Circle of Christhood

From Honolulu Hawaiian Talk

August 31, 1963

"Understanding the Bible is like understanding The Infinite Way.  You cannot read the message of The Infinite Way with your mind because it was not written by a mind or through a mind.  This entire message is a transcendental message that came through transcendental Consciousness.  To be understood it must be understood through transcendental Consciousness - and this is also true of the Bible.  The Books of the Bible were not brought into existence by ordinary human beings; these individuals had access to the Fourth Dimensional Consciousness or Christ Consciousness in Christianity, or the Buddha Mind in Buddhism.  Both have reference to the same thing - the transcendental Consciousness, or illumined Consciousness.  Therefore the words never mean what they seem to mean, and if you take them literally you will lose the Way.

"It is for this reason that you have been given certain spritual principles in The Infinite Way which, if you take them into your ordinary mind and work with them, will develop the transcendental Consciousness until one day you can say, "Whereas I was blind, now I see."  In other words you will then realize that you are not doing anything - It is doing it.

"Because of the way in which the Bible was written, it is often said that Scripture is veiled or that those who wrote it hid the meaning.  There was not so much an intention to hide the Truth as there was this fact: Coming through the transcendental Consciousness, it came through in a different form than the human mind could grasp. Therefore the Bible is not veiled when you read it through your higher consciousness, but first you must ATTAIN that higher consciousness.  It is true in the writings of all mystics that to human sense the messages are veiled - but they were not veiled by the original revelators.  They were veiled when they came through in transcendental form, because the language of the day must be used and this constitutes the veil.

"Remember this: Because a mystic has to reveal his message in the language of the day, this constitutes the veil."

(This talk continues under Hawaiian Hotel Talks August 31, 1963.)