| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CL 78, which is entitled, "Our Invisible Friends," and which was published in Volume 9 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"Fear, which is the mind's control over the eternal soul, is something that each of us experience each and every day. We experience it because we haven't yet learned, perhaps, how to free our self from this temporal, mental body. This mind that we have is in a constant process of evolving and changing. Because it is in a constant process of evolving and changing and expanding, we experience in our life each day what we call fear. We fear for our jobs. We fear for our homes. We fear for our material supply. We fear for our health. We fear for so many things each and every day. I am aware that some of us, perhaps, are not willing to admit to ourselves that we are filled with so much fear. But all we have to do is take an inventory of our daily experiences and then we will become quickly aware of how much fear we are experiencing. The reason that we look in this physical world and see so very much negativity is because it is the expression of fear.
As long as we permit our minds to believe that we and we alone are life itself, that there is no intelligence outside of us, personally, that is sustaining and supporting us, then we can be rest assured we shall pay the price of Lucifer. It's called the price of pride. For if you will recall, Lucifer rose in his great pride to be equal with the intelligent Energy that was sustaining him, called God.
These invisible friends that are around and about us each and every moment, ever in keeping with the Law of Attraction, we shall meet someday. If we do not meet them while yet in the physical flesh, we are guaranteed to meet them when we leave this physical world. For the physical body, garnered up from the physical substance of earth, is destined by the Law of Return to go back to this physical earth. And our mental body, which we have identified with, is destined to return to the substance from whence it was garnered.
My friends, there is no lasting security in identifying with the things that come and are guaranteed to go. The only thing that we will ever or have ever had or will ever have is the possibility of awakening to our great, eternal life, to a stream of consciousness that is far beyond the limited forms created by our human mind. For in truth, we are this essence of life. We are a stream of consciousness that ever moves through untold multitudes of so-called experience.
But we must remember, we are not the experience. We are not the thought. We are the intelligent energy that has created the thought, but we are not the thought itself. It is when we believe we are the thought that our problems start to rise. It is when we believe we are the fear and the experience—that is our struggle. For it, in truth, is revealing to us that we have identified with the duality of creation and through that identity, we have attached our self to that vibratory wave. All of life is vibration. And we are the vibration that we alone, through identity, have chosen. But we can choose a new vibration. To us, it's called an attitude. We can choose that new vibration and we can, then, free our self from that which we have chosen to free our self from."
Whenever we are prompted from within a change may be beneficial in our lives, at the very thought of a change fear rises in our minds. The prompting for the change may be the guidance from our soul, although there could be a variety of causes. But the fear that arises in response is from our minds, for our established thoughts and judgments regard any change as a threat, and they use fear as a defense in order to obstruct the change that we are considering. That is my understanding of one of the ways in which fear is the mind's control over our eternal soul. And when we become aware of the feeling of fear in our minds, that is the time to redirect our attention. If it often not easy to do so, but it is possible for all of us.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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