LESSON NUMBER 22

“The fact that our physical bodies are but moving extensions of our spiritual Selves has but begun to enter human Consciousness.”

“All bodies are electric recordings of Mind-thoughts.” Quoted from lesson No. 21.

KNOWLEDGE MAKES YOU THE MASTER–NOT THE SERVANT–OF MATTER

The above quotations are repeated here because it is difficult to fully comprehend the oft repeated statement that “God is all” while an infinitely extended universe of suns, stars and nebulae illumine the heavens by the countless millions, and all about you countless millions of bodies of substantial matter which you can weigh, and feel, and “see with your own eyes” confronts you with their own indisputable evidence of their reality.

All our lives, for countless generations, we have been confronted with moving bodies and moving forces. Heat burns us. Winds blow forcibly against our resisting bodies. We have pains, and aches, hungers, and fear of illnesses of our bodies, and of the bodies of our families and friends.

Tempests come–with floods, and famines, and droughts. We have always known a world of motion–of actions and events–of pleasure and catastrophy–with eras of peace suddenly broken by devastating war.

How, in the very face of all we see and feel, can we say: “God is all”, or “God is Love”, or “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my Soul”, when we feel ourselves to be the helpless victims of a matter and motion environment which so relentlessly swirls us about in its whirlpools.

Is it any wonder that people who are the servants of matter, motion and environment, feel that the universe of matter and motion is REALITY–and that things of the spirit are something to be hoped for but are not dependable–not REAL!

Wherefore I say to you that you are the self-bound servant of matter so long as you are self-bound–and furthermore I say to you that you are freed from its bondage only when you free yourself from your own senses.

Just so long as your senses dominate your actions the world of matter and motion is your master–and you are its unwilling, unhappy slave. Why is this so? It is because your senses are the same electric vibrations that your bodies are. Your body is not you, therefore your senses are not YOU.

That means that your body is dominating your actions. Your body is demanding that you work for it–that you give it what it wants–and the only things it wants are more sensations–more vibrations–more motion–more possessions of material things for the body–more emotions for the body.

Freedom from slavery to matter, and the conditions of matter, begins with knowledge that the motion and matter of your body is not YOU. That is why I have so often told you that the supreme discovery of man is his Self.

Complete freedom comes only when you have actually come to KNOW LOVE. When you actually know what love is you will not only know that God is love, but that YOU are love. When that day comes you can then say as Jesus said–and with as much authority–“I and my Father are ONE”. When that glorious day does come you will have found the kingdom of heaven, for that is what Jesus meant when He said “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven”.

No man can have either prosperity, riches, power or happiness so long as he is but clay of earth, sensed clay of earth, bound by his body to forever work for his bodily needs.

I have frequently said that material bodies simulate idea but the forms of material bodies are not the idea they simulate. All the gold and treasures of the material world are not what they make believe they are. He who possesses much gold and thinks, therefore, that he has the happiness which the possession of gold simulates, has but the gold–for happiness is not in the gold. Likewise, he who possesses power over other men has not yet attained happiness even though he has the power of kings.

ENERGY IS IN MIND, NOT IN MATTER

When you think of matter as reality ask yourself what matter can do without the desire of Mind back of it. Even your little finger cannot move of itself until you WILL it to move. Desire is in the Soul-seed of all things. Desire of the Creator polarized the universe into pairs of opposite conditions which pump bodies into the appearance of existence motivated by DESIRE.

Will of Mind created all things to dramatize idea of Mind for just a little while–THEN WILL OF MIND TAKES ALL CREATED THINGS BACK INTO THE SOUL-SEED OF ITS IDEA. They disappear–but WILL OF MIND STILL IS.

Will of Mind creates all things by dividing idea and setting it in motion. Silence is divided to produce vibrations for just a little while and when those vibrations cease silence still IS.

Will of YOUR Mind created YOUR body. Desire in YOU–in your conscious Soul–to have a body, polarized the light of Mind-thinking which extended your visible, vibrating electric body from its silence–from its stillness, and set it in motion to dramatize the idea of YOU for just a little while. But when its vibrations cease–Y OU STILL ARE.

That is what is meant by saying “God alone IS”, or “I am the master of My fate, I am the captain of my Soul”.

The energy which created your vibrating body extended from YOU, to create your body, and not from your body to create YOU.

EXAMPLES OF SOUL ENERGY

Science reverses the above stated principle by postulating that the energy which creates matter comes from matter. As previously stated energy is presumed to be heated matter.

