More About The Child

By William Samuel

PART I

All our work, yours and mine, has been a  

preparation for this tiny, magic moment when we  

catch a glimpse of the Child. This Season, and  

the Spring to follow, is the time for this to  

happen in big ways. Why not? Expect it! We were  

all born with the Spark of the Original Child

within us. Some have called this Spark the Christ

within, Holy Spirit, Grace. I've called it the Child

Within. It is the same marvellous intuition that  

 has  new birds building nests in the spring,

squirrels hiding nuts in the fall, trout and  

butterfly wending their ways back home in magic  

precision. Without question, the Masters of  

history were the ones who found this Child  

within themselves. They all spoke to their  

followers of the Child and its singular

importance.  

They also told of the difficulty of telling others  

 about it, how only a few wanted to hear, only a  

few understand, only a few are willing to stay the  

course. They told that with the discovery comes a  

time of deep and paradoxical trouble for the  

finder; then, line upon line, an understanding of  

the paradox with marvel and amazement; then a  

time of testing and, finally, a time to reign over  

the All.

 

'All the Lights with whom I'm acquainted have  

ended their days on earth in frustration and lonely  

radical pronouncements which authorities usually  

interpreted as threats to their power and control  

of the status quo. But, every one of the masters  

have agreed that the Truth will come out, and  

nothing that is hidden will remain hidden and  

anything found covered will be left uncovered.  

Isaiah among the Jewish masters saw these  

revealing days as an upheaval that would wrench  

the whole world. Others spoke differently, and  

some said nothing about time at all. The Bible  

says that in the days of the upheaval, there would  

be "a few who know" the Answer and that they  

will help others survive. Jesus said that all the  

things he had done, we would do also, and  

greater. The veil that prevents our words from  

being understood is the Final Paradox. At last, I  

feel able to speak of that paradox and some of its  

meanings, but part of the paradox-- the heart of  

it-- is the same Mystery that has kept it concealed.  

I am able to say with certainty that all these  

marvels, including the mysteries, the mistaken  

highways and blind alleys, the anguishes of the  

world, collectively and individually, are exactly  

as they should have been, all part of an intricate  

and perfectly woven Plan. The statement that  

there is "only good going on" is absolutely  

correct. Even the sights and sounds of starvation  

and slow death, of pollution and degradation,  

greed and materialism gone rampant are all just as  

they should be to the emerging Child of God in  

the process of 'being born again' to his perfect  

 Heritage, this time comprehending what it is all  

about. So it is, that all my thousands of pages  

during the years boil down to the old Master's  

command, reduced to its native Simplicity and 

they are naught more than dust flung to the wind;  

a time of awakening. The Truth: There really is a  

Child in us, untouched by the world and pure as  

the driven snow. That Child is within and we are  

not the body that harbors "a wounded child" with  

a mind of its own, an intelligence and belief  

system of the world's making or his own. There is  

Something good in us that has never made a  

mistake, never been mistreated, never suffered,  

never walked down the wrong pathway, and never  

hurt another soul. That Child is still here and has  

made no mistakes. That Child is within us here  

and now, and he or she holds the Keys to the 

kingdom. That I feel an enormous sadness for  

having been able to clearly disclose so little of

the much that has been shown me. But, that too is 

part of the Paradox and I'm learning to live with  

it. As the Mystery goes away, as unmoving Light  

illumines the dark places and discloses Itself,  

there remains an astounding simplicity so  

enveloping and complete it leaves nothing to talk  

about that sounds like answers to those who want  

to know of It. There is even an analogy for this 

dilemma. It is much the way it is with the  

physical world. Just as we learn what to do for  

the physical planet and its environment, our past  

abuses conspire simultaneously to almost prevent  

it. Another resemblance: just as we see the Light,  

we reach the physical inability to do with it as  

we've dreamed in the world where light moves. It  

has always been the same. I do not believe the  

intimate kernel of the Seed Secret can be 

understood by the written word alone, but I feel it  

can be passed along from a trusting heart to an  

expectant and believing face, from I to Eye under  

the perfect circumstance where childlikeness and  

anticipation reign. I believe it can be heard and  

understood by those who have suffered, by those  

who are hungry for the truth and willing to  

surrender all former ideas and beliefs no matter  

how precious the seem.

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