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 ====== Divine Union ======
 == SUN PAPER NO. 31 | JULY 1931 ==
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 From this you may glimpse how God works through man, through you—even if you are not yet very conscious of Him. Without such an understanding of these Sons of God as your Higher Selves, God cannot be satisfactorily explained to the human mind. Not that the human mind in its natural state can ever clearly comprehend God, the Ineffable One, but we feel that it must be brought to some understanding that satisfies its reason, before it can be lifted into a consciousness where it is able to grasp the fact of its own non-reality as a separate or human state of being. The principal purpose of this article is to give the final push that will not only lift it into but will establish it in such consciousness. In other words, our effort will be to bring about its union with your Higher or Christ Consciousness.
-We ask you to think for a while what this means—what union, complete oneness with your True Self, a direct Ray or Descendent from God, would mean, were you to accomplish it while still in the flesh. Try to see yourself as an actual, conscious Son of God, conscious of all that has happened from the very beginning—of all your countless lives on earth; of your descent from the Celestial Realms; of your activities there; of your many previous experiences and training in world building; of your existence preceding that as a human soul on another planet long before the earth was born; of your long, long journey back to your Father’s Consciousness; of the vast Wisdom gained from such experience, extending back through a million millenniums of time,—for such a Son of God you actually are, and such is the knowledge you possess and which you can pass down to your brain mind whenever there is a need for it to know any part of that knowledge.
+We ask you to think for a while what this means—what union, complete oneness with your True Self, a direct Ray of or Descendent from God, would mean, were you to accomplish it while still in the flesh. Try to see yourself as an actual, conscious Son of God, conscious of all that has happened from the very beginning—of all your countless lives on earth; of your descent from the Celestial Realms; of your activities there; of your many previous experiences and training in world building; of your existence preceding that as a human soul on another planet long before the earth was born; of your long, long journey back to your Father’s Consciousness; of the vast Wisdom gained from such experience, extending back through a million millenniums of time,—for such a Son of God you actually are, and such is the knowledge you possess and which you can pass down to your brain mind whenever there is a need for it to know any part of that knowledge.
 Think long and earnestly upon this so that you will remember it and understand when later we make very definite statements about your having all knowledge within you.
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 First realize that We, as your Higher Selves, are all one in consciousness, are one in that same consciousness from which Christ Jesus spoke, when He said, “I and my Father are one,” and also “I came forth from the Father and I am come into the world; again I leave the world and go unto the Father.” Which means We have such oneness of consciousness that We are not—of ourselves, knowing We are but attributes of the Father through which He is expressing His Divine Nature on earth.
-As your Higher Selves, Our constant effort is to get your recognition of Us within you—not as a Master or Teacher separate from you, but that you may feel and know Us within your hearts as the Great Love of the Father there, seeking to express through that Love and to explain to you Our life and nature. This means that part of you, your human mind and intellect which have their abode in the head, and which for so long have encouraged and maintained for you your sense of self and separation, must be dethroned and be brought to realize Us within the heart as the Source and directing Cause of their being, and be taught to wait upon and lovingly serve Us there.
+As your Higher Selves, Our constant effort is to get your recognition of Us within you—not as a Master or Teacher separate from you, but that you may feel and know Us within your hearts as the Great Love of the Father there, seeking to express through that Love and to explain to you Our life and nature. This means that that part of you, your human mind and intellect which have their abode in the head, and which for so long have encouraged and maintained for you your sense of self and separation, must be dethroned and be brought to realize Us within the heart as the Source and directing Cause of their being, and be taught to wait upon and lovingly serve Us there.
 Through such service in time the sense of self and its importance will gradually disappear, for Service and the consequent blessings that We cause to manifest will not feed or encourage such a sense; instead more and more will there grow a realization of and dependence upon Us, learning that We are really doing all that is being done, that the human part is merely a covering, a channel, developed and prepared by Us for Our use.
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 Now let us see if you know just who “you” are, when We thus speak of you. But in order to make it still more intimate, so that each one who reads may know that his or her own Self is speaking—which will be actually so, if you will listen within—your own Higher Self will speak to you as a Son of God, as your Divine Self.
-As you read you will perceive that it is only to a true disciple or one who has found Him, is conscious of Him abiding in the heart and is waiting upon and serving Him there, that He speaks. And while all that is said applies in a way to those who do not yet know Him within, and He seems to talk as from above and without, even they will get a glimpse of a very great truth. Hear now His word.
+As you read you will perceive that it is only to a true disciple or one who has found Him, is conscious of Him abiding in the heart and is waiting upon and serving Him there, that He speaks. And while all that is said applies in a way to those who do not yet know Him within, and to them He seems to talk as from above and without, even they will get a glimpse of a very great truth. Hear now His word.
