Chapter 7: God-energy is Omnipresent

1The atoms constituting the body are in perpetual motion and must be directed by the spiritual Self. 2Unless this happens, the atoms behave like an army in disarray. 3If the atoms are under our spiritual command, we become virtually immune to disease. 4Disease sneaks into the body, in the nook where no gatekeeper is on guard.  

5God-energy is everywhere about us. 6It is therefore always at our disposal as long as we act according to divine laws. 7Should the divine laws be broken, punishment must be taken, just as when any other law is broken.

N.B. 8God does not punish. 9What is perceived as punishment is the result of the law of Cause and Effect.

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ECHOES & NOTES

Chapter 7: God-Energy is Omnipresent

7.1: The atoms constituting the body are in perpetual motion and must be directed by the spiritual Self.

An atom is almost completely empty space in which minute particles whirl around within its confines at speeds of up to forty thousand miles per second. (Riencourt 1981: 28-9)

The Vade-mecum speaks of the spiritual Self as the individual Self, inner Self, divine Self, true Self, and deeper Self. The spiritual Self as man’s real identity is presented as individual consciousness distinct from his phenomenal, personal, social, rational, sensible, ego-self, manifesting at its lowest expression as the small-I consciousness of self. The spiritual Self is the Anthropos of primordial Self—man’s original identity when, in a state of sheer divinity, beyond the mists of centuries and eternities, the Self embarked on the infinite cycle of involution and evolution. (Kesting, 2010)  

7.2: Unless this happens, the atoms behave like an army in disarray.

It should be remembered that much of the effect of catalysts, both inorganic and organic, depends on their morphology. For example, enzymes—the specific catalysts of the numerous reactions of biochemistry—provide surfaces, grooves, notches, or basins into which the reacting molecules fit with a specificity which is often compared to that of a lock and key. The catalytic effect of enzymes depends, to a large extent, on the way in which they hold reactant molecules in the appropriate relative positions for reaction to occur. (Sheldrake [1981] 1988: 83)

7.3: If the atoms are under our spiritual command, we become virtually immune to disease.

The immune system therefore acts as a pattern recognition system which communicates information across the body and stores it as a memory. During invasions by viruses, the immune system may even be able to communicate in some direct way with the nervous system and hence the brain itself. The immune system could therefore be said to depend on meaning for its activities, on the meaning of the molecular structure of an invading virus, the meaning of the pattern and the disease, the meaning of the normal functioning of the body. It even appears that, during periods of excessive stress, the immune system’s failure to fight off disease may be related to the whole organism’s internal lack, or confusion, of meaning. Indeed, if the meaning of the body is taken to be its intelligent, coordinated activity in health, then disease is a degeneration or breakdown in meaning. (Peat 1987: 62)

7.4: Disease sneaks into the body, in the nook where no gatekeeper is on guard.  

Your immune system is the physical part of your gatekeeper. You also have an energetic mental gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is a mechanism in your mind which guards the gates of your Self, regulating what comes in and what goes out. Like the immune system, the energetic gatekeeper is an identity keeper, distinguishing what is from you and what is not you. It, too, helps to regulate good health: mental, emotional, and energetic. When your immune system is working correctly, the gatekeeper activates your attention and provides information. … When it is not working correctly, you may feel that you are at the mercy of your past experiences and your emotions. You may feel that your emotional reactions are akin to sneezing or hives. (Meredith 1993: 76-7)

7.5: God-energy is everywhere about us.

After centuries of knowing God through faith, we are now ready to understand divine intelligence directly. In many ways this new knowledge reinforces what spiritual traditions have already promised. God is invisible and yet performs all miracles. He is the source of every impulse of love. Beauty and truth are both children of this God. In the absence of knowing the infinite source of energy and creativity, life’s miseries come into being. Getting close to God through a true knowing heals the fear of death, confirms the existence of the soul, and gives ultimate meaning to life. (Chopra [2000] 2001: 1-2)

7.6: It is therefore always at our disposal as long as we act according to divine laws.

Divine force may be invoked by either individual or group effort; and when evoked becomes a strong inner driving force, with destructive powers when misapplied, but otherwise tending towards stabilisation, clarification and creativity. When the evoked Will becomes focussed by the light of the soul, and directed with love towards establishing right human relations, effective responses must inevitably follow. Correct response to the energy of Will is always characterised by a spirit of sacrifice and forgiveness. When the impulse underlying the loving Will of God is sensed and suitably interpreted, the desire will be born to participate in that Will, giving rise to a spirit of sharing and sacrifice. (Jurriaanse [1978] 1986: 179)

7.7: Should the divine laws be broken, punishment must be taken, just as when any other law is broken.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Gal 6: 7-9)

7.8: God does not punish.

When we are aware of the oneness, guilt and blame are irrelevant. When we know the Good, we no longer see evil and evil-doers, just ignorant people who are, as Plotinus puts it, ‘like immature children’ as yet unaware of the goodness of their essential nature and the unity of all things. We are all One, so when some lost soul expresses his ignorance of the Oneness by acting badly towards others, it is like some demented fool hitting himself with his own fist. When the apparent evildoer is then vengefully vilified by other self-righteous lost souls, it is like the same fool roundly condemning his fist for its evil nature and punishing himself with a blow from his other fist. (Freke & Gandy [2002] 2003: 249)

7.9: What is perceived as punishment is the result of the law of cause and effect.

There is no such thing as ‘chance.’ The principle of Causation, the law of ‘Cause and Effect,’ is always present and always in operation, both in your life and everyone else’s life, effect following cause in perfect, immutable sequence. Nothing … ever happens outside of the law, and equally importantly nothing ever acts contrary to the law. Mankind should never be a pawn to these laws, but should rather master and work with them in providing for genuine needs, and most importantly for the ultimate destiny of every human being, the ascent back to our Divine Creator. (Cooper 2005: 114)