Category Archives: Levels

Believing & beyond – Frank Johnson

The meaning of believing, as revealed by Jesus, marks the beginning of our ascent in the spiritual life. It’s the very first step. Unfortunately, you usually won’t find the necessary next step taught in our churches. Believing is really just an affirming of a thought held by the natural mind. What must then take place is a dropping of our attachment to a personal self (dying to self), which then allows God to manifest in us as our true Life. In other words, to know as Jesus did, “When you see me, you see the Father”. Intellectual belief is where we must all start, but we need to move beyond belief to the level of inner realization. To know like Jesus, the truth of who you are.
Frank Johnson

Remember how we were told to simply believe in Jesus? It never dawned on us that in the end all we really had, was a BELIEF being held by our natural mind. No one ever showed us how to take the next step. How to awaken within to that same Christ-nature. If you mention this to most Christians, you’re likely to get some response regarding “New Age” thinking. This is what Religion has done to the honest, sincere seeker. In the past, we ended up believing with our minds, still living in our heads, and remained completely unaware of our true Life, the Divine nature within us. It never occurred to us that believing is just the egoic mind following a new religious path, while relying on our own human effort and willpower to conform. We had eyes, but we didn’t see.
~ Frank Johnson

ANSWERS to Levels of awareness

There are two levels of life: the human level which is made up entirely of mind and body, and the level which is the Son of God or spirit. If you have discerned that there is a “man of earth” and that there is “a man who has his being in Christ”–if you have discerned why it was taught that you must put off mortality and put on immortality–then you are ready to understand the message as you will receive it from now on. You will now approach that time in your own spiritual development when you will be taught of God, as indeed everyone must be eventually.
The Master provided for that by saying: “If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.” The Master did not provide for his remaining on earth forever to be our shepherd. Therefore, in the end every knee must bend, every consciousness must open to receive instruction, guidance, protection, illumination, from the Father within. Then eventually we will all be able to say: “I am instructed, guided, protected, and illumined by God.”
Let us take the subject of protection. I am sure that most of you in this room have no fear of atomic bombs. I do not see how you could have such a fear after being with us this past year, because you definitely must have attained the conviction that God is; and if God is, that means omnipotence. Is there then any power to fear? Each one must answer this for himself: “Is the teaching of The Infinite Way truth or fiction?” No one can convince you of this, either way. You yourself must have an inner experience which is not a blind faith. Blind faith has been a terrible thing through the centuries, a blind faith because “my” mother or “my” minister told me to have faith.
Why not have our own convictions? It must be possible for everyone on the face of the globe to receive an assurance from God that there is a God. “Fear not, for I am with thee.” What is this, fact or fiction? Are we to accept the Bible as the word of God, or as pleasant fiction? All the really great Hebrew leaders, and all the great Christian leaders have been able to say without exception: “Fear not, for I am with thee. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. I will be with thee unto the end of the world. Fear not the armies of the alien; they have only the arm of flesh,” they have only temporal power.
As long as you are the natural man thinking with your mind, you cannot accept these passages of scripture and you cannot adopt them as your way of life. Even though the human race repeats scriptural quotations, you know the world does not accept them. Why? Because the passages of scripture were not made for “man whose breath is in his nostrils.”
According to the Old Testament you must live and move and dwell in the secret place of the Most High, and the Old Testament made it very clear that, “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.” The New Testament is equally clear that “He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered.” That is what you are witnessing of the human world. The Bible recognizes two levels of life as we do. That level of humanity which is not consciously abiding in the word, and which does not consciously accept God as the life which is “closer than breathing,” is cut off. The Bible also recognizes the second level of life–those who live and dwell in the “secret place of the Most High.”
As you come to the state of consciousness revealed to us this year, and given to us as a mode of life, remember that God is the life of individual man or men, saint or sinner, Jew or Greek, bond or free. God is the life of every individual. When Moses received the name of God, the Hebrew followers who had been in slavery were certainly not prepared to understand that name. They could have misunderstood it so easily that Moses refused to allow them to know the true name of God, and they were given a substitute name. Only the high priests were permitted to know that name.
We learn now that, one hundred years before the Master came to earth, there was another Hebrew master who was crucified because he attempted to impart this secret to the Hebrew world. For one hundred years the name was again secret, but then Jesus was determined to follow in the footsteps of this great master and he revealed the secret for three years until he too was crucified.
The importance of the name is this: Unless you know it, you never can fully relax the tension of living, nor can you relax in the spirit and be God-governed, God-taught, God-protected, God-supported, and God-maintained. Only when you receive the revelation of Moses and Jesus as to the identity of God, will you be able to realize why it was taught: “The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” You now know why it was taught; you have had it all year. You also know why the Master said: “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” You know the import of that, but you cannot know it with your mind.
You will have to have the same discernment that Peter had when the Master said: “Whom say ye that I am?” Peter answered “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” to which the Master replied: “Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Nothing in the mind could reveal this, it was the Father within, it was the divine consciousness. In other words, “Whereas I probably look and talk like a Hebrew rabbi, you have discerned that behind this face and this robe I am the Christ.”

