CHAPTER THREE
WHAT IS THE PURE LOVE OF CHRIST?
The Pure Love of Christ is the POWER OF GOD. It is the energy of creation, the force which moves all things in the infinity of space in orderly pattern.
It is a power which mortal man in the history of our earth has not come to understand as a reality which can be defined or measured. Consequently it is not part of scientific thought or procedure. Nevertheless, it is the most valuable ingredient in every individual life.
The Pure Love of Christ is responsible for all positive and good things of which we are aware. It is the source of LIGHT -- the power which allows us to see, with our minds and hearts as well as with our eyes. All things we perceive in our minds as progressive knowledge which show us a better way -- all things we feel in our hearts which comfort us, heal our pain or bless us with peace, are part of that Love.
It is the source of TRUTH. Everything discovered by anyone in the world's history which has proved to be good for mankind has been inspired by that Love, as also every truth that ever will bless mankind in any degree.
It is the source of BEAUTY. Each lovely thing is created by God's Love, and wherever our senses respond with a surge of gladness, it is that Love in us communing with its counterpart. Whatever we see, or hear, or taste, or smell, or touch, or think, or feel, or do, that lifts our spirits with rejoicing, is part of Christ's Pure Love.
It is the source of HOPE -- the force that drives us beyond pain and grief and despair to belief in the reality of our dreams for happiness. It is the assurance in our beings of life over death.
In our own personal everyday experience it is the Pure Love of Christ that inspires within us the desire to do good - and then becomes the energy to do it. It moves us to protect others from being hurt and to share with them whatever is comforting.
This Power of God is responsible for all the beauty and joy -- the Love -- we know in our relationships with one another. It allows us to see the goodness in each other and to forgive the less than good. It provides the miracle by which we are blessed to believe in another mortal's divine nature and to love that personality with purity. It is the source of whatever true love we experience -- either giving or receiving. All feelings which are mutually sacred between two people are part of that love. The mystery which locks two strangers' eyes in a shimmering look of breathless recognition, which holds two hearts suspended together in timeless wonder, which vibrates a magical holiness as hands touch or lips meet, is the Pure Love of Christ. It is the essence of home and belonging. It is the eteral sealing together.
Every person born into the world has within him what has been called "the light of Christ." More accurately this could be described as the Pure Love of Christ. It is that energy within us which is good and which automatically responds to good. It is the power which allows any of us to have a positive, constructive self-image and to be in harmony with our SELF. It is the power which enables us to love EACH OTHER with unconditional love in harmoniously fulfilling relationships. And it is the power by which we know and love GOD and become One with God.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
THE GOD I KNOW - CHAPTER TWO
LOVE AND THE HOLY TRINITY
The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
There are actually many Gods, all of whom reign or function by the energy of the pure love which they generate as they create life. There is one God who created the world we linve in, who spiritually embodied us and so became the Father and Mother of our spirits. In mortal terminology we call that God, "God the Father";
"Father-Mother God" would be a more accurate terminology.
Jesus Christ, in the lineage of Gods, is of our generation. God our Father-Mother is His Father-Mother too. As God contemplated the mortal experience in a fallen world, which They knew would be necessary to our progress, They also knew we would need a Savior -- one who would love enough to redeem mankind from sin. So God's first creation was that Savior. They reached into the infinity of space where all intelligences wait, and found communion with one who had the inherent capacity to love that much, who wanted to love that much, who chose by his own free agency to love that much. And then God created a spiritual body for that intelligence to inhabit. So came into being God's first-born, Jesus Christ. This Son was thereafter included as part of all His Father's and Mother's works.
Christ's reason to be is to make possible, through love, the success of God's plan for us. He has been called our intermediary, our advocate, our intercessor, the Way. He is the Way because He stands as the passage through whom we of His generation FEEL the love of God, and through whom we, by our acceptance of His atoning sacrifice, return our love to God. In honor to this beloved Son, God calls Their love, as it comes through Christ to us, "The Pure Love of Christ." In honor to Him we call Him "God, the Son."
