“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.
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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
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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.
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God’s Mind, and the electric pulsations of His divided thinking, constitute the entirety of this universe. Beyond that there is naught else.
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God’s omniscient, omnipotent, living, conscious Mind is eternally at rest.
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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
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Man misconceives these thought pulsations of the living, thinking God, to be living and dying bodies of people, who have identity and reality.
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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.
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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.
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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
Notes on Walter Russell and related studies 