ASK

A Quintology: "Ask, and ye shall receive."

 

by Walter C. Lanyon

 

CONTENTS

Credo
"Thou Hast Conquered Galilean"
The Space Between

He Openeth His Hand
Conditioned
Who By Taking Thought?
About Translation
Manifestation
When A Man
In Him
The Fountain
Let Him Hear
This Babbler
Allegory, "The Golden Gate"
The Word
The Pool of Resources
There is a Lad Here
Concerning Immortality
The Pool of Bethesda
He Breathed
The Golden Instant
The Touch
Notes
The Evidence
Genius
So He Made It Again
Enter
Awake
He Made Darkness His Secret Place
Operation
Spiritual Ancestry
God Requires the Past        
Absorption
Self Affirmation        
Launch Out   
Beyond the Square of Reason
Recognition
The Odor of Sanctity
Ten Thousand Instructors
"How Like the Ugly Toad"    
Butter
Searching     
The Other Disciple
Darkness-Oneness
Be Still
Notes
O Morning Glory
The Intelligence
A Tight Place
Questions and Answers
The Law of Probability
The Greatest Distance
Self    
The Now Man          

LECTURES

You Are Quickened
The Silent Monologue
You Are Not Afraid   

Manifest Substance

 

FOREWORD

These are books of inspiration, decoding of the WORDS of Jesus Christ. They are recorded as they came into being - with little or no change. They are for contemplation.

When a man hears, he will go within - shut out all the nonsense of human thought and when he comes forth, he will be divinely indifferent for he will know.

When these manuscripts were ready for the publisher, the urge came so strongly to lecture on them - and a series of lectures was given and recorded. It was most interesting to discover that the spoken word the lectures - seemed to have caught a certain clarity or revelation which was thought to be worthy of retention and accordingly they have been included - though they cover much of the material in the written word. The emphasis lay on repetition.

CREDO

To sing, to laugh, to dream,

To walk in my own way and be alone,

Free, with an eye to see things as they are,

To fight - or write. To travel any road

Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt

If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne -

Never to make a line I have not heard

In my own heart; yet, with all modesty

To say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers,

With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them

In the one garden you may call your own."

From Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand

Translated by Brian C. Hooker

 

"THOU HAST CONQUERED GALILEAN"

If the thing called AGE had any REALITY, God would be hoary with years. Age is the illusion that is accrued by memory. The Countess of Patoka died at eighty. An autopsy reported her body to be eighteen. She became mentally stationery at THAT AGE, due to a great shock. This is only an incident, - and is tossed aside as a "once in a while." Yet do we see that if Age were a reality then God would be the first to record it, and all emanation from God would be decrepit and ancient. Yet is the day perpetually new, the tree, the bird, the flower. Memory then is, as the old song says, "The only thing that grief can call its own" - and it might be added that Age can call its own. The human mind is invincibly maladroit. Anything can happen if it has an excuse.

That which kept the garments new in the desert for forty years - and which RESTORES Thy Youth like the eagle's, and causes transformation and transfiguration to take place is not THOUGHT OUT, or made to appear by thinking.

It MAY be satisfying to know how to work out a GIVEN problem. A child could memorize the formulae for a problem in Euclid, - set it down and show the results - but that is the end of his manifestation. The slightest SHADE of difference in the problem leaves him helpless. Did the people who wore the garments and shoes that waxed not old, age? If so, why?

If he understood the PRINCIPLE of the law, - he could work out endless combinations called problems. All problems are only mental equations. They have no actuality. They all start with the acceptance of a false equation. Even the problems in arithmetic have to be made up, in order that you may return to the place from which you started, - the NO PROBLEM place, the One. Everything in human thought must eventually return to the ONE. Life in the raw - the undesignated substance which is everywhere present and appears when recognition takes place. Hence a man can and does produce in the desert that which cannot be produced according to the appearances of things. Clouds of words have obscured the Laws given by Jesus Christ.

How hardly then shall a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven. He is rich and loaded with beliefs and records established on the flimsy basis of that which his ancestors have accepted as Truth. When he awakens, he HEARS - "Come out from among them and be ye separate." Come out from among what? and why? and Where? It is all so much talk and meaningless until you begin to sense-feel the difference between Spirit and thought. The Place of suspended animation - the place of "Beholding" something too big for thought and utterly impossible of definition. It is the discovery of God - the universal - the ONE - the LIFE.

