The doctrine that God can be incarnated in human form is found in most of the principal historic expositions--in Hinduism, in Mahayana Buddhism, in Christianity and in the Mohammedanism of the Sufis. I will share a quote from the Bhagavad Gita.
"When goodness grows weak, when evil increases, I make myself a body. In every Age I come back to deliver the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, to establish righteousness. He who knows the nature of My task and My holy birth is not reborn. When He leaves this body: He comes to Me. Flying from fear, from lust and anger, He hides in Me, His refuge and safety. Burnt clean in the blaze of My being. In Me, many find home". Yes, we can! Every human being can become an Avatar. He or she needs to be shown the way and helped by divine grace. The Godhead assumes the form of an ordinary human being, who has through effort and instruction, love, willingness and patience earned a one-pointed awareness...enlightenment.
I interpret this quote to mean that one Avatar, super being, will make an appearance upon the stage of history when enough of the collective consciousness is ready for another boost. Usually, these beings are channels of grace and divine power who through example encourage us to adopt the process where we allow our hearts to unfold and our minds expand. In other words, to learn to love one another, which is a spiritual love and to love ourselves. Before a human can be Christlike and identify with the Father-Mother God Ideal, we must begin to imitate what we believe in. Enlightenment and understanding and living our spiritual identity is a requirement in our eventual state of mind called super beings. When not enlightened, Buddhas, Christs and other names that refer to Masters of matter and the little self are no other than ordinary beings. When there is enlightenment, ordinary beings transform into Buddhas. This is our earth assignment.
Most of us have admired super men and women since we were children. As adults this could be why so many of the hero and heroine television shows, movies and books are so popular. It would be fantastic to be able to help and save people. As a child, I loved Wonder Woman. Last year, I went on the Internet found and purchased my own red long sleeved Wonder Woman tee shirt. A blazing picture of the heroine sits smack on my chest. I have never worn the shirt out in public but I smilingly know that the special shirt is sitting on the shelf in my closet. Why not be a hero or heroine? We are all made of light, beauty and inner power. Scripture repeatedly reminds us that the supra normal is our real identity.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
The New Man
The scriptures say of human beings that there is an outward man and along with him an inner man. Within us all is the other person, the inner man, whom the Scripture calls the new man, the heavenly man, the young person, the friend, the aristocrat. The seed of God is in us. To quote from Eckhart you will read that the seed of God is in us. "Given an intelligent and hardworking farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God."
Human beings have free will and we are at liberty to identify with whatever pleases us. This amazing ability to choose our interests creates who we believe we are. The average person may act one way all their life but when a serious illness personally happens to him, he behaves very different. He could have lived a life of fear and then when he realizes he is dying become serene and God centered. For some people, it is easier to behave selflessly in a time of crisis that when life appears normal. The difference between a saint for instance and a typical human is that the saint is one who knows that very moment of our human life is a moment of crisis.
Now, why would that be? It has to do with personal choice. Every day challenges or opportunities present themselves to us. How we respond determines whether we are moving closer to darkness, which is ignorance or opening to radiant light and life. The goal of human life is to finally arrive at a state of consciousness where there are no longer any God-eclipsing obstacles between what we think and believe we are and the Divine Reality. The aim is to be constantly and consciously aware of our spiritual identity and purpose as a lover of God regardless of what is going on around us or directed at us. To understand the words I write and live them is a form of spiritual training that eventually leads us to transcend the human personality and state of ourselves that we are not a man or woman and answer instead, we are a Buddha, Christ or whatever exalted title you prefer to use to describe your state of being as an awakened and new man. This may sound preposterous to some who read this. Get used to it. It is truth.
Human beings have free will and we are at liberty to identify with whatever pleases us. This amazing ability to choose our interests creates who we believe we are. The average person may act one way all their life but when a serious illness personally happens to him, he behaves very different. He could have lived a life of fear and then when he realizes he is dying become serene and God centered. For some people, it is easier to behave selflessly in a time of crisis that when life appears normal. The difference between a saint for instance and a typical human is that the saint is one who knows that very moment of our human life is a moment of crisis.
