The Impersonal Life

As your human mind is constituted, it at certain times thinks it needs a Master, one to whom it can turn with its human trials and problems for explanation and advice, thinking life’s problems can be settled that way. And if I draw to you one who fails you or deceives you and throws you back finally upon Me, your own Self, discouraged, disillusioned and humiliated, it is only that perhaps then you will be ready to turn to Me within, and will listen to My voice, which all these years has been speaking to you, but to which your proud and egoistic mind has not deigned to listen.

123 who have not yet met the Master of your aspirations, either in human or spirit form; you, within whom My Words have failed to awaken a quickening response to their truth,—for you I have in store certain experiences which will surely lead you to Me later on, and then you will be brought to know that I AM the Master, the inspiring Idea back of and within every thought of and every aspiration towards a Master that enters your mind, whether coming from within or without.

Therefore, according to the intensity of your desire and thinking, must this idea sooner or later come into actual manifestation, either by attracting to you such a personality in the flesh, or one entitized in the realm of visions and dreams.

Your secret desire for a Master will bring him to you, but only when I have prepared you for such appearance. But such appearance will be only an appearance of a Master. The true Master or Teacher, when he appears, you may never recognize; for he may be hidden in an interesting friend, a business associate, your next door neighbor, or in your own wife or husband or child.

I speak with many voices, with the voice of Fear, Love, Envy, Kindness, Ambition, Drunkenness, Pleasure, Jealousy, Sensuality, Suffering, Shame,—with the voice of all human emotions, passions and desires. I speak with Nature’s voice, with the voice of Experience, even with the voice of human knowledge.

Yes, these are all My Voice, which I use Impersonally to express to you the one fact, that I AM in All and that I AM All; and what this Voice says, in Its thousand ways, is that you, too, are part of this All, and that I AM in you, waiting for your recognition of Me and your conscious cooperation in the expression of My Idea of Impersonal Perfection on earth, even as It is expressing in Heaven. will you meet and know the true Master. Then and then only will you realize that I, your own Impersonal Self, AM the only possible Master of your human personality.

Then you will understand why no being, human or otherwise, could be Impersonal and be a Master to any other being; why an Impersonal Being could never be known as a Master to a human being, and therefore could not have any interest in human affairs.

But perhaps you would be satisfied to have such an one for a Master, even if he were not wholly Impersonal. If so, then I would hereafter bring you to a realization of his personal imperfections by a constant comparison with My Impersonal Perfection;