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Post by suzanne on Aug 1, 2014 10:43:02 GMT 9.5
Affirmation from A Search For God Book 1. As the Father knoweth me, so may I know the Father, through the Christ Spirit, the door to the kingdom of the Father. Show Thou me the way. (Cayce Reading 262-27)
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Welcome to this months learning point. The idea of the open door is a great way to commence our discussion. Not only is Christ the Open Door, but our forum here is also an open door to leaning and fellowship I hope to hear and learn from you
Experiments in Practical Spirituality by Mark A. Thurston, Ph.D.
An experiment from the Thurston book.
Experiment: Make a list of ways that you seek God (e.g., meditation, prayer, dreams, physical attunement procedures, reading material, giving to other people). Select a category which you realize has become rather rigid or habitual-that is, much of the spirit and creativity associated with it is now missing. Try a new way or form or procedure for seeking God in that area
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Post by Guest001 on Aug 14, 2014 17:41:53 GMT 9.5
MAY I KNOW THE FATHER, THROUGH THE CHRIST SPIRIT, THE DOOR TO THE KINGDOM OF THE FATHER. 262-27
The DOOR is THROUGH THE LIFE, THE SPIRIT OF THE LIFE -- NOT THE MAN. But THE SPIRIT as MANIFEST in THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS in the MATERIAL WORLD. 262-27
The CHRIST SPIRIT is the DOOR, the TRUTH, the WAY NOT THE MAN. 262-27
The FATHER KNOWETH THEE, so MAY YE KNOW THE FATHER through the EXEMPLIFYING OF HIS ATTRIBUTES in THE EARTH. 262-27
With the EXALTATION OF SELF or the GRATIFYING OF THE DESIRES OF FLESH THE DOOR CLOSES. 262-27
(Q) Please explain "THE KINGDOM OF THE FATHER." (A) The CONSCIOUSNESS of HIS FORCE, POWER, ACTIVITY, in every element of ACTION on the part of THOSE who WITHOUT THOUGHT OF SELF have OPENED THE WAY for the ACTIVITY of the CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS in the MATERIAL WORLD. 262-28
(Q) Explain and expand fully the thought that THE CHRIST SPIRIT NOT THE MAN, should be THE DOOR, THE TRUTH, THE WAY. (A) That which has been given may be used to illustrate the difference that may be FELT BY A SOUL that has BECOME AWARE OF ITSELF, as THE CHRIST, or as JESUS THE MAN became AWARE OF THE SPIRIT OF THE FATHER THROUGH THOSE EXPERIENCES of the man as he "WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD," and at those periods when there was received those ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE FATHER that HE WAS THE ONE who COULD, WOULD, THROUGH THOSE ACTIVITIES, BECOME THE SAVIOR OF MAN. First, as "IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED" Then as "THIS IS MY SON. HEAR YE HIM!"
In the OVERCOMING, then HE IS THE WAY, THE MANNER in which INDIVIDUALS may BECOME AWARE OF THEIR SOULS that are in ACCORD WITH THAT as may be ONE WITH THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH.
For CORRUPTION INHERITS NOT ETERNAL LIFE. The SPIRIT is the TRUE LIFE.
Then, as INDIVIDUALS BECOME AWARE of THAT ABILITY IN HIM TO BE THE WAY, so THEY BECOME THE DOOR, as REPRESENTATIVES, as AGENTS, as THOSE THAT PRESENT THE WAY.
And the DOOR is thus OPENED. And NOT TO THE MAN but THE SPIRIT OF SELF that bears witness with the SPIRIT OF TRUTH through HIM THAT OVERCAME THE WORLD. Thus PUTTING THE WORLD UNDER HIS FEET.
So WE, as HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM, as BROTHERS (and SISTERS) ONE WITH HIM, may ENJOY THAT PRIVILEGE as HE HAS GIVEN to THOSE THAT HEAR HIS VOICE and PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR. That WE MAY RUN THE RACE that is SET BEFORE US, LOOKING TO HIM, the AUTHOR, the GIVER OF LIGHT.
