What we don’t know in current Science
- WHAT matter is nor the WHY of it.
- Nor do we know what energy, electricity, magnetism, gravitation and radiation are.
- Nor do we know the purpose of the inert gases and WHAT they are.
- Nor do we know the structure of the elemental atoms nor the gyroscopic principle which determines that structure.
- Nor are we aware of the fact that this is a two-way continuous universe of balance in all effects of motion and not a one-way discontinuous universe.
- Nor have we even yet heard of or suspected the most important of all principles in physics, THE VOIDANCE PRINCIPLE and the mirrors and lenses of space which are the cause of illusion in all moving things.
- Nor do we even consider the entire material electric universe to be the illusion which it is (of two conditioned lights in seeming motion)
- Nor have we the slightest inkling of the cause of curvature of space, nor the voidanc^ of that curvature in planes of zero curvature at wave field boundaries.
- No one now knows how it is that crystals get their various shapes. It will amaze the world to know that those shapes of crystals are determined in space by the shapes of the wave fields which bound the various elemental structures.
- Nor have we the slightest conception of what constitutes the life principle, nor the principle of growth, nor the simultaneous unfoldment-refoldment principle which repeats all patterns in Nature sequentially and records and voids them as they are repeated.
- Nor are we aware of that recording principle by means of which the Creator carries forth the sum totals of every sequential cycle in His unfolding and refolding universe unto the very end of its manifestations upon one planet and its beginning on a new one.
- Nor are we dynamically aware of the souls and seeds of things.
========================== COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS 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.
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.
The way to gradually attain cosmic consciousness is to intensify one’s conscious awareness by much alone- ness and companionship with God while manifesting Him in every moment and in every task of life. Moment-by-moment companionship with God brings with it so great a realization of Oneness with Him that the transformation into that full realization of unity is apt to take place at any time. The deterrent to cosmic consciousness is the feeling that God is far away instead of being within, and that we can reach that far away God only through sources out- side of ourselves.
========================== CREATIVE EXPRESSION Inspired man alone can create enduring things. To create we must first conceive. To conceive we must stop thinking and KNOW. All sensing must cease. There is no power in thinking. Thinking but expresses the power which lies in knowing. We must project our Selves into the still Light of knowing to commune with God. We must become one with God to conceive idea in order to produce the form of that idea. A concept must precede its manifestation in form. The culture of the entire race is given to it by the few inspired ones who know God in them. They alone know immortality. The art of a civilization long outlives the civilization. “Art alone endures. All else passes,” Great art can be created only by working moment by moment with God as co-creator. When man and God thus work together they commune one with the other as One Person. The language of their communion is the language of Light which man calls “inspiration.” When man works alone, his works are as the winds which blow. When man works with God as co-creator, his works are forever enduring.
“All knowledge existeth. All knowledge Cometh to man in its season. Cosmic messengers periodically give to man such knowledge of My cosmos as man is able to comprehend, but that which he can bear is like unto a thimbleful out of the mighty ocean, for man is but beginning to comprehend. “When man knoweth Light then he will know no limitations, but man must know the Light for himself and none there can be who can make words of it, for Light knoweth Light and there need be no words. ”
========================== KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is cosmic. It belongs to the stiil Light of the positive principle. It never can become a property of the two negations which constitute this mirage universe of matter in motion. To “know all things” means to have all knowledge of the Whole One Idea of the cosmos as CAUSE. It does not mean knowledge of created things which are effect of cause. The whole Cosmic Idea is simple. It can be known by anyone of average intelligence. Its bewildering complexities lie in effect of cause, Man cannot know transient effect. He can KNOW cause only. He can but comprehend effect. Man cannot know a sunset sky, for example, but he can comprehend it if he knows its cause. Knowledge is, therefore, limited to cause. All knowledge exists. All mankind can have it for the asking. It is within man, awaiting his awareness of its all-presence. Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without; it must be “recollected” from within the con- sciousaess of Self.
Man cannot acquire knowledge from books or schools. He can but acquire information that way, but information is not knowledge until it is recognized by the spiritual consciousness of man, just as food is not nourishment for the body until it becomes a part of the blood stream. Information gained by motion of the sens- es must be returned to the stillness of the Source before it becomes knowledge.
For the same reason man cannot acquire knowledge from the so-called “facts of matter,” for there are no facts of matter in a universe of transient matter in motion. All matter in motion is but a series of illusions which deceive man into drawing wrong conclusions.
Life is spirit, and spirit is still. Life is not chemistry or germ of matter. To heal the body so that it can manifest life of the spirit Self of the body, one must give the unbalanced body the balance of the spirit. Knowledge of the Light can alone do this. All the information in the world will not heal a body unassisted by the Light in him who heals and in him who is being healed.
“Verily I say, I give of Me and I take away; for I am the Imaginer who builds image forms to tear apart to build anew.
========================== KNOWLEDGE VERSUS THINKING
Man’s knowledge is his power. His thinking is the expression of that power. The expression of power is not power; therefore thinking is not power. As man gradually becomes aware of his omniscience, his thinking intensifies in voltage in proportion to the increase in awareness of his omniscience. Thinking is an electric wave extension from the centering fulcrum of knowledge which seemingly divides knowledge into ideas and sets those ideas in motion to create forms of ideas as product of knowledge. Man’s knowledge is like a deep well of still water. His thinking is like a two-way pump which divides the QUALITY of that stillness mto QUANTITIES of parts and sets them flowing. That is what the objective universe is, quantities of many seemingly separate forms of idea, all of which are but parts of the One Whole idea. Each seemingly separate part is a dynamic extension of the One Static Unity, but separateness only seems, for all are indissolubly bound together in light as one part. Knowledge is the foundation of man’s concepts. Thinking transfers concepts into product. The quality of man’s product depends upon the degree of awareness of his knowledge and not upon the quality, quantity or intensity of his thinking. Water cannot be drawn from an empty well, nor can clear water be drawn from a muddied well. Likewise good product cannot come from intensive thinking unless knowledge backs that thinking. No idea of Mind can ever become matter. Idea of product can never become product. Moreover, no expression of anything in Nature is the idea which it expresses. The product of idea is not the idea it simulates. Idea is cosmic and cannot be produced in matter. Idea must be conceived in the Mind before it can be simulated as product. Conceptions belong solely to the magnetic God-Light and never become matter. A lever, for example, moving upon its fulcrum, expresses the idea of power by motion, but the idea of power is in the still fulcrum source of power. It is not in the moving lever. The lever would be both powerless and motionless if it did not have the stillness of the fulcrum from which to extend the simulation of power. A watch expresses the idea of time, but the watch is not time. Likewise it expresses the idea of mechanical principles, but the watch is not the idea which is expressed by those mechanical principles. The printed poem is not the idea expressed in the poem. That printed poem has no meaning to anyone whose intelligence is insufficient to reflect the idea from the composer’s mind to his own. No idea of mind ever becomes matter. Likewise neither the musical composition on the printed page, nor the art of music which issues as sounds from musical instruments is the inspired idea of the musician. Inspiration can never be produced. It can but be reflected from one inspired mind to another recognizing one. Idea and inspiration may be echoed from spirit to spirit but they can never become product of matter in motion.
THINKING VERSUS SENSING Man has not yet learned to think powerfully from knowledge. 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. Information thus acquired by the senses is not knowledge, however. A man may have vast information and skill but have very little knowledge.
Information from observed effects, and skills in putting those effects together for useful purposes, have multiplied vastly since man first observed natural phenomena. His sense of observation told him how to make a boat; then a sail for the boat. He then discovered the wheel and fire. Electric awareness of effects of motion, plus memory, plus the power to reason objectively, gave him the ability to do this. Very little of it has been due to either thinking or knowledge. We thus confuse sensing for thinking and knowing when, factually, we have been but functioning through sensed electrical awareness acquired from information. The “information” thus conveyed is electrical, not mental. The telegraph message which goes over any wire is not the thought conveyed by that message. Even the typed telegram is not the thought conveyed by it. Its symbols mform the thinker of the thought conveyed by it, but it is not the thought. Thus it is that our vast mechanistic, electrically motivated universe is inter-sensitized for the purpose of informing every nerve ganglion in every cell of every organic and inorganic part of it of the condition of every other part of it.
OUR SUPPOSEDLY FIVE SENSES In speaking of an electrical awareness which we call sensation, we think of our senses as five in number. These are the senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling. All of these five senses are but the one sense of feeling. We do not have five senses. Seeing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our eyes. Hearing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our ears. Tasting and smelling are sensations of feeling light waves reacting upon mouth and nostrils. All variation in sense of feeling is due to a difference of electric conditioning in pulsing wave matter. If pulsing wave matter is but an electric wave record of thought, sensation likewise is but an electric wave record of thought. Neither of them have reality. Neither of them are the thought they record. It also follows that if matter, motion and substance are electric records of thought, then sensation has no reality for sensation is but an electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves. It likewise follows that if matter, motion and sub- stance are electric wave recordings of thought, then electricity which records thought, and thought itself, are nonexistent. There is but one thing in this universe LIGHT – the still Light of all Knowing. The One Light which is God. God alone lives. His thinking and imagining is Knowing; the Knowing universe is all that is; Knowing Mind is still. There is no activity whatsoever in the universe of either spirit or matter.
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE Man’s present civilization is erected upon the foundation of empirical knowledge obtained through his senses. Man is aware of some of these illusions, such as those of perspective. He is aware of the fact that railroad tracks do not meet upon the horizon, but he is not aware of the fact that all effects of motion are not what they seem to be.
One can have no knowledge of effect, for all knowledge lies in cause. Our new fundamental laws and principles must be based upon knowledge of cause.
LAWS BASED UPON ILLUSION Newton, for example, confessedly did not know what gravitation was, yet wrote laws concerning it based upon his observation as to what gravitation did to an apple. Also, he concluded that the moon would fall upon the earth if it were not for its motion. He even proved this mathematically, not being aware of the fact that those same mathematical formulae would apply to every satellite, planet and star in the heavens, as well as to every electron in every atom, noae of which are falling into their primaries. Observers in natural phenomena are still calculating the age of the universe and weight of the earth. The uni- verse is ageless. It had no beginning. Likewise the earth has no weight in respect to anything else in the universe. Every orb in the heavens is in perfect balance with every other orb.
What little knowledge man has acquired during these last few thousand years has been given to him by the very few geniuses, prophets, mystics and other messen- gers of the Light who have come to reinspire mankind with their inspired knowledge.
================ Creation might be likened to the tapestry weaver who KNOWS the one idea as a whole, then THINKS it into parts, then RECORDS those parts by interweaving their spectrum colors into the many forms which, together, manifest the whole idea. eg Iron is a separate part of the whole. When iron is in its frozen condi tion, we do not think of it as light, but we can photo- graph by it if we heat it to incandescence. Not only is it then light but all of the properties which make it available to us as iron have then gone out of it. It is as though the divine tapestry weaver had unwoven all the threads of the idea of iron and sorted them into their spectrum colors, thread by thread. The physicist can tell you what element those threads of light would be if frozen. Upon looking at them, he would say, “That is iron.” But it would not be the form of iron as we know it, it would be the formless idea of iron as the sun knows it.
THERE IS NO SEPARATENESS In the incandescent sun is all idea that earth knows. The idea of the apple of earth is in the sun, likewise the wood of the tree and the violet in the meadow. Likewise the cool earth is there, with its rivers and mountains. All idea is one idea in the light of the sun. The light of the sun is never divided into its many seeming separate ideas until it is electrically extended from the sun and those extensions electrically echoed back to it. The sun is a crucible which melts all ideas into one, then sets them out into space to cool and separate into many units of that one. Likewise Idea of Mind never becomes the many ideas of Creation until electricity divides that One idea into many separate parts. The One Light cannot be divided, but extensions of the One Light can appear to divide it. The spots of sunlight upon the cathedral floor are many, but they are all extensions of the one light of their source in the sun. Likewise all mankind is an extension of the One Idea of man for man is but One in the Light of his Source. Likewise all moving extensions of the One still Light, as manifested in the white light of suns and the black light of their surrounding space, are but extensions of one Source.
ALL IDEA IS STILL The cinema exemplifies this meaning. Upon the screen are many patterned ideas in noisy, violent motion. We know, however, that all of the motion of separate ideas, and all of the sounds emanating from those patterned, moving forms, would instantly cease if the still source of light from which these images and sounds are projected were turned off. We know that the cause of all this transient division into positive and negative effect is in the one still light from which it is projected. We know that the sounds we hear emanate from that stillness, yet we seem to be totally unaware of the fact that all of our pulsing uni- verse is but an extension of One still Light of Universal Mind, projected through positive and negative light upon the universal screen of space. It is difficult to conceive earth and all of its phenomena of motion, sound, people, animals, and plant life, as a motion picture projection from our sun. Yet all of the separate ideas of earth are in that one incandescent light of the sun. All are but one thing, Light. Turn off the sun and all of its patterned ideas on earth would instantly cease. The still idea which is extended into motion is not in the motion but in the stillness from which it is extended.
“Wherefore, I say to thee, exalt thou thyself beyond thy sensing. Know Me as fulcrum of thy thinking. Be Me as deep well of thy knowing.”
FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
The brain does not think, nor does it know, It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remem- bers” 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 are incapable of thinking the thoughts thus projected. Likewise machines can express knowledge but they cannot have knowledge. The centering conscious Mind of man’s Soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine. Desire in Mind is electrically expressed. Electricity is the motivative force which projects the One Light of Mind two ways to create cycles of light waves for the purpose of expressing thought cycles. Desire is not in the brain. It is in the centering conscious self. Desire is the cause of all motion,
The brain is the seat of sensation. 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 electri- cal. They produce sensation. The brain senses and records every message. It sends counteracting messages to other parts of the body.
A man may be a veritable encyclopedia of information. He may have earned many college degrees for being well informed and yet be without sufficient knowledge to create anything. For instance, we cannot sense the idea of a harp while it is still, but we can know the idea of the harp. We can know its various possibilities of expression, even though its strings are not vibrating. Likewise we can imagine countless complexities of rhythms which lie unex- pressed within those still string. Conversely, we cannot know the vibrations which come from those strings when we set them in motion. We can but sense those vibrations through our own sensed electrical awareness.
ELECTRICAL AWARENESS This material universe of many seemingly separate parts is electric. The whole universe of countless parts is wired togeth- er by an electric flux of “nerves” which inform each part of the universe of the ever changing condition of every other part. There is no “sensation” between balanced parts or balanced conditions of matter. By “sensation” we mean the feel of the electric current which conveys the mes- sage. The electric current is impossible in an equilibri- um condition, hence we can feel no sensation whatso- ever when our bodies, or parts of them, are in a bal- anced condition. Electrical awareness is necessary to an electrically mechanized universe. An electrically controlled machine in one’s factory has exactly the same electric awareness that a man has. Its wired nervous system con- veys electric messages to its parts for the dual purpose of motivating them as well as for adjusting all parts to each other in continuity.
ELECTRIC AWARENESS IS UNIVERSAL Not only is each particle in each mass electrically aware of its purpose, but each particle in the entire uni- verse reacts in response to electrical messages sent to it from every other particle in the universe. This physical universe is controlled solely by electrical sensation which is measured and balanced by the still magnetic Light, centering all things.
All of the electric universe of motion is thus so perfectly conditioned by the two electric workers which build the universe and tear it apart sequentially for rebuilding, that all moving things in it sense all other moving things in it. Likewise, all differently conditioned things in the universe readjust their conditioning to every change of con- dition of every other thing in the imiverse. There is a constant separating process in Nature which forever expresses the universal desire for change and multiplicity, and there is likewise a constant levelling process which forever expreses the universal desire for oneness.
INSTINCT Organic matter generates purely from the desire of mind to manifest idea in matter. That cosmic desire to create form produces the desired form. Desire is the motivating force of all Creation.
INSTINCTIVE INTERCOMMUNICATION If it were not for instinct, animal life could not survive or develop. Instinct causes mechanical actions to take place in all bodies to meet the necessities of existence. Instinct pro- tects animal life from enemies. It tells the proper food to eat, how to build nests, how to take care of its young etc. Instinct might be defined as a cell-memory record of all actions of a body, and of all of the sensations caused by those actions. Instinct is, therefore, God-control over the actions of His creations. The involuntary actions of the body, such as the heartbeat, or the action of white corpuscles, do not know their purpose in the healing process of the body, but God centers and controls every atom of His Creation and each must fulfill its purpose.
INSTINCT BUILDING BY GOD AND MAN A good example of the manner in which God and man work together for creative expression is the familiar knitting woman. Knitting is part of the man-idea which requires a skill. The woman who desires to knit must desire to acquire that skill. Desire must precede all expression of that desire. Slowly she takes one stitch at a tune. All of her power of concentration is needed to take those first stitches. Each stitch taken, however, has within it the desire for taking the next stitch. Very slowly she interlaces yarns into the pattern required. The cells of her fingers gradually acquire cell memories of their purpose. These cells coordinate with other cells of the body in the development of the whole skill. Gradually she learns to knit instinctively. Her mind is freed from concentration and she may think of other things and converse freely. Her body cells alone wiU work from the memory of purpose given to them. Instinctive skills are thus imparted to bodies of man by the co-creative efforts of God and man. The pianist teaches his fingers to work instinctively in order to free his mind to think music. God is working with him. Without this moment-to-moment cooperation with God, he could do nothing.
Man and God are One. Man may know all things and have all power to the extent in which he desires to know all things and have all power. Awareness of the Light in man will give him all knowledge and power, Man may not be apart from God at any time. Nor can any part of Creation be apart from God at any time.
“The body of man sleeps, that it may awak- en in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man dies, that it may be res- urrected in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man disappears, that it may reappear to manifest Me. “Man who sleeps or dies or disappears is but man’s image, for Self of man sleeps not, nor dies, nor disappears; for Self of man is Me
UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SLEEP AND PAIN Conscious Mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of the wave cycle of electrical awareness of sensation. 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, “1 am unaware of this or that,” but one cannot say “I am unconscious” when one is always conscious. Conscious awareness is KNOWING. Unawareness means that one does not yet know. Sleep is but an anesthetic. Sleep can be induced chem- ically, 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 “uncon- scious”; their voltage has merely been lowered.
