
LESSON 156 I walk with God in perfect holiness.
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I walk with God in perfect holiness.
Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?
We are not inconsistent in the thoughts that we present in our curriculum. Truth must be true throughout, if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be in parts uncertain and in others sure. You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.
Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself, because what shares His life is part of Holiness, and could no more be sinful than the sun could choose to be of ice; the sea elect to be apart from water, or the grass to grow with roots suspended in the air.
There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.
The light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are still before you, for they recognize Who walks with you. The light you carry is their own. And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as savior and as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself, which walks with you, transforming in Its gentle light all things unto Its likeness and Its purity.
This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?
Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. The past is gone, with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no longer. The approach to God is near. And in the little interval of doubt that still remains, you may perhaps lose sight of your Companion, and mistake Him for the senseless, ancient dream that now is past.
“Who walks with me?” This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:
I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me.
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I walk with God in perfect holiness. This is always such a beautiful and amazing insight and just wonderful information. That is just absolutely beautiful and especially if you're new to this,
that it just can be mind-blowing. Wait a second, it's so true. If God is what God is, if it is indeed all that is and it is life and it is even omnipresent, when the sense of what anything describes say God as God and not a specific identity, then yes, it is your life. You can't be apart from God. It is the life within you. It is the life's source. In so many different ways, so many ways of describing it. Yes, it's energy, yes, it's consciousness, yes, it's everything, yes, it's here, yes, it's now, yes, yes, yes, because it is that alternate dimensional reality. Just like that dreamer idea, remember that the dreamer of the dream is everything within the dream. You dream of something, you are this something, this something is you.
The ideas don't leave its source. So often there's a little bit of a disturbance or a confusion that occurs with this because we like to think that there's a major difference between what is God and what is the Son of God and say what is the world and God did not create the world, right? We did that lesson. Of course, yes, the reality of what it is, God did create the reality of what it is, of what the world is and what you are. But the illusions, the distortions, the confusion, the loss, the pain, the suffering, the separation, God didn't create that kind of a world, not that world, no. That's you're doing. And that's what sets you apart from God. So the interesting thing is to specify that what you are as the Son of God, if it had a function, we could define it as to explore because the God of all that is is total essence of all that is
and has no ability to experience. It is all existence. So it has no separation from experience. You're going to experience how cushy a chair is if you are separate from that chair, right? You have to be separate from it and you have to be experience and cushiness of chairs or hard chairs to make a distinction between the difference, right? But if you have no distinction between differences, whatsoever, then you can't experience it. You are all things, right? So you as the Son of God is actually the position of being different variations at different times of separation experience. So you can explore. You can experience. I know it seems a little confusing, but this is absolutely consistent, even as this was saying, the consistency of truth. And of course, miracles is always usually talking about the reality of Christ and the Father, Christ and the Father,
Christ and the Father and the Holy Spiritual Universe, Christ and the Father and the Holy Spiritual Universe. So it's the Trinity, right? So that of course is what it calls consistent. Now, I can go through all 10 dimensions of reality. And even though they have different descriptions, different understandings, different variations, it is absolutely consistent still throughout all variations. So this is something about God being an alternate dimension, the zero dimension and the tenth dimension is absolutely always remaining the same. It is the beginning and the end, still existence all throughout any variation of dimension. But you as the Son of God is exploring, that's your function, that's your purpose to know God. You can't know God, just like you can't know how squishy the chair is, squishy now, how comfy it is and how soft and wonderful it is, until you explore. That means you have to experience hard chairs and in bed of nails maybe,
and all these different things to know what is say this squishy chair. You can explore and experience to know differences. So the purpose of, of course, of miracles and what forgiveness is about, is the surrendering of the ability to discern differences. That's what forgiveness is. You're surrendering the ability to discern differences so you can come to know what truth is again, Father, Son and the Holy Spiritual Universe. You can't come to know that if you still have definitions, resentments and grievances, seeing a separated world. You have to have a separated world to experience it separately, but to know God, you can't. So this is still absolutely consistent, but what you are doing and why you seem to be here is you're choosing your decision to fulfill this function, but it can't be made by you alone. What gave you this ability to choose this?
This is your source. Your source, what God is, gave you everything that you can possibly do. So if anything's guilty of choosing illusions and if you want to insist that it's a bad thing, then you're insisting that God is doing a bad thing, giving you the option to choose that. So I know it seems a little confusing, of course, but in the sense of recognizing that you and the Father are not really different. The Son of God isn't a Son as in burst by the Father. That's why I like to refer to it as the Self of God. It is literally the God's Self, the total essence to know itself. It can't know itself if it isn't seemingly in different variations in each dimension, a different combination or percentage of separated from itself. So it seems a little in the sense convoluted, but in this recognizing that when no matter where you are, no matter what you're doing,
that you are still in the presence of God, always and forever. That communication is not a direct line. It's not there's no line. It's literally constant. It's literally always. You are what you are is one with God. What you are is one with God. So it's not communication like with something else. It's once you step back, then the light can, however you say, what is it say? Man, I was on a roll. The truth can come forward. That's it. I don't know. It doesn't matter. The words. As soon as you step back, the truth can come forward. Unlike me, the truth has to lose itself. When Devon comes forward and struggles with words. So it's a pretty remarkable experience that you
are learning that life is a course of miracles, not just a book. Life is a course of miracles. You are learning how to free yourself from limitations. Learning how to free yourself from limitations and the biggest limitation is just this thing you call you. That's you. You are the limitation. You're the one in the way. You can't know God. You can't like the world, no God. You can't even experience God while you are here. You are literally the presence of the knowledge of good and evil. I, Devon, Devon is the presence of knowledge of good and evil. All physicality comes from this understanding, this concept. So this is the recognition that I'm here and not elsewhere. I'm here and not the truth pouring through. So of course you're going to be battling with it, struggling with it, trying to figure it out, trying to understand it and regardless of how much
you understand it or not. What you want to be practicing is a sense of meditation to learn how to step out of the way. You want to learn how to step out of the way. That's the goal here. Step out of the way. You want to learn how to step out of the way. Can you step out of the way? I think you can definitely step out of the way. I mean that's what you're here to do. It is your function here. It is salvation. It is salvation from all, all everything. Everything you have problems, you have problems with some, names of them. Okay, yes, it's salvation from that. Yep. So it's a pretty remarkable experience when you really come to grasp and definitely when you actually come to experience it, that is just absolutely mind-blowing, even just maybe a hint.
You're seeing several different experiences, even if it's drug use or not, it doesn't have to be. But that you're just recognized beyond yourself. That's all that has to do. Meditation, kirtan, might be oaming, just recognize behind yourself. Beyond yourself. There's something there. Beyond yourself. Step out of the way and you'll find out who you are. It doesn't matter what you believe it is. If you believe it's channeling, if you believe it's your soul, if you believe it's this or that, it doesn't make no difference. It's doing the same thing. Step out of the way and let the truth prevail. Right? Step out of the way and God is there.
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