The third member of the holy trinity, the Holy Ghost, is all the rest of us -- all of humankind. As God perceived a need for each new thin in our world, They reached again into the sea of intelligences and encompassed the unique ONE whose capacity could and desire would fill that need. So came into being spiritually each of us -- because the unique contribution each of us could give and wanted to give was necessary to the whole of God's plan. God had two reasons for choosing every one of us to be born into Their family.
The first reason YOU became part of them was that in the
magnificent perception of Their Love, They sensed your desire
to become more than an intelligence -- YOUR NEED FOR THEM.
The second reason was that THEY NEEDED YOU. The love with
They reached out to find you yearned for the thing you are
and could not be fulfilled without you. If you love so small
a thing as a violet nestled in the woods against a gnarled root
you may have been the one God needed to help create such a lovely
thing, or to appreciate it and find joy in it with Them after it
had been created. The ability to rejoice in beauty is equally
as important a part of the beauty's existence as the ability
to create it. Also, because you are able to love, God needed
you to make Their love perfect. So you were conceived and born,
becoming part of Their family, part of Them, part of the Godhead.
Now, in mortality, where we walk by faith, blinded to our experience as spirits living with God, we have been made aware that there is a Holy Ghost and that it is "a personage of spirit." But we do not know WHO that spirit is until we struggle with opposition long enough to recognize our own personal spirit, our Divine Nature, by accepting the atonement of Christ and receiving His love, so that the carnal man is dead in us. We then can know our place with God, know God's love for us, know our love for God and Christ, and know our reason for being, which is part of God's reason for being.
Through the experience of being born of Christ it is possible to know that the Holy Ghost is one's own spirit, one's own godliness. It is possible to feel one's reality as the third member of the Holy Trinity. God loves each of us that much! They include us as part of Themself. Their love for us stands -- eternally. When we acknowledge Their existence by receiving that love, we also acknowledge our own eternal existence as part of Them, and RECEIVE the gift of the Holy Ghost -- the knowledge of our true SELF.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
There are actually many Gods, all of whom reign or function by the energy of the pure love which they generate as they create life. There is one God who created the world we linve in, who spiritually embodied us and so became the Father and Mother of our spirits. In mortal terminology we call that God, "God the Father";
"Father-Mother God" would be a more accurate terminology.
Jesus Christ, in the lineage of Gods, is of our generation. God our Father-Mother is His Father-Mother too. As God contemplated the mortal experience in a fallen world, which They knew would be necessary to our progress, They also knew we would need a Savior -- one who would love enough to redeem mankind from sin. So God's first creation was that Savior. They reached into the infinity of space where all intelligences wait, and found communion with one who had the inherent capacity to love that much, who wanted to love that much, who chose by his own free agency to love that much. And then God created a spiritual body for that intelligence to inhabit. So came into being God's first-born, Jesus Christ. This Son was thereafter included as part of all His Father's and Mother's works.
Christ's reason to be is to make possible, through love, the success of God's plan for us. He has been called our intermediary, our advocate, our intercessor, the Way. He is the Way because He stands as the passage through whom we of His generation FEEL the love of God, and through whom we, by our acceptance of His atoning sacrifice, return our love to God. In honor to this beloved Son, God calls Their love, as it comes through Christ to us, "The Pure Love of Christ." In honor to Him we call Him "God, the Son."
The third member of the holy trinity, the Holy Ghost, is all the rest of us -- all of humankind. As God perceived a need for each new thin in our world, They reached again into the sea of intelligences and encompassed the unique ONE whose capacity could and desire would fill that need. So came into being spiritually each of us -- because the unique contribution each of us could give and wanted to give was necessary to the whole of God's plan. God had two reasons for choosing every one of us to be born into Their family.
The first reason YOU became part of them was that in the
magnificent perception of Their Love, They sensed your desire
to become more than an intelligence -- YOUR NEED FOR THEM.
The second reason was that THEY NEEDED YOU. The love with
They reached out to find you yearned for the thing you are
and could not be fulfilled without you. If you love so small
a thing as a violet nestled in the woods against a gnarled root
you may have been the one God needed to help create such a lovely
thing, or to appreciate it and find joy in it with Them after it
had been created. The ability to rejoice in beauty is equally
as important a part of the beauty's existence as the ability
to create it. Also, because you are able to love, God needed
you to make Their love perfect. So you were conceived and born,
becoming part of Their family, part of Them, part of the Godhead.
