GODSELF III?

GODSELF III

God’s justice sees each tiny effort and aspiration, and these influences are great.

In the infancy of life, which is our earth experience, each individual perceives within himself the instinct of his immortality.

Regardless of civilisation or other outward circumstance, each is conscious of an aspiration for something better. It is an infantile grasping for a Ray of Light, but it is an indication of another life.

If on earth that individual follows this infallible guide, he grows into splendid maturity and puts into motion splendid waves of harmony, and when reaching this life, his eyes are opened, his intelligence perceives the reasons and laws, which govern his development. 

With this clear vision, he perceives, also, the tremendous task before him, of creating enough good influence to overcome the bad. 

This is our judgment. It is not a punishment, but an accepted consequence of our past.

In the stage of life immediately following earth experience, there is a longer or shorter period of darkness and unconsciousness, but as soon as an individual is awakened, he perceives the new conditions surrounding him, and faces his past, and realises that his conscious life is in its infancy.

He grasps little by little the facts from which there is no escape. 

He understands its logic, and the stronger he becomes, the more he realises the tremendous task before him. 

This task is in absolute proportion to our earth life.

Every wave of discord must be met and overcome before reaching harmony and perfect happiness. 

Every step taken willingly and consciously leads to clearer vision and fuller consciousness of the glory and love of God.

God’s glory and love are realities, and their dimmest perception brings more happiness than all earth could ever offer.

How can I paint for you the joys that are ours?

How can I describe the exaltation, which possesses us when after a task is faithfully accomplished, we are permitted a glimpse of what is before us?

In the clear, soft radiance of a perfect day, we rest amid surroundings quite indescribable to you because our senses here are so much greater, and we enjoy happiness beyond the power of language to convey. 

It is like a state of ideal perfection, as to atmosphere, perfume, beauty of aspect, and free, untrammelled intercourse with beings, who permit us to partake as fully as we are capable of in the perfect knowledge for which we always longed. 

There are no more vague longings and inarticulate aspirations. There is fulfillment. There is no regret, for we know that we are permitted to work out our own atonement, always sustained by the never-failing love of God.

Each period of rest finds us further on, with capabilities enlarged, vision broadened and heart overflowing with gratitude and love for God Who gave us intelligence unbounded in its possibilities, and untrammelled in its outlook.

Why has it not been made clearer for us to understand the reason of life?

Why have we been left groping in ignorance when God in His infinite power could reveal Himself clearly?

In God’s Divine Plan of Creation, each expressed thought is an individual, perfect in its essence, and destined to ultimate perfection and accord with its Divine Creator, God. 

The Divine Instinct of Immortality is our infallible guide through the difficult period of development and change of form, but our free will is our individuality, which can never be withheld. This instinct of immortality is not our only guide and help.

From the beginning of time, teachers have been divinely inspired to guide mankind. They brought to earth such measure of truth, as man was capable of grasping. 

The last and perfect expression of the spirit of God was Christ Jesus. 

In Him, the conscious knowledge of immortality had its fullest expression. He knew His divine origin, His task of redemption, and His glorious destiny. 

Yet even He suffered untold agonies in the moments when His mortal sufferings veiled the Divine Vision.

Intelligence conscious of growth is also conscious of love and joy. Intelligence and soul are terms used synonymously to express the individual creations or expressions of the Infinite, All-inclusive Intelligence called God.

New ideas are difficult to accept—new ideas are difficult to describe. 

The Infinite Creative Force has given expression to ideas, and clothed them in multitudinous forms from all eternity, each carrying within itself the seed of immortality.

Each individual is capable of growth or development, and progresses through many stages until freed from all materialism. 

Many ages are necessary to reach this perfection.

No two individuals are ever alike. The divine expression, which bestows our individuality is always different.

Each soul remains forever independent, and there is always dissimilarity in the complete and perfect happiness, which perfection brings.

Perfection is reached by all, but individuality is never lost. Our individuality and consciousness take cognisance of the reasons of our creation, fitting us for further progress.

Life on earth is only a preliminary expression and must be well and nobly lived in anticipation of a higher and broader and fuller experience immediately following our so-called death.

Each individual is of immense importance. 

We have left off our earthly bodies, with their pains and sorrows and mental limitations. We still have bodies, which seem as real to us now, as they did on earth, except that they have become obedient to our intelligence and can be transported by desire wherever we wish to go. 

Even these bodies must disappear.  

They are vehicles of expression for this sphere and will be left aside when we are able to progress beyond their necessity.

We must try to prove to all who are searching that we do actually exist in another form. 

