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Freedom: (Inaudible question) Right, and conversely,
I think it was the same teacher who said: “It is more important to know
that right is than to know what that right thing is to do.” Because you
can’t really choose the right thing to do unless you have an absolute
conviction that right IS. And that’s why it says, “He the cometh to God
must first believe that He Is.” Well, does this mean that God Is or that
the one who comes to God must first believe that He Is? If He Knows that
He Is, He has to Know what He Is, that He is the Knower, and Being the
Knower brings all that He Sees within the purview of His mentation. He
can then do something about it. What’s the picture of the time? I intended
to be through with these seven letters to the seven churches, but we will
come back to them if you’re ready for lunch.
Freedom: I would like tackle this concept of what
“church” is. That experience that I told you this morning about what got
me going in this whole thing happened in Boston in a building which is
called “the Mother Church.” And at the time that happened, I, of course,
thought that this was all because I was at a certain place; I was in a
church. So I joined the church; this is a big thing to do. Then, as I
began to study, and I began to learn what this Revelation was all about…
there is a definition of church in the Glossary of Science and Health,
and it’s in two paragraphs. The first paragraph defines church as: “the
structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from Divine
Principle.” That means more to me today than it meant to me in 1941, because
I see that the structure of Truth and Love is an eternal structure that
is not material, and therefore not to be raised from the ground or destroyed
back to the ground. It is an eternal structure of Truth and Love, whatever
proceeds from by Principle. It rests upon and proceeds from Divine Principle.
Now, there is a second paragraph to that definition, and it says: “The
church is that institution which one affords proof of its utility, is
found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material
beliefs to the apprehension of Spiritual Ideas, and the demonstration
of Divine Science, thereby casting out devils or error and healing the
sick.” You see, there are seven stages. If you think of it as an institution,
you can start from there, but you see, it will not fulfill its function,
unless it’s fulfilling all seven of these aspects of its nature. Now,
if it is an institution which affords proof
of its utility, this is definitely done in Mind-Consciousness as Mind.
It’s found elevating the race; that’s a Spiritual experience… rousing
the dormant understanding is developing your Spiritual Sense-this would
be Soul. Rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the
apprehension of Spiritual Ideas; this is Principle. And the demonstration
of Divine Science, which is Life, thereby casting out devils or error,
which is Truth, and healing the sick which is Love. You have fulfilled
the Whole thing. So when you’re writing seven letters to seven churches,
and you understand that, you will see that these churches that are named:
to the church in Ephesus write… to the church in Smyrna write… to
the church in Pergamos write… to the church in Thyatira write… to
the church in Sardis write… Philadelphia write… Laodicea…
It’s wonderful, because as you read it, these letters
to the churches tell you what the one whose writing them sees as wrong
with their actions, with the way they do. They find a certain erroneous
concept, and then there’s a cure for it; there’s a gift if you overcome.
Every time, there is a gift if you overcome. So, let’s take the first
one: we’re in Chapter 2:1-5: (Verses 1-3) “Unto
the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth
the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven
golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience,
and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them
which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And
hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured ,
and hast not fainted.” That wonderful, I’ve seen all you’ve been doing,
like a great bookkeeper, I’ve seen you doing all these good things, “Nevertheless,
I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love. Remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works;”
this is the letter to Ephesus. The repentance is done in Mind. “He that
hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches: to him
that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the
midst of the paradise of God.” (Verse 7) That’s the first one. See the
gift is the Tree of Life. Now, the second one. (Verse 8-11) “And unto
the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first
and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation,
and poverty (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which
say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none
of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast
some of you into prison, that ye may be tried;
and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and
I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let
him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall
not be hurt of the second death.” So you see what that indicates is…
what it says is… the faith… and the gift is salvation.
“He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second
death.” Now, did we cover, in the meeting at Trinity Center, did we cover
this thing of the first and the second death? Because we are already…
when Infinite Consciousness dies to its totality and thinks of itself
as someone, the first death has already happened. So upon the one that
overcometh, the second death or the dying out of this has no power.
