The Word as Structure
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
Then the word was spoken -- in other words became distinct from God. A "word" is vibration. Vibration implies here
and there -- duality. All of the world is a manifestation of this vibration.
When you throw a pebble in a pond you will see ripples. If you vibrate sand on a plate you will get patterns like
the patterns in the video at:
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/resonance.wmv
The patterns are evidence of standing waves in the vibration. Some modern physicists postulate that all matter is
just the nodes of intersection between various standing waves in the quantum foam. (Quantum foam has also been
called the aether and the zero point I think that it is probably the Adamantine particles that Jeshua spoke
of.)
I believe that these standing wave patterns in the consciousness-energy of spirit generate all physical
structure.
The great physicist David Bohm, suggested that the physical world has a non-physical (spirit) template. He called
this template the "implicate order". Beyond the implicate order he postulated that there is a "super implicate
order" which is the intelligence that creates the patterns of the template.
According to the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said:
"This heaven shall pass away and the one above it shall pass away, and the dead are not alive and the
living shall not die. In the days when you devoured the dead you made it alive; when you come into light, what
will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you have become two, what will you
do?"
"This heaven" would be the structure of the physical world. "Pass away" means that it is not permanent or
unchanging. As Jesus says in LWE:
"Structure is an organizational factor in the universe, although a secondary and derivative one. It
is love which first brings order out of chaos, but structure implements the durable patterns of orderly
arrangement. Love built your home; structure holds the walls in place. Love built your nation, structure
administers it. Love determines the parameters of right conduct, structure formulates the laws which enforce
it. Like the mind, structure is good if it serves, and tyrannical if it dominates inflexibly, never submitting
to the revisions of love."
Both this heaven (physical reality) and the one above it (the implicate order) are patterns that are subject to the
revisions of love. When we "swallow" the belief that structure (the nearest thing there is to changeless death) has
power over us it is like we have invested structure with life.
Also, when we invest in the concepts of duality, like love and fear as opposites, we have "become two". Jeshua says
this in LWE:
"Once you internalize structure, your life will be driven by two powers: Love and fear! But you can't
serve both . . . although most people try.
"Does this mean that love and fear are opposites?"
"As I have told you before, love has no opposites, for it is the divine solvent which ends duality.
Love can be a choice, however, and so it has alternatives."
"What's the difference between an opposite and an alternative?"
"An alternative is just another possibility upon which you have chosen not to focus. Therefore, its
effect on your life is minimal or nonexistent. The children of God extend creation through their choices and by
their viewpoints of reality. Thus alternatives are inevitable.
"You see, fasting is an alternative to eating. Both can be experienced, but not simultaneously. You
might have viewed them as opposites, because they are the product of choices. They do not oppose each other or
empower a polarity. Actually, one erases the other. Alternatives are the product of free will and the fact that
you are given choices to make. Alternatives are life empowering and life changing.
and:
"The subject of opposites could not exist without structure. What you perceive as opposites is just
an apparency within a limited field of perception. If you saw the whole picture, the polarity would dissolve.
Opposites are really just broken circles for which you do not see the connecting link.
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"This is true of all 'opposites, 'even technical ones." He looked toward my paint pallet and made a
reference to the colors I was using. "Black seems to be the opposite of white because it is the ultimate in
absorption while white is the ultimate in reflectance. In actuality, however, this spectrum extends beyond
black and white. Black proceeds to dark transparency, as white proceeds to light transparency, and both
eventually arrive at total clarity. The circle is therefore complete.
"All opposites can be resolved by the connecting link which restores their circle. To institute them
as a polarity is an agenda of ignorance and self-serving structure. Love is the ultimate connection, and in the
presence of love, other connections are easy to find. In its absence, many needed connections may be obscured
for eons. Love ends duality, thus it has no opposites.
"Love has no polarity, but when you have chosen alternatives to it, the structures which replace love
are full of opposites. Fear is a common emotion of those whose lives are driven by structure, for structure is
mortal and always in peril. Hatred is a common attitude of those whose lives are vested in structure or
conquered by it. Hatred is just a defense against the return of love.
"Love opposes nothing, but conquers all. Love is in the world but not of it! Fear and hatred, and the
evils which come from them, are all derivative. Love is primary. Love existed before the universe, and most
certainly before the structures of the world. In the beginning there was no evil, fear, or hatred. There was
only One Love, One Body of Potential, and One Spirit. As manifestations began to take shape, free will was
extended to every aspect of love, to be life, to experience life, to fulfill its potential, and to know itself
as love. There was even the choice to deny its own nature, if that should be desired. From this last choice all
the 'weeds' of peril have sprung. LWE
We hear those who serve structure saying things like "You are either with us or against us". This kind of dualistic
or binary thinking is at the core of all separation between people. Binary thinking is at the core of "judging
others".
