Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CQA 55, which will soon be published in Volume 11 of The Living Light Dialogue. In the CQA series of classes, Mr. Goodwin would invite the congregation to ask questions of a general nature as part of the devotional services of Serenity Spiritualist Church. This exchange began when a member of the congregation asked a question about soul mates. In his response to that question, Mr. Goodwin touches upon some broader teachings regarding identifying with the animal form that we are using or identifying with the spiritual being that we truly are. The words spoken by Mr. Goodwin are in roman font and the questions or statements of students are italicized.
“Well, if you are looking at creation, you see clearly that all things appear to be half. Nothing appears whole. Is that correct? Isn’t that a way it appears? For the manifestation of life, there takes two halves. Would you not agree?
Yes.
It takes the negative and the positive. That’s creation. Indeed, it is. And in order to have the manifestation in creation, you must have a mate. Would you not agree?
Yes.
Why even a dog and a cat has to have a mate. All things in creation must mate in order to manifest. Does that view of creation limit us to being whole, complete, and perfect? Would it not depend on what we identify with? Fine. Now, we are Spirit formless and free. Being formless, being free, being truth, for that’s what we are, we can only be limited by identifying with limit or form. Correct? So when we are identified with limit, we’re only half there and, therefore, we are not fulfilled. Would you not agree?
Yes.
When we no longer identify with limit, we are whole, complete, and perfect. Therefore, we do not experience need. We only experience need, we only experience the need of unfulfillment by denial of what we are and believing what we are not. So as long as we identify with the limits of our mind, we can only be half there."
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Russell Fitzgerald
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