The Seer

If God is truly infinite, then there is not the smallest place, nor the shortest moment where God is absent. God, to be truly infinite, must (by definition) be everywhere, all times, with all life.

There can be nothing that is not God, nothing that is not made of God, because in the beginning there was only God and nothing else — pure creativity. God already filled all of existence. There couldn’t have been any room left over because if there was, then God wasn’t infinite.

Thus, God only had Itself out of which to make everything God created and thus, despite the illusion of separateness, we can not actually be separate from God because there is nowhere else to be separate from God.

All of God is right where you are now and nowhere else. I AM is one. There is no second I AM to stand in your light, to put up the feeblest opposition. All is as you would have it because you are Who you are. Here is no spark of that Fire, but the blazing Furnace itself.

~ by Douglas Harding. See: Who or What is God?

The real search isn’t a search into tomorrow, or to anywhere other than now. It’s starting to look into the very nature of this moment. In order to do that, you have to “stand in your own two shoes,” as my teacher used to say. What she meant by “standing in your own two shoes” is you have to look clearly into your own experience. Stop trying to have someone else’s experience. Stop chasing freedom or happiness, or even spiritual enlightenment.

Stand in your own shoes, and examine closely: What’s happening right here and right now? Is it possible to let go of trying to make anything happen? Even in this moment, there may be some suffering, there may be some unhappiness, but even if there is, is it possible to no longer push against it, to try to get rid of it, to try to get somewhere else?

I understand that our instinct is to move away from what’s not comfortable, to try to get somewhere better, but as my teacher used to say, “You need to take the backward step, not the forward step.” The forward step is always moving ahead, always trying to attain what you want, whether it’s a material possession or inner peace.

The forward step is very familiar: seeking and more seeking, striving and more striving, always looking for peace, always looking for happiness, looking for love. To take the backward step means to just turn around, reverse the whole process of looking for satisfaction on the outside, and look at precisely the place where you are standing. See if what you are looking for isn’t already present in your experience.

So, again, to lay the groundwork for awakening, we must first let go of struggling. You let go by acknowledging that the end of struggle is actually present in your experience now. The end of struggle is peace. Even if your ego is struggling, even if you’re trying to figure this out and “do it right,” if you really look, you might just see that struggle is happening within a greater context of peace, within an inner stillness. But if you try to make stillness happen, you’ll miss it. If you try to make peace happen, you’ll miss it. This is more like a process of recognition, giving recognition to a stillness that is naturally present.

We’re not bringing struggle to an end. We’re not trying to not struggle anymore. We’re just noticing that there is a whole other dimension to consciousness that, in this very moment, isn’t struggling, isn’t resentful, isn’t trying to get somewhere. You can literally feel it in your body. You can’t think your way to not struggling. There isn’t a three-point plan of how not to struggle. It’s really a one-point plan: Notice that the peace, this end of struggling, is actually already present.

The process is therefore one of recognition. We recognize that there is peace now, even if your mind is confused. You may see that even when you touch upon peace now, the mind is so conditioned to move away from it that it will try to argue with the basic fact of peace’s existence within you: “I can’t be at peace yet because I have to do this, or that, or this question hasn’t been answered, or that question hasn’t been answered, or so-and-so hasn’t apologized to me.”

There are all sorts of ways that the egoic mind can insist that something needs to happen, something needs to change, in order for you to be at peace. But this is part of the dream of the mind. We’re all taught that something needs to change for us to experience true peace and freedom.

Just imagine for a moment that this isn’t true. Even though you may believe that it’s true, just imagine for a moment: What would it be like if you didn’t need to struggle, if you didn’t need to make an effort to find peace and happiness? What would that feel like now? And just take a moment to be quiet and see if peace or stillness is with you in this moment.

~ From: Falling Into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering, by Adyashanti.

How Integral Dynamic Monotheism can transform and renew our entire Christian experience

I would like to suggest a different kind of monotheism that I believe Jesus modelled or exemplified and which can bring full freedom to each of us if we embrace it. I’m calling it ‘Integral Dynamic Monotheism’ and describe it as follows …

In this monotheism, God alone is. God alone is eternal. God cannot be put into any human categories. He/She/It is absolutely independent, creative, timeless, peace and love. God is personal, impersonal, and, at the same time, beyond these and all other opposites.