I want to give you a few ideas upon this subject to take into deep and prolonged meditation, over and over again, until the realization of it gives you the feeling of such unlimited power that you could “tear trees from the forest tree by tree, or forest by forest” for your “strength transcends that of the tree. It is mightier than that of the forest” as I once upon a time wrote down when deeply in the Light.

This feeling of unlimited power should be your normal state of Mind, together with inner joyousness. You should always come out of your meditations with that sense of tremendous power, the glory of Self-expression, and a sense of supremacy over all material things. When communion with God gives you those God qualities such a thing as failure, or defeat, or fear of facing any task upon earth, should be entirely eliminated from your thinking. That is the kind of being you should be.

Consider the following idea. An Italian labourer can lift thirty to fifty tons of coal in one day, a shovel full at a time. That feat takes an enormous amount of energy. Where did the energy come from which performed that amount of work?

Most certainly it did not come by conversion of the food consumed by the labourer into heat. The few pieces of bread, cheese and onions consumed as food would not generate heat enough by any known process to lift fifty pounds, much less fifty tons.

The food consumed is used to repair the body and replace its ever dying corpuscles. Any residue is eliminated after normal replacements are completed.

Any machine that man may make which would lift fifty tons would need at least five hundred pounds of fuel. A man’s body is a machine made for performing work just as a man-made machine is. Why is it that one machine needs five hundred pounds of fuel converted to heat to lift fifty tons while the human machine lifts fifty tons without needing any fuel at all?

The answer is that the human machine is centered by the Universal Consciousness which is the Source of all power, from which man expresses power through desire to express power, even though he is not aware of the Source of his power. The man-made machine has no such motivating source of power so an electric current is extended to it from a generator which consumes a tremendous amount of fuel.

The machine made by man needs the electric current while man IS the electric current. His heartbeat is connected with the universal heartbeat.

The same thing holds true of an elephant or any other animal which is motivated by Soul-will. The elephant can move two hundred tons of logs in a day. The half a bale of hay consumed by it is likewise needed for replacements to its body.

Consider, likewise, the fact that you can lift your own body ten thousand feet above the earth to the top of a mountain, and back again in one day, because YOU are the universal electric current, and YOUR power is limitless when you know it is limitless. If your power is limited it is because you, yourself, have set limitations to it.

Again I say, man is Omnipotent when he knows his Omnipotence.

As a last example for your meditation I would like you to consider the tremendous energy expressed in the vegetable kingdom by the desire of the forest to lift its thousands of tons up above the earth.

In the Soul-seed of the forest is the mighty desire to manifest its power. Every seed of the forest is centered by that Soul-desire to unfold the pattern of its idea. Desire in the seed is electric current in the seed expressing its desire by polarizing light to form its body.

Those mighty tons of the forest are not lifted up by “heat energy” but by the alternating heat and cold of sunlight and cool earth. These are the two conditions which desire in the seed makes use of to polarize stillness of equilibrium into vibrating bodies. Desire makes its own electric current, for desire of Soul is the polarized thought-power which creates YOUR body and ALL BODIES.

Therefore I say again to you that God is eternal and naught else in the universe is eternal save God. Likewise, I say to you that YOU are eternal, as ONE with your Father and mine, when you know you are eternal.

Also I say to you that YOU are the Source of all energy with which you create the universal body. Furthermore I say to you that YOU center and control every cell of your body. If you are balanced in the Light every cell of your body is likewise balanced. If your thinking is unbalanced every cell of your body takes on that unbalance immediately, and naught but balanced thinking can correct it.

These lessons are leading up to comprehension of the fact that God actually IS all–and naught else exists.

There is no material universe. Matter and motion do not exist. They appear to exist, but that appearance of existence is the great cosmic illusion. Even the senses which tell us that matter exists do not exist, for they are motion, and motion is merely the electric record of thought imaginings.

If the Creator suddenly stopped thinking and imagining, this entire universe of matter would suddenly disappear, for all motion and form are Mind-imagined, and all bodies are but electric thought pictures of Mind imaginings. The effect would be like the ending of a motion picture play where all physical effects cease when the creator of the play stopped thinking it into form and motion.

This universe is entirely spiritual, God alone is.

This universe is a Mind universe from which thought-imagined bodies extend to simulate the idea of Mind.

This is a universe of REST from which motion seemingly springs.

God’s knowing is undivided and unchanging. God’s thinking seemingly divides the ONE IDEA of God’s knowing into many moving forms which seemingly change, as God’s thinking seemingly changes.

