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Spiritual Blueprint

Prior to 2005, I thought there was only one way to be spiritual and that was to have a relationship with God…the Catholic way.

These days God or spirituality is a subject I contemplate to a great extent everyday, and on some days more than others. During the weekend of 17 & 18 March 2o13, I contemplated it even more because it was my spiritual grandson's Catholic Christening on the Sunday.

Once upon a time my Spiritual Blueprint told me that if we weren't baptised then God didn't know about us, and if God didn't know about us, and we died, our soul would be sent to a terrible place called "hell".

When baptised as a Catholic however, it meant God knew about me. Not only did this new title of "Catholic" save me from hell but, by practising and living the Catholic faith it made me eligible to get to another place called "heaven"; a very desirable place indeed. I also came to believe that a promise was made at the time of a Christening by the parents, God-parents, and witnesses to guide the child's Spirit in the ways of this particular faith - this was reiterated on Sunday.

There were some lovely concepts shared by the presiding priest at the ceremony that Noah was involved in, yet I found the Catholic belief still missing a fundamental and universal truth - that God and man are One because God is all there is.

That day in 2005 when I decided to no longer consider myself a "Catholic", was the day I conscientiously began to search for a way to avoid hell in a less fearful way and come to know God in a more uplifting one. This search led to the understanding that there are many ways to approach Spirituality and have a relationship with God. It also revealed that there was no physical place called heaven or hell, or even purgatory, but rather that these were states of consciousness and experiences that were possible to create in the here and now.

My Spiritual Blueprint today is based on the concept that there is nothing but God in all our Universes and Galaxies, and all that these contain. Everything in physical form is an outward or visible expression of this Supreme Consciousness that men call God and the only way God or Supreme Consciousness could not recognise Itself would be to forget momentarily that this Life Principle is all there is, ever was, and ever will be.

I believe this activity of forgetting or rather lowering our state of consciousness to a degree, for the great forward movement of the people and the planet, takes place by choice each time "I" birth into a physical realm. By doing so "I" get to experience, amongst other things, free choice to express mySelf anyway way "I" will.

God to me is no longer a physical entity and never will be except through Its offspring - you, me, US. Rather, to me God has become an Essence of Supreme Consciousness that is infinitely intelligent and onmipresent. It is all good, forever expanding and always evolving for the purpose of experiencing and expressing greater and greater degrees of Love, Beauty and Joy.

From the belief that God is all there is, everything and everyone becomes an outward expression of this Single Source of Life, It can only be.

I believe that this Spirit of Livingness exists in all things and everyone, to varying degrees, and the degree to which we are currently expressing this Spirit of Life is equal to the extent that we, individually and collectively, recognise and believe that man and God are One and that man is God expressed.

We are permanently connected and can never, in truth, be separated. We can only think that we are and even this doesn't make it so.

Now this is just a snippet of what my search for the ideal experience of God and spirituality has so far revealed to me about the Supreme Consciousness that man calls God and that man is an outward, physical expression of. We, like everyone, are doing our best with the information we have to express and demonstrate our highest state of consciousness for the highest possible experience and expression of Love, Beauty & Joy and the journey continues...

All Life is Precious because All is Life.

Live the Life you Love...
J x 

Entering into the Spirit of It

Now back to the matter of a complimentary abode in the city...

It was in Judge Thomas Troward's Dore Lectures that I first read about Entering into the Spirit of a thing.  Below are a variety of extracts from the Lecture of the same name.  Before reading them I would like to give you a tip that may assist you experience the true value of this material written in the first decade of the 1900s.  As this blog suggests, when you read these lines do so when you have a moment of quiet to read the words with care, and feel the feeling that is at the back of each word.  Imagine what the author felt as he wrote and spoke these words; and - from a place of uncritical observation - I invite you to notice what feelings they elicit within you:

"The Spirit is that which gives life and movement to anything, in fact it is that which causes it to exist at all.”

“The creative process in the first instance is purely a matter of feeling.”

