Circle of Christhood

 
If you remember what we had this morning on tape number 4, side 2, Honolulu Infinite Way Study Center 1964, there is only one thing that can be added to that and I will not have to say too much about it because we had the subject recently, and that is SECRECY.  The vital art of this practice is the ability to keep It locked up within you and perform it and practice it without ever speaking of It to anyone.  Never under any circumstances let It come through your lips until such time as you have completed the demonstration and are fully living in the consciousness that enables you automatically to turn within every hour of the day, every quarter hour of the day, and realize that right here where you are, in the midst of your meal, at any moment, you can turn within and you will be FLOODED with whatever you need - - inspiration, light, wisdom, principles, courage, foresight, judgment, integrity.  Whatever it is that may be the need of the moment, you just have to blink your eyes and immediately I HAVE ACCESS to all that God has. 

When you are demonstrating this in your life and the fruitage is apparent, then you can begin to teach it and impart it to others, but not before.  If you try to tell it or teach it before you have demonstrated It, you will be telling something to someone else that you have not proven and you will lose your Self respect by setting yourself up as a teacher of something you do not know - - or pretending that something is a principle which you have not demonstrated.  At first there will be those who will tell you that it is selfishness, that you must “give everything you have.”  No!  Just because you know about It does not mean that you have attained the consciousness of It.  Spiritually, never give that which you have not attained.  If you learn of a principle that seems reasonable to you, practice it until your life shows it forth.  Then when someone is led to you, you can share it because it will then multiply itself.  The more you teach what you really know, the more it will multiply itself, but what you try to give another before you are ready, diminishes, and you have less of it.

Do you not see why I had to sit with this Message as a practitioner in an office for sixteen years before I could teach it, and before a book was written?  There were sixteen years of practice before the first book was written, and then no one could deny or refute the principles of The Infinite Way or they would have been in the position the church was in when it said the world was not round after Christopher Columbus returned from his voyage.  Yes, there were sixteen years before the first book, and then another seventeen years in which the Message has gone around the world.

That is how you must be individually, until It is such a part of your life that it is a very living witness of It.  Until then, do not teach anyone because you have nothing to teach.  Spiritual teaching comes out of an ATTAINED CONSCIOUSNESS, not out of an intellectual knowledge.  Anyone with a quick mind can read these books and memorize these principles, but there is no power in reading or memorizing.  One reviewer of a recent Infinite Way book said there is one thing that has to be said about this Message:  “The author himself is convinced that it is Truth.”  And back in the “old days” I used to write articles that were called didactic.  Why?  Because I stated principles with positive conviction, which is the only way in which spiritual teaching can be fruitful.  Until you have arrived at the point of CONVICTION, do not try to teach - - and the only worthwhile conviction is that which is based on demonstration.  “By their fruits ye shall know them.”  Until then, stay alone, even if you too have to wait sixteen years.  A strange thing about Truth is that IT really does not have to be spoken.  Once you have an inner CONVICTION of It, It shines out of your inner Being to those who are receptive.

This brings us to what might be called the very height of mysticism:  Spiritually you are imparting only when you are in SILENCE, when there is no activity of the conscious thinking mind taking place.  You can prove it in this way:  Take plants or birds or animals or infants, and sit by them in an absolute STILLNESS, not attempting to impart with the mind or through thoughts, but with an attentive receptivity:  “Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth.”  Then hear!  As you sit in that listening attitude, with no attempt to impart, you are imparting It.  You will notice that you have better crops and that the birds and animals and infants RESPOND.  Eventually you will also find adults who are responsive and receptive.
 

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