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It is through
the power of our own mind or thought action that we are able to bring forth or
realize the Christ Consciousness. Through the power or process of thought we
can transmute and evolve our bodies, or our outer conditions and surroundings,
through recognition of this Christ Consciousness within ourselves, so that we
will never experience death nor any change called death. This is done wholly
through man's power to visualize, idealize, conceive, and bring forth that
which he gazes upon. This is done by first knowing or perceiving or having
faith that the Christ is within ourselves; seeing the true meaning of Jesus' teaching;
holding our body one with God, made in the image and likeness of God and
merging that body into the perfect God body just as God sees us. We have
idealized, conceived, and brought forth into manifestation the perfect God
body. We are `born again' truly of and in the Spirit Kingdom of God.
It is in
this way that we can return all things to the Universal Mind Substance, from
which they sprang, and bring them back or return them perfect into outer form
or manifestation. Then, by holding them in their pure, spiritual, perfect state, the
vibrations are lowered and the things we wish to create come forth in perfect
form. In this way we can take every false belief, every old condition, every
sin, all of our past life—it does not matter what it has been, how good or seeming bad, it
does not matter what mountain of false belief or doubt and unbelief or fear we
or anyone else have erected about us or in our paths—and we can say to them
all, `I now return you to the great ocean of Universal Mind Substance, from
which all things come forth and where all is perfection, and from which you
sprang, there to be again resolved into the elements from which you were
created. I now return you or bring you back from that pure substance as perfect and
pure as God sees you and hold you always in that absolute perfection.' We can
say to ourselves, `I now realize, in the old order of things that I brought you
forth imperfectly and you manifest imperfectly. Realizing the Truth, I now
bring you forth perfect as God sees you. You are reborn perfect and "it is
so.'" We must realize that the inner alchemist, God within, has taken hold
of this and has transmuted, refined, and perfected that which seemed imperfect,
that which we brought forth and are now returning. We should realize that it is
refined, perfected, and transmuted just as our own bodies are refined,
perfected, and returned to us as God's body, joyously perfect, beautifully free.
Finally, we should realize that this is the perfect Christ Consciousness in all
and for all. This is `Hid with Christ in God.'
The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East by Baird T. Spalding
~EKM