(Verse 12-16) “And to the angel of the church in Pergamos
write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is;
and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those
days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you,
where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou
hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to
cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed
unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold
the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent; or else I
will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword
of my mouth.”
Well, I would say that that all indicates idols; you’ve
been worshipping Baal, you’ve been doing thus and so. This is a false,
let us say it is a material sense of religion, this worship of idols,
the falling down to graven images and all of that. What’s going to correct
that but a Spiritual Sense, and Spiritual Sense is Consciousness as Soul.
So when it says here’s the gift: “To him the overcometh will I give to
eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone
a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
(Verse 17) This is the way Spiritual Sense always does. It’s a transformation
of your other viewpoint; always a transformation of your previous viewpoint.
What is the new name?
“I.” His name is I. The Whole Thing. As Jacob is renamed
Israel, the Whole Mind of Man, not just one of the faculties, every one
is the Whole One. The Whole Is contained in the evidence. If clay is shaped
as those three monkeys, all of the clay is in all of the monkeys. Everything
the clay has is there in the shape it’s in. So the new name is when it
wakes to see itSelf AS Total. Alright, that was one in Pergamus. (Verse
18-20) “And unto the angel of the church in
Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like
unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I now thy works,
and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works;
and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things
against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth
herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.” Or in other words, seduction;
this is all an illustration of how you in looking at a dramatized version,
you find a state that would define the whole thing, it’s a dramatized
version of seduction. So, when you are seduced away from the basic Principle;
that’s why I believe this one to be Principle. So what is the gift? (Verse
26) “And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him
will I give power over the nations; And he shall rule with a rod and iron;
as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers; even as I
received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star.” I understand
the “morning star” to be the Principle that guides you; the Principle
that directs, that’s the gift-the outcome of all this.
The next one is in Chapter 3:1-3; this is Sardis.
(Verses 1-2) “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things
saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God (the same One talking), and
the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest,
and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that
are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”
See, every bit of that is defining the very opposite of Life. So you know
the One it’s talking is Life-allowing anything to die. So here is the
gift: (Verse 5) “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white
railment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but
I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.” In other
words, your Life is always redeemed, is always saved.
(Verse 7-12) “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia
write;
These things saith he that is holy, he that is true,
he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and
shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold I have set before
thee an open door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength,
and hast kept my word and has not denied my name. Behold, I will make
them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not,
but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet,
and to know that I have loved thee.
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I
also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon
all the world, to try them that dwell upon the
earth. Behold, I come quickly; hold that fast which thou hast, that no
man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple
of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the
name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem,
which cometh down out of heaven from my God; and I will write upon him
my new name.” So that is so self explanatory as Truth, you don’t need
to say a word. The state is weakness; it speaks of, anywhere from Verse
7-11, it speaks of he that openeth and shutteth the door, no man can shutteth;
“thou hast a little strength,” it is a weakness, it is inadequate to the
task. But he that overcometh, I will give the thing which cures weakness
is the conviction of the Reality of Truth, the Truth.
Tirza: Freedom, could that be called vacillation?
In and out of the sheepfold?
Freedom: Sure. Why not? It’s just as true because
the failure to adhere to the strict Truth of it; it can be sometimes seen,
sometimes done, sometimes not done. Vacillation is a good definition of
it.
Tirza: That’s a state though, it’s not a condition
of Consciousness.
Freedom: Right, don’t think for a second that any
of these little states that I give are the only possible ones; there is
an infinite array of conceivable states, the alphabet is limitless. So
then, (Verse14-16)
“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans
write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither
cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of my mouth.”
That’s indifference. Neither hot nor cold, just plain indifferent. The
cure of that is Love; Consciousness as Love, because here’s the gift:
(Verse 19-21) “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore,
and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in
his throne.” In the throne, right enthroned is the symbol of rulership,
so when you fulfill all seven of them and culminate it in Love; that’s
like on the seventh day of creation, there was no work to be done, that
was a revelation. And incidently, in Science
and Heath, at the end of that Chapter, the first Chapter of Genesis,
where it says: “Is not this a revelation instead
of a creation?” That’s what it always is. It’s an awakening, going through
seven successive stages of Self-Cognition.
