CHRIST AND EVOLUTION

Christ is not the product of evolution." The Christ has not been evolved from a seed or monad. The I AM that I AM was before Abraham, and before everything else that has had anything to do with evolution, whether mental or physical. Many people conceive that Christ is virtually a product of the nineteenth century. Because more books have been written, and more lectures given, on Christ during the past fifty years, many think that Christ was practically created to accommodate a modern sense of religion, or to make some Prophet outstanding. "with or without a body I AM just as operative"; and so we are beginning to see that if every lecturer, teacher, book, and organization purporting to give the world the message of the Christ were to become non-existent, the Christ would be just as operative, and just as present. It is a wonderful thing to realize this. It will take out of the beautiful Truth all the personal teaching, and free you into the possibilities of the Inspiration, direct and without intermediary.

Because you become more aware of the Christ, He does not grow larger and more powerful. He has always been All, and you are coming more into alignment with Him. The building at the end of the street does not grow in size as you approach it; it may seem to, but it remains the same always. It is interesting to know the Unchangeableness of God, and a good thing to contemplate. Nothing can be added - no personal doctrine nor opinions can be added to HIM - and nothing taken away. There He stands - absolutely Changeless and Eternal.

You are merely in a process of becoming aware of that which is. As you begin to see this, you will find that what you formerly thought of as the Power coming down into expression is merely you coming into better alignment with the Unchangeable. As you meditate on this Changeless Power, and examine more and more the nature of it, you will see why the "signs" follow automatically; they could not do otherwise. You will begin to understand the difference between the old idea of making God do your bidding, and letting yourself come into a better alignment with the Unchangeable Power, which is ever active, and which is independent of every man-made theory, belief or opinion, book or teacher.

"Be still, and know that I am God," carries more with it than a command - it carries Revelation; in the stillness of this contemplation, does one perceive the naturalness of Life? Most people consider the manifestations of God as unnatural and miraculous, and hence intermittent in their appearance, but we are beginning to see that the unnatural thing is that we, the children of the Almighty Ever-present God, should be subject to all sorts of human beliefs and laws.

It is this awakening that is now taking place, and it is the very joy of recognizing that Christ is not a product of evolution, that gives us the victory. Just think how wonderful it all is that Christ IS and that He is not the product of human research and study, but that before all this, and when the Morning Stars sang together, HE was, and is. Verily, verily I say unto YOU - what do "I" say unto you, Beloved? You who are reading this very line. I AM saying something unto you. The "I" which is not the product of evolution, but which is the seed-time and harvest, both in one, the Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh - I am "saying" something unto you, right now, that it is making your heart burn with the fire of the Presence. It is flaming up in you now, like a glowing pillar of light, and bringing to your remembrance all things whatsoever "I" have said unto you.

"I" have said many things to YOU, before you came through all the tiresome belief of being evolved through the endless incarnations, filled with terror and shame. "I" said many things to "You" when you were with ME, and "I" now hear you asking: "Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own Self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was." Before the beginning of this world of human beliefs that you have hugged about you, drawn out of the mist of human acceptation and fear - judging from the appearances.

"Glorify Thou Me with the same Glory I had with Thee." We are beginning to recognize that we have already tasted of this "Glory," this radiance of the Soul - this something, the light of which is again breaking through the bars of out self-made prisons of thought.

We are not asking for a NEW glory, or for an evolved state of goodness, but the SAME glory - that which does not come under the belief in birth, growth, maturity, etc. We are asking for the manifestation of the Power within us, which says "Look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest," that Power which finds its flower before the seed, and the harvest before the planting. All this beautiful symbolical language gives us a witness to the fact that Christ is not dependent upon evolution. The slow laborious efforts of the human thought trying to produce the perfect, or the increase, fall into the ditch before the Power which says, "Before they call, I will answer." Before they formulate a request, I will supply it from the never-ending Source of the All. It sidesteps all the human intellect and reasoning, and gives a free and beautiful manifestation and showing forth of the Power, as Here and NOW, complete and changeless.

That which was true with you "before the world was," is still true. It is simply that we are coming back to it, through the recognition of the Power which is not a product of evolution.