God isn’t an object or form but rather formless, like an infinite space. Our concepts of God are like houses that we build within the space. The infinite space allows the building of houses according to the needs and capacities of human minds, but the space always transcends them.

Our finite human mind can never build an adequate house to fill or accommodate the infinite space. God is the unconditioned space and systems (especially belief systems) are like conditioned space, within walls, as it were. Systems can never satisfy our deepest needs.

Creation (names and forms) is nothing less than a manifestation of God, and as such, is not illusory. It is, however, unreal in the sense that it isn’t eternal and infinite. Creation, like all the forms that constitute it, had/have a beginning and an inevitable end. All forms are temporal.

The universe is essentially one with God, but functionally different, like water and ice, energy and matter etc. Water and ice are essentially one, but functionally different. Likewise, energy and matter are essentially one, but functionally different. We too, it could be said, are essentially one with God, but functionally different.

Names and forms are like mirrors in which ‘God’ reflects. When the reflection identifies with the names and the forms, it feels that it is finite amd no more. However, when it looks to its source, it realizes its oneness with God.

We each have the opportunity in this life to evolve or move beyond our present spiritual capacity and experience more deeply our essential nature. The mystery we call ‘God’ undoubtedly has many different aspects for us to explore and experience if we will but drop our narrow concepts and go forward with an open heart and mind.

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The Old Testament (Ex. Ch. 16) tells how the fleeing Jewish slaves, led by Moses, were sustained in the desert by the miraculous daily provision of “manna.” This was a small, white, flaky substance which was reported to have tasted like wafers made with honey.

Interestingly, it’s said the manna only lasted for one day and after that it went bad. So manna could not be accumulated and stored, it had to be gathered and eaten fresh every day.

Like all good stories, the providing of daily manna in the desert has lessons for spiritual ’sojourners’ today. One of those lessons is that Truth or Reality cannot be stored, cannot be amassed — it does not accumulate.

The value of any insight, understanding, or realisation can only be in the ever-fresh presence of the moment.

Yesterday’s realisation is not a bit of good. Now it is dead. Now it has lost it’s vitality.

It is useless to try and cling to or hold onto an insight, an understanding, or a realisation, for only in its movement can there be the enabling of ever-fresh and new insights of Truth or Reality to appear.

The idea of enlightenment or self-realisation as a onetime event or a lasting and permanent state or experience is an erroneous concept.

Understand-ING or know-ING is alive in the immediacy which can never be negated. The emphasis is on the activity of know-ING which is going on as the immediacy now — not the dead concept ‘I understand’ or ‘I know’.

~ by Bob Adamson (Sydney)

Although Deepak Chopra’s novel: Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment is a speculative re-imagining of the “lost years” between about ages 12 and 30 of Jesus’ life, his introductory comments about Jesus’ evident unitive realization are germane to the view of many of us today who are familiar with the Eastern teachings. Chopra surmises that:

Jesus wanted his followers – and us – to reach the same unity with God that he had reached… Jesus was a teacher of higher consciousness, not just a shining example of it.

He told his disciples that they would do everything he could do and more.

He called them the ‘light of the world’, the same term he applied to himself.

He pointed toward the Kingdom of Heaven as an eternal state of grace, not a faraway place, hidden above the clouds.

In short, the Jesus who is left out of the New Testament turns out to be, in many ways, the most important Jesus for modern times.

This Jesus is, in Chopra’s view, “intensely absorbed in the question ‘Who am I?’”

Chopra’s Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas spoke the same language of nondual awareness. That is the discovery that gives foundations to Chopra’s envisioning of Jesus.

As former theology professor, Micael Ledwith, has said of Chopra’s 2008 narrative, “If you think that all that could be said about Jesus has already been said, then this book will be an eye-opener in the best sense of those words.”

~ by Robert Wolfe

As you may know by now, Pearl and I have had to curtail group gatherings at Gurukula pending our anticipated move to Melbourne, However, Martine Tiller is keen to continue the Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti group gatherings in Perth and is presently looking for a suitable venue. At this stage, Martine is considering two get-togethers each month.

If you were a regular attender at Gurukula, you’ll remember the wonderful support given over the years by our dear friends, Noel and Marion. As they are no longer able to help in this way, Martine would like to hear from any who would be willing to assist her set up the room and help with the refreshments etc.

