The Impersonal Life

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====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1938 ==
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==== THE IMPERSONAL WORK ====

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 issued 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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=== FROM THE SOUL REALM ===

WE ASK you, dear reader, to orient yourself for awhile, if
possible, outside of your brain-mind’s consciousness into
that of your soul or real self. We will help you to do this, if you
will note carefully what follows and try to picture yourself doing
just what we describe.

First, strive to get back of or above your human self and look
out or down at it and see it for just what it is, with its faults
and weaknesses, its good and ugly qualities, its limitations, its
petty sins, and its fear, worries and concerns about so many things.
Take time to do this actually, until you become aware that what
you see is not you—that you are something apart and different
from and much more than that self. Yes, you can do this, for
undoubtedly in other moments of quiet, when remorse or regret
stirred the mind, you were able to point out to it its mistakes, how
it was all its fault, and many other things it very much needed to
know. Think! Is this not so?

In this more or less clear awareness of your being something
much greater than your outer self, you are now able to go farther
with us into this inner and higher consciousness. As a soul, your
real self is always in this inner consciousness, for that is the real
part of you, and there is your real life—not what your mind
imagines you are in the human self it sees. The real of you is
always looking out or down upon the outer self, whose human
mind is but an outer extension of your consciousness, always seeing
what is wrong and lacking in that self and ever seeking to teach,
unfold and purify its consciousness and to round out its understanding so that you can do perfectly the things you came here to do and for which alone the human mind was created. Try to see
if this is not so!

In this higher consciousness and seeing the lack and limitations
preventing your perfect expression, do you judge or condemn your
outer self? No, you seek only to inform your mind of what it
needs to know in order to bring it into an understanding of your
plan and purpose for it, as fast as it can receive it and free its
consciousness of all hindering and limiting beliefs. In this higher
consciousness it is plain to see what beliefs are clouding the understanding, and so you put the outer self through the experiences
that best show the mind also what is limiting it and how to change
that condition.

The mind thus gradually learns what you want it to know.
With most, though, when shown their mistakes they stop there and
bemoan their fate—even while longing to free themselves from the
condition for which they now know they are responsible by having
created it in the past by their wrong beliefs. They are unable to
do the mental work or exercise the will-power to make themselves
do what they now know they should do.

Here is where your orienting yourself outside of your mind’s
consciousness—with its beliefs in limitations, its concern and its
acceptation of inability and defeat—permits you to exercise your
authority, to talk to your mind, and to stir it up into doing what
it now knows it should do. Only by keeping after it, causing it
to feel your constant prodding, will it start to do what it should
—think, say and do only the things it would like to have manifest,
keeping out of its consciousness every contrary thought, paying no
attention to appearances, and seeing only the new and desired
condition as a real and living thing.

Yes, many of you have a knowledge of the truth—in your minds,
know that you should permit no negative and untrue things in
your consciousness, but you do not keep them out; you let them
come in at will, and then you bemoan your fate and long to be
free from the inharmony, lack and limitation they cause in your
life.

Therefore, having shown your mind this truth, it now becomes
necessary to make it responsible for its use and practice; which
you do in the meeting and facing of the problems brought to it.

Consequently you must make yourself face them manfully and
stay with them until you are able to show your mind the purpose of
each particular problem and the necessity of mastering it and
thereby of gaining the strength and the understanding each is
intended to provide.

Until you have acquired the ability of thus getting outside of
yourself and looking at your problems in this way, divorcing yourself from all concern about them, and you can see clearly your
mind and its attitude, you are not in a position to teach your mind
anything or to do much about your problems.

This getting outside and viewing yourself is much more simple
than it sounds, for we are sure almost everyone who reads these
words does it more or less consciously every day. Why, everytime
you lead, impel, or make yourself do any thing, you in a way are
outside and directing things.

If you want to learn consciously to direct and make your self
do things and thereby gain a realization of your real self and the
power residing in you, let no day go by without making yourself
do something it does not want to do, and prevent it from doing
something it wants to do. For instance, make yourself get up an
hour earlier for a week and study these truths; and limit yourself
to one cigarette a day (if you are a smoker), or make yourself stop
eating while you are still hungry. This self-discipline you would
find will be of untold value in not only developing will-power,
but in teaching your mind obedience and making it aware of you
as its master.

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THE following article will prove to be a wonderful aid to free
yourself from the outer mind and its beliefs—if carefully
studied and its great truths meditated upon.

Once the mind fully realizes that we, as centers of awareness,
actually are where our attention and interest is focused, or that
where our thoughts are, we are, we will more and more direct
our thoughts away from this unreal world to that of our True
Selves, where only goodness and perfection exist and our ideals
are ever manifest realities.

=== THOUGHTS ===

ALL YOU see, feel, hear or know is but the result of your
thoughts. It includes your body, your environment, the
earth, the sky and humanity—everything with which you are
acquainted. All is within your mind and consciousness. There
is nothing outside.

Your thoughts build and make up the states of consciousness
which compose the entity of which you are conscious, and which
you call “I”.

You have built innumerable materialistic concepts in your
thought-belief pictures, resulting in the world in which you now
live. You have your own world and that world is you. You live
in and have a world of complete isolation. There is nothing in
your world that does not belong to you. All in that world you
have created by your thinking. You made it, you see it, you feel
it. And all you made, see, feel is you—yourself. There is absolutely no one or thing in your universe but You!!

You created yourself in your image, and all your images are in
your likeness! And this creating has all been done in a dream—a dream that you have been indulging in since you left the Garden of Eden long eons ago!

