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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.
+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== The Light ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 36 | DECEMBER 1931 ==
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-While this was the crucifixion of our Saviour’s mortal body, yet those who know realize that it was far more than that. Jesus came here not only to fulfill a prophecy, but to perform a mission and to be an example for all humanity to follow—to portray an ideal and at the same time be the way-shower for all who are able to follow Him. And you must not forget that He knew from the beginning what the ending would be, knew that He would be crucified and yet He willingly and fearlessly gave Himself to His enemies.
-To the world it seems the supreme sacrifice. And it was that, but in a different way from what the world understands. For if He is our Exemplar and Way-Shower then that means we and all men must go the way He went—even unto the crucifixion of our mortal selves.
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+In this Paper, the third anniversary of the inauguration of this particular phase of the Master’s Work, and likewise in the month that is the anniversary of His birth, we can find no more fitting way to celebrate than to talk about the wonderful Light He brought to the world of men’s minds.
-The world does not comprehend that, and crude not believe it. It is only those who become His true disciples that understand, and they gladly go on to the end, even as He went, actually offering themselves to be crucified. For do they not know that self must be utterly destroyed; that, it and it alone prevents the coming forth of the living Christ from the tomb of the mortal body?
+Remember, while He brought to us the Light, He brought us it because He is the Light. St. John truly tells us this in the first chapter of his Gospel; how in Him was the Light of men and that Light is ever shining in the darkness; but the darkness of men’s intellects prevent them from comprehending Him and thereby from knowing the Light alone can lead them out of the darkness into the light they seek. And they do not comprehend because man’s intellect cannot understand how Jesus can be the Word, the Logos, the Light of men and also be the man of Galilee, the Son of Joseph and Mary, a man like unto us. For John quite plainly intimated that He was both man and God.
-Not let us go back to the cross. It is stated that Jesus’ last words were, “It is finished,” and then “He gave up the ghost.” These, His words, and the ones following, are so significant that we want you to understand fully their hidden meaning.
+Let us look closely at John’s words. In the first sentence he says:
-Remember, Jesus being our Exemplar and Way-Shower, His life is the life we, His followers, must live. And we have shown how the Christ must be born in our souls; must grow and thrive there and bring the outer Jesus part of us to maturity, which part must be taught by the Wise Men of the East in preparation for our baptism in the Jordan, when the Holy Ghost, instead of descending on us as a dove, will actually as the Christ come forth from within us and take possession of our human personalities. From then on, He, the Christ of us, begins His mission of preaching and of calling to Him and teaching His disciples, but teaching chiefly His “beloved son,” our human minds—which we will now liken to Jesus’ human self with its mortal body (and which you must remember was what was crucified). For think you that Christ, the Son of God, Jesus’ Higher Self, was not always guiding and teaching Jesus—even as your Higher Self He is ever guiding and teaching you?
+“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
-The only difference between Him and us is that Jesus almost from His birth knew His Father in Heaven—His Higher Self—as God Himself, and sought always to obey Him; and as a result He was always able to receive direct from His Father’s Consciousness whatever He needed to know, to have and to do. But with us there has been so much to unlearn and get rid of first, and in many of us the birth of the Christ does not take place until maturity or later, and then there is so much teaching and preparation before He can get us ready for His use.
+In view of what the later states, this can mean nothing less than that Jesus is not only the Word or Logos, but is God, Himself. And as we know that God is the source of all life, and John says that life is the light of men, it can only mean that Jesus in some mystical way must be God, come forth into the world to manifest Himself as the Light. That makes it not difficult to realize that Light as being the wondrous truth that Jesus radiated in His life and actions and gave forth in His living words, and which has so penetrated the darkness of men’s consciousness during the past 1900 years that His Light has now reached to the uttermost parts of the earth.
-But this will give you an idea of which is going on and how it will gradually lead us to the crucifixion of self—the release from the sense of separation, and goal of the Christ Life on earth.
