THE SCHOOL OF TRUTH LECTURE I MUST USE IT

Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence will use me to the full extent of my receptivity to bring forth absolute good in my body and affairs if my mind is stayed on Him. Truth is not a magic wand that you wave. Truth is Principle, or Law, that constitutes the universe and all things on all planes of consciousness. Nothing has to be created for you. All is already extant, your every need and true desire fulfilled, but you have to switch It on. My wife drew my attention the other night to an article that said science has now accepted that every part or particle of the universe expresses the whole universe, that the microcosm fully expresses the Macrocosm. If I perform a simple action here, like switching on this tape recorder, I am activating the whole energy of the universe, not "some" energy. I am not separate from the Whole, not for one single second. So our confusion about our real situation is a consciousness that pollutes everything in our perceived world. And, like polluted water, I can add any amount of clean water but the whole remains polluted. On the other hand, if I remove the pollution, both the tiniest and the greatest amount of water is absolutely pure. When we change our world's view, our whole world, our whole universe, changes. Man goes through three stages in revealing his world as perfect. At first he is the "novitiate", an egotistic and over-bearing person. He does not know anything about his true condition and does not know that he does not know. Then he becomes the "initiate" who knows something about his condition and that he has a lot to learn. He gives only part of himself and expects only a partial return. Finally he becomes the "illuminati" the person who knows his true condition and knows that he knows. He is able to say "All mine is thine" and to give freely of himself because he recognises that there is only one Presence and one Power in the universe, and that this Presence constitutes him. It is difficult to understand and accept Perfection when you find the antithesis around you.

Everything blares tragedy and man's cruelty to man and to the world of all living things. Man has been given dominion and power over all things - also to reduce them. He can determine health, abundance and joy - or that he is going to be sick, to be poor, to be unhappy. God does not create anything for us - all is done, ready to be filled by our consciousness. The new born baby has within itself the whole universal consciousness of God, the sum-total of knowledge. In the early stages of his development man needs a personality-god to worship, a saviour, an avatar, some worldly example that reflects love and light and peace. If that personality is removed he is bereft, as was Mary when she said "You have taken away my Lord, and I know not where you have laid Him." Yet all the masters into the mists of time teach us we are self-sufficient, that constituting us in every cell of our being is the one Love, the one Light, the one Health, the one Understanding, the one Substance. The Master lived austerely but never wanted of anything necessary to fulfil his purpose. He and all the masters before and after him teach that you are All-presence on this plane of consciousness, that your intellect has access to Divine mind. But God does not force you to accept Him. He yearns, urges, but does not compel. You can journey to "hell" if so you wish, or to "heaven". I spent an afternoon with the wealthiest man in this country. He asked me "What would you do if you had my money? Would you, as you have been enjoined, give to the poor, to all those who would borrow from you, give your cloak with your coat, and stand denuded of these things, joining the temporary recipients in their unhappy conditions?" I replied "That would be very stupid. It is not what the Master teaches. He appraises man of his own sufficiency and of his destiny to spread his sufficiency.