THE COSMIC ILLUSION

All bodies in all the universe are but waves of motion which in themselves are only seeming.

There is no such thing as motion or substance. There is but illusion which we sense as motion and substance.

If this statement amazes you it is because you do not yet comprehend God’s lenses and mirrors of light by means of which He creates that illusion. I will make these clear to you later on, but in the meantime your senses see very much motion in a cinema picture, yet you know that there is no motion there.

You fully understand that the illusion of motion in the cinema pictures is caused by sequences of “stills” superimposed upon each other, each succeeding one being of a different pattern. If the patterns were all alike there would be no illusion of motion.

God’s cinema changes pattern constantly because God’s thinking changes constantly, but as changing only seems, likewise motion only seems.

Later in these lessons when you will know more about God’s plan, you will understand His great illusion quite fully. Suffice it for now to say that every thing which seemingly happens, “unhappens” simultaneously, to coin an expressive word for better understanding.

You, and every moving thing in Nature, are walking constantly into a mirror of yourself. As you appear you simultaneously disappear but the sequences of it deceive your human senses by giving a feeling of continuity which is not justified.

When we arrive at the stage of further discussion of this phenomena you will know of it as “the voidance principle” which is demonstrated in The Law of Voidance which reads: “Every action is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated.”

All effects of time, dimension, sound, and sequences of night and day, from which the illusion of time springs, are likewise the result of seeming motion.

All this can be summed up in the simple statement that this seeming universe of many things, which seem to have countless changing moving forms, is a ZERO universe of REST which never exceeds zero in any of its effects, but only seems to do so.

All of this seems incredible, I know, but as you gradually replace old conceptions of what constitutes REALITY you will more and more comprehend that the Light of Mind is the only reality.

You can readily understand that when all motion in your body ceases it disappears, just as the whole universe would disappear if all motion ceased in the Universal Body.

This idea is so beautifully expressed in the inspired words of our Father-Mother’s Message that I quote them here for your inspiration.

“Without thinking My One Idea could not become many one ideas for My stage setting. “Without motion My cosmic play could not be played, nor could its actors be. “Without change My undivided One Idea could not unfold. “Without time My drama of My creating universe could have no sequences.

“Without motion, time, change and sequences the unfolding of My Mind imaginings could have no measured space for its stage settings, no screen for its light projections.

“Therefore see them as I imagine them, but know that they are but unfolding patterns of My knowing through My thinking.

“Know thou, therefore, that time is naught, nor are there moving things which change; nor is there life, nor death, nor cold, nor heat, nor good, nor bad in My universe of Me.”

(Page 98 The Secret of Light) From The Divine Iliad.

THE ONE REALITY

Your body appeared from YOU. It appeared because YOU desired to manifest YOU. It appeared because you imagined it. God’s body appears and disappears likewise. When you actually KNOW that your Mind and God’s Mind are ONE–you can then knowingly say “I and My Father are ONE”. You will then know that your Mind imaginings are creating the universal body.

You will then know that your body is but a moving manifestation of desire in you and whatever it is it is what you caused it to be. To the extent that you know God in you your body is a manifestation of God’s balanced rhythms which are absolutely under your Mind control. So, likewise, are all of your creations under your Mind control.

To the extent that you know God’s oneness with you you can extend your balance to other Minds and give them control over their bodies and the bodies they create.

WHAT THIS KNOWLEDGE MEANS TO YOU

The purpose of revealing these unknown facts of Nature to you is to free you from the bindings of matter so that you will know it for what it is, and not what it seems to be, and control it–instead of it controlling you.

In the previous lesson I have stated that one single thought could upset the chemistry and polarity of your body so completely that from being well you could become ill. You need no further proof than that to convince you that your body is the electric record of your thinking.

If you work all day at something you very much dislike you become very tired. The polarity of your body weakens in its power to divide the poles of your body cells. Even a little depolarization of all cells degenerates your bodily vitality, whereas you could work all day with intense joyousness and feel even more vitalized at the end of the day.

The reason for this is because ecstasy is the continued, normal, unchanging state of God’s Mind, and the more you can reflect that ecstasy the more you can keep the polarity of your body at its maximum generative power.

Likewise the divisions of desire for action, followed by an equal desire for rest, if properly balanced in your thinking, and emulated in your body, will multiply your vitality tremendously. Multiplied vitality through the manifestation of love brings with it the fullness of physical expression. Every deviation from balanced expression of the love principle destroys bodies in the measure of that deviation.

