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Dear Friends,

“Experiencing the Is-ness of God.”

Are we tying ourselves into a misunderstood biblical form of God?  The keyword being, “misunderstood”?  God is, God is, God is…It is all and everything.

When we come unstuck, so to speak, from the old hand-me-down constricted story of a God apart from us, in the heavens, to be feared, Truth opens out a way. Are we ready for It?  Under discussion here is the idea that God is the Vital Force, the Substance, the very Life of All. This brings us to what a difference this understanding makes to our everyday lives. And the understanding then unfolds like never before, through a deeper awareness of Truth.

I believe that Life is moving us to the very edge; to the very limits of our current understanding, which is not working—we have proof of this in so many aspects of our daily lives. What happens when we can go no further? We turn around and follow the only path available, even if it is reluctantly at first. It is the path back “home.”

Jesus in his teaching of Truth principle stated: Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4. We need to pay daily heed to these words. Jesus also spoke about overcoming the world, and this is usually brought to our attention when we focus on Easter. Yet we need to overcome the world or become entrenched in world beliefs.

Joel Goldsmith states that we, too, overcome the world in proportion as we realize: this body is not a power over me. I am the life and the mind, the intelligence and the directing power of this body. Not I, a human being, but I, the divine consciousness of Being, govern this body, this business, this home, this teaching, and this anything that comes within range of my consciousness.

After his meditation under the Bodhi tree, Buddha received  illumination and wisdom: There is no sin, disease, death, or limitation—these are illusion.  Many years before, Jesus had taught: My kingdom is not of this world—the kingdom of reality; and that the kingdom is within. And we read the beautiful promise in Luke 12:32 …Fear not little flock for it is your Father ‘s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.  And this is the kingdom within (not of this world—the kingdom of reality).

The world is made up of a false sense of reality through a sense of separation from God.  There is the inner kingdom to which all belong. Our work is to be consciously aware, and through this awareness we know ourselves to be avenues or channels through which Spirit expresses Itself, as and through, It’s creation. This is our main purpose in life—a gift to each one.  And we come back to our work: connecting with the is-ness of God. Connecting, really, with the idea to begin with, and then the knowing that we are not God, yet God is us.

We know that years before Buddha, Jesus taught the same ‘bottom-line’ message: “My kingdom is not of this world.” These two illumined teachers paved the way for many who have yet to grasp the Truth that is, was, and always will be.

We need to turn inward and rediscover the Truth, not of this world, but of that which is true for each and every soul. It is a personal journey to that which is, was, and always will be. It is a personal experience, one that we need to discover in our deep and quiet times, for ourselves.  And all are included. It is an experience that goes beyond anything in the world, as we connect with the true Power, Love, Peace, Wisdom and understanding of Life.

In Closing…….
In the degree in which we realize that divine Consciousness is governing us, in that degree have we overcome the world. Then we walk through the waters or we can walk through germs or we can walk through war or we can walk through panic, and none of these things can have too great an effect or power over us because within every one of us is I, and I am is the power that goes through every experience with us.
Wherever we are and whatever the conditions around us, we find ourselves being daily fed and clothed and housed.  If necessary, we find manna coming from the sky; if necessary, we find gold in the fish’s mouth; if necessary, we find the loaves and fishes multiplied.  In one form or another, we find ourselves supplied daily with all that we need whether appearing as person, place, thing, circumstance, or condition.  But this is our experience only as we overcome the world.
Overcoming the world begins with our understanding of our oneness, or our unity with God, with the realization that, inasmuch as “I of mine own self do nothing,” all that is pouring through me is the life, the health, and the wholeness which is God.
JOEL GOLDSMITH—GOD THE SUBSTANCE OF ALL FORM

Bountiful Blessings
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Friends,

“To What Are We Giving Our Attention?”

What is it we are “seeing” in life, in our world today?  Perhaps more importantly we need to ask ourselves: “What eye am I using to see? Am I seeing only the out-picturing of what the world tells us, or is the inner eye discerning something different?”

Is it not time that we step up and measure up? There are major changes in the world. There needs to be major change within our perception of  Truth as well. There is no God, “out there;” God is within It’s Creation. God is all Creation. Only in our lack of perception in Truth, do we place God apart from us.

