The Shattered Mirror

Excerpt from

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

By William Samuel

THE SHATTERED MIRROR

The end days and the tribulations always generate interest. Everyone has felt he must surely be living near that time. Could it be that the shattering of the mirror is what happens in the “end days”?

In time and space, matter is an image, including the body image with which we identify. The subjective state perceives the universe as the qualities and attributes of Whatever the universe actually is. Subjectivisim is much like an unembodied, infinite awareness looking into a mirror of itself and seeing its possible qualities and attributes imaged. Or, as Douglas Harding describes in his book On Having No Head, it is as if the world of time and space were our head. But, as we recall, Godhead Itself is more than Its qualities and attributes—just as the nugget of gold is more than appears to the eye. There is no “gold” in “yellow,” “malleable,” “valuable” or anything else we perceive to be the qualities and attributes of gold, yet gold is what it is. Images, real or unreal, are what they are. Behind them stands Something Marvelous.

It becomes clear to the subjective mode of mentation that everything physical, however it appears—sounds, sights, feelings—“comes” from within the Self. Awareness may seem lodged in a form, but the fact is that all we perceive to be the form exists within Awareness.

Images are “after the fact,” following in time. Awareness (self) precedes the image. Intuitions and ideas, thoughts and feelings “come from” the Self-I-Am holding God's hand, so to speak, and they precede images. These thoughts, when awakened to, have a profound influence over the images following in time, especially over this immediate body. It is this “precedence”—just the heart-felt knowledge that the precedence exists—that “heals” the tangible body. My ability to see “health” in the place of “illness” increased when this simple light of precedence dawned.

THE SHATTERED MIRROR ILLUSTRATION

Imagine a lady who falls so in love with her image in the mirror that she forgets the one standing in front of the mirror. We would call her foolish, wouldn't we? Essentially, this is what the world has done, worshiping, gathering and controlling matter, unaware of the Self that precedes matter in time and space.

Suppose the man with no head fell so in love with the universe he could see and hear (and BE, as metaphysicians so love to add) that he forgot the Ineffable Awareness doing the perceiving. Is this man any different from the woman in love with her image? Perceiving Awareness to be one's personal possession is the humanistic solipsism of much of Metadelphia. It rightly perceives everything to be within awareness, but deems “my” awareness in the time and space equation to be the end of the matter.

The time has come for Everyman to turn from the mirror of matter's enchantment and find the Child within. The Child will tell one all he needs to know about images, the world of matter. Subjectively, one's own discovery of the Child can preclude the world's confirming upheaval! Armageddon doesn't have to rattle everything. The choice is ours individually. It is following that objective/subjective battle, individually, wherein the objective world is re-examined carefully through subjective eyes and one begins living his subjectivism objectively in the world, that we and our world find Peace. Dominion! The New Covenant. No more teachers or temples. Messiah at hand!

My reader friend, we do this individually first; then the world, following in time sequentially, is seen confirming our discovery! This is a Mystery, most marvelous. This is the Mystery of Messiah, who comes to deliver our subjective world from the grip of illusion.

Let whoever reads these words, please understand their meaning if he can. If “you” are to see “your” world improve, the improvement begins with “you.” I have found that, despite my many human weaknesses and follies, it is possible with God's grace to envision and see “the new heaven and earth” already spread over the face of Everything—and to perceive it right here in the world, no matter the human circumstance or one's personal condition.

The Tree of Life (quantum man) is soon to bloom, shatter and seed. The Child preceded all this and will survive. Life survives. The mirror will be broken, whether we are ready for Awareness without and object or not.

In the end of our discovery, as we scale Da Shan the mighty mountain of understanding and finally realize that we truly do stand atop God's mountain of dominion, it becomes extremely troubling to perceive that we alone are responsible for bringing our subjective world from the wheel of rebirth in time and space. “My God! How can I do that?” is the question I asked in disbelief. But we are to do it, and eventually we do. This dawns on us, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, until finally, and after much denial and reluctance, we are convinced. Then, we get busy.

This book is part of my effort to do for the world as I can. You can begin where this effort ends. You are the final stage of the rocket to the Star beyond stars.

Our confirmation of the job finished, is the appearing of Everyman searching for and finding the Child within himself—and becoming the Child in conscious fact. That one works to bring his world to what is called “salvation” and “life more abundant.”

If you would like further guidance in understanding any of William Samuel's work based on Self discovery - you are welcome to contact me, Sandy Jones -- sandy@ojaimail.com -- - Ojai, California -