It is now the year 2024 and my New Year's resolution is that I
associate every morning with the Father in silence, so that the Father can enlighten
my mind with God's ideas and thoughts about myself and other beings. I want to be
saved during the day to Divine Life, by wishing that I express the Father even when I
am not in the silence.
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know
that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou
doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I
say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the
second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I
say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The
wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell
whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the
Spirit. (John 3:1-8)
To be born again, so that we can see the kingdom
of God, our Spirit needs to associate with the Holy Spirit just as Jesus associates
with his father, so that it is no longer possible to distinguish between the Holy
Spirit and us. Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within us and all around us and
that we must rely completely on God and receive the kingdom of God like a child, and
pray to God in Spirit and truth, otherwise we will not get answers to our prayers.
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)
"But if I do, though ye believe not
me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I
in him." (Johannes 10:38)
But Jesus called them unto him, and said,
"Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the
kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God
as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."" (Lukas 18:16-17)
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth. (John 4:24)
"That there is an all-wise, intelligent Spirit,
that this intelligence is Divine and infinite and permeates all things, cannot be
contradicted. Because this intelligence does permeate all things it is infinite and is
the source of all. It is Divine, and its Divinity brought into thinkable or visible
form, the fact or truth of all things.
You can name this all-wise, intelligent
Spirit God or Good, or what you will, as man must have a name for everything. Once he
has named a thing, he has the power to bring it into existence. If man names anything
through true reverence, worship and praise, he can and does become which he names.
Thus you can see that man by choice can become God or animal. He becomes the
ideal which he presents for himself to follow. With this line of thinking, it is
simple to see that man is the only-begotten Son of God, or the only-begotten son of
the animal. Thus, by choice, man can become evil or devil if his eye behold evil; or
he becomes God; if his eyes beholds God....
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Volume 3 page 99-100 by
Baird T. Spalding
- Hermes Atar Trismegistus
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