IV. Consciousness, Intelligence, Will.
1914 original text, YOGeBooks typeset transcription; original text extent only
But always I AM there to pick you up, after the fall, altho you do not know it at the time; first shaming you, then straightening you out and starting you onward again, by pointing out the reason of your fall; and finally, when you are sufficiently humbled, causing you to see that these powers accruing to you by the conscious use of My will, My intelligence and My love, are
31 at all for your own personal ends.
Do the cells of your body, the muscles of your arm, think to set themselves up as having a separate will from your will, or a separate intelligence from your intelligence?
No, they know no intelligence but yours, no will but yours.
After a while it will be that you will realize you are only one of the cells of My Body; and that your will is not your will, but Mine; that what consciousness and what intelligence you have are Mine wholly; and that there is no such person as you, you personally being only a physical form containing a human brain. which I created for the purpose of expressing in matter an Idea, a certain phase of which I could express best only in that particular form.
All this may be difficult for you now to accept, and you may protest very strenuously that it cannot be, that every instinct of your nature rebels against such yielding and subordinating
32 however Impersonal or Divine.
But fear not, it is only your personality that thus rebels. If you continue to follow and study My Words, all will soon be made clear, and I will surely open up to your inner understanding many wonderful Truths that now are impossible for you to comprehend. And your Soul will rejoice and sing glad praises, and you will bless these words for the message they bring.