THE CHRIST MASS

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

"Of the increase of His Government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal the Lord of hosts will perform this."

The great and glorious Celebration of the Birth of Christ is again taking place in the stable of your heart. You are at the point of recognizing anew, the momentous event that is taking place within you. You are again awakening to the glorious revelation of the Light within. You are singing the song of joy and thanksgiving. The voice of joy within you is singing silently, as it magnifies the Lord within, the newly born Christ.

Why are you singing?

Just because you cannot help it - your joy gushes up and out into expression automatically. "Praise God from whom ALL blessings flow," is surging through your temple, entering into every vein, nerve, bone, and life. The Word the unseen Word, is becoming flesh; is coming into manifestation by reason of the Birth of the Christ within you. "Peace on earth" -peace be to all the earthly thoughts and fears. Peace, peace - the whole realm of the manifest is being flooded with the Light of the Christ within you.

Why all this rejoicing?

"The government shall be upon His shoulder" - the government of your life. All the cares and worries, and excitement of trying to live, and arrange, and plan, suddenly drop from you onto the shoulder of this newly born state of consciousness. The government of your life and affairs shall no more be at the mercy of the mistaken human reasoning, but shall be upon His shoulder; the shoulder of the Christ.

The child that is born in the manger becomes the Father within, for He is The mighty God, The everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace. All these names for the Christ have their definite meaning to you, as you go from one to another, in bringing out the glorious heritage of man.

"For unto us a child is born" - man is beginning to Recognize the wholeness of creation - the holiness, the completeness, and that how, to this completeness, this US (the heaven and earth as one), is the new and glorious revelation made. "For unto US a child is born." No doubt; no question about the possibility of the event. The birth-pains are over; the sorry hours of travail are gone; the child is born at the moment when you are able to Recognize that such a gift is yours, and that by Divine right you are entering into your inheritance incorruptible, which fadeth not away and is eternal in the heavens. It is all Wonderful!

Be still and watch one hour at the holy event. Bathe in the Light of it all - the pure Recognition of the Presence in all His glory and majesty and fullness. The tatters and rags of human belief are dropping away from you, the heavy bondage of things slip off from you. You are casting your burden on ME, and bearing the burden of Light and Revelation away into expression.

When you come to Recognize that the only reason for all this symbology is to make the Revelation of Life to YOU, you begin to see the import of it all. The story becomes replete with manifestation. The moment you recognize that this Divine Event has taken place in you a newness of purpose and expression come into being. It is as if one had a million-volt electric lamp shut in a small box. As he tears away the box, the light floods out automatically, and fills all space. Automatically it expands without effort. The box that shuts in your light is your failure to recognize that this thing is personal, and is taking place in you. Yes, I know you are a worm of the dust, and all that, and are not worthy, and that is why the story is shown as taking place in a stable. You are worthy enough, if you are big enough to Recognize the Christ, and stop discounting your beautiful manifestation. No matter how prodigal it has been or to what depths it has sunk, the Recognition of this EVENT, as actually taking place in YOU, will tear away the narrow confines of belief, and release the Manifestation. It is Wonderful! Yes! His name shall be called Wonderful, for the Christ within you is filled with wonderful gifts and things "that eye hath not seen nor ear heard," and revelations that have not yet entered into the heart of man. "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is Good." You are invited to partake in this glorious thing called LIFE. We are not asking for something unnatural and unreal, but merely Life expression as Life, and not as some miserable existence dependent upon chance and change.

When you partake of the holy bread of Recognition; when you eat the body and drink the blood - that is, when you actually accept the inspiration of the Christ, which is to lead you into all things - and eat His body - begin to Recognize God in the flesh as a reality, instead of an imaginary substance in the skies - then the marvelous thing begins to take place which is written: "Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end." The borders of the tent (your expression) are enlarged, and you are able to see the far-reaching effects of this government of the Christ within. It is Wonderful! It is the automatic and natural action of Christ, accomplishing, "by the way ye know not of," that which is impossible for the human mind to accomplish. It is the Impersonal Life becoming personal, and the redemption of all the entangled and snarled up beliefs. It is the freeing Spirit of the Presence which takes away the condemnation, and fills everything with the "increase of His government and peace." Then the miracles flow naturally and normally into expression.

