7. THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS...Wheels of Truth
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“And he confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ.” (JOHN 1:20)
“I baptize with water; but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoes’ latchet I am not worthy to unloose.” (JOHN 1:26,27)
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Jonah or John is not the Christ, but gives birth to the Christ. Every man after calling the twelve disciples to discipleship, becomes Jesus the Christ or the God-man here and now, or Jesus with his twelve disciplined faculties, signifying thirteen or the sacred number of God.
Christ as unmodified consciousness is in all men and when all false beliefs are distilled from man the pure essence or Christ comes forth. This distillation or purification comes after the complete disciplining of each of our twelve faculties. We must be incapable of seeing anything but the good; we must perceive divine perfection everywhere and in every man. We must give “beauty for ashes” and “oil of joy for mourning.”
Truth is an inward perception, therefore by constantly turning our eyes inwardly toward the Real and feeling the Song of Triumph within, we call the first disciple, Andrew to discipleship. We call ‘hearing’ or Peter to discipleship by hearing only the good tidings, the gospel or good-spell. This is an inner hearing, the disciplined hearing of the mystic who hears only the voice of God or good, and cannot hear other than the Truth about any person. By constant application, by daily meditation and prayer, we call forth the Christ or true Self of man and reveal man as God.
“He confessed and denied not”—denial which is to appropriate the feeling of being what we long to be. No negative statements are used. The baptism of John symbolizes this process. “And they asked him, what then? Art thou Elias? And he saith I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.” That prophet is Jesus or our conviction or feeling of being free; if we thrill to this feeling it is essentially a prophecy. “Elias” means the same as Elijah, “God is my Father.” We must discover the law of consciousness before we can come out of a state of limitation, Elijah must come. Jonah or John goes a step higher than Elijah which simply means that a man discovering his own consciousness to be God, acts on that assumption and begins to change his world. Many are in the Elijah state, they intelligently affirm that God is within, but do nothing about it.
“He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord.” This is the innate principle in all men forever seeking light and expression. It is God seeking to come forth in giving-ness and living-ness. The eternal urge in man is to give life, love and beauty to the world. The moment he ceases to do this, he dies; he crumbles up in disease and mental decay. It is our instinctive desire to give beauty, order, and symmetry to the world. God is the circle and He is the center everywhere with no circumference. We form a perfect circle when we send forth thoughts of life, love and beauty to all around us; then beauty and love come back to us multiplied a hundred fold.
The libidos impulse flowing through us all is not just a biological sex impulse, but is the complete comprehension of God which is giving-ness or pure desire. God is pure desire. The “wilderness” is our state of frustration due to our unwillingness to share our gifts with the world. We must give, give and give; all can give a gift of love in consciousness which is the greatest of all gifts. “I” “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.” If now in the silence you raise your consciousness or ascend into the hill of God and see people, conditions and things as they ought to be and feel the joy of the answered prayer, you have given “better than you knew” to the world and to your fellow man. Material giving always follows, never precedes the gift in consciousness.
“Make straight the way of the Lord” simply means the state that is to come in desire. We clear the way for it by removing all obstacles such as doubt, fear and idle thoughts.
“I baptize with water.” Water will assume the shape of any vessel into which it is poured. Water, therefore, means unconditioned consciousness which is all things to all men. When we use the I AM, we condition consciousness by believing. Think emotionalized thoughts “I am sick, I am old, I am tired,” and these emotionalized ideas become fixed states, i. e. are poured into a vessel and assume its shape. Water is a cleansing agent; we cleanse or purge consciousness from sin, from a mistake or limitation by assuming a new mood or cultivating a new idea in our mind, and thrilling to it, it finally becomes a conviction within us.