+Yes, despite the seeming great darkness that is now manifesting in the whole world, the Light of Christ is so powerful and potent that before very long it will utterly dispel the darkness, proving the truth of the saying that “it is darkest just before dawn.”
-This brings us again to Jesus’ words, “It is finished.” If you who have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Christ is now in possession (we know there are very few of such), and even if you who are aware of Him in your hearts, can conceive of the many weary steps there are yet to take, carrying the cross of self, climbing the hill of Golgotha, and then being nailed on that cross, where you must suffer all that Jesus did, you can partially realize the agony of pain that Jesus endured.
+Can you grasp that? It must be only because of the presence of a powerful light that it is now so dark. A powerful light always makes the darkest shadows. But when that light is brought close, it diffuses itself so that it overspreads everything and drives out all darkness.
-For the consciousness of the flesh makes up the consciousness of the soul, yet Jesus’ soul endured willingly, gladly, because He knew that so long as there was left in His human mind any consciousness that could feel pain or suffering, it was still separate in consciousness from its Higher Self, His Christ Consciousness, and was not ready for release and had not reached the goal of Oneness. Therefore, when Jesus said, “It is finished,” He knew His human mind had finally conquered, and it then “gave up the ghost.”
+Just that is taking place now. The light has become so powerful, because the Innumerable Host of the Forces of Light is approaching close to the earth from the Inner Realms, and is so illumining the minds of the children of light, that the brilliance of their radiance is rapidly dispelling any darkness still existing in the minds of Christ’s disciples, and causing all outer darkness to concentrate but now in massed shadows ready for the final conflict between light and darkness, and which makes that darkness appear darker than it really is. And who will say that there can be any other outcome than victory for the Forces of Light?
-In other words, His mind fully realized that the body was an illusion, that the world without was an illusion; and they could hurt or hold its consciousness no longer; for it now knew it was pure Spirit, was conscious of its Divine Nature, of being always in the Consciousness of Divine Mind; it remembered then perfectly Whose mind it was and of What it was a part, even as the Christ of Jesus always knew. And if you will always remember that the Christ was the Higher Self of Jesus, even as the Christ within you—the Comforter—is your Higher Self, it will make plain many things in Jesus’ life and His sayings that otherwise are impossible to understand.
+Make no mistake, those Forces are close, very close. Many have seen Them; many are actually seeing in gathering of the great army of the Lord, clad all in white, in white armour, on white horses, with white banners flying and with faces lit with divine ardor, knowing what the result of the coming battle will mean to the world—the freeing it from sin, sickness and death forever, permitting the Kingdom to manifest on earth even as it is in heaven.
-When Jesus’ mind had actually freed itself from its sense of separation and its consciousness was fully one with its Christ Consciousness, then you can see there could no longer be any consciousness of a physical body, anything to feel pain and anything to die. So it was but natural in the morning when they came to get His body, there was none there—it had dissolved and had disappeared from sight. For when we no longer hold in our consciousness a picture belief of a physical body, and know such to be a false concept of our real body, which is pure Spirit, that picture of a physical body will disappear from our minds, which means from manifestation.
+We tell you this now so that you may consciously prepare for your part in what awaits. In the November Paper we said YOU ARE THE LIGHT—you who are conscious disciples of Christ. From what you have learned in the last few Papers, you are now ready to take up real work, for you are becoming your mind’s consciousness—back into your true consciousness—back into its light, where it sees and knows the truth, knows that all that is without is darkness because born of the mind’s belief in separation from God’s Consciousness.
-Remember that law: “Whatever we think and hold in our consciousness as being so, outmanifests itself;” and when we stop believing a thing to be true and no longer feed it and keep it alive, it will disappear from our consciousness and consequently from physical expression; for it can then no longer exist. For all is consciousness, and what is no longer in consciousness naturally just is not.
+Knowing now that you are the lights, part of that same light which Jesus was and is—for is He not back within and a part of that same Consciousness where You are—then the God of you can shine through, can take charge, and do all the work you came here to do. Remember, your mind has given to Him its perfect trust. Therefore, all you need do is to let Him have complete charge, to trust Him fully, and thus let your light shine.