“Since the Spirit is Life-in-itself, its feeling can only be for the fuller expression of Life.”

“It is this original feeling that we need to enter into, because it is the fons et origo [source and origin] of the whole chain of causation which subsequently follows.”

“...since the desire to bestow the greater fullness of joyous life can only be described as Love, we can sum up the whole of the feeling which is the original moving impulse in the Spirit as Love and Beauty -

...the Spirit finding expression through forms of beauty in centres of life, in harmonious reciprocal relation to itself."

"If we could only so enter into the Spirit as to make it personally IN OURSELVES what it evidently is in ITSELF, the magnum opus [the great work] would be accomplished.”

“This is a generalised statement of the broad principle by which Spirit expands from the innermost to the outermost, in accordance with a Law of tendency [natural Law of Growth] inherent in itself."

So far, so great right!? While there is a WHOLE lot more to what Troward has to say on this subject, the more I read the more I see patterns of wisdom and instructions guiding me toward the manner in which we turn thought forms and our imaginings into matter and that is - through the recognition that Spirit is creating the conditions through me as an Individual Placeholder in the Great Plan of Life [a form of beauty and centre of life]. 

We are each fully equipped and integral vehicles through which Spirit/Life evolves!  However, for us to become demonstrations of this Truth and utilise the Loving Might and Ability of Life's potential, which can only operate in this physical/third dimension through us, we must first recognise and believe this to be a Truth. 

Now, if this “living an ideal life” business was easy, every man and his dog would be doing it!  However the only reason it isn’t easy is because of our prior conditioning – that is beliefs and decisions about Life and how It operates that are incomplete and limiting.  How’s it going for you so far?  Are your current beliefs about yourself and Life serving you, and all your affairs, well?

The reason Anthony and I looked for what else people were writing, saying, and doing to live a more ‘ideal’ life was because the information we had wasn’t cutting it – in any area of our life (home, work, relationships).  And it certainly wasn’t bestowing upon us the greater fullness of joyous living that can only be described as Love and Beauty. 

I am delighted to share however that these days Life is expressing itself more lovingly and beautifully through us…and it is certainly becoming easier and easier to Be this way.

“This means realising our life as drawn direct from the Originating Spirit; and if we now understand that the Thought or Imagination of the Spirit is the great reality of Being, and that all material facts are only correspondences, then it logically follows that what we have to do is to maintain our individual place in the Thought of the Parent Mind."

On the Universal Truths Facebook Page this week I shared another of a number of quotes that come up as reminders/affirmations on my phone daily – some of which have been coming up for in excess of 110 days.  This one reads, "I give thanks for already having received on the invisible, and make active preparation for receiving on the visible."

Over this weekend, and in my upcoming posts, I'll be developing ways to share exactly what I'm thinking and doing to actively prepare to receive our additional dwelling in Brisbane – well, to the extent that I can in 700-1000 words at a time.  Perhaps I’ll add some video blogging along the way..?  I'll also be writing a whole lot more in the coming weeks as I acquire a tool of the trade to support this overwhelming desire to write, write, write and share, share, share.

until my next post
Live the Life you Love
J.  x

source: The Dore Lectures

Assumptions Harden Info Fact

"Keys to a Better Life"


A Psychological Interpretation of "the Passover"
An Extract from Neville Goddard - Lesson 2
ASSUMPTIONS HARDEN INTO FACT

Neville says: "This Bible of ours has nothing to do with history. Some of you may yet be inclined tonight to believe that, although we can give it a psychological interpretation, it still could be left in its present form and be interpreted literally. You cannot do it. The Bible has no reference at all to people or to events as you have been taught to believe. The sooner you begin to rub out that picture the better.

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Our first story for tonight is found in the Gospel of John. This is a very familiar story, the story of the trial of Jesus. In this Gospel of John it is recorded that Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate, and the crowd clamored for his life, they wanted Jesus. Pilate turned to them and said:

"But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the Passover;
will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? Then cried they
all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber."
John 18:39, 40

You are told that Pilate had no choice in the matter, he was only a judge interpreting law, and this was the law. The people had to be given that which they requested. Pilate could not release Jesus against the wishes of the crowd, and so he released Barabbas and gave unto them Jesus to be crucified.

