LESSON NUMBER 2 Continuation of MEDITATION SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINED FURTHER CONSIDERING TECHNIQUE

There is much confusion regarding the relation of an inspired idea to the technique of its expression. Thousands of times I have heard people say, “I could never be an artist for I could not even draw a straight line”. For this reason I would like to expand what I said in our first lesson regarding this relationship.

I have told you that anybody can acquire a technique to give a material body to any idea. But so can an automatic machine or a tape recorder. A technique can be photographed or electrically repeated and such a recording of a rendition by a master may even be immeasurably better than the technique of a human, for the automatic recorder may record much of the Soul of the master’s technique while the human may have acquired a perfect technique with his senses but be lacking in Soul.

Just as an inspired conception is the result of a conference between your Soul and the Universal Soul to produce a thought-body so must your rendition into a material body continue that Soul to Soul conference. Every technical rendition of a painting, a symphony or product of a factory which has been conceived by the Soul of a master must also be rendered by the Soul of the master. Every brush stroke of tone of symphony must conform to the nature of God reflected in the nature of the master.

LOVE IS THE BASIS OF THE SPIRIT AND THE LAW OF LOVE IS THE BASIS OF CREATION

The nature of God is to give out His love for regiving, The nature of the master must be to give out love to inspire others to regive love.

It has often been my good fortune to hear such masters as Paderewski or Gabrilowitsch practice scales and finger exercises. The unthinking listener might marvel at such “skill”, while one who listens with inner ears hears the silence of the Soul even in one’s practicing. The Soul alone can give out love. The body can render a perfect technical reproduction but if the love nature of God is not in it it is not art, for the art of anything is not in the skill of rendering a visible or audible thing but in the beauty and love which only the stillness of the Light of your Soul can give to it. And therein lies the difference between the genius of the master and Soulless mediocrity.

That is why your constant communion with God is necessary for every moment of life and every stage of your creation. God must sit with you on your piano stool or work bench. Your hands must be His hands. Your thinking must be His thinking. Love must be interwoven in every stitch of whatever pattern you are weaving, every word you are writing, and every interchange between yourself and your fellow men.

And as love is rhythmically repeated in its givings and regivings to synchronize with the givings of your outward breath to the heavens and their regivings to you, and as such balanced rhythmic interchange between your heartbeat pulsings and all other electric extensions from the stillness of your Soul is LAW–the basic fundamental LAW of all creating things in all this electric universe–your own masterpiece is the measure of how divinely you have conceived it and how worthily you have rendered it in balance with Universal Law.

To the extent that you can extend the beauty of your imagined rhythms to material bodies built in the images of your spiritual conceptions those rhythms which you create are masterpieces of great art. The very measure of the quality of your material interpretation lies in your ability to translate imagined forms and rhythms of the universal heartbeat into bodily forms and rhythms which can reinspire others with the ecstasy of your inspiration.

When you inspire others you are manifesting the nature of God and the fulfillment of His law by giving love. Those whom you reinspire are, likewise, manifesting the nature of God and fulfilling His law by regiving love.

You cannot reinspire others, however, if you leave God out of your technical rendition. That is why meditation is necessarily continuous. That is why great masters never go into their concert hall or to their easels or work benches without an interval of time to forget materiality to seek the zero of the still Light which centers their Consciousness before extending their thought images out from that stillness into the three dimensional universe of moving electric waves which Creation is.

Not only every day should be started by seeking that zero of stillness but every moment from the beginning of anything to its fulfillment. How often have I literally opened the door of my studio, after some disturbing telephone call or other distraction, to let my sensed-self out and let God in.

You cannot do anything of yourself alone. Whether you know it or not you have to acquire God-power to even lift your finger. You are automatically controlled in every action. Why not be controlled by working with God knowingly at all times, and being fully aware that God, and His law, are working with you. Continuous meditation means continuous God awareness, and that continuity of awareness is forever leading you higher and higher into the high heavens of your own mountain top.

That, and that alone, is the great glory of life, and of living. That awareness, and that alone, leads you to masterliness of achievement, peace, prosperity, happiness and the love of all mankind which is forever enduring.

THE VERY ESSENCE OF MEDITATION

The basic reason for meditation is that you want to ask something from God. There is no other reason for it. And you do not begin to ask God for anything until you begin to realize your oneness with God. You then ask God because you realize that you cannot fulfill your Soul’s desire without Him.