O.K. We have the seven letters to the seven churches.
Any comments? (Inaudible question) You find it in the first “Key to the
Scriptures” that is the last part ofScience and Health, there is
a… what did they used to call me, they used to call me an “exegy,” because
I took everything from the Bible and made an exegesis of it. So
there is an exegesis of the Book of Genesis and an exegesis of
the Book called the Apocalypse, which the Revelation, and
understanding that if you understand the blueprint that is given in Genesis,
and you understand the fulfillment as given in Revelation that’s
a key to the Scriptures which I sort of tried to telescope in Passkey
and make it something that anybody that has the comprehension of the relationship
between Cause and effect can take this book and read Scripture from one
end to the other, and not be tangle up with the inconguity of it all,
if you’re reading it as literal history. That’s when you stumble and fall
is when you read this thing as literal history, but read it as Revelation,
you have the blueprint in Genesis, you have the fulfillment of
it in Revelation. “I Am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning
and the end,” then I must, of necessity, be all that has appeared to go
in between. Because I said I want these meetings to be
of utmost usefulness, it won’t be worth anybody’s time and investment
to come here unless it is really useable to you. So I’d rather take the
rest of our time in exorcising these demons, that I call the illegitimate
offspring of the Root.
Tirza: Are we going to kill those children?
Freedom: I love that place about Jezebel when she
says, “and so will I do to you if tomorrow about this time I have not,”
I love that.
Tirza: Look out!
Freedom: It always reminds me of the movie “Jezebel”
where Bette Davis played a character named Julie and her aunt who was
so discouraged by this character who was a niece of hers. She said, “I
was thinking of a woman named “Jezebel.” Ah, that was wonderful.
So, let’s take up some of these things that are concerns
to you, and reduce those concerns, whatever they appear to be, reduce
them to a conceivable state and in that way, shoot them dead. Don’t be
reluctant to air them; you are among the best of friends.
Bernard: Would you recommend in treatment going through
all seven of the Aspects?
Freedom: I would indeed, because you don’t want to
come out so lopsided in your conclusions. I knew somebody… she knew
God as Mind, period. Any reference to God was a reference to Mind, until
finally, since she wasn’g getting any results from her efforts to do the
Work, she sought out the help of a practitioner who said to her, “Well,
you’re such an intellectual, you’re so intellectually developed that I
feel as if really you should be on the other side of the desk.” But
he said, “If I may offer one suggestion, you realize there are six other
useful definitions of God.” And that’s why, if you read in Science
and Health on page 465, in answer to the question “What is God?” She
says, “God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul,
Principle, Life, Truth, Love.” The next question is: “Are these terms
synonymous?” Her answer is: “They are. They refer to one absolute God.
They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness of
Deity. The attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and
so.” So then, as Bernard just asked, “In treatment would I recommend that
you take whatever Feature of your Being you find to be the exact Counterfact
of the dramatized state you have discovered in analyzing the portrayal,
if you take that Feature, it is very helpful and really very necessary
to realize that You Are the Mind that Knows this to Be True; You are the
Spirit that constitutes its Substance; You are the Soul that embodies
its variety; You are the Principle which underlies
it; You are the Life that animates it; You are the Truth which confirms
it; You are the Love which fulfills it. You really have the see that this
is not something you are appealing to; if there is any appeal at all,
it is to the deepnesses of Your Being, and unless you find yourSelf Being
All of Those… someone asked yesterday where would you find that? Would
you find that under Soul? Would you find that under Truth?
Well, the fact is, that anyOne… take the term “injustice,”
it’s a conceivable state. Well, where do you find “justice?” It doesn’t
mean that just because in a page twenty five years ago, I wrote that find
“justice” as an attribute of Truth, that doesn’t mean that you can’t also
find it in Love, that you can’t find it as Consciousness Being Principle,
it’s just that somehow you more logically associate that attribute with
that Element. But it is certainly not restricted to that.
You can find “justice” as a Spiritual Feature, you
can find that in any one of the Seven Elements, put probably, you would
most likely look in Truth for it, because if
you see a dramatized illustration of injustice, you would certainly want
to know what is True about that.