Now, why would that be? It has to do with personal choice. Every day challenges or opportunities present themselves to us. How we respond determines whether we are moving closer to darkness, which is ignorance or opening to radiant light and life. The goal of human life is to finally arrive at a state of consciousness where there are no longer any God-eclipsing obstacles between what we think and believe we are and the Divine Reality. The aim is to be constantly and consciously aware of our spiritual identity and purpose as a lover of God regardless of what is going on around us or directed at us. To understand the words I write and live them is a form of spiritual training that eventually leads us to transcend the human personality and state of ourselves that we are not a man or woman and answer instead, we are a Buddha, Christ or whatever exalted title you prefer to use to describe your state of being as an awakened and new man. This may sound preposterous to some who read this. Get used to it. It is truth.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Another View
It has been said by many mystics that God is free of all names and void of all forms but...I disagree regarding the form. Meaning, if God is in All, that Power and Presence is in form whether than form be visible or invisible. A recent survey showed that 84 percent of people asked about heavenly intervention say they believe in miracles. Some attribute miracles to Jesus and the Holy Spirit or angels and saints, deceased relatives and invisible beings. We do live in a universe of infinite possibilities and high probabilities. Weird things do happen every day. When something miraculous occurs most people hopefully claim the special happening as God caring and stepping in to help although the event broke the laws of nature.
What I am referring to has nothing to do with psychic preoccupations which deals with the sixth sense, a developed and focused mind but with a genuine spirituality. Man has always had the power within to realize a mystic union, a direct awareness of something extraordinary going on that involves the Unseen. Every so often, that Unseen becomes seen. The invisible helpers become obvious to our senses. In my latest book, Be-Embracing the Mystery, you can read for yourself many of the strange and yet wonderful Godlike experiences that have been an integral part of my life. There is one proof after another that another Source, power, presence or energy is taking care of me in a rather amazing way. What is this energy?
The incomprehensible energy could be invisible guides, former relatives or strangers who enjoy serving in this capacity, masters or angels cooperating with the higher part of who I am to literally save me from extinction and remove inconveniences along the path. It is the energy of what we call God or Spirit in these invisible friends helping us not some Absolute, Impersonal and Nameless Creator Power. It is God being personal. We also can call on the Impersonal Holy Creative Spirit to heal and help. I have always thought of this Sublime Energy as my best friend although it is definitely more impersonal than an intelligent entity helping out. The multiplicity came out of the One. We have proof that God, the One, exists through our intimate relationship with the many. The outcomes of our relationship with the multiplicity representing God in matter is our evidence.
What I am referring to has nothing to do with psychic preoccupations which deals with the sixth sense, a developed and focused mind but with a genuine spirituality. Man has always had the power within to realize a mystic union, a direct awareness of something extraordinary going on that involves the Unseen. Every so often, that Unseen becomes seen. The invisible helpers become obvious to our senses. In my latest book, Be-Embracing the Mystery, you can read for yourself many of the strange and yet wonderful Godlike experiences that have been an integral part of my life. There is one proof after another that another Source, power, presence or energy is taking care of me in a rather amazing way. What is this energy?
The incomprehensible energy could be invisible guides, former relatives or strangers who enjoy serving in this capacity, masters or angels cooperating with the higher part of who I am to literally save me from extinction and remove inconveniences along the path. It is the energy of what we call God or Spirit in these invisible friends helping us not some Absolute, Impersonal and Nameless Creator Power. It is God being personal. We also can call on the Impersonal Holy Creative Spirit to heal and help. I have always thought of this Sublime Energy as my best friend although it is definitely more impersonal than an intelligent entity helping out. The multiplicity came out of the One. We have proof that God, the One, exists through our intimate relationship with the many. The outcomes of our relationship with the multiplicity representing God in matter is our evidence.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Can God be Proven?
Proof of a divine Reality or God happens when there is a change in us. There is a corresponding change in our nature in direct relationship to our sense of knowing. What is the sense of knowing? It is not a sense of the physical or intellectual but the subtle spiritual or intuitive senses that depend upon direct perception. Authority to speak comes from the authority of knowing firsthand that there is a totally different energy behind the appearance of matter. An individual who is loving and pure in heart is more likely to witness and feel the ultimate Reality. Until that moment arrives for the seeker, he or she can study the works of those who were and are filled with a self-validating certainty of direct awareness.
