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Unicorn Transmissions II

A channelling by Jim Andrisse, Summer, 1984

Table of Contents

1. Professionalism and the ego
2. Animals and peaceful attitude
3. Freedom and linear goal-seeking
4. The holistic perspective
5. On seeing miracles
6. Law
7. Spiritual struggle as identity crisis
8. Denial of reincarnation prevents freedom
9. Western science opposed to reincarnation
10. The concept of 'reincarnation'
11. The ego and reincarnation
12. More on the concept of reincarnation
13. Four consequences of the denial of reincarnation:
14. 1) Tetheredness to the present
15. Aphorism
16. 2) An insensitivity to others' problems
17. Aphorism
18. 3) A truncated sense of justice (karma)
19. Aphorism
20. 4) A denial of spiritual purpose
21. Aphorism
22. Pain is a gift from God
23. Western culture and pain
24. Bearing pain
25. The message of pain
26. Pain and miracles
27. What God is like
28. On universal religious experience
29. Religious ecstasy and forgiveness
30. Holism and forgiveness
31. On feelings of connection
32. Relative importance of feelings and thoughts
33. Fragmentation in 20th Century part of the evolution of peaceful globe
34. Aphorism
35. On seeing miracles
36. Eternal truth
37. On suffering and cynicism
38. The purpose of judgment
39. On judgment and achieving holy purpose
40. Aphorism
41. The insanity of judgment
42. The holiest act in the world
43. On forgiving others
44. The tree of knowledge as metaphor for judgment
45. How knowledge of God is possible
46. Adam and Jesus
47. Valdation in the quest for God
48. Aphorism
49. On freeing the intuition
50. Apprehending the presence of God
51. Aphorism
52. Aphorism
53. On parents and peace
54. Androgyny and wholeness
55. Sexual feelings in the New Age
56. Aphorism
57. Affirmations for gender liberation
58. What kind of category is intuitive apprehension of God?
59. Saying
60. On the gender of God
61. Gender as a barrier to apprehending God
62. Clothes and architecture
63. Buttons and zippers
64. Questions
65. God as parent
66. The genitals of the Universe
67. Meditation and intuition
68. Riddle
69. Invite God into your bed
70. Unicorn as cell of God
71. The ontological status of evil
72. What creates the bifurcorn
73. How to bring about the ideal society
74. Revolutions which attack
75. How can we open our hearts to God's plan?
76. Eastern and Western discipline
77. The new integrated discipline
78. Discipline for changing our experience
79. Discipline for accepting our experience
80. Discipline for spiritual advancement
81. An example: the rational and intuitive mind contradict each other
82. The roots of priesthood
83. We are afraid to be God
84. The misuse of Western scientific methodology
85. We know how to be God
86. Aphorism—the meditator's function
87. Hierarchical knowledge of ignorance
88. Aphorism
89. The Holy Family
90. The word 'hu'
91. Who knows the Son of God
92. There are only sheep
93. The Witch
94. Ministry in the New Age
95. What separates us from peace
96. Each human essentially the same in spirit
97. Growth as movement from fear to love
98. Daughters and the Daughter of God
99. The Greatest Mystery
100. Androgyny as human essence
101. Aphorism
102. Sainthood
103. Feeling the Union
104. This is a time of coming together
105. Quotation
106. Sex as a holy function
107. Holy sex
108. The blending of humanity
109. The disappearance of homosexuality
110. Football does not exist in Heaven
111. Our death as passion narrative
112. The Self
113. Professional teaching as a defense against truth
114. The human flower
115. The scent of the human flower
116. Everyone is right
117. Co-creation and the now
118. Aphorism—Heaven & Space-Time
119. Subjectivity as union with God
120. The temple of Western Science
121. Points & Lines
122. We are the light of the world
123. "Seeing" the Spirit
124. You can go to heaven
125. The path doesn't matter
126. What means Being
127. The key to awareness is sinlessness
128. Do you know who I am?

In A Handbook for Unicorns it was revealed that the human being possesses a rainbow body: just as a rainbow is composed of seven colors, so does the rainbow body send and receive energy from seven different levels of vibratory creation. It matters not whether we picture this fact or simply begin to reorganized our thinking around it.

Also brought into focus during this prior transmission was the concept of ego-centered consciousness versus spiritual consciousness. In particular, ego was portrayed as a separative domain of fears, tears, and angers, while spirit manifested as an integrative domain of compassion, appreciation, and miracles.
The purpose of the present transmission is to clarify the nature, meaning, and relating of lower self (ego consciousness) and higher self (holocentric awareness).
We cannot recapitulate here what has been established in the Handbook. Some readers may wish to begin with this monograph.
We begin with the assumption that there is a generative principle of being and that it can be known. We call this principle (which is also a principal) “God.” How such knowledge is possible is a central concern of this transmission.
It seems clear that there are three levels of reality: there is a physical world which conforms to natural scientific laws, there is a spiritual domain which bestows holy significance upon physical events, and there is a realm of unchanging Being out of which the physical, the spiritual and their interplay are generated.

§ 1 Professionalism and the ego «

Professionalism and egotism go hand in hand. The same mentality that questions one’s training, competence, and expertise is the mentality that questions miracles, psychic phenomena, and a personal God. This is because both tendencies are grounded in a world view that sees things and people as separate in space and time. On this view only a linear network of cause and effect connections bolstered by “approved personnel” and “the latest technology” can possibly secure an “optimum state of well-being for society.” The only valid knowledge for such persons is of these atomistic, bureaucratic structures.

However, what appears to be a highly efficient means of providing needed services is in reality an effective way of creating a social stratification which maintains a faith in the “I” of existence. Miracles threaten the unenlightened ego, as does connectedness.

§ 2 Animals and peaceful attitude «

Jesus says, “Yes, my friend, the animals will talk,” Do you believe your older brother? Think of this: the images of the animal mind are a form of meaning. Centering above the ego allows us to connect with this meaning.

And what will the animals say? “Eat me, if you must. Yet you have no need of my flesh. Live in and from the flesh of Jesus Christ: which is all of us in and from him.”
And the intemperate lion will disappear. Not from Holy vengeance, as some think. Just from the act of maintaining its ego polarity. The temperate, connected lion, will lie down with the Lamb, in the Lamb.

What a joyful day it will be when humanity unites with the animal kingdom once more. What beauty awaits us when brotherhood and sisterhood becomes creaturehood!

§ 3 Freedom and linear goal-seeking «

Would you be free? Then stop your linear goal-setting. The ego sets its limited, trivial goals, trying to conceptualize just those conditions which will bring about its desires. Those who dream causal dreams live limited lives: it is like trying to support a rainbow with wire.

True freedom consists in allowing the nexus of unrealized possibility which is you to unfold.

§ 4 The holistic perspective «

It is important to remember that the conscious mind is a social construction. As such its limits are the limits of the dominant conceptual modalities which characterize society. Western Rational society is built on goal-attainment.

Any event which cannot be fit into a preexisting conceptual-causal structure is classified by this dimensionist thinking as illusion or as coincidence. By contrast, the emerging holistic perspective is crystallizing around the coincidences and illusions of Western Rational thought. Holism seeks meaning in every coincidence, senses real possibility in each illusion.

§ 5 On seeing miracles «

Consider for a moment what a spiritual reality organized by divine mind would appear as to dimension-locked minds. What if we insatiably striving egotists were in fact always at just the right place and the right time to receive those lessons which would most perfectly assure our continued spiritual growth? Would not the tracings on causal reality of this divine structure appear (if noticed at all) as mirages or coincidences? And what a threat to these control-obsessed egos would seeing these “accidents” as manifestation of Divine Purpose be?

§ 6 Law «

Law in the causal realm is by definition general; law in the spiritual realm is by definition specific, law in the domain of unchanging Being is tautological.

§ 7 Spiritual struggle as identity crisis «

The spiritual struggle is an identity crisis. Most of us first identify with our history since birth. Most of us are born blind to the order of miracles. The identity crisis comes when a painful pattern which we cannot explain becomes apparent in our history. In many cases the individual has exhausted the range of possible physical, psychological and sociological explanations. Yet the recurring pattern is manifestly bound up with the significance of our lives. Such patterns, if we would only recognize them, are God knocking at the opaque door of our conscious mind. If we fear what is at the door, and most of us do, our crisis becomes deep indeed.

§ 8 Denial of reincarnation prevents freedom «

The single greatest barrier to freedom is the denial of the reality of reincarnation.

§ 9 Western science opposed to reincarnation «

The Western mind recoils at the idea of reincarnation. When it is forced to deal seriously with that topic, it has recourse to the verifiability principle.

On closer examination of the Western methodology, however, we find that it Is but a parody of scientific inquiry. For instead of starting from the assumption and accumulating data, the Western mind starts from the denial and finds mechanisms for neutralizing each item of evidence proffered.

The evidence for reincarnation is voluminous. This transmission will not cast its evidence to be rooted out of the mire of materialism as forage for data gluttony. What rather is of concern here are the reasons for the denial of this enlightened idea.

Where would science be today if the ideas of the atom, the electron, the quark, the cell, and the gene had been opposed with the ferocity accorded the idea of the soul and its transmigration?

§ 10 The concept of 'reincarnation' «

The word “reincarnation” is something of a misnomer, being tied up as it is with the idea of temporal sequence of lives. Time itself is a very limiting concept that has various meanings in various cultures. If we could divest ourselves of our unproductive categories, we might not think this way about reincarnation.

Instead, our theory would be somewhat as follows: the meanings of all lives are stored in the Akashic Record, or Book of Life. Think of this Book of Life as a spiritual holographic laser disc which can project sequences of images anytime, anywhere.

There are certain standard lessons in ethics which constitute the purification of incarnated spirits. Further, there is a spiritual connection between lives learning similar lessons.

Suppose I “get in contact with a past life in ancient Egypt.” I recognize, for example, that my current life as a homosexual bears a relationship to certain ritualistic manipulations of this past Egyptian acolyte by a high priest. Now, it is a mistake to think that somehow there is a soul which sequentially entered the past life and now inhabits my body.

Much more accurate in conception is the idea that from a spiritual domain beyond space-time causality a harmonious entity guides and resonates with certain lives in similar moral predicaments. It is through this spiritual medium that I access the (spiritually relevant) memories of my Egyptian compatriot. But equally possible is that my spiritually relevant memories are similarly accessible to him.

§ 11 The ego and reincarnation «

There is not identity of ego across lives. The ego is a space-time construct.