So you seek your own endless array of Features, and
you find in your Element called Truth a very direct expression of Justice.
And to the degree that that is accepted as Yours, and you acknowledge
It’s Presence and You experience the feeling of Being It, to that very
degree to you cleanse the perspective, and you find the maintenance of
that Feature Is radically changing the dramatized version that you’re
watching, that’s the Lotus. This is how it’s always done. That’s only
a sample. So whatever troubles you, if you find a state that would be
a good definition of it, then recognizing it as a state, you proved it
to be helpless, it can’t move itself, it can’t do one thing, well, go
then to Your Own Being and Find a Counterfact to that particular state
and You will find a Feature that is Always there, but might just as well
not have been anywhere if you were asleep to its Presence. But when you
acknowledge its Presence, and may I say that’s all it means in the Psalms,
when it says, “Praise the Lord. Praise Him, Praise Him…” Well, the only
praise Him is the acknowledgement that IT IS SO. That’s praise. It’s the
acknowledgement that this Is Already So.
_________________: (Question relating to whether there
is a parallel to how a Christian Science Practitioner might do this and
how we are seeing it now.)
Freedom: Well, there is a parallel there if it’s done…
I can’t guarantee that all practitioners work the same way. I’m not sure.
Because they have different ways from me. They used
to speak of this one that used to sit down, when somebody called for help,
and put on the practitioner’s pitch. I don’t know why, but that seemed
to be her way of ruling out any sense of person, and going directly to
the problem and translating that, I suppose. But somebody said, “Oh, you’re
giving a treatment, you must never ever be doing anything. You must sit
quietly and do this.” Well, I can remember reading Talbot Mundy’s I
Say Sunrise when he said, “If you think that by selecting some hole
where you can go and escape the world in order to meditate on the Truth,
you’re very likely to find when you get there, that you will be so nervous
and distaught that you won’t be contributing anything to your patient.”
It’s true. I used to think that you had to sit down and blot out everything.
Well, the fact is, you do have to blot out everything, but you don’t necessarily
do it by sitting down, by standing up, by lying down. You remember how
Neville used to say in his books about lie flat down with your head on
a level with your body, not on a pillow. Lie flat down with your head
on a level with your body and then you will release yourself from this
sense of being a person. I spoke to him about
that later, probably five or six years later. He says, “Well, I never
do it that way anymore.” (Laughter) You can
do it bolt upright, you can do it any way that makes sense to you, where
you become disassociated with that picture that was just told to you by
telephone or written to you, however the message came to you. You must…
As I say, the way to do it: Look at the thing squarely in the face, don’t
be afraid to call it by a name (I don’t mean the person’s name, I mean
call the condition by a name), and then, if you can find a state that
describes that situation, you can surely, by process of opposites find
in you array of Attributes one that is just the opposite of that, then
you can see that when it appeared as that awful
condition, it was merely just the absence of the functioning Feature of
Your Being. And when you Consciously acknowledge It’s perpetual functioning,
that acknowledgement is cleansing the perspective, and you suddenly see
that what you’re looking at you’re seeing differently. That brings to
mind another line from Science and Health, where she says, “As
mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects
of creation, which before were invisible become visible.” Or as one gains
more correct views of Cause as effect, you change the view, and the multitudinous
objects which before were invisible become visible. So, I don’t know how
all practitioners work, I’m sure, but it’s a way that I recommend because
you know that ultimately you must accept the responsibility for your acceptance
of either what they told you or its opposite. And I know from experience
that until I have acknowledged that the last link in that chain of reasoning
rests with my acceptance, not a person, My acceptance, it’s only then
that I can turn the thing off. I then will have exchanged that for a functioning
Feature of my Being; then I can drop the case. And that’s when you get
an affirmative answer.
(Inaudible question)
Freedom: Exactly. As Cause. That change of Identification
is what changes the picture on the screen. It’s just exactly like changing
the slide in your projector. The light is still there, the motor is running,
the screen is showing, but it will keep showing what it was showing unless
you change the slide.
