We radiate the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling. But in this third-dimensional world of ours time beats slowly. And so we do not always observe the relationship of the visible world to our inner nature.
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You and I can contemplate an ideal, and become it by falling in love with it.
On the other hand we can contemplate something we heartily dislike and by condemning it we will become it. But because of the slowness of time in this three-dimensional world, when we do become what we contemplated we have forgotten that formerly we set out to worship or destroy it.
“Either do nothing—just go to school—or do something nobody else does.”
When my grandmother—may she attain the Kingdom of Heaven—was dying, my mother, as was then the custom, took me to her bedside and, as I kissed her right hand, my dear grandmother placed her dying left hand on my head and said in a whisper, yet very distinctly: “Eldest of my grandsons! Listen and always remember my strict injunction to you: In life never do as others do.” Having said this, she gazed at the bridge of my nose and, evidently noticing my perplexity and my obscure understanding of what she had said, added somewhat angrily and imperiously: “Either do nothing—just go to school—or do something nobody else does.” Whereupon she immediately, without hesitation and with a perceptible impulse of disdain for all around her, and with commendable self-cognizance, gave up her soul directly into the hands of His Faithfulness, the Archangel Gabriel.
Praise and thanksgiving
Thaddaeus, the tenth, is the disciple of praise, a quality in which the undisciplined man is woefully lacking. When this quality of praise and thanksgiving is awake within man, he walks with the words, “Thank you, Father,” ever on his lips. He knows that his thanks for things not seen opens the windows of heaven and permits gifts beyond his capacity to receive to be poured upon him.
The man who is not thankful for things received is not likely to be the recipient of many gifts from the same source. Until this quality of the mind is disciplined, man will not see the desert blossom as the rose. Praise and thanksgiving are to the invisible gifts of God (one’s desires) what rain and sun are to the unseen seeds in the bosom of the earth.
Re: Judas
The twelfth and last of the disciplined qualities of the mind is called Judas. When this quality is awake man knows that he must die to that which he is before he can become that which he desires to be. So it is said of this disciple that he committed suicide,which is the mystic’s way of telling the initiated that Judas ; the disciplined aspect of detachment. This one knows that his I AM or consciousness is his savior, so he lets all other saviors go. This quality when disciplined gives one the strength to let go.
The man who has called Judas into being has learned how to take his attention away from problems or limitations and to place it upon that which is the solution or savior. “Except ye be born again you cannot in anywise enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” “No greater love hath man than this, that he give his life for a friend.” When man realizes that the quality desired, if realized, would save and befriend him, he willingly gives up his life (present conception of himself) for his friend by detaching his consciousness from that which he is conscious of being and assuming the consciousness of that which he desires to be.
Judas, the one whom the world in its ignorance has blackened, will when man awakes from his undisciplined state, be placed on high for God is love and no greater love has a man than this that he lay down his life for a friend. Until man lets go of that which he is now conscious of being, he will not become that which he desires to be; and Judas is the one who accomplishes this through suicide or detachment.
Testing of Your Faith
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, a whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”
Persist in the New State
Self-conception was something I didn’t want to hear about. Why? Cause my victim mentality wanted to stay alive. I would read AIM’s posts and think “cool stuff but I’m going to listen to other people who have victim mindsets cause they know where I’m coming from” Lol.
The moment I accepted I had a victim mindset, I made myself aware I had the power to change it. And yes it was just that easy. I didn’t have to sit down listen to 30 hours of self-love meditations, I just had to acknowledge I have this, I no longer want it, then stay persisting new beliefs that challenged my victim mindset. I starved it to death.
Being aware of who I wanted to be (the me who has it all) claiming I am it right RIGHT NOW was everything I needed to do. It was that simple. The reason it took time was cause I didn’t want to let go of the old story even though I really wanted to. (I’m sure that makes sense lol)
AIM – Enter Into the Spirit of It
FEEL. Live in the end.
You don’t even have to believe so much as FEEL. Live in the end. Ignore the voice of doubt. You don’t believe it’s possible because you (nor I, nor anyone else) can begin to imagine how the universe will bend or stretch or break to give you what’s already yours.
Shift Your Consciousness Just a Little Bit
Reddit user allisonmaybe:
I like what they said, you basically tend it like a flower. If I can shift my consciousness just a little in the right direction, and hold it there, it usually stays in thy new state until I can move it a little more, and then some more. It’s all persistence and patience. Most of the time now I can lift myself pretty easily out of a bad feeling. But I must hold it there consciously for a minute or two or it won’t stay.
A Universe of Consciousness
Donald Hoffman: