William Samuel

William Samuel
William Samuel

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The Honest Message

 
"Library" by Sandy Jones 

Celestial Song 

 The following is transcribed from an audio tape by William Samuel - 1972

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 …We are talking about the honest message, the honest truth message. The honest truth message, as we said, lies in one that turns one to discover himself within, one that turns one within where the real discoveries are made, to turn within to the secret place, to the holy of holies, to the Shekinah and there find the true message.  The beauty of such a message, it seems to me, lies in its fulfilling the function of way showing, but doing it void of theory, voice of speculation or commentary and it’s a message that doesn’t bind the seeker.  It doesn’t induce guilt nor encourage the veneration of the messenger or the messenger’s words.  The childlikeness of such a message encourages one to find the beauty and power and the wonder of his own words and to express the discovered life within.  Such is the work the Child does.  

The place is within.  The place is within, within Consciousness, the place is within this very Awareness that listens to these words.  It is not in any scientific metaphysical system and it isn’t in the semantic games we play with the words of others.  If, as is the case with nearly all organized theology, the message speaks primarily of healing and demonstrations and of altered states of consciousness and all of those peripheral events, such a message can be as stultifying and misleading as it is helpful.  Therefore it isn’t worthy of identity.



Ultimately, we have done with following the messages of others to become the finder or our own Messiahship – we find our own message.  Salvation lies in this action and in no other.  The first freedom and the last freedom lie in self-discovery.  That discovery is immaculate, untouched by anyone else.  It is a virgin discovery and recognition of deity within and without.  Any message that has one following a personal leader or teacher for anything longer than is absolutely necessary to find the authority that one himself is, is a distorting, thwarting teacher.

 I am not saying that we don't follow the instructions of others, that we don't read or listen to others.  That's what we're doing right now, for goodness sakes.  But the ones to listen to are the ones who tell us that the messenger lies within  and that we go there to find it.  Those who speak of levels of awareness, of states and stages of consciousness, of spiritual heiarchies as though they were outside one's very own awareness right here and now, are liars from the beginning.  Their teachings confuse the world with false hope and rob the innocent with false pretence.  We are done with that to find the word that is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart.


I've been told by those who first heard these words.  "I can't believe there's much wisdom in me, I can't believe that my message is the message," and yet everything that one does is predicated on his own words.  The words that one believes most fervently are his own words.  But, since when does Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence need messengers with messages that point to themselves rather than God and that's what we're turning to when we don't turn to the self within Why, those little birdlings are born and shortly they're singing. and where is the teacher that teaches the seed how to grow, or the azalea here how to bloom and give its fragrance to the earth?  Who teaches the animals to prepare for winter that they have no knowledge of,...no intellectual knowledge of?  Where is the angelic leader and minister who exhorts the bud to open and give its fragrance to the earth. Why must man...of all creatures...insist on ignorance until he has studied system after system after system after system?  Why must man finally...finally, only to surrender from the anguish of it and when he surrenders from the anguish of all of it he is quick to awaken to the wisdom that is already himself.


Oh boy, there are many messengers abroad on the land.  The one to heed is the one who says to look for one's own messenger within.  And then this, that's all important...and then makes it plain on the tables precisely how this is done for one's self.  And listen, listen, those qualified to do this use their own words.  They don't give you references from 100 other sources to try to prove their words to you.  They use their own words and they tell you their own story which they have lived..  And their own story is the proof of their word.

Now see here, we are not messengers.  I certainly don't claim to be a messenger.  We are the message itself Identity Is.  We can all say "I am Life Itself" and that is what the honest message has been about from the first.  We are Life, not the possessors of life.  We are wisdom itself, not a personality who may become wise if...if...if....he studies this and that and something else.  Beyond the pale of humanhood and its many instructors lies a perfection already spread over the earth,already the whole and healthy body of God functioning perfectly in absolute harmony.  I have found the nature of that joy and I sing its song.  Right now, I'm singing its song.  To whom?  To the selfhood I am alone.  And who listens?  The selfhood I am alone.  Where's another?  I am her because the self is itself and there is no other.  The meek of myself needs spiritual exercises maybe only for the shortest time.  The journal is a spiritual exercise but it's needed only for the shortest time.  The meek and the childlike of myself do not have to struggle to understand the intricacies and paradoxes of being.  The battle has already been fought and won.  As I sit down with pencil and paper I have good tidings to tell the children of myself, that a simple harmony and a happy perfection are here now living as this life we are, binding up the "Old Think's broken-hearted followers, awakening enthusiasm within the husks,elevating thought from struggle and apprehension and morbidity and death into the conscious awareness of eternal life.  The message says: "turn within", this message proclaims liberty to all and it delivers...it delivers...by George, it delivers!  This message has one turn within and discover the Godhead, primal from which identity and all tangibility flow.


An old man by the name of Shirpee Han (phonetic) was a venerated Taoism sage with whom I happened to live in China for nearly three years.  Oh, what a grand fortune that was.  He told me once, "the song one sings to himself is carried around the world" and when I asked him how he told me "perhaps by the whispering trees and the nightingale".  So, if our words are carried around the world, hadn't we best start to examine them, to look at them  How better than by keeping a journal with thoughts and ideas.

Well, there you go, I've said it as best I could again. I might mention two or three little thoughts that come in passing.  I just had a letter from a lady with whom I've studied much over the years and she said, "spiritual exercises never appealed to me but now I see, now I'm forced to admit that my life has been the Open Sesame, the avenue to self-discovery."  I might add that that lady has published her fourth or fifth book.  Another gentleman I'm thinking of has published at least two books and has others soon to be published or awaiting publication and he said that his most joyful time is the time he sits to be still and write in his journal.

I know another lovely lady who was told these things 15 years ago and today she is editor of a publication of truth and I know many others who are now published writers.  All began with a journal with their own thoughts and ideas rather than the words of others.  So, if fruitage is the proof, we've a whole tree of delicious apples.  Maybe I should say peaches instead of apples.  And since that can be misconstrued too, how about oranges instead of peaches?

One more thought seems very important to me about your journal keeping. It isn't necessary to write religious things in it--it isn't necessary to fill it with all metaphysical stuff..  We write what is worthy of God which includes beauty, tenderness, joy.  So, we can write of the twinkle in somebody's eye, that we've seen two elderly people hands hands in the park - what a joyful site that is -- children tumbling in the park- redwoods blooming in the spring.  What is more worthy of the ineffable Godhead than to speak of beauty and joy and uprightness and love?  So the journal becomes a joy when we don't have to put the clinical antiseptic terms of metaphysics but not ignoring our metaphysics either.  Writing what science allows us to write.  Well, almost 40 years of journal keeping has allowed me to learn lots of little secrets that I can tell you but I save that for our face-to-face discussions.  Tangible how-to-do-its are explained here on this tape but there are many others that I'd be happy to talk about when we meet face to face. 


If you would like further guidance in understanding any of William Samuel's work based on Self discover you are welcome to contact me, Sandy Jones - samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   
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Saturday, July 23, 2016

The Glass Pyramid

THE GREAT GLASS PYRAMID

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Excerpt from The Child Within Us Lives! A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
By William Samuel 

Years ago someone wrote that all the people on earth, if assembled in one place, standing side by side, would occupy a square mile of land. They would certainly cover more land that that today, but let us use that square mile for the sake of an illustration that will make a point. Imagine that all humanity is brought together into a great glass pyramid whose four corners cover a square mile of earth. The people are standing jammed together like young people at a rock concert inside the great crystal pyramid, all facing the center.

Well now, how would each person describe what he sees as he looks up? Each one would see the four quadrants of glass coming together at the top. Let us suppose they can see the stars beyond, including Polaris, the North Star, whose position remains constant, and are asked to give a description of the North Star's location. The people along the south wall of the pyramid see the star in one quadrant; those along the north wall see it in another. Those who stand in the east side of the pyramid make different measurements to plot Polaris than do those in the west. As a matter of fact, every man, woman and child would have a slightly different version of the North Star's location, relative to the great glass panels that come to a point above. Each person represents a unique point of view.

