Blessed Night Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. And Wherever Those Higher Qualities Be Sincere Within Any Individual… Let Us Radiate That Love And Light Throughout The Atmosphere. But Wherever Those Qualities Are Not Sincere Within The Hearts And Minds Of Anyone… Let Us No Longer Continue With Meaningless Feelings And Expressions… Towards Any Of God’s Creation; But Instead Represent Honestly… The Love And Light Of Our “Mighty I AM Presence”! Lest We Deceive And Condemn Only Ourselves… But Never The Spirit Of The Living God – That Dwells Within Us! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“We often do not sufficiently recognize the truth of Walt Whitman’s pithy saying, “I am not all contained between my hat and my boots” and forget the two-fold nature of the “I AM”, that it is at once both the manifested and the unmanifested, the universal and the individual. By losing sight of this truth, we surround ourselves with limitations; we see only part of the self, and then we are surprised that the part fails to do the work of the whole. Factors crop up on which we had not reckoned, and we wonder where they come from, and do not understand that they necessarily arise from that great unity in which we are all included. It is the grand intelligence and livingness of Universal Spirit continually pressing forward to manifestation of itself in a glorious humanity.

This must be effected by each individual’s recognition of his power to co-operate with the Supreme Principle through an intelligent conception of its purpose and of the natural laws by which that purpose is accomplished, a recognition which can proceed only from the realization that he himself is none other than the same Universal Principle in particular manifestation. When he sees this, he sees that Walt Whitman’s saying is true, and that his source of intelligence, power, and purpose, is in that Universal Self, which is his as well as another’s, just because it is universal, and which is therefore as completely and entirely identified with himself as though there were no other expression of it in the world.

The understanding which alone gives value to knowledge is the understanding that, when we employ the formula “I am, therefore I can, therefore I will”, the “I AM” with which the series starts is a being who, so to speak, has his head in heaven and his feet upon the earth, a perfect unity, and with a range of ideas far transcending the little ideas which are limited by the requirements of a day or an hour. On the other hand, the requirements of the day and the hour are real while they last, and since the manifested life can be lived only in the moment that now is, whether it be today or ten thousand years hence, our need is to harmonize the life of expression with the life of purpose, and by realizing in ourselves the source of the highest purposes to realize, also the life of the fullest expression. This is the meaning of prayer. Prayer is not a foolish seeking to change the mind of Supreme Wisdom, but it is an intelligent seeking to embody that wisdom in our thoughts so as more and more perfectly to express it in expressing ourselves.

Thus, as we gradually grow into the habit of finding this inspiring Presence within ourselves, and of realizing its forward movement as the ultimate determining factor in all true healthful mental action, it will become second nature to us to have all our plans, down to the apparently most trivial, so floating upon the undercurrent of this Universal Intelligence that a great harmony will come into our lives, every discordant manifestation will disappear, and we shall find ourselves more and more controlling all things into the forms that we desire.

Why? Because we have attained to commanding the Spirit and making it obey us? Certainly not, for “if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch”; but because we are companions of the Spirit, and by a continuous and growing intimacy have changed, not “the mind of the Spirit”, but our own; and have learned to think from a higher standpoint where we see that the old-world saying, “know thyself”, includes the knowledge of all that we mean when we speak of God.

I AM IS ONE…

This may seem a very elementary proposition, but it is one of which we are too apt to lose sight. What does it mean? It means everything; but we are most concerned with what it means in regard to ourselves, and to each of us personally it means this: It means that there are not two Spirits, one which is myself and one which is another; It means that there is not some great unknown power external to myself which may be actuated by perfectly different motives to my own, and which will, therefore, oppose me with its irresistible force and pass over me, leaving me crushed and broken like the devotee over whom the car of Jaggernauth has rolled. It means that there is only one mind, one motive, one power, not two opposing each other; and that my conscious mind in all its movements is only the one mind expressing itself as (not merely through) my own particular individuality.

