====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JUNE 1935 ==
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==== THE “I AM” CONSCIOUSNESS ====
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I WISH I could express on paper what I wish to ask you. For so long, when I prayed or went into the Silence, I waited for something to speak to me, and in that looking to God it put me in more or less of a negative or passive state of being, in reality denying my own mind or intelligence or making a separation as it were.

However, last week I became so imbued with the “I AM” way that I felt that “I” was actually God in expression here, or that all I was, was God; that my intelligence and all the consciousness I had was God’s Consciousness.

I kept thinking of myself as something wonderful, glorious, triumphant, and the higher I thought of myself, the clearer and more positive it seemed my realization became; and when any destructive thought or thoughts of inferiority came knocking for entrance, I was able to feel that I had the power to cast them out and to create something true and perfect; for was I not the Thinker and was I not given all power in Heaven and earth?

In this way I seemed to rise above trifles that had held me in bondage. Other conditions seemed to want to draw from me some negative response, but at such times there was nothing in me that responded; for was not God, or Spirit, all that I am; and God, or Infinite Intelligence would not thus stoop, so to speak, but must maintain a higher standard than had appealed to my mind in the past.

Also, heretofore, in trying to please God I had thought that, in being humble to other people and to God it had caused me to sink farther into negativeness. When I assumed my “I AM” nature, I did not care what others thought; for was I not trying to express myself, and nothing else mattered? In so doing I felt and knew I was growing or expanding in consciousness.

Now may I ask a question here which I suppose is only a doubt or fear coming from my “old” self? Was I, in not caring how others regarded me, “puffing up” my personality? From what is stated in some parts of The Impersonal Life it would seem so, for it says Love should always rule supreme over self. Yet there really isn’t two of me, except only when I think so. If I hold myself as only One and that One Divine, then I feel more powerful, and I do not feel the vanity of personality; I am in a higher
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