I am studying the book series
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East by
Baird T. Spalding, and I have tried to
be divine by pasting divinity onto myself, believing that humans are limitless, and
holding only positive thoughts. But it hasn't made me feel good.
However,
since I haven't been feeling very well, I have been looking for a solution. Then I
made telepathic and emotional contact with Jesus, and he taught me what I was doing
wrong.
Jesus said: God IS Love, and that means that Love is something
that exists and can be felt.
Jesus answered: "The most important is
this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one (not three). And you shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind,
and with all your strength. Then comes this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
No other commandment is greater than these." (Mark 12:29-31)
One
loves God by seeing everything as part of God and by loving one's neighbor, whom one
meets with unconditional love.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love
is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not
love has not come to know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:7-8)
And we
have come to know the love that God has for us and believe in it. God is love.
Whoever remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. (1 John 4:16)
He went on to say: God IS Joy, and that means that joy exists and that
one can be joyful.
Jesus answered her: "Everyone who drinks this water
will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks of the water I give him will never ever
thirst. The water I give becomes a spring within him, with water flowing up to
eternal life." (John 4:13-14)
On the last day, the greatest day
of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out: "If anyone is thirsty, come to me!
And drink he who believes in me, as the Scripture says, from his innermost being
shall flow rivers of living water." He said this about the Spirit, whom those
who believed in him were to receive. For the Spirit had not yet come, because
Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39)
Someone might say:
"I have never experienced God's joy. What must I do to experience God's joy?
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to
those who ask him?" (Luke 11:13)
Dalai
Lama has said that the purpose of
life is to be happy.
There are religious people who believe they are living
a holy life if they read the holy book from cover to cover, attend long courses to
become rooted in the faith, and listen to interpreters of the Scriptures. But is
this true?
What did Paul mean when he said:
He has made us
competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit;
for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3:6) and
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
is freedom. (2 Corinthians 3:17) ?
I choose to be happy until I meet my
neighbor. Then I choose to be loving. If my neighbor has needs, I choose to be
compassionate and believe that an unlimited God can meet my neighbor's needs. We
therefore need to adapt to the circumstances. Paul believed in a limitless God:
For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your
own poets have said: We are his offspring. (Acts 17:28).
We do not gain
more love and joy by replacing them with a different love and joy. Rather, as Paul
taught:
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with
power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your
hearts through faith, and that you, being rooted and established in love, may have
power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and
high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
(Ephesians 3:16-19)
We become better people not by exchanging one kind of
love for another, but by increasing the love that already exists, in depth, breadth,
and length. But above all, by giving, for then we shall receive more to give:
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will
not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and you will receive. A
good measure, packed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into
your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
(Luke 6:37-38)
When we are one with God through love, we can give of God’s
Spirit to those in need. Just like Jesus, we do not give out of our own strength,
but out of God’s limitless power that dwells within us:
Do you not
believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The words I speak to
you I do not speak on my own authority. The Father dwells in me and the deeds are
His works. Believe me: I am in the Father and the Father is in me. And if you
cannot, then believe because of the works themselves. I tell you the truth: Whoever
believes in me will do the works that I do. And greater works than these he will
do, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:10-12)
Jesus
said to her: "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
But go to my brothers and say to them that I am ascending to my Father and your
Father, to my God and your God." (John 20:17)
Do you not know
that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
(1 Corinthians 3:16)
When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the
Kingdom of God would come, he answered: "The Kingdom of God does not come in a
way that can be seen with the eyes. No one will be able to say: Look, here it is,
or: There it is. No, the Kingdom of God is within you and in your midst."
(Luke 17:20-21)
"When the individual starts for the Promised Land, the land
of darkness must be forsaken, forgotten. He must leave the darkness and start
toward the light. It is impossible to go and stay at the same time. The old must be
forsaken, the new adhered to. He must forget the things he does not wish to remember
and remember only the things he wishes to retain. One is as essential as the other.
The vision only must be remembered if he wishes it fulfilled.
He must
remember by holding in mind the vision he wishes to reproduce. He must disremember
or refuse to remember the thing he does not wish to reproduce. Every idea, thought,
word, or act must be true to the vision in order to bring it forth. This is true
concentration, the concentration of devotion, the centering of the forces upon the
essential. This is loving the ideal. It is only through love that an ideal can be
given expression. Love makes the ideal become the real.
"If at first he
fails, he must be determined and press on. This is the exercise of the will, the
cry of self-confidence, the expression of faith directing the power toward the
ideal. This ideal could never be attained without this conscious direction of power,
this exercise of the will; and yet it would be fatal to the ideal if the will, too,
were not ideal.
The will must possess the same quality as the ideal to serve.
If the will does not possess the desire to serve, the power the will wishes to
direct cannot be released from the soul. The will to be served turns the life
current against self. The will to serve keeps the life current flowing through self
and keeps the self in radiation. To serve gives purpose to vision, it releases
love in life. How can love be expressed unless it flows through the one expressing
life?
If it flows through the consciousness, the whole organism responds, it
thrills every cell with the love it expresses. Then the body becomes harmonized,
the soul becomes radiant, the mind becomes enlightened, the thought becomes keen,
brilliant, alive, definite, the word becomes positive, true, constructive, the flesh
is renewed, purified and quickened, affairs are adjusted and all things assume their
true position.
The I AM is expressed through the me and the me is no longer
allowed to suppress the I AM. If the body is not obedient to Spirit, how can it
express the Spirit? The conscious mind must seek and want the Spirit in order to
learn the power of the Spirit. In this way the individual learns to know that Spirit
is the fulfillment of the need.
In no way can it be given higher expression
than when it is allowed to fill the need of others. It is the flowing forth to
others that opens the storehouse of Spirit. It is the 'I will to serve' that opens
the unlimited storehouse of God to all and brings its realization to the soul.
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, Volume 1, page 138-139 by
Baird T. Spalding
Is it God Speaking...or Just Your Own Thoughts? by Dr. Jamie Morgan
~ Hermes Atar Trismegistus, follower of Jesus.
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