Opening the Door to the True Life
Principles
of Power
No.6:All
Happiness Comes
From
Knowing
What
God
Knows.
(Ref.
Basic
Laws
No.6)
Principles
of Power
No.6:All
Happiness Comes
From
Knowing
What
God
Knows.
(Ref.
Basic
Laws
No.6)
To "know as God knows" has been the golden fleece of man's yearnings from the dawn of time. To "be as God" has been the greatest temptation. Yet the yearning for such divine knowing springs rightfully from the roots of the human psyche. We hurt in our gut from striving for what we intuitively sense is our right to be free, our right to be secure, to be, as in the fairy tale, "happy always and forever". Instinctively we recoil from any kind of suffering. We recognize it as alien to our nature, to be rejected or overcome. We each continually seek our own personal Nirvana, our heaven either on this earth or, at least, in a life after this life. Equally so we recognize a hell when we see or experience it and as we look around this planet we see more evidence of hell than of heaven. To maintain that either of these beliefs is illusion is to bury one's head in the sand. Hell is real, in both its multitudinous forms on Earth and its presence in eternity. Similarly Heaven is also real.
The initial waking up to True Knowing breaks one free enough to be able to see both the nature of Truth and the nature of Deception, of Heaven in its true nature and similarly of Hell. When a blind man receives sight he sees as he has never seen before. Much of what he sees can be quite different from how he imagined it. Before, he could only hear from others who claimed they could see. Sometimes he could verify if they were being truthful, other times he could not. When a man is blind he has to trust others and he is open to being deceived. But once he can see for himself, he knows the truth.The analogy stops there for there is a big difference between a blind man receiving his sight and he who receives True Seeing. The blind man receives sight without being changed in any other way. He remains the person he was before he received his sight. His sight is added on to who and what he always was and is. It's true that his new sight is a wonderful experience but essentially it is an experience he receives as he is. The person who receives True Sight and True Knowing has to be different to the person who yearns for it. This is the great paradox, what, at first, seems to be a great contradiction. Jesus said, "No one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the old wineskins. New wine is put into new wineskins" (1). Unlike the blind man, the new life cannot be grafted on to the old life. We, as we are from when we come into this world, cannot receive True Life.
We have to be changed by a power from outside of ourselves. We cannot change ourselves. The depth and insidious subtlety of deception is in the teaching that we only have to wake up to who we already are anyway - that in truth we are already divine or a part of God, or that all of us are of the "Christ Consciousness" and only need to realize it.
Evil does not necessarily need to triumph "when good men do nothing"(2). It triumphs as long as men continue to be deceived about its true nature, how it came into being and how it has already been defeated. It continues to triumph when men refuse to believe what Jesus says about it, or when they turn to ways which suit them and refuse to die to their own ideas of how life should be. It triumphs when it hides, in a grotesque parody of Truth, "in plain sight", by presenting itself as the voice of God or as a messenger from God, purporting to show the way to everlasting bliss. The trick is to be able to distinguish between the true voice of God and its counterfeit, between the ring of truth and the clunk of deception. We cannot go by outer appearances or well-spoken words.
Although Jesus came with the wonderful gift of Eternal Life He also warned those listening of the cost involved. There has to be a death before there can be a resurrection and Truth has a way of upsetting people. Ask any 5 year old. Some of the most important words Jesus spoke re. this cost are carefully avoided. For example: "I have not come to bring peace but a sword. I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother . . . a man's own household will be his enemies", or, "He who will not take up his cross is not worthy of me"(3). The cross, of course, consists of dying to our own way of looking at things, to our self-centeredness, to how we want truth to be to our liking. It costs to die but, if we don't die, it costs much more to live on in deception. Whichever way we choose, the world around us, life as we experience it, will confirm our choice and act accordingly. If we choose to remain in deception we will find ways presented to us which will supposedly guarantee our happiness here on Earth. We will be offered, according to that which suits us, the "kingdoms of the world"(4), as long as we acknowledge the World Belief System as being the only worthwhile system available. However, by doing so we reject the Messenger of Truth.
If we listen to Him we put ourselves in His hands. We choose to trust Him. We die to our own opinions. We allow Self to die on the cross of Truth and, by doing so we take a leap into the darkness, through the Door. Then we find the Gold and, in our New Nature we begin to see as He sees, to know as He knows because our New Nature, of Him, is Family. When that happens we find that the world is, and has always been, our enemy (5). The World-Belief-System has lost one of its children and the Instigator of that system is mad as hell. TOUGH! "Dear children, you belong to God and greater is He Who is in you than he who is in the world (6)". WOW! Beam me up, Scottie!.
Footnotes (The Bible). BASIC LAWS No.6: The World Around Us Simply Confirms What We Really Believe And Responds Accordingly.
1: Matthew,Cpt.9,v.17. 2: Attributed to John Donne (Poet). 3: Matthew,Cpt.10,vv.34-36,38. 4: Mark,Cpt.4,vv.5,6. 5: John,Cpt.17,v.14. 6: 1John,Cpt.4,v.4.