When you finally do ask Him you naturally ask how you may fulfill your Soul’s desire. “O God, show me the way. Illumine my path with Thy Light” you say, wordlessly, in your heart.

This your Soul asks in the silences of the Universal Soul. Naturally your inner ears cannot hear the answer except in the silences of the Light of inspiration. Naturally, also, you cannot comprehend the wordless answer from the silences of rest in His Light unless your Soul is so attuned to the Universal Soul that your inner ears can hear that answer in the Universal language of Light. That is the language in which God talks to inspired man who knows God in him, and is thus illumined.

Naturally you seek aloneness with God in the quiet of your chamber, or work shop, or in the forests of Nature where the nature of God is being made manifest in the forms and whisperings of rhythms which echo within your own heartbeat as one.

That very desire puts you in the “mood” for meditation, and the more you thus become companion with God the more readily you comprehend His language of Light and can put words and forms to it.

When you have formed the habit of constant communion with God you will not then have to make any conscious effort, or seek the quiet of Nature’s environment, to induce it.

It will become a working habit–a fixed habit of working knowingly with God–under any circumstances.

I can as immediately decentrate to the zero of the Light of all-knowing in a subway, if I so desire, as in a forest.

Let us analyze what is meant by ‘Soul’s desire’. What is the greatest thing in the world which you can ask for or become? There is only one answer, and that is to be like unto God and manifest His nature.

In its simplest form just what, exactly, does that mean? In its simplest form how can we be like God and manifest His nature?

The simplest answer to that is to say that God is love, life and the truth which lies in the Light of all knowledge and power. That is what God IS. That is the nature of God, the universal Mind, or Soul. Now as to what God does the answer can be just as simple. God extends His knowledge and power from the still Light of His Mind, through the pulsations of His thinking, to Waves of moving, divided light to create one pulsing body to manifest the love, life and truth of His knowing, which constitutes His nature.

And that is exactly what you do to the extent of your knowledge and ability. You extend your knowledge and your power from still Light of your Mind, through the pulsations of your thinking, to create your universe in forms which reflect your nature.

Whatever you create is the image of you. You call it your individuality, or personality. Whatever it is it is YOUR IMAGE projected into forms imagined by you to manifest your nature.

You create a manifestation of your own self by thinking your knowing into form. If you know but little, and think but little you will create yourself into a little person. If you think out of balance you will create an unbalanced individual with an unbalanced body. If you are a hypochondriac you have made yourself into one instead of a genial, cheerful happy and healthy leader of men.

Whatever you wish to become you may become. If you create your own personality alone, by yourself, it will have all of the weaknesses of the senses. The more you ask God to help you make your Self into His image the more power of His Mind you will have to fashion your Self into a powerful individual. When His nature and yours are one you will then be a man of cosmic power and your creations will manifest your nature and God’s nature as one.

Our very name for God’s Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is.

I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought Image of God’s nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter.

HOW YOUR MEDITATION AFFECTS OTHERS

Your genius does not depend upon your ability to translate your Soul-imagined patterns into material ones, for your genius unfolds for your own uplift even if you never express it through a technique which gives it a body. To awaken it in your Soul uplifts you to your own high heavens but does not uplift your neighbor to his until you have expressed it as a soul to Soul message by giving it a formed body.

When the genius of your Soul sends out a visual or audible message which awakens the genius in another Soul and reinspires him with your inspiration you have then extended your immortality to another, and that other one recognizes his own genius to the measure of your awakening of the knowledge of his immortality in him.

That is what is meant by the following quotation from “Salutation To The Day” in “The Message of The Divine Iliad”.

“I am the Light of universal thinking.

“I translate the language of Light into the words of man for those who know not their universality.

“Immortality is mine. I will earn immortality, I will bestow immortality.

“Mine is the power to give immortality. I shall not deny that which will give immortality to those who dwell in the darkness and who reach out for the Light.

“I will reach out my hand and lead him who asketh into the Light.”

It is not necessary to another whom you may inspire that he should have the technical mastery of any instrument or medium you employ to lift him up into your ecstatic heaven, for the moment you inspire him with your genius he has it in himself to the extent of the intensity of his inspiration. He cannot bring his heavenly inspirations to earth as you can unless he acquires the technique that you have acquired to be enabled to bring them to earth. It has, however, uplifted his cultural standard and, in so doing, has uplifted the cultural standard of all mankind, even as one drop of water uplifts the whole ocean by that measure.

