LESSON NUMBER 7 THE STORY OF MY ILLUMINING

I

And now the time has come when I shall try to tell you of the greatest thing that can happen to any man in all the world as it happened to me–the Illumination into the God-Light of Cosmic Consciousness–the ultimate goal of all unfolding mankind–to come at the end of an aeons long road which began in the dark of sensing alone and ends in the glory of the Light of all-knowing in God’s kingdom of the high heavens where Soul of man and God are ONE.

The first great inkling of the grandeur to come was in May of 1878, when I was seven. I had strange premonitions of it for months–perhaps even for a year–but the glory of it, when it did happen, was less mystifying and more understandable than the premonitions which always left me deeply awondering.

For a boy I had been doing extraordinary things which caused much wonder. Before I could walk I could play on the piano with one finger all things heard by me, then all fingers gradually, even to the complex melodies played by blind Mr. Maynard who, to me, was the greatest man in all the world.

Mr. Maynard lived in the dark, but walked and talked with God in the Light. And what the Soul of Creation told to his Soul he told to me–and I walked and talked with God in those early days in His wonderlands of Peat Meadow and the huge oaks down in Bachelder’s wilds where nobody went but me, for no one else in all My World heard what I heard there–nor saw what I saw there–so it was mine alone, all that glory just mine alone.

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II

Then it happened–a blinding glare–red–then incandescent–then a field of blue shut the whole world of all things out from me leaving naught but indescribable ecstasy while my body wandered by itself without me to the great root of my beloved oak where I found myself sitting with a hand full of marbles with which I had been playing with other boys in a ring full of marbles drawn in the dirt near the grocery store.

I remember as though it were but a minute ago the effect of that tremendous transition into another world so utterly unlike that one in which my body dwelled–and breathed in and out so strangely and unnecessarily. When I began to realize the world of many things I felt myself to be that world of many things–all one–and I–the universe–the tree–the sky–the little ant on my thumb, and the great oak above me. An indescribable ecstasy pervaded me like unborn vibrations of the great silence from which the vibrations of sound rhythms will be born, an ecstasy which I was to know again and again for ten thousand times ten thousand times when I walked and talked with God in My World all through my long, long life of working knowingly with Him from that very day.

This state of ecstasy is referred to in the Bible as “being in the spirit” or “in the Light.” In Hindu philosophy it is referred to as “the Brahmic Bliss.”

I know not how long I sat there but do remember saying: when asked where I had so long tarried, “I have been in My World.” And to this day I have always talked and written about the glorious happenings in My World.

Most assuredly I was another person–quite transformed–quite unable to be the same, think the same or play again the same with other boys. I soon learned that My World had no meaning for them so I stopped talking about My World to anybody but my blind friend who really did know My World.

Little boys like me seemed little boys so very much unlike me that I needed them no more. I had rather hold mighty converse with the men at the car barn or play the music of My World simply to my blind maestro and hear him play it back to me, glorified, while my very Soul was alone I in My World, and my body afar–always afar. My blind maestro was the only friend of my early days who dwelt with me in My World. Many long years passed before another came to take aloneness away from me by dwelling with me in My World.

III

Seven years passed and each year, always in May, the doors of the Light which opened into My World, gave me those few days of more illumining, more knowing of the rhythms of God’s thinking which registered in my Soul and tried to find birth in sounds, and colors, and forms through me. I played Chopin, Mozart, Handel, Leybach, and Beethoven in ecstasy for these men dwelt with me in My World day by day–for it concerned me not one whit that their bodies had passed on.

I had long since been taken out of school and put to work. God would not let me read books. He became my teacher and closed the books which I would open. Things said in them were so unlike the nature of things in My World that He guarded me against their intrusion to blur the clarity of things I visioned in the Light.

I found that whatever I wished to know I could know by just desiring to know in my heart. If I wished to know music it came to me in overwhelming fullness and I spent glorious hours in the forests listening to celestial rhythms which sprang into being from forest silences, and fed my Soul with the colors of Nature turned inside out for me to see their Source with inner eyes, the outer ones being too dimmed with tears for seeing.

IV

Then in my fourteenth year came the second great illumining at a time when my body had been declared dead by the doctors, and undertakers were arriving. Black diphtheria had destroyed my throat and shut off my breathing.

