The group this evening help to clarify what we mean by personality self/ small self /Divine self Christ Consciousness Etc. What we sometimes fail to realize is that all of these are levels of consciousness or awareness and they are either chosen consciously or unconsciously by and “I” or “me” that is the central character of this whole journey.
I can become caught up in my limited consciousness and think that a personality self is who or what I am. There are other times in my awareness or evolution that I am able to cut through the illusion and know on a deeper level the truth of who I am-- this unique aspect of the Divine that is choosing to express itself through this chosen vehicle that I sometimes referred to as my personality self. It is not who I am and yet it is the lens through which the light that I am shines through. The clearer I am or the more aligned I am to my Divine truth, the clearer and more obvious the light that shines through. But even here there are lessons that I have chosen to learn, even when my perception of light might be limited.
I shared this quote from Merton with our Sunday class and it offers a wonderful description and paradox about who and what we are and the movement behind this journey that we are all making.
“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.” Thomas Merton (Here is a marvelous, paradoxical thought combining aspects of the personality and Divine self in a way that only the soul can understand.)
Here is another one:
"I am this emptiness, silence, the absolutely real, eternal, omnipresent Being and the only Real Substance of all the universe."
Coming to the end of our book, this lesson reflected again on memory, and the release of all that no longer serves me.
“The Christed Self, the what that you are, is the one that does this work, not the small self who thinks she knows everything. The Divine as what you are is the one who is lifting you to the level of vibration or alignment where this is even possible. The replication of memory will be released in this claim, which simply means that, because it was, it no longer is, because the True Self will claim what you need in the moment you stand in.”
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“The quality of life that you have right now is dependent upon your perception of what quality means. In the alignment to truth and in the knowing of what you are, you may reclaim all things. And the announcement we give you—“You are here, you are here, you are here”—is the trumpet song that you announce yourself to the world in. When the trumpet sings, many awaken to their own Divine Selves.”
“We are ready to teach, and the culmination of this text is about to commence, this day and tomorrow. We would like to require the reader to remember only one thing. The choices that they make are always theirs. How they choose is up to them as well. And as they claim their true inheritance, the Divine as them, the choices that they make will be in agreement to the truth of what they are, and herein your lives become effortless. You are no longer in a quandary about what to do because you operate from a place of knowing that is not embellished with the dictates of others, culture, or religion, but ascribed to truth. And in truth you may know and have your being.”
Through this work that we are doing and the work that the guides are doing with us, we are essentially becoming more aware of who we truly are as well as making the conscious decision to be aligned with that truth. You will notice there are two steps here-- the awareness and the knowing of Who You Are, and then the conscious alignment to that truth.
“On this day I am free of what I have known that would seek to hinder me from the new, that would seek to prohibit me from claiming the new and my true inheritance. I claim this of my own free will, and in this choice I make, I align to my potential as the one who may know and be in this expression of the Kingdom. I know who I am in truth. I know what I am in truth. I know how I serve in truth. I am free. I am free. I am free.”
I am free of the structures and definitions of the past that up until this time have dictated my thoughts and my actions and my beliefs. In gratitude I stand on the edge of this present moment and although my mind might not know where it takes me, my Spirit knows that my growth and evolution in awareness are an inevitable and continuing part of this journey.
“Now the claim that was just made was simply about allowance and agreement to allow the new to hold, the new to claim you. As you seek the Kingdom, you don’t see what is present. And the Kingdom, as we said, is here. So in your being, in the claim we make and you agree to, you support the shift in awareness, in knowing and realization that is required to see the sun that still shines even through the leaves. The gift of this is that regardless of the circumstance you stand in, you will be able to realize that you are not without the light that is always present, even when the shadows seek to overtake.”
In other words, you do not seek the Kingdom--It is already here.
And we close with an absolutely beautiful declaration of Truth:
“As I claim my freedom, I offer my hands, that they may be used in fullness. I offer my body, that it may be reknown by me in its Divine nature. I offer my emotions, that they may be lifted and reformed to be in service to my own awareness of truth. And I lift my mind and all that is in it to liberation from the known that I have used to define myself in fear or in solitude or in ways that do not serve my usefulness as a conduit, as an expression of the True Source of my being. As I gift myself to my Source to be released from all bondage, all known in fear or limitation, I am gifted in response by the light of my truth that I may be claimed in inheritance. I know who I am as the one who receives, who is giving in response, and who says yes, I am h”“giving in response, and who says yes, I am here, I am here, I am here.”
And May all beings be at peace; may all beings be free of suffering and may all beings rememver who they are.
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