====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1937 == ---- ==== JESUS CHRIST ==== === XVII === KNOW, beloved, that God is the One Consciousness, the Source, the Cause, the Reason for All that Is. There is none beside Him. In reality He is purest Love. That Love is the Life and Reason for all expression. I, Jesus Christ, AM the pure expression of that Love. Therefore, I AM the Life, Consciousness and True Nature of all men. Without Me men could not be. But that Life is as a Light hidden in the darkness of men’s understanding, and they know Me not until My Life grows and cleanses men’s minds—whose consciousness is but an extension of My Consciousness—so that they can comprehend and respond to Love. It is as if the human mind were a lens whose purpose is to reflect on the screen of man’s consciousness, through the aid of My Light within, whatever is in My Consciousness, which is an extension of My Father’s Consciousness of Pure Love. But because the mind—which deems itself a separate consciousness, but is only an instrument created for My use—had become so clouded with beliefs gained from its interest in the sensations of the flesh and its reactions to outer contacts, the Light of Love could not penetrate the cloud in the lens, and consequently men walked in the darkness of a false sense of separation from Me and from God, the One Consciousness, the Source of All Good. But as I AM the Life of all men, I AM growing all men and will eventually bring them to their blossoming stage, when Love will cleanse the lens of their minds so that Love’s Light can shine through and reflect in their consciousness the thoughts in My Consciousness; and in time their minds will become crystal pure lenses and Love’s Light will shine through perfectly, so that the outer consciousness will truly reflect My inner Consciousness, which is a perfect reflection of My Father’s Love. From this, beloved, ye can see how I and My Father are One, and how I and ye are One; how God and His Love are all there IS, and how I AM God in expression. Because He IS, HE must express, and I, His Only Begotten Son, AM the only way He can express His Consciousness of Purest Love and Life in all men; who then must be His human channels of expression, or the only way He can express His Love and Life in fullest form on Earth as He planned in the Heaven of His Consciousness. Ye therefore are not separate from Me or from Him. All that ye are He is, and hence all that He has is yours to use as He would express through you. And as He is Love, and as Love is purest Life, when your mind lens is cleansed of all darkness of belief in self and separation, and ye know Him as He is and that I AM He in you, then ye are wide open for Love’s Life to live and express perfectly through you, and I can bring you to your fruition as Christ on earth, even as I brought Jesus of Nazareth to His fruitage nineteen hundred years ago. Know this great truth of your being, beloved. Know Me as I AM, as your One and Only Self—I, the Jesus Christ of you, Who was in the beginning in you, always was, and always will by your life that grows you, your consciousness that informs you of all things, and your pure and loving nature that awaits perfect expression. Can you not see? I AM that blessed Something that has always tried to get out and express through you; but ye would not let Me. Why? Because self, or your belief in being a separate identity from God and from Me, always claimed your attention and made you think that happiness and satisfaction lay in obeying its clamorous call. But who is this “you” that believes all these things that are not so, ye may ask? “You” are but an extension or part of My Consciousness that constitutes the consciousness of your human brain, your mind being My instrument which reports to you what comes from without through the five senses or from other minds or, when ye turn to Me and are able to hear My Voice, what I tell you from within. It is also the instrument I have given you with which to think and thus to create or form into concepts or beliefs what ye accept as being so. Ye are now beginning to know Me as I AM, however, and to listen, despite the clamor of self, to My Loving Voice speaking quietly within; and ye are even turning within to Me in a desire to learn more of Me, of My Will, and of what I want you to believe and know. And so I AM preparing to come forth and to take up my abode in your heart, and to teach you from there—now that ye are willing to wait on Me, to listen when I speak, to want to think only My thoughts, and to do what I want you to do. And as ye prove that the pleasing of Me is first and above every other thing in your desires, I will gradually purify your mind so that it will perfectly reflect all of My thoughts, enabling you as My outer consciousness to see with My eyes and to know with My knowing all things that are in My Inner Consciousness, which is also My Father’s Consciousness. Thus ye may see how I AM your Saviour and the Redeemer of both you and the Consciousness of your human mind, both of which are but extensions and phases of My Consciousness that for many eons have thought themselves separate from Me and from God. Likewise, we can see how I AM the Saviour and Redeemer of all men, whose consciousness is also My Consciousness; being the Life of My Father God dwelling in the darkness of humanity’s consciousness, and which He sent Me forth to redeem and bring back into the Light of Oneness of His Consciousness. Similarly I AM the Saviour and Redeemer of the World, for the World is but the world of men’s consciousness, is but the sum-total of all men’s thoughts, concepts and beliefs, and which have no other existence except in men’s minds, created out of their sense of separation from Me and our Father God. In the beginning was the Word. I AM that Word, Who in the beginning as His Love was with God and Who was God. In Me was Life, His Life sent forth into mortal expression, and as His Life I was sent to be the Light of Men. But as that Light for many, many eons I dwelt in the darkness of men’s understanding, and they knew Me not. Likewise, when I came into the world in human form as Jesus of Nazareth, the world knew Me not as I AM; even though I came to My own. And likewise today they know Me not, even those who love the Lord Jesus Christ. But as many as so receive Me, though they but believe in My Name, give I the power to know Me as I AM—as their own Higher Self, a Son of God. To them I will in time be the Word made flesh. Many are now beginning to know Me as I AM, and through the Light of the new understanding I AM bringing to men’s minds I AM cleansing their consciousness of all the wrong thoughts, concepts and beliefs that have been keeping them in darkness for so many eons; and I AM thus redeeming their seeming world, by enabling them to see the World of Reality back of all that appears, and what they now understand is the Kingdom of My and My Father’s Consciousness. And when I have brought enough minds so that they can see and know Me as their One and Only Self, and they are able to abide in that knowing, and to think, speak and work from it, then does their redemption draw near, and I can do My Father’s work upon the earth through them even as I AM now doing it in Spirit through the many mind channels I have cleansed back through the ages. ————o———— ==== BE GLAD YOU KNOW ==== THE OTHER side is just as bright and pretty \\ As any thing you ever thought of here. \\ So keep your head—don’t jump off the jetty. \\ Stand fast. Stop thinking that the end is near. “Be glad for life—life now and life hereafter; \\ Life, always life; this one and the beyond— \\ Continued life. You’ll get the things you’re after, \\ If you’ll hang tight, and look for higher ground.” The good deed done—the one you have forgotten— \\ Is all the treasure you have stored ahead. \\ The kindness and love you have begotten, \\ The gift of life to one you thought was dead. You know, the medium of exchange in Heaven \\ Is love and kindness, in that realm above; \\ While here is money, money you have given, \\ To buy, the things you need, and help the ones you love. \\ —A. Y. Evans. ---- {{ jesuschrist193710-1020.jpg |}} ---- {{ jesuschrist193710-1021.jpg |}} ---- {{ jesuschrist193710-1022.jpg |}} ---- {{ jesuschrist193710-1023.jpg |}} ---- //← [[armageddon|previous]] // | [[:the_inner_life_vol._5|The Inner Life 1937]] | // [[the_origin_of_evil|next]] → //