Then again came the great Light which had come to me in my first illumining and I arose from my bed perfectly healed, to the great amazement of my weeping parents and to the doctors who found that my throat was perfectly healed.

During the period of complete unawareness of my body, and cessation of my heartbeat I had complete Consciousness of knowing from the moment of that severance of electric and conscious awareness which I will later describe from a scientific basis.

From that moment I fully knew that God had a purpose for my living to manifest Him by a life of demonstrating the power of man who knew God in him, and worked knowingly with him. This I fully knew, but I did not fully know of the transformation of unfolding man into his next Cosmic Age until the full illumining of 1921, when my years were seven times seven.

No words of mine can quite convey as much meaning as those set down in The Divine Iliad itself in reference to this event which God caused to take place in order that I should fulfill His purpose by conveying His Message to man for which I then knew that I was being prepared. These are the words as written in The Divine Iliad in 1921:

“It had been given me to know that regeneration of the body from that which man calls “death” is within the range of power of inner thinking if the Soul has not left the body, (Meaning–no longer controls the body through a centering Consciousness.)

“That disease which man calls “black diphtheria”, or “black plague”, had so disintegrated my body that my Soul made ready for its departure and I was pronounced dead by man.

“God took me up unto a high mountain top where inspired man is God-man and there gave unto me higher knowledge of the power of regeneration of my body through His all-knowing Light.

“Through the red-violet world, and the red, red world to the world of pure white Light beyond the world of blue–and back again to the world of pure white simulated light be the yellow world, the Spirit within me journeyed in an ecstasy for which there are no words of man to tell.

“In the ecstatic state of inner-knowing the Great truth of creating and de-creating things was made known to me.

“That majestic swing of the cosmic pendulum spelled out for me the glorious rhythms of things to be, and then, not to be.

“The mystery of Soul was mine–the Souls of all Creating things.

“The memory of ten times ten thousand lives mirrored themselves in Light from their records on my Soul to tell me that my body was still new–that my time of disappearance had not yet come.

“It was than given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.”

V

Each year in May, year after year, came those ten or more days when I sought the forests to be alone with God. Each year I became slightly more aware of my purpose which I was to know fully in 1921. It was enough for the time that I was made aware of the fact that I must demonstrate tremendous versatility to prove to man that whatever he desired to do he could do.

And so the years of preparation passed, each one, however, evidenced by doing something that I had never done before, or not even thought of doing. And each seventh year was marked by the doing of something extraordinarily different than I had ever before done, such as painting THE MIGHT OF AGES at twenty-eight, the designing and building of many buildings costing millions during the following seven years while painting the most beautiful children in America–then introducing figure skating in America acquiring personal masterliness of the art in addition to painting many portraits and writing many books. And so the years of intensive preparation passed until May, in the year of 1921, when the supreme experience of The Anointing of Light became mine, and My World of Light and the ecstasy of it, was once more mine in all of its fullness.

VI

Then came the day of intense premonition of something strange in the world, such as I had before known after its happening but not before. A certain ominous and mysterious something in the very light of the sun, and in the air, compelled me to seek the privacy of my own chamber to await that which must be again coming–for the time was here.

I afterwards found that magnetic sun spot storms tore man’s cables from their beds and disrupted the telephone and power systems of the nation during the middle of May, while that intense severance of Consciousness from body again took place and made me just a Soul and a Mind again, hardly aware of my body, and made my body dependent entirely upon instinct, entirely controlled by instinct, as it once was a million years ago.

The great Light of my first and seventh illumining again came and again I found my universality in that ecstasy which is the only emotion of the God nature. That ecstasy is the one unchanging and constant Mind state which inspired man always feels in variable intensity as measured by the intensity of his inspiration.

Owing to a lack of knowledge of God’s electric universe, and man’s relationship to it, no man of past ages has ever been able to give a satisfactory explanation of that instantaneous flash of red-orange light which completely blinded me for an undeterminable interval which was followed by a feeling of being bathed in a great sea of blue.

