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from Jesus:
It would be correct to call
your Christ self for the higher self and your I AM Presence for the
God self or the spiritual self. I have given some teachings on these
topics in the following the discourse.
When your spiritual parents created your lifestream, they created your
I AM Presence. This is the part of you that anchors the unique individuality
with which you were endowed by your spiritual parents. It is called
the I AM Presence because it anchors your individuality and makes you
who you are. It gives you the ability to say, "I AM!"
Your I AM Presence can be viewed as a spiritual flame, but it is more
like an electronic fire than a normal fire. Your God flame has a unique
structure that is similar to a crystal, only it is not made from matter
but from vibrating, pulsating energy. When the pure light of God shines
through the crystalline structure of your God flame, it is shaped and
colored by your unique individuality. This does not degrade the light
of God; it simply individualizes that light.
Your I AM Presence is constantly anchored in the higher levels of the
spiritual realm. From the level of your I AM Presence, you can experience
the lower realms, including the material world, as an outside observer.
However, most lifestreams created by God are not content to simply observe
life from the outside. They want to experience life from the inside
as well. In fact, that is why God created individualizations of himself.
God wants to experience his creation from the inside, God wants to take
part in his creation and expanded it from the inside. He does so through
his sons and daughters.
At some point, you decided to descend into a lower level of God’s
creation and experience life at that level. To do this, you created
an extension of yourself, which is what most people call the soul. When
the soul was created, it was a reflection of the individuality anchored
in the I AM Presence.
Many souls descended to the lower spiritual realms and still abide there.
However, a number of courageous souls decided to descend into the lowest
realm created by God, namely the material universe. When you enter the
material realm, you enter a realm of lower vibrations than the spiritual
realm. In the spiritual realm it is easy to see that everything originated
from a higher reality. Because the material realm is the latest part
of God's creation, it has not yet been raised to a level of vibration
where is possible to see material energy as an extension of God. Therefore,
when the soul descends into the material realm, it runs the risk of
forgetting it spiritual origin. A soul in the material realm can remember
it spiritual origin only through a direct inner experience, because
there is little in the outside world that reminds the soul of the spiritual
reality behind material appearances.
As explain throughout this website, many souls did indeed descend into
a lower state of consciousness in which they have forgotten their spiritual
origin. To prevent these souls from becoming lost, God sent each soul
a mediator, a teacher, a comforter, namely the Christ self. Your Christ
self can be seen as an angel who is assigned to help you regain your
conscious contact with your I AM Presence. In other words, your Christ
self was not originally part of your lifestream. It is a helper that
comes to you from outside yourself, and this being has a personality
and individuality that is different from the individuality anchored
in your I AM Presence. Obviously, your Christ self is compatible with
your individuality, but it is not identical with it.
When you begin to attain inner communion, you will first attain communion
with your Christ self. In the beginning, you will experience this in
the form of intuitive insights. This will often come as a sense that
something you read in a book is correct and applies to you. As your
communion becomes clearer, you will eventually hear or sense the still
small voice of your Christ self within your heart. This is not a physical
voice, an audible voice, but an inner voice. Yet you will still recognize
it as a voice that speaks to you from somewhere outside your conscious
mind.
As you grow on the spiritual path, you can go through the process of
the alchemical marriage, whereby you attain spiritual union with your
Christ self. Yet that Christ self is still separate from you, just as
your marriage partner is different from yourself even though you can
attain a great sense of union with your spouse.
You Christ self can give you directions from itself, or it can pass
on directions from your I AM Presence. One might say that your Christ
self acts as a translator for the directions from your Presence that
your outer mind cannot hear or understand directly. So as you sharpen
your attunement, you might be able to identify a direction from your
Christ self and a direction from your Presence. This can give you the
sense that you are hearing the voice of your Presence.
As you move to higher levels of the path, you can eventually attain
direct communion with your I AM Presence. Many people have attained
some communion with the Presence, but most people fail to recognize
it for what it is. One reason is that it is easy to identify the voice
of your Christ self because it comes to you as a voice from outside
yourself. Communion with your I AM Presence is not a voice speaking
to you from outside yourself. The reason being that your I AM Presence
is not outside of or different from yourself. It is yourself. It is
your Self.
One might say that you cannot receive communication directly from your
I AM Presence because communication implies distance. To make contact
with the Presence, you must surrender and overcome the mortal sense
of identity. You give up the outer personality that has been created
during your many embodiments in the material universe. You overcome
the sense of separation so that you begin to identify with the Presence.
Therefore, your Presence can now act through you. You are literally
being the Presence in action in this world. Therefore, you can say,
as I did, “I and my Father are one.” When you achieve this
oneness, you are not technically communicating with the Presence—you
are being the Presence.
One might say that when your Christ self gives you a direction, you
experience it as coming from an outside source. You therefore have a
decision to make as to whether you will heed the voice. The impulses
from your I AM Presence do not come from an outside source, and therefore
there is no room to make a decision. One might say that while there
is a space between you and your Christ self, there is no space between
you and your I AM Presence. You cannot decide to follow the voice of
your I AM Presence, you can either be or not be your I AM Presence in
action. To be the Presence in action, you must surrender the will of
the ego and outer personality to the higher will of your God self. You
must decide to be who you really are instead of who your outer mind
thinks you are.
I realize this is difficult to understand intellectually, and the reason
is that the intellect always thinks in linear terms. Therefore, it wants
to see a separation or distance between your soul and your I AM Presence.
As long as you think in linear terms and think in terms of separation,
you will find it difficulty to commune with your I AM Presence. You
need to think in different terms and see that your soul is not somehow
separated spatially from your Presence. Your soul is more like a wave
which is not separated from the ocean but is simply a manifestation
of the ocean.
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