LIFE is that immaterial substance everywhere present; - ready to come into manifestation at the moment of recognition. It is that IMPELLING force back of you which from the moment of your creation has been with YOU, and is instantly available. Now you are becoming conscious of your immortality, and when you begin to sense this, you will see what Jesus meant when' he implied that you had never been born and consequently have never been unconscious. The eternal creation of God in all its glory and perfection has never gone through the processes of birth and death. It is eternally what it is - a creation of the Living God. As we sense this ETERNALITY of the LIFE CREATION, we begin to see how it might be likened unto a bolt of Lightning which passes through a hundred incarnations of human belief.

"Who are your father, mother, etc?" Who are you? What are you doing? Where have you been? In the land of NOD- belief in an existence apart from God, hypnotized by the Adam mesmerism, - dazed and bemused into believing that you were a matter body, a creation of man and woman, that your days were naturally filled with fear, sickness and trouble, quibbling about going to heaven even as you profess belief in Jesus Christ, who explained the Kingdom as here.

Could anything be more magnificent than the prayer "Now O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was"? What world? The world called John Smith? The world of hypnotism and belief which you have taken upon yourself, over and over, as you went wandering through the thing called reincarnation. There is the sudden remembrance, and the SUDDEN arising and the sudden going to the Father state of Life; the re-discovery that you were Created by God; - created perfect. As you sense this, perfection begins to appear; when the body is absent from the mind, the bondage of fear and disease are relaxed. The temple is cleansed and comes again to its fair proportions. It is wonderful - it is filled with wonder and Light - revelation - recognition and secrecy. It is as morning radiance filled with splendor. You will say with the Emperor Julian, after he had seen all the hellish devices to destroy the Christ Revelation fail - "Thou hast conquered, Galilean." As the Lord said to Moses - "See, I have made thee a God," so has He said to thee; - thou Golden One, made in the image and likeness - given power over all the things on the earth, under the earth, and above the earth; - created a little lower than the Angels - (the great centers of power and force emanating from the Center of Centers) - the heart of God - that which operates the universe and all its wonders from the tiniest manifestation unto the greatest.

This deeper abiding consciousness causes you to KNOW all the things that are to be added.

"The believers in ONE God change not, age not, die not; everything else: earth, men, their beliefs and opinions is subject to decay and change."

Sophocles.

"Thou hast conquered Galilean."

That is what his crucifiers had to say. What else could they say? The Galilean is still conquering.

 

THE SPACE BETWEEN

The space between the cruse of oil and the manifestation of abundance stems from the belief there are vacuities in God. The space between is like the apparent space between electricity and equipment ... nothing can take place until a tiny fuse is inserted and the "space between" is filled. The omnipresence of God needs only this fuse (you) of complete recognition or belief to cause the oil to start flowing and from three drops come barrels of oil. It will not stop flowing as long as there is an empty measure.

All this lovely symbology is nil until man discovers that he is the fuse: - the thing which fills the space between something and nothing, and causes manifestation to take place. No wonder Jesus stressed the importance of being silent. No wonder He asked you to be absent from the body, and to come out into the ONENESS of spirit wherein you would find FREE ONENESS. Free Oneness is an Oriental expression of oneness with God. Man is then freed from all beliefs of degrees of life. It is wonderful.

So you enter into the Space Between. You are now at the place where the invisible becomes visible. No one believes this. That is why you are told to place the coal of fire on your Lips, and to go within and shut the door. This law is much disobeyed by earnest seekers of the Light who cannot understand why there are no results, and why the oil does not pour. Yes, you are to borrow vessels not a few. And it means just that. You have been living in a world of limitation.

When you enter or become the "Space between" the flow fills everything around you, - and neutralizes the belief so completely that the problem of lack and limitation does not exist in your universe.

Enter into the Place between and let the flow of light come through you and fill all measures not for the sake of self aggrandizement, but for the free oneness of you and God.