Next, suppose that certain creeds and dogmas about the star's location developed through the centuries. The East-side view of things would certainly differ from the West-side view—similar to the differing religious views in the world today. Further, most people are too busy with family and other affairs to look up and measure for themselves, so they have grown to accept whatever idea is popular in their own locales. Can't we see from this illustration how religious ideas, all pertaining to the same God but seen through the eyes of differing cultures, have developed during the centuries before worldwide communication linked us all together? Man's personal views of his relation to Godhead are not unlike the pyramid-people's views of their relation to the North Star. Religious ideas generally refer to the Same One, but have their own sets of proofs for validity. And, in truth, every statement is valid, so far as its measure goes. Isn't it strange that some of the world's religions can perceive this difference and allow for it, while others stand like staunch old pines in the wind, refusing to give any other views an inch, claiming their own perspective is the only valid perspective of the Ineffable?

Can the reader see that all eyes pointing toward the top represent individual “points of view” and “lines of thought”? If so, let me show in a simple way how powerful subjectivism is—and, remember, subjective thinking is the new wave of things to come for mankind. 

One person, having learned the top-down method of thinking and comprehending—the very basis for subjectivism—is like a person who has broken away form the masses and climbed to the top of the pyramid. His view is like a great eye at the top of the pyramid looking down at everyone looking up. The top-down view includes all the bottom-up views within itself almost simultaneously. The top-down view is quantum, whereas the bottom-up view is individual. Such is the advantage of subjectivism and its comprehension that the world exists within Awareness! Subjectivism is to human thought what quantum mechanics has  become to physics. (Today we see the leading edge of science on the brink of discovering the “subjective idea.” They have found the experiment tied to the awareness observing the experiment. It is a start! Science will discover the power of subjectivism before religion does, it appears—and even before the metaphysicians who claim to know it already, but don't know what to do with it. We guess the scientist will know because his arithmetic will suggest, insist and cause him to “prove.”)

Does the Eye at the top quarrel with the opposing views at the bottom? No. It understands the basis for the differences of opinion—and understand the holistic reasons for mankind's behavior. Oh, but the top-down view would certainly object if one of the groups along the eastern or western wall went to war against its opposite numbers, in the name of creed, dogma and holy book.

We discover the child within. The Child takes us (more or less) quickly to the top of the pyramid to the View that includes all views within Itself. Down on the sandy floor of the pyramid, extremism in the defense (or promulgation) of anyone's holy book and/or bottom-up view of the Ineffable, causes men in black to make strange utterances in the name of localized views of God and to call for holy wars that could destroy civilization. On the floor, one hopes that won't happen. From the top, one sees that something must happen among the warring, unloving throngs to call attention to the Child's top-down View that understands and forgives. The prophets have all said to look up willingly—or be forced to look up in an awful Armageddon.

Two thousand years ago, Christianity came along to say, “Let that mind be in us which is also in Christ...” (the subjective view of things), but see how Christianity's dogmatic creeds are warring among themselves. Whatever happened to the Child's View that Jesus and other gave their lives to tell about?

We get the top-down view and live it on the sandy floor of life, right here in the objective view of things. How? We find the Child within ourselves and run with it. We publish peace (our own knowledge of this Child within) as we have been admonished to. We finally understand the exclusivity and arrogance of unyielding creeds and dogmas that discourage the individual's climb to the top of the pyramid. We see why the objective views have labeled subjectivism “silly solipsism.” And, subjectively, from the top, we see that “one with God is a majority.” The world unfolds within the subjective consciousness.
If you would like further guidance in understanding any of William Samuel's work based on Self discover you are welcome to contact me, Sandy Jones - samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

A Soldier's Prayer



The following poem was written by a Confederate soldier 
This poem was found among William Samuel's private journals. 