If you’d like to be a helper or just attend the ongoing Eckhart Tolle and/or Adyashanti DVD groups in Perth, please contact Martine on (08) 9444 5917 or via martinetiller@yahoo.com

The ‘Headless Way’ group will continue to meet once a month at Julie Hillin’s home. For details and to get on the group mailing list, contact Sam Blight on 0412 039 050.

Our house is still on market, though, unless we get an acceptable offer soon, we may withdraw it for a month or two till economic conitions improve. Please note, we will continue to offer counselling services until we actually move, but our bookstore has been suspended until further notice.

Thanks again for many wonderful expressions of love and appreciation we’ve received over the past six weeks … we will try to acknowledge all these individually in due course.

When we are living in confusion, in suffering, in the ego, it seems natural to deify or look up to those who appear to have all the answers, who appear to be very spiritual – the gurus and teachers of this world. Of course, they are a real and valuable asset to society and the evolution of mankind, but we put them on a pedestal at our peril.

It may be true that someone who is widely regarded as being an ‘enlightened master’ has great clarity about life and, in many respects, may appear to be light years ahead of everyone else, but in essence his true nature and our true nature are no different.

The person may be different, the energy may be different — but essentially what he is we are also, except that he is conscious of it and we are not. His body will die and his mind will go, just as will happen with our body and mind. He, as an individual, can no more escape death than we can — except that we would like to and he is not bothered.

A truly ‘enlightened’ master will never tell you that he is great or that he is enlightened. He will never tell you that he alone can realize the ultimate, that he is a perfect master or avatar, whilst you are an ordinary human being. There are people who will tell you these things, who will make enlightenment out to be something exclusive.

There are people who will put themselves on a pedestal and encourage you to bow down before them, to serve them, to idolize them. The world is not short of a good supply of such ‘teachers’. But do these ‘teachers’ encourage you to awaken inwardly to the point where you don’t need them anymore?

When one goes with such a teacher, one instantly gives away one’s power, one’s autonomy, and one becomes dependent on their grace, on their goodwill, on their method of teaching. Of course, such teachers do offer a refuge, a support and advice for those who, for whatever reason, do not wish, or are not able, to take decisions or responsibilities for themselves in this life.

But if one is seeking ‘enlightenment’, it is better to go to a teacher who does not have pretensions about his or her status in life. It is better to go to someone who offers you a pure and unconditional mirror in which to see into your true nature, rather than one which is clouded with ego and the spirit of control and manipulation.

We all have the potential to be awake, to be conscious, in the silent emptiness of our true nature. However, there are thousands of us who have studied spiritual writings and scriptures for decades and still are unable to break through the enclosure of the mind, to taste the nectar of realization directly.

Thought cannot take us there. No prescribed practices will jolt us into this realization. No book will lead us there. The fact is that there is nowhere to go, nothing to realize and no one to realize it. We have created this myth about enlightenment and the enlightened seer, out of our own frustration and confusion. We have set them apart from ourselves, as something to achieve, something to reach out for, and in doing so have made them unattainable.

Enlightenment is something we have put on a pedestal, knowing that it is beyond our grasp. Even though the enlightened seer may tell us that all we need to do is to rid ourselves of the notion that we are not enlightened, still we are unable to put this notion, this concept aside.

So where do we go from here? Clearly, any move we make in any direction is a mistake. So, we stay where we are, fully experiencing our unclarity, our confusion, our frustration. But, instead of indulging in emotional reaction and negative moods, we simply stay where we are. We live our life, aware of our thoughts, our feelings, our moods and emotions. We do our work, raise our family, whilst all the time watching what arises in consciousness. We see the play of the world, of life, and we stand back from any emotional involvement in it.

There are wars here and injustices there. We may work for peace in the world or try to put right injustices that are taking place, but we continue to stand back from emotional involvement. In doing so, compassion may arise in the heart. When we get involved emotionally, there is a personal reaction.

This personal reaction neither solves the problem nor allows us to move on. When compassion arises, it comes with an all-seeing awareness of the suffering of all humanity. It takes us away from personal reaction into effective action. This compassion spirits us closer to realization. It takes us out of the ego, out of the personal, into the universal. We are then no longer concerned about personal realization. The realization comes as a natural side effect of the blossoming of compassion in our heart and mind.