For IN HIM ye LIVE and MOVE and HAVE THEIR BEING. Do ye become rebels? Do ye find fault one with another? That are as self heirs to that kingdom? Rather BE IN THAT HUMBLENESS OF SPIRIT. That HIS WILL "BE DONE IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN." Thus do we become the CHILDREN OF THE FATHER, the DOOR to the WAY, and JOINT HEIRS WITH HIM in GLORY. Let thy yeas be yea, thy nays be nay. "Let others do as they may, but for me I will serve a LIVING GOD," who has shown in man, ALL men, everywhere that image of the Creator, in that the soul may grow in grace, in knowledge, in peace, in harmony, in understanding. Be ye doers of the word not hearers only. Thus ye become the door that the WAY, the CHRIST, the SAVIOR, MAY ENTER IN. For HE IS the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIGHT. 262-29
(Q) [307]: Please explain the words of the Master as recorded in the 21st chapter of Luke, "Many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ." (A) As has been given, MANY HAVE ARISEN.
For as He gave in the same connection, there were MANY FALSE PROPHETS, even THOSE that would LEAD THE VERY ELECT AWAY.
There be those who, finding something of THE POWER that is IN THE MATERIAL ACTIVITIES of those that would WALK IN THE LIGHT, turn SAME into THEIR OWN SELFISH PURPOSES. Hence BECOME FALSE PROPHETS, FALSE CHRISTS, and LEAD MANY ASTRAY. Let's remember, there has been given the MANNER, the WAY to determine as to whether SUCH A PROPHET is of the SPIRIT OF GOD or not.
They that DENY THE CALL OF THE PROPHETS OF OLD, or the BURDENS OF THE WORLD upon the Son or HIS DEATH, HIS RESURRECTION, are NOT OF THE SPIRIT.
For "AS YE HAVE SEEN HIG GO, SO SHALL HE COME."
As He overcame the world through the birth as one born in due season, through those varied periods when necessity and the DEMAND of the Sons of God brought forth those leaders in their proper places,
So He is that one that is given power over death, hell and the grave, and in Him is the power made manifest in the consciousness of Him and His power in the earth;
Hence we may see how the consciousness of His presence may be misconstrued, when turned to selfish motives.
Know that even as THE POWERS OF EVIL are loosed for the correcting of many, so are the GLORIES OF HIM made MANIFEST in the HEARTS and LIVES OF MANY. 262-30
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Post by Guest001 on Aug 15, 2014 9:42:09 GMT 9.5
Each soul that has (1) NAMED THE NAME and (2) who KEEPS IN THE WAY may KNOW, may HEAR, may SEE, may HAVE A CONSCIOUSNESS of that ENTITY (JESUS CHRIST). Yea, THE CONSCIOUSNESS of being at an AT-ONEMENT WITH JESUS, THE CHRIST.
(I) Who has NAMED THE NAME? 2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: If we deny Him, He also will deny us:
(1) There is a denying of Christ in words. So it is denied by the Jews that Christ is come in the flesh, and that Jesus is the Messiah; and some that have bore the Christian name, though very unworthily, have denied his true deity, His real humanity, proper sonship, and the efficacy of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, for pardon, justification, and atonement:
(2) There is a denying of Him in works. So some that profess to know Him, and do own him in his person and offices, yet in works deny him; their conversation is not becoming their profession of him; they have the form of godliness, but deny the power of it:
(3) There is a secret and silent denying of him. When men are ashamed of him, and do not confess him;
(4) There is an open denying of him, by such who set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh throughout the earth;
(5) There is a partial denying of Christ, which was Peter's case, though his faith in him, and love to him, were not lost;
(6) There is a total denying of him, a thorough apostasy, and from which there is no recovery; and if there be any such apostates among those who have named the name of Christ, he will deny them, he will not own them for his another day; he will set them at his left hand; he will declare he knows them not, and will banish them from his presence for evermore.
This is another branch of the faithful saying; this will certainly be the case; Christ himself has said it, Matthew 10:33.
(II) Who KEEPS IN THE WAY (of Jesus Christ)?
We must fulfill more than those two conditions: That is Naming the Name and Keeping in the Way of Jesus Christ.
We must fulfill the Promise of Jesus Christ completely: "ABIDE IN ME and I IN THEE, and I IN THE FATHER, that WE MAY BE ONE. Even as I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE that I MAY BRING TO REMEMBRANCE THY REMEMBRANCE from THE BOOK of THINE OWN RECORDS all that has been from the foundations of the earth!"
So how do we fulfill the Promise?
Then as EACH SOUL MEDITATES, USES -- APPLIES CONSCIOUSLY HIS PROMISES, and MAKES THEM (THE PROMISES) ITS OWN, then indeed may it(the Soul) again WALK AND TALK WITH HIM.
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