Now bear in mind that your consciousness is God. There is no other God. And you are told that God has a son whose name is Jesus. If you will take the trouble to look up the word Barabbas in your concordance, you will see that it is a contraction of two Hebraic words: BAR, which means a daughter or son - or child, and ABBA, which means father. Barabbas is the son of the great father. And Jesus in the story is called the Saviour, the Son of the Father.

We have two sons in this story. And we have two sons in the story of Esau and Jacob. Bear in mind that Isaac was blind, and justice to be true must be blind folded. Although in this case Pilate is not physically blind, the part given to Pilate implies that he is blind because he is a judge. On all the great law buildings of the world we see the lady or the man who represents justice as being blindfolded.

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. " John 7:24.

Here we find Pilate is playing the same part as Isaac. There are two sons. All the characters as they appear in this story can apply to your own life. You have a son that is robbing you this very moment of that which you could be.

If you came to this meeting tonight conscious of wanting something, desiring something, you walked in the company of Barabbas. For to desire is to confess that you do not now possess what you desire, and because all things are yours, you rob yourself by living in the state of desire. My saviour is my desire. As I want something I am looking into the eyes of my saviour. But if I continue wanting it, I deny my Jesus, my saviour, for as I want I confess I am not and "except ye believe that I AM He ye die in your sins." I cannot have and still continue to desire what I have. I may enjoy it, but I cannot continue wanting it.

Here is the story. This is the feast of the Passover. Something is going to change right now, something is going to passover. Man is incapable of passing over from one state of consciousness into another unless he releases from consciousness that which he now entertains, for it anchors him where he is.

You and I may go to physical feasts year after year as the sun enters the great sign of Aries, but it means nothing to the true mystical Passover. To keep the feast of the Passover, the psychological feast, I pass from one state of consciousness into another. I do it by releasing Barabbas, the thief and robber that robs me of that state which I could embody within my world.

The state I seek to embody is personified in the story as Jesus the Saviour. If I become what I want to be then I am saved from what I was. If I do not become it, I continue to keep locked within me a thief who robs me of being that which I could be.

These stories have no reference to any persons who lived nor to any event that ever occurred upon earth. These characters are everlasting characters in the mind of every man in the world. You and I perpetually keep alive either Barabbas or Jesus. You know at every moment of time who you are entertaining.

Do not condemn a crowd for clamoring that they should release Barabbas and crucify Jesus. It is not a crowd of people called Jews. They had nothing to do with it.

If we are wise, we too should clamor for the release of that state of mind that limits us from being what we want to be, that restricts us, that does not permit us to become the ideal that we seek and strive to attain in this world.

I am not saying that you are not tonight embodying Jesus. I only remind you, that if at this very moment you have an unfulfilled ambition, then you are entertaining that which denies the fulfillment of the ambition, and that which denies it is Barabbas.

To explain the mystical, psychological transformation known as the Passover, or the crossing over, you must now become identified with the ideal that you would serve, and you must remain faithful to the ideal. If you remain faithful to it, you not only crucify it by your faithfulness, but you resurrect it unaided by a man.

As the story goes, no man could rise early enough to roll away the stone. Unaided by a man the stone was removed, and what seemingly was dead and buried was resurrected unassisted by a man.

You walk in the consciousness of being that which you want to be, no one sees it as yet, but you do not need a man to roll away the problems and the obstacles of life in order to express that which you are conscious of being. That state has its own unique way of becoming embodied in this world, of becoming flesh that the whole world may touch it.

Now you can see the relationship between the story of Jesus and the story of Isaac and his two sons, where one transplanted the other, where one was called the Supplanter of the other. Why do you think those who compiled the sixty odd books of our Bible made Jacob the forefather of Jesus?