It is natural to have respect for those who have greater knowledge, understanding and wisdom than ourselves. But it is also a mistake to get pulled in by appearances. Be careful of the one who stands before you offering sugar and spice. What’s in his other hand? Why is he so keen to get your attention?

There are many characters in life who have learned how to act in order to get what they want. If someone keeps telling you he is a good man, does it not arouse your suspicion? If someone goes around under the banner of ‘enlightened master’, do you not have a few questions to ask? Of course, the teacher doesn’t always go around claiming that he’s an enlightened master (though some are not ashamed to do this), but he often doesn’t try to prevent his followers from doing so.

In my own experience, every teacher I ever met who really impressed me deeply, made no such claims. The moment that someone does make such claims, it gives away the fact that they are living in duality, in separation, in the ego. The bigger the guru, the more likely it is that they have fallen into this trap.

We take their advice at our peril. Listening to the voice of our own true nature is what we really need to trust in. Then we need no outward teacher. The outward teacher then becomes, maybe, a source of inspiration and a motivating force rather than someone on whom we become dependent.

~ From: The Texture of Beingby Roy Whenary, Web site: >>>Lotus Harmony

In the Mundaka Upanishad, a disciple asks the teacher, “Master, what is that by knowing which we know everything.” The teacher replied: sages say that there are two levels of Truth: Apara vidhya (lower wisdom) and Para vidhya (higher wisdom).

Apara vidhya consists of four Vedas, rituals, and other sciences. The Para vidhya is that through which one knows God directly. Any knowledge of God that comes indirectly is lower wisdom; this includes even sacred scriptures. Higher wisdom is that in which a person has the direct experience of God and realizes the universal and indwelling presence of God (which is ‘Spirit’ — and neither a person nor an object).

God is not only everywhere outside us but everywhere within (omnipresent). In other words, there’s nowhere where God isn’t! A person says, “I am in God and God is in me.” A person may grow even further and realize that God is the source of one’s existence and may declare “God and I are one” (aham brahma asmi).

It doesn’t mean one becomes God or there are many Gods — it really means that ultimately God alone exists and the whole of creation comes from God and returns to God as ice comes from water and returns to it. We have to begin with Apara vidhya and grow into Para vidhya.

Once, when Moses felt he was in the immediate presence of God, he asked this ‘Presence’ its name. At first Moses was told enigmatically: “I am That I am,”

But this was too much for Moses to handle. So the revelation was regiven in more concrete and historical terms: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Moses could then recognize the divine mystery as the God of his ancestors.

Here we see that revelation regarding the nature of ‘God’ or ultimate Truth. Revelation can have two aspects — historical and eternal.

With historical truth only, human beings experience God as transcendent mystery. God reveals his will through commandments.

The Ten Commandments given to Moses and the people on Mount Sinai imply: God is greater than human beings, they have to submit their will and intellect to the almighty, and that God demands absolute obedience, loyalty and exclusivity.

But this is not the ultimate divine-human relationship. God also promised that he would make a new covenant in which he would write the Law in the heart of the people. When this happens, there’s no need for one person to urge another to believe in God because everyone would then know God inwardly.

This is the experience of the indwelling and the universal presence of God. God is no longer an authority who demands the obedience of will and intellect, but he is the God of freedom who gives the recognition of What they really are to his mature children. God is known in silent inner stillness even while one is outwardly busy.

Jesus of Nazareth experienced this transition in his understanding from acknowledging the God of history to experiencing the God of eternity — probably at the moment of his baptism. He could then say, “I am in the Father (God) and the Father is in me.”

He went even further, however, when he realized he and his Father (God) were one. To say “God and I are one” may appear to some as a presumptuous and blasphemous statement but in fact it is a most humble statement.

It is the dropping of our egoic identity and the recognition of our oneness with God … and with everything else. It’s  affirming that God alone exists — that we all come from God and return to God. It makes a person humble. It is the realization that everyone is that reality (tat vam asi).

Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, an act of great humility. The deeper one grows into God the humbler one becomes.

