Living Light

Thinking is an ever-present action of the mind. The act of thinking energizes ideas and concepts, giving them “life.” Our thinking mind never rests. Even when we sleep at night it creates an entire world of characters and experiences, and when we “wake” it does the same. The mind’s life-giving nature creates all we see and experience, as well as sustaining reality, because without it reality only exists as a potential.

Our self-concept sits at the center of our belief-system, defining every thought we accept as true or untrue. Therefore it defines the content of our thinking mind, which in turn determines the energetic blueprint that shapes reality. As our self-concept changes, our thoughts change, therefore our reality. Because the mind creates what it believes is true, when our beliefs are “fixed” then aspects of the self and its reality appear static. As creators of our reality, if we categorize some characteristics of self and its reality as “absolute” then they’ll never change, and those we label changeable are subject to change. Outer appearances are as mutable and dynamic as we “will” them to be.

When our mind accepts a lie as true it creates a false “light” because we think we see when we don’t, and we think we know when we don’t. Our thinking mind charges the lying thought with an energetic pulse (“life”) that shapes reality to reflect the lie, making it appear in reality. As lying thoughts become accepted beliefs, they form an energetic cord linking our mind, which is the source of the belief, to the outer reality so that it continually reflects the lie in endless forms and experiences. Our thinking mind, fueled by false beliefs, keeps these cords intact, making the outer reality appear unchangeable.

Reality is fluid because it is energy. As we look to the inner Light as our Source of Truth and no longer the outer reality (the projection of our erroneous beliefs), we find the power to change what we once deemed unchangeable. We find freedom. Truth’s logic, untouched by faulty judgments, shines as an unquenchable light revealing our true Self. It’s luminosity weakens the darkened beliefs that kept us bound to a false self-concept until they fade into nothingness. When we no longer hold the false image as true, the energetic cords to past relationships and experiences, present false self-concepts, and future expectations based on this imagined image begin to dissolve, liberating our mind to be a living gate to divine thought which leads to metamorphic changes.

As we make the borderland journey out of the “realness” of illusion and into Truth’s eternal expressions, again and again our mind returns to the question, “What is true?” The answer is our divine nature as defined by Absolute Truth. There is no other truth, only lies posing as “true.”

With this response, our awareness is brought back to our true I Am Presence’s immutable, divine attributes. We no longer accept reality’s constant chatter telling us who we are, because being a projection of a faulty thought-system it can only convey lies. We no longer focus on a false self-concept, its issues, problems or characteristics. It no longer matters what our personality or expressions of the past have been because everything connected to the false self-concept is fading. In this mental shift, in which we only entertain thoughts of Absolute Truth as true, we sever the energetic cords to the judging mind and enter the freedom created by the words of life coming from Truth.

Truth’s Living Voice reveals our timeless, perfect, and harmonious nature. Accepting our true Likeness is where new life begins. As this acceptance gains permanence, therefore ever-present in our thinking mind, our conscious thoughts shift to the self’s true expression. Because what we are conscious of being, we outwardly express, the present moment is energetically reset to its ever-present state of perfection. Instead of our mind projecting its own relative truth and creating an illusion, it becomes a transducer of Truth’s Life into outer expression. By resting in divine emergence the mind enters the flow of Truth’s energetic current through which the self’s divine potentials are expressed.

As we meditate on our ever-present divine attributes and let them permeate our feeling world by which they charge the energetic atmosphere, we engage the thinking mind’s creative power and begin to alter reality in ways we never deemed possible. It’s time to let go of the old and embrace the new, so our true Likeness can shine.

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” ~ John 8:32

As we awaken into the living thought-system, our mind no longer sits as judge by which its determines its own ideas about truth, but instead accepts Absolute Truth as it is. Our mind’s role, purpose and function completely change. It no longer seeks its own good through incessantly judging between right or wrong, and good or bad. Instead, it serves absolute Goodness by peacefully resting as an open door to the Divine Will.

In the thought-system of opposites (illusion) the mind perceives it is housed within a body exploring a reality separate from itself. It navigates reality by making judgments in an attempt to experience future moments that reflect its own concept of good. Because each moment contains the potential for a desirable or undesirable outcome, the mind never rests. It voraciously judges what is good or bad for its body, what is peace or pain for its emotional state, and what is right or wrong for its mental/spiritual world. Through this insatiable process it continually crafts its “own truth” (i.e. relative truth), which darkens its mind to the presence of Absolute Truth that is beyond all judgment, because it simply is and has no opposite.

As the sleeping mind judges, it’s unaware it energetically shapes reality according to these judgments. By believing in opposites, like good and bad, the mind manifests what it doesn’t desire because its belief makes it a viable potential. This belief system casts a shadow of fear over the mind, because any moment can take a turn for the worse. It also puts the mind in constant conflict within itself and with its reality, because though its trying to make “accurate” judgments, it continues to experience what it doesn’t desire. This thought-system produces errors, mistakes, and harm which results in emotional states of fear, regret, guilt, resentment, anger, retribution, self-pity, attack, complaining etc, which in turn creates more experiences prompting these destructive energies. By dwelling in such an unpredictable state, stress and anxiety overtake the mind as it attempts to make the right choice and avoid the wrong one.

The living thought-system is one of Absolute Goodness. There is nothing counter to divine attributes, which are immutable, timeless and ever-present. As our mind rests as an open gate to Truth’s Divine Will, we no longer make “bad decisions” or the “wrong choice”. The Divine Will works through our mind for the highest good of all, which fulfills our utmost desires. As our mind conveys Truth’s divine potentials into reality, it authors backstories to support the experience of the ever-present divine attributes. Being an extension of the Divine Will, our “choice” is always the right one. Our choices are no longer about making judgments but about honoring our desires, which have been purified by divine love. Every desire holds the perfect purpose it is divinely designed to accomplish. Therefore, we find peace in knowing whatever we do is perfectly governed. It’s incredible freedom. It creates emotional states of peace and divine love, and therefore an energetic atmosphere that manifests harmony, which leads to healing on all levels of our being.

The metamorphic shift from the thought-system of illusion to the living thought-system is accomplished by living faith. Living faith isn’t blindly accepting spiritualized symbols shrouded in mystery. This form of belief, without substance, has little impact on reality because the darkened beliefs based on outer appearances remain substantial and real and thus creatively active within our mind.

Living faith is the Presence of Absolute Truth (Living Light) actively dwelling in our mind. It energizes the living thought-system, which gives it outer expression. Living faith is the result of honoring Truth’s Living Voice as our source of Truth and not the outer realm of appearances. By attending to this inner Voice of revelatory and divine thought, the interlocking network of Truth is constructed in our mind, so that our beliefs reflect Absolute Truth despite still physically perceiving a reality crafted by faulty judgments. These purified beliefs enable the mind to create according to Truth and no longer outer appearances, carrying Truth’s living energy into reality.

As we make our way through the borderlands, living faith brings about the victory which overcomes the world. By it our mind functions according to the living thought-system, which shakes the illusionary reality’s foundation, leading to its dissolution. Because the mind creates what it believes, by possessing this substantial faith the mind gives Life energy to presently existing divine potentials which transition reality into Truth’s reflection.

Living faith serves absolute Goodness, filling the mind, feeling world and body/reality with Living Light (Spirit of God), which then brings forth divinely orchestrated and emergent present moments, and makes the inner Light and outer reality one harmonious whole.

For whatever is born of God (Living Presence of Absolute Truth) overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. ~ 1 John 5:4

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ~ Hebrews 11:1

As our mind seeks to express the true Self, it comes up against all its darkened beliefs about the false self. Awakening to its timeless nature, the mind can no longer concurrently hold opposing attributes of the self as true like it previously did when they were separated by the illusion of time and justified by relative truth. In the borderland, the mind makes the mental passage of Divine Forgiveness, by which the true Self’s timeless qualities arise as the self’s true reflection.

