4. DREAMER AWAKEN...Wheels of Truth
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Religion means “to turn back to the One”;—in other words to a realization of the oneness of all things. There cannot be two religions for the same reason there cannot be two Gods or two men. Man has made many creeds and through ignorance called it religion. There is only one man, and the whole world is within him. The true self or life of that man is God;—the invisible, unmodified consciousness or formless awareness. Therefore, when man worships or prays he really prays to the Higher Self within him. The Church is within; the choir is within; the congregation is within; the High Priest is within;— all is within. The Church is his own consciousness; the choir is the joyous feeling held in meditation; the High Priest is your I-AM-NESS which declares “I am that which I feel myself to be”—”I am that I am.” The congregation are your ideas, thoughts, moods, and concepts about people and things. In other words, the congregation is your belief about yourself and others.
The Shrine of your God is truly ornamented when adorned with the righteousness of the believer. Your righteousness consists in seeing all men using the law righteously and growing perfectly. There is no more precious jewel than that of a noble life, and the highest altar of the Lord is that of the purified heart of man.
Is our faith in the gilt edged securities and stocks, impermanent and oft times becoming valueless, or in the Christ within? By the constant application of the Golden Rule we will become like Jesus who, by the transcending of his human wisdom, became one with the Soul-urge of all man-kind. He was in truth the Substance of the great universal desire; the actual embodiment of the age-old quest for peace, wisdom, and illumination.
Every day of our lives we must begin to meditate upon the beauty, the glory, and profundity of the Eternal One. Dwelling in the Changeless One within ourselves, we find an ever abiding peace which stretches out beyond the stars,—beyond time and space. When we are imbued with lofty ideals, when we think universal thoughts, little things disappear and all the petty things of life become inconsequential and are forgotten. Our soul actually becomes filled with the glory of the whole and the limitations and restrictions of our daily life vanish. We find that this happy mood lifts us up and brings us en rapport with the universal mind of God. As greed, jealousy, discord, and other narrowing concepts which bind us to the wheel of pain disappear from our consciousness, forgotten in the joy of Truth, we then become a citizen of free consciousness. We become one with the universal vistas. Constant meditation, either in the woods, in your own home, or wherever you may be, causes your soul to thrill as though touched by a divine harmony, and a pulsating throbbing feeling pervades every part of you. Many experience it as a tingling sensation in the spinal area as if the melody of the Gods were played on the sacral plexus.
In this profound, relaxed mood, men oftentimes realize that this planet we call the earth becomes a dot in consciousness, and all things which seemed so great and wonderful in the world become as insignificant as the fading planet itself. The wings of the Shekinah with its shining glory and attached to each one of the wheels of thought within us takes us onward and upward. The cherubim’s are all around us; we are suffused by the Golden Flame of the seven candlesticks before the throne. We float in this formless awareness beyond the stars, until finally the flickering lights of the stars, suns, and moons vanish in the Eternity within ourselves. We find that the immensity of Being is our True Self. We have found the All. There is neither time nor space, now nor then; neither he nor she, only the ever-flowing Reality flowing on forever. All things we once witnessed are now a forgotten dream. The dreamer has awakened and for an infinitesimal moment partaken of a glimpse of Reality. You have found there is nothing but you the Sphinx,—the unmoved Mover of all. The inscrutable face of the Sphinx,—the ageless One which changes not is found to be your true identity, the Christ within, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, and the Prince of Peace, the Ancient of Ancients. “Blessed be He ‘The Ancient of Days.’”
You now cease dreaming, but you continue contemplating the moment which lasts forever. You are the solid which reached its melting point and have melted into the Boundless One. His thoughts are your thoughts; His heart is your heart; His dream is your dream; His contemplation is your contemplation. Then you know that you have finished the works which “He gavest you to do.” Now you sing the song of the Lamb, saying “Now, O Father, glorify Thou me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” Before the world was “I am”; before Abraham was “I am”; when all things cease to be “I am.” I am—the only living Reality,—the timeless One within man,—“the lost Word” has been found. You have truly finished the work here when you have discovered who you are and return to the Glory of the Father.
In the instant you become one with the All you find you are the world, and motion, gravitation, time and space are all within you. You know now that you are Alpha and Omega, that which was, is, and ever shall be. All things in space now revolve and dance as countless wheels within you,—the Eternal wheel of the Law. You are the Creator of Heaven and earth whose dream is creation. You are also the dream, and when the dreamer awakens, the creation disintegrates,—“When all things cease to be ‘I AM.’” All the world is but an infinite dream of the Infinite One. When we come out of this meditative phase we find we have fallen. “Remember man from whence thou hast fallen and do the first works.”
Even though we have returned to time and space, we must forever keep our eyes upward. We find we are never the same again and will always remain in the world, but not of it. We will become Jesus the Christ, or God-man. We then say “I in Thee, and Thou in me, and I am glorified in Thee.” To us all men are simply aspects of ourselves; parts and members of the One body—ourselves. “I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified in the Truth.” All men will become the All and see the transcendent glory which was theirs before the world was. All imperfect parts will become perfect and one with Reality and Eternity.
The Resurrection comes as a sunrise and never sees night. It remains forever, for we are now one with our Father and thus perfect. We have truly returned to the Glory of the Father “to go no more out in rags and sackcloth.”
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Wheels of Truth, Dr. Joseph Murphy
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