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+**[[the_way_to_the_kingdom|The Way to The Kingdom]]**
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 ====== Now are We Sons of God ======
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+In the last two chapters we tried to tell you all about the birth, source, constitution and nature of the soul, and if you truly studied all that was given and noted carefully what was shown you from within as you read, you will have arrived at a more or less clear understanding of your own soul, its relation to your Higher Self and to your human mind and body.
+You were shown that the soul dwells in the human body, and that the Higher Self dwells in the soul—that is, in an awakened, or re-born soul.
+Naturally, however, the soul cannot live in a body, for the body is mere flesh; so that it must mean it dwells somewhere deep within the consciousness of the human mind, which does have its abode in the physical brain. And when we tell you that what is commonly known as the sub-conscious mind is really the consciousness of the soul, or is all that the ordinary student and most psychologists know of the soul or its consciousness, it will help you to place the soul definitely—by relating what you know of the sub-conscious mind with what herein has been shown you about the soul.
+Now as Mind includes within itself all realms of consciousness, it does not take much of an effort of thought to realize that you, a soul—the thinker, must dwell within Mind, and that you are a center of consciousness of Mind. Which means that you are consciousness; and that in order to express your self or your soul on the earth plane, you had first to create a “separate” mind or mental body in which to dwell; and then that your mind had to create for itself a physical body with a human brain in which it could dwell, in order that you, as a soul, could function as a self-conscious separate unit of Mind.
+For try to realize that the human mind in the sum total of its consciousness—sub-consciousness, ordinary consciousness, and super-consciousness—is really the outer reflection of the soul, through which, or by means of which, the soul expresses itself.
+We are trying to have you grasp the fact that the soul dwells deep within the mind, or deep beneath the surface of the conscious mind, and rules and operates from there. Psychologists and meta-physicians glimpsing this truth created the term “sub-conscious mind,” in their efforts to give a name to what is actually the soul.
+All this implies that deep within the consciousness of mind there must be realms where the soul actually “dwells” and which must be its real home. And it must be a real home, for we have seen how many times in physical incarnations it has built bodies to house its “separate” mind, in which it involved itself while seeking the knowledge which would finally free it from its earth attachments, and which knowledge could be gained only through experience in earth lives. And that after each earth life it would return to its home in the inner realm of consciousness, there to digest and assimilate the essence of the lessons gained from such earth experiences.
+Gradually through many such experiences it learned that it could partially free itself and return temporarily to its home in Mind or Spirit—for Mind (with a capital M) is really Spirit. Such freedom occurred first at night when the brain mind slept, and then later it was found that in true meditation, when the brain mind was stilled, the soul was able to escape for a brief period to its soul home in consciousness.
+Now if there are realms in consciousness where the soul dwells, naturally all souls must dwell there and they must live, think, speak and act there; even as we would think, speak and act—all men being souls—if we were wholly freed from our body consciousness and from the influence of our brain minds, which still think in terms of personality and of separateness, and thereby ever tend to keep us in such separate consciousness.
+We will consider at this time only the souls of disciples or re-born men, and the realm or home of such—the soul-plane of purified or immortal souls—where we would have you realize that such souls actually live, even as their human personalities live here on the earth plane; but that there they appear to each other as young, beautiful and perfect—as their ideal selves, all living the purest life of loving service, having only one thought and purpose—how they can help their younger brothers and how to grow wiser and stronger in order the better to serve their beloved Master, Christ Jesus.
+There the souls of disciples, according to their stage of unfoldment—for they always keep on unfolding—are taught by their Elder Brothers, or by their own Higher Selves, the essence of the experiences passed through each day in their body consciousness, or the higher truths that they are to bring down into application on the earth plane. These Elder Brothers may be either more advanced disciples, or Masters of Wisdom. Often the Lord Jesus will be in their midst personally instructing them, or blessing them with His Presence.
+Stop here and meditate awhile on what you have just read, and see if you can get any inner confirmation of it.
+From this you are beginning to perceive that this soul plane must be a realm very much like your concept of the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore you will be glad to know that it is indeed the first realm in the Kingdom, and that all purified souls are actual members of the “Community of Saints,” the “Great Congregation,” the “Holy Ones,” spoken of in the Bible; also known as the Great White Brotherhood of the Spirit, and the Great White Lodge. This will be evidenced to all disciples who have unfolded their soul faculties, by seeing all there gowned in robes of purest white, and by the predominance of white everywhere.
+In the December, 1928, Paper, which inaugurated this Work, and which forms the first chapter of this book, the Master sent forth a call to all those who were earnestly seeking the Kingdom and who were ready to make this seeking the first and supreme thing in their lives.
+Many disciples heard His call in their hearts and began their journey with us to the Kingdom. Some have traveled with us all the way up to this point, and nothing could now induce them to turn back, or halt.
