We believe that when we come across of a rather unique idea,
we believe it’s our own. Thought (or Idea) is universal. To understand
“Thought” one must understand Light.
(NOTE that neither I have any intention to plant bad seed in
your mind nor cloud your own spiritual conviction, but rather reinforce your
own understanding of the strength of Thought.)
STORIES OF THE BEGINNING, THE SYMBOLISM OF CHRIST MANIFESTS, AND THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL GOD
“Man does not know his nature.”
As the present life of any individual rises from hidden
dimensions beyond those easily accessible in physical terms, and as it draws
its energy and power to act from unconscious sources, so does the present
physical universe, as you know it rises from other dimensions. So does it has its source, and derive its energy from deeper realities.
History, as you know it, represents but one single light upon which you focus. You interpret the events that you see therein, and you project upon its glimmer your interpretation of events that may occur. So entranced is your concentration, that when you wonder about the nature of reality, you automatically confine your question to this one small flickering moment that you call physical reality. When you ponder upon the aspects of God, you unthinkingly speak of the creator of that one light. That light is unique, and if you truly understood what it was, you would indeed understand the nature of true reality.
History, as you think of it, represents but one thin line of
probabilities, in which you are presently immersed. It does not represent the
entire lifetime of your species or the catalog of physical activities, or
begin to tell the story of physical creatures, their civilizations, wars, joys,
technologies, or triumphs. Reality is far more diverse, far richer and
unutterable than you can presently suppose or comprehend. Evolution (as you
think of it and as it is categorize by your scientists) represents but one
probable line of evolution; the one in which, again, you are presently
immersed.
There are, therefore, many other equally valid, equally real
evolutionary developments that have occurred and are occurring and will occur,
all within other probable systems of physical reality. The diverse, endless
possibilities of development possible could never appear within one slender framework
of reality.
With splendid innocence and exuberant pride, you imagine
that the evolutionary system, as you know it, is the only one that physically
there can be no more. Now within the physical reality that you know, there are
hints and clues as to the nature of other physical realities. There are,
latent, within your own physical forms other senses, unused, that could have
come to the front but in your probability did not. Now I have been speaking of
earthly developments, realities therefore clustered about earthly aspects, as
you know them.
No evolutionary line is a dead one. Therefore if in your
system it disappears, it emerges within another. All probable materializations
of life and consciousness have their day, and create those conditions within which
they can flourish; and their day, in your terms, is eternal.
I am speaking now, for the purpose of this topic, mainly
about your own planet and solar system, but the same applies to all aspects of
your physical universe. You are aware, then, of only one specific, delicately
balanced but unique portion of physical existence. You are not only creatures
of corporeal being, forming images of flesh and blood, embedded in a particular
kind of space and time; you are also creatures rising out of a particularized
dimension of probabilities, born from dimensions of actuality richly suited to
your own development, enrichment and growth.
Now: If you have any intuitive understanding as yet
concerning the nature of the entity or whole self, you will see that it has
placed you in a position in which certain abilities, insights, and experience
can be realized, and in which your unique kind of consciousness can be
nurtured. Your slightest experience has far more repercussions within this
multidimensional environment than the physical brain can conceive. For if you
are intensely preoccupied with what may seem to be one infinitesimally minute
aspect of reality, and while you seem to be completely embedded within it, only
the most “surface” elements of the self are so entranced. I do not like the
term “surface” in this regard, though I have used it to suggest the
multitudinous portions of the self that are otherwise engaged—some of them as
entranced in their reality as you are in yours.
The entity, the true multidimensional self, is aware of all
of its experiences, and this knowledge is to some extent available to these
other portions of the self, including of course the physical self as you know
it. These various portions of the self, in fact, will eventually (in your terms)
become fully aware. Period. This awareness will automatically alter what now
seems to be their nature, and add to the multiplicity of existence.
There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in
which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but
one small portion. Each of you also exist in nonphysical systems, and that your
slightest thought or emotion is manifested in many other ways than in your own
field of existence.
Only a portion of your entire identity is “presently”
familiar to you, as you know. Therefore, when you consider the question of a
supreme being, you imagine a male personality with those abilities that you
yourselves possess, with great emphasis upon qualities you admire. This
imagined god has therefore changed throughout your centuries, mirroring man's
shifting ideas of himself.
God was seen as cruel and powerful when man believed that
these were desirable characteristics, needed particularly in his battle for
physical survival. He projected these upon his idea of a god because he envied
them and feared them. You have cast your idea of god, therefore, in your own
image.
