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MORE ABOUT THE CHILD

BY: William Samuel

1978

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 withdrawal, sometimes put to death for their 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 Key to the Kingdom. These days 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.

About subjective/objective and the Portal State

First we become acquainted with religion. Either we respond to the inner urge of a "transcendent" Being or we don't. Most of us do. Religion is usually, and primarily, an objective study. Then we hear of metaphysics wherein we are told it is all mind, consciousness, dream, all within our own mind.

The objective world is now understood to be actually subjective, within mind, within us; Something like a dream and we understand dreams because all of us have strange and interesting dreams sometimes. Dreams can be especially meaningful, if only to examine the process itself. A dream is a subjective happening. That is, it happens within consciousness--or awareness. The substance of our friend in the dream is dream--firing neurons, or whatever happens when one dreams or brings mental images to mind. It is an internal event, not happening outside the head. That is a generally what is meant by a subjective event as it is popularly understood. From the beginning of things, thinkers have postulated that the walking around in the world experience (when one is NOT sleeping) is, in certain ways, just as subjective as the dream. Objects may be outside the head, but not outside the experiencing awareness. That is, we may reach outside the head and touch the tree in the park, but the sight of the tree and the feel of the tree when we touch it--as well as any thought we may have about the whole situation—happens within our head, not out in the world. In this way, everything in our daily round is subjective, just as in the dream. One might say that all things are subjective simply because we never get outside our own viewing awareness to see if the tree exists independently of the sight and feel and smell of it. This brings to mind the wonderful remark of the Chinese Master who, addressing his students one morning, remarked that he had just had a most wonderful dream that he was a butterfly. Then, pausing a moment, he asked if it weren't possible that he was presently a butterfly dreaming he was a man. Philosophers and theologians have dismissed subjectivism as patiently absurd. "We may argue that the universe is happening within our subjective experience, but this is plainly not so because there is a provable objective reality as well," said one of the world's Important Voices. The first thoughts of the round earth were also dismissed as "plainly not so," by other Important Voices who were wrong. The earth is round, of course, and our experience is a subjective event, although we might better think of it as omnijective.

So it goes that if we study and have the right teachers we hear of subjectivism--and, God willing, come to recognize the subjective view. With the real dawning of the "solipsistic idea" or subjectivism (which follows the recognition of the subjective experiences) one becomes Christ to his own subjective view of the world. This is quite a time--perplexing and marvellous. Little understood in metaphysics is that--at this initial subjective level of Christ-dawning--one also becomes the anti-Christ as well. The point here is that one can't be the Christ to his subjective view of things without also being the anti-Christ to that same subjective view--considered to be one's own view of the tangible world.

Then, somewhere along the line--precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, one awakens to the middle ground. That middle ground is still as AWARENESS (which the subjective "level" made such a to do about) but this time it is realized to be GOD'S Awareness and not "mine." This is the dawning of the Portal state. This is the true Christ state, it seems to me. It is where the Light of this day puts me. Not as me, or by me, but as God's Self-awareness, inside out and outside in, above as below and below as above. And at this time one is able to exclaim as did Isaiah did, "How fallen art thou, oh Lucifer!" The metaphysical level where one believes himself to the Christ of his own world is the truly dangerous time. It is the avenue of the most violent anti-Christ of them all: humanistic metaphysics, claiming the abilities of God in the name of the unsurrendered human mind--and calling that mind divine. It is the tripping ground for many an earnest practitioner and minister of metaphysics. Most of them.

Therefore, subjectivism can appear to be like "Secular humanism" to the religionist who thinks a false God is being worshipped. Subjectivists must be able to defend themselves against this incorrect charge--and know HOW to do it. Subjectivism has two heads in the world. The obvious form, (psychiatry, mental sciences, particle physics, experimental math. etc.) is, essentially, GODLESS—as Sartre's work is, which passes for "subjective." The other is GOD predicated and called "Deific Solipsism" or Deific subjectivism, as outlined in “A Guide to Awareness and Tranquillity”. Anyone who says that work is godless doesn't know what they're talking about. It must be perfectly clear that the basis for this work is DEIFIC subjectivism—and includes GOD to infinity. If possible, this paper should include how subjectivism ALONE (even as I've presented it in A & T, though it was aimed for metaphysicians) is worse than nothing. Religion first, then progressing on to subjectivism, has produced such lights as Eckhart. He was living the Equation when he discovered the subjective idea. Whether he found the Child, the Portal, or not, I'm not able to say, but I must believe he did. Subjectivism without the Equation leads to GRIDLOCK. If one does not learn the Equation one will NEVER get beyond their agony of depression, loneliness, and guilt while trying to manipulate or demonstrate via the unsurrendered human mind.