+Many aspirants, however, perhaps a greater number, were not equal to the requirements of the journey. They started unprepared in mental equipment. The traveling into the far country of Mind was too hard going, necessitating too much concentrated effort to which they were unaccustomed. And Meditation was a strange and uninviting land for them, because of the many wild and uncontrolled thoughts there encountered. Besides, regular and systematic traveling was more than they had counted upon; they much preferred to take long and enjoyable side trips into the interesting realms of thoughts of other minds, or to stop at some former traveler’s home that had been built by the wayside. They forgot that call they had heard in their hearts—that Loving Voice that had so thrilled and inspired them and had given them the wondrous vision of the Kingdom—their Father’s Home, where they knew He was waiting with welcoming arms and loving heart for their return.
+But all those who have been truly with us—all aspirants and disciples who, when they heard the Master’s call, were not only ready and eager, but who were never happy unless they heard that Voice again speaking in their hearts,—they have earnestly sought by faithful study and application of all the suggestions given to find and know the Beloved One abiding in their hearts, so that they might wait upon and have His guidance every step of the way.
+And many of such dear ones have been given unmistakable evidence of His influence and His abiding presence in their lives.
+It is for these faithful ones that the above information about the soul and their soul home has been given. Such have not been left without encouragement at any stage of their journey; but now that we are nearing the goal they are told these glad tidings in order that they may press on unhesitatingly until the full consciousness of the Kingdom is reached.
+How may those who read know that they have reached this stage with us? Surely those who have evidence of the Loving Presence within their hearts know! Have they not been hearing His Voice, and have they not been lovingly following Him and seeking to obey His every suggestion?
+Then know that while doing this He has been leading you straight to the Kingdom—the Kingdom of His and your Father’s Consciousness.
+Many have written us of visions and dreams—soul experiences that tell plainly of His guidance and of His love. Some have even been vouchsafed visions of our Blessed Lord, Christ Jesus, others have felt His Presence, while others have clearly heard His actual words of blessing. A few have already been privileged during meditation in their Group meetings to rise directly in consciousness to the soul realm and there to be with their Brothers in Spirit in full awareness of Them.
+We have had word from several Groups of two or more members in their Group being so privileged and actually seeing the same things; and in one particular group, starting with two members being able to do this, gradually additional ones opened to this consciousness until six were able to see and to report to the group while seeing, and thus to compare notes of their experiences in the soul realm.
+We tell you of this for the reason that from what we have been shown we feel, owing to the powerful force now being poured down upon Earth, which is affecting every human soul, stimulating and quickening into undue activity both the highest and the lowest in them, that before very long it is going to be the common experience of every true disciple. We mean, that every such disciple will be open to the soul realm and will come into conscious contact with their Brothers in the Great White Brotherhood of the Spirit, of which our Beloved Master Jesus, is the Supreme Head and Life.
+This because the time is rapidly nearing when all such disciples must come into the knowledge of “who they are and of what they are a part,” in order that they may become fully prepared for the work that lies ahead, which in their soul consciousness they pledged the Master they would do.
+We know that many who read may feel discouraged and fearful that none of this applies to them, thinking because so far they have felt no tangible evidence of such quickening, that such opening of the soul consciousness is unattainable for them.
+To all such we say, that if they desire with all their hearts and souls to enter such consciousness, solely in order that they can the better be prepared for service, and if they have set aside regular hours for meditation and faithfully at that time try to enter and abide in the I AM or Christ Consciousness, it will not be long before they will attract to them or be led to one or more whose souls harmonize with their souls and who will form with them the nucleus of a Group, which then may meet for a mutual study and practice of the teachings.
+For the next stage of unfoldment of the worthy and prepared members of the human race is that of Soul or Group Consciousness, which must be attained, or at least comprehended, before the consciousness of the Brotherhood of the Spirit can be given.
+This means that while in time, by intensive meditation, one can unfold alone and contact the consciousness of his or her own Group on the soul plane, without meeting with other personalities on the outer plane, yet it can be seen how much easier it will be accomplished when a group of earnest students—if only two or three—can meet and work together on the physical plane.
+Some again may feel discouraged when reading this, because of not being acquainted with any who are interested in this Work. But let them not be disheartened, for remember this is not our Work but the Master’s, and He is not only directing and preparing you for your part in It, but is guiding and caring for all who belong in the Work. When you are ready, have mastered personality and have so submerged self that you can work in true harmony with your soul companions, then He will bring them to you, or you to them, so that you will know each other, and all will be arranged so that you can meet and study together. All you have to do is to pray daily that you may become wholly worthy and prepared, and then to obey all that He from within tells you to do in every detail of your life. As Group Consciousness is the enlargement of the Christ Consciousness and is your next step, you can see that He within you will do all possible to help you to attain it—if you do your part.
