THE GREATEST ASSURANCE OF OUR SUCCESS BY THE CHRIST AND THE SIMPLICITY OF ITS ACHIEVEMENT

In the nature of my deep thinking, which is based on focusing my thought forces on the higher self- my other personality, I undertake the journey to the interpretation of the following verses by the Master who doeth all things well, in my pursuit for the truth. I have, in the process, come to the conclusion that if we meditate upon the words that Christ has used to console and advise us, we shall be amazed at the simplicity of what He is trying to tell us.

For example, when Christ asks us not to be worried about our lives, He is referring to our physical lives- our lower self, in that, He continues to elaborate on this reference by asking us not to worry about what we shall eat or drink or put on our bodies. He confirms this fact by asking the crucial question on whether life is not more than food, body and clothing.

Mathew 6:25-29: "For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!”

This statement by the Christ is today wrongly interpreted to imply that we should live in abject poverty, but nothing could be further from the truth.

If we focus on the words of Paul in Romans 12:2, we find that he is asking us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. But how exactly do we renew our mind? According to sharefaith.com, renewing the mind means to replace fallible worldly knowledge and logic with the infallible logic of God's truth.

This is what Paul, in Ephesians 4:23 terms as “to be made new in the attitude of our mind.” This means that we must keep tab of our thinking. We must keep our mind focused on the principles of Christ and must constantly reject temptations to conform to the world, which implies lower self, or the body- the physical.

When we focus on the principles of Christ contained in His yoke, we find them to be composed of righteousness, purity of mind, gentleness, generosity, meekness, love as well as self renunciation.

These principles are clearly achieved by focusing our thought forces on the kingdom of God, which is found in the higher self.

The higher self is itself our spirituality, for it is composed of the attributes of God in us- the likeness and image of God in us.

Our likeness with God is our consciousness that gives us the ability to think, whereas the image of God in us is His Spirit which forms our higher self.

It is notable; therefore, that Jesus is advising us not to focus our thought forces on anything that is not contained in His principles. The attainment of these principles is realized by focusing our mind on higher things.

It also means that physical life, as in what to eat, what to wear or drink and in fact the body, is secondary to our point of focus.

The point of focus in this case is God, the origin of all these things that manifests into the physical realm, including the lilies of the field and the clothing of the grass.

The full implication of the above statement by Jesus is best understood through the knowledge of the principles contained in the law of cause and effect.

This is so, in that what Jesus is warning us against, as found in the law of cause and effect are the dangers of focusing on effects which are found in the lower self. Instead, He wants us to reflect on something much higher, but something not in the seen, for according to Paul in 2 Cor. 4:18, “what is seen is temporary while what is unseen is eternal.”

We all know that what is unseen can only be achieved through the power of faith. No wonder then that Jesus is concluding the statement by accusing us of our little faith.

When He says that God will cloth us even more than that which is there today and tomorrow is no more, He is seeing into the cause of effects.

The truth in this is found in that Jesus has not stated that we shall not need to eat, drink or cloth our bodies. Not at all. But He states that when we improve on our faith, God will supply us with all these things.

This is so in that the body needs all these things. But Jesus shows that there is a system to be followed to achieve all these things necessary for our bodies without conforming to the world in the process. This is also what it is to live by the Spirit and, according to Galatians 5:16, we shall then not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

In Mathew 6:33, Jesus is telling us, “But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.”

With regards to this statement from the Christ, we know that the kingdom of God is in the realm of the unseen, the realm of the spirit. This includes His righteousness.But we also know from Paul in 2 Cor. 4:18 that the unseen is eternal and the seen temporary.

“All these other things…,” which shall be added to us, includes both the unseen and the seen, for it is in the order of things that the seen originates from the unseen.

So, Mathew 6:25-29 does not imply that all of a sudden, the things that Jesus tells us not to be troubled about are not necessary. Instead, it shows that they are all included in all things that are added to us in Mathew 6:33 in the above order of things.

This is so in that, if it was not the case, then the Christ would not have gone ahead to emphasis on how much more God would cloth us, before challenging us on our little faith.

Mathew 6:25-29 would also have been in conflict with Mark 11:24. This verse encourages us to pray for anything that we desire, emphasizing that it will be given to us, as long as we believe.

