Chapter 6: Unleashing God-power

1My body is composed of atoms. 2Atoms are systems of electronic particles linked by common forces with identical electrical configurations, differing only in their rhythm of radiation.

3Within me lives the spirit of God. 4Unbelief is the barricade that prevents me from tapping energy from my divine power station.

5The principles that activate the formidable inner powers I must master individually. 6Divine working manifests in individual awareness—as distinct from collective consciousness.

7The secret of unleashing God-power is to believe that ethereal substance permeates me, acts through me, heals me, and regenerates me, irradiating every particularity of my life. 8An indifferent or negative frame of mind inhibits the substance …

9Refuse to upset yourself! Refuse to upset yourself! 10Invoke your divine protection. N.B. 11In every person’s inner Self is the God-atom, hidden, discoverable by the few only. 12The inner Self is inconceivably grand and angelic. It is mysteriously exalted.

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ECHOES & NOTES

Chapter 6: Unleashing God-power

6.1: My body is composed of atoms.

All that is around us … is ultimately nothing but ephemeral networks of particle-waves whirling around at lightning speed, colliding, rebounding, disintegrative in almost total emptiness. … Yet, although almost all of its mass is concentrated in the nucleus, the radius of this nucleus itself is one hundred thousand times smaller—so small, in fact, that if all the nuclei of all the atoms that make up the whole of mankind were packed tight together, their global aggregate would be the size of a large grain of rice! (Riencourt 1981: 28)

6.2: Atoms are systems of electronic particles linked by common forces with identical electrical configurations, differing only in their rhythm of radiation.

Max Planck discovered that the energy of heat radiation is not emitted continuously but appears in the form of ‘energy packets.’ Einstein called these energy packets ‘quanta’ and recognized them as fundamental aspects of nature. The light quanta, which gave quantum theory its name, have since been accepted as bona fide particles and are now called photons. (Capra 1975: 70)

6.3: Within me lives the spirit of God.

‘Who draws near to God’ as we do through this reverent affection, ‘is one spirit with God.’ Although God and we are two, and distinct by nature, yet by grace we are so joined together that we become but one spirit. And this is because there is unity of love and agreement of will. (Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, the Epistle of Prayer 15, c500)

6.4: Unbelief is the barricade that prevents me from tapping energy from my divine power station.

Unfounded disbelief is indeed injurious. It works in the recipient as a repelling force. It hinders him from fructifying thoughts. Not blind faith, but just this reception of the thought world of spiritual science is the prerequisite to the development of the higher senses. (Steiner [1922] 1971: 158)

6.5: The principles that activate the formidable inner powers I must master individually.

Spiritual Science has been able to affirm that the inner core of the human being, the ‘I,’ is indeed an individual, unique from all other individuals. However, since the ‘I’ in its repeated incarnations takes part in all cultural epochs and acquires all the knowledge necessary for further development, it is in this sense a citizen of the whole world, not just of one epoch. In this sense the human is a universal being. It would be wrong to call this universality collective, species-bound. Rather, it should be called metahistorical, because of taking part in the whole of humankind’s development through all stages of history. (Hans Erhard Lauer in Wehr 2002: 314)

6.6: Divine working manifests in individual awareness—as distinct from collective consciousness.

Both the dictator state and denominational religion lay quite particular emphasis on the idea of community. This is the basic ideal of ‘communism,’ and it is thrust down the throats of the people so much that it has quite the exact opposite of the desired effect: it inspires divisive mistrust. … As can easily be seen, ‘community’ is an indispensable aid in the organisation of the masses, and it is therefore a two-edged weapon. Just as the addition of however many zeros will never make a unit, so the value of a community depends on the spiritual and moral stature of the individuals composing it. (Jung [1958] 1979: 30-1)

The body needs no healing. But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! And it is here that Christ sets forth the remedy. His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the Holiness that shines from Him. And nothing that the body says or does but makes Him manifest. To those who know Him not it carries Him in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. (ACIM 25: Introduction 1-3 [1975] 1996: T518)

6.7: The secret of unleashing God-power is to believe that ethereal substance permeates me, acts through me, heals me, and regenerates me, irradiating every particularity of my life.

Faith is merely power in action, and you must realize that by and through faith you cannot create anything evil, though by negative faith, which is fear, you can separate yourself from the good. So, when you release constructive faith, you are not destroying something that is present. (Nicol Campbell 1954: 15)

6.8: An indifferent or negative frame of mind inhibits the substance …

Fear is a barrier between God and man. (VM [2010] 57:1)

6.9: Refuse to upset yourself! Refuse to upset yourself!

Put from you the belief that ‘I have been wronged,’ and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. … When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of life. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.7, 6.11)

6.10: Invoke your divine protection.

To be pure means that you become empty, empty of everything personal, so that you can pass through this tiny portal of the sacred heart-atom, which is the narrow gate that Jesus speaks of elsewhere. If you cannot free yourself, then you cannot pass through the gate and see God. To see God, you must find the God in you, the Overself in your heart, because it is impossible to see That without becoming it. There is no duality in divinity; you can see God only by uniting with Him, and this you can do only after letting go of everything that keeps you from such unification. (Brunton [1939] 1982: 73)

6.11: In every person’s inner Self is the God-atom, hidden, discoverable by the few only.

Buddhi, mental, astral, and physical atoms are attached to each causal-body or individuality as centres of life and form on the several planes throughout the whole series of incarnations. The soul comes to the state which signifies the sense of infinite rest and serenity—which is comparable to the rhythm of the Great Breath. The ‘past and future’ symbolise the course which evolution has taken to enable this state of consciousness to be arrived at, and so the Eternal Now is verily realised. ‘Prosperity and earth’ signify the sublimated lower or natural man, through which the Higher Ego has attained its final liberation. Although the lower is ‘unreality,’ it has been absorbed into the Self. The germ of this state exists and will persist through eternity, for nothing is ever lost. The state is transformed, but still visible to the Self, though now seen to be of It. There is a permanent atom or centre on each plan, which, when communicated with, will respond to vibrations which answer to the varied aspects of the Self. (Gaskell [1923] 1981: 82-3)6.12:

6.12: The inner Self is inconceivably grand and angelic. It is mysteriously exalted.

The Self knows all, is not born, does not die, is not the effect of any cause; is eternal, self-existent, imperishable, ancient. How can the killing of the body kill Him? … The Self is lesser than the least, greater than the greatest. He lives in all hearts. When the senses are at rest, free from desire, man finds Him and mounts beyond sorrow. … The Self is not known through discourse, splitting of hairs, learning however great; He comes to the man He loves; takes that man’s body for His own. (Katha Upanishad 1.2 c800 B.C.)