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-====== The Inner Life 1937 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | DECEMBER 1937 ==
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+<WRAP centeralign>
+==== THE IMPERSONAL WORK ====
+</WRAP>
+<WRAP justify>
+IN THIS Department will be included teachings and truths for more advanced students, especially for those who have received the monthly lessons in the sixty-five issues of Papers.
+Some of our readers perhaps may not be able to grasp these truths, but we urge it so that they reserve them for future study and consideration, as they will contain matter of vital moment to the soul, when it is grown ready to receive and use it as intended.
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+<WRAP centeralign>
+=== PRACTICAL INNER WORK ===
+</WRAP>
+IN LAST month’s article we promised to show how those who have been following these teachings and who have been trying to prove and apply their truths are practicing a new and higher kind of thinking,—in fact, are preparing to enter a new consciousness,—that of their souls, and thereby to return to the Garden of Eden, their Heavenly Home.
+Let us consider carefully this statement, and try to get all of its wonderful inner meaning; and then, as many as can, let them try to do what we suggest.
+First, try to realize yourself as a pure center of awareness. For that is all that you are in the reality of your being, as you are not your body, nor your mind, nor your soul, in that reality. If these are all yours, then you must be something much more,—much higher,—than they; they must be something you possess, or can create, put on and use, when the need is.
+In other words, you must be pure spirit, pure consciousness, just a center of awareness—where you are aware only of yourself as consciousness or spirit. In such state you have no form, no body, nothing apart from yourself as elementary essence, and are aware only of being all there is, yet as able at will to bring forth from within yourself, by merely thinking, a soul, a mind, a body, other bodies having minds and souls, or a whole world of such and of all things that now comprise the world of your mind’s consciousness.
+Your thus being the elementary essence or substance from which all things are created, and these things being only thoughts in your mind’s consciousness, you then must be like God—must BE God, Who we know is All in all! Can you not see, by thus withdrawing your center of awareness from your creations in mind, and by returning within yourself as pure consciousness, you thus become One with God,—become God, Who alone is Pure Consciousness, in Which all things live, move and have their being?
+We have shown you by pure reasoning, and by directing your attention—your center of awareness—to the Source of your being, how you may retire to that Source at will, and by the same method how by focusing all your attention and interest upon the thought of any of them, you may be in your body, your mind, your soul, or your spirit, whichever you choose. For you actually are where your center of awareness is at the moment.
+Therefore it behooves the earnest one to study thoroughly all there is to learn about the body, the mind, the soul, and the spirit, so that he can know clearly the one from the other and can function at will and with full understanding of its laws in the consciousness of each, and thereby will be able to master each (In our three Courses of Study on the Mind, the Soul and the Spirit this is taught in great detail).
+Remember, that is all you as a soul are here in physical expression learning to do. You as a soul are an individualized center of consciousness that has extended a part of itself outwardly in a human mind in order to master the forces of the lower nature that have been consolidated in the physical body. As a soul you are the outer extension of the consciousness of a Son of God, Who is your Divine Self, and Who is responsible for all that you are and all that you do. In fact, He is doing, or directing, all that you do, as a soul, mind and body; is actually redeeming you and through you redeeming and transmuting all these forces of your nature that are keeping soul, mind and body in bondage to the earth.
+But He is doing this through the agency of you as a soul, which is the lower part of His Consciousness left over from a previous world period. In now redeeming you, He is bringing all that comprise your consciousness, which of course is all His lower consciousness,—all the forces of your body, mind and soul,—back into His Divine Consciousness, which is God’s Consciousness; when you will thus become One with Him, your Higher Self, your Father in Heaven, and One with God,—the One Consciousness.
+Thus you see, by learning this truth, and thereby how to get back in consciousness to where you know yourself as a center of awareness, you not only are able to withdraw from the consciousness of your outer mind, but you become aware of who you are and of what you are a part. In other words, you learn that you are not your mind or body, for you can withdraw your consciousness from any awareness of the body, and can likewise withdraw into a consciousness where you can look into your mind and see it as but a realm or room of consciousness where are stored all the knowledge and beliefs accepted by your human mind and being so.
+Here, perhaps for the first time, you realize that you are something above or back of and greater than the mind, able to put in it any idea, thought or belief you wish it to entertain. That something, which is you and yet is not wholly you, you can now understand is your soul, or is your center of awareness in an inner or higher realm of consciousness, where you can look out or down upon the world of your mind’s consciousness.
+Now you can see your soul is that part of your consciousness in a realm where is stored all the knowledge and beliefs accepted by you as a soul, gained from experience in many bodies down through the ages. Very, very few have been able to go within in consciousness beyond this realm, while only a comparatively few have been able consciously to get out of and look down or out upon their mind’s consciousness and what is in it. These articles are helping everyone who carefully studies them to do this.
