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"Only
One Power
~
Living
the One Power Within and Without,
Come Naked Into God."
September 1st, 2019
Dear Friend,
In order to realize this message – to know how to live the infallible way of God experience here on earth as mind, body, world – we have to truly understand one aspect of God, and that is Oneness: one power, one law . . . omnipotence.
Once we truly live and breath as omnipotence our and “this world's” troubles are over for us and all who come into our atmosphere because the consciousness of oneness dissolves all belief in otherness or material suggestion.
Let us hear this truth of oneness deeply today, and forevermore, and let's dispel all belief of “otherness” while we're at it, so that never again do we fall for the multifarious temptations of collective consciousness.
Only
God is.
God is the infinity of existence. If you exist, you are are infinite. If a stone exists, it is infinite. If a blade of grass exists, it is infinite. If a home, a couch, a tree, a city exists, it is infinite. It is just that our awareness of the finished kingdom is extremely slow, so that it makes omnipresence appear to unravel over "time," but omnipresence is right here where you are.
We are self-complete, individual, eternal expressions of God, just as the sunbeam is a self-complete individual expression of the sun.
We must keep this truth in mind at every moment otherwise collective consciousness will immediately jump in and conningly persuade you of the pairs of opposites.
We live eternally in and as God. To understand ourselves we have to understand God. Everything God is we are; and everything God has we have.
We must fill our awareness morning, noon.and night with God – just as if the Master were walking side-by-side with us, lovingly telling us of the kingdom of God, revealing the heaven to us, showing us the kingdom of God on earth. We must be open to the Father mind right here as our true mind, our true presence of is.
I Am and I Have, but even greater that I Am and I Have is, I is.
God or the Word, I, is.
We must continually yield to the one true mind of is. We must have the “mind that was also in Christ Jesus,” forever receptive to the omnipresence of spirit, truth, and life itself – of is itself.
God is the spontaneous presence of is, the self-complete perfection of being. God does not “produce” health, love, supply, harmony, and peace. God constitutes all good – infinitely beyond imagination.
And God Said. . . .
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”
Everything of earth [which includes man and woman] is “very good.” As we “rest“ or “soak” in God consciousness we are imbued as God, letting God take over, not wanting anything of or for ourselves, not even a thought or a word of our own.
Try it and see how you do. . . .
The Earth Is Full of the Goodness of God
“The earth [sense testimony] is full of the goodness of God” God is all. The power is and is "in" God, nowhere else, and we, our consciousness, is that.
God does not change whether we perceive him/her/ or /it within or without.
“Make the inner the outer and make the outer the inner.
When our “outer” is filled with the goodness of God
– spirit or incorporeality – the things
of sense testimony observed through the objective sense of mind –
people, life, health, love, harmony, relationships, homes, dollars,
cars, businesses, customers or clients, and so on, are revealed as
abundant, healthy, living, fruitful form. "Ye shall bear fruit richly."
God Is Good Alone
In God Consciousness only good exists. As we lift into God consciousness we find only good. “Let there be light: and there was light. . . . God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
We
must abide in is.
God does not make
something happen. All has already happened. The kingdom is finished.
I
Am that I Am.
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye
will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified
[the kingdom of heaven shall be made visible and tangible as earth;
the words of the Master become the flesh of our flesh; they become
imbued in our flesh; our very flesh emanates the words of God
twenty-four hours a day. We don't speak human words but God words, do
you you see?, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”
Collective Belief
We have been “born” into the chaos of collective belief. It is a dream state of existence. The atmosphere is filled to overflowing with collective belief, a hypnotism in matter. The Master called it the devil. It believes that appearance is real, that everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell is reality. Nothing is reality except God, the incorporeal. All corporeality is false sense suggesting its good vs. bad is real, and we react to it. But as every Master has warned us, “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment [judge by spiritual reality].”
God or spirit is the only power. Now think what that means. God or spirit is the only power. You are that. "I am that I am."
I am spiritual being. My mind is spirit, my body is spirit, my universe is spirit.
I am spiritual being existing as my spiritual universe.
Every “other” seeming power – the “pictures” of disease, infection, accident, war, lack, limitation, unhappiness, divorce, homelessness, fear, indecision, loneliness, fear, and so on – are false pictures held in mind placed in us by collective consciousness and have no reality, no substance, no power, no faculty, no ability to reveal themselves as manifestation. They need reality to become manifest but they have none; they need power to become manifest; they need faculty to become manifest, but they have none. They are dead pictures brought to “life” only by our attaching to them, believing them, and then either loving or fearing them, and then acting on them.
