Life Forces E-Book

Margaret Virginia McCabe

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Margaret Virginia McCabe with this unforgettable book.

Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert:

Leseprobe

Life Forces

Margaret Virginia McCabe

CONTENTS

God-Consciousness

Material Forces

Spirit Forces

Building-Stones

Mortal Mind

Alpha and Omega

NOTE

No apology is made for the thoughts herein given. The Spirit leads and all must follow. A great truth is ready for acceptance; has been since the beginning. There are many ways to enter and each wayseemeth best. “Trust thyself” is the best guide. As the Voice speaks to the inner conscious­ness, that is the road to take. Sickness abounds, and there is a mad rush to the pool as the waters are disturbed. Many stand back and complain, yet all are eager and wait­ing for relief, but they want a prop on which to lean and be pushed forward. The writer is not seeking to advertise her own gift of healing. She has avoided as much as possible all references to patients.

This little book is sent out to those eager, striving souls who are earnestly seeking aid on a rugged, toilsome journey. The light within its lines may be hidden to many, but to those for whom it is intended the radiance will shine forth and the cross will grow lighter.

It is meant also to relieve death of its horrors and teach the divine comprehension of the souPs progression. It is dedicated to none in name, but in thought and magnetic influence to many, and especially to suffering, saddened ones who need help.  J

The author is repaid by the silent thanks that telepathy brings back to her.

M. V. McG.

I

GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS.

Words spoken vibrate through all eternity. Thoughts generated reverberate with greater force because the in­visible powers are more potent in their results. Mater­ial forces cease with the death of the mortal body. Spiritual forces endure forever.

The first Word produced creation, and each succeed­ing vibration widened the circle by evolutionary pro­cesses. Back of this Word was a Cause, and that Cause was God—invisible because Spirit. We see the effect. We know and feel the cause. Human mind cannot comprehend God. Only through man’s spiritual nature is the oneness felt.

Man is the effect of the Word. The soul man is God’s individualization. External, mortal man lifted above the brute creation by his power of reasoning is simply the result of material forces.

Ideas photograph themselves on the brain.

Over one of our city colleges these words stand forth in glaring, glittering letters: “Education for Real Life.” It sets one thinking. Real life! The tenement of clay, tossed about by every wind that blows, a creature of chance or man’s pleasure. A life that ends when death calls! Perhaps we are mistaken and these are correct, but after years of experience in this real life I am ready to answer in the words of Phillips Brooks: “The ideal life, the life of fall completeness haunts us all. We feel the thing we ought to be beating against the thing we are.” Once upon a time, in the far-off years ago. so long past that human mind cannot grasp its beginning; some mortal mind felt inspired to put together legends and weave them into a history of creation; a story of births and wars and bloodshed; a story of men of great physi­cal strength, mighty and strong before the Lord. To these people many and devious happenings occurred, coupled with much wickedness and accompanied by visions of angels, and the world was filled with sugges­tions of ideas. Through all these centuries of strength, never was the people without one leading prophet guided by the Lord by means of visions. Finally, when the world grew more and more wicked the greatest prophet of all arose, and was called Jesus. Him they crucified, and ever since, the world of churches has worshipped the Man nailed to the cross. The shadow of that cross fell across the human race, and by suggestion, only the suf­fering, bleeding Jesus has been the world’s Savior, and this thought has vibrated through 1900 years. A cruci­fied Man has been worshipped, a man of sorrows aud acquainted with grief, a humiliated, despised Jesus! But the risen Christ, victorious over evil, with His Father’s seal upon his forehead shining with an inex­tinguishable glory, holding forth peace and comfort to the sorrowful race, has been ignored. The suggestion of the shadow of the cross has shut out the brightness of the all-comprehensible light—which is Love. And yet we call ourselves an intelligent, far-seeing race ! We have dwelt so long on the shadow side of life ; we have daily climbed Sinai’s and knew it not—-because we en­joy sympathy. We want to be sad, we want to be sickly, we want to be burdened and depressed, so we do not suffer too much.