What is the good of talking about the things that "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man," and then trying to square these manifestations with the Power that will bring them into manifestation by the narrow and distorted human reasoning? Who can teach you the way of Inspiration? Is there a course in any university that will produce this marvelous quality in you? Do you have any difficulty in perceiving Inspiration, no matter in what limited degree it is shown forth? "He was inspired," you hear people say - and it beggars all description. No one can force Inspiration, make it, or create it, and yet it can be "let" into manifestation by a Recognition of the simple truth: "I can of mine own self do nothing; the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works" - and, before this Recognition, a whole lifetime of human limitations and restrictions goes down, like a house of cards in a hurricane. God does not have to be evolved in you - God is always there, awaiting Recognition.

"Behold I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." The Power is eternally there, urging upon you the Consciousness of its Presence. Urging you to open unto ME and "let" that transforming influence into expression - that which suddenly changes everything at His coming. Suddenly, as a thief in the night, when you are least expecting it all - in the twinkling of an eye; it happens before you can breathe - this Power, which is above evolution, brings Itself into manifestation, and the thousands of beliefs and appearances must fall into the limbo of nothingness. "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." I say unto you, "Lift up your eyes." Can you for a moment imagine just what must take place in the space of time between "I say," and "Lift up your eyes"? It is no greater, and no more upsetting to the human belief, than that which can and will take place in you, when you recognize this Christ within you as something real instead of something that you have to grow to, and something that has to be evolved by the slow centuries of human thinking and reasoning. "Behold I make all things new." What must take place in the old worn-out beliefs and their manifestations, when the Power that makes all things new comes into manifestation - instantly and without the slow process of evolution, or growing, or creeping, along through the jagged channels of experience? What is experience to the Power that is of too pure eyes to behold iniquity?

"Heaven and earth are full of thee" - and you are in earth, and then suddenly you are in Heaven, and so you are filled with the Lord, and, if you are filled with the Lord, what else is there for you to be filled with, and what human analysis can evolve this Lord into something that He has not always been, and is? It is marvelous how the Light is flooding over us - I as I write this to you, and you as you read it. "Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many we cannot count them," foe Heaven and earth are filled with the Lord, and His blessings. The blessings that do not have to be evolved by a slow, long process of human reasoning and belief, but which are eternally waiting to come into manifestation in answer to that state of consciousness which has discovered that, "Before they ask, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will give it unto them." That is pretty quick, and it is wholly outside of the ken of the human reason to cope with. There is nothing in the intellect which can make it possible for a man to be answered before he asks - and so it is charged off to the "unnatural or supernatural." It is called a miracle because it has set aside a human belief. Now we are learning that it is natural, because it is redeeming a human belief, and freeing us from the narrow confines of that belief, causing us to see that it is so before we asked. It is so, that Christ, the I AM, existed before anything else existed, and it is also true that this Word is becoming flesh, and is dwelling among us NOW.

Heaven and earth are becoming one - the Word is becoming flesh, and is dwelling among us. "You are in heaven, speaking to those on the earthly plane of existence." We are all caught up to the height of this Recognition of the Presence, and are speaking the freeing word of Life and Changelessness into the world of expression. It is Wonderful!

"For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep," "not discerning the body of Christ." It is marvelous to know that when we stop looking to the body of beliefs and turn our attention to the Body of the Father within, and the body of the Christ, the embodiment of the Word made flesh, we are instantly healed, and lifted up to a place where health is a natural and normal state of life. Many are sick because they perceive their own human sense of body, and find it full of ills to be cured and healed, and many are completely asleep to it all. "Awake thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee light" - awake and arise from the dead! The Christ that shall give thee Light is the Christ whose body you are invited to perceive. The perfect vision shown to you on the mount of vision - the perfect stature of the Christ within you. Turn you attention to this Perfect Body of the Christ and perceive its perfection, and these manifestations will take place in you. It is Wonderful!

"I am fearfully and wonderfully made." This is the Christ body, or the embodiment of the Christ, which you are invited to contemplate. It is the contemplation of this body which raises the cripple up from the temple gates and makes a fine strong manifestation out of a rack of disease and limitations. Perceiving this body of the Christ is the thing that will change your "vile" bodies to bodies of Light, and which will deliver you from the body of death; many other things will take place because you have looked upon, and perceived, this body of the Christ as it is, and not as some evolved product of the human imagination. The Word must become flesh and dwell among you, and only when it does is it real and true; otherwise you have an imaginary heaven and an imaginary God, both of which are useless to you on the earth plane. But when you begin to perceive the body of the Christ, you find it permeating the very fiber and tissue of your body and universe, and the manifestation of the Word becoming flesh takes place, and it is well.

"You shall eat My body and drink My blood" - you shall find a full and plenty of everything desirable in this body of the Christ which you are asked to perceive.

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