities. As we think out upon the world we are aware of billions of other identities which we can see, and count, and measure. Every one of those bodies is extended from God’s One Mind ocean to manifest the power which is Mind. If it were possible for every living body, which is extended from God’s One Mind Source, to return to that Source at the same time, the millions of identities of Nature’s countless creations would lose their own separate identities and find their unity in the One Mind Identity whom they manifest.

When you look out upon the waters of the ocean you can see only the waves of motion which manifest the ocean. You cannot see the power of the ocean but you can know it as the one existent source of its waves. Man has looked out upon the universe through the eyes of his body for so many ages that he has grown accustomed to seeing separate and separable, individual bodies. Bodies can see only bodies. They cannot know them for bodies cannot know anything. They can but electrically sense other bodies. That is the first great difficulty which unfolding man must overcome as he gradually becomes aware that he is not body but Mind. His body has done so many things and expressed such great power for such long ages that he has come to believe that his body is that power. If his body expresses more power than another body he thinks of his body as being a greater individual than the other.

Objective and comparative separability is the fixed habit of human sensing, but sensing is not knowing. Humans sense planets and stars in the heavens–millions upon millions of them. Likewise, they sense countless trees and forests–blades of grass in woodland meadows–birds and bees and butterflies of the air–and fishes of the seas–and the countless insects and reptiles which impress their separate individualities upon the sensed-bodies of man. That objective and comparative separability is very difficult for the unfolding mentality of man to eliminate. To think cosmically, however, one must eventually be able to dissolve that which he sees into that which he knows. If you make the attempt to do that from this very minute onward you will be amazed at the increase in your own Mind-power within a year.

Start doing it then by realizing that this objective universe is not made up of many substances and things. It is made up entirely of electric waves of motion which simulate many substances and things which you have always accepted as real. The moment you fully realize that not one thing in Nature is what it seems to be, you are beginning to transcend your senses by your growing ability to dissolve what you see into what you know. That principle constitutes the difference between the one who senses by outward thinking to the one who knows through inner cosmic thinking. It marks the line of demarcation between the physical and the spiritual man. He who has passed that line thinks cosmically. He knows cause while he who senses is only aware of effects which he can never know.

The physical man who becomes informed through his senses sees and hears many things– countless many things which are all real to him. The Cosmic Thinker knows only one thing, for he thinks with his Mind and is empowered to dissolve all that he senses as effects into the one thing which he knows. He empowers himself with the ability to withdraw all thought-waves of motion into the still calm of the One Mind ocean which is the universe of knowing.

Recall with me now those many things which this radio electric universe has already taught you. It may be that we can look at them together with an inner understanding that will make you think quite differently of them. Look upon them as steppingstones which lead you to a greater comprehension.

Our senses tell us that there are many waves. We believe that there are many because we can count them. Our senses tell us that but when our Mind thinks cause instead of effect it knows that a wave never begins or ends. It is one continuity. If you sought the end of any wave you would never find it. If you traveled one million years at 186,40o miles every second you would be no nearer the end of that wave than when you started to follow it. It cannot come to an end. Even the waves of the ocean can not come to an end when they break upon the shore. They but change their dimensions to harmonize with the pressures of space and continue on as waves of light pressure, instead of waves of water pressures.

Neither can waves begin. Sounds, such as explosions, are the source of waves which seem to begin where the sound occurs, but factually, they only change the dimension of waves which are already there. Every point in this universe, anywhere, is the source of living waves of God’s thinking, which never ceases to express God’s thinking. The sound-wave you create has an entirely different frequency than the thought which caused that sound-wave. It can reproduce itself in space at only eleven hundred feet a second, while the wave length of your thought reaches out into space at nearly two hundred thousand miles in that same second. To demonstrate this watch a man who is half a mile away shoot a revolver to start a race. You will see the flash from the revolver instantly and then you will hear the sound two seconds later. At the very instant that you hear the sound from half a mile away, a man who is four hundred thousand miles away in space would see it.

