Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CQA 57, which will soon be published in Volume 11 of The Living Light Dialogue. This quote starts with a question from a member of the congregation. During devotional service on the first Sunday of the month, Mr. Goodwin held a question and answer period. People in attendance could ask questions of a general interest, to which he would respond.
“I would like to know, if, when one hurts somebody, by thought or deed, intentionally or unintentionally, how, how can you right that hurt?
Yes. In reference to that question, as you have stated, when one hurts someone, intentionally or unintentionally, and I would like to speak on that part and take your question in the three parts that it truly is.
First of all, intentional or unintentional is ever subject to the awareness of the human mind. For there are, demonstrably, eighty-one levels of consciousness of the human mind and what is unintentional on one level of consciousness is definitely intentional on another. Therefore, all thoughts, all acts, and all deeds done by and entertained by the human mind are intentional on some level of consciousness.
Now how does one correct or right what they judge has been a wrong? Now if we understand these many levels of consciousness and that we as eternal beings are identifying with one, two, three, or thirty or more of these levels and that some levels of our mind judge we have done a wrong, while other levels of our mind judge that it was justified and, therefore, right. And so we have these divisions in consciousness until we bring, through the faculty of reason, an awakening to all our levels of consciousness. For example, we do something in our life and after we have done it, we may feel good about it for a time. And then, at another time we move in consciousness to another level and we feel that we have done a great wrong and a great disservice to someone. Does that not help explain your question?
Yes, it does.
All right. So it only reveals that on one level of consciousness something is done by our mind, and on another level it is absolutely, definitely adverse to what that level would do or choose to do. Now, first of all, to right a wrong, we have to come to terms with all of these levels of consciousness. And to come to terms with all these varied levels of consciousness, we must cast the light of reason, which is a soul faculty, upon the human mind. In so doing, the judgment that we have done right or have done wrong will no longer disturb us. For in that awakening we will realize beyond a shadow of any doubt that the law is just and the law is fair. That whatever we have sent out in our life, by the very law of sending, returns unto us. And so, divine justice is not dependent upon fickle, mental experiences. Divine justice is. It balances the scales in our life and we do not need to concern our self with it.
Now a person may say, “Well, you can do a wrong and then be free from it?” No one does anything and is freed from any thought, act, or deed. A sparrow does not fall that divine justice is not aware of it. So there is no thought, there is no act, there is no deed that does not return unto the sender.
The wisest path in this awakening, of course, is to place one’s consciousness in the eternal moment, for only in the eternal moment is truth, only in the eternal moment is freedom. Everything that has passed is a shadow and, therefore, a limit. Everything yet to come, has not yet manifested and, therefore, is not truth and is not freedom. For that that has passed is limit; that which is yet to come is limit, for that which is to be or has been is governed by the Law of Limit. We are not limit. Therefore, to place our attention and, therefore, our identification on what has been or on what is yet to be is to place ourselves in bondage, for limit is bondage. That is the maya of the mental world. Therefore, a person, having done what they have done while tempted on one of the many levels of consciousness, has a responsibility unto themselves to accept experiences in their life and if they are not happy with them, to accept the responsibility that they are only effects. They are not causes; they are only effects. And to move on in the eternal moment, the eternal moment, for what has been, has been. What is to be, has not yet [become]. Does that help with your question?
Thank you so much.
Because, you see, only in truth, the eternal moment, is there freedom. So one is only freed in the moment in which they are consciously aware, the moment of now."
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Russell Fitzgerald
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