The explanation of that light flash which Paul and other Cosmic Conscious men have experienced, is that there is an electric short circuit between the two lobes of the brain which causes a flash of light at the instant of severance of Consciousness from electric sensation of the body. Such a flash occurs at the moment of death in all cases, and has been photographed many times.

The Light of spiritual Consciousness centers the divided, or polarized Light which constitutes the electric awareness of sensation in a body. Normally there is a complete synchronization of Consciousness and sensation but when the severance takes place which makes the body seem like an unattached and remote appendage, and the Mind alone to be all that is, the synchronization is interrupted and does not operate normally.

Usually the Cosmic Illumination has a duration of a few minutes or hours, leaving an aftermath of a few days, but no matter how brief it is it completely transforms one into another higher being. My usual period through life has been about ten days following the first intensive few hours, but this 1921 period lasted for thirty-nine days and nights, beginning on May 10th and ending June 19th.

VII

The Illumination into Cosmic Consciousness is an entirely spiritual experience and is the ultimate goal of all mankind which completes the unfolding of the man idea on earth. All down through man’s unfolding it comes gradually to all people. Every inspiring thought which comes to you is a partial Illumination. The geniuses of the world are those who have had the greatest number of spiritual inspirations. Every such inspiration is also a partial Illumination.

Whenever a great genius creates any masterpiece of art, in any of the five fine arts, and you are reinspired by his creation, he is illumining you with the Light given him. That is how man arises from the brute stage to the divine cosmic stage, by gradually adding to his culture.

Every one of the great mystics who have been anointed in the Light of all-knowing have uplifted countless millions of men who become their followers. The great religions of the world grew out of the Illuminations of such supreme mystics as Buddha, Mohammed, the unknown mystic who wrote The Bhagavad-Gita, (which became the Persian Bible) and Jesus.

Of these, Jesus was, in all probability, the only fully illumined one as He alone fully understood the love principle as the basis of Creation, and the magnetic Light of God as the Source of Creation. He alone of all the mystics had all-knowing to the extent that He so fully comprehended His divinity as Son of God that he could say “I and My Father are one” and KNOW what it meant. Full Illumination is the goal of all mankind. It is the Christ status which no mystic of past ages has acquired but all men will acquire when the journey of unfolding man on this planet will have been completed.

There have been quite a number of lesser illumined mystics whose teachings and works have exalted mankind in varying degrees, such as Laotzu, Confucius, Plotinus, Paul, Isaiah, Socrates, Jacob Be[h]man, Spinoza, Leonardo da Vinci and Swedenborg. These were very close to the Light but were not fully aware of their absolute unity with it.

There have been many of the lesser illumined ones whom we know as geniuses, such as Whitman, Browning, Shakespeare and other great poet-writers–Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, and other musicians of their standard,–together with the masters in all of the arts who have given to the world its culture.

Inspiration is the first stepping stone which leads to genius. Genius is the next of the three great pinnacles of mankind which are inspired man, genius and mystic. When one is inspired, either through meditation, or through the works of inspired men, he has arisen through that partial Illumination, from the purely physical, to the spiritual status which leads ever upward to the all-knowing, fully illumined Son-ship with God, which is the Christ status.

Inspired men, geniuses and mystics are the Saviours of other men. They are the interpreters of God’s language of Light, and teachers of the love nature of God who uplift the world of men by reinspiring them with the Light of their illumining, each in the measure of his own awareness of the Light of God-Consciousness (or Christ spirit) within him.

Treasure, therefore, your inspired moments which become more and more yours as you increasingly walk and talk and WORK with God.

Each of the supreme mystics of the past brought the Message of LOVE, UNITY and THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN to the people of their day, but the human race was too newly out of the jungle to either comprehend the principle of love or practice it.

The human race has not yet unfolded enough to more than faintly understand it or practice it. Man’s attempt to understand it has led to the formation of many religions which have disunited man instead of uniting him, and the misinterpretation of the nature of God as a wrathful God of fear has created a world of fear, sin, evil, selfishness and greed which has led to countless killings in war after war.

Until the last hundred years human comprehension has not reached the possibility of comprehending what this electric age has taught to man.

For this reason God has again sent His Message of love to this new age of unfolding man for there are a sufficient number among men who can become the seed of the Cosmic Age now dawning, for reinspiring other men to their exaltation into cosmic knowing.