+Those Groups that do not feel any inner quickening, or have had no evidence of the Master’s Presence in their meetings, may know that it is because of the presence there of personality, of gossip, or of personal feeling of some kind or other toward one or more of their fellows, which prevent the perfect harmony and peace that must prevail before the Master can make His Presence known.
+One further word—let none think that we are giving any suggestions that will open the consciousness to the astral, the planes contacted usually by those dabbling in spiritualism; for as we are now speaking to disciples who have found and are waiting upon and serving only the Christ within, through His Power and Presence you will be carried far above the astral, through the mental planes, to the causal plane, which is your soul’s and therefore your true home.
+In our next Chapter we will tell more about the soul planes, more about the Kingdom, and more also about the lower planes—which will help you to know their difference and enable you always to avoid the lower ones and to discriminate between them, when that comes which would entice you down into such planes. Not that the lower planes have not their part and place in the unfolding of consciousness, but that purified souls will rise naturally above them—unless still held by their attractions.
+As a help, in the light of the above, read over and study “As a Flower Grows,” by Mabel Collins, keeping in mind that the ethereal plane, as she terms it, is the causal plane, the plane or home of purified souls—of disciples, and many new truths will unfold to you.
+That home is yours, if you are a true disciple of Christ, and it is ever open waiting for you. When you want it more than anything the world has to offer, then will you be permitted to enter it consciously and to go in and out at will—not before.
+Let no one be discouraged. Every soul, who longs to find the Kingdom and who is earnestly striving as much as circumstances permit to win his or her way there, is known, is lovingly watched and helped whenever possible. None is ever left without guidance, as you may learn from what follows.
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+==== TEACHERS ====
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+You have asked, My son, why the necessity of teachers, when I am always within and ready to make known to you all that you need to know.
+Think, have I not always provided teachers for you? Have there ever been any periods in your life when you have not had teachers? If not recognized as such, has there not always been someone close who required of you the performance of certain duties, who was ever a monitor of some kind pointing you to that which you needs must do, if you would accomplish that which is before you to do, and who thus taught you and saw to it that you learned your lessons?
+Do you doubt this? Then think of your parents, and teachers in school, college, university; of your superiors in factory or office; of partners or associates in business; of wife or husband or children in the home; of friends in society, or of the Pastor of your church; or of others whose opinion you respect and value. Have they not all had a part in moulding your character—in teaching you tongue-control, gentleness, poise, patience, self-restraint, uselessness of worrying, faith in self, and the hundreds of other qualities that I could build into your soul only through such teachers?
+Yes, I use every possible medium to teach you the laws of being, which must be learned if you would make yourself measure up to that ideal I am ever holding before your soul’s eye, and ever urging—compelling you from within to be.
+For, is it not always I within you Who assent to or confirm the judgment or instructions of these outer teachers, permitting you to accept only that which I wish you to accept and believe at the time; I thus being to you the real teacher and the final authority to which you always turn, consciously or unconsciously, for such assent or confirmation?
+You may sometimes rebel and run away from the condition in which I have placed you, and where best you can learn the needed lessons; but even then it is I who cause you to choose unwittingly a much harder condition in which to involve yourself, so that you may have opportunity to think and perhaps repent and maybe later to turn to Me for guidance and release.
+But you say, what of those who have turned to Me and have found and are waiting upon Me, and who seek only to learn of Me and to serve Me? Need they other teachers, either on the outer or the inner planes? Need they Divine Teachers—Masters of Wisdom?
+Listen, My son. There never will be a time when I shall not teach you through others; for so long as you work with and for others there will always be some above you to help you in such work and to prepare you for the next grade ahead. Through them I shall ever teach and help you, for remember I am the Real and only Self of all men; for I am All in all.
+Being the Self in you I use all men to accomplish my purpose for you; even as I use you to help all others.
+Never forget that I am that Self, that I AM THAT I AM, that I  that is in every man—in every disciple, in every Teacher on earth or in Heaven,—in every Master, every Angel, every Son of God.
+And when you realize that through each and all of such you can reach Me and be one with Me, even as you can reach and be one with Me in your own soul, then you will know that I am the ONE and ONLY Teacher for you and for all men—I, the Christ of God in Man.
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+==== A PERSONAL LETTER ====
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+Here is another letter from one whom we have quoted before. It is remarkably clear in its understanding of what has been stated regarding the “Sons of God,” and is most helpful because of the writer’s loyalty to our dear Lord and Master, Christ Jesus, and her knowing and unequivocably declaring His true part and place in the cosmic life of the earth and of all humanity upon it.
+In parenthesis we have added our comments upon her thought, in order to amplify and emphasize the high truths expressed.
+Dear Friends:
+Your letter and the remarkable Lesson just came. The vision under the head of “Personality” is the strongest meat you have given us, and will require study and careful thought in order to be fully understood.