J. S. Goldsmith: Consciousness Transformed. Spiritual Discernment; Kindle location: 5307-5353

“Trying to grasp, handle, be boss” JM

I must confess I’m still trying to ‘grasp’ it at times and it’s always way too slippery to handle, but then ‘handle’ in this case means I’m still trying to be Boss and retain control.
This is reminding me more and more of when I was learning to ride a bicycle. Temporary success followed by repeated failure until one day I finally ‘got it’ and just simply glided away…
🔥❤️🔥
~Jim Muffo

Hearing God becomes easier with practice

I have found that hearing God becomes easier and easier with practice. Sometimes the carnal mind gets really obstinate and just hits me with “NOT RIGHT NOW DON’T WANNA I’LL DO IT LATER WHAT’S FOR DINNER” and similar mind-numbing nonsense, hoping to lull me into a stupor. As soon as I wake up to this malarkey, I focus on/as God and the journey becomes joyfully exhilarating once again!

Warning: whatever happened to God?

BE VERY CAREFUL
When we discover
That God’s Oneness
Is all about us
And therefore me,
We want to embrace
This glorious Truth
With all we’ve got.
God in me
God living through me
God AS me!!!
Mind-boggling
And wonderful.
God is the only “I AM”
That’s ME !!
So far, no problem.
Let me take another look
At me.
Okay. Okay.
You go girl!
You go boy!
No danger yet…
Wait for it…
Waiting…
“I hate this ÷×+ing waiting
I hate what vcxzv said
I want this, I need that
I’m so frustrated
I can’t stand that guy
They’re so ugly
He’s an idiot
Hate want yuk
Bfdsrty bhygfg koouuy
QUESTION:
Whatever happened
To God?

The higher level

God’s work is finished. The higher level is spiritual and is accessible now! We don’t need to do anything: we don’t even need to wait. Let go of all the preconceived notions about what you think you want, need, should feel, should have, and only believe. A joy heretofore unknown should sweep over you and wash through you, confirming that you are in the center of His will right this very moment … and forever.

Good thermometer!

♡ ● ♡ ● ♡ ● I can always tell if I am completely on track with God by how I’m feeling about every person who comes to mind. On track with God, I love absolutely everyone easily and unconditionally.
♡ ● ♡ ● ♡ ●

Who are you going to … bless?

Reading lovely words and
Saying “How beautiful!”
Doesn’t put you
Where you need to be.
Viewing your fellow man
As less than you in any way
Sells YOU short!!!

You got a new revelation
And another, and another
Now who are you going to bless?
Not instruct, not correct
Just bless?

Gradual spiritual development

GRADUAL SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

God is within me.

Q: Filling up what percent?

One hundred percent.

Q: Then you’re God?

I am not Father God, Creator of heaven and earth, the sea and all that is under the earth, no. (Sarcasm intended.)
But as a drop of water is water, I am the exact same substance as God.

Q: What does that mean to you?

It means that I am spiritual and perfect. Not only do I see as God sees but God does the seeing – through me. And the hearing, feeling, thinking, imagining, knowing.

Q: So you never have any sicknesses, lack, accidents, problems …?

I didn’t say that.

Q: Please explain.

I haven’t arrived at such a state of awareness that I never have problems, but I will say that challenges have become less and less severe while trusting God (within and as) me has become more and more natural and joyful.