These few among the many, such as you are, else you would not have been led to it, will spread their knowing of the love nature of God throughout the earth and to man of the comprehension of this electric age, and that alone will save mankind from his own destruction.

VIII

Now I shall attempt to tell you my personal reaction to this great happening which left me wholly Mind with but slight awareness of my electric body. During practically all of the time I felt that my body was not a part of me, but attached to my Consciousness by electro-magnetic flux threads of light. When I had to use it in such acts as writing in words the essence of God’s Message it was extremely difficult to bring my body back under control of my Consciousness and make it do as I ordered it to do.

As an example I herewith reproduce one page of hundreds, if not thousands of fragmentary writings to illustrate the difficulty of coordinating Mind and body. After many days of such effort I suddenly wrote as clearly and as legibly as the script of a child, and in a handwriting which I have never before or since used.

It was necessary to overcome this difficulty, for the great reason for keeping me in the Light for so long a period was to write down the Message of The Divine Iliad as interpreted from the rhythms of God’s thinking in the inspired language of Light, for the purpose of making mankind know and comprehend God for the first time during his unfolding.

Also it was necessary for me to make hundreds of diagrams for chemical and astronomical charts for the purpose of giving science a new cosmogony in harmony with the laws of Nature to replace the present one which does not conform with natural law.

Over forty thousand words were thus written and hundreds of charts made, with God’s Mind and thinking being mine–with hardly an erasure or correction. You who have read The Books of Beauty, Love, Desire, Healing and other parts of The Divine Iliad surely know that I alone could not write such rhythmic and masterly literature, nor can any man at any time produce masterly art except while in the ecstasy of working knowingly with God. Nor can any man write masterly literature without constant rewriting and editing.

During the entire period of severance I could never attach my body to my Mind as a part of my Self. It always seemed outside of me, unattached, like an instrument which I could use but was in no way related to my personal being.

When my body felt hunger it was not I who was hungry. My body automatically picked up food under instinctive control without mental interest in the process whatsoever. The food my body ate was as impersonal to me as the food given to an animal or to another person.

My body likewise acted under instinctive control when it felt the necessity for air or exercise. I sometimes walked it in the Park where it knew the way, and it would come back unerringly, but it was not I who walked for I was forever in the high heavens of indescribable ecstasy, forever talking with God in His thought language of Light.

IX

It is impossible to ever convey to anyone who does not think cosmically, a dynamic understanding of that transition from the sensing of a Mind controlled body to the knowing of Mind which has been severed from the body by so deep a feeling of separation that the electric body seemed in no way related to the ego of Soul, or of Mind. I shall do my best to explain it by describing what happened.

I cannot relate anything to time, for time ceased to be. All I can say is that there came a time after that blinding flash in which I became aware of “knowing all things.” Somewhere in the Bible it says something like these words: “Ye shall have an anointing of the Holy One, and ye shall know all things.”

On the face of it such a statement seems incredible–but it is not. Our concept of knowledge has been built upon the complexity of multitudinous effect instead of the utter simplicity of the cause of complex effect. Cause is as simple as the three mirrors in a kaleidoscope while effect is as complex as the infinite repetition of a few pieces of broken glass reflected within those three mirrors.

We can comprehend effect but we cannot know it. We can know only the CAUSE of effect. Encyclopedic information is not knowledge, but that is our concept of knowledge.

In one timeless flash I “knew all things.” All that I have ever written since then are but three dimensional extensions into a universe of time and space. It DID take time to think them into form and write them down but to KNOW all things was timeless. All of my chemical and astronomical charts were made before I knew the names of the elements or of stellar formations.

Illumination into the Light means just that–for it is the Light of all-knowing, or the Light of love, which is manifested by THINKING God’s all-knowing into complexities of patterned form.

I instantly, and timelessly, knew the still magnetic Light which is the fulcrum of life and power, also I knew the heartbeat of the electric universe which manifests love, life and power in matter.

I also instantly and timelessly knew that the magnetic Light of the God of love was all that is–and that the sensed electric wave universe of motion which simulates love, life and power, had. no reality whatsoever’. I knew it for what it was–God’s thinking–God’s imagining–pure illusion–simulation–self-voiding forms thrown on the screen of space to manifest changeless idea by setting it in motion to produce the effect of change.

