The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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 +**[[the_way_to_the_kingdom|The Way to The Kingdom]]**
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 ====== I AM The Resurrection and The Life ====== ====== I AM The Resurrection and The Life ======
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 All nature is feeling the approach of a new Easter day, the day of Resurrection—a commemoration of the rising from the tomb of our dear Lord and Master, Christ Jesus, and a promise of that annual rebirth or coming back into manifestation of the life that was dead and buried in the dark and cold of Winter—that ever-recurring and necessary period when the soul of things retires deep within to its source for rest and assimilation and a renewal of power for additional experience. All nature is feeling the approach of a new Easter day, the day of Resurrection—a commemoration of the rising from the tomb of our dear Lord and Master, Christ Jesus, and a promise of that annual rebirth or coming back into manifestation of the life that was dead and buried in the dark and cold of Winter—that ever-recurring and necessary period when the soul of things retires deep within to its source for rest and assimilation and a renewal of power for additional experience.
  
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 Therefore the yearly crucifixion and resurrection we see and feel in nature are but to recall to us and definitely to show us what our great Exemplar and Master taught by His Life and words—that if we would follow Him we must go through the same crucifixion of self to win the resurrection of Christ—must express in our life the fullness of His life within us, which is the life of God, our Father, unfolding us to the same fruitage He manifested in Jesus. Therefore the yearly crucifixion and resurrection we see and feel in nature are but to recall to us and definitely to show us what our great Exemplar and Master taught by His Life and words—that if we would follow Him we must go through the same crucifixion of self to win the resurrection of Christ—must express in our life the fullness of His life within us, which is the life of God, our Father, unfolding us to the same fruitage He manifested in Jesus.
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 ==== I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE ==== ==== I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE ====
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 “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
  
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 So in time the brain mind—the disciple—learns through striving and failure and suffering to know that He, the Christ within, is the resurrection and the life and that just as he believes this and lives in that consciousness he knows that death does not exist and has no reality for him. So in time the brain mind—the disciple—learns through striving and failure and suffering to know that He, the Christ within, is the resurrection and the life and that just as he believes this and lives in that consciousness he knows that death does not exist and has no reality for him.
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 ==== THE PATH ==== ==== THE PATH ====
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 By this time most of you who read actually know that there is a Path, one on which some of you have been traveling for some time, while most are just setting out upon it. We have tried to point out much of what you may expect to meet upon this Path and to explain the meaning and the why of that through which you have been passing. But in order that you may have other authority than ours, we cannot do better than quote the words of that great disciple, H. P. Blavatsky, who brought to the Western world the first definite explanation of the meaning and purpose of “The Path.” By this time most of you who read actually know that there is a Path, one on which some of you have been traveling for some time, while most are just setting out upon it. We have tried to point out much of what you may expect to meet upon this Path and to explain the meaning and the why of that through which you have been passing. But in order that you may have other authority than ours, we cannot do better than quote the words of that great disciple, H. P. Blavatsky, who brought to the Western world the first definite explanation of the meaning and purpose of “The Path.”
  
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 All such we now ask to turn to the last article in the booklet Brotherhood, entitled “The Kingdom of Heaven,” and to read and study it thoroughly during the month until you fully understand the different realms of consciousness through which it is necessary to pass on our journey within the “heart” to the Kingdom. This understanding is vitally necessary in order that all may become well acquainted intellectually with the inner planes of being, so that when you enter them consciously or in dreams or visions you will comprehend the significance of all that you see, and it will not be as if entering a strange country. All such we now ask to turn to the last article in the booklet Brotherhood, entitled “The Kingdom of Heaven,” and to read and study it thoroughly during the month until you fully understand the different realms of consciousness through which it is necessary to pass on our journey within the “heart” to the Kingdom. This understanding is vitally necessary in order that all may become well acquainted intellectually with the inner planes of being, so that when you enter them consciously or in dreams or visions you will comprehend the significance of all that you see, and it will not be as if entering a strange country.
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 ==== HEALING ==== ==== HEALING ====
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 Would you heal yourself quickly and perfectly of every inharmony of body, mind and affairs? Then follow faithfully and continuously the suggestions given below, and such health and harmony will be yours: Would you heal yourself quickly and perfectly of every inharmony of body, mind and affairs? Then follow faithfully and continuously the suggestions given below, and such health and harmony will be yours:
  
