Thursday, November 13, 2014

I AM THE WORD P. 57-62 part 2

The text mentions “three things we wish to tell you about manifestation.”

I had a difficult time discerning exactly what those three things are as I read the following paragraphs. So without getting stuck in logic or trying to narrow things down into three precise ideas, let me try and summarize—and perhaps I will make more sense out of it myself.

First be aware that: Our creations can occur on many levels, and we are always creating. What follows now in the book focuses on the highest form of creative power, and that is connecting with your Divine essence as Word.

“You cannot manifest that which is not for your highest good without approving it at some level. ”
You cannot consciously create something deliberately harmful to you or another (remember we are speaking of this highest form of creation—claiming our Divine power as Word) , BUT even though we might be creating for our “highest good” we are not always aware of what that is, and so it is very easy for us to be using our creative power to create lesser things with good intentions, but which do not necessarily reflect our highest good.
I might think having a new car or a new home or a new partner might be for my highest good, and I might use my creative energy in that direction, but those things that I desire might not be in my highest good at all.

I have to face it—look at all the crap I’ve created in my life,  that I convinced myself was for my highest good, but was really the wants and needs of my appetites and ego.

Right now it’s very easy to start philosophizing and conjecturing of “What  about this? What about that?” You can do that if you want to, but its useless and a waste of time.

Point one—You (don’t think or wonder about anyone else, just you) cannot use the manifestation of Word for destructive reasons.

Point two—When what you have created boomerangs on you, and you realize, “Oh, that really wasn’t for my highest good.” you are still responsible for that creation (and cleaning up the mess).

Point three— “The final thing we wish to say about manifestation today is that you are the one who chooses. We are giving you advice, we are giving you instruction, and we are actually laying out a blueprint by which you can change your life through acclimating to the Christ energy, which is who you are in truth. But you are the one who has to choose it, and anything else that is chosen in this life, in this way, is chosen by you, no matter what you give of by way of authority to another, you are the one in choice. No one else can choose for you. No one else can change you. No one else can heal you in the beliefs that you hold. We can only honor you and give you instruction to vibrate with the frequencies that will allow you to make the changes you require to transform yourself and your thinking and your consciousness as and into the frequency of Word.”

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There was a question this week about “What does it mean to be Word?”
We will probably be asking and answering this question in many ways throughout this book.

(you might also want to take a look on p.87-88 when Victoria asks a similar question)

Present answer. The idea and sense of WORD is from John’s gospel. “In the beginning was the Word….” This is the essence of who you are—you are Word—you are the unique divine expression of God—not this human form you inhabit or your past or your memories or your failures or your accomplishments. You are Word—you are the Word of God—everything else is secondary.

This is the task of the text to remind us; to reenforce the truth of who you are.

“Word” as it used here is much more than an ordinary word. Word here is taken from the original meaning in John’s gospel, translated from the Greek, it is LOGOS.

The theologian Frank Stagg put it this way, “God and the Logos are not two beings, and yet they are also not simply identical. ... The Logos is God active in creation, revelation, and redemption.” 
And You are the Word, the Logos.

Although he does not use the word Logos, the mystic Meister Eckhart expresses this same union of God and creation: 
“When God made man, he put into the soul his equal, his active, everlasting masterpiece. It was so great a work that it could not be otherwise than the soul and the soul could not be otherwise than the work of God. God's nature, his being, and the Godhead all depend on his work in the soul. Blessed, blessed be God that he does work in the soul and that he loves his work! That work is love and love is God. God loves himself and his own nature, being and Godhead, and in the love he has for himself he loves all creatures, not as creatures but as God. The love God bears himself contains his love for the whole world.”

I'd like to add a link to a recorded meditation called Being of Light. I believe it also reflects the essence of this work. 
If you click on the heading below, the link to the meditation should open up.

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