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IMMORTALITY
"There is a path which the vulture's Eye hath not seen." "MY SHEEP hear My Voice, - and I know them, - and they follow Me. I give unto them ETERNAL LIFE, - and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of My Hand." Immortality in the flesh hinges on the ability to hear, - not the hearing of the ear, but that subtle sixth sense which operates from a point in infinity. There is much said about "losing your life and finding it", - about "dying" and being "born again". Death will continue to take place as long as there is a sense of separation from God, - as long as man refuses to lose his life, - his little John Smith concept of life, - lose it in the SEA of ALL LIFE. Many are now discovering the ONE LIFE in everything, - that they are no more separated from the GOD LIFE than the islands are separated from the earth, although to man's limited vision they appear to be. Man is taking his bucket of dirty water, his beliefs of and about a personal life, and throwing it into the SEA of PURE LIFE, - and the accumulated filth of the human mind is no more. The personal life immediately starts deteriorating from the cradle, - and continues to do so until it becomes impersonal. This personal sense of life is bound by an idea of health, - that one must guard this fast fleeting thing against every sort of ravage engendered in the human mind. Thus, from his first moan, man is headed for dissolution. Men have not believed in immortality for the simple reason they have never seen an immortal. This is really no proof, but it suffices the unbelieving. The blessings are to those who perceive it beyond the flesh-and-blood angle. You will never see anything that is not in your consciousness, - and it is hopeless to delude yourself by endeavoring to believe in something your consciousness does not accept. Merely making a statement of and about a thing does not constitute an acceptance. Immortality in the flesh will not manifest because you declare it to be the truth. "My sheep hear My Voice"! But how can you hear if you do not believe? And so you run hither and yon, - listening for a "voice". But it is not there, - it is within you. "Whom to know aright is LIFE ETERNAL" ! In reality, health and wealth are human limitations of LIFE, - limitations of the brain-mind. God can be neither healthy nor wealthy, - for He is ALL LIFE. When you "glimpse-hear" this revelation, you will have finished with health, - and then you LIVE. You will have lost your life, - your "health idea", - and you will have found WHOLE LIFE, - that vibrant quality that is searching the "joints and marrow", that is equal to anything it may be called upon to do. Hence the man conscious of LIFE can do what he could not do with a "health-wealth" consciousness. There are many instances of men, under the stress of emotion, - forgetting their limitations in the flesh, lifting objects many times their own weight without the least strain or struggle. Of course you cannot do any of these things to prove it to anyone, for the very idea that it is necessary to prove it, indicates you do not believe. You will not work miracles before profane unbelievers any more than you would cast your pearls before swine. Actually, you do not care whether they believe or not, - so there is no argument. If you cannot show in your day-by-day living, - -of what avail is endless talk of and about the Deity, what He can do or is going to do for you? He isn't going to do anything, - He has already done it, - and it is up to you to accept and believe in something beyond your own intellection. What has been said concerning "health", is also true of "wealth". God is not rich. When there is only ONE, there can be no rich or poor, for opposites are produced by comparison. What man calls money is not substance, - it merely represents it. Money can and does become worthless over night. Its value changes almost daily, - but substance never changes. Your money never manifests above or below your consciousness of substance, - no matter what motions you make or do not make with the human body in an effort to bring it into visibility. It will be there when you speak the word of recognition, - for whatsoever you have in consciousness, you have in manifestation. No explanation can be given for the HOW of all of this, - but you will see, - or you will not see. Perhaps you have thought it depended upon your efforts. God is effortless, - so how did this "effort" to survive come into the picture? "Who told you that you were naked?" Try to explain this. How is it that you have tried, - and studied, - and worked, - and "prayed", - and yet nothing has happened? Furthermore, nothing will happen. God is not a "jack-in-the-box" that jumps every time you attempt to tell Him a 'pretty' little story about the horrible things you are going through, - or the red hat you must have. His disregard for your "best" prayers is positively appalling. With all the claptrap going on in your mind about what you must have and must demonstrate, you cannot hear My Voice, - the hearing of which will give you Eternal Life. Why not be done, then, with all human chattering, - and believe, - and hear, - and follow, - and you will never perish ! Why not shove off into deeper waters, - into depths you have not yet sounded! There is something out there for you. It is