They require you to move them – your “I,” your power. "Choose ye this day." You choose. If you choose not to, they stay where they are; if you decide to move them, they move.
Try to move a book along your desk without picking it up and moving it yourself. . . . a picture frame. . . . a desk lamp. . . . It will not move without your power moving it. It does not have power of its own.
Nothing but God itself has power. Disease has no power. It is a dead picture placed in mind. Lack and limitation have no power, they are dead pictures placed in mind. Unhappiness, old age, the feeling of hopelessness, these are all all nothing but false pictures made to look and feel so real that we fall for them.
Come
Naked Into God
The only way that we are able to experience the one power in action as the truth of our spiritual reality, is to come to God as God is.
We must forget about “ourselves,” forget about the world as it seems to be, forget about friend and foe, forget about every good and bad throughout our lives.
We must look past the thousands of seeming other powers out there and come naked into God. Then, and only then, do we begin to see the almighty light of God instantaneously filling our consciousness, of the one supreme power. Now, we see clearly.
The minute we introduce another, we’ve lost that one power. We instantly have two powers, a universe full of good vs. bad battling one among another. One of them is real and all “others” false.
The one power can only be reached by lifting above the universe of all others – lifting above them, not trying to find it among “otherness.” We cannot battle our way to oneness. We can only rest back from it, relax, realize that it is mesmeric suggestion and gently lift into oneness, contemplate oneness, and there, in our stillness and receptivity, we listen to the still, small voice of oneness. “The heathen raged [the first “reaction” we usually notice when spirit is brought to the scene is an increase in the problem's appearance. It battles for supremacy. The pictures of falsity are trying to survive. Stand firm, don't be fooled, Judge not by the appearance,”]. . . . the kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice, the earth melted, after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice .
Only the still, small voice heard within, or the peace felt within dissolves the problem.
We have no power to heal.
Let us drop everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell right now, and come into God. Realize God as God is. Just God is—oneness is, omnipresence is.
Oneness is the only real existence, the only activity, the only presence, the only substance, the only form, the only visibility, the only tangibility, the only activity—all of which is the one power fully existing as itself, now.
One power means that every seeming other power, even the power of a single thought, is actually, despite appearance, the one power. No other power is ever witnessed, ever present, ever operative anywhere throughout the universe.
All power, including that of a single thought, is the one power despite its seeming difference from God-power.
Oh
surely, appearance will testify to thousands of other powers
operating in life everyday but look just behind the veil of illusion,
right where that “other” power seems to be operating, and you'll
perceive the one power. How? Why? Because only one power exists no
matter what—the supreme power of God: omnipotence.
Collective Consciousness
We were “born” into a thick “fog” of mesmeric suggestion, or a dream, of collective belief. The whole world population is living a thick dream of belief in what we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. We believe in appearance unless we pull ourselves out of the dream. We have to. It believes that matter is real. A single thought immersed in the atmosphere of the pairs of opposites separates us from our true identity and we're immediately drowned in pairs of opposites.
Be alert. Collective consciousness runs false thoughts, through our dim sense of mind and makes us believe they are ours. Not one of them are ours; not one of the false "actions” we take are ours.
It is all collective belief running through us, animating us in un-God-like ways. We are run by hypnotic suggestion, like a hypnotized audience member on the stage. But “my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” We are so convinced that a thought is ours and that our actions are ours that we believe they are of our personal power. No, it is of the one power but extremely poorly understood or translated.
As soon as we know this we can begin to rest in God instead of battling within ourselves. Lift, lift! We know all to be God, despite appearance, we can let go and rest. And as soon as we let go and
rest, we are starting to experience God. We know that that thought
is, in fact, God, the very presence and power of God, and the very
form of God. Whether we are presented with a thought, a cold, or a
disease, it is in fact God, and the very form and activity of God and
if so, it cannot do us any harm. In fact, it is being everything that
God is and has for us. It is being life, it is being spirit, it is
being truth. It is the instantaneous healing, transforming power of God, of oneness filling our consciousness.
Consciously knowing this – this is the secret – will quickly dispel the false experience of bad or harm or even of death and enable us to experience the God-ness of it.
