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+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== The Crucifixion ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 37 | JANUARY 1932 ==
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 We ask you to consider with us the last moments of Jesus’ physical life and the last words He spoke on the cross.
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 Remember, everything is consciousness. You are an idea in consciousness. The above is an idea in consciousness.
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-THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE
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+====THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE====
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 But every idea has also its own individual vibration and all you have to do is to contact any particular idea to tune into its vibration and in a very short time become one with that idea. When Jesus conceived the idea of wanting to be with His disciples, He simply entered the consciousness of His old physical body idea; that is, He saw and felt Himself in it among them again, or in other words He tuned into that idea’s vibration, and He was there. When He wanted to leave them He just withdrew His consciousness from the idea, and instantly He disappeared and was back again in His soul body on the soul plane.
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 What follows will prove if you have fully attained the mastery of mind over matter, thereby enabling it to rise out of its “ghost” (the illusion of separateness) into its true consciousness, and become one with Jesus and all your Brothers in Spirit—a risen Christ.
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-THE SOUL LIFE OF A DISCIPLE
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+====THE SOUL LIFE OF A DISCIPLE====
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 Here is another illuminating letter from our friend of the “Garden of the Soul.”
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 “Would there were words that could describe my garden now. I wish every one could share it with me.”
+It could not be recognized as the same garden I described to you some months ago. It is a thousand times lovelier than the loveliest garden you’ve ever seen in the outer world; the flowers, so superbly perfect and beautiful, radiating love and trust as they happily offer themselves to be eaten by my garden? All ye that are weary and heavy laden—won’t you come? There is peace here, and God’s voice can be heard.
+“Maybe through the rustle of the leaves. Listen! It might be through the rippling of the brook, or when yon robin speaks to you. Look! The flowers give you nods of greeting, welcoming you into God’s dwelling place. You are welcome—everyone. Won’t you come in and abide in Me?
+“I shall be glad to relate my meeting with you on the soul plane that I mentioned in my last letter. I was walking with several women; I do not know where we were going, but we were laughing and chatting quite happily. In the distance we saw a small group of men coming towards us. We knew they were from a very high plane because of the light they radiated. We commenced on that and were quite eager to meet them. When we met, quite naturally we all spoke. Then you stepped up to me and began talking. It might seem odd that I knew you instantly, but it wasn’t to me then. It was the most natural thing in the world that we knew each other—we are like about the soul plane.
+“You talked with me about things in the Papers that were not quite clear to me, and you did it without my asking a single question—you just seemed to know. As we were talking the others went on their way. When we finished we very casually did likewise. It was most helpful to me and I deemed it a privilege to talk with a Brother from such a high plane.
+“Since then, however, a group of us from the earth plane (and I believe we are all students of the Sun Papers) have assembled many times in a ‘like building, and are being taught as well as being given very definite instructions about our work. You are one of the Teachers or Brothers of Light who are instructing us.
+“I was quite familiar with parts of the last Paper before it was sent me, and was surprised when I read it to find it what had been taught in the Temple on the soul plane. I am very grateful to know all this; it is so helpful.
+“This is how I ‘got it.’ First I became conscious of being on a higher plane and in this Temple; then, I was conscious of only a few souls there. Later, however, I saw all the crowd of us. Presently I knew I was being taught some wonderful truths, though at first I knew not what they were; then I became conscious of you Brothers teaching us. The vibrations were wonderful, like soft music; then little by little that part of your Paper on ‘Bringing the Kingdom down to earth’ unfolded to me. It was marvelous having received it first from there.
+“There is such a difference in being taught from the soul plane than being taught on the material plane. Everything there is truth and we feel so at one with everything that is being said, and oh, everything is so different there we know, while here we are hampered learners, struggling with ignorance. So naturally when I read it all in the Paper I was very happy to know I had already received the instructions.
+“Regarding the Paper previous to this one and that article on ‘Vibrations,’ well, an entirely different group or kind of Brothers taught that. Such power they had!
+“They were Oriental looking, yet they were advanced souls. They just seemed strange to me because they were different from the ones I am used to contacting. What they taught is becoming very clear and practical to me. They were marvelous souls.”
+In our reply to her we told her she had truly entered the Kingdom consciousness and had learned of its wonderful reality; that all in the without is pure illusion and exists only in the “separate” mortal mind as distorted concepts of reality.
+The beautiful appearance of her “garden” was because of the kind and loving thoughts, words and acts she had been sowing for so long and which had now grown and thrived under her loving care until all were in full bloom.
