Emma Curtis Hopkins ~ RESURRECTION OF CHRIST ~ 1893

Matthew 28:1-10

One Indestructible

There is one indestructible substance pervading all things from the remotest star to the nearest dust particle. This substance is finer than any substance cognized by the senses. It is finer than the attraction of gravitation, cohesion, disintegration. It can only be cognized by the mind. It can only be handled by the thoughts of the mind. And only the understanding power of the mind can make it useful.

He who by any manner of thinking handles this substance and realizes that its nature is his nature soon finds himself experiencing vital renewals throughout body and mind. He has begun the "animation of the particular from the universal," an art earnestly sought after by the ancients.

April Thoughts: James Allen

A man has no character, no soul, no life, apart from his thoughts and deeds.

There is a larger, higher, nobler, diviner life than that of sinning and suffering.

Man is; and as he thinks, so he is.

To live is to think and act, and to think and act is to change.

Man as mind is subject to change. He is not something

“made” and finally completed, but has within him

the capacity for progress.

Man’s being is modified by every thought he thinks.

Every experience affects his character.

Only the choosing of wise thoughts, and, necessarily the doing of wise deeds, leads to wisdom.

Thought determines character, condition, knowledge.

'Not in a thousand years,'

said Roy R., 'would I have seen myself as I really was, had it not been for a shocking experience. After years of family life, I suddenly found myself outside of the domestic circle which had given me a feeling of comfort and security. The shock showed me how weak and insecure I really was. Fortunately, my despair turned me toward a study of esoteric principles. I advise every beginner to also turn in this right direction.' VH

Esoteric(inner) and Exoteric(outer)

To whom does the light appear?

It is really very simple. 

Forgiveness: When, will WE learn?

Sunday, January 22, 2012 When will we cease running after Truth, and learn to "be still, and know that I am God"?

St. Peter: “Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?” Jesus saith unto him, “I say not unto thee until seven times: but until seventy times seven.” – St. Matthew, 21.

Sunday, July 4, 2010 This is the acid test of forgiveness.

In Warsaw, in 1939, a man watched as the Nazis machine-gunned hundreds of jews, including his wife, two daughters, and three sons.  “I had to decide right then whether to let myself hate the soldiers who had done this. It was an easy decision, really. I was a lawyer. In my practice I had seen too often what hate could do to people's minds and bodies. Hate had just killed the six people who mattered most to me in the world. I decided then that I would spend the rest of my life–whether it was a few days or many years–loving every person I came in contact with.” ‘—‘George G. Ritchie, Return from Tomorrow, pp. 115-116

“I rest in God.”

This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek.

“I rest in God.”

This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all.

I am happy and grateful that …

This is the gist of a speech I gave at Toastmasters at noon today.

“I’LL SHOW EM”

This a toast to my great aunt who died in Peterborough about 5 years ago

Life Lessons, a love story, happy reunion and unexpected twist.  

She was unique with a zest for life.
Expect the unexpected

She was a private person, she didn’t tell people her business and I learned from my dad not to mess with her

She worked at the same seniors’ home in Toronto for about 25 years and when she retired they bought their first home in Peterborough. It was a their house, master bedroom and bathroom on the 1^st floor and the basement was awesome the previous owner did a lot of work 

My uncle had a camp on a lake south of Bancroft so it was what they always wanted being within an hours drive

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

Am I living in my current?

Drumroll please
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Naturally you are an independent reasoner.

Your firmness is not stubbornness.

Understand well what you are to do and fear nothing.

This should be your controlling thought:

“In the way of righteousness is life and in the pathway thereof there is no death.”

ECH

"Seeing the folly of merely changing exterior locations can start refreshing inner change."
 VLH

How do you know that the world needs reforming and who is it you are going to reform?

And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the Heart
Closer to the Heart

To be seized with an ardor to go out and reform the world is to be seized with a sudden enlargement of the accusing instinct. How do you know that the world needs reforming? Maybe it is only yourself that needs reforming. If there is only one presence in the universe, and that is the Omnipotent God, who is it you are going to reform? *

Just as soon as you sit down in Jerusalem (the self), and take yourself and all your own thoughts in hand, you will find more changed of heart and newly converted people appearing in your presence, than ever you supposed were possible. What you have thought in the closet is thus noised on the housetops.