§ 12 More on the concept of reincarnation «

As I use the term “reincarnation” the following is implied. Human beings can access memories of lifetimes in other times and places, which memories bear a direct relationship to their spiritual growth. There are no accidents: that is, each person’s task is to accept the exact, perfect validity of all lives, yes, even the life of Adolph Hitler or Judas Iscariot. There is free will: people may or may not allow the order of miracles to be incorporated into the world which they are projecting.

§ 13 Four consequences of the denial of reincarnation: «

These are the consequences of the denial of reincarnation: 1) a tetheredness to the present, 2) an insensitivity to the problems of others, 3) a truncated sense of justice, and 4) an ignorance of spiritual purpose.

§ 14 1) Tetheredness to the present «

There is a difference of extremes between the present and the now. The present is time-bound; a cross-section of history; and instant in a linear causal order. The now is the contents of awareness; and what it encompasses is a function of the depth and breadth of consciousness. Living for the present is limited; living in the now is unlimited.

The denial of the reality of reincarnation puts the focus on the present incarnation—a historical cross-section of a soul’d potentiality. Under this view a soul, if it is seen at all, is seen as tethered to a body which is born, lives, and dies. For Aristotle, the soul was the animation, the breath of the body, nothing more.
This attitude sets up a view of the universe as constituted by physical substance which contains within it isolated, limited centers of perception and knowledge whose basic function it is to mirror external physical reality. Such entities are viewed as goal-seeking. Ethics becomes the science of rational goal-seeking.

Under the tyranny of this separatist world view, persons can become terrified of the future (it contains certain death) and possessed by the desire to accomplish as much as possible in this very limited lifespan. All the evils of competition, domination, possessiveness, and intolerance can be traced through this carnal connection to the denial of reincarnation and subsequent living for the present. By contrast, living in the now leads to cooperation, sharing, trust, and acceptance.

§ 15 Aphorism «

There is nothing that cannot be accomplished in the now.

§ 16 2) An insensitivity to others' problems «

We have seen recently the growth of the “that’s your problem” syndrome. As a reminder that each person must take personal responsibility for his or her own happiness, this is good. When, however, the “that’s your problem” attitude is being used to avoid answering a genuine call for help, this is unfortunate. Every great religion has maintained that helping others is a path to spiritual enlightenment.

The theory of reincarnation has the deep implication that in helping others we may be inadvertently helping ourselves. How is this? Well, if I turn my back to another suffering soul, I may be closing my mind to a lifetime similar to one with which I resonate through shared memories. So that I am indeed closing my consciousness off from a much broader, more eternal sense of Self.

Think of the evils of sexism, racism, and nationalism. Awareness of a “past” life as a female bond slave could make me more sensitive to the complaints of contemporary feminists. If I “have been” a black sharecropper in 19th Century Louisiana, will the speeches of Jesse Jackson be quite so threatening? Would not life as an ancient Chinese soldier render me more open to the teachings of Mao.

§ 17 Aphorism «

The idea of one consciousness sharing many lives could render the sisterhood of Woman equal to the brotherhood of Man.

§ 18 3) A truncated sense of justice (karma) «

One cannot make much progress in spirituality without understanding the idea of karma.

What sense can we make out of mass murders, horrible deaths by cancer, holocausts of war-slaughter, or lives ruined by natural catastrophe without bringing in the idea of reincarnation? We can try to understand the psyche of the killer, find cures, work for peace, and predict the weather. But if we believe that we live once and only once, and that each one of us deserves an equal chance, such activities still leave us with the sick, helpless suck of injustice in the pit of our stomachs. How could the universe be so cruel?

How differently will we feel if the dead baby’s life is seen as only one of countless memories of a growing soul? If the agonizing caner death is seen as but one of a series of lessons in courage? If Nazi death camps are schools of and for planetary awareness and against nationalism and racism? If billion-dollar hurricanes are correctives for excess accumulation of personal property?

The last paragraph will make a committed dimensionist seethe with anger. It is because we are treading on their sense of control. Yet without the idea of Karma, the world must forever and ever seem a cruel, unjust, inhospitable place.

Standing in the present attempting to manipulate the future dooms us to death, commits our consciousness to the bonds of four-dimensionality. Living in the now connects us with our lessons, which are really the one lesson: we are all connected. Our lessons, our karma, are the same. Whatever cannot be borne is a lesson unlearned, karma unresolved.

§ 19 Aphorism «

That person who sees injustice is blind to justice.

§ 20 4) A denial of spiritual purpose «

Spiritual purpose first dawns on a person with the opening of the lower heart center, felt behind the breast bone. The human incarnation is a vessel to be filled with God’s love. The first three chakras channel the desires for existence, maintenance (sex, food, rest, etc.), and control, and thus create the vessel. As the first waves of God the Comforter spill into this carnally created container, they cover the floor of the heart and fill the astral plural cavity with Divine Resonance. The person has faith, and begins to feel fulfilled.

However, with the opening of the throat chakra (higher heart center), the love of God begins to spill out of the carnal vessel in loving words and deeds. Thus the Voice and Will of God come into the World through a human channel.

At the same time, the Spirit of God begins to speak, to the human incarnation. The numerous stories, e.g. of Paul on the road to Damascus, where God has spoken to humans for the first time, are examples of the functioning of this fifth center which is the seat of clairaudience.

Another sign that the person is opening the higher heart center is the accessing of past life memories: in dreams, deja-vu, spontaneous recall, or even through the medium of a more realized channel. With the realization of spiritual resonance with other lifetimes comes a sense of the higher spiritual purpose of the present lifetime. Important lessons begin to stand out from trivial ones.

In denying the reality of reincarnation, the person is, in effect, keeping a clamp on the throat center. This can have at least two effects. On the one hand, since the throat center is the center for the appreciation (“my heart is full”) of the connectedness of the universe, the person may be “keeping the lid on the vessel,” and hence, preventing the Comfort of God to enter. On the other hand, a heart that is being filled can burst if the excess is not allowed to spill out in words and deeds.

§ 21 Aphorism «

The Word of God is often written through the similarities of the lifetimes of a Soul.

§ 22 Pain is a gift from God «

Pain is a gift from God. Pain is the way a karmic lesson feels. Hence, the greater the pain, the greater the lesson.

If there were no God, then there would be no pain. Pain is a measure of deviation from perfection, which is God. We (our Self) always create our own pain, just because we always create our own lessons.

All souls start each lifetime with the possibility of perfection. Usually, however, the human being begins early to deviate from this perfect possibility. In a Universe which did not care, all deviation would be equally rewarding. But since God cares, Pain — physical, psychological, and cultural pain — has been created to warn us of our own deviation.

Often times, the pain associated with deviation from perfection does not enter our consciousness until long after the deviation has occurred. At these times, the incarnated soul may rail out at the Universe; asking “Why, Oh, Why are you making me suffer so?” In truth, however, an honest and perceptive search of the lifetime in question reveals the deviant path, and lesser degrees of pain which were more gentle warnings.

Still another possibility is that the deviation was created for the sake of the pain to be experienced. Perhaps this Soul needs to feel what this particular deviation from God is like.

Hatha yoga is physical union with God through physical discipline. All of the yogas represent disciplines which move one closer to perfection.

§ 23 Western culture and pain «

In our Western culture we have been conditioned to fear pain; to avoid it at all costs. When pain becomes a problem we either try to anesthetize the affected part or cut it out. Seldom is a soul encouraged to reflect on reversing the process of living which has produced the pain; even rarer is the soul asked, “What do you think is the lesson in this to be learned?’ And of course this paucity of karmic reflection can be directly traced to the denial of the soul’s transmigration.

By the same token, most of our Western practices are pain-producing, because deviations from perfection. We were made to stand straight, sit erect, and lie flat, but our shoes (high-heels), chairs (overstuffed), and beds were made to scrunch us up. We eat too much fat, flesh and fine foods. We are alternatively sedentary and driven by a work ethic. We hoard our wealth and scorn the rest of the world. We entrap ourselves in merciless sex and cultural roles. We over-exercise our right hand and our left brain.

It is a miracle that anyone lives to thirty without major pain, and a greater miracle still that one’s middle-age and retirement are comfortable.

§ 24 Bearing pain «

There is a proper way to bear pain. First, one must not avoid the pain or the lesson which it bears. Each time that the pain enters consciousness, the soul must say “Thank you, God, for this pain. I would learn the lesson which it bears.” One should never complain about pain, for to do so is to complain about one’s spiritual schooling. Let the pain into your consciousness. Examine int from all sides; ask “Pain, what would you have me do?” If you are truly open and honest, the answer will come to you. More often than not, however, you will not want to hear or heed the message. What rebellious children we are!

When in the midst of pain make this dual effort. Constantly monitor and do not permit the pain to exceed you level of toleration. But within that limit make every effort to do your work, help others, and love God. But do it slowly enough that you maintain your sense of healing.

§ 25 The message of pain «

The message of pain is “Stop.” The message of “Stop” is “Start.” Thank God for direction.

§ 26 Pain and miracles «

Pain is a miracle tapping at the window of our soul.

§ 27 What God is like «

God looks like one human being helping another one. God sounds like “Thank you” heart-felt. God feels like a good friend. When we are at our best, we are One with God.

§ 28 On universal religious experience «

Our problem for centuries has been to get a God’s eye view of earth, i.e. a view of earth from every possible angle and from no angle at all.

Just as nationalistic pride must give way to planetary unity, so must zealous sectarianism give way to a globally shared understanding of the religious experience.

Once again, it is a matter of opening the higher centers of consciousness. This material clot which we call our body is a mass of painful blockage for the vast majority. The religious experience is the breaking up of this lumpen energy. Of course, there are different religions, for there are different traditional rituals and disciplines for loosing the spirit from the flesh within the consciousness of the current incarnation.

Behind these divisions — these races, cultures, nationalities, regions — there is a human race questing to burst its finitude. And it is possible to put together a practice so universal that it will speak to the devout of any calling.

§ 29 Religious ecstasy and forgiveness «

Religious ecstasy and forgiveness are one and the same phenomenon. Most of us most of the time are not forgiving, because knot forgiving. Knot forgiveness is a fearful adaptation to a conflict of wills.

We are the authors of our worlds, but not the sole author. Every life story is jointly authored by the person, significant others and God. When we would write our story differently than another, conflict arises. Conflict is a knot at the base of the heart. Going on with one’s heart in knots is knot forgiving.

These knots are decisions to this effect: “We see the world differently, you and I. I am right and you are not right. I can no longer flow with you regarding this matter. Therefore, it is necessary for me to erect a barrier of mistrust and misgiving between the two of us and for my own good.”

