Excerpt from

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

by William Samuel

RELATED PAPERS

FOREWORD

The following papers are the real meat of the book. They are independent of one another, each standing on its own like a single key on a piano. Each paper makes a specific point—among the thousands that might be of interest to a seeker—yet, every paper is related to a point (or points) in the preceding chapters. As well as to other related papers. Some of these relationships are obvious and immediate. Some are more indirect.

I consider these papers to be more powerful in their relationships to one another than by themselves. The entire book has been written with these synergistic overtones in mind, and they represent the means by which I have been able to communicate beyond the limits of intellectualism and its limiting words. The reader needs no special ability to make this synergism happen. It is automatic for all of us.

The Related Papers, like everything in the preceding chapters (“The Bones”), are taken from recent journals and correspondence, except when noted otherwise. While an effort has been made to dovetail and fit the bones into a progression similar to the progression by which one awakens to the subjective Truth, no such effort has been made with the Related Papers. They are arranged here in a nearly random order and may make very little sense if read before the preceding chapters have been read.

The earnest reader can see and feel something special through various combinations of papers and his own experience. The reader who becomes familiar with the material will find hundreds of enlightening relationships on his own. These insights become the reader's own immaculate Glimpses-beyond-the-limits-of-intellectualism. Such Glimpses constitute the real basis for learning and teaching.

Some papers together make powerful chords (overtones); others side by side make apparent discords—even contradictions. But the many messages of this book lie more in the harmonious overtones the reader will feel and know independently of the words, than in the information conveyed.

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WHO IS HAN

Dear Jack,

In answer to your question, “Who the hell is Han?”

The Han I write about is a mythical character representing one's own inner being, the Child. Han is the nearest one can come to his own self-discovery before consciously becoming that Self. Han is one's own pre-existing identity just before the Transfiguration at the top of the mountain of understanding, Da Shan. Han answers our questions. Han is the chief Angel among the world's tangible angels.

Han is not God and doesn't claim to be. Han even makes certain one doesn't ignorantly call the Son of God, God. Han is as close as one comes to his real Identity before consciously being that One. Yet, Han insists, that One isn't all there is to God. God is even more—existing within and beyond the limits of Awareness. Han says that Awareness is infinite, as God is infinite—but Godhead exists even beyond infinity. Herein, Han and the Gnostics of old are in grand accord.

Han tells of the Three that are One and of the One who is three to infinity. Han is the balance between Godhead and Tangibility—the Logos. Han is I-Identity. Han is the Muse of my journal, and yours. Han is a good guy! O.K.?

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TWO BASIC QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Laurel asked: “What do you mean by 'quantum mankind'?”

In these papers, by quantum mankind I mean ALL mankind. When we begin looking at the beehive as a single organism, that is the quantum view. When we start looking at all mankind as a single external organism, then we are looking at the appearance of quantum man in our own head.

Laurel also asked, “...and what do you mean by 'cosmology'?”

A cosmology is a creation story. Moses wrote a cosmology—the universe from Nothing—in the first chapter of Genesis. Particle physicist are examining a cosmology—something from Big Bang—as they work back to the beginning of matter some fifteen billion years ago. It is good to note this parallel when we are talking about retrogressive progression early in the book.

The mathematician intuits and knows, then the particle physicist looks into his accelerators to confirm the mathematician's logical knowing. Physics is a confirming activity. Math is designated the “pure science.” Our individual intuitive knowing (which comes as glimpses of light) is the “pure science” and is confirmed in the tangible world as science's (and our own) discoveries. Do you see this? Now, our subjectivism allows us to lower the veil, and we look out into the world for the confirmation and our knowing. This is not unlike the physicist looking out to see technology following later to put his ideas to work for mankind—or, an inventor looking to see his invention manufactured. Our subjective glimpses of Truth are eventually confirmed on the objective scene.

Added thought: Cosmology explains half the metaphysical “reversal” inherent in the FIRST/LAST equation. Subjectivism, when understood, explains another part of the reversal, INSIDE/OUTSIDE. One doesn't yet really understand either of these equations until he considers them both—not necessarily simultaneously. While cosmology (and science) works on the first/last equation, heading back to Big Bang but not beyond it, the Child within brings us to consider the inside/outside flow—and its relationship to cosmology. When these (and the other balances) are brought together, it seems we get back “before” Big Bang, to the primal Self-Image. That is where these words are intended to take us (bring us).

HOW DOES AN OLD SOLDIER DARE TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THE TRUTH?

There is something incongruous about a man who fought as an infantry soldier in two wars, slashing his way from mortal combat and destruction to esoteric Self-discovery and Light, isn't there? Somehow it doesn't fit. Unless, of course one makes the connection and intuits how human extremity leads to spiritual insight, how darkness makes the light plain and how guilt uncovers primordial guiltlessness. If one has heard of Arjuna's selection on the battlefield where the final struggle between light and darkness is waged, he might not wonder how I dare write this book.

This old soldier is presently engaged in his final struggle, warfare of the most primal kind for which he has been, not one bit less than a worthy candidate for a special Mystery, “duly, truly prepared.” That preparation was not of myself but of Another. I have not made a single move that was not part of this moment as I sit here disclosing the lessons learned. Not a move to the right or left, not a word has come to me or gone out from me that was not part of a Plan, not of my own planning, but Another's. I have been carefully, painstakingly—most often against my will—brought to this moment in linear time to reveal a mystery. As certainly as this is true for me, it is true for the reader as well.

One who reads these words has a right to question them. He should.

Moreover, he should put them to the test, even those that seem most obviously true. I welcome your doubt. I've asked all who have studied with me over the years to question everything I talk about and believe nothing until it has been put to the test and found worthy. But reader, when Something begins stirring within you in the paragraphs and pages ahead—an inner stirring that comes softly and unexpectedly, with unmistakable authority—then you might be wise to touch and take note of the Idea you feel then, and note the Theme this book contains. I have been given these words to live, prove, confirm and make plain so those who read them may run.

Why me, an old soldier who has lived through the inhumanity of warfare? You will surely see one day. You will surely see.

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