The facts, so to speak, our realized and experienced in the deepest and most central part of the soul. We can be filled with man's learning and not yet hear the unhearable. We can ask for that knowledge. The knowledge I am speaking of is intuitively known deep within all of us. Some students may begin by looking inwards into their own particular divinity through contemplation, meditation and more. Others, may search for unity in nature and outside of self. Finally, the seeker realizes that something is present in the deepest and most central part of his own soul as well as in the life of everyone and everything else.
Souls like my own have an easier time in experiencing the proof of God, because we see the radiant Light which can only be witnessed through spiritual sight. The Unknowable and Impersonal created Limitless Light. The Limitless Light, which binds all creation seen and unseen together, projects through the One whose primal Will, is our Source. The One created the Two, our Divine Parents, the Father-Mother Principles, which humans refer to as God. The Son, perfect individual spirits (intelligent lights), came forth from the Two. We originally were perfect individual spirit lights. We had a will that could be used to create and enjoy the creative process within the cosmos. Density-matter as we now know it is the result of the individual subtle spirit light forms desiring to create and expand and explore limitlessness. Once an individual wearing a skin begins to see with his inside eyes the light he and others are and the light behind each creative form, an understanding dawns that 'God', an indescribable Divine Power and Presence, lives in our midst. It not only lives everywhere as boundless creative energy, the Light is the glue, the link that holds all creation together. Witnessing radiant Light with our spiritual senses is one of the ways we personally know that there is a mysterious, pure and unpolarized energy behind our flimsy descriptions of what Is.
The facts, so to speak, our realized and experienced in the deepest and most central part of the soul. We can be filled with man's learning and not yet hear the unhearable. We can ask for that knowledge. The knowledge I am speaking of is intuitively known deep within all of us. Some students may begin by looking inwards into their own particular divinity through contemplation, meditation and more. Others, may search for unity in nature and outside of self. Finally, the seeker realizes that something is present in the deepest and most central part of his own soul as well as in the life of everyone and everything else.
Souls like my own have an easier time in experiencing the proof of God, because we see the radiant Light which can only be witnessed through spiritual sight. The Unknowable and Impersonal created Limitless Light. The Limitless Light, which binds all creation seen and unseen together, projects through the One whose primal Will, is our Source. The One created the Two, our Divine Parents, the Father-Mother Principles, which humans refer to as God. The Son, perfect individual spirits (intelligent lights), came forth from the Two. We originally were perfect individual spirit lights. We had a will that could be used to create and enjoy the creative process within the cosmos. Density-matter as we now know it is the result of the individual subtle spirit light forms desiring to create and expand and explore limitlessness. Once an individual wearing a skin begins to see with his inside eyes the light he and others are and the light behind each creative form, an understanding dawns that 'God', an indescribable Divine Power and Presence, lives in our midst. It not only lives everywhere as boundless creative energy, the Light is the glue, the link that holds all creation together. Witnessing radiant Light with our spiritual senses is one of the ways we personally know that there is a mysterious, pure and unpolarized energy behind our flimsy descriptions of what Is.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Who or What is Hindering You?
Are you the type who agrees with mass consciousness regarding time, diagnoses, symptoms or aging? Frequently, we hear from self-help practitioners that we must get out of the box. This means we have crippled ourselves with chalk-marks that make a claim that we must accept conditions and allow a state of paralysis to keep us in bondage. What is interesting is the fact that the conditions can actually disappear if we finally grasp the truth that we had fallen prey to the rules of the game of human life.
If a person is told he has an incurable disease, the amount of chalk marks hindering his mind jumps much higher. At the same time, if told there is nothing that can be done, the prisoner may decide to cross the line and try a totally different approach rather than allow his life to end. Regardless of what type of ugliness, lack or nonsenses appears in your life, why not dismiss it? I am not implying you should stop your treatment if that is the case. What I am suggesting is taking a second look at anything that is hindering you from living from the highest perspective of you soul. Hindrances, chalk marks, limitations ar the enemy. This sounds bold but it is an ancient truth. To be released from any human condition and struggle, we are required to awaken to our true spiritual identity. I keep going back to identity because it is the tool that opens the box.
