Fifth Review – Introduction
We now review again. This time we are ready to give more effort and more time to what we undertake. We recognize we are preparing for another phase of understanding. We would take this step completely, that we may go on again more certain, more sincere, with faith upheld more surely. Our footsteps have not been unwavering, and doubts have made us walk uncertainly and slowly on the road this course sets forth. But now we hasten on, for we approach a greater certainty, a firmer purpose and a surer goal.
Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.
So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.
This is the thought which should precede the thoughts that we review. Each one but clarifies some aspect of this thought, or helps it be more meaningful, more personal and true, and more descriptive of the holy Self we share and now prepare to know again:
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
This Self alone knows Love. This Self alone is perfectly consistent in Its Thoughts; knows Its Creator, understands Itself, is perfect in Its knowledge and Its Love, and never changes from Its constant state of union with Its Father and Itself.
And it is this that waits to meet us at the journey’s ending. Every step we take brings us a little nearer. This review will shorten time immeasurably, if we keep in mind that this remains our goal, and as we practice it is this to which we are approaching. Let us raise our hearts from dust to life, as we remember this is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.
I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. We walk together. I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.
My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother/sister safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. I am renewed each time a brother/sister learns there is a way from misery and pain. I am reborn each time a brother’s/sister’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. I have forgotten no one. Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me.
Release me as you practice once again the thoughts I brought to you from Him Who sees your bitter need, and knows the answer God has given Him. Together we review these thoughts. Together we devote our time and effort to them. And together we will teach them to our brothers and sisters. God would not have Heaven incomplete. It waits for you, as I do. I am incomplete without your part in me. And as I am made whole we go together to our ancient home, prepared for us before time was and kept unchanged by time, immaculate and safe, as it will be at last when time is done.
Let this review be then your gift to me. For this alone I need; that you will hear the words I speak, and give them to the world. You are my voice, my eyes, my feet, my hands through which I save the world. The Self from which I call to you is but your own. To Him we go together. Take your brother’s hand, for this is not a way we walk alone. In him I walk with you, and you with me. Our Father wills His Son be one with Him. What lives but must not then be one with you?
Let this review become a time in which we share a new experience for you, yet one as old as time and older still. Hallowed your Name. Your glory undefiled forever. And your wholeness now complete, as God established it. You are His Son/Daughter, completing His extension in your own. We practice but an ancient truth we knew before illusion seemed to claim the world. And we remind the world that it is free of all illusions every time we say:
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
With this we start each day of our review. With this we start and end each period of practice time. And with this thought we sleep, to waken once again with these same words upon our lips, to greet another day. No thought that we review but we surround with it, and use the thoughts to hold it up before our minds, and keep it clear in our remembrance throughout the day. And thus, when we have finished this review, we will have recognized the words we speak are true.
Yet are the words but aids, and to be used, except at the beginning and the end of practice periods, but to recall the mind, as needed, to its purpose. We place faith in the experience that comes from practice, not the means we use. We wait for the experience, and recognize that it is only here conviction lies. We use the words, and try and try again to go beyond them to their meaning, which is far beyond their sound. The sound grows dim and disappears, as we approach the Source of meaning. It is Here that we find rest.
Lesson 171
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
All things are echoes of the Voice for God.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
The power of decision is my own.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(end lesson 171)
Today we review God’s Love….All That Is…Everything We Experience and how we return to the eternal Self we thought we lost! Today I would like you to try an eye open meditation. Today I would like you to look into a space, any space and see if you can see the space between the molecules…it is really easier than it sounds. You will look into a space with a soft gaze…focus on seeing the space between things…your brain will become confused and you will actually start to see little particles zipping this way and that in the space you are looking at…then look to the space between the zipping particles….stay there for a while then follow up with the Ah meditation, eyes closed…enjoy the sound of Ecstacy and Creation. Again we will chant Ah under our breath through all of our waking hours. At the end of the day be sure to complete the practice with a final three long Ah and one final long and drawn out Om before you lull yourself off to Blissful Sleep. Feel the Om and Your connection to God. Today You Will Be In Love, At Peace With The World and With Your God. You Walk With Your Diamond Eyes Again Today!!! Chanting and finding Heaven within and on Earth. We Are On The Higher Road! We Are Like Gods…We Are Like Our Loving Supportive God! We Give And Receive Forgiveness Like Breath Now! Today We Get To “Be” Once Again..We Just Are “Perfect” and “We Are Love And In Love”….Enjoy your day reflecting on Your Beauty, Grace, Love, Heaven and God! Today We Are Our Divine Nature and Walk What We Were Designed To Be. Today IS Enlightenment. Enjoy your lesson today, enjoy your day, enjoy the LOVE showered upon you, enjoy the PEACE that is yours, enjoy being FORGIVEN and FORGIVING. Then Take Your Beautiful, Loving, Blessed, Forgiven, Miraculous Self Out Into The World And Share All That You Are, Then Be Someone’s Miracle!!!
Namaste’
Robert