So, here you are now in your dream, with all your thought-belief images. And you are beginning to awaken and to get a
realization of all you have done in this dream state since you were
first born as a White Light of utter purity—A Breath of God.

As the mists of your mortal dream begin to dissipate into
nothingness from which they sprang, faint memories of that First
Glory come through. And in the human breast come feelings
of remorse, surprise, consternation, fear and hope; an intense
longing, a heart-ache, with a hunger for something to fill the
aching void. Then begins a striving to change the thought-belief
images and pictures in your dream mind.

Now you are wondering about all those so called humans on
earth—millions of them. You ask, “Are they my thought-belief
images also?” You say, “They move and act and are substance to
my touch. Did I create them? And do they have a world as well
as I? And are they in complete isolation in their Universe?”

Listen! When God created US we were neuter (sexless)
Spirits, and endowed with all the God Attributes—our complete
Inheritance. We knew each other as One.

Then you went to sleep, and became separated from your other
Selves. When you became separated you left Them in Paradise!
Then you had no more knowledge of Them. You left Them Gods,
and They have always remained Gods. Right there in Paradise
where you left Them.

You were the only one to go to sleep. These Gods did not sleep
but went on living right in Their Paradise—the Garden of Eden,
living in perfect Bliss, while you were asleep and dreaming all
kinds of strange things about yourself and Them. The deeper
your sleep the more distorted and unlike Gods in the Garden became your dream of Them.

At first in your dream you saw and named them Angels and
Lords and Christs. In that consciousness you pictured Them as
you imagined Them—you made Them—then in consciousness like yourself! Later you forgot these lovely Beings you had created in
your dream consciousness and went still farther out into nothingness in your dream of separation. Then your consciousness formed
a thought-picture of yourself in another consciousness, and you
named this the Soul.

Then later your consciousness became so gross and far away
from God’s Idea of you that you forgot the Soul and entered
into the lowest and darkest state, and thus was born your belief
that you were human, and you named yourself man. These
pictures you named were just alike—you made them in your own
likeness and they imaged the picture of yourself you had created in
your consciousness. Everything you thought or believed came
before you in the form you had pictured it. Every one lived
around you and became a part of your life and formed your world,
because you were their creator.

But all this was taking place in the Garden of Eden WHERE
YOU WERE ASLEEP!

After you reached this state of mortal consciousness in your
dream, with all your thoughts about you, your troubles began.
You had taken the beautiful life and gifts that God had given you—your Inheritance—and had used It in making a world of false pictures.

The last time you saw your lovely God-Selves was when you
were with Them in the Garden. Since that time you separated
from Them you knew nothing about Them whatsoever.

Now it maybe that your other God-Selves went to sleep also.
This may be true. But that is no concern of yours. They are God-Selves. And as God-Selves They need no help from you.

Let us image one of these Gods before you! But you are in a
dream. You see a human; in your dream you imagine many things
about him. You have a belief that he is ugly, and wicked; that
he has harmed you. You pity yourself that you have to look at
him or be near him. And in your consciousness in time you store
up a long series of image-belief pictures about him.

Then . . . one day . . . the mists fall from your eyes! . . . You
awaken from your dream . . . and behold! . . . A GOD stands before you . . . just where the human had stood!!!

But what has become of his ugliness, his wickedness, the harm
he did to you? Did this God do anything to cause his transformation? No, you but lost the human picture in your consciousness.
He has been there perfect all the time. The other picture was all
in your mind and had no other existence.

When you saw him as a human you perhaps thought, “This
is his Karma. I can not interfere with his reaping as he has sown.
Perhaps he is a young soul and still must grow while I am ready
for the Kingdom; he must wait, for he still has lessons to learn
through his life experiences.”

But now that you see Him as a God, where is His Karma, the
reaping, the sowing, and the lessons? Do you not see that all
this was in your consciousness only, and was but your thoughts
straying out of the Kingdom?

Your Work that you came into existence to do is—lifting up
your own world. And after that is finished you will cry out with
a loud voice and give up the Ghost of Separation—of false beliefs.
And then you will be in that Paradise of God you have never left,
except in your dream of earthly experience.
—Nancy.

=== WHERE WE LIVE ===

Here is another approach to the subject in the above article.
Try to get its full meaning.

THE EARTH that we live on completely encircles all of creation. For is not the earth plane the outermost plane of our
consciousness? Then any place that you stand on the surface of
the earth or sea and point directly down to the surface, you are
pointing toward the center of creation. There is only one earth,
and only one place inhabited by man, and that is the earth we are
on now.

Man is a creature of the earth, and eternity for man will be here
on the earth. Heaven for man is not in some mystic place in
the sky, but is right here now—if man can only know it.

Man never was an angel, and never will he be an angel. Angels
were created angels in the beginning, and they remain angels.
Man was created man, and he shall always be man, although
someday he will be a perfect man—even like Jesus Christ, when
he knows the truth about himself.

It is time that someone stepped to the front and boldly removed
the false covering that modern religionists put on Eternal Things.

Men paint great pictures about a future home for man in the
sky some place. The age has arrived when we had better return
to the true teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept the
Truth as He proclaimed it, without adding any fairy tales to His
teachings.

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is here. Only ignorance
separates man from being in the Kingdom here and now. It is
true that Jesus said the Kingdom is within us, but he was only
trying to show us that it is within our consciousness, and that
when we learn the truth of our Oneness with God, the Kingdom
comes forth or “descends” and becomes the Earth.

So-called Christianity of this age insults the great teachings of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus taught that the Father and the Son
would come in the person of the Holy Ghost. Jesus never taught
that there were three persons in the Godhead, but Jesus did teach
that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit were all ONE. Jesus was
God in flesh.
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