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The Way to a Wonderful Life, Sunday, December
1, 2013
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"It
is not that we are to accept anything blindly, but we are certainly not
to seek God through intellectual reasoning. The things of God are
foolishness to man; that is, to mortal man. "Cease ye from
man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be
accounted of?" (Isaiah, ancient wisdom) Do not look at a
mortal man and hope to find God. If you do, you will not find
healing, because the spiritual world does not heal human beings.
The spiritual teaching reveals the Son of God, the Christ being, and it
does not do that through human reasoning or thinking. The Son of
God is revealed through spiritual intuition. Do not permit
yourself to be cheated out of the wonderful glories of heaven on earth
by a reliance on intellect. You cannot achieve heaven on earth
with the thinking process. Beyond the five physical senses, beyond
the sixth sense which we call intuition, there is a seventh sense which
operates even above the intuition - that seventh sense is spiritual
discernment or spiritual consciousness."
-
Joel
Goldsmith, The Master Speaks
Throughout history the world has given us various man-made-gods that not only
offends the intellect but denies the profound spiritual revelations
contained in the Holy Scriptures. The mysticism in the Torah and
the Holy Bible have been dismissed in favor of religious dogma and this
has created a human experience where there is a belief in a separation
from G-d and a separation from each other. And this is why so much
of the world's discord can be traced back to organized religion.
Even those who have moved in consciousness away from organized religion
have failed to loosen from their consciousness the subtle dogmas of
their own religious or spiritual theologies. There is something in
the human consciousness that craves to "fit in" or to be
surrounded by "like-minded" people, and in so doing many have
been distracted from the very thing that they were seeking ... spiritual
fulfillment gained through experiencing G-d. In truth, the only
G-d we will ever know is the G-d that we personally experience. In
"The Way to a Wonderful Life" we know that our mind must be
free of anything and everything that tells us that there is only
"one way" in which to experience the Infinite Presence in our
lives. We realize that Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Isaiah and Jesus
were all telling us that we must "discover" that Something
present in our life experience that words cannot define nor can the
human mind ever fully embody. The mystics referred to It by many
names but the one that is most familiar to most of us is "the
Christ." It is the Son of G-d in that It is that part of
G-d incarnated within each of us ... "Son" meaning in the
nature of the Father.
In "The Master
Speaks" we can read: "Everyone,
to some extent, is under the claim or belief of human consciousness.
Remember, however, that you do not have a human mind of your own, nor a
human consciousness. The human mind or human state of
consciousness is a universal sense of separation from God.
Actually, there is only one mind, the instrument of God. But there
is a false or limited sense of that mind, which we call the human mind
or human consciousness. It is not really mind or consciousness,
but a limited sense of the one infinite Consciousness. Through
that limited sense, you look at the body and see the changes that that
limited sense depicts."
Now, Goldsmith is deep, but so are you
and me when our mind is open and receptive to spiritual truth. We
too have that deep sense of the soul that goes beyond that which we can
see, hear, feel, taste and touch. And perhaps our times in which
we realize that our mind is an instrument of G-d are brief and perhaps
fleeting, but we nonetheless know that this is the truth. As we
seek to go beyond the limited human senses and empty our mind of the
noise and nonsense that permeates the collective consciousness or race
mind, we shall find our way will be made clear to us from that
Intelligence which is always seeking to impart to us a Higher Self of us
than we have imagined ourselves to be.
Let's
look at more from Goldsmith's "The Master Speaks":
"What
we are called on to do is, not to preach the gospel in the sense of
going out and talking it, but to preach the gospel in the sense of
living it, showing forth what it is doing in our experience. Then,
strangely enough, we do not have to tell anyone about it. They can
see it in our whole being; and, certainly they can see any health or
supply that we show forth. So we never really need to speak.
When we find our God in secret, that secret will be shouted from the
housetops. ... Let us, then, begin with that knowledge. Let our
relationship with God be a sacred and secret one. Let it be made
manifest outwardly only through the appearance of the new harmony of our
being and of our body."
For
those of you who follow "The Way to a Wonderful Life" this
spiritual principle of keeping secret that which is between us and G-d
is not new. As Joel Goldsmith writes "let
our relationship with God be a sacred and a secret one" and
this is important for each of us as no one will have the same experience
as another and discussing it or trying to get someone else to understand
it, even those who we consider spiritually knowledgeable, can be
frustrating and have a diminishing effect on our interest in the ideas
that Infinite Intelligence has imparted to us. It is similar to
trying to get someone else to understand our vision for our life ...
they can't see it because it is "our vision" not theirs.
They may get the general idea of it, but they will not have the same
sense of it as we do.
And let's think about these final words
from Joel Goldsmith: "Spiritual
power lies in the awareness of God as omnipresent, as the Presence
appearing as individual being. You can begin to utilize spiritual
power any moment that you like. All you have to do is to adopt the first
commandment of Moses and the commandment that Jesus added to it, which
is also an Old Testament commandment, revised. There is but one
power. Acknowledge no other power but God, and see God as
omnipresent, as all individual being. Recognize that good is the
only power, and evil is not a power. Evil does not exist as a
power, but as an illusion. The second commandment, "Love thy
neighbor as thyself," means that if you believe that you, yourself,
are spiritual, or that your mother is, or that your child is, you should
then "love your neighbor" - and that means the whole world -
with the same love. Know that God is just as much the reality of
this person's being as of that person's being. In other words,
know that God is the reality of universal being, and that there is no
being separate or apart from God's being. Then you are utilizing
spiritual power. ... Some time during the day or some time during the
night, sit down and give earnest thought to this great truth of loving
your neighbor as yourself, recognizing God as the life of all spiritual
being, recognizing the one mind as governing the spiritual creation.
Stay with your vision of God as the actual reality, presence, and power
of all spiritual creation, and then let that truth govern what we call
the concept or outer condition. ... Spiritual power begins with an
individual and actually ends there. If we utilize spiritual power
for the realization of God as omnipresence, we then find that it appears
here, there, and the other place, and gradually, spreads, until Its
light eliminates the darkness on the face of the earth."
As we follow this
instruction of Joel Goldsmith consistently and persistently, we
shall discover the ever-Present Christ within us ... and we shall
realize, most assuredly, that "the kingdom of G-d" is within
us.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the
faith!
Rev.
Henry Bates
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