Dear Friends,
“A Return To Wholeness.”
Speaking about returning to Wholeness, it can be misleading as we do not have to really “go” anywhere. The returning is to that which is, and always has been. In our world today many may wish life to be “restored” to the the way it was. The return to wholeness that is being considered here has nothing to do with the world, yet, ultimately everything.
We are so sense-oriented that we have difficulty in believing in something we cannot see. We forget that everything came forth from the invisible to the visible in the first place. The only guarantee in life is God.
Back in Genesis 1, we read: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” The chapter ends: “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” How easy is it to believe now, in today’s world, that it still is very good? What God made is good and always will be, yet we get so caught up with human behaviour, human standard, and human separation that we are only seeing that, and not seeing beyond with the inner eye to what is REAL.
If we turn to Psalm 23, we read: He restoreth my soul…….lovely, uplifting words—yet they remain just that if we are not feeling the words, being still to fully experience the promise. So this is the restoring of our soul; re-establishing the true nature that is our birthright; taking us “back” to our original true wholeness.
We live in a world of comparisons; and every time we compare ourselves to someone in whatever way, we are affirming that something is absent from our lives. And of course the something on which we expend so much energy and attention, is really our Good—God.
In two very well-known and mostly well-read chapters of the Bible, we have straight-forward directives from Jesus who told all that we too could do the things he did and even more—he knew and indicated in no uncertain terms that it was the Father within, not he who performed healings. These chapters are: Matt.6:25-33 and virtually repeated in Luke 12:22-32.
In the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, we read: And Jesus said: “There is a Silence where the soul may meet its God.” When we take time to be still and let the Silence rise up in us then we experience the wholeness that we are and always will be. The being each soul is, and cannot not be. We do need to realize and be aware that the wholeness is of Spirit. It is our inherency; it is who we are, eternally. It can never be taken away from us, yet we need to wake up to the truth of all being.
There are many examples in scripture that call for our awareness—these stories are our stories too. There is nothing to fix…we need to pay heed and remember. Remember we are either believing and living according to our true nature or we are not! When we do remember, it is the awareness of Truth that is restored and we sense and identify with that which IS.
God saw all he/she had made and it was good. It is still Good. This same intelligence at the source of all creation includes each of us and is forever maintaining and sustaining us.
Kahlil Gibran states:
“Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man’s life, and is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
Civilization may possess a vanishing purpose, but the eternal law has offered to that purpose a ladder whose steps can lead to a free substance.”
In Closing…….
This habit of taking a little time daily, alone in the quiet, in communion with one’s source, that the illumination and guidance of the Holy Spirit may become alive and active in the life, and going then about one’s daily work ever open to and conscious of this Divine guidance, trusting and resting in it, strengthened and sustained always by this Divine power, will bring definiteness and direction, will bring hope and courage, will bring peace and power to everyone who will heed the Master’s injunction and will follow His example. These it has brought in great numbers to whom, before, life was an enigma; and this because the life had been lived entirely from the outside.
The higher forces and powers of the inner life, those of the mind and spirit, always potential within, become of actual value only as they are recognized, realized and used.
The Master’s Way of the Spirit, the finding of the Kingdom within, leads into no blind alley. It leads out and triumphantly out onto the great plain of clear vision, of unself-centered activity, of heroic endeavor and accomplishment.
IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE—RALPH WALDO TRINE
Bountiful blessings,
Mallory
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