WHEN YOU MAKE THE TWO INTO ONE

WHEN YOU MAKE THE TWO INTO ONE

The great Neville Goddard once said "our thoughts and emotions do not recede into the past, but rather they advance into the future to confront us there as our world. Our thoughts, or lack of them amongst everyone else, cause our worlds." Discovering that this process is underway awakens us to the prospect of the Divine, and when the process works, we have found God to be our own wonderful human imaginations. Our imaginations, because God is imagination, and he has become us. We, are made in the "image of God." 

The world naturally mirrors our own thoughts and emotions whether they be good, un-good, or indifferent. We can control the thoughts and emotions to be reflected. Neville used various mental devices to get the Mind to imagine a scene so real and complete and full of emotion that it would become manifest in the future. If we can get this down, then collectively, the world will reflect it.

From the perspective of the ancient Essenes, every human on the earth is an initiate in the Mystery School that we call Life. Whether they are conscious of it or not, every human will experience in the presence of others, mirrors of themselves in that moment. If we have the Wisdom to recognize those mirrors, we may accelerate the evolution of emotion and understanding. We come to realize that it is emotion that proves the power and, when coupled with logic, true magic and miracles will happen. 

The Lost Gospel of Thomas saying 106 tells us: 

"When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away." And verse 48 tells us: "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they shall say to the mountain, 'Be moved,' and it shall be moved."

As Author and Geologist Gregg Braden has presented, the two are the thoughts and the emotions of our imagination. When they become one in our heart it is as if our prayer has already been answered. Braden also talks about John 16: 34 as translated from the ancient Aramaic which escaped the "Christian" editing for the Bible. In the original it states, "All things that you ask straightly, directly from inside my name (nature, imagination), you will be given. So far you have not done this (we've been asking incorrectly). Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer. Be enveloped in what you desire, that your gladness may be full."

Neville said we must make our future dream our present fact by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled - to come FROM the place where it is already happened. We must feel the feeling as if it has already manifested ... already taken place. This is the language of the universe ... the Field of consciousness that understands in feeling and in magnetic resonance more so than with spoken words. Make your thoughts and emotional feelings one in your heart. See and feel it as if it were already done. "Ask and you shall receive." But not just spoken repetitive prayer, but FEEL it ... feel the feeling of that which you desire. The feeling IS the prayer. 

Feeling-based prayer is a form of prayer that transcends any single religion or doctrine, and goes directly to the natural ability within each of us to participate in the events of Life, healing, and peace directly, responsibly and effectively. To implement this mode of prayer, we are invited to simply focus the feeling in our hearts as if our prayers are already answered. 

Further ancient Essene studies by Mr. Braden have shown that he lost mode of prayer is a form of prayer that has no words, no outward expression, and is based simply in feeling. Specifically, this mode of prayer invites us to feel the appreciation and gratitude in our heart, as if our prayers have already been answered, even if the events in the world appear to show us otherwise. Science and Physics agree that our world and our bodies mirror what we think and feel. We must be very clear that our prayers originate from our hearts, rather than in our heads. The logic of our brain works in polarity left brain/right brain, light/dark, good/bad, right/wrong, etc. Praying for something creates a strong feeling of what should or should not be. The physics of our world require that when something is created with a charge in one polarity, the opposite must be created as well, to balance that charge. 

Our hearts, on the other hand, have no polarity. In the indigenous traditions, there is even a word that describes the non-polar objectiveness of the heart, the heart that sees what is, rather than judges what should be. The word is Shante Ishta (the single eye of the heart). When we choose peace or healing from our heart, there is no polarity created to balance our choice, as there is no left and right heart. From our heart, the FEELING ... IS the prayer. Studies have shown that this quality of gratitude and appreciation for the peace that already exists, creates a field effect in the presence of peace, all that can happen is peace. 

Studies into the effects of this type of prayer offer new credibility to ancient propositions suggesting that we may actually "do something" about the negative events in the world, both present and future. These studies add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that focused and feeling prayers and heart-felt emotions, especially those offered on a large scale, have a predictable and measurable effect on the quality of Life during the time of the prayer. This has been measured using numerous experiments, even during the 911 tragedy. 

Mother Theresa was once asked to attend an "Anti-War Rally." She declined attending, adding that when there was a Peace Rally, she would attend. She understood that by rallying against war, it would only manifest MORE war. An even deeper view would suggest that by even mentioning that the world needed peace, would be an admission that there was in fact NO peace in the world. A tricky conundrum. Choosing our words, our feelings, and our emotions precisely and carefully we can co-create new and better realities for ourselves and for others. By matching the feeling (prayer) of our inner world with like conditions in our outer world, we are able to manifest our desires. 

Once we allow the qualities of peace in our Mind, and fuel our prayer through feelings of peace in our body, we state that the outcome has already happened. Set your intent, have a pure motive, and FEEL it as if it has already taken place. This is the power of conscious manifestation. 

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.

THE VAST NETWORK OF LIFE

THE VAST NETWORK OF LIFE

A lightbulb that is never lit, is not serving it's purpose. After all, when it is plugged-in to the Source of Power and not on ... it isn't doing it's job ... it's calling. It is dark and has no light. Connecting it to the source ... turning it on and putting it into service ... gives it Life. Otherwise, it is just there ... inert, inactive, and non-participatory. If it does not shine, it is darkness.  

It was recorded among the ancient Biblical scriptures: "you are the light of the world." Therefore, if you have Life, you have light. Your bulb is ON. With this light, you join the universal network of consciousness and Life ... connected directly to Source Energy. You are plugged in and that very fact proves you have purpose. 