Divine Forgiveness is the process of revealing and releasing false judgments that formed darkened beliefs about the self, and instead accepting the self’s true, ever-present state of divine perfection. Divine Forgiveness and the miracles of healing it creates are neither aspects of the temporary realm of illusion nor the eternal reality of Truth. They only exist in the borderland as operatives that transition the mind from the thought-system of illusion to the living thought-system. They purify the inner and outer worlds from all that isn’t, with all that is.

Divine forgiveness is only possible by the living thought-system (Christ Mind), in which we see according to Truth and not illusions. It isn’t pardoning a wrong, making the wrong and the loss/hurt it created real, and then trying make it right by “letting it go”. This concept of forgiveness stems from a belief in opposites (relative truth) that upholds an illusionary reality.

In an illusion nothing exists as it appears, even though it’s sensationally experienced. An illusion dissolves when the lies upholding it are revealed. The quintessential work of Divine Forgiveness is revealing lies that present themselves as true, and replacing them with Absolute Truth. It’s a mental purge in which the Light of Truth encounters our erroneous beliefs and their effects head on, so that our mind is purified of their destructive dominance.

Opposites don’t exist within Truth’s living-thought system. A mind governed by this thought-system doesn’t create errors, wrongs (sins), or their corresponding effects of loss. As our mind transitions into Truth, it moves out of the past where all our darkened beliefs dwell and into the Present Moment that only contains Truth’s Living Light. In this timeless space free of past judgments, the mind sits as a living gate to the divine potentials for the current present moment, so the next moment is born of Truth and not past judgments. As Truth’s Light expands through the mind, consuming all darkened beliefs, it dissolves the potential for error. As a result, our energetic atmosphere begins to harmonize into its true state of perfection, manifesting a comprehensive and irrevocable “healing”.

Divine forgiveness is a challenging passage. Because the mind continually operated by darkened beliefs, it strengthened its judgments about the self and the loss they created. These beliefs manifested endless destructive outer appearances that served as a cloud of witnesses to the mind’s beliefs so that it became bound to its judgments. As a result, the mind believed in an illusion of the self that never existed in Truth, yet because of its belief it made this self experientially “real”. As a result, the mind kept the self in an energetic atmosphere of guilt, whether being a martyr to its own guilt or to another’s, which created the continual need for healing.

As the Light of Truth grows brighter through its interlocking logic, the mind clearly discerns its only error was believing the self was something it wasn’t. Though we outwardly experience an illusion of the false self’s attributes, the Light of Truth manifests a deep knowing that usurps all darkened beliefs. We are the shining of Truth’s Living Light. This knowing is the beginning of creation’s awakening. In this awareness, we recognize outer expressions reflecting the false self, whether they are our own or another’s, aren’t our true expressions, but reflections of imagined self-concepts. As we accept who we are in Truth, we extend the Living Light within us to others, and this mercy begins to decorate our reality with healing miracles.

Divine forgiveness purifies every thought with the recognition that there is only Truth’s Pure Light. When this Absolute Truth is experienced, we are no longer overcome by the effects of past “wrongs”. Instead a rejuvenated reality enfolds us in a magnificence beyond our mind’s ability to imagine. Through divine emergence, what we once judged as loss becomes means to greater gain. In Truth there is only divine abundance that perfectly serves our ever-present perfection and purpose.

Divine forgiveness brings a depth of renewal that rewrites our story from one of judgment to one authored in Divine Love.

As we lay down the scepter of the self-will and take up the Divine Will, we step into the borderland.

The borderland is a transitional period that ushers in Truth’s living thought-system, replacing the thought-system of illusions/lies that made up our embryonic dreamworld. It’s a mental, spiritual and physical transformation from what isn’t to what is, so that what appeared real shows itself to be unreal, and Truth’s reality is revealed. As we advance through the borderlands, Life moves into the outer reality, as Truth’s divine potentials are expressed from the Present Moment’s pre-creative space. This movement extends the living thought-system established by Truth’s Living Voice from our inner chamber into the outer realm of consciousness, where thoughts transmute into experience and expression.