Joel Goldsmith, in his book: The World Is New, states: “The important point is: can we through knowing the truth of God’s omnipotence be so at-one with God and thereby a majority that we can nullify all vicious and ignorant human thought so that it will not operate as the experience of the people of the world?”

Well, we may be a small group yet we can plant the seeds and nurture them; serving the idea that God alone is power; and the nurturing is the knowing, and we keep on knowing.  Until we stop giving power, through thought and attention, to the conditions perceived currently in the world, we are going to be nurturing the conditions. And ironically, these are the same conditions that we moan about. As one of the founders of Divine Science, Malinda Cramer, taught, THERE IS NO POWER IN CONDITIONS. We give conditions power with our thought.

I turn frequently to words used by the Quakers: “Way will open.” To me, that is trust, that is surrender. And we surrender to this moment; surrender to what IS.

Jesus taught always, that it was the Father/Presence within, that did the works that so often he, even today, is held in high acclaim for having done.  When we “give over” to what IS, and IS, eternally, we let IT do what needs to be done. The main problem is that  we usually have our preconceived ideas of the outcome. And that is according to our human perception—again we are not moving beyond seeing Life, with the human eye.

Interestingly, Goldsmith also indicates that every move that the Master made throughout his three-year ministry is a lesson in complete reliance on that of which the world knows nothing.  He goes on to indicate that at one point or another, we must leave our “nets”; we must give up every material approach to life and see life from a spiritual standpoint, and then as our faith in the Infinite Invisible grows, we come to understand that: HE THAT IS WITHIN YOU IS GREATER THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD, AND THAT HE PERFORMS THAT WHICH IS GIVEN YOU TO DO. (1 John 4:4)

When Jesus told his disciples to leave their nets, he indicated they should cease looking  for material means and follow the Christ Consciousness, not the man. He reminded them: “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.”  Yet it was not he, the man to which he referred, but the Christ Consciousness.

Spirit is the true reality of being. We are reminded of this over and over again. Yet it is so difficult, it seems to “leave our nets,” – our material focus.  This all makes so much sense and we need to be aware of what it is that is constantly grabbing our attention, and remember our oneness with the Christ Conscious.

In Closing…….
 How gloriously could the  great teaching of the Master, “Take no thought for your life,” be fulfilled if at this moment you could accept the truth that the invisible part of you is connected with an invisible link called the Christ and that  that invisible link is completely one with the Father, so that all that the Father has is flowing to you, the branch, through your Christhood!
 The branch, then, will not go out and try to get fruit.  No, every branch brings forth the fruit from within itself. From within the branch? No, from within itself through its contact with the Vine and the Godhead: from the Father to the Christ, and from the Christ to the son.
 Out of the Christ of your own being flows an infinity of good: not that you of yourself have it any more than any other branch has, but that your oneness with the Christ, established in the beginning before ever the world began, is now consciously realized.
 – JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

Bountiful Blessings
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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Dear Friends,

“Do We Have Faith In What IS?”

Do we have faith in what IS? This is a big  question and best answered by identifying what is meant by: “IS.”  The scriptures when fully understood, at a level beyond the literal, give us the answer. We can also find the answer in quiet meditation.

In the book, Divine Science, Its Principle and Practice, we have the following words: “Belief in separation from God has caused man’s sense of lack and limitation. Such belief has not changed the real nature of man or altered his relation to God, but it has blinded him to Truth and he has suffered in his wanderings.”

What has caused us to wander away from our Truth? And this has nothing to do with a particular religion or tradition. It has to do with you and me—all who occupy the planet at this time. In our wandering away from Truth—from the principles of Life—we seem to have landed in a quagmire of “trouble” world-wide.

Well, whether we feel we need God, or not, is our own business, yet what is taking place around us right now is showing us very clearly that what, and how, we have been—are being–is not working. Perhaps our faith has been misplaced?  In the Gospel of Thomas, it is stated: “If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the kingdom.”

