The Impersonal Life

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====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1938 ==
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==== ANSWERS TO THE SEVEN QUESTIONS IN LESSON 45 ====
=== By a Student ===
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(1) ARE YOU sure you have found and are now being taught are by the Comforter, your Christ Self? Explain why you are sure.

Yes, M—— is sure. She has found Me—I AM her Comforter, and am now her only Teacher. I alone give her peace and assurance when problems assail. When she says I AM this or that—truly knowing Me as such, I AM her life, her health, her strength, her all; for I Alone AM, and she now knows that she is not at all.

(2) Are you looking to Him as your supreme Teacher and Authority, and depending upon no one else? What comes to you as a result?

Yes, M—— is depending upon Me more and more each day—she now realizes What and Who I AM, and comes to me sooner or later with every problem, knowing now that I AM her Supply, her Guide, her only Authority, and that My Word is sufficient and the final word for her. Then she is filled with great Joy and is so happy that she wants to help all others find this same Joy.

(3) Are you able to command your human mind to “Be still, and know, I AM, God,” and then know that you are the “I AM” Who commands, and that you and God are One? How can you prove this?

Yes. Yes, more and more she is able to quiet her mind with My Words, “Be still, and know, I AM, God,” and instantly she realizes Me as I AM, and that it is I thus speaking, stilling all in the outer so that it vanishes and there is just I—and all is Light and Love.

She used to ask Me for help, but now does it very seldom, and when she does she immediately realizes she is I and We are One, and she is all there is, and therefore does not need to ask herself for anything, for she is all there is, all there is is hers.

When she speaks the Word for another a Light appears that she knows is I AM—is I AM in that other, and she knows all is taken care of. I have proved it to her often of late.

(4) Are you sure you have found the Kingdom, and can you abide in it for any length of time? What does the Kingdom mean to you when you are in Its Consciousness?

Yes. The time of abiding is getting longer each time she comes to Me. She loses all sense of her body and mind and ascends into a great vastness of pastel shades of pink and blue, which she calls Love, and which I AM; and there she rests, waits in such peace that she sees Beauty, Goodness, Holiness everywhere, feels Oneness with all, realizes Abundance of all Good, Wholeness and Perfection—for she knows that I AM ALL, and I have All.

(5) Can you truly see Christ, the Higher Self, and Good or God, in everyone and in every thing and condition around you? What is this “seeing” doing to and for you?

Yes, M—— is beginning to see Me more and more in everyone, in every thing and every condition. It makes her gently tolerant and understanding with all. In some she sees Christ in them trying to express, and soon all things that she once saw in their personalities vanishes, and all concern leaves and she is at peace and joyous, because of seeing Me in them.

She has wondered why she was placed in so much seeming confusion at this particular time, so she sat down to think it through. As she did so she picked up her Impersonal Life, it opened to the chapter on “Soul Mates,” and she was led to read the three paragraphs, as follows:

“Perhaps the particular position in life you now occupy you do not think the best adapted for the expression of My Idea surging within you.

“If so, then why not step out of that position into the one of your choice?”

“The mere fact that you cannot or do not do this proves that at this time such position is the one best suited to awaken in you certain qualities necessary for My perfect expression, and that I, your own Self, AM compelling you to remain therein, until you can recognize My Purpose and Meaning hidden within the power such position has to disturb your peace of mind and keep you thus dissatisfied.”

She then asked, “Show me Thy Meaning and Purpose for me,” hearing these words in reply:

“Patience, My child; you are trying to express Me to the fullest of your understanding. It is in this very condition of confusion that I AM showing you the weaknesses and qualities that still need to be overcome, so that there can be a complete surrender to My Will.”

Then I gave her a glimpse of Me handling these condition, until all concern had left and she was content to leave all to Me. From this experience she will be able to see Me more clearly in all conditions, things and people, and know she is in Me, I in her, and I in All.

(6) Have you had an inner experiences—dreams or visions—in which you were with others robed in white? In them did you see the Lord Jesus? Describe such experiences and what they meant for you at the time.

Yes—dreams. She did not see Jesus Christ, but she knew she was I—the Christ of her. She seemed to be, in the most recent experience, in front of a great mass of people, all of whom were dressed in white and facing her. She was there but was without form—was only a glorious, radiant Light. The people (all the thoughts in her consciousness) were in perfect order facing her. Yet no self was visible to them.

(7) Describe just what this Work means to you, what it has done for you and what you deem It to be.

This Work is a Spiritual Work done through Selfless Love and Wisdom. When we are all able to withdraw from our mind and body consciousness and enter into the Christ Consciousness as It teaches us to do, we are shown what is, and are enabled to do, our inner work, knowing now that all is God and that “My Father and I are One.”

It has lifted me (not entirely) from self consciousness to Selfless Consciousness, and I know I AM. It is such a joy to be able to have such realization of God. His Holy Spirit, the Christ, I now know is the Light shining in the midst of me, and as I AM, He is the REAL Self of me, and I am learning to let Him shine alway. There is nothing else in life to compare with the importance of serving Him.
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