But the crux of the matter is found in the requirement to seek the kingdom of God first. We have seen that the kingdom of God is found in the realm of the unseen, which is also the realm of the spirit.

We have also seen that this kingdom is found by taking on the yoke of Christ, which is achieved by focusing our mind on higher things.

This higher thing is also found to be at the realm of thought, which is also in the unseen. The connection between the two realms is found to contain the unifying factor between God and man in our consciousness giving us what we term as reality. It is no wonder then that Christ and later Paul are urging us to focus on higher thing as the physical reality is unimportant.

Physical reality is unimportant in the sense that it is just a reflection of our thinking making its essence secondary. It is therefore crucial that we concentrate all our thought forces on the primary aspect of our intrinsic being, which is found in the application of positive thinking, in order to have the kind of physical reality that befits us.

Upon engaging in right thinking, we in essence enter the realm of causes- the kingdom of God. At this realm, we become one with God. Here, we are at the alpha of things. Being one with God, we are given the key to this secret place. We are now able to use our thinking to trigger into action the energy that combines the right ingredients for the substance of any things that we hope for, through the immutable law of attraction. It is in this way that God will cloth us more than the grass of the field and reward us according to our faith.

In this realm of thought, we shall have found the dwelling place of the Most High and will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, according to Psalm 91:1. In this realm, we are seated with Christ, (through whom all things came and through whom we live, who fills the whole universe, by whom all things were created and for Him, who is before all things and in whom all things hold together), in God and are given the key to this secret place. Here, we find all power bestowed upon us, according to Job 22:28, “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee - Thou shalt form a purpose or plan, and it shall not be frustrated. It shall not be opposed by the events of divine Providence, but whatever you undertake shall prosper.”

According to the revelation found in 1 Cor. 2:6-16, we have been given the Spirit as well as the mind of Christ which is hidden with Christ in God according to Colossians 3:3. With this revelation, we then realize our immortality, which is confirmed by the fact that we have been given fullness of the Deity in Christ, according to Colossians 2:10.

Since immortality cannot be based on the past or the future and nor can it be restricted in time or space, it means that we are already immortal. All we need to do is to use our consciousness to reclaim our immortality in the here and now and take our position in the realm of the kingdom of God through our omnipresence, omnipotence as well as omniscience even as God visits us in the cool of the day at the spiritual Garden of Eden, and whispers to us in His still, small voice that we call intuition.

In this way, we shall live our lives and live it in abundance, for it is for this reason that Christ is come, according to John 10:10.

PURPOSE- THE OBJECT OF THOUGHT

...thought is objective; it is objective in that it is consciously intended, by the individual, through our thinking ability, to attain or accomplish a certain purpose or goal or target, making the purpose the object of the thought, whereas mind is subjective- static, in that the intelligence in it is not controlled by our conscious objective mind- hence subjective. This shows that our ability to produce thoughts and process them in our mind is what gives us our consciousness. The mind is therefore made objective by the thoughts that we feed it with, through our freewill. Borrowed from my upcoming book.

WHY WE MUST COURT INTUITION FOR OUR ADVANCEMENT

Intuition has immensely benefited both the men of science as well as religion in equal measure. It has guided them into the achievements that has helped shape the world in countless number of ways, since time immemorial.

Let us focus a bit on a young man who heard the voice of God as he was spoken to by the Lord in the Old Testament. This is the story of Samuel as found in the book of 1 Samuel 3: 1-10 which says. “The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions. One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord, where the ark of God was.  Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.”  And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.  Again the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”  Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord: The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.  A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.  The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

We also hear from the book of 1 Kings 19 of a small still voice that wise men call a gentle whisper. Verse 12 says, “And now the thunder ceased, and the lightning was gone, and the earth was still, and the wind was hushed, and there was a dead calm, and out of the midst of the still air there came what the Hebrew calls 'a voice of gentle silence,' as if silence had become audible."

This small voice also described as the still voice and elsewhere as the gentle whisper that God used to call Samuel is the same still voice that came to Elijah after the lightning and thunder. This voice is what a lot of people call intuition, while some people call it the voice of the soul and others call it the sixth sense while others still call it the voice of God. This is in essence our inner spiritual sense.

This intuition is described elsewhere as an inner spiritual sense through which man is opened to the direct revelation and knowledge of God, the secret of nature and life, and through which he is brought into conscious unity and fellowship with God.

