William Samuel

William Samuel
William Samuel

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Beyond Intellectualism

Artwork "Rose Garden" by Sandy Jones 
Celestial Song 
Excerpt from 
"The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics" 
by William Samuel
ANOTHER NIGHT AROUND THE CAMPFIRE

What heals? The glimpse of Light. What does the good work? The Light. No difference between the glimpses and glimmers and no matter if they are spelled with a capital or not. What do I do when someone comes to me for help? I give him one of my glimpses and tell him to give one of his to someone else. If he HEARS mine and gives one of his own, he moves toward tangible health that moment, and both of us soon have more glimpses to give! That is a significant part of the grand Equation—a Simplicity beyond words. And it WORKS wonders greater that I can tell. It does MORE than simply “heal” this or that. It benefits the entire WORLD.
How is it possible for a glimpse of Truth here on the river bank to do such an enormous thing as help all mankind? It is possible because the world and all mankind are subjective, WITHIN this Awareness we are. We are given dominion over that subjective world that we have come to understand, find guiltless, loose and let go. This world is ours to TEND as surely as a gardener tends his flowers. Our garden needs a continuing flow of Light and that Light comes as our inflowing bits and pieces of insight. We are to GIVE those Glimpses to our world as we receive them, live them, comprehend and confirm them. This is part of the Mystery of the Equation.
No one in metaphysics has written of the Child yet, or the Equation and its Balance. I may never publish these words, but at the moment it appears that task has been given me to do—just because, finally, humanity is on the edge of a willingness to understand what lies beyond intellectualism. Mankind really wants to know how to live his intellectualism intelligently without destroying civilization in the process. Metaphysicians have nothing in their literature about the Child or the Equations. Metaphysics includes the Child's way to think—subjectively—but very little about the Child's way to live and act for mankind. In these final days of our human experience, it is essential that we get acquainted with the rest of these three marvels.
THERE IS A TRUE MEASURE OF PROGRESS AND SUCCESS
  The only measure of real success in all the world is whether or not one is coming to perceive more truth. No one knows this better than we do—each of us individually—and we know whether or not we've had new light in recent days. No one else can tell us more about this personal progress than we can tell ourselves. It is our own inmost business. But, if we haven't been seeing ever more light, we haven't been making progress, and we are sinking into the quagmire of Da Shan
Once we've recognized a Glimpse for what it is, the Child within knows there are more glimpses to be seen, experienced, lived and celebrated. More, we know those Glimpses offer new perspectives of old views. They tell us more nearly how things really are. They brighten and enliven our affairs. But most of all, those Glimpses come with healing on their wings, reviving the Child within.
With each bit of Light we are more the Child and less the climber.
Gentle listener, this this is what you have come here for. There is something one can do to begin having those wonderful glimpses of Truth again! We will talk about that around tomorrow's campfire.



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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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Identity Discovered and Lived





Excerpt from 
"A Guide to Awareness and Tranquillity" 
by William Samuel 

 Overspreading this Self-perception is God's knowledge of the contraries—what God is not, making what God is, fully understood. To whom? To God's perfect Self-Image, the Child we are.

As we get this straight and begin to see the subjective idea—“I am perceiving/perception happening; I am Awareness itself, perceiving naught but my own perceptions”—the correct identification become more and more the basis for our thoughts and actions. At this point our experience begins to undergo greater changes.

 “But, Sam, this is the whole question. How do we go about making the proper identification become the basis for thought and action?”

Good question. How do we do this? By the conscious acknowledgment (knowledge acted on) that the Ineffable, the Supernal One, Isness, Reality, Godhead, is the only possible Identity that actually exists and is, therefore, being this Awareness-I-am here and now. Hanging onto this realization, we slowly let go the old sense of self. Who is the old one who says MY mind? We let that one go “line upon line” and the greater Identity confirms Itself “precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.”

This is the first step toward the “rebirth” spoken of by those who know what they're talking about. When the Child within (The God Identity) is really acknowledged, It comes alive. We feel it. With this Child, that we actually feel within, comes a simultaneous refutation of the old bastard's view of things—and, blessedly, a natural forsaking of them. We also let go the thoughts and actions that supported the “old man's” position. Suspicion, doubt, judgment of the motives of “others” and many forms of judgmentalism simply vanish.

“Would you say this experience is essentially God's experience rather than mine?”
In reality, of course—and not just essentially, but totally. But at the same time, the world experience is the time we are still saying, “ This is my experience and that is yours.” It is also the time we're saying “This is good” and “That is bad.” From the peak of the mountain—Identity discovered and proven—things under our feet are, for the most part, understood. At this high place, one looks in retrospect to see without doubt that nothing but God has ever gone on. We understand without equivocation that the world experience is our own step by step, line upon line discovery and confirmation of that fact of God's allness.
Yet the Child within us (which is the Christ of us!) allows us to suspect this a long time before we're atop the mountain in conscious fact. Inwardly we're claiming that no Identity exists but God, and doing this, sometimes, against great odds; outwardly, we're slowly beginning to live judgelessly and to see good, God, in everything. Do you see?
(Pause) “Hey, I'm starting to understand! Yes, yes!”



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 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 -   



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Thursday, February 2, 2017

About Words

"Santa Fe" by Sandy Jones 

Celestial Song 


Excerpt from "A Guide to Awareness and Tranquillity" 
by William Samuel 

About Words 
The first thing we do is to look into the matter of words, thence to come down from that ridiculously lofty and arid plateau of "absolute" versus "relative." All words are relative. No word is absolute
CHAPTER 1

 The Secret Of Communication

 This afternoon I held a smooth stone in my hand that existed before a single word had ever been uttered.
Which is more significant: the smooth stone or the words that describe it?
ABOUT WORDS

Dear Mary,

Very often we give too much importance to words. Those who are most devotedly looking for the Truth are frequently the ones most hung up on "This is relative or that is absolute." How many times have you heard that? I was the world's worst. As a renegade metaphysician traveling over the universe from sage to Guru to Prince to Practitioner to apostate, no one ever became more entangled in the intellectual concern for words and their precision than I. Pretty soon I found myself with certain expressions I did not dare use in the presence of some people because I was sure my words indicated my level of comprehension. Bosh!

Subtle restrictions of expressions—thousands of them—abound within the judgmental framework of coming-to-comprehend the Light rather than being the Light.

In our studies here in Mountain Brook, the first thing we do is to look into the matter of words, thence to come down from that ridiculously lofty and arid plateau of "absolute" versus "relative." All words are relative. No word is absolute. The absolute that Isness is exists in a dimension as much beyond words as a melody is more than a sheet of music or the principle of arithmetic more than a numeral.

There is an intellectual aspect to Truth, of course, and words play their part in that but the Real contains an infinity of subtle essences that is more than words, greater than words. The awakening to these is often precluded in our wrestling matches with semantics.
William Samuel --  "A Guide to Awareness and Tranquillity"  


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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