The Precious Within.
Over the next weeks I will publish through a series of blogs, my next book. I will begin this week with the forward, index and introduction.
Forward
This book is an account of my own evolving being. It is not intended to be interpreted as a judgement of the reader or their beliefs, if they do not align with what I say.
My own perceptions and understandings shift and change like the sands on a beach and like sands on a beach it brings peace to walk them.
All of us do the best we can with what we have and who we believe we are. If you are completely at peace with your being, you need read no further than this.
You are blessed, honoured and loved.
Namaste
Table of Contents.
Introduction P4
Ch 1. You shall have no other gods before Me. P8
• I Am within – you do not have to deify any other entity but the I AM in I-YOU-WE-US.
Praise I AM of Unconditional Love as the core source of all creation.
Ch 2. You shall not make idols. P13
• You do not need to worship a symbol of who WE are – just
let everything remind you of the great I AM – Our Divinity as One.
Ch.3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. P16
• Do not take action in, or undervalue, the LORD’s name by applying it with the love of
– or fear of – power. Each human, in his BEing, contains the LORD of PERFECT,
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
Ch.4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it Holy. P18
• Take time to be still that WE enjoy WE. Gratitude, mercy, forgiveness, compassion, joy
and abundance are Ours in this time of stillness when WE praise with all our Heart,
the Love of Source that flows through WE.
Ch.5. Honour your father and your mother. P20
• Be aware that the human experience was brought to you through your parents and
their lineage. YOU/WE chose them for the potential they brought to your evolution – and
theirs – to knowing WE.
Ch.6. You shall not murder. P21
• Do not deny any of OUR creation the right to free choice in all things. When others do
so, from a place absent of love, stand and stop them, but do not, if there is any choice
for you, take their birthright to life from them also in love’s absence. Let compassion
make you merciful when denying them their choice to take choice from others.
Ch.7. You shall not commit adultery.
• Let any contract you make with another through the unconditional love of WE be
binding. Do not break its terms in any devious way, but if it serves WE to do so,
release each the other in mutual understanding and compassion.
Ch.8. You shall not steal.
• Do not take that which belongs to another without fair and honest exchange, unless
it is freely gifted through the love of WE with no expectation of return or kudos for
the ego.
Ch.9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
• Always speak truthfully of others in matters of justice – just truth serving love.
Ch.10. You shall not covet.
• In all things, do not wish to have what another has, or despise those who do not have
what you have – you create your own existence.
Ch 11. And The Two Commandments of Jesus.
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great Commandment.
And the second is like unto it; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two Commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Endpiece
Introduction.
Having been raised in a society whose laws and protocols are very much evolved from the Judeo/ Christian paradigms of old, I have often struggled to align the truth I am discovering within to that which I was told is ‘the only way.’
I think that many religions have inherited a desire to have power and control over people through power- based doctrine. There are very few religions, if any, that do not expect in their ‘followers’ an unquestioned loyalty to their ‘TRUTH’.
All doctrines and theorems contain truth, for they come from passion. It is our mindfulness that discerns what serves love and what serves its absince.
Much of my own search has desired an answer to the question of who or what God is. I have come to the conclusion that we can never quantify ‘God’ or ‘Absolute Love’. This is a spiritual energy and as such defies anything of scientific measurement or sensual identification. How the void and the light came into being to create consciousness, physicality and sensuality in time and space is beyond us, except the spirit of Original Source or Love or God or whatever we like to call it can only be sensed spiritually as a truth which can, if we embrace it, affect our entire being. Love by its very nature must love and so it creates in order to love something. Ultimately that something – creation- will return the same love to the love that gives to it at which point the creation is complete.
So, in my explorations, I do not dismiss the validity of any creed, doctrine or belief if it promotes unconditional love as the source of any of its practices. Often it does not. However, there are always those who strive to find it within the boundaries of their beliefs.
That the teachers of these boundaries can make use of doctrines to serve their own power is something we need to address. They all use historic dogma as a starting point from which to move forward. Their words are said to be Truth and unalterable. The books in the Bible, for example, show discrepancies and contradictions aplenty. At the very beginning, in Genesis, there are two very different versions of the Creation. Which is the truth? How do we know? It probably doesn’t matter. If, as I do, we believe that the Source is Unconditional love, then they both fall short. Their writers no doubt believed their view served God better – a God who wielded power and judgement. My question is this. If God is Unconditional Love, how can He judge and punish so cruelly? Many would say that if we are in his image then as a loving parent, he guides and disciplines his children as we do. We follow his example. I would say the examples we follow were and are created by us. Unconditional love by its nature allows free choice.
The light or energy of love cannot be defined or measured – only its creations and manifestations can be explored and measured or ‘explained’ in some way. Science has gone far beyond splitting the atom to discover that particles of energy can be ‘created’ albeit briefly in a vacuum seemingly out of nothing, but there is still an input to the vacuum that is quantified – such a vacuum is not nothing. Energies in the universe are being discovered and measured as increasingly smaller and larger energy waves. But such discoveries always invite our scientists to discover something smaller – or something larger. None of these discoveries will ever be ‘God’ because spiritual energy is at 0.
