by Ernest L. Norman

Each thing, though it may appear to be different, is a highly developed and organized system of tiny solar systems of energy and these in turn, claim as their parents, the very substance of the Infinite Mind. Yet, as of today, almost all mankind walks in ignorance of all this. His eyes are darkened against that which must reach through to him before he can escape from his self-constructed pit of clay, for while he clings to his cross or his heathen gods, he will be blind to his Kingdom of Heaven Within; for he will constantly re-create new ways, new means and new methods to justify his false symbologies.

No man is saved, save that he is reborn of the spirit; these words uttered 2000 years ago have the same meaning today, for within the countless creative effigies of the Great Intelligent Mind which lives within every human, yet he and he alone must seek and find them and only he will be so reborn when he finds them; for in the finding of these countless creative effigies, man finds the living of his own life in them and, in the living, so do these effigies become the new man and he is reborn again.

How well then that we, whoever and whatever place in life we may now occupy, let us see that wherever we are, each and all things about us are part of this great effigy of the Creative Mind. Let us see it not as some symbol or system of symbologies but as a definite, active, re-creative part of the Great Infinite Creative Mind. When we have formed, within our minds, this constant never-ending re-creative form and substance, then we can begin to fashion a new home for ourselves; not made from the reactive symbolic forms of these material worlds, but made from form and substance which is creative in nature and part of the Infinite Effigy.

So will we be born again, and of spirit; not by the words of false minions who, in their false deifications, are still perpetrating the great hoax and, in this creation, we will find that the very nature of the material world, each man’s life is the greatest hoax of all; for in living this life, man seems bent upon every destructive purpose. He is wanton and wasteful with all the abundant resources which are part of his world. He will spend great wealth to kill his fellowman in some fancied deviation of life, or he is forced to spend his resources in defending himself from other false ideologies.

He will erect great hospitals and use all his technical skill and knowledge to perpetuate a miserable life for hopelessly crippled people and use even greater technical skill and resources to decimate the world of its strongest youth. He will judge a man to die for the death of another, even though the power of his judgment is vested in him by a government guilty of mass murder.

And while he is doing these things and many more insoluble and perplexing mysteries, he is deifying himself and, in his eulogy, he claims kinship with the Creator. He will even go so far as to claim complete salvation from all his sins and iniquities by crying out the name of a man who tried to show him a better way 2000 years ago. And while we are pondering on these and many strange paradoxes of human nature, which can we rightfully say is the greatest hoax? For, even in the creation of these different hoaxes and in the living with them and by them, man has only betrayed himself, that he and he alone, individually or collectively, is the greatest of all hoaxes; and that he, Judas-like, is daily betraying himself for the few pieces of silver which represent his earthly life.

He betrays himself when he gives power to others over him, and when he assumes power over others he is also betrayed. And so life has been lived by man for thousands of years; each age and each civilization has brought forth its new hoaxes and even as of today, man is still living by them. They are the same as when man first found them in the jungles of long ago. They are the same as those lived and worshiped in the yesterdays and, as of each day and each time, man has dressed them in new garments and given them different names.

So it will be of tomorrow and those who are born in that future will find them again and they will clothe them differently and call them by new names. They will become the symbols in his place of worship; they will be the symbols in his monetary system. They will be heard in the screams and groans of the dying who have sacrificed their lives to them, for this is the way which all earth men take, and throughout this great universe and its countless galaxies and even more countless solar systems – many with worlds like our own – mankind is still following and finding his symbologies. He is still deceiving himself. He is still perpetrating the same reactionary system of hoaxes.

This, he will do until his judgment day when he judges himself as his own betrayer and, in his prison in which he has cast himself, he will seek out the one small window through which the radiance of the inner light shines and, as he seeks the light, so is he purified and made whole; and in his wholeness, he is reborn and in the radiant beauty of his new spiritual body, he will fly like a homing dove to the higher worlds of Light.

Excerpt from Infinite Contact

See Part I here.