+I’ve felt for years that the true soul does not reincarnate until the last. I am reminded of some words by A. K. Mozumdar in his book, “The Life and the Way,”—“Behold the permanent form through which thou art now passing.”
+Ordinarily we would think of the “I” or the soul as permanent and motionless, while the forms would appear transitory and fleeting. But the truth may be that the forms or personalities are preserved—not the physical of course (until the Soul learns all its lessons from these personalities and their experiences—(see the article on the Personality), while it is the soul which passes on, passes through or transmigrates. Yet even this is not the Higher Self. Then there would be three,—the manifestor, the manifesting, and the manifest.
+It came to me once that in the individual life there must be that which corresponds to the Cosmic Christ. It does not incarnate until its final manifestation (or rather manifestations—for after the soul has earned union with its Father-in-Heaven, a Son of God, then it or they may manifest for a special purpose having to do with the race) but remains above or outside its successive bodies until the end of its evolution. When it does incarnate (in a physical body; before it was incarnate only in the soul) we have the manifestation of one of the Sons of God. I never read this, it is just my very own idea. And Christ Jesus is the culminating incarnation of the Cosmic, not the individual, Christ; hence so much greater than the rest of us. Which explains why He said, “I am the Vine, ye are the branches.”
+Just as you say, “They, the Sons of God, lift up the soul consciousness, etc.” You might have said the soul consciousnesses—plural. For it is evident that when a Son of God is lifted up he draws with him all his previous or lesser selves. But Christ Jesus did—or does—even more; He draws His disciples, the Sons of God, who in turn draw their disciples,—the Infinite drawing the infinitesimal. “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” The greater includes the lesser. He includes and draws us all.
+Jesus was the culminating manifestation of the Universal, or shall we say the planetary, Son of God. Whether He is Cosmic in the sense of universes, I would not say; but He is the “beginning of emanation and the end of immination,” the Alpha and Omega for this earth, if not for the whole Solar System. So each of us is simply a pocket edition, a miniature copy of the Great One, and except for His Spirit—the string upon which the beads are strung—we would not be what we shall be,—we would not “awake in His likeness.”
+This idea is apparently a little different from yours, but I think there is a point where they could be made to harmonize. It may be the same thing seen from a different angle—a different aspect.
+(Yes, there is no difference—it is only differently expressed.)
+One thing I know, we must always admit the supremacy of Christ Jesus. You know what Paul said of those who erred, “Not holding the Head.” It is not enough to see Christ as supreme, we must see Christ Jesus! Jesus as the epitome, the last Son of Man and the first “Son of God,” must be understood. I say the last Son of Man—not that there will be no more, but that Jesus was the last of His line, the Cosmic line. The rest of us are the Body. He was, and is, the Head! You know what the angels said to the disciples when Jesus ascended; they spoke of His return and said it would be “this same Jesus.”
+That means a great deal. It means that as Jesus, Christ finished the sacrificial work; as Jesus He will come to rule as before He came to serve.
+It cannot be that it will be by natural birth—by reincarnation—that Jesus will return, for in that event it would not be “this same Jesus.” I will not undertake to say how it will be, but it will not be a re-embodiment, since His incarnations were complete at His last appearance.
+(She clearly perceives here a great truth.)
+Now all who are to be “His at His coming” will either be here still in their last manifestation or they will come with Him. Those here will be changed, will assume their glorified or soul body, while those who come with Him will already possess it. They will not be reincarnated. They will have finished their work before passing on.
+I look for Jesus to become the Ruler, King or Governor of this planet, in the outer sense. The Jews and the world will be unable to see anything at first of an outward manifestation; “the Christ in you” is only for the Church, the true Christians (or disciples of Christ) in or outside of all Churches—the Members of the True or Invisible Church.
+He, Christ Jesus, will be a Spiritual Being, such as He was when He appeared to His disciples after the resurrection. Not a Spirit, as He said, having flesh and bones, but it will be the immortal, incorruptible body, having life in itself.
+There is a natural Israel and a Spiritual Israel. The natural Israel must pass through a natural—a national tribulation. I think the tribulation of spiritual Israel is Spiritual.
+You know, according to the New Testament, the “elect” are to “escape the tribulation,” and to “stand before the Son of Man.”
+Because I did not escape but had to be tried (She says she passed through 15 years of tribulation. What disciples have not been through much tribulation?) I doubt if I belong to the Sons of God class. That is, I mean I’m not of those who may be said to “sit upon the Throne.” I’ll have to be content to “stand before it.” See Revelations 3:10 and 7:14-15. These, who have come out of great tribulation and washed their robes, are before the Throne. The overcomers sit upon it, they reign with Christ, while the others serve before Him.—G. P. B.🔅
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