LESSON NUMBER 40 ANSWERS TO STUDENTS QUESTIONS

It is indeed gratifying to receive more and more letters such as the following: “I have written down four questions to ask you but have obeyed your instructions to withhold them to see if I could not myself answer them. What you say about all questions are answerable within ourselves seems to come true the moment I turn within myself for the answer, instead of outside”.

Again we insist that each individual person is an extension of the Source of all knowledge. Why seek knowledge through another when it is within one’s Self? Some one else who has knowledge can open the door to it for you to enter but you must enter that door yourself. Another can but reinspire you to gain knowledge for yourself, as another can awaken in you the power to heal yourself, but no other person can heal you himself, nor give you knowledge.

God awareness in you alone does that.

Some questions do, however, keep coming–many of them being so similar that we can almost resolve them into types. We answer a few of these here.

QUESTION. “Does the Wholeness of God grow in potential through this divided and multiplied principle of Creation. Is that the purpose of this simulated universe? The question as to this simulated universe has desired an answer for some time.”

ANSWER. God does not grow in potential. The potential of power which God has in His Being is the measure of DESIRE in Him to create His universe. That Omnipotence is unchanging. It doe s not grow more or become less. That unchanging condition is the zero of equilibrium and is the still fulcrum from which multiplied and divided power extends as a lever extends from its fulcrum.

God’s power is manifested in His thinking. Thinking is electric. His electric thinking concentrates and decentrates. Potential multiplies in the direction of concentrative thinking. That direction is radially inward, which is the direction of gravitation. The maximum potential of concentrative thinking is recorded in spheres of matter as centers of gravity.

All effects of motion multiply in this direction. Heat multiplies. Weight multiplies. Speed accelerates and all matter solidifies as multiplied pressures pack light-waves into closer quarters.

Conversely, potential divided[s] in the outward radial direction. Solids divide into vapors. They cool as they divide and rise as they cool. The greater the division the colder its temperature, the slower its speed of rising, and the less its weight and density.

Do not be confused in this respect by the text book teachings which say that hot air rises and cold air descends–for such is not true to Natural Law. Heating air descends to seek its like potential of heat, and cooling air rises to seek its like potential of cold.

In relation to your question regarding this SIMULATED universe we mean that all motion is only God’s imaginings. The universe is a cosmic cinema–a multi-projection of the dual light of God’s thinking onto the blank screen of space. Every happening “unhappens” as it happens. Everything in Nature is forever walking into a mirror of itself, so that one motion in one direction voids the other opposite one.

As a pendulum swings one way an invisible one swings the other way with equal and opposite force to void the other swing of it.

Our senses are limited to seeing only one half of the effect. We see events in forward time only, hence we have sequences of events following each other like day and night. From this illusion of motion, due to limited sensing, TIME is conceived. If our senses extended clear around the 360 degree circle we would sense a backward flow to time which voids its forward flow.

You will more readily understand this if you realize that the universe is a two-way radial extension from the ZERO of the universal equilibrium. You cannot multiply Zero but you can SEEM to. Nor can you divide ZERO, even though it seems that you can.

Try it, Zero simultaneously multiplied and divided by zero [any number] equals zero. Nature never multiplies potential without simultaneously dividing it equally. A solid is seemingly produced which the senses record–BUT–nature simultaneously creates an empty vacuous black hole of space around that solid which we call empty space. It is “empty” because it has given “fullness” to its mate. Each are equal. Our senses are part of that division–but our senses are not the whole of it. If they were the whole range of it we would comprehend that we were but “day-dreaming”–imagining–thinking image forms from imagined idea –which is what God does to create this cosmic illusion.

Creation is a wonderful and glorious vision but it has no more reality than the cinema you see in the theatre. That cinema consists of motion only–light in motion. Stop the motion and the motion picture would instantly cease.

Likewise, God’s cosmic cinema would instantly cease if God stopped thinking.

You ask the purpose of it all. From God’s point of view His purpose is to manifest that which He is in imagined form. God is Light–God is Love–God is Truth and the LAW–all meaning the same thing with differing connotations.

God desires to manifest Love. He does so by dividing the giving of Love in two opposite directions. The opposite expressions of Love are giving and regiving, but it is this fact of division of giving into two opposite directions that the illusion occurs.

To sensed creatures Nature is an illusion of separateness of many things which appear, disappear and reappear–or live, die and are born again. If, however, our sense perception could record the negative bodies of motion in space as well as it could sense the positive ones of earth we would sense the continuity of it all–and thus sense the voidances which would cause motion to cease entirely and naught would then remain but our KNOWING.

We would KNOW it for what it is–a divine IDEA–and we would know it timelessly–without change–without dimension–just as you can KNOW an IDEA in your Mind timelessly. You can then THINK it into form if you wish–and that would take time, for as you THINK it into changing sequences you are also “Creating” time as you are creating your thought forms. You know, however, that they are but visions of your imaginings and have no other reality than that.