Now, in mortality, where we walk by faith, blinded to our experience as spirits living with God, we have been made aware that there is a Holy Ghost and that it is "a personage of spirit." But we do not know WHO that spirit is until we struggle with opposition long enough to recognize our own personal spirit, our Divine Nature, by accepting the atonement of Christ and receiving His love, so that the carnal man is dead in us. We then can know our place with God, know God's love for us, know our love for God and Christ, and know our reason for being, which is part of God's reason for being.
Through the experience of being born of Christ it is possible to know that the Holy Ghost is one's own spirit, one's own godliness. It is possible to feel one's reality as the third member of the Holy Trinity. God loves each of us that much! They include us as part of Themself. Their love for us stands -- eternally. When we acknowledge Their existence by receiving that love, we also acknowledge our own eternal existence as part of Them, and RECEIVE the gift of the Holy Ghost -- the knowledge of our true SELF.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
THE GOD I KNOW
PRELUDE
We each create our own God --
using what we glean from those
we trust . . . our parents at first,
then maybe the preachers at church
or the refs at ballgames.
Teachers, or controversial books,
may churn up disturbing questions,
screen and TV idols impress.
At some point our relationship
with deity (God-or-not) becomes
a personal responsibility. Living along,
aware or unaware, blind or seeing,
we pick and choose what works for us,
pattern our worship to suit our lifestyle,
create a God we find useful.
For some people God feeds fear
and strokes ego; they perform
to avoid punishment or reap reward.
Others decide there is no soul, no hereafter,
turn worship to their comfort zones --
money, power, sex, drugs, sports, crime . . .
or perhaps science, the brain, nature.
Following tradition, many worship
a cross, agony, suffering. Some
discover unconditional love,
and worship a gracious God.
We each create our own God.
The book which follows describes the God I have created using the tools that have come into my path and the insights I have received from the "ether." Choosing to
worship this God has brought me peace, joy, and most importantly, pure love.
I offer it to you with the hope that it will bless your life.
CHAPTER ONE
THE GOD I KNOW
All good and comforting things that have ever been thought or said or written about God are true of the God I know. Everything we believe about Him that makes us want to be near Him, that causes us to worship Him with love and joy, is true. He is all good things we desire Him to be. He is a perfect mystery, whom we can adore from afar; or He is a living personage who can reach out and hold us in His arms -- because He wants to be, and has the power to be, whatever each of us needs Him to be as a positive influence in our lives. The Energy of Love which emanates from Him fills the whole universe, and it dwells in our individual hearts to the degree that we recognize and receive it.
There is more to understand about the God I know than has ever been plainly written. He has a wife. She is so much a part of Him in all the ways of Love, that while they are two people, a man and a woman, they need only one name, God. It is because they are together that Love is, that beauty is, that truth is, that goodness is, that WE are. We have a Mother in Heaven as well as a Father in Heaven.
God created mankind in His own image, male and female. Mortal men look like God-Man in form and stature; mortal women look like God-Woman. Whatever we perceive in one another to be beautiful is part of the image of God. If we could look upon Them with our physical eyes, God-Man would appear as the embodiment of perfect magnifi-cent manliness, and His wife, God-Woman would appear to be the most beautiful and radiant of women.
The reality of God for me is that God the Man and God the Woman are One God, because They are necessary to each other's finishing and to each other's ability to create. The power of both combine to become the ultimate Power-of-God. God-Man embodies masculine love-energy, which is unique in its capacities and qualities. God-Woman embodies feminine love-energy, which is also unique in its own components, especially as it differs from male energy. Both energies are holy and mighty and awesome in their power. But the ultimate omnipotence which is God, results as the two entities of God-energy come together in the harmoniously eloquent explosion of the consummation of their Love -- as Thought, Feeling and Being become One. Life is created when the two elements of godly love become one love. Life -- in all the abundant fullness and limitless possibility of aliveness. Infinite Life. Eternal, ever-expanding, gloriously fulfilling, joyously increasindg -- LIFE.