Jesus said:
"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Matthew 7:1-2
Binary thinking is built into our language. It is the very essence of words and logic. Lao Tzu said this about
dualistic thinking:
People through finding something beautiful
Think something else unbeautiful,
Through finding one man fit
Judge another unfit.
Life and death, though stemming from each other, seem to conflict as stages of
change,
Difficult and easy as phases of achievement,
Long and short as measures of contrast,
High and low as degrees of relation;
But, since the varying of tones gives music to a voice
And what is is the was of what shall be,
The sanest man
Sets up no deed,
Lays down no law,
Takes everything that happens as it comes,
As something to animate, not to appropriate,
To earn, not to own,
To accept naturally without self-importance:
If you never assume importance
You never lose it.
Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.
Beliefs are structures and books are structures. Both are perpetuated by words and either/or (binary) thinking. Yet
it is possible to see the message of unity that shines through all of the scriptures of the world.
"When structure interprets the Bible, it does so to perpetuate its illusions. When love reads the
Bible, it does so to penetrate illusion and arrive at the truth." LWE
"Unity is the instrument of all goodness. Division is the instrument of all evil." LWE
Though Jesus would seem to be equating belief structures and the division that they can create with evil, I don't
think he is saying that structure is inherently evil. The problem comes when we worship structure as a master
rather than using it to serve love.
"Structure creates the illusion that your life has been cut into segments of time and space or
suspended elsewhere in improbable situations. Only the dominance of structure can ever separate you from the
totality of who you are. The power of the Holy Spirit is that it can shatter the illusion of separation and
restore the soul to its simple wholeness. In the presence of the Holy Spirit, you are one with your Creator,
and all that you are is rejoined in personal integrity. Wholeness is Holy, wholeness is healing. That is the
essence of all miracles physical, mental, financial, and social. Whatever has been torn apart comes back
together into a state of wholeness. Love supports wholeness, and wholeness supports love. Through that common
bond, love can heal anything."
"On the other hand, it is the nature of structure to cut your life into pieces and then set one part
against another. Would you have that for your master?"
"The source of human suffering is separation from God, from the love that you are, and from an
understanding of how love commands the universe. In a state of separation, however, the most grievous mistake
is the one of serving structure. As a master, structure is cruel, divisive, and treasonous. In a state of
separation, structure will always seek to master you, but ironically when wholeness is restored structure
becomes a humble and willing servant. LWE
We perpetuate the power of fear and structure by supporting it with our beliefs and by focusing our attention on
it. If we put our attention on what we love instead, those structures that we fear will fade away on their own. I
think that this is what Jesus was talking about in the Sermon on the Mount when he said:
"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet
I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so
clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith?
"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall
we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:28-33
To me this means that same thing as the Persian mystic Rumi meant when he wrote:
"For sixty years I have been forgetful, every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me
stopped or slowed."
Abundance flows toward us when we forget to think of those things we fear or hate.
It is the same as what Emmet Fox wrote in "The Golden Key":
"All you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God
instead. This is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will
disappear."
I think that this is what Jesus was saying in LWE when he first mentioned structure:
"The seventh day has been greatly misinterpreted to mean that the Creator retired. Nothing could be
further from the truth. The true meaning is that He creates, maintains, loves, and assists by BEING, not by
DOING. Resting, not retiring! If you would be like your Father, you will learn the secret of commanding life
through BEING LOVE. As you attain that ability you will rise above structure. The seventh day is a celebration
of your Creator's supremacy over structure. Whenever you take it unto yourself, you harmonize with that
principle. Whenever you extend it to others, you are liberating the world from its prison."
Here is another way of saying it:
Abraham: Fear is the feeling sensation that is present within you when you have both a desire and a
belief that contradicts it. Fear is a response to the state of your vibration. You are a vibrational being, and
every moment offering a signal. Your vibration could be called thought, it could be called memory, it could be
called fantasy, it could be called imagination, it could be called Energy. In other words, your vibration could
be called, "As I stand in my now, and I think about the present, or I think about the future, or I think about
the past -- all of that is thought. Whatever it is I'm perceiving is causing me to offer a vibration, and that
vibration is being answered or matched by All-That-Is.
So when I feel fear, what it always means is, I am offering a thought that you might call desire and
a thought that you might call belief that are contradictory. The presence of fear always means the presence of
resistance. The presence of resistance always means not allowing the Energy of desire to flow through
me--always, without exception. Same with confusion; same with vulnerability; same with anger; same with
unworthiness; same with guilt. All negative emotions mean the same thing. You just call them different things
because they play out differently in your experience -- but they all mean the same thing.