Likewise, God knows that the universe is His vision, product of His thinking.

From your own point of view what is your purpose? Your purpose is to so multiply God awareness in you that your purpose is God’s purpose. God awareness in you means becoming the Being which God is. As that awareness increases you then become Love, which YOU manifest by giving;–and YOU become Truth and the Law of Balance which YOU CONTROL. When God awareness is complete in you YOU are the Creator of all that is because of your knowing your Oneness with the ONE.

When you have thus become the Universal One Being you are then the ecstatic IMAGINER–the cosmic dreamer of dreams–the visioner of IDEA and the creator of imagined bodies for imagined IDEA.

This is a brief answer to your question. To grasp it more fully you must fill in the gaps of your lack of understanding by studying all of the lessons from the beginning and meditating much upon them.

It is not easy for the sensed human to even begin to understand it but as you become more and more cosmic, because of your increasing God awareness, you will not have to study it so carefully and think it so concentratedly, for you will just KNOW it.

QUESTION. “The God Mind, being omnipresent and omnipotent, would not the thinking that springs from that Mind be of the same quality–hence not illusion?”

ANSWER. No, it would not be the same quality–and it IS illusion. Mind is undivided, unchanging and motionless. The thinking of Mind is divided, changing and in continuous motion. Motion cannot be stillness–sound cannot be silence –changing cannot be unchanging–but sound can manifest that which lies within silence–change can manifest the unchanging and the divided can manifest the undivided.

If you would but look at the still point from which the pendulum of your clock swings you would better understand how the changing can manifest the unchanging–also you will understand that its motion cannot become its stillness.

Likewise if you will look at the silent harp string from which its sound extends you will see that the sounds are not in the silence but are in the motion of the vibrations which extend from the motionless string.

Again, if you would look at the fulcrum from which a lever extends to lift heavy objects you will see that the power which lifts them is not in the moving lever, but in the still fulcrum, for the lever cannot move to lift anything without the still fulcrum.

QUESTION. “I cannot see how TIME could be considered to be an illusion. To me it is the most real thing I know of–even as real as matter. Will you tell me where I am wrong?”

ANSWER. Your senses tell you that there is such an effect as TIME.

Your senses see day following night–event following event–one experience following another–your body growing old–flowers and forests rising from the earth and disappearing–but your senses deceive you mightily because they are limited to seeing just a pinhole view of Nature.

If your senses could extend their range all around the cycle of any effect of motion all things would seem to stand still–and time would not be, because motion in one direction would be voided by the other direction.

Your senses see a pendulum swinging from its fixed fulcrum, but your senses do not see an invisible force which is EQUAL to that of the pendulum which is swinging the other way. If your senses could see the whole of the effect at once–instead of a little of it at a time, you would never see sequences, hence you could not experience the sensation of time. More than that you could not even count beyond zero.

There is a backward flow to time which voids its forward flow. To exemplify our meaning consider the flight of a plane. Your senses see it going in one direction, but you do not see a black vacuous hole behind that plane which is as negatively strong as the positive flight is strong. That invisible vacuous empty hole in space behind the plane would pull it backwards to a zero point between them if the motion of the plane could suddenly cease.

Later in these lessons you will read of a new law from The Divine Iliad Message which says: “Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated.” A full understanding of that law will help you comprehend the illusion which this universe is.

QUESTION. “I went to do some work in the shock wards of our state asylum. Shortly after returning home a sudden depression overtook me which the strongest statements of truth would not eradicate. I felt a hopeless feeling within me, as if all my years of seeking and trusting were turned to naught.

“We are admonished to visit the sick, comfort the seeming hopeless, and yet if we dare to turn a downward glance, we find ourselves pulled into that same condition. Must we who are learning truth and ever striving to keep the eye single upon the Source of our being ignore the call of the less fortunate? What is your advice on this?”

ANSWER. When you go to “comfort the sick” you go to GIVE to them what they lack and you have in abundance–which is your love, your balance and your joyousness of God awareness in you. If you can succeed in giving it to them they will then have what you have in the measure of their ability to reflect YOUR light.

Instead of your doing that you allowed them to extend their unbalance to you. You gave them nothing of your light because of your sympathy and other emotions which you thought would comfort them. In the Book of Healing and The Healing Principle in Vol. II of The Divine Iliad it is carefully explained that sympathy to an ailing person gives a recognition to the ailment, making of it a reality.

You let them reflect their absence of God awareness into you instead of the reverse. You must learn to insulate yourself against the ills of others by your knowing of your divinity instead of being a conductor of them by letting them pass through you and touch you in their passing.

One phrase in your question convinces us that you do not understand this principle. This phrase is “a sudden depression overtook me which even the strongest statements of truth would not eradicate.” This sounds like relying upon affirmations instead of knowledge. No matter what truths one may utter they are of no benefit whatsoever unless there is full knowledge of their meaning, and comprehension of their practice behind them. Affirmations are no more effective when uttered by a human being than they are when uttered on a gramophone unless they are uttered with knowledge of their relationship to Nature.

