Christ Is ALL - Chapter 2

My Consciousness

This is the most difficult chapter to write for I am trying to convey to you, in human terms that which is Spiritual; and which I am but only in the beginning stages to understand. This is but the "tip of the iceberg" if you will, to an understanding that is absolutely life changing. A revelation from the midst of the throne that is working its way outward, and I am only at the dawning of comprehension, is an understanding of Consciousness. I have been made aware of the importance of consciousness and the depth of it as it pertains to my life. Consciousness is deep and infinite, and it is not separate nor apart from God; it is one with Him, and to understand Consciousness is to begin to understand the infinity of God.

I was at a friend=B9s house watching a show about consciousness and in it science was trying to determine what consciousness is. Needless to say, they came to the conclusion that they knew not what consciousness is, it was beyond their understanding. Consciousness is Spiritual and cannot be understood with the natural mind. One reason science doesn't understand consciousness is because it is invisible. It cannot be known by physical sense - seen, touched, smelled, tasted, or heard - yet it is all around us, and we can't exist without it. Consciousness IS, and only through our spiritual senses can we understand Consciousness.

Consciousness is existence: The core of all existence is Consciousness. Consciousness comes forth from God and is Spiritual. Consciousness is the life of all mankind. Consciousness was in the beginning with God, and is the Light that lights all men who are born into this world. Consciousness is eternal, and your individual consciousness will exist eternally. Consciousness in its purest and highest state is God, and its lowest expression is fallen man.

The fall of man is the taking on of a lower state of consciousness. Man's consciousness fell from being God-centered to being self-centered. Consciousness is not your conscience. Your conscience is your individual morality and pertains to your soul. To be conscious is to be aware and alert; mentally active. To be unconscious is mental inactivity, the closest state to being dead the human can be in without actually passing on. Consciousness is "the full knowledge of what is in one's own mind," but it is even more than that; it is a full understanding of one's own existence. As one poet said so many years ago: "I think, therefore I am." This is a statement of consciousness--of existence. In the Bible we see God reveal Himself as: "I AM THAT I AM." In this we see the highest statement of consciousness that is known in the universe, God being absolutely aware of His existence without any doubt. Jesus made reference to this when He said: "I AM." He was fully aware of who, and what, He was. He was God-Consciousness expressed as individual being, and His Christ-consciousness was manifest as His individual experience.

A friend and brother of mine who is a "Dreamer" was telling me about a vision he had one time while driving not far from my home. While beholding Mt. Magazine in front of him he could see different hues of colors ascending to the top of the mountain. The Lord then made him to see that he needed to go through different ascending levels of Truth to reach the top of the mountain. We, too, must go through different states and stages of consciousness to reach the pinnacle of our Quest.

"In My Father's house are many mansions." In Fathers house there are many dwellings--dwelling places of mind: many states and stages of consciousness. We must ascend through these stages of consciousness into the divine Truth of Being. The Path is broad in the beginning but, "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

Only One has made it to "the fullness" in this life=8BJesus, and He is the Christ. The "top of the mountain" is the fullness of Christ-consciousness; and God is developing our consciousness on higher and higher spiritual levels until we reach this exalted estate. This is what Paul referred to as the "upward call of God in Christ Jesus." We must press toward this goal: "filled with all the fullness of God."

God, the creative Presence of the universe, the infinite Wisdom of all that is, the very Power of all powers, is calling us upward in our understanding of who we are in Him. Calling us to see that He is the creative Source, Principle, and Life of our being. That He is the I of who we are. He is the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus that has set me free from the law of sin and death. No longer do I have to feed on the husks of human wisdom, but I can return to Father's house; and eat of the fatted calf, and wear the robe of royalty, and put on the ring of divine Sonship. "I and My Father are One."

Christ--our Life, when He is manifested we will be manifested with Him in glory. When the Reality of the Christ is manifest He is all that will be seen. The glory of God will consume us from our most inner-being (Most Holy Place) outward. Then we will know as we are known. We are complete in the Christ, we only lack the understanding, the conscious awareness, of our True identity.

The kingdom of God is within me; Christ is in me; where in me? Is Jesus walking around in me somewhere? Is there a secret kingdom inside my body or mind? What constitutes me? Am I my mind or my body? I think not. I am conscious of my existence - as Spirit, Soul and Body - and my consciousness of this truth gives me my outward expression. Therefore, I am consciousness expressed as individual being; and my Consciousness is the Life of my existence. Consciousness is individualized as my very own consciousness. Therefore, the kingdom of God is within my consciousness, and I can turn within to My Consciousness, to the kingdom of God, and when I find it there within me you will see manifestation of it here outwardly.

God Consciousness is My Consciousness: My consciousness is God's consciousness individually expressed. When I ascend into the Reality of Consciousness, in that moment, in the twinkling of an eye, I will be changed. For then I will have put on immortality and no longer will I be living by the sweat of the brow. I will have put on my Spiritual Identity which is the image of Him who created me. The Life of God pours through My Consciousness to all those who turn to it. To whatever degree of Christ-consciousness, God-awareness, that I become conscious of, to that degree can I help someone who turns to me for help.

The all-power, all-presence, all-wisdom of God is Christ, and this omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience of the Spirit of God in man is true Consciousness: Christ in us expressing Himself to all of creation. Whenever two, or even three, are gathered in My nature, there I AM in the midst of them. We should then be releasing this Power, this Presence, this Wisdom to all those who have come to drink of the water of Life that flows like a river from our inner-most Being--from within Consciousness.

"In His presence is fullness of joy," and He is present as My Consciousness, as the very activity of my being; and it takes a conscious awareness of this Truth to bring it into expression. It takes the recognition that what is true of you in Spirit is what is true of you in Soul, and then comes the manifestation in the body. We must see what is true in the invisible (Spirit), so that it can have expression in the understanding (Soul), and then have form in the visible (Body). "In Him we live and move and have our being."

All that Christ is, I am: I in God, and God in me, all One; sons of God, and if sons...heirs, and if heirs...joint heirs with Christ in God. All that belongs to God belongs to me. God is the Life, the Light, and the Glory; the Spirit, the Soul, and the Body of individual you and individual me. Christ, the expression of the Godhead, is the Reality of our being, and all there is to us is Christ. Christ is ALL and in all.

I am known of God, but I must know as I am known. I must keep my mind on God as the Reality of my being. He will keep me in perfect peace when my mind is stayed on Him. He is the infinite Consciousness of my being, not the form and substance of the things of "this world". I must take thought away from good and evil, and feed only of the tree of Life that is in the midst of the garden that I am.

God is developing our consciousness on higher and higher levels of spiritual Truth. This growing up into Him in ALL things is an ascension life. "As he is, so are we in this world." All that Christ is I am. My Real Self is the Christ, the Son of the living of God, Christ in me the hope of glory. We have been glorified through the divine Son of God that is within us as our individual Christ-consciousness. "And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;" -John 17:22.

Our ONEness with God establishes our oneness with all spiritual truth. Yes, we are one with one another, and one with God; One Body of Christ. It is marvellous, and incredible, what He has made us to be "in Christ." "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified." -Romans 8:29,30. He calls, He justifies, He glorifies; three levels of Spiritual consciousness, of growing up into Him in all things. Christ is your individual spiritual Consciousness. And we are to grow up into Christ-consciousness in all things. Christ is all and in all. The Christ is my individual spiritual Consciousness: My individual spiritual consciousness is the offspring of God. Christ is My Consciousness.

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