All the infinitely mighty and infinitely delicate creations which are the handiwork of God result from the fusion of God-Man energy with God-Woman energy. The God I know has made known to me that my spiritual being is a creation of that Oneness. The intelligence which I am and which, like God, has no beginning or end, but is co-eternal with Him, would have remained only an unembodied intelligence wandering through space, were it not for the love of my Heavenly Father and Mother, who chose to recognize me, sensed my yearning to become, and included me in Their Love. That knowledge is a revelation, not a remembered event. But there is in my present con-
sciousness a sure awareness that God is both Mother and Father. The spiritual experiences through which God has responded to my need bear witness to me of the nature of God. I know that the ultimate Godly Man-Woman love relationship encompasses in oneness all positive energy and becomes the Creator, the God I worship.
Hereafter in this writing the word "God" will be understood to mean both Father and Mother in Heaven. To enhance this concept, plural pronouns will be used. God is Love -- the pure fulfillment of two beings who become One.
The most important thing to know about God in order to develop a personal relationship with Them is that each of us is a desired product of Their perfect Oneness, and each was, in his creation, a perfect product. We were created because of love, by love and we are loved. This creation occured before mortality. Although it is forgotten in our conscious minds, it is alive in our deepest hearts. Its reality is the positive energy within us and the source of all goodness we perceive or bring to pass. It is our hope for immortality and it is a valid hope. God has a reason for being. We are part of that reason. God has a plan. We, by our own choice, are part of that plan. Here, now, in mortality we are living out one well-planned phase of our relationship with God.
We need to know that mortality is temporary, that it is a uniquely important experience in our eternal pattern, and that it is necessary to our becoming all that we desire to become. If we can put mortality into perspective, all its contradictions fall away. Knowing God brings mortality into clear perspective.
It is most comforting to know that because They created us, God knows and loves each one of us as a separate individual whose unique personality gives birth to a unique love relationship with Them. The truths by which God would govern us are universal, but when applied are also individual to each separate need. God's "commandments" include EACH of us at the same time they include ALL of us. God does not consider suggesting we do anything that would not ultimately bring us happiness or make us better, and They do not ask us to do anthing except to protect us from hurting ourselves or each other.
The God I know is kind and loving and generous. One of Their purely unselfish attributes is that Their joy is valuable to Them because it is shared with us. They offer Their glory, Their power, Their kingdom, Their life, to all who desire Them. By Their own choice They put Themself in the position of needing us as recipients of Their goodness. They exist to Love us.
We each create our own God --
using what we glean from those
we trust . . . our parents at first,
then maybe the preachers at church
or the refs at ballgames.
Teachers, or controversial books,
may churn up disturbing questions,
screen and TV idols impress.
At some point our relationship
with deity (God-or-not) becomes
a personal responsibility. Living along,
aware or unaware, blind or seeing,
we pick and choose what works for us,
pattern our worship to suit our lifestyle,
create a God we find useful.
For some people God feeds fear
and strokes ego; they perform
to avoid punishment or reap reward.
Others decide there is no soul, no hereafter,
turn worship to their comfort zones --
money, power, sex, drugs, sports, crime . . .
or perhaps science, the brain, nature.
Following tradition, many worship
a cross, agony, suffering. Some
discover unconditional love,
and worship a gracious God.
We each create our own God.
The book which follows describes the God I have created using the tools that have come into my path and the insights I have received from the "ether." Choosing to
worship this God has brought me peace, joy, and most importantly, pure love.
I offer it to you with the hope that it will bless your life.
CHAPTER ONE
THE GOD I KNOW
All good and comforting things that have ever been thought or said or written about God are true of the God I know. Everything we believe about Him that makes us want to be near Him, that causes us to worship Him with love and joy, is true. He is all good things we desire Him to be. He is a perfect mystery, whom we can adore from afar; or He is a living personage who can reach out and hold us in His arms -- because He wants to be, and has the power to be, whatever each of us needs Him to be as a positive influence in our lives. The Energy of Love which emanates from Him fills the whole universe, and it dwells in our individual hearts to the degree that we recognize and receive it.
