I
Am the Light
"I am the Light of
the world"---A light that "shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended
it not." So is it with the I
AM of you. Once discovered and
identified as YOU, it brings a LIGHT unto this "world" of human
thought-taking shadows. The moment
this is established, you will begin to experience the automatic effect of light
on darkness. You have for ages been
trying to "bring" the light from some outside region--either up (in
Heaven), or from some far-away place of mystery.
From time to time you have apparently been able to do just this.
But your success was so fleeting and irregular that it came under the
heading of "miracle."
Yet, "I AM the Light of the WORLD" stands and until you
discover and identify yourself with your I AM---the Father to whom Jesus
immediately turned and associated Himself in Oneness---you will not be able to
dispel much of the human-thinking darkness which you have drawn to yourself.
It is wonderful when the revelation of your Permanent Identity breaks
over you. It is this identification with the FATHER, "I and My Father are
One,” that gave Jesus Christ the power over the shadows of His Jesus
consciousness. It was this nearness
and naturalness of the Father within that made Him what He was; and it is this
same consciousness which will change you and cause wonders to happen---miracles
to the thought-clogged mentalities about you, but to you just revelations from
the standpoint of your new plane of consciousness. The attempt to establish this
new revelation is, of course, fraught with the limitation of a language, which
is three-dimensional---and is trying to "utter the utter able WORD."
Yet by arranging its utter able words in inspired patterns, suddenly the
unwritten or unuttered WORD becomes
real. But first and above
all, the question asked a hundred times in these pages, "Believes thou
this?" must be answered by
you. If, to the teachings of Jesus
in their entirety, you cannot answer in the affirmative, then you are holding a
reservation for some other than God Almighty, and have not yet recognized Him
SUPREME. It is futile to imagine
that you can deny this omnipotence and hope to attain results with a divided
allegiance. It is all or nothing.
And it cannot be "all" on the three-dimensional, thought-taking
plane on which we found ourselves, when Jesus Christ first came.
"If you deny ME, I shall also deny you," is quite normal
reaction. When you throw a rubber
ball against a wall, it returns to you with the force with which it was thrown.
You are not surprised. If
you deny the power of Jesus Christ as a reality, then when you call upon it,
nothing responds; for you have already established the consciousness which does
not believe in IT, and are only saying words.
Be not like the heathen, who think by repeating many words to gain the
ear of God. There is only ONE WORD and the moment that is felt-uttered,
it breaks itself up into thousands of human words, depending upon the language
in which you think. A man may think in any
language or several, but he only "feels" in ONE, the unspoken language
of the heart-soul. So the universal
language is the urge or sensing quality. The
moment it is accepted in recognition, it is able to say, "I believe."
For it is not measuring by anything found in human consciousness.
It is wonderful when this becomes true to you.
For the moment it does, you begin to KNOW
in the right sense of the word. It
is not a "think-knowing," but a "feel-knowing," and this is
not emotional or sentimental. It is
something so well balanced and so free from all the sensations of the
think-knowing as to be free from any curiosity or questioning.
When this feel-know is touched, the manifestation will follow, either
instantly or later---but at the precise moment when it should. Imagine the cripple at
the Temple gate ever dreaming of suddenly leaping and dancing, free and in
perfect bodily condition. He could
have been able to think about only as the "impossible"---yet it took
place, and mark you, he had no time to study any "system" of Truth or
hear any dissertations on the subject. He
was able to "believe" or accept the gift, and the Father within
answered for him, "Yea, LORD" in agreement, and came forth with full
capacity to do that which he was called upon to do.
The only reason anything can ever take place in you is because the Father
consciousness within you has full capacity to accomplish it.
Otherwise there would be no manifest results.
If this Father consciousness were not already there, you could not
implant it there by any amount of thinking, for it is entirely too fantastic for
human thought to handle.
You see then we are not trying to bring something new to you;
not asking you to create a "new" consciousness, or to do
something. We are merely calling
attention to that which actually exists in you, and has always existed in you.
It was through the discovery of this that Jesus, the carpenter,
was able to do things that "Jesus, the Carpenter" could not do
yet did. Whatever has been
accomplished, at any time, above the line of human thinking, has been done
through this same discovery, in a degree. True this
"Father" may be buried beneath centuries of human thinking,
intelligence and findings. He may
be covered with the deep incrustation of " I have never seen it done, nor
have I ever known any who has seen it done;" and to extricate the Father
from this morass of beliefs seems a labor for a spiritual Hercules.
If he approaches it through the limitation of the material, he finds his
Augean Stables too much for him---and gives up in despair. Perhaps he then starts a long and tiresome study of it
all---and yet, remember the WRETCH at the Temple gate, with a life filled with
evil, suddenly releasing this Father? It
thrills one to think that instead of all this human palsy-like movement of
thought, the cripple was "suddenly" freed, and the entire
manifestation of evil absorbed, transformed.
The old body was not destroyed, nor gotten rid of---but the union of
Father and Son released the perfect manifestation. Can you
"believe?" Well, not until this, "I AM the Light of the
WORLD," becomes YOU. Until in
a natural, normal state of mind you are able to accept this wonderful
revelation. Over and over again you
"try" to do this---but presently you SEE what it is, and then you dare
to call upon the Father as naturally as you would call upon your human father
were he in the next room. What
would he do if you called upon him in the day of trouble?
He would rush to help you in every possible way.