Anyone who thinks at all sees the earth, as only one of a vast number of planets, a tiny speck, even in the visible creation. There must be a Central Force, which rules the physical manifestations of creation.

The intelligence, which brought into being the Universe and guides the movements of the firmament must have had a reason in creating man and placing him on earth.

Life means movement. God is an Infinite Spirit or Intelligence, Who has existed from all eternity. 

He had no beginning and can have no end.

Each expression of that Infinite Intelligence finds manifestation somewhere in the Universe, and is compelled to progress, develop and grow by overcoming obstacles and becoming Pure intelligence or Spirit in the Majestic Symphony of Nature.

The fact that no one has ever succeeded in forming or germinating the tiniest spark of life proves conclusively that life is something outside the laws of natural science.

Nothing in Nature is ever lost—life does not cease to exist because the physical body is destroyed. 

Life or intelligence is spirit and continues to exist somewhere.

Since God is Infinite, and each expression of His life-giving intelligence finds manifestation somewhere, it is evident that our earth must be a small part of the Universe.

When we leave our bodies, we leave material conditions. We live in eternity, and each individual tries to understand something of his new surroundings.

Progress is essential. Standards are not the same as on earth. There are no conventions or creeds. 

Each individual is taken alone, and goes on or remains behind, exactly according to the real worth of his inner self.

Everything learned on earth has a value, for it has developed the thinking power of the mind. 

Cultivation of the intellect, and growth of the soul go hand-in-hand, even when that person has followed wrong ideas. 

This is an intellectual or spiritual stage of existence, and the developed intelligence grasps quicker the truth, and is able to absorb love’s all-enveloping strength.

Earth education is filled with pitfalls, and human theories are often contradictory and inconsistent with simple fundamental truths. If we remain sincere, we shall be brought through this darkness into the light.

Each child should be told that he has an immortal soul that will someday reunite to God, the Creator of All Things, and the Source of Life, Truth and Love. 

He should be told that truth and sincerity should guide his life, and although he himself will have to answer for every thought and act of his life, he is always surrounded by God’s infinite love. Mistakes may lead him astray, theories may bewilder him, sin may tempt him, but his instinct of immortality, divinely implanted, has been strengthened and will always guide him towards truth. His training may lead him towards materiality, but his instinct will impel him towards spirituality. 

It is extremely important to put firmly into the minds of children the great fundamental truths.

The clearness of vision, which comes to all here and obliges each to see and examine his own past life in the light of truth brings a vision truly appalling to most mortals. 

Such is the force of this penetrating light that no subterfuge or self-indulgent excuse can hide from view the truth. 

We see ourselves in our first innocent ignorance and are forced to follow every step of our lives and weigh each advantage given by circumstance and education. 

We are obliged to face the selfishness and unworthiness of each sinful act. 

When the whole awful picture is complete, we are given glimpses of the part we are intended to take in the Universe. 

We see that each thought and act has put into motion waves, which go on forever—

There is no escaping from the absolute necessity of overcoming the discordant waves by our own personal efforts. 

Each act of our earth life is faced and judged, according to its innermost reasons, its circumstances and consequences. Each soul is forced to be its own judge. 

It is made clear that no one can undo the harm except one's own self. It is a terrible moment fraught with tremendous consequences, but each stands absolutely alone. 

If they will to undo the harm, and ask for help, they are immediately granted a vision of transcendent loveliness in which they see the glorious spirits all about them amid scenes of exquisite beauty and splendour. 

They are immediately conscious of an angel guide, who takes them by the hand and tells them to have no fear. They are conscious that the glory all about them, the hope and the joy is a manifestation of God’s love. 

They are overcome by a great desire to know more of this marvellous love. Their education begins, and the strength they receive carries them forward, and enables them to return to the darkness where they may be given an opportunity to do work of atonement. 

There can be but one truth, and all which obscures the vision of truth must be removed.

Each soul finds an angel guide who takes charge of him. 

It is easy to understand how the trained thinker begins far in advance of his ignorant neighbour, but no progress can be made by intellect alone.

Remember, we are always the same individuals we were on earth. Remember that soul is intelligence. Remember that intelligence is a ray of God’s infinite intelligence. Remember that to come into harmony with God, the soul must be freed from everything that interferes with its clear growth.

Intellect begins its experience, strengthened by the absolute certainty that God exists, and that it is His infinite love, which sustains the life His intelligence bestows. 

Perfection is reached when the individual is fully conscious and capable of sustaining the dignity of his divinely bestowed individuality, freed from all sin and ignorance, experiencing in absolute perfection and intelligence, the splendour, majesty, glory, and the perfect happiness of its divinely bestowed soul. 