-So that when Jesus was finally able altogether to transcend the tortue and agony as well as the mental effects of His bodily suffering, thus releasing His consciousness from it all, He knew He had conquered the “Great illusion” of separateness—and given up the “ghost” of that belief, and of course then there was no longer a separate outer body—its existence was “finished”—there was now only His invisible and immortal soul body left.
+Yes, that is all you need do—to have you know the truth and hold itself ever in its light, to trust perfectly, and let the Christ of you do what He will with and through you. Then can you not see that it is through you and all disciples of Christ that the Forces of Light will accomplish what they are come down to do? For remember your Higher Self is a soldier of this Army of Light, is one of these Sons of God! They can work only through Their human expressions.
-But through the conquering and mastering of His bodily consciousness thus by His mind, He did not “die,” but consciously transcended His body consciousness, entering the higher vibration of His soul consciousness, apparently leaving His physical body behind. And because of His leaving none of His consciousness in the body, there was no longer any life force to hold it together; so it just dissolved into the mental and etheric substance from which it had been created.
+Now you can see why we have been to all these pains to lead your minds out of the darkness of self’s wrong beliefs into the light of your Christ Consciousness. We have come “to bear witness of the Light, that all men through Him might believe.”
-The fact that He thus mastered the idea of a physical body, wresting from it all power of His mind, indeed decided or “finished” all need of a physical form.
+Like John, the Messenger, in our outer selves we are not that Light, but we were “sent to bear witness of that Light—the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
-For His mind now being master of the idea, He could always by merely thinking and feeling himself again in a physical body cause the body to become, and He could thus manifest Himself in it at will, or He could dissolve it in His consciousness and it would instantly disappear. Why should that result? Because by transferring completely His center of consciousness from the idea of His physical body to the idea of His soul body, or vice versa, seeing and feeling Himself in either, He would be in either, as He wished; and on whatever plane of consciousness He was He would of course be visible to those on that plane.
+“He came to His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as did receive Him, to them gave He power to become Sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name.”
-For remember where His consciousness was, there He was; for His Consciousness is His soul, and He could now be conscious of being in His soul body or in His physical body at will, being fully master of the body idea. In other words, by focusing His thought upon either, He thus entered the consciousness either of the idea of His soul body or of His physical body, thereby raising or lowering His consciousness to the vibration of that body, and becoming one with and therefore being in that body which He wished to manifest, even as we have shown you is possible in the last few Papers.
+Remember, we are speaking of that Light which Jesus was and which we are in our True Selves, that Light which shines in the darkness of our human personalities—the Light of our Christ Self, the Holy Spirit God which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
-This explains how Jesus was able to appear and disappear in the midst of His disciples before His ascension in His glorified body.
+For even as Jesus was God’s Spirit, the Christ, in expression, so are we; for is not God All in All? The only difference is that Jesus knew His Godhood, His Oneness with the Father, and through that knowing He gave to the world the Light it was then ready to receive. And ever since His Light, through the Truth which He taught and manifested, has been the Light that has lighted men’s minds down through the centuries—those that received and followed Him. And to all who received Him, that is, received the truth of the Christ Spirit both God in Jesus and God in them, He—the Holy Spirit in them—gave the power to know they were Sons of God; even to those who believe in His Name, or who enter their Christ Consciousness and know their Oneness with Him.
-What do we mean by mastering an idea? Suppose you want to appear before a friend in New York and to deliver to him a message. That is an idea. If you could first see yourself standing in front of your friend, and then could feel yourself there delivering to him your message, clearly seeing him hearing and receiving your words, you will catch our meaning. For just to the extent that you are fully conscious of being there, having left behind all sense of everything else, will you have mastered that idea, and your friend, if psychic, will actually see you and hear you speak the words; or if he is at all sensitive he will feel or get the strong impression of your presence and of the words, almost as if he had heard them.
+From this you will have perceived that by the Light is meant the Christ Consciousness or the Holy Spirit of God, which dwells deep within the soul consciousness of every man, even though man does not know it. But you know it, and now we will show you another way you can contact and receive from that Consciousness.
