The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.

 Whenever, through our exploration of life, we come upon some "seed of fire" -- some new thought or insight that awakens us to a part of ourselves unknown only a moment before -- we realize that we are not alone. ~ Guy Finley

"When someone throws a fearful idea at you, refuse to catch it." VH

 I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: "That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes." Galileo 1615

Guy Finley ~ "Mark how to know yourself. To know himself a man must ever be on the watch over himself, holding his outer faculties. This discipline must be continued until..." [continued]

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered: the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642, Italy)

Galileo Galilei (1564 –1642) was an Italian physicist and astronomer. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science".

The Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina, written in 1615 by Galileo Galilei was an essay on the relation between the revelations of the Bible and the new discoveries then being made in science.

"It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words." Letter to Benedetto Castelli (1613)

Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595.

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (1651 – 1715), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, a thinly veiled attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699.

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The Inner Life

This English translation originally appeared in "Spiritual Progress"
or Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul
from the French of Fenelon and Madame Guyon";
Printed in 1853; Edited by James W. Metcalf.
http://www.passtheword.org/dialogs-from-the-past/innerlife.htm

You are educated easily.

You reason well. Sci­ence and philosophy you are master of.

Do not for­get that this is your life text:

"Mercy and Truth; righteousness and peace, I love."
Emma Curtis Hopkins

Your own worth was established by God. As long as you dispute this, EVERYTHING you do will be fearful, and particularly any situation which lends itself easily to the superior-inferior fallacy. Teachers must be patient, and repeat their lessons until they are learned.

NOTHING you do, or think, or will, or make is necessary to establish your worth. This point IS NOT DEBATABLE except in delusions. Your ego is NEVER at stake because God did not create it. Your Soul is never at stake because He DID. Any confusion on this point IS a delusion, and no form of devotion is possible as long as this delusion lasts.

When you are afraid, be still and KNOW that God is real and YOU are His beloved son in whom he is well pleased. God is NOT the author of fear. YOU are. You have willed, therefore, to create unlike Him, and you have made fear for yourselves.

God IS inevitable and you CANNOT avoid Him anymore that He can avoid YOU.

The ego is afraid of the Soul’s joy, because once you have experienced this, you will withdraw all protection from your ego and become totally without investment in fear.

Leave it behind. Do not listen to it, and do not preserve it. Listen only to God, who is as incapable of deception as are the Souls he created.

The Biblical quotation should read “In this world you need NOT have tribulation BECAUSE I have overcome the world.” THAT is why you should “be of good cheer.” John 16:33
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