Surely nearly everyone has had a true experience of forgiveness. The knotted heart breaks open, repentance rushes into the rended area, tears flow, the throat knots, then opens as words of repentance pour out. Misgiving becomes giving, mistrust becomes trust. Knot forgiveness becomes forgiveness. Release and relief are felt. A soul is healed. In the spiritual world, healing is the removal, not the creation of scars.

Now it can be seen why religious ecstasy and forgiveness are equivalent. When we forgive the rest of the universe for not being us, for being unique, we start to trust it. The biggest knot of the human heart, our ego, i.e. our will against God, unravels, and we are filled with the Holy Spirit. This is why every act of forgiveness and repentance brings us one step closer to salvation.

§ 30 Holism and forgiveness «

It is in this equivalence of forgiveness and religious ecstasy that we find a unifying construct for the new religion of Earth. Holism is a metaphysical and theological stance which implies this equivalence.

Although Western logic is itself fatally flawed by the identity principle (a = a ^ a # b), modus tolens, a standard form of reason can be used to express this implication:

If p => q then -q => -p
or
If - forgiving => separation

Then - separation => forgiving

Surely, the argument in § 29 shows that knot forgiving implies separation. But then not separation implies forgiving. In other words, holism implies forgiving.

In other words, holism implies religious ecstasy. We earthlings are still not ready as a planet to forgive the universe. But we are ready to forgive the earth; to make it whole. War is knot forgiveness. Peace is forgiving.

When I was a child, we used to say, “I’d give anything in the whole wide world to do this or that.” That so-called childish pledge-wish was far closer to Truth than much I have said since. Because, if we were truly willing to give anything in the whole wide world, there would be nothing that we couldn’t do! Nothing would separate us from our wants, for we would have everything we want. That is precisely the experience of religious ecstasy — having everything one wants. If I have everything that I want, I experience the universe as “on my side.” But surely to experience as on my side must send shivers of awe and appreciation through my being.

These feelings, of course, must not be confused with the very limiting experience that “everything is going my way.” This feeling usually implies that there is a fit between my limited carnal goals and what my experience is yielding. What is good for us is so much larger than our limited conceptions. This feeling also implies (usually) that we have been controlling the flow of experience. What is meant for us is so much fuller than our little will could channel.

§ 31 On feelings of connection «

These are the feelings of connection: awe, devotion, gratitude, compassion, discovery, infatuation, security. Gauge your entry into the New Age by the presence or absence of them.

§ 32 Relative importance of feelings and thoughts «

Hear this well! All of the energy centers of the human incarnation have a resonance — a level and frequency of vibration which signals its connection to another being. Our feelings of connection are our experiences of resonance, our movement toward harmony. As such they are far more important than our thoughts. Harmonious thoughts are consequent upon harmonious feelings.

§ 33 Fragmentation in 20th Century part of the evolution of peaceful globe «

We are moving into an era of connectedness and out of an era of fragmentation. The Twentieth Century has been a period of transition from one form of connectedness to another. At first, the signs of this shift were taken as unfortunate.

There was a loss of cohesiveness at every level of society. Loyalty in primary relationships gave way to independence and exploration for the individual. Patriotism fell out of favor and was replaced by political dissent. Racial strife and tension between the sexes was rife. Two world wars were waged. Chemical and nuclear pollution permeated the planet.

Yet this dissolution of the old ways was metaphysically necessary. In the old way balance meant inequity. The patriarchal hierarchy: man, woman, child was stable but top-heavy. The organization of these family units into hierarchical communities of primary allegiance was protective yet divisive between political units.

With nationalistic patriotism and family allegiance must necessarily come bickering, competition, fighting, and outright war. Peace requires a change.

Peace at different levels is coming. At the individual level, each human being is harmonizing and balancing both masculine and feminine elements. This implies (given the inequity of the old ways) that every member of the new primary unity will have both positive and negative, rational and intuitive qualities. Cooperation will replace competition as the new form of interaction.

At the national level, peace must involve world government. Individuals must come to hold their patriotic commitments to the planet and its people, and not to individual governments. Yet what could have given impetus to such a move but the threat of global annihilation? The old patriarchal, nationalistic system was and is stable, even if oppressive. It returns to itself.

At the social level peace demands the formation of communities of understanding. Yet the social and the spiritual level are ultimately to be harmonized. Spiritual peace inevitably involves the uniting of the individual with the Creative Force from which he or she was generated. Peaceful communities must necessarily be spiritual ones — places where the values of service and ultimate purpose are freely embraced.

In a peaceful community, God is immanent, tangibly felt in every experience of every individual.

§ 34 Aphorism «

Peace and God are One.

§ 35 On seeing miracles «

Every connection is a miracle. All things are connected. To the degree that we see disconnection, to that degree are we blind. That is a spiritual mind which observes meaningful connections between events.

There are two kinds of seeing: causal sight and Divine Vision. Causal sight sees through the space-time categories placed on existence by a knowing mind. The Holy Will of God is written on the causal order through the subjugation of causal sight to Divine Vision.

§ 36 «

Eternal Truth:

1. All persons are Good.
2. Everyone is an emanation from God.
3. Temporary structures do not exist.
4. The ego is a temporary structure.
5. The Self is a permanent structure.
6. Spiritual advancement involves uniting the ego and the Self in purpose.
7. The Self’s purpose is to serve as a Divine Template for material emanation.
8. The ego is a temporary platform whose function is to elevate material emanation.
9. Good” is another word for “created by God”
10. Light is a resonance with Divine Purpose.
11. Peace is a state of non-judgment.
12. Happiness is the harmonious functioning of the ego.
13. The work of God is to bring peace and happiness.
14. Condemnation is a bitter act.
15. Those who condemn, while they are good, are neither peaceful nor happy.
16. Bliss is union with God.
17. Those who condemn are not with God. However, God is with everyone.
18. Light, peace, happiness, bliss; these are forms of God-knowledge or Self-realization.
19. Separation or connection with God are the only alternatives.
20. The work of God is the hope of the world.

§ 37 On suffering and cynicism «

Why have so many good saints suffered, so many good leaders been assassinated? Is this cause for cynicism?

Not at all. Most of us are not yet ready to forgive the personification of the ego’s destruction. Most of us cannot separate pain from unsettlement, from unhappiness.

The work of God sometimes calls for pain.

§ 38 The purpose of judgment «

Why has judgment arisen? Judgment created the material level of emanation. It its essence it is the holy work of God. However, it its particularity it denies the holy work of God.

But one conclusion is significant. Judgment arose so that it could be taken back with what it created. Forgiveness carries our little world into the Kingdom of God.

§ 39 On judgment and achieving holy purpose «

Do you believe judgment is required because people are evil and, hence, the degree of deviation must be charted and reduced to zero? Do you believe that non-judgment will cause the good to be swallowed up by the rampant evil?

Remember then: God has an eternity, an infinite number of planets, to achieve holy purpose. Should we blow our planet up, the Universe will still get another chance.
Would you be carried up into the Clouds of Heaven? Believe then today as in § 36. Why not resonate with Divine Purpose?!

§ 40 Aphorism «

Money is but a form of judgment: judgment is the root of all evil.

§ 41 The insanity of judgment «

What is judgment? Is it not deciding that you know whether or not the work of God is being done by you or by someone else? Is it not insanity to think that you, with your little category-fence, could ride herd on God’s flock?

§ 42 The Holiest act in the world «

The Holiest act in this world occurs when the body’s eyes are cast on any scene, and through these eyes the peace of God flows from the Creator to the Created. When judgment is replaced with recognition, God’s Love flows.

§ 43 On forgiving others. «

When I recognize mySelf in you, and when I have forgiven mySelf, God’s Love flows. Then two are as one.

When you find something in someone which you don’t like, recognize that this is something for which you have not yet forgiven yourself. Then forgive that person for being like you. You will feel the peace of God fill your heart.

§ 44 The tree of knowledge as metaphor for judgment «

We are familiar with the tree of knowledge story in the Bible. Consider this interpretation of that myth. (Do not assume “myth” implies “unreal.”

Let us say that in this story, the tree of knowledge is literally a set of categories by which each existent think can be identified by a knowing soul. The garden itself, in which the tree grows, is a state of being in which a knowing soul resonates with God. Everything which the soul needs for perfect existence has been provided by God in this garden.

Now God created the Soul to know through residing in Being., to remain perfect and unseparated, it would acknowledge its vision as a gift from God, and its categories as not immutable, but rather a part of the Holy Design.

However, as we know, with God, all things are possible, including the possibility that a perfect knowing soul might be tempted to shear its connection with God and assert its categories as self-generated through inquiry and discovery. When God forbade the early residents of the Garden of Eden from eating of the tree of knowledge, The Holy One was forbidding the sundering of connection between Created Soul and Uncreated Being, since such disconnection would be merely illusory. (Holy prohibition amounts to a state of logical impossibility.)

Now we must account for the symbolism of the serpent, and of male and female.() In this context, male and female represent the two modes of knowing: rational and intuitive. The serpent represents the more primitive form of knowing — non-categorical; synaptic direct-connectedness which preceded the human form at the level of material emanation. “Serpent” intelligence, in fact, contains the three lower centers of consciousness which register security, the filling of appetites (sex, thirst, hunger), and control of environment.

However, the Final cause of the three lower centers (that for which they evolved) is ultimately reunion with God. Created intelligence has to see itself at the level of material emanation for reunion to be possible, yet serpent intelligence has no self-concept. God’s solution to this problem of reunion was to generate rational intelligence — a set of categories — a tree of knowledge — by which the created soul could identify itself and its place in things. Still a tree of knowledge connected only to serpent intelligence, that would have been a wicked thing, living only for its own survival and appetites. God’s plan was to create within this expanded intelligence an intuitive connection to the Creator. Intuitive intelligence would resonate to the Holy Ideas being projected by Creation. It would be an elevating guide for rational mind. And most of all, it would function as a receiver of Divine Love.

According to the Bible, Eve was created from Adam’s rib. Some have seen this story as oppressive to women, and, indeed, it has been so used. In the context of this interpretation, though, this story is seen to contain valid information.

Also clarified is the meaning of the biblical expression that from that day forward, they would have to live by the sweat of their brow. (Ed. note: When the “eye is single,” the brow is cool.) With the internal connection to God severed, goal-seeking behavior had to replace flowing harmoniously with nature. Polarized humanity, i.e. Adam and Eve, had to scratch whatever paltry sustenance their insufficient categories could sort out of the seething complexity of existence.

