IN MY NAME

“IN MY NAME” Paper No. 50 February, 1933

Because the most important thing now before all disciples of Christ is to learn to enter and abide in His Consciousness, we shall dwell much from now on upon the necessity of daily practice in such abiding.

Nothing can be gained or attained, whether it be of a material or Spiritual nature, without effort. Until the mind has become the loving and obedient servant of the Spiritual Will, no definite and conscious advancement can be made spiritually. Think that over, until you realize how true it must be, despite the statement that of ourselves we can do nothing, and that the Life or Spirit within us is what grows or unfolds us.

Life or Spirit, or God even, can do nothing for us without our cooperation. Do you believe that? Let us see if we can prove it.

You realize that all ideas, wisdom, life, power and ability come from God, or from the One Consciousness, within you. But when they come, of what value are they if you do not make good use of them? To do this it takes effort; you must make yourself use these ideas, this wisdom, this life, power or ability, the way you are shown, or in-harmony, disease, trouble or unhappiness result. Is this not so?

Then it is only through use of these God-given ideas, powers and attributes that one grows—spiritually. We will admit that your physical body grows, even as a plant or an animal grows, almost without any will or effort on your part; but unless you feed and exercise that body you would soon find it would die, for without such help it could not grow, and therefore the Life or Spirit would refuse longer to sustain and stay in it.

Likewise, would You, God’s Spirit, refuse very long to remain in and sustain your human self, if it made no good use of the life, guidance, power and ability Your gave it; for cooperation You must have, if You are to do Your Father’s will on earth, as You came here to do.

So can you not see that the most important thing before You is to get the perfect cooperation of Your human self as soon as possible? And You must say to it, until it fully understands and strives unceasingly to obey, “If ye ABIDE in Me, and let My words ABIDE in you, whatever you wish or need shall be given you.” Then will it know the glorious results of cooperation and what it means truly to abide in and work from Your Christ Consciousness.

We know that many are not yet consciously able to enter that Consciousness at will, but we assure you that most of you are in that Consciousness perhaps many times a day—those of you who have opened your hearts to Love and are letting It lead in all that you do. For in giving yourselves to Love’s use you are serving Christ, and unconsciously are abiding in Him and letting His words abide in and direct you for the time being.

Try to realize that Love is Christ, is God’s Spirit in you, is the Real you; and all that you are in the outer is but an extension of Your Christ or Love Consciousness slowed down to the human mind’s capacity to express it. It is the enlarging and unfolding of that capacity You are concerned with now, so that You can express perfectly, through it, unhindered by self’s ideas, even as You are now doing in the soul realm of the Kingdom. It is the impressing upon your mind all of the great truths it has been shown, so they are a part of its consciousness, that is Your present and most important task. That includes all stated in this article.

Again we say, when you have learned consciously and at will to open your heart to Love and allow It to come forth and take charge—of your work, no matter what it is; of your contact with others, doing all the talking through you, and you know Love is ruling—that Consciousness you are in when Love is thus possessing you is that of your Christ Self, and His words are then abiding in and directing you. This expresses it from your human mind’s understanding.

Now we will say it as You would express it from your Christ understanding: When You have taught Your human self consciously and at will to open its heart and let You come forth and take charge—of whatever you are doing and with whomever you are talking—it will find that good always results and your mind will always be happy and at peace.

Ah, dear friends, these are not just words, but are the greatest realities that can come into your life; and if those of you who think you have not yet found Christ within you will stay with these words until you realize and prove their truth, they will mean to you more than anything that has come to you through these teachings.

Of course we have said this same thing many times in the past, but you were not then perhaps ready to receive it. We pray now you are ready—you who have not yet found the Loving One, your own True Self, before—and that these words will prove to be illumined with a great light that brings to your consciousness what all that has gone before has been preparing you for. Of such importance is this great Realization; nothing else can compare with it, for it brings to you the Loving Christ, Who alone can lead you back to your Father’s home.