They took Jacob, who was called the Supplanter, and made him father of twelve, then they took Judah or praise, the fifth son and made him the forefather of Joseph, who is supposed to have fathered in some strange way this one called Jesus. Jesus must supplant Barabbas as Jacob must supplant and take the place of Esau.

Tonight you can sit right here and conduct the trial of your two sons, one of whom you want released. You can become the crowd who clamors for the release of the thief, and the judge who willingly releases Barabbas, and sentences Jesus to fill his place. He was crucified on Golgotha, the place of the skull, the seat of the imagination.

To experience the Passover or passage from the old to the new concept of self, you must release Barabbas, your present concept of self, which robs you of being that which you could be, and you must assume the new concept which you desire to express.

The best way to do this is to concentrate your attention upon the idea of identifying yourself with your ideal. Assume you are already that which you seek and your assumption, though false, if sustained, will harden into fact.

You will know when you have succeeded in releasing Barabbas, your old concept of self, and when you have successfully crucified Jesus, or fixed the new concept of self, by simply looking MENTALLY at the people you know. If you see them as you formerly saw them, you have not changed your concept of self, for all changes of concepts of self result in a changed relationship to your world.

We always seem to others an embodiment of the ideal we inspire. Therefore, in meditation, we must imagine that others see us as they would see us were we what we desire to be.

You can release Barabbas and crucify and resurrect Jesus if you will first define your ideal. Then relax in a comfortable arm chair, induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep and experience in imagination what you would experience in reality were you already that which you desire to be.

By this simple method of experiencing in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you the embodiment of the ideal you serve, you release Barabbas who robbed you of your greatness, and you crucify and resurrect your saviour, or the ideal you desired to express."

unitl next time...
Live the Life you Love
J. x

A Little Ray of Sunshine

has come into the world…


"Keys to a Better Life" 

A few months ago, one of the amazing women in my life invited me to assist her birth her first born child naturally.  As she is a student of Life and very dear friend of Universal Truths (the laws and principles that govern Cause & Effect), I was deeply honoured.

On Saturday, the 28^th of January 2012, an extension of Spirit, conceived in the exact same manner all things are – first by thought, and then by feeling, by taking divinely inspired action, and by remaining faithful to these thoughts and feelings – was expressed in the form of a precious little baby girl who was birthed naturally in water.

There were many realisations that occurred to me throughout the day. One of these was just how far off track we have wandered in some instances and just how much closer to our true nature we are evolving in others.

It was the intention of the mother-to-be that this experience be as non-invasive to her and her child as possible. As the day unfolded, the more sacred the event I was witnessing and actively got involved in, became.

The more connected I became with the birthing mum, the more intense the feeling of Oneness grew.  Whilst this tiny little physical vehicle was being designed and developed through the most intricate and orderly scientific, biological and Divinely Intelligent processes over the past nine months, we knew the greater part of her remained directly connected to the Spirit of Life.

Knowing and trusting played a great part in this glorious event. 

As we continue to keep our thoughts as connected and progressive as our ‘work in progress’ status enables us to, the sacredness of the day and the knowing and trusting in our Oness continues.

Whilst there may be moments in the past 48 hours that may be considered less than ‘ideal’ for this new mum, as she remains progressive, focussed, and lovingly responsive, the one and only Source of all things (with whom we connect via our consciousness) continues to co-produce one beautiful condition after another.

Thank you and Congratulations Beautiful Lady! A very warm welcome to this Little Ray of Sunshine that has come into the world!

 

Until next time…
Life the Life you Love
J x

On No, not the ‘G’ Word

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

Notice how many people get freaked out by the ‘God’ word?  I know I used to.  In fact, I found it so repulsive, I banished it from my vocabulary altogether for a number of years.

It’s any wonder really, given that many of us are introduced to a version of a sinister, bearded man, up there, somewhere, yielding a rod that, depending on our ability to placate him during this poor excuse for a life, either grants us access through the pearly gates to heaven or banishes us forever to the hollows of hell.

