Life and Teachings of the
Masters of the Far East, Vol. 1
Chapter VII
(Location 319)
“It is this
‘ladder’ of consciousness, revealed in a vision to Jacob, which each of us must
climb before we can enter that silent secret place of the Most High and find
that we are in the very center of every created thing, one with all things
visible and invisible, in and of the Omnipresence. In Jacob’s vision he was shown the ladder
reaching from earth to heaven. He saw
the angels of God descending and ascending upon it – God’s ideas descending
from Spirit to form and ascending again.
It was the same revelation that came to Jesus when the ‘heavens were
opened unto him’ and he saw the wonderful law of expression whereby ideas
conceived in the divine Mind come forth into expression and manifest as
form. So perfectly was this law of
expression revealed to the Master that at once he saw all form may be
transformed, or changed in form, through a change of consciousness in regard to
it. His first temptation was to change
for form of stones to that of bread to satisfy personal hunger, but with the
revelation of this law of expression came the true understanding that stones as
well as all other visible forms have come forth from the Universal Mind
Substance, God, and are in themselves true expressions of divine Mind; and all
things desired, (not formed) are still in this Universal Mind Substance ready
to be created or brought forth to fill every desire. Thus, the need for bread but showed that the
substance with which to create bread or any other needed thing is at hand
without limitation and bread can be created from this substance just as well as
stones can be created therefrom. Every
good desire man has is God’s desire; therefore, there is an unlimited supply in
the Universal God Substance all about us to fill every desire. All we need do is to learn to use what God
has already created for us and this He wills to have us do that we may be free
from every limitation and thus be ‘abundantly free’.
“When Jesus
said, ‘I am the door’, He meant that the I AM in each soul is the door through
which the life, power, and substance of the great I AM, which is God, comes
forth into expression through the individual.
This I AM has but one mode of expression and that is through idea,
thought, word and act. This I AM God
Being, which is power, substance, intelligence, is given form by consciousness;
and for this reason the Master said, ‘According to your faith be it unto you’,
and ‘All things are possible to them that believe’.
Now we see
that God is within the soul as power, substance, and intelligence – or in
spiritual terms, wisdom, love and truth – and is brought out into form or
expression through consciousness. The
consciousness which is in the infinite mind of God and in man is determined by
the concept or belief that is held in mind.
It is the belief in separation from Spirit that has caused our forms to
age and die. When we see that Spirit is
all and that form is constantly being expressed from Spirit, then shall we
understand that that which is born of or brought out of Spirit is Spirit.
“The next
great truth to be revealed through this consciousness is that each individual,
being a concept of the divine Mind, is held in that Mind as a perfect
idea. Not one of us has to conceive
himself. We have been perfectly
conceived and are always held in the perfect mind of God as perfect beings. By having this realization brought to our
consciousness, we can contact the divine Mind and so re-conceive what God has
already conceive for us. This is what
Jesus called being ‘born again’. It is
the great gift the silence has to offer us; for by contacting the God-Mind we
can think with God-Mind and know ourselves as we are in reality rather than as
we have thought ourselves to be. We
contact God-Mind through true thought and so bring forth a true expression;
whereas, in the past, perhaps through untrue thought, we have brought forth an
untrue expression. But, whether the form
be perfect or imperfect, the Being of the form is perfect God – power,
substance and intelligence. It is not
the Being of the form that we wish to change but the form that Being has
assumed. This is to be done through the
renewing of the mind, or through the change from the imperfect to the perfect
concept, from the thought of man to the thought of God. How important then to find God, to contact
Him, to be One with Him and to bring Him forth into expression. How equally important is the silence or the
stilling of the personal mind, that the God-Mind in all its splendor may
illumine the consciousness. When it
does, then we shall understand how ‘the sun of righteousness (right-use-ness)
shall rise with healing in his wings’. The Mind of God floods consciousness as
sunshine floods a darkened room. The
infusion of the Universal Mind into the personal mind is like the entrance of
the vastness of the outside air into the impurity of that which has long been
held in some close compartment. It
stands alone, supreme, and we realize that we are to build but one temple. The Temple of the Living God is the blending
of the greater with the lesser through which the lesser becomes one with the
greater. The impurity was caused by the
separation of the lesser from the greater. The purity is caused by their union, so that
no longer is there a greater and a lesser but just the one good, whole, pure
air. Even so must we know that God is
One and all things visible and invisible are One with Him. It is separation from Him that has caused sin,
sickness, poverty, and death. It is
union with Him that causes one to become a whole Being or to become conscious
of being whole.
“The
separation from unity is the descent of the angels on the ladder of
consciousness. The return to unity is
the ascent of the angels upon the ladder. The descent is good, for unity then becomes
expressed in diversity, but in diversity there need be no concept of
separation. That which is diversity has
been misconceived from the personal, or external viewpoint, to be separation. The great work for each soul is to lift the
personal viewpoint to such heights in consciousness that it becomes one with
the whole. When all can ‘meet with one
accord on one place’, that place in consciousness where it is understood that
all things visible and invisible have their origin in the one God, then we
stand upon the Mount of Transfiguration. At first we see Jesus and with Him Moses and
Elias; or Law and Prophecy, and the Christ (the power within man to know God);
and we think to build three temples, but the deeper meaning comes. We are given to realize the immortality of man
to know that divinity is never lost, that Divine Man is deathless, eternal. Then Moses – the Law, and Elias – the Prophecy,
disappear; and the Christ stands alone supreme and we realize that we have to
build but one temple – the Temple of the Living God within our very selves. Then the Holy Spirit fills the consciousness
and the sense delusions of sin, sickness, poverty, and death become no more. This is the great purpose of silence.
“This
temple from which you may chip a piece and the scar will be instantly healed
but typifies the temple of our body, of which Jesus spoke, the temple not made
by hands, eternal in the heavens, which we are to bring forth here on earth.”
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