These things you must know so that you can transform your thinking to be in accord with Nature as you KNOW it, and not as you SEE it. Knowledge vastly increases, sense-perception.

Consider your own body as a focal point in the universe where waves have been changed in their dimensions by compressing them. You look about you and see other bodies like yours. You do not see anything between your body and these other bodies, but the space between each body is brilliantly alive with waves which tie you all together as one body. The whole universe is thus tied together as one pulsing intercommunicating body. When you walk among men you are walking through them. If it were possible to see the electric commotion you caused as, you walked through the bodies of other men it would amaze you, also it would confuse you tremendously. The only reason you cannot see the brilliantly colored, rapidly changing electric effects, caused by the thoughts and actions of other people, is that your sense range is so limited that your eyes can only see wave vibrations between the ranges of four hundred billion and seven hundred billion per second. Below that range all the activity of Creation is invisible to you. There is not one pinhead size spot in it, however, that is not wave-activated.

God eternally thinks and His thoughts are eternally recorded everywhere. Every thought of God’s thinking is repeated throughout the universe at the speed of thought–which is commonly known as the speed of light. This speed is not one of travel, however, for waves do not travel. They reproduce themselves at that speed.

You must also realize that wherever there are waves there are sounds, even in the blankness of outer space. Vibrations produce sounds beyond the perception of any living thing, but there is no silence anywhere save in wave fulcrums where motion reverses its spiraling course from centripetal to centrifugal and vice versa. Our human sense range is very limited but is increasing rapidly as our spiritual natures unfold. Our human range of hearing is limited to the range between 4o and 40,000 vibrations a second. Above that range all other sounds are as inaudible as though they did not exist. The world around us is full of sounds which no man can hear, and things which no man can see.

Every planet and star in the heavens has its own musical tone. The “music of the spheres” is not a poetic thought, it is factual. You do not hear it though because of your limited sense range. You look at a busy ant hill and hear no sound. There is a tremendous sound activity there, however, but your ears cannot hear it.

Those who have attained Cosmic Consciousness can clearly see the color densities which connect every object in the universe with every other object. They can see those stratas of increasing densities which so conspicuously surround all bodies, human and otherwise, with a glory of colors which rival the rainbow.

During my husband’s great illumination of 1921, which I mentioned previously, his range of sense-perception so vastly increased during three of those thirty-nine days, that he could see the auras of people and things, even to seeing them in other rooms, and approaching his door from the other side. Also he could hear and feel the adjustments which the planet is continually making in vast slippages of rock strata yielding to changing temperature pressures, and ocean bottoms adjusting their depths to changing gravity pressures. These create great tensions which are threatening major geologic changes in our western prairie lands and in the mid-Pacific.

These illustrations demonstrate the fact that knowledge can come to one only from within the Mind. Increasing extrasensory perception will vastly clarify the mysteries of life, however, by making much that was heretofore invisible and inaudible come within the range of vision and hearing. The more you unfold mentally the greater your range of perception will extend. The time will come when you can transcend your body entirely and sublimate all of its calls by voiding them. All geniuses have so thoroughly acquired this liberation of body that they can forget it completely and withdraw its divided qualities into the fulcrum from which they were extended.

Mental beings do not have to be physical beings when they desire to escape from being physical. When they attend to the needs of the body for body survival they can become Mind only, and live in a Mind world when they so desire. The more you can look at Nature as One Whole, and yourself as all of all Nature, the more you can command what you are, to become what you desire to be. The more you can learn to work knowingly with God, from moment to moment, and talk with Him in His inspired language of Light, the more you can transcend your own body and command it to perfection.