Let us rest for a minute or two in whatever thoughts may be running through us at the moment, realizing that it is the conscious activity of truth in our consciousness that dispels the mesmeric suggestion and evidences the activity and forms of truth in our experience.
(A few moments of silence and receptivity. . . .
Your Body Is “Dead” in Itself
Move your arm to the side. This seems to be your decision and your power. It is not. It is the one power, because there is none else. It only seems to be your decision and your action. It is false appearance. But “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment..” Behind the veil of illusion it is the one power “colored” by collective suggestion. It is actually the one power poorly translated as personal, "your" power.
If you decide to get up and go to the kitchen, prepare a meal, lay the table and eat that meal, it all seems to be your decision, your power, your way of preparation, your way of eating. But it isn't. There is only one power, poorly translated into what seems to be personal logic or personal expertise.
It is the same with every “human” thought and action. When we get up, leave the house, get into our car, start the car, drive to our business or to a store; when we drive to see a friend, to see a loved one, this, to personal belief, seems personal. It is “me” taking all of these thoughts and taking all of these actions. But, only God is. Just one power is operating. We have to be consciously aware of that one presence and power, and we have to be still every few moments and listen to it, feel it, be conscious of it. This is the only thing that dispels the mesmeric suggestion of materiality being real. We stay alert in God.
We can be speaking on the phone, and we must consciously realize that both our conversation and that of the person we are talking with is not “us” but is God. We must lift our awareness above the “surface”of it and have one ear in God, listening, feeling, being aware of the one power that's really taking place.
I received a call a few days ago, keeping half my ears on the conversation and half in God, and heard the caller informing me that I'd received a complimentary stay in a particular hotel I like. Thank you! Why not! So, you see, staying in God consciousness always reveals some form or activity of good.
Realize, that every movement throughout the universe, every sound, every response, is the one power operating.
Can you “see” it through the veil? Can you feel it? Can you perceive it?
It is interesting how we—even we who’ve been in truth years, and know of omnipotence—still do not consciously live the one power at every moment of our lives? If we’re still dwelling in personal sense, if we believe that “we“ are active, “we” are talking, “we” are thinking, “we” are making decisions then we are completely shut off from God and we have to live with the limits and struggles of a world of good v. bad. But as soon as we consciously live and move and have our beings in God, we are open to the infinity and omnipresence of good without opposite.
Do
you see now why there seems to be different powers, good and bad?;
Why there seems to be personal power? The reason is the very poor
translation of the one. If you see that, you’re one step away from
being free of otherness, of “other” powers.
Mind Does Not Change God
God does not change mind. God is the very same through mind. Matter is just sense. Matter has no power of its own, no form, no presence. It is nothingness. It offers no resistance. It is the same as Marconi discovering that the earth's atmosphere has no resistance to the radio wave. Nothing exists except God. Whether we call something that exists “God” makes no difference. No matter what we call it, or we describe it, it is actually God, so there is nothing “else” that God has to flow through, or contend with, or “get through.” Do you see. Only God is.
God Is Infinity
God is infinity. Wherever you go throughout infinity, God, therefore all that exists, is infinite.
A “thing” is not a finite thing but is infinite. That's why we were able to watch the pictures of the loaves and fishes multiply themselves to the point of satisfying thousands of hungry people. With awareness up in the realm of infinity, you are aware of the limitlessness of all things, and never limited by the illusion of sense.
A conscious awareness of infinity evidences what one is consciously aware of. Consciousness is experience.
I live, and move, and have my being in infinity. Wherever I am, God is; Wherever God is, I am.
I
am never short of any good thing whether it be customers, clients,
patients, students, dollars, food, home, ideas, or whatever. But I
have to stay lif
ted in the realm of God awareness in order to see
them, and have them tangibly to sense, and sometimes I have to be
patient.
God constitutes all good. It is staying in God consciousness no matter what, that evidences all forms of good. All forms of good are “moulded” through mind as and from the substance of God. The more we stay in God, feeling the presence flowing within, the more substance of God flows “out” into our objective sense of existence, forming an abundance of good, filling our life with good and purposeful “things” of God.
God is omnipresence. The whole of God is fully present at every point of the infinite at the same time.
No matter how we sense a person, a thing, or a condition, no matter what we believe about, no matter where it is, inner, outer, ethereal, palpable, it is God. Get rid of all this belief. Come to God with no otherness in mind.
