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"Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you, too, can
become great." -
Mark Twain
The Master Mind Jesus stated that the
"kingdom of heaven is within you" ... and for most of us we
realize that this "within" ... is within our mind. The
Radical Rabbi's teachings were diametrically opposed to all other
religious/spiritual teachings. All other teachings seek to
instruct the one to be taught in the art or science of living amongst
people; in short, they are teachings on social conduct; morality,
judgment, and even diet.
But the Radical Jesus worked to teach the individual
how to relate himself to God. He knew that the human race as a
social body is in a state of constant change. But God never
changes; He is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.
The Master Mind Jesus taught that if we were instructed in how to relate
ourselves to God, we would find ourselves related to unchanging and
unchangeable principles of life, and that this relationship would solve
our ever-changing social relationships.
These principles of life are mental laws ... "it is done
unto you as you believe." An idea is the invisible mental
concept which ultimately becomes the spoken word ... the Logos of
creation, also called the Word. Therefore, we understand that God
is Mind, Infinite Mind, which occupies every point of space and acts in
every instant of time ... It is the Creator and It created us in Its
image and likeness. Like father (Creator) like son (created
thing). Life is incessant creation. As Jesus stated,
"My Father (Creator) worketh hitherto, and I work" ...
"Whatsoever the Son (created Being) seeth the Father doing, the Son
doeth also in like manner." In other words, we act upon our
environment and we need not submit to any tradition, religion or
anybody's thought - we have the power and freedom to go direct to the
Source of all wisdom and commune at any time as did Sir Isaac Newton.
"All that the Father hath is mine" ... "Ask and you
receive." [from Mind Surgery by Daniel Boone Herring, copyright
1931]
The one unchanging law of Infinite Intelligence is
response. If we ask Infinite Intelligence for a fish ... it will
not respond with a serpent. By its own law, its response must be
like the demand. This is the basis of the Science of Mind.
We must use our mind "as" mind, for
the purpose for which it was created, to think ourselves free from
limitations, inhibitions, traditional trends of thought, and then use
every other element in our nature for the purpose for which it was
created. "Don't ye know that ye are gods?" ... the
Master Mind Jesus asked. We may learn through the experiences of
others, but we grow only through our own. Happiness is gained
through growth; there is no other way to happiness; and growth is just a
synonym for self-expression and expression is just a synonym for that
which comes outward from within. Let us stop then from seeing
limitations in any direction. Let us cease from the senseless
effort to get things, and begin to act like gods instead of robots.
Let us begin to see what we can give; our abilities, our skills, our
talents ... and start the limitless wells of refreshment within our own
souls to flowing outward. This takes discipline ... this is using
the Science of Mind effectively in our lives.
The principles of life that the Master Mind Jesus taught
were not limited to any particular group or congregation. Jesus
never organized any church, nor authorized any church or religion.
His teachings were to the individual and the individual alone.
"I and the Father are One" ... He stated ... and "these
things I do and greater things still shall you do" ... when
we can make the same statements with unflinching faith in knowing that
it is so ... we too will know that Heaven is where I am.
And
So It Is!
Letting
Love Use Me In Its Own Good Way,
Rev.
Bates
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