1991/06/21

What is truth?

Q: Can I have confidence that my inspiration comes from God?
"Many processes developed by mankind use catalysts or mordants which are necessary to alter the state of a basic commodity. Undiluted, a catalyst may be noxious, but added at the right moment it can effect a remarkable transformation to the process.
"That’s the situation with duality. It's an agent of personal transformation available within the physical world. The fusion of duality (yin & yang) is a source of energy for a whole personality. In nature there exist many forces which can be harnest. Fire and water are great servants but terrible masters: they must be channeled and controled. Within the body, your intestinal bacteria are fine where they belongs, but if they were to escape into the rest of your body it could kill you.
"In all matters discernment is required. So in the spiritual realm, good and evil are not necessarily as they appear from a human perspective. To you kindness is always meritorious, unkindness despicable. But that doesn’t by any means reflect the ultimate position. The outer world is a school and, depending on the needs of the pupil, a variety of techniqs are used to further the learning process. It isn’t kindness to encourage someone to continue on a pathway of delusion, sometimes a shock is necessary to turn them around. And the shock may take the form of events that your two-dimensional concepts would define as bad. Because perennial values have multi-dimensional implications they exist in an environment where ideas arising from simplistic notions of duality don’t apply.
"Matter is being raised to godhead. The evolutionary programming inherent in matter has generated the continuing pattern of development you observe. The ultimate characteristic of ‘good’ is that it promotes this purpose: enriching, enhancing, unifying. ‘Bad’ divides, impoverishes or retards. Within those broad definitions lies a whole range of intermediate positions of interest only to theologians. That which is most alive (imbued with psychic energy) is most inspired. As explained your perceptions of good and evil are wholly inadequate. Why otherwise would we seem at times to bless with success what seems most evil to you? In a classroom pupils must occasionally be allowed to see the logical extension of their behaviour in order to learn what is appropriate. Different lessons have to be learnt at different stages: to give detailed sex instruction to 9 year olds would be absurd. At each stage of development physical and mental awareness should go hand in hand if a balanced consciousness is to unfold.
Only trust and repose in where you are now can produce an internal balance that doesn’t need to strive to become. To strive to become is to lie to yourself about what you are at present — for in the spiritual world you couldn’t be more desirable/successful/rich.
"If you can accept what you already are, you free yourself to grow untrammeled by the bands that have so warped your perception as to make you feel that you would be better if you were otherwise than you are. (A perversion of that gentle impulse towards growth that informs all matter.) Part of true acceptance is trusting your self even when you’re apparently wrong. If you’re thoughtful you may wish to change your mind; if you don’t, you should follow your convictions throu to their logical conclusions. ‘If the fool would persist in hir folly s/he should become wise.’
"You cant control the outcome of anything you do. That’s our affair. All you can do is to proceed honestly, a step at a time, contributing infinitesimally to the parousia (manifestation of transformed unity). Part of that process is the dissemination of truthfulness. And you do that by every sincere action or thought. A bowl of water is composed of myriad merged droplets. Rivers couldn’t exist but for an infinity of component molecules. Your function is to be one of those molecules.
"By yourself you are neither good nor bad, true nor false. Its in the company you keep that purity or corruption emerges. If you’re motivated to keep company with truth-seekers algorithms are formed which generate multi-dimensional overtones. These in turn validate both you and your insights. If you’re standing in your own truth you’ll know it as certainly as a singer knows s/he’s in tune. If you’re in doubt you probably aren’t! You’re probably striving for your note. Don’t.
"The moment you can accept what you are, you’ll know who others are. And immediately a harmony will ensue, for you have set the chords of your heart free to vibrate; and by the basic laws of psycho-physics the vibrations of freely resounding hearts will interact to produce harmonics that excite and stimulate the whole psychic environment. They may not be the notes you thought you were to sound. Have the courage to accept that."

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