====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1937 == ---- === JESUS CHRIST === === XII === BELOVED, this message is for you only who have found Me, are waiting upon Me, and who long consciously and unmistakably to be taught by Me, so that ye may abide in Me and My Word may always abide in you. Ye have tasted of My Love, ye have supped with Me, and have learned that I AM all that ye are, that without Me ye are nothing, have no life, and there is nothing worth living for in the outer world; so ye seek only to be with Me and to abide in My Love. Ye are learning that while abiding in My Love ye are abiding in Me and that My Consciousness is then in you, and that in that Consciousness I AM showing you many wondrous things. I AM showing you as fast as ye are able to receive Truth and understand that within My Consciousness lies hidden all Truth; that I AM directing all that ye think, say and do, that anything that appeals to you is I calling it to your attention, and that whatever ye need to know it is I who teach it to you, even though it is heard through other lips or gained from other minds. To whom else then should ye turn in your need but to Me? Think ye, when I have been growing you and teaching you from the beginning, and have brought you to where ye are listening to this message, that I know not what is best for you—My outer expression of Myself? Would ye learn then how with sure recognition ye may receive from Me, how always ye may be taught by Me, and how ye may know positively when I speak and when other voices speak? Then heed these My words and strive faithfully to remember and to do just what they point you to do, when the need is. First, there must be some important question to which ye seek an answer. When ready, with the question strongly impressed upon the consciousness, completely relax both mind and body. This can be done easily, when seated in a comfortable position, in the following way: Turn your mind’s attention within and try to realize that I AM yourself, your one and only self; that the life coursing through your arteries and nerves is My Life, that it is a perfect life, part of the One Life of My Father, and that if unhindered by your untrue thoughts of yourself it would express in perfect health and harmony. When your attention is fully focused on this life within you, until ye can feel it as a faint tingling, an inner glow, just let go with your mind and allow this life to flow freely through your whole being, and the glow to radiate from within to the outer circumference of your body, which ye will find is now no hindrance, for all sense of it has disappeared. Allow this glow thus to flood your consciousness, and while resting in the feel of it, with your desire now focussed on the question, let your mind fully note and joy in the harmony and peace that is felt. If ye have faithfully followed these directions and your mind is centered on the subject in question, yet ye will find your consciousness is open and ready to receive any impression that comes; for it is now pure, virgin consciousness, freed from all other thoughts and able to perceive any thing that appears either from within or without. Remember, I AM within, and that I AM your One and Only Self. Therefore it is My Life, My Consciousness and My Nature alone that is animating and expressing all that ye are. Hence if a thought or impression appears in this clear, virgin consciousness, it must come from Me; for I alone am now in charge and am able to make you hear. Dwell on this thought until the mind sees how it must be so. Now again take note: With mind and body still completely relaxed and the glow clearly felt, wait upon Me in loving expectation. If anything pushes forth from within and appears on the surface of mind, note it carefully and let it show itself fully, and if words urge for utterance, voice those words silently to yourself. Keep on speaking them until the mind finds itself listening to them and probably marveling at the wisdom they express on the subject in question. Suddenly it will perceive that there are two parts of you, a listening part and a speaking part, and that the listening part wonders which is you and what and who is the part that is speaking. And then the realization will flood the consciousness, and ye will know I AM that which is speaking—that I AM your real I, and that the part that is listening and is now so concerned about it is your mind that always heretofore thought it was you. This experience may come to anyone who faithfully follows the suggestions given, and will bring great illumination, and enable the one blessed by it to practice it until he will wait upon and turn to Me in any need, and I will show him the way out and the answer to every problem. That is one way the realization will come. Another will be when, with mind waiting upon Me and with the question whose answer is sought in the forefront of your consciousness, again note well what impressions come pertaining to the subject in question. If these impressions begin to throw light on the subject and explain what ye need to know, keep the mind centered upon what comes until the whole subject is made clear—which will surely result, if the attention is perfectly focussed upon your question. Then you will suddenly wonder where this light and these impressions come from. And the realization will flood upon you that they must come from My Consciousness which knows, and which for the moment lights your consciousness so that it can also see and know. Practice in thus concentrating upon a subject, to the exclusion of everything else, knowing that if ye persist ye can penetrate My Consciousness where all knowledge of this or any subject resides, and ye will be able to come to Me and never fail to receive whatever ye need to know. For beloved, the desire to know any certain thing is but your response to My urge to seek such knowledge, and if ye will but believe it, I Who urge it am that moment waiting to unfold that knowledge to you, when ye turn within to Me as shown. All knowledge of earthly and heavenly things is a part of My Consciousness, which is a conscious part of My Father’s Consciousness, in which reside all things; and when your consciousness is thus illumined by the light of My Consciousness, ye can know all that I would have ye know. But not until ye thus turn to Me and consciously wait upon Me in perfect love and trust, can I illumine your mind so it can see at will into My Consciousness and learn what is there waiting to disclose itself to you. In the meantime your soul, which contains all the knowledge I have taught it from the beginning in your many lives on earth and in the inner worlds, and which knowledge now constitutes your inner or soul consciousness—as contrasted to your brain-mind, which contains all the knowledge I have taught it in this life,—is unfolding to you its knowledge through life’s experience, as fast as ye are able to receive and apply it. Your soul, therefore, knows no more than I have taught it in its many lives in the past. Your mind knows only what I have taught it in this life. So that only when the soul has surrendered to My Love and has allowed Me to enter and possess its consciousness, can I speak from the soul direct to the mind. From that time I become the soul, for its consciousness is then My Consciousness, and I can begin to get the mind to respond to My Love. Only when the mind does respond to My Love can it hear My Voice, and only then can it be taught direct by Me. Before that time the mind has been taught by the soul of its knowledge that I had taught it through the hard experience of the past. Now ye who have found Me and are waiting upon and abiding in My Love need no longer learn the hard way of experience, for I have unfolded to you herein a more blessed way—the way of turning within to Me in love and trust and of being shown by Me whatever ye need to know. But remember always, beloved, ye are both soul and mind, even as ye are I, Myself; for I AM all that ye are and all that your soul and mind are—they are but My Consciousness and have no other consciousness or life. When your consciousness is centered in the outer mind, then ye are limited by your mind’s knowing; when your consciousness is centered in your soul, then ye are limited by your soul’s knowing—if it is an unawakened soul and is not yet reborn in Love and is therefore unaware of Me as its Light and Source of being. But when your consciousness is centered in Me, the Christ of you, then ye are unlimited in knowledge, power and love, for I AM all these and all are but perfect expressions of My Being, even as I AM the perfect expression of My Father’s Being in all men. ———○——— HE who sees that his highest attainments are always incomplete may go on working indefinitely.—Laotze. ---- {{ jesuschrist193705_796.jpg |}} ---- {{ jesuschrist193705_797.jpg |}} ---- {{ jesuschrist193705_798.jpg |}} ---- {{ jesuschrist193705_799.jpg |}} ---- //← [[the_call_to_arms|previous]] // | [[:the_inner_life_vol._5|The Inner Life 1937]] | // [[the_ascension_may37|next]] → //