In order to avoid the temptation and danger of becoming too scientific in telling you of the nature of this universe, a simple word picture of phenomena, which is very familiar to you, might better affect the trend of your future thinking. Recall that familiar effect which you know as an echo. You call into the valley, “Hello,” and the distant hills call back, “Hello—hello–hello”. That is radar. That is what a ship does when it sends out a beam to echo against another ship. If there is no ship there, no echo will return. Likewise, you may call your “Hello” across the prairies and you will not hear a responsive echo. Now why is that? The reason is that the sound waves which you projected into space continued to expand without interference. The rising cliffs interfered with their expansion and forced them to contract instead of expand. Their condensation brought them back to the dimensions of the waves you projected. The hills then projected them to you and you could hear them, for they again condensed as they re-echoed against you.

Give thought to this effect more deeply. Was it not your own voice that came back to you from the hills? Did you not, therefore, extend your body to the hills? The waves that you extended from your body are as much your body as the waves which are confined in it. Can you say, therefore, that you occupy a fixed position in the universe? You have already projected your body and your thoughts to the hills. They did not stop there. They reached our moon in about one second, our sun within ten minutes, and if people on any planet of Sirius could condense your voice they could hear it in about nine years. If you fully realize this fact can you not fully comprehend that you and all creating bodies are universal?

Applying this principle to radio, consider that you are listening to a voice projected to you from Japan. It has been radioed to you from there. Other people also hear it in other countries. You and those others are now the hills against which the “Hello” from Japan is echoing. The man in Japan is the radar station which has broadcast a beam. You, and those others, are the ships which his radar has picked up. If you fully comprehend this principle you are ready to apply it universally when I tell you that everybody in the universe is a broadcasting station, and a receiving station, for every happening which takes place in this whole universe. Likewise, everybody is an antenna which picks up every thought-wave of the universe. You are in all things and they are in you. The power which generates waves for you to broadcast is the Universal Energy of Mind-desire. The waves you broadcast are thought-waves. There are no other waves but thought-waves in the universe. Thought- waves emanate from Mind. Mind is universal. Thoughts are universal. Every thought of Mind is in all Mind, not in just a part of it. All thoughts are, therefore, in all thought-waves.

Your limited range of perception has led you to believe that your body ends at your skin. Your unlimited cosmic range of knowing tells you that your body extends to the farthest reaches of space. Your body is but a thought-wave record of your thinking, therefore, your thoughts and all other thoughts are one. They are universal, even as you are universal.

“There are not two separate and separable units in all Creation. Everything that is, is of everything else that is.”

From The Divine Iliad.

Q2 of 3. What am I ?

Question. What am I?

Answer. You are an individual expression of Intelligence. You are an invisible entity, centering a visible body, which is your instrument for expressing your Self. Your individuality is the sum total of every thought you have ever had since your beginning as a single cell of protoplasm, which desired to be a bigger and better cell.

Whatever your body is you are the cause of it. Material bodies cannot even grow, or live and die, or decay of themselves alone. You cannot even lift your little finger without desire telegraphed to it by your Intelligence, through your brain, along a nerve wire.

Your body is but a “carbon copy” of your own dictation. It is the product of your own creation. Whatever there is in your body, your thinking has put there. If you listen to a tape recording of your voice and find it interrupted by a cough or sneeze, you know that you put that cough or sneeze into it. People are seemingly totally unaware that emotions of sorrow, frustration, worry, anger, fear, unkindness or any other inharmonious thought, will as automatically be recorded in their bodies as the cough or sneeze is recorded on their tape recorder. That is why people often say when illness afflicts them, “How can this happen to me”? They never realize that somewhere at some time they, themselves, have either planted the seed for it by their own thinking or by the many causes outside of themselves in their environment from which no human can completely immunize himself.

Your personality is what you cause it to be. You have complete control over that. Your body is what your limited control makes it become but your environment very strongly affects your ability to completely control it. Your power of control is measured by your knowledge. You have probably never thought of that.