Who needs that nightmare?  I certainly didn’t.  My life was scary enough without this dude in my life and if I wasn’t being told a horrible story about punishment and banishment, I was told he was unconditionally loving and forgiving. What the?  When I became so confused that I began to ask questions I was told, ‘have faith’.  Again, what the?

I found it easier to checkout from these godly beliefs, and so I did, for a while at least.

When my seemingly cosy life ‘hit the wall’ however, a cherished girlfriend gifted me a book called “Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)”.  The first part of the title put me off and the second half intrigued me enough to pick it up and open it to the first page.  I read non-stop for 48 hours!

What is succeeded in doing was it shook up my current and grossly distorted model of the world and God and brought home some resounding Truths that I was unable to deny. While it succeeded in snapping me out of manic depression, it was still some years, in fact many years, before I was able to use the ‘G’ word again.

Today, although I have become 100% comfortable in my relationship with and use of the term God, I am still mindful of using it around others.  Just recently, I was again reminded of the discomfort this word can conjure for people and yet, from my in depth study and implementation of the subject (whilst only having scratched the surface) I understand that this discomfort is primarily due to ignorance (1. (n.) a wilful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.).

There is a great deal of merit in acquiring the knowledge for ourselves about this Eternal Life Source rather than continuing to live in a maya of misconception and misrepresentation.

There is so much to gain and so much benefit to be had by doing so.  After all, we are told we are made in His image and likeness.  It’s fascinating to discover what aspect of us this relates to and what this entitles us, and enables us to be, do and have as a birthright.

Until next time…
Love the Life you Live
J. x

All paths lead to God

 
"Keys to a Better Life"

All paths lead to God!
Well, at least they did in our instance…

Anyone who has read our Home Page introduction on this website (www.universaltruths.com.au) will be informed that Anthony and I have dedicated ourselves as individuals, in relationship, and in our careers to the study of human potential, sales, and business performance.

When Anthony and I first connected in November of 2005, Anthony had been a celibate Christian for some 14 years and I, well, I had distanced myself from religion as far as I could although metaphysics and spirituality had been emerging in my life in preceding years.

Our beliefs were generally vastly different and at some point, very early in our relationship, Anthony suggested we proceed on the proviso that we conduct the study that will tell us whether or not the Bible and its content are in fact the Truth, the Light, and the Way, or not.

A new covenant three months after we met, a relocation from inner city Melbourne to the majestic setting of Zaggi Point in Wamuran Queensland, and the journey continues...

First, we did some internet research and quickly found a plethora of material for and against.

Around the same time, we were seeking a coach that could assist us with a mortgage broking business we commenced.  After a number of ‘non matches’ including successfully suing one company for misleading conduct and failure to fulfil our contractual agreement, I stated that from now on I was going to appoint Christ as my coach. He was the only wholesome character I knew who was trustworthy, possessed infinite intelligence, is extremely resourceful, and 100% reliable.

Have you tried having a meeting with Christ lately?  Some questions that immediately came to mind were; where do we meet, how do I address Him, and how will we communicate…

These questions led us to research individuals that had not only acquainted themselves with the western biblical text intimately, but had studied the Greek and Hebrew origins of it, all excluded and relocated scriptural text, as well as the spiritual origins and books of the world.

To cut a long story short in this medium of sharing today, just like a jigsaw puzzle, one revealing piece led us to the next until eventually the scales tipped and the jigsaw puzzle became both complete and eternally incomplete.

By emanating Christ as best we can, at this stage of our existence, our journey has led us to grasp a foundation of Truth that produced the quality of results and feelings we had been searching for and continues to reveal to us the infinite potential and possibilities available to us for experiencing.

Our journey has led us to a relationship with God, so personal in its nature, that it surpasses anything our religious backgrounds obscurely taught us.

God is our Truth, our Light and our Way! In Him do we live and move and have our whole being.

To our fellow seekers of Truth I repeat: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8; Luke 11:9-10]

Until next time…
Live the Life you Love
J x