One of the major superstitions rampant throughout "creation," is that
there is a devil, a Satan, an evil power, a void, a second, even if lower mentality, at work trying to cut God down to its level, trying to destroy Life, eradicate Truth, obliterate Reality, overcome Goodness, wipe out Identity, and leave only a void. All this stems from theology. What theology? The theology of superstition, and there is no other theology extant. All religion, whether faith in a government, in personal power, in time, in a supreme being, personal prowess, intellectualism, evolution, or what, is a SYSTEM OF WORSHIP, a CYCLE OF BELIEF, an ESCAPE FROM ACTUALITY, a TRUST IN OTHERNESS, a FIRM CONVICTION OF TIME, a ROUTINE OF VACUITY, a THESIS OF DUALISM. One could go on ad infinitum with definitions concerning evil and its would-be results, the void and its would-be creation, a Satan and his would- be victims, matter (the substance-of-lack, vacuity) and its commotion, its reactions, its pretense of victimization. To do so would be a waste, and would in no way prove that evil exists, that a creation has been produced, that cause and effect have validity, that time ever has been, or that birth-death is a certainty, a conviction that is obvious. ONLY WHEN ONE BEGINS WITH, STATES, DEFINES WHAT ISNESS is, is he operating in ACTUALITY. Whatever goes on, purportedly, within the borders of supposition, remains just that —mere supposition without a mind to back it up, know it, experience it or trade in it. No matter how prevalent matter may seem to be, it still has not one thread of Truth within it, for, from its would-be beginning to its final deposition, it is fraudulent, and totally dependent upon its own would-be testimony to bolster its would-be claims to its would-be identity! Outside of that which humanity proposes, no evil can be found. NOWHERE is there a void. NOWHERE is there Satan. NOWHERE is there an opposition to REALITY, for there is naught BUT REALITY EVERYWHERE. Humanity itself, the entirety of creation, the argument of time, the would- be substance called matter, the evolutionary thesis — all of this in its entirety is but a theological superstition, as has been repeatedly pointed out. But to see this from the basis of human sense, intellectualism, education, or from studying the pages of Holywrit, books on physiology and anatomy, the course of the stars in their seemingly endless journey through space — to attempt to draw conclusions that will hold up from any such approach, is nonsense. Only as you begin with EXISTENCE ITSELF — state what LIFE ACTUALLY IS — what ETERNAL INFINITY IS, does the nonsense of materiality become obvious. To the would-be intellectualism of humanity, Life is a total enigma. Existence, to the senses, merely means a series of dimensions computed in time-space via five self- testifying channels. The items that each claims to identify are limited in quantity and quality by the elasticity of the particular "sense" that is doing the identifying. But remember, the identification does not start, nor does it stop, with the sense doing the would-be identifying! The entirety of that chore is taken care of by the superstition which is the whole of creation's warp and woof. In other words, the whole of the void, and the creation purportedly produced to fill it, is a theological superstition without even so much as a mind with which, or within which, the superstition has origin, or credence. And, as the whole of creation is nonsense, the would-be substance, called matter, of which it is "composed," has no actuality at all. How, then, can there be reliance on the avenues the non-existent superstition instituted as being the purveyors of fact? In other words, how can one rely on any of the senses when they are merely side issues of falsity, their sole purpose being to testify to superstition as being factual? They are the liar's invention — invented wholly to testify to ignorance, that what ignorance declares is intelligent! The absurdity of this should be patent. It is like saying that darkness is capable of convincing itself via itself, that it is light! But, beginning with Reality, Light, where is there any darkness at