The vibration of fear is usually a very strong vibration, which usually means there is the presence
of a very strong desire within you. Often, when you feel fear, it is because you have a belief that contradicts
basic elements that are natural to you. Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is
to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration
is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you
are contradicting that thought.
We would want you to say, "Quite a bit of the time I feel fearful or vulnerable or limited, and what
that feeling means is: I'm in that moment holding a desire that contradicts my past thought, or my beliefs..."
Remember that a belief is just a thought you keep thinking, it's just a habit of thought. It's just sort of the
way you've always thought it, and so it is the way you are now thinking it.
And so, as you are feeling fear, all it means is, "I've got a desire that my belief is not agreeing
with. Now, what thought feels better about this? I've got hold of this stick, where my desire is here, my
belief is here. What thought feels better?" And as you just softly talk to yourself about that subject,
reaching for the thought that feels better, what happens is you shift the Energy.
It's like the teeter-totter on the fulcrum, and it's clearly down here, and you would like it to be
up here. And so, you reach for the thought that feels better, and you reach for the thought that feels better,
and you reach for the thought that feels better...and it doesn't look like anything's happening. And then, all
of a sudden, one more time, you reach for the thought that feels better, and there it goes! The fear is gone
without even knowing it, just by reaching for the thought that feels better. There is so much reward in just
feeling better in your "now". Because, so often, you're wanting to reach for the thought that feels better
because, "Whoop-de-doo, this is big time good fun!" In other words, "I want to get there! I would like every
effort to take me there. I would like every thought that I think, and every time I go to a workshop, and every
time I make a little bit of effort, I would like it to take me there!" And it's irritating that it doesn't take
you there, to that manifestation.
We want you to not get so hung up on the manifestation, and start taking pleasure in the incremental
relief. Pleasure in the fact that this feels a little better. Pleasure in the fact that you can actually, with
your own will power and your own determination, choose a thought that feels better.
It is Unnatural to Not Feel Good
We offer an analogy, about the cork bobbing on the body of water. It's up here floating, floating,
floating. And in our analogy this cork is bobbing in the place of Pure Positive Energy. When you take hold of
the cork and hold it under the water, that's what negative emotion is. You're not allowing the natural quality
of the cork, you're doing something that does not allow the cork to do what it usually would do. You're holding
it in an unnatural place with your attention to this thought of something that you do not want.
But when you withdraw your attention from it, and you let go of the cork, it bobs right back up
there. It is natural for you to be in this pure positive place. It is unnatural for you not to feel good. But
what happens in your physical environment where you've been trained by other humans who didn't feel so good
either, is that you've come to accept the way you feel as being the natural way that you feel.
And now, through meditation, or through consciously reaching for the better feeling, you set higher
standards. Until then it becomes consciously uncomfortable for you to dip into the lower Energies. You will
never be at a place where you won't feel negative emotion. Nor would we ever want you to be at that place,
because that would be like shooting Novocain into your fingers so that you don't feel anything hot or sharp.
You say, "Well, it sure is a lot better now that I can bang my hands on things. You know, I can shut my hands
in car doors and it doesn't even bother me any more. I feel no pain." But it's not good for your fingers.
Pretty soon you have flat, little flabby hands flapping around. You've destroyed your hands, even though it was
painless.
And so, that's what that fear is. It's sort of an acquiescence. It's submission to a vibration that's
not natural to who you really are. And you're awakening now to those higher standards.
Take mood checks and ask yourself, what is my mood? Well, I'm feeling fearful. And then ask yourself,
well overall, do I have reason to fear? And as you reach for the more general statement, you recognize, you
don't have anything to be fearful about.
We think what you're doing is sort of very specifically, channeling the worries of a larger mass
consciousness. You are susceptible to Energy. And so, for example, if you were living in a retirement community
where there were many people who were feeling vulnerable about their money, or feeling worried about what their
future would provide, and you are sensitive to Energy, you could very well be picking up on the consensus of
the group around you, even though it has nothing to do with who you are.
But you must have a little spattering of that within you, or you could not be finding harmony with
that greater consensus. Every thought that has ever been thought exists. And then, by Law of Attraction, those
thoughts coalesce, so that there are pockets of Thought Forms. And so, very often, just driving from city to
city, if you are sensitive to vibration, you can feel different Energies in different cities. Well, what we are
wanting you to do, is get so good at setting your own Tone, that it doesn't matter what the fluctuations of
Energies are around you, you are always holding a steady course.
From Abraham-Hicks Workshop
El Paso TX -- 2/12/00
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