The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JANUARY 1936

else, keeping mind and heart ever fixed on Him, seeking to please Him in every word and deed, having no other thought than that. By so doing you link your consciousness with His, and it is then wide open to receive His instruction and guidance. And you may be sure He will take care of His own.

Need we tell you again Who is your Lord—that He is your own Divine Self—God within you? That He is not only the I AM of you, but He is Jesus Christ, Divine Love, the Holy Spirit of God?

No, not Jesus Christ the man, who was born, lived and was crucified nineteen hundred years ago; but the Comforter Whom He promised to send in His Name, Who would teach you all things and lead you unto all truth.

If He has come to you, and you have recognized and accepted Him as your Christ and Lord, and you KNOW Him as HE IS—that He is in the Father, and you in Him, and He in you; then you are truly of the Elect, and you know that all that the Father hath is yours.

Yes, there are those here in the flesh at this time who know this—more of such than you realize. But there are many more that know it only intellectually, thinking they have found and are following Him, when they are still following Jesus the man, and know not truly their identity with the Loving One within, Who has been guiding and teaching them from the beginning.

But it is for all who want to know Him as He IS that these words are intended; to help them learn the difference and so to open their hearts and let Love enter and possess them, that through Love’s Consciousness their minds will be made to feel and know God and His Christ as They are—as the very life, consciousness and nature of them.

But they must not be confused and think the “Mighty I Am”—should they become conscious of him—is the Christ, the Loving One within. For there is as much difference between the “Mighty I Am” and the Lord Christ as there is between the soul and the Spirit—as there is between the mind and the soul. Let all take careful note of this.

Yet when the soul—as the “Mighty I Am”—has been Christed by the “descent” of Divine Love, the Holy Spirit, into its consciousness,


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