Tear aside the close-shut gates and step into the broad, illuminated sunshine of God’s love and worship the risen Christ. Ascend into the holy of holies, the inner sanctuary of your own God nature, and be at one with God himself.

There are so many discrepancies, so many contradictions in this book that men have written and called the Bible. Not a page that does not contradict itself. Even the thoughts of this man Jesus are changeable. The world has bowed down and done reverence to the mortal part of the prophets. The inspiration of the Spirit, that might have set upon them as cloven tongues of fire, has been ignored, and when one rises up and asserts this ego now, he is scoffed at as mad. The Lord said, u My Spirit shall not always strive with man for that he is also flesh.”

The Bible is the product of mortal mind, historically incorrect, full of allegories and visions, but also full of inspired words. It pictures a God of anger and vengeance, smiting and killing and working His own selfish ends. How erroneous when God is only Love !

This terrible God is a God of mortal conception, builded by fear, and exists only through perverted, ignor­ant, evil suggestion. Ingersoll rightly says, “ The devil is the keystone of the arch of Christianity, ” because the devil is an interpretation of mortal mind as a compensa­tion for the avenging God man also created.

The Bible has come down through many ages because it had among its chaff inspirations of the living fire.

For man to abase himself, crucify his inclinations, and follow his own misconceived idea of the lowly Jesus, is simply ignorant belief. Jesus never humbled himself. He always exalted himself, and taught as one having authority. From His childhood’s days, when He argued with the wise men in the temple to the hour He rebuked his discipies for murmu ring over the loss of the costly box of ointment, you cannot find any degree of lowli­ness of mind or position. He asserted the God at all sea­sons and in all places. When they came to Him and said, “Your mother and brethren await without,” was this Man touched with pity when, looking at His disciples, He replied, “ These are my mother and brethren.” How did those awaiting feel at thus being ignored?

Bring the application to our own homes and compre­hend the lowly Jesus. The history of this man was written hundreds of years after its occurrence. Bring this historical or allegorical Jesus into our own time.

Would we follow blindly, or call our reasoning powers into question? Which? But take the risen Christ, the bright illumination of the heretofore misunderstood God—the word spoken into a psychic atmosphere —the perfection of the ideal life—when mortal mind with its selfish, ignorant beliefs has been cruci­fied and the God, the Creator, the Spirit of Truth reigns, controls both the spiritual and material forces, then the perfection of living—the Comforter has come.

God who commanded light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Matthew begins his gospel with these words:

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham,” through forty-two gen­erations, when Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Now, the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise; when as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they cametogether, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. If Joseph the husband came of the house of David, but knew not Mary till she had brought forth her first-born son, who was Mary, and how could the child born of the Holy Ghost belong to the house of David? The plea of kinship will not answer our reasoning mind. Why not give Mary’s geneology instead of Joseph’s? In those far-off days women were the silent ones, and Jew­ish history records only the paternal line, yet Jesus was no child of Joseph, in a material line, but tracing back the fingerprints in the sand the one universal truth comes to the front, even the evolutionary process of psychic development—the prophets, patriarchs, and kings—women dethroned if it pleases Jewish history— we reach the great cause and the one source of all life— God. Jesus—historical or allegorical—was God’s in­dividualization through Mary as an instrument, whether she was known by Joseph or not. Leaving out the question of the Immaculate Conception, because all legends, all mythological ideas are born of the miracu­lous, and the question does not pertain to the soul’s con­sciousness, but to reasoning mind—what did Mat­thew mean? Why was it necessary to show the lineage and raise a question at the climax over such a material, unimportant point? Would we believe and accept such wonders to-day and follow so lowly a Jesus? No.

John is more spiritual in his conception, for he deals not with this part of mortal belief, but says:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.”

Which seems the inspired writer ?

Matthew deals with the material, mortal man, and is filled with errors.

John catches the conception of God and writes in touch with the infinite.

Matthew shows us Jesus.

John teaches us God.

“He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”