The dentist does not refer to a local anesthetic as hav- ing produced unconsciousness; he refers to it as a desen- sitizing 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, therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does. We assume that bodies cease to be con- scious, 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 bum 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, other- wise 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.
MOTION SIMULATING REST This electric universe of motion forever moves to find rest, but never finds it. Matter in violent motion simu- lates rest and balance through violent motion. The more violent the motion the greater is the illusion of rest and balance. Motion can cease but it can never become rest. The entire dynamic wave universe of electric matter is not what it seems to be. Everything which seems at rest depends upon violent motion to make believe it is at rest. A wire wheel could appear to be a steel disk if spun fast enough. The faster it is spun, the more at rest it would seem. This planet, seemingly at rest, is in violent motion around its centering point of rest from which it is electri- cally extended. Seemingly motionless clouds, floating above the earth, are rotating with it at the tremendous speed of one thousand miles an hour at the equator, or four times faster than a plane.
The pencil in one’s hand, the desk upon which one is writing, the room full of motionless things, seeming to be at rest, are but simulating rest through violent motion of their many parts. Tremendous vibrations may be in that glass paperweight. Not one thing could manifest the rest it simulates if it were not for the incredible speeds of those atoms which so incessantly rotate and revolve to make that seeming restfulness possible.
EVEN STILL THINGS ARE NOT STILL An seemingly still matter is manifesting make-believe rest by make-believe motion. The seeming motion of the cinema is caused by sequences of changing patterned forms projected on the screen which give the impression of motion because of the rapid change of pattern in the negatives. That self- same illusion applies to the material universe.
“E’en though senses of sensed things sense changing in all things, they change not to con- scious knowing. “Whyfor be thou slave to sensing? Rise above thy sensing. Be Me in thy knowing. ”
THE ILLUSION OF CHANGE Change is an illusion of the senses due to motion. Tliere is no change whatsoever in the conscious uni- verse of knowing. There is only an illusion of change set up by the two interchanging lights of thinking to divide the One Whole Idea into inany separate ideas and record them in moving matter. The senses are the audience for these thought pulsations. The senses are a part of this illusion. Senses are electric. They belong to the thought universe of motion and do not respond to stillness. As motion itself is non- existent, so also are senses non-existent. The senses are but the imagined records of imagined motion, matter and change. As such they are limited to pin-hole peeks into the vastness which extends beyond their sensing. The senses have no knowledge of what they sense. They merely record motion. The senses respond to motion in only one direction. Tliey sense the forward flow of time but not its back- ward flow. If they could register both directions, they would become aware of the stillness of this zero universe of seeming motion.
The Universal One planned it this way, otherwise there could be no sequential manifestation of thought which constitutes the creating universe. When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. A man seeing a technicolor motion picture for the first time and without knowledge of such electric effects would think he were looking through a window at real happenings, unaware that it was but an illuston “created” by projecting positive light through patterned negatives. That is all that creation is; two lights projected through each other to simulate motion, form and change. Our senses are like passengers on a fast-moving train. They sense parts of the landscape as they rush forward, while, to their senses, the landscape rushes backwards. The senses interpret these effects as matter in fast motion which is forever fast changing. A man, seeing the same train from a mountain, would sense that same fast motion and fast change as changeless and still. As man unfolds from sensed man to spiritual man he gradually becomes aware of the two-way motion of aU effect; that two ways being the visible effect which responds to his senses and the invisible effect which he knows but does not sense. GGradually the time arrives in his unfolding when his full awareness of Cause voids all reliance upon sensation. He then rises above his sensing. He then knows the universe of motion for what it is instead of for what it seems to be.
See thou no more with outer eyes alone for thou hast knowing eyes to void the illusions of thy sensing. “Throughout long aeons man hath walked his earth with eyes of outer seeing, giving belief to that earth of his body’s sensing. Throughout his new aeons he must walk the earth of inner seeing and know Me in it as but visioning it in Light of Me and Light of him.
For I am a patient God. I patiently await awakening man. “Awakening man is he who knoweth the Light of Me in him. Man may choose his own aeons for his awakening, but know Me he must. Until that day man’s agony of unknowing shall be man ‘s alone. His knowing must be his own desiring. “Knowing man is ecstatic cosmic man. He who beginneth to know Me in him — yea, e’en him who suspecteth Me in him hasteneth his unfolding to cosmic man of all-knowing.
THE SENSES DECEIVE Imagine a perfectly motionless wheel and a fly walk- ing around its rim, moving ever forward over changing ground, and the wheel seemingly moving backward, during a continuity of time in which the fly sensed a constant change in the changeless wheel. Every time the fly got back to the same point, it would compute the past time consumed on the journey and the forward time necessary for the next circuit. The wheel being still, motion, change and time are created by the fly itself as it takes the whole idea of the wheel apart by journeying around it and examining it bit by bit. The fly sensed motion by changing its position on the wheel. It sensed change by finding a seeming difference of condition at each forward movement. It sensed time by creating the sequences necessary in taking the one idea of the wheel apart and dividing it into many sepa- rate ideas. This simple analogy is a good symbol of Creation. This planet, like the fly on the wheel, moves forever around its motionless orbit. The orbit is as rigid and still as the wheel upon which the fly is moving. Planet moves upon the wheel of its orbit, it senses constant motion and change. It senses changes of days into nights, of spring merging into summer, autumn into winter. All of these seeming changes are in the motion of the planet and not in the wheel of its orbit. Each change is entirely due to the motion of the planet and not to the changeless orbit. The planet itself regis- ters change on its changeless wheel. Change therefore lies in motion alone. The senses are motion, therefore the senses sense only that which they themselves are.
INADEQUACY OF THE SENSES Man overrates his senses. He places too much dependence upon them without justification, for they are not recording all of the phenomena of his surroundings. He likewise trusts them too much without justification, for they are constantly deceiving him, While his senses are recording the stillness and rest of Nature on a lazy afternoon, they are failing to record the violent motion of everything in his entire environment, from the blade of grass to the clouds in the heavens above him. Those seemingly motionless clouds are moving at the speed of a thousand miles an hour at the equator without the slightest evidence of that swift motion being record- ed upon his senses. The earth also is moving many miles per second in two directions; one of rotation upon its axis and the other of revolution around its orbit. His senses register stillness. They are electrically unaware of that motion. This deception is as it should be, just as the same deception in a cinema is as it should be. God’s universe is but an electric recording of His knowing, manifested by His thinking. To thus record the idea of His knowing in the two lights of His thinking, a three dimensional universe is necessary. If the senses could detect and record all motion, instead of but a part of it, the illusion would d^appear. The senses would see behind the illu- sion and find that all motion voids itself. Division of the whole into parts causes the illusion. If the film were removed from the projector of the motion picture, the illusion of motion and change would be voided. That is what Creation is, the One Light of knowing divided into the patterned parts of thinking. Sensing is but an electric tension set up by the seeming division of one into many which “strain” to fulfill their desire for oneness. When a unity of condition is consummated, sensation between those parts ceases because the tension ceases. The senses, being but tension of desire for unity between divided parts, have no existence. The senses are electric flux threads of light connecting every particle in the universe with every other particle.
They are the intercommunicating nerves of the one universal body. When strain of desire for balance, rest or unity ceases, sensation ceases. In this electric universe, sensation is the strain of resistance to the separation which exists between all separated masses. All matter is one. Separated particles desire to find that oneness. It is part of God’s plan that the senses are limited entirely to the recording of a very small fraction of effect. The senses can never sense the Whole but the conscious Mind can KNOW the Whole.
“Love ye one another all men; for ye are one in Me. “Whatsoe’er ye do to one in Me ye do to all; for all are one in Me. “Love thy brother as thy self. Serve thy brother before thy self Lift high thy brother, lift him to high pinnacles, for thy brother is thy self “Serve first thy brother. Hurt first thy self rather than thy neighbor Gain naught from him unbalanced by thy giving. Protect thou the weak with thy strength, for if thou use thy strength against him his weakness will prevail against thee, and thy strength will avail thee naught. “He who giveth love prospereth mightily; but he who taketh aught gaineth naught
MAN’S NEW CYCLE Knowledge can be obtained by man only through awareness of the Spirit within him. Lack of that aware* ness is the tragedy of today’s civilization. New inspired messengers who know God in them- selves will likewise give the Light to this new cycle. And these few messengers of the Light must multiply into legions, for the need of a spiritual awakening is great.
Part 2
Part 3 – The Mystery of LIGHT
OMNIPRESENCE Universe of Being
“In My universe there is but one form from which all forms appear. That one form is the pulsing cube-sphere, two halves of the heart- beat of My dual thinking.
“All forms pulse, therefore, all forms are two, one form for the inbreathing pulse, which generates, and one for the outbreathing, radi- ating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, generates, and one for the outbreathing, radiating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, and the sphere is the cube compressed to the incandescence of white-hot suns by the inward breath. “All spheres emerge from the pulsing, breathing cubes of space and return to them to findfulcrums of rest for re-emergence.
“For I say that all things are the same thing, for all things are universal. Each thing reaches through every other thing to the farthermost star. For this purpose have I set My mirrors and My lenses of dual light to attain an infinity in My imaged universe in which no measure is. “And I also say that man ‘s infinity ends in eyes of man where it began. All things in My mirrored universe end where they began. Eternity thus ends in NOW, and Now in Eternity.
God’s imaginings extend from rest to rest in His three-dimensional radial universe of length, breadth and thickness— to become the stage of space for His imagined radial univeree of matter, time, change and motion.
Points of rest, further extended to other points of rest, form three reflecting planes of still magnetic Light which are at right angles to each other. (Fig. 4) From the center of these three mirror planes of zero curvature, God’s givings are radially projected to six opposed mirror planes for reprojection as regivings, to unfold and refold the forms of God’s imaginings in the curved electric universe of His desiring.
5) How does the universe work Man lives in a bewildering complex world of EFFECT of which he knows not the CAUSE. Because of its seemingly infinite multiplicity and complexity, he fails to vision the simple underlying principle of Balance in all things. He, therefore, complexes Truth until its many angles, sides and facets have lost balance with each other and with him. Truth is simple. Balance is simple. Rhythmic balanced interchange between all pairs of opposite expressions in Natural phenomena, and in human relations, is the consummate art of God’s universe of Light. It is also the Law. In this one fundamental Universal Law lies the balanced continuity of all creative expression in God’s electric wave universe of two conditioned lights in seeming motion which record God’s One Whole Idea of Creation into countless seemingly separate parts of that whole Idea.
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6) THE VOICE WITHIN God’s omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence are centered in the consciousness of every man; but few there are who know of the Oneness of their Self-Soul with the Universal Self-Soul.
The Silent Voice within every man is ceaselessly whispering it to his awakening consciousness. 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.
“For I am omnipotent, I give all power to him who asketh but no one may ask of Me who is not aware of Me. See thou to it that man well knoweth that, and manifest thou thyself that principle of power in thine own works.”
6a) Prepare: Takes time for 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.
6b) Current issue: 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.” What he thinks of as his living body is but an electrically motivated machine which simulates life through motion extended to it firom its centering Self -Soul which alone lives and wills the body to move.
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 for eg Heartbeat He thinks himself conscious while awake and unconscious when sleeping; unaware that in all Nature there is no unconsciousness when sensation ceases in sleep. He knows that his tooth cannot be conscious, but he does not know that his body cannot be conscious. 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.
He has not yet learned that bodies are but Self-created mechanisms which manifest their centering Self, and that Self manifests God as One with it. Likewise he has not yet learned that bodies neither live nor die, but repeat themselves continuously and forever as all idea of Mind likewise repeats itself.
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. “He lived” 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 sensed 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.
Man never dies. He is as continuous as eternity is continnous. 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 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 onmiscient and omnipotent intelligence extended to them.
There are those who seek the God-Light of the awakening Self within him, 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 ail-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.
One cannot 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. Look ye, therefore, forever upward into the High heavens of inspiration, where glory awaits the fearless, all-knowing seekers of Beauty in the purity of the universal Light. It is a hard, but glorious road to climb. All must make the climb.
THE ASCENT OF MAN in this solar system is the play. When all mankind has found the Light, the play will be finished. 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 fulfil! 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.
The time has come in the history of man’s journey from his material jungle to his spiritual mountain top when it is imperative that he must live more and more in the cosmic Light universe of knowing, and less in the electric wave universe of sensing.
Man must know that his power lies in the stillness of his centering Self and not in the motion by means of which he manifests that stillness. He must know that his Self is God in him. Also he must know gradually the dawning awareness of the cosmic Light of God in him, for with it comes an awareness of his purposefulness in manifesting the Light and the power to manifest it.
God is consciousness. Consciousness is static. Consciousness is the KNOWING of mind. Knowing is static. Consciousness is the spiritual awareness of Being, of all-knowing, atl-power and all-presence. Thinking is electric. God’s thinking is expressed by two-way moving wave extensions from consciousness, like a lever swinging upon a fixed fulcrum, or like waves extending from the calm sea. Thought expression is dynamic. Thinking belongs to the electrically sensed and conditioned vibrating universe of motion. Thinking is the motionless principle in light which creates the illusion of motion.
Sensation is the electrical awareness of motion simu- lating the spiritual QUALITIES of the One Idea by creating imaged QUANTITIES of separate forms which seem to have substance
The universal Mind centers every particle and mass in this universe: animal, vegetable or mineral, electron, atom or sun. Man is the only unit in Creation who has conscious awareness of the Spirit within him and electrical aware- ness of dually conditioned light acting upon his senses. All other units of Creation have electrical awareness only.
Man alone can be freed from body to think with God, to talk with God and be insphed 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. Likewise the same confusion leads us to the adoption of such terms as “subconscious mind,” and “superconscious mmd.”
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There is naught but GOOD. There is no evil. There is naught but LIFE. There is no death. “All things are My image, but they are not Me, even though I am in them and they in Me.
God, the Creator, is all there IS; all that EXISTS. “For I am Balance. And I am Energy, and I am Rest. I am the Light of Love and Truth, Upon that foundation have I laid the corner- stone of My universe. ”
I am the One Whole, the ALL. Glorify thou Me, the One Whom I am, for I am ALL, and no other is. I, the sexless One, am Unity. What I am thou art, for thou art Me; thou art the Whole. Glorify thou thy Self, for in so doing thou art glorifying Me. I, the One Whole, am knowing Mind. I exist to think. All thinking is Light of My know- ing but My thinking is not Me. I am Creator, creating with My thinking. Out of My Light of knowing are My two lights of thinking born as sexed pairs of oppo- sitesfor repetition as sexed pairs of opposites. To think is to create. I create with Light. Nothing is which is not Light. I think idea. Light registereth My idea in the two sexed lights of My thinking, and form is born in the image of My thinking, Form hath no existence, nor have My imaginings. These exist not, for they are not Me. I alone existeth; the ALL. I create my imaged body with the in- breathing of My pulsing universe of Me. My universe is My image; but My image is not Me. All things are My image, but they are not Me, e’en though I am in them and they in Me.”
God’s creating universe of matter in motion has no reality. It but simulates reality through the illusion of two-way projected lights in motion. Mind thinks in two opposed lights simultaneously projected from their centering white light Source and sequentially repeated in cycles.
God’s thinking and imagining are qualities of God’s knowing. God’s knowing mind is timeless and still. So also are God’s thinking and imagining timeless and still. So, likewise, man’s thinking and imagining are as time- less and still as is his knowing. Stillness never can be motion, or become motion, but it can appear to be. Motion merely seems, but Stillness always is. The universal equilibrium can never be other than its own balance but it can seem to be. The illusion which is motion springs from Stillness and returns to Stillness. This is a universe of rest. There is naught but rest in the universe. Mind knows its One Idea of Creation as One Whole. Mind thinks its One Whole idea into seeming parts. Hence the illusion of motion which we call Creation, and the illusion of substance which we call matter. Matter, motion, time, change, dimension and substance have no existence. The Light of knowing Mind alone exists.We can KNOW God. We cannot KNOW His body but we can SEE it. Likewise we can KNOW man. We can not KNOW the body of man but we can SEE it. What God is man is. God and man are ONE.
Electricity is the servant of the God-Mind. Electricity expresses the desire in the God-Mind for creative expression by seemingly dividing the One still light into transient waves of spectrum divided positive-negative colors of light. This entire universe of seeming substantiality consists solely of transient light waves in seeming motion.
OUR SEEMING DUALITY We seemingly live in two universes; the still cosmic Mind universe of KNOWING and the moving thought-of-Mind rhythmic wave universe of SENSING. We cannot sense the cosmic universe of God’s knowing nor can we know the thought-wave universe of God’s thinking. The cosmic Mind universe of the One Light of all- knowing is all that is. The vibrating thought-wave universe of sensing merely seems.
THE COSMIC GOD LIGHT The one still Light of God is the cosmic Light which watches over all creating things at countless points locatable by man, but invisible to man. Man’s senses have misled him into believing in a force called magnetism which attracts compass needles and lifts tons of steel. These phenomena of motion are due to electricity and not to magnetism. The cosmic Light is absolutely still It neither attracts nor repels.
The CAUSE is real. The EFFECT is but a simulation of the reality. The Self of man is cause. His self-creating body is effect.
God’s universe of magnetic Light is static. God’s perpetually creating electric wave univeree of two moving lights is dynamic. It forever moves. The two moving lights are projected through each other from the static One to create the illusion of the idea they but manifest. The illusion which manifests the idea of Creation through seeming motion is not the idea which it seemingly manifests. Creation is the product of Mind-knowing expressed in form by Mind-Thinking.
The product of Mind is not the idea which it simulates. No idea of Mind is ever created. It is but simulated by form and motion. Idea is eternal and belongs to God’s still universe of knowing. Form of idea in matter is transient but is eternally repeated as transient form of idea.
THE POSITIVE PRINCIPLE The foundation of the spiritual universe is stillness; the balanced stillness of the One magnetic Light of God. Balanced stillness is the Positive Principle of stability and unity, in it there are no negations.
