HEAR, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord. Hear, O Israel
Unconditioned
consciousness is God, the one and only reality. By unconditioned
consciousness is meant a sense of awareness; a sense of knowing that I AM apart
from knowing who I AM; the consciousness of being, divorced from that which
I am conscious of being. I AM aware of being man, but I need not be man to be
aware of being. Before I became aware
of being someone, I, unconditioned awareness, was aware of being, and this
awareness does not depend upon being someone. I AM self-existent,
unconditioned consciousness; I became aware of being someone; and I shall
become aware of being someone other than this that I am now aware of being; but I AM eternally aware of being whether
I AM unconditioned formlessness or I AM conditioned form.
As the conditioned state, I (man), might forget who I am, or
where I am, but I cannot forget that I AM. This
knowing that I AM, this awareness of being, is the only reality. This unconditioned consciousness, the I AM, is that knowing
reality in whom all conditioned states - conceptions of myself - begin and end,
but which ever remains the unknown knowing being when all the known ceases to
be.
All that I have ever believed myself to be, all that I now
believe myself to be, and all that I shall ever believe myself to be, are but
attempts to know myself - the unknown,
undefined reality. This unknown knowing
one, or unconditioned consciousness, is my true being, the one and only reality.
I AM the unconditioned reality conditioned as that which I believe myself to
be. I AM the believer
limited by my beliefs, the knower defined by the known. The world is my
conditioned consciousness objectified. That which I feel and believe to be true
of myself is now projected in space as my world. The world, my mirrored self,
ever bears witness of the state of consciousness in which I live.
There is no chance or accident responsible for the things
that happen to me or the environment in which I find myself. Nor is predestined
fate the author of my fortunes or misfortunes. Innocence and guilt are mere
words with no meaning to the law of consciousness, except as they reflect the
state of consciousness itself.
The consciousness of guilt calls forth condemnation. The
consciousness of lack produces poverty.
Man everlastingly objectifies the state of consciousness in which he abides but
he has somehow or other become confused in the interpretation of the law of
cause and effect. He has forgotten that
it is the inner state which is the cause of the outer manifestation - “As
within, so without” and in his forgetfulness he believes that an outside
God has his own peculiar reason for doing things, such reasons being beyond the
comprehension of mere man; or he believes that people are suffering because of
past mistakes which have been forgotten by the conscious mind; or, again, that
blind chance alone plays the part of God.
One day man will
realize that his own I AM-ness is the God he has been seeking throughout
the ages, and that his own sense of
awareness - his consciousness of being –is the one and only reality.
The most difficult thing for man to really grasp is this: That
the “I AM-ness” in himself is God. It
is his true being or Father state, the only state he can be sure of. The Son, his conception of himself, is an illusion. He always knows that he is, but that which he is, is an illusion
created by himself (the Father) in an attempt at self-definition.
This discovery reveals that all that I have believed God to
be, I AM. “I AM the resurrection and the life” is a statement of fact
concerning my consciousness, for my consciousness
resurrects or makes visibly alive that which I AM conscious of being.
“I AM the door … all that ever came before me are thieves
and robbers” shows me that my consciousness
is the one and only entrance into the world of expression; that by assuming
the consciousness of being or possessing the thing which I desire to be or
possess is the only way by which I can become it or possess it; that any
attempt to express this desirable state in ways other than by assuming the
consciousness of being or possessing it, is to be robbed of the joy of
expression and possession. “I AM the beginning and the end” reveals my consciousness as
the cause of the birth and death of all expression. “I AM hath sent me” reveals
my consciousness to be the Lord which sends me into the world in the image and
likeness of that which I am conscious of being to live in a world composed of
all that I am conscious of.
“I AM the Lord, and there is no God beside me,” declares my
consciousness to be the one and only Lord and beside my consciousness there is
no God. “Be still and know that I AM God” means
that I should still the mind and know that consciousness is God. “Thou
shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.” “I AM the Lord: that is
My Name.” Now that you have discovered your I AM, your consciousness
to be God, do not claim anything to be true of yourself that you would not
claim to be true of God, for in defining
yourself, you are defining God. That which you are conscious of being is
that which you have named God. God and
man are one. You and your Father are one.
Your unconditioned
consciousness, or I AM, and that which you are conscious of being, are one. The
conceiver and the conception are one. If your conception of yourself is less
than that which you claim as true of God, you have robbed God, the Father,
because you (the Son or conception) bear witness of the Father or conceiver. Do not take the magical Name of God, I AM, in vain for you
will not be held guiltless; you must
express all that you claim yourself to be…Name God by consciously defining
yourself as your highest ideal.
Neville Goddard,
Freedom for All
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