Law of Liberty

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.--James 1:25

It[God] was not created in the past, nor is it to be annihilated in the future; it is eternal, permanent, absolute; and from all eternity it sufficiently embraces in its essence all possible merits.--The Mahayana

Jesus tells us that we should look to the perfect law of liberty, follow its precepts, and then we shall be blessed in our deeds. This means to keep the eye single, or centered, on the Presence, the Power, and the Responsiveness of God's Spirit. The Law of God would have to be a law of liberty, since bondage could not come from freedom any more than death could be born of the Principle of Life. We often wonder why we are so limited, and too frequently project the blame for our limitations upon the universe or essentially our cirumstances. This is a psychological trick that we play in ignorance of the true Reality. Limitation is not imposed upon us by the universe, but through our own ignorance and elusional self(ego). Every scientific discovery since the beginning of recorded history tends to prove this. The Invisible takes temporary form in our experience.

I look upon these forms as the play of Life upon Itself. In our own experience we become through God's Creative Wisdom cocreators in our personal affairs. This Divine Creative Spirit embraces every possible action. There is no greater freedom to be found or given.

Each new day I open my consciousness to this freedom and to the Divine Influx, expecting greater wisdom, more definite guidance, and more complete self-expression.

Today, I lift up my consciousness and receive a more abundant expression. I bless everything and know that all good will multiply in my experience. I expect only good. I live in a state of joyous anticipation, as well as quiet realization. I expect the All Good and Perfect to manifest in my experience today and everyday.

God Personified

Theirs was the fullness of heaven and earth; the more that they gave to others, the more they had.--Kwang-Tze

'Tis Love Itself that worketh the one harmony of all. Therefore, let us sing the praise of God.'--Hermes

We are the children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.--Romans 8:16-17

Jesus said,"Give and to you shall be given." All the great scriptures have announced this central and transcendent truth, realizing that every act carries with it a sequence, bringing the result of this action back to the self. Emerson called it the Law of Compensation, and Jesus proclaimed the same law in his teaching that as we sow, so shall we reap. This is why Kwang-Tze tells us that the more we give to others the more we have. Walt Whitman also refers to this when he says, "The gift is most to the giver and comes back most to him."

We are to view ourselves each in the other and behold God in all. Hermes tells us that when we realize Love as the great harmony, we shall all sing the praise of God. Before we can do this we must perceive this harmony in one another and in everything. Thus, everything that seems separated is actually united at the root.

Today I see God in everything, personified in all people, made manifest in every event and experience. I believe that the Spirit of God is never separated from the person or the event/experience. Today I recognize that I, too, am an instrument of God's perfection, and today I recognize my union, which is perfect, good and complete.

Universal Reflection

I am the Lord, I change not.--Malachi 3:6

The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name.--Text of Taoism

The Tao cannot be heard; what can be heard is not It. The Tao cannot be seen; what can be seen is not It. The Tao cannot be expressed in words; what can be expressed in words is not It. Do we know the Formless which gives form to form? In the same way the Tao does not admit of being.--Kwang-Tze

Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is high as heaven.....The measure thereof is larger than the earth, and broader than the sea.--Job 11:7-9

Job asks us if we can find God by searching. He means that since God is everywhere, and since the subtle essence of the Infinite is invisible, we do not have to search out the Divine Spirit, but, rather, we should recognize It as the center of our life and all that exists.

That which we see when we look to the heavens, the stars, the planets, even planet earth is merely a reflection of this invisible Presence of God. In reality there is no space or time. What we see is a reflection of the Life of God that knows no space or time, where there is no beginning or end. The form I see when I look into a mirror is a refection of the form God makes. The Spirit Itself cannot be seen, but It is felt, just as we do not see God but we do feel the Divine in everything. The Creator is revealed in Its creation. The Formless gives rise to the formed.

I unite myself with this invisible Essence that pervades everything, that which is undivided and eternal. To do this is to find wholeness.

Today I feel that I merge with the Infinite and I see myself in the reflection of God's pool of Creative Spirit and Life. While there seems to be a beginning and an end to my life experience, there is neither. Even though I was born and I will die to this experience, my real life, my true existence is eternal and omnipresent in God, secure in Good, and Perfect in Divine Reality.

Today I Live

Pray not that sinners may perish, but that the sin itself may disappear.--The Talmud

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.--Revelation 21:4

Today I live. Today I express perfect life as I was meant to do. Today I live in the reality of the perfect Life of God where there exist no fear, no doubt or uncertainty, no evil, no lack or limitation. Any mistakes or negations of my past are cleared from consciousness and therefore removed permanently from my existence. I live in the eternal Life of God.

The wisest man who ever lived told us that the knowledge of Truth shall make us free. He also taught that it is not the one who makes the mistake whom we should seek to destroy; it is the mistake itself which must be erased. Now, this means that evil has no existence in itself and has no history. No matter what the negations of yesterday may have been, my affirmations of today rise to transcend over them all. Thus all the evils of my yesterdays disappear into their native nothingness.

Where is the false, the untrue, and the evil when the knowledge of Truth has made me free? Its days are as though they had never been; its cause is netralized; hence it leaves no effect. Stop the weeping, the worrying over the shortcomings and mistakes of the past and, instead steadfastly behold the face of the great and the divine Reality. Today and tomorrow I will walk in that light wherein there is no darkness.