God is Exclusiveness and "Man is God's image and likeness" and remains forever thus.

All glory, to the Exclusiveness of God!

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CHAPTER X

ENLIGHTENMENT.

OD is Light. He is that "Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." When man turns the eye from the within outward, he seemingly sees division, separations and distance. In his looking outward, he sees through mental haze. When man turns his mind within, he will there discern the One-ness of Life and the Wholeness of God and will see that man is forever hid in the Heart of the Infinite.

Enlightenment will enable man to again turn his mind within and thereby gain poise, peace and serenity. Enlightenment is the one and only thing which will enable man to consciously behold the Truth of Being and live in that consciousness.

When man is sound asleep he is in darkness. When he becomes enlightened he lives in the Light and perceives the Light within him and the One-ness of Life which cannot be broken nor disturbed by being expressed in and through one or many individualities.

Man, looking outward, sees his personality which has accumulated around his Real Self as he has walked down the centuries since passing out from the Garden of Eden and believes that this personality is the man.

In man's outer concept of himself, he suffers, fears, doubts and dies and, believes he must till the ground to gain his bread. This is the man whom the Lord God created, the man who is living in and governed by the laws which were and are created by the confused mind of man.

One thought permitted to form in the mind different from the blissful state of Paradise causes a cloud to come into the mind and it casts its shadows upon the form, which is composed of Spirit-Substance; and the body begins to express the shadow until the mind is filled with the carnal belief as we see it at this ending of the second dispensation of this cycle.

What do we find which will assist man in this age or any other, to awaken and come out from the mists and fogs and to clear his mind of these? Enlightenment is the word. However, it is necessary to glean many deep truths therein to understandingly receive assistance.

Man's Soul may seem to be sleeping the Ages away. It matters not as long as it sleeps; but there will come a day when a note will sound so deep, strong and clear, that he will become sufficiently aroused to hear, and, when he is awakened, his ear will catch these words: "Adam, where art thou?" These are the first words man hears when he awakens from the carnal sleep (the dream of illusions),-these words which are applied direct to the individual.

We find, when man hears these words, that he will set about to examine himself and to gain his bearing and poise. This is his first effort, because until now he has been asleep, therefore, knew not of the assistance which is ever at hand.

Man is not aware of anything which occurs during his sleep. Man knows not concerning the esoteric workings of Truth while his Soul seemingly slumbers. The Soul is "Conscious Life" and cannot sleep nor slumber: therefore, it is only in the seeming or illusive dream that it appears as if the Soul slept.

The debris of false illusions must be removed from the mind before the Soul can fully express its consciousness through mind and form. When this is accomplished, man is enlightened.

The question above is, "What do we find that will

assist man in this Age or any other to awaken and come out from the mist and fog and clear his mind of these?" Jesus Christ said, "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free." Truth, then, is the fabric which is to be presented to man after he has become aroused by the "Still Voice of God" which speaks to every man's Soul. It is the still, soft voice which whispers, "Adam, where art thou?" If man at that moment catches the gentle sweetness and positive assurance which emanate from those words, he will turn at once to their Source and therefrom seek wisdom and guidance. Man, by thus doing, may, peradventure, have a smooth sea for his bark to sail over; because the Love which is God can cause the billows to roll away and a calm and serene sea to surround him. Though he may find on land steep mountains to scale, the hand of God will lead him and Divine Strength will sustain him.

Man cannot travel so far on land or sea that God is not there; and by his side the Son of God will ever be.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth reached full Enlightenment. He proclaimed himself the Son of God. He said, "I stand at the door of every man's heart and knock; if he will open and bid me, I will enter and abide with him."

Thus we see, that when man awakens sufficiently to hear the Father's "Still Soft Voice" and turns to its succor, he will soon learn concerning God's Son. Jesus Christ, being a Conscious Son of God, assists all those who call to the Father in His name, as long as they require His assistance, and this will be for every devotee of Truth until he becomes as clearly enlightened as Jesus was and understands distinctly that he, too, is a Son of God, able not only to "give a reason for the hope that is within him," but to do as Jesus did, prove it. "By their works ye shall know them." When man touches, even the hem of the Christ garment (the Christ

Consciousness) it is no longer profession with him, but actuality. He then will live and do and be that which he knows he is, the Son of God.

What is the Son of God? The manifestation of God. God made manifest.

Christ. What is Christ?

Therefore we see, Man is

Man is not God in this: Man, is God made manifest in and through man. Jesus in teaching His disciples concerning this said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also; and from henceforth ye know Him and have seen Him."-St John 14:7.

"Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, show us the Father."-St. John 14:9.

"Believest thou that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works."-St. John 14:10.

Man is God made manifest, an individualized expression of God, Aum. While God,-Aum, is the Whole and there is none beside Him, man, the individualized manifestation of the infinite, "Lives, moves and has his being in God" and is guided by Infinite Intelligence and God's wisdom is revealed to him. Man of himself can do nothing, but the Father that dwelleth within him "He doeth the works."

Jesus told His disciples (and they represent all devotees of Truth in that and every age) "I will not leave you comfortless." "I will send the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, and He will teach and lead you into all Truth." The day of Pentecost represents the day to each man when he must trust in God alone. As Jesus, the outer staff for His disciples, had departed from them they, feeling the necessity of their perfect reliance upon the invisible God in recognition of the Father and their reliance upon Him, were "All with one accord in one