ACIM references to the Bible

The Garden of Eden, or the pre-separation condition, was a state of mind in which nothing was needed. When Adam listened to the "lies of the serpent," all he heard was untruth. You do not have to continue to believe what is not true unless you choose to do so. All that can literally disappear in the twinkling of an eye because it is merely a misperception. What is seen in dreams seems to be very real. Yet the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up. The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth. Such a rebirth is impossible as long as you continue to project or miscreate. It still remains within you, however, to extend as God extended His Spirit to you. In reality this is your only choice, because your free will was given you for your joy in creating the perfect.
T-2.I.3.

. . . the Bible speaks of "the peace of God which passeth understanding." This peace is totally incapable of being shaken by errors of any kind. It denies the ability of anything not of God to affect you.
 T-2.II.1.

The Bible tells you to know yourself, or to be certain. Certainty is always of God. When you love someone you have perceived him as he is, and this makes it possible for you to know him. Until you first perceive him as he is you cannot know him.
T-3.III.5.

When the Bible says "Judge not that ye be not judged," it means that if you judge the reality of others you will be unable to avoid judging your own.
 T-3.VI.1.

The Answer to Prayer

The course states that its purpose is the escape from fear. Let us suppose, then, that what you ask of the Holy Spirit is what you really want, but you are still afraid of it. An individual may ask for physical healing because he is fearful of bodily harm. At the same time, if he were healed physically, the threat to his thought system might be considerably more fearful to him than its physical expression. In this case he is not really asking for release from fear, but for the removal of a symptom that he himself selected. This request is, therefore, not for healing at all.

The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered, and this is indeed true. The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. Yet it is equally certain that no response given by Him will ever be one that would increase fear.

Can you ask of the Holy Spirit truly, and doubt your brother? Believe his words are true because of the truth that is in him. You will unite with the truth in him, and his words will true. As you hear him you will hear me. Listening to truth is the only way you can hear it now, and finally know it.

The message your brother gives you is up to you. What does he say to you? What would you have him say? Your decision about him determines the message you receive. Remember that the Holy Spirit is in him, and His Voice speaks to you through him. What can so holy a brother tell you except truth? But are you listening to it? Your brother may not know who he is, but there is a light in his mind that does know. This light can shine into yours, giving truth to his words and making you able to hear them. His words are the Holy Spirit's answer to you. Is your faith in him strong enough to let you hear?

GOD AND MAN ARE ONE

BIBLE LESSON XXXIV
Jeremiah 39
by Emma Curtis Hopkins

Jeremiah wrote this history. All human history is but the transcription of a dream. It never happened at all. If the circumstances and events and laws and phenomena of human experience ever did take place — ever were set going by any being — then there is no telling what may lie in wait for us after this experience and no supposing of What happened before this was set going. Also there is no possibility of admiring or loving their origin.

Strict investigation of Scripture and strict logic compels us to see that “as from a dream one awaketh,” so may we arise from all this phantasmagoria [1] now. “Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.”

[1] a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination

Who are you?

The curriculum of the Atonement IS the opposite of the curriculum you have established for yourselves, but SO IS ITS OUTCOME. If the outcome of yours has made you unhappy, and if you WANT a different outcome, a change in the curriculum is obviously necessary. Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. PEACE is. As the PREREQUISITE for knowledge, peace MUST be learned. Ch 8:

Lesson 79: Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved. The problem of separation, which is really the only problem, has already been solved. Yet the solution is not recognized because the problem is not recognized.

The Holy Spirit's teaching takes only one direction, and has only one goal. His direction is freedom, and His goal is God.  The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is KNOW THYSELF. There is nothing else to learn. As you see another you will see yourself.

I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
C'mon tell me who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
Oh, I really wanna know (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Inner Healing

"NATURAL HEALING: 'Tell us something about inner healing.'

'It is a fascinating and natural process which can be felt as it goes along. To the degree that self-damage disappears through psychic understanding, self-healing appears.