THE NEGATIVE PRINCIPLE The foundation of the physical universe is motion; the ever-changing motion arising out of pairs of unbalanced conditions which must forever move to seek the balanced stillness of unity from which they sprang as multiple pairs of units. Unbalanced motion is the Negative Principle of instability, multiplicity and separateness which is this physical universe of electric octave waves of opposed lights. In the Negative Principle there is no positive. It is composed entirely of pairs of negations which are forever voiding each other, cancelling each other’s action and reaction, thus negating each other by never allowing either one to exceed its fixed zero of universal stillness.
QUALITY BEGETS QUANTITIES The still magnetic Light universe of God’s knowing is an invisible, unchanging, unconditioned and unmeasurable quality from which visible, changing, conditioned and measurable quantities spring to simulate those qualities through two-way wave motion. There is no one word in any language to express that quality so we must use many words, all having the same meaning but different connotations. These words are mind, consciousness, love, life, truth, desire, knowledge, power, balance and law.
The God-quality of the One Light is seemingly trans- formed into quantities by being divided into pairs of oppositely-conditioned light pressures of this electric universe. These divided pairs are then multiplied into countless octave wave units of light pressures and set in opposite directioned motion to create the illusion of sequence, change, dimension, condition and time in a universe where none of these effects of motion exist.
The calm sea, for example, is an unchanging, unmea- surable quality of oneness, of sameness and stillness. Upon its calm surface there is no change, nothing to count or to measure. The moment that quantities of waves spring from that quality of calm, those quantities can be measured. Like- wise, they are forever changing. Nor are there two points in them which are similarly conditioned. This creating electric universe is composed of moving light waves which sprang from a calm sea of the One still Light. It is a universe of moving pairs of quantities which simulate the quality of stillness from which those quantities spring. The quantities of divided and conditioned pairs of opposite lights which thus simulate the One are not the One they simulate.
Parts of the One Whole Idea are only seeming. There are no two separate or separable things in the universe. There is but One Whole Simulation of the One Whole Idea.
Every happening anywhere happens everywhere. The milkweed fluff floating lazily in the summer sky affects the balance of the whole universe of suns and galaxies. Every part of the universe moves in interdependent unison as the wheels of a watch move in unison. The watch wheels are geared together mechanically. The rhythmic wave universe is geared together electrically. The entire universe is one and must be kept in balance as one. Changes of condition in any one part are simultaneously reflected in every other part, and are sequentially repeated in it.
IMAGINATION – All imagining is God’s imagining. All forms in this creating universe of imagined forms are but electric recordings of God’s imagiaings. They have no existence. Records of Idea are not the idea they record. They have no substance. They are but black and white lights of sun-centered wave fields of space assembled in vibrating systems to simulate substance in an objective universe which is not, but seems to be.
This is a creating universe, not a created one. God’s imagining never began and will never end. It was not “created” at some remote past time by some vast cosmic event, as commonly believed. Nor is it condemned to a “heat-death” by expansion into nothingness. It is eternal
INSPIRATION – Inspiration is the language of Light which man uses to talk with God. Inspiration is that deep awareness of the consciousness of Being which differentiates the genius or mystic from the being of average intelligence. Inspiration in man is accompanied by an intense mental ecstasy which is characteristic of all who become intensely conscious of their closeness to God. Inspired geniuses forget their bodies while deeply conscious of their existence as wholly Mind. Their bodies, thus forgotten, act almost automatically in obedience to instinct and cell memory reflexes. Inspired geniuses translate God’s knowing uito words of man for the soul of man, They uplift all mankind by reinspiring all who listen to their ecstatic words and rhythms. He who attunes his heart to the messages of genius purifies himself. No impurity can there be in his heart for verily he then is in communion with the Holy One.
========================== COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS 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.
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.
The way to gradually attain cosmic consciousness is to intensify one’s conscious awareness by much alone- ness and companionship with God while manifesting Him in every moment and in every task of life. Moment-by-moment companionship with God brings with it so great a realization of Oneness with Him that the transformation into that full realization of unity is apt to take place at any time. The deterrent to cosmic consciousness is the feeling that God is far away instead of being within, and that we can reach that far away God only through sources out- side of ourselves.
========================== CREATIVE EXPRESSION Inspired man alone can create enduring things. To create we must first conceive. To conceive we must stop thinking and KNOW. All sensing must cease. There is no power in thinking. Thinking but expresses the power which lies in knowing. We must project our Selves into the still Light of knowing to commune with God. We must become one with God to conceive idea in order to produce the form of that idea. A concept must precede its manifestation in form. The culture of the entire race is given to it by the few inspired ones who know God in them. They alone know immortality. The art of a civilization long outlives the civilization. “Art alone endures. All else passes,” Great art can be created only by working moment by moment with God as co-creator. When man and God thus work together they commune one with the other as One Person. The language of their communion is the language of Light which man calls “inspiration.” When man works alone, his works are as the winds which blow. When man works with God as co-creator, his works are forever enduring.
“All knowledge existeth. All knowledge Cometh to man in its season. Cosmic messengers periodically give to man such knowledge of My cosmos as man is able to comprehend, but that which he can bear is like unto a thimbleful out of the mighty ocean, for man is but beginning to comprehend. “When man knoweth Light then he will know no limitations, but man must know the Light for himself and none there can be who can make words of it, for Light knoweth Light and there need be no words. ”
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Knowledge is cosmic. It belongs to the stiil Light of the positive principle. It never can become a property of the two negations which constitute this mirage universe of matter in motion. To “know all things” means to have all knowledge of the Whole One Idea of the cosmos as CAUSE. It does not mean knowledge of created things which are effect of cause. The whole Cosmic Idea is simple. It can be known by anyone of average intelligence. Its bewildering complexities lie in effect of cause, Man cannot know transient effect. He can KNOW cause only. He can but comprehend effect. Man cannot know a sunset sky, for example, but he can comprehend it if he knows its cause. Knowledge is, therefore, limited to cause. All knowledge exists. All mankind can have it for the asking. It is within man, awaiting his awareness of its all-presence. Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without; it must be “recollected” from within the con- sciousaess of Self.
Man cannot acquire knowledge from books or schools. He can but acquire information that way, but information is not knowledge until it is recognized by the spiritual consciousness of man, just as food is not nourishment for the body until it becomes a part of the blood stream. Information gained by motion of the sens- es must be returned to the stillness of the Source before it becomes knowledge.
For the same reason man cannot acquire knowledge from the so-called “facts of matter,” for there are no facts of matter in a universe of transient matter in motion. All matter in motion is but a series of illusions which deceive man into drawing wrong conclusions.
Life is spirit, and spirit is still. Life is not chemistry or germ of matter. To heal the body so that it can manifest life of the spirit Self of the body, one must give the unbalanced body the balance of the spirit. Knowledge of the Light can alone do this. All the information in the world will not heal a body unassisted by the Light in him who heals and in him who is being healed.
“Verily I say, I give of Me and I take away; for I am the Imaginer who builds image forms to tear apart to build anew.
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Man’s knowledge is his power. His thinking is the expression of that power. The expression of power is not power; therefore thinking is not power. As man gradually becomes aware of his omniscience, his thinking intensifies in voltage in proportion to the increase in awareness of his omniscience. Thinking is an electric wave extension from the centering fulcrum of knowledge which seemingly divides knowledge into ideas and sets those ideas in motion to create forms of ideas as product of knowledge. Man’s knowledge is like a deep well of still water. His thinking is like a two-way pump which divides the QUALITY of that stillness mto QUANTITIES of parts and sets them flowing. That is what the objective universe is, quantities of many seemingly separate forms of idea, all of which are but parts of the One Whole idea. Each seemingly separate part is a dynamic extension of the One Static Unity, but separateness only seems, for all are indissolubly bound together in light as one part. Knowledge is the foundation of man’s concepts. Thinking transfers concepts into product. The quality of man’s product depends upon the degree of awareness of his knowledge and not upon the quality, quantity or intensity of his thinking. Water cannot be drawn from an empty well, nor can clear water be drawn from a muddied well. Likewise good product cannot come from intensive thinking unless knowledge backs that thinking. No idea of Mind can ever become matter. Idea of product can never become product. Moreover, no expression of anything in Nature is the idea which it expresses. The product of idea is not the idea it simulates. Idea is cosmic and cannot be produced in matter. Idea must be conceived in the Mind before it can be simulated as product. Conceptions belong solely to the magnetic God-Light and never become matter. A lever, for example, moving upon its fulcrum, expresses the idea of power by motion, but the idea of power is in the still fulcrum source of power. It is not in the moving lever. The lever would be both powerless and motionless if it did not have the stillness of the fulcrum from which to extend the simulation of power. A watch expresses the idea of time, but the watch is not time. Likewise it expresses the idea of mechanical principles, but the watch is not the idea which is expressed by those mechanical principles. The printed poem is not the idea expressed in the poem. That printed poem has no meaning to anyone whose intelligence is insufficient to reflect the idea from the composer’s mind to his own. No idea of mind ever becomes matter. Likewise neither the musical composition on the printed page, nor the art of music which issues as sounds from musical instruments is the inspired idea of the musician. Inspiration can never be produced. It can but be reflected from one inspired mind to another recognizing one. Idea and inspiration may be echoed from spirit to spirit but they can never become product of matter in motion.
THINKING VERSUS SENSING Man has not yet learned to think powerfully from knowledge. 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. Information thus acquired by the senses is not knowledge, however. A man may have vast information and skill but have very little knowledge.
Information from observed effects, and skills in putting those effects together for useful purposes, have multiplied vastly since man first observed natural phenomena. His sense of observation told him how to make a boat; then a sail for the boat. He then discovered the wheel and fire. Electric awareness of effects of motion, plus memory, plus the power to reason objectively, gave him the ability to do this. Very little of it has been due to either thinking or knowledge. We thus confuse sensing for thinking and knowing when, factually, we have been but functioning through sensed electrical awareness acquired from information. The “information” thus conveyed is electrical, not mental. The telegraph message which goes over any wire is not the thought conveyed by that message. Even the typed telegram is not the thought conveyed by it. Its symbols mform the thinker of the thought conveyed by it, but it is not the thought. Thus it is that our vast mechanistic, electrically motivated universe is inter-sensitized for the purpose of informing every nerve ganglion in every cell of every organic and inorganic part of it of the condition of every other part of it.
OUR SUPPOSEDLY FIVE SENSES In speaking of an electrical awareness which we call sensation, we think of our senses as five in number. These are the senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling. All of these five senses are but the one sense of feeling. We do not have five senses. Seeing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our eyes. Hearing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our ears. Tasting and smelling are sensations of feeling light waves reacting upon mouth and nostrils. All variation in sense of feeling is due to a difference of electric conditioning in pulsing wave matter. If pulsing wave matter is but an electric wave record of thought, sensation likewise is but an electric wave record of thought. Neither of them have reality. Neither of them are the thought they record. It also follows that if matter, motion and substance are electric records of thought, then sensation has no reality for sensation is but an electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves. It likewise follows that if matter, motion and sub- stance are electric wave recordings of thought, then electricity which records thought, and thought itself, are nonexistent. There is but one thing in this universe LIGHT – the still Light of all Knowing. The One Light which is God. God alone lives. His thinking and imagining is Knowing; the Knowing universe is all that is; Knowing Mind is still. There is no activity whatsoever in the universe of either spirit or matter.
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE Man’s present civilization is erected upon the foundation of empirical knowledge obtained through his senses. Man is aware of some of these illusions, such as those of perspective. He is aware of the fact that railroad tracks do not meet upon the horizon, but he is not aware of the fact that all effects of motion are not what they seem to be.
One can have no knowledge of effect, for all knowledge lies in cause. Our new fundamental laws and principles must be based upon knowledge of cause.
LAWS BASED UPON ILLUSION Newton, for example, confessedly did not know what gravitation was, yet wrote laws concerning it based upon his observation as to what gravitation did to an apple. Also, he concluded that the moon would fall upon the earth if it were not for its motion. He even proved this mathematically, not being aware of the fact that those same mathematical formulae would apply to every satellite, planet and star in the heavens, as well as to every electron in every atom, noae of which are falling into their primaries. Observers in natural phenomena are still calculating the age of the universe and weight of the earth. The uni- verse is ageless. It had no beginning. Likewise the earth has no weight in respect to anything else in the universe. Every orb in the heavens is in perfect balance with every other orb.
What little knowledge man has acquired during these last few thousand years has been given to him by the very few geniuses, prophets, mystics and other messen- gers of the Light who have come to reinspire mankind with their inspired knowledge.
================ Creation might be likened to the tapestry weaver who KNOWS the one idea as a whole, then THINKS it into parts, then RECORDS those parts by interweaving their spectrum colors into the many forms which, together, manifest the whole idea. eg Iron is a separate part of the whole. When iron is in its frozen condi tion, we do not think of it as light, but we can photo- graph by it if we heat it to incandescence. Not only is it then light but all of the properties which make it available to us as iron have then gone out of it. It is as though the divine tapestry weaver had unwoven all the threads of the idea of iron and sorted them into their spectrum colors, thread by thread. The physicist can tell you what element those threads of light would be if frozen. Upon looking at them, he would say, “That is iron.” But it would not be the form of iron as we know it, it would be the formless idea of iron as the sun knows it.
THERE IS NO SEPARATENESS In the incandescent sun is all idea that earth knows. The idea of the apple of earth is in the sun, likewise the wood of the tree and the violet in the meadow. Likewise the cool earth is there, with its rivers and mountains. All idea is one idea in the light of the sun. The light of the sun is never divided into its many seeming separate ideas until it is electrically extended from the sun and those extensions electrically echoed back to it. The sun is a crucible which melts all ideas into one, then sets them out into space to cool and separate into many units of that one. Likewise Idea of Mind never becomes the many ideas of Creation until electricity divides that One idea into many separate parts. The One Light cannot be divided, but extensions of the One Light can appear to divide it. The spots of sunlight upon the cathedral floor are many, but they are all extensions of the one light of their source in the sun. Likewise all mankind is an extension of the One Idea of man for man is but One in the Light of his Source. Likewise all moving extensions of the One still Light, as manifested in the white light of suns and the black light of their surrounding space, are but extensions of one Source.
ALL IDEA IS STILL The cinema exemplifies this meaning. Upon the screen are many patterned ideas in noisy, violent motion. We know, however, that all of the motion of separate ideas, and all of the sounds emanating from those patterned, moving forms, would instantly cease if the still source of light from which these images and sounds are projected were turned off. We know that the cause of all this transient division into positive and negative effect is in the one still light from which it is projected. We know that the sounds we hear emanate from that stillness, yet we seem to be totally unaware of the fact that all of our pulsing uni- verse is but an extension of One still Light of Universal Mind, projected through positive and negative light upon the universal screen of space. It is difficult to conceive earth and all of its phenomena of motion, sound, people, animals, and plant life, as a motion picture projection from our sun. Yet all of the separate ideas of earth are in that one incandescent light of the sun. All are but one thing, Light. Turn off the sun and all of its patterned ideas on earth would instantly cease. The still idea which is extended into motion is not in the motion but in the stillness from which it is extended.
“Wherefore, I say to thee, exalt thou thyself beyond thy sensing. Know Me as fulcrum of thy thinking. Be Me as deep well of thy knowing.”
FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
The brain does not think, nor does it know, It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remem- bers” 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 are incapable of thinking the thoughts thus projected. Likewise machines can express knowledge but they cannot have knowledge. The centering conscious Mind of man’s Soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine. Desire in Mind is electrically expressed. Electricity is the motivative force which projects the One Light of Mind two ways to create cycles of light waves for the purpose of expressing thought cycles. Desire is not in the brain. It is in the centering conscious self. Desire is the cause of all motion,
The brain is the seat of sensation. 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 electri- cal. They produce sensation. The brain senses and records every message. It sends counteracting messages to other parts of the body.
A man may be a veritable encyclopedia of information. He may have earned many college degrees for being well informed and yet be without sufficient knowledge to create anything. For instance, we cannot sense the idea of a harp while it is still, but we can know the idea of the harp. We can know its various possibilities of expression, even though its strings are not vibrating. Likewise we can imagine countless complexities of rhythms which lie unex- pressed within those still string. Conversely, we cannot know the vibrations which come from those strings when we set them in motion. We can but sense those vibrations through our own sensed electrical awareness.
ELECTRICAL AWARENESS This material universe of many seemingly separate parts is electric. The whole universe of countless parts is wired togeth- er by an electric flux of “nerves” which inform each part of the universe of the ever changing condition of every other part. There is no “sensation” between balanced parts or balanced conditions of matter. By “sensation” we mean the feel of the electric current which conveys the mes- sage. The electric current is impossible in an equilibri- um condition, hence we can feel no sensation whatso- ever when our bodies, or parts of them, are in a bal- anced condition. Electrical awareness is necessary to an electrically mechanized universe. An electrically controlled machine in one’s factory has exactly the same electric awareness that a man has. Its wired nervous system con- veys electric messages to its parts for the dual purpose of motivating them as well as for adjusting all parts to each other in continuity.
ELECTRIC AWARENESS IS UNIVERSAL Not only is each particle in each mass electrically aware of its purpose, but each particle in the entire uni- verse reacts in response to electrical messages sent to it from every other particle in the universe. This physical universe is controlled solely by electrical sensation which is measured and balanced by the still magnetic Light, centering all things.
All of the electric universe of motion is thus so perfectly conditioned by the two electric workers which build the universe and tear it apart sequentially for rebuilding, that all moving things in it sense all other moving things in it. Likewise, all differently conditioned things in the universe readjust their conditioning to every change of con- dition of every other thing in the imiverse. There is a constant separating process in Nature which forever expresses the universal desire for change and multiplicity, and there is likewise a constant levelling process which forever expreses the universal desire for oneness.
INSTINCT Organic matter generates purely from the desire of mind to manifest idea in matter. That cosmic desire to create form produces the desired form. Desire is the motivating force of all Creation.