-Remember, everything is consciousness. You are an idea in consciousness. The above is an idea in consciousness.
+Many of you have had the experience when meditating in the Silence of finding before you could perfectly still your mind, there would flow into it things you had forgotten or neglected to do, or you would be given a clear glimpse of the solution of some problem facing you, or the whereabouts of something lost. In other words, your mind now being quiet, it seemed to draw to itself the things you needed to know.
-THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE
+Where do these things come from? Whence come the ideas to the inventor, the ideal pictures to the mind of the artist, the inspiration to the poet and the ability to express harmony to the musician? Many of these are inspired by mentors on the inner planes of being, you will say. And truly, for every soul has mentors and teachers in the unseen who are ever helping them, when it is possible to get inspiration through to their minds. But back of them are the Higher Selves of every soul, Who in turn inspire and direct these helpers to do all that they do for Their respective souls. But when a soul has evolved spiritually to the stage where the Higher Self descends and takes up His abode within the soul and no longer overshadows it “from above,” then the Higher Self becomes the sole inner Teacher and Authority, and the soul knows this and causes its human mind to become more or less conscious of His Presence and to turn more and more within to Him for guidance and instruction.
-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.
+This as you know is the stage of discipleship, and after much experience in meditation and receiving such guidance, gradually the disciple finds himself drawn within into the Consciousness of the Higher Self where he is given to see with His eyes and to know with His understanding such things as he needs to know.
-The spiritual significance of this all is that Jesus’ mind had mastered the idea of his thinking raise or lower it to whatever plane He wished, in order to connect up with the consciousness of any particular idea on that plane. By this connecting up with an idea He became one with its consciousness and could either enter the idea and express through it or could receive from the idea anything about it He wished to know.
+You have been told this before and many of you are able to enter that Consciousness, but now we wish you to realize clearly what takes place when you enter your Higher Self’s or the Christ Consciousness. We have called it the Christ Consciousness, and that must mean that in that Consciousness you then know your Oneness with the Father. In other words, you have entered the Kingdom of Divine Mind and are in the Father’s Consciousness, where you can tune in, as it were, with anything you need to know—for does not the Father know all things?
-Remember the idea of a thing is the soul of that thing, as taught in “The Impersonal Life;” and that the soul of anything is the consciousness which animates and constitutes its nature. Therefore when you master an idea, you master its consciousness, and thus can compel it to do in any way you will.
+But how can you tune in and thus receive anything you need to know? In just the way we described above and which is employed by every inventor, artist, poet, musician, and every disciple of Christ, whether or not they know the process we shall now describe.
-And of course as disciples and followers of Jesus, intending to follow Him unto the end, even unto the crucifixion of the mortal self, its burial and then resurrection from the tomb of matter, we must necessarily learn to master perfectly ideas of our self, of separation and of mortal flesh.
+You will remember the experience, while meditating, of forgotten things and those you needed to do flowing into your mind as it grew quiet, and reminding you of them. Just as your mind by being stilled thus releases your consciousness from outer things are thus released and needed things of your consciousness likewise released. For in the soul or pure consciousness, as we have shown, everything is perfect and in purest harmony. Therefore, when no longer interfered with by the outer mind, whatever is needed to restore harmony is released and flows into your consciousness.
-Only by studying carefully Jesus’ life and teachings and faithfully patterning our lives after His, can we hope to accomplish what He did. But fear not that you cannot accomplish all that He accomplished, for did He not promise us that all these things and even greater we would do, now that He has shown us the way? And remember, we have within us the same power—that of the Holy Spirit—which enabled Him to meet and conquer in all of His trials and testings. And because He conquered so can we, for He promised also that the Father will enable us to do all things, as we push forward fearlessly, trusting Him perfectly at all times and under all circumstances.
