THE SACRED SPIRIT WITHIN – MITAKUYE OYASIN (for all my relations—which is ALL) PLEIADES CONNECTION VOL. VI – PHOENIX JOURNLA #35 - CHAPTER  9

REC  #2    GERMAIN

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1991   9:10 A.M.   YEAR 4, DAY 351

FRIDAY,  AUGUST 2,  1991

Germain present in the Mighty I Am Presence.  Greetings.  It has been such a busy week for you that it seems difficult to set­tle into Journal writing.  It gives us a good opportunity, how­ever, to refresh and come back within focus of subject.  It is fine, Dharma, for fires must be extinguished.

 

I ask that you please be allowed a copy of the Sanskrit material.  We will be bringing you infor­mation on craft and advanced technology and it may shock a few into attention if we compare it to that of 5,000 years ago.  The ones of that time were far, far advanced of you as you will be given to see.  But for this day we are going to first answer some pondered ques­tions and then move smartly along.

 

As the earlier “Pleiadean Connections” Journals are beginning to filter through we are getting some superb in­quiries regarding Consciousness, meditation and prayer.  Some are saying that they have been practicing in various manners in “getting in touch” and they think they compre­hend the material—but “nothing happens” and they wonder why.  Let us look at a few of these and get you some help early on as is possible.  For by the time you receive this book the more detailed discussion will be in your possession along with the tapes and you can have a better per­spective of this subject.

 

QUESTION:

 

You say there is no need to pray “with words”.  Why is that?  All of my life I have heard cler­gymen pray fervently to God in Church and heard my parents thank God for each meal.  It is a beautiful and inspiring custom.  I know you have a good reason but it seems to me the custom of praying at times, such as upon retiring or at meal times, is very beautiful.  Also, when one is faced with a prob­lem one should pray to God for a solution, and also pray when one desires something.  Does it not say in the Bible: “Ask and ye shall receive”?

 

This question is not asked in a critical sense for we revere you and your teachings.  It is asked simply because I have never before heard of such a custom as yours.  I have heard also that you do not be­lieve in the idea of kneeling in prayer, or bowing your heads in humility.  Is that true and, if so, will you explain why?

 

GERMAIN: I thank you for this question, for I know that peo­ple would become very much closer to God if they pray WITHIN than with words or at periodic times, like taking meals or medicines as a habitual routine.  The answer lies in an atti­tude of Mind, rather than in a cus­tom.  God is present at ALL times, not just periodically.  The divergence between my sugges­tions and your habitual routines of mass-man is basically founded upon the fact that, as Illumi­nates, we have become aware of God’s total and unswerving presence within.  Having experi­enced a One­ness with God, I cannot possibly set periodic times when I shall be aware of His presence any more than you could set times for breathing in periodic intervals and stop breathing in between those intervals.

 

As you come into the experience of that UNITY of which I have been speaking you shall also recognize “knowledge” of your di­vinity and it becomes impossible to pray in words and sounds only at periodic times as it would be to talk aloud to yourselves at times.  It is beautiful to pause and even if you speak aloud or do not—it is good to recognize in the consciousness these “special” times and give extra thanks and appreciation.  It is the “habit” and “ritual” which be­comes mundane which is suggested you begin to diminish in conscious attention.  Life must be­gin to be lived as one continuous communion with God/Prayer, every moment, whether working at the daily needs or sitting to eat.  In this manner God becomes an accepted and constant com­panion.  It is not nearly as embarrassing to one’s self to be always in pres­ence with God and ex­pect solutions as it is to wait until you have massive problems and then give formal petition.  God is an ongoing benefactor and if you keep Him within your cognition there ceases to be need to ask special favors.

 

The reason a time of quiet pause is most beneficial at given times is to allow ones to give their own thanks and not just the parroted babblings of the speaker—man becomes lazy and al­ways enjoys having another do his work for him.  It is not pos­sible!  It matters not where you put your head, etc., at these times—but bowing, staring or lifting one’s head makes not one whit of differ­ence—the point is to cause you to THINK about that which you are doing.