The little ones, and the ignorant, who are simple and loving, are tenderly helped and sustained. If their earth life has been free from sin, they are able to go on without suffering, for their purity and innocence had made them capable of absorbing freely the splendid life-giving love.

God is the creator and sustainer of everything. Remember that love, truth and infinite life are inseparable.

Each moment of fuller and more complete life gives us our transcendent periods of pure joy and progress. 

By helping others, we purify ourselves of the materialism, which clings to us.

We never lose the vision of our past, which came as our judgment. We must search deeply to understand the theory of expiation. 

We know God is Spirit or Intelligence—Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent. He is the perfection of all the qualities we know and admire and love on earth, and an infinity of others beyond our earth conception.

God is perfect, anything other than perfection is discordant with Him. He is Love, and His compassion is without limit. 

We know that ultimately each one will reach this perfection, and it is our duty to find out how it can be done.

Love in its purity puts in motion waves of great intensity. It is for this reason that Christ said that a cup of cold water given in His name was of infinite value, while the greatest act one could perform if dictated by unworthy motives would put in motion discordant waves.

Before reaching perfection, peace and happiness, the sum of all the discordant waves must be equalled by harmonious waves, both in intensity and number.

God is love—a pure and perfect love, which goes out from the Divine Centre endlessly, infinitely, sustaining, vivifying, comforting and glorifying. 

To reflect this love, we must be purified of self.

We must learn to give of our inner selves, not for our own good, not even for our eternal salvation, but as a pure and selfless reflection of God.

Think of your own lives. Can you recall any one act absolutely devoid of self? Even here it is almost impossible of attainment.

When we learn the theory of good and bad waves, of harmony and discord, light and dark, we are filled with desire to begin our work of atonement. 

We see our own glorious destiny, and wish to achieve it quickly. 

Pride and selfishness are not yet destroyed, and to understand God’s love, we must begin by understanding human love. Fortunately, each one is given a glimpse of pure love in infancy. Almost without exception, a mother loves her child, and this pure expression of love is the most unselfish earth can know. It is accepted, as a matter of course by the child, but is understood to some extent later in life, and is the saving grace of many in a moment of darkness.

Complete unselfishness can be reached only through love. 

I say this is one instance of love, as we know it, but I do not say it is quite devoid of self. It has moments of pure unselfishness, for every mother recognises from the first that the baby she has borne is a separate, independent being from the moment of its birth. By natural law, she is her child’s guide and comforter, but her moments of pure love are the rare experiences when she is able to immolate self completely. 

Pure love, also, is sometimes seen in the devotion of children towards parents. Patriotism inspires some of the purest expressions of love, as it calls for entire immolation of self to a great idea. No man can show greater love than he who lays down his life for his brother, except him who lays down his life for God. The brother is one ray of light.

God is the Luminous Centre from which that ray proceeds. We must learn to love God above all things because He is the splendour of the morning, the glory of noon, the majesty of night—He is eternally giving, never receiving—His unfailing tender love is forever sustaining the life His divine intelligence bestowed—His justice makes it inevitable that each expiate his sins—His mercy and love give us strength and courage to wish to attain the glorious perfection, where we shall understand Him, commune with Him, freed from all imperfections, conscious of our own magnificent and splendid life, giving fully and freely the gifts so generously bestowed, reflecting fully the glory of God’s love.

Knowing God, we would ineludibly love Him above all things. 

We would understand that knowing God means understanding that we are emanations of the divinity—

We are expressions of Divine Intelligence, we are manifestations of Eternal Spirit, we are reflections of beneficent and vivifying love. Let us, therefore, try to know God.

Remember God is not person, nor power, nor intelligence, nor love, nor life alone. He is Spirit, and Spirit includes all these. 

We must try to grasp spiritually the idea of God as Infinite Spirit.

Education helps us to grasp and follow abstract ideas, but beyond these is the ever-present spiritual truth, which manifests either in instinct in the savage or idealism in the cultivated man. 

This instinct of immortality is truth. 

We must learn to put out of our consciousness all thought, to sink into complete silence, deeper than sleep, but still fully awake.

Take a few moments each day, preferably immediately after waking, for quiet meditation and thought, glorifying God, and asking Him simply and sincerely that you may know Him better. 

Try every day to do some little thing as truly unselfish as you can to reflect God’s love by making someone a little happier. These simple exercises will help to quiet the turmoil of your senses and strengthen you for the ever greater tasks before you.

Let your first waking thought be desire to know truth. Glorify God for all the marvellous perfections in which you are capable of investing your highest idea of Him. 

Thank Him for your life, and ask sincerely and humbly to know Him better. 

