Excerpt from

"The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics"

By William Samuel

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ALREADYNESS PRECEDES THE TANGIBLE EXPERIENCE;

PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL

The question arises: If Godhead is already the fact of everything, does this mean we don't have the ability to change things because they are predestined? The goal is predestined, yes—but we (as seekers) are able to choose which of the infinite possibilities we move toward—or whether we are to remain lost in the hands of fate. As the Christ Light says, we may choose Life and live more abundantly, or we may choose death. Most of us inadvertently choose death.

Inasmuch as the ascent of Da Shan seems to be a continuing part of the human experience from which no one has been exempt, we get up and do what is necessary to make the tangible climb with dispatch. That is the purpose of our study. But we make the climb, knowing the real of us is ALREADY present and has never been away. We keep this in mind. We never let it go. To let it go is to be swamped by the world scene and to lose ourselves within its claim to importance. Religion hasn't successfully kept us from that overwhelming experience. Neither has philosophy, science nor metaphysics. But a balance between them can. Allowing the Child atop the Mountain to lead us to live the Child's Equation, we quickly find this human experience proving the Real. How? With confirmation after confirmation that we are already there atop dominion's mountain and have never been away!

DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING OF SPIRITUAL MATTERS

Han, the old Master of Kwangse Province, was talking to the little group at the pond. Present were Lee, the soldier, Ho, Lee Ann and Mary.

Han said, “The pathway up the mountain gives ascending views of the scene below. It spirals upward, first one way, then another—clockwise and otherwise. Vistas below disappear only to reappear from new perspectives. The scene one thinks he has outgrown comes unexpectedly into view once more in another turn around the heights, but from another perspective and a new vantage point. As we progress in the world and the climb goes upward, the familiar is left behind and the unfamiliar looms larger. Then, once more, near the peak, all sights that were ever seen return to be seen again from that nearly highest point of view. They appear in new, ethereal Light. The peak of Da Shan glows. One is reminded of the crystal pyramid where the top-down view includes every bottom-up perspective simultaneously, like one peering down from the peak above at the teeming people inside the great pyramid, all looking to the top and saying different things about it.”

At another time, Han said, “At the bottom of the mountain, at the first objective or the first subjective view of things, one can walk miles in the wrong direction with little effect on his journey. As he nears the top, however, there is less latitude for misdirection. A few steps the wrong way, the least fascination with himself, and one is suddenly looking over a ledge at difficulties and isolation and could easily slip and fall. At the bottom of the mountain, or along its slopes, one can talk until jade snowballs fall from heaven, and it makes little difference to those of himself following behind. But the least misstatement of direction from near the summit, and all who follow fall in the same direction.”

What are we saying here? Among other things, the closer we get to the truth, the less familiar everything is, and the stranger it seems to the old views. More, the closer we consciously come to the Real, the more difficult our telling what we see. Why? There are fewer familiar references to use. The man atop the mountain wants to talk of new constellations that the man in the valley can't see for the interposing mountain. Communication becomes even more difficult.

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