Good health is just as much an illusion as is poor health. Wealth is just as much an illusion as is poverty if wealth is dependent upon the number of dollars a person possesses. Dollars can disappear. You not only can lose them in investments or in property, but the government can change radically or go out of existence, as governments have done before, and your money is wiped out. Continue reading Healing Consciousness
Your mind then is the instrument, and filling it with truth you bring forth harmony. Devoid of truth, you bring forth a little good and a little evil, or a lot of good and a lot of evil. When we then use mind with a capital M, and say “the Mind of man is God,” let us understand really that we mean Mind with a capital M, the unconditioned Mind is the instrument of God, the way whereby God is made manifest unto us. Continue reading Function Of Mind Part 2
It is possible to experience God. As a matter of fact that is the goal of all of our work. It is possible to know God aright, it is possible to be consciously one with God so that there is no place where God leaves off, and we begin. But it is not possible to analyze, dissect, or describe God. Continue reading Function Of Mind Part 1
And we become beholders of the Christ in action. And as beholders of the Christ in action we are able to pierce, to see through the veil of illusion. And then instead of the ugly picture that the human mind has drawn—we begin to see Reality.
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Just see neither good nor evil, be a beholder, and then let something take place within you—let the Father present the picture to you. You just bear witness, you just behold! But not with any idea of healing anyone, not with the idea of improving or enriching anyone—merely with the idea of beholding the picture as God made it and as God sees it. Continue reading Contemplation Develops the Beholder (4/5)
You never enter into the picture, you never seek to change it, improve it, heal it, remove it, destroy it, or make it better. Always, you are at the absolute center of your own being as a beholder. And as a beholder you can truthfully say, “what a beautiful sunset, what a beautiful sunrise God is bringing about, or nature is bringing about.”
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There is another of the Master’s statements that helps us to discipline ourselves: “MY Kingdom is not of this world.” And therefore, everything that we see or hear we can instantly close out by realizing: that’s this world, but it’s not MY Kingdom—the Christ Kingdom, the spiritual Kingdom. Continue reading Contemplation Develops the Beholder (2/5)
Many times we, especially the younger student, is apt to believe that the spiritual way of life, the contemplative way of life—is one without discipline. And the very opposite of this is truth, because there is no life that requires more disciplining than the spiritual life.
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All prayer or communion with God is for only one purpose—to achieve this sense of peace within; to achieve the realization that “…lo, I am with you always.” Let us have that sense of Divine Presence now and we will have answered prayer. Let us fail to achieve this sense of peace and the prayer is not a prayer. The feeling of the Presence is in itself a prayer. Continue reading The Importance of Meditation (4/4)
Each day it is our privilege and duty to retire into our secret chamber of consciousness, and pray this prayer of realization for those of our household, our business, our community, our nation, and this giving of our understanding, of our time and our devotion will be rewarded in His Grace literally appearing as our sufficiency in all things. Continue reading The Importance of Meditation (3/4)