Thus knowing the universal heartbeat I knew the electric wave, or universal pulse, to which all moving, creating things were geared. Thus knowing the wave and its octave pulsebeat in cyclic rhythms which spelled their rhythms out for me always as zero–one–two–three–four–zero–four–three–two–one–zero.

I then knew all cause and comprehended all effect.

There was nothing to know but God’s one whole idea of Creation, which is represented in the following diagram by the changeless ZERO of the spiritual Mind universe of REST–and nothing to comprehend but the heartbeat of this pulsing electric wave universe of motion which is represented in the diagram by the NUMBERS.

This diagram is given to you now as the first simple step toward your acquisition of all knowledge of CAUSE and all comprehension of EFFECT. During the whole construction of this electric universe in this entire course of study the basic principle above diagramed will never be departed from, or exceeded, for there is nothing in Nature, nor in your own life, nor in your thinking, nor in any action of yours which can vary one whit from this basic formula of Creation.

Nor is there anything the chemist, physicist, metallurgist or engineer can exceed beyond this formula or vary it in their work. Likewise the poet, painter, inventor, musician or architect is limited to this simplicity beyond which he CANNOT GO, and to which HE MUST CONFORM.

Likewise the healthy growth of your body, or the conduct of your friendly or business relations must conform to this principle of BALANCE or else suffer the consequence of whatever unbalanced residue remains from lack of conformity with the heartbeat of the universe.

As we proceed to unfold this principle by its application to the many departments of life and work other series of words will be used which have different connotations, and therein lies the seeming complexity which makes everything you do seem difficult.

The difficulty of that seeming complexity lies in the popular belief that CAUSE and KNOWLEDGE is complex while CAUSE and KNOWLEDGE are utterly simple but INFORMATION CONCERNING EFFECT is so utterly complex that it takes many large volumes of encyclopedias to write it all down–while not one thing in those vast volumes can possibly vary in principle from this simple formula of action-reaction sequences of expressed energy which constitutes the cosmic kaleidoscope which is our physical universe.

The reason why I have been able to do so many things during life, and do them in a masterly manner, was because of my lifetime growing knowledge of the universal heartbeat which fully unfolded in one timeless flash in 1921.

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Figure 6 - The Heartbeat of the Universe

It may not suddenly unfold to you, as it did to me, but you can very greatly accelerate its unfolding if you will open your heart to these lessons and get what I am telling you into your Consciousness instead of just photographing them onto your brain.

If you just photograph them onto your brain you can remember and repeat them but you will not know them until deep thought and much meditation, while alone in your chamber, make them a part of your Soul pattern. The more you do that the more speedily you will gain knowledge cosmically. Until you do that you have no knowledge whatsoever, for knowledge is cosmic–it is mental–while the brain is but a recording instrument which senses impressions recorded upon it and cannot KNOW ANYTHING.

Electrical awareness of EFFECT must not be confused with cosmic awareness of CAUSE. Electrical awareness means only the sensations caused by bodies of matter in motion–while Cosmic Consciousness means an awareness of Soul, the Universal Soul of God which man is to the extent of his awareness of his unity with God. Electrical sensation must not be mistaken for cosmic inspiration, nor for thinking, nor for knowing.

X

The first and most conspicuous effect of Illumination into full Cosmic Consciousness is the utter absence of evil, sin or shame. There is no thought of such an unbalanced condition while in the one ecstatic condition of perfect balance which the Light of love is.

When I say there can be no thought of such a thing I can best transfer that thought to you by asking if you feel the slightest thought of falling while you stand in balance? You obviously cannot, for your senses will not vibrate to tell you you are falling until you actually begin to fall.

Likewise, when you are perfectly comfortable your senses will not tell you that you are uncomfortable until you begin to be.

You will then put on a coat if you are cold to bring your body back into the balanced condition of comfort.

Illumination into the Light of Cosmic Consciousness transports you immediately into the Light of all-knowing of CAUSE which balances and controls all EFFECT. The cosmic spiritual Light IS balance.