Outside environment shares control with you in such ills as colds, malaria, typhus and other contagions, but the so-called degenerative diseases, such as cancer, stomach ulcers, tumors, and heart disease are completely under your control and therefore self-inflicted. Knowledge of their cause, however, will give you the power to cancel them by reversal of the process which created them.

We even give names to our bodies with the belief that the body named Anna or John is the individual person. We do not give thought to the invisible Soul which is the Source of our individuality. Individuality means separateness, or the difference in personalities. We see the difference in people only through the manifestations of their thoughts as they express them in action. For that reason it is quite natural that we attribute the individuality to the body.

All individuals have different desires. Their thoughts express their desires. The body automatically records the image of their desires. The individual who would think inventive thoughts differs from the individual who would be satisfied on an assembly line. The assembly-line worker does not look like the inventor. His thoughts would create a different type. Each individual becomes what he thinks.

No two people have ever thought the same combination of thoughts. That is why there can be no two individuals who are exactly alike. A man who loves the works of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Beethoven, Mozart and Raphael has an entirely different individuality from one whose desires run to murder stories, detective stories, prize fights or other sensuous pleasures. You cannot see the thoughts or desires of either of these two individuals but you can observe their personalities.

Every individual expresses his personality through everything he does, whether it is a visible or invisible action. A personality can be judged by his postures and gestures–by his actions alone and in public–his reaction when he wins or loses a game–his appreciation or lack of interest in cultural things–his generosity, friendliness or selfishness and a host of other visible evidences of his character.

There are countless invisible evidences, however, such as the way he expresses himself in letters- -how he answers the telephone or words a telegram. Even his handwriting gives strong evidence of his innate individuality.

All these visible and invisible evidences are proof that no man can avoid revealing his thoughts to his fellowman.

The individual whose desire is prize fighting or wrestling makes the type of body which tells the world what kind of individual he is. No one would mistake him for a poet or a typist. Likewise, the man who desires to be a runner will make his body into the lithe form of a runner.

Very few people realize that their thoughts and desires are immediately stamped on their faces and bodies. A happy individual, who has a high sense of humor, attracts others to him. The corners of his mouth turn upward and his eyes twinkle in friendliness. Such an individual makes many friends because he has friendly thoughts and desires. He attracts people by the happy individuality which he has stamped upon his body.

Every portrait painter who studies the face he is painting can clearly see his sitter’s emotional history. The sitter’s whole life seems to gradually unfold before him. Very often his or her selfish or frustrated thoughts are so vividly stamped upon the face that the painter finds it necessary to drive such thoughts away by interjecting happy thoughts.

When anyone applies for a position he creates either a pleasant or unpleasant impression at once. That impression is not given by his present thoughts, for one might assume a happy attitude to give a pleasant impression. The keen eye and intuition of the experienced personnel manager gathers a life impression at first glance, which may tell him to not employ this one, or to employ that one. He intuitively knows a strong or weak character, one he could or could not trust, or one who has initiative to whom he could give responsibility, or one who would watch the clock with eagerness for closing time.

Every dramatic school stresses the necessity for its students to actually think the thought of the characters they are impersonating, even when not speaking. The audience must see you think, they say. You must become your character. You must show fear, anger or other emotions every second while acting them. Your very body gestures change with every emotion, just as your face changes. You can see by this illustration that the body is not the individual who acts through it. A good actor, who may be a very gentle individual, can impersonate a murderer by sending a different combination of thoughts through his body, to make his body manifest a different individuality from his own.

Is it not clear to you, therefore, that your body is only a canvas upon which you are painting your own portrait? An artist can paint the portraits of many different individuals upon the same canvas, or an actor can make his body express many types of individuals, by temporarily thinking another combination of thoughts. You can also transform yourself permanently into a higher type of in- dividual by thinking other thoughts than you have been thinking.