It is through this intuition that man is opened to the secrets of nature and life and made to realize his deification nature and supremacy of being a son of God.

It is, therefore, through this Spiritual supremacy and illuminations that we see high progression with time, as knowledge continue to be accumulated through intuition. A good example of such intuition and how it has helped advance the human race is a new principle discovered in the1900s. This principle called relativity theory superseded the previously accepted mechanical theory on the basis that it overturned the concept of motion from Newton's day, by positing that all motion is relative.

Newtonian world had always believed that you could catch up to anything even the tip of a light wave if you moved fast enough. This meant that if you were in a rocket, for example, speeding at say 90% the speed of light away from the earth, and you fired a bullet inside the rocket which then travel at a speed of 90% of the speed of light, the bullet traveling in the same direction with the rocket, according to Newtonian law of classic mechanical theory, should be traveling at a speed of 180% the speed of light.

This meant that the speed of the bullet would exceed the velocity of light, but the discoverer of relativity theory, Albert Einstein after perceiving through intuition, however, showed that the meter sticks of a clock, shortens and time slows down as you get closer to the speed of light. He showed that the sum of these velocities is actually close to 99% the speed of light. He was also able to show, in this new theory, that no matter how hard you tried, you could never accelerate beyond the speed of light, meaning that light velocity was the ultimate speed limit in the universe.

As these great men guided their mind ever more inwards to the tiniest and most powerful magnitudes of reality, we witness a lot of advances which were made during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For example, a physicist, Marie Curie discovered during this period that just an ounce of  a chemical element which is almost pure-white alkaline earth metal, known as radium emitted four thousand calories of heat per hour indefinitely, which seemed to violate the first law of thermodynamics, which states that the total amount of energy is always constant or conserved.

The relativity theory discovered by Einstein in 1905 also saw such advances like the rewriting of Einstein’s equations by Minkowski, to reveal a four- dimension structure, which tended to link space and time into four- dimensional (length, width,  depth and time) fabric forever. He also showed that Einstein’s equation changes in such a way that interrelations with another simultaneously changing quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged meaning that it remains covariant when space and time are rotated as four dimensional objects, giving raise to the emergence of a new principle of physics which stated that the equations of physics must maintain the same form under a symmetry that unified space and time also known as Lorentz transformation.

This period may be compared to the olden days when the human race was endowed with a successful vicissitude of visitation by angels in the old testament as well as when the Holy Spirit was poured to men after the death of Christ in the new testament. It is a period filled with news of men thinking about nature and getting revelations through intuition on how nature operates.

The period also saw such advances like Einstein’s new theory of gravity guided by intuition after he envisioned through his thought forces and realized that if you are in a free fall, you would not feel your own weight, a realization that impelled him towards a theory of gravitation. This intuition made him realize that the planets and the moon were actually in a state of free fall in their orbits around the sun or the earth.

 He also understood, again through intuition that if you were in a rocket ship, everything inside including the floor and all equipments inside, falls at the same rate giving the illusion that gravity has vanished. He reasoned that this is so simply because the floor of the spaceship is falling alongside with your body. This, however, implies that gravity has actually just been cancelled by the falling of the rocket ship beneath your feet, something that is known as the equivalence principle.

This principle in which all masses fall at the same rate under the gravity became Einstein’s intuitional foundation of a new relativistic theory of gravity, forming a postulation behind general relativity that the laws of physics in an accelerating frame or gravitating frames are indistinguishable. This meant that the accelerating and gravity frames obeyed the same laws of physics.

It is just amazing as well as intriguing how these great men used the power of their mind through thinking as well as through imagination to propel man into such knowledge base of nature, enabling things that would otherwise not make sense to us to be on the contrary at the forefront in benefiting the human race, confirming our attributes as real gods in truth and in spirit. This use of mind has brought us to a situation where the science fiction of today is the reality of life tomorrow.

