The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JANUARY 1935

entertainment, yet in reality their different natures cause each class to keep more or less to themselves in their different stratas of society. Which is but the outer expression of the way it is in the inner world; there, however, they do not intermingle—all of similar nature congregating on one plane or strata of Consciousness, which is separate entirely from those “below” or “above” it, confining all those of a different type in one great city, as it were.

We spoke of humanity gradually dividing itself into two great classes—those who are truly following Christ and making finding of the Kingdom first in their lives, and those who are allowing self wholly to rule. And we indicated that at Christ’s Second Coming, a complete separation would take place, so that the two would never more be together in the same world—until the time self was conquered and Christ was allowed to rule. Such another opportunity for humanity as a whole to prove itself would not be given for a thousand years, according to Revelation.

Now let us consider what must take place when this separation occurs. Remember, everything takes place only in man’s consciousness—nothing exists outside of his consciousness.

WE HAVE shown that man’s world exists only in his consciousness—not in God’s Consciousness. Therefore, all that exists in the world of man’s consciousness are but his thoughts or concepts, the things he believes are real and are now manifesting. When a large part of humanity, due to Christ’s teachings, changes its thoughts and beliefs and accordingly refuses longer to see the things that appear, including men’s personalities and self’s creations, his civilization, his governments, his institutions—all built upon selfishness and greed; realizing that they are not real and have no part in the One Consciousness that knows only loving, impersonal service, every one of its parts concerned only with the welfare and good of the Whole,—what must be the inevitable outcome?

There can be only one answer—there will take place a great internal upheaval in humanity’s consciousness, even as when there is a similar great crisis in a man’s individual consciousness. And even as extreme selfishness affects man’s physical nature by outmanifesting in virulent disease, which burns up or drives out old cells from the body by the millions, wasting it to a skeleton


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