+You must remember she sees these things in broad daylight—not in sleep and not strictly as visions; for she is actually conscious of living on the soul plane and the physical plane simultaneously—that is, while going about her daily activities she sees with her inner eyes another world of activity in the soul realm that is not separate from but is intimately related to her life and problems in the outer world.
+The meeting on the soul plane that she described was most interesting and was not at all improbable, for you must realize that our real life is in the soul realm and that the physical is but a sorry reflection of that perfect life there of all disciples of Christ. So what was more natural than that there should be such a meeting and discussion of the truths that are the most important things in our life there, even as here—that the spreading of those truths and the teaching of them to our younger brothers.
+What is also more natural than that all earnest students of the Sun Papers should meet regularly on the soul plane and receive the teachings there before they come to them on the outer plane? Remember all things take place in the inner planes of being before they manifest on the outer; which accounts for the prophetic dreams and visions coming to many people before the things seen actually happen in the outer. It also accounts for many of our students writing us that somehow they seemed to have gotten what was in the Papers before they arrived, or that the deep truths they contained seemed to have been known before they read them.
+The explanation of our knowing each other, although neither had previously seen the other in the physical, is that we have had much correspondence, and long ago had learned to know each other’s vibrations. And as on the soul plane one unconsciously puts one’s soul vibrations into everything one gives out or expresses and cannot hide them, it is but natural that our souls had long since learned to know each other and had become well acquainted; even if her brain mind had never registered the fact of a previous meeting such as she was this time permitted to see.
+Try to realize that you are always engaged in your true vocation on the soul plane, and if a student’s chief thought is to find the Kingdom, then he is ever helped by Brothers of Light to find it, and goes to the schools where all he is capable of receiving is taught him. This is the case on all the different planes of consciousness. For the soul realms, even as it is in the physical world, are as all the different grades in our public schools, colleges and universities represent and are intended to teach those on different planes of consciousness, so it in the soul realms, although there each plane is apart and separate, as if in a different city or country.
+On the lower planes there are always Brothers of Light from the higher planes teaching and helping those seeking the light; and then in whatever vocation or ideal engaged—in the soul realms—all seem to be ideal vocations, what one is doing in the physical body can be imperfect and sadly limited reflection of such vocation—one is doing his work happily and contentedly, because of the fancied ideal conditions surrounding him. For you must remember deep down in the soul of every worker on the physical plane there is the desire to be able to do all things perfectly, and the longing to have the perfect conditions exist which somehow he knows should be. It is so because, according to his degree of unfoldment, on whatever soul plane he is, he is the longing it perfectly as he conceives it, and in what he considers ideal conditions; and the soul is ever trying to prepare and develop the human mind so that its expression soul or real man—can bring forth into perfect expression man’s real work and in such ideal conditions as are possible in the physical plane.
+Try to realize that on the soul planes a soul is limited in its comprehension in the same degree as he is on the physical plane, for the human mind is but an outer expression of the soul’s consciousness; but the comprehension pertains to and is concerned with what is expressing on that particular soul plane. There it is perfect, according to the degree of spiritual unfoldment of the consciousness on that plane, but the outer is a distorted reflection of such necessarily limited “perfection.”
+Let us illustrate: As a child your estimate of certain things being ideal and perfect, as held before you went to school, would be greatly changed after you had been in school a few years and had gained wider knowledge of those and other things. Again high school knowledge would change your ideas about many of the things you admired and longed for when younger. And many of you remember how as a senior in college you looked down upon your freshman ideas and ideals.
+Thus would your ideals be ever changing, expanding and unfolding, and at each stage of spiritual growth would you gradually advance in your soul life to a higher plane of consciousness; for always on that plane would there be an ideal that would lead you on to the attainment of the perfection glimpsed. And so on to the highest soul plane—the plane of the Kingdom.
+This highest soul plane, the plane of very perfect forms, where the highest ideals are out-pictured in forms of superlative beauty, quality and perfection, is therefore called the causal plane, and it is the first stage of out-manifestation in which a sense of separation in consciousness is felt. For here the mind first builds its mental pictures as outer expressions of the ideas perceived in its Spiritual or Christ Consciousness in its effort to understand and enjoy more fully those ideas. You might say that the causal plane is the manifested plane of the Kingdom or Christ Consciousness; while the unmanifested planes are those higher realms of consciousness where only pure ideas exist and there is no need for forms or pictures.
+More will be given about the inner planes of being and especially the Kingdom in later Papers, for it is our desire that our students become so acquainted with their soul home in the inner world that when the great change comes it will be a natural and easy transfer of their centers of consciousness. In fact we hope to enable many to enter the consciousness of the real world as will be before the change takes place.
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+[[Sun Papers]]