That which man calls evil, or sin, or shame–or any of its attributes such as anger, jealousy, worry, fear, cruelty, lust, or the greeds which lead to murders and wars, are unbalanced conditions created by man who has not yet learned the law of love which demands equal interchange between all opposite conditions in all human relations.

Man, himself, has manufactured evil, sin and shame because of the impossibility of keeping himself in balance because of his greeds, which impelled him to take what he wanted without giving in order to be regiven.

There is no such thing in Nature as evil, sin or shame. Nature is never unbalanced. The heavens give of light and rains to earth and earth regives equally of her forests, and crops, and vapors which replenishes the heavens.

That is Nature’s manifestation of the law of love which keeps Nature ever in balance. I will give you another diagram to illustrate the love principle. This will be one more step in trying to transfer to your comprehension that state of balance which kept me in the one ecstatic condition of Cosmic Consciousness for so long a period of severance of Mind from the sensations induced by the electric thinking of Mind from which bodies appear, disappear and reappear in endless sequence.

As you see I have again used the same formula of rhythmic balanced interchange in all transactions of Nature. I have but used different words to express different ideas.

And I shall continue to do so whether I talk to you from the chemist’s laboratory or from your business office, or about your home and friendly relations. This I shall do until you have all-knowledge and all-power to control all effects which you set in motion.

As every effect which you do set in motion is a pendulum which will return to bless or smite you in the measure of your knowledge, or lack of it, it is imperative to your welfare that you open your heart and Soul to what is herein written and not sift it through any traditions, or cults, or teachings which have been so deeply impressed upon your brain by sensations or emotions that all you have accumulated in a lifetime are but abstractions which you forever repeat but cannot possibly explain.

That which your brain alone has recorded you do not know and, therefore, cannot explain to others, or even to yourself. That which you know in your heart, and is recorded within your Soul, remains with you throughout the ages, and is reincarnated within the seed of you for adding to it life after life as you journey through the ages to your final goal of complete unity with the Light of God which you are gradually knowing, a little at a time as you walk and talk with God to know Him in you, more and more, day by day.

XI

Those of you who have read The Secret of Light and the Message of The Divine Iliad know much of what has been written down by me during those thirty-nine days. I have given to you all that can yet be given and the other volume will be published as you become ready for more of it, and as the world becomes ready to receive it.

There is much in the Message which probably will not be published during my lifetime, much which is personal in the nature of instruction as to time and method of delivery of the Message, and much which reveals my own shortcomings to me in order that they may be avoided and thus [not] jeopardize its delivery.

I shall now give you some of these unpublished pages so that you may know how explicit is every detail of the unfolding of any of God’s plans when you work together with God as ONE. I hereby quote:

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“Thou art the Light.

“Content thou never shall be with a reflection of the Light in man’s outer vision.

“Content thou never shall be in man’s universe of dimension.

“Content thou shalt be only when in communion with Me upon thy mountain top.

“Thou art ecstatic man.

“Thou art the herald of ecstatic man to come.

“Thou art to unloose the bindings with which man has bound himself.

“The ecstasy of My Light is thine.

“The agony of man’s revilings shall be thine in generous portion.

“Heed them not, My Son. The capacity for ecstasy is measured only by the capacity for suffering. Therefore rejoice thou in thy suffering.

“Gather thou all the nations of the earth and sing to them My words written for ecstatic man in Light upon thy pulsing heart.”

“Go thou in all humility and head not thy crucifixion in the hearts of ten times ten million men.

“He who comes to man bearing inspired knowledge does man crucify. Crucifixion awaits all inspired messengers of the Light.

“Truth lies beyond the crucifixion.

“To tear down the idols of man and open the doors which lead to eternal life in the knowledge of the Light shall be thy Father-Mother’s work to do.”

“Teach thou those laws by which My universe is bound. Such laws are within the comprehension of man and none are beyond it.

“Avoid thou, therefore, such wordings as psychic things and powers, and occult things and powers which mislead man and tempt him toward his early imaginings, and answer thou all questions dynamically.

“All man’s questions are answerable in Light. “Thou art Light. Thou canst answer them.”

“Confine thy teachings to the written words translated from thy Father-Mother’s rhythmic words in Light.