Yes, you are the space between ... Enter in and let the flow of LIFE begin to take place. You, yourself, are the answer to prayer. Free ONENESS:

Take it into the sanctuary. Take that word and return unto Jehovah, - the point of power and creation, and see what takes place in the movement of ONENESS when it is freed from the involvement of your human belief, teaching, and thought. You are suddenly a new creature in this light and understand how it is that FREE ONENESS moves by its own power, and has nothing to overcome. It suddenly arrives and IS, and so do you go within and shut the door and stop telling of and about, and begin to experience the action of FREE ONENESS in your own life. Yes, it is like the man who found the pearl of Great Price and bought a field and buried it, after he had let go of all the old worn out cliches and ideas he had picked up from the man whose breath was, and is, in his nostrils. And that buried pearl will illumine the whole earth. Go in - shut the door - put the coal of fire on the lips. IT IS WONDERFUL.

 

HE OPENETH HIS HAND

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing."

With this overshadowing comes the peace that passeth ALL. An osmosis - absorption - a blending; into the ONE takes place and there is no longer question and answer, problem and solution.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" becomes a reality. There is no limitation - no questioning whether the desire is good, bad, or indifferent - for from this elevation the desire is the shape of the idea sent straight from the heart of God, and is made alive by the pulsating heartbeat of the universe.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" yet are you desireless, free from wanting and ready to move into a place of substance, out of the place of things and yet in the midst of them all. You are suddenly One. There is no more you and your problem, there is only you. You pass easily through the crowd of beliefs.

The Light universal keeps shining. As it intensifies, it absorbs the shadows of human belief; nothing matters, yet, everything does. It transform the Temple-body into a tenuous substance, through which it can shine forth, - assuming any attribute of God at will. Healing is not, then, some wonder projected through human thought, but rather the enveloping of the Golden Shadow. It is a natural blending with LIFE which rules out the narrow confines of health and strength in humankind. I AM suddenly submerged in a sea of LIFE - eternal, golden, and all redolent with the LOVE of God.

For the first time, the mystical becomes the intensely practical - the only real thing you have ever known. Sight becomes a capacity to peer through the dense midnight of thought, by means of the Light which projects its Golden Shadow from the "Mind which was also in Christ Jesus" and which you realize is the mind that is also in you.

No longer will you compromise with this power and put it through a thousand and one beliefs concocted by the mind of man. Instead, you permit it to take shape and form, even as the air takes the shape automatically of any vessel, yet never congeals or becomes set in that form, but lasts only for the moment of the duration of the desire.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing" - it is a carte blanche releasement of HIS Love, and it has to be received naturally and not as some special dispensation. It is as though the Golden Shadow has cleared away all obstruction between you and His Love, and you can hear, and really HEAR what is being communicated to the earth plane; now you can really know the full dimensions of His Love, and that all manifestation will take place, independent of your thought and without any effort.

As a sudden heavy rain falls upon a parched desert and is instantly absorbed, so does this descent of spirit come upon you. It instantly changes the nature of the desert and the very seeds already there begin to stir. Something is to take place - "the desert is to blossom as a rose" - because of the downpour of His Love, and because of the Recognition. You are being conditioned to a new dimension.

The Golden Shadow is the Golden Fleece which you have sought for so long and which has been guarded by the Gorgon, with her snaky locks of human devices, ways and means. Upon whomsoever this Golden Shadow rests, something - a quickening, takes place - without effort, and without any of the old ideas of healing and helping. It is entirely impersonal and natural and has nothing at all to do with human thought. Nothing can stay it, nothing can project it; it is a natural movement or urge in the mind of God passing through the temple-body (man) casting the Golden Shadow of Love and doing the things called "miraculous" by its revealing Light.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." Heaven and earth are full of thee - full, pressed down, and running over - there is not one empty vessel left, - even the borrowed ones are full. The Love of God keeps flowing until everything is satisfied. And all the while the Golden Shadow keeps revealing the intensely practical angle of it. It is not a mystical intangible thing, but something to be experienced and something to be handled with the hands and something that causes the wine of inspiration to flow through the body-temple with the rush of a pure mountain torrent. Health is absorbed into the LIFE of GOD, which knows no limitations.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." You must be ALIVE to participate in this benefit. You have to come out of the tomb of human thinking into the clean, fresh and almost fierce tides of LIFE. You have to be ALIVE in the recognition and the instant response to HIS Voice.