Your transcendent genius is the result of your communion with God. By your masterly interpretation of the rhythmic heartbeat of His thinking you have caused others to commune with you and God. Your meditation and theirs are one. You have made them to forget their sensed bodies and dwell in the Mind kingdom of your high heavens with you and all illumined Souls who dwell in God’s kingdom of Light.

That is the way that culture gradually awakens in unfolding man. Those who have come to know that kingdom through meditation tell it to others in the inspired language of Light, and that language has no words, no sounds, no form and no technique.

The language of Light is from Light to Light, or Soul to Soul, and there need be no words, nor sounds, nor form. The Soul understands that universal language whenever expressed by Soul. The body senses, centered at the seat of sensation centered in the brain, can never understand it, even though it hears its expression in words and sounds, and sees it expressed in form.

MEDITATION AGAIN DEFINED

The seat of Consciousness which is the Light in man centers the seat of sensation from which the electric action-reaction sequences of thinking extend. In meditation you are partially or wholly severing the extending sensations of your thinking in order to find the stillness of the Light which your Consciousness is. You thus lose your manifestation of life which your body is, to find the eternal life which the Soul of you is. Let us define again meditation in other words.

Meditation is a communion with God for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and power to manifest God as co-Creator of His universe.

In other words it is to enable the Mind to control matter. To the extent that you acquire knowledge do you acquire the power to control matter. That acquisition gives you the power to create your own individual universe in your own image of your individual Self as God likewise creates His universe in His own image.

Through meditation you alone free your body from slavery and acquire mastery over it. The human race has been a slave to its body all down the ages. You and every other man are slaves to your bodily senses until knowledge gives your mind mastery over them.

As different words about the same thing have connotations which lead to better understandings let us again define meditation with different words.

Meditation is an intercommunication between your immortal Mind and the electric senses of your mortal body.

Meditation is a conference between your immortal Mind Self who knows, your thinking which builds images of your knowing, and your body which acts in obedience to the will of your Mind.

Meditation is an expression of desire for knowledge of perfect CAUSE for the purpose of producing perfect EFFECT.

In communion with God you acquire God awareness, which means cosmic consciousness, by forgetting body awareness, which means material sensing.

God awareness in you brings realization of the Light of cosmic Consciousness in you. When your realization of your cosmic unity with God is strong enough your cosmic power is the measure of your intensity of that realization.

The only way you can multiply your strength to think, or to create, or to command matter to your obedience such as commanding your body to health, or commanding masterly achievement by control over your body, is to multiply God awareness in you.

Your Mind is God’s Mind. Your thinking is God’s thinking. Your creative processes are God’s creative processes. When God concentrates His thinking, body forms appear in the image of his desiring. When God decentrates His thinking, those body forms expand into disappearance to reappear when God reconcentrates His thinking. You do likewise, for there is but one KNOWER, one THINKER and one CREATOR in the universe.

God is all that IS. YOU are all that IS. In meditative communion with God you become aware of that. To be alone with is to know the ecstasy of that awareness.

God creates His universal body by extending the electric pulsations of His thinking from the stillness of the Light of His knowing. Idea of God’s knowing is electrically projected through the motion of His thinking to mirrored image waveforms of idea which we call matter.

All matter is but electric wave pulsations of His thinking recording the idea of His thinking in forms which appear, disappear and reappear to synchronize with the cyclic sequences of His concentrative-decentrative and reconcentrative thinking which characterize the entirety of effect in this electric universe of His creating.

God’s eternally creating universe is the result of His eternally continuous meditation.

You create your universe in the same manner and by the same processes and method under control of the same law. There is no other manner, nor process, nor method, nor law. Your universe of what you are is your Mind idea, your Soul’s desire manifested into the material image of your thinking. It is the result of your meditation.

The most wonderful thing about it is that God will give you whatever you ask, fulfill your desire, no matter what you desire. You can make yourself into the kind of a person you desire to be, whether bishop, poet or thief, for the whole universe will work with you to fulfill your desire if you work with its law. If you work against the law it will avail you nothing, even if you fulfill your desire.

Balance your desires, therefore, and their fulfillment will, likewise, be balanced.

Communion with God in meditation will not only mould your desires in harmony with divine law but will give you knowledge of the nature of God which will become your nature. To the extent that you reflect God’s nature your desires will also reflect God’s nature.