And what is the meaning of the biblical assertion that Eve must bear her fruit in pain? If we look beyond the obvious meaning, we see that as a soul reincarnates, it is the intuitive intelligence, or connectedness with God, which must pull the passion-driven rational intelligence painfully from the material-conceptual mire created by the socialization of the child into the practice of judgment.

§ 45 How knowledge of God is possible «

How is knowledge of God possible? The fact remains that some sincere, sane, intelligent people come to believe in God through knowledge of [one or more] Holy acts.

It may be recalled that Immanuel Kant proposed an analysis of knowledge based on the kinds of synthetic and analytic, a priori and a posteriori. Kant asserted that fundamental moral knowledge was synthetic a priori. His famous categorical imperative — Act only that thy maxim could become a universal law — was about experience (synthetic), yet brought to experience (a priori).

Empiricists, and especially the 20th Century positivists and verificationists, have since repeatedly tried to show that the synthetic a priori is an empty category. This, despite the fact that no one has successfully shown Hume’s criticism of the verificationist’s criterion of knowledge (given way before the term ‘verification’ was cast) to be incorrect. That is, we can never know [with absolute certainty] if our empirical laws are correct.

The verificationist denies the synthetic a priori, and since knowledge of God is synthetic a priori, no one can consistently both be a verificationist and hold a non-trivial theological position at the same time.

In sum, just as empirical knowledge of cause and effect relationships is made possible by the metaphysical assumption of its possibility, so is the synthetic a priori knowledge of the presence of God in the world made possible by the metaphysical assumption of its possibility.

§ 46 Adam and Jesus «

In Adam’s fall categories were given to the world, in Jesus Christ’s ascension, these categories were taken back, or forgiven.

§ 47 Validation in the quest for God «

The assumption that all knowledge is general has been the greatest barrier to knowledge of God. Each human life is unique, and strives to find its own unduplicated path back to God. Hence, God communicates with each individual in its particularity.

In empirical science, validation is verification of a universal conditional statement about events. In the individual quest for God, validation is noting unique but meaningful coincidences in the causal order of such significance that they must either be dismissed as incredible but apparently chance occurrences or accepted as evidence of superhuman intention. Needless to say, one who fails to look for such connections, or yet more strongly, asserts their impossibility as a matter of metaphysical principle, is not likely to note their occurrence.

§ 48 Aphorism «

The acceptance of salvation amounts to nothing more than the opening of the human heart to the possibility of God’s existence.

§ 49 On freeing the intuition «

In accepting our salvation we free our intuition from the bondage of conception and passion. This is a non-linear way of looking at the World: we open to and intuit the provisions which God has already made for us. Jung discussed synchronicity or meaningful coincidence. Synchronicity is an a priori category of not the understanding but the intuition which conveys knowledge about the world.

In religious literature, synchronistic connections have been called ‘miracles.’ Those who try to prove or disprove miracles scientifically are missing the point. A scientific explanation makes appeal to general principle. There is no general principle by which a genuine miracle is to be explained, just because miracles are the result of the interaction of a unique and sincere mind inquiring into its final purpose and God’s will. [Ed. question: What makes you think that all of God’s laws are universal in character?]

§ 50 Apprehending the presence of God «

We cannot apprehend the presence of God in the lives of others as we apprehend the presence of a corporate president in a company. Neither an we apprehend the presence of God in the lives of others before we apprehend the presence of God in our own lives. If we will allow it, God leaves a trace not on the events of our lives, but rather on the meaning of our lives.

§ 51 Aphorism «

Without the synthetic a priori there would be no philosophy — only science and logic.

§ 52 Aphorism

Even more Holy than the uniting of male and female in two individuals is the uniting of male and female in one individual.

§ 53 On parents and peace «

It is of the utmost importance that we come to complete peace with our parents. This means that we must not judge them, but rather accept the fact that without them we would not have had the opportunities of God-realization in this present incarnation. Moreover, each of us, whether physically male or female, must come to peace equally with both parents. Such a resolution is a material symbol of our peace with both our rational and intuitive faculties.

A healing affirmation is:

“I chose just these parents because it was they who could most assist in my self-realization. I freely and joyfully incorporate their God-connection into my Being.”

§ 54 Androgyny and wholeness «

Androgyny is the most whole state of gender expression. Our creator is both positive and negative, male and female, extended and non-extended, and more:

Affirmations for men:

It is as Divine to be a woman as to love one.
It is as Divine to love a man as to be one.

Affirmations for women:

It is as Divine to be a man as to love one.
It is as Divine to love a woman as to be one.

§ 55 Sexual feelings in the New Age «

In the material phase of the New Age, our sexual feelings will follow our heart and will always be a celebration and glorification of a Divine connection.

That is not to say that we will find only bisexual people in the New Age, but only that it will not be assumed that only women marry men and only men marry women.

§ 56 Aphorism «

If we could see the good in people, we would not care about the appearance of their sexual characteristics.

§ 57 Affirmations for gender liberation «

Some men will need to say these affirmations:

It is as Divine to be a man as to love one.
It is as Divine to love a woman as to be one.

And some women these:

It is as Divine to be a woman as to love one.
It is as Divine to love a man as to be one.

§ 58 What kind of category is intuitive apprehension of God? «

At this point we will elaborate on what kind of category it is that makes knowledge of God possible. We are at the heart of metaphysics here. Down through the ages this point has been discussed under the heading: freedom and determination.

All theories about the possibility of human choice are metaphysical at base and cannot be verified. This includes the common Western metaphysical assumption that each human choice has a unique (though possibly complex), observable cause at some preceding time which completely determines its character. On this theory, the future is simply the unfolding of possibilities implicit in the past.

The Twentieth Century, which reflected the thought of Einstein and Heisenberg, though it has been giving up this strict deterministic account of human choice, yet has held on to the theory that the future is implicit in the past. Modern statistical theory, while acknowledging in principle that a deep causal structure theory of human choice may not be possible, nevertheless tries to find reference categories by which the future can be, if not accounted for in terms of causes, at least predicted.

Another metaphysical assumption about human choice is that the future is the creation of possibilities which were in the past not as unalterable outcomes, but merely as alternatives. This rational mind cannot accept or understand this assumption precisely because it is categorical in nature and therefore only apprehends truth as instances of universal principle. It is the intuitive mind, with its immediate connection to everything, which operates on this principle. The intuitive mind apprehends truth not in symbolic terms, but rather as direct connection to what is being apprehended.

Look at the gamut of so-called supernatural phenomena: dowsing, telepathy, telekinesis, poltergeist, past life knowledge, miraculous healing, fire walking, levitation, astral projection, synchronistic connection. All these have been repeatedly scoffed at by committed verificationists. And why? Was it not that these phenomena do not fit the principle category of the understanding, cause and effect? Are they not saying: Nothing that the understanding cannot apprehend exists?
However, we are now in a position to shed considerable light on this subject, and to extend categorical knowledge of the human mind in such a way that the understanding at least may countenance the existence of the intuition.

The intuitive mind is connected to everything. Hence it can make no sense of the identity principle, which says that everything is itself and not some other thing. For the intuitive mind, categories are not isolated joints in a nomological net, rather categories are just a part of the swirl of reality. For the intuitive mind it is as easy to adjust what the concept refers to as it is to adjust the concept.

What is at stake in the coming of the New Age is nothing less than the ceding of the identity principle. In doing so, however, there is a gain and a loss. The loss, of course, is obvious. There is a loss of identity attendant upon ceding the identity principle. When you think about it, human identity frequently has been tied up with the idea of having control over a little (more or less) piece of experience. The idea that I co-create everything that happens to me in conjunction with the rest of the universe, including all Souls, is frightening to those who worship at the shrine of rationality.

On the other hand, what is gained, if one identifies with everything, is a limitless power, for then, I have a stake and a say in everything that occurs anywhere. But not a total say, at least from the rational point of view.

These ideas help us to see the foolishness in expecting a scientific verification of miraculous healing and other such phenomena. To use an old Rylean phrase, it is a category mistake. A miracle is an event which requires the cooperation of the entire universe. It is in fact for the good of the entire universe. And since the universe is continuously being created anew, no finite set of categories will ever be sufficient to generate invariably what is for the good of all.

G. E. Moore was right. We can never define the good. But if we identify with God, at least we can participate in it. For what is God, in the end, but a metaphysical category of the intuition? Categories of the intuition do not function, of course, exactly as do categories of the understanding. As is well known, categories of the understanding make scientific knowledge possible by defining an external linguistic matrix in which regularities can occur. Categories of the intuition make union with God possible by setting up an internal connection to everything.

The intuitive mind sees the future as full of and seething with possibilities. Every situation is an opportunity to gain one’s heart’s desire. However, since much of this possibility is totally unpredictable, the intuitive mind scrupulously avoids a pre-analysis of events, since this would imply a limited, and hence disconnected point of view.

This is not to say that the intuitive mind has no use for the categories of the understanding. These are seen as having been necessary for the creation of the external world. Whereas the rational mind under the control of the appetites has been tricked into creating and extending a technological morass of gigantic proportions (causally speaking), the intuitive mind accepts that God — the universe — tends to its every need, including those of which it is not yet aware.

The intuitive mind comes to see that God, the great Tailor/Seamstress, is constantly sewing up the tattered clothes of rationality. It would identify with the repair, rather than with the wear and tear. The most amazing thing about putting the intuitive mind where it belongs, i.e. inspiring and healing the rational mind, is that in doing so, one casts a blessing of perfect dimensions (0 dimensions) on one’s life. For the truth of the matter is, that reality is such, that God exists and the future is pregnant with God’s loving possibility. This truth cannot be seen with a knotted heart.

§ 59 Saying «

Seek first the kingdom of heaven, and all things will be added onto you.

§ 60 On the gender of God «

There is a matter that must be cleared up here — the matter of God the Gather and His only begotten Son. On one level this way of speaking can be a barrier to understanding and intuiting our relationship to the infinite. It can be taken as embodying sexist, patriarchal presuppositions about holiness, and indeed it has been so used.

Having great empathy for all human beings, men and women equally and alike, I desire to find a truth int the Holy Father and Son metaphor which elevates all human beings without regard to biological sex.

The Course in Miracles, for example, a set of three books considered to be the channeled word of Christ by many, encourages us in the use of the male parent-child relationship as metaphor for the relationship between God and human being.
To begin with, it is well to remember that in the strictest biological sense the relationship between God and God’s creatures cannot be adequately represented as solely father to son. That would exclude God’s daughters and sorely limit our conception of God.

It is to the meanings historically associated with the male parent-child relationship, and to the limitations of contemporary English that we must turn for insight into what is being said with the Father-Son metaphor. Historically, male has been viewed as positive, rational, external; female has been viewed as negative, intuitive, internal.