“Preach not thou, nor teach, beyond what thou hast written down, for thou art man and full of man’s failings.

“Answer no man that which has not yet been written down by thee, even though thou knowest the answer in the universal language of Light.

“Man’s words are treacherous things of many meanings, therefore meditate when queried beyond thy translated words, until thou art alone in Light, then answer thy well considered written word.

“Thy strength shall be in writing down thy words and exemplifying them in charts.

“Preach thou and teach through thy books. Send them to the four winds to all peoples and all nations.

“Have a care that any spoken words of thine shall not be beyond what thou hast written down, nor divulge, nor discuss with any man My yet untranslated words. This will be thy great temptation. Be strong, therefore, in this wise lest thou yield to it.

“Thy strength through thy written words shall be as a mighty rock which will withstand the batterings of the whole world of men, and thou canst teach and preach within them. But beyond them thy ill considered translations will be as a heap of sand to wear away by the erosion of soft blown winds.

“Hear thou these words My Son of Light and heed them.”

It has been commanded of me to turn man’s eyes away from his jungle, to tell him to look upon the face of the Lord, and know God’s ecstasy in him. These are the words of the Lord. Hear thou them through me.

“The world of man is decadent. Go thou and resurrect it in my name.

“The beauty of My balanced thinking has man buried in his da[r]k tombs and set ugliness in the images of man’s earth thinking as idols for his worshiping.

“Man-might is he placing before Omnipotence in Me.

“Love is he seeking to crucify–to deify brutality.

“Barbarity of his own inviting is e’en now crossing his horizon to crush him who would exalt it.

“The seeds of hate is he sowing for the babel of many tongues to multiply.

“I am a patient God. All men will come to Me in due time, but the agony of awaiting that day shall be theirs alone.

“And that day shall not come until man himself shall cleanse himself from his own unbalanced thinking.

“Prepare thou, therefore, My messenger to the Cosmic Age of ecstatic man, which is now in the deep dark before its dawning, and be thou ready for thine appointed day when man’s own chastening shall awaken him in Me.

“Seven years hast thou to prepare for thy first beginning to manifest thy messengership to man. Guard well thy knowing, and herald not thy messengership for these first seven years of thy preparing.

“Then shall all the world begin to reap the harvest of self inflicted suffering sown by his own hands in the seed of his unbalanced thinking.

“And the period of man’s self cleansing shall be another three sevens of years added to the seven of thy novitiate years.

“And thine appointed day shall be in the eighteenth year of those three sevens, and be thou ready for that day, for thou shalt know no rest in worthily preparing to fulfill thine appointed task.

“Before that day of man’s rebirth in Me his self-made way of earth will be deep strewn with the ashes of his earth-planned tower of self-might, denying Me in him.

“Untold suffering shall await him on the blood drenched road which leads toward the jungle of his own seeking.

“Anguish will be his lot: and there will be weeping in every home.

“And many who see such agony in man will say to thee that a God of love cannot be if man be son of God, and God the loving Father-Mother of all men.

“But I say to thee, all men are one. The thinking of one is the thinking of all, and so shall the world-harvest be that which was sown in the seed of world-thinking. Man’s world is the sum-total of man’s thinking. It is what all world-thinking makes it.

“If love be in the world hate cannot also be.

“In the early days of this cycle My messenger of that day said: ‘Love thy brother as thyself’, but man has not yet faintly comprehended its Meaning.

“I now say more, for man is not now so new, and can well comprehend My meaning after the coming carnage by man shall have spent its furies, as the calm of earth’s storms always follow those storms.

“These words I now say for newly comprehending man of his new cycle. “Love ye one another all men, for ye are one in Me. “What so e’er you do to one in Me ye do to all; for all are one in Me.

“Love thy brother as thyself. Serve thy brother before thyself. Lift high thy brother, lift him to high pinnacles, for thy brother is thyself.

“For of a verity, I say, love of self, or a nation of selves, turns neighbor against neighbor, and nation against nation, Self-love breeds hate and sows its seed in all the winds to blow where’er it will. Wherefore say I, love of neighbor by neighbor, and nation by nation, unites all men as one.

“Serve first thy brother. Hurt first thyself rather than thy neighbor. Gain naught from him unbalanced by thy giving.

