Identity in Light of Sphere- By William Samuel

The Child Within Us Lives! by William Samuel pp. 400 - 404

BOOK CONCLUSION

ABOUT IDENTITY, IN LIGHT OF SPHERE (Continued)

Now I see why the Christ Light of history and His first followers said time and again that one must not love the world but love God. The world is image of the body's images moving toward the macrocosm-and contains all the compounds that comprise materiality. And THAT "matter" is only half substantial, half true-that half rooted in the image of the Image. The image of the Image is not a lie; it just isn't the Image itself, just as the Image is not God itself. Just as the Image is beholden to God, so the body and its actions are beholden to Image, the Child, the soul of God! Listen gently. Reader. Let one not worship Image because it is holy or because it has dominion over everything that creepeth on the earth, but let one worship the INEFFABLE GODHEAD. (The me-sense point of view may very well be the CREATOR of tangible matter and its forms, not God! The mirror "creates" the lifeless images within it.) "Don't call me good," said the Light of Life. "Call no man good." "Don't worship me," he said. "Worship God." John echoed those words. So did the prophets.

Jesus said also that when you see Him who was not born of woman, to fall on your knees and worship that one. IMAGE comes to image one day in time because Image is being image in timeless Alreadyness. When that one comes, that one brings testimony of GODHEAD. Jesus heralded THAT Light within one. Mankind has turned this process around to venerate the linear herald of Light.

Yet the historic Jesus identified correctly AS that Light and said that all mankind who recognized that Light Within could do the same as he, and more.

In my personal experience at this "time," the Image is breaking through the ignorance and humanity of me more and more frequently, telling me what to do about "the world" and its images; this seems to be to live the Equation in the world, but most especially to be prepared to do something for my images who are given to Me in the time ahead, even as I have been faithful to them in the time past. "As I get the beam out of THIS Eye," the Divine Alchemy renews this view of the world. Not just for me, but for Everyman.

The world view ending will not be the end of anything, but the CONSCIOUS Presence of Everything which is ALREADY "spread over the face of the land"-and the events of a linear history in time will be like the wink of an eye and a dream we dreampt of our images upon images having power when they didn't really.

THE INNER SELF

It is one thing to read about the inner Self, but it is quite another thing to find it. It is one thing to hail the inner Self as Image of the Supreme, the only Truth and Identity, but it is another matter entirely to find it. It is one thing to proclaim that "naught but Reality is going on," but quite another matter to live that Reality in the face of "unreality," be tested by it, and then find oneself the Son of the Living God, recipient of the Heritage.

There are at least five pathways to that Reality, and metaphysics is only one of them-perhaps the most difficult of them all. Many enter into the door of "modern metaphysics," but few get beyond the inclination for study, to flow with the way of wisdom to its end and Beginning. Many succumb to the verbal power they find they exercise in the world, the me-sense swollen and large because others think them intelligent.

Many enter the door of churchdom and its organization, but few get beyond the social and intellectual entrapments. Few lift themselves from the words of the Bible to the Spirit which the Bible confirms, thence to follow the way of devotion to the peak and the Beginning. Many succumb to the authority they entertain or to the social world they enjoy. The church is a comfortable bend in the river where men grow confident in their objective humanness rather than their subjective divinity.

Many enter the doors of science, but few find the Spirit for which matter exists, the Spirit which matter demonstrates and confirms.

Many walk the roads of psychology, education, government, business and their enterprises in the world, but few are willing to renounce the world and its riches or to let go their pride of accomplishment.

THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT

Han was leaving. It was time to go home, he said. He spoke to his little group for the last time. "In the world, the right and left are extremes that come together without our realizing it. My right is my arrogance. My left is my ignorance. My arrogance pretends humility and my ignorance pretends wisdom. They come together and are the mirrored images of one another, like holding my hands behind my back. But, listen, listen. Beyond these two, and by far the most important, is the HEART between them and superior to them. The inward flow from either hand leads directly to the Heart and Its perfect balance. The outward flow from the Heart leads to the hands and the hands give to the world.

"In the world one hopes for a peace between right and left, East and West, rich and poor, young and old, male and female, but pcrmanent peace isn't found at the political or social level of things. Peace is with the Child of God, three steps beyond government, two steps beyond religion and one beyond wisdom and metaphysics. We find the Child. We live the Child's sweet Equation and are swiftly carried to the top of the mountain. There, the world under our feet, we find 'the peace that passeth understanding.' When we find THAT peace, our world rushes to confirm it. When our world confirms peace, we have been victorious.

"Our work isn't done when we reach the peak of Da Shan!" said Han, almost shouting.

"Our work is done when we look roundabout and the world, seeing what we see, has confirmed our understanding and our Peace!"

"Will I ever see that day with mortal eyes?" the soldier asked.

"I don't know," the old teacher answered. "I don't know. That is up to you."

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The Child enters the world and is found to be Wisdom itself. The old man leaves the world whispering, "I don't know. I don't know. It is up to you." The Balance is untouched by either event. We find the Balance and be it. One day we look out and everything confirms Godhead, no matter how it appears to others. Then we understand how it is that "…these stones shall minister unto thee… Cleave a piece of wood and, behold, I am there."

We think Truth and the Child's Equation flows outward. We think Truth and the Child's Equation flows inward. We tap our foot and drum our fingers to the rhythm of the Flow. For the most part, the church mice leave us alone, but we know what to do about them if they don't. Truth speaks to the Child of us directly!

The angels and the prophets bring Light and Life.

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