The written and spoken Word of God, of course, is making use of linguistic categories — i.e. generations of the rational mind. Hence, it is a rational conception of God attempting to express in Holy Scriptures. In English, too, a choice must be made for appropriate personal pronoun. God can either be a thing (it), male (he), or female (she). And so, patriarchal abusiveness aside, we would not want to conceive of God as a thing. Furthermore, implicit in the choice of the male personal pronoun is the implication of God as just (rational) divinity. It is thought that justice implies judgment.

To approach the same point from a different angle, in books God is generally being objectified and externalized. The male pronoun carries this subtle suggestion of an external connection with God through a linguistic vehicle.

It is interesting to note that in religions where the female aspect of deity is more prominent, language functions more to evoke a connection which is immanent rather that to express an external divine being.

Since rational categories in a sense penetrate the field of infinite possibility, the Father-Son metaphor speaks more directly to the rational mind. Each of us, both male and female in the biological sense, whose rational mind remains tethered to our loins, would do well to heed the non-sexist content of this metaphor.

Thus the Son of God is an external manifestation of a God apprehended by the rational mind. He is the reflection of unextended God in Nature. He is the possibility that categories can serve the Good of All. And that possibility is present in every biological male and female. When we allow this possibility to actualize, we accept our salvation.

It is quite a precious half of experience, however, to consider and allow to wash over us the feelings implicit in the Mother-Daughter metaphor for Divinity.

For in English, the Mother connotes internal, intuitive divine presence. We may see God the Father, but we can feel God the Mother. We can feel her loving hands holding and comforting our pain-wracked bodies, soothing our brows, warming our hearts. She wells up within us.

Even as constructive is for each of us to find the Daughter of God within us. For this is the Daughter that loves the Mother as herself. This is no reflection of an external God in a set of crystallized categories, this is nurturing, infinite possibility — a little piece of totally fertile soil right within our Being. When we let the Daughter of Mother-God flourish within us, we achieve a solid connectedness, a true foundation, a healing internal presence that charms and delights us with Her subtle beauty.

The World Religion of the New Age will encourage us all in the use of both Father-Son and Mother-Daughter metaphors as a means of understanding our relationship to God. This is why the concept of reincarnation is so important to a completely harmonious metaphysics. For through this conception, each incarnated soul can apprehend that its current biological form is not a matter of essence. If we do open ourselves to past lives, we will connect to memories as both male and female, and this will deepen our appreciation of both aspects of the One Deity.

§ 61 Gender as a barrier to apprehending God «

This matter of the use of the (English) language to refer to and/or express the One Deity is no small matter. In fact, dealing correctly with the limitations of a gender-based language is essential to adequate theology.

I can realize from a theoretical argument that God cannot be limited by gender. Yet unless I can find a syntactically and semantically sound way to refer to such a gender-free God, my musings will retain a somewhat ephemeral quality. This is exactly the situation in which we find ourselves. In English, God must be either He, She, or it, yet God is more than each of these. The problem is not solved by either opting for one choice, or trying to be fair in applying now one pronoun, now another.

At one time I tried to solve this problem by attempting inventing a new personal pronoun. I gave an entire declension of this pronoun, as follows:

A sincere effort, but not a solution. For one person cannot simply invent a new syntactical form. Look what happens when we try to use the above solution: “Se is quite attractive, but that hat of hirms is not attractive on hirm.” The problem with this sentence is that we do not really understand what it is saying. The new personal pronoun would have to acquire acceptance and usage before we could write or speak such a sentence and have it be meaningful.

This particular proposed linguistic change is severely handicapped by our own cultural and social categories. We simply cannot conceive of a person without gender. Yet this is precisely what we must do if we are to acquire a more intimate understanding of and relationship with God. Praying to God the Mother and God the Father is a symptom of syntactical and social categorical incompleteness.

Indeed, until recently, agreement was almost universal that a person without gender was a thing to be pitied, hated, feared, and changed into something more comprehensible. In doing so, we rejected the very nature of God as expressed in a human person.

We have made great strides in overcoming our racial and cultural stereotypes. There are fewer people today that cannot conceive of God as colorless, as beyond culture. However, the last great barrier to the apprehension of Divinity is the almost universal adoption of polarized gender identity. The categories male and female, when used to classify the human race into two neat piles, are truly the greatest current source of dualistic thinking.

Here is a thought that will appear perverse to all but a few. Yet it is worth expressing. Could it be that the drag queens, the transvestites, the transsexuals, the lesbians and gay men of the world are but another aspect of Divinity attempting to express itself upon a rigid, dualistic world? Could these outcasts of society have a holy function in their very nature.

We here in the West occasionally deride the caste system in India which Gandhi worked so tirelessly to break down. Yes, even the most polarized person at the level of sexual and gender identity can shed a tear for an untouchable. But shed a tear for a transvestite? Are you kidding? They need help!

§ 62 Clothes and architecture «

Clothes and architecture have many things in common. They surround, nurture, protect, and channel people. Yet how far would architecture have gotten, had we insisted that buildings be male or female? Whenever clothing has been used to express the holy nature of a person, it has been strikingly different from clothing used to express gender-identity. What are we doing to ourselves when we insist that for most of us, clothing must show distinct sexual markings? Are we not heedlessly taking a stand against expressing our holy nature in our garb?

Except for a few fashion designers who are struggling to express androgyny and cross-gender qualities in their new styles, the fashion industry, in addition to promoting the usual material-istic approach to human adornment, is a, if not the, major source of dualistic perception in the human race.

§ 63 Buttons and zippers «

Why do men’s shirt buttons go on the right and women’s blouse buttons go on the left? Hint: The left side of the brain (by and large, in this culture) controls the right side of the body and vice versa.

The zipper is more powerful than the button.

§ 64 Questions «

Well, do we or don’t we want an integrated intelligence?

§ 65 God as parent

Thinking of God as a Parent and human being as a Child is closer to the truth that thinking of God and human being in gendered forms. Yet some times we will need the Father-Son or Mother-Daughter metaphor to express an aspect of Creator-Created.

There is but a single begotten Son in each of us, the one Christ that the person Jesus identified with, the possibility that human will be Divine. External creation being by nature dualistic requires a single unifying principle.

However, the Daughters of God are as many as exist distinct human forms. The Mother, being infinite possibility, creates endless variations on that theme. The descent and consequent dispersion of God into the endless varieties of material human experience is a feminine activity.

§ 66 The genitals of the Universe «

The genitals of the Universe are at the interface of sentient life and its Creator. The pun in that expression “the Second Coming of Christ” is no joke! And what an orgasm of joy it will be.

The sexual orgasm is but a material symbol of the union of external and internal, the rectification of the Fall, the lighting of the darkness.

§ 67 Meditation and intuition «

In meditation I am calling attention to intuition.

§ 68 Riddle «

Riddle: What do those who deny the existence of God and those who claim only one religious view is correct have in common? Answer: They both deny The Host.

§ 69 Invite God into your bed «

Do invite God into your bed. At the least, this means maintaining intuitive (metacategorical) connections with your lovers and your dreams. At the most, this means making a dream of your life.

§ 70 Unicorn as cell of God «

An excellent model for God is the many-celled living organism. Each cell enjoys a restricted interaction with cells around it. A cell’s eye view does not reveal the complexity of the organism. Yet what is a living many-celled organism but the harmonious interaction of single cells?

I am suggesting that there is an emergent domain of reality which consists of the harmonious interaction of the sentient beings of this planet. Unlike the cells of which they are constructed, sentient beings are evolving in the direction of more complete union with the total Being which they share and make possible. In the human race in particular, this evolution amounts to the integrated expansion of both internal and external connectedness to everything.

The rallying symbol for this evolution is the unicorn. Regardless of the etymological derivation of the term, ‘unicorn’ is well-suited to describe this tendency in multi-celled creation. In addition to what has already been considered in A Handbook for Unicorns, ‘corn’ as a word for ‘horn’ suggests the cornucopia, or horn of plenty. ‘Uni’ suggests oneness or integration, and so we come to the idea that the harmonious function of all multi-celled creatures will provide everything which they need.

§ 71 The ontological status of evil «

What is the ontological status of evil? The standard holist answer is that it is an illusion. The standard dimensionist reply to this is: “Look at this world! How can you say that?!” Let us then consider how it is that we can say that evil is an illusion.
Consider the following figure.

Now let us imagine that someone is show but a brief glance at this figure. He or she might see three cubes upright, or three cubes upside down, or just a six-pointed star. Most people will be able to stare at this figure until their perception switches between the three possible figures. One who is not aware of the existence of optical illusions might be quite amazed to discover the dualistic nature of this illusion.
What is of interest to us here is the ontological status of the cubes in the illusory perception. The cubes owe their being to a unique and temporary relationship to a particular sentient being among whose perceptual constructs is the cube. They are really seen to be there, but with a change in perception they will really be seen either to be different or not to be there at all — replaced by a six-pointed star.

For the holist, the situation with what most people call good and evil is similar to the situation with the illusory cubes. Something may be perceived as good or evil depending on the categories of perception and of the understanding which one brings to it. What is called sexual perversion is a good example of this phenomenon. For the most part, those who practice the so-called perversion perceive it as good, those who do not, as evil.

Sometimes, the pronouncement that something is evil is based on ignorance. That is, upon further accumulation of information and study, what appeared to be an occasion for condemnation, or on closer examination requires, it is thought, pity, or Christian charity. However, this dos not always happen. Instead, it frequently happens that as more and more evidence accumulates, the occasion in question becomes more and more obviously a subject of derision or modification.

Those with a holistic perspective attempt to step past both these alternatives. We realize that our rational mind can never accumulate enough pieces of information to completely and unbiasedly comprehend any situation. We therefore attempt to intuit the fact that every situation is a projection of Divine purpose. We decide to find the holiness in the situation. In other words, we become the healers, the agents of God, by our forgiving act. Thus, the rational ascription of either good of evil to a situation is illusory, while the intuitive appreciation of the Divine qualities of all vibratory creation is connecting with Reality.

Again we are brought back to the importance of the theory of reincarnation. Consider the situation where a sincere human being has gone to the extra effort to understand the complexities of someone else’s alleged crime. Still after all this study and effort, he or she condemns this fellow human being. Is not the the harsh judgment due to the fact that the judge detests those “criminal” qualities in him- or herself? And then, is not this “evil” self-concept being projected on the “sinner?” On the theory of reincarnation the self who projects such evil self-concepts on the wold either has or will have experienced these selfsame self-concepts as good in another lifetime.

