“It is by our works that we are known. If you walk among your fellow men in balance and grace, you become a lifting force to everyone you meet.” – John-Roger
This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, April 1974.
Your subconscious mind is a very powerful force within your consciousness. Some people try to deny its expression; others give in to it; and still others are simply ignorant of the subconscious mind and its action. But when you can learn to work in harmony and cooperation with your subconscious, you can really bring your expression into greater balance.
The power of the subconscious is so tremendous that there are very few things that can stand against it once it really gets going. It has a wisdom and a knowledge and a beautiful ability to find its way through all the obstacles that have been placed in front of it, side-stepping the adversities and lunging ahead when there are opportunities.
When your life comes into contact with the lives of others, there will often be communication and interaction between the subconscious minds. And there may be subconscious attempts made to control the other person; and they may be making attempts to control you. And deceit can function within these areas of control.
What types of deceit do we express as individuals? We express the deceit of emotion where someone asks, “Do you love me?” And you say, “Yes,” even though you might not love them at that particular time. That’s deceit. Maybe you wonder, “But would it be any better to say, ‘No I don’t love you right now,’ knowing that will upset them, than to say, ‘Yes, I do,’ knowing that you will love them later on.” But, I think, even if you tell them you do love them, if you don’t, they know you don’t. And they might respect you more if you’d say, “No, not right now, I don’t love you. I think you’re the biggest stinker in the whole world. But give me twenty minutes because I’m working on it. I loved you before this, and I’m sure once I get over this irritation with you, I’ll love you again.” That’s being honest.
There is deceit of the intellect. Someone will say they know some particular skill in order to get a job. If they don’t have the skill, they are entering into deceit. It will catch up with them.
There is also deceit of the subconscious mind. This is like deceiving yourself. You say, “Yes, I enjoyed spending the evening with you.” But the subconscious says, “I didn’t. And it will be a long time before I go out with you again!” The subconscious “has a mind of its own.” You must learn to cooperate with it and work with it and educate it. If you are deceiving your subconscious mind, you may find yourself starting off on one path of endeavor, then backing off rapidly, because you sense no support from your subconscious. Or, if the conscious mind is in the habit of starting one project, and leaving it before it is completed, then starting another and leaving it half finished, then starting something else, etc. the subconscious may still be attempting to complete each unfinished project, to fulfill that which was started; but without the cooperation of the conscious self, it cannot complete; it cannot accomplish. And it will feel betrayal and deceit. It is important that you do not have too many “irons in the fire.” The subconscious cannot handle that. Complete the projects you begin, fulfill the commitments you have made, live up to the promises you have made; then both your subconscious and your conscious self can have success, which leads to a feeling of fulfillment and worthiness.
When you can be true to yourself, then your subconscious mind can also be true. Your conscious self, as master of the household, then reaches down to the subconscious mind and lifts it up; then both subconscious and conscious can move into the higher expression and function together as a unit for even greater balance and completion.
Man is that he might have joy everlasting; but man is also held responsible for all of his actions. With this in mind, some people have said. “I’ll just sit and do nothing then.” But this is decision by default because the decisions will be made for you unless you make them for yourself. And unless you make the decision to learn from what you’re doing, you cannot expect to receive the greater action of Spirit as it comes forward. There are great blessings being showered on the earth daily, every moment, every second. You may say, “Sure, I’m just waiting for that time. I’m waiting for the right moment to appear.” The right moment has appeared as soon as you have spoken those words, but you deceive yourself. You have to step across into the threshold of cooperation and learn to work with yourself, to bring yourself into greater abilities, greater realizations, greater enlightenment.
Ultimately, who do you deceive? Only yourself. You may deceive another person temporarily, but they will find out soon enough that you have deceived them. I suppose we could forgive the deceits of the emotions for there are many reasons why these things are brought forward. And we could forgive the deceits of the mind, for there are many reasons why these are brought forward. And we could forgive the deceits between the conscious and subconscious minds; but can we forgive the deceits of one heart to another? When you have committed a totality of your beingness to another person, can you draw back? It really must be “full steam ahead” because many of the things you’re working through now, that appear to be the turmoil and desperation and heartache, are your joy and happiness tomorrow. It is the depth to which you feel your despair and your agony that is the depth to which you will feel your joy and your harmony.
When joy comes to your doorstep, despair is there also. We sometimes wonder at the sadness of parting, but what that sadness says is that we had such a beautiful time together that we will miss the good times.
Everything has two sides to it; and so, we sort of become like a “teeter-totter” in our lives. We are striving for balance. We desire many things in life; but as soon as we can maintain a balanced position where that which could tear us down and that which could build us up, join together, that can become our greatest defense in times of despair. It seems like, so often, we make our condition worse in our mind than it could be in reality. And we’ve often wondered, “Dear God, how am I going to get through this?” Through “this”? What is “this”? You’re here, which does mean that you placed far more importance on your “catastrophes” than they were worth.
God does not allow one thing to come to his children on earth that they cannot handle — not one thing. We’re tried sometimes to the very extent of our beingness to see if we can hold up so that we can carry a higher consciousness for others. We may be tried in many, many ways. We may be tried by our enemies, and those we defeat with ease because we know who they are and we make sure they do not have the ammunition to shoot us down. We have to be more careful of our friends because we place deep, dear trust with them; and they are in a position to try us. But it is our loved ones, our husband, wife, children, parents, who really try us to the greatest extent of our beingness. They know all our weak points; they know where we are vulnerable. They have the ammunition to do some damage.
If you deceive your loved ones, the disharmony that you will bring to yourself may be more than you will care to handle. It won’t be more than you can bear. You can bear it because God has said there will not be one Soul lost, not one. But it can be a long, long time before you get back to God, in conscious awareness. But if you can bring your own levels of consciousness (the subconscious, the conscious mind, the high self) together in cooperation, if you can do the things that your soul stands in need of having done, if you can change your expression and perform into your own perfection, you can clear past imbalances rapidly.
It is by our works that we are known. If you walk among your fellow men in balance and grace, you become a lifting force to everyone you meet. You lift all men. You may lift them in ways that do not seem brilliant or tremendous, except when the final measure is reckoned, we often find out that it was the little thing that really made the difference. The difference may have been made by a pat on the back and someone saying, “Everything’s okay.” Or it may have been just a smile at someone who seemed a little low. Or it may have been saying what I call “magic words” to someone. There are six magic words. The first three are “I love you.” And the second three are, “God bless you.” They can cause miracles to happen.
Baruch Bashan
