| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class Discourse 65, which was published in Volume 1 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"It has been stated that fear and faith is one and the same! It has also been stated not to annihilate the functions, but to bring them into balance with the soul faculties! When this power flows through the functions or expresses through them, you experience what is known as fear. When this same power flows through the soul faculties, you experience what is known as faith. It is indeed one and the same. When they are brought into balance, you experience what is known as freedom.
This power flowing through the functions with this experience of fear is caused by this so-called self-preservation. Fear is faith; and in expressing fear or faith we indeed not only create but guarantee whatever we have fear or faith in. The reason that this power, when flowing through the functions, is known as fear is because we have faith in the need of protecting our cherished thought patterns. We have need in the functions to hold fast to that which we are familiar with. That is known as self-preservation. When we make the effort to express the same power through the faculties, we bring ourselves into balance and in so doing are freed from the duality of creation.
Fear serves its purpose in the present state of evolution of the masses on your planet. You have fear that when you place your hand in the fire it will burn. Do you not see, students, that what you truly have is faith that this is what will happen?
Think, students, and think again and again! You have the choice in any given situation to express through the functions or through the faculties. When you find your spirit, your power, your energy, expressing through the functions, which are limitation, and when expressing through the faculties, which are limitless, you may choose at any given moment to bring the thought into balance. That, my good students, is known as freedom."
It takes effort to redirect our attention from our sense functions toward our soul faculties. It takes conscious effort to affirm the good and to say our affirmations, with the faith that those laws will return to us a greater goodness. Although it is often not so easy to redirect our attention, it is possible for us all. As more thought and energy is directed to the Divine, the Divine begins to awaken within our being.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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