So the holist asks “Why not abandon the endless cycle of polarized reincarnation and entirely forego separative judgment?” Why not always be with God?

§ 72 What creates the bifurcorn «

It is not categorical thinking per se which results in the perception of good and evil. It is rather the will to power which tempts the finite soul to invest this or that particular set of categories with specialness that creates the bifurcorn—the legendary beast in all of us which insists that it is a sheep rather than a goat, or vice versa. Only the Love of God can integrate the horns of this dilemma.

§ 73 How to bring about the ideal society «

All plans to bring about an ideal society by separative means are doomed to failure. The only way to bring about an ideal society is to remove the good/bad distinction from its midst.

§ 74 Revolutions which attack «

All revolutions which attack any human being are cancers on the already evolving body of Christ. This includes some forms of Christian evangelism. The army of God is an unhappy metaphor.

§ 75 How can we open our hearts to God's plan? «

There is only one plan for the good of humanity and that is God’s plan. We may open our hearts to this plan by seeing the good in each human we encounter, yes, even those we perceive to be attacking us.

§ 76 Eastern and Western discipline «

Reality is what results from the interaction of possibilities. Possibilities reside in Being. We accept the belief that with God all things are possible. On this belief, reality is completely malleable. The apparent restrictions on what can happen result from restriction of possibilities and their interaction.

The external reality of space-time events to which we refer the events of our lives has resulted purely from millions of people playing by the same rules. Western society lives in a massive tangle of restricted possibilities generated largely by the disciplines. These range from logic, math, and physical science, through the helping professions and the social sciences, to history and the arts.

These codifications of thought and action are held to be knowledge. They are in fact monuments to restricted Being. It is true (in a restricted sense) that one cannot by taking thought change the laws of physics. This is in part because each person typically maintains social relationships which have been built assuming the laws of physics.

Rather that taking thought, what one must do to transcend the contemporary categories of human thought is to call his/her attention to intuition. ‘Dhyana’ is the term given to this activity in the science of yoga. The discipline of yoga is to the intuition what the discipline of science (broadly conceived as including all rational thought) is to the reason.

It is through the regular practice of dhyana that the transcendental union with Being in which resides all possibility occurs, i.e., through meditation we achieve samadhi. However, just as one cannot become an advanced computer technologist without mastering Western scientific discipline, just so can one not become a yogi adept with attendant healing and other miraculous powers without the discipline of yoga (or similar discipline).

Six preceding disciplines are required for successful dhyana: yama (right action), niyama (religious observance), asana (correct posture), praniyama (control of life force), pratyahara (withdrawal from external sense objects), and dharana (single-pointedness of mind).

§ 77 The new integrated discipline «

What we are seeing in the last fifteen years of the Twentieth Century is the union of Western and Eastern science. The logic of inquiry and yoga are being integrated. Holist metaphysics is the growing foundation for this integration. With this is developing a new discipline which integrates each Soul’s rational and intuitive approaches to Being.
While this New Age discipline is far from codified, we may discern some new forms which it is taking.

§ 78 Discipline for changing our experience «

The rational mind not under the guidance of intuition frequently wants contradictory things. It also frequently wishes to prescribe not only the outcomes desired, but also the means of acquiring these outcomes. It seldom foresees all of the undesirable consequences of its intervention.

A developing form of discipline is the practice of affirmations. An affirmation is a short statement describing a desired state of affairs which statement is repeated verbatim for a specific period of time. The intuition is powerless to modify reality when dictated to by a confused and vacillating reason. Affirmations give the intuition a fixed mold in which to cast experience.

A related discipline, though harder for the Western mind to learn is visualization. Visualization is the practice of seeing in the mind’s eye that which is desired. As the intuition becomes stronger, this technique becomes easier to use and more effective.

Related in still a different way is the practice of imagining other people, oneself, parts of the body and/or situations as bathed in white light. What this does is to remind us that the objects of our perception are after all created out of the interaction of rational categories with what Lewis called “the given.” Seeing in light helps us to find the good, the “created by God,” the unrealized potential in an apparently fixed situation.

§ 79 Discipline for accepting our experience «

Equally important to forms of discipline which help us to bring about desired objectives are those designed to help us put away our restless striving and rather to accept the current state in which we find ourselves.

What is emerging in this connection is not so much a set of methods but rather a loose collection of attitudes and dispositions. Basic here is the idea that if we are experiencing a lack of fulfillment or striving, perhaps what we need is to expand our categories to find fulfillment and contentment in our experience rather than to seek a modification of that experience.

One powerful technique in this area is to regard each person we meet as our teacher. Asking “What was I supposed to be learning from him or her?” Can be extremely growth-promoting. The reverse of this technique is to regard ourself as the servant of each person we encounter: asking “How can I help you?” Sincerely is sure to reveal much about the other person’s expectations and about our limitations.

Volumes could be written about finding one’s soul-mates, karmic teachers, and spiritual children. The emerging science of past-life reading, especially the giving of crossings, can reveal amazing depths to human relationships. Astrology and especially synastry is a related discipline in this connection.

Also emerging is an entirely new use of music. New Age musicians such as Stephen Halpern, Joel Andrews, and Michael Stearns are remolding our concept of the function of music. This music plays to our rainbow body, tweaks our chakras, and generally unites us with God. People are using music to access their intuition and give it primacy over reason.

§ 80 Discipline for spiritual advancement «

A third category of discipline includes practices designed to elevate our consciousness to a sense of higher purpose.

Certainly holistic diet falls under this category. Once people ate primarily for pleasure; now they are aware that eating for the sake of culinary delight alone is harmful to the body, mind, and spirit.

People are forming their own support groups with a spiritual purpose. It is difficult, if not impossible to immerse oneself in contemporary culture with its commercialism, its competitive focus, and its violent persons and still maintain a connection with the New Age. So people have found ways to be in society but not of it. And through networking they are finding each other.

Lastly, the practice of meditation has become widespread in the West. Perhaps a fourth of the people in the U.S.A. have received instruction in some form of meditation, be it Transcendental Meditation, Self-Realization Fellowship, kundalini awareness or some other version.

§ 81 An example: the rational and intuitive mind contradict each other «

The rational mind and the intuitive mind contradict each other. Consider the statement “Nobody’s perfect.” To the rational mind this statement is practically tautological. Given the endless varieties of judgment and separation which it makes, how could anyone rate 10 on a scale of 0 to 10 on every aspect of their being?

To the intuitive mind, which apprehends the connection of each individual to the whole Universe, this statement is patently false. Rather it would say: “In the world of illusion created by the reification of the categories of judgment, people have lost their willingness to sense the connectedness of all things.”

And again: perhaps “Nobody’s perfect.” Expresses a distorted half-truth based on the only common ground between the rational and the intuitive the Western mind has.

§ 82 The roots of priesthood «

Down through history there have always been certain human beings singled out in recognition of their divinity. It is purest illusion, however, that the potential for God-consciousness is rare. These bearer of the miraculous had and have their powers bestowed upon them by not other than the human beings who grovel in awe at their feet.

The truth is that, with the exception of a handful of avatars, no human being can simply and unilaterally decide that his or her divine potential is to be realized. Rather, the community into which the priest-embryo is born must designate and by agreement create the situations in which these powers may emerge.

The sole restriction which keeps each and every one of us from attaining full and legitimate priesthood with all the attendant powers of healing is that either we do not trust ourselves or others do not trust us. We think that it is safer to control the number of legitimate emissaries of heaven than to cooperatively evolve into spiritual consciousness.

Remember that when you see a miracle, no matter whose hand is responsible, it was your Holy consciousness which enabled it to happen. Remember, those of you who have healed others, it was the Holy Vision of others which stamped and legitimized your act into the Divine order of the Universe.

Hear this, you who chant the educational jargon of positive and negative self-concept! Do you not know that no child can succeed without the faith of others in his or her ability? How then can the Son of Man, the Daughter of Woman, the Child of God manifest healing powers unless so regarded? The two are not one whit different.

§ 83 We are afraid to be God «

We are afraid to be God, and afraid to allow others to be God. And Why? Because we think by this evasion to preserve a wholly limited, weak, and temporary body from an unknown we regard as destructive. We would trade a few miserable decades for an eternity.

If then this unknown is indeed so destructive, how is it that humanity has evolved so far so fast?

§ 84 The misuse of Western scientific methodology «

Western science and technology have achieved miracles. We in the West, however, have permitted to happen, for the most part, only those miracles which we fancy we understand the operation of. There is a kind of objectivity in this, but it is bought at a dear price.

Given the prevailing methodology of Western science, its only legitimate business is in uncovering the regularities of experience. Yet we repeatedly find self-proclaimed defenders of the truth who presume to protect the ignorant “lay person” from the “insanity” and “charlatanism” of the believer in the supernatural.

There are people who have built whole careers on disproving the existence of spiritual phenomena. Yet science cannot prove that anything does not exist. To make such a statement as this requires incredible audacity. Science even has become sleuthing in some quarters. There are people who follow other people around just waiting for a shred of evidence that they do not know what they are talking about. Under such an attack, how can reliable knowledge of spiritual phenomena emerge?

Yes, Western science and technology are strong. But where this strength is used to suppress valid possibilities, it is fatally flawed by weakness. For where truth is undermined, all the world suffers. I would not want it on my conscience that I dogged some believer in psychic power in the vain attempt to see him or her publicly discredited.

It needs to be said that just as one failed experiment does not prove (necessarily) that the hypothesis in question is disproved, so it is that one disclosure of a probable causal chain of events as explanation of a proposed miracle does not prove that the event in question is not a miracle.

In the end, the prevailing scientism and the emerging New Age metaphysics are but alternative philosophical views of the nature of reality, just as islam, Hinduism and Christianity are alternative metaphysical views. We do not this the religious zealot to be particularly enlightened, although that may be so in some cases. Why then does our society hold so much stock in scientific zealotry? Is it not that all zealotry, regardless of its trappings, is based on the issues of control, of being right, and of fear of losing a privileged position?

If you respect your potential, do not allow yourself the luxury of the prevailing bigotry. Retain your openness to further evolutionary possibilities. Remember this most important of truths: the metaphysical position which you embrace is your way of controlling Being. Life in a Cartesian box is only one form of control. I would rather be a hologram!

§ 85 We know how to be God «

We know how to act in every situation! We truly do. From time to time each of us allows this Christ-consciousness to seep down into our day-to-day egotistical pursuits. More than once, I have experienced this — the Christ-concept of the third eye connects ever so tenuously with my heart, and I can actually see myself doing what Jesus Christ would have done! But then — I equally sense my human frailty — and my unwillingness to use Christ as my model. Yes I refuse to ascend, because my cherished carnal strivings would be left behind, or so I think.