And we can tell you this,—once having found Him so you know when He is present in your consciousness and when He speaks, no earthly joy compares to that of abiding there with Him and letting His words abide in and direct you in all that you do. And remember, HE IS LOVE, that Love which wells up in your heart and is always seeking to come forth; He is your True Nature, that is so opposite to self; He is your Christ Self, a Son of God, God’s Holy Spirit in you. Do you not know Him now? Do you know now Who you are and of What you are a part—a part of Your Father’s household, the Great Brotherhood of Christ?

Naturally this is not intended for those who have known this all along, who are now able to abide in their True Consciousness and to work from there. But it is for those who have perhaps lagged behind, allowing other things to be first, and are now waking up to the necessity of God and His Kingdom’s becoming supreme in their lives, if they wish to escape the troubles that are coming to the world. That dear Brothers, is what we would help you to escape.

Therefore, we urge that each day and as many times a day as possible, you take the time to still your human mind and retire in consciousness within the heart (not the physical heart, of course, but deep within where it is), actually seeing and feeling yourself there. And you will really be there, for where your thoughts and feelings are or your consciousness is, You must be, for You are your Consciousness. Then consciously open your heart, as it were, and let Love flow forth; Love which is your true consciousness, that which is actually God’s Consciousness in you. And as you allow it to come forth you will find in a wondrous way You are that Consciousness, that all that It is You are, and all that It has is yours. Then you will know you are in Christ’s Consciousness and that It is now Your Consciousness.

When you have got your mind in the habit of obeying instantly, when it thus turns within to You, and you can get it to abide there with You in Your Consciousness, losing all sense of self and separation from You, seek to hold it there for longer and longer periods. After a time you will find it will turn within to You of its own accord, and will love to abide in Your consciousness, to see with Your eyes and to partake of Your understanding, as You unfold before it the truths You wish it to know and use.

Then gradually will you find your mind resting in Your Consciousness, whenever its consciousness is free from outer interests to do so; in other words, instead of having the consciousness centred without in your human mind and having to turn within with an effort to find You, now when freed from mortal concerns the mind and its consciousness fly back within to Your consciousness where they are now centered.

Eventually they go no more out, for there is no longer anything in the world, the flesh or the self to interest or attract them; they have not only learned to abide in You, but self, no longer being fed by the mind’s attention, gradually disappears and is no more as a separate self; for You then are the only Self, and the world learns to know You as You are in your Christ Nature, even as they knew Jesus when on earth.

This has happened to but few on earth up to the present time, but many these days are preparing their human minds and have trained them into such good servants that when they come in touch with the Impersonal Teachings and this Work, and recognize in them what is needed to bring about the final union, they will soon with the aid received be able to abide continually in their Christ Consciousness and to think, speak and work always from there.

Think what that means? To go no more out and be caught and influenced by the claims of the world, the flesh or the self, but to be always above them, dwelling in the consciousness that Jesus had when on earth?

Think you that is impossible? Then why came He here to teach it, and why did He promise that it should be before the end of the Age? Did He not say to His disciples, those who believed in Him, “All these things and greater shall ye do; because I go unto my Father.”

The end of the Age is here. You are His disciples. You believe in Him. You have been taught what is necessary, you have been prepared for four years to receive just what He promised. Did not the first Paper say, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things will be added.” Then believe, for it awaits you, the specially chosen ones of the Lord.

For you would not be in this Work were it not meant to be by your Higher Selves. Only you can prevent it by lagging behind until it is too late. May these words inspire you on to unrelenting efforts.

In order to help we now offer you an exercise that will lift your consciousness above the carnal sense into Your Consciousness.

In the Prayer on the Blue Card as the words read it is your human self that prays. We will now change the words to those You from Your Christ Consciousness would use:

Beloved Father; Thou, oh blessed Christ Jesus; and Thou, our dear Brothers of the Kingdom,–hear this My earnest prayer:

Draw My human mind in consciousness deep within where Thou art, where self exists not, and where it may be one with and abide with Us in Christ. Help it to open wide the heart and let out the Great Love, that It may possess the mind utterly, may rule, motivate and inspire every thought, word and act, merging its consciousness completely into Love, thereby enabling it to love as We love, to see as We see, to hear as We hear; thereby lifting the mind into complete oneness with Thy Consciousness, Our Christ Consciousness, etc.