 Ignorance of Truth is the seeming great delusion of the world. Quoting from the book referred to earlier: “Although Truth is omnipresent and changeless; although man lives, moves, and has his being in God, the All Good; although he dwells in the kingdom of heaven, if he is not conscious of it, he may go on his way lacking many things and losing the blessedness that IS his. Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ, men may, through ignorance of the truth be slaves of misery, doubt and poverty. Truth must be recognized in order to be realized and to become a power in the lives of men.”

Emmet Fox in his book, Diagrams for Living, makes reference to the name of God being: I AM THAT I AM. He goes on to state that I AM is your true identity. I AM is your real name, and in that name there is power.  I AM is Divine Spirit, your real eternal self. This is the IS-ness we are talking about. That which IS and can never change. In order to access this truth of our being, we need to be aware.

Again quoting from Divine Science, Its Principle and Practice: “Revelation comes to all who can see. To receive the first evidence of Truth’s presence we must look, not without, but within.”  Each story in scripture offers us examples and points us in the way of Truth and when investigated metaphysically and mystically, gives such clarity. Maybe we have wandered too far and its  time to turn inward.

In Closing…….
Robert Browning states it well:
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate’er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

Bountiful blessings,
 Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Friends,

“Our God-given Dominion.”

In Genesis 1:26, we read: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 Let us investigate this further as I refer to the following, taken from the book, Thunder of Silence, by Joel Goldsmith: “The first chapter of Genesis is the account of a spiritual universe, peopled by spiritual beings who do not live by effect but by cause, who do not live by bread alone, who do not have to earn their living by the sweat of their brow; whereas in the second and third chapters a knowledge of good and evil creates a sense of separation from God after which man lives by power and by effect: He lives by bread, by money, by the beating of the heart, by sunlight; he lives by all the creature things, instead of by the Creator.”

 God gave us dominion – have we given it away? And we may even question and ask what has possibly happened to that dominion that seems to have been usurped by our allowing “other things” to dominate our lives.  What happens to that God-given dominion when we allow others in whatever aspect to dictate to us how we should be, believe, or live our lives?

Society dictates to the world as to how we should look, how we should dress, and what we should or should not eat, depending on the current fad.  Have we given away our dominion by simply forgetting who we are in Truth?  By doing so, by forgetting, we have chosen the kind of world that we currently inhabit.  That may be a tough statement yet, true.

Life is not lived by might nor by power nor by taking thought, but by divine grace – the grace that flows and is experienced when we stop and listen.  Then … we open out a way for that imprisoned splendor to escape.

Perhaps we need to return, with a deeper perception to the beginning of the story – back to Genesis.  And interestingly, Goldsmith, in the book I referred to earlier states the following:  “The world can never rise above the idea of using one power over another and into the realm of no power, until the mystery of Genesis is solved.”  Until we reach the stage of realization (in consciousness) of who we are in truth, we are always going to come under the spell of the world. Of course we can always fall back on, or remember, that no matter how much we forget; who we are in Truth, can never change!!

In order to dwell in the kingdom, we must be willing to give up human thoughts of duality.  And we need to remind ourselves that thinking or taking thought, cannot “add to us one cubit,” as the passage in Luke 12:22-32 tells us. This passage should be read over and over and over because it reiterates the message found in Genesis!

It all comes back to consciousness.  Daily we are being challenged by the goings on in life around us.  We are being challenged to give up duality thinking. It is a tough ask, due to our being subjected to some of the most awful things going on, all around the globe.

Throughout the Bible, which is a wonderful guide for living life, we are offered examples of how to live mindfully in the Presence; the Presence that is with us, living us.  And we mindfully connect with It in the Silence.  Each breath is IT!

In Closing…….
 The mystical philosophers of the past not only realized that some day humanity would shift its ethical structure from a physical to a spiritual footing, but also that each individual living in the collective plan would be required to adjust his code and his character to the new culture-level. 
As this critical hour approaches, it is important that man be supported by a measure of understanding.  When we desire to visit a far country, we prepare ourselves for the adventure. We discuss the trip with other travelers, and read the accounts of the regions through which we shall pass.
Never for a moment, however, do we regard this knowledge accumulated from the words and experiences of others as a substitute for our proposed journey.  No amount of study can equal the direct impact of personal experience.
 EXERPT FROM THE BOOK: THE MYSTICAL CHRIST
MANLY P. HALL

Bountiful blessings,
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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