When a light bulb burns out ... we say it is dead. It is the light that is it's purpose. The LIFE ... comes from within. Just as our Life comes from within. Each and every breath we take, is inspiration and expiration ... two polarities of one principle - breath - our life-force. We live and die in each one. We cannot breathe out, unless we first breathe in, and vice-versa. 

You are connected to the vast network of consciousness (the Field/Matrix) that moves the planets, births the stars, and shines the suns. All is energy ... even matter. You are a piece of the whole ... the holy. We are all One. Interconnected through Heaven (Spirit) and Earth (Matter) ... or Father and Mother. 

Each of us is a seed, birthed OUT of the Earth (our Mother/Matter - Mater is Latin for Mother) in the same way as a flower springs from the ground. I can go on and on but suffice it to say ... everything in this vast network of Life matters. Every plant, mineral, animal, and the entirety of mankind. We are tied to the winds, and the ground. Sharing every molecule, atom, and quark ... as a fish in the ocean ... we are as waves, eternal blended with all that is. 

There is no "other." What we do to/for someone else, we do to/for ourselves. Pay no attention to labels and creeds, beliefs and opinions. The Truth is that there is One Universe, One "God" (call it what you will), and that every "thing" is actually no-thing at all ... but a single oneness as a single universal organism. It can be no other way. 

"There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is darkness ... If they say to you: Whence have you come?, say to them: We have come from the light, the place where the light came into being of itself. It established itself, and it revealed itself in their image. If they say to you: Who are you?, say: We are his sons, and we are the elect of the living Father."

~Gospel of Thomas

Just a thought ... 

~Justin Taylor, ORDM.

WHEN TWO BECOME ONE

WHEN TWO BECOME ONE

There is a positive and a negative to everything. This Law is not about positive being “good” and negative being “bad,” it is two opposite polarities of the same one principle. For example, the electrical current in your house is called A/C for Alternating Current, and it has a positive side and a negative side. +/- if you will. There is also a “ground” or neutral. In linear Math, anything to the right of Zero is a positive number, and anything to the left of Zero is a negative number. Not good or bad, positive and negative. Zero being the perfect balance. Also, keep in mind that “zero” does not meaning “nothing.” It is an actual whole number with an actual value. 

Let's look back at the Nag Hammadi Library Book of Thomas for a moment:

“When you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female, and when you make eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then shall you enter [the kingdom].”

Jesus, Gospel of Thomas, Saying 22

This speaks directly to our purpose in using duality, to obtain singularity. To make the two, ONE. When we make the “inside as the outside and the outside as the inside” we are creating our reality. Our thoughts begin within, and they will manifest in form without. Thoughts are things, and what we constantly think about becomes our life reality. If you are thinking “I am miserable” ... then so it becomes. You will remain miserable. If you were to think “I am enjoying a great day” ... then so it becomes. You will have a great day.

When we see the reference to male and female, this is not anatomical as in man/woman. This is the masculine and feminine principle within all of us and used for creating our reality (form-our child/offspring). When we are in alignment with both, when there is harmony, we bring forth the fruit of our thoughts and desires. When people get married, it is said in the service that the two become one. It is a complimentary relationship of two joined as one ... the joining of the masculine and feminine creative properties. 

This is alchemical, metaphysical, sexual/physical, emotional, and spiritual. The Wedding rings represent the ring around Saturn whose was once worshipped as a god (Saturn-day/The Sabbath), and the ring also represents eternity. The never ending 360 degree circle.

This union of opposites began as singular duality. One, with two polarities. Like a scale, some go on one side, some on the other until they balance and become harmonious with each other ... essentially becoming one again. A bird has two wings but it can't fly unless they become one in unison. We need two legs to walk but the principle is “walking.”

The point to all of this is that we need to experience both polarities of one principle in order to learn and discern the Truth. We have to have good and bad, hot and cold, day and night, smooth and rough, up and down, dark and light, etc. And there are ranges of each, but no actual point in which, for example, hot becomes cold. They are simply varying degrees of temperature. Both serve a purpose but are one principle. Our central nervous system is ONE ... yet it delivers both pleasure and pain. Pleasure and pain are both one thing ... feeling. And this can be emotional, physical, spiritual, etc. 

To our brain, the imagination and reality are equally accepted. It knows not the difference between something you imagine, daydream, or dream about - versus anything experienced in your waking state of consciousness. In fact, the brain and body are more active and functional during sleep than during the times we are awake. Even while we are awake, more than 90% of our activities are coming from the sub/unconscious mind. The aware conscious mind is only active for less than 10% of our functions, and sometimes as little as 1%. This is staggering ... and also show how we operate from past learned habits, responses, and experiences than perceiving something as new and worthy of attention. Also, the physical body accounts for about 1% of our total existence. The other 99% is Mind and the realm of the unseen.

As the Book of Thomas stated, we must become as as above, so below. We must merge our ego-self and Higher-Self into one harmonious essence and when we do ... we ignite the Divine Spark of God/Source ... our Christ Consciousness. We truly become transformed. And more than just transformed, we have a metamorphosis. We actually become “born again” ... a new being with no desire to do the “sinful” (error in thinking and a) things we once did without even thinking about it at times. The word “sin” comes from the Greek word “hamartia” and simply means “missing the mark.” It's an ancient Olympic Archery term for missing the bullseye. For us, the bullseye is Truth. Sin is missing the Truth, and living an illusion. When you do these things, you will enter the Kingdom. The Kingdom is defined as “love, peace, and joy.” I believe the world could certainly use more of that don't you?

Just a thought ... 

Justin Taylor, ORDM.