Einstein, for example, was also able to formulate the generalized symmetry that described accelerations and gravity known as the general covariance through intuition. He also found out together with another scientist known as Bose, a curious fact about the quantum world that atoms are indistinguishable if “supercooled” to near absolute zero; a state where all atomic movement almost ceases. At this state, all the atoms would fall down to the lowest energy state, creating a single, “superatom.” At this state, the atoms vibrate in what is known as the lockstep and subtle quantum effects, usually only seen at the level of individual atoms, but which, at this low temperatures, becomes distributed throughout the entire condensate. An example of this kind of condensate is the spectators at a football game who form human waves that sweep across the stadium as they stand up and down in unison. Similarly, the atoms in what came to be known as the “Bose- Einstein condensate” act as if everything is vibrating in unison.

As these theories were confirmed and continue to guide us towards more and ever more advancements through new discoveries, we salute those brains of yesteryears that are behind these discoveries, brains that, as we now see so clearly, were guided by intuition through the faith of these, our pioneers.

But let us find out the definition of this word that has become so common in my blogs- intuition.

 Intuition is defined as a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. The word is also defined as the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. It is common knowledge that, you must also have a lot of faith in that, that you consider likely through intuition for a fact.

A closer analysis will also show that the people who helped change the world through the use of their intuition also had a lot of faith. This is the same faith, as found in the bible, we are told that it is the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for. It is also a manifestation of the things hoped for through this faith that is evidently characterized through the earnest desire from these men to give the world pure truths about the nature of things.

As the concentration of their desires, through attention builds up the momentum, bound in concentration and visualization, we see the strength of their efforts resulting in the precision of their speculation, many years after they were first given to the world, through theories, in new discoveries, with physicists winning Nobel prizes by the day today, after new discoveries which are pure manifestation of those theories, through intuition, of long time ago.

WHY WE MUST COURT INTUITION FOR OUR ADVANCEMENT

Intuition has immensely benefited both the men of science as well as religion in equal measure. It has guided them into the achievements that has helped shape the world in countless ways, since time immemorial.

Let us focus a bit on a young man who heard the voice of God as he was spoken to by the Lord in the Old Testament. This is the story of Samuel as found in the book of 1 Samuel 3: 1-10 which says. “The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions. One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the Lord, where the ark of God was.  Then the Lord called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.”  And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.  Again the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”  Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord: The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.  A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.  The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

We also hear from the book of 1 Kings 19 of a small still voice that wise men call a gentle whisper. Verse 12 says, “And now the thunder ceased, and the lightning was gone, and the earth was still, and the wind was hushed, and there was a dead calm, and out of the midst of the still air there came what the Hebrew calls 'a voice of gentle silence,' as if silence had become audible."

This small voice also described as the still voice and elsewhere as the gentle whisper that God used to call Samuel is the same still voice that came to Elijah after the lightning and thunder. This voice is what a lot of people call intuition, while some people call it the voice of the soul and others call it the sixth sense while others still call it the voice of God. This is in essence our inner spiritual sense.

This intuition is described elsewhere as an inner spiritual sense through which man is opened to the direct revelation and knowledge of God, the secret of nature and life, and through which he is brought into conscious unity and fellowship with God.

It is through this intuition that man is opened to the secrets of nature and life and made to realize his deification nature and supremacy of being a son of God.

It is, therefore, through this Spiritual supremacy and illuminations that we see high progression with time, as knowledge continue to be accumulated through intuition. A good example of such intuition and how it has helped advance the human race is a new principle discovered in the1900s. This principle called relativity theory superseded the previously accepted mechanical theory on the basis that it overturned the concept of motion from Newton's day, by positing that all motion is relative.

Newtonian world had always believed that you could catch up to anything even the tip of a light wave if you moved fast enough. This meant that if you were in a rocket, for example, speeding at say 90% the speed of light away from the earth, and you fired a bullet inside the rocket which then travel at a speed of 90% of the speed of light, the bullet traveling in the same direction with the rocket, according to Newtonian law of classic mechanical theory, should be traveling at a speed of 180% the speed of light.

This meant that the speed of the bullet would exceed the velocity of light, but the discoverer of relativity theory, Albert Einstein after perceiving through intuition, however, showed that the meter sticks of a clock, shortens and time slows down as you get closer to the speed of light. He showed that the sum of these velocities is actually close to 99% the speed of light. He was also able to show, in this new theory, that no matter how hard you tried, you could never accelerate beyond the speed of light, meaning that light velocity was the ultimate speed limit in the universe.