 

Ones often feel most close and exalted in the Light and will de­sire to lift his head high in the spirit of what the prophet said: “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my strength.”  Now, we know that the strength comes from within but the perception is that God abounds in all things and unto the farthest reaches.

 

Those who deliberately kneel with that sort of humility which is described in the words “for we are but worms beneath thy feet” are not truly expecting much for self.  Anyone who can say, “I and my Father are ONE,” and know what he is saying, cannot designate himself as a worm, or feel like one, in God’s pres­ence.  That is what I mean by saying that inner prayer differs from the way one prays who feels himself to be overcome with sin and a lowly creature who is SEPA­RATE AND APART FROM GOD.

 

Let us consider an even larger reason which will make it very difficult to continue in conven­tional custom.  The very act of talking aloud in words implies that one is talking to another physical person outside of himself, as you talk to a friend, busi­ness acquaintance, mother or father.  You must realize that God is within—that you are one with HIM—that your Mind is within His Mind.  You, therefore, THINK WITH HIM instead of TALKING TO HIM.  He is within you, not over there some­where afar from you.  His dwelling place in heaven is your dwelling place.  He needs no body with which to hear, so why talk aloud in words?  It is be­cause you are “trained” to “lead” prayer for the benefit of those present and it is not wise nor nec­essary.  Do the teaching and THEN, do the praying.

 

You need to recall what Immanuel said in this respect when he derided the piety of the Phar­isees who prayed aloud that all may know of their “piety”.  Do you not recall the word he used in describing them?  The word was HYPOCRITES.

When Immanuel went up into the mountain to “pray”, He did not pray in the conventional man­ner of mass-man—remember?  He COMMUNED!   He went forth alone so that He could commune in His own silence.  He wished to talk WITH Him in that silent language of inner Light as all geniuses and mystics do, so that God could answer and not be drowned out by the babbling tongue.  You cannot hear well and be speaking at the same time—you can hear and know if you are in the silence.

 

What of “Ask and you will receive?”  Does it make sense that it is heard by God more easily through voice aloud as from the heart within?  Are there not ways to ask within?  If God is within your very thought—will He not pick up the message FIRST?  We are speaking, precious ones, about IDEA.  The farmer has his way of asking by putting seed in the ground.  That is the Creator in the action of creating, as exemplified in the farmer sowing his seed.  In that very act, he is asking for a crop by becoming co-Creator with God—WITHIN.  He is not ask­ing God for a crop—in words.  He is asking in the only way God answers prayer, and that is by the action of man in doing his part with the certainty that God will do HIS PART.

 

What would you say to the farmer who asked for a crop in spo­ken words, then waited for God to give him what he requested?  You would undoubtedly think he was insane if he really be­lieved that God answered prayers in that manner.  You call that wish­ful thinking, yet countless num­bers of people really believe that if they ask fervently enough God will do FOR them what they ask without cooperation by them or any action on their part.

 

What would you say of the man that asked for money, or love, or success, or any of the many desires of man, without doing anything about it himself—just sat and waited?  What would you think of the man who asked God to cure his stomach trouble and then kept right on eating ground glass and arsenic?  It becomes obvious what your answer should be, yet millions of peo­ple pray fervently to ask God to stop the wars which man just set into motion.  “God save our sons”—that YOU just sent to confront the bullets—what of the other mothers’ prayers for their sons who confront your son?  God tells you to “STOP making war and the problem will not be present.”  Do you listen?  Do you act?  No, you go forth and make another war.

 

Your free will gives you the privilege of making wars or jump­ing over high cliffs.  That is your privilege.  I cannot take away that privilege without taking away your free will and making an au­tomaton of you.  I hold the right to the reaction of men for I must balance all things in My uni­verse, but the reaction will be as hurtful to you as is your action.  That is the Law of Love which gives and regives IN KIND, and EQUALLY.

