CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness as Reality
Consciousness is the sole reality and the eternal source of creation. What one is conscious of being is a 'temporal body.' Removing attention from a state…
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Your Faith Is Your Fortune
Your consciousness is the only living reality, the eternal head of creation. That which you are conscious of being is the temporal body that you wear. To turn your attention from that which you are aware of being is to decapitate that body; but, just as a chicken or snake continues to jump and throb for a while after its head has been removed, likewise qualities and conditions appear to live for a while after your attention has been taken from them. Man, not knowing this law of consciousness, constantly gives thought to his previous habitual conditions and, through being attentive to them, places upon these dead bodies the eternal head of creation; thereby he reanimates and re-resurrects them. You must leave these dead bodies alone and let the dead bury the dead. Man, having put his hand to the plough (that is, after assuming the consciousness of the quality desired), by looking back can only defeat his fitness for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Consciousness is the sole reality and the eternal source of creation. What one is conscious of being is a 'temporal body.' Removing attention from a state 'decapitates' it, though its effects may linger. Unaware of this, man reanimates undesirable past conditions by giving them attention. To manifest new desires, one must abandon past conditions ('dead bodies') and not look back after assuming the consciousness of a desired quality.