Violent anger, for example, can sow its deadly seed of cancer in a perfectly healthy body. A complete expression of the love principle, one which has in it the ecstasy of the Light of Mind, can destroy that seed and make the body whole. Likewise it can destroy the seed of any infectious disease if that ecstasy can be imparted to another, as Jesus did when He made others to heal themselves through “believing on Him”, even though they did not comprehend.

It is time that the medical profession fully comprehended that vitality and the powers of generation are based upon increasing polarity, and that polarity responds immediately to desire and the balanced rhythms which are an essential precedent to the joyousness which leads to ecstasy. Such joyous emotions increase the alkaline preponderance which builds the body and lowers its acid content.

Conversely any cynical or unkind attitude which does not express the love Nature of God lowers the polarity of every cell in the body and increases its acid content to a destructive percentage.

TO CONTROL MATTER–FIRST CONTROL SELF

God said “Behold I am in all things, centering them, and I am without all things, controlling them “.

The nearer you can come to feeling your Self to be that center of stillness from which all things extend UNDER YOUR CONTROL, the more you can control your own body to its perfection of health, strength and beauty.

No matter what you must do in life do it joyously. Whatever work it is put love into it. If you do put love into it you will find love regiven to you by it.

Love given out from you vitalizes you. Your polarization intensity increases instead of decreasing.

If you do not like your work it gives back to you what you give to it. You become fatigued and devitalized.

Whatever situation you find yourself in master it by giving love out of yourself to it, for that is the only way to master it. If you give aught but love it will master you.

There is no task which manifests God which is not beautiful if you make it so, for beauty is not in any task–it is in you.

If you have to sweep the floor do it gloriously. The floor must be swept. If it falls to you to sweep it do it perfectly, with love, and it will bless you.

A joyous attitude of Mind from love given out will prolong your date of maturing, lengthen your life and make your thinking more brilliant and keen to the day of your passing. Joyousness is the great insulator from the toxins which arise from unbalanced thinking.

NEW THINKING FOR DOCTORS, CHEMISTS AND METALLURGISTS

When will the chemist ever learn that the same unbalanced conditions which cause violent explosions in his elemental compounds cause violent explosions in the human body under similarly unbalanced conditions!

The chemist and metallurgist full well know that when they find pure cube crystals in any elements they find the stability of absolute balance in such crystals, and when they find distorted cube crystals they full well know that unbalance in interchange between opposite pairs is the answer to that distortion.

When will learned men of science, especially in medicine, understand that distortions due to unbalance in elemental bodies have the same basic causes that distortions in human bodies have! Human bodies are composed of these same elements and both are electric recordings of Mind thinking, therefore both MUST obey the same inviolate laws of balance.

This principle of unbalanced interchange is being manifested upon a world-scale by the greeds, hates and fears of neighbor by neighbor, and nation by nation which have been released into this thought-wave universe during the last thirty-five years.

Just as one individual destroys his body by depriving it of the balanced polarity which love gives to bodies, so can nations, or the whole world, destroy its civilization by the various kinds of cancerous disintegrators which hatred breeds. With such hatreds come miscegenation, licentiousness, sadism and infinite cruelties. The consequent loss of the best blood of all nations depolarizes entire nations.

During this last thirty-five years even the morale of nations has decreased as their national polarity has decreased. The whole human race is facing its utter destruction as a whole, just as countless thousands of individuals are likewise doing by preferentially practicing the principles of greed for their own selfish ends.

The world is not producing great men in the arts, great statesmen in governments, or great leaders in any of the fields of human endeavors. Morality, integrity and culture are at a low ebb and honor is selling out to materialistic power-seekers in every great nation of the world.

This sick and unhappy age of man is what man made it. Whatever it is man’s thinking has made it so. Today’s civilization is the electric record of man’s thinking. It is the record of sensed desires, not spiritual ones. It is the record of fears and hatreds in mankind, not of love.

Much of the world will be Self-destroyed but not all of it.

The first Cosmic Age of man is about to dawn into the Light of its new day. Millions of bodies have been sacrificed and many millions more will follow them into the grave, but love will come into the hearts of men and the world will be transformed by love into another stage of its unfolding.

That is why God sent His Message into the world for man’s new day. And that is why God timed the delivery of The Message to the period of man’s great self-chastening.

And that is why you who are ready for The Message are the seed to sow it in the hearts of legions of men before the end of the coming years of 1953, so that they in turn will bring into being The Cosmic Age of Love before the last days of the epochal year of 1961 shall have ended.