 

Note that the usual verbal prayer is mostly selfish request for something wanted by somebody who has no thought or intention of giving anything in return for the gift.  Most all prayers and such requests are but wishful thinking if even that much.  What of your recent war when after the war and you had lost fewer men than predicted, you pounced on this writer and said, “see, there weren’t hardly any deaths.  Hatonn was wrong!”  Was he?  What of the over two million Iraqis who will perish before this “war” is truly ended.  I give you worse scenario—the war is NOT over and many millions will perish.

 

In the week just past the full intent was for the U.S. to bomb into oblivion Baghdad and most of the remaining portions of Iraq—the Russians stopped you.  What think ye of that?

 

What think ye of the Administration of the U.S. who now wishes to convict (in absentia) Khun Sa of the Drug Cartel, the world’s biggest Drug Lord, for Drug Trafficking by the U.S.  Yes, I said “by the U.S.”.  They also wish to blame him for the failure of the BCCI banking net­work.  How can you pray about that?  The man offered to stop trafficking for his only real cus­tomer was the United States of America—headed by men in your highest government.  What do you pray for in such a circum­stance?  Most of you deny this as I speak, but it will come forth in proven form as given here—and then what will you think?  You will have been praying for de­struction instead of “cure” in your ignorance.  Is it not better to come into knowing what is about?

 

The entire stories are now in print by totally credible “witnesses” to the FACTS—you have but to read them—in fact, they have been given unto you right from Hatonn in the Jour­nals and Ex­presses as quickly as fingers can type.  A lot of you have written and told Dharma that you are praying dili­gently for her salvation for she is obviously trapped in evil.  You would pray that God leave her?  God is doing the writing in all instances—would you have Him leave her?  You see, ye know not that for which you pray.  Can you not pray unto God silently in offer of doing His will that this terrible thing come to a close and ask what service you can accept?  He will give you the IDEA of service—but if the petition is empty then you will most certainly not perform the task.  This is what is meant by “God helps those who help themselves.”

 

Let us consider the crippled person in the wheeled chair.  Say he prays to walk again.  Say he has two legs but damage has left him unable to walk but there is nerve sensation within the limbs to minute extent.  Would he not be wise to begin to work dili­gently at building those leg muscles in preparation for support­ing his weight when he finally stands to walk?  Why would God cure you if you could not utilize the cure?  Surprise!  You are cured and you don’t know it for you have prepared for no cure.

 

The greatest obstacle to the fulfillment of prayer is the belief that God is somewhere out in space and hears every word you utter with His “senses”, the way you hear spoken words.  This concept is due to the fact that 95% of the human race has hardly begun as yet to unfold intellec­tually.  They do not know any better for they are still babes in primate, and primacy means igno­rance.  Note, I did not say in stupidity—I said ignorance which means, not with knowledge.

 

QUESTION: I would like to know more of the meaning of that phrase which is used so often: “Be still and know.”

 

GERMAIN: The universe of all-knowledge is the invisible uni­verse of stillness from which mo­tion springs.  The entire chap­ters of two units of these writings are devoted to explaining this universe of Mind where God dwells.  It is called “space” in common terms.  It is actually a univer­sal vacuum.  Spend time with the fully diagrammed drawings of rings with holes in them which tell you how matter is created.  For you who do not have privy to the books, we have redia­gramed them for you in this JOURNAL.

 

Centering those fast whirling rings is a shaft of gravity which is perfectly STILL.  That is where inspiration and thought come from.  That center is like the fulcrum from which a mov­ing lever extends.  The centering fulcrum is still.  The lever alone moves but it borrows its power to move from the still fulcrum.

 

That is what the universe of Mind and matter is like.  That which is immortal, eternal, change­less and unconditioned is still.  That which moves is mortal, transient, changing and condi­tioned.  REALITY is still.  The make-believe universe of matter in motion is always in mo­tion.  There is no knowledge, power or reality to motion.

 

QUESTION: Why cannot other people see the Truth in these books?  I speak primarily of “educated university people”.