Then finish it from that Consciousness, making the changes as you are led from within. If you have learned the Prayer so you can say it easily from memory, then hereafter always try to say it from this Consciousness. If you will do this and will persist until you can say it as easily as before, you will find it will be of the greatest aid in helping you to think and speak from that Consciousness.

If this is not easy at first, study the subtle difference in the phraseology until you fully understand the meaning and purpose of the change, and thus gradually rise into the Consciousness from which the words must be spoken to give them the meaning intended.

With this to help you and point the way practice changing other prayers, as for instance, The Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm, so you can say them from your Christ Consciousness. Then practice talking to your human self, as in “The Impersonal Life,” until you can retire into that Consciousness at will. By persistent daily practice as suggested, assisted by accustoming yourself to go about your work and to meet people with your heart wide open, letting Love lead and speak through you, you will find it will not be long before it will be natural for you to be chiefly in that Consciousness.

And can you not see this is the only way you will come into final complete union with your Christ Self, the Real You, which is the goal your soul is seeking, and what was intended from the beginning?

Then why delay any longer? Is it not worth putting all your effort–all that you are and have, to bring it to pass? Is there any glory the world or self can offer that equals the glory of being a conscious Son of God, a Christ, here on earth, now fully prepared to accomplish the Father’s purpose with all your other Brothers in Christ?

IN MY NAME

“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

“If ye ask anything in my name, I will do it.”–John 14:13-14.

“Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He will give it to you.”–John 16:23.

In the above statements of Jesus lies hidden a very great truth, and we will try to make it so clear to all who read that never more will they fail to know and we hope wisely to use the meaning in the words “in His Name.”

Jesus used the words “in My Name,” or “for My Name’s Sake,” often, and always to impress upon His disciples the importance of asking in a certain understanding or consciousness, and they would receive either from Him or from the Father. Therefore, when He makes so definite a promise–that anything we ask in that particular way will always bring to us what we want–it certainly behoves disciples to seek above all things else, especially at this time, how to find what is that way, so they may ask “In His Name” and obtain complete freedom from the lack of necessary things that should have no part in the life of His disciples.

What think you He meant? That all we need do is to ask, and say “in Jesus’ Name,” and it will be given us? None of you believe that, for probably you have asked often, only to be disappointed by getting no results whatsoever. Then must it not have some relation to that other saying of Jesus? “And all things , whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, BELIEVING, ye shall receive.” Mat. 21: 22.

Or as He puts it in Mark 11:24, “What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, BELIEVE THAT YE RECEIVE THEM, and ye shall have them.” The Emphatic Diaglot in the original Greek text gives it, “in the name of Me.” That certainly does not mean in Jesus’ name as an historical personage.

But does it not mean in the name of the Christ of Him, or in the Consciousness of the Holy Spirit in Him? Think, could it mean anything else?

Then not until you are able to enter that same Consciousness within You, as we have shown, and to ask from there, will He or the Father hear, and will you then receive what you ask.

By a study of Jesus’ prayers and asking of the Father, before receiving in the seemingly miraculous ways He always received, you can see that He always believed and expected to receive, proving He was then in His Christ Consciousness. And you have only to try it and see for yourself that it is only when in that Consciousness you can be in a true state of believing and expecting, and thereby will receive what you ask.

Then the most important thing in life is to learn to be in that Consciousness and to ask from it what you want Christ or the Father to do. But you must remember, when in that Consciousness, self and its desires will have wholly disappeared, for Jesus never asked anything for Himself, but only for others. So anyone who seeks to enter that Consciousness, or the Kingdom of God, in order to secure the fulfilment of his desires, or the things that will be added, will be barred from it as from a King’s Castle.

Likewise, you will learn in that Consciousness you would never think of asking anything except when stirred by the need of some one desperately requiring help. Then you would ask only that the Father might be glorified in the Son, and that sceptics and the world may know of the power of God to help any of His children through His Son who believed in Him. At all other times He goes about in His Christ Consciousness doing the Work of the Father, ever counting upon Him to supply the power , as well as to point the way and to provide the means.

