2. TUNING IN...Wheels of Truth
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“I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.”
“And now, 0 Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” (JOHN 17:4-5)
“Before the world was I AM, before Abraham was I AM, when all things cease to be I AM.”
“That they all may be one as Thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” (JOHN 17:21)
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Man has finished the work when he realizes that all men are within him. Man is like the line; it begins as a series of dots. The point has no dimensions; the point becomes a line—our first dimension. The line bends; we now have two dimensions. The space or plane is not conscious of the line. The surface moves through space in a dimension not contained within itself and becomes a cube. This is our third dimension. The cube is not conscious of sides; each side sees another as separate from itself. When the side becomes one with the cube, it no longer sees other sides, as the cube is only conscious of being a cube and not conscious of sides.
God is not conscious of Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Buddhists. He only hears and sees in secret; therefore we know Him only when we touch Him in the Silence through feeling. We must become conscious of being one with God—then we will not and cannot see another. We are garments of the One Being moving through the illusion of time and space. All stars, planets, suns—all things—are extensions in space of the Space-less Being or Formless Awareness within man. Therefore, if the primal essence of man is God, He is everywhere in mind and there is no place He is not.
This life is the illusion of time and space based on sense-belief. When we meditate on the Truth we will do away with all worldly values, all possessions. All these things will cease to have value. We give value to temporal objects pertaining to time as opposed to eternity because they seem to remain solid or fixed, such as our bank account, our jewelry, our homes. We believe our home will be there when we return to it and we find our beliefs confirmed.
In the future, when man develops the use of his mind (it is a scientific statement of fact that the great majority of mankind today does not use one-tenth of his mind capacity) he will be capable of collapsing time and space. Then, for example, a man living in New York can instantaneously be in San Francisco or any other part of the world. No means of conveyance will be necessary. Incredulous as this may seem, it has, through the ages been accomplished by the adepts. Did not Jesus walk on the waters and come through closed doors; translate his body at will and appear to his disciples at will? He was not conditioned by time or space or the laws of gravitation.
Man will change the atomic weights and structure of any substance. For example, he will be able instantaneously to change the atomic weight of a piano and cause it to go through the eye of a needle and then cause it to assume its former shape. “All things are possible to him that believeth.” All things, not some things. “Glorify thou Me.”
Man comes from the Absolute, and he goes back to the Absolute when he remembers who he is and dies to all beliefs and superstitions of the world. When someone dies, he lives on in you, the reader. That state of consciousness is within you. God dreamed Himself to be man; now we must awaken and go back to the Glory which was ours before the world was. All the elements and minerals we speak of are modifications of light, simply congealed energy or extensions of man’s thoughts.
We say certain races and tribes are savage, yet these primitive people can send telepathic messages without radio or wires. They bring rain at will; they melt snow with energy from the body. We believe hot water is the way to melt snow in front of our door. We don’t believe. We like to believe, we want to believe, but we really don’t believe. When we believe we can melt snow by heat from our body in the same manner that we can make a telephone call; then we will not feel it robbery to do the works of God.
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” You, the reader, are the heart and center of all mankind. You are the center of your world, and it revolves like a wheel around you; but you are the exact center of the wheel. As you think and feel, so will your world be.
The greatest commandment is: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is One.” We must not divide the One and see elements, people, seas, and continents. We must not split the One.
Remember it was said, “What manner of man is this whom the winds and the seas obey?” All the storms and strife of the world are within man’s consciousness.
We must refrain from lighting candles;—people believe the power is in the candle or ceremony or ritual. They do not realize it is all a matter of belief.
There is only “one man” in the world; therefore, there is “no other” to hurt—only yourself. All treatment is to oneself also; all love to oneself. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Thy neighbor is yourself. If you get a call from a friend, and he is in trouble, you are not aware of that trouble until he brings it to your attention. So you go within and hear good news for him. (If your finger hurts, it is a warning, and you then give it your attention.) There is one subjective Being, one God, and He is the Father of all and the Kingdom of Heaven is within you; therefore if you impress a conviction in your consciousness, then that conviction must become objectified in the other; the other must change because you have changed your concept. If we begin to change our concept of people and things, then our world will change.
When we really convince ourselves instead of talking about it, that we are contained in God, and God and man are one, then we will feel it not robbery to do the works of God. “He made himself equal with God and found it not robbery to do the works of God.” We must convince ourselves by sustained belief that we are of God and that nothing is impossible to us on that level of consciousness, and so condition ourselves that when we ask a thing we shall know, “It is finished.” Then we become as Isaac, blind to the evidence of the senses, we bless by touching and feeling the reality of the ideal sought.
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Wheels of Truth, Dr. Joseph Murphy
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