To enter the silence means to turn the mind inward, focusing the mind upon a God- word, meditating upon it and it until the spirits of the word flashes into reality and the mental field is alive with it. These God-words are herein called the God-positives. Invisible lines of connection link the inner with the outset world. Jesus said “my words all spirit.” One most carry thought past the mere formal letters to spiritual reality symbolized by the word. These words release corresponding force exactly as push-both buttons release electricity.

Science: Prof. Wm. James: “on the certain conditions there is an influx of a higher order of consciousness: something from above takes hold of the lower part of itself quickening it within you morality, often utterly re-creating the outer man.”

Concentration precedes meditation and is an act of the will bringing all the faculties into captivity, narrowing the focus of attention to one point and from that point, other conditions be equal, there ensues involuntarily its very opposite, a vast expansion of consciousness, even the fixed centre vanishes. This expansion is a step in transcendence. This is the creative mood for readjustment and healing. Anything less than this dynamic state is over the lower levels of personal willpower, suggestion and hypnotism.

    To enter the silence signifies the silencing of all unreality, of doubt, fear, false beliefs, worry, complaining, grief, of everything that is merely of the outer personality, and remaining fixed in the revivifying fires of inpouring restoring life.

 SCIENCE: Henri Bergson, France: “fix the attention upon the undivided flow of inner life, we are not this vital current itself, but we are part of this inpouring life come to self consciousness.” Concentration leads to the threshold of the silence, and except regenerating fires within the soul light the way; one will never be able to cross that threshold. To get into a mental subjective if state in order to concentrate on shrewd business methods, to stimulate personal influence to coerce others and to aggrandize self, leaves one in the region of conflict and force, relying wholly upon personal mind.

MEDITATION is a state of lucidity brought about by a combination of factors that closes the door of the outer world and opens the being to the influx of higher knowledge and powers, which impart their wisdom at the point where and efforts are active.

 Divine wisdom and efficiency is not limited to a form of words but is expressed in the universal vocabulary of experience, reinforcing human efforts at the moment when decisions and efforts are put forth, exactly timed for the hour of need. Hence the mistake of expecting immediate verbal answers to problems. Words are the external expressions of inner states. The inner state is the point requiring readjustment and the outer expressions of words follows as a natural sequence on its own plane.

  The great need is to treat by scientific denial each false claim, affirming the truth as it ought to be, and let that action of God take place at the right time. “For the word (expression) of God is living and active and sharper than any sword and piercing and quick.” Treat, affirm and rest in confidence that the action of God is taking place.

Divine wisdom and efficiency is as a third arm that is brought into operation when man's two and brain have fulfilled their purpose.

   To achieve the silence requires lucid work of the highest activity demanding time, study and practice and signify a spiritual quickening contact with the source of life. One should not attempt practice of meditation when fatigued or sleepy. The work requires conscious possession of all the faculties with discerning co-operation, and should not be left to the last remnants of the day, hastily seeking some refuge in a form of words. Such attempts are mere delusions. Physical stillness alone will not open the inner doors to supermind. Mental stillness alone may be only vacuity. But when physical and mental stillness is the result of scientific concentration, bringing into captivity all the faculties through the individual attention to one idea, the conditions are right for the higher states of meditation and the silence.

 One cannot concentrate on nothing. To concentrate on circles, the point of a lead pencil, candle flame on a crystal is to deflect the mind into unrelated or channels rather than to lead it to become one pointed in vibrant creative ideas, which according to psychological law, must find connecting links throughout consciousness, if the subconscious mind is to create corresponding conditions.

 Ruysbroeck: “Now mark this well, when a man wishes to possess inward rest in idleness, then he is ready for all errors. A small consolation may greatly rejoice him for he knows not what he lacks. The rest which he finds consists in his own idleness to which he is inclined by nature and habit and he falls into a self complacency from which he seldom recovers. This sinking down into subjective passivity in bare vacancy is a caricature of the perpetual willed effort required in inward contemplation. This bare vacancy may be found by all men, for it is but a psychic trick to precipitate the consciousness into a subjective state. There is a word of difference between subjective nothingness and high activity of spiritual intelligence. God is activity, not passivity and idleness, but an eternal striving.”

There are two centres to be used in Meditation, the Heart and the Brain both Positive Voluntary Centres. The involuntary subconscious centres are already overcharged with sub-human tendencies called by Ruysbroeck, “The subsoil of human nature where we are below instead of above the levels of normal consciousness”.

The chief business of the awakened mind is to move out of and clean up these centre of sensual animal instincts. Standing in the place of power and dominion in the Heart or Brain Centre , hold the emotional nature receptive to spiritual renewal invoked from the highest levels, thus informing, re-educating and re-generating the lower levels of consciousness.

SCIENCE: British Medical Journal: “The brain is an organ designed to transform latent energy into active energy.” The brain is a mechanical calculator a mental and physical gramophone, capable of holding imprisoned within its recesses the vibratory correspondence of every idea presented to it. It’s the governor is the will. By means of the brain the involuntary subconscious centres are brought under conscious control and the forces that have been involuntarily trapped and energized in the instinctive centres are made to feed higher centre of activity and intelligence.

In the secret laboratory of the heart is blended the voluntary impulses. The heart is the animating centre of the involuntary sympathetic system but threaded through and though with striped muscle called in scientific term “Striated Muscle,” indicating that it is under the control of the will muscles or voluntary system. Victims of heart disease may take notice that they are not at the mercy of a runaway heart but that the reins of the heart are in their own hands. The blood is fluid life, an unstable formless medium exactly fitted to receive the faintest emotional vibration, holding all experience in suspension in it, and traversing the entire body twice in a minute, it communicates corresponding emotion to every cell. Silence in the heart unifies the whole being. It is the transmuting centre by means of which intuition is received into the mind, and it is the animating centre of the astral or emotional body. When self-control and spiritual rhythm obtains in this centre the higher perceptions awake.

The heart centre is the centre for regeneration. This the dark incubating chamber where the synthesis of emotion and will is consummated. This the Altar where consuming fires transmute disease and poverty into life and munificence. This the transition centre from life to life. The ego conserves the results of experience by means of the heart in which is held in suspension all reactions, all faculty. All the elements extracted from experience are registered here, and by its dynamic power the suspended life is carried across the threshold of the next life. Long after the body is pronounced dead, long after the brain has refused to work the heart continues action while consciousness is being withdrawn from the body.

Boehm: “Steadfastly fix the inner eye upon one point and by faith press into this inmost cell within thee.” This was called by mystics “The cell of knowledge.”

Spiritual certitude of Divine contact is not in the body but in the highest regions of consciousness which admit of no bodily sensation. In meditation, lose the sense of the heart as a physical organ and regard it as an inner Sanctuary, the meeting-place of the soul and the Great Spirit, and by an act of living faith perceive the inpouring life as Light and immerse the whole being in the Radiance. Imbible it - - impress and appropriate this cleansing idea as a real experience

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