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Spiritual Hearing
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I give ear to Thee and now realize Thy life in all my
members, for Thou art my health unfailing.
My mind is full of Thy substance, and my prosperity is
always manifest in abundance.
THE SCRIPTURES are rich in references to the listening ear.
"He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?"
Jesus said, "What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in
the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the
house-tops." "He that hath ears to hear let him hear."
In many places the Bible indicates the ear referred to is
not the physical organ but the listening mind or spirit.
"Having ears, hear ye not?"
Then the question arises, Do we have ears that can hear
"overtones" from which the mind can obtain meanings
superior to those of the senses? In every walk of life are
those who stoutly claim that they hear voices and sounds,
musical and otherwise, inwardly or apparently with another
set of
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ears. Sometimes these persons are geniuses and sometimes
they are classed as queer.
Physiology describes a complicated physical ear, but the
"ear" that conceives and really hears is the auditory
center in the brain. It is here the mind grasps and
analyzes the sound vibrations. Thus musical people may have
the same physical ears as the unmusical, but their minds
have listened for the fine variations of sound and have
given the auditory area in the brain a composer's ego. The
great Beethoven was a brilliant example. He was stone-deaf
when he composed some of the most beautiful music of the
world. But his "inner ear" must have been open to music
that is not heard by everyone.
What is true in music is also true in every religion, art,
and science. Little Samuel heard the voice of the Lord.
Joan of Arc heard militant voices. Modern psychics and many
who are deeply religious hear voices, or sounds that they
translate into voices, in their cerebral cortex. It is the
bent of the mind that determines the character of the
voice. Job said in substance that there is a spirit or mind
in man that gives the breath or vibrations of the Almighty
understanding.
Practice giving ear or listening with your mind to the
Lord. You will acquire the ability to make contact with the
mind radiations of Christ and concentrate them in your mind
and actually hear His voice. On the contrary, by a like
concentration of thought you can attract the mind of
persons both in and out
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of the body and thereby become a psychic and medium.
Excessive meditation on things spiritual also often dulls
the receptivity of the outer ear and it loses its alertness.
Shakespeare says, "Give every man thy ear, but few thy
voice"; that is, learn to listen rather than talk. Jesus
called His first disciple Simon Peter. Simon means
"hearing" and Peter "a rock." Spiritual receptivity is the
basis of a solid character. We all need a fuller
realization of life in order to be healthy. This can be
attained by concentrating our attention on the universal
life radiations and incorporating them into our mind and
body.
This world of matter has its origin in a radiant substance
that our mind conceives and automatically translates into
flesh and physical things. The process is so gradual that
we do not realize it, but modern science is daily
approaching an explanation that will eventually be
universally accepted; then what we are teaching from the
spiritual side will be confirmed by the physical.
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