It is as if a butterfly died in its cracked chrysalis. Why don’t we spread our wings and fly? I am not the chrysalis. I am the Way and the Light.

§ 86 Aphorism—the meditator's function «

A regular program of prayer or meditation staples the causal warp and woof of human experience to the firmer backboard of Eternal Being.

§ 87 Hierarchical knowledge of ignorance «

We come at last to this astonishing fact: the “knowledge” of the West — hierarchical, fixed categories used for the purpose of objectifying reality — is ignorance! Mind purged of the subjective is worthless, for it is nothing at all.
And so, the disciplines of the East have come West to infuse this mountain of organized data with the light and the possibilities of God. The Western scientist may grudgingly find a place his laboratory for the yogic feats of mind over matter, but better for this man/woman to find a place in his/her day for the discipline which brought the yogi to God-consciousness.

§ 88 Aphorism «

“I’d rather die than believe in all that nonsense about supernatural phenomena!” Hmmmmm!?

§ 89 The Holy Family «

For those who would rather not die, here is a possible scenario. ‘Supernatural’ simply means “not explainable by natural science.” Mother Nature, then, is the regular part of experience. Both the magic of other cultures and the natural science of this era depend on the regular workings of Mother Earth and Mother Nature.
Originally God was unbroken Being; and in this Being was all possibility. What was originally One became Two, and Mother Nature emerged from the possibility of Unbroken Being. The creation of earth (Mother Earth is the daughter of Mother Nature) and the evolution of life are feminine phenomena. Indeed, the feminine parent is an apt metaphor within human mind for comprehending the essentially nurturing, fertile matrix which broke off from God to become the natural order of things.

Just as a mother’s love is steady and dependable, so is the economy and discipline of the natural order a manifestation of the feminine side of God’s love.

That part of God’s possibility that remained behind, unmanifested, unseparated can be approached through the metaphor of the male parent: but only if defined relative to Mother Nature. “Sky” Father — Earth Mother. God the father — Mother Nature. Mother Nature came from (was the female child of) God the Father. The Holy Ghost (which is never gendered) supports Mother Nature. God the Father is the source of all those possibilities which come into the natural order by supernatural means.

Just as we human beings have other aspects than our roles as male and female parent, so are there other possibilities within Unbroken being than God the Father and Mother Nature. However, in these and in other aspects, God is perfect. Traveling to Alaska helped me to see the perfect economy and discipline in which the large land animals of the Arctic tundra live. In Denali Park overshadowed by the mountain the white ones have named “McKinley” — for a man who never saw the mountain — life is balanced and beautiful, and death is swift and sure.

Just as the perfection of God the Mother is living within her laws, so is the perfection of God the Father devotion to his will. God’s plan as Father is that the knowing part of Mother Nature will return to Him. God the father is the order of miracles. It is the feminine or intuitive part of each human being which knows the order of miracles, which “sees” the Divinity in coincidence. Thus it is that within Mother Nature, and under the guidance of God the Father has evolved the essentially androgynous human being. For each of us, both biological male and biological female, contains an intuitive, feminine part which apprehends the order of miracles — the Daughters of God the Mother. And each of us contains a rational, masculine part which understands the natural order.

The Son of God was born of Mary — a human woman so purified by Eastern discipline that her intuition could apprehend the order of miracles even before the birth of Jesus Christ. The union of Mary’s Soul with the Holy Ghost conceived a perfect Holy Thing within the natural order. The mothers of all avatars are the most beautiful flowers of the human race and their seeds are the Sons of God. The Son of Man, on the other hand is the Divine possibility that lives within each human being. God the Father has separated a holy seed from Himself for each knowing being, including human beings, and planted that seed int the knowing minds which have individuated within Mother Nature. This seed of God the Father evolves into our conscience.

The Son of God came to demonstrate how God the Mother can come to God the Father. The Holy Union of the natural order and the supernatural produced Jesus Christ and Krishna. The Son of Man is the body of humanity which lives in Christ.
By analogy the Daughter of God bore the Son of God, i.e. she was the avatar’s mother, and came to demonstrate how God the Father can come to God the Mother. The Daughter of Woman is the body of humanity which harmonizes with the economy and discipline of Mother Nature.

§ 90 The word 'hu' «

Thus have we revealed how biological maleness and femaleness are accidental characteristics of each human, for each one of us contains the Son of Man and the Daughter of Woman, the rational and the intuitive, the external and the internal, the positive and the negative.

We truly do need an English personal pronoun which reflects this fact. I propose a new alternative: the word ‘hu’ (pronounced with a long u) which is a human being without regard to biological sex or gender-identity. The proposed declension:

If we could only adopt this linguistic convention, we would truly be closer, both to God and to our own nature. For our function is not biological reproduction. The function of the human race, taken as a whole, is not simply to reproduce itself, but to evolve to an Omega Point, which is the flooding of each human mind with Divine Light. What miracles lie beyond this point are Hus to dream and ours to realize.

§ 91 Who knows the Son of God «

We have seen in §89 how the Son of God is to be understood if we are to avoid exclusive sexism: the parallels and interrelationships of sexual metaphor — father, mother, son, daughter — must be developed correctly. God the Father symbolizes the source of synchronistic connectedness within God the Mother, or natural order. The Son of God is the reflection of that connectedness within nature, while the Daughter of God is the mother of the avatar. The Son of Man is the body of Christ, and the Daughter of Woman is the witch.

As told in the blessed book The Phoenix Returns (Kristina Gale-Kumar), “those who preach that ‘their way’ is the only way, who sow the seeds of hatred and violence, division and disharmony, who point out the differences rather than the similarities between us all, and even those who preach love, but who practice hate, who fail to serve all equally or give to those in need: know them to be the false prophets of whom Jesus warned, the wolves in sheep’s clothing, the dividers of humanity and the disruptors of the natural flow of Oneness, Unity, and Harmony. These are the ones that deny that God is the only real force in the world, who do not believe the Truth that God is the God of Good only and that the only evil that exists is that which lies in the hearts of those who would turn God’s children away from the Path of Truth and Unity. These are the ones who stubbornly refuse to recognize the Truth that has been expounded by all God’s prophets and incarnations: the Truth that God is One, but has come time and time again to earth in the forms of avatars and saints, prophets and rishis in order to show men and women the way back to Truth and Light, Unity and Oneness with all Creation.

§ 92 There are only sheep «

Those who teach that the world is divided into Sheep and Goats would turn God’s children away from the Path of Truth and Unity.

§ 93 The witch «

We have said that the Daughter of Woman is the Witch. The role of witchcraft in the salvation of the earth is seldom discussed in connection with the Son of God. Witches have of course been killed by the millions by men calling themselves “Christian.” If we are to truly achieve salvation, witches too must be seen as both Sons and Daughters of God.

§ 94 Ministry in the New Age «

In the New Age the children of God will all grow up, yet retain their playful qualities. In the New Age, there will be no self-proclaimed ministers, protecting their flock of children from the sins of the world. Rather, each person will minister to every other person. They will treat their neighbor (each neighbor) as themselves.

§ 95 What separates us from peace «

In The Phoenix Returns it states: “we must cleanse or hearts and minds of all negativity, ungodly thoughts and feelings, and fill ourselves with Love and Peace, while performing good works in the Name of the Lord — helping our fellow brothers and sisters, and preserving, protecting, and beautifying all parts of the Lord’s Creation.”

I would add that as long as we hold one tiny fearful, distrustful thought and feeling against anyone in the whole world, we are separated from Peace, which is One with God.

§ 96 Each human essentially the same in spirit «

In this spiritual quest, each human being, biological male or female is essentially the same. We are all Daughters of God, fit to bear the Son of god the Father. We hold this kinship, tis identity with the Blessed Mother Mary. Our hearts may be pierced in this blessed union, that each of us, as One, may bear the Son of Man.

§ 97 Growth as movement from fear to love «

When the Children of God were small, they feared Hurm. And when they grew in Hus holy image, and matured, their fear, which was separation, dissolved into Love, which is Union. And they saw in themselves more and more the Mother and the Father, to better assist the Daughter and the Son.

§ 98 Daughters and the Daughter of God «

To return to this essential matter of understanding the Daughter of the Mother: we must understand witchcraft in its relationship to God’s Universal Plan if we are to fill ourselves with Love and Peace.

You see, the earth is but one of an infinity of planets where life has evolved. Whereas God the Father is One, Mother Nature is infinite in her variation. The same process of spiritual evolution which we struggle with on this planet is repeated across the galaxies. The infinite diversity of God the Mother perfectly compliments the unity of God the Father.

Those sentient beings who identify with the magical potential of their respective planets are Daughters of Woman. These are the ones who love and respect the Mother Planet and turn always to her for their needs. They are intimately connected with the elements from which they are formed, and as such, they are a holy emanation of that planet.

Planets, however, no matter how long-lived, are not eternal. Planets not only are generated and evolve. Planets devolve and degenerate. They even explode. And so eventually a Daughter of God evolves in order to incorporate that planet’s Spirit into the Universal Hologram by becoming the Mother of God.

§ 99 The Greatest Mystery «

And this is the greatest, and most beautiful mystery of all: the Father, which is One, and beyond Space and Time, touches the Mother, which is infinite extension, and every single point. This Holy, Holy union conceives in each of us both the Daughter and the Son of god. Like the Father, the Son is One, the same Holy principle of Unity and Love, which is our Conscience. Like the Mother, the Daughter is infinite diversity, and the Mother of the Son. She is intuition as uniquely manifested in each sentient being. The Son reveres the Daughter, and the Daughter adores the Son. Thus does Being return to Being and complete God’s plan.

§ 100 Androgyny as human essence «

Hear ye me: men, who detest or think more lowly than themselves the women of this world; women, who fear or revile the men of this world — come ye to Peace with each other. The Time is Now. For each of you are both male and female in essence. Ye are, that is, a Holy Union of God.

§ 101 Aphorism «

And when you have healed your relationships with each other, and with the animals, then will you be fit to reach to the stars.

§ 102 Sainthood «

It has been said that the only difference between a saint and an ordinary person is the at the saint keeps trying. Why is this? It the saint we have a Soul who sees the good in things. The flow from God is as strong as the flow to God in the saint. (Remember that just being alive is a flow to God.) In the saint, the Daughter of God is awake and would bear the Son of God. Receiving the Holy Spirit is essentially a feminine act. In the ordinary person, being a biological male can be a barrier to sainthood unless typical socialization pressures are bypassed.