If you wish to transform your individuality into a greater one, begin thinking great thoughts, beautiful thoughts, powerful and friendly thoughts, and your personality will immediately reflect your changed thinking. Your face will have a different expression in every detail, as well as your whole bearing. Your very posture and gestures will mark you as a transformed being. You will even walk differently. A criminal does not walk the way a scholar walks, nor are his postures and gestures the same. The criminal shows fear in his walk if he is hunted, or he slinks and crouches, instead of walking erect as the man of noble character does.

You can become what you want to become and your very aura will tell the world what standard of Intelligence the Individual is whom your body impersonates. There are no limits which you

 cannot reach if your desires are great enough. Your being will always tell of your greatness and the standard of individual you are.

A good example of this fact is a body of a piano. It cannot make a sound of itself, but when a great master musician expresses his thoughts through it, the world knows that a great individual Intelligence controls that body. Conversely, a sensuous individual will extend his physical sensuousness through that same piano body, and the world will know that an entirely different type of individual controls it.

Consider the effect of each individual upon the human race as a whole. One uplifts the whole world culturally, while the other drags it down. An inspired genius re-inspires others to great heights of spiritual ecstasy. He awakens the divinity in others and uplifts them to the realms of their spiritual natures, which makes them forget their bodies. The physically sensuous musician creates just the opposite effect. His jazz rhythms drag them to lower physical levels and awaken all of the physical desires of bodies. He manufactures his type of individuality.

The more knowledge you acquire of God’s plan of Creation, and His processes of Creation, the more you will comprehend your power over your body. You cannot command that which you do not know.

Every individual acts as he believes. If what he believes is not true, however, his actions are not right actions. He hurts himself instead of helping himself. His series of actions, however, constitute his individuality, or personality. The greater your knowledge of what you are the greater your conscious Intelligence can build and control a body to manifest your individual Intelligence. If you desire to become what is known as a great person, first ask yourself if your thinking is directed inwardly toward your Soul-Self, or outwardly toward the objective universe through your senses.

There are only two types of individuals in the world, however, those who think inwardly toward their spiritual Selves and those who think outwardly toward their physical senses. All people think both ways but a Mozart or Leonardo type thinks inwardly most of the time, while the masses think outwardly most of the time. A Beethoven is a spiritual individual, whose sense of values lies in giv- ing out the abundance of his Self to the world, while a Napoleon is a physical individual whose sense of values lies in the taking of material possessions for personal aggrandizement.

The strange thing about individuality is the misconception of its meaning to the average person. The great individual is one who gradually loses his individuality as increased God-awareness in him makes him become universal. Therefore, the highest aim in life is to lose your individuality in order to attain universality. The greater the God-awareness in any man the closer he is to complete Mind- Oneness. The completed journey of life ends in the omnipotence and omniscience of man’s universality with God.

Mystics

Beyond the genius is the mystic.
The mystic is one who has attained cosmic consciousness by a complete severance of the seats of consciousness and sensation. He is then almost totally unaware of his body and is totally aware of the Light of God centering him. Omniscience comes to him in that timeless blinding flash of light which is characteristic of a complete severance. This experience was described in the illumination of St. Paul. Every timeless flash of intense inspiration which comes to any man is a partial illumination, for inspiration is the manner in which new knowledge comes to man from the cosmos.
Of all mystics, Jesus was the outstanding example of all time. He was the only One in all history to have known complete cosmic-conscious unity with God.
The Bible refers to cosmic-conscious experience as the illumination or being in the Light or in the Spirit.
In all history less than forty cases of partial cosmic consciousness are known, and probably not more that three of these anywhere nearly approached the complete state of illumination experienced by the Nazarene.
Cosmic Consciousness is the ultimate goal of all mankind. All will know it before the long journey of man is finished, but there are many in this new age just dawning who are ready for it in part, if not fully.
Many desire it fully, but it is best that it come bit by bit for the complete severance is very dangerous. The ecstasy of this supreme experience is so great that one does not wish to come back. The power of severance of soul from body is within easy accomplishment, but to step back into the body is very difficult.