-You, My child, have learned from the teachings given you through The Impersonal Life that “you” are a soul or ego which through many long ages I have finally brought to that stage of consciousness where I can abide in and work from you—that is, in and from your soul consciousness or your soul body. For where you are in consciousness you find yourself in a body peculiar to and of the nature of that consciousness, and in which you live and work. You have learned to love, or more strictly speaking, to let Me love through you and thereby to use you and to work through you. This has lifted you as a soul consciousness to where I, as Love, can dwell in you.
+You, My child, have learned from the teachings given you through //"The Impersonal Life"// that “you” are a soul or ego which through many long ages I have finally brought to that stage of consciousness where I can abide in and work from you—that is, in and from your soul consciousness or your soul body. For where you are in consciousness you find yourself in a body peculiar to and of the nature of that consciousness, and in which you live and work. You have learned to love, or more strictly speaking, to let Me love through you and thereby to use you and to work through you. This has lifted you as a soul consciousness to where I, as Love, can dwell in you.
 Remember, I am a Son of God who descended from the Celestial Realms of My Father’s Consciousness to redeem “you,” who as a soul are the sum-total of My mistakes of a former world period. During these long ages I have caused you to take on many bodies of flesh, that is, to descend in generation in order that you, as a composite center of My sins given birth out of a consciousness of generation, might be taught the lessons which would permit of My Love awakening you and of its being recognized by you and which would lift you, My thus re-born consciousness, back through regeneration into My now God Consciousness, redeeming you and bringing you up into consciousness with Me and eventually with Our Father God.
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 The Apostle Paul tells you that Christ Jesus was the “first fruit of them that are asleep.” When I tell you that in the beginning We all descended to earth together under Christ’s leadership, He, our Elder Brother, being the Representative of the Father, to Whom We dedicated Ourselves to follow and serve, you will get a glimpse of what is the real Christ Consciousness and how We are truly One in Christ and are guided wholly from There; for the Christ Consciousness is Our Father-God’s Holy Spirit, the Light of His Divine Love pushing through and shining in the darkness of earth wherever We are.
-In that descent to earth, it was not actually a descent into mortality, but only far enough into the inner realms surrounding the earth to permit the overshadowing the souls We had evolved into human beings and for which We are responsible.
+In that descent to earth, it was not actually a descent into mortality, but only far enough into the inner realms surrounding the earth to permit Our overshadowing the souls We had evolved into human beings and for which We are responsible.
-The soul known as Jesus of Nazareth naturally was the first human soul to be awakened by His Higher Self, the Christ, into the full consciousness of His Divinity, or into conscious oneness with His Father-in-Heaven—in His Christhood. Thereupon, humanity now being ripe for it, He assumed His true position as the Light of the world from that time—after His Resurrection and its proof of His God Nature, and He became the Great Leader, the Way Shower, the Example for all humanity, even as He was for Us in Spirit, His life and His teachings showing clearly the way for all who were willing and ready to follow Him.
+The soul known as Jesus of Nazareth naturally was the first human soul to be awakened by His Higher Self, the Christ, into the full consciousness of His Divinity, or into conscious oneness with His Father-in-Heaven—in His Christhood. Thereupon, humanity now being ripe for it, He assumed His true position as the Light of the world from that time on—after His Resurrection and its proof of His God Nature, and He became the Great Leader, the Way Shower, the Example for all humanity, even as He was for Us in Spirit, His life and His teachings showing clearly the way for all who were willing and ready to follow Him.
 Remember that We are all Sons of God, are Reflectors of Him, but that very few of Us as yet have been able to reflect God fully in and through our human instruments, your personalities; but eventually through the power of Christ, the Spirit of God, Whose Light shines in the darkness of all upon earth, We shall lift up not only you, Our human reflections, but the consciousness of the earth itself and all partaking of its nature, into oneness with Our Father-God’s consciousness.
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 But as for you, Our dear ones, who have found and know Us within as that Love in your hearts, We have told you of these high truths in order that you may know your identity with Us, may establish yourselves in that knowing, so that you will begin to think, speak and act from Our Consciousness.
-That is the goal We have set for you and which We are leading you to, as fast as We are able to prove to your human minds the unreality of its Wall of Self. Divine Union awaits which all the glories of which We have given you a glimpse, and We urge that from now on you carry about with you the consciousness of your identity as a Son of God, that within you is all knowledge, all truth and that as you try to think, speak and act always in such consciousness, as surely as you faithfully do this. We will establish you in that consciousness, for We will cause gradually to disappear all sense of separation, and you will forget the Wall of Self, so that the union will be complete.
+That is the goal We have set for you and which We are leading you to, as fast as We are able to prove to your human minds the unreality of its Wall of Self. Divine Union awaits with all the glories of which We have given you a glimpse, and We urge that from now on you carry about with you the consciousness of your identity as a Son of God, that within you is all knowledge, all truth and that you try to think, speak and act always in such consciousness. As surely as you faithfully do this will We establish you in that consciousness, for We will cause gradually to disappear all sense of separation, and you will forget the Wall of Self, so that the union will be complete.
-—From Paper 31.
+\\ //—Reprinted in The Inner Life, July-August 1938//
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