 

GERMAIN:  The conventionally educated man may know the whole encyclopedia yet be bored by listening to an opera which would lift you to the higher joy.  He might be able to sell a mil­lion dollars worth of invented product, yet not be able to invent a mouse trap.  The hu­man race first unfolds its physical nature.  It then unfolds its spiritual or mental nature.  The friend of educa­tion out of all knowledge has simply not begun to unfold his spiritual nature and has not present interest in so doing.  He is devoid of feeling that which you feel.  His imagination has not yet awakened and his receptors dulled by that which he has been told.  His own creative powers are not yet awakened for he still functions according to that which he has been told to believe.  If such a man wrote a book, it would be a re-hash from his memo­ries of other books.  If he were put on a board of directors of a large company, he would resist change.  These ones are stuck in ignorance.  These ones can go endlessly to school after school in subject after subject and then turn about and even blame you for spoiling their program by your absurd interference.  This is why you offer—you do not demand nor push—WHEN THE STU­DENT IS READY THE TEACHER APPEARS!  I do suggest that you get the copy of the material “back” so that you might try it on another.

 

QUESTION: When a battery discharges, is it not the same as a body dying?  If that is so, is not a growing body a charging body?  Is not that what you are calling life and death?

 

GERMAIN: I believe I can answer yes to each of these.  Life’s simple process of creating matter is an electric charging effect.  Everything grows in strength and power by electric charge just as your battery grows more and more powerful by electric charge.  In electric terms, that is called charge.  In biological terms, it is called life.  It is the same effect as in­breathing.  When Nature manifests idea, it then rests from the creative ac­tion.  Discharge then takes place of charge.  Decay replaces growth.  Death replaces life.

 

I have described a wave cycle.  The universe consists solely of wave cycles which come and go to manifest the idea of eternal life by repetitive sequences of life and death cycles.

 

QUESTION: The subject of meditation interests me more than anything else in your teachings, for it is beginning to mean much to me.  At first I thought I had to concentrate upon some idea, or think hard.  The more I do the opposite, the more I feel ideas coming to me.  Will you explain more about it?

 

GERMAIN:  So many feel that meditation means concentration that I am glad to respond to that specific question.  Meditation means communion WITH GOD.  It means being TAUGHT by God—directed by Him and controlled by Him.  To accomplish this, you must open your Mind and give God a chance to teach you.  To concentrate, you are shutting God out by doing all the talking yourself.  The purpose of meditation is to give you knowledge of the part you are to play in the drama of Creation.  God sometimes tells you the next few lines in your part of the play and sometimes tells your part and your destiny for many years ahead, as He always does to Illu­minates.  One little inspi­ration which comes to you in meditation is like unto one para­graph, or more, in a very long chapter.  God gives you that little now because you can bear only that little now.  When you are strong in the Light, you will have many full chapters given you in a timeless flash, and you will begin to unfold those chapters in action for years.

 

God never gives to people more than they can bear, so if you deeply desire knowledge and power, learn to seek the silence of His World with Mind unfettered from body-sensing.  That is the real meaning of meditation.  It must begin by stopping your thinking.

 

It might be well for you to reflect upon the great world ge­niuses.  Imagine a Pucccini or Wag­ner walking out into the for­est.  Very soon he forgets that he is walking into the forest.  He elimi­nates body from his awareness.  His Mind is wide open to hear the rhythms which come out of the silence.  Soon they come to him in the mood of Nature which reflects them to him in Light and he reflects them back in sound.  The Moonlight Sonata, for instance, is a reflec­tion of a mood of Nature such as that.  You can readily understand that Beethoven did not go out into the moonlight to commune with God by shutting his Mind up tight by concentrating.  It was wide open to listen with his inner ears to the mood of Nature.

 

Let me add, that he who is enabled to so decentrate that he can translate nature’s moods does so only because he has been en­abled to talk to God in God’s language of light-waves and light-rhythms.  The immortals of the world who have given to it the rhythms which constitute world culture, ethics and righteousness are those who have been enabled to transcend human senses.  The moment you have so transformed yourself so that you can translate those rhythms of God’s thinking, you will have taken your first step toward immortality.