 A Soldier's Prayer 
           Anonymous 

I asked God for strength that I might achieve
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey 
I asked for health that I might do great things
I was given infirmity that I might do better things
I asked for riches that I may be happy

I was given poverty that I might be wise
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life
I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for.
Despite myself, my prayers were answered

I am amongst all men most richly blessed



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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM



"Sailing" by Sandy Jones 

Celestial Song 

This following paper by William Samuel, was included in a perusal letter he had sent me. It is from William Samuel's unpublished papers, his private journal. It's truly profound and as often is with William's words, prophetic. Here is something to really understand with the heart of you. I share it here with you now. 


A LETTER ON GOVERNMENT---

From unpublished papers written by  William Samuel, 1978 

The age old struggle between idealism and materialism continue with materialism making the most apparent gains. The genuine idealist is becoming rather difficult find.

Now we have reached the point, right here in America, when our two political parties are, in their very essence, embodiments of these two extremes. Idealism, the least popular, because the least understood, is the basis for the conservative view of government. On the other hand, materialism is the foundation for the liberal view of government.

It is my hope that someone will come along who is capable of pointing out so that all can clearly understand the basic difference is these two views. They are diametrically opposed one to the other. One says that “ideal society” can and must be regulated by laws; the other declares that the fewer laws the better an individual is able to operate to build the ideal society. The later group points out that "laws" are “regulations of human conduct” and that “freedom” is the “absence of regulations.” They maintain that we are removing our freedom by over regulating ourselves with laws at all levels of government and that we must reverse the trend lest one day we find all our personal freedom gone the way of government, rule, and regulation, for which we must pay the bill.

It is interesting to note that such a struggle between opposite points of view was waged in China 2500 years ago. Confucius advocated a powerful central government of law and regulations. Loatse, on the other hand, quietly maintained that the less law and less government the better. Confucius carried the day because the bulk of the people approved the idea of a great central caretaker and regulator of their problems. The Loatsen view called for personal humility in the face of Divine Law which was already perfectly established and which could be discerned and followed by men if they didn’t allow themselves to be carried away, distracted, inundated by human laws, rules an regulation.

History records that the strong governments eventually become corrupted in an era of gross materialism, void of religion, and fell apart. Yet the Laotsen ideas became the basis for one of the most magnificent religions the world has ever known—its idealism still a major influence in the world today.

Mayhap someone will also point out that communism can only thrive in an atmosphere of materialism. Whereas genuine religion thrives only in an atmosphere of idealism. Communism is a dead duck in the conservative society. Religion is a gonner in the liberal atmosphere. This is not to say that a liberal is a communist, but it is to say that most liberals are unaware that their own governmental regulation of human conduct is an equal and opposite remover of personal freedom, which, by definition is "the absence of regulation." Neither are they aware that their ideas are rooted in materialism, the belief that money, property, “things” et al, are more important than the overriding "Isness" which is being all "things." Many materialists I know pride themselves in the power of their ‘mind’ while all the while they hold that very mind in total subjection to their opinion of “things.”

The idealist, on the other hand, holds that "things" are secondary to mind, life, consciousness which he equates with God. The materialist must eventually equate his regulating government (who controls the “things” he considers so important) with God. This, of course, is precisely what communism preaches.

Humanity is prone to consider everything it thinks and does from the basis of the appearing. It recons reality from the seen and heard. Its aim and intention is to correct the errors of appearance. Suppose a mathematician did this. Suppose he did all his figuring and calculating from the standpoint of all the errors which appeared on the misworked paper. He wouldn't get much done. As a matter of fact, he wouldn’t get anything done. He wouldn’t solve the first error until he left the mistake long enough to check into the principle of arithmetic which would show him what was wrong about the problem and how to solve it.

So long as humanity is concerned only with the "things" of perception and pays no heed to the very perfect principle of Reality which is the basis for all ‘things’ ---and which, when understood, is the harmony and perfection of all experience---it will suffer the consequences of its own misinterpretation of “things.” Mankind must leave the errors of human experience in order to have done with them, just as the mathematician must "leave" the problem in order to entertain the “answer” to the problem. The answer to the problem is always, always, Reality, God.

William Samuel, 1978 -- Mountain Brook, Alabama
If you would like further guidance in understanding any of William Samuel's work based on Self discover you are welcome to contact me, Sandy Jones - samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -   
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