all, hence any darkness to testify to or for itself? Only those who still adhere to seeking things as GOOD, in lieu of GOOD, assuming that those items actually ARE GOOD, displace themselves, discount themselves, discommode themselves, and, at every step, attempt to disprove themselves. The five senses are their sole source of information, dimension, limitation. Those senses are the only manner in which time-space can be measured, doled out, cut off. Yes, without the senses, no one can suffer pain, age, history, limitation, hate, fear, race, creed, nationality, gender, and all that is summed up between the past and a would-be future — all of it is purportedly passed "under the rod" of material belief, the classifications according to the senses. But what of REALITY, ACTUALITY, ALIVENESS, SOUL? According to the senses, the only and all of existence must be measured by, be within the ken of, dimension, duality, that which grows out of the past and extends into a future. In other words, cause and effect, subjectivity and objectivity, supply and demand — opposites! WE ARE NOT TO TOUCH HUMANITY IN ANY MANNER. WE ARE NOT TO TRY TO SOLVE ITS PROBLEMS, OVERCOME ITS LACKS, CORRECT ITS SHORTCOMINGS, EASE IT INTO NEW CHANNELS, OVERLOOK, FORGIVE, OR FORGET ITS DEADNESS! WE ARE NOT TO TRY TO EXTEND THE INFLUENCE OF MATERIALITY, LENGTHEN THE ATOM'S LONGEVITY, CURE THE WORLD'S INTOLERANCE, DECREASE ITS FLOW OF ADRENALIN, DEODERIZE ITS EFFLUVIUM, OR FEEL PITY, SYMPATHY, OR HAVE A RAPPORT WITH IT. Rather, we ARE TO STATE ONLY WHAT TRUTH IS, LIFE IS, EXISTENCE IS, SPIRIT IS, AND STAY WITH THIS, FOR THIS ALONE IS WHAT YOU ARE, NOW. NONE OF THE MATERIAL SUPERSTITIONS HAVE ANY PLACE AT ALL, OCCUPY NO SPACE, HAVENO AUTHORITY, NO VICTIMS, NO POSSIBLE WAY OF MAKING GOOD ANY OF THEIR LOUDLY VOICED THREATS. Yes, there is ONLY EXISTENCE BEING, and that EXISTENCE IS SINGLE, WHOLE, TOTAL, ALL, RIGHT HERE NOW, EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHEN. Nothing else is, can be, or has been. No error ever came into being, hence is NOT IN BEING, NOT IN THE SELF YOU BE, and is, therefore, not to be accounted of. You BE this SOLE ONE YOU BE, NOW. NOTHING CAN CHANGE IT, NOT EVEN THE SELF YOU BE. TRUTH, YOUR SELF, IS CHANGELESS. IT IS WITHOUT CHALLENGE. IT IS NOT UNDER ATTACK NOW OR EVER. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO DEFEND ITSELF, FOR THERE IS NOTHING ELSE, HENCE NOTHING TO OFFEND, OR BE OFFENDED. Should you start with "body" or "thing," you cannot say this, for every item is but objective, hence is subjective to that which seemed to have given it origin. He who would putter along in this gutter can never behold the SELF AS IT IS, for THE SELF IS NEVER IN A GUTTER. What we are striving to make plain is — THERE IS NO EVIL AT ALL, NO SATAN, NO OPPOSITE, NO OPPOSER, HENCE NAUGHT ATTACKING LIFE, REALITY, ACTUALITY. THERE IS NOTHING HAPPENING TO THE SELF YOU BE. THAT SELF IS WHOLE, TOTAL, COMPLETE, ENTIRE NOW, AND WHEN YOU SO STATE THE FACT, THEN DEFINE WHAT YOU HAVE SAID, AND STICK WITH THE DEFINITIVE DECLARATION AS BEING THE SOLE FACT THAT IT IS, THERE IS NO WHERE, NO WHEN, NO HOW FOR SO- CALLED ERROR TO EVEN APPEAR . . . NONE TO WHOM IT CAN APPEAR, NOWHERE FOR IT TO APPEAR. IT SIMPLY IS NOT, AND THIS IS TRUTH! Truth is never under attack, regardless of what education, couched in theological, scientific, emotional or intellectual terms may declare to the contrary, and endeavor to prove via its own self-styled evidence, namely, the five senses. Often education would extend its would-be authority as erudition's selfhood, by claiming to have a sixth or extra-sensory perception — a sense that purportedly transcends the mundane senses of seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling and tasting. However, no matter what matter pretends to know, sense, or experience, there is NO MATTER TO MATTER, NO MATTER TO KNOW, NO MATTER TO BE OR TO STOP BEING. THERE IS ONLY SPIRIT NOW, EXISTENCE NOW, TRUTH IN ITS UTTERNESS NOW, AND NAUGHT BESIDE WHATSOEVER. He who would demonstrate or prove this, is a fool. He who would "put It to the test" is an idiot. He who would try to "understand" or "know" Truth is guaranteeing failure for himself, oblivion for all he assumes exists, darkness forever as his would-be norm. Why? Because there is no such person to begin with, no such mentality extant, no item comprehensible within a non-existent sphere, no identity possible for that which is not. Truth, Life, Reality, Allness, Wholeness, THE ABSOLUTE PRESENT SELF YOU BE, is not being battled with, nor is It battling aught. Do not try to gird yourself for battle, or try to wear down opposition, disease, time, lack, humanity, falsity, age and the like. Rather, as we continue to point out, STATE THE DEFINITION OF ALLNESS, WHOLENESS, COMPLETENESS, ENTIRETY — see if these words actually have MEANING TO YOU, and if so, WHAT DO THEY MEAN? ARE YOU WILLING TO ACCEPT THE DEFINITION YOU HAVE DECLARED? ARE YOU WILLING TO ABIDE THEREIN, AND ACT ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITION STATED? If so, can you also allow your attention to be focused upon Its opposite, upon lack, fear, worry, dread, disease, hate, limitation, regret, failure, voids of any sort, anywhere, at any so- called time? Can you state FACT PRESENT IN ITS ENTIRETY, YET DEAL WITH A PAST, A FUTURE — WITH A CURSE DUE TO HAVING EARNED SUCH VIA SIN? Can you honestly STATE FACT AS ALL THAT IS PRESENT yet be concerned with the consequences of It being absent? Can you STATE REALITY PRESENT, yet flee before a void, slave to cast such out into outer darkness? Can you STATE ALLNESS AS BEING THE ALONE TOTAL INDIVIDUAL PRESENCE EVERYWHERE, UNDIMENSIONAL, yet have to struggle with nothingness that is not even a suggestion within the INTELLIGENCE YOU BE? Is it possible to STATE, THEN DEFINE WHAT NOW, ISNESS, BEING ACTUALLY MEANS, yet presume there is a contrary mentality that can and does hypnotize CONSCIOUSNESS, AWARENESS, BEING, SELF, ALIVE TO ITS UTTER ACTION, FUNCTION, so that AWARENESS is un-Awareness, LIFE is un-Alive, hence dead to Itself? If such were possible, then what would even pretend to remain, and how? If there were no Aliveness, no Presence, no Self, no Consciousness, no Substance, no Existence, there would be naught at all, so what could pretend what, to what, how, why, when, and for what reason? How could such suggest otherness, and again, to what, whom, where, when, or expect the suggestion to mean aught, or to be carried out? Hypnotism is impossible, for there is ONLY INTELLIGENCE PRESENT, LIFE (EXISTENCE ITSELF) PRESENT AS THIS VERY SELF, THIS SOLE INDIVIDUAL ONE I AM. I CAN BE NO OTHER, NOR IS THERE ANOTHER INFINITY PRESENT THAT COULD BE I! THERE IS BUT THE ONE ABSOLUTE WHOLE INFINITE EXISTENCE, AND THIS ONE IS MIND ITSELF BEING UTTERLY AWARE AS THE SELF IT IS (I AM). In metaphysics, hypnotism is called malpractice - that is, the presence of another mind suggesting falsity, error or otherness, hence duality (sin, evil, Satan, devil, death-birth) to the one finite mind pretending it has identification. But the mind pretending, and the pretense of another mind trying to influence it for any reason at all, is one and the same error — an assumption without the foundation of a mind to assume it! Again, stating FACT, which is but another way of saying that ONLY EXISTENCE EXISTS, ONLY LIFE IS ALIVE, ONLY THAT WHICH IS HAS VALIDITY, POWER, AUTHORITY, PRESENCE, AND IS THE ONLY IDENTITY-I HERE NOW — stating this Fact and defining the terms used, admitting their full meaning, precludes a personal mind altogether, a sinning mind altogether, a void, a loss, a past, a future, a curse, a theological or physical hell of any sort, even as it also precludes a religionist's heaven, whether that heaven is physical, ethereal, spiritual, or what. He who would look to body as his dwelling place, or would look' to a hereafter as a possible home, is dealing entirely in fiction. He who would dimensionalize THE VERY IDENTITY ONE IS, is absolutely invalid in his conclusions, hence his every premise must be invalid, sick, dis-eased. In TRUTH we do not deal with any of this, regardless what its would- be source, authority, time-honored reputation, mass acceptance. ACTUALITY ALONE IS THE SUBSTANCE THAT IS THE SELF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS. There is no more, no less. Material