The Christian Mystic Joel Goldsmith, in the Art of Spiritual Healing, wrote, “If you understood the nature of God, never would you pray to God for any thing. God has only the gift of Himself to give, and in that gift all needs are met. Any other kind of God is a man-made myth, invented by the pagans centuries before the Master. The pagans worshiped that kind of a God; they worshiped many gods, always for the purpose of getting something from God. When there was no rain, they prayed for rain; when there was too much rain, they prayed to have it cease; when there were floods or storms, they prayed to have God stop them; and when there was no food, they prayed to God for food. Prayer such as that is purely paganistic, a relic from the days when people made a God after their own image because they had no idea at all of what God is.” (pg. 25)
In the above paragraph Joel Goldsmith hints at the Key to this Life and the personal responsibility that comes with it!
Here, I will choose to yield to temptation and quote scriptures. Specifically, the Master is remembered instructing His disciples that, “It is done unto you as you believe.” (Write that down!)
The same idea is expressed in the inspired words of I John 3:2. “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
What is the Key to the Life? Quite simply, it is an idea; a very powerful idea, but one that meets so much resistance. The Key to this Life is: you can consciously achieve union with the Light (i.e. God.)
What the Light actually is and how you achieve union is debatable. Anu would try to recreate the dream-like trance state he entered during his sickness through rhythmic singing, dancing, drug usage and extreme fasts. Such techniques, which either hypnotize participants or alters their brain chemistry, are still used by Native American civilizations and other groups with a close affinity to the Earth. Union is achieved organically.
The “higher” religions (i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam) propose the innovation that spiritual union is “higher” than human nature. It is epitomized by the Prophet Elijah’s mystical experience atop a mountain.
Thanks to a controversial ministry against a violent, corrupt king, Elijah finds himself a highly recognizable fugitive. To maintain his life, he must hide in the wilderness, that favorite abode of Israeli prophets.
“And the word of the LORD came to him: ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’
“He replied, ‘I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.’
“The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.’
“Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.” (I Kings 19:9-13)
The Elijah Experience is intense. It forces a person to rise above all fear and perceive a spiritual universe beyond the “appearances” communicated by the five senses. Once a person has “been to the mountain top” they are no longer moved by threats or power plays. Similar to the Master before Ponitus Pilate, they say in a gentle whisper, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.” (John 19:11)
Union with God is reached through a mastery of the human condition. One learns how to disassociate from the “flesh” or the materialism of this world. This is why Christianity clashes so hard with science. Science gives value to “sensory perception.” Christianity devalues it. In fact, Judaism, Christianity and Islam all agree that spiritual guidance trumps human thought.
Once someone has achieved union through the Elijah Experience, he or she becomes aware that they are surrounded by a power that resists linguistic communication. It is the Presence of the Lord or the Holy Spirit. Slowly, the person discovers that the physical world is “suspended” somehow in this Spirit. And from this Spirit all things are made.
This Spirit responds to the “unified” person’s awareness (or consciousness) of It, thoughts projected into It and emotional vibration. Conscious awareness allows the unified person to remain centered and thus, not be moved by the projected thought currents and the emotionalized manifestations of others. Awareness (also called intuition) permits the unified person to know, without knowing, that God is LOVE and the only power there is.
Through experimentation with his or her level of awareness, the unified person learns that the spirit crystallizes around thought projections, making them flesh. However, emotional vibrations attract or repel spiritual “matter.” Working together, thought Projections and emotional vibrations manifest the human experience. The more intense the emotional vibration, the faster a thought projection is clothed in flesh.
The highest emotional vibration humanity has so far identified is love.
The very fact that the unified person is aware that he or she is unified brings upon themselves an awesome responsibility. “To whom much is given, much is required.” Or, to quote Marvel Comics writer, Stan Lee, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Once a person is unified, he or she cannot live as a normal man or woman, because, quite frankly, he or she is no longer normal. He or she has risen above the “normal” plane of human-hood. He or she now has access to power – the only true power in the Universe: the love vibration of God. Such power pales in comparison to that wielded by the unconscious.
Of those who are conscious, the Master is the perfected example. No one in recorded history can touch Him in the sheer raw ability to manipulate “Earth Space.” The miracles He worked astounded those of His generation. When food was needed, He simply gave thanks and it materialized in obedience to His highly cultivated skill at Thought Projection. When He needed to travel across water to reach His disciples, again, He raised His personal vibrational level to its spiritual equivalent and walked on water. And when a storm came, Jesus went to sleep in the boat, fully confident that if need be, the wind would obey His command.
A genius of this caliber cannot succumb to base human desires. He cannot choose to use His awareness to enslave others. This is what the Temptation of Christ was all about: would He use His powers for personal gain? The answer was no. It is the same for us.
Some covenant communities are livicated (never dead-icated) to actually empowering their members with the Truth, as expressed here. Others labor under leadership content with enslaving the masses. Each, as the Master taught, receive their reward.
I shall conclude this communication with something Minister Malcolm X taught. 85% of the people are dumb, deaf and blind to “who and what” they really are. 10% know but choose not to “civilize” themselves or others. 5% are actually striving toward to perfection and are called the poor righteous teachers of humanity.
Now, the 10% are jealous of the 5%, who possess real power. They manipulate the 85% to persecute and kill the 5%/ This is the basis of what we call history, whether it is personal, regional or national.
The question is: what percent of the population are you?
Thank you for reading these few words. May you remain open to the Blessings of the Father. Selah.
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