IN HIS SERVICE

We wish to talk some more with you on the Noonday Service asked of you. Do you as yet fully realize what We requested you to do? That We asked only that you give yourselves to Our use for the short period of three minutes each day at noon, that through you We can pour the Divine Light and Power of God’s Love into the consciousness of men, illumining them so that the darkness is driven from all minds that have been made ready to receive it? Can you grasp what that means?

First try to realize that just to the extent that all disciples in this Work actually give themselves to Us, their Christ Selves, so that We are able to pour through them unhindered the mighty Power and Light of God’s Love, does that Light go forth from them as from great Beacon Lights, or as great waves of invisible light rays from powerful Radio broadcasting stations, that are received by every mind in their vicinity attuned to their wave length.

Let us assume that there are now a thousand such stations We can so use, and that from each of these invisible light rays are being daily sent and from each these rays are received by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of minds that are becoming more and more attuned to Our Christ vibrations, so that they are now seeking everywhere in the outer for that Light they are dimly perceiving in the Inner realm.

As that Light within them is thus made gradually to shine brighter so that after awhile We can lead them into this Work, they in time becoming like you– Our conscious disciples, and thereby Impersonal channels for Our use as Beacon Lights in their communities, can you not see that these hundreds of thousands of great radiating Lights, clearly visible in the soul realm, situated as they are in almost every city and town in the country and in other countries, would thus soon light the whole world of consciousness in men’s minds, so that the darkness would be confined only to scattered small communities where there were no disciples?

In other words, it would be as if in each town or city there were one or many very powerful Beacon Lights, lighting the whole city and far into the rural districts, so that the only places where there was any darkness was in the few sparsely settled spots far away from such centres of light. This would mean that light was everywhere, that the darkness had been conquered and was no more able to reach and lead men astray.

So in very truth are We working and are gradually accomplishing Our Father’s Purpose for His children–Our children; for in reality you are Our creations given birth in the darkness long eons ago in a world period when We, your Divine Selves, wandered in darkness on another planet, even as wander the men of earth today. But even as our Divine Selves were then gradually leading us back into the Light of their and our Father God’s Consciousness, so are We now leading you Our children of earth back into Our and Our Father God’s Consciousness.

Of course, Our Father God is All that We and you are–we are but centres of His Consciousness, and we all live, move and have our being in His Consciousness; but just as every idea in your mind gives birth to other ideas and thoughts, which have to grow, develop and mature to perfection before they are of any real use to you; so do We and you, each in our respective spheres of activity, have to grow, develop and mature into the perfection of Oneness with the Consciousness that is our Heavenly Home, before we can be of any real use to our Father God.

That Consciousness is the pure white Light of the Father’s Being, Whose expression is Wisdom, Love and Power, and whose activity outwardly is symbolized in the light, heat and power man has been taught to gain and utilize from so-called electricity, which is in reality but such outer expression of God’s Life of Love, the Life which grows, develops and matures to perfection everything on earth, as well as everything in the invisible realms, and every idea in the great universe of consciousness.

Now we will show you another phase of that consciousness–the undeveloped part–those centres or ideas not yet unfolded into the light of maturity. This part men call evil or darkness, but only because they do not understand. Evil or darkness is only absence of Light, or ignorance of what is the Light. Men walking in darkness then naturally shun the Light, because they cannot bear it–its vibrations are too strong for them. Hence, because they do not understand, they are the enemies of Light and of all that are a part of the Light. That is why so-called evil men fight the Light and all those who are trying to bring Light in to the world. They deem all such their enemies and do everything possible, incited by their darkened and therefore distorted sense of right, to prevent Light coming to men’s minds. Think back over history and note their efforts of such nature from the beginning of time.