Consciously live oneness. There is but one power. We must be continually conscious of the one power operating. Everything at work, everything in business, every single person we communicate with, every sound, every fragrance, every step, every thought, every movement is the one power being witnessed as individual experience.
When we experience even a wisp of wind on our cheek, or moving or hair, it is the one power translated as wind on our cheek? Even when there’s a hurricane, it is the one power so badly translated that it seems to be destructive—or an earthquake or tornado, or tsunami, a bomb. All of these are seemingly other powers, many of them, to human sense, destructive, many of them fatal, and yet, because of the literal oneness that God is, there is only one power even when it appears to us as a seemingly terrible and destructive power.
When we know that that one power is love, fulfillment, the joy of God, the life that God is, the purpose that God is, meaning that love is, life is, harmony is, then we witness the seeming destructive or fatal powers loosing their false power and becoming the gentle, beautiful, even strong power of love, of life, of joy.
But we have to consciously know that the one power is love, is life, is joy, is safety, is tangible protection. And it is.
“He that dwelleth [he that is consciously aware] in the secret place of the most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
Even the seemingly destructive power of disease is actually God. Even the growth or the “mass” as materia medica calls it, is God. How can that be? Because all is God. We just have a bad interpretation of God. But that does not change God. Nothing, nothing, nothing changes God. “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
When we know this, we can rest right in the middle of that disease, knowing that it and its very form and activity are God, and then let God, in our stillness, in our receptivity, in our nothingness of self, present Itself. And before we know it, we’re whole, healthy and vital without a sign of disease or “destruction” in or bodies.
Our conscious awareness of God as I, as the one power within, “feeds” our awareness of the “outer” pictures of sense, and melts the seemingly destructive or limiting pictures we're presented with by collective belief.
When we see the trees moving in the wind, whats moving? God is moving in experience; the one power is moving in experience. When we know that, it opens up a universe of joy, fulfillment, and wonder in us. Material sense will just see leaves blowing in the wind. Most people are so absorbed in their own selves, they don’t notice the beauty of the wind moving the leaves in the trees. Those who do will simply notice leaves moving in the breeze.
We, who are consciously aware of the one power operating in experience, will see leaves blowing in the wind and will probably stop and gaze in wonder as more than just that seeming wind and seeming tree and seeming leaves on the tree moving in the wind. We perceive deeper than the “shell” of the experience and begin to see heaven presenting itself to us, all kinds of heaven right there, where others can just see leaves blowing in the wind . . . when we hear a car driving, an ambulance racing by, a fire truck, when we’re in the mall among all its activity the activity, when we’re by the ocean and we see the vast ocean moving, the sun glinting on its surface, people swimming, kids playing, when we see and hear the boats, when we’re in the forest and we hear the birds and the scratching of the animals, and smell that gorgeous forest fragrance, when we see a flower and her beautiful colors, smell her beautiful fragrance, when we see the fields of gold in the spring, when we see the sun rise and feel the earth with her love, her light, her beauty, her warmth, when we see planes flying by, when we’re in a plane taking off and experiencing the whole flight, and so on and so on.
As we are consciously aware of experiencing the one power operating, then we're really—consciously—living and moving and having our being in God. At every step, as every breath, we are conscious of God. This is what is meant by living in and as God. It is constant, it is literal, and the reward is indeed rich fruitage.
We must be constantly working to attain the one power omnipotence the one power of God, of infinity and omnipresence, of omni-power, then we can rest, we can relax. No effort is involved.
In that rest, in that relaxation, in that openness, in that is-ness, we witness God where material sense can only see what seems to be happening through the lens of material sense—we see or experience the pain and destruction of disease, or accident, or separation, or lack, or limitation, or bankruptcy, or loss, or whatever the pictures may present.
Now, how do we witness the one power in practical experience – healing, transforming, saving, pacifying, prospering?
“God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.” There it is. He uttered his voice, the earth melted. It is the presence and activity of God felt within that melts all error throughout our consciousness.
We have to feel the presence taking place within us. This is the almighty power of God released on earth. And when it is felt, all error is over. Nothing – not even the most viscous disease – can stand in the presence of God. “He that is within me is greater than he that is in the world.”
We
turn to God and let the one power wipe out all error.
