(audience participating in parenthesis)
We can see that the senses report something, but behind that something, there is a reality-a reality of a relationships of a spiritual nature.
So first off, we look around and we sense lovely bodies all over the place. So we say, that is the person. Are you that body?
(seemingly so)
Ok, then seemingly if we go down to the mortician's place this morning, he's probably got a few bodies around there. Is that the person, or does most everybody agree that that is only a trace-they call it the remains of the person.
So would you say that you are an invisible being inhabiting that body?
(I would, yes)
So you are not the body, you are an invisible being that inhabits the body? Then Spirit is invisible. So you have never seen a person. You have only seen their house. And you attempt to communicate to the person inside the house. Now if I look at you and say I know you-I looked at you and saw this feature, or I don't like you because you remind me of someone who hurt me long ago and I never did like them,I've got you tagged,huh? Now I can't stand you anymore.
So we never stop to know the person. So we're going to talk about the invisible man. So everyone you see is invisible. We have houses (bodies) that we live in and those are visible and we can sense those. But the spirit within the body does much to that. So you're inside the house and this is the one we're going to talk about, not the sensory body. The invisible being in there can destroy that body awfully easy or it can generate it or it can renew it or it can tear it down. That invisible body in there is very very powerful if we but recognize it as a power.
(what do accept for my authority? Is there a way of finding my authority within myself? or what to believe?)
We hope you don't need an authority,but if you do, you will have to get it by experimentation sir,ok? And you cannot experiment with the sensory mind-you will have to experiment with the understanding mind. And with using the understanding mind, you can experiment with it, and I certainly would not want anyone to accept what Bob had to say about it. But possibly it would open the door to run an experiment. So we certainly do not consider ourselves an authority because if you have one authority then you have another one over here on the side anyway. So what difference does it make. If you said "Well Bob said so and so". And then you went over and talked to Chuck and then you'd say"Well Chuck said so and so." So what are we going to do now? Now we have to go out and find somebody else with an opinion.
So then our reality would only consist of agreement on sensory words, and it would be entirely worthless. This is what most people have accepted as reality is "agreement". And somebody comes a long and disagrees, and you feel like you're falling through space, and you have nothing to hang upon. Agreement is a very poor thing to build one's house upon. The Christ said that was like unto a foolish man that built his house upon sand, and when the winds came, (somebody comes along with an opinion or disapproval or rejection) that's the wind-then the house tore down and great and mighty was the fall thereof.
Another man built his house upon rock and the winds came and rain fell and the house stood because it was built on a rock. A rock signifies truth or a fact, ok? Don't accept what I say, only as a possible experimentation.
(how can I distinguish when I'm experimenting with my sensory mind or my understanding mind?)
Is it a fair question for you, "What am I doing?"
So first off we're going to look at a few of the facts that have been mentioned about integration or the kingdom of heaven. We'll take a few statements we are quite familiar with.
One of those statements is the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now, obviously if something is at hand, it's not far away. The word hand refers to the anatomical little gizmo like this. And everything that is in reach of it in the sensory world would then conceive or have to be heaven-that that could include a person, a thing, or whatever it was in the physical world. So if we use it as a sensory situation, then everything we could touch would have to be heaven-right here at hand.
Then 'at hand' means it's available from a psychological standpoint-it is not something that you can't have-it's not available in the far off future-it's here and now. That's a start on it.
Then of course, we wanted to know where it was-and it's within you and me. Now if it's within you, it's not somewhere outside-then it must relate to the inner state of man. Generally speaking, if you were hungry, you'd think the kingdom of heaven was in your tummy. It's been related in many places that it will make you comfortable-make you satisfied, be very pleasurable and all these good things.
Many people have made the stomach more or less the sign of the kingdom of heaven because they're very concerned with what goes in it and what doesn't go in it as though it was the very thing that got contaminated. So it's very easy to think that that's all that's within us because if you're going to put some little something in it-that's going to tear it all up. Oh that must be terrible.
So it's within you is your psychology, your inner makeup. We have it but we don't use it. We were talking in our first discussion that we use the sensory mind and we don't use the study of the mind that does the understanding of what the senses use. But it's at hand here right now. And you can beging to experiment with it-don't take my word for it and begin to see everything in the world as a symbol. And you can begin to get an understanding behind it. Then you begin to get a whole lot of doors opened up to you all of the sudden. And you have your own truth-you don't need mine-you don't need anybody else's-you can find it yourself. But you must open that door. It is at hand-right here-we just haven't used it. We've been using the sensory mind to approach everything with.
In answer to your question,do we need information information in running our business? Certainly but don't you also need, in that field, to use your understanding of relationships for more than just sensing. I could walk through your plant and sense every beautiful printing press you have in there. And I could walk over and sense all those piles of paper and inks. But you see the relationship and can turn out beautiful work. So in our everyday affairs, we're apt to use the psychological mind. But when we go to the spiritual affairs where it really matters, we desert it entirely and go back to the senses to take everything literal.
So use that same one that you see relationships in your business with just a little understanding-as a parable, you can see relationship that you put this and this together and stir it up right and throw it in an oven and after a while with a little heat it turns out to be something altogether different.
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