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#3307 -
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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Hi All Dear Friends,
I felt nudged to send everyone this letter that William Samuel
wrote back some years ago....Interesting how it fits into the
event's going on now.
I thought it might help ease the fears a little, lift the weary
soul......it is always good to 'shift' our perspective from the
limited view to the Illimitable View of Godhead....and a little
Light shed on the subject certainly helps.
If you do not understand this letter, I am pretty good at
'explaining' Bill's message, so you are welcome to email me
questions or anything.
I have posted a few new things on the website also
http://www.williamsamuel.com
Much Love To All,
Sandy
VIEWS OF
GOVERNMENT AND MONEY AND PROBLEMS
By William Samuel (from Lollygog Notes 1978)
This begins as a personal letter, dear reader...For that is what
it is. Not an essay. Not a formal paper. Not something to be
struggled with to understand, but to read gently as one reads a
letter from a friend.
The comprehension of Reality--- especially the recognition that a
pure, good and perfect Reality is absolutely all in all,
everywhere present, nowhere absent and being all there is to be
seen, heard, felt or experienced--- seems seldom to come from
great, grinding effort. More often, much more often, it comes
from human effort relaxed. It comes in stillness and gentleness
like a Spring blossom opening, like a winter stream melting, like
a new day breaking.
From a letter to a friend involved in governmental scandal,
energy crisis and inflation:
______, I understand your deep concern for the "shrinking
dollar" and the "embarrassing dilemma of a shocking
governmental scandal." You ask how one is to see these
situations in the light of an "absolute Good that isn't at
all apparent" to you at the moment. As you say, "The
grandiose declaration that God's Government is the only REAL
Government hasn't done the trick."
Suppose we ponder along these lines:
If false value has been put into human government and its money,
what is wrong (or bad) with the appearing of false value going
out of graven images?
In human terms, doesn't the wrong way make the right increasingly
clear? Or, obversely, would the incubator chick ever become
conscious of the light he is continually bathed in if he never
peeped outside into the darkness of night?
And doesn't the darkness of the cicada's long sojourn in the
earth allow a full consciousness of sunlight and color when it
emerges.
It accomplishes nothing to make the metaphysical declaration that
"liars and thieves have no place in God's government"
if we still condemn, and stand in terror of "the liars and
thieves in human government."
Why? Because that is talking one government while trying to live
two. Is God ALL, or is there a "human imperfect"
beside? Is human government illusion or is it the means by which
Divine Government is made clear?
Seen in this light, one can actually stop attempting to live two
governments, one "real" and one "unreal," and
see what is labeled "human government" as the Divine
becoming known.
Dualistic nonsense! shouts the intellect of us.
But, are the Symphony and notes a dualism?--- No.--- They are ONE
SYMPHONY made Self-evident.--- The Authority is in the Light, not
the shadows.
Are "day" and "night" a dualism?---
No.---They are ONE LIGHT made Self-evident.--- The authority is
in the Light, not the shadows.
Are Spirit and matter, Good and evil, tangibility and
intangibility dualisms?--- They are not.---They are ONE, pure,
perfect, fully (infinitely) Self-evident GODHEAD.
Authority exists as this Godhead (Isness)--- and not in the
supposititious opposites the OMINISCIENT Godhead knows It is
not--- and could never be.
Once, the question was asked of Jesus when all the hidden things
would be revealed. His reply, starkly simple, was to "Know
what is in they sight and what is hidden from thee will be
revealed to thee. For there is nothing hidden which will not be
manifest." (THOMAS, Till translation, Log. 5)
All the power of human government has been unable to keep its
secrets from being revealed. The Godhead stands revealed already.
"Then, when will we see it?" Jesus was
asked.---"When you make the two into a single one" He
replied time and again.
How? "Know what is in thy sight". We FACE and
UNDERSTAND the situations that present themselves within
awareness. We do not disclaim the presence of the sight.
We understand, acknowledge and live the PERFECTION of the
sight--- and know WHY we do! We forgive and bless and sight for
the Scene it makes clear. "We kiss the cross" and
awaken. We end the attempt to ignore, heal, bury or change it.
And then, then, we see sting and victory taken from the
"cross." A new name is discovered for it, "known
only to him who overcometh."
Human government, with all its apparent shortcomings, is the
curtain going up for the Divine Government. The rising curtain
appears as value going out of the curtain into the Scene behind.
All that seems to be the painful and embarrassing termination of
curtain-love is displaced by the interminable Love of the New
Scene.
Awareness "expands" to perceive the Invariable Already,
consciously. Change--- the world in turmoil---is the
changelessness of the Already (Isness) becoming evident.
We can say it another way: Change is the shedding of our former
views of variableness. Change, and the Changelessness it makes
evident, are one Changelessness.
Does authority (to frighten us, make us shake our heads in
frustration and wonder) lie in the turmoil of change? Or is
authority in the Ineffable Changelessness that change makes
plain? To which do you "yield yourself servant to obey"
? You know the answer already.
"Well and good in theory, but the change in my dollars is
making them less valuable"
The belief that value is in dollars is Wisdom's knowledge it is
NOT!
The belief that Authority is in human government is Wisdom's
knowledge it is NOT!
The belief that Energy, the functioning of Mind, is expendable
and in short supply is Wisdom's knowledge it is NOT!
Now, listen softly:
WHATEVER Wisdom knows it is not, is no bother to Wisdom and does
not frighten Us.
Little good it does the mighty metaphysician to "deny the
reality" of an "energy crisis." One needs only to
look at the "human evidences" of it, understand them as
the evidence of Deific Omnipotence coming to light.
Call that evidence by its NEW NAME
and, then, look on to see the startling proofs that
Omnipotence, and the evidences that make it clear (whether
positive or negative) are ONE Omnipotence! "When you make
the two into a single one"
These final days of belief's obliteration mark the conscious
emergence of Wisdom as the only Identity on the Scene.
Finiteness is ever the clarification of Infinity.
Tangibility is Intangibility (Spirit) made plain.
Human government is the tangible measure of Measureless
Authority.
Unlimited Wisdom's knowledge of where Authority does NOT lie
appears as the human effort to put value into human affairs.
The awakening recognition that Wisdom is the Identity
"we" are (and have always been) must appear as
misplaced value and authority going out of human affairs. That
dissolution, however it seems, IS NOT BAD!
Why ISN'T it bad?
Once more, let me explain with an analogy:
To the musician who has labored long with notes, the knowledge he
is HIMSELF the SOUNDING SYMPHONY he has tried so long to play,
comes with joy, not fear. THAT one recognizes that Value was
never in the finite note yet he would have never known it
infinitely had he not made the futile attempt to give value to
the notes. THAT one can watch the humbling of the notes with no
more elation or depression--- or fear--- than one who watches
darkness vanish 'pon the birth of a new day.
Oh, but Wisdom KNOWS the disappearance of darkness and Wisdom's
Self-emergence are one event. It knows the darkness of night has
served to make the Light of Life fully known.
Perhaps these are ponderous ideas, too much for the intellect of
us--- but the Heart already knows all they strive to say. After
all, ponderousness is the means by which Simplicity is full
recognized for all it is.
The Light these words tell of so falteringly is supremely
SIMPLE--- and available--- and HERE, right now!
With loving kindness from the green hills of Alabama
William Samuel (Billy)
http://www.williamsamuel.com