The Christ Within | The Master of Your Destiny
The story of the Christ is symbolic, and I believe if you update this in your mind and bring it in as new, right now, you might very well discover something going on inside of you that is the moving of your spiritual inner awareness. It’s true that some are more spiritually aware than others. But on whatever level you find yourself, that will be the level on which you approach the Father, the level on which you approach the Christ within.
That spirit of inner peace and wisdom and joy is there. It may be there in barren soil. Sometimes it’s there in scorched soil, but it is there. It will always be there, just waiting for you to scratch below the surface of your consciousness and bring the determination of who you are to bear upon this seed of greatness and usher it forward. Jesus’ life symbolizes the birth of Christ within each person. I’m sure we’ve all been taxed very sorely in one way or another in our travels across this planet. I’m sure we’ve all had trials and tribulations and cried out, “Oh Lord, Lord, how much longer?” And we didn’t hear anything, so we knew it had to be a little longer. Then we may have turned to our fellow men and said, “How much longer?” Then we knew it still had to be a little longer, because we heard nothing.
You learn to use the wisdoms to step forward in those areas that are for your highest good. Sometimes your highest good may be a little bit different from what you think it should be. You ask for the highest good and something happens and you say, “That doesn’t feel too good.” Yet later on you look back and say, “I’m so glad I went through that. That taught me a tremendous lesson; a tremendous experience came forward.”
You cannot destroy the True Self that expresses the inner wisdom. No matter what you do, it cannot be destroyed. The God of the negative powers cannot destroy the Self. He can make the body pretty miserable; but when that body is miserable, remember you can step away from it into a higher consciousness. I met a lady once, and I recognized that the pain in her body was fantastic. I asked, “How do you live within that body?” She said, “I don’t. I live in my higher Self. I know there’s pain in the body. I know this body does things other people can’t appreciate. I know it’s only a burden on them. But it doesn’t burden me. I keep lifting higher and higher.” If you were to look at this woman, you’d think, “What an angel.” You’d never think there was any dis-ease in her body. She was manifesting the higher consciousness and was getting very close to finding the True Self.
We can never be parted from the True Self. As we resolve to remove each block, reaching further and further into this higher consciousness, we let our hearts sing joyfully, for unto us this day is given our birth. We are born anew into the spiritual Light, into our own unfoldment. Don’t be concerned with the little physical hangups you have. Maybe you do smoke one cigarette too many or have one beer too many or eat too much candy or over-indulge in other areas – but don’t hold these things against yourself. If someone doesn’t see eye-to-eye with you, that’s fine because it gives you a chance to see that person’s point of view; and when you see that point of view, you expand your consciousness even more. As you lift higher and higher, as you travel further and further through all the realms of your experience, you will know you are becoming the Master of your destiny and your life. So rejoice, because the knowledge is yours, and now you must manifest it, understand it, and know that you know. Everywhere you go is sacred ground, every person you touch to is a sacred person, and each consciousness is to be respected. All the hurts, the heartaches, and the sorrows can be turned over to the Master within and dissolved in the Light of your own wisdom and joy.
If things in the past have seemed rough for you, it may be that the barriers to your Self were being ripped away. Once you see your own Soul, once you can glimpse that Self within you in all its majesty and glory – then, there is nothing the world can give you that is going to mean too much from that point on. Someone may give you a new house, a new Cadillac, furs, jewelry, a lot of money – whatever – and you’ll say, “Yes, all right, okay, now let’s get going. I want to get back to the Self.” It will be like a little child giving an adult a mud pie. You say, “Yes, yes, very nice – now let’s go on.” That’s the way these material things will look to you. Yet we’re in the flesh, and this is where we’re going to work out much of our karma. We’ll work out a good percentage of it here and the rest of it in the negative or psychic worlds while the body is sleeping. If you don’t get hung-up on the physical world, you can feel yourself lifting. But don’t escape the world; don’t do anything to escape it. So many people now are running so fast to get away from themselves, yet we have to come back to the Self; we have to come back to it in a natural, orderly way. We have to come back and say, “Here I am, Lord, the heir to the throne and the prince of all time.”
Featured in the Online Magazine May 2015 | First published in The Movement Newspaper, October, 1974