INSTINCTIVE INTERCOMMUNICATION If it were not for instinct, animal life could not survive or develop. Instinct causes mechanical actions to take place in all bodies to meet the necessities of existence. Instinct pro- tects animal life from enemies. It tells the proper food to eat, how to build nests, how to take care of its young etc. Instinct might be defined as a cell-memory record of all actions of a body, and of all of the sensations caused by those actions. Instinct is, therefore, God-control over the actions of His creations. The involuntary actions of the body, such as the heartbeat, or the action of white corpuscles, do not know their purpose in the healing process of the body, but God centers and controls every atom of His Creation and each must fulfill its purpose.
INSTINCT BUILDING BY GOD AND MAN A good example of the manner in which God and man work together for creative expression is the familiar knitting woman. Knitting is part of the man-idea which requires a skill. The woman who desires to knit must desire to acquire that skill. Desire must precede all expression of that desire. Slowly she takes one stitch at a tune. All of her power of concentration is needed to take those first stitches. Each stitch taken, however, has within it the desire for taking the next stitch. Very slowly she interlaces yarns into the pattern required. The cells of her fingers gradually acquire cell memories of their purpose. These cells coordinate with other cells of the body in the development of the whole skill. Gradually she learns to knit instinctively. Her mind is freed from concentration and she may think of other things and converse freely. Her body cells alone wiU work from the memory of purpose given to them. Instinctive skills are thus imparted to bodies of man by the co-creative efforts of God and man. The pianist teaches his fingers to work instinctively in order to free his mind to think music. God is working with him. Without this moment-to-moment cooperation with God, he could do nothing.
Man and God are One. Man may know all things and have all power to the extent in which he desires to know all things and have all power. Awareness of the Light in man will give him all knowledge and power, Man may not be apart from God at any time. Nor can any part of Creation be apart from God at any time.
“The body of man sleeps, that it may awak- en in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man dies, that it may be res- urrected in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man disappears, that it may reappear to manifest Me. “Man who sleeps or dies or disappears is but man’s image, for Self of man sleeps not, nor dies, nor disappears; for Self of man is Me
UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SLEEP AND PAIN Conscious Mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of the wave cycle of electrical awareness of sensation. 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, “1 am unaware of this or that,” but one cannot say “I am unconscious” when one is always conscious. Conscious awareness is KNOWING. Unawareness means that one does not yet know. Sleep is but an anesthetic. Sleep can be induced chem- ically, 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 “uncon- scious”; their voltage has merely been lowered.
The dentist does not refer to a local anesthetic as hav- ing produced unconsciousness; he refers to it as a desen- sitizing 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, therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does. We assume that bodies cease to be con- scious, 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 bum 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, other- wise 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.
MOTION SIMULATING REST This electric universe of motion forever moves to find rest, but never finds it. Matter in violent motion simu- lates rest and balance through violent motion. The more violent the motion the greater is the illusion of rest and balance. Motion can cease but it can never become rest. The entire dynamic wave universe of electric matter is not what it seems to be. Everything which seems at rest depends upon violent motion to make believe it is at rest. A wire wheel could appear to be a steel disk if spun fast enough. The faster it is spun, the more at rest it would seem. This planet, seemingly at rest, is in violent motion around its centering point of rest from which it is electri- cally extended. Seemingly motionless clouds, floating above the earth, are rotating with it at the tremendous speed of one thousand miles an hour at the equator, or four times faster than a plane.
The pencil in one’s hand, the desk upon which one is writing, the room full of motionless things, seeming to be at rest, are but simulating rest through violent motion of their many parts. Tremendous vibrations may be in that glass paperweight. Not one thing could manifest the rest it simulates if it were not for the incredible speeds of those atoms which so incessantly rotate and revolve to make that seeming restfulness possible.
EVEN STILL THINGS ARE NOT STILL An seemingly still matter is manifesting make-believe rest by make-believe motion. The seeming motion of the cinema is caused by sequences of changing patterned forms projected on the screen which give the impression of motion because of the rapid change of pattern in the negatives. That self- same illusion applies to the material universe.
“E’en though senses of sensed things sense changing in all things, they change not to con- scious knowing. “Whyfor be thou slave to sensing? Rise above thy sensing. Be Me in thy knowing. ”
THE ILLUSION OF CHANGE Change is an illusion of the senses due to motion. Tliere is no change whatsoever in the conscious uni- verse of knowing. There is only an illusion of change set up by the two interchanging lights of thinking to divide the One Whole Idea into inany separate ideas and record them in moving matter. The senses are the audience for these thought pulsations. The senses are a part of this illusion. Senses are electric. They belong to the thought universe of motion and do not respond to stillness. As motion itself is non- existent, so also are senses non-existent. The senses are but the imagined records of imagined motion, matter and change. As such they are limited to pin-hole peeks into the vastness which extends beyond their sensing. The senses have no knowledge of what they sense. They merely record motion. The senses respond to motion in only one direction. Tliey sense the forward flow of time but not its back- ward flow. If they could register both directions, they would become aware of the stillness of this zero universe of seeming motion.
The Universal One planned it this way, otherwise there could be no sequential manifestation of thought which constitutes the creating universe. When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. A man seeing a technicolor motion picture for the first time and without knowledge of such electric effects would think he were looking through a window at real happenings, unaware that it was but an illuston “created” by projecting positive light through patterned negatives. That is all that creation is; two lights projected through each other to simulate motion, form and change. Our senses are like passengers on a fast-moving train. They sense parts of the landscape as they rush forward, while, to their senses, the landscape rushes backwards. The senses interpret these effects as matter in fast motion which is forever fast changing. A man, seeing the same train from a mountain, would sense that same fast motion and fast change as changeless and still. As man unfolds from sensed man to spiritual man he gradually becomes aware of the two-way motion of aU effect; that two ways being the visible effect which responds to his senses and the invisible effect which he knows but does not sense. GGradually the time arrives in his unfolding when his full awareness of Cause voids all reliance upon sensation. He then rises above his sensing. He then knows the universe of motion for what it is instead of for what it seems to be.
See thou no more with outer eyes alone for thou hast knowing eyes to void the illusions of thy sensing. “Throughout long aeons man hath walked his earth with eyes of outer seeing, giving belief to that earth of his body’s sensing. Throughout his new aeons he must walk the earth of inner seeing and know Me in it as but visioning it in Light of Me and Light of him.
For I am a patient God. I patiently await awakening man. “Awakening man is he who knoweth the Light of Me in him. Man may choose his own aeons for his awakening, but know Me he must. Until that day man’s agony of unknowing shall be man ‘s alone. His knowing must be his own desiring. “Knowing man is ecstatic cosmic man. He who beginneth to know Me in him — yea, e’en him who suspecteth Me in him hasteneth his unfolding to cosmic man of all-knowing.
THE SENSES DECEIVE Imagine a perfectly motionless wheel and a fly walk- ing around its rim, moving ever forward over changing ground, and the wheel seemingly moving backward, during a continuity of time in which the fly sensed a constant change in the changeless wheel. Every time the fly got back to the same point, it would compute the past time consumed on the journey and the forward time necessary for the next circuit. The wheel being still, motion, change and time are created by the fly itself as it takes the whole idea of the wheel apart by journeying around it and examining it bit by bit. The fly sensed motion by changing its position on the wheel. It sensed change by finding a seeming difference of condition at each forward movement. It sensed time by creating the sequences necessary in taking the one idea of the wheel apart and dividing it into many sepa- rate ideas. This simple analogy is a good symbol of Creation. This planet, like the fly on the wheel, moves forever around its motionless orbit. The orbit is as rigid and still as the wheel upon which the fly is moving. Planet moves upon the wheel of its orbit, it senses constant motion and change. It senses changes of days into nights, of spring merging into summer, autumn into winter. All of these seeming changes are in the motion of the planet and not in the wheel of its orbit. Each change is entirely due to the motion of the planet and not to the changeless orbit. The planet itself regis- ters change on its changeless wheel. Change therefore lies in motion alone. The senses are motion, therefore the senses sense only that which they themselves are.
INADEQUACY OF THE SENSES Man overrates his senses. He places too much dependence upon them without justification, for they are not recording all of the phenomena of his surroundings. He likewise trusts them too much without justification, for they are constantly deceiving him, While his senses are recording the stillness and rest of Nature on a lazy afternoon, they are failing to record the violent motion of everything in his entire environment, from the blade of grass to the clouds in the heavens above him. Those seemingly motionless clouds are moving at the speed of a thousand miles an hour at the equator without the slightest evidence of that swift motion being record- ed upon his senses. The earth also is moving many miles per second in two directions; one of rotation upon its axis and the other of revolution around its orbit. His senses register stillness. They are electrically unaware of that motion. This deception is as it should be, just as the same deception in a cinema is as it should be. God’s universe is but an electric recording of His knowing, manifested by His thinking. To thus record the idea of His knowing in the two lights of His thinking, a three dimensional universe is necessary. If the senses could detect and record all motion, instead of but a part of it, the illusion would d^appear. The senses would see behind the illu- sion and find that all motion voids itself. Division of the whole into parts causes the illusion. If the film were removed from the projector of the motion picture, the illusion of motion and change would be voided. That is what Creation is, the One Light of knowing divided into the patterned parts of thinking. Sensing is but an electric tension set up by the seeming division of one into many which “strain” to fulfill their desire for oneness. When a unity of condition is consummated, sensation between those parts ceases because the tension ceases. The senses, being but tension of desire for unity between divided parts, have no existence. The senses are electric flux threads of light connecting every particle in the universe with every other particle.
They are the intercommunicating nerves of the one universal body. When strain of desire for balance, rest or unity ceases, sensation ceases. In this electric universe, sensation is the strain of resistance to the separation which exists between all separated masses. All matter is one. Separated particles desire to find that oneness. It is part of God’s plan that the senses are limited entirely to the recording of a very small fraction of effect. The senses can never sense the Whole but the conscious Mind can KNOW the Whole.
“Love ye one another all men; for ye are one in Me. “Whatsoe’er ye do to one in Me ye do to all; for all are one in Me. “Love thy brother as thy self. Serve thy brother before thy self Lift high thy brother, lift him to high pinnacles, for thy brother is thy self “Serve first thy brother. Hurt first thy self rather than thy neighbor Gain naught from him unbalanced by thy giving. Protect thou the weak with thy strength, for if thou use thy strength against him his weakness will prevail against thee, and thy strength will avail thee naught. “He who giveth love prospereth mightily; but he who taketh aught gaineth naught
MAN’S NEW CYCLE Knowledge can be obtained by man only through awareness of the Spirit within him. Lack of that aware* ness is the tragedy of today’s civilization. New inspired messengers who know God in them- selves will likewise give the Light to this new cycle. And these few messengers of the Light must multiply into legions, for the need of a spiritual awakening is great.
Part 2
Part 3 – The Mystery of LIGHT
OMNIPRESENCE Universe of Being
“In My universe there is but one form from which all forms appear. That one form is the pulsing cube-sphere, two halves of the heart- beat of My dual thinking.
“All forms pulse, therefore, all forms are two, one form for the inbreathing pulse, which generates, and one for the outbreathing, radi- ating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, generates, and one for the outbreathing, radiating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, and the sphere is the cube compressed to the incandescence of white-hot suns by the inward breath. “All spheres emerge from the pulsing, breathing cubes of space and return to them to findfulcrums of rest for re-emergence.
“For I say that all things are the same thing, for all things are universal. Each thing reaches through every other thing to the farthermost star. For this purpose have I set My mirrors and My lenses of dual light to attain an infinity in My imaged universe in which no measure is. “And I also say that man ‘s infinity ends in eyes of man where it began. All things in My mirrored universe end where they began. Eternity thus ends in NOW, and Now in Eternity.
God’s imaginings extend from rest to rest in His three-dimensional radial universe of length, breadth and thickness— to become the stage of space for His imagined radial univeree of matter, time, change and motion.
Points of rest, further extended to other points of rest, form three reflecting planes of still magnetic Light which are at right angles to each other. (Fig. 4) From the center of these three mirror planes of zero curvature, God’s givings are radially projected to six opposed mirror planes for reprojection as regivings, to unfold and refold the forms of God’s imaginings in the curved electric universe of His desiring.
1) There is only Light Light is all there is in the spiritual universe of knowing, and simulation of that Light in opposite extensions is all there is in the electric wave universe of sensing. The simulation of Light in matter is not Light. There is no Light in matter.
3)Progress of Man / Goal Man progresses in cycles of approximately twenty-five hundred years. At the beginning of each cycle of his growing awareness of the Light within hint, God sends messages through repared messengers to further his comprehension of the Light. Comprehension of these cosmic messages gradually exalts mankind into higher beings, and thus each cycle is one more step for man toward full awareness of the Light, and of his Oneness with God.
2) Classification of Universe into 2 – Thinking and Knowing Perhaps the confusion which attends this idea would be lessened if we classify everything concerning the spiritual universe, such as life, intelligence, truth, power, knowledge and balance as being the ONE LIGHT of KNOWING, and everything concerning matter and motion as being the TWO SIMULATED LIGHTS of thinking.
5) How does the universe work Man lives in a bewildering complex world of EFFECT of which he knows not the CAUSE. Because of its seemingly infinite multiplicity and complexity, he fails to vision the simple underlying principle of Balance in all things. He, therefore, complexes Truth until its many angles, sides and facets have lost balance with each other and with him. Truth is simple. Balance is simple. Rhythmic balanced interchange between all pairs of opposite expressions in Natural phenomena, and in human relations, is the consummate art of God’s universe of Light. It is also the Law. In this one fundamental Universal Law lies the balanced continuity of all creative expression in God’s electric wave universe of two conditioned lights in seeming motion which record God’s One Whole Idea of Creation into countless seemingly separate parts of that whole Idea.
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6) THE VOICE WITHIN God’s omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence are centered in the consciousness of every man; but few there are who know of the Oneness of their Self-Soul with the Universal Self-Soul.
The Silent Voice within every man is ceaselessly whispering it to his awakening consciousness. 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.
“For I am omnipotent, I give all power to him who asketh but no one may ask of Me who is not aware of Me. See thou to it that man well knoweth that, and manifest thou thyself that principle of power in thine own works.”
6a) Prepare: Takes time for 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.
6b) Current issue: 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.” What he thinks of as his living body is but an electrically motivated machine which simulates life through motion extended to it firom its centering Self -Soul which alone lives and wills the body to move.
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 for eg Heartbeat He thinks himself conscious while awake and unconscious when sleeping; unaware that in all Nature there is no unconsciousness when sensation ceases in sleep. He knows that his tooth cannot be conscious, but he does not know that his body cannot be conscious. 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.
He has not yet learned that bodies are but Self-created mechanisms which manifest their centering Self, and that Self manifests God as One with it. Likewise he has not yet learned that bodies neither live nor die, but repeat themselves continuously and forever as all idea of Mind likewise repeats itself.
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. “He lived” 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 sensed 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.
Man never dies. He is as continuous as eternity is continnous. 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 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 onmiscient and omnipotent intelligence extended to them.
There are those who seek the God-Light of the awakening Self within him, 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 ail-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.
One cannot 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. Look ye, therefore, forever upward into the High heavens of inspiration, where glory awaits the fearless, all-knowing seekers of Beauty in the purity of the universal Light. It is a hard, but glorious road to climb. All must make the climb.
THE ASCENT OF MAN in this solar system is the play. When all mankind has found the Light, the play will be finished. 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 fulfil! 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.
The time has come in the history of man’s journey from his material jungle to his spiritual mountain top when it is imperative that he must live more and more in the cosmic Light universe of knowing, and less in the electric wave universe of sensing.
Man must know that his power lies in the stillness of his centering Self and not in the motion by means of which he manifests that stillness. He must know that his Self is God in him. Also he must know gradually the dawning awareness of the cosmic Light of God in him, for with it comes an awareness of his purposefulness in manifesting the Light and the power to manifest it.
God is consciousness. Consciousness is static. Consciousness is the KNOWING of mind. Knowing is static. Consciousness is the spiritual awareness of Being, of all-knowing, atl-power and all-presence. Thinking is electric. God’s thinking is expressed by two-way moving wave extensions from consciousness, like a lever swinging upon a fixed fulcrum, or like waves extending from the calm sea. Thought expression is dynamic. Thinking belongs to the electrically sensed and conditioned vibrating universe of motion. Thinking is the motionless principle in light which creates the illusion of motion.
Sensation is the electrical awareness of motion simu- lating the spiritual QUALITIES of the One Idea by creating imaged QUANTITIES of separate forms which seem to have substance
The universal Mind centers every particle and mass in this universe: animal, vegetable or mineral, electron, atom or sun. Man is the only unit in Creation who has conscious awareness of the Spirit within him and electrical aware- ness of dually conditioned light acting upon his senses. All other units of Creation have electrical awareness only.
Man alone can be freed from body to think with God, to talk with God and be insphed 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. Likewise the same confusion leads us to the adoption of such terms as “subconscious mind,” and “superconscious mmd.”
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There is naught but GOOD. There is no evil. There is naught but LIFE. There is no death. “All things are My image, but they are not Me, even though I am in them and they in Me.
God, the Creator, is all there IS; all that EXISTS. “For I am Balance. And I am Energy, and I am Rest. I am the Light of Love and Truth, Upon that foundation have I laid the corner- stone of My universe. ”
I am the One Whole, the ALL. Glorify thou Me, the One Whom I am, for I am ALL, and no other is. I, the sexless One, am Unity. What I am thou art, for thou art Me; thou art the Whole. Glorify thou thy Self, for in so doing thou art glorifying Me. I, the One Whole, am knowing Mind. I exist to think. All thinking is Light of My know- ing but My thinking is not Me. I am Creator, creating with My thinking. Out of My Light of knowing are My two lights of thinking born as sexed pairs of oppo- sitesfor repetition as sexed pairs of opposites. To think is to create. I create with Light. Nothing is which is not Light. I think idea. Light registereth My idea in the two sexed lights of My thinking, and form is born in the image of My thinking, Form hath no existence, nor have My imaginings. These exist not, for they are not Me. I alone existeth; the ALL. I create my imaged body with the in- breathing of My pulsing universe of Me. My universe is My image; but My image is not Me. All things are My image, but they are not Me, e’en though I am in them and they in Me.”
God’s creating universe of matter in motion has no reality. It but simulates reality through the illusion of two-way projected lights in motion. Mind thinks in two opposed lights simultaneously projected from their centering white light Source and sequentially repeated in cycles.
