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In this life -- wherever we may go, regardless of what we may be doing -- if we are not aware of a shadow that trails behind us then we are not standing with the Light to our face.
Already dwelling within us lives a light that we know nothing about. To tell ourselves what this light is, is pure imagination. Sometimes we read something and we don't get the message and then years later we will pick it up again and it is like a breath of fresh air. The difference is the light inside of the individual.
Thought is a form of light. It is a shadow we see through. It is like a telescope that helps us glimpse something higher. Light is self-organizing. The first light spills over from creation to creation and at some point, it comes upon human beings. Within the celestial soup there is some kind of imperative. Created through this process is a mind that was aware of the universe. The light engineered something for its own comprehension. This light contains a character that is able to recognize its creator and comprehend the light. Inside of us is the eternal light and we can know and understand the workings of it in our being. If a person loves the light, the light lives in them.
How does one know right from wrong? Inside of a person lives an internal light and it recognizes what is true. When a person is in the hands of darkness the light isn't present to see the darkness. So our job is to begin to understand the nature of darkness. There are different kinds of consciousness. We live from a kind of consciousness that relates everything in the world around us completely through thought. It judges everything through its own experiences. Thought is not light. It is a kind of a gross divided light that engineers it actions to sustain its life. The whole of that light is darkness. Thought doesn't care if it relates to life or not. Thought takes the first impression of an experience and it forms from that an image of the person or event. Then thought no longer relates to the person and the event, they actually become irrelevant to the thought process. Matter creates matter in the image of what it considers from the past and judges it from its stored content.
This is not light. Light is what sees all of this happening. Without light entering the soul that soul is reconciled and held captive to its own bio mechanical engineering. It is nothing but the animal without the heavenly. We have one nature that thinks about itself and one nature that can see the animal emotions and turn it into something brighter and kinder. We stand in a unique place -- we are not animal or angel. Animal doesn't know what happened -- you were in the state and of it. Light sees the state. Light will not take you by force or run against your will because God gave you a will to choose the light or not. One must consent and surrender to the light. The change takes place in the order of a person from dark to light as one begins to want the light more than what they want. When they get tired of hurting and suffering. Light acts independent of preferences to what it see. This is proof of consciousness. Then we begin to consent to bear what we see because we know that light changes what it sees.
There was a spiritual school where in order to enter a person had to be interviewed and once accepted was given a camera to take photos. When one of the students turned in his photos the master said to him, "There was only one thing wrong with them -- you weren't in any of the pictures". Where the light is present so is the awareness of you. Without this there is just a mind in the dark. Light reveals the darkness and the need for change.
Most people don't want the interior light and are repelled by it and lash out at the object that reveals it. It is darkness that is repealed by the light. The negative state is created by the hatred of the light in you that stands up. Darkness doesn't know the light. It can only be conscious of what is tormenting it -- the light. The real pain is caused by what the light reveals. There is so much in us that doesn't want to see what the light wants to show us. Light's purpose is to enter into the soul, show it what it needs to see so it can be returned into itself.
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Advanced Lessons for Living in the Light
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