The Impersonal Life

In Paper 33, we promised to give definite instructions how to speak effectively to the cells of your body, to your human mind, and to your soul, so that they will always render perfect service and produce for you any desired result.

In that article, we showed you how all consciousnesses in your body, mind and soul is your consciousness, but it is also God’s; and in the article above we showed you how to tune in to the consciousness of any other idea or center of consciousness. Likewise how in your soul or pure consciousness everything is perfect and in perfect harmony, and that when you can free your consciousness from all awareness of outer things and conditions that soul consciousness or harmony, all the things causing inharmony would be released in the outer world of mind, and whatever is needed to restore harmony would flow naturally and immediately to you. This is so because it is the law of harmony.

Try to realize that the universe of God’s world, with its many celestial and solar systems, operates under this same law of harmony; that should any one factor in the universe be out of harmony, it would disrupt the whole system and produce chaos. This means that you in reality are not out of harmony with it; that you must be doing what you do in accordance with the operation of this immutable law of harmony.

Then what is it that appears so glaringly to you to be inharmony—what about pain, disease, poverty, crime, all unhappiness? Have we not told you that these exist only because of the wrong understandings and the untrue thoughts and feelings man persists in indulging in and carrying around in his consciousness? They only appear to be out of harmony because of man’s ignorance of the law, and his not knowing that what appears is but the law of harmony operating in the keeping of every part of the universe always in perfect balance. If one moves in his thinking from the perfect harmony of Divine Mind, action immediately and automatically sets up in the human consciousness and causes what seems to be a disturbance of the existing harmony; when in fact it is but a switching or counter-balancing of forces in order to preserve and maintain that harmony. In other words the law of harmony is always exerting pressure to force the consciousness back into its perfect state, and what seems to be inharmony is only the feeling caused by harmony pressing itself back into expression. Study this carefully until you get all of its inner meaning and application.

When you get it, you will see that when man again thinks true thoughts—the supposedly inharmonious elements come into line and instantly and automatically right themselves.

Now let us see how we can apply this law to the freeing of your consciousness of wrong outer things, especially when there is pain, disease, or suffering of any kind.

First you must realize there is only one way, and that is by deliberately and determinedly picturing and seeing in your mind the opposite and the perfection of whatever is causing the pain, disease or suffering. If there is pain or disease in the body, picture perfect health, strength and harmony there. If there is mental suffering caused by conditions in your home or affairs, picture the opposite of such conditions and see them manifesting perfectly and ideally, and yourself enjoying them fully.

Yes, you must actually do this—there is no other way to free yourself—to rise out of the untrue consciousness in which you had allowed your interest to become involved.

Remember, you are a soul or pure consciousness, and as your pure physical body, in its imperfect state as your human mind now sees it, and which has no part in your soul consciousness.

But you, who have accomplished all all these truths you have long since gained such control of your mind that you can even in pain turn your attention away from it to anything you will. By thus filling your mind with the perfect pictures, you find that two things are accomplished—you counteract the effects of the wrong suggestions instilled into the cell consciousness of that part of your body where is the pain, flooding its consciousness with the light of truth; and you actually retire back into your soul consciousness where only harmony, purity and perfection exist; thereby bringing the consciousness of both the cells of your body and of your mind into the harmony of your soul consciousness.

When through practice you are able to prove this, you will see for yourself how the law of harmony operates; how, when you have brought your mind and its consciousness, which controls the consciousness of the cells of your body, into perfect harmony with your soul consciousness which remembers you being a disciple, is now harmonious with your Christ Consciousness—all seemingly inharmonious elements and conditions in the outer are released, and flow from the place harmonious and happy elements, thus restoring all to their proper and natural condition.

No, it will not be easy to prove this—it takes practice and failure to entitle you to enjoy its fruits, which are freedom and self-mastery, and which mean mastery over body, mind and soul. And you must do all that we have indicated; such fruits are not for the weak-minded or the easily discouraged, but only for determined and unconquerable souls.

In order to help, we are glad to give you some further suggestions. For instance, speak from the consciousness inspired by the truth we have declared to the cells of any part of your body in which there is pain or inharmony, as follows:

“You are my children! You are centers of my consciousness—not of that of my mortal mind, but of my soul consciousness. My soul is the outer reflection of God’s Consciousness, even as you are the outer reflection of my consciousness. This makes God’s consciousness a part of you, and mine a part of God’s, and means that God’s consciousness is actually God’s consciousness.

“You exist. We are and knowing—as perfect—as He created you in the beginning—in His image and likeness. So I know that you are not as my mind has wrongly believed and held you to be in the past—weak, sick or impure; but you are strong and healthy and functioning always in perfect harmony.

“Know the truth, my children, and be FREE! Free from all sense of separateness and error forever.”

Speaking these words of truth with positiveness and in the knowing of their truth will surely bring harmony to the cell consciousness that before recognized and reported pain; because through the power of pure truth its consciousness has been lifted up to your soul consciousness where the light of truth. And just as long as the cell consciousness is not dragged down again by your mind’s memory of that pain or even the thought of it, there will be harmony in that part of your body.

This brings us to the consideration of a very important fact—the “knowing of truth.”

Have you grasped as yet the real purpose why we have tried so hard to explain to you and to reason out all these inner truths step by step to you, so that you can now accept them as spiritual FACTS?

It is in order that your mind, which means its consciousness, will accept them. We want it actually to accept and fully understands, they become a part of its consciousness, and sink into its sub-consciousness, where they automatically come forth for use whenever needed.

You will remember, as a Son of God, you already know these truths in your soul consciousness, but through these Papers we have been unfolding them to your mortal mind—and for no other purpose than for their use by your human personality, or that you can use them through its outer until there has been brought about a union of its understanding with yours of course it would hinder and limit their use.

Therefore what you as a Son of God have been doing from the beginning has been to bring your consciousness by your human mind into oneness with your consciousness—that which it thought life’s erroneousness, the truth of its being limited or lacking in any way, but that there is only one consciousness, one self, one life—yours, which is one with your Father-God’s in Heaven. We have been helping by teaching and impressing these truths upon your mind ever since you came with us.

Now let us see if we can tell you why the necessity of so teaching your human mind, when you know its truth in your soul. Can you not now see that all that is without exists only in the mortal mind’s consciousness as picture-beliefs in their reality, and as they thus appear are not at all in your soul consciousness—where everything is ideal, all good and all perfect? Then is it not absolutely necessary to cleanse your mind of all these untrue beliefs and replace them with the truths we have been so insistently pointing out to you, before it can come into consciousness and be one with you know?

All its life your human reflection has believed in and has been fed upon error, until it has become completely involved in a false consciousness which it has thought to be real. All this error must be dug up and cast out and the mind utterly freed from its embroiling and stultifying influence. You can get nowhere while any of it remains a part of its consciousness. Until fully cleansed it is wholly impossible to accomplish the real work you came here to do. So you have been little by little freeing the mind from these untruths until now, with the help of these teachings, it has come to a realization of its being but a reflection, a part of your consciousness, and it is willing to give up and let You take complete charge and do Your will in and through it.

Yes, it is willing to give up, even eager to do it. But does it find it cannot do it easily. Yet it sees that it must do so. And now listen, for here is the vital part of this message:

Not until the mind not only does give up, but deliberately and consciously applies these truths here in the outer life, in all its thinking, speaking and acting, cleanses its consciousness of all error and turns its attention wholly to you within, seeing and knowing only the truth of its oneness with You, with Christ and with God,—can it be freed from its sense of separation, enter the kingdom and receive of its divine heritage