B.C. AND B.J. 

Attention is called to the fact that there is no such period as B.C. (Before Christ), for the simple reason that "Before Abraham was, I AM." The Christ has always existed, and there is no date before that, for it is before the human, relative sense of time existed. There is , as has been brought to light, B.J. (Before Jesus, which gives us a date some two thousand years ago. So is it with you - the real you - the Christ of God. The Son of the Living God does not come under the relativity of time for there never was a beginning or ending to the birth less, ageless, deathless Christ in you, whose measure of time is eternity and is therefore above all the ravages of time and the dangers ensuing there from.

Your Jesus, John Smith, or whatever you call yourself, has only existed for a limited number of years - it has gone through the experiences of the Master in varying degrees, and has been crucified. It is the only thing that could be crucified. The Christ of you could never be pierced - nailed to a tree, slandered, maligned, or hurt; this is only possible of Jesus, and for this reason the Master saw the fallacy of trying to do anything from the Jesus state of mind. It was a constant fight from cradle to tomb hence his discovery, and priceless gift of wisdom to the universe! 'I [Jesus] of myself can do nothing - but ---.' Knowing that the Jesus was but the shadow of the soul, and realizing to become prodigal was to suffer all the limitations of the belief, he advised against considering the Jesus. He counseled the student to go within, saying 'If I [the I AM] be lifted up [to at-one-ment with the ALL], then I shall draw all an man-I-festation unto me.'

Do not call me good - speaking of Jesus with the limitations of a belief man - a man of certain strength, of certain health, of certain limited earning capacity. Many people are today sitting in the seats of the scornful, calling the world to view their intense spirituality - shouting from the housetops, "Come and look at my wonderful power, and view my elegant family. We are all workers for the Lord - we are the only ordained ones; come to us for spirituality; all others are liars and cheats." It is though the Master had never lived and given to the world the simplicity of the Kingdom here and now.

"You deny Me" - you deny the statements of Christ because you cannot see them. Your eyes are holden because they are loaded with the blindness of your John Smith. "You deny Me" - you read My words that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and straight away make Me out a liar by trying to prove that the world is full of evil that you are a special one sent to destroy. 'I do not come to destroy but to fulfil' - I, and the I AM of you, do not come to destroy; it comes to fulfil - fill full everything that is empty, every vessel in the human conscious of your Jesus is poured full to overflowing with the substance of the Christ Mind, and you are found not wanting in anything.

It seems to good to be true that the Kingdom of Heaven is here and now, and that it can not be brought into visibility by long sermons of so-called holy people. No man can bring in your Kingdom of Heaven. It rests with you whether you will continue to make Jesus a liar or a truth-sayer - whether you believe that his saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,' is the truth or a lie. You take this magnificent wisdom and extract a grain of truth - perhaps you have to run to someone else to find out what he believes about it, and get turned awry by personal teaching, teaching crammed full of personality.

It is quite easy to understand the limitations of Jesus. He was of lowly birth, no breeding, no special talent, no education, no money - 'Is not this the carpenter's son?' What good can come out of a dirty little town in Judea? Theses are the questions which immediately beset the personality, and to which the personality, or Jesus. must answer, 'I am Jesus; I am a carpenter; my parents are poor; I have no education; I had no chance; my earning capacity is that of a day labourer.' Whereupon Jesus is assigned to his proper place in the human category.

What hope is there for you, as you stand today? The soul of you my burn with an ardour too intense for words, and yet, because you keep on admitting and recognizing yourself as John Smith, you go under the limitation of that personality. It is only very occasionally that you perceive the light, and at such times you exclaim with great joy, 'I have had a demonstration" you have had a demonstration of the Christ of you, which should be in constant manifestation. Presently you will tire of the great desert spaces between demonstrations, and arrive at a place where you will open the door to the real you and see every limitation of the personality broken.

The Master showed clearly that, while Jesus could only be a carpenter. the Christ (which he explained was common to every man) could transcend with natural ease every limitation to which the Jesus was subject. In other words, he found it true that 'if ye be in the Spirit ye are no more under the law"; that is, if you identify yourself with the I AM the Christ-consciousness - not as something unusual or something to be used against evil, but as your real True Self which is above the beliefs of the limited Jesus, you will begin to function on a plane of attainment - a place of fulfilment. It is not the overcomer - it is that which comes over. The more unconsciously the processes of life become, the more perfect they are; hence the difference between the baby crawling on the floor and a man flying through the air - he has come through all the stages and has forgotten them, having taken, not the letter or labour of it all, but the wisdom which lay there. The reason a baby can finally learn to walk is that it has the ability always there, awaiting recognition. The moment it is recognized it either accepts it or fails to see it as a possibility.

This is the order of the human education - that a man must study years and years to be able to lecture and teach; yet we find the man Jesus, through his understanding of the Christ, lecturing in the temple before the wise and learned. How could this possibly be? He had no training. You belong to one or the other of two classes - 'You say it is four months" - 'I say look again.' A chorus of voices protest with the usual 'Yes but ---' and they must wait for the four months; but the other one will thrust in the sickle, for the word is, "The fields are white" now: not at some other time.