To human thought His word is almost unbearably stimulating, breaking its limitations. The Spirit refuses to be longer held in the narrow confines of the letter. The grandeur, the magnificence of pure Spirit leaves you speechless and bereft of all thought. "Let the earth keep silent before me and renew her strength" - the body, the temple, the earth of you is experiencing the renewing of self-revelation.

You have entered a new mansion where there are "singing masons building roofs of gold."* "Beauty, then is the destiny" ** which begins to shape itself and put to flight the FATE of human thought.

Yes, "thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desires of every living thing." Right now - stay there a moment.

"Not to desire is to have." Can you hear?

_________

* Shakespeare.  ** Plato.

 

CONDITIONED

Transformation takes place when the Mental is released into the Spiritual. You become conditioned to reality. That which emanates from the mind of God is designated as LIGHT, GRACE, GLORY.

What comes out of the brain machine is constructed of all the limitations of judging from appearances, ancestor teachings, and superstitions.

The only possible way to escape the dire effects of thought is to pick up the force in apparent evil, merging it in the one source God, thereby depriving the manifestation of its power, hence it falls into the dust for it has nothing to support it. The thought machine stops functioning and the manifestation of evil disappears.

"Return ye even unto ME with all your hearts and ye shall find rest for your souls" - when you return to the one, you leave false mis-action of thought. "Once I was blind NOW I can see" for the moment the distorted sense of LIGHT, which is causing the blindness through taking thought is released, and the whole picture becomes NOW - the only so-called time there is. Human thought stretches in both directions from NOW - but produces nothing but so-called Maya - illusion.

When thought is resolved into LIGHT, the so-called miracle takes place; - which is only a miracle to the human limited thought, - but a natural functioning of GOD LAW.

Intuition does not stem from thought, but from God. What man makes of it or does with it in his Adam belief is different with every individual.

If the Mind is "Stayed" on HIM then the whole body is filled with LIGHT, and in some subtle manner the operation of the body becomes harmonious and perfect.

From mental action to the Spiritual BEING, from the movement of thought back to the motionless BEING is what takes place when Jesus "Goes unto the Father" - when the thought force is cast again into the Sea of Mind and has lost all its distortions, beliefs, and limitations.

Thought like the waves of the sea beats itself out on the shores - but the deeps are Still - "Be still and know that I AM GOD" - enter into the One. Pick up the loose ends of thought and return them unto the LIGHT and see the manifestation change from evil to harmony.

"Ye shall KNOW the truth," and that is something else again from "knowing the truth." You are commanded to KNOW the truth, but the human thought-taking mind wants to do something in an already created world and instead of recognizing the finished Kingdom - regardless of what he sees with the human eyes - he begins "knowing" the truth which carries with it the hope that it will happen instead of following the command, "Ye shall. KNOW the truth": that "I am the Truth." You cannot know a thing that does not already exist and the Truth IS and is to be KNOWN - recognized, instead of being put through the human thought of "knowing" or attempting to create it.

The mental action of knowing the truth is filled with effort and the overcoming of obstacles. Results are uncertain and unpredictable for it has an avalanche of beliefs to combat. To KNOW the truth is to be able to make the Gesture - "Stretch forth your hand." To KNOW the truth is to experience the instant manifestation or revelation of that which IS. Healing is in reality, - revelation.

When the mortal body shall put on immortality, the fusing as it were takes place and man is just where: he started - "The Spiritual being created in the image and likeness of God" - and he will "Call no man his father."

"We speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught." The permanent identity - the ego remains forever intact as it was created in the beginning. "I go to prepare a place for you ... that where I AM there ye may be also." There is no ambiguity about this permanent identity - "where I am" - at the same level and height of power and fullness - "there ye may be also." It very clearly states that "Where I AM" - not in any sense inferring a time element - about where I will be or where I was at some past date - but where I AM. That is the secret WORD - the thing hidden from the wise and prudent, with its double meaning - its quality of BEING, and its location WHERE I am, The moment we enter into this I AM - the little I AM functioning as Jesus or John Smith suddenly is enveloped by the One - the thought limitations of Jesus are swallowed in the LIGHT of the I AM. That which speaks of itself and says "I can of mine own self do nothing" suddenly is doing all things and not by the thought that said "It is four months" - but by the NOW or revelation, the place of the I AM, the action of the I AM, which is always in the dimension of LIGHT. The dateless quality of the I AM throws much light on the question of Immortality. "Before Abraham was I AM" and if you blend into the I AM, you begin to discover the LIFE quality suddenly absorbing the limited idea of health and supposed power shut up in a body or a brain. I AM that I AM. I AM he that should come to this apparent situation. When I know this, the limitations of the problem break up to make way for the I AM. I AM he that should come. So when the mental is released into the Spiritual, transformation takes place. You become conditioned to reality.

