All men and women must recognize that because they have thought wrongly in the past, only they can amend their thoughts and think rightly in the present. They have thought of the individual as being the center of Universal Being. This is but partial truth. Men must think of themselves as being God-centered rather than ego-centered and God-individualized in the I AM Presence as the true center of their being. They must think of themselves as the manifestation of, rather than the originator of, this perfection.
To consider God as the center and origin of life is not blasphemy, for blasphemy concerns itself with mankind’s despair and the degradation of the creation of God within himself. This state of mind would deny the immortal creation by stating that man is so far less than God as to be not created in the immortal image at all. And this is in defiance of holy writ. And yet did not the Lord declare in the midst of the congregation “I have said, Ye are God’s and all of you are children of the Most High.”? (Pss. 82:6; John 10:34)…Abundance is the divine portion, and abundance embodies consecration not only to the things of God but also to the ideals of God. Thus pursuit of the abundant Life inspires consecration to God-Life.
Fear of death comes to man when he thinks he will no longer be a part of the great mainstream of the familiar which in his limited way he knows as life. When he understands that the experiences of birth and death are not far removed from one another he realizes that that which is truly Life cannot die; he understands that all experience is but a sea through which man passes to greater opportunity….
It must be recognized that each time man’s consciousness revolves the idea of apprehension, fear as an unknown quantity is thereby strengthened.
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-from Harbin
by Ruth Hawkins
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