QUESTION. 1. “What are dreams? 2. What is hypnosis? 3. Are these phenomena of any significance in understanding the nature of mind or the illusions of the sense perceptions?”

ANSWER. Dreams are the result of not being fully asleep. Sleep means more or less lowering of voltage of electric potential passing through your brain–not Mind. The purpose of that lowering of potential is to let your senses–not Mind–relax and rest for an interval.

In utter relaxation one cannot dream, for all of the memory records which are stored in the brain have no motivating force behind them to set them in motion. When you are fully awake, and have that full motivating force flowing through your senses, you can pick any record you choose from those stored memories, but when you are not quite asleep a little current flows through your stored records and awakens parts of many of them without your power to control them. This strange mixture is what you call dreams, and the clarity of them, or their vagueness, is dependent upon the power which motivates them, and the fact that they are uncontrolled.

Hypnotism is the power generated by one person to compel another to act in accordance with his own desire. In an inconspicuous manner you see hypnosis in practice everywhere, a mother who thinks for–and rules–her son, or any strong character in any walk of life who controls weaklings by his greater knowledge and will.

Practice in the art of multiplying will power will strengthen one is this respect just as practice in exercising certain muscles will make them more powerful than others–or practice in certain arts and skills will give one proficiency over a lesser practiced person.

Many doctors have developed strong hypnotic powers without intending to do so–in fact some have developed these with sufficient intensity to operate upon a patient without giving an anesthetic.

These phenomena have significance in understanding effects of the senses but not of the Mind–for they are not mental.

The whole of these teachings explain the difference between sensing and knowing. By carefully reviewing the lessons from the beginning you will see the golden thread of that thought throughout the entire series.

in this universe is the Light of Love which cannot be bound, nor limited. Just as you cannot prevent the sound of your voice reaching around the earth seven times per second so, also, you cannot prevent any thought or action of yours from impacting every human on the planet.

Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia

Our Treasured Students:

“Take thou man’s death away from him in this new day of man. Give to him eternal Life in Me by knowing Me in him.” These were the words of God’s command in the DIVINE ILIAD MESSAGE revealed in my husband’s Illumination during which time all the divine processes of Creation were made known to him.

In all the forty lessons which you have received that KNOWLEDGE which ALONE can “take death away from you” has been released in as simple language and form as we could possibly give it.

The mistaken concept that death of the “body” can be conquered and the “body” continue on forever MUST be erased from your thinking. Continuity of the positive body is NOT what conquering death means. What it really means is KNOWLEDGE of a continuous interchange between positive and negative bodies will have so increased your sense perception that you can manifest your THINKING in both halves of your body. You will then KNOW that life is continuous and you will no longer SENSE those intervals that we call “death”.

Deep meditative study of Units 7, 8 and 10 will prepare you for the last two Units thereby gaining for you a possible thousand to ten thousand years of comprehension in one lifetime instead of in a hundred or a thousand lives. Knowledge alone can bridge the gap to transcendency.

Having now lived for a year with the new thinking which we are trying to adjust you to, you will now more clearly comprehend what we could only refer to abstractly, when you began your study, as a transition from sensing to knowing.

You now know dynamically what we mean instead of abstractly. We could not put more meaning into those words at the beginning because it needed the foundations of NEW THINKING–SLOWLY and PATIENTLY built, to give you the comprehension which you now have.

The trend has been from the beginning, to increase your range of sense perception by increasing your THOUGHT RANGE far into the invisible universe where thoughts are recorded in patterned form.

Also we desire to so firmly base your extra sensory perception upon KNOWLEDGE that the physical bodies of things will have less meaning than the Source of those bodies in the stillness of their seed.

The greatest genius can more distinctly hear his yet unborn symphony in its embryonic thought form than he can hear it when given a physical body of sound. The mystic has so vast a range of perception that it reaches so far into the thought range that the only comparison we could give you is the radar which sees far ahead into space or under the sea to tell what is ahead of it, which is beyond the range of man’s perceiving.

We all have that spiritual radar, and some of us are beginning to feel it. We have even given it a name–TELEPATHY–but telepathy does not cover it fully–for telepathy means thought-transference, inferring between living people. That power of thought-transference which is unfolding in the human race includes the thought of Universal Mind, whenever manifested–whether through the now living or long since “dead”. Thought is eternal and all thought patterns are recorded, both positively and negatively. The human race will some day unfold its range of perception to include that which has disappeared with that which now is.

Today and forever we send our loving salutations to you and remind you that in our thought-wave universe “your own shall come to you” timelessly and endlessly so keep your THINKING balanced and filled with LOVE and the universe will give back to you all that you give in bounteous measure.

Our love in oneness with you,

I am Sincerely,

Lao Russell