Knowledge of God includes all wisdom and all love. This daily practice will lead to meditation and contemplation. 

You must not expect to find miracles. The growth from materialism to spirituality is slow.

The transition from the confusion of many ideas and impressions to the peace and unity of truth is slow, but every step leads you to a fuller knowledge of that truth, which includes all knowledge and all love and is the real you—

The image, the essence, the child of God, conscious of your real self, with its glorious freedom and possibilities of perfection, and conscious, also, of the duty this brings to do all our part in aiding this growth.

The sincere desire to know God brings a sure reward.

If we truly ask this we shall receive it. We shall learn to know ourselves, and that knowledge will bring with it an immense respect for the immortal being within us. It will make us anxious to turn from all that is unworthy of our real selves. It will make us ready and willing and anxious to help others regardless of their appearance or condition, and to know their own real selves. 

It is absolutely impossible for real knowledge or even real desire for knowledge to be selfish, for knowledge is truth, and while truth shows each his high destiny, it also shows the equally high destiny of all God's creation, and their unity with their Creator, and it shows the immense task before each of overcoming self. Each step makes one more conscious of love and the duty of reflecting that love in care and thought towards all. 

Eternity is without beginning and without end. Eternity was forever, and will be forever filled by the Infinite Spirit, God. 

He is Intelligence, He is Life, He is Love. All the vast Universe is an expression of some thought of that Divine Intelligence, each particle, carrying within itself something, which being an outpouring of the Divine nature is immortal, and after reaching its full development will find its place in the divinely planned whole.

Do you begin to understand how God Who is eternal wisdom includes all?

Do you begin to perceive how that Infinite Wisdom absolutely repels all that is not truth?

Each individual retains his natural tastes. 

The tendency of mind is given broader scope. It is like comparing the mind of a great scientist on earth to that of a little child. 

We are not only capable of grasping more of truth itself, but we find every facility for investigation.

Judgment of our past is passed by the spark of the divine in each individual, when that individual has developed sufficiently to recognise and understand the meaning of life, and is brought face to face with the inevitable effects of the working of the fundamental law of cause and effect.

To reach this clearness of vision requires greater or less effort, according to the previous intellectual development of the individual. 

I do not say it requires a greater or less length of time, for time, as earth knows it, has ceased to exist. 

Progress is measured by the degree of intelligence reached. 

Even if we could imagine the development of someone’s intelligence, as requiring one year, another might require an aeon. We are conscious of eternity, and as each individual emerges from the mist or sleep following death, even those who come consciously through the transition, there comes the wonder of the awakening in strange surroundings.

A period of rest follows where they are strengthened by absorbing the love of God reflected from the ministering angels. 

They are led gently through misty paths or resplendent heights, guarded, guided and strengthened by angels, who to their earthbound senses seem to them beautiful human beings clothed in radiant, semi-diaphanous garments. 

Gradually, they become strong enough to ask questions, and seek to understand, instead of blindly accepting a state of semi-consciousness. 

Their instruction begins, for always remember that free will is theirs, and the conscious desire for knowledge brings with it enlightenment, absorbed in a marvellous manner automatically as inevitable cause and effect. 

Sooner or later, each individual is strong enough to ask the question, What does it all mean?

He is brought face to face with that tremendous revelation of truth, which reveals to him his soul as a part of the essence of God, and the absolute necessity of the development of that soul to permit it to take its place in the Divine Whole. His intelligence grasps some of the meaning of life, and his past is revealed in detail.

Try to put out of your minds limitations of time. 

He knows that he himself is obliged to do what is necessary to permit him to progress. Certainly, the revelation is appalling to most individuals, but remember that what to you would mean almost annihilation can be borne here, for we are sustained by our certainty of immortality, by our quickly gained knowledge that desire means fulfillment, and our consciousness that God is, that the glory we dimly perceive, the happiness we sometimes experience, the beauty we catch glimpses of, the reality of the love, which sustains us, the unbounded horizons opened to us by our desire for knowledge is all a manifestation of the Infinite, Ever-present, All-sustaining, Ineffable God.

As our intelligence grasps the truth, and understands the necessity of putting into harmony the discordant waves emanating from us, we see clearly the enormity of the task before us, but no matter what stage of development we have reached, there are always others of less degree who need our help.

Is it possible for us to ignore them and refuse to help them?

No—for awakened intelligence brings with it absolute sincerity, and the truth we perceive enables us to understand what to do to fulfill our part in reflecting God’s love of which we are increasingly conscious in exact ratio with the awakening of our intelligence.

This love is a marvellous reality. 

Oh,  that mortals might know something of this sustaining, vivifying, comprehending love! 

