Chapter 8: Implementing the God-laws

1There is enough energy in one person to destroy a mighty metropolis. 2How infinitely mightier we become when we turn on our God-electricity!

3Yesterday is past. 4Today the God-laws can be applied to secure happiness, protection, and material prosperity.

N.B. 5Practice the presence of God.

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ECHOES AND NOTES

Chapter 8: Implementing the God-laws

8.1: There is enough energy in one person to destroy a mighty metropolis.

A common stone secretly contains stupendous atomic energies; even so, the lowliest mortal is a powerhouse of divinity. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp-bulb would be shattered by excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as though every cell were on fire. … The muscles relax during sleep, but he heart, lungs, and circulatory system are constantly at work; they get no rest. In super consciousness all internal organs remain in a state of suspended animation, electrified by the cosmic energy. By such means I have found it unnecessary to sleep for years. (Yogananda [1945/1998] 2002: 320, 138)

The two atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945—in the then unprecedented military act of accelerating Japan’s surrender—resulted in the immediate death of about 80,000 and 141,000 people respectively. Many thousands of Japanese civilians later died of their wounds. More than 360,000 people lost their lives in the dying stages of the Second World War as a result. About seventy percent of the infrastructure was either demolished or badly damaged. During the bomb attack on Hiroshima—by the first, and, at that stage, still untested uranium bomb—the population of this city was roughly 245,000. The Vade-mecum’s disclosure—that the amount of energy latent in the constitution of an individual is comparable to that of a World War II atom bomb on cities much smaller than a ‘mighty metropolis’—is an indication of the extent to which we underestimate the innate energy in our divine potential. Thought, duly understood and purposefully applied, is an elemental power, the strongest in the universe. (Kesting, 2010)

Matter is condensed energy—which, moreover, was known by alchemists and Hermeticists thousands of years ago. Sooner or later science will discover … that what it calls ‘energy’ is only condensed psychic force—which discovery will lead in the end to the establishment of the fact that all psychic force is ‘condensation,’ purely and simply, of consciousness, i.e., spirit. (Tomberg [1985] 1993: 574)

8.2: How infinitely mightier we become when we turn on our God-electricity!

At the instant at which we contact Him—that is when we turn within—every single human being becomes tuned in to us and can manifest for us as the spiritual idea of a substance we desire, or, since God is All-in-all, this may come to us through any other of the millions of channels that are his vehicles. (Nicol Campbell 1954: 61)

There is an enormous energy locked into the central nervous system. If it is released from the base of the spine it can flow up the spinal column until it reaches the brain. Along the spinal column there are various spinning wheels of psychic energy (chakras) that govern the functions of the body. These are said to be knots by which the soul is tied down to the body. At the base of the spine in the ordinary human this psychic energy is dormant. Mythologically it is represented as a serpent, or kundalini. With the proper meditation techniques, the individual can arouse kundalini and move it up progressively through each chakra, uniting the knots of the soul—until the serpent fire reaches the brain and liberation is achieved. (Talbot [1980] 1981: 153-4)

8.3: Yesterday is past.

To see the things of the present moment is to see that all is now, all that has been since time began, and all that shall be unto the world’s end; for all things are of one kind and one form. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.37 [121-80/1964] 1983: 99)

Everybody who wants to be sensitive to the highest truth must be conscious of neither ‘before’ nor ‘after,’ unhindered by their past records, uninfluenced by any idea that they ever understood, innocent and free to receive anew with each Now-moment a heavenly gift, and to consecrate them to God in the same light, with thankful praise to our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, the doves are cleared out, that is, the hindrances, the good deeds that smack of selfishness, which are good enough in their own way to enable one to get what he wants for himself. But of these our Lord spoke gently, saying: ‘Take them all out—get rid of them!’ He may have meant merely: ‘No harm done—but they are just some more obstacles.’ (Eckhart, Sermon 13 [c1260-1327/8] 1941: 158)

8.4: Today the God-laws can be applied to secure happiness, protection, and material prosperity.

Not tomorrow but today. Not the tomorrow of the tumulus, the hour of sunshine now. This moment gives me to live soul-life, not only after death. Now is eternity, now I am in the midst of immortality; now the supernatural crowds around me. Open my mind, give my soul to see, let me live it now on earth, while I hear the burring of the larger bees, the sweet air in the grass, and watch the yellow wheat wave beneath me. Sun and earth and sea, night and day—these are the least of things. Give me soul-life. (Richard Jefferies, The story of my heart [1883] 1900 in Happold [1963] 1981: 384-93)

8.5: Practice the presence of God.

It is the recollection of God, the thought of God, which in all places and circumstances makes us see him present, lets us commune respectfully and lovingly with him, and fills us with desire and affection for him. … Would you escape from every ill? Never lose this recollection of God, neither in prosperity nor in adversity, nor on any occasion whatsoever it be. Invoke not to excuse yourself from this duty, either the difficulty or the importance of your business, for you can always remember that God sees you, that you are under his eye. If a thousand times an hour you forget him, reanimate a thousand times the recollection. If you cannot practise this exercise continuously, at least make yourself as familiar with it as possible; and, like unto those who in a rigorous winter draw near the fire as often as they can, go as often as you can to that ardent fire which will warm your soul. (Alvarez de Paz 1608 in James [1902] 1910)