“Protect thou the weak with thy strength, for if thou use thy strength against him his weakness will prevail against thee, and thy strength will avail thee naught.

“Such is a decree which thou well knowest in the inviolate workings of My law which holds balance in all creating things. See thou that man well knows this principle as the foundation of his new day.”

CONCLUSION

I have herein given you parts of the unpublished sections of The Message which specifically instruct me in quite some detail as to the very manner and method of its delivery, as well as its time for delivery, yes, and even as to my failings as a man of earth manifesting God as a man of earth.

I have given you these instructions for the express purpose of bringing deeply home to you the most important–even though hardly believable–fact of your life. This fact is that if you KNOW God in you, not just abstractly believing it with some slight reservations, and work knowingly with God, your life will be the highest of the high, forever knowing the peace which passeth understanding, and your achievements will be mighty–for the divine YOU will be in them.

The knowledge of your oneness with God is not possible of instant acceptance by any human in its fullness, as you would instantly accept the knowledge that two and two are four.

Such Illumination is too wonderful for quick unfoldment in man, for every cell in man’s body cries out the selfhood of the body, and every sensation of man tells him of reality as being in the senses.

You are able to see and feel that which you have long believed to be you, and you have built up a sense of ego or individuality around and within your body which has forcibly separated you from all other men, for they are individuals also–human bodies of persons in countless numbers, all separate and apart from each other.

It is not a quick process to forget body and separability of bodies just by being told about it, even though you believe it. Your body is the high hurdle which you must surmount in order to know your divinity.

This story of my Illumination will help you to realize that you can put aside your body at will–TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT–and know your divinity to the extent in which you can put your body aside.

In meditation you learn to increasingly forget your body and increasingly become God-Conscious. Therefore I say, walk and talk with God constantly, from moment to moment. Let meditation become a fixed habit and state of Mind. Let it get deep down into your Consciousness that God is with you at all times awaiting to work with you.

When you realize that every cell of unfolding and refolding matter is centered by God-Light and controlled in its every second, and that every insect, bird and beast are instinctively controlled and watched over just as you are whether you know it or not, how much greater is that power of love which is watching over you when you KNOW it and work with it.

There is no detail of your life or work that you cannot take under instant advisement with God. Many thousands of times I have asked Him in my heart–wordlessly–to guide my hand with His to give balance to my sculpture or painting when it seemed lacking, and always the next brush stroke would be made by God’s hand and balance restored.

The time has come when cosmic man should perpetually acknowledge God as companion and co-worker and cease to think of Him as The Almighty God afar off to whom he can pray when he needs Him, and at all other times get along by himself.

When you are in a quandary you are often prompted to seek some friend for advice, or if some friend comes in you are apt to ask his advice. That desire is prompted by your feeling of need for help, but never ask of anyone before asking God.

Make it the most natural thing you do to ask God about it. This you will always do if God is ever present with you and you feel His presence as He works with you.

Let me earnestly counsel you against asking, or receiving advice from anyone. No one can advise you unless he becomes a part of you. Your problem must be his problem, and your desire for its solution must be his desire.

How many people are there on earth who can be one with you through love? If you know such a one, you can then merge your unity and God will be in your midst. Such love as that between perfectly mated men and women multiplies your power, for when husband and wife both belong to God, working knowingly with Him, each one is then KNOWING together, THINKING together and working together with God as ONE.

This principle can be well illustrated by group thinking, such as a meeting of directors in a business, or in the Senate and Congress. Such groups should be as one man, for they all have the same interests and problems. The problem of one is the problem of all. How useless would be the advice of anyone brought into such a meeting who did not take the interests of all into his heart.

Try to develop the intense realization that if there is but the one universal Mind of God then YOU are that Mind, and YOUR thinking is God’s thinking. Meditation will do that–and the more you meditate with God by taking all of your desires and problems to Him the more you will develop that oneness. Every meditation is a partial Illumination, for you cannot possibly open your Mind to God without God immediately responding.

And above all things do not desire the full Illumination until, and unless it comes to you. It will come when you are ready for it and not before. Rejoice in every partial Illumination which you will always recognize by the ecstatic–or even joyous–feeling which inspiration always engenders.