A number can be counted ever closer or ever further away but will never reach a conclusion. But multiply any of them by 0, you get 0. Yet divide any by 0? It cannot be done. (Not with basic maths anyway, and even with complex calculus there are conditions!) So call 0 Love. It follows the same rules. Call each of us 1. We can multiply by 0 and get 0. (Love times 1 – or any number of us – is love) And we can divide love and get love. ( 0 shared equally with 1 – or any number of us- is 0 ) But we cannot divide with love. 1(or any number) of something shared equally with 0 is not something we can do. We cannot share ourselves between love. Not if we use 0 as a metaphor which seems reasonable as it does not follow the rules of physicality any more than measuring ‘love-waves’ does. Only by being ‘0’ can we share our love unconditionally to all and ultimately to Love itself. 0 divided by 0 equals 0. 0 divided by infinity equals 0. If we make our love conditional to measure out to others, we are not sharing love, but judgement – in love’s absince. Infinity divided by 0??? Love does not divide – it cannot. It can only unite when WE share it. And we can only share it if we have it. And if we think we must apply conditions to give only some to some people, or just to ourselves, then it is not love we give, for love cannot divide anything except itself.
Love does not judge – WE do. That God judges us is the greatest of misconceptions and it is created by US. Judgement, punishment, guilt, temptation – all our own – not God, not Satan. It was WE desiring to have the knowledge of what the power of love is, to know the nature of our ‘parentage’ (God), that created its fruits; that brought us separation from ourselves and our memory; that brought us death – all so that we might ultimately gain that desire which can only be absolute in Love loved. WE will achieve it by choosing to love. This desire is still in the process of manifestation. God did not say ‘I want a friend to love me back. We did. Unconditional Love cannot do that. The consciousness of God did not consider consequences of creating ‘angels’ (beings to love, serve and honour the creation) and ‘son of man’ (Adam, physical manifestation of Word) who was also created as a spiritual image of Word -the intention was only to love creating creation to forever give love. It is a giving forward of love. It still is. That is all Love can do. It was only our desire to know and understand the Creator that created the ‘separation’ and the ‘fall’ in the first place. The ‘angels’ are only serving us as their creators. That we are placed ‘lower’ than they is our own manifestation.
WE are not God – we are God’s CHILDREN and just as we cannot force our own children to love us, so God cannot make us love Them. God created Man (Adam, in Their image), the Angels, the Universe; it is ours. (Man’s). As both ‘sons of God’ (Adam- in Their image) and Sons of Man (descendants of Adam the ‘fallen’), we have creative power and we create whatever we desire. Like God, we create scenarios, situations and experiences to fulfil a desire to love something. We chose to desire knowledge of God –to define love, rather than to enjoy being love. Any loving we do is tagged with conditions. The Angels serve our desires. Their ‘fall’ was in response to that desire, not a desire of their own to reward or punish or tempt man, but to serve him.
That we are motivated both by fear to love protectively, to defend, to keep safe, or by power to control, subvert or enslave, has been our choice, though we have been blind to it being so and to it (choice) being our creation; but more of us are opening our eyes at last. We are choosing to be motivated by Love; and knowing good and evil (love and its absence) allows us to choose to love as we are loved. Unconditional Love, God, Light, Yang, the divine masculine creator, cannot do this. Unconditional love, Gaia, Void, Yin, Darkness, the divine Feminine womb and nurturer cannot do this. Unconditional Love, Word, the divine high consciousness, Child of God, cannot do this. But Man, the physical manifestation (Child) of Their union, can do this. WE are waiting in time for full awareness and the reuniting of our Being with Unconditional Love/God.
It is our heart that both contains and/or shuts out our divinity – the ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit’. If it does not expand to include our highself in its function, our highself must wait and keep knocking. If it contracts so much that our soul’s light cannot pass from within, then it cannot shine through our being. Our heart defines the nature of our universe by its size – and its size is dictated by our choice to seek ways to understand and give love. If we spend our time seeking love for ourselves, we will never truly find it, for it then lies within where we cannot see it. Only by loving unconditionally, as Jesus – and I would venture to say a number of others as well – have done, can we hope to experience that love in our existence. And if we decide to seek power and control over others, this also keeps our universe limited and wins us hollow victory, absent of love.
The following interpretations of the Ten Commandments are my own. It is my desire that it helps clarify, for those sharing my discomfort with the ‘right’ way to think, a paradigm in which there is no right and no wrong and that the only desire that brings us joy is the desire to know, understand, experience and be the embodiment of the spirit and consciousness of Unconditional Love from which all things have sprung.
When we ask our questions, there are red flags for the mindful ones, which can warn us when those questions are coming from the head – the consciousness of ego – instead of channelling through the expanded heart in an earnest desire to KNOW, UNDERSTAND, EXPERIENCE and BE Unconditional Love through the consciousness of Original Source – the universal consciousness of absolute, perfectly balanced, all-knowing, all-seeing love. The creative energy of this entity is the Holy Spirit, the breath of God. The body is the perfect geometry, mathematics and science of absolute universal laws and patterns which operate in creating our universe from pure energy and is present and available EVERYwhere, to serve us as WE wish.
These are the questions of doubt, judgement and love of, or subservience to, power. We are able to discern them by the feelings that accompany them. There is a sense of indignation, accusation, self pity and defensiveness. The nature of the question is challenging and accusatory, or seeks justification for actions which take choice from others, no matter the wording and ‘political correctness’ that forms its structure. The overriding desire in asking the question is to be RIGHT and to be confident in being so and in telling others so – but mostly there is fear in the possibility that the answer might not be the one we want.
Alternatively, when the desire is to serve, or to seek understanding of, the power of love, our questions will be accompanied by feelings of anticipation, excitement and joy. When there is a commitment to Love, to the higher consciousness within, we are not seeking justification of a behaviour we have displayed, or intend to display, we are finding out how it is an appropriate way to consciously serve the highest good; or, if it is a past behaviour, we are finding out how it can consciously serve the highest good now. Guilt and judgement play no part in it. It is a personal dialogue and serves Love through each of us. If our understanding doesn’t ‘sit well’ with us, we keep asking the questions until it does, knowing it will happen. We need both patience and faith that this is so.