 

WHO BY TAKING THOUGHT

You are asked a very pertinent and definite question. "Who by taking thought can ...?"

Thought is like a rope tied to a captive balloon. An Idea is borne in upon you. You either accept it, or take thought about it. If you take thought about it - nothing but frustration happens. The energy that is used in taking thought is that which would have sustained the idea into manifestation.

All this seems vague and hypothetical until you become silent and see how true it is. "Take no thought" about the idea, and you will have manifestation in due season. You are told to "go" without thought, "carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes," what you shall eat, etc. The moment the idea is accepted and forgotten, then all the energy which would have gone into thought hastens the manifestation of the IDEA.

I stood once in a London Pea Soup Fog. Had I not been told that yonder in the fog lay London, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, and a thousand and one other well known places, but as far as I was concerned there was nothing but obscurity. Yet, there it lay, and as I stood there I remembered the account of the Mist that went up and watered the face of the whole earth and that the perfect creation lay there in all its beauty. Yet through looking at the mist, I had spent many life times trying to re-create a new universe which would have to be super-imposed upon the perfect creation, and this Adam creation would be constructed on a basis of judging from appearances, and finding everything in the last analysis wrong. Even man had finally invented an instrument which would take him and his kind out of the picture, and so he hurried to try to make an agreement not to use it.

Gradually, we begin to see that the LAWS as Spoken into being by Jesus Christ are actually the laws which operate one hundred percent, and when recognized produce the manifestation out of the invisible substance.

The Mist that went up covered the whole face of the earth and hid - not destroyed - everything. What a revelation to know this, for it again substantiates the law that Creation is finished and done and called very good and this also applies to you - created in the image and likeness of God.

Now a new dimension comes into view which we are beginning to discover, not create or demonstrate, and as the mystification in your mind gets thinner, then, the IDEAS begin to show through, and if we can accept them, we will be able to see them and experience them.

The perfect creation begins to project itself through the mist of belief and the balloon is free to ascend to the higher heavens of inventions.

Who by taking thought? You answer it, and begin to see how much energy and power is expended in thinking of and about, instead of being used to substantiate the IDEA.

 

ABOUT TRANSLATION

Enoch was translated.

We are prone to make supernatural the idea of "Translation." We are always looking for something unnatural to happen when God comes into expression. The most unpredictable things can take place and do take place all the time, - and we accept them without question. Witness the "transformation" that took place at Hiroshima at the introduction of the atomic bomb, an invention of man. Who wonders at that? A complete change of land and life taking place in a split second. Man can apparently do his "miracles" then - but with God, it is something else.

Jesus did not have any special gifts, - until He was translated by becoming aware of the Presence. He entered into a new degree of consciousness, and discovered certain capacities not known to the former state. Of Jesus He said, "I can of mine own self do nothing."

It has been whispered about that "you" are to be "transformed by the renewing of your mind." That is a form of "translation." It is a literal thing, as all the laws given by Jesus Christ are literal when understood. They are not to be demonstrated as something peculiar to a few people - but as natural laws coming into being when recognized. The action of God is in sharp focus - not in the soft focus of imagination.

Intellectual vanity is neither power nor understanding. The most wonderful thing about Jesus Christ is the fact that He materialized everything He talked about. His word was so replete with recognition it literally leaped into manifestation before the astonished eyes of His disciples. The yearning expressed in His words is moving. He wanted so to make man see the new dimension as natural and real - something that actually took place literally instead of hypothetically.

I wish He might have said of me, "I have not found so great faith - no, not in Israel" - I am wondering if some time or other the Christ is not going to say it to me and you? We are going to measure up surely to the place of absolute Faith and hear not only the, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," - the glorious statement "I have not found so great faith - no, not in Israel." It will be thrilling. It's coming. It will happen when we are translated from the present degree of "knowing the truth" into the place of "I AM the Truth." Some wonderful things are going to happen to you, - that much I can write unto you.

