Lesson 10 - The Spoken Word

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

The Esoteric, or true meaning of the God-head, is understood to consist in the truth that three truths, so to speak, are essential in the one absolute Being, that it may be manifest. God the Omnipresent Spirit, is known to the awakened to be a Trinity in Unity, or three in One, which is prior to the formation in thought of mental images like unto itself.

Spirit perceives the idea of creation within itself; hence, there is the perceiver, the perception, and the idea perceived, and the three are One. The Spirit perceives all possibilities in its idea, which is also itself. They constitute the first triad, or union of three, known to the Egyptians as the sacred Trinity or triangle of Love, Wisdom and Truth; they are pure Spirit - God - the Father of all.

It may be reasoned in this way: God is love, and wisdom is essential to the realization of the truth that He is Love; or it may be said, love, knowing the truth of what it is, and knowing its own power, is wisdom. Therefore, the power to think and create is contained within the Trinity; and resulting from this eternal, unchangeable perception and consciousness, is thought and creation.

"I am, that I am," therefore I think, is a truthful conclusion. Add to the Trinity or triangle its power to think, and we have justice, which forms the sacred square - the Perfect Whole. So that which squares the triangle, is the power to think, and is justice, so with what measure we mete, the same do we have; and when Love, Wisdom and Truth, or Father, Son and Holy Ghost, are manifest in thought, the thought is just to God and man, for it is an image of them, and is divinity manifest. As all things are produced by the power of thought, the production is an exact image or effect of the thought producing it; therefore, the effect is perfect justice to the thought; then if the thought be in the image and likeness of God, the effect or image is an exact representation of God - or God manifest in the flesh.

This is the divine order of manifestation, and as is the thought, so is the manifestation; and never is it otherwise. So all that we have in manifestation, is the result of what we have thought; thought is the tree which produces sweet or bitter fruit, and the fixed habits of thought or belief determine the kind it shall be; according to the tree so is the fruit. The out-picturing of thought is exact justice; it never fails to bring its reward, or produce its kind.

Christ knew himself to be the Omnipresent Trinity, or Spirit. Therefore, if we believe - understandingly - in the "Lord Jesus Christ," we shall know the freedom, power and glory that he did. Thought, being the first born of Spirit, is individual, not omnipresent, therefore it acts in time and place, but it being the imaging quality or power of the Omnipresent, it can be extended to all time and place.

The power to think is contained in the God-head, and thought is its first-born; and through thought do we discern the visible universe, or that which is the result of thought. When we see objects, or sense visible things, the objects seen or things sensed are not (neither can they become) a cause for the expression of life, truth and power.

While we are privileged to look upon the beautiful symbols in nature, which are radiant with the life of the Omnipresent Deity, yet not until we see them as effects, can the thought and reason be raised into the Omnipresent Deity with which they are radiant; nor can we ascertain and make apparent the full purpose of life in creation, that of bearing perfect fruit of the Spirit. To solve the problem of life, we must by means of thought mentally receive, and image in consciousness the absolute and unchanging Spirit; then reflect that image in the body, and demonstrate it in word and deed, and that which is reflected in the body, or demonstrated in word or deed, is a symbol of the unchanging life and truth, and is radiant with that which it symbols. But if in our effort to solve the problem of life, we fail to perceive and realize the absolute and unchanging Spirit, we do not image it in consciousness by thought, and we fail to reflect it in the body, or demonstrate it in word and deed.

The baptism of the Holy Ghost is a knowledge of the whole truth of what Being is; in other words, to know what Being is, is to live and bathe in the Spirit of Truth - the Omnipresent Life. When the Spirit of Truth, which is the comforter, is perceived and demonstrated, it guides to all in truth and absolute freedom. When Divine Being is imaged in consciousness, we know what harmonious results are, from having produced them. We are to consider, therefore, that all forms in nature, all that is seen or sensed, are symbols of eternal ideas, hence may be called spoken words, representative of principle.

As forms are spoken words of Spirit, the forms in nature constitute the language or spoken words of the Infinite; that is, forms in Nature are the out-picturing of the interior language or idea of Spirit. Our bodies are symbols of an idea spoken and made visible.

Once rend the veil of delusion, and we know that we possess freedom in the Spirit of Truth, and know that matter has no power over us, to limit or environ; for a thinker is greater than his thought, word, or his deed. That which is representative of self or being, cannot control or guide self; so it is clear that we must assume the responsibility of controlling our thoughts, words and deeds, and thus free mentality from its self-made limitations, which means its selfmade delusions. When this is done we shall be able to perceive and read the silent and invisible language or idea that lies back of all nature - the language which is, before the beginning, i.e., before thought - prior to expressions.

The power to perceive, read, and realize the universal language which lies back of created things, is the deepest intuition, it is Spirit taking cognizance of its own truth recorded in the book of life. This language has no sound, neither is it visible to the senses; it is a soundless, invisible presence, hidden in the secret chamber of the silence, the formless, the all pervading One in absolute love.

The Christian Mystic, Jacob Boehme, an illuminated seer, expressed the same truth in the form of a dialogue between the Master and His disciple, as follows. The disciple said to the Master: "How can I succeed in arriving at that supersensual life in which I may see and hear the Supreme?" The Master answered: "If you can only for a moment enter in thought into the formless, where no creature resides, you will hear the voice of the Supreme." The disciple said:

"Is this far or near?" The Master answered: "It is in yourself, and if you can command only for one hour the silence of your desires, you will hear the inexpressible words of the Supreme. If your own will and self are silent in you, the perception of the eternal will be manifest through you; God will hear, and see, and talk through you; your own hearing, desiring and seeing, prevents you from hearing and seeing the Supreme." Acknowledgment of the ever present Deity as being all there is, and meditating with calm and peaceful thought on the same, is the way to prove to ourselves the truth of the Master’s words to His disciple, and rise above self-made delusion. Practice as advised in the preface to this lesson, and you will hear the inexpressible words of the Supreme, saying, there is no limitation, and beliefs in limitation will disappear; for error is never apparent where truth is spoken and manifest.

Every word spoken, and every thing in nature, has its origin in the silent and invisible. Every thing in nature is but a symbol and shadow of that silent and invisible reality. The names by which forms in nature are known, are not their real and divine names. They are not named according to their reality, but according to their appearance.

We have not forgotten the lesson impressed upon our memory in early childhood, of how to listen to the silence and be guided by its word. Having a birthright to the Quaker Church, we were taught to depend upon the still small voice to guide us in the straight and narrow way, and to an upright life; and, that if we did not listen to, and obey its voice, it would cease speaking to us. How true it is, that if we do not listen to the voice of Truth, which is ever silent, and adjust our thought, word and deed to it, we lose the way of hearing, perceiving and understanding, and they that lose this way are lost in the wilderness of effects and appearances.

If we do not seek first Cause, which is God, and rely upon it, we do seek and rely upon that which is not cause, but effect. To seek and lean upon effects is to serve mammon, is to obey the senses, which is idolatry.

To seek and to depend upon manifesting first Cause, or God, for all expressions of life and strength, is to worship in Spirit and in truth, is to base the motive and faith aright, and is to fulfill the purpose of life in creation; for the purpose of life in creation is that God may be manifest, and that we may, as individuals, come to know Him and the I AM as one, which is a consciousness of life eternal with God.