Metaphysics is one fourth of the equation. Those who have found "Truth" and have made a lifelong study of it are often lost to the remainder of the equation. To most of it. I was. But the study of metaphysics--that is to say, coming to perceive the subjective nature of life/consciousness--is important, even essential for those who want to give their Glimpses to mankind. A conscious recognition of the subjective nature of things dawns more slowly than the objective view. In this regard, subjectivism is a step beyond objectivism. Awareness resides midway between them even while including both within itself.

The “divine equation” is finding the balance, the Link, The Child that Lives between Godhead Ineffable and the Awareness I am.

The divine equation shows us that there are views quite beyond either the objective or subjective view of things.

But to keep things as clear and simple as possible, I make these definitions for those two fundamental positions. The objective view of the world is the "first" view we have of it. I am here, you are there and the tree is over there. The clouds over my head, the earth beneath my feet and Aunt Julia lives in Chicago. "Things" are outside oneself; me here, objects over there. The objective view knows little of subjectivism except as a strange theory. The worldly objectivist, in the face of scientific proofs of the power of mind, thinks of mind as a possession of his own--or God's gift to man. Objectivism thinks in terms of the body as ones personal identity and of God-mind as another Identity and another mind. It may speak of God as Divine Mind. It is moot in objectivism whether God-mind (Overmind) is immanent or transcendent. The religious views are divided. The subjective view is like another world. It speaks of Already. It speaks to an all-pervading Godhead which is pure and perfect. It speaks to the "real" state of Life and to the "true Identity" of man as already made in the image and likeness of Perfection, having its true being within and as the Mind of God. It speaks of the illusory nature of the objective scene "out there" as the projection of mortal mind--the belief of life apart from God. The subjective state views objectivism as its own unevolved seeing, to be "put off" if not understood--or, at the least, sees objects as illusion to be given neither power nor "reality." Generally speaking, in its most absolute statements, subjectivism speaks of "matter" as incapable of disclosing ultimate Reality--or even leading the way toward that discovery. It makes as strong a distinction between Truth and error as objectivism makes of good and evil--and in that sense subjectivism (non-duality) remains dualistic even while denying the reality or possibility of "dualism."

When the Child in us comes alive again, we are led to a synergistic view greater than either objective or subjective. It is a New View, a balanced View, infinitely more simple than my words are capable of. I know the time for that New View is at hand. Metaphysical subjectivism, at its best, is a plane of thought "above" the objective line of thinking. The line doesn't comprehend the plane but the plane perceives the line within itself--and understands it. The subjective view certainly comprehends the objective view and understands its relevance, but objectivism rises no higher than itself. The historic record makes it clear that quantum spiritual Light has come into the world from out the perception of one who holds to a subjective view of the world and the people. The Theologies, on the other hand, are capable of growing out of the most brittle objectivism--usually an objectified view of a subjective statement. The Gnostic Christians attempted to maintain the subjective Light of the Christ revelation but were no more successful than the prophets before them. Legalism reestablished itself and maintains control of human Churchdom to this time and our metaphysical groups have done worse--they confine with an air of superiority that is worse than the churches they feel superior to. Perhaps, with the Light of the Balance, the New Covenant and its Equation will come the balanced state of mind we are to maintain in our living and loving God and mankind.

. In apparent yes/no situations, philosophers, theologians and metaphysicians somehow box themselves into "either/ or" situations, forgetting there are many other possibilities. Like both and [sometimes] neither. Considering awareness to be the action of illimitable God/Mind, one had best consider all possibilities. Awareness limited to "subjective" or" objective" is limited awareness--hence not Awareness at all. It is a little like the pronouncement of an Important Voice among Christian Scientists, Baptists and Jews decrying the possibility of a "transcendent" God, insisting on "Immanent" instead--and making long arguments to prove the point. The simple fact that the Ineffable is BOTH immanent and transcendent simultaneously doesn't seem to dawn quickly, if at all, in closed circles.

Is SUBJECTIVISM necessary? Can one stand atop Da Shan without the subjective Idea? I don't see how. I really don't. But, in the days ahead, when the flowering begins, those who run with the Child will be part of the flower and seed--and that's what matters. My cry for 30 years has been for the TEACHERS to get ready--and the teachers who know their subjectivism via the Experience of It will be the true teachers this side of the Child within. As it happens, I haven't seen many who have their subjectivism straight in all these years. No matter what I've said and done, the full extent of the subjective idea seldom gets across. That Event happens in its own time and place--via Something Divine assisting. My words and work have been instrumental in bringing the Experience in some part to everyone--and who is to say that a divine outpouring (of the Holy Spirit) will one day soon take place and everyone who has read my intimations of The Secret or has been here to study will suddenly find their slow seed sprouting apace. God can do anything. And goodness knows, I've planted the slow seed I've been given to plant.