+Likewise if there is anything you need to know and which will restore harmony when known, then all that you need do is to focus your deep interest and attention upon that thing and to hold your consciousness alert, as if it were a funnel into which will be poured the knowledge you seek, knowing that by so doing, when impelled by strong desire, you tune in with its vibration and it thus becomes one with your consciousness and will flow instantly to you. With practice, by such concentrated knowing and desiring, you become a powerful attracting magnet which will draw to you all things you need to know and have.
-Now will note that we make a very careful distinction between Jesus and his human mind, and also between Jesus and the Christ, his Higher Self. Until you clearly perceive the reason for and meaning of this distinction, you cannot understand the deep truths we have tried to convey.
+The reason that this results is that all is consciousness—that there is nothing that is not an idea in consciousness, and every idea is naturally a center of consciousness. Ideas differ only in their rates of vibration. Therefore when you tune in to and become harmonized with the vibration of any given idea, you instantly become one with its consciousness and everything you need to know about it will flow from it into your mind.
-It is our minds that must be required to do all those things that Jesus did, if we would follow Him. It is our minds that must give up all this sense of self and of separation. It is the Jesus part of us—our souls who know—which must require it, so that our minds of their own free will, will gladly and actually give up our consciousness and unite it with our soul consciousness, which is now one with our Christ Consciousness.
+When you have learned by practice to do this, and it is possible to do it in this particular way only by a disciple, you will find it will come to you as a memory of something recalled from the storehouse of mind; it will come as a flash of illumination, as if a light poured into your mind and enabled you to “see” or remember and again know.
-Now see if you can get this: It was the Christ who within Jesus was the inspirer and directer of all that Jesus said and did. It was He Who spoke in that highly significant way when saying, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” He was the Holy Spirit in Jesus, the Son of God.
+This is entirely different from so-called inspiration, which implies that some other mind inspires or pours thoughts or words into your mind. And it is far different from automatic writing, or definite teachings in actual words given you by invisible helpers. These come from mentors or teachers who are with you to help you just to the extent you make it possible, and you receive this help only when they can give it to you.
-It was the soul of Jesus that was the vehicle or abiding place of the Christ Spirit, making Him the purified temple from the world saw and knew as Jesus, and whom Jesus Himself then called the Son of Man.
+The other way you get it through your own efforts direct from the one source—Divine Mind—of which you know your consciousness is a part and with which it is always connected. So you can always receive from It whatever you need and at any time.
-And then there was the mind of Jesus, which had been so perfectly trained and disciplined and consciously so cleansed and purified of self that there resulted a perfect co-operation of its consciousness with that of the soul, permitting the Christ within to do the Father’s will on earth even as in Heaven, and thereby manifesting in Jesus’ human personality the perfect “image and likeness” of the Father which He had created in the beginning.
+You will note that above we said that this knowledge came from the storehouse of mind—that you remembered and KNEW. How could you know if you had not learned it before? Why of course you know, for are you not a Son of God, Who with all your Brothers provide the consciousness of all men of earth—for are They not responsible for the earth and its human plane? And whose consciousness dwells all knowledge pertaining to earth and even of those realms beyond the earth up to including the Sun, the abode of God, the Christ-Father?
-But the Christ, Jesus, and the human mind and personalities were really one, for they were but the consciousness of God manifesting now freely for the first time through a perfected human containing no limitations whatever. The crucifixion was but the final and conclusive proof for all the world to see and recognize that God’s Spirit had visited the earth in all the fullness of its Splendor in human form, and had left with us its Light until the end of time which would light the way for all of God’s children so that they could know how to return to Him, even as Jesus had returned.
+In other words, as a Son of God, God’s Consciousness is your consciousness as it is your Brothers’ consciousness, and all in that Consciousness is always available to you when you are able to connect up with it, as we have shown. Therefore you are One of Those Who Know, not one of those who have to be taught or told. Of course, however, you, yourself, must know this.
-In the above, hidden beneath the words, are given some very definite and vital instructions. Those of you who are ready will perceive them and will strive to prove them, and with this become prepared and enabled to go through the crucifixion when you are “betrayed” by the Judas faculty of your nature. But remember that your Judas faculty is employed by the Christ of you to deliver self over to your Initiators.