As these great men guided their mind ever more inwards to the tiniest and most powerful magnitudes of reality, we witness a lot of advances which were made during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For example, a physicist, Marie Curie discovered during this period that just an ounce of  a chemical element which is almost pure-white alkaline earth metal, known as radium emitted four thousand calories of heat per hour indefinitely, which seemed to violate the first law of thermodynamics, which states that the total amount of energy is always constant or conserved.

The relativity theory discovered by Einstein in 1905 also saw such advances like the rewriting of Einstein’s equations by Minkowski, to reveal a four- dimension structure, which tended to link space and time into four- dimensional (length, width,  depth and time) fabric forever. He also showed that Einstein’s equation changes in such a way that interrelations with another simultaneously changing quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged meaning that it remains covariant when space and time are rotated as four dimensional objects, giving raise to the emergence of a new principle of physics which stated that the equations of physics must maintain the same form under a symmetry that unified space and time also known as Lorentz transformation.

This period may be compared to the olden days when the human race was endowed with a successful vicissitude of visitation by angels in the old testament as well as when the Holy Spirit was poured to men after the death of Christ in the new testament. It is a period filled with news of men thinking about nature and getting revelations through intuition on how nature operates.

The period also saw such advances like Einstein’s new theory of gravity guided by intuition after he envisioned through his thought forces and realized that if you are in a free fall, you would not feel your own weight, a realization that impelled him towards a theory of gravitation. This intuition made him realize that the planets and the moon were actually in a state of free fall in their orbits around the sun or the earth.

 He also understood, again through intuition that if you were in a rocket ship, everything inside including the floor and all equipments inside, falls at the same rate giving the illusion that gravity has vanished. He reasoned that this is so simply because the floor of the spaceship is falling alongside with your body. This, however, implies that gravity has actually just been cancelled by the falling of the rocket ship beneath your feet, something that is known as the equivalence principle.

This principle in which all masses fall at the same rate under the gravity became Einstein’s intuitional foundation of a new relativistic theory of gravity, forming a postulation behind general relativity that the laws of physics in an accelerating frame or gravitating frames are indistinguishable. This meant that the accelerating and gravity frames obeyed the same laws of physics.

It is just amazing as well as intriguing how these great men used the power of their mind through thinking as well as through imagination to propel man into such knowledge base of nature, enabling things that would otherwise not make sense to us to be on the contrary at the forefront in benefiting the human race, confirming our attributes as real gods in truth and in spirit. This use of mind has brought us to a situation where the science fiction of today is the reality of life tomorrow.

Einstein, for example, was also able to formulate the generalized symmetry that described accelerations and gravity known as the general covariance through intuition. He also found out together with another scientist known as Bose, a curious fact about the quantum world that atoms are indistinguishable if “supercooled” to near absolute zero; a state where all atomic movement almost ceases. At this state, all the atoms would fall down to the lowest energy state, creating a single, “superatom.” At this state, the atoms vibrate in what is known as the lockstep and subtle quantum effects, usually only seen at the level of individual atoms, but which, at this low temperatures, becomes distributed throughout the entire condensate. An example of this kind of condensate is the spectators at a football game who form human waves that sweep across the stadium as they stand up and down in unison. Similarly, the atoms in what came to be known as the “Bose- Einstein condensate” act as if everything is vibrating in unison.

As these theories were confirmed and continue to guide us towards more and ever more advancements through new discoveries, we salute those brains of yesteryears that are behind these discoveries, brains that, as we now see so clearly, were guided by intuition through the faith of these, our pioneers.

But let us find out the definition of this word that has become so common in my blogs- intuition.

 Intuition is defined as a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. The word is also defined as the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. It is common knowledge that, you must also have a lot of faith in that, that you consider likely through intuition for a fact.

A closer analysis will also show that the people who helped change the world through the use of their intuition also had a lot of faith. This is the same faith, as found in the bible, we are told that it is the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for. It is also a manifestation of the things hoped for through this faith that is evidently characterized through the earnest desire from these men to give the world pure truths about the nature of things.

As the concentration of their desires, through attention builds up the momentum, bound in concentration and visualization, we see the strength of their efforts resulting in the precision of their speculation, many years after they were first given to the world, through theories, in new discoveries, with physicists winning Nobel prizes by the day today, after new discoveries which are pure manifestation of those theories, through intuition, of long time ago.