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 All that your soul is seeking awaits your accepting and using. Oh, dear one, we have led you back to your Father’s house—back to God. Awake! Open your eyes! See! Know! Act!—Now!! All that your soul is seeking awaits your accepting and using. Oh, dear one, we have led you back to your Father’s house—back to God. Awake! Open your eyes! See! Know! Act!—Now!!
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 All who practice faithfully the above suggestions will receive a blessing beyond their present comprehension and for which they will be so grateful that they will want all their friends who are ready to enjoy the same blessing. For therein is shown the way to the highest and therefore the most effective Spiritual Healing. All who practice faithfully the above suggestions will receive a blessing beyond their present comprehension and for which they will be so grateful that they will want all their friends who are ready to enjoy the same blessing. For therein is shown the way to the highest and therefore the most effective Spiritual Healing.
  
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 If there is pain, inharmony, or disease in any part of the body, just know that God’s life, His consciousness, His love is there—not what you had previously thought was there. Just know this truth—and watch the pain, inharmony or disease disappear. If there is pain, inharmony, or disease in any part of the body, just know that God’s life, His consciousness, His love is there—not what you had previously thought was there. Just know this truth—and watch the pain, inharmony or disease disappear.
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 ==== SPIRITUAL GROWTH ==== ==== SPIRITUAL GROWTH ====
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 We receive many letters from students who tell of long years of seeking in different Movements and Teachings, that in this Work they have finally found what they missed in all others—the loving impersonal teaching of the Christ; and given so clearly and simply that all may understand, and which their own Higher Selves had been trying to tell them, but which, because of the purely intellectual concepts with which their minds had been filled, they had not been able to understand clearly and therefore to translate into tangible form for meditation and putting to actual use. We receive many letters from students who tell of long years of seeking in different Movements and Teachings, that in this Work they have finally found what they missed in all others—the loving impersonal teaching of the Christ; and given so clearly and simply that all may understand, and which their own Higher Selves had been trying to tell them, but which, because of the purely intellectual concepts with which their minds had been filled, they had not been able to understand clearly and therefore to translate into tangible form for meditation and putting to actual use.
  
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 When one has learned truly to co-operate with life and nature, a definite and highly important point on the Path has been reached. But before reaching that place many hard lessons have to be learned. When one has learned truly to co-operate with life and nature, a definite and highly important point on the Path has been reached. But before reaching that place many hard lessons have to be learned.
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 ==== ONE MUST PAY FOR WISDOM ==== ==== ONE MUST PAY FOR WISDOM ====
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 One of the most important lessons to be learned is that life requires one to pay for every lesson it teaches. It plays no favorites and no one can gain wisdom without paying dearly for it. We are speaking of soul knowledge—which alone is wisdom—not of the intellectual knowledge that one can get from books and from teachers. Such wisdom comes only from hard, persistent effort, forced by a determination to gain it no matter what the cost. Such are the efforts of all real disciples. They gain wisdom—for they gladly pay the price. One of the most important lessons to be learned is that life requires one to pay for every lesson it teaches. It plays no favorites and no one can gain wisdom without paying dearly for it. We are speaking of soul knowledge—which alone is wisdom—not of the intellectual knowledge that one can get from books and from teachers. Such wisdom comes only from hard, persistent effort, forced by a determination to gain it no matter what the cost. Such are the efforts of all real disciples. They gain wisdom—for they gladly pay the price.
  
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 With these we are always in close touch.🔅 With these we are always in close touch.🔅
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