Love is the highway and the conqueror. Praise without ceasing is the shortcut. Desire is the creator, and must be stirring and expectant. Imagination is the builder of forms. The spoken Word condenses Substance into outer form, but does not stop the activity of the lifesparks. We must give the equivalent, in Love, of the thing we want, yet we must keep the balance. We must release the invisible Love Substance as its equivalent, yet we may not grasp, for this unbalances the world. When we have reached the point of being conscious of what we are doing, we must maintain careful watch over our spoken Word. God gives us a new name for overcoming at a certain period of Initiation: "To him who overcomes I will give . . . a new name" (Revelation 2:17). Yet we can get this name only by accepting and assuming responsibility. The only way to make our Word complete and established now, is to give a universal reason for the release of the Power, since a personal reason is not enough. The Power alone will not work, but if we will assume responsibility, nothing limits the Power we can release. Then we cannot find enough people or situations or circumstances or things, to lift and pour life upon, because through our lifting, the greater the load, the sooner we have our new name and the last name and the Power. Many teachers have earned the right to the new name, and in their joy at being given it, they have used it constantly, thinking it was theirs to use forever. However, this is one thing that we must use only under direct command, until the teacher reaches the point where he or she has earned the right to, and can, command all the Power the name releases. Everything comes in tests of three, such as "purity of heart, mind and purpose," etc. We must have selfless love and loyalty to Principle, while we harness ourselves to a universal reason for everything. For instance, we ask for other people, then thank God that He has already given it to us. Thus, we will never get tied up selfishly. Every word we utter creates something, after its degree and kind. Every word we utter reacts and returns to us, increased and magnified. It adds to itself and goes around the earth. It returns and waits for us like a dark cloud or light. We get back everything it collects, every bit of it. We must then lift it and change it by love. We must take the responsibility for our spoken Word. If a "dweller on the threshold" is waiting there for us, we must lift it up, instantly. (The "dweller on the threshold" is the sum of all of our taints.) We instantly must pour forth enough love to neutralize it. For instance, if you have a refractory child, do not scold and berate him, but say, "You are a wonderful child. Love armors you in love, and nothing inimical can happen to you." If your daughter is seeing a youth to whom you object, do not arbitrarily forbid her to see him, but say something like, "Since you are going with this boy, you must see something good in him, or you wouldn’t love him, because sometimes the ones who do wrong are the most lovable ones." If your son is keeping bad company, take the same line with him, because he loves the l0veinidleness of these undesirable ones. He gets something of love from them that he doesn’t get from those at home. He is satisfying his desire to have someone appreciate him. Pour out enough appreciation, declare that these questionable friends are perfect and complete, and ask him to help you lift them up. Say, "I am so glad you are lending Light to the darkness. We will lift him up. We will form a Pillar of Fire around him (or them), which will make him perfect, too." Keep on lifting, and keep on pouring out love. The word goes forth and multiplies, so we should watch our idle words. Avoid slang. "I am, I can, I will, I do": These phrases have their time and place. Say, "I can do it." Sometimes we say, "I know I can do it," but "I am now doing it" is better. Say, "I will" very seldom, for "will" scatters the vibration. Get the "hoper" and "wisher" to say, "I do." "I’ll try" is the subconscious mind’s pet phrase, is a little sophistry. We are always living in the Eternal Now, with no future nor past. We want the real thing now! The thought that maybe God doesn’t want me to have it now is the root and branch of lack. Realize that you now have it in the invisible, "Let it become visible. This is God’s perfect hour of fulfillment for me. This is God’s perfect will for me and now is God’s perfect time." Now is the only time we need to recognize. We are ready at any given moment, to manifest the thing we can see. "This is God’s perfect time to have love come forth to me. Now is the perfect time for all of God’s good things to come to me." "Now" is the greatest little word we can grasp. Say, "I am perfect, whole and complete in Spirit, now. I am now expressing all of this now." There is no time, no space, no limit, no letting go. Law protects us if our desire is unselfish. Remain impersonal, unselfish, willing and open, want it for all, keep on lifting, lift, lift, and lift all we can. Even if we are dead wrong about "it," if we are also holding the desire up for love to be poured out upon it, it will come to us in the right way. If we hold it up in the right way, the Law, itself, will protect us. "It shall come to pass," and "it came to pass," are the two halves of a perfect whole. Finally we must say, "Let it become visible. Let it come forth. Let it be made flesh and blood. Let this perfection manifest." If you always say, "It shall come to pass," you will always be able to say later, "and it came to pass as spoken." You could cure colitis by seeing the body as the temple of the Living God and every organ filled with life, using the words, "and it came to pass as spoken." Check your idle words. Have I poured out enough love today? Have I praised enough? Have I kept my desire burning today? Have my pictures been perfect today? Have my spoken words been perfect, and what I want? If I cannot say "yes," I must pour forth more love, send forth more praise, hold up my hands until I am enfolded into the Light, until my desire burns, until I see everything as perfect, and then say, "Let this perfection manifest." Since practice brings perfection, practice, practice, practice, practice! It gives us the ability to have strong days when we do pour forth enough love, and our spoken words will come to pass, for they cannot help it.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:12:48 +0000