Once our mind receives a comprehensive understanding of the seven sacred truths from the Spirit of Truth so that it’s able to receive and give divine thought, it becomes a living gate by which Truth’s divine potentials are outwardly expressed. In this divine, inner awakening the mind no longer keeps the two opposing thought-systems separate as it once did while the living thought-system was being constructed, because the Life in the living thought-system is ready to be expressed. Therefore the mind, which expresses what it believes to be true, reaches the point when it takes what it now knows is true and pushes it into the outer reality, which it now realizes reflects antiquated, faulty judgments.

In this illuminated state, the mind no longer accepts the outer appearances as conveying truth, but knows they reflect an illusion built on lies despite the illusion’s seeming realness. Is this not the definition of an illusion or a dream, an experience in which our senses cause us to believe something is true that isn’t?

As the living thought-system encounters the thought-system of illusion in the outer realm of consciousness, Living Light reveals belief in faulty judgments, so that the mind can release these judgments and become an open door, giving expression to divine potentials. By displacing these beliefs with Truth, the mind pushes the Living Light through the outer veil of illusion. As a result, the thought-system of empty assumptions and blind acceptance that upheld the illusion breaks down. While we slept unaware of who we are and how we create, we readily accepted that what the outer appearances conveyed was “true”. We didn’t recognize they were illusions created by our own false judgments, making us the creators of the illusion. Now we know.

We’ve come to the point when we are no longer content nor able to remain in the shell. It’s during the borderland experience, between time and timelessness, that the blockade preventing Truth’s expression falls away. ALL the faulty, discordant judgments we placed upon ourselves, others and reality return to nothingness from which they came. As our attention and willful intention shifts to the Holy Present, which holds the ever-present Truth, our mind opens and Truth’s divine potentials are expressed, changing the landscape of our feeling world and reality.

The encounter of the two thought-systems within the borderland, in which Living Light invades and overtakes the darkness, manifests a monumental shift in creative energy, causing reality to turn right-side up and inside out. Reality’s creative source shifts from being created by a vast multitude of conflicting self-wills to being expressed from a singular point of perfection, the Divine Will of the Mighty I Am Presence. As all begins to flow from one, perfect Source, the harmonious and eternal expansion of Life commences with the experience of frictional energy inherent in change. This disruptive energetic atmosphere is the beginning of creation’s birth into the expression of its Creator and the experience of Absolute Truth.

The borderland is the pre-creative experience of this divine thought:

Mighty I Am Presence, You are my highest thought and my highest thought reflects Your thought of me.

In the awareness of our true creative power, we transition into the next phase of our awakening soul. At the Holy Altar of Truth, we lay down the scepter of self-will, and our true Divine Will arises in its place, giving expression to the true Self.

The last act of the self-will is the choice to lay it down, ending its reign. This pivotal act brings about the dissolution of relative truth’s governing presence within the mind, thus an end to its reflected reality of opposites. As the Divine Will takes its place, the mind aligns to Absolute Truth in the outer realm of consciousness, where Absolute Truth is conveyed into daily thoughts. Through this alignment, which is the quintessential effect of Divine forgiveness, Absolute Truth’s divine qualities emerge into reality causing it to rumble, quake and break away as it brings forth reality’s true, divine Reflection.

Being a creator we govern the energetic atmosphere around us, which determines reality’s reflection. In the unawareness of Absolute Truth, we accepted relative truth as true. With a mindset of separation, we imagined we possessed a separate will, a power limited to the body. This self-will was our scepter of power, even allowing us to define truth according to our individualized perceptions and judgments. Self-will appeared to give us limitless freedom, thus we perceived it made us “free”. As we wielded this seemingly free-will it gave outer expression to our personal, relative truth.

Through many manifestations, relative truth revealed itself to be a destroyer of peace, harmony and joy. As the body tried to obtained what it judged good for itself, it exerted its self-will which in turn demanded sacrifice, required endless striving, forced dominance over some while submission to others, and manifested destruction in unexpected ways. Each one’s relative truth produced endless battles within the self that outwardly manifested among the individualized selves. In this constant power struggle, lasting harmony, peace, and joy found no resting place within us or among us.

