The Awareness of Self-Discovery

By William Samuel

CHAPTER 18

Time And Prophecy In The Light Of Awareness

"Is it possible to know the future?"

Yes.

"Doesn't this mean that the future exists?"

Yes.

"How can this be so when the NOW is all we are concerned with?"

Because the NOW is being all there is to both past and future. It includes all that is called the future, consequently we are enabled to know it; this future we "know" is NOW. not afar off. Only to the conceptual, judgmental way of looking at things does it appear to be not-now and something distant.

TIME IS A MEASURE OF TANGIBILITY

Time is applicable only as a measure between the people, places, and things of the tangible universe. The absolutists are correct when they state that Infinity exists as a dimension "above and beyond" time. It is beyond time in the same way that the sphere is "beyond" the plane. It does not exclude the plane, however. Rather, an infinity of planes constitutes its being, and to be the sphere is to find oneself knowing all about the planes. We would not say, "There are no planes." Instead, we would see them in a new, expanded light. And so it is that unbound, uninhibited Awareness perceives time in a new light. This new light, as the prophets of old knew, is the basis for all that constitutes "prophecy" as it really is—not as we read about it in the newspapers nor as it has been popularized.

To toss out everything pertaining to "time" as "not absolute enough" is a stage we all go through in our study of Truth, but when we begin to find ourselves knowing certain things that "are going" to happen, we are then looking on time from a grander dimension, not merely disclaiming its reality. The Hebrews of old considered this to be the only legitimate mark of spiritual attainment.

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Dear John,

The prophecy "talk" was more novelty than Light, even though everything "happened" exactly so. I have stopped being surprised by such events. There is nothing unusual about what the world calls prophecy, as the ancient Hebrews knew, but what prophecy is, and what the world thinks it is, are two different things. That which it has been my delight to discover and be has to do with "broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." I simply find myself knowing what will "happen" and it is as simple as that.

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My morning-glories are deeper blue this year—and climbing higher.

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Dear Steve,

If you were here (and in truth you are) I would have you comprehend and experience the singular authority of the following Action.

Like the kids of this day and age are begging, we stick to the sights, sounds and equanimity of this Now, as difficult as it may seem to be. We simply refuse to go wandering in the far country of a human past or future. The Now is now—and Now is the transcendent basis for all the judge would call his past or his future.

We give the lightest touch to plans and calculations. The old nature of us would have us dwell in doubt, confusion and great consternation about the "future." It would even rename that future and call it "My Future-Now-Awareness" in order to go on planning, calculating and worrying about events to come—events that are not now.

The now-awareness that presently reads these words is all right! The awareness that presently includes whatever images are at hand—chair, room, book, window, picture, tree, cloud, birdsong, whatever—is the Now which is quite all right this instant. We remain right here "to be passersby," In and as this passerby we find this Now-Awareness living Itself as us and is not a "we" who are living the Now. We end the "me" who says "my awareness" to simply be Awareness. Then, the time-bound me out of the way, we find ourselves knowing many things about the me's "future," and what he calls "prophecy." Chief among these discoveries is the knowledge that the Transcendent Now is being all there is to what is called time. As the Bible puts it, "...that which is to be hath already been...that which hath been is now."

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