So just as you know this to be natural---(it is what you and everybody
else would expect) so must this calling on the FATHER within be natural, normal
and easy. I must stress to you that
it is EASY and NATURAL and NORMAL. You
must not make an event of it. Instantly when Jesus (the
carpenter) called upon HIS Father, HE (Jesus) became Jesus Christ---"One
with the Father." And this
elevation caused the Light to shine in the darkness, to illumine the human
situation, and reveal the nothingness of the mortal or matter thinking-pictures.
So powerful is this Light that no combination of laws, thoughts or
opinions can or will stand against it. In
the case of the cripple, we see it wiping out forty years of accumulated belief
with the same ease as it might have brushed away a single thought.
Do you "believe"? You
cannot believe it with the human thought- taking process, for it is utterly
impossible. There
is "so much to do" in your present situation before it is ready to
manifest the new state of things, your poor mind is worn out trying to
"dream"" about it all. If
you do not watch you will find yourself saying:
"Well, when I come (on earth) again, I will do so and so."
When you come again you come with all the limitations you take with you.
For the experience of dropping off the body does not suddenly enlighten
you. You remark how natural it all
was to Jesus, and the human mind says as an excuse for its failure to experience
fulfillment, health and joy here and NOW, "Oh, yes, but that was Jesus, and
He had a special power," and so you will set up a JESUS against His own
admonition: "Call not Me good"---do not mistake who "doeth
the works"---"Call not Me good."
And in further defense of the revelation He made it plain that anything
He had ever done, and even greater works, were possible to YOU.
Do you BELIEVE? You must answer this yourself. We have seen that the
cripple did not have time to think about his problem---he had been doing that
for forty years---but suddenly he was able to believe, and in that one
instant---in the "twinkling of an eye"---was he able to change his
entire bodily manifestation. Yet
all that took place was a showing forth of that which had always existed.
It was that which had been created "in the beginning," perfect
and eternal in the heavens. It is
wonderful. It makes your situation
so possible of change. You are
suddenly released from a straitjacket of human thinking, which has bound you,
and crippled your capacities. No
body could of itself be crippled or ugly or aged.
It must have over it a bondage of hateful human thinking, which like unto
many ropes and chains cut deep into the flesh and fester, in ugliness and
discord. Break any of these cords or ropes of human thought and it experiences
what the world calls "a healing," but it is only an aperture through
which the Light has come into being. All this seems vague and
hypothetical, yet in reality the moment the thought force is taken away from
anything that thing comes to its natural form and shape again.
Just as a soft rubber ball crushed in the hands will return to its
normal, perfect symmetry the moment the fingers have released it. Break the thought on a given problem and the abnormal
manifestations of that problem go out of the picture.
Where do they go? The force
that was formerly used to hold them in place is absorbed and picked up, and the
moment this occurs the manifestation which was sustained by this force drops out
of sight. So
you begin to see what it is to "Be still and know that I AM God," and
why Paul, in an impassioned moment, when he had cut through to this ONENESS,
literally "screamed," "Know ye not that ye are Gods," trying
to bring to the Greeks (who understand so well the "gods" and their
alleged unlimited powers) just what it must mean to know what "Jesus"
was revealing to the world. "Know
ye not that ye are Gods?" was
some question to ask the ancient Greeks who believed so strongly in the powers
of their gods. When Jesus asks you
"Believest thou this?" you
are confronted by the same thing. Do
you believe it is possible for you to do the WORKS that HE did "and even
greater works?" In other
words, do you believe that "you are gods"?
Many human minds have tried it and thought to set up a "human
god," only to have him fall in due season with all the trade-marked
trappings of his reign. Yet the
question stands. Will you do the
works of Jesus Christ? Or will you
still parry the question and make what you think are "modest" excuses? Are you afraid, or do you still want to "save your
darling (personality) from the flames" of LIFE which will consume it in
order that your Permanent Identity may be made manifest?
It is wonderful when you begin to glimpse this Father-within
consciousness as natural, normal and easy, and dare to "Call upon ME,"
and instantly experience the change which the Light brings to the shadowy valley
of thought in which you have been living all these centuries. The coming of light to a
shadow-world does no overcoming or setting aside of realities.
What seemed so real and impossible to the Shadow Kingdom is no problem to
the LIGHT. For instance, if it were
possible for you to enter a two-dimensional kingdom and see it working, it would
be one of length and breadth with no height, and everything would have to take
place flat on the ground. Circumscribing
a shadow with a square of darkness would not constitute any problem for you, but
if the shadow-being had consciousness of it he would know this to be a wall over
which he could not climb, and he would have a problem. This problem would be as real to him as yours is to you. Then, entering this
present kingdom with its consciousness of the third dimension,
"height," would instantly make nothing of all the problems of the
two-dimensional. A wall of shadow
is nothing to you. You will glibly
say, "it only seems to be a wall."
But to the two-dimensional being, it is solid, made of the same substance
of which he is composed, and has the same power to him as a wall of matter has
to you. But you find a wall of
shadow nothing. You use no force or
effort on it, nor do you try to suggest ways and means of overcoming it.
While the shadowy being complains of its reality, you are not concerned
with its---to him---awful manifestation. But
there is no way for this other to escape his prison, except he enters the third
dimension. The moment he does this,
he too, sees his prison nothing but a shadow, and smilingly walks through it.
It has no bondage for him NOW. Thus when Jesus came to
your world, he found you bound by many prisons, all of them as imaginary and
unreal as the shadowy wall to the shadow man.
Yet even as the latter protested about the reality of his condition, so
do you spend your entire life trying to overcome matter with matter.
You can picture a wall so solid that nothing can penetrate it, and can
back this up by the testimony of the entire race of your world.
You can argue and wonder and speculate.
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