XIV. Mediums and Mediators.
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XIV. Mediums and Mediators.
You, who, in your desire to serve Me, have joined yourself with a church, religious organization, occult society, or spiritual order, of whatsoever nature, thinking, by aiding in and supporting its work, it would please Me, and that you might receive special favors from Me in consequence—harken to these My Words and ponder over them.
First, know that I AM already pleased with you, for you do nothing that I do not cause you to do, and you do it to fulfill My Purpose,— altho it may seem to you at times you are acting contrary to My wish and only to satisfy your own desires.
107 all their experiences of life, which I utilize solely to prepare the body, quicken the heart, and develop the consciousness, so that they can comprehend Me, and so that I can express thru them My Idea.
I inspire minds with glimpses of Me and My Idea thru these experiences, and I have spoken thus thru inspiration to many, who have taken My Words and have written them in books and have taught them to other minds. And these Words have caused to quicken the hearts and consciousness of those who are ready to receive them, even tho the writers and teachers of themselves had no real comprehension of My Meaning.
Many of those whose minds I thus inspire with glimpses of Me and My Idea I cause to become teachers and leaders, organizing churches and societies and cults, drawing seekers and followers to them, that I, thru the words I thus speak thru them, can quicken the
108 ready to recognize Me.
But I, the Impersonal One within, do all this, and the teachers and leaders personally do nothing, only serving as channels thru which My Idea can express to the consciousness of those I draw to them for that purpose.
For the mind is only a channel and the intellect an instrument, which I use Impersonally wherever and whenever necessary to express My Idea; and not until the heart has been quickened and has opened wide to contain Me can man, with his mortal mind and intellect, consciously comprehend My Meaning, when I express thru him My Idea.
You, in your desire to serve Me, may have found in some teacher or leader a personality whom you think, from the many seemingly wondrous words I speak thru him, is now containing Me in his heart.
In your doubts and anxiety to please Me, and in your fear of My displeasure when
109 gone to such teacher or leader, who possibly claimed to be a priest or priestess of the Most High, thinking to get thru such My Message to you, or words of advice or help from some “Master” or “Guide” in the spirit side of life, who you thought was My Emissary.
You may go to such, if you will. Aye, it is I who offer you such alternative, if you will not and cannot be content to trust and wait for Me to answer and help in My own time and way.
Yes, I even send you to such, and let you put all your faith and trust in such priest or priestess, letting them feed you with all the “spiritual” advice and teaching from such “Master” or “Guide” you can hold. Until finally, in sorrow and humiliation from the disillusionment which eventually and inevitably follows, you once more are thrown back upon yourself, upon the Teacher within, upon Me, your own True Self.
Yes, all the deception, all the discipline, all the taking of your ardor and devotion—not to believe to be My Work, and selfishly purloining and utilizing them for the upbuilding and strengthening of their own personal power and prestige among their, followers; feeding each of you with just enuf subtle flattery and promises of spiritual advancement, together with clever sophistry under the guise of high and beautiful sounding spiritual teaching, to keep you bound to them so you would continue to support and honor and glorify them, ever holding over you the lash of My displeasure if they receive not unquestioning trust and obedience,—yes, all this I bring to you, for it is what you desire and seek, and Desire is truly the agent of My Will.
You may be even giving to some other teacher,—either in the seen or the unseen, and no matter how true, well-meaning and spiritually wise,—who you think cannot be classed with the kind just mentioned, your unquestioning love, devotion and obedience,
110 teachings and guidance of inestimable value.
And all this is well, so long as you are receiving that which you seek and think you need; for I supply all things to satisfy such desires. But know that all such is vain and unproductive of the real results sought; for all seeking and all desire for spiritual attainment is of the personality and therefore selfish, and leads only to final disappointment, disillusionment and humiliation.
But, if you can see it, it is in the disillusionment and humiliation that the real results are attainable, for those are what I opened up for you and led you towards, when presenting the possibility of getting help from some human teacher; and these, disillusionment and humiliation, are what I purposely brought you to, in order that, having become once more humble and docile as a little child, you would then be ready to listen to and obey My Word
111 could enter into My Kingdom.
