Q.80

When a person abandons logic ⎯ and knows beyond all doubt that guidance can be utterly relied upon to achieve inspired goals, your life changes. (L8)

Benefits flow into your experience when you fully realise that Divine Consciousness is the unseen Reality ⎯ the Power ⎯ at work behind the outer appearances of your life, moving ‘intelligent energy force’ to manifest your needs. You do not have to deny appearances, or pour thought-power into a condition you are seeking to resolve. (L8)

All you have to do is surrender self-will and KNOW that as your limited intellect yields, so does the Infinite Reality move in to order your life in an altogether new way, to wean you away from all your supports of the past, bring to your mind a new vision for a new endeavour, and lead you into new areas of activity. But when this happens, you have to be prepared to ‘let go’ completely. (L8)

You have to release your grip on the securities of the past and know that even greater securities of a different nature await you as you follow your inspiration. (L8)

Since this state of spiritual/human existence and harmonious well-being depend entirely on a person’s ability to make true contact with Divine Reality, it is imperative to return again and again to an in-depth study of Divine Reality Itself and the way in which the ego-drive is ceaselessly at work within the human consciousness blocking out the intuitive directions of the Divine Life within the mind. (L8)

At the moment you are living in a shadowy burdened existence instead of consciously living within and entering into ‘Divine Consciousness’ and allowing IT to permeate and gladden your thinking and life experiences. You remain locked within the mental-emotional framework of electromagnetic impulses until you set your willpower to consciously dissolving the fabric of your humanly conceived beliefs and come to see clearly that your Reality is Divine Consciousness ⎯ not your family, or bank book. When you achieve this insight, you will enter into LIGHT ⎯ and the LIGHT will abide in you. (L8)

Because of the discomfort and the tug-of-war between the evolving soul and the human ego, (which demands to ‘look good’ rather than ‘BE GOOD’, and yet cannot bear the thought that it may ever be imperfect), there are few people receiving inspiration and passing it on to others at this time, who will speak about the need to go through a period of inner cleansing. (L8)

Modern people are conditioned to instant service, instant light, instant heat, instant food, drink, clothes and entertainment, and therefore are not attracted to a TRUTHwhich involves self-sacrifice, hard work and total dedication to the goal. Besides which, many of these teachers are making a good deal of money out of their activities and they must present a ‘Truth’ that will sell! (L8)

If your modern teachers speak of a path of attainment to the highest dimensions by means of the transference of personal mental illumination, it will still be necessary to undergo the inner intense self-examination and purification of the bonding-rejection of ‘magnetic emotions’. (L8)

If you are truly on the upward path to the highest spiritual dimensions, your road will be characterised by moments of bright clear-sighted self-inspection and self-realisation, followed frequently by self-loathing. This dark and painful feeling is the magnetic emotion in reverse. (L8)

Where before, the ego clung to its essential vision of itself as being the greatest and even greater than others, it now begins to glimpse the agonising fact that perhaps it is not only slightly ⎯ but very imperfect. Any person reaching this spiritual level of development will find they are now travelling the road to true humility. (L8)

Take heart when you find this happening to you. You are now pushing away the debris of past erroneous beliefs about yourself and your illusory self-hood. (L8)

Remember that it is your ‘intention’ or ‘motivation’ or ‘conviction’ which gives creative power to do whatever you want to do. (L8)

The moment that you desire with all your heart to reverse your normal trend in your magnetic-emotional patterns, you have set this process in motion. (L8)

If you clearly define the goals you wish to achieve and keep them ever before your vision in writing or in mind, very shortly you will discover that the desired changes have taken place in your consciousness. (L8)

When this happens, you will feel a lightness in spirit and will have moments of pure joy. You will be proving that the TRUTH of BEING does bring ‘captive hearts’ into the perfect freedom of spiritual living. (L8)

At the same time, you have to understand that your ego must, (of necessity to enable you to survive), make you believe you are of value to yourself and other people. Any external serious challenge regarding the value of the self is highly destructive. A desperate fear and internal subsidence of confidence will lead to the conviction that you are without value in the world, and suicide can be the natural outcome. Therefore, your progress will and must be gradual. (L8)

No one should ever expect people to be wholly changed by words of advice or times of inspiration. Growth can only take place very gradually ⎯ one insight at a time. (L8)