When the inspiration says, "You do not need to think what you will say - open your mouth and I will supply the words," who are you, with your human intellect, to go against the magnificent truth' Even though you may have all the degrees that mankind can bestow upon you, who are you to dare to deny ME, the I AM, and try to impose the foolish wisdom that you have been prating for years, and your stupid arguments that you have amassed from the human appearances? Either you can accept the inspired word of Christ or you are going to argue. If you argue it is because you have never heard. Either God can do it or it cannot be done - and neither you nor ten thousand of your kind, with a million proofs of the human belief, can offset one letter of the truth.

'Yes, but that was Jesus," is one of the old sayings, one of the old arguments to excuse ourselves from getting rid of the human personality, with its limitations and beliefs. Jesus said, in speaking of the Christ Mind, which I repeat is common to every man: "The works that I do ye shall do also, and even greater works than these shall ye do.' Is this a lie? You have to answer that for yourself. When you can, you will also see that the veil is rent, and that all that is left is for you to make a clear decision as to whether or not you are willing and ready to be born again.

If you want the Christ only as a demonstrating power, so that you may stand and make long speeches about what a wonderful power you have, and recount all the wonders that you have done, then you will have little of it. If you want it because you see the glorious realm of the Sons of the Living God, then the doors will burst asunder and you will know that nothing which has gone before matters - you will be instantly freed into the limitless sea of substance - you will hear the command and obey. 'Come, eat and drink without money and without price' - the password for attainment is yours simply for the recognition of this Christ within, as YOU.

Some will stand and wait for a sign. No sign shall be given; you have already had the sign - I AM, and I AM in my heaven right here and now, will make the hell that John Smith is in, no matter however involved, melt away right before your eyes, both literally and figuratively, into the effulgence and radiance of the Kingdom of Heaven. "Oh, taste and Beloved, the words are true, and you will see that all this straining to do the works of God has passed away into the place of actually expressing the power without effort. Effortlessly, it comes into expression - at that point to decree a thing is to see it into manifestation. WHO are YOU? And to what end were you born? Do you think life is meant to be a constant fight, a constant study of dead letter? Will it ever mean to you the here and the now of what your soul knows to be true?

We see, further, this exemplar Jesus, weighing average weight, walking on the water - an utter impossibility; we see him setting aside the human laws of weather. How could a carpenter do either of these? It is interesting to note these from the actual and figurative points of view. Spirit has no weight - hence it is heavier than nothing. Weight belongs to the human reasoning, which it constantly overturns. Not so long ago they insisted that a body heavier than water would sink, but a piece of iron or steel in fact a mass of steel much heavier than water - is made to float in the shape of a ship, and nothing is thought of it. Hence one by one the old beliefs give way. That which at one time is said to be impossible becomes reasonable when it has to be accepted, and is incorporated into the beliefs.

When you recognize that Now in the Golden Here you are the Son of the Living God, you will hear the clatter of the scaffolding of human beliefs and teachings crashing to the ground in order that the New Idea, the perfect Mansion, can be made visible. We have mistaken ourselves - we have failed to let go of the scaffolding, and the glorious Christ man is still hidden under the letter of the human teaching. We have even tried our best to make this scaffolding look like the Christ, and doctored and treated it and tried in every way to better it. "you must decrease - I most increase' is the law; the human personality, the Jesus of John Smith, decrease by being lifted up to the recognition of its True Self, and it is then said of you, "How does this man speak with such wisdom - seeing he has no learning?' You find the way, for I AM the way, and I have a way that ye (the human reasoning) know nothing of.

A serenity comes to you - a peace that passeth all - a glory of rest which belongs to the Sons of God - not inactivity, but a joyous rest from all the struggle and strife to please a tyrant, a God of likes and dislikes, a God that you have set up for yourself, which you have chopped out of a tree, and fashioned with gold and tinsel, and then fallen down and feared. You shall come out into the place of attainment - not attainment for worldly show, but the secret attainment. You shall pass a man on the highway, and, by speaking to him silently or openly, shall heal him, and he shall know you as a nameless being - the Christ - instead of lauding a personal name to the skies. You shall go your way, for the doors of the universe shall be open to you. 'I [the Christ] go before you [John Smith] and make straight the way. Do you hear? You, I mean, YOU who at this instant are reading these lines. I said 'I' (the inner Lord - your inner Lord) go before you and make straight the way.' Believest thou this? Surely not from the appearances. The sick body, the depleted vitality, and empty purse, all are symbols of that to which human limitations can come.

Be still! If you cannot accept the truth, be still; do not argue; if you cannot hear me as I speak to you NOW, then open My holy book, any book, and let me speak to you. The time will come when you will hear My voice, because you will recognize that it is the only voice possible for the Christ Mind to hear. The jabbering of doctrines as mine and thine - the puffed up personalities who make it a business to cast stones and screech from the pulpits, "God is love' - that is, if you see it exactly as I do - shall be naught but the distant chirping of so many insects as against the roar of the thunder in the Heavens. You hear because you believe it is possible for the Son of God (YOU) to hear - and only because of that.

"Who did hinder you?' Well, one person told me one thing and another told me something else, and I was confused. If you have been confused by the avalanche of teaching of the Christ, why do you continue to seek among the husks any longer? Why do you not cease from the classrooms of the human mind and enter into the courts of the Lord? You and you alone will be the one to rise and go to your Father. No matter what you know about it, until you BELIEVE the inspired word as possible here and now, you will never see or hear it. You may catch fleeting glimpses of it, but you will not know the joy of living, moving, and having your being in the ALL GOD - the Joy of Eternity, the Being that does not date itself, but is and always IS.

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