When you awaken to your spiritual identity something rather remarkable occurs. Divine harmony, a security and balance, a secret love and assurance is yours. You see, nasty conditions or situations will not change and you will not be able to cross over your chalk marks as long as you accept as your truth that sin, a disease, aging or any lack and limitation is an actual truth. Oh, yes, it appears as if they are happening to you and the majority of people. A very unusual thing happens when your consciousness shifts to a higher perspective. The unreal is exposed. What I am saying is worth thinking about. What troubles you is actually an illusion that you accept as true. Change your mind. In changing your mind, hold your understanding as a real conviction. I would suggest you keep silent about your new discovery particularly if you are under stress and strain. We fall into traps of lack, limitation and disease because we have allowed ourselves to become mesmerized. As you are healing or changing the conditions in your life, look deeply into your thinking and whether you harbor any undesirable character traits. Because we live in matter and are strongly influenced by world consciousness, it could be that you are unknowingly picking up on energy that is weakening your own life force. This does not to continue.
If a person is told he has an incurable disease, the amount of chalk marks hindering his mind jumps much higher. At the same time, if told there is nothing that can be done, the prisoner may decide to cross the line and try a totally different approach rather than allow his life to end. Regardless of what type of ugliness, lack or nonsenses appears in your life, why not dismiss it? I am not implying you should stop your treatment if that is the case. What I am suggesting is taking a second look at anything that is hindering you from living from the highest perspective of you soul. Hindrances, chalk marks, limitations ar the enemy. This sounds bold but it is an ancient truth. To be released from any human condition and struggle, we are required to awaken to our true spiritual identity. I keep going back to identity because it is the tool that opens the box.
When you awaken to your spiritual identity something rather remarkable occurs. Divine harmony, a security and balance, a secret love and assurance is yours. You see, nasty conditions or situations will not change and you will not be able to cross over your chalk marks as long as you accept as your truth that sin, a disease, aging or any lack and limitation is an actual truth. Oh, yes, it appears as if they are happening to you and the majority of people. A very unusual thing happens when your consciousness shifts to a higher perspective. The unreal is exposed. What I am saying is worth thinking about. What troubles you is actually an illusion that you accept as true. Change your mind. In changing your mind, hold your understanding as a real conviction. I would suggest you keep silent about your new discovery particularly if you are under stress and strain. We fall into traps of lack, limitation and disease because we have allowed ourselves to become mesmerized. As you are healing or changing the conditions in your life, look deeply into your thinking and whether you harbor any undesirable character traits. Because we live in matter and are strongly influenced by world consciousness, it could be that you are unknowingly picking up on energy that is weakening your own life force. This does not to continue.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Seeing God Face to Face
Yes, it took me awhile to reach the state of mind where I saw myself correctly and could view others for what they really are. I am certain you have read in scripture or other writings that we cannot see God face to face. Yes, we can. Every time we look at each other we are seeing God appearing as an individual being. The human may not know this truth but it is truth nonetheless. God, the spirit, the energy of life, can appear in any form. We see God every day every where. What you see outside of your self may not be perfect in its appearance or behavior and what others see in you may appear lacking or even unattractive. The simple truth is that you are still seeing God face to face.
This truth applies to minerals, plants, animals, humans and souls in the subtle worlds. The sacred is appearing as all living manifestations. To really accept this reality requires a developed consciousness. It means you will need to train yourself to look past the appearance of everything you see including your own body and behavior. It takes practice to see clearly. When you finally grasp that behind ugliness and suffering IS God AS ugliness and suffering, you lose your fear, ignorance and confusion.
