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A friend just sent this.........read carefully for THIS is THAT Day.
Believest thou this?
Today, nearly the whole world is giving attention, is some
way, to the great triangle,---the Truth (God), the student (man), and the
problem (human existence). We all know that problems continually come and go
and that man changes his ideas all the time. . . while to
God, the Truth, everything remains invariable, and without
shadow of turning.
Undoubtebly, we have all placed ourselves as students
endeavoring to apply Truth to our earthly problems. Reader,
have you not done this very thing?
Suppose that all knowledge of Truth we possessed were
inadequate to solve our problems. We might search for more knowledge, and
greater ability to make use of it, but the demands upon us might increase,
and the problems seem never to cease. We often long for that place where we
rest, with no thought of an earthly problem. Have we not all entertained
such a wish?
Invariably it takes flash of light to reveal the
true meaning of Life and of all things to us: nor can it be
obtained in any other way.
As the veil lifts, one moments sudden revelation completely
rearranges and shifts our viewpoint; and the scene abruptly changes.
In fact, this was exactly what happened to me one day while in deep
meditation.
I was considering Mathematics, its students and
problems, when suddenly it dawned upon me that the Student-position, which
I had assumed, was certainly an unreliable and unsound one.
As this actuality burst upon me, breathlessly my heart cried
out,----oh to be the principle instead of a student!
Instantly there followed a moment of shining light with its
electrifying transfusion, sudden and swift. As though a curtain had been
raised admitting some startling new sight, I saw the indisputable fact with
vivid, clear distinctness--I saw that I was the Principle. . .not a student
at all!
Under this flood of blazing revelation, what else could I do
but exclaim further,--Why, this means that I am the TRUTH!
I am not a student trying to solve problems of human existence, but
I am the absolute and changeless Truth itself! The
simplicity of all this amazed and overwhelmed me. Here in this brief but
thrilling moment, I saw what years of study and research had never given
me.
Immediately, I then understood Jesus' dynamic statement, "I
am the Truth!" Yes, this was it. I was not a student
of Truth, endeavoring to obtain and attain certain states of
consciousness, always letting go one for another higher on the scale. No,
I was the Truth itself!
What more then could I ask? What more could be desired? Did
Truth, or true Being, have any association with a problem? Certainly
not. Neither, then, did I!
"I am the Truth!" exuberantly I told myself
again and again, in my newly found changed relationship. I
am not trying to do, to think or to know something; but I am doing,
feeling and being Truth, the Life, and the Way! Oh, the blessed
wonder of light!
I saw then that the problem of human existence could never
be solved....but will dissolve when we take our rightful stand as the Truth,
the Life and the Way.
Now once having seen and accepted this platform, all other
speculations immediately vanished, while beautiful verifications in
Jesus" life and teaching came flooding my rapturous thought. How
plainly now to see that Jesus never said that he was a student of Life, but
insisted, "I am the Life!' Neither did
he intimate that he was a follower of some particular way or system, but
again and again reiterated, "I am the Way!"
No wonder he was so absolute, so completingly certain and
sure. Never did he speak nor act as though he were using Truth as a means to
bring about certain healing results in a material existence! His attention
was NOT towards conditions, states nor beliefs, but upon that Being
which is unalterable; that Principle which is fixed and absolute; that Life
which is wholeness always . . .Against such there is no law.
Reader, Know thyself! Learn who and what
you really are; the meaning of life and the fullness of all things. Then for
you, wars and problems will cease and be no more; sorrows and limitations
fade away; for finding yourself as you really are, you shall be in touch
with every good and perfect thing; and shall live here on earth a life of
peace, joy and plenty.
Lillian DeWaters
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