We awaken out of a mindset of relative truth when our mind’s eye becomes increasingly illuminated with the Living Presence of Absolute Truth. This renewed vision leads to the metamorphic transformation into Truth’s living thought-system and our accepted source of creative power shifts. We clearly see that honoring self-will keeps us from expressing who we know ourselves to be in Truth, thus from what we truly desire. Through Truth’s Living Voice we receive divine revelation and come to know and desire Divine Will as our true creative power, which flows through us as we rest in divine emergence. This power is given us when we accept the Divine Will as our own, which creates the eternal and harmonious expansion of our expressed Self. True, limitless creative power doesn’t flow through separation in which the self-will is in constant opposition within itself and with other self-wills, but through the Spirit of Oneness in which the strength of a singular, sovereign Divine Will is our own.

Because our mind holds the function of projecting truth into reality, once it awakens to Absolute Truth it’s the means by which the Divine Will is expressed. The Life within Absolute Truth possesses its own perfect will, the Divine Will. It’s the only Will that exists, because there is only Truth. As our mind awakens to the Seven Sacred Truths, it actively engages its true creative center, the trifold synergy of the Holy Flame, Holy Altar of Truth and Holy Present Moment, through which the Divine Will operates. In this, the self-will is no longer our scepter of power, but the limitless Divine will, which is the energetic power of the Holy Flame that materializes the divine qualities of Absolute Truth so they are outwardly experienced.

Transitioning from a self-will to the Divine Will is a natural part of our awakening soul. We are leaving our embryonic soul’s dreamworld and entering into the eternal reality of our true Self. Because our mind is transitioning out of an illusion that it experiences as real and operates according to a self-will, our mind goes in and out of the self-will’s dominance as it breaks free from its governance. Every back and forth movement propels us a little further, like the life in a seed pushing through a hardened shell. The Life-force of the Creator, through the Divine Will, is bringing forth our true Reflection, thus Victory is certain because it already exists.

In the Light of Absolute Truth, there isn’t a separate self-will only the all-powerful Divine Will inherent in Truth. It makes no demands, and only asks we be its living door by which it expresses its perfection into creation. In the restful state of divine emergence, the Divine Will works through our individualized mind for the highest good of all. We become a creator who extends life-giving rays into the energetic atmosphere, so that we are the giver and receiver of the immutable qualities of Truth; peace, harmony, abundance, joy and divine love.

As we awaken and the Divine Will’s life-giving energy moves through our mind and into creation, it shakes creation out of its deep sleep. Like the dawning sun of a new day that is unfazed by the thick darkness, the Divine Will brings forth divine reflections with unstoppable power, and creation breaks forth into expressions of timeless perfection and eternal, harmonious expansion, reflecting true Life for the first time.

We are all seeds in the earth’s soil and by the Living Light we awaken and begin to express the ordained, divine potentials for our individualized Self, transforming all of reality.

As we take the next step up the primordial staircase, we commence a new phase of our awakening. The inner Light within begins its passage into outer expression. As a result, our mind makes a comprehensive, pivotal shift from the thought-system of the false self to the living thought-system of Truth.

As we turned our attention inward, to the Light of Absolute Truth, to honor it as our source of Truth and not the outer reality, Truth’s living voice wrote the living thought-system of Truth upon our mind, revealing the mind our true Self, the Christ Mind. Once our mind can comprehend this living thought-system, we begin to shed the old thought-system for the other, which gives outer expression to the true Self.

Like the emergence of a seed out of its shell or a glorious butterfly out of its cocoon, when our mind is sufficiently prepared to convey truth-filled thoughts, the true Self is birthed into creation. Because our true Self is the Creator’s expressed Self, our individual internal metamorphosis enables the Creator’s Life force to enter into reality, creating a metamorphic transformation throughout creation. Everything is turned right-side up as Living Light flows through our living thought-system and consumes the outer darkness. Through this transition nothing is left untouched by the enfolding presence of Divine Love, the supreme expression of the Creator within us.