THE POWER OF PRESENCE

                                                     DIVINE PRESENCE

  

        DON'T GET ATTACHED TO ANY ONE WORD. YOU CAN SUBSTITUTE "CHRIST" FOR PRESENCE. IF THAT IS MORE MEANINGFUL TO YOU. CHRIST IS YOUR GOD ESSENCE OR THE SELF, AS IT IS SOMETIMES CALLED IN THE EAST. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHRIST AND PRESENCE IS THAT CHRIST REFERES TO YOUR INDWELLING DIVINITY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE CONSCIOUS OF IT OR NOT, WHEREAS PRESENCE MEANS YOUR AWAKENED DIVINITY OR GOD-ESSENCE.

            MANY MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND FALSE BELIEFS ABOUT CHRIST WILL CLEAR IF YOU REALIZE THAT THERE IS NO PAST OR FUTURE IN CHRIST. TO SAY THAT CHRIST WAS OR WILL BE IS A  CONTRADICTION IN TERMS, JESUS WAS. HE WAS A MAN WHO LIVE TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND REALIZED DIVINE PRESENCE, HIS TRUE NATURE. AND SO HE SAID. " BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM " HE DID NOT SAY, I ALREADY EXISTED BEFORE ABRAHIM WAS BORN. THAT WOULD HAVE MEANT THAT HE WAS STILL WITHIN THE DIMENTION OF TIME AND FORM IDENTITY. THE WORDS I AM USED IN A SENTENCE THAT STARTS IN THE PASTTENSE INDICATE A RADICAL SHIFT, A DISCONTINUITY IN THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION.

               IT SI A ZEN-LIKE STATEMENT OF GREAT PROFUNDITY, JESUS ATTEMPTED TO CONVEY DIRECTLY, NOT THROUGH DISCURSIVE THOUGHT, THE MEANING OF PRESENCE, OF SELF-REALIZATION. HE HAD GONE BEYOND THE CONSCIOUSNESS DIMENSION GOVERNED.BY TIME, INTO THE REALM OF THE TIMELESS. THE DIMENSION OF ETERNITY HAD COME INTO THIS WORLD. ETERNITY, OF COURSE, DOES NOT MEAN ENDLESS TIME, BUT NO TIME. THUS, THE MAN JESUS BECAME CHRIST, A VEHICLE FOR PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. AND WHAT IS GOD'S SELF-DEFINITION IN THE BIBLE? DID GOD SAY " I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, AND I ALWAYS WILL BE? OF COURSE NOT. NO TIME HERE, JUST PRESENCE. 

               THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IS A TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS, SHIFT FROM TIME TO PRESENCE, FROM THINKING TO PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, NOT THE ARRIVAL OF SOME MAN OR WOMAN. IF CHRIST WERE TO RETURN TOMORROW IN SOME EXTERNALIZED FORM, WHAT I COULD HE OR SHE POSSIBLE SAY TO YOU OTHER THAN THIS. I AM THE TRUTH. I AM DIVINE  PRESENCE. I AM ETERNAL LIFE. I AM WITHIN YOU. I AM HERE. I AM NOW.

                 NEVER PERSONAIZE CHRIST. DON'T MAKE CHRIST INTO A FORM IDENTITY. AVATARS. DIVINE MOTHERS, ENLIGHTENED MASTERS, THE VERY FEW THAT ARE REAL, ARE NOT SPECIAL .AS PERSONS. WITHOUT A FALSE SELF TO UPHOLD, DEFEND, AND FEED, THEY ARE MORE SIMPLE, MORE ORDINARY THAN THE ORDINARY MAN OR WOMAN. ANYONE WITH A STRONG EGO WOULD REGARD THEM AS INSIGNIFANT OR, MORE LIKELY, NOT SEE THEM AT ALL.

              IF YOU ARE DRAWN TO AN ENLIGHTENED TEACHER, IT IS BECAUSE THERE IS ALREADY ENOUGH PRESENCE IN YOU TO REGOGNIZE PRESENCE IN ANOTHER. THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO DID NOT RECOGNIZE JESUS OR THE BUDDHA, AS THERE ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE DRAWN TO FALSE TEACHERS. EGOS ARE DRAWN TO BIGGER EGOS. DARKNESS CANNOT RECOGNIZE LIGHT. ONLY LIGHT CAN RECOGNIZE LIGHT. SO DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE LIGHT IS OUTSIDE YOU OR THAT IT CAN ONLY CAN ONLY COME THROUGH ONE PARTICULAR FORM. IF ONLY YOUR MASTER IS AN INCARNATION OF GOD, THEN WHO ARE YOU? ANY KIND OF EXCLUSIVITY IS IDENFICATION WITH FORM, AND IDENTIFICATION WITH FORM MEANS EGO, NO MATTER HOW WELL DISGUISED.

             USE THE MASTER'S PRESENCE OF REFLECT YOUR OWN IDENTITY BEYOND NAME AND FORM BACK TO YOU AND TO BECOME MORE INTENSELY PRESENT YOURSELF. YOU WILL SOON REALIZE THAT THERE IS NO "MINE" OR "YOURS" IN PRESENCE. PRESENCE IS ONE.

              GROUP WORD CAN ALSO BE HELPFUL FOR INTENSIFYING THE LIGHT OF YOUR PRESENCE GENERATES.  GROUP OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER IN A STATE OF PRESENCE GENERATES A COLLECTIVE ENERGY FIELD OF GREAT INTENSITY. IT NOT ONLY RAISES THE DEGREE OF PRESENCE OF EACH MEMBER OF THE GROUP BUT ALSO HELPS TO FREE THE COLLECTIVE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS FROM ITS CURRENT STATE OF MIND DOMINANCE. THIS WILL MAKE THE STATE OF PRESENCE INCREASINGLY MORE ACCESSIBLE TO INDIVIDUALS. HOWEVER, UNLESS AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF THE GROUP IS ALREADY FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN IT AND THUS CAN HOLD THE ENERGY FREQUENCY OF THAT STATE, THE EGOIC MIND CAN EASILY REASSERT ITSELF AND SABOTAGE THE GROUP'S ENDEAVORS. ALTHOUGH GROUP WORK IS INVALUABLE, IT IS NOT ENOUGH, AND YOU MUST NOT COME TO DEPEND ON IT. NO TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, WHEN YOU ARE LEARNING THE MEANING AND PRACTICE OF PRESENCE.