You employ tens of thousands of people in this country, releasing vast amounts of money in wages." "So" he said "I see that you are not a do-gooder." "No, I am not" I said. "I teach people how to find the Source, the Spirit within themselves. I teach them to transcend the personality with its intellect and limitations and enter the Wholeness Which is God, the Mind Which is God." It is like holding out this little glass. I say to Presence "Inside this glass is You, in the form of things I need, yet I find it is not enough." And Presence says to me "Why don't you fill up the glass?" I cannot reply because I speak from intellect. How can I fill it up? I do not have the vision to do it. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Without vision I limit myself to sickness, poverty and unhappiness. So, in my mind, even with my eyes open looking at you now, I see the water filling this glass, so full that it overflows on to this lectern. This is my vision, or visualisation - goodness flowing without end. I am not producing anything new. Water is but the condensation of vapour that was always there but invisible. Omnipresence surrounds and fills us but we must condense It. Everything is in my own consciousness because I am it. In this glass may appear to be all the water I have, and I may hesitate to drink it in case it is not replenished. But Truth tells me to drink it because only then can it be refilled. So I drink it. Then one of you sees my glass empty and offers to fill it, and I accept. That is natural because I am one with every single person in the whole universe. But if I remain fearful and leave the water untouched in the glass it will eventually become stagnant, polluted. I must use it to keep having it. If I do not "use" my health I become ill. If I do not distribute my happiness love becomes stagnant in me. If I do not use my substance it dries up on me. The whole of the kingdom of God is a free gift, and we must not be afraid to let it flow through us. You are prepared to go to school and then to university to obtain a qualification. You work right through the day and sometimes the night to achieve a particular objective, and you obtain it. So why is it that in trying to master Truth you are afraid to practise the basics of Truth - loving, giving, serving and trusting? That has been my whole work, for fifty-two years - loving, giving, serving and trusting. I know that I am in tune with Law.

I know that I am conveying the Divine substance. I am bringing it forth from Spirit. I do not "wish" it would happen, or that someone would do it for me, or give it to me. I am doing it myself, and according to my capacity to receive I am filled. This beautiful opening meditation says "Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence will use me to the full extent of my receptivity to bring forth absolute good in my body and affairs if my mind is stayed on Him" on Love Which is fearlessness. Love courses through the veins and arteries of my body, and my nervous system, speeds up my metabolism and gives me health. And you cannot be unhappy for long if you love. If I am loving there is rapport between my intellect and my emotional nature, and my whole life reflects this. I can do my work and all the other things I need to do. Call if "harmony". If I am in a harmonious state I cannot be sick or unhappy, or poverty-stricken. It works like this: The idea starts as physiological impulse, passes through intellect as vision, goes into the heart as feeling, and becomes one with Mind. Then it returns from Mind, through heart and mind, as manifestation of the original idea. The original idea was the "thing" in incipiency telling me what is already mine. In reality it is already manifest for me, not going-to-be-manifest, but I must use it. You have got to let go of fear and enter faith. Your "virtue" does not come into it. It is not according to your virtue that it is done unto you, but according to your faith, your preparedness to give fearlessly of what you have, of what God has freely bestowed upon you from the beginning. It is impersonal, this consciousness, this knowledge that I live and move and have my being in the Presence of God, that all that God has is mine, that provided I love, give, serve and trust, I can never lack anything. Be in consciousness everything that you need and truly desire, then use it, then experience it flowing through you in overflowing measure: "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things shall be yours as well." My father used to say in fun "It is harder people to be" a word-by-word translation of the Afrikaans "Dit is swaarder mense te wees" - because man resists being what he truly is. He will, metaphorically speaking, break his neck to achieve some objective in a material way, and when he gets it, because his neck is broken, he cannot use it. But Truth says to him "Look, here is a path that leads to mental peace, emotional happiness, physical well-being, and material success. It embraces the whole of prosperity, not just money." And what is his response? "Oh, it is too hard, too time-consuming." It reminds me of a true story of an acquaintance.

Each night when he went to bed he would say to his wife "Read The Path of Truth for me and tomorrow put it into practise for me - will you?" So think of the glass, as I often do. Here is my capacity of receptivity - empty, half full, full, running over - depending on me, on my willingness fearlessly to drink it. What are you afraid of - that God will let you down? Does electricity let you down when you turn on the switch? Does the law of gravity let you down? While I do my part it cannot let me down. I have to turn the key, to release the brake, to push down the accelerator, to steer, to look where I am going, to keep my ears open. All these things, the practical things, I have to do, and inside me is the vision, the Godvision, directing me, the God-hands on the steering wheel, the God-foot on the brakes. Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence fills me to overflowing according to my acceptance in consciousness and my willingness to love, give, serve and trust.