But the flow to God is equally awake in the saint. The Seed of the Union of Holy Spirit and incarnated Soul shows the way that Mother Earth can come to Father Sky. Everywhere the saint goes, things are seen in a Holy Light. And this act of shining God’s Light on the Earth is essentially masculine.

Only if we find offense in the concept of androgyny will this correct analysis of sainthood offend us.

§ 103 Feeling the Union «

The Light of the Father is Seen through the third eye to be the Son of God. The Love of the Mother is Felt through the first heart center. The Union of the Father and Mother is Heard through the throat center as Om.

§ 104 This is a time of coming together «

This is a time of coming together
In the universe
Father and Mother
On the Earth
East and West
In the Human Race
Male and Female
In the Mind
intuition and reason
In the individual
external and internal
In the Soul
present, past, and future
In the Universe
positive and negative
All these are coming together.

§ 105 Quotation «

“Come together right now over me.”

John Lennon

§ 106 Sex as a holy function «

Some people may be offended by the integration of the sexual as aspects of deity. However, this is not sacrilege and its purpose is not blasphemous. Rather, we must come to see that the human race has a higher function than the reproduction of itself. The human race is the earthly parent of divinity. If we are to understand how this is, then also our sexual concepts must evolve to this higher plane and be seen in their most intimate connection with the birth of God.

§ 107 Holy sex «

In the New Age, the union of the male in one human being with the female in another human being, regardless of the biological sex of the two people involved, may serve as an incarnated symbol of the conception of God. It will be understood that good (created by God) sex is possible between any two human beings. That sex, however, which does not connect with God, is mundane.

§ 108 The blending of humanity «

In the New Age, the heavy black pencil lines which now surround white, yellow, red, brown, male, female, Christian, Buddhist, Jew, Moslem, Easterner, Westerner are going to gradually blur and disappear. What remains will be more like a washed watercolor — bright splashes of color which merge and run together.

§ 109 The disappearance of homosexuality «

When male and female merge and run together, homosexuality and heterosexuality will disappear.

§ 110 Football does not exist in Heaven «

Professional football does not exist in the New Age. Just as a civil war could not prevent the abolition of institutionalized slavery, so World War III cannot prevent the abolition of institutionalized conflict.

Did you ever think of football in that way; a social interaction in which two groups of (mostly) men try to prevent each other from achieving each other’s goals?

§ 111 Our death as passion narrative «

What is the significance of the passion narrative? It is the Word of God written in human flesh! In the Body of Jesus God expressed the secret of immortality. Let us look one more time at this story. But let this look heal our perception of sin:
Life on this earth has contained the secrets of both reproduction and evolution. Each child of human parents is both a culmination and a new step toward the Fate of Humanity.

As it happens, each child is produced is part by a carnal mechanism. The father and the mother, welded by the concerns of the lower centers of consciousness ( security, appetite, and control), come together to produce a living embryo.

Those of material consciousness will not allow themselves to see this, but the centers of consciousness of the parents are blended to bring to the child the same desires for existence, appetite, and control, The awakening lusts of the body, which the born and growing child experiences are simply the maturation of the lower centers. Through this maturation the child creates its own picture of reality: a material world where things and people are separated by space and time.

And this is sin: every act emanating from the lower centers of consciousness unhealed by the Light of God. Just as we do not regard the butterfly’s cocoon as evil, so ought we to see material emanation as an earthly chrysalis — necessary yet temporary.

The Word of God is the Christ Principle: Come together with Me and Come together with Each Other. It has been written on the flesh of the dense material world in the form of Jesus Christ and other avatars. Avatars are the Divinely seeded bio-resonators of the Word of God. Through them is humanity drawn out of the silken illusion and into the fresh spring of God-awareness.

Often I have heard it said, “How can there be original sin? The child when born is innocent of misdeed.” But this view overlooks the fact that lustful potential is indeed born with the child. The problem here is in viewing sin as evil and evil as avoidable.

Sin is rather the illusion of light where not exists. It is in fact the dis-ease of consciousness in which imaginary goals are approximated or avoided for the sake of space-time sensation. It is the conscious separation of reality into positive and negative which denies the Christ-Principle, which says “Do not come together.” The Light of God cannot shine through the dualistic consciousness, although It most certainly shines upon it.

The avatar which was Jesus Christ was the last of the line of humans which previously had sought to attain immortality through their lust-begotten children. He was Omega. And He was Alpha — the first cell in the Body of Christ. His eye was single (not dualistic), His crown was the vortex in flesh which sucked the Holy Word from infinity first to Bethlehem and then to shimmer over the clotted world which lay in darkness.

We join Him through forgiveness. We lay down our burden. We negate our judgment. We heal our perception. We accept our salvation. We open our heart. We speak Truth. We make our eye single. We are One with God.

But we who live in Christ, even as we shine the Single Light of Healed Perception equally on all we survey, must yield our material body as a sacrifice on the altar of God. Forsaking our little plans, we must say “Not my will, Father — but Thine.”
The Cross is none other than the symbol of the body, the dense material incarnation to which our spirit, the Christ in us, is nailed. We are nailed by our feet — our desire for incarnation itself; we are nailed by our wrists, which feed the appetites of our body, and we are crowned with the thorns of egotistical manipulation.

But if we center in God, when we die, only the cross will be left behind. To center in God, believe in the Christ-principle, that I and the Father are One.

§ 112 The Self «

What is the Self? The Self is all that there is. To identify with the Self is to identify with our connection to everything. The Universe has come together to produce the Self, and the Self in turn goes out to the Universe. The Self is the Source of every ego, and the fulfilled ego realizes this.

We live in a Moebus universe where every path comes back to itself. Everything I give, I give to myself. This is why the wise person never complains about bad luck or brags about good luck. This is the metaphysical foundation of the Golden Rule. This is our salvation.

§ 113 Professional teaching as a defense against truth «

Professional teaching is a defense against Truth. For the truth is, everyone is the teacher of those he or she encounters. To seriously profess teaching is to set up a filter which repels truth from the teacher. Socrates, the great teacher, professed to know nothing, and rather viewed himself as the eternal inquirer. He made no lesson plans, but rather took his lessons as they came to him.

§ 114 The human flower «

Think of the human being as a flower on a stalk. Physically, the embryo curls hemispherically around the umbilicus. Though the cord is cut from the mother, still the child is joined to mother earth by the silver chord.

As the child matures, it is made ready to carry God’s seed. Just as a plan bends toward the light, we find the child of God drawing to those earthly experiences which result in the insemination of the heart by the Holy Spirit.

At this point, the stalk becomes the spine, and the child becomes aware of the petals of each of the seen chakras slowly opening.

§ 115 The scent of the human flower «

Forgiveness is not an act, it is a state of being forgiving. Being for giving is being forgiving. In fear we cannot give. We can only be forgiving when we are loving. The scent of the completely unfolded human flower is forgiveness.

§ 116 Everyone is right «

Some of my teachings are recorded herein. Each one of you who reads and responds, in whatever way, gives me my deserved lesson. I confess: each one of you is right. You are right. Amen.

§ 117 Co-creation and the now «

If all creation proceeds from beginning to end, then of course, we can have but little part in the generation of the universe. But if all creation proceeds from the now, we are the co-makers of the universe.

§ 118 Aphorism—Heaven & Space-Time «

Heaven is no place in space. Our ontology calls for two independent categories — heaven and time-space.

§ 119 Subjectivity as union with God «

And this is what becomes of the subjective-objective distinction. The more objective we become, the more is heaven removed from our grasp. The more subjective we become, the more we are removed from the limitations of causality. In objectivity — i.e. the field of generalization — we flee from God. In subjectivity, we unite with God.

For, after all, there is only one God. God is unique. God cannot logically be the subject of universal science, for God cannot be subsumed under universal laws. Every universal law may be a part of God, holding for those who co-create such an “objective” space-time order. But God is unique.

This it is that the further one goes into their own uniqueness, their singular creativity, the more they are expressing divinity. Those who see each event as a nexus of unique possibility are touching reality with holiness. Those who attempt to subsume each event under general, known laws are sealing their own tomb from the inside. Whether or not there is heat in such a hell is a small matter.

§ 120 The temple of Western Science «

Our Western science, sealed by the Principle of Local Causality — no "action at a distance" exists — is a colossal monument to objectivity. Above the door of this temple is emblazoned, “All ye who enter, give up your subjectivity, forego your innate connection to heaven, die to eternity!”

§ 121 Points & Lines «

Think of space-time as an enormously complicated set of points with lines connecting each point. Each point is the origin. Now forget about the lines. Now we are One.

§ 122 We are the light of the world «

We are the light of the world,
The salt of the earth,
The hope of the future.
Justice is in our hands curled,
We know what we’re worth,
We know we can nurture peace
Shining vibrations of love,
Linking our hearts as One.
We are the light of the world,
We fill up the earth.

§ 123 "Seeing" the Spirit «

And here is how the unity occurs. The One Spirit is perfecting itself in all persons, at all times, and all places. History is not a line from beginning to end, but an ever-changing web of intricate connections. The spirit in me resonates with its similar manifestations at all times and places. My “past lives” are just a way that I can transcend the material limitations of this life. I “see” the lessons I am learning here through these comparisons. Or perhaps even more accurately — the degree to which my consciousness permits such comparisons is an indicator of the degree to which this personality identifies with Spirit.

§ 124 You can go to heaven «

Make a list of those whom you consider not to be your Neighbor. As soon as you have removed all the names from this list, you can go to Heaven. But remember — you have all the time you need to do this?

§ 125 The path doesn't matter «

In § 78 -§ 80 three disciplines were discerned: those for getting what we want, those for accepting our condition, and those for elevating our consciousness to higher purpose. It doesn’t matter which of these paths you are on! Remember, you and God are co-creators of the universe. God is cooperating with you.

God has no room for emotional blackmail. God cares so much that whichever part of reality you co-create doesn’t matter to Hurm. There will be some who get what they want, some who accept what they have. The presence or absence of God-awareness is an internal awareness; a movement toward or away from Unity.

§ 126 What means Being «

Co-creating reality with God doesn’t mean getting what you want, doesn’t mean accepting your lot in life, doesn’t mean elevating your consciousness. If it did, some would be better than others, and this is impossible. Therefore, co-creating with God simply means Being, and co-creating reality with God means existing.

§ 127 The key to awareness is sinlessness «

We all are without sin. However, most, if not all, people must be borne to this awareness. And the key is this: so long as you believe that you are better or worse in the least than any other soul, so long shall you believe that you are not without sin.

§ 128 Do you know who I am? «

Do you know who I am? I am you.