All the sacred scriptures are the gift of God to humanity. But they belong to the historical manifestation of truth. Since theism is based on the sacred scriptures it also belongs to the historical manifestation of God or Truth. The historical manifestation of truth is conditioned according to the times and culture in which it is revealed.

The difficulty comes only when historical truth is understood as eternal truth. It’s like saying that the space within the four walls of a room is infinite space. To anyone who has been out in the open, it clearly isn’t.

Our confined experience when taken as a total and final revelation becomes a source of division and violence in the world. Just as every house has a door to the infinite space, so also every religion should have a door to the ‘God’ of eternity.

In every scripture and major religious tradition, there are keys that open the door to the God of eternity. It is the responsibility of spiritual guides to look for these keys if they want to grow in their spiritual journey and help others to do the same.

A wise spiritual guide is one who is well versed in the historical God (sacred scriptures) and is also established in the eternal God. In this way he or she becomes a bridge for the people to progress from the historical God into the eternal God.

Jesus was very angry with the spiritual leaders of his time. He said, “You have the keys of the kingdom of heaven; but neither will you enter nor allow others to do so”. He felt that the religious leaders of his society had become an obstacle for the spiritual growth of its members.

A theism that confines people to the historical manifestations of God is blocking the spiritual evolution of human consciousness and thus not in harmony with the purpose of God. It may be even acting against the will of God!

Mature atheism is a cry of the human heart to free itself from the God of history and authority and move into the God of freedom and eternity. It is an existential urge to be born into a new life.

The fight of atheism is against the God of history. Since the God of history demands the submission of the will and the intellect, he is considered to be authoritarian and oppressive.

Both atheists and theists can leave the ‘God of history’ concept behind and move out into the natural light and infinite space of the ‘God of eternity.’ It’s the next necessary step in our personal growth and in the evolution of human consciousness. 

~ From: Atheism Vs Theism by Br. (Swami) John Martin Sahajananda, OSB Cam.

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Br. John is now Spiritual Director at the Saccidananda Ashram, Shantivanam, in South India. He was a close disciple of the great Vedic Christian mystic, Bede Griffiths, and contributes immensely to Hindu-Christian dialogue.

The Gospel of Philip was discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, and is dated between 180-350 CE.

In Philip we learn more of Christ’s yogic teachings on nonduality and learn transcendence over the passions of the mind. Judgments create duality; the mind creates opposites, and the senses differentiate, but the consciousness is unchanging and remains the same. Here, Jesus is on record as saying to the Christians of Israel:

“Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into the earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.”

As the disciples are having difficulty trying to comprehend the incomprehensible, Jesus explains the self-reflective quality of consciousness to them. He guides his followers to look beyond their eyes and expand their awareness beyond the faculties of their mind and senses to realize the eternal nature of their own being.

All appearances are temporal and fleeting, and not ultimately real; what is eternal, unchanging, and present is real. Duality of senses creates an illusion that the mind takes to be real. Our ideas of good and evil are created in our mind, and what we think we project into our mind’s sense of reality. In other words, our own mind distorts reality depending on what beliefs you hold.

Your consciousness must transcend the trammels of the mind and senses in order to realize God. Our minds are like instruments that are only calibrated to measure a small gradation of the divine expression we call life. This is why we meditate — to be present with the eternal presence, the undifferentiated whole.

The consciousness itself is unfettered, undivided, and whole. Only the mind creates divisions, conflict, and the illusion of being separate from God. This delusion of separation from God is man’s fall from grace, which is the underlying cause of mankind’s suffering. Our mind creates a sense of “I” that distinguishes us from our true nature, which is always with the Father — Abba. Jesus further explains:

“It is not possible for anyone to see anything of the things that actually exist unless he becomes like them. This is not the way with man in the world; he sees the sun without being a sun; and he and he sees the heaven and earth and all other things, but he is not these things. This is quite in keeping with the truth.”

What is real is eternal, unchanging, and undifferentiated; what is temporal and fleeting is unreal. As long as we keep looking outside of ourselves, through our mind and senses, we only see the illusion of being separate from God, but when you go within and see who you are, then all becomes revealed, like stepping back from a microscope.

The world around you is a reflection of your state of consciousness, and your state of consciousness is reflected in how you see the world, Jesus goes on further to explain this:

“You saw the spirit (realized it) you became the spirit. You saw Christ you became Christ. You saw the Father, you shall become the Father.”