not written in any book, - but it is given unto you. "This is Life Eternal, - to know ME"! ME--what do you mean ME? How can you know Jesus? You know all about Him and His story, - but yet you do not know Him because it is impossible to know Him with that little old intellectual 'brain mind'. This Immortality is an absorbing thing. It has been symbolized by the Phoenix Bird who arises from the ashes of its dead self, - clean, - and beautiful, - and new! And so will you have to die to the limited belief of John Smith, that "on you the second death will have no effect." "What?" "Is no one going to save my darling from the flames?" "Think of all the good I have done." Well, why not think of all the evil you have done (most of it intentionally), - and then consult your scales. Not so pleasant, is it? I'll wager you will be found wanting. But why not come up HERE! - forgetting those things which are behind, - the "former things". When you walk straight into the dawn of this new ONE thing called LIFE, they are all lost, - swallowed up in the NEW Glory. There is no time to bury your dead father. Let those who believe in death bury their dead. "Let the filthy be filthy still." You haven't time to wait, - and it isn't worth anything anyway. When you hear, then will you hear, "I give unto them ETERNAL LIFE, - and they shall NEVER perish, - neither shall any man pluck them out of My Hand". NEVER is a long, long time to John Smith. Immortality within the limitation of John Smith would be unbearable, even if it were possible, which it isn't. But when you come up HERE, you are transformed by the renewing of your mind, - sort of swallowed up in Immortality. Then the "impersonal-personal" life begins, - fraught with a thousand and one NEW capacities hitherto undreamed of by John Smith. Do not look for signs. They always follow, - never precede. You are abandoned, - divinely indifferent to the appearances. "Ye shall reap in due time." Do you believe? I have a feeling you do. I AM speaking to you between these lines, - saying something so very important and thrilling to you. Can you HEAR ME? Do you remember when I said unto you, "Look again", - and you looked through four months of time-space and days of hard labor, right into a new dimension? No physicist can explain it. In fact, no one can explain it because there are no words sufficiently comprehensive to convey what has taken place or been revealed. Of course, anyone who would be so stupid as to argue about it would be just fooling himself. And granted that he had been inbreathed with the breath of life, he would lose it, - his breath would again be in his nostrils. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." So if you will not SEE-HEAR, you will perish. You may still have a hurdle or two to make, - and your horse may upset you. But you will get up, - dust your clothes, - and go on, - unless perhaps it is the water hazard. In this case, you may have to sit in the sun awhile, - which won't hurt you a bit. You are on a new highway now. "No man is going to pluck you out of MY hand." It says NO MAN, no manifestation of evil belief, - is going to pluck you out of MY hand. You must HEAR-SEE this! You have already spent forty years in the desert, - had a few signs, - complained a lot, - and after you crossed the Jordan, you discovered the whole trek could easily have been made in two weeks. This sounds rather foolish, doesn't it? And so is it, - but since the thing called time is only a human-thought measure of the distance between two events, it does not make any difference. You have all of eternity, so shed no tears over a wasted youth or any other time element. When you had youth, you were not actually conscious of it. Not until you began to "age" did you remember that you once had "youth", - and so you may have been inspired to write a poem about the 'beauties' of it all. Let others have all the "backward, turn backward, oh time in thy flight" they wish, - but we want none of it. We are glad to have passed through, into this NEW dimension, - into this NEW elevation, - which can be experienced, but never expIained. And now you are sensing this subtle change, - this up-gush of LIFE taking the place of health. I said YOU, - not you and your "spiritual" adviser. It is the pearl of great price for which you will Sell or give away every human thought-thing you possess, and you will hide it in a field, - a new state of consciousness. And they will say to you, "Something has happened to you". You could be facetious and reply in the vernacular of the street, "Are you telling me !" - but you won't. You will just keep on shining and shining, - and presently they will not be able to see you, unless they can, - and then they will. It is said the former things will pass away, - to be remembered no more, - nor come to mind. Not amnesia, - but just a SELF-revelation wherein you discover there is nothing worth remembering. You may be driven into the wilderness, - the subconscious mind, - in order that you can clean up some old scores. But this will not hurt you either, and it will not - endure for long. I think you had better come up HERE. Stop talking about how, - but just COME ! "Verily, verily I say unto YOU, - if any man keep My saying, he shall NEVER see death." "And I know that His commandment is LIFE EVERLASTING."
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