That Unseen Presence E-Book

Walter W. Raymond

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Walter W. Raymond with this unforgettable book.

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That Unseen Presence

Walter W. Raymond

CONTENTS

Foreword

It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you this book, “That Unseen Presence,” the expression of the mind, heart and soul of my friend Walter W. Ray­mond.

I speak from the position of one who knows inti­mately the writer of this book, and who has had abun­dant opportunity to observe his inner and outer life, when I say that to him there undoubtedly has come that wondrous experience—that spiritual illumination —that awakening of the soul—which has brought the consciousness of that Something Within—that “Un­seen Presence”—the contact with which transforms the life, enlivens the soul, and quickens the mind of those blessed by that privilege.

In the pages of this book, its writer has sought to express, so far as it is humanly possible to express such things, the thoughts that have come to him while in conscious contact with that “Unseen Presence.” While no one can know better than that writer that it is impossible adequately to clothe in finite terms and for­mal words that which by its very nature is beyond such forms of expression, yet he must feel (as do I) that even in such inadequate forms the spirit of his thoughts and experiences must shine through and become perceptible to those who read his words and meditate upon his thoughts.

And, so, I commend to you those reports of that experience which form the contents of this book. To each of you they will bring a different message—a message intended for you at this particular time, at this particular place, at this particular stage of your spiritual unfoldment. Tomorrow, you will be able to receive and understand a newer and fuller message from them. A year from now, you will discover still deeper meanings in them. And so, on and on. It is always thus with the Message spoken from the con­sciousness of, and the contact with “That Unseen Presence.,,

May the recognition, realization and the manifesta­tion of the Infinite Presence, the Infinite Power, and the Infinite Peace be yours, forever.

Yours in the Truth,

WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON.

Los Angeles, August 23, 1927.

CHAPTER I

THAT UNSEEN PRESENCE

There comes a moment in the lives of each of us when we are conscious of a presence unseen that seems to be a part of our very being and yet not ourselves but something in which we participate in a more won­drous reality, and for that moment all our limitations and material conditions, our physical and mental lone­liness, fade away.

In this Unseen Presence we live and move and have our being; therefore, we have not only a life of our own but we have a part in the life of the All, and it is this unitive life and consciousness that make for complete peace, happiness and life. Someone has said “there is but one wisdom to understand the knowledge by which all things are steered through the All,” and as in the wholeness, completeness and unity of the All there is only perfection, a glorious beauty and gran­deur, the understanding reveals the glory of the All in the experience of the individual.

Our life exists not only in this material, physical, visible world, in which we are conscious of presence only by its appearance. Our life moves at once in both the natural and spiritual worlds. Rudolph Eucken writes, “Man is the meeting point of various stages of Reality.”

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE PRESENCE

Most of us are conscious only of our existence and not of our substance. We know we are ourselves be­cause we know we are not the other person. This gives us a consciousness of our existence. We identify ourselves as individuals in the world of the natural by stating what “I am,” whereas we are what we are plus what we are not; for in the spiritual world, that larger field of our life, we have a part in the existence of that which we are not.

In the realization of this Unseen Presence we enter into a conscious participation in the life of All. We realize the truth of Plato’s statement, “never less alone than when alone,” for all men and all stages of Real­ity are in our presence. In this realization we know what Jesus meant when he said, “In that day you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.” John 14:20.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRESENCE

There is no going forth nor coming to but an inner affinity which makes all things one, and that person who has this realization lives in the “world of the wondrous” and all abide with him.

The first step toward this realization is the knowl­edge of the existence of this unseen presence. We know that we are unable to completely express ourselves through our corporeal manifestation. That no matter how we appear to the seeing world there is always some part of ourselves unmanifested. There­fore, to the seeing world there is always the seen and the unseen presence of each of us. We might say we live in two worlds, which in the higher realization we know as one world seen differently.

In divine metaphysics. we know man to be not ma­terial but spiritual. Not that we deny the corporeal body but we acknowledge that it exists in an incor­poreal body. We are so accustomed to think of our spiritual or greater self as existing in our corporeal body. In our consciousness the manifested world is the larger, whereas the unseen, or our incorporeal body, is the greater, and the visible or corporeal body exists within it. “For we live and move and have our – being in Him.”

APPRECIATION OF THE PRESENCE

This unseen presence, this spiritual world, has been known by all true masters of wisdom. Kant makes the following statement, “I confess that I am very much inclined to assert the existence of immaterial natures in the world, and to put my soul itself into that class of beings. These immaterial (unseen) beings are immediately united with each other, they might form, perhaps, a great whole which might be called the immaterial world. Every man is a being of two worlds: of the incorporeal world and of the material world . . . and it will be proved, I don’t know where or when, that the human soul also in this life forms an indissoluble communion with all im­material natures of the spirit-world, that alternately it acts upon and receives impressions from that world.” We are beginning to know that man is a four­dimensional being conditioned in a three-dimensional world; that the real man lives in a spiritual world that interpenetrates the material world in which he now enjoys a perfect harmonious state of being with all existing beings.

COMPLETE SURRENDER TO THE PRESENCE

The conscious knowledge of this unseen presence and perfect world is gained by first an acknowledg­ment of its existence. “In all thy ways acknowledge Him.” Then by an unqualified acceptance through a complete surrender of human concepts and ideas of reality to the Christ principle, which is ever manifest­ing itself as order and harmony. This establishes for us a new mode of receptivity, then by enlarging our capacity of appreciation we expand our consciousness to knowledge of this unseen presence that is “nearer than hands and feet, closer than breathing.”

In this unseen presence all consciousness of separa­tion ceases and we have now all that we are capable of enjoying. You are now conscious of the actuality of your being, all things are with you now and your joy is full.*

For further study read ray Alexandria Lectures on Fourth Dimensional Consciousness.

HARMONY HERE AND NOW

Happiness is that state of being which all mankind is seeking. Life harmonious is the experience every man desires to realize.