Re: THE RELIGION OF ISLAM




The Kingdom of Heaven IS You. What else BUT you did the Creator
create, and what else BUT you is His Kingdom? This is the whole
message of the Atonement - AT-ONE-ment; a message which in its
totality transcends the sum of its parts and totally different than
the teachings of any mind based religion.

It should be apparent to you by now that your mind offers you only a
temporary sense of existence. You are born into this life and you
will die to this life according to your thoughts. Against this sense
of temporary existence spirit offers you the knowledge of permanence
and unshakable being. No one who has truly experienced the revelation
of this spiritual knowledge can ever truly believe in this life
again. How can the meager offering of the mind prevail against what
is?

How can you tell mind from spirit? You will hear the Voice for God.
If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you have chosen
not to listen. That you DO listen to the voice of your mind is
demonstrated by your attitudes, feelings and behavior. This is what
you are fighting for and what you seek to save. Your mind is filled
with schemes to save the face of your misbegotten thoughts and you do
not see the face of God. Where you choose to look is up to you. You
can change your mind. When your mood tells you that you have chosen
wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then KNOW THIS
NEED NOT BE. In every case whenver you are not joyous, you have
thought wrongly about some brother God created, and are perceiving
images you mind makes in the dark away from God.

Search sincerely for what you have done and left undone accordingly,
and then change your mind to think with God's thoughts. This may seem
hard to do, but it is much easier than trying to think against it.
That's because your mind is one with God's. Denying this andthinking
otherwise holds your dark thoughts together, but it splits your mind
away from God.

As a loving brother I am deeply concerned with your mind, and I urge
you to look at yourself and at your brothers, and see in everything
the glorious creations of a glorious Father.

When you are sad,know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense
of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember
that you are deprived of nothing except by your own dark decisions
apart from God. Realize this and decide otherwise.

When you are anxious, realize that anxiety cceoms from capriciousness
of the dark thoughts you think apart from God, and know this need not
be. You can be as vigilant against your dark thoughts as you are now
vigilant for them.

When you feel guilty, remember that your darkened mind has indeed
violated the laws of God, but your Spirit mind that is with God
always, has not. Leave these 'sins' to God's mercy,. But until you
change your mind about those whom your dark thoughts have hurt, God
cannot release you. While you feel guilty your dark mind is in
command, because only dark thoughts can feel guilt. This nee not
be. Choose again a different thought.

Watch your mind for the temptations of darkened thought apart from
God, and do no be decieved. It offers you nothing in truth. When you
have given up this voluntary dis-spiriting, you can see how your mind
can focus and rise up above fatique and heal. You are not yet
sufficiently vigilant against the demands of darkness within your own
mind. This need not be.

Get into the habit of engaging WITH God and His creations. This is
easily done if you refuse to let your mind slip away into darkness.
The problem is not one of concentration; it is the belief that no one;
including yourself, is worth the consistent effort. Side with God and
all his creations consistently against the deception of the dark
thoughts in your own mind and do not permit any shabby belief to pull
you away from the thoughts you share with God. The disheartened are
useless to themselves and to God, but only false dark thoughts can BE
disheartened. When this is so, realize it need not be.

Have you reaally considered how many opportunities you have had to
gladden yourself and how many of them you have refused? There is no
limit to the power of God or to you as a Son of God, but you can limit
God's expression of devine love THROUGH you as you choose. Your mind
can unite with God and shine all the darkness away, releasing the
strength of God in all you say and do. Do not settle for anything
less than this and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal.
Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder this
accomplishment and step away from them. Judge how well you have done
this by your own feelings, for this is the one right use of judgment.
Judgment like any defense can be used to attack or protect, to hurt or
to heal. Darkness within should be brought to judgment andfound
wanting there. Without your own allegience to the darkness within
your own heart and mind, without your protection and love, darkness
cannot exist within you. Let darkness be judged truly and you must
withdraw you allegience, protection and love from the darkness within
you.

In this way you become a mirror of truth, in which God Himself shines
in perfect light through you and all of your action and thoughts. Do
not look on the darkness within because you know it is not true. The
darkness in you cannot prevent God from shining on you, but it can
prevent God from shining through you.


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