God’s thinking and imagining are qualities of God’s knowing. God’s knowing mind is timeless and still. So also are God’s thinking and imagining timeless and still. So, likewise, man’s thinking and imagining are as time- less and still as is his knowing. Stillness never can be motion, or become motion, but it can appear to be. Motion merely seems, but Stillness always is. The universal equilibrium can never be other than its own balance but it can seem to be. The illusion which is motion springs from Stillness and returns to Stillness. This is a universe of rest. There is naught but rest in the universe. Mind knows its One Idea of Creation as One Whole. Mind thinks its One Whole idea into seeming parts. Hence the illusion of motion which we call Creation, and the illusion of substance which we call matter. Matter, motion, time, change, dimension and substance have no existence. The Light of knowing Mind alone exists.We can KNOW God. We cannot KNOW His body but we can SEE it. Likewise we can KNOW man. We can not KNOW the body of man but we can SEE it. What God is man is. God and man are ONE.
Electricity is the servant of the God-Mind. Electricity expresses the desire in the God-Mind for creative expression by seemingly dividing the One still light into transient waves of spectrum divided positive-negative colors of light. This entire universe of seeming substantiality consists solely of transient light waves in seeming motion.
OUR SEEMING DUALITY We seemingly live in two universes; the still cosmic Mind universe of KNOWING and the moving thought-of-Mind rhythmic wave universe of SENSING. We cannot sense the cosmic universe of God’s knowing nor can we know the thought-wave universe of God’s thinking. The cosmic Mind universe of the One Light of all- knowing is all that is. The vibrating thought-wave universe of sensing merely seems.
THE COSMIC GOD LIGHT The one still Light of God is the cosmic Light which watches over all creating things at countless points locatable by man, but invisible to man. Man’s senses have misled him into believing in a force called magnetism which attracts compass needles and lifts tons of steel. These phenomena of motion are due to electricity and not to magnetism. The cosmic Light is absolutely still It neither attracts nor repels.
The CAUSE is real. The EFFECT is but a simulation of the reality. The Self of man is cause. His self-creating body is effect.
God’s universe of magnetic Light is static. God’s perpetually creating electric wave univeree of two moving lights is dynamic. It forever moves. The two moving lights are projected through each other from the static One to create the illusion of the idea they but manifest. The illusion which manifests the idea of Creation through seeming motion is not the idea which it seemingly manifests. Creation is the product of Mind-knowing expressed in form by Mind-Thinking.
The product of Mind is not the idea which it simulates. No idea of Mind is ever created. It is but simulated by form and motion. Idea is eternal and belongs to God’s still universe of knowing. Form of idea in matter is transient but is eternally repeated as transient form of idea.
THE POSITIVE PRINCIPLE The foundation of the spiritual universe is stillness; the balanced stillness of the One magnetic Light of God. Balanced stillness is the Positive Principle of stability and unity, in it there are no negations.
THE NEGATIVE PRINCIPLE The foundation of the physical universe is motion; the ever-changing motion arising out of pairs of unbalanced conditions which must forever move to seek the balanced stillness of unity from which they sprang as multiple pairs of units. Unbalanced motion is the Negative Principle of instability, multiplicity and separateness which is this physical universe of electric octave waves of opposed lights. In the Negative Principle there is no positive. It is composed entirely of pairs of negations which are forever voiding each other, cancelling each other’s action and reaction, thus negating each other by never allowing either one to exceed its fixed zero of universal stillness.
QUALITY BEGETS QUANTITIES The still magnetic Light universe of God’s knowing is an invisible, unchanging, unconditioned and unmeasurable quality from which visible, changing, conditioned and measurable quantities spring to simulate those qualities through two-way wave motion. There is no one word in any language to express that quality so we must use many words, all having the same meaning but different connotations. These words are mind, consciousness, love, life, truth, desire, knowledge, power, balance and law.
The God-quality of the One Light is seemingly trans- formed into quantities by being divided into pairs of oppositely-conditioned light pressures of this electric universe. These divided pairs are then multiplied into countless octave wave units of light pressures and set in opposite directioned motion to create the illusion of sequence, change, dimension, condition and time in a universe where none of these effects of motion exist.
The calm sea, for example, is an unchanging, unmea- surable quality of oneness, of sameness and stillness. Upon its calm surface there is no change, nothing to count or to measure. The moment that quantities of waves spring from that quality of calm, those quantities can be measured. Like- wise, they are forever changing. Nor are there two points in them which are similarly conditioned. This creating electric universe is composed of moving light waves which sprang from a calm sea of the One still Light. It is a universe of moving pairs of quantities which simulate the quality of stillness from which those quantities spring. The quantities of divided and conditioned pairs of opposite lights which thus simulate the One are not the One they simulate.
Parts of the One Whole Idea are only seeming. There are no two separate or separable things in the universe. There is but One Whole Simulation of the One Whole Idea.
Every happening anywhere happens everywhere. The milkweed fluff floating lazily in the summer sky affects the balance of the whole universe of suns and galaxies. Every part of the universe moves in interdependent unison as the wheels of a watch move in unison. The watch wheels are geared together mechanically. The rhythmic wave universe is geared together electrically. The entire universe is one and must be kept in balance as one. Changes of condition in any one part are simultaneously reflected in every other part, and are sequentially repeated in it.
IMAGINATION – All imagining is God’s imagining. All forms in this creating universe of imagined forms are but electric recordings of God’s imagiaings. They have no existence. Records of Idea are not the idea they record. They have no substance. They are but black and white lights of sun-centered wave fields of space assembled in vibrating systems to simulate substance in an objective universe which is not, but seems to be.
This is a creating universe, not a created one. God’s imagining never began and will never end. It was not “created” at some remote past time by some vast cosmic event, as commonly believed. Nor is it condemned to a “heat-death” by expansion into nothingness. It is eternal
INSPIRATION – Inspiration is the language of Light which man uses to talk with God. Inspiration is that deep awareness of the consciousness of Being which differentiates the genius or mystic from the being of average intelligence. Inspiration in man is accompanied by an intense mental ecstasy which is characteristic of all who become intensely conscious of their closeness to God. Inspired geniuses forget their bodies while deeply conscious of their existence as wholly Mind. Their bodies, thus forgotten, act almost automatically in obedience to instinct and cell memory reflexes. Inspired geniuses translate God’s knowing uito words of man for the soul of man, They uplift all mankind by reinspiring all who listen to their ecstatic words and rhythms. He who attunes his heart to the messages of genius purifies himself. No impurity can there be in his heart for verily he then is in communion with the Holy One.
========================== COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS 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.
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.
The way to gradually attain cosmic consciousness is to intensify one’s conscious awareness by much alone- ness and companionship with God while manifesting Him in every moment and in every task of life. Moment-by-moment companionship with God brings with it so great a realization of Oneness with Him that the transformation into that full realization of unity is apt to take place at any time. The deterrent to cosmic consciousness is the feeling that God is far away instead of being within, and that we can reach that far away God only through sources out- side of ourselves.
========================== CREATIVE EXPRESSION Inspired man alone can create enduring things. To create we must first conceive. To conceive we must stop thinking and KNOW. All sensing must cease. There is no power in thinking. Thinking but expresses the power which lies in knowing. We must project our Selves into the still Light of knowing to commune with God. We must become one with God to conceive idea in order to produce the form of that idea. A concept must precede its manifestation in form. The culture of the entire race is given to it by the few inspired ones who know God in them. They alone know immortality. The art of a civilization long outlives the civilization. “Art alone endures. All else passes,” Great art can be created only by working moment by moment with God as co-creator. When man and God thus work together they commune one with the other as One Person. The language of their communion is the language of Light which man calls “inspiration.” When man works alone, his works are as the winds which blow. When man works with God as co-creator, his works are forever enduring.
“All knowledge existeth. All knowledge Cometh to man in its season. Cosmic messengers periodically give to man such knowledge of My cosmos as man is able to comprehend, but that which he can bear is like unto a thimbleful out of the mighty ocean, for man is but beginning to comprehend. “When man knoweth Light then he will know no limitations, but man must know the Light for himself and none there can be who can make words of it, for Light knoweth Light and there need be no words. ”
========================== KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is cosmic. It belongs to the stiil Light of the positive principle. It never can become a property of the two negations which constitute this mirage universe of matter in motion. To “know all things” means to have all knowledge of the Whole One Idea of the cosmos as CAUSE. It does not mean knowledge of created things which are effect of cause. The whole Cosmic Idea is simple. It can be known by anyone of average intelligence. Its bewildering complexities lie in effect of cause, Man cannot know transient effect. He can KNOW cause only. He can but comprehend effect. Man cannot know a sunset sky, for example, but he can comprehend it if he knows its cause. Knowledge is, therefore, limited to cause. All knowledge exists. All mankind can have it for the asking. It is within man, awaiting his awareness of its all-presence. Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without; it must be “recollected” from within the con- sciousaess of Self.
Man cannot acquire knowledge from books or schools. He can but acquire information that way, but information is not knowledge until it is recognized by the spiritual consciousness of man, just as food is not nourishment for the body until it becomes a part of the blood stream. Information gained by motion of the sens- es must be returned to the stillness of the Source before it becomes knowledge.
For the same reason man cannot acquire knowledge from the so-called “facts of matter,” for there are no facts of matter in a universe of transient matter in motion. All matter in motion is but a series of illusions which deceive man into drawing wrong conclusions.
Life is spirit, and spirit is still. Life is not chemistry or germ of matter. To heal the body so that it can manifest life of the spirit Self of the body, one must give the unbalanced body the balance of the spirit. Knowledge of the Light can alone do this. All the information in the world will not heal a body unassisted by the Light in him who heals and in him who is being healed.
“Verily I say, I give of Me and I take away; for I am the Imaginer who builds image forms to tear apart to build anew.
========================== KNOWLEDGE VERSUS THINKING
Man’s knowledge is his power. His thinking is the expression of that power. The expression of power is not power; therefore thinking is not power. As man gradually becomes aware of his omniscience, his thinking intensifies in voltage in proportion to the increase in awareness of his omniscience. Thinking is an electric wave extension from the centering fulcrum of knowledge which seemingly divides knowledge into ideas and sets those ideas in motion to create forms of ideas as product of knowledge. Man’s knowledge is like a deep well of still water. His thinking is like a two-way pump which divides the QUALITY of that stillness mto QUANTITIES of parts and sets them flowing. That is what the objective universe is, quantities of many seemingly separate forms of idea, all of which are but parts of the One Whole idea. Each seemingly separate part is a dynamic extension of the One Static Unity, but separateness only seems, for all are indissolubly bound together in light as one part. Knowledge is the foundation of man’s concepts. Thinking transfers concepts into product. The quality of man’s product depends upon the degree of awareness of his knowledge and not upon the quality, quantity or intensity of his thinking. Water cannot be drawn from an empty well, nor can clear water be drawn from a muddied well. Likewise good product cannot come from intensive thinking unless knowledge backs that thinking. No idea of Mind can ever become matter. Idea of product can never become product. Moreover, no expression of anything in Nature is the idea which it expresses. The product of idea is not the idea it simulates. Idea is cosmic and cannot be produced in matter. Idea must be conceived in the Mind before it can be simulated as product. Conceptions belong solely to the magnetic God-Light and never become matter. A lever, for example, moving upon its fulcrum, expresses the idea of power by motion, but the idea of power is in the still fulcrum source of power. It is not in the moving lever. The lever would be both powerless and motionless if it did not have the stillness of the fulcrum from which to extend the simulation of power. A watch expresses the idea of time, but the watch is not time. Likewise it expresses the idea of mechanical principles, but the watch is not the idea which is expressed by those mechanical principles. The printed poem is not the idea expressed in the poem. That printed poem has no meaning to anyone whose intelligence is insufficient to reflect the idea from the composer’s mind to his own. No idea of mind ever becomes matter. Likewise neither the musical composition on the printed page, nor the art of music which issues as sounds from musical instruments is the inspired idea of the musician. Inspiration can never be produced. It can but be reflected from one inspired mind to another recognizing one. Idea and inspiration may be echoed from spirit to spirit but they can never become product of matter in motion.
THINKING VERSUS SENSING Man has not yet learned to think powerfully from knowledge. 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. Information thus acquired by the senses is not knowledge, however. A man may have vast information and skill but have very little knowledge.
Information from observed effects, and skills in putting those effects together for useful purposes, have multiplied vastly since man first observed natural phenomena. His sense of observation told him how to make a boat; then a sail for the boat. He then discovered the wheel and fire. Electric awareness of effects of motion, plus memory, plus the power to reason objectively, gave him the ability to do this. Very little of it has been due to either thinking or knowledge. We thus confuse sensing for thinking and knowing when, factually, we have been but functioning through sensed electrical awareness acquired from information. The “information” thus conveyed is electrical, not mental. The telegraph message which goes over any wire is not the thought conveyed by that message. Even the typed telegram is not the thought conveyed by it. Its symbols mform the thinker of the thought conveyed by it, but it is not the thought. Thus it is that our vast mechanistic, electrically motivated universe is inter-sensitized for the purpose of informing every nerve ganglion in every cell of every organic and inorganic part of it of the condition of every other part of it.
OUR SUPPOSEDLY FIVE SENSES In speaking of an electrical awareness which we call sensation, we think of our senses as five in number. These are the senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling. All of these five senses are but the one sense of feeling. We do not have five senses. Seeing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our eyes. Hearing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our ears. Tasting and smelling are sensations of feeling light waves reacting upon mouth and nostrils. All variation in sense of feeling is due to a difference of electric conditioning in pulsing wave matter. If pulsing wave matter is but an electric wave record of thought, sensation likewise is but an electric wave record of thought. Neither of them have reality. Neither of them are the thought they record. It also follows that if matter, motion and substance are electric records of thought, then sensation has no reality for sensation is but an electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves. It likewise follows that if matter, motion and sub- stance are electric wave recordings of thought, then electricity which records thought, and thought itself, are nonexistent. There is but one thing in this universe LIGHT – the still Light of all Knowing. The One Light which is God. God alone lives. His thinking and imagining is Knowing; the Knowing universe is all that is; Knowing Mind is still. There is no activity whatsoever in the universe of either spirit or matter.
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE Man’s present civilization is erected upon the foundation of empirical knowledge obtained through his senses. Man is aware of some of these illusions, such as those of perspective. He is aware of the fact that railroad tracks do not meet upon the horizon, but he is not aware of the fact that all effects of motion are not what they seem to be.
One can have no knowledge of effect, for all knowledge lies in cause. Our new fundamental laws and principles must be based upon knowledge of cause.
LAWS BASED UPON ILLUSION Newton, for example, confessedly did not know what gravitation was, yet wrote laws concerning it based upon his observation as to what gravitation did to an apple. Also, he concluded that the moon would fall upon the earth if it were not for its motion. He even proved this mathematically, not being aware of the fact that those same mathematical formulae would apply to every satellite, planet and star in the heavens, as well as to every electron in every atom, noae of which are falling into their primaries. Observers in natural phenomena are still calculating the age of the universe and weight of the earth. The uni- verse is ageless. It had no beginning. Likewise the earth has no weight in respect to anything else in the universe. Every orb in the heavens is in perfect balance with every other orb.
What little knowledge man has acquired during these last few thousand years has been given to him by the very few geniuses, prophets, mystics and other messen- gers of the Light who have come to reinspire mankind with their inspired knowledge.
================ Creation might be likened to the tapestry weaver who KNOWS the one idea as a whole, then THINKS it into parts, then RECORDS those parts by interweaving their spectrum colors into the many forms which, together, manifest the whole idea. eg Iron is a separate part of the whole. When iron is in its frozen condi tion, we do not think of it as light, but we can photo- graph by it if we heat it to incandescence. Not only is it then light but all of the properties which make it available to us as iron have then gone out of it. It is as though the divine tapestry weaver had unwoven all the threads of the idea of iron and sorted them into their spectrum colors, thread by thread. The physicist can tell you what element those threads of light would be if frozen. Upon looking at them, he would say, “That is iron.” But it would not be the form of iron as we know it, it would be the formless idea of iron as the sun knows it.
THERE IS NO SEPARATENESS In the incandescent sun is all idea that earth knows. The idea of the apple of earth is in the sun, likewise the wood of the tree and the violet in the meadow. Likewise the cool earth is there, with its rivers and mountains. All idea is one idea in the light of the sun. The light of the sun is never divided into its many seeming separate ideas until it is electrically extended from the sun and those extensions electrically echoed back to it. The sun is a crucible which melts all ideas into one, then sets them out into space to cool and separate into many units of that one. Likewise Idea of Mind never becomes the many ideas of Creation until electricity divides that One idea into many separate parts. The One Light cannot be divided, but extensions of the One Light can appear to divide it. The spots of sunlight upon the cathedral floor are many, but they are all extensions of the one light of their source in the sun. Likewise all mankind is an extension of the One Idea of man for man is but One in the Light of his Source. Likewise all moving extensions of the One still Light, as manifested in the white light of suns and the black light of their surrounding space, are but extensions of one Source.
ALL IDEA IS STILL The cinema exemplifies this meaning. Upon the screen are many patterned ideas in noisy, violent motion. We know, however, that all of the motion of separate ideas, and all of the sounds emanating from those patterned, moving forms, would instantly cease if the still source of light from which these images and sounds are projected were turned off. We know that the cause of all this transient division into positive and negative effect is in the one still light from which it is projected. We know that the sounds we hear emanate from that stillness, yet we seem to be totally unaware of the fact that all of our pulsing uni- verse is but an extension of One still Light of Universal Mind, projected through positive and negative light upon the universal screen of space. It is difficult to conceive earth and all of its phenomena of motion, sound, people, animals, and plant life, as a motion picture projection from our sun. Yet all of the separate ideas of earth are in that one incandescent light of the sun. All are but one thing, Light. Turn off the sun and all of its patterned ideas on earth would instantly cease. The still idea which is extended into motion is not in the motion but in the stillness from which it is extended.
“Wherefore, I say to thee, exalt thou thyself beyond thy sensing. Know Me as fulcrum of thy thinking. Be Me as deep well of thy knowing.”
FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
The brain does not think, nor does it know, It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remem- bers” 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 are incapable of thinking the thoughts thus projected. Likewise machines can express knowledge but they cannot have knowledge. The centering conscious Mind of man’s Soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine. Desire in Mind is electrically expressed. Electricity is the motivative force which projects the One Light of Mind two ways to create cycles of light waves for the purpose of expressing thought cycles. Desire is not in the brain. It is in the centering conscious self. Desire is the cause of all motion,
The brain is the seat of sensation. 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 electri- cal. They produce sensation. The brain senses and records every message. It sends counteracting messages to other parts of the body.
A man may be a veritable encyclopedia of information. He may have earned many college degrees for being well informed and yet be without sufficient knowledge to create anything. For instance, we cannot sense the idea of a harp while it is still, but we can know the idea of the harp. We can know its various possibilities of expression, even though its strings are not vibrating. Likewise we can imagine countless complexities of rhythms which lie unex- pressed within those still string. Conversely, we cannot know the vibrations which come from those strings when we set them in motion. We can but sense those vibrations through our own sensed electrical awareness.
ELECTRICAL AWARENESS This material universe of many seemingly separate parts is electric. The whole universe of countless parts is wired togeth- er by an electric flux of “nerves” which inform each part of the universe of the ever changing condition of every other part. There is no “sensation” between balanced parts or balanced conditions of matter. By “sensation” we mean the feel of the electric current which conveys the mes- sage. The electric current is impossible in an equilibri- um condition, hence we can feel no sensation whatso- ever when our bodies, or parts of them, are in a bal- anced condition. Electrical awareness is necessary to an electrically mechanized universe. An electrically controlled machine in one’s factory has exactly the same electric awareness that a man has. Its wired nervous system con- veys electric messages to its parts for the dual purpose of motivating them as well as for adjusting all parts to each other in continuity.
ELECTRIC AWARENESS IS UNIVERSAL Not only is each particle in each mass electrically aware of its purpose, but each particle in the entire uni- verse reacts in response to electrical messages sent to it from every other particle in the universe. This physical universe is controlled solely by electrical sensation which is measured and balanced by the still magnetic Light, centering all things.
All of the electric universe of motion is thus so perfectly conditioned by the two electric workers which build the universe and tear it apart sequentially for rebuilding, that all moving things in it sense all other moving things in it. Likewise, all differently conditioned things in the universe readjust their conditioning to every change of con- dition of every other thing in the imiverse. There is a constant separating process in Nature which forever expresses the universal desire for change and multiplicity, and there is likewise a constant levelling process which forever expreses the universal desire for oneness.
INSTINCT Organic matter generates purely from the desire of mind to manifest idea in matter. That cosmic desire to create form produces the desired form. Desire is the motivating force of all Creation.
INSTINCTIVE INTERCOMMUNICATION If it were not for instinct, animal life could not survive or develop. Instinct causes mechanical actions to take place in all bodies to meet the necessities of existence. Instinct pro- tects animal life from enemies. It tells the proper food to eat, how to build nests, how to take care of its young etc. Instinct might be defined as a cell-memory record of all actions of a body, and of all of the sensations caused by those actions. Instinct is, therefore, God-control over the actions of His creations. The involuntary actions of the body, such as the heartbeat, or the action of white corpuscles, do not know their purpose in the healing process of the body, but God centers and controls every atom of His Creation and each must fulfill its purpose.
INSTINCT BUILDING BY GOD AND MAN A good example of the manner in which God and man work together for creative expression is the familiar knitting woman. Knitting is part of the man-idea which requires a skill. The woman who desires to knit must desire to acquire that skill. Desire must precede all expression of that desire. Slowly she takes one stitch at a tune. All of her power of concentration is needed to take those first stitches. Each stitch taken, however, has within it the desire for taking the next stitch. Very slowly she interlaces yarns into the pattern required. The cells of her fingers gradually acquire cell memories of their purpose. These cells coordinate with other cells of the body in the development of the whole skill. Gradually she learns to knit instinctively. Her mind is freed from concentration and she may think of other things and converse freely. Her body cells alone wiU work from the memory of purpose given to them. Instinctive skills are thus imparted to bodies of man by the co-creative efforts of God and man. The pianist teaches his fingers to work instinctively in order to free his mind to think music. God is working with him. Without this moment-to-moment cooperation with God, he could do nothing.
Man and God are One. Man may know all things and have all power to the extent in which he desires to know all things and have all power. Awareness of the Light in man will give him all knowledge and power, Man may not be apart from God at any time. Nor can any part of Creation be apart from God at any time.
“The body of man sleeps, that it may awak- en in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man dies, that it may be res- urrected in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man disappears, that it may reappear to manifest Me. “Man who sleeps or dies or disappears is but man’s image, for Self of man sleeps not, nor dies, nor disappears; for Self of man is Me
UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SLEEP AND PAIN Conscious Mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of the wave cycle of electrical awareness of sensation. 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, “1 am unaware of this or that,” but one cannot say “I am unconscious” when one is always conscious. Conscious awareness is KNOWING. Unawareness means that one does not yet know. Sleep is but an anesthetic. Sleep can be induced chem- ically, 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 “uncon- scious”; their voltage has merely been lowered.
The dentist does not refer to a local anesthetic as hav- ing produced unconsciousness; he refers to it as a desen- sitizing 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, therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does. We assume that bodies cease to be con- scious, 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 bum 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, other- wise 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.
MOTION SIMULATING REST This electric universe of motion forever moves to find rest, but never finds it. Matter in violent motion simu- lates rest and balance through violent motion. The more violent the motion the greater is the illusion of rest and balance. Motion can cease but it can never become rest. The entire dynamic wave universe of electric matter is not what it seems to be. Everything which seems at rest depends upon violent motion to make believe it is at rest. A wire wheel could appear to be a steel disk if spun fast enough. The faster it is spun, the more at rest it would seem. This planet, seemingly at rest, is in violent motion around its centering point of rest from which it is electri- cally extended. Seemingly motionless clouds, floating above the earth, are rotating with it at the tremendous speed of one thousand miles an hour at the equator, or four times faster than a plane.
The pencil in one’s hand, the desk upon which one is writing, the room full of motionless things, seeming to be at rest, are but simulating rest through violent motion of their many parts. Tremendous vibrations may be in that glass paperweight. Not one thing could manifest the rest it simulates if it were not for the incredible speeds of those atoms which so incessantly rotate and revolve to make that seeming restfulness possible.
EVEN STILL THINGS ARE NOT STILL An seemingly still matter is manifesting make-believe rest by make-believe motion. The seeming motion of the cinema is caused by sequences of changing patterned forms projected on the screen which give the impression of motion because of the rapid change of pattern in the negatives. That self- same illusion applies to the material universe.
“E’en though senses of sensed things sense changing in all things, they change not to con- scious knowing. “Whyfor be thou slave to sensing? Rise above thy sensing. Be Me in thy knowing. ”
THE ILLUSION OF CHANGE Change is an illusion of the senses due to motion. Tliere is no change whatsoever in the conscious uni- verse of knowing. There is only an illusion of change set up by the two interchanging lights of thinking to divide the One Whole Idea into inany separate ideas and record them in moving matter. The senses are the audience for these thought pulsations. The senses are a part of this illusion. Senses are electric. They belong to the thought universe of motion and do not respond to stillness. As motion itself is non- existent, so also are senses non-existent. The senses are but the imagined records of imagined motion, matter and change. As such they are limited to pin-hole peeks into the vastness which extends beyond their sensing. The senses have no knowledge of what they sense. They merely record motion. The senses respond to motion in only one direction. Tliey sense the forward flow of time but not its back- ward flow. If they could register both directions, they would become aware of the stillness of this zero universe of seeming motion.
The Universal One planned it this way, otherwise there could be no sequential manifestation of thought which constitutes the creating universe. When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. A man seeing a technicolor motion picture for the first time and without knowledge of such electric effects would think he were looking through a window at real happenings, unaware that it was but an illuston “created” by projecting positive light through patterned negatives. That is all that creation is; two lights projected through each other to simulate motion, form and change. Our senses are like passengers on a fast-moving train. They sense parts of the landscape as they rush forward, while, to their senses, the landscape rushes backwards. The senses interpret these effects as matter in fast motion which is forever fast changing. A man, seeing the same train from a mountain, would sense that same fast motion and fast change as changeless and still. As man unfolds from sensed man to spiritual man he gradually becomes aware of the two-way motion of aU effect; that two ways being the visible effect which responds to his senses and the invisible effect which he knows but does not sense. GGradually the time arrives in his unfolding when his full awareness of Cause voids all reliance upon sensation. He then rises above his sensing. He then knows the universe of motion for what it is instead of for what it seems to be.
See thou no more with outer eyes alone for thou hast knowing eyes to void the illusions of thy sensing. “Throughout long aeons man hath walked his earth with eyes of outer seeing, giving belief to that earth of his body’s sensing. Throughout his new aeons he must walk the earth of inner seeing and know Me in it as but visioning it in Light of Me and Light of him.
For I am a patient God. I patiently await awakening man. “Awakening man is he who knoweth the Light of Me in him. Man may choose his own aeons for his awakening, but know Me he must. Until that day man’s agony of unknowing shall be man ‘s alone. His knowing must be his own desiring. “Knowing man is ecstatic cosmic man. He who beginneth to know Me in him — yea, e’en him who suspecteth Me in him hasteneth his unfolding to cosmic man of all-knowing.
THE SENSES DECEIVE Imagine a perfectly motionless wheel and a fly walk- ing around its rim, moving ever forward over changing ground, and the wheel seemingly moving backward, during a continuity of time in which the fly sensed a constant change in the changeless wheel. Every time the fly got back to the same point, it would compute the past time consumed on the journey and the forward time necessary for the next circuit. The wheel being still, motion, change and time are created by the fly itself as it takes the whole idea of the wheel apart by journeying around it and examining it bit by bit. The fly sensed motion by changing its position on the wheel. It sensed change by finding a seeming difference of condition at each forward movement. It sensed time by creating the sequences necessary in taking the one idea of the wheel apart and dividing it into many sepa- rate ideas. This simple analogy is a good symbol of Creation. This planet, like the fly on the wheel, moves forever around its motionless orbit. The orbit is as rigid and still as the wheel upon which the fly is moving. Planet moves upon the wheel of its orbit, it senses constant motion and change. It senses changes of days into nights, of spring merging into summer, autumn into winter. All of these seeming changes are in the motion of the planet and not in the wheel of its orbit. Each change is entirely due to the motion of the planet and not to the changeless orbit. The planet itself regis- ters change on its changeless wheel. Change therefore lies in motion alone. The senses are motion, therefore the senses sense only that which they themselves are.
INADEQUACY OF THE SENSES Man overrates his senses. He places too much dependence upon them without justification, for they are not recording all of the phenomena of his surroundings. He likewise trusts them too much without justification, for they are constantly deceiving him, While his senses are recording the stillness and rest of Nature on a lazy afternoon, they are failing to record the violent motion of everything in his entire environment, from the blade of grass to the clouds in the heavens above him. Those seemingly motionless clouds are moving at the speed of a thousand miles an hour at the equator without the slightest evidence of that swift motion being record- ed upon his senses. The earth also is moving many miles per second in two directions; one of rotation upon its axis and the other of revolution around its orbit. His senses register stillness. They are electrically unaware of that motion. This deception is as it should be, just as the same deception in a cinema is as it should be. God’s universe is but an electric recording of His knowing, manifested by His thinking. To thus record the idea of His knowing in the two lights of His thinking, a three dimensional universe is necessary. If the senses could detect and record all motion, instead of but a part of it, the illusion would d^appear. The senses would see behind the illu- sion and find that all motion voids itself. Division of the whole into parts causes the illusion. If the film were removed from the projector of the motion picture, the illusion of motion and change would be voided. That is what Creation is, the One Light of knowing divided into the patterned parts of thinking. Sensing is but an electric tension set up by the seeming division of one into many which “strain” to fulfill their desire for oneness. When a unity of condition is consummated, sensation between those parts ceases because the tension ceases. The senses, being but tension of desire for unity between divided parts, have no existence. The senses are electric flux threads of light connecting every particle in the universe with every other particle.
They are the intercommunicating nerves of the one universal body. When strain of desire for balance, rest or unity ceases, sensation ceases. In this electric universe, sensation is the strain of resistance to the separation which exists between all separated masses. All matter is one. Separated particles desire to find that oneness. It is part of God’s plan that the senses are limited entirely to the recording of a very small fraction of effect. The senses can never sense the Whole but the conscious Mind can KNOW the Whole.
“Love ye one another all men; for ye are one in Me. “Whatsoe’er ye do to one in Me ye do to all; for all are one in Me. “Love thy brother as thy self. Serve thy brother before thy self Lift high thy brother, lift him to high pinnacles, for thy brother is thy self “Serve first thy brother. Hurt first thy self rather than thy neighbor Gain naught from him unbalanced by thy giving. Protect thou the weak with thy strength, for if thou use thy strength against him his weakness will prevail against thee, and thy strength will avail thee naught. “He who giveth love prospereth mightily; but he who taketh aught gaineth naught
MAN’S NEW CYCLE Knowledge can be obtained by man only through awareness of the Spirit within him. Lack of that aware* ness is the tragedy of today’s civilization. New inspired messengers who know God in them- selves will likewise give the Light to this new cycle. And these few messengers of the Light must multiply into legions, for the need of a spiritual awakening is great.
Part 2
Part 3 – The Mystery of LIGHT
OMNIPRESENCE Universe of Being
“In My universe there is but one form from which all forms appear. That one form is the pulsing cube-sphere, two halves of the heart- beat of My dual thinking.
“All forms pulse, therefore, all forms are two, one form for the inbreathing pulse, which generates, and one for the outbreathing, radi- ating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, generates, and one for the outbreathing, radiating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, and the sphere is the cube compressed to the incandescence of white-hot suns by the inward breath. “All spheres emerge from the pulsing, breathing cubes of space and return to them to findfulcrums of rest for re-emergence.
“For I say that all things are the same thing, for all things are universal. Each thing reaches through every other thing to the farthermost star. For this purpose have I set My mirrors and My lenses of dual light to attain an infinity in My imaged universe in which no measure is. “And I also say that man ‘s infinity ends in eyes of man where it began. All things in My mirrored universe end where they began. Eternity thus ends in NOW, and Now in Eternity.
God’s imaginings extend from rest to rest in His three-dimensional radial universe of length, breadth and thickness— to become the stage of space for His imagined radial univeree of matter, time, change and motion.
Points of rest, further extended to other points of rest, form three reflecting planes of still magnetic Light which are at right angles to each other. (Fig. 4) From the center of these three mirror planes of zero curvature, God’s givings are radially projected to six opposed mirror planes for reprojection as regivings, to unfold and refold the forms of God’s imaginings in the curved electric universe of His desiring.
1) There is only Light Light is all there is in the spiritual universe of knowing, and simulation of that Light in opposite extensions is all there is in the electric wave universe of sensing. The simulation of Light in matter is not Light. There is no Light in matter.
3)Progress of Man / Goal Man progresses in cycles of approximately twenty-five hundred years. At the beginning of each cycle of his growing awareness of the Light within hint, God sends messages through repared messengers to further his comprehension of the Light. Comprehension of these cosmic messages gradually exalts mankind into higher beings, and thus each cycle is one more step for man toward full awareness of the Light, and of his Oneness with God.
2) Classification of Universe into 2 – Thinking and Knowing Perhaps the confusion which attends this idea would be lessened if we classify everything concerning the spiritual universe, such as life, intelligence, truth, power, knowledge and balance as being the ONE LIGHT of KNOWING, and everything concerning matter and motion as being the TWO SIMULATED LIGHTS of thinking.
5) How does the universe work Man lives in a bewildering complex world of EFFECT of which he knows not the CAUSE. Because of its seemingly infinite multiplicity and complexity, he fails to vision the simple underlying principle of Balance in all things. He, therefore, complexes Truth until its many angles, sides and facets have lost balance with each other and with him. Truth is simple. Balance is simple. Rhythmic balanced interchange between all pairs of opposite expressions in Natural phenomena, and in human relations, is the consummate art of God’s universe of Light. It is also the Law. In this one fundamental Universal Law lies the balanced continuity of all creative expression in God’s electric wave universe of two conditioned lights in seeming motion which record God’s One Whole Idea of Creation into countless seemingly separate parts of that whole Idea.
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6) THE VOICE WITHIN God’s omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence are centered in the consciousness of every man; but few there are who know of the Oneness of their Self-Soul with the Universal Self-Soul.
The Silent Voice within every man is ceaselessly whispering it to his awakening consciousness. 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.
“For I am omnipotent, I give all power to him who asketh but no one may ask of Me who is not aware of Me. See thou to it that man well knoweth that, and manifest thou thyself that principle of power in thine own works.”
6a) Prepare: Takes time for 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.
6b) Current issue: 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.” What he thinks of as his living body is but an electrically motivated machine which simulates life through motion extended to it firom its centering Self -Soul which alone lives and wills the body to move.
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 for eg Heartbeat He thinks himself conscious while awake and unconscious when sleeping; unaware that in all Nature there is no unconsciousness when sensation ceases in sleep. He knows that his tooth cannot be conscious, but he does not know that his body cannot be conscious. 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.
He has not yet learned that bodies are but Self-created mechanisms which manifest their centering Self, and that Self manifests God as One with it. Likewise he has not yet learned that bodies neither live nor die, but repeat themselves continuously and forever as all idea of Mind likewise repeats itself.
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. “He lived” 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 sensed 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.
Man never dies. He is as continuous as eternity is continnous. 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 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 onmiscient and omnipotent intelligence extended to them.
There are those who seek the God-Light of the awakening Self within him, 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 ail-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.
One cannot 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. Look ye, therefore, forever upward into the High heavens of inspiration, where glory awaits the fearless, all-knowing seekers of Beauty in the purity of the universal Light. It is a hard, but glorious road to climb. All must make the climb.
THE ASCENT OF MAN in this solar system is the play. When all mankind has found the Light, the play will be finished. 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 fulfil! 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.