"David" is the BELOVED. And so on the throne of the Beloved shall be the increase. How can you help sitting on this throne of the Beloved, when you see the wonder of it all, and the glorious possibilities of the Divine Event? The narrow confines of the human belief burst asunder, and you are freed into the new day of expression of joy. It is Wonderful! "For unto us a child IS born." The Event has taken place, and you are ready to partake of it all.

"The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform it." Then why question how it will be done? The ZEAL, the automatic power of the Lord of hosts, with His ways and means that no man knows of, brings this to pass in you. The ZEAL of the Lord of Hosts will perform it. Do you hear? You who read this line. When anyone asks again, "How can these things be?" you can be still and know within your heart of hearts, and on the throne of the Beloved, that the "zeal of the Lord of Hosts WILL perform it." The Automatic Power of the Recognized Christ will perform it, whatever that "IT" is, by ways and means that "no man knoweth of" - why worry or fret then? Truly the government shall be upon His shoulder. It is Wonderful! Now you know what it means to say, "It is Wonderful!" It is the Name of the ONE, and it is the Name in which rests the Power of bringing the "Dry land" into manifestation.

Yes - "For unto us a child is born" - this Christ Mass is being celebrated for the Recognition of this Divine Event taking place in you. Until it takes place in you, it will only be a symbol, or the re-enactment of some historical event. But when it happens to you, then it becomes living, and real, and marvelous - filled with light and wonder. It takes place again and again, as we become more aware of the Allness of God; and each time more Light and Illumination come forth into concrete manifestation. "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." It is Wonderful!

The Magi of the material world will finally see the light of your star, and will come from afar and lay their gifts at your feet. "And when they opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh."

All the things you have been asking for so long come into alignment by the taking place of this Divine Event. The very things that have proven so elusive and impossible of attainment are presented as gifts. The Wise Men from afar, who were so hard to contact, come to you as soon as you begin to Recognize the Power of the Christ within. "Be not afraid it is I" - The Christ, the Power within you, waiting for you to "Claim your right, and press your claim" into expression.

How this all falls into line with the law. "These signs shall follow them that believe." "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation." It is all the reverse of the old idea of seeking God in order that we might demonstrate some things. It is an outpouring of the gifts that belong to you, instead of an attempt to wrest a "living" away from life. Yes, Beloved, this Inheritance Incorruptible is something more than a theory, it is a real live tangible thing - a thing of flesh and blood. The Power that manifested itself in the flesh said, "Handle me and see me; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see ME have." We are all tired of theoretical heavens and promises, we want the gift of Christ in the Flesh, the resurrected Jesus, and this is what is offered us, when we are unafraid enough to let the Divine Event take place within us; when we are dumb enough to know nothing but the simple Love of God, and are unafraid enough to stand and see the salvation of this Inner Lord. It is wonderful and marvelous; you can do it, and you will, because you have come to this place of the Impersonal becoming the Personal. By first letting go of the personal notions, conceptions, and beliefs, you found the Universal, and this very Impersonal Universal has personalized itself in you. "Not my will, but Thine, be done," transmutes the limited sense of human will into the Divine, and this Will is always done by a way, and through a means, that ye know not of. It is Wonderful! This very Impersonal Life becoming personal, brings with it the Power of the Impersonal, and enthrones Christ as Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

"The Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth rejoice." Do you hear? "Rejoice," it says - let every particle of your being rejoice at the Presence of this Power within you and without you, and beside which there is none else.

"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." When you are lifted up to the point of Recognition that the Father is actually within you, and that this Divine Event has taken place, you automatically function into a new level of things and manifestation. If you are lifted up to a new height, you automatically partake of that which belongs to that height. If you were in the basement, in the dark, and were lifted to the roof, in the sunshine, you would automatically partake of the sunshine and all the warmth and beauty of it. In other words, you would, by being lifted up, draw all that to you, effortlessly and without trying. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men (manifestation) unto Me." Do you begin to see why we "seek first the Kingdom of Heaven," in order that the things may be added as a natural and usual manifestation, instead of trying first to get the things and then trying to establish a Kingdom of Heaven? It is Wonderful! The man in the deep, dark basement of human belief must be lifted up to the new level, and then the things will be added and drawn to him. But most of us insist on bringing the things into the basement state of life. If you insist that evil is real, and you desire to destroy it, at the same time saying that "God created all," how will you answer for this attempt to destroy something?

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