By Vahe Karamian on
3/30/2010 10:55 AM
“World without end.” This refers to the endless creation of the Almighty. Particular worlds will always begin and end, as do cabbages and kings; but creation itself-the necessity of God’s manifesting Himself in time and in space-will never end. If creation could end, then God would end. As this is unthinkable, it follows that “world without end,” or worlds without end, are necessary to the expression of Spirit.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/30/2010 10:54 AM
“To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.” The inner man is Christ, and Christ is the son of God. The inner man is revealed by what he does. As we do not see God, so we do not see the real man. We never see causes, only effects; but the effect loudly affirms the nature of its cause.
The Spirit of God dwells in the inner man with power and might. The outer man reflects this Spirit in so far as the intellect allows it to come forth into expression.
When Christ dwells in us in love, which is unity, we are able to understand the things that the saints have understood. Saint simply means an unusually wise and good man-all saints have been human beings just as we are, for God makes all people alike. The universe plays no favorites.
To be filled with the fullness of God is to manifest our true nature, which is Christ, the Son of God-“the power that worketh in us.” This power is the power of God, and if we admitted no other, we should ever be satisfied, happy, prosperous, well and complete.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/30/2010 10:53 AM
This body, in which we seem to live, is not the eternal body. We have a body not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. As our thought reaches up and on to that greater truth, we are clothed upon from heaven. That is, we more perfectly pattern the Divine and consequently more completely manifest the Eternal.
We do not wish to be unclothed but clothed upon. This is an interesting concept, for it implies that immortality clothes itself in definite forms, more beautiful than those which now appear.
We are to know no man after the flesh, but even Christ after the Spirit. Thus are we swallowed up of life. Death is overcome, not by dwelling upon it, but by contemplating eternal life. It is the belief of the writer that should one become completely unconscious of death and all fear of it, one would never know that he died, even though he went through the experience of passing from this life to the next. Death would be swallowed up of life.
It seems probable that when the last enemy is overcome, we shall pass from one experience to another at will; that the soul will clothe itself in a body on whatever plane it find itself-a body which will express the soul on that plane. We are to know no man after the flesh but after the Spirit.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/30/2010 10:51 AM
Even in our troubles we are not cast down, and though we appear to be deserted, we are not destroyed. All our experiences are working to the end that we learn the lesson of life and return to the Father’s House as freed souls.
We should not despair apparent failures-the temporary chagrins of life-for they are salutary, leading the soul to the inner Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. When the experience is complete, the lesson will be learned and we shall enter the paradise of contentment.
We do not look at the things which are seen as being eternal. Behind the visible and changeable is the changeless Reality, the Eternal One, working in time and space for the expression of Itself. The Divine Ideas stand back of all human thought, seeking admittance through the doorway of the mind.
If we look at love long enough, we shall become lovely, for this is the way of love. God is Love. If we gaze longingly at joy, it will make its home with us, and we shall enter its portals and be happy. If we seek the Divine in men, we shall find it, and be entertaining angels unawares.
God’s ideas and attributes are eternal and cannot change. In change, is the Changeless. In time, is the Eternal and Timeless. In things, the Creator manifests His power and glory forevermore.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/29/2010 11:07 AM
I believe in the continuation of the personal life beyond the grave, in the continuity of the individual stream of consciousness with a full recollection of itself and the ability to know and to make itself and the ability to know and to make itself known. I wish to feel, when the experience of physical death shall occur, that that which I really am will continue to live beyond the grave. I wish to feel that I shall again meet those friends whose lives and influences have made my life happy while on earth. If I could not believe this, I would believe nothing in life; life would have no meaning and death could not be untimely, unless it were long delayed. If personality does not persist beyond the grave, then death would be an event to be devoutly longed for and sought after.