The time has come in the history of man’s journey from his material jungle to his spiritual mountain top when it is imperative that he must live more and more in the cosmic Light universe of knowing, and less in the electric wave universe of sensing.
Man must know that his power lies in the stillness of his centering Self and not in the motion by means of which he manifests that stillness. He must know that his Self is God in him. Also he must know gradually the dawning awareness of the cosmic Light of God in him, for with it comes an awareness of his purposefulness in manifesting the Light and the power to manifest it.
God is consciousness. Consciousness is static. Consciousness is the KNOWING of mind. Knowing is static. Consciousness is the spiritual awareness of Being, of all-knowing, atl-power and all-presence. Thinking is electric. God’s thinking is expressed by two-way moving wave extensions from consciousness, like a lever swinging upon a fixed fulcrum, or like waves extending from the calm sea. Thought expression is dynamic. Thinking belongs to the electrically sensed and conditioned vibrating universe of motion. Thinking is the motionless principle in light which creates the illusion of motion.
Sensation is the electrical awareness of motion simu- lating the spiritual QUALITIES of the One Idea by creating imaged QUANTITIES of separate forms which seem to have substance
The universal Mind centers every particle and mass in this universe: animal, vegetable or mineral, electron, atom or sun. Man is the only unit in Creation who has conscious awareness of the Spirit within him and electrical aware- ness of dually conditioned light acting upon his senses. All other units of Creation have electrical awareness only.
Man alone can be freed from body to think with God, to talk with God and be insphed 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. Likewise the same confusion leads us to the adoption of such terms as “subconscious mind,” and “superconscious mmd.”
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There is naught but GOOD. There is no evil. There is naught but LIFE. There is no death. “All things are My image, but they are not Me, even though I am in them and they in Me.
God, the Creator, is all there IS; all that EXISTS. “For I am Balance. And I am Energy, and I am Rest. I am the Light of Love and Truth, Upon that foundation have I laid the corner- stone of My universe. ”
I am the One Whole, the ALL. Glorify thou Me, the One Whom I am, for I am ALL, and no other is. I, the sexless One, am Unity. What I am thou art, for thou art Me; thou art the Whole. Glorify thou thy Self, for in so doing thou art glorifying Me. I, the One Whole, am knowing Mind. I exist to think. All thinking is Light of My know- ing but My thinking is not Me. I am Creator, creating with My thinking. Out of My Light of knowing are My two lights of thinking born as sexed pairs of oppo- sitesfor repetition as sexed pairs of opposites. To think is to create. I create with Light. Nothing is which is not Light. I think idea. Light registereth My idea in the two sexed lights of My thinking, and form is born in the image of My thinking, Form hath no existence, nor have My imaginings. These exist not, for they are not Me. I alone existeth; the ALL. I create my imaged body with the in- breathing of My pulsing universe of Me. My universe is My image; but My image is not Me. All things are My image, but they are not Me, e’en though I am in them and they in Me.”
God’s creating universe of matter in motion has no reality. It but simulates reality through the illusion of two-way projected lights in motion. Mind thinks in two opposed lights simultaneously projected from their centering white light Source and sequentially repeated in cycles.
God’s thinking and imagining are qualities of God’s knowing. God’s knowing mind is timeless and still. So also are God’s thinking and imagining timeless and still. So, likewise, man’s thinking and imagining are as time- less and still as is his knowing. Stillness never can be motion, or become motion, but it can appear to be. Motion merely seems, but Stillness always is. The universal equilibrium can never be other than its own balance but it can seem to be. The illusion which is motion springs from Stillness and returns to Stillness. This is a universe of rest. There is naught but rest in the universe. Mind knows its One Idea of Creation as One Whole. Mind thinks its One Whole idea into seeming parts. Hence the illusion of motion which we call Creation, and the illusion of substance which we call matter. Matter, motion, time, change, dimension and substance have no existence. The Light of knowing Mind alone exists.We can KNOW God. We cannot KNOW His body but we can SEE it. Likewise we can KNOW man. We can not KNOW the body of man but we can SEE it. What God is man is. God and man are ONE.
Electricity is the servant of the God-Mind. Electricity expresses the desire in the God-Mind for creative expression by seemingly dividing the One still light into transient waves of spectrum divided positive-negative colors of light. This entire universe of seeming substantiality consists solely of transient light waves in seeming motion.
OUR SEEMING DUALITY We seemingly live in two universes; the still cosmic Mind universe of KNOWING and the moving thought-of-Mind rhythmic wave universe of SENSING. We cannot sense the cosmic universe of God’s knowing nor can we know the thought-wave universe of God’s thinking. The cosmic Mind universe of the One Light of all- knowing is all that is. The vibrating thought-wave universe of sensing merely seems.
THE COSMIC GOD LIGHT The one still Light of God is the cosmic Light which watches over all creating things at countless points locatable by man, but invisible to man. Man’s senses have misled him into believing in a force called magnetism which attracts compass needles and lifts tons of steel. These phenomena of motion are due to electricity and not to magnetism. The cosmic Light is absolutely still It neither attracts nor repels.
The CAUSE is real. The EFFECT is but a simulation of the reality. The Self of man is cause. His self-creating body is effect.
God’s universe of magnetic Light is static. God’s perpetually creating electric wave univeree of two moving lights is dynamic. It forever moves. The two moving lights are projected through each other from the static One to create the illusion of the idea they but manifest. The illusion which manifests the idea of Creation through seeming motion is not the idea which it seemingly manifests. Creation is the product of Mind-knowing expressed in form by Mind-Thinking.
The product of Mind is not the idea which it simulates. No idea of Mind is ever created. It is but simulated by form and motion. Idea is eternal and belongs to God’s still universe of knowing. Form of idea in matter is transient but is eternally repeated as transient form of idea.
THE POSITIVE PRINCIPLE The foundation of the spiritual universe is stillness; the balanced stillness of the One magnetic Light of God. Balanced stillness is the Positive Principle of stability and unity, in it there are no negations.
THE NEGATIVE PRINCIPLE The foundation of the physical universe is motion; the ever-changing motion arising out of pairs of unbalanced conditions which must forever move to seek the balanced stillness of unity from which they sprang as multiple pairs of units. Unbalanced motion is the Negative Principle of instability, multiplicity and separateness which is this physical universe of electric octave waves of opposed lights. In the Negative Principle there is no positive. It is composed entirely of pairs of negations which are forever voiding each other, cancelling each other’s action and reaction, thus negating each other by never allowing either one to exceed its fixed zero of universal stillness.
QUALITY BEGETS QUANTITIES The still magnetic Light universe of God’s knowing is an invisible, unchanging, unconditioned and unmeasurable quality from which visible, changing, conditioned and measurable quantities spring to simulate those qualities through two-way wave motion. There is no one word in any language to express that quality so we must use many words, all having the same meaning but different connotations. These words are mind, consciousness, love, life, truth, desire, knowledge, power, balance and law.
The God-quality of the One Light is seemingly trans- formed into quantities by being divided into pairs of oppositely-conditioned light pressures of this electric universe. These divided pairs are then multiplied into countless octave wave units of light pressures and set in opposite directioned motion to create the illusion of sequence, change, dimension, condition and time in a universe where none of these effects of motion exist.
The calm sea, for example, is an unchanging, unmea- surable quality of oneness, of sameness and stillness. Upon its calm surface there is no change, nothing to count or to measure. The moment that quantities of waves spring from that quality of calm, those quantities can be measured. Like- wise, they are forever changing. Nor are there two points in them which are similarly conditioned. This creating electric universe is composed of moving light waves which sprang from a calm sea of the One still Light. It is a universe of moving pairs of quantities which simulate the quality of stillness from which those quantities spring. The quantities of divided and conditioned pairs of opposite lights which thus simulate the One are not the One they simulate.
Parts of the One Whole Idea are only seeming. There are no two separate or separable things in the universe. There is but One Whole Simulation of the One Whole Idea.
Every happening anywhere happens everywhere. The milkweed fluff floating lazily in the summer sky affects the balance of the whole universe of suns and galaxies. Every part of the universe moves in interdependent unison as the wheels of a watch move in unison. The watch wheels are geared together mechanically. The rhythmic wave universe is geared together electrically. The entire universe is one and must be kept in balance as one. Changes of condition in any one part are simultaneously reflected in every other part, and are sequentially repeated in it.
IMAGINATION – All imagining is God’s imagining. All forms in this creating universe of imagined forms are but electric recordings of God’s imagiaings. They have no existence. Records of Idea are not the idea they record. They have no substance. They are but black and white lights of sun-centered wave fields of space assembled in vibrating systems to simulate substance in an objective universe which is not, but seems to be.
This is a creating universe, not a created one. God’s imagining never began and will never end. It was not “created” at some remote past time by some vast cosmic event, as commonly believed. Nor is it condemned to a “heat-death” by expansion into nothingness. It is eternal
INSPIRATION – Inspiration is the language of Light which man uses to talk with God. Inspiration is that deep awareness of the consciousness of Being which differentiates the genius or mystic from the being of average intelligence. Inspiration in man is accompanied by an intense mental ecstasy which is characteristic of all who become intensely conscious of their closeness to God. Inspired geniuses forget their bodies while deeply conscious of their existence as wholly Mind. Their bodies, thus forgotten, act almost automatically in obedience to instinct and cell memory reflexes. Inspired geniuses translate God’s knowing uito words of man for the soul of man, They uplift all mankind by reinspiring all who listen to their ecstatic words and rhythms. He who attunes his heart to the messages of genius purifies himself. No impurity can there be in his heart for verily he then is in communion with the Holy One.
========================== COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS 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.
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.
The way to gradually attain cosmic consciousness is to intensify one’s conscious awareness by much alone- ness and companionship with God while manifesting Him in every moment and in every task of life. Moment-by-moment companionship with God brings with it so great a realization of Oneness with Him that the transformation into that full realization of unity is apt to take place at any time. The deterrent to cosmic consciousness is the feeling that God is far away instead of being within, and that we can reach that far away God only through sources out- side of ourselves.
========================== CREATIVE EXPRESSION Inspired man alone can create enduring things. To create we must first conceive. To conceive we must stop thinking and KNOW. All sensing must cease. There is no power in thinking. Thinking but expresses the power which lies in knowing. We must project our Selves into the still Light of knowing to commune with God. We must become one with God to conceive idea in order to produce the form of that idea. A concept must precede its manifestation in form. The culture of the entire race is given to it by the few inspired ones who know God in them. They alone know immortality. The art of a civilization long outlives the civilization. “Art alone endures. All else passes,” Great art can be created only by working moment by moment with God as co-creator. When man and God thus work together they commune one with the other as One Person. The language of their communion is the language of Light which man calls “inspiration.” When man works alone, his works are as the winds which blow. When man works with God as co-creator, his works are forever enduring.
“All knowledge existeth. All knowledge Cometh to man in its season. Cosmic messengers periodically give to man such knowledge of My cosmos as man is able to comprehend, but that which he can bear is like unto a thimbleful out of the mighty ocean, for man is but beginning to comprehend. “When man knoweth Light then he will know no limitations, but man must know the Light for himself and none there can be who can make words of it, for Light knoweth Light and there need be no words. ”
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Knowledge is cosmic. It belongs to the stiil Light of the positive principle. It never can become a property of the two negations which constitute this mirage universe of matter in motion. To “know all things” means to have all knowledge of the Whole One Idea of the cosmos as CAUSE. It does not mean knowledge of created things which are effect of cause. The whole Cosmic Idea is simple. It can be known by anyone of average intelligence. Its bewildering complexities lie in effect of cause, Man cannot know transient effect. He can KNOW cause only. He can but comprehend effect. Man cannot know a sunset sky, for example, but he can comprehend it if he knows its cause. Knowledge is, therefore, limited to cause. All knowledge exists. All mankind can have it for the asking. It is within man, awaiting his awareness of its all-presence. Knowledge cannot be acquired by the brain from without; it must be “recollected” from within the con- sciousaess of Self.
Man cannot acquire knowledge from books or schools. He can but acquire information that way, but information is not knowledge until it is recognized by the spiritual consciousness of man, just as food is not nourishment for the body until it becomes a part of the blood stream. Information gained by motion of the sens- es must be returned to the stillness of the Source before it becomes knowledge.
For the same reason man cannot acquire knowledge from the so-called “facts of matter,” for there are no facts of matter in a universe of transient matter in motion. All matter in motion is but a series of illusions which deceive man into drawing wrong conclusions.
Life is spirit, and spirit is still. Life is not chemistry or germ of matter. To heal the body so that it can manifest life of the spirit Self of the body, one must give the unbalanced body the balance of the spirit. Knowledge of the Light can alone do this. All the information in the world will not heal a body unassisted by the Light in him who heals and in him who is being healed.
“Verily I say, I give of Me and I take away; for I am the Imaginer who builds image forms to tear apart to build anew.
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Man’s knowledge is his power. His thinking is the expression of that power. The expression of power is not power; therefore thinking is not power. As man gradually becomes aware of his omniscience, his thinking intensifies in voltage in proportion to the increase in awareness of his omniscience. Thinking is an electric wave extension from the centering fulcrum of knowledge which seemingly divides knowledge into ideas and sets those ideas in motion to create forms of ideas as product of knowledge. Man’s knowledge is like a deep well of still water. His thinking is like a two-way pump which divides the QUALITY of that stillness mto QUANTITIES of parts and sets them flowing. That is what the objective universe is, quantities of many seemingly separate forms of idea, all of which are but parts of the One Whole idea. Each seemingly separate part is a dynamic extension of the One Static Unity, but separateness only seems, for all are indissolubly bound together in light as one part. Knowledge is the foundation of man’s concepts. Thinking transfers concepts into product. The quality of man’s product depends upon the degree of awareness of his knowledge and not upon the quality, quantity or intensity of his thinking. Water cannot be drawn from an empty well, nor can clear water be drawn from a muddied well. Likewise good product cannot come from intensive thinking unless knowledge backs that thinking. No idea of Mind can ever become matter. Idea of product can never become product. Moreover, no expression of anything in Nature is the idea which it expresses. The product of idea is not the idea it simulates. Idea is cosmic and cannot be produced in matter. Idea must be conceived in the Mind before it can be simulated as product. Conceptions belong solely to the magnetic God-Light and never become matter. A lever, for example, moving upon its fulcrum, expresses the idea of power by motion, but the idea of power is in the still fulcrum source of power. It is not in the moving lever. The lever would be both powerless and motionless if it did not have the stillness of the fulcrum from which to extend the simulation of power. A watch expresses the idea of time, but the watch is not time. Likewise it expresses the idea of mechanical principles, but the watch is not the idea which is expressed by those mechanical principles. The printed poem is not the idea expressed in the poem. That printed poem has no meaning to anyone whose intelligence is insufficient to reflect the idea from the composer’s mind to his own. No idea of mind ever becomes matter. Likewise neither the musical composition on the printed page, nor the art of music which issues as sounds from musical instruments is the inspired idea of the musician. Inspiration can never be produced. It can but be reflected from one inspired mind to another recognizing one. Idea and inspiration may be echoed from spirit to spirit but they can never become product of matter in motion.
THINKING VERSUS SENSING Man has not yet learned to think powerfully from knowledge. 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. Information thus acquired by the senses is not knowledge, however. A man may have vast information and skill but have very little knowledge.
Information from observed effects, and skills in putting those effects together for useful purposes, have multiplied vastly since man first observed natural phenomena. His sense of observation told him how to make a boat; then a sail for the boat. He then discovered the wheel and fire. Electric awareness of effects of motion, plus memory, plus the power to reason objectively, gave him the ability to do this. Very little of it has been due to either thinking or knowledge. We thus confuse sensing for thinking and knowing when, factually, we have been but functioning through sensed electrical awareness acquired from information. The “information” thus conveyed is electrical, not mental. The telegraph message which goes over any wire is not the thought conveyed by that message. Even the typed telegram is not the thought conveyed by it. Its symbols mform the thinker of the thought conveyed by it, but it is not the thought. Thus it is that our vast mechanistic, electrically motivated universe is inter-sensitized for the purpose of informing every nerve ganglion in every cell of every organic and inorganic part of it of the condition of every other part of it.
OUR SUPPOSEDLY FIVE SENSES In speaking of an electrical awareness which we call sensation, we think of our senses as five in number. These are the senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling. All of these five senses are but the one sense of feeling. We do not have five senses. Seeing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our eyes. Hearing is a sensation of feeling light waves through our ears. Tasting and smelling are sensations of feeling light waves reacting upon mouth and nostrils. All variation in sense of feeling is due to a difference of electric conditioning in pulsing wave matter. If pulsing wave matter is but an electric wave record of thought, sensation likewise is but an electric wave record of thought. Neither of them have reality. Neither of them are the thought they record. It also follows that if matter, motion and substance are electric records of thought, then sensation has no reality for sensation is but an electrical awareness of wave motion by other waves. It likewise follows that if matter, motion and sub- stance are electric wave recordings of thought, then electricity which records thought, and thought itself, are nonexistent. There is but one thing in this universe LIGHT – the still Light of all Knowing. The One Light which is God. God alone lives. His thinking and imagining is Knowing; the Knowing universe is all that is; Knowing Mind is still. There is no activity whatsoever in the universe of either spirit or matter.
EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE Man’s present civilization is erected upon the foundation of empirical knowledge obtained through his senses. Man is aware of some of these illusions, such as those of perspective. He is aware of the fact that railroad tracks do not meet upon the horizon, but he is not aware of the fact that all effects of motion are not what they seem to be.
One can have no knowledge of effect, for all knowledge lies in cause. Our new fundamental laws and principles must be based upon knowledge of cause.
LAWS BASED UPON ILLUSION Newton, for example, confessedly did not know what gravitation was, yet wrote laws concerning it based upon his observation as to what gravitation did to an apple. Also, he concluded that the moon would fall upon the earth if it were not for its motion. He even proved this mathematically, not being aware of the fact that those same mathematical formulae would apply to every satellite, planet and star in the heavens, as well as to every electron in every atom, noae of which are falling into their primaries. Observers in natural phenomena are still calculating the age of the universe and weight of the earth. The uni- verse is ageless. It had no beginning. Likewise the earth has no weight in respect to anything else in the universe. Every orb in the heavens is in perfect balance with every other orb.
