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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | AUGUST 1937

JESUS CHRIST

XV

NOW THAT ye have learned that your consciousness is My Consciousness and all that there is exists only in My Consciousness, why not create and have in it only the good and perfect things—which mean thoughts—that are in the Kingdom and which God wants you to think?

Ye can think what ye will. Then why not think true thoughts, the kind that are always in My Consciousness, and which ye can always see, if ye turn within to Me and let Me show you them?

This means ye can have what ye will, for all that is are but thoughts—things ye believe are so. Why not then have My thoughts—all the riches of My Father’s Kingdom—that are but waiting for you to accept and to use. When ye truly seek first the things in the Kingdom of My Consciousness and make right use of them, then all good things are yours, because they are Mine, and what is Mine is yours.

Again I remind you Who I AM—I AM you, all that ye are. Ye are nothing, have nothing, can do nothing, but what is of Me and of My Consciousness. Ye could not even be, except through My Life in you. Ye cannot think, except with My Mind, which is your only mind. And ye cannot do anything, except by My Will, which both inspires the effort and empowers you to act. For I alone AM, and ye are I. WE are One—but I AM all that ye are.

Know, beloved, if ye will strive always to abide in Me, waiting continually upon Me, seeing, feeling and thinking only of Me, and above all trusting Me perfectly, thus surrendering completely to Me, then are ye wide open for all the riches of My Consciousness to flow freely into your consciousness, thereby supplying your every need,—yea, even before there is a need. For then there is no more your separate consciousness—there is only My Consciousness, which is My Father’s Consciousness, and all that He has is yours.

This is no fanciful dream, My own, but is a provable fact, or I would not have told you; and because I would give you all the riches and blessings of the Kingdom, I urge you to try to make the abiding in and waiting upon Me first in all your thoughts and life.

For know, when this desire truly becomes a dominating force in your consciousness, it will influence and color every thought therein. Think what that means! Nothing exists in the outer manifest world but what ye think and believe is so. Then, if I AM supreme in your consciousness, ye will see, think and know only Me and My Consciousness; which means there is no more you—your sense of separateness has faded into nothingness, and I alone AM.

Yes, beloved, that is what awaits, and what will surely result, when ye train your mind to wait upon Me every moment of the day, doing everything solely to please Me within—I, your True and Only Self; Who from the beginning have sought to bring your mind to this state, where it turns immediately to Me whatever the need, trusting Me to take care of everything.

Then can ye not see there is no more you? There remains only your mind and Me, and your mind now knows it is only an extension of My Consciousness, and is but as your hand is to your mind—flying automatically to obey the mind’s every thought; so does your mind then fly to obey My every command, which is then your command, and it becomes a manifest thing.

Beloved, in all your earthly lives from the beginning I have been developing and unfolding your consciousness to this end. I have been growing you age after age, gradually creating and preparing a mind that could be taught this great truth—the greatest there is to mortal understanding, and the goal of every soul on earth—wherewith I could do My Father’s Work on earth even as in Heaven.

When I have brought your mind to this complete development of understanding—where it surrenders all to Me, then there is no more you as a separate self; ye have entered My Consciousness—the Kingdom of God—and are One with Me and with all your Brothers in Christ of the Holy Assembly, the Church of the First Born, and ye live now only to serve Me and our Father God.

All there are One—not many; all are in and of My Consciousness, which is also My Father’s Consciousness, and all that He is they are, and all in His Consciousness is theirs; for now in them He has pure and perfect channels through which the Light of His Love continually shines, permitting His Wisdom and His Power to express on earth even as in Heaven.

Then, beloved, surrendered thus to Me, as I AM My Father’s expression of His Love on earth in your human self, I can cause My thoughts to become a reality in your consciousness, which means in your outer life; for when dwelling in My Consciousness, My thoughts are your thoughts, and your thoughts quickly become manifest things.

Think what that means! When ye think thus My thoughts, and especially if ye voice My thoughts and proclaim their truth, knowing in My Consciousness in which ye then are the power of your words, they will wipe out of the “separate” consciousness any wrong condition then appearing, and the truth instead will outmanifest.

Yes, beloved, ye will then be even as I, when expressing through Jesus of Nazareth. Dwelling always in My Father’s Consciousness in the Kingdom, I then knew that all things appearing in the outer world were false, were but man’s creations, built out of his sense of separation from Me and our Father God; and I saw them not, but instead saw the reality of them as they exist in My Father’s Consciousness—and with their reality alone I dealt.

Therefore, when I spoke to those who in their minds were sick or afflicted, were lame or blind, or who believed such of their son or daughter, those who were possessed of evil spirits, even those who were dead,—I declared to them the Truth which I saw—that the Real of them was whole and perfect as My Father created them; and it became so in the outer. For Truth has such power that, spoken from a Consciousness that KNOWS, it will cause all that is contrary to It to disappear.

In like manner, by seeing the reality that I wanted to manifest, and knowing the Truth that wherever I see in My Consciousness is so and must outmanifest, I caused Peter’s and the disciples’ nets to be filled with fishes; I rebuked the wind and the sea and there was a great calm; I fed the five thousand with five loaves and three fishes; I walked on the sea; caused the fig-tree to wither; and I disappeared from the sight of them that would harm Me.

It now but remains for you who know the truth—ye who have gathered from My words that only what ye see in My Consciousness and believe is so will outmanifest—to speak the word in that knowing, and it will BE so, in the outer even as in the inner.

Yes, ye have known this for some time in your mind, but ye have not proved that ye know it. For you the time has come, if ye are ready, to prove and use this truth.

In these My words is hidden a great secret. But it is reserved for them only to comprehend and use it, who are abiding in Me and My thoughts and words are abiding in them. Then I will cause to see the Truth with My eyes and to know it with a new understanding, and I will enable them to speak Its word whenever the need is to remove error.

For such have now become an open channel through which My thoughts flow as easily into expression as your hands obey your will.

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THE THINGS WITHOUT

I LOOKED without and saw so much
I thought was Real—(’twas but a crutch!)
I know I used it over long,
It did not make me over strong;
But through it, Lord, I felt Thy touch.

I felt Thy loving hand, as slowly
I removed the crutch.—Now wholly
Do I look to Thee for strength,
Do I look to Thee for length
Of days,—for I am lowly.

I am meek in Thy great Might,
I am perfect in Thy Sight,
I can walk with head uplifted—
All Thy children, Lord, are gifted
When they radiate Thy Light.
—S. B.






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