(Walter Russell, The Secret of Light, pp 27-28)

If I am God, then how am i different?

“Say thou to men; ye are My body. Hear thou Me when I say that thy desires are thy Selves, yea both body and Spirit of thee.

“That which thou would’st possess is Thee, e’en though thou possess it not. In body it is Thee. In patterned Seed and Soul it is Thee. That thou canst not evade. Thou, thy Self, create thy Self in thy image

“Who am I?” “What am I?” “Why am I?” “Whither am I bound?” “What is my relation to the universe, to man, and to God?” “What is Truth? How am I to know Truth?” “

“Who am I?”

• We are our consciousness.
• Our consciousness is insulated from the Source by the sensations of our electrically conditioned body which we wrongly thinks of as being our Mind and our personal Self.
• Our living body is an electrically motivated machine which simulates life through motion extended to it from its centering Self-Soul which alone lives and wills the body to move.
• What we call our objective mind is just a seat for electric sensations of our body.
• What we call our thinking is only an electric awareness of things sensed and recorded within the cells of our brain for repetitive usage through what is termed “memories.”
• Memories are just recordings of the electrical sensations of body

“What am I?”

• Our essence is eternal, our body is mortal but our body is cast from a seed, like a film and can therefore be reborn (we never actually die but only rest) after an interval of rest.
• Our experiences are recorded into our soul seed and are carried forward to the next rebirth.

“Why am I?”

• To discover one’ness with God.
• THE ASCENT OF MAN FROM THE DARK TO THE LIGHT is the forever repetitive play of man on the planets of suns. When all mankind has found the Light, the play will be finished. Earth will then be rolled off into its ever expanding orbit while Venus is gradually being rolled into place to become the stage for the next repetition of THE ASCENT OF MAN in this solar system.

• We actors of the play must, therefore, be content with the lines of the play revealed to each of us in Light. We must, likewise, be ever joyous at our continuous trans- formation, as each one of us learns our part, line by line, the better to fulfill it worthily.

“Whither am I bound?”

• Continue to be reborn until the desire to manifest myself is finished through my discovered one’ness with God.

“What is my relation to the universe, to man, and to God?”

• I am part of the universe. Universe and God are one, there is no separate God.

“What is Truth? How am I to know Truth?”

• Silent Voice within every man is ceaselessly whispering, continuously to our awakened consciousness.
• the desire to manifest myself is finished through my discovered one’ness with God.

The great unanswered question of man has a simple answer.

The Silent Voice within every man is ceaselessly whispering it to his awakened consciousness. Man has an inseperable and eternal moment to moment unity with GOD.

• Every desire written upon the heart of man is carried to the source, and its answer will come, but few there are who ask comprehensively and fewer still who hear.
• Many are the ages of preparation for worthiness to hear it, for man’s consciousness is insulated from his Source by the sensations of his electrically conditioned body which he wrongly thinks of as being his Mind and his personal Self.
• What he calls his objective human mind is but the seat of electric sensations of his body.
• What he mistakes for thinking is but an electric awareness of things sensed and recorded within the cells of his brain for repetitive usage through what is termed “memories.”
• Memories have no more relation to knowledge of Universal Mind which is in man than Victorola records are related to the source of their recordings.
• What he thinks of as his living body is but an electrically motivated machine which simulates life through motion extended to it from its centering Self-Soul which alone lives and wills the body to move.
• What he calls his subjective mind is his consciousness, his spiritual storehouse of all-knowledge, allpower, and all-presence.
• That consciousness is his Self, his ETERNAL Self through which his omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence are expressed as he slowly becomes aware of their presence within him.

Each cell and organ of our human body has an electrical awareness of its purpose and fulfils it without any mental action

• The electrically oscillating nerve-wires which operate his bodily mechanism act almost entirely through automatic reflexes and instinctive control, and to a very little extent through mental decisions.
• Each cell and organ of his body has an electrical awareness of its purpose and each fulfills that purpose without any mental action whatsoever upon the part of the Intelligence which occupies that body. The heartbeat, for example, is purely automatic. The white corpuscles of the blood rush to repair an injury to the body as automatically as a bell rings when a button is pushed.