What little knowledge man has acquired during these last few thousand years has been given to him by the very few geniuses, prophets, mystics and other messen- gers of the Light who have come to reinspire mankind with their inspired knowledge.
================ Creation might be likened to the tapestry weaver who KNOWS the one idea as a whole, then THINKS it into parts, then RECORDS those parts by interweaving their spectrum colors into the many forms which, together, manifest the whole idea. eg Iron is a separate part of the whole. When iron is in its frozen condi tion, we do not think of it as light, but we can photo- graph by it if we heat it to incandescence. Not only is it then light but all of the properties which make it available to us as iron have then gone out of it. It is as though the divine tapestry weaver had unwoven all the threads of the idea of iron and sorted them into their spectrum colors, thread by thread. The physicist can tell you what element those threads of light would be if frozen. Upon looking at them, he would say, “That is iron.” But it would not be the form of iron as we know it, it would be the formless idea of iron as the sun knows it.
THERE IS NO SEPARATENESS In the incandescent sun is all idea that earth knows. The idea of the apple of earth is in the sun, likewise the wood of the tree and the violet in the meadow. Likewise the cool earth is there, with its rivers and mountains. All idea is one idea in the light of the sun. The light of the sun is never divided into its many seeming separate ideas until it is electrically extended from the sun and those extensions electrically echoed back to it. The sun is a crucible which melts all ideas into one, then sets them out into space to cool and separate into many units of that one. Likewise Idea of Mind never becomes the many ideas of Creation until electricity divides that One idea into many separate parts. The One Light cannot be divided, but extensions of the One Light can appear to divide it. The spots of sunlight upon the cathedral floor are many, but they are all extensions of the one light of their source in the sun. Likewise all mankind is an extension of the One Idea of man for man is but One in the Light of his Source. Likewise all moving extensions of the One still Light, as manifested in the white light of suns and the black light of their surrounding space, are but extensions of one Source.
ALL IDEA IS STILL The cinema exemplifies this meaning. Upon the screen are many patterned ideas in noisy, violent motion. We know, however, that all of the motion of separate ideas, and all of the sounds emanating from those patterned, moving forms, would instantly cease if the still source of light from which these images and sounds are projected were turned off. We know that the cause of all this transient division into positive and negative effect is in the one still light from which it is projected. We know that the sounds we hear emanate from that stillness, yet we seem to be totally unaware of the fact that all of our pulsing uni- verse is but an extension of One still Light of Universal Mind, projected through positive and negative light upon the universal screen of space. It is difficult to conceive earth and all of its phenomena of motion, sound, people, animals, and plant life, as a motion picture projection from our sun. Yet all of the separate ideas of earth are in that one incandescent light of the sun. All are but one thing, Light. Turn off the sun and all of its patterned ideas on earth would instantly cease. The still idea which is extended into motion is not in the motion but in the stillness from which it is extended.
“Wherefore, I say to thee, exalt thou thyself beyond thy sensing. Know Me as fulcrum of thy thinking. Be Me as deep well of thy knowing.”
FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
The brain does not think, nor does it know, It is but a storehouse of recorded sensations. The brain “remem- bers” 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 are incapable of thinking the thoughts thus projected. Likewise machines can express knowledge but they cannot have knowledge. The centering conscious Mind of man’s Soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine. Desire in Mind is electrically expressed. Electricity is the motivative force which projects the One Light of Mind two ways to create cycles of light waves for the purpose of expressing thought cycles. Desire is not in the brain. It is in the centering conscious self. Desire is the cause of all motion,
The brain is the seat of sensation. 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 electri- cal. They produce sensation. The brain senses and records every message. It sends counteracting messages to other parts of the body.
A man may be a veritable encyclopedia of information. He may have earned many college degrees for being well informed and yet be without sufficient knowledge to create anything. For instance, we cannot sense the idea of a harp while it is still, but we can know the idea of the harp. We can know its various possibilities of expression, even though its strings are not vibrating. Likewise we can imagine countless complexities of rhythms which lie unex- pressed within those still string. Conversely, we cannot know the vibrations which come from those strings when we set them in motion. We can but sense those vibrations through our own sensed electrical awareness.
ELECTRICAL AWARENESS This material universe of many seemingly separate parts is electric. The whole universe of countless parts is wired togeth- er by an electric flux of “nerves” which inform each part of the universe of the ever changing condition of every other part. There is no “sensation” between balanced parts or balanced conditions of matter. By “sensation” we mean the feel of the electric current which conveys the mes- sage. The electric current is impossible in an equilibri- um condition, hence we can feel no sensation whatso- ever when our bodies, or parts of them, are in a bal- anced condition. Electrical awareness is necessary to an electrically mechanized universe. An electrically controlled machine in one’s factory has exactly the same electric awareness that a man has. Its wired nervous system con- veys electric messages to its parts for the dual purpose of motivating them as well as for adjusting all parts to each other in continuity.
ELECTRIC AWARENESS IS UNIVERSAL Not only is each particle in each mass electrically aware of its purpose, but each particle in the entire uni- verse reacts in response to electrical messages sent to it from every other particle in the universe. This physical universe is controlled solely by electrical sensation which is measured and balanced by the still magnetic Light, centering all things.
All of the electric universe of motion is thus so perfectly conditioned by the two electric workers which build the universe and tear it apart sequentially for rebuilding, that all moving things in it sense all other moving things in it. Likewise, all differently conditioned things in the universe readjust their conditioning to every change of con- dition of every other thing in the imiverse. There is a constant separating process in Nature which forever expresses the universal desire for change and multiplicity, and there is likewise a constant levelling process which forever expreses the universal desire for oneness.
INSTINCT Organic matter generates purely from the desire of mind to manifest idea in matter. That cosmic desire to create form produces the desired form. Desire is the motivating force of all Creation.
INSTINCTIVE INTERCOMMUNICATION If it were not for instinct, animal life could not survive or develop. Instinct causes mechanical actions to take place in all bodies to meet the necessities of existence. Instinct pro- tects animal life from enemies. It tells the proper food to eat, how to build nests, how to take care of its young etc. Instinct might be defined as a cell-memory record of all actions of a body, and of all of the sensations caused by those actions. Instinct is, therefore, God-control over the actions of His creations. The involuntary actions of the body, such as the heartbeat, or the action of white corpuscles, do not know their purpose in the healing process of the body, but God centers and controls every atom of His Creation and each must fulfill its purpose.
INSTINCT BUILDING BY GOD AND MAN A good example of the manner in which God and man work together for creative expression is the familiar knitting woman. Knitting is part of the man-idea which requires a skill. The woman who desires to knit must desire to acquire that skill. Desire must precede all expression of that desire. Slowly she takes one stitch at a tune. All of her power of concentration is needed to take those first stitches. Each stitch taken, however, has within it the desire for taking the next stitch. Very slowly she interlaces yarns into the pattern required. The cells of her fingers gradually acquire cell memories of their purpose. These cells coordinate with other cells of the body in the development of the whole skill. Gradually she learns to knit instinctively. Her mind is freed from concentration and she may think of other things and converse freely. Her body cells alone wiU work from the memory of purpose given to them. Instinctive skills are thus imparted to bodies of man by the co-creative efforts of God and man. The pianist teaches his fingers to work instinctively in order to free his mind to think music. God is working with him. Without this moment-to-moment cooperation with God, he could do nothing.
Man and God are One. Man may know all things and have all power to the extent in which he desires to know all things and have all power. Awareness of the Light in man will give him all knowledge and power, Man may not be apart from God at any time. Nor can any part of Creation be apart from God at any time.
“The body of man sleeps, that it may awak- en in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man dies, that it may be res- urrected in Me, to manifest Me. “The body of man disappears, that it may reappear to manifest Me. “Man who sleeps or dies or disappears is but man’s image, for Self of man sleeps not, nor dies, nor disappears; for Self of man is Me
UNCONSCIOUSNESS, SLEEP AND PAIN Conscious Mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of the wave cycle of electrical awareness of sensation. 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, “1 am unaware of this or that,” but one cannot say “I am unconscious” when one is always conscious. Conscious awareness is KNOWING. Unawareness means that one does not yet know. Sleep is but an anesthetic. Sleep can be induced chem- ically, 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 “uncon- scious”; their voltage has merely been lowered.
The dentist does not refer to a local anesthetic as hav- ing produced unconsciousness; he refers to it as a desen- sitizing 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, therefore it cannot stop doing that which it never does. We assume that bodies cease to be con- scious, 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 bum 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, other- wise 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.
MOTION SIMULATING REST This electric universe of motion forever moves to find rest, but never finds it. Matter in violent motion simu- lates rest and balance through violent motion. The more violent the motion the greater is the illusion of rest and balance. Motion can cease but it can never become rest. The entire dynamic wave universe of electric matter is not what it seems to be. Everything which seems at rest depends upon violent motion to make believe it is at rest. A wire wheel could appear to be a steel disk if spun fast enough. The faster it is spun, the more at rest it would seem. This planet, seemingly at rest, is in violent motion around its centering point of rest from which it is electri- cally extended. Seemingly motionless clouds, floating above the earth, are rotating with it at the tremendous speed of one thousand miles an hour at the equator, or four times faster than a plane.
The pencil in one’s hand, the desk upon which one is writing, the room full of motionless things, seeming to be at rest, are but simulating rest through violent motion of their many parts. Tremendous vibrations may be in that glass paperweight. Not one thing could manifest the rest it simulates if it were not for the incredible speeds of those atoms which so incessantly rotate and revolve to make that seeming restfulness possible.
EVEN STILL THINGS ARE NOT STILL An seemingly still matter is manifesting make-believe rest by make-believe motion. The seeming motion of the cinema is caused by sequences of changing patterned forms projected on the screen which give the impression of motion because of the rapid change of pattern in the negatives. That self- same illusion applies to the material universe.
“E’en though senses of sensed things sense changing in all things, they change not to con- scious knowing. “Whyfor be thou slave to sensing? Rise above thy sensing. Be Me in thy knowing. ”
THE ILLUSION OF CHANGE Change is an illusion of the senses due to motion. Tliere is no change whatsoever in the conscious uni- verse of knowing. There is only an illusion of change set up by the two interchanging lights of thinking to divide the One Whole Idea into inany separate ideas and record them in moving matter. The senses are the audience for these thought pulsations. The senses are a part of this illusion. Senses are electric. They belong to the thought universe of motion and do not respond to stillness. As motion itself is non- existent, so also are senses non-existent. The senses are but the imagined records of imagined motion, matter and change. As such they are limited to pin-hole peeks into the vastness which extends beyond their sensing. The senses have no knowledge of what they sense. They merely record motion. The senses respond to motion in only one direction. Tliey sense the forward flow of time but not its back- ward flow. If they could register both directions, they would become aware of the stillness of this zero universe of seeming motion.
The Universal One planned it this way, otherwise there could be no sequential manifestation of thought which constitutes the creating universe. When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. A man seeing a technicolor motion picture for the first time and without knowledge of such electric effects would think he were looking through a window at real happenings, unaware that it was but an illuston “created” by projecting positive light through patterned negatives. That is all that creation is; two lights projected through each other to simulate motion, form and change. Our senses are like passengers on a fast-moving train. They sense parts of the landscape as they rush forward, while, to their senses, the landscape rushes backwards. The senses interpret these effects as matter in fast motion which is forever fast changing. A man, seeing the same train from a mountain, would sense that same fast motion and fast change as changeless and still. As man unfolds from sensed man to spiritual man he gradually becomes aware of the two-way motion of aU effect; that two ways being the visible effect which responds to his senses and the invisible effect which he knows but does not sense. GGradually the time arrives in his unfolding when his full awareness of Cause voids all reliance upon sensation. He then rises above his sensing. He then knows the universe of motion for what it is instead of for what it seems to be.
See thou no more with outer eyes alone for thou hast knowing eyes to void the illusions of thy sensing. “Throughout long aeons man hath walked his earth with eyes of outer seeing, giving belief to that earth of his body’s sensing. Throughout his new aeons he must walk the earth of inner seeing and know Me in it as but visioning it in Light of Me and Light of him.
For I am a patient God. I patiently await awakening man. “Awakening man is he who knoweth the Light of Me in him. Man may choose his own aeons for his awakening, but know Me he must. Until that day man’s agony of unknowing shall be man ‘s alone. His knowing must be his own desiring. “Knowing man is ecstatic cosmic man. He who beginneth to know Me in him — yea, e’en him who suspecteth Me in him hasteneth his unfolding to cosmic man of all-knowing.
THE SENSES DECEIVE Imagine a perfectly motionless wheel and a fly walk- ing around its rim, moving ever forward over changing ground, and the wheel seemingly moving backward, during a continuity of time in which the fly sensed a constant change in the changeless wheel. Every time the fly got back to the same point, it would compute the past time consumed on the journey and the forward time necessary for the next circuit. The wheel being still, motion, change and time are created by the fly itself as it takes the whole idea of the wheel apart by journeying around it and examining it bit by bit. The fly sensed motion by changing its position on the wheel. It sensed change by finding a seeming difference of condition at each forward movement. It sensed time by creating the sequences necessary in taking the one idea of the wheel apart and dividing it into many sepa- rate ideas. This simple analogy is a good symbol of Creation. This planet, like the fly on the wheel, moves forever around its motionless orbit. The orbit is as rigid and still as the wheel upon which the fly is moving. Planet moves upon the wheel of its orbit, it senses constant motion and change. It senses changes of days into nights, of spring merging into summer, autumn into winter. All of these seeming changes are in the motion of the planet and not in the wheel of its orbit. Each change is entirely due to the motion of the planet and not to the changeless orbit. The planet itself regis- ters change on its changeless wheel. Change therefore lies in motion alone. The senses are motion, therefore the senses sense only that which they themselves are.
INADEQUACY OF THE SENSES Man overrates his senses. He places too much dependence upon them without justification, for they are not recording all of the phenomena of his surroundings. He likewise trusts them too much without justification, for they are constantly deceiving him, While his senses are recording the stillness and rest of Nature on a lazy afternoon, they are failing to record the violent motion of everything in his entire environment, from the blade of grass to the clouds in the heavens above him. Those seemingly motionless clouds are moving at the speed of a thousand miles an hour at the equator without the slightest evidence of that swift motion being record- ed upon his senses. The earth also is moving many miles per second in two directions; one of rotation upon its axis and the other of revolution around its orbit. His senses register stillness. They are electrically unaware of that motion. This deception is as it should be, just as the same deception in a cinema is as it should be. God’s universe is but an electric recording of His knowing, manifested by His thinking. To thus record the idea of His knowing in the two lights of His thinking, a three dimensional universe is necessary. If the senses could detect and record all motion, instead of but a part of it, the illusion would d^appear. The senses would see behind the illu- sion and find that all motion voids itself. Division of the whole into parts causes the illusion. If the film were removed from the projector of the motion picture, the illusion of motion and change would be voided. That is what Creation is, the One Light of knowing divided into the patterned parts of thinking. Sensing is but an electric tension set up by the seeming division of one into many which “strain” to fulfill their desire for oneness. When a unity of condition is consummated, sensation between those parts ceases because the tension ceases. The senses, being but tension of desire for unity between divided parts, have no existence. The senses are electric flux threads of light connecting every particle in the universe with every other particle.
They are the intercommunicating nerves of the one universal body. When strain of desire for balance, rest or unity ceases, sensation ceases. In this electric universe, sensation is the strain of resistance to the separation which exists between all separated masses. All matter is one. Separated particles desire to find that oneness. It is part of God’s plan that the senses are limited entirely to the recording of a very small fraction of effect. The senses can never sense the Whole but the conscious Mind can KNOW the Whole.
“Love ye one another all men; for ye are one in Me. “Whatsoe’er ye do to one in Me ye do to all; for all are one in Me. “Love thy brother as thy self. Serve thy brother before thy self Lift high thy brother, lift him to high pinnacles, for thy brother is thy self “Serve first thy brother. Hurt first thy self rather than thy neighbor Gain naught from him unbalanced by thy giving. Protect thou the weak with thy strength, for if thou use thy strength against him his weakness will prevail against thee, and thy strength will avail thee naught. “He who giveth love prospereth mightily; but he who taketh aught gaineth naught
MAN’S NEW CYCLE Knowledge can be obtained by man only through awareness of the Spirit within him. Lack of that aware* ness is the tragedy of today’s civilization. New inspired messengers who know God in them- selves will likewise give the Light to this new cycle. And these few messengers of the Light must multiply into legions, for the need of a spiritual awakening is great.
Part 2
Part 3 – The Mystery of LIGHT
OMNIPRESENCE Universe of Being
“In My universe there is but one form from which all forms appear. That one form is the pulsing cube-sphere, two halves of the heart- beat of My dual thinking.
“All forms pulse, therefore, all forms are two, one form for the inbreathing pulse, which generates, and one for the outbreathing, radi- ating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, generates, and one for the outbreathing, radiating one. The cube is the sphere expanded by the outward breath to black rest in cold space, and the sphere is the cube compressed to the incandescence of white-hot suns by the inward breath. “All spheres emerge from the pulsing, breathing cubes of space and return to them to findfulcrums of rest for re-emergence.
“For I say that all things are the same thing, for all things are universal. Each thing reaches through every other thing to the farthermost star. For this purpose have I set My mirrors and My lenses of dual light to attain an infinity in My imaged universe in which no measure is. “And I also say that man ‘s infinity ends in eyes of man where it began. All things in My mirrored universe end where they began. Eternity thus ends in NOW, and Now in Eternity.
God’s imaginings extend from rest to rest in His three-dimensional radial universe of length, breadth and thickness— to become the stage of space for His imagined radial univeree of matter, time, change and motion.
Points of rest, further extended to other points of rest, form three reflecting planes of still magnetic Light which are at right angles to each other. (Fig. 4) From the center of these three mirror planes of zero curvature, God’s givings are radially projected to six opposed mirror planes for reprojection as regivings, to unfold and refold the forms of God’s imaginings in the curved electric universe of His desiring.
Notes on Walter Russell and related studies 