There are not two I AMs, but one I AM! Whatever, therefore, I can conceive the Great Universal Life Principle to be, that, I AM. Let us try fully to realize what this means. Can you conceive the Great Originating and Sustaining Life Principle of the whole universe as poor, weak, sordid, miserable, jealous, angry, anxious, uncertain, or in any other way limited? We know that this is impossible. Then, because the I AM is one, it is equally untrue of ourselves. Learn first to distinguish the true self that you are from the mental and physical processes which it throws forth as the instruments of its expression, and then learn that this self controls these instruments, and not vice versa. As we advance in this knowledge, we know ourselves to be unlimited, and that in the miniature world whose centre we are, we ourselves are the very same overflowing of joyous livingness that the Great Life Spirit is, in the Great All.

The I AM is One!

Thoroughly to realize the true nature of affirmative power is to possess the key to the great secret. We feel its presence in all the innumerable forms of life by which we are surrounded, and we feel it as the life in ourselves; and at last, some day the truth bursts upon us like a revelation that we can wield this power, this life, by the process of Thought. And as soon as we see this, the importance of regulating our thinking begins to dawn upon us. We ask ourselves what this thought process is, and we then find that it is thinking affirmative force into forms which are the product of our own thought. We mentally conceive the form and then think life into it.

This must always be the nature of the creative process on whatever scale, whether on the grand scale of the Universal Cosmic Mind or on the miniature scale of the individual mind; the difference is only in degree and not in kind. We may picture the mental machinery by which this is done, in the way that best satisfies our intellect, and the satisfying of the intellect on this point is a potent factor in giving us that confidence in our mental action, without which, we can effect nothing; but the actual externalization is the result of something more powerful than a merely intellectual apprehension. It is the result of that inner mental state which, for want of a better word, we may call our emotional conception of ourselves.

It is the “self” which we feel ourselves to be, which takes forms of our own creating. For this reason, our thought must be so grounded upon knowledge that we shall feel the truth of it, and thus be able to produce in ourselves that mental attitude of feeling which corresponds to the condition which we desire to externalize. We cannot think into manifestation a different sort of life to that which we realize in ourselves. As Horace says, “Nemo dat quod non habet”, we cannot give what we have not got. And, on the other hand, we can never cease creating forms of some sort by our mental activity, thinking life into them.

This point must be very carefully noted. We cannot sit still, producing nothing: the mental machinery will keep on turning out work of some sort, and it rests with us to determine of what sort it shall be. In our entire ignorance or imperfect realization of this, we create negative forms and think life into them. We create forms of death, sickness, sorrow, trouble, and limitation of all sorts, and then think life into these forms; with the result that, however non-existent in themselves, to us they become realities and throw their shadow across the path which would otherwise be bright with the many-colored beauties of innumerable flowers and the glory of the sunshine. This need not be. It is giving to the negative an affirmative force which does not belong to it.

Consider what is meant by the negative. It is the absence of something. It is not-being and is the absence of all that constitutes being. Left to itself, it remains in its own nothingness, and it only assumes form and activity when we give these to it by our thought. Here, then, is the great reason for practicing control over our thought. It is the one and only instrument we have to work with, but it is an instrument which works with the greatest certainty, for limitation if we think limitation, for enlargement if we think enlargement.

Our thought as feeling is the magnet which draws to us those conditions which accurately correspond to itself. This is the meaning of the saying that “thoughts are things.” But, you say, how can I think differently from the circumstances? Certainly, you are not required to say that the circumstances at the present moment are what they are not; to say so would be untrue; but what is wanted is not to think from the standpoint of circumstances at all. Think from that interior standpoint where there are no circumstances, and from whence you can dictate what circumstances shall be, and then leave the circumstances to take care of themselves. Do not think of this, that, or the other particular circumstances of health, peace, etc., but of health, peace, and prosperity themselves.

Here is an advertisement from Pearson’s Weekly: “Think money. Big money-makers think money.” This is a perfectly sound statement of the power of thought, although it is only an advertisement; but we may make an advance beyond thinking “money.” We can think “Life”, in all its fulness, together with that perfect harmony of conditions which includes all that we need of money and a thousand other good things besides, for some of which money stands as the symbol of exchangeable value, while others cannot be estimated by so material a standard.

Therefore, think Life, illumination, harmony, prosperity, happiness; think the things, rather than this or that condition of them. And then by the sure operation of the Universal Law these things will form themselves into the shapes best suited to your particular case, and will enter your life as active, living forces, which will never depart from you, because you know them to be part and parcel, of your own being.”

The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward, 1921

Hologram – Bobby Richards