Every one in the Bible who "pleased God" experienced some sort of up-lilt of expression, - and so we see Elijah taking off in a fiery chariot. And all those who did these things took their bodies with them. Jesus did the same thing - He took His body with Him. What good is it to be just consciousness without a temple of expression? The question then is, "For why will ye die?" I know all the answers from the human standpoint, - but none of them good enough. The answer is, you won't when you are translated.

When you are translated "out" of the human intelligence into the Wisdom of God, you will speak with new tongues - and what you speak will take body and form.

You "please God" when you acknowledge HIM. You do not have to keep asking for things if you will let Him give you the desires of your heart. If you can do this naturally and without the foolishness of demonstrating Him, it will all take place "in the twinkling of an eye."

"In all thy ways acknowledge Him And He shall direct thy paths."

Do you begin to hear? - the perpetual acknowledgment of Him in everything: - devil, enemy, hell and disease, as well as friends, health and substance.

 

MANIFESTATION

The moment a thing is manifested it is on its way out. Draw a hundred dollars from the bank and it is gone. Before you draw it out, it is there - yet it is not there - not the actual hundred dollar bill. You do it all in "your name" - and the moment it comes into manifestation it begins to disappear. It is so with all manifestation. God is the great Unmanifest - the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The actual SUBSTANCE; the moment it is stepped down to the point of manifestation it begins to disintegrate and to return to the original substance, unless stayed by recognition.

Unless man discovers that he Lives and moves and has his being in the ONE substance at the same moment it lives and breathes and has its being in him, he is only a temporary thing which is quickly passing into oblivion by all the evil means at the disposal of the mind which believes in separation. There is no separation between me and thee - there is One - yet I am the expression (the pressed out idea) of GOD, sent for a purpose - to bring, to release the LIGHT.

How can a man "renew his youth" if he does not know that he lives in the immaterial substance, which to know aright is LIFE eternal? It is wonderful when you glimpse it, - you begin to see you are actually LIVING in the invisible and immaterial substance of God and that this knowledge is what sustains the eternal freshness and newness of manifestation. Even as their garments waxed not old. How was it - unless the immaterial substance was always present, and as long as it is recognized, so long does the manifestation stay in place. It is wonderful.

"Heaven and earth are full of thee" and this alone will disintegrate the old beliefs and the "flesh shall become new like a child" because the immaterial substance is constantly flowing into manifestation and sustaining and refreshing the form and shape Spirit has given it.

Can we take it? Not as long as we argue about it. Not as long as we do not believe - believing is not a mental effort - it is a discovery. When the discovery is made, the manifestation takes place.

If you were before Abraham even as Jesus said He was - what about it? Whence came this manifestation of three score and ten, filled with evil, and that man must work out his living by the sweat of his brow? That is the chimera of belief: the mist that went up; - the hypnotism that came upon man when he descended to the level of freewill, and decided he would create again that which had been created and called very good.

Why did Jesus always return to the Matrix" Why does the sculptor return to his idea? The more he contemplates, the more accurately he is able to bring it forth and give it a body and form. "I go unto the Father" - I in the father and the father in me - all sounds like so much talk, until the sudden, quick, almost terrible recognition of the Presence is made.

"I go unto the Father" not to the idea of some man or the desires of some man, - but to the Matrix, the Father, and in that place of unmanifest substance I am completely renewed; - that is: I lose the accumulation of beliefs that have crystalized upon me like barnacles on a ship. It is said that a ship covered with barnacles if run into sweet waters will automatically lose the barnacles, and so is it with man - the moment he runs into God, he loses the evil he has accumulated for years through the ancestor teaching and belief.