+have told you, and if something within responds, it is time for you to realize its truth and for you to assume your real nature and to begin to think, speak and act as a conscious Son of God.
-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.
+This brings us back to the Light. For in the consciousness of your real nature, that of a Son of God, you are living in the Light. In that consciousness all is Light, for that consciousness is the Light. It is the Source, the Essence, the Real of all Light. It is God’s Consciousness, the Sun of all being. In that Consciousness then there is no slightest shadow, for its Light is so powerful and perfect that all God knows is plainly seen, known and is naturally the consciousness of all who are in its Light.
-THE SOUL LIFE OF A DISCIPLE
+From this you can understand what is the true Light, that Light whose ray is shining in the darkness of every man. For as all is Consciousness and there is only one Consciousness and that Consciousness is the innermost of all human minds, which are but the outermost expressions of that Consciousness, you can now see how that Light is ever shining deep back within every soul, even if the mind never comprehends it.
-Here is another illuminating letter from our friend of the “Garden of the Soul.”
+But what is the darkness for that Consciousness expresses itself on this dark planet earth in the minds of men? It is because of God’s Love for His Sons and for His Sons’ sons, that they may receive of His Life and have it abundantly. Therefore He has been pouring the Light of His Love from the beginning through the hearts of His Sons, giving Them the fullness of His Life and Power, so that They in Their turn can so quicken the consciousness of Their sons that the spark of light in their souls will grow and increase until it permits Them to enter and abide in its light and make of them living and immortal souls. Gradually, one by one, are They thus quickening and entering the souls of men, and Their Light is spreading over the earth, until it will no longer be known among its sister planets in the firmament of the heavens as the little red planet, but its light will shine with equal brilliancy with theirs and it will take its place alongside of them in the Holy Fraternity of the Celestial Spheres.
-“Dear Friends:
+And who are these Sons of God, also called Sons of Light and sons of Mind by those who know? We have told you how in the beginning they came here to redeem the earth, Their own progeny; how under the leadership of Their great Elder Brother, called the Christ, otherwise The Light, They descended from the Light of the Sun of God’s Mind, bringing Their Light to quicken their light in the consciousness of every man upon the earth, to stay with these men, Their own children, until their consciousness had been lifted up into the light of Their Consciousness and finally into the Light of Their Father God’s Consciousness.
-“It is truly glorious to know that we our Higher Selves are Sons of God, having descended to earth willingly and gladly under Christ’s leadership to do our work of redemption. What a joy! In my realization of this I am so conscious of having taken possession of my soul—of being my Higher and Real Self, living in God’s consciousness, where we are all so happy, where we have no desire for anything, for we have and see everything—all. I do not seem to be conscious of seeing a thing that is manifestation; rather I seem to know I am the manifestation as well as the manifestor—or am as God Himself, and of course I just have and am everything eternally.
+Can you see now how Jesus the Christ, Himself, finally came to use now His own Son’s power to shed sufficient of His Light into the minds of men that it will remain and be the quickening power ever coming from without to give to the truth He taught and the example of His Life He brought—to fan the spark of spirit within into a flame to thereby cause the souls of men to awaken and listen, to understand and know the voice of the Christ, their Higher Self, when He speaks from within their hearts?
-“To look at my outer conditions would seem to deny this great truth, but I’m not abiding in the outer appearances; they cannot touch me—I’m a Son of God, abiding in my real home in a consciousness of perfect peace, where there is no inharmony, disease, lack or limitation. These do not exist here, nor do they exist anywhere. For all that is, is God.
+Christ then is God’s Holy Spirit, His Divine Love, the Light made manifest upon earth, and now coming into evidence in the hearts and lives of the many men who listen to and follow His leading. He is not only The Light that has shone down through the centuries as Jesus the Christ, and is now shining in all His pristine glory in the soul and higher realms of the Kingdom, but He is the Light that is shining in the heart of every man that has opened his heart to Love. For He is the Light of Love, and every man who knows and follows Love, knows our blessed Master Jesus and knows that he is known and loved by Him.