It is like the volcanic explosion on the island of Krakatoa in the last century. Trees, plants and grasses were utterly destroyed by the fierce blasts. But when the destruction ended, renewal began. Winds and tides carried the seeds of new life to Krakatoa, making it green again.'" Vernon Howard

A FOUNDING FATHER OF THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT.

Sir George Lowthian Trevelyan 4th Baronet ( 1906 – 1996 ) was a British educational pioneer and a founding father of the New Age movement. After listening to a lecture by Dr Walter Stein, a student of Rudolf Steiner in 1942, he turned from being agnostic to new age spiritual thinker, and even studied anthroposophy in the coming years. He founded the Wrekin Trust.

The Wrekin Trust is a charity founded by Sir George Trevelyan in 1971, under the active encouragement of Air Marshal Victor Goddard. Its stated purpose is non-sectarian spiritual education. It aims to create "safe meeting spaces for connections, dialogue, learning and social action." The Wrekin Trust 

REMAKING A MAN

This blog links Tuesday, January 8, 2013 It is NOT "Who's Right" but "What's Right"
and
Friday, January 18, 2013 Be faithful to me and I will be faithful to you - The Emmanuel Movement

Rowland arrived in Zurich in May 1926 and was Carl Jung's patient for a considerable length of time. Jung ended up telling Rowland that he had never seen alcoholics of his type recover until they became willing to commit themselves to the spiritual life. Since Rowland was a typical alcoholic, however, it took him seven more years of denial and misery -- as he continued to refuse to take Jung's prescription seriously -- before he met Courtenay Baylor from the Emmanuel Movement and began seeking a spiritual solution to his alcoholism.

 Courtenay Baylor became Rowland Hazard's therapist in 1933, and continued to work with him through 1934. It was under the influence of Baylor's Emmanuel Movement therapy (with its combination of spirituality and simple lay therapy) that Hazard actually began to recover. Hazard was also attending Oxford Group meetings, but his family was paying Baylor to be his regular therapist.  Rowland joined the Oxford Group in February of 1934.  He took the Oxford Group Four Steps and started working with others.
In August 1934, of course, Hazard helped rescue Ebby Thacher from being committed to the Brattleboro Asylum, and three months later, in November 1934, Ebby visited Bill Wilson in his kitchen, in the famous scene recorded in the first chapter of the Big Book.

I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.

Is any among you suffering? let him pray.

Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.

Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. -- James 5:13-18

"Prayer that craves a particular commodity,—any thing less than all good,—is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends." Emerson

Jehovah-jireh. Jehovah-shammah

Genesis 27:29

He  who uses his mind to curse gets the curse in return,
while the mind that blesses receives blessings in return.

In all our prayers, talks, and songs with God as the subject, we should first have a period of silence, a selah, in which the divine presence is invoked as the creative power.

Tell Yourself You Deserve It

"Let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:
Cursed be every one that curseth thee,
And blessed be every one that blesseth thee." Genesis 27:29

He  who uses his mind to curse gets the curse in return,
while the mind that blesses receives blessings in return.

A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.

"There is no god but God!--to prayer--lo! God is great!"

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,--
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.

 James Montgomery ( 1771 – 1854 ) was a British editor, hymn writer and poet. He was particularly associated with humanitarian causes such as the campaigns to abolish slavery and to end the exploitation of child chimney sweeps. During his life he composed some 400 hymns, although less than a hundred are current today.

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Vernonisms?

 Vernonisms are special words, phrases and definitions which were first introduced by Vernon Howard in his lectures and classes.
What is their purpose? To make it easy for you to understand and apply principles of inner-development leading to self-enrichment.
What is the result? A new and bright world for you made up of self-confidence and self-security.

YAPPING DOGS:  Lost people who would rather yap at you instead of traveling with you on the spiritual journey. Ignore them. The dogs yap at the caravan; the caravan moves on.

VH

The Power of a Praying Wife: Change ME Lord.

Written by Stormie Omartian

http://powertochange.com/experience/sex-love/praywife/ has a suggested prayer to guide you in praying for your husband’s role as a father.

Forgiveness—"It merely looks...."

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. discusses the Course's view of forgiveness.