William Samuel

William Samuel
William Samuel

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

There Is No Mystery In Christ





  If one hundred theologians were asked to define Christ, they would likely give a thousand different answers. Why are there so many opinions? Because theology echoes the myriad distortions that spring from the intellect.

  Once the intellect has been subdued sufficiently to allow the Heart to be heard, we begin to get the answers; and the Heart's messages are soothing and uncomplicated, nothing like the bedevilling bamboozlement of a befuddling intellect!

  So, how does the Heart interpret the Christ? As simple truth! As gentle, unpretentious truth. You can spell this word with a capital or not—it is the same truth which is the Christ! The Heart reveals that "Truth" and "Christ" are identical—meaning "the same one."

The dictionary defines truth as "fact; that which is; conformity to reality." "I am the truth," said Jesus Himself. "Identity-I (and not the possessor of it) am the Truth, the fact of Reality." Identity is the Christ-Truth itself.

 This is much too simple and unsophisticated for human theology, of course. Man has a penchant for complicating the simple. He would have the Christ range from a very literal, bleeding body named Jesus of Nazareth, to a metaphysical mystery of transcending Light and Illumination, or both. The simplicity of "Christ" and simple, lowly, unpretentious, gentle "Truth" as synonymous terms is too naive a concept for intellectual churchdom. Erudition is steeped in the esoteric, egobuilding disciplines of its man-hewn theological "mysteries."

  The world church makes Truth one thing and Christ another; but the fact is, simple Truth (truth) itself is everything meant by the term. The Christ proclaims: "I am the Truth. I, Truth, am come to take away the untruths of the world. Behold, I am with you always. I will never leave you nor forsake you." Indeed, the Christ-Truth is here—not far off, not something we must struggle up a long, rugged mountain to reach. Let us understand this here and now!

  If we can comprehend and admit that the alphabet is here or that the principle of arithmetic is here, that the harmonious principle of music is here, or that Life, this Now-Awareness-I-Am, is here—then we can surely rest, stop fighting it and admit, concede, surrender to the fact that the simple truth—the Christ-Truth—concerning our rightful Identity is right here, right now, present!

  Are you willing to make this simple admission? Or will you deny it? The only "second coming" Truth awaits is our individual acknowledgment of its presence as our very own Identity!

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  The mathematical fact that two plus two is four is the Christ-Truth "come to heal" the hellish, devilish notion that two plus two is not four—which, as any student will tell you, is pure "sin" on an examination paper. The student laboring over a page of problems in which a mistake appears, uncovers and corrects that mistake with the simple truth of the problem. Christ is the tender within-ness that says, "This is correct; this is right; this is so; this is how it is!"

  Exactly as Jesus said, the truth does not come to destroy Reality's world of images, but to fulfill it; to point it out; to edify and clarify. Consequently, truth appears to destroy the impostor-ego and his misevaluations of Deity's Universe. (But who is that one? No one! No thing!)

  The truth of everything—even the small and inconsequential—is the Christ! It is this simple! The human mystery is gone out of it.

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THE CHRIST IS HERE

  Surely, the truth that is "with us always" and "withholds himself from no man" is not so arcane and difficult that only the Illumined Elect are "saved," as mysticism teaches! Surely, the truth that says "Come unto me all who are weary" doesn't withhold itself from all but those who have suffered long years of self-immolation or have died as intellectual churchdom has taught from its conception! The truth withholds itself from naught! It is not out there somewhere else, but here, ready and available to separate fact from fiction; present to awaken mankind from his prodigal-like peregrinations around his silly misjudgments of Identity. The Christ is here this instant to show us all truth.


ILLUMINATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT

QUESTION: Where is the truth first discovered?

ANSWER: With in oneself alone.

  When one turns within himself to this secret place and listens to the Heart, something is soon felt as a warmth and excitement, as a joyful Presence. This simple stirring-within is the Christ-experience. It has been called "Enlightenment" and "illumination." But, how many times this simple, tender stirring of the Heart has been overlooked, unheeded, unheralded, unappreciated, even denied, because Truth was believed to be a blinding road-to-Damascus illumination.

  It is no such thing. "I come when thou least expect, as a thief in the night," the Christ declares. "Behold, I stand at the door. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. I come quickly. I will never leave you nor forsake you. I am with you always. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, Christ shall give thee light."

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LIGHT

  Inevitably, the truth puts a new light on everything because Truth and Light are the same Christ. The truth of anything is the light that dispels the darkness (ignorance) concerning it.

 "I am the light," says the Christ-truth. Furthermore, "I am the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." Does this sound as if the Christ were something far removed, nebulous and unattainable? Or that we must await its first or second coming?