In this body and its electric recording brain, man thinks that he thinks and lives, loves and dies.

He thinks himself conscious while awake and unconscious when sleeping; unaware that in all Nature there is no such condition as unconsciousness when sensation ceases in sleep. Man does not say that his tooth is unconscious when it is put to sleep by short-circuiting the electric current in the nerve-wire which gives sensed electrical awareness to his tooth. He knows that his tooth cannot be conscious, but then he does not know that his body cannot be conscious.

Nor does he yet know that consciousness never sleeps, never changes, for consciousness in man is his immortality. It is the Light which he is unknowingly seeking but assumes that the sensation of his brain is his thinking Man is still new.

So far he has relied upon sensation for his actions and the evidence of his senses for his knowing.

Bodies are but Self-created mechanisms which manifest their centering Self, and that Self manifests God as One with it.

• Bodies neither live nor die, but repeat themselves continuously and forever as all idea of Mind likewise repeats itself. The wheel, for example, is a mechanism consisting of a hub, spokes and a rim. A little part of the wheel touches the ground, feels it, then leaves it, to disappear from reach of the sensations which connect rim, spokes and ground. But then it reappears. When that happens to man we say, “He was born, lived and died.” When it happens to the apple, the flame, or the tree, we say, “The apple was eaten, the flame has gone out and the tree has decayed.”
• We say that because only a small part of the cycle of any idea comes within the range of our senses. The larger part of the cycle is beyond our range of perception, just as the larger part of the wheel is beyond the senses perception of the ground. We do not yet know that the invisible part of the cycles of all idea is as continuous as the wheel is continuous.

The cycle of the apple is light reaching from the sun and earth to that positive half of the apple cycle which we hold in our hand. The negative half of the cycle is light returning to sun and earth for repetition as another manifestation of the eternal idea of the apple. The same is true of the flame, the tree or any other part of the One Whole Idea of Creation. The flame “goes out” to our sensing. But it still IS. Likewise the tree, the forest, mountain, planet and nebula of the far heavens appear, disappear and as surely reappear.

Likewise man appears to disappear and reappear again and again in countless cycles to express eternal life of the spirit in eternal repetitions of that part of the man cycle which the body of man can sense.

Man never dies. He is as continuous as eternity is continuous. Jesus rightly said that man shall not see death, for there is no death to see or to know. Likewise the body of man does not live, and having never lived it cannot die.

The spirit alone lives. The body but manifests the spirit. That which we think of as life in the spirit of man manifests itself by willing the body to act. Actions thus made by the body under the command of its centering Soul have no motivative power or intelligence in themselves; they are but machines motivated by an omniscient and omnipotent intelligence extended to them.

We are  but beginning to know the Light. Man is forever seeking the Light to guide him on that long tortuous road which leads from his body’s jungle to the mountain top of his awakening soul.

Man is forever finding that Light, and is being forever transformed as he finds it. And as he finds it he gradually finds the self of him which IS the Light. And as he becomes more and more transformed by the God-Light of the awakening Self within him, he leaves the jungle farther below him in the dark.

There are those who seek the Light who are discouraged because they seemingly cannot find it, wholly unaware that they have forever been finding it.

Unknowing ones expect to find it all at once in some blinding flash of all-power, all-knowledge and all-presence. It does not come that way until one is nearing his mountain top.

Man cannot bear much of the Light at a time while his body is still new and too near its jungle. All who are well out of the jungle have already found enough of the Light to illume their way out of its dark depths.

He who is far out of the jungle and still seeks the Light in the High-heavens is forever finding it, and is forever being transformed as he finds it.

