Many, many centuries ago there was a people who thought that they had the comforts of materialism, and they were willing to exchange the comforts of materialism for the enslavement of their souls. The children of Israel in bondage in Egypt—they had no desire to leave the cult of death. And we are experiencing a cult of death in America today. And I call it “sweet death,” because it is the slow death of the soul by an innocuous excuse for the real and tangible living experience of God.
And it is the same in education. We think we are being educated, but our souls are crying out for contact with the living light; and the real education of the inner man is neglected. And so we become programmed—programmed by the media, programmed by the state, programmed by whatever is around us. And we do not even realize that the greatest imprisonment that there is, is the imprisonment of the mind. And when we are no longer free to be creative—whether in science, whether in religion, whether in government, whether in the economy or in education—when we are no longer free to be free thinkers, when what we discover within the Inner Self must meet the standards of all who have gone before, then we see that there is such a regimentation that we might as well be living in the greatest superstate that has ever been lived in.
And so we must come and we must light a single candle. And the single candle is the candle of your soul, smiling, refreshed, ready to fly and soar, free as a bird, free to have that unique experience within the temple of the living God that liberates all of the shackles, all of the burdens of lifetimes and says, “I will be who I AM.”
You know, when God comes to us and offers us the opportunity to be who we are, we tremble a bit because we have forgotten who we really are. That experience was given to Moses when he was tending the flocks of his father-in-law and suddenly he saw a bush that burned and was not consumed—a sacred fire, intensely blazing, independent of matter, yet co-existing with matter and congruent with it. And so we see that there is a matter vessel, and there is one fundamental principle in matter—that it is corruptible, that it is subject to decay. We might say that from the moment we are born we are dying— that is, the temple is moving through those cycles.
I remember when I was a little child and I began to observe this law in nature all around me. And I thought to myself, “Whatever is, is in the state of disintegration and moving through those cycles.” And I thought to myself, “What is the counterpart of this?” And as I would pray and meditate with my Bible and with my Saviour, I would learn from him the mysteries of creation. And that is the precious gift that God has given to me.
And I have such an intense love for your souls, and for the God who is the life-beat in your heart, that I have an intense gratitude that I may move up and down this nation and find you and say, “Hail, sons and daughters of God!” even though you may not know that you are sons and daughters of God; so that I can feel that love of the Holy Spirit leap from my heart to your heart and say this: There is a moving stream of consciousness that moves in and out of this temple, in and out of the Matter universe. And that moving stream of consciousness is that sacred fire that moved in and out of the bush. And it is eternal life. It is yourself. It is myself. It is the living Logos.
Of that Logos Jesus declared, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” And that statement of being can never be taken from you except you yourself renounce it. And that becomes the supreme challenge of this age when we see the high instance of suicide—but more than that, the death of souls who go into an apathy and into a plane of unreality because of all the burdens that we find in our mechanized civilization.
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