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+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== The Light ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 36 | DECEMBER 1931 ==
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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.
+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.
+Let us look closely at John’s words. In the first sentence he says:
+“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
+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.
+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.”
+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.
+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?
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.”
+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.”
+“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.”
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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?
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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?
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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?
+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.
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 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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 This brings us to the consideration of a very important fact—the “knowing of truth.”
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 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
+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]]