The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JULY 1937

JESUS CHRIST

XIV

WHERE, think ye, that I AM? Yea, verily, I dwell in the Kingdom. But where is the Kingdom?

My word to you was that the Kingdom is within you, that it cometh not by observation, but by entering the closet of your soul and shutting the door to the outer world. There I come, if ye are ready, as Love, to lead you deeper within, where ye may find and know Me as I AM—as your Self, your One and Only Self, and where Love floods your consciousness.

When ye know Me there as I AM, and ye are abiding in Love in My Consciousness, then, beloved, ye are in the Kingdom, and ye can say and know, “I and my Father are One,” and “All that the Father hath is mine.”

But just where am I? Where in consciousness am I? Where is the Kingdom?

Yes, seemingly to your outer mind I AM deep within. But in reality I AM right here in your consciousness, I AM your consciousness, AM all that ye are! And remember, all that ye are is consciousness, and if I AM your consciousness, then ye and I are One, and all it needs for your mind to realize and know this, and it will be so, and ye can truly say to your mind, “I AM you—but I Alone AM.”

Try, beloved, to realize the full import of this. The Kingdom and I, Jesus Christ, then are not far away—deep within; but are HERE and NOW, are all that ye are. Ye are then pure knowing, the knowing of Jesus Christ and of your Father in Heaven; for Their Consciousness is now your Consciousness.

Yea, and if ye can comprehend it, in this Consciousness there are not different identities, nor different Brothers in Christ, but all are ONE in Me; for then, like ye, all are One Consciousness, My Consciousness and My Father’s Consciousness—there is only Selfless, Impersonal Love, God’s Holy Spirit, which is the Life and continuous Expression of everyone abiding in Me—and they form the Kingdom of God!

I know this is hard for human minds to realize, for they can think and conceive only of separate selves, each having a body or form of some kind. But in the Kingdom, which is a consciousness of Pure Love, self and separation exist not—all are One in Christ and work as One, conceiving not each other as selves but as parts of their own consciousness, and receiving from such Consciousness all needed ideas as from their own consciousness.

This, of course, does not pertain to the heavens created by human minds and which exist in the mental realms of spirit, but only to those who have found Me and are abiding in Pure Love, One with Me in Christ; they alone are in the Kingdom, the City of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its innumerable hosts of Angels, the General Assembly, the Church of the First Born, and the Spirits of Just Men made perfect—all of Whom are enrolled in and form the true Kingdom of Heaven.

This Message then is for you, My beloved, who have found Me and whom I have lifted into My Consciousness at times, when ye have been permitted to see with My eyes and to know with My understanding. Ye may then have been privileged to see back of the personalities the souls of your brothers, and if ye saw clearly a soul it can best be described as an individualized intelligence shining in the midst of the darkness of appearances. But your mind may have pictured it as a beautiful light or being, a glorified human; when, if ye can only know it, a soul as created, being a center of consciousness or spirit, has no form; being Pure Consciousness, My Consciousness, it is but a part of Myself.

This is hard to see, and in reply ye may say God created man’s soul in His image and likeness or in the likeness of the Sons of God. But has any man in his separate mind ever seen God, or even a Son of God, his Higher Self, Who are Pure Spirit, centers of Divine Consciousness?

No, but in order the better to help some men to understand when I sought to teach them in their ignorance about Me and My Father, I within them caused their minds to picture Me or the Father as artists in the past have conceived Us to be, when being inspired with a realization of Our Presence as Divine Love.

So down through the ages men have pictured God and His Beloved Sons in their image and likeness as perfect men, misinterpreting Moses’ description of creation and not comprehending their God is Pure Consciousness or Spirit and has no form, but far transcends all forms, and exists only as the One Consciousness in which all things live, move and have their Being.

These My words are to assure the blessed ones who are fortunate enough to enter My Consciousness and become One with Me for the time being, and who do not see things, places or their Brothers in Spirit, that those things belong in much lower realms of consciousness—in the soul realms where disciples are prepared for the Christ or Kingdom Consciousness.

But know, nevertheless, that your Brothers in Spirit are very real Brothers, and are actually with you always, but They are a part of your consciousness, which is now My Consciousness.

Paul sought earnestly to have ye realize this when he said, “We have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office; so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.”

Again he said, “There is one body and one spirit”—meaning one consciousness, “one Lord, one God and Father of all, who is over all, through all, and in all.”

Being one body in Christ, meaning one consciousness in Me, or having My Consciousness, ye are not separate, but are part one of another; and all make up My Consciousness or Body, which then is your consciousness or body—for we are One, have always been One since the beginning, when I became the Light which lighted every man in the world.

Therefore, beloved, look not without to personalities or to separate selves for help or understanding, for Truth is not in them. Only by looking within your own consciousness and seeing Me shining in the midst of your concept of your Brother will ye ever truly see him. For he and I are One, even as ye and I are One, and all exist only in your consciousness, which is all ye are and all there is. That consciousness I AM, and I ALONE AM.





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