They would see that they are never alone, that each thought is a real, causative, creative force, fully understood by the divine, ever-present mind of God. They would realise that thought is even a greater force than action, and that sincerity and honesty of purpose are the most important things in life.

God, the All-creative Spirit of Life, the Omniscient Intelligence is infinite, comprehending, sustaining, never-failing love itself—

A love that knows all our most secret thoughts, understands all our weaknesses, appreciates all our honest efforts, gives us courage to face any trial, makes us willing to do anything to understand and reflect it more, for we see that each honest effort to do good to others carries us further into the realm of intelligence, pure and unbounded, where we prostrate ourselves in adoration and thanksgiving before the splendour of the transcendent genius of the limitless intelligence and the boundless outpouring love.

All that God created is good. He is not the Creator of evil. 

The soul of man is an emanation of the Infinite Spirit or Soul of God, and is pure and perfect in its essence, and its destiny is to be a perfect part of the infinite whole.

One of the attributes of God is liberty. The soul of man, which is truly an image of God is capable of limitless development, always carrying to further perfection the gifts inherent in its Divine Nature, but never losing liberty or free will. 

Before reaching happiness, harmony, light, peace, fulfillment, all evil, which is the effect of mistakes caused by limited intelligence must be overcome, and every step, which leads to clearer vision helps to show the way. 

Love, with its joy and strength and power, is the never-failing reward, but intelligence must light the way.

Spirit is Intelligence. 

The Great All-inclusive, All-causative Spirit or Intelligence is God. Every emanation of that Pure Spirit, every idea of that Intelligence takes form somewhere in the Universe. Each Divine Ray of Light from the Central, Life-giving Light, each emanation of the Infinite Spirit, each idea of the Infinite Mind when expressed forms the soul of a man. These qualities are all contained in the soul, as the flowers and the fruit are contained in the seed.

The soul is immortal and partakes of the qualities of its Creator, God. The liberty bestowed with the individuality never forsakes that soul, and the blossoming of the Divine qualities keeps parallel with the growth of its intelligence or spirituality.

Remember, we are thinking without limitation of time or space. There is room in the Universe for the full and perfect development of all.

The practice of taking a few moments, immediately on awakening each morning, to quietly praise God, to thank Him and to ask Him to increase our knowledge will help us more than any other practice we can form. 

It need not take long—thought is quicker than lightning, and our aspiration for knowledge of God must be absolutely sincere, and our only desire.

Let us try to understand the process and its results. 

The formulating of the aspiration Glory to God! lifts us immediately out of our self-preoccupation and brings a glimpse of comprehension of an Omnipotent Creator, Who hears our thought.

We thank that Divine Creator, for having given us life, and we ask that we may know Him better. The aspiration carries with it hope that this instinct calling on God may be the truth.

The gratitude for life carries with it a question, What is life? and this leads us to a spiritual perception of the truth, that each life, our own particular life, is indissolubly connected with its Source, and opens the way for a further comprehension of the fact that our real self, our immortal soul, is not a vague spirit from which our present life is disassociated, but a real power, the centre and reason of our being, and it is possible for us to become so familiar with its workings that we may consciously investigate the cause and effect of each act and feeling of our lives.

The sincere desire to know God better, expressed in the most fleeting aspiration, brings with it steady progress in the knowledge, which includes all knowledge, and leads to wisdom. 

It brings an ever-increasing faculty of perceiving the truth, and an ever­ fuller experience of the real, ever-present, all-fulfilling love, which is all about us, and is as necessary to our continued life, as the air we breathe.

Let us never fail to raise our minds and hearts to God on awakening. No matter what the form may be, it is the sincerity of the thought and desire, which count, for God is. He really exists.

In each one is a Ray of His Divine Life, a seed of His Divine Wisdom. His Omniscient Intelligence and Omnipresent Love fill the entire Universe. 

Nothing is ignored or neglected.

We are permitted to follow our individual development from the moment of the expression of the Divine Idea, which gave us life. 

We have always within us the instinct of our immortality, and if we truly and sincerely ask to know more, we shall be all right.

God gives so much and asks so little. Never forget that in giving us life, He has given one of His noblest gifts, which is liberty. 

Never again can we be anything, but ourselves.

Each carries within himself the Divine Germ, and each one must be permitted to develop it according to his own individuality.   

Try to realise the importance of understanding something of the soul.

Believe me when I say that this simple exercise will help you to strengthen the mind and body and to become conscious of the soul. When you have reached this, you will be at peace and while there must be trials, you will know how to bear them, and help others.

Meslom's Messages from the Life Beyond