Excerpt from "A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity" 
By William Samuel   

Available on Amazon 


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  -- samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   




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The Presence of Love



Artwork by Sandy Jones 


The Presence of Love                      By Sandy Jones

You asked me what this Presence of Love feels like,  you asked if it felt like a power or force.  

Yes, maybe a sort of powerful force. I could leave it at that, but as most folks around here know, I won't. 

Oh yes, always, it makes me weep. It is so beautiful and rich and full and palpable, honest, forthright and powerful. 

Although, this power I feel is not limited to love, but It includes love. Love is woven into the fabric of It, and it is holy and profound. My every day world of things has come alive, things seem more like they when I was a child. Like the fog lifted and the clear day broke through and strangest of all, I became real, it all became real, in the most marvelous way.

Do you remember when you were a little kid and you went to Disneyland and you rode on one of those "Mr.Toad Wild Rides" where the little cart goes through the dark and scary wonderland inside the tunnel? and then do you remember the feeling when you came to the end of ride and big doors swung open and it was all bright daylight again the whole "Toad Land" in the dark was gone, just gone and you skipped off all happy and excited. Well, maybe it's a bit like that for me. I hit the bright light of the day, and I know it was a great ride -- and well, what can I say,


But, as to your question: The exchange of this power is constant and the ordinary has become extraordinary--and yet within this pulse of power everything is so simple, sweet, so lovely, so gentle, so strong. It is daylight and the same as always, but everything feels so tender and vulnerable and kind; it goes both ways, an exchange. Like electric it is a giving and receiving current. 

Yes, it makes me weep, humbled in joy and wonder. 
The power of Life Itself has been awakened in me; the energy, delight, freedom-- and a fearlessness so mighty I must often hold back, pull in the reins.

I feel this powerful sensuous feeling, I am alive with a vibration through my body and alive with Life and my world. A divine union of Love. 

I am moved by just the simplest things, the sweet song in the deep of the night, cat sleeping at my feet, the morning breeze through the open window, I wake up in grace and thanksgiving, l feel love for the day and the amazing adventures it will bring. 

It is like I am a little girl of 7 years old again. Everything is real and delightful, everything exudes love and life. That’s the best way to say it for now. 

Much Love, Sandy Jones 


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  -- samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   





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Sunday, February 16, 2014

The Power of Journal Tending




Artwork "Wild Flowers" by Sandy Jones



THE POWER OF THE JOURNAL                      By William Samuel 

When one makes contact with the Muse of Ideas or the Muse of Truth—even the naked muse of sensual gratification and emptiness—it is possible to hear Something INSIDE and write it for the world OUTSIDE. In my first days at journal tending, I would put myself down at the notebook and turn to a new page, or I would put a clean sheet of white paper in the typewriter, take a deep breath with eyes closed and vow to write “something worthy of God.”

IS IT IMPORTANT TO KEEP A JOURNAL?

Why keep a journal? It can become one of the most important activities in our life. There is a synergistic power in writing. For instance, twenty-five years ago I began talking about awareness, using that very word in my small experience. Now my external world hangs on “awareness” as if it were a flagword to all wisdom in the human sphere of things. That word and its significance arrived in my experience as I wrote in my journal. I began using it in conversation—and eventually wrote a book about it. Now, many years later, the ideas in that book are becoming common knowledge in the world, and it all started as I sat with pencil in hand. 

One will notice that a Glimpse comes and, if we COMPLETE the transaction, that Glimpse enters our world to enlighten it. That is how it works—as it has been proven to me time and time again. Our world is SUBJECTIVE. It is in our hands. If anything is to happen to help our view of the world, it begins right here with us. How? As we complete the INTERFACE. We get the Glimpse. We live it, tell it, give it, share it as quickly as seems sensible, and in the doing, we put ourselves in the position to RECEIVE more Glimpses to give—and our world is steadily “improved”—awakened—seen as it really is—as Life confirms our Glimpses.

I don't think one even begins to realize how much he can do for his world until the subjective nature of things is comprehended at least in part. This knowledge arrives slowly, “line upon line...” but now it rushes in as if a floodgate has been lifted, acknowledging and confirming my willingness to give what I have been given. Throughout the day—and at every turn—there is an event, a “happening,” that proves once again that “my” world is here in my hands, and if the Light of Life is to be seen in it, I am to BE the Light of Life for my world. It isn't false Light we try to be, as a satanic influence in the world trying to emulate the works of God, the action that brought the Angel of Light to be cast down. Rather, we await the Glimpses and tell of THEM. I let the human experience of years count as nothing, and tell only of the Glimpses, the REAL and the GOOD and the TRUE. That is, I'm GIVING my light, my Glimpses and Glimmers, to “my” world and watching the world take that Light and start LISTENING TO GOD! THIS is what journal tending is all about.

