You and the All-Originating Spirit

   My writing today is not about religion, creed, or whether you have formulated a statement of your belief about God. My writing is meant to probe that stage of your development that allows you to know what you have personally come to realize in your own life about the relationship between you and the Divine.

   Are you one whose mind has thought it impossible to know anything about God, or to use that knowledge if you had it? If you are in that situation, your entire internal condition is one of confusion. You are at the primordial state where no spirit of order has begun to move upon the waters of chaos. Your elements of being are there, but they are disordered and neutralizing.

   Have you advanced to the stage where you realize that there is a ruling and organizing power, but beyond this you are ignorant of its power? Then the unknown seems to you a terror, naturally adverse to you. Your inner fear propels you to propitiate this external power, rather than to see it as the center of your own being.

   At every stage of your development, from lowest ignorance to highest intelligence, you are the exact reflection of the level you have reached in your perception of the Divine Nature and your relation to it.

   As you approach the full perception of Truth, the life principle within you will expand. Little by little, the things that you hold in your mind that bind and limit your growth will fall away. That is why it is urgent that you be able to realize a symbol for a symbol, and be able to penetrate to the inner substance which it represents.

  The only true way to experience life is by consciously experiencing its “aliveness” in yourself, and then endeavoring  to translate that experience into terms that suggest an idea to others that becomes an understandable symbol to them.

   The nearer those you speak to have approached to the actual experience of “aliveness,” the more transparent the symbol becomes. The farther they are from the experience, the thicker is the veil that hides the meaning of the symbol from them.

   The object of sharing with others your own continually developing growth and awareness of the meaning of the symbols all around you is to move forward with fuller translation of the symbols into clearer statements for which the symbols stand.

   The ultimate lesson to be learned is that symbols are merely symbols and not the very Truth itself.    

   There is enough indication from the outside of some things that give a fair sense of their inside. But this can never be the whole story. This outside-only approach is what the mentally lazy who cannot think for themselves use to suggest that all that can be known about the thing has already been made known. They also suggest that any further investigation of the thing will somehow destroy Truth.

   Their fallacious argument—based solely on sophistry and close-mindedness—reveals their ignorance of the very nature of Truth. Truth can never be destroyed! In addition, they show their ignorance of the Law of Growth, which everywhere—whether in macrocosmic space or microcosmic place—always pushes forward into unlimited forms of expression that are always expanding and never reaching an end anywhere.

The Laws of Polarity and Life

   There is an internal and external aspect to every created thing. There is more to everything than meets the naked eye. You cannot know anything that you do not examine and understand from inside and outside.

   Much of your difficulties and confusion come from your habit of accepting the externals of a thing as the true and absolute reality of that thing. Your refusal to go deeper into the thing to discover the internals of the thing causes you to remain ignorant of the true nature of the thing.

   The Law of Polarity teaches that there is always an opposite to everything: if there is an outside, there must of necessity be an inside. If there is a right, there must be a left. When you look at yourself and others only from the externals, you miss the substance of yourself and others that exists in the internals.

   Only by combining the external and internal of a thing can you learn the Truth of that thing. To learn the Truth of a thing is to Know the thing.

   So long as you focus simply on the appearance (external) of a thing, you can never make any progress in knowing anything. When you persist in viewing life and the things you encounter in life from a superficial (external) point of view, then you are making it impossible for yoursef to grow. You are denying the principle of growth that is the root of all life—whether spiritual, intellectual, or material.

   What you see as the external part of things can only be the result of a reproductive principle hidden deep within the internal part of the things themselves.    

   The Law of Life teaches that all growth occurs from internal expansion at the center of things. This is the great principle that is the key to your understanding of life—on any plane and in any dimension. It is the key that opens the outer to the inner.

   Once the door to your understanding of the working of the Law of Life has been opened to you, then you are obligated to share with others that there is an inside and an outside to everything. Your life will become fuller and richer to the extent that you penetrate to the inner side of things and add to your learning the invisible essence of the thing from inside to the visible manifestation of that essence which is outside.

   Then and only then will you know the Truth of the thing, and that Truth will set you free to examine all things from inside and outside.

   Armed with this knowledge, you will come to see that everything is a symbol of that which is its inner being. All of Nature is a mysterious gallery of symbols that reveal great truths to those who have disciplined themselves to decipher them.

   Symbols are used to represent the nature and being of God. They are used again to speak of how human life is related to Divine Life. The entire character of your life is the result of what you genuinely believe about God and your relationship to Him.

Think Yourself to Expansion

   The outside collective world around you is full of chaos, confusion, unrest, and upheaval, and it greatly impacts your own inside personal world. You cannot ignore the outside collective world and its problems and issues—they are real and call for your studied attention. At the same time, you cannot ignore your own inside personal world because it is more objective and real to you than the outside collective world.

   You must come to see in yourself the capacity to navigate, manage, and change for its betterment the outside collective world around you. You can only do this by growing, knowing, and expanding yourself from the inside out. Only then will you discover the enormous power and limitless resources within yourself that you can use to positively affect change in the outside collective world.