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+====THE LAW OF HARMONY====
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+In Paper 33, we promised to give definite instructions how to speak effectively to the cells of your body, to your human mind, and to your soul, so that they will always render perfect service and produce for you any desired result.
+In that article, we showed you how all consciousnesses in your body, mind and soul is your consciousness, but it is also God’s; and in the article above we showed you how to tune in to the consciousness of any other idea or center of consciousness. Likewise how in your soul or pure consciousness everything is perfect and in perfect harmony, and that when you can free your consciousness from all awareness of outer things and conditions that soul consciousness or harmony, all the things causing inharmony would be released in the outer world of mind, and whatever is needed to restore harmony would flow naturally and immediately to you. This is so because it is the law of harmony.
+Try to realize that the universe of God’s world, with its many celestial and solar systems, operates under this same law of harmony; that should any one factor in the universe be out of harmony, it would disrupt the whole system and produce chaos. This means that you in reality are not out of harmony with it; that you must be doing what you do in accordance with the operation of this immutable law of harmony.
+Then what is it that appears so glaringly to you to be inharmony—what about pain, disease, poverty, crime, all unhappiness? Have we not told you that these exist only because of the wrong understandings and the untrue thoughts and feelings man persists in indulging in and carrying around in his consciousness? They only appear to be out of harmony because of man’s ignorance of the law, and his not knowing that what appears is but the law of harmony operating in the keeping of every part of the universe always in perfect balance. If one moves in his thinking from the perfect harmony of Divine Mind, action immediately and automatically sets up in the human consciousness and causes what seems to be a disturbance of the existing harmony; when in fact it is but a switching or counter-balancing of forces in order to preserve and maintain that harmony. In other words the law of harmony is always exerting pressure to force the consciousness back into its perfect state, and what seems to be inharmony is only the feeling caused by harmony pressing itself back into expression. Study this carefully until you get all of its inner meaning and application.
+When you get it, you will see that when man again thinks true thoughts—the supposedly inharmonious elements come into line and instantly and automatically right themselves.
+Now let us see how we can apply this law to the freeing of your consciousness of wrong outer things, especially when there is pain, disease, or suffering of any kind.
+First you must realize there is only one way, and that is by deliberately and determinedly picturing and seeing in your mind the opposite and the perfection of whatever is causing the pain, disease or suffering. If there is pain or disease in the body, picture perfect health, strength and harmony there. If there is mental suffering caused by conditions in your home or affairs, picture the opposite of such conditions and see them manifesting perfectly and ideally, and yourself enjoying them fully.
+Yes, you must actually do this—there is no other way to free yourself—to rise out of the untrue consciousness in which you had allowed your interest to become involved.
+Remember, you are a soul or pure consciousness, and as your pure physical body, in its imperfect state as your human mind now sees it, and which has no part in your soul consciousness.
+But you, who have accomplished all all these truths you have long since gained such control of your mind that you can even in pain turn your attention away from it to anything you will. By thus filling your mind with the perfect pictures, you find that two things are accomplished—you counteract the effects of the wrong suggestions instilled into the cell consciousness of that part of your body where is the pain, flooding its consciousness with the light of truth; and you actually retire back into your soul consciousness where only harmony, purity and perfection exist; thereby bringing the consciousness of both the cells of your body and of your mind into the harmony of your soul consciousness.
+When through practice you are able to prove this, you will see for yourself how the law of harmony operates; how, when you have brought your mind and its consciousness, which controls the consciousness of the cells of your body, into perfect harmony with your soul consciousness which remembers you being a disciple, is now harmonious with your Christ Consciousness—all seemingly inharmonious elements and conditions in the outer are released, and flow from the place harmonious and happy elements, thus restoring all to their proper and natural condition.
+No, it will not be easy to prove this—it takes practice and failure to entitle you to enjoy its fruits, which are freedom and self-mastery, and which mean mastery over body, mind and soul. And you must do all that we have indicated; such fruits are not for the weak-minded or the easily discouraged, but only for determined and unconquerable souls.