“Listening to God” is the MODE that writing in the journal puts one into! Therein lies the value of writing and journal tending. WHAT we write isn't half as important as the MODE which writing puts us into. In those moments we are not caught up in the world, but are quiet and receptive. In those moments we aren't frantically reacting to the scenes, but sitting still, expectantly anticipating Good even as we write a simple statement of tenderness or beauty we have already seen. THAT is the mood of the writing mode.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL MODE

What I call “the journal mode” is nearly, but not quite, the same mental mode we get ourselves into when we are reading metaphysical papers and studying our books, searching for Light. The very mood that has us sitting back and pondering a statement, contemplating the meanings of things, is what does the good work of Light's arrival in our subjective metaphysical work—and that work, as often as not, has little if anything to do with what's written on the page there. It's the MODE, not the information. So, understand it is the journal mode that matters, not what we write—albeit, what we write often comes out of the mood. So, again: we tend the journal, not to inform anyone, not to inform ourselves, but to live in the Light from out of which our Glimpses come.

I can tell you, it is possible to get into this state of mind and stay there perpetually! THIS is to pray without ceasing! If one should wonder where “tranquillity” is—the peace that is beyond understanding—he will find it in the contemplative mode of mentation.

JOURNAL TENDING AND SUBJECTIVISM

When one sees the world objectively and wishes to do something for that world, the best he can ordinarily do is to write a letter to the editor or write a book, and hope an individual here or there will read it and heed. The odds are a million to one against the world hearing and responding. Ah, when subjectivism dawns and one comes to perceive that all tangibility is within himself, the world is changed even as the words are written onto the paper of his journal. There, the mere knowledge that one is writing to his Selfhood propels his thoughts and ideas into the external world where their validity will be confirmed.


More about Journal Tending can be found in the book "The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics" 

Available on Amazon


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  -- samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   




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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Letters To One Just Beginning







Excerpt From A Guide To Awareness And Tranquillity
By William Samuel
LETTERS TO ONE JUST BEGINNING THIS STUDY
Dear David,
We "begin" with this now-awareness, but the beginning must be a new and genuine redetermination of Isness. We start from scratch, but this is not being done until our previous beliefs, ideas and cherished opinions are loosed and let go. The practice of humanity, the intellectual temptation, is to carry them with us to see if our new discoveries coincide with our old ideas.
No, we let go everything and start again like new babes, with the first and basic fact about which there is no uncertainty-the isness of this present now-awareness. All else must go. Without regard or regret, without fear or consternation, we stand in a void, naked, childlike, innocent. As this now-awareness, empty of the ego, we open our eyes and awaken!
David replies, "This sounds as if I will lose my identity. I certainly don't want to do that. As a matter of fact, I am searching for identity."
Dear David,
When we begin with Awareness we find we lose nothing that is real, most certainly not the Identity. Rather, we let go the notions of an identity we have never been. We lose the unhappiness, loneliness, lack, poor health and fear inevitably associated with a misidentification called "the old man," his intellect, his cherished common sense and his high opinions of himself.
So, we shuck the old ideas and let them go, David. We bring attention back to this real and present fact of Awareness. Awareness is a fact; we know it; we are it; nothing is outside of it. Here, we discover the true Identity!
When one looks at the television and sees things on the screen, he is not tempted to believe the screen is in one place and images in another. He knows they are one television screen. Exactly so, awareness and the images of perception are all one Awareness.
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WHEN WE KNOW, WE KNOW!
There are no words we can read that will convince us of the allness of this now-consciousness; there is no one to whom we may listen or talk who can do more than persuade us intellectually. We know-and we know we know - only when we find it and feel it within the Heart.
Reader, this will happen for you much sooner than you expect. Your "awakening" is inevitable, irresistible and certain, because the fact is-as you shall see and have been told many times-you are not sleeping to be awakened now. Despite the appearances on the world's stage, you are already all you could ever hope to become. You are already in the Father's house. The nearly unanimous pronouncements of classical theology and education to the contrary, your real Identity is neither sinful nor fallen; you are not a prodigal acting the profligate and wandering in the pigsties of a far country. The Identity you are this instant is Harmony's Now-Awareness being aware. Our heritage, effortless and divine, is to acknowledge this fact!
Right now, bring yourself from an over-concern with things within Awareness to Awareness itself. Here you will find that all bodies, all images, and everything Awareness includes, are aspects of your own Identity! Here you will find that you are happiness, completeness and joy itself.
Excerpt From "A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity"  
Available on Amazon 


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  -- samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   



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