Yes, all outward seeking will end thus, and will but bring you back to Me, weary, naked, starving, willing to listen to My Teaching and to do anything for even a crust of My Bread, which in your stubbornness and conceit you disdained before and deemed not good enuf for your proud Spirit.
But now, if you have had enuf of teachings and teachers, and are sure that within you lies the Source of all Wisdom, these words will bring joy unspeakable to your heart. For do they not confirm that which you already have felt within to be true?
For you who cannot yet see this and still need a Mediator, I have provided the story of The Christ crucified for your redemption, picturing how I desire you to live that, thru the crucifixion of your personality, you may rise in consciousness to Oneness with Me. say you need no mediator between you and Me, for we are One already. If you can but know it, you can come direct and at once to Me in consciousness, I, God within you, and I will receive you and you shall abide with Me for ever and ever; even as does My Son Jesus, the Man of Nazareth, thru Whom I AM even now expressing as I did express nineteen hundred years ago, and as I some day shall express thru you.
To you who wonder how and why I say such beautiful and such spiritual things thru personalities who fail to live up to the teachings they apparently of themselves give out, I say:
I use all avenues Impersonally to express My Meaning.
Some I have prepared to be better mediums of expression than others, but personally knowing nothing of Me.
112 the better to contain Me, thereby becoming consciously more at one with Me.
Some have become so at one with Me that they no longer are separated in consciousness from Me, and in Whom I live and move and express My Spiritual Nature.
Since the earliest days of expression on earth I have prepared My Priests and My Prophets and My Messiahs to vision forth to the world My Idea—My Word that shall finally become flesh.
But whether I speak thru Priest, Prophet or Messiah, or thru a little child, or thru your worst enemy, all words that appeal vitally to you are the words the I AM of You speak thru the organism of such medium to your Soul consciousness.
Should a number be gathered together to hear My Word spoken thru one of My Priests, it is not the Priest of himself but I, in the heart of each hearer, Who draw from the Priest the vital
113 each. The Priest knows not what he says that so affects you, and may not even comprehend My meaning of the words he speaks to you.
But I within him do draw from the combined devotion to and belief in Me, consciously or unconsciously expressed by all those gathered around him, the Spiritual Force which serves as a channel or a connecting line thru or over which I reach the consciousness of those minds I have prepared to comprehend My Meaning. For altho I speak the same words to all, yet these words contain a distinct and separate message for each, and no one knows any but the message I speak to him; for I within you choose from the words the meaning I intend for you, and I within your brother and your sister likewise choose the meaning I intend for each of them.
When two or three are gathered together in My Name, there will I always be; for the Idea which draws them together I within each
114 of their aspirations towards Me do I create a medium or channel thru which I enable the Soul consciousness to gain such glimpses of Me as each is capable of comprehending.
Every Priest, every Teacher, every Medium, I cause instinctively to know this, for they are My chosen Ministers; and I likewise cause to awaken in them a desire to surround themselves with followers, that I may quicken in the hearts of those who are ready a consciousness of My Presence within. The Priest, the Teacher, or the Medium, themselves, may never have recognized Me within, and may be deeming Me as entitized or personalized in some master or guide or saviour without themselves; but nevertheless, there are those whom I lead to these, My Ministers, in whom, thru certain words I cause My Ministers to speak, together with the Spiritual Force furnished by the various aspirants, I am enabled to awaken their Soul consciousness to a real comprehension of very midst of All, in the heart of each.
For the I AM of My Minister, and the I AM of each follower are One, one in consciousness, one in understanding, one in love, and one in purpose, which purpose is the fulfillment of My Will.
And this I AM, which is wholly Impersonal, and knows neither time, space nor different identities, merely utilizes the personalities of both Minister and followers, and the circumstance of personal contact, as a means of giving voice to My Idea, ever struggling within for outer expression.
Those Ministers who take the confidence and trust of My followers, and use it to further their own private purposes, I cause to awaken to a recognition of My Will and My Idea all in proper season. This awakening, however, is not pleasant to their personalities, and almost always causes much suffering and humiliation;