+But this particular article is helping you to get back of and see your soul and all that is in its consciousness, for by becoming a pure center of awareness, you realize that even the soul and what is in its still separate consciousness are not realities, but are the illusions grown out of a sense of separation or of a consciousness believing as real what was born of its thinking—when all that is real is purest Knowing, purest Love, purest Power—UNMANIFEST!
+And realizing this, can you now see that, becoming such a center of awareness, you enter the Consciousness of your Highest Self, a Son of God, a Christ, Who is One with the Father, and Who is all that you are—as a soul, a mind, a body?
+We beg all earnest ones to stay with the thoughts in this article until their inner meaning becomes clear, for they actually will bring to such a glimpse of Reality, which may be widened to a clear vision of It by the persistent ones.
+We will add only this as a further help. Of yourself you cannot get very far in this inner work. But you have One within you who says, “I AM the way, the truth, and the life—no man cometh unto the Father except by Me.” Prove to Him that you truly want to find the way to the Father, and He will not only show you the way, but He will release in you the power to follow Him until you reach the Father, and can enter the One Consciousness, your Heavenly Home.
+<WRAP centeralign>
+————o————
+=== FROM ONE OF OUR DEAR ONES WRITING TO ANOTHER ===
+</WRAP>
+OH MY dear, can’t you see that we have all been asleep right in the Garden of Eden—right in the midst of the Glory Place, and have been dreaming of all this misery, of this earth, of our bodies and of pain! Oh, to think of all the power we have given to this nothingness—just to nothing!
+And how we have cried over it—and worried over it—and prayed over it! When all the time it did not happen at all—we were always in the Paradise of God. Were all the time asking Him for something—and all we had to do was to open our eyes and see it and accept and use it!
+How I have laughed and laughed over this phantom of nothingness—right here in the midst of Heaven! Why this earth is Heaven—Heaven, HERE, NOW!
+Don’t be fooled any longer, dear. This is the truth. And do you know how long we have been asleep? Listen! We have slept just one minute!—Just one minute!!
+After your letter came, I began to wonder about all of these false beliefs of being outside the Kingdom—about how long this has been going on. If we have been deceiving ourselves about so many things, why should we believe in time? We imagine that the earth turns around causing so-called days. And then there are so-called years, and centuries, and eons. Don’t you see that we have been deceiving ourselves about all this? It suddenly occurred to me that we have not been out of the Kingdom one single second! We have just dreamed it all.
+Can’t you see that we went to sleep right in the middle of the Garden of Eden, among all the flowers and fragrance and glory just a minute ago? And during that minute we have dreamed of worlds and races and misery and death and wars and suns and stars, and because we were so miserable it seemed ages and ages. WHEN IN REALITY IT WAS ONLY A MINUTE!
+Now, sometime ago I discovered that this so-called human consciousness was a dark layer of something around the earth, and therefore around my and your and everyone’s soul or real consciousness—a layer only as thick as a sheet of paper. And that all we needed to do was to turn our minds away from this outer layer of darkness within ourselves to the Light shining there, and we would see the Garden of Eden where we really lived.
+If this is true—and I KNOW it is—then we have been thinking all this life and power into something that is really nothing. There is no outer world, no selfishness, no sick, poor, evil, warring personalities, and no time! What made time and all these things? It was our minds dreaming it all!
+We must cleanse our minds of all these false beliefs, for they have been created out of a false consciousness, and have no more reality than the stuff out of which all our dreams are made.
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+=== THE MEANING OF PAIN ===
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+TAKE My words, for they are truth. The time will come when your uprising and downsetting will be free, and your whole body no more restricted. But this day of freedom is not now what I would teach.
+For long you have been wearing My Crown of Thorns, and so has the pain extended to your physical self. Mistake Me not! Very truly is the pain entirely physical, but behind it there is in reality the consequence and purpose of wearing My Crown of Thorns, for by so much have you entered into the Crucifixion and by so much are you a co-worker with Me in Salvation.
+Believe this! And now I ask you to tell all who have the blessed gift of Healing to teach a like truth both to the well and the ill; only to judge to whom they speak of the matter, for not all are ready to receive the truth; to some it would appear only as a “hard saying.”
+To those who can receive the inwardness of My meaning, to them will it be given to know that they too can be fellow-sharers of My Crucifixion, and so fellow-sharers in Salvation.
+Again, My faithful workers do indeed err when they teach that pain is not of My intent. This is not so! Such teaching is in reality superficial—and I know most acceptable to some; but he who probes in thought will come to realize the meaning and depth of pain, and how by it alone can man grow to understand My Character, My Manner of Education, and My Power of Salvation.—By the Author of The Silent Voice.