In a reality that is inconceivably multidimensional, the old
concepts God are relatively meaningless. Even the term, a supreme being, is in
itself distortive, for you naturally project the qualities of human nature upon
it. If I told you that God was an idea, you would not understand what I meant,
for you do not understand the dimensions in which an idea has its reality, or
the energy that it can originate and propel. You do not believe in ideas in the
same way that you believe in physical objects, so if I tell you that God is an
idea, you will misinterpret this to that God is less than real—nebulous,
without reality, without purpose, and without motive action.
Now your own physical image is the materialization of your
idea of yourself within the properties of matter. Without the idea of yourself,
your physical image would not be; yet often it is all you are aware of. The
initial power and energy of that idea of yourself keeps your image alive.
Ideas, then, are far more important than you realize. If you will try to accept
the idea that your own existence is multidimensional, that you dwell within the
medium of infinite probabilities, then you may catch a slight glimpse of the
reality that is behind the word “GOD,” and you may understand why it is almost
impossible to capture a true understanding of that concept in words.
God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one
physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences, far more
vast than those aspects of the physical universe with which your scientists are
familiar. He did not simply then send a son to live and die on one small
planet. He is a part of all probabilities.
There have been parables told, and stories of beginnings.
All of these have been attempts to transmit “knowledge” in as simple terms as
possible. Often answers were given to questions that literally have no meaning
outside of your own system of reality.
For example: There was no beginning, and there will be no
end, yet parables have been given, telling you of beginnings and endings,
simply because with your distorted ideas of time, beginnings and endings seem
to be inseparable, valid events. As you learn to turn the focus of your
attention away from physical reality and therefore experience some slight
evidence of other realities, your consciousness will cling to old ideas that
make true explanations impossible for you to understand. Multidimensional
awareness is available to you in your dreams, however, in some trance states,
and often even beneath ordinary consciousness as you go about your day.
This awareness gives personal experience with the
multidimensional richness that exists not apart from but intermingled with,
within, through, and all about your physical world of sense. To say that
physical life is not real is to deny that reality pervades all appearance, and
is a part of all appearance. In the same manner, God does not exist apart from
or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as a part of it, as
he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.
Your Christ figure represents, symbolically, your idea of
God and his relationships. There were three separate individuals whose history
blended, and they became known collectively as Christ—hence many discrepancies
in your records. These were all males because at that time of your development,
you would not have accepted a female counterpart.
These individuals were a part of one entity. You could not
but imagine God as a father. It would never have occurred to you to imagine a
god in any other than human terms. Earth components. These three figures worked
out a drama, highly symbolic, propelled by concentrated energy of great force.
The events as they are recorded, however, did not occur in history. The
crucifixion of Christ was a psychic, but not a physical event. Ideas of almost
unimaginable magnitude were played out. Judas, for example, was not a man in
your terms. He was—like all the other disciples—a blessed, created “fragment
personality,” formed by the Christ personality. He represented the
self-betrayer. He dramatized a portion of each individual's personality that
focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self
out of greed.
Each of the twelve represented qualities of personality that
belong to one individual, and Christ, as you know him, represented the inner
self. The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure
composed of the three) represented an individual earthly personality—the inner
self—and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self. As
Christ surrounded by the disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these
physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on
the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.
The disciples, therefore, were given physical reality by the
inner self, as all of your earthly characteristics come out of your inner
nature. This was a living parable, made flesh among you—a cosmic play worked
out for your behalf, couched in terms that you could understand.
The lessons were made plain, as all the ideas behind them
were personified. If you will forgive the term, this was like a local morality
play, put on in your corner of the universe. This does not mean it was less
real than you previously supposed. In fact, the implications of what is said
here should clearly hint at the more powerful aspects of godhood.
The three Christ personalities were born upon your planet,
and indeed became flesh among you. None of these was crucified. The twelve
disciples were materializations from the energies of these three
personalities—their combined energies. They were then fully endowed with individuality,
however, but their main task was to clearly manifest within themselves certain
abilities inherent within all men.
The same kinds of dramas in different ways have been given,
and while the drama is always different, it is always the same. This does not
mean that a Christ has appeared within each system of reality. It means that
the idea of God has manifested within each system in a way that is
comprehensible to the inhabitants.