You “saw the spirit” within you and realized it was you. You realized who Christ is, and you became one with him. You see what God is, and you will realize you are of the same consciousness. Your individual form is like a cell in the body of God. But you are not the cell; you are that which is life itself within you and around you.

This quest to “know thy self” serves as the central theme in all these gospels, and self-knowledge serves as the vehicle for entering the kingdom. In the Gospel of Philip Jesus goes on to explain:

“It is not necessary for those who possess everything to know themselves? Some indeed, if they do not know themselves, they will not enjoy what they possess. But those who have come to know themselves will enjoy their possessions.”

~ From: Christ Enlightened: The Lost Teachings of Jesus Unveiled p. 114, by Steven S SadleIr

Editor’s note: the following was written in the 1960’s when writers were not so aware of gender-biased language. Though not well-phrased by today’s standards, this piece will be of value if a certain lack of gender-sensitivity in it’s terminology is overlooked … or forgiven.

Before creation, pure Consciousness alone rested in a vibrationless, unconditioned state. This is the transcendental aspect of God which is forever changeless. But, there is also a manifest aspect which appears as creation. The two aspects are not separate, because the transcendental aspect is the sole cause and sustainer of all relative manifestations.

All created things are extensions, in form, of pure Consciousness. Therefore, there is nothing in this or any other world which is not Consciousness in manifestation. Creation as we behold it, is life acting upon itself. It is our lack of intuitive insight which causes us to conclude that matter is anything but Spirit formed. Even scientists today declare creation to be energy formed and we can, by following energy back to its source, conclude that it is really light, and light is but a manifestation of Consciousness. On the spiritual path it is extremely important to remember this basic truth, that Consciousness, the sole Reality, is appearing as creation.

In this ocean of Consciousness which was, and is, appearing as creation, is the only life there is and the only light there is. This life and light exists even when men in spiritual ignorance fail to comprehend it. A man in darkness, who lacks intuitive perception, cannot perceive the light which is in and through him and without which, he would not be. All men must eventually be awakened or spiritually quickened before they can comprehend the Truth about life. This awakening is the second birth, which awakens the soul intuition and enables us to become aware of the finer forces … and eventually enables us to realize the true nature of God.

Intellectual willingness may precede this awakening, but it cannot take the place of it. Degrees of spiritual awakening are accompanied by the comprehension of new areas of life and consciousness. The law is the same for all men; he that seeks shall find.

God is the true Light which animates all humankind. The positive manifestation of pure Consciousness, Universal Intelligence (Christ Consciousness) revealed God. But, even though this Light was revealed in the life of Jesus, the world could not conceive or comprehend it at the level of mass perception. This is true even today.

The Light is just as available today as it was at any time in history, but people who are not intuitively awakened cannot discern It. When men are deluded their perceptions are feeble and they tend to be materialistic, since the material aspect of creation is all they can perceive through their senses. The deluded condition of men is not his true condition and it is only temporary.

When man learns to awaken and begins to receive (accept) the Infinite here and now, he comes into the realization of tremendous power due to his comprehension of Omnipotence and Omnipresence. He then realizes his true nature as a son of God, a divine being. Every soul is Spirit individualized and therefore, is what God is. A true spiritual message encourages man to awaken and come into the realization of this truth in order that he might be saved from misery and pain due to ignorance. All who “believe in his name” or commune with their God-nature, are led into the realization of ultimate truth.

Just as creation came into manifestation from the pure, unconditioned state through successive stages, so man can begin where he is and move back to the realization of himself as pure Spirit. Since the first emanation from the Center is Universal Intelligence or Christ Consciousness, one who moves through the veils of awareness to become aware of this, partakes of, and is able to manifest, accordingly. It is literally true that all must “repent” or turn their attention from the world of appearances back to the source of all forms and appearances.

The soul, individualized Spirit, in truth, is never born of flesh. It identifies with the body because of ignorance. But its beginning was of God … when Spirit individualized as it. It is obvious that mere believing in a doctrine of salvation is not enough to liberate man from bondage. But, contemplation that results in the realization of Oneness is a sure way.

~ From: The Hidden Teachings of Jesus Revealed, by Roy Eugene Davis. (1968)