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+=== ONE WHO IS BRINGING HIS CONSCIOUSNESS BACK HOME ===
+</WRAP>
+DEAR Sun Center:
+Ever since I attended the Summer Classes in Akron, I feel sure that something has been happening to me. Something is stirring within me for expression. It is enabling me to do things, which I could never do before, and it has revealed truths to me which before were clouded by my “vision.”
+It does not seem to be happening to me alone, though, for as you know, mother, sister and I decided that we would form a Group. It all came about so beautifully, and our first meeting was most certainly inspired by Christ.
+I am more and more being permitted to glimpse some of the reality of God. Some days when I am going about my work I can see and feel the Christ in all of my fellowmen. In these moments, and they are becoming quite frequent, some power within me surges up into my chest, and it pushes against me. It makes me feel loving and peaceful and joyous beyond words. Sometimes I need to breathe in deeply and it feels so wonderful I don’t know what to do. The more I send love out, the more love flows into me, and for the few minutes that these experiences last I truly rest in the Consciousness of my dear Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.
+Yes, Jack is beginning to obey the impulses which I am constantly sending him. I am permitting these visions of My Reality to come to him so that he will determine with all of his will that nothing shall keep him from cleansing his mind of all untrue pictures.
+Sometimes, when he wanders away from Me (and he does this more often that he should), he becomes afraid of the troublesome conditions which are now pressing hard upon the world of men’s creations. Then I have to recall him back again to Me, and remind him that I AM in every man and in every condition, and that I AM the only directing Intelligence and Force; that I know what I AM doing, and will let no harm come to those who submit to My directions given from within their hearts. I remind him that I always take care of My Own.
+He is faintly but surely beginning to see that everything that happens, whether it be in foreign countries, or in our own, and which is not good and perfect, is only a false creation in His own mind. Sometimes I permit him to see that he is the only thinker, and the only world is the world of his consciousness, and that everything which he sees, whether it be a person, a thing or condition, is only what he thinks it to be.
+Then he becomes afraid, for he feels lonely in his own world. But then I permit him to see that as soon as this untrue and temporary picture in his consciousness is replaced by the Reality of the perfect world of the Kingdom which has always been, and always will be, the Reality must shine forth. He is beginning to see that I Alone AM, that he, himself, is I, and is all that I AM, and that there are others in this same Consciousness who are One with him in the wonderful Work of Christ, helping others to see the truth of their own false worlds and creations.
+All the forces in his nature that must be redeemed are flaunting themselves before him, and he is beginning to see that he must no longer feed the desires of the mortal self. He makes such a hard time of it, not realizing that if he will but trust everything to Me, and allow Me to take care of him, all trials, tests and temptations can be easily met and conquered. If he will fully trust in Me, he will “be led among green pastures, beside the still waters of life.”
+I am recalling to him the fact that all disciples of Christ will be tempted and tested as never before, until every vestige of self will have passed away, leaving Me to shine forth on earth, revealing to all men the glory, majesty and splendor of My Impersonal Life.
+Oh, dear ones, I ask my Loving Father to aid me to be a most pure channel for His expression on earth, and that He will help all students of this Work and all other Movements and Centers to come quickly into their own, that We as Brothers can begin to do the Great Work of Service which our Blessed Leader, Jesus Christ, is directing. May He bless you and every other Worker of the Sun Center.
+<WRAP centeralign>
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+=== THERE IS NO DEATH ===
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+ON APRIL 7th my husband lost his father, age 90; and on May 12th I lost my little mother, age 80. To us they have gone on a journey to live somewhere else, and we are truly glad; for we firmly believe that we go on and live always on another and inner plane of development.
+I sat for an hour watching my mother greet those who had gone on before. To hear her call the names and see the expression of joy and happiness as she greeted each one was very beautiful. Finally, after this hour, with a room full of spiritual guests whom I could not see, she suddenly said to me (no other mortals were in the room), “Come, dear; kiss me goodbye. I’m going Home.”
+She told me how beautiful it all was, and about the grand colors of the flowers, such colors as we on earth had never seen. She said she was happy to go, and I wished her happiness as I kissed her and asked God to bless her. Then she said, “Go, get the others (meaning my father and two sisters) to come and kiss me goodbye.”
+So I went and told them that mother was going away on a beautiful journey to live, and she was so happy; that they should go and bid her goodbye, just as if she were going away for a long visit with dear ones.
+I was so proud of them all, to see them go and bid her farewell and a happy journey, and no tears. We all seemed to feel God had called her, and said, “Thy Will and not ours be done,” and we were truly happy for her. She had not a pain nor an ache. She just left us early next morning.
+Although we miss her, it was such a happy experience, and I now feel that I can never again feel regret when the time comes for a dear one to leave us. The greatest treasure I possess is to be able to say, “Be still, and KNOW that I AM—God.”—From My Messenger.
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