This drama continues to exist. It does not belong, for
example, to your past. Only you have placed it there. This does not mean that
it always reoccurs. The drama, then, was far from meaningless, and the spirit
of Christ, in your terms, is legitimate. It is the probable “God-drama” that
you choose to perceive. There were others that were perceived, but not by you,
and there are other such dramas existing now.
NOW: Whether or not the Crucifixion occurred
physically, it was a psychic event, and exists as do all the other events
connected with the drama.
Many were physical but some were not. The psychic event
affected your world quite as much as the physical one, as is obvious. The whole
drama occurred as a result of mankind's need. It was created as a result of
that need; grew out of it, but it did not originate within your system of
reality.
Other religions were based upon different dramas, as you
noticed, in which ideas were acted out in a way that was comprehensible to
various cultures. Unfortunately, the differences between the dramas often led
to misunderstandings, and these were used as excuses for wars. These dramas are
also privately worked out in the dream state. The God-personified figures first
were introduced to man in the dream state, and the way then prepared.
In visions and inspirations, men knew that the Christ drama
would be enacted and hence recognized it for what it was when it occurred
physically. Its power and strength then returned to the dream universe. It had
increased its vigor and intensity through the physical materialization. In
private dreams, men then related to the main figures in the drama, and in the
dream state they recognized its true import.
God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of
reality he has created, and yet he is within each one of these, without
exception. He is therefore within each man and woman. He is also within each
spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit.
God can only be experienced, and you experience him
whether or not you realize it, through your own existence. He is not
male or female, however, and I use the terms only for convenience's sake. In
the most inescapable truth, he is not human in your terms at all, nor in your
terms is he a personality. Your ideas of personality are too limited to contain
the multitudinous facets of his multidimensional existence.
On the other hand, he is human, in that he is a portion of
each individual; and within the vastness of his experience he holds an “idea
shape” of himself as human, to which you can relate. He literally was made
flesh to dwell among you, for he forms your flesh in that he is responsible for
the energy that gives vitality and validity to your private multidimensional
self, which in turn forms your image in accordance with your own ideas.
This private multidimensional self, or the soul,
has then an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the
energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.
This inner self of yours can neither be destroyed nor can it
be diminished. It shares in those abilities that are inherent within All That
Is. It must, therefore, create as it is created, for this is the great
giving that is behind all dimensions of existence, the spilling-over from the
fountain of All That Is.
NOW: I am concerned with the multidimensional aspects of All
That Is. Such a reality can only be experienced. There are no facts that can be
given that can portray with any faithfulness the attributes of All That Is.
This reality and those attributes will appear within various
systems of actuality in keeping with the camouflage data of any given system.
The inner experience with the multidimensional God can come in two main areas.
One is through the realization that this prime moving force is within
everything that you can perceive with your senses. The other method is to
realize that this primary motive force has a reality independent of its
connection with the world of appearances.
All personal contact with the multidimensional God, all
legitimate moments of mystic consciousness, will always have a unifying effect.
They will not, therefore, isolate the individual involved, but instead will
enlarge his perceptions until he will experience the reality and uniqueness of
as many other aspects of reality of which he is capable.
He will feel, therefore, less isolated and less set apart.
He will not regard himself as being above others because of the experience. On
the contrary he will be swept along in a gestalt of comprehension in which he
realizes his own oneness with All That Is.
As there are portions of reality that you do not consciously
perceive, and other systems of probability of which you are not consciously
aware, so also are there aspects of primary godhood that you cannot at this
moment comprehend.
There are, therefore, probable gods, each one reflecting in
its way the multidimensional aspects of a prime identity so great and dazzling
that no one reality form or particular kind of existence could contain it.
I have tried to give you some idea of the far-reaching
creative effects of your own thoughts. With that in mind, then, it is
impossible to imagine the multidimensional creativity that can be attributed
to All That Is. The term “All That Is” can be used as a designation to include
all of those probable gods in all of their manifestations.
Now it is easier perhaps for some of you to understand the
simple stories and parables of beginnings of which I have spoken. But the time
has come for mankind to take several steps further, to expand the nature of his
(own) consciousness by trying to comprehend a more profound version of reality.
You have outgrown the time of children's tales. When your own thoughts have a
form and reality, when they have validity even in other systems of reality of
which you are unaware, then it is not difficult to understand why other systems
of probabilities are also affected by your own thoughts and emotions—nor why
the actions of the probable gods are not affected by what happens in other
dimensions of existence.
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