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Dynamics for Living
Fulfillment
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[Dynamics for Living]
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JESUS Christ was the product of a cycle of human
development that was before our present cycle of
development. We revel in speculating about the history of
His soul's unfoldment and the true reason why He was so far
in advance of our time.
When the soul of the race became involved in the pleasures
of sensation and sought other guidance than that of Jehovah
God, gradual degeneration of the whole human family began
until men were in a bad way. Something had to be done.
Someway, somehow we had to be lifted
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out of the murky darkness of sense thought. Jesus Christ
provided and provides today the greatest impetus to the
ongoing of our race.
Scientific understanding of His great truths thrills the
soul with the desire for spiritual attainment, with a
longing for spiritual fulfillment. Many persons proudly
acknowledge Him and claim His promises.
When here on earth, through His mastery of spiritual laws
of which we today have only an inkling, He performed many
seeming miracles. Think of the condition in those times of
a body that had been dead for four days! Imagine Jesus
thanking God that His petition had been heard and then
speaking the word of life to one who had lain in the grave
for this length of time. Then imagine this person instantly
being charged with new life. Imagine great streams of life
flowing through his every cell and fiber until he came
walking out of the tomb, restored to perfect health.
Imagine Jesus in the consciousness of perfect unity with
God speaking the healing word to many "sick unto death" and
each one instantly throwing off the disease and coming
forward sound and well.
Upliftment
To lift the race out of sense thought Jesus was compelled
by the necessity of soul sympathy to become an
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intimate associate of the people. He sought to help. Hence
He incarnated into the race and was "in every respect
tempted as we are, yet without sinning." He revealed that
we are children of the same Father as He. He is our Elder
Brother, our helper. We are His people, and He is
interested in our progress.
Jesus proclaimed: "I am the light of the world." "You are
the light of the world." When He spoke thus He was speaking
of this inner light which gives life and intelligence to
all creation.
The development of spiritual light is the destiny of us
all. We shall not be satisfied until we "awake in His
likeness." All are radiant in a certain degree with this
spiritual light, but especially those who have an
understanding of Spirit and its universality. We feel the
light and sometimes mentally see it flashing into
expression when we have a spiritual uplift gained from a
new idea of Truth. Some feel its influence and are moved to
higher things by it; or if it is radiating gloomily, they
are moved to depression and discouragement.
Transfusion
Through Jesus' experience on the Cross, where His precious
blood was spilled, through His suffering there He lowered
His consciousness to the consciousness
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of the race, thereby administering to the whole race a
blood transfusion, imparting to both the soul and the body
of men the properties of Being that will restore man to his
divine estate. Thus, we are on the way to fulfillment and
the Jesus Christ way!
Jesus Christ broadcast the electrons of His blood into the
race thought atmosphere and they may be apprehended by all
who believe in Him. These electrons become centers of
energy and life in those who appropriate them. Thus, men
gradually transform and regenerate their blood and their
body. This is the real spiritual meaning of being saved by
Jesus Christ. The blood is the life. Jesus really came to
bring to the whole human family a larger consciousness of
life.
Life is a universal energy that moves even the corpuscles
of the blood. Therefore life is more powerful than the
blood. Consequently we believe that it was through the
"shedding," the getting rid, of the idea of flesh and blood
that Jesus accomplished His great works. He tapped the
great reservoir of divine life and raised His consciousness
of life to that of the Father.
The Lord's Supper
The Lord's Supper is God's covenant with
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mankind, through His perfect idea, Christ Jesus. This
compact was completed through Jesus' breaking the bread and
blessing the cup. The bread symbolizes spiritual substance,
or the body, and we drink His blood by affirming and
realizing our oneness with the one divine, omnipresent life
of Spirit.
Through Jesus Christ we all have access to this perpetual
life stream. We must really eat of His substance, as He
taught us; that is, we must appropriate it as spiritually
ours. We must drink of His blood: let His life stream flow
through our mind and body, healing, cleansing, and
purifying us in every way. This is the grand at-one-ment of
man's life and with the life of God through Jesus Christ.
This is the way to perfect fulfillment.
Now
The man who wants the inner life to spring forth must
believe in the reality of the omnipresent spiritual life
and must exercise his faith by invoking in prayer the
presence of the invisible but omnipresent God. This reveals
to consciousness the glory of Spirit, and the soul has
witness of itself of a power that it knew not.
In Spirit all things are fulfilled now. The moment a
concept enters the mind, the thing conceived is consummated
through the law that
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governs the action of ideas. The spiritual-minded take
advantage of this law and affirm the completeness of this
ideal, regardless of outer appearances. This stimulates the
energy in the thought process and gives it power beyond
estimate.
I AM Action
The soul in conscious touch with the Father-Mind and
striving to fulfill the divine law brings the power of true
words to bear in the purifying cleansing of its faculties.
The necessity of abiding in the I AM in order to bear much
fruit is affirmed. When our faith attaches itself to outer
things, instead of the spiritual I AM, it ceases to draw
vitality from the one and only source of life, divine
Principle.
The only door to this life is the I AM. This abiding is a
conscious centering of the mind in the depths within us by
means of repeated affirmations of our faith and trust in
it. This day-by-day repeating of affirmations finally opens
a channel of intelligent communication with the silent
forces at the depths of Being; thoughts and words flow
forth from there, and an entirely new source of power is
developed in the man.
When the thought or "word" of Truth from the supreme I AM
of consciousness becomes an
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abiding fact in our mind, we need no longer strive in
external ways. We have but to express a deep desire in the
soul and it is fulfilled.
Sabbath
The consciousness that we have fulfilled the divine law in
both thought and act is the Sabbath. It has nothing to do
with any day of the week. God did not make days and weeks,
nor has He darkened His clear concepts of Truth by the
element of time. Time is an invention of the human.
The true Sabbath is that state of mind in which we rest
from outer thought and doings, and give ourselves up to
meditation or to the study of things spiritual. It is when
we enter into the stillness of our inner consciousness,
think about God and His law, and commune with Him. It is a
state of mind that man enters or acquires when he goes into
the silence of his own soul, into the realm of Spirit.
There he finds true rest and peace, a perfect stage of
one's spiritual unfoldment.
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