+In order to help, we are glad to give you some further suggestions. For instance, speak from the consciousness inspired by the truth we have declared to the cells of any part of your body in which there is pain or inharmony, as follows:
+“You are my children! You are centers of my consciousness—not of that of my mortal mind, but of my soul consciousness. My soul is the outer reflection of God’s Consciousness, even as you are the outer reflection of my consciousness. This makes God’s consciousness a part of you, and mine a part of God’s, and means that God’s consciousness is actually God’s consciousness.
+“You exist. We are and knowing—as perfect—as He created you in the beginning—in His image and likeness. So I know that you are not as my mind has wrongly believed and held you to be in the past—weak, sick or impure; but you are strong and healthy and functioning always in perfect harmony.
+“Know the truth, my children, and be FREE! Free from all sense of separateness and error forever.”
+Speaking these words of truth with positiveness and in the knowing of their truth will surely bring harmony to the cell consciousness that before recognized and reported pain; because through the power of pure truth its consciousness has been lifted up to your soul consciousness where the light of truth. And just as long as the cell consciousness is not dragged down again by your mind’s memory of that pain or even the thought of it, there will be harmony in that part of your body.
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+====MIND KNOWING AND SOUL KNOWING====
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+<WRAP justify>
+This brings us to the consideration of a very important fact—the “knowing of truth.”
+Have you grasped as yet the real purpose why we have tried so hard to explain to you and to reason out all these inner truths step by step to you, so that you can now accept them as spiritual FACTS?
+It is in order that your mind, which means its consciousness, will accept them. We want it actually to accept and fully understands, they become a part of its consciousness, and sink into its sub-consciousness, where they automatically come forth for use whenever needed.
+You will remember, as a Son of God, you already know these truths in your soul consciousness, but through these Papers we have been unfolding them to your mortal mind—and for no other purpose than for their use by your human personality, or that you can use them through its outer until there has been brought about a union of its understanding with yours of course it would hinder and limit their use.
+Therefore what you as a Son of God have been doing from the beginning has been to bring your consciousness by your human mind into oneness with your consciousness—that which it thought life’s erroneousness, the truth of its being limited or lacking in any way, but that there is only one consciousness, one self, one life—yours, which is one with your Father-God’s in Heaven. We have been helping by teaching and impressing these truths upon your mind ever since you came with us.
+Now let us see if we can tell you why the necessity of so teaching your human mind, when you know its truth in your soul. Can you not now see that all that is without exists only in the mortal mind’s consciousness as picture-beliefs in their reality, and as they thus appear are not at all in your soul consciousness—where everything is ideal, all good and all perfect? Then is it not absolutely necessary to cleanse your mind of all these untrue beliefs and replace them with the truths we have been so insistently pointing out to you, before it can come into consciousness and be one with you know?
+All its life your human reflection has believed in and has been fed upon error, until it has become completely involved in a false consciousness which it has thought to be real. All this error must be dug up and cast out and the mind utterly freed from its embroiling and stultifying influence. You can get nowhere while any of it remains a part of its consciousness. Until fully cleansed it is wholly impossible to accomplish the real work you came here to do. So you have been little by little freeing the mind from these untruths until now, with the help of these teachings, it has come to a realization of its being but a reflection, a part of your consciousness, and it is willing to give up and let You take complete charge and do Your will in and through it.
+Yes, it is willing to give up, even eager to do it. But does it find it cannot do it easily. Yet it sees that it must do so. And now listen, for here is the vital part of this message:
+Not until the mind not only does give up, but deliberately and consciously applies these truths here in the outer life, in all its thinking, speaking and acting, cleanses its consciousness of all error and turns its attention wholly to you within, seeing and knowing only the truth of its oneness with You, with Christ and with God,—can it be freed from its sense of separation, enter the kingdom and receive of its divine heritage.
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+[[Sun Papers]]
-“Would there were words that could describe my garden now. I wish every one could share it with me.”