It is generally believed among men that one who prays often, and with many words loudly and piously uttered, is holy among men and much favored of God. But we say that he who finds ecstasy of happiness in his Soul from the giving of his love to touch the Soul of a despairing neighbor is a hundredfold more holy in God’s sight. To him the “kingdom of heaven” is as though he dwells in the house of the Lord, while the holy man of piety and words sits afar outside its garden wall.
When you pray to God, saying, “O, God, pity us for we are as dust beneath Thy feet,” God’s silent Voice whispers within you: “Know you the Light which I AM. You are man, exalted in Me. What I AM, you are. You are light.” He may also very well tell you to get up and stop groveling and request respect and reverence rather than pity–for pity indicates helplessness of the other and usually is only self-indulgent refusal to accept responsibility. For instance, “Oh pity me, Father, for I cannot serve for my head pains greatly.” He might very well give you a worse headache until you see the point of that which you are avoiding.
For long ages, God’s silent Voice whispers within your unhearing ears. God, therefore, gives you your desire to be what you wish to be in the building of your Self. As long as you believe yourself to be dust beneath the feet of the almighty God, you are that dust which you have built in the image of YOUR imagining.
When you pray to God, saying, “God have mercy upon me, a miserable sinner”, you have not prayed to the one God of Love, Creator of His universe of love, Creator of you to manifest His love, for you do not know HIM. YOU HAVE BUT PRAYED TO A GOD OF WRATH AND FEAR OF YOUR OWN MAKING WHOM YOU HAVE BUILT IN YOUR OWN IMAGE.
He who builds gods in his own image builds idols for his worshipping and for his own purposes in a sensed world. He whose idol is fear and wrath cannot know the God of Love. Until you know love, you are what your idol is, a miserable sinner to whom mercy must be shown by your idol whom you, yourself, are. And you will be punished for your imagined self-made sins by you, yourself, for the idol you worship will show you no mercy until you are freed from him by knowing love.
When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say, “Thy will be done, O Lord. The Lord gives and He takes away”, you have not yet known the God of Love, for God GIVES ONLY. GOD NEVER TAKES THAT WHICH HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN. What God gives to you, you REGIVE TO HIM for HIS REGIVING.
You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life–for that is what death IS.
Mass-man is unable to comprehend this idea which is commonplace thinking to cosmic man, but you, in whom the seed of cosmic thinking is being sown, will go to your neighbor and sow it in his Consciousness and he, in turn, will do likewise until man-in-the-mass will be transformed from barbaric man, who still crucifies love, to cosmic man, who IS love.
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