evolution, revolution, or resolution will in no way aid the reader to acquire IDENTITY, SELFHOOD, LIFE ETERNAL HERE NOW. REALITY ALONE IS, AND THIS IS ALREADY THE SOLE IDENTITY YOU BE. Stick with this - but not as mere words you can say over and over as if reciting your spiritual beads, saying your prayers, rubbing a rabbit's foot, or depending on some charm, statement, attitude, to get you "safely through" humanity and on to our heavenly rest! Over and over we urge you to leave things alone — leave body alone, disease, lack, and whatever seems to be troubling you, alone. Leave the argument that you have a separate finite mentality, alone. Don't try to find out why you lack this or that what the cause of your difficulty is, why you continue to be frustrated, why you do not have plenty of this world's goods and why everything you plan does not go sailing along in a spanking-fine breeze. Do not try to analyze why you appear to have failures in what you attempt, and why Truth does not pour readily into your every waking moment. Do not try to discover why everything does not immediately straighten out when you "voice" Truth, or why some of those who "appear to know more than you do" sometimes seem to go sour, quit the work, give up the ghost, become ill, or whatever. All such is based on the theological superstition of sin, guilt, that there is a tempter, a Satan, an evil that goes "up and down the earth" tempting the unwary, the undiligent, the idle ones ... or that there is guilt, and that we all must pay for it . . . or that the troubles we go through are of benefit to us, protecting us, aiding in our evolution, development, lifting us up and beyond what we would otherwise know or attain if it were not for the trouble driving us onward! None of this is so. He who is disappointed in whatever experience he claims is his, is one who has NOT, repeat, HAS NOT started with the ALLNESS OF ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL WHOLENESS WHICH CANNOT BE FRACTURED, OR FICTIONALIZED! Rather, he has outlined THINGS AS BEING DESIRABLE, AS BEING GOOD, AS TAKING THE PLACE OF SELFHOOD, SPIRIT, WHOLENESS, ALREADY AT HAND, AND ALREADY THE VERY SELF HE IS! Had he started wholly with FACT, HERE, NOW, AS THE SELF HE IS, THE GOODNESS HE IS IN ABSOLUTE ACTION, FULLNESS, SUBSTANCE TOTALLY SUPPLIED, he would have no frustration, no disappointment, no worry or upset. How could he? The frustration, the lack, the disappointment, the resentment, the void, the anger, the blame, the criticism is always based on duality, on otherness, on things. He is upset because he lacks some "thing." He wanted some thing to be thus and so — he wanted not only the quality of some "thing," but also the quantity. He was working "in Truth" wholly for things, and because he did not get them, he is "angry and will not go into the feast" of OMNIPRESENT GOOD, THE WHOLE PRESENT SELF HE IS NOW! He who looks for GOOD anywhere but as the VERY SELF HE IS, THE VERY LIFE HE IS, THE ACTUAL HEALTH, WEALTH, COMPLETENESS HE IS, will suffer disappointment, frustration, resentment, confusion, blame, guilt, condemnation, and confinement within his limited sense of finity in proportion to its narrowness, falsity, and continued occupancy of his attention. He need expect naught except the fruition of that which he is sowing — lack, lack, and more lack. Yet he is certain to claim it is due to this one or that one, this cause or that! Should he actually behold what is behind it all, he would instantly stop it by beginning with (stating) ACTUALITY ONLY, AND STAYING THERE. We keep pointing out that we do not mean "staying there" via saying the words over and over, as one would recite his beads of worship, or go through a ceremony via rote. Such a process is worse than folly, for it is invoking ignorance to perform its mystical powers — it is calling evil forth from its so-called confines by incantations. It is total delivery of SELFHOOD into the toils of nothingness, oblivion, the pit, even as Macbeth's witches brewed their evil potion! ISNESS is not a matter for superstition, supposition, or exploitation. BEING IS HERE AND NOW ALL THERE IS. IT IS LIFE ITSELF ALIVE TO BEING