We Do
Not Possess the Power to Heal
We Are Nothing In Our Own Selves
The only healing power on earth is God's presence felt within us as we remain very, very still, and hear, or feel his presence living and moving within us.
Reading in itself does not witness it,praying does not witness it, meditating does not witness it, silence in itself does not witness it. It is the feeling, the hearing of his voice in us – the movement, the presence and activity of God within that does the job.
Because God is infinite and omnipresent, when we feel it within, everything throughout consciousness is filled with the light of God. All is healed, transformed, pacified, prospered.
Now when we can do that, when we’re living that for the one purpose of revealing God on earth to reveal the glory of God.
And at the beginning we certainly do need to revisit this ten times, twenty times, fifty times, more maybe, if something very disturbing seems to be happening or very pressing. But when we live this even this next ten or fifteen or thirty minutes, we are the presence of the one power on earth so that everything that touches our consciousness is now evident as, consciously known, consciously felt as the one power. And then watch the miracle of one power being witnessed as this, that, and the rest.
We are beholders. We are open and aware of the one power operating in experience. We don’t know how that one power will seem or look to us or turn up to us. And we don’t want to. We have to remain free of that which appears to be, centered in and feeling the presence of God, the presence of omnipotence. And then, then we are that one power on earth and nothing but God can touch us, nothing but good, nothing but harmony, nothing but the miracle of God as all.
Bear witness as you’re walking the earth -- constantly keeping God in consciousness -- how that one power, indeed, heals the multitudes, feeds the multitudes, bears fruit richly for the people. Again it may look as if it is dozens of different ways to to dozens of different individuals, but that one power lived is the power and presence and visibility of fulfillment.
Now you watch everything as fulfilled or becoming fulfilled in experience as you are the one power on earth that influences or—let’s get rid of the “you” and “me” in that sentence—the one power that it, itself, is the cause or is the influence to all that seems to be in our experience.
It’s like watching a hole in the ocean filled up by the ocean. Wherever our awareness is, that’s like the hole in the ocean whether our awareness is filled with good or bad appearance, that is a hole in the ocean. And now, watch as God becomes evident. Only don’t look for it. In other words, don’t look for the way it’s going to appear. Stay in God. Stay feeling God. Stay aware of God. Stay focused in God, centered in God. And then you are that very power on earth of good, of life, of health, of abundance, of harmony, of peace, of love, of true good in every arena of life.
Let us live like this. Let us make our whole lives as gods. Let us be the gods. We were "born" to be gods, and only in this way, can we fulfill our mission to glorify God on earth.
Let us remain in that presence of oneness. Remember you’ve come naked, with nothing on you, into the world, let's stay naked, with no baggage, no "otherness." Stay as a god is.
It’s like watching a hole in the ocean filled up by the ocean. Wherever our awareness is, that’s like the hole in the ocean whether our awareness is filled with good or bad appearance, that is a hole in the ocean. And now, watch as God becomes evident. Only don’t look for it. In other words, don’t look for the way it’s going to appear. Stay in God. Stay feeling God. Stay aware of God. Stay focused in God, centered in God. And then you are that very power on earth of good, of life, of abundance, of harmony, of peace, of love.
We must abide in incorporeality, and have incorporeality abide in us. "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me [in God itself, in incorporeality itself]. I am the vine, ye are the branches:
He that abideth in me, [in incorporeality] and I in him [I in the I Am that you are], the same bringeth
forth much fruit [I Am brings forth much true sense testimony]: for without me [without God Itself] ye can do nothing.
If
a man abide not in me [in God itself], he is cast forth as a branch [as collective consciousness], and is withered;
and men gather them, and cast them
into the fire, and they are burned.
If
ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.
Herein
is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit [much true spiritual sense testimony]; so shall ye be my
disciples.
As
the Father hath loved me [as a god], so have I loved you [as a god, as an incorporeal expression, as I Am]: continue ye in my
love.
If
ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These
things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and
that
your joy might be full.
This
is my commandment, That ye love one another [as I Am, not as a human with the collected baggage of "otherness," not with collected "collected consciousness"], as I have loved you.
Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends [lay down all collected consciousness and the baggage of friends, desires; not with the greatest of worldy goods. Ye
are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name [in the name of I Am, as God Itself], he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Stay as a god, thinking of God as God is, feeling God, as God is, seeking no other real experience or primary or causal experience but always God as God is.
Blessings,
Paul
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