 

QUESTION: I have a son whose sole desire is to paint pictures.  He would willingly give up every pleasure that boys usually in­dulge in in order to paint.  We do not mind his painting but we are in­formed that good artists cannot make a living since mod­ern art degraded good art.  Also, he neglects his schooling and other duties of life.  He listens to classic music for hours  but will not listen to tele­vision.  The general impression of his friends is that he is an impracti­cal dreamer who will never amount to anything, and my men friends seem to be sorry for my wife and me for having so dull a son.  What do you think about it, and what should we do about it?

 

GERMAIN: Your son is one of the small percent of the human race who has unfolded his spiri­tual nature beyond the other large majority of physically-sensed humans.  The physical majority do not understand the spiritually-advanced ones.  It is an experience which they have never had for themselves; therefore they either deny it in others or do not recognize it.

 

The question as to whether or not your boy can make money out of art is not the issue.  He must cultivate it for what it will do for himself, whether he becomes an artist or not.  Such ex­pressions in the arts denote the creative mind rather than the im­itative one.  That is what he is efforting to develop.  You should assist him in doing so, even if he has to earn his living some other way and use art as an avocation. 

 

The point for a parent is to be most discerning.  That means that you must carefully attend that which the child is doing, to be aware if this is his love of art or his cop-out on living.  Some peo­ple go endlessly to school, then graduate school and post-graduate and NEVER ARRIVE.  This is not the same as having a driving desire to accomplish expression of creative Mind.  Watch what is being listened to on those noise boxes—if it be heavy metal noise—it is brain­washing the child into negative ex­perience.  You must use wisdom and I can only respond to the extent that you have given me input.  It appears you have a most precious gift which must be nurtured, but you must discern and judge the circumstance.  You see, you must NEVER “JUDGE” THE PERSON—YOU MUST ALWAYS JUDGE THE CIR­CUMSTANCES AND ACTIONS.

 

RESPONSIBILITY

 

As we move through these lessons I continue to accept and re­spect the commission given unto me—the responsibility to you and to the world to point out the way of life which God intends for man.  This is in order that we may reverse the downward trend of the race which is be­coming more and more alarming daily.  This downward trend can be expressed by the fact that intelli­gence has not increased at the same rate as the complexity of the problems to be solved.  Thus you are on the downward spiral.  This causes our contention that man’s desire for me­chanical and scientific advancement for the purposes of fulfilling body needs exceeds his desire for spiri­tual unfolding in the di­rection of culture, ethics, character and creative achievement in the finer arts and creative expressions.

 

You must take note that the pursuit of the kind of happiness which is based upon material val­ues is not bringing you happi­ness, but it has shown itself incapable of preventing your deteriora­tion.

 

That is why it is time, now, to show the world what is the matter with it so that it can remedy the trouble.  Our analysis of the meaning of higher knowledge is given to you for that single pur­pose.  That is also why we are telling you that man must know his universe in order to under­stand its ways, just as a motorist must know the rules of the road in order to journey through a city.  To know your universe, you must become scientists, whether or not you wish such, for you cannot know Nature’s ways without becoming “scientists”.  Before the days of Galileo, dread, su­perstition and ignorance pervaded the land.  Science had progressed far in these centuries even if its concepts were not in accord with Nature.  The ancients fully be­lieved that the Earth was flat and that the sun and stars revolved around it.  Copernicus dis­pelled this belief, however, and proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe with heaven immedi­ately surrounding it and Dante’s hell just beneath it.  That dis­covery of Coper­nicus started new thinking, and more knowledge of your universe will bring the great revolu­tion of understanding which will bring a new era of peace on Earth.  Does this change, even when the facts are proven, come easily?  Nay!  It is all but impossible to bring about real change.

 

The new knowledge being brought herein of the meaning of higher knowledge, and a program for giving it unto the world, will soon become the basis for the establishment of a new way of life in which Love, and the Law, will be its basis.  Well, “soon” might be a bit strong a word—but you actually do not have much time remaining—therefore, it must be soon.

 

Therefore, know your universe and its Creator, for a new world of man must issue from it within the next ensuing few years.

 

Can it be accomplished?  With God, all things are made possi­ble.

 

I AM GERMAIN

 

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