INDIVIDUAL, WHOLE, ENTIRE, COMPLETE, ALL — EVERYWHERE, NOW, WHOLE, GOODNESS, WHEREIN THERE IS NOTHING BESIDE, NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING THAT CAN BE ADDED, NOTHING IN OPPOSITION. WITHIN THIS UTTERNESS THERE IS NO CHALLENGE, NO SIN, NO LACK, NO CURSE, NO SECOND-ONE OR SECONDHAND, NAUGHT SECOND-HAND, HANDED DOWN, OR EVEN HANDLED. THIS ONE INDIVIDUAL IS ALL THERE IS. IT IS GOODNESS ITSELF, ALIVENESS ITSELF, NOW PRESENT IN ITS ENTIRETY. THIS LEAVES NO CREATION, NO CAUSE, NO RESULT, NO SHIFTING ABOUT FOR ANY REASON, NO ADJUSTMENT TO BE MADE EVER. THERE IS ONLY GOODNESS, FOR THIS IS THE VERY ETERNAL SELF YOU BE NOW. THERE ARE NO OTHER MINDS, LIVES, OR BEINGS ANYWHERE. THERE ARE NO OTHER PLACES, STATES, CONDITIONS, OR "TIMES" ANYWHERE. THERE IS ONLY BEING PRESENT IN THE FULL OF ITS ALIVENESS, CHANGELESS PRESENT ACTUALITY, BODILESS UNDIMENSIONAL ABSOLUTENESS, PURE SINGLENESS. No, Truth is not being attacked by Its absence, for IT IS ALTOGETHER PRESENT AND KNOWS THIS, NAY, IS BEING THIS RIGHT NOW. This precludes any absence of ACTUALITY, THE PRESENT ALLNESS, so it precludes all disease, poverty, lack, humanity, or minds to know, deal with, or through such. THIS IS THE AUTHORITY LIFE IS, THE AUTHORITY TRUTH IS, THE AUTHORITY THAT ALL IS, HENCE WHEN IT SPEAKS, IT IS ALREADY SO. Is this how you "work," or do you still declare and declare the wonderous statements of Truth, then wait for time, or nature, to heal or kill your "patient?" Do you abide patiently with the trouble you experience, thinking that you have done your "work," therefore you have a right to expect results some time in the hereafter? Are you, like Job, patient unto death, assuming that patience with error, lack, falsity, a lie, fiction, trouble, humanity, death, is a virtue? What basis, outside of theology, have you for so concluding? True, religion had to invent some gimmick to keep its followers happy in the midst of their vicissitudes, so patience with the nonsense was declared to be a virtue that would bring great reward! Reward of what? Simply more trouble! What utter drivel! To put up with evil in any way, even for a moment, is a waste, and there is no virtue in it, and equally, it is not a sin. It is merely folly. SIN DOES NOT EXIST AT ALL, even though you may seem to be experiencing what seems to be the results of such. SIN DOES NOT EXIST. GUILT DOES NOT EXIST. TIME DOES NOT EXIST. AGE DOES NOT EXIST. DISEASE DOES NOT EXIST. LACK DOES NOT EXIST. ANOTHER MIND DOES NOT EXIST. HATE, WAR, CREEDS, RACE, HUMANITY, MAN, HISTORY, PROPHECY, DOES NOT EXIST! Let education, let the press, let the theologian, let the imbecile, let the credulous make of the above what they will, but nevertheless the statements stand. SPIRIT IS ALL, SUBSTANCE IS SINGLE, LOVE IS PURE, WHOLE, ENTIRE, ABSOLUTE, THE ONLY. ALL CANNOT BE DUPLICATED, COUNTERFEITED, SET ASIDE, CAST OUT OR CAST OFF. MIND IS INTELLIGENCE ITSELF, AND THERE IS NO OTHER. INFINITY IS ETERNALLY PRESENT RIGHT NOW, FOR IT HAS NAUGHT TO DO WITH THE DIMENSIONAL, WITH TIME, WITH SPACE, WITH ANY SORT OF MEASUREMENT WHATEVER, WITH SO-CALLED SCIENCE, BELIEF, E.S.P., SENTIMENTALITY, REVERENCE, EMOTIONALISM OR WHAT. No, TRUTH is forever NOW UNCHANGED IN ITS PRESENCE, ITS WHOLENESS, ITS UNCHALLENGED AUTONOMY. IT IS NEVER AT THE WHIM OF OTHERNESS, SUPERSTITION, BELIEF, SUGGESTION, OR SUPPOSITION, FOR THERE IS NO SOURCE FOR SUCH, NO OTHER MIND IN WHICH THESE WOULD-BE NOTIONS CAN ORIGINATE OR HAVE PLACE, ACTION, OR RESULTS. THERE IS ONLY TRUTH, SO WHO OR WHAT CAN EXPERIENCE EVIL, SATAN, DEVIL, ERROR OF ANY SORT? WHO OR WHAT CAN KNOW OR EXPERIENCE LACK, LIMITATION, FEAR, TROUBLE, WANT? IMPOSSIBLE! TRUTH IS WITHOUT ATTACK. TRUTH IS WITHOUT AN ENEMY. TRUTH IS WITHOUT DENIAL, OBSTRUCTION, NEED FOR PROOF OR DEMONSTRATION, DE- FENSE OR PROTECTION. TRUTH IS WITHOUT OTHERNESS THAT CAN DOUBT, QUESTION, COMMAND OR DEMAND. TRUTH IS WITHOUT NEED, WITHOUT BE- GINNING, WITHOUT END, WITHOUT TIME, WITHOUT AGE, DETERIORATION, CHANGE. TRUTH IS WITHOUT DELAY, WITHOUT A DEVIL, WITHOUT A VOID, WITHOUT ANY FORM OR SUGGESTION OF LACK ANY WHERE, RIGHT NOW, FOREVER. TRUTH IS WHAT AMNESS IS, I AM!
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