   The only viable pathway to this achievement is to heighten your own awareness of the power that lies within your own personal inside world. When you learn how to harness that power to positively impact your outside world, you will be on your way to a fuller, richer, and more abundant life

   The only logical place to begin this process of looking within yourself to discover the enormous power that is within you is to think higher thoughts: to think in new, living, and creative ways, rather than in old, dead, and destructive ways. 

   My intention in writing this Blogpost is to help you think about yourself and your internal world in a new way—to see yourself from the All-Originating Spirit’s perspective of you as one worthy, loved, and ready to fulfill your destiny as a transformed, expanded and Spirit-evolved whole person. Your Life Assignment is to grow up into your wholeness. For only as a whole, person from the inside can you be part of the outside Divine Movement to change the world through self-confidence, Truth, Grace, and Love.

Use Your Creativity Now!

   If your job or your business has been negatively affected because of the coronavirus pandemic, then it is time for you to think into what you can do to earn a living while helping people in need. Instead of worrying about how you will eat and pay your mortgage or rent when the government’s covid-19 assistance runs out, spend the time to do some creative thinking on your own behalf.

   Begin by setting out 4 sheets of blank paper. On the first sheet, put down the answers to the following questions. What are the needs of the people around me? Can they get the masks and other personal protection equipment that they need? Is there a shopping, delivery, or other service that people need that I can supply? If I am computer savvy, is there a program I can develop that would help people during this difficult time? And write down the answers to other questions that you think of.

   Then, on the second sheet of paper, move on to Brainstorming. List every idea that comes to your mind and do not reject any of them, no matter how crazy they may at first seem to you. Simply write down each idea so you will remember what you thought when you come back to it.

   Next, on the third sheet of paper, list every skill, ability, talent, hobby, and everything you can think of that you enjoy doing.

   The object is not to make a decision, but to pull from yourself every conceivable thing you can think of, so that you have all the information you need to fill out your fourth sheet of paper.

   Use your 4^th sheet of paper to match up as closely as you can every answer to questions from your 1^st sheet with the ideas that you brainstormed on your 2^nd sheet and the skills you have related to these on the 3^rd sheet. Once you do this, you will discover that you have given yourself clues as to what direction you should take.

   Believe it or not, your unconscious mind has been waiting for this opportunity to reveal to you what you should be doing right now in this coronavirus pandemic that will keep you alive and healthy in body, mind, and spirit.

   The answer to every question you have, the antidote to every fear you have, the way to your brightest future, and the tools you will need to get there are all within yourself. All you need to do is set up the conditions for your unconscious mind to reveal itself to your conscious mind. Jesus knew exactly what He was talking about when He said: “The kingdom of God is within you.” So, take His advice and seek first the kingdom of God that is within you, and everything else that you want and need will come to you. 

Personal Expansion Fundamentals-Part 3

 The third fundamental element of the Personal Expansion Principle that you must develop in order to lay a solid track record for success is to show initiative and leadership. You begin to do this when you decide to learn from past failures and to go above and beyond what people expect of you. But you complete the process by being self-directed and self-motivated to plan ahead and set your own goals within the context of your working environment without having been officially authorized or designated to do so.

   Now there are definite risks that surface when you show initiative and leadership, particularly when it is not an assignment that has been given to you by whoever is supposed to be your boss. If you work for an individual or company that is run top-down, you risk the possibility of being fired rather than promoted. If you decide that the risk is acceptable, then when you’re promoted you know you made the right decision. If your ability to show initiative and leadership causes you to be fired, then you know you were working for the wrong company. What separates successful people from those who are not is their ability to assume the risk of thinking and behaving like leaders, even when they are positioned as followers.

   The fourth fundamental element of the Personal Expansion Principle is that you must develop is to exhibit patience and self-control. It is urgent that this principle be developed and nurtured because there are countless frustrations that act as landmines on your road to success. To exhibit patience and self-control is to deactivate these landmines and allow you to continue unharmed by your own words and behaviors in times of stress.

   Your patience is extremely necessary when you’re dealing with people who either do not see the same goal or direction that you see or who see it and make serious efforts to derail the process of moving forward. Self-control keeps you from blurting out negative statements that will only make matters worse by closing off any opportunity for negotiation. What you will learn is that many people who seem self-confident, poised and in control of themselves are actually frightened and threatened by any change to their life’s routine. So, the thought of change—even for the better—brings out words and behaviors from them that would frustrate anyone who is not afraid or threatened by change.

   When you exhibit patience and self-control with people under these circumstances, you have the opportunity to address the core concerns that drive them in a non-threatening, empathetic manner. Many times, the resistance that people give to new ideas or pathways has more to do with their concerns about the impact on them than it does the merit, usefulness or even necessity of the change. In most cases, your ability to exhibit patience and self-control tends to calm people down and provide them the space to slowly open up so that their fears can be alleviated in a way that affirms their dignity and personhood.

   What should motivate you to exhibit patience and self-control is the reality that you need people to help you achieve your ultimate goal of personal expansion. When you exhibit patience and self-control and invest the necessary time in building the relationships with people that are required, you are investing in yourself and your own personal expansion.