 

 

WHEN A MAN

When a man is not guilty of that which he is accused - all that is necessary is to drop any effort in connection with it, and instead of taking further thought go to the Place of LIGHT. The place of LIGHT is the point of recognition. When recognition is made of the Presence then all other "presences" are as naught. The thing that comes at you in ONE way of concentrated force of human belief will flee in ten, when it comes into contact with this recognition. The heart that knows it is not guilty and has merged into the LIGHT - suddenly experiences a surge of power. He hears singing within the temple of his being "YOU are NOT afraid" of what man can do unto you. He can do nothing the moment you are at the point of SELF recognition. You put up your sword; the battle is not yours but God's. That's good enough for any warrior - and should instantly allay any belief in two powers. The more imminent evil becomes and the greater the ramifications - the nearer it is to destruction - it is Wonderful. Then can you "Praise God from whom ALL (not some) blessings flow." There is a mental and physical relaxation in this contemplation. To be "Still" is to be STILL - and not a condition produced by taking thought - but suddenly to BE STILL. No noise that man can make with whatever instrument he may have, can compare with the "NOISE OF MANY WATERS."

The Power of the Presence of purity, the roaring of the waters through the beliefs of human thought, silence forever the NOISE of man. So do you stand in the LIGHT -"though ten thousand shall rise against thee" - yet shall your heart be not afraid, for it is only ten thousand thought formations which have nothing to sustain them but your acceptance of them as real. The moment you rise to the ONE - the LIGHT will absorb, dissipate and utterly put to flight all that which is against thee.

"I will fear NO (not any) evil for thou art with me." Appearances are for the moment; - the dust storm that obscures the sun is but a brief encounter with materialized thought which is soon blown away.

Recently a man shot at another, but the bullet hit a steel post ricocheted and finally passed through his own heart. When evil runs into Light, it has a Strange habit of returning to the point of its origin.

 

IN HIM

Man lives in God yet he does not see God - for it is written that "no man shall see God and Live." The moment he SEES the degree of God in which he lives, he discovers the nothingness of things and "dies" to them, only to arise to a higher degree of consciousness, and make new and more wonderful discoveries about the power called God. A fish does not see the water he swims in, and man does not see the air in which he lives - and he does not see God, but he sees the infinite manifestations of HIS Presence, and it is only when he comes to the NATURAL knowledge of ONENESS that he begins to assign to things their proper place. They become something to be USED and not possessed. The moment he begins to possess things, he transfers power into the manifestation which is only an illusion, and the illusion possesses him.

Heraclitus, the Greek Philosopher, believed all things were in a constant state of flow - and knew that man could not step in the same river twice. All things are in a constant state of change. The permanency of Spirit (the unseen) gives a solid basis for LIFE. Manifestation automatically takes care of itself. Every plant of the field was beheld in the mind of God before it appeared, revealing the fundamental truth that both seed and flower are at once in the mind of God. Manifestation is the shadow. All vegetation appeared before there was any rain, and before any man had time or idea of tilling the soil. So the tiller of the soil pauses, and as he pauses a moment, for a brief encounter with REALITY, he discovers a thanksgiving welling up in him.

He begins to see the "why" of "before you ask." He begins to know the "substance" and the "evidence" of the unseen must be recognized if the reflection is to be cast into the manifest world.

When are YOU going to stop TRYING to demonstrate God, and let Him have His way instead of your mistaken concept?

Your part is the being Still - with your mind stayed on reality - not on manifestation.

 

THE FOUNTAIN

The Fountain at the end of the garden walk retains its shape and form - though the water is constantly changing as you walk toward it. As long as the power is on, the shape remains intact; - the moment the power is turned off, water becomes a shapeless mass ready to take any form introduced into it. So it is with the substance of consciousness - until there is a shape and form, it is void - nothingness, and remains that way until it is shapened again by the matrix.

Electricity flows endlessly through wires into manifestation of a thousand denominations, yet remains always electricity - and man watches over the powerhouse while the manifestation flows endlessly into expression. All illustrations are worthless - meaningless when it comes to actually moving into the consciousness known as the "mind which was also in Christ Jesus." When one begins to perceive this, he will also begin to arrive at the point of manifestation. But the human thought, hypnotized by thousands of aeons of belief in ancestor teaching and ideas, has the cart before the horse, and spends all its effort and time trying to "demonstrate Truth" - instead of recognizing consciousness. When you have the consciousness of a given thing, the manifestation will take place endlessly; - no matter how often it is wiped out - the consciousness will replace it with the ease that you "replace" the reflection in a mirror. You can break a mirror, but that does not destroy anything but the reflection, and never that which causes the reflection; likewise it is with consciousness - the moment you discover this, the manifestation will FOLLOW.