But you must remember, wherever there is light, if there is anything that is not all of the light and therefore stands in the way, it creates a shadow. Just so long as man’s minds turns from the Light must he walk in the darkness of his own shadow–self, for that is all self is, the shadow of ignorance or the sense of separation, caused by turning away from the Light. And because of self and the darkness of selfishness being forced by the Brothers of Light in Their concerted down-pouring of Light in these last days, all darkness, including everything a part of it, is pushed to the outermost limits of the inner planes of being, right up against the physical, accounting for the great pressure now being put upon and being felt by men’s minds, and as one of the effects, for the so-called depression being felt by almost everyone in all parts of the world.

In their desperation, all these forces of darkness are exerting the utmost efforts to confuse men’s minds by sophistries and fallacies of all kinds and thus keep them in darkness, so that they will be unable to detect and accept truth when it is presented to them, thinking by thus hiding in the dark shadows of the men whom they control, they can escape the effects of the Light. For remember the forces of darkness are influencing men’s souls through their outer minds, and it is to prevent their souls turning to Us, their Higher Selves, that all efforts of the enemy are bent.

Which is the state of most men’s minds today, This pressure, exerted through newspapers, magazines, books, moving pictures, theatres, certain religious, metaphysical and occult movements, and even educational institutions, always in a subversive way, is definitely directed toward controlling or influencing men’s thinking, and few realize or would admit that they are being deliberately led away from the Light of God’s Truth and Love into the darkness of chaos and spiritual extinction, where only misery and age lasting torment await.

Yes, few people, up to very recently, could be got to believe that such evil forces exist, or that anyone could do or were doing these incredibly evil things, and especially could they believe that such forces exist in the invisible, or that they were able from the invisible to influence men’s minds in such a wholesale way as depicted.

Would you believe there are forces of evil inspiring their dupes and servants in the outer to meet together regularly, and deliberately to concentrate the power of their minds to broadcast certain diabolic thought suggestions intended to reach all minds open to receive them? And can you believe that there are many millions of minds so open to evil suggestions that they readily accept and act upon them when received? It is because these suggestions encourage and feed their selfish tendencies and desires that such men easily succumb and are led to perpetrate the many wrong and evil things they do.

For even as We, the forces of Light, know all this and purposely permit it–for such ignorant minds have to be allowed to feed upon error just as long as there are elements of darkness in their nature that attract it, and they finally learn that darkness does and cannot bring true and lasting happiness, satisfaction or peace–so do We utilize these forces to develop and unfold men’s minds that eventually they will be capable of understanding and accepting Truth whenever and wherever it appears.

The fact is, evil forces have no actual existence, even as darkness has no actual existence; for these forces are but reactions caused by men’s imaginations when in the darkness of ignorance of their divine nature as sons of Light. Did they but face about to the Light, they would know the truth and recognize Us, their True Selves, and those evil tendencies would vanish from their natures, even as darkness vanishes when light appears.

In the meantime all We have to do is to pour more and more Light into men’s minds, just as fast as they are able to bear it and be strong; for as the Light is brought, it uncovers with the truth just that much more seeming evil in their own natures and in the world of other men’s minds, and in learning to overcome this evil so that it no longer influences them they gain greater strength and understanding, permitting Us to add more Light.

It is in this way that men develop and grow spiritually; or putting it in another way, in this manner do We teach and unfold the minds of you Our human expressions, until We bring them to that stage where they fully recognize and seek only to serve and cooperate with Us, their Divine Selves.

And can you now see how necessary it is to counter-act the power of the suggestions poured into men’s minds by these evil forces, by creating as many broadcasting stations out of Our disciples as possible, getting all disciples minds so open to Our vibrations that We can not only every noon direct through them a mighty concerted stream of Love, but that Our Light can continuously pour through them day and night and shine with such effect that hundreds will be lead to each and We can quicken, unfold and make them also a part of the Light?

And, likewise, can you now see why We are asking you to give yourselves to Us,–that We can from now on not only through you pour more and more Light into the world of men’s consciousness, until all darkness disappears and with it the forces of evil that have been so long ruling the world, but that We may destroy altogether that sense of separation in you and permit Us to flood your consciousness with such Light that self will utterly disappear and We will be your only selves, and can thus bring the Kingdom of Light to earth to abide forever?