_______________: So a different practitioner may have
a different means in order to place themselves in that place of conviction
where they are as One. That is how they…
Freedom: Exactly. That’s how it’s done, but as you
say… (inaudible continuing question) If I acknowledge that I have just
heard this, the responsibility then is mine to change the Reality of what
I have accepted, and if I see through that as a dramatized state, I’ve
already proved the unreality of it, but the work is only half done until
I have found its opposite number in me. I have to find the Reality of
the dormant Feature that permitted its absence to appear as that scene.
Great! This is what I love!
_____________: Do they believe that they are the Cause?
Freedom: Do they believe that they are the Cause?
Well, they may not at the moment, but when I understand Mind Is Indivisible,
I’ve got to see that that state is Causeless. I’ve got to find it Sourceless,
and I can’t say “You made that, you thought that, because then I would
say, ‘You’re stuck with it.'” Taking this completely out of the realm
of they, me, them, us, we… making it as impersonal as you possibly can,
that’s when you make the state helpless, or in other words, you reduce
it to its native helplessness, and you find active in Your Being these
Feature that are eternally Present. That’s how to do it. There’s nobody
else to do it except I . His Name is I, and if I
do it thoroughly enough, the next report I get from that case is going
to be a complete change of situation. I know it asks alot, but it is the
only Way I Know.
_____________: (Inaudible question about Features
and states.)
Freedom: Features and states are two completely different
things. States are merely conceivable. They will never have any reality;
whereas, all Features Are Real because They Are Way the Ultimate Reveals
ItSelf. To go to that illustration of the modeling clay shaped as something;
the thing it’s shaped as is a state. The clay will be the Stuff with It’s
Features. And whatever makes clay recognizable as modeling clay would
be its texture, its malleability, its durability, whatever. Those are
features that make modeling clay recognizable as modeling clay. If clay
were Consciousness, let’s say, and it goes to sleep to that, then it might
mistake itself as the shape it’s in. It might think that it was one of
those three monkeys. First of all, there has to be that clear distinction
between what Features are and what states claim to be. You have to recognize
that states have no Identity. Features are Real. Features describe Consciousness;
Elements also describe Consciousness because Consciousness is describing
ItSelf in Its fullness. (Inaudible question) I think you’re trying to
find where to pin the responsibility. That’s very desirable.
The fact is it’s ALL Consciousness doing it All. Consciousness
describes ItSelf… Let’s take that sentence again: “Mind, Spirit, Soul,
Principle, Life, Truth, Love… are these terms synonymous?” They are.
“They are intended to express the Nature, Essence and Wholeness of Deity.”
There is another place where it says the attributes of this are intelligence,
wisdom, and so on. What I call Features or attributes are also qualities
or properties; it doesn’t matter. Let’s not get stuck on the words particularly.
When I first started teaching this in San Francisco,
when I understood them, I began speaking of them as the Elements of Consciousness,
and then maybe fifteen years later, I heard someone tell me, “What do
you mean when you say Elements? Those are Aspects.” Fine. Can’t we unfold?
We should be unfolding, not just ossifying. (Inaudible question) There
may be different means that different practitioners of this Work use to
bring them to that Conviction; they may be different means that they use,
but it doesn’t matter, it’s what they speak of in the Eastern cultures
as a mantra, you have something that you say, and you say and you say,
because by the saying of it, it lifts you. Just by the saying of it, it
does lift you, but by the acknowledgment of what it means, it lifts you,
and you have to start somewhere. There are those that began when Christian
Science was first established as a system of healing, there were those
that whatever come up, anything that was wrong, they’d start “There is
no Life, Truth, Intelligence, nor Substance in matter. All is Infinite
Mind in its Infinite Manifestation, for God is All in All.”
It became a mantra. They were repeating it. Well,
pretty soon it becomes tasteless and the Reality is gone. They think they
will be heard so there is much speaking. Read that in the Gospel of Matthew
about how you pray. And I love that, because
it was just before the Lord’s Prayer comes, it says, “In the manner, therefore,
pray ye.” It doesn’t say, “In these words necessarily pray ye.” But in
this manner, by this meaning. And you remember in Passkey
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