There is more to understand about the God I know than has ever been plainly written. He has a wife. She is so much a part of Him in all the ways of Love, that while they are two people, a man and a woman, they need only one name, God. It is because they are together that Love is, that beauty is, that truth is, that goodness is, that WE are. We have a Mother in Heaven as well as a Father in Heaven.
God created mankind in His own image, male and female. Mortal men look like God-Man in form and stature; mortal women look like God-Woman. Whatever we perceive in one another to be beautiful is part of the image of God. If we could look upon Them with our physical eyes, God-Man would appear as the embodiment of perfect magnifi-cent manliness, and His wife, God-Woman would appear to be the most beautiful and radiant of women.
The reality of God for me is that God the Man and God the Woman are One God, because They are necessary to each other's finishing and to each other's ability to create. The power of both combine to become the ultimate Power-of-God. God-Man embodies masculine love-energy, which is unique in its capacities and qualities. God-Woman embodies feminine love-energy, which is also unique in its own components, especially as it differs from male energy. Both energies are holy and mighty and awesome in their power. But the ultimate omnipotence which is God, results as the two entities of God-energy come together in the harmoniously eloquent explosion of the consummation of their Love -- as Thought, Feeling and Being become One. Life is created when the two elements of godly love become one love. Life -- in all the abundant fullness and limitless possibility of aliveness. Infinite Life. Eternal, ever-expanding, gloriously fulfilling, joyously increasindg -- LIFE.
All the infinitely mighty and infinitely delicate creations which are the handiwork of God result from the fusion of God-Man energy with God-Woman energy. The God I know has made known to me that my spiritual being is a creation of that Oneness. The intelligence which I am and which, like God, has no beginning or end, but is co-eternal with Him, would have remained only an unembodied intelligence wandering through space, were it not for the love of my Heavenly Father and Mother, who chose to recognize me, sensed my yearning to become, and included me in Their Love. That knowledge is a revelation, not a remembered event. But there is in my present con-
sciousness a sure awareness that God is both Mother and Father. The spiritual experiences through which God has responded to my need bear witness to me of the nature of God. I know that the ultimate Godly Man-Woman love relationship encompasses in oneness all positive energy and becomes the Creator, the God I worship.
Hereafter in this writing the word "God" will be understood to mean both Father and Mother in Heaven. To enhance this concept, plural pronouns will be used. God is Love -- the pure fulfillment of two beings who become One.
The most important thing to know about God in order to develop a personal relationship with Them is that each of us is a desired product of Their perfect Oneness, and each was, in his creation, a perfect product. We were created because of love, by love and we are loved. This creation occured before mortality. Although it is forgotten in our conscious minds, it is alive in our deepest hearts. Its reality is the positive energy within us and the source of all goodness we perceive or bring to pass. It is our hope for immortality and it is a valid hope. God has a reason for being. We are part of that reason. God has a plan. We, by our own choice, are part of that plan. Here, now, in mortality we are living out one well-planned phase of our relationship with God.
We need to know that mortality is temporary, that it is a uniquely important experience in our eternal pattern, and that it is necessary to our becoming all that we desire to become. If we can put mortality into perspective, all its contradictions fall away. Knowing God brings mortality into clear perspective.
It is most comforting to know that because They created us, God knows and loves each one of us as a separate individual whose unique personality gives birth to a unique love relationship with Them. The truths by which God would govern us are universal, but when applied are also individual to each separate need. God's "commandments" include EACH of us at the same time they include ALL of us. God does not consider suggesting we do anything that would not ultimately bring us happiness or make us better, and They do not ask us to do anthing except to protect us from hurting ourselves or each other.
The God I know is kind and loving and generous. One of Their purely unselfish attributes is that Their joy is valuable to Them because it is shared with us. They offer Their glory, Their power, Their kingdom, Their life, to all who desire Them. By Their own choice They put Themself in the position of needing us as recipients of Their goodness. They exist to Love us.
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