The Christ Consciousness - The Messiah Consciousness
Binjal
"There he studied the Buddhistic teachings which had
been preserved with a reasonable degree of purity. He saw that, in spite of the
ritualistic forms and dogmas that had been imposed by man, religion had but one source
and that was the God within, Whom he designated as his Father and the Father of all.
Then he threw all forms to the winds, as it were, and went directly to God, went
straight to the heart of this loving attainment.
He soon found that this did
not take long years of weary plodding through dogmas, rituals, creeds, formulas, and
initiations which the priesthood were foisting upon the people in order to hold them
in ignorance and, therefore, in subjection. He realized that that for which he was
seeking was right within himself. He knew that in order to be the Christ he must
declare that he was the Christ. Then with pure motive of life, thought, word, and deed
he must live the life he sought, in order to incorporate it within his physical body.
Then, after perceiving this, he had the courage to go out and declare it to all the
world.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Volume 2, page 13 by
Baird T. Spalding
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that
I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth
the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe
me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father. (John 14:10-12)
"God's love is like a pure
spring that gushes from a mountain. At its source it is pure but as it flows on its
course it becomes clouded and polluted until it enters the ocean so impure it does not
even resemble that which emerged from the source. As it enters the ocean it begins to
drop the mud and slime to the bottom and again rises to the surface as a part of the
glad, free ocean. from which it again can be taken up to refresh the spring.
"You can see and talk with God at any time, just as you can with father, mother,
brother, or friend. Indeed, He is far closer than any mortal can be. God is far
dearer and truer than any friend. God is never wrought up, nor angry, nor cast down.
God never destroys, nor hurts, nor hinders one of His children or creatures or
creations. If God did these things, He would not be God. The god that judges,
destroys, or withholds any good thing from his children or creatures or creations is
but a god that is conjured up by man's ignorant thinking; and you need not fear that
god unless you wish to do so. For the true God stretches forth His hand and says,
'All that I have is yours.' When one of your poets said that God is closer than
breathing and nearer than hands or feet, he was inspired by God. All are inspired
by God when that inspiration is for the good or the right and all can be inspired by
God at all times if they only will.
"When I said, 'I am the Christ, the only
begotten of God', I did not declare this for myself alone, for had I done this I could
not have become the Christ. I say definitely that, in order to bring forth the Christ,
I, as well as all others, must declare it; then must live the life, and the Christ
must appear. You may declare the Christ all you will and, if you do not live the life,
the Christ will never appear. Just think, dear friends, if all would declare the
Christ then live the life for one year or five years, what an awakening there would
be.
The possibilities cannot be imagined. That was the vision that I saw. Dear
ones, can you not place yourselves where I stood and see as I saw? Why do you surround
me with the murk and mire of superstition! Why do you not lift your eyes and minds and
thoughts above these and see with a clear vision! Then you would see that there are no
miracles, no mysteries, no pain, no imperfection, no inharmony, and no death, except
that which man has made. When I said 'I have overcome death,' I knew wherof I spoke;
but it took the crucifixion to show these dear ones.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Volume 2, page 53-54 by
Baird T. Spalding
And Jesus
answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our
God is one (not three) Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the
first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that
loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God
is love. (1 John 4:7-8)
And we have known and believed the love that
God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God
in him. (1 John 4:16)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)
One of the party then turned and asked Jesus, "Can all
bring forth the Christ?" He answered, "Yes, there is but one end of accomplishment.
Man came forth from God and he must return to God. That which from the heavens
descended must again ascend unto heaven. The history of the Christ did not begin
with my birth; neither did it end with the crucifixion. The Christ was when God
created the first man in His own image and likeness. The Christ and that man are one;
all men and that man are one.
As God was his Father, so is He the father of all
men and all are God's children. As the child has the quality of the parents, so the
Christ is in every child. For many years the child lived and realized his Christhood,
his oneness with God, through the Christ in himself. Then began the history of the
Christ and you can trace this history back to man's beginning. That the Christ means
more than the man Jesus goes without contradiction. Had I not perceived this, I could
not have brought forth the Christ. To me this is the pearl without price, the old Vine
in new bottles, the truth which many others have brought forth and thus have fulfilled
the ideals that I have fulfilled and proved.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Volume 2, page 55 by
Baird T. Spalding
But
whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the
water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life. (John 4:14)
In the last day, that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe
on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was
not yet glorified.) (John 7:37-39)
The people ruled themselves: there were no
wars and no vassals or slaves. They unquestionably named their ruler "Directive
Principle" and they loved and obeyed that Directive Principle.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Volume 2, page 79 by
Baird T. Spalding
The Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach
the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luke 4:18-19)
Now the Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
(2 Corinthians 3:17)
"Here temples were built; not as places of worship, for
the people worshipped every moment by the life they lived. Living was always dedicated
to the Great Cause of life; and while they lived cooperating with the Great Cause,
life never failed them. During this time it was quite common to find men and women
thousands of years old. In fact,they did not know death. They passed from one
accomplishment to a higher attainment of life and its reality. They accepted life's
true source and it released its boundless treasures to them in an unending stream
of abundance.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Volume 2, page 115 by
Baird T. Spalding
Know ye not
that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
(1 Corinthians 3:16)
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh
not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:20-21)
And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what
is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 12:2)
Is it God Speaking...or Just Your Own Thoughts? by Dr. Jamie Morgan
~ Hermes Atar Trismegistus, a Christ grain.
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