The gift of seeing the truth behind manifestation with a strong inner conviction alters consciousness in such a way that you will not fear anything. Since the majority of souls do not understand their true identity, they judge by the appearance and not the holiness behind the appearance. If all humans understood that they were wearing a skin for the sole purpose of being divinity in form, we would have harmony, love and wisdom ruling on earth. Instead, it is still the blind leading the blind. We are consciousness, a consciousness that is ignored more than it is cherished. What we are and what is materially around us is not an illusion of its self. It is our concept of it that is the illusion. Concepts need to be changed in order for intelligence to recognize what is reality. Reality pertains to what we recognize through an inner awareness. All the discords of the world are discords of the physical senses and not the spirit.
This truth applies to minerals, plants, animals, humans and souls in the subtle worlds. The sacred is appearing as all living manifestations. To really accept this reality requires a developed consciousness. It means you will need to train yourself to look past the appearance of everything you see including your own body and behavior. It takes practice to see clearly. When you finally grasp that behind ugliness and suffering IS God AS ugliness and suffering, you lose your fear, ignorance and confusion.
The gift of seeing the truth behind manifestation with a strong inner conviction alters consciousness in such a way that you will not fear anything. Since the majority of souls do not understand their true identity, they judge by the appearance and not the holiness behind the appearance. If all humans understood that they were wearing a skin for the sole purpose of being divinity in form, we would have harmony, love and wisdom ruling on earth. Instead, it is still the blind leading the blind. We are consciousness, a consciousness that is ignored more than it is cherished. What we are and what is materially around us is not an illusion of its self. It is our concept of it that is the illusion. Concepts need to be changed in order for intelligence to recognize what is reality. Reality pertains to what we recognize through an inner awareness. All the discords of the world are discords of the physical senses and not the spirit.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
What is Our Responsibility?
Originally, we came from the Great Central Sun located at the center of the universe. I am speaking of our higher Self, the spirit Nature. The problem with an attraction to matter is that the higher Self is usually not fully active. It gradually becomes fully active when the awakening process begins. If you were baking a chocolate cake, it would require a list of ingredients to be perfect. What if you left out the sweetest ingredient, the chocolate? Well, this is exactly how many souls live their lives...minus the sweetest part of all.
Individual spirits chose to leave perfection, a center, a Home vibrating in love, wisdom, purity and infinite good to experience creativity in matter. We left the Center to experience the periphery. The how and when of our return is through the development of a spiritual consciousness. God is the One and only Power in a spiritual universe. When we are ready, it is finally realized that we are to bring ourselves into accord with that Power. We understand that we are to use the powers and gifts for good with love, compassion and discernment and not for selfish reasons.
How we survive destructive appearances in our lives is the direct result of our not giving power to things that destroy, meaning earthly negative desires. If we harbor fear, we lose our balance and certainty. The only true battle that we have in the flesh is to regain the consciousness we once had. Is your belief focused on material power or do you rest your case in the One Power? We can prove that the One Power is victorious when we become quiet and create a conscious connection to our own divinity. Personal divinity is aligned with the Impersonal Divinity...The One. When we can face any appearance that threatens our life with complete confidence in our spirit connection, our inner light expands dissolving the problem. This take total faith and persistence and a transcending love. You must believe it is so.
Individual spirits chose to leave perfection, a center, a Home vibrating in love, wisdom, purity and infinite good to experience creativity in matter. We left the Center to experience the periphery. The how and when of our return is through the development of a spiritual consciousness. God is the One and only Power in a spiritual universe. When we are ready, it is finally realized that we are to bring ourselves into accord with that Power. We understand that we are to use the powers and gifts for good with love, compassion and discernment and not for selfish reasons.
How we survive destructive appearances in our lives is the direct result of our not giving power to things that destroy, meaning earthly negative desires. If we harbor fear, we lose our balance and certainty. The only true battle that we have in the flesh is to regain the consciousness we once had. Is your belief focused on material power or do you rest your case in the One Power? We can prove that the One Power is victorious when we become quiet and create a conscious connection to our own divinity. Personal divinity is aligned with the Impersonal Divinity...The One. When we can face any appearance that threatens our life with complete confidence in our spirit connection, our inner light expands dissolving the problem. This take total faith and persistence and a transcending love. You must believe it is so.
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