There
are many examples in the Holy Books; the Bhagavad Gita, The Torah, The
Holy Bible, that give us insight into the Reality that this infinite
Intelligence, Power and Spirit that we have called G-d for lack of a
better word, is a double-thread of Love and Law that sustains life and
the universe in which we live. When we read the Holy Books with
an open and enlightened mind all that we read takes on a new meaning,
a new spiritual awareness and a greater understanding of the Life
Principle that creates, expands and sustains not only Itself but all
that It has created here and in the hereafter. It has been said
that the Spirit never dies and in this we know that the Spirit that
lives within all living things is also that eternal Life of our
Creator.
One of the biggest failings of the "collective
consciousness" is that the seeming powers of the world through
religion and politics have held mankind to a unenlightened, primitive
belief in the Presence of G-d, in the reality of Life in the Spirit
and the nature of our relationship to this Life that we call
G-d. Many people have begun to think that by rejecting religion
it is a natural next step to reject G-d. Atheism is becoming
more and more popular throughout the world; definitely not a majority
but a movement nonetheless. Do the Atheists reject
"Science" and "Nature"? Most would say they
don't but fail to realize that G-d is Science and G-d is Nature.
G-d Is Intelligence and it is Intelligence that creates through
Science and Nature. In their rejection of religion and G-d they
lose the ability to find just how incredibly powerful the human mind
can be as it is consciously unified with the Presence of infinite
Intelligence and Spirit.
The American Mystic
Ernest Holmes having studied the religions of the world and other
spiritual revelations put in writing, drew from this body of knowledge
a greater awareness of the teachings of the ancient mystics including
the teachings of the Master Mind Jesus: "There
is hidden within the mind of man a Divinity; there is incarnated in
you and in me that which is an incarnation of God. This Divine
Sonship is not a projection of that which is unlike our nature, it is
not a projection of the Divine into the human. God cannot
project Himself outside Himself; God can only express Himself within
Himself. There is and can be no such thing as a distinct or
separate individual that would be separate from the Universe.
An
"individual" means something separate from something
else. Man is not an individual in God, for this would
presuppose isolation and separation and disunion. Man is an
individualization of God. "He that hath seen me hath
seen the Father." Unity permits of no division; the altar
of God will not accept the gift made in the sense of isolation, of
fear, or appeasement. It is only the pure in heart, the
childlike in mind, and the meek who can see Him. There is no
arrogance in spirituality, for intellectual arrogance is spiritual
blindness. The stupidity, the ignorance, the futility, and the
little-ness of the intellect is a crime against the Spirit, a denial
of that sublime Thing within us which waits to take flight to more of
the complete, more of the perfect.
What was it
that Jesus proclaimed? "I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." He
was not talking about Jesus, he was talking about you.
Jesus gave us back to ourselves. How are you ever going to
consciously reach God other than through your own nature? There
are no prophets other than the wise. There is no God beyond
Truth, and no revelation higher than the realization of the Divinity
within us. That whch the ages have failed to reveal, you and I
must reveal; each to himself in the secret chamber of he own heart,
the secret place of the Most High, where only and alone does one abide
under the shadow of the Almighty. This aloneness is not
loneliness; is is the one all-inclusive, all-penetrating unity of
everything that is.
This was the claim that
Jesus made upon the Universe, and we must do the same; identify
ourselves with the same Presence, the same Person, and the same
Principle. The mind and the spirit cannot help but generate
love. Since we are one with all life, we wish to express and
experience the most life we can - your life is my life, my life is
your life. I cannot leave you out and understand myself. I
am incomplete. I am lame and blind and halt without
inclusion. Our littleness, the narrow vision of our spiritual
perspective causes the horizon of God's boundless skies to press so
close to us that we are suffocated by that which alone can give
life. We must reverse the process."
The truth is that the Atheist and the Fundamentalists of religion are
both blind to the Truth of Life and G-d. Neither can see beyond
the human mind's perceptions to any great degree that unifies Life and
Spirit and Intelligence and Power for all these are recognized within
... "the kingdom of G-d is within you" ... until and unless
we begin to identify with the Presence within us we will be no
better off than the primitive man who also believed that Science and
G-d were a separation rather than a Unity.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the
faith!
Rev.
Henry Bates
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