The reader, therefore will see that when the book of John, which is pure mysticism says, “I am not the Christ,” it means John, the conscious mind, is not the Christ, whose shoes’ latchet I am not worthy to unloose. The conscious mind is not creative. The subjective mind is all wisdom, all power, all intelligence and omnipresent. We must therefore still the conscious mind and dwell in the secret place of the most High in pure-consciousness. When all our sense perceptions such as seeing, hearing, feeling, etc. are turned inward to the Real and we feel and sing the Song of Triumph, we are in prayer or in tune with the Infinite. If we have a problem it is the effect of a cause we ourselves have set in motion. We must surely know that God has no problem. God is peace, love and infinite intelligence. All we have to do when confused is to leave the world of noise, together with the problem, and listen to the voice of the Holy One of Israel—God. In this stillness the mind is lifted to a higher level of consciousness where all earthly quantities cease. It is then that liberation is achieved. Intuition, which is the all-knowing, of God flows through the problem and there is no problem. We must realize that God is not confused. He does not know the problem, He knows only the answer. We therefore rise to the point of recognition of the correct answer. As an analogy—mathematics, of or by itself, does not know problem or error, it knows only the answer. Mathematics cannot possibly know error.
We are living in a Cosmos not a chaos. Everything in the Cosmos is orderly—man creates disorder. Therefore, as we meditate or pray we must forever keep our eyes steadfastly on God, or our good, knowing that God is the answer and not the problem. In the great drama of life, God is the only actor. He is not only the Actor—He also is the Scribe and the Script. Man is God’s radiation, an extension of the Limitless One, playing for a little while the billions of parts we call personal lives. When the particular role is ended, the garment no longer needed, disintegrates, and the Spirit which gave it life returns to its Source. For are we not told “Nothing is lost in all My Holy Mount?” When man dies his Spirit lives on in all men; it never dies; it carries on until the end of the Cosmic day, until all are reabsorbed into the One. The perfect man is not born yet, but when one man sees Him face to face, no one can imagine what a cataclysm will take place. Instantaneously all men will awaken from the dream of being man, because there is only one man and all men in the world are merely extensions in space of that one man. However, all men being within each of us it follows that when one fully awakens, all awaken. “That they all may be one; as thou Father art in me and I in Thee, that they also may be one with us; And the glory which Thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.” (John 17:21, 22)
“I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One.” (John 17:23) Esoterically this means that when we identify ourselves with the light, we become the light and flow again with the Light Limitless. “No man can see the face of the Father and live” simply means that when the perfect man awakens he becomes one with the Father or one with the All,—the particular now becomes the Universal, then all men become perfect simultaneously; the scroll is rolled up and man dreams a new dream. Because there is only man, let us stop fooling ourselves in trying to make many out of the One. “Hear O Israel, the Lord thy God is One”
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) One may go East, another West, but it is the fixed psychological state that counts,—“the set of the sail.” It is the mood that you adopt. It comes from nowhere, from the invisible to the visible. “Those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition.” (John 17:12) All words, beliefs, impressions and suggestions are being fulfilled and nothing is lost but the sense of loss (perdition).
If Joseph and Ann are climbing the mountain and Ann says to Joe, “I want snow,” and Joe wants sunshine, Doth not all things exist simultaneously in the Absolute? All things exist in God. He contains all things, therefore, though their hands be joined together as they climb the mountain, if they reach high enough in spiritual awareness, each will be conscious of snow and sunshine, separately, according to his will. Psychologists have proven that when a man is hypnotized and it is suggested to him that a blizzard is blowing, even though it may be 100° in the shade, he sees snow and feels cold, for it is all belief. “Canst thou believe? All things are possible to him that believeth.”
We often hear the trite saying, “What about material laws?” The only material laws there are were given birth by you, the reader, and exist as long as you believe them. Though you now believe in the laws of motion, some do not and are therefore not subject to the same law. Jesus said, “I come to make the blind see and those that see, blind,”— meaning all things exist now but we refuse to believe it. Canst thou believe that you (your consciousness) are God walking the earth, when you think and act from the Absolute consciousness level? Consciousness (God) ever creates “in its image and likeness” on micro-cosmic as well as macrocosmic scales. The created is always relative to the Creator- consciousness.
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Wheels of Truth, Dr. Joseph Murphy
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