One can not for one moment remove his seeking eyes from his High-heaven, for ever so slight a glimpse below into the dark brings him back to the fears of the dark, which tempt him to plunge back into them.

We must therefore, forever look upward into the High-heavens of inspiration, where glory awaits the fearless, all-knowing seekers of Beauty in the purity of the universal Light. To him whose eyes are in the High-heavens, the Light will forever come, and he will be forever transformed as he finds it.

The dark road from his jungle to his mountain top of glory becomes ever more illumined during the ascent from body to spirit. It is a hard but glorious road to climb All must make the climb.

THE ASCENT OF MAN FROM THE DARK TO THE LIGHT

THE ASCENT OF MAN FROM THE DARK TO THE LIGHT is the forever repetitive play of man on the planets of suns. When all mankind has found the Light, the play will be finished.

• Likewise this planet will be finished as an abode for man. It will then be rolled off into its ever expanding orbit while Venus is gradually being rolled into place to become the stage for the next repetition of THE ASCENT OF MAN in this solar system.
• We actors of the play must, therefore, be content with the lines of the play revealed to each of us in Light.
• We must, likewise, be ever joyous at our continuous transformation, as each one of us learns our part, line by line, the better to fulfill it worthily.
• All parts of the play are experiences which become the action of the play.
• All man’s experiences are part of his unfolding. Each experience is a part of his journey from the dark to the Light. All experiences are steps in that journey to his mountain top of glory.
• All experiences, therefore, are good experiences. There is naught but GOOD. There is no evil. There is naught but LIFE. There is no death.
• “Glorify thou thy Self, for in so doing thou art glorifying Me.”

• “That which seems imperfect to man’s eyes is but seeming, for he sees not all. Could he see all he would see all perfect.  “As the unfinished picture seems imperfect in man’s eyes, for it is not the whole, it is perfect could he see the whole.

“All men shall come to Me in due time, but theirs is the agony of awaiting”.

 

God’s plan is for man to learn the lesson of Love, upon which the universe is based.

• He can learn that lesson only by giving love to his neighbor, for regiving by his neighbor.
• Service to one’s neighbor is the highest principle of life. The value of every man to every other man is the greatest source of man’s wealth and prosperity. World peace and happiness can only be acquired by the realization of man’s asset value to man, and the conservation of that value by mutual service.

MAN versus WOMAN

• Man has always expressed man nature, inherited from his primate fighting jungle days, by marauding, conquering, piracy, slavery and killing for greed, while women have loved, and served, and given life to the world. Where man and woman work together as one, to make a happy home, they always succeed

KINGDOM of HEAVEN

• Jesus meant MIND. He meant that all there is in this universe is Mind and body which means Creator and Creation, and which also means Cause and Effect.
• God’s Mind, and the electric pulsations of His divided thinking, constitute the entirety of this universe. Beyond that there is naught else.
• God’s omniscient, omnipotent, living, conscious Mind is eternally at rest.
• God’s electric thinking is eternally in motion. His electric, creative thinking extends from centers of stillness to create bodies, which live for a period of time, to manifest His knowledge of power and action. All living bodies thus extended from Him to express His energy by action, must then return to Him for a period of rest, before again extending into another pulsation of action. This is the
  principle known as reincarnation or repetition of body patterns, which is the characteristic process of Nature.

 

Man’s Misconception

• Man misconceives these thought pulsations of the living, thinking God, to be living and dying bodies of people, who have identity and reality.
• He looked outside of himself for his sense of values and chose transient, pulsing, living-dying bodies of material things for his choice possessions, which he thought would enrich him.
• He looked away from his spiritual Self to find love and happiness in mere sensation of interchange with physical bodies of pulsing motion, which had naught but motion in them to give.

• He looked away from the One great reality within which all power reposed, into the unreality of transient materialism for the power he coveted, and took unto himself a mirage which dissolved itself in its own emptiness.

From Lost teachings on Finding God Within

GOD forever loves us