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Transcribed from an audio recording by William Samuel, 1978 --

One Ego

How do we know that God is all? This is one point one must find; if God Really is All.

We don’t have to call it God, you can call it Reality or, Isness, or something else. Because we are certainly not talking about so big man who sits on a throne and he has a long white beard, and waves a wand and Jesus Christ sitting at his right hand and something else on his left. That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about something entirely other than that and I don’t mean to be ridiculing those Ideas either. Because those ideas all serve their purpose. and I’m not in any way, form, or fashion knocking any kind of religious concept. Because I am not opposed or contrary to anything that I include within My Self. Unless I want to be Self destructive.

Now, let's come here.

So, how do we know that God is all? How do we know that there is one God?

Judaism began with such a principle. You know, "Thou shalt have no other God before me."

Christianity began with the concept of one God. All religious philosophies begin this concept. How do we know there’s one God? What do we mean by One, Singleness? What do we mean by Oneness? How do we know there is a Oneness?

Well, these are some of the ways I did get past intellect and finally did get to the heart with it.

Now just consider for example everything tends toward oneness. Everything that we perceive in this Universe tends toward oneness.

You start out and you got electrons and protons and other particles whirling around a single nucleus and it is one atom, isn’t it? And then we have a whole passel of atoms and it winds up being one molecule. You got a bunch of molecules that wind up being one grain of sand. And you have lots of grains of sand that tend to be one rock. And we see that many rocks tend to be one mountain. In all nature, we see everything tending toward singleness. You will find that many mountains tend to be one continent. You will find that several continents tend to be one earth. It’s always a move toward singleness. You’ll find that several earths or planets constitute one solar system. A lot of solar systems constitute one galaxy. a lot of galaxies constitute one Universe.

Alright, so That which is being the one final Universe is that which is God, That which is being the Totality of Being, is what God Is.

And that Totality of Being certainly includes Life doesn’t it? There is Life right here, right now, Living, being aware. It is includes trees and bees and little girls with scruffy knees. It includes mountains, it includes birds, it includes all of the images of perception. All included in and within the Universe. All tending toward a single oneness. Well, that which is being Life, which is being things, is what we call God.

Now let me show you why It is ineffable. That is, why there is no way in the world to put your finger on what God is. Why It is an undefinable term. Why you can’t outline it or describe it, or use words to speak of what Isness is, or Reality is. It’s impossible.

All the religions have said you can define every thing but you cannot define what God is. And we all know this is true. In fact there was a time in Hebrew history when the word wasn’t even written. There was no word representing God. In fact this is still true. Some other concepts in the East or Middle East where the word God won’t even be written.

So why then would it be ineffable. Let’s pretend there is a lump of gold here in the middle of the room.

Better yet, let me tell you that everything we see, birds and tress and bees are what we call the qualities and attributes of God. All of you who have studied physics or chemistry know what we mean by qualities and attributes.

Well, Isness is apparently being those qualities and attributes that constitute the Universe. Well, we an certainly comprehend this, something has to be whatever this is, whatever things are.

There is some isness being the qualities and attributes that constitute the Universe including this Life right now that is living here.

Alright, now why it is impossible to see or perceive God I can point out with the illustration called the lump of gold.

If you will just see in the middle of the room a lump of gold and pretend that its all and its only and that there is not anything else besides.

So what are the qualities and characteristics, or attributes of the lump of gold? Well, one of them is that it’s yellow. So right, it's yellow, but yellow is not all there is to gold. Well, yellow by itself is nothing, yellow could not exist unless the lump was gold existed. And yet there isn’t any gold itself in yellow. Yellow is just a quality or characteristic. The quality is because gold is. Now, another characteristic is that the gold is malleable. Well, okay, is there any gold in what we call malleable? There is not, but malleable exists. Malleable is measurable, malleable, since it's measurable, is finite. Malleable is not all there is to gold. And yet malleable lives and moves and has its being because gold is.

And another, gold is, you might say, heavy. Is there any gold in the term heavy? You might also say what its taste would be, I don’t know what gold tastes like, maybe it's tasteless, is there any gold in tasteless?

You’ll see that the only thing we ever perceive with the eye, or can measure and hear, or touch with the hand, or anyway consciously aware of are always qualities and attributes. Yet there is no gold itself, no gold in the qualities and attributes. These qualities and attributes exist because gold is. Even if we knew all there is to know about the qualities and attributes and knew everything about their relationships and inter-relationships, we would still not perceive that Isness that is being the qualities and attributes.

So it is that if we were to know everything there is about all the chemical things we perceive in this universe, all the physical things and material things, all of the stars and the planets, and all that constitutes them and all of their relationships, and inter-relationships, backward and forward. And the intellect could perceive all there was to perceive, the intellect would still not have touched that isness which is being all these qualities and attributes.

So we can see intellectually why we can’t define this term God or Isness. But we can understand that there is Something being these qualities and attributes.

Would you have yellow if there was not an isness called gold? Would you have malleable or soft or whatever the other qualities and attributes are, something has to be them.

So, therefore there is an Isness, an Ineffable, Unnameable, Being what we perceive to be the Universe. and this consciousness of It. And that Isness for lack of a better word, is called God.

And where is It? Where is God? Where is Reality? Where is this Ineffable Isness? Well, It's right here, being this consciousness that is conscious of things.

You know, I went around the world looking for God-- twice! Not once, twice. Traveled on and studied in several continents. With all kinds of teachers, only to find out that God was closer than fingers and toes, closer than breathing.

God or Reality is being this very Life I am. This consciousness lives and moves and has its being because Isness, Reality Is, an Ineffable Is.

Now let me tell you, if this Ineffable can be such a perfect Universe, planets moving in such precision, balance beyond belief -- all the physicists, and chemists are constantly amazed at the intricate, perfect, harmonious, mathematical precision at every turn of the road, in every study. If this Ineffable can be that perfection, then what does this awareness being I have to worry about its existence, its being? None at all, none at all.

Excerpt from audio CD "One Ego"

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