It is stated in the Law the "signs follow, they do not precede" - yet the Adam man, having imagined he could create, proceeds to work from the without in. He studies and works with man-made ideas or systems; all of which are founded on the teaching of Jesus Christ - but putting them through a human concept of it, he gets everything backward, so he naturally spends his time trying to make manifestations which he calls demonstrations or answers to treatments or prayers. Once he is concerned with consciousness, the signs will follow, and in my (name) NATURE shall he cast out the devils of limited human belief. By doing this, the hard, fast condensation of thought will be wiped out of the Temple - BODY and it shall be filled with LIGHT which will operate perfectly the body-temple and cause a man to KNOW LIFE, and eventually LIFE eternal - as he KNOWS ME. "This is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God." - and only as man stops trying to "demonstrate God" will he be able to see Him in the Flesh. "YET in my flesh shall I See God" - for I shall recognize Him as the natural and real instead of the demonstrated power of human thought.

Gradually, the ease with which it is accomplished will put to flight all the intellectual hunting in the archives of human wisdom - and he, too, will BELIEVE. You do not think it strange that a child - knowing nothing about life - accepts what it is told by the parent, and by doing just this without question, produces a Santa Claus; - the illustration is again absurd, but the ease with which it is done was what Jesus was referring to when He said: "Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." Ignorant, as far as human intellection is concerned, unable to carry on an elaborate reasoning system, but able to accept without question. If you must become as a little child, why bother further with what a man has to say on how to demonstrate?

All illustrations in the Bible are of the most drastic design. Nothing can be more devastating to cloth than the burning sun and sands of the desert, and this was the test that was made. As long as anything is submerged in the ocean, it partakes of the quality of the ocean - and in like manner as long as you are "submerged" in God and are conscious of it, you partake of the quality of Spirit which is neither young nor old, but it is the glorious freshness and aliveness of God.

When Croesus, the richest of men, grew weary for other worlds to conquer, even as Alexander did, he looked toward Cyprus and Persia. Being a superstitious man, he consulted the oracle of Apollo at Delphi and was told: If he crossed the Halys Mountains, he would destroy a great empire - which he did - never dreaming it would be his Empire.

He had heard what he wanted to hear - not what was said; and so is it with the words of Jesus Christ - they are twisted to suit the desire of man. Definitely it says: "and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do "but nothing happens until it is heard; that complete assumption of the Mind of Christ Jesus is made. Until this mind is operative in man, he will do nothing other than that he finds in the limitations of his personality. The attempt to demonstrate things without consciousness is like trying to produce electricity without the knowledge of it. No wonder the instructions of prayer are so brief and have nothing to do with thinking. "When ye pray, believe" - you can get no farther than this, and until it is done, no answer will be revealed because what you have in consciousness you have in manifestation. It falls out automatically and without effort - even as the reflection appears on any surface, without effort.

Pindar, the Creek poet of 400 B.C., is asked if Excellence could be learned, to which he replied it was impossible; that it was discovered as an inborn glory, a state of consciousness, and that he who tried to learn it was a "twilight man wavering in spirit."

We see the attempts to pattern after Jesus - in spite of the fact he warns against it by saying: "Why callest thou me good?" He wished no imitators, knowing the infinite variety of God and His manifestation, and He likewise knew that all of this could and would stem from the consciousness of the Christ within. First, then, it is necessary that this Christ mind which we are told is within us, must be recognized instead of being a strange, foreign thing resident only in Jesus. As this is recognized, we begin to hear through the words - and finally we hear the WORD which is the substance of all words, no matter in what language and eternally changeless in meaning and action.

"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given," is only a natural automatic action of consciousness and not a demonstration, and to him who hath not consciousness - or recognition of his own Christ Self - it shall be taken away, for he has nothing with which to retain it. Therefore, leave the old, dead teaching of the ancestors who believed they could implore and beg God to change his mind. Nothing changes but the degree of your acceptance of that which you are saying with your lips.

The inheritance incorruptible is the Christ within you awaiting recognition. You might just as well try to be unbaptized, as one of Voltaire's characters threatens to do, as to imagine you can deny the Christ actually.

Do you like the idea of "inborn glory"?