I believe that certain experiences have given us ample evidence to substantiate the claim of immortality. I know that my own experience justifies a complete acceptance in my mind of my own and other people’s immortality. Is there any one who, standing at the bier of a loved one, can possibly feel that the real end has come? It is useless to say that their influence lives after them. That is true, of course, but we hope for more than this; WE WISH TO FEEL THAT THEY STILL LIVE! How anyone can feel otherwise seems unthinkable. I want to live and keep on living and to know that I am I; and unless immortality means this, death means the cutting off of all conscious life, contact or recognition, and it could then be truly said of the personality that it dies with the grave.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/29/2010 7:11 AM
The question might arise in our minds, “Where shall we go when we die?” “Shall we engage in activity or shall we be inactive?” These are natural questions. Where shall we take this marvelous mind and subtle body? If today is the logical continuance of yesterday, then all of the tomorrows which stretch down the vista of eternity, will be a continuity of experiences and remembrance. We shall keep on keeping on. We shall continue in our own individual stream of consciousness but forever and ever expanding. Not less but even more: more and still more ourselves.
Our place hereafter will be what we have made it. We certainly cannot take anything with us but our character. If we have lived in accordance with the law of harmony, we shall continue to live after this Divine Law. If we have lived any other way, we shall continue to live that way until we wake up to the facts of Being.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/28/2010 11:42 PM
What of reward and punishment? Shall we be rewarded for our virtues and punished for our short-comings? Can we think of reward and punishment from any other viewpoint than that sin is a mistake and punishment a consequence, that virtue and righteousness must find their corresponding effects in our experience? God neither punishes nor rewards. Such a concept of God would create an anthropomorphic dualism, a house divided against itself. Such a house cannot stand. Life is a blessing or a curse, according to the use we make of it. In the long run, no one judges us but ourselves and no one condemns us but ourselves. We believe in a law that governs all things and all people. If we make mistakes, we suffer. We are our own reward and our own punishment.
Some suffer, some are happy, some unhappy, according to the way they contact life. No one judges us but ourselves. No one gives to us but ourselves and no one robs us but ourselves. We need not fear either God or the devil. There is no devil, and God is Love. The problem of good and evil will never enter the mind which is at peace with itself. When we make mistakes, we suffer the consequences. When by reason of enlightenment and understanding, we correct such mistakes, we no longer suffer from them. Understanding alone constitutes true salvation, either here or hereafter.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/28/2010 11:24 PM
It would be interesting to know whether the spirits of the supposed dead, cause certain physical manifestation experienced by many people. One thing is certain, these manifestations are either caused by those who are supposed to be dead, or they are produced by those now in the flesh. This is self-evident. Since they occur, something must make them happen. Whether the manifestations are caused by the so-called dead or by the living, the agency used is either a mental body or the direct power of through operating upon objects.
More than forty years ago (and but little new has been discovered sine in this field) Hudson, in his “Law of Psychic Phenomena,” carefully goes through an elaborate process of reasoning-the result of years of painstaking investigation-and completely proves that all of the manifestations do take place. He then goes through an extensive, and to him conclusive, argument to show that they ARE NOT CAUSE BY SPIRITS, declaring that we have no reason to suppose the presence of an UNKNOWN agency when we know there is one present who could be producing the phenomena.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/26/2010 6:58 PM
Science is rapidly proving that there is much more in the Universe than we can see with the naked eye. We are now being taught that ether is more solid than matter. We know that the ether penetrates everything; it is in our bodies, at the center of the earth, and throughout all space. This means that within our present bodies there is a substance more solid than the body which we see. This idea is very far-reaching, for it shows that we might have a body within the physical one, which could be as real as the one which we are accustomed to think. If Instinctive Man has molded the outer body in form, why should It not mold the inner one into definite form? There is every reason to suppose that It does and no reason to suppose the opposite. In all probability, there is a body within a body to infinity.
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By Vahe Karamian on
3/24/2010 9:56 AM
Through introspection, I know that I am; and by observation I note that when death comes, this I Am appears no longer to be. The body lies cold, inert, lifeless; its warmth, color and responsiveness have fled. Is it possible for one observing this process doubt that something tangible and real has left this plane? When the body is given to the native elements from which it sprang, the knowing, willing and thinking factors that constitute human personality and an individualized stream of consciousness have departed.
The table has four legs, yet it does not walk; the ear does not hear; nor does the tongue wag unless there is someone to wag it. The brain does not think, if the brain were endowed with power from on high, it would think on forever; isolate it and it will not think. It is the thinker using the brain, who thinks. There is also one using the power of vision, looking through the windows of the eyes, who sees.
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