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| Emmanuels's Book - excerpts - living comfortably in the cosmos
Excerpts of Emmanuel's Book Published, 1985, Bantam Books Indroduction by Ram Dass Compiled by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton ISBN:0-553-34387-4 ![]() Exerpts here or course compiled by Me, Emmanuel2102, aka Peter Sysko / Dj Emmanuel For a full copy of the text, try google books Or amazon.com for a hardcopy version. Prologue Emmanuel The gifts I wish to give you Are my deepest love, The safety of truth, The wisdom of the universe And the reality of God. With these four thiings, nothing will deter you, You will follow your hearts swiftly to your Destination, which is home. I know there is confusion and doubt And what appears to be chaos. Can you see That beneath these surface shadows There is eternal Light? This earth plane Is neither the beginning nor the end Of your existence. It is simply a step, a schoolroom. My friends, let me impress upon you How solidly you are planted in eternity. How brilliantly you can shine in your own Physical world, how possible, It all is, How beautifully the Plan is designed. In God's Plan, no soul is alone, No soul is ever lost.
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| conclusion from the introduction.. Ram Dass
Ram Dass: /.../ In all of this there is nothing really new It's been said before somewhere or other In the mystic literature. Emmanuel himself Points this out and says that we are not in Need of any new information. We already Have everything we need. But though it's all Been said before, we need to hear it again and again, And it to hear it in terms appropriate to the Currect context or 'zeitgeist' in which we find Ourselves. Emmanuel does that wonderfully well. I can only hope for you that Emmanuel wiill Serve you as a spiritual friend as we as he has served me. In love, Ram Dass
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| the purpose of life
The purpose of life is exploration, Adventure, Learning, Pleasure. And other step towards home. Physical bodies are rather like space suits. Your physical bodies can be symbols to you of restriction, Of ultimate pain and death, Of suprising and alarming needs And unsuspected triviality That knows no bounds of denigration Or, they can be seen as chosen vehicles That souls are inhabiting Because, rather like space suits, They are neccessary where you are.
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| recognizing divinity It is withing your humanity that you will learn to recognize your divinity. The spiritual and the human have to walk hand in hand otherwise the spiritual has no foundation on which to take hold. We are all one. Ours is one reality, one energy, one perception. The mind cannot grasp this fact or accept it without battle but the heart is yearning to know it. Is this not life's purpose-- to know that you belong, that you are safe and eternal, to know that in your spirit reality You are already one with God? The human condition is not the antithesis of heaven. It is the reproduction, within a limited version, manifest in physical form. There is nothing in the human experience that does not exist in spirit. This is why the human condition is a blessed one. It is a mirror, a faithful replica of the the spirit's situation. There is Divinity in all things and in order to find that Divinity one must work with the material at hand. To disregard the clay Is to question the Divine Energy that formed it.
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| there will be no new teachings Your text has been completed It is all here. There is nothing more That humanity needs to hear in order to grow. There will be no new teachings, for they are unnecessary. What we in spirit are here to do is point you to what has already been given. You live in a loving universe. All of the forces are here to give you assistance, to give you support. We admire you tremendously. Those of us who have been human know full well the courage it takes..
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| the outer world Life experiences are the outer symbol of what the soul wants to know Each soul enterd into a physically symbolized reality of that soul's conscious resistance to the inner Light. So when you experience your human life, view it as the outer manifestation of the longing, and also of the denial of that longing. Every soul that incarnates carries with it negativity or it it would not take birth at all. When you enter into a human life you enter into a perceptual falsehood. This is what the Eastern traditions call illusion. If you treat illusion as truth you may become embittered, fearful and ill. Instead, come into life assuming the perspective of the creator of that life, and see it all as a wondrous and valuable learning experience. You can see within each circumstance where you have been the potter of the clay and in the outer reality of your creation you can detect the mirror image of your inner self
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| responsiibility You are all on a path of self-responsibility from the moment you decide to reincarnate until the time when the soul decides it has had quite enough And chooses to leave You are responsible not only for your actions day to day but for the very fact of your existence, which extends your involvement Even beyond conception and the grave
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| i will create Each of you is a portion of God saying, "I will create" It is impossible to recall at which point in your existence you, as part of God, decided to become human
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| self=god self-realization is god-relization Godliness cannot be superimposed on humanness. It is humanness. There is no seperation. Know yourself and you will know God
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| we create ourselves Since your fundamental essence is god energy, which is creation, you create You are the creator. You are the creation. You create your distortions and you create your truths. This is how you learn. You chose the childhood envrionment that was the most effective catalyst to bring into focus those distortions that you have selected to work on in this lifetime. It is a masterpriece in planning, construction and tactic that you have put into forming your body, your mind and your emotions. Trust the wisdom of your soul that chose the infant circumstance that formulated your concept of life.
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| You are the creator of your planet as well as your life This is a planet of choosing where you can see both darkness and light and you have the freedom of choice. Heightened awareness is very much an integral part of your planet's healing. Your world is in physical crisis but what is crisis? A learning process. Have faith in your fellow human beings. They are educable..
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| you are complete In your total essence, You are already complete. In the larger, all-encomposassing reality, all you dear souls who are in physical bodies are still safely connected to the Divine Laws od balance, Truth and Unity.
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| why are we here?
Because in the process of the soul's evolution towards Oneness again you have stopped ar this level of consciousness to remember who you are Why else would you have come into human form again if not for this -- to remind the portions of you that have forgotten their destination, that have become lost and ensnared in the outer expansion of their discovery, that find themselves seemingly cut off with no way to go Home? Ask yourselves often in your lives, "What have I forgotten?" When you are in pain, "What is it that I don't remember?' When you feel lost, "Where have I put my real identity?" It is a neccessary step, my dears, It is a great and glorious schoolroom. And it is exactly where your consciousness belongs. If it did not, you wouldn't be here.
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| permanent reality This is a schoolroom of illusion Do not give permanent reality to temporary things. Once you have learned what you came to learn the illusion can be left. When you leave your text behind see that it is in as excellent condition as possible for the next class to use. Knowing the purpose of that illusion lends it respect, It is all very tidy in the end.
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| degrees of learning As the desire to turn to the Light increases, the soul knows where the resistance still rests and takes the responsibility for the exploration of that resistance. Divine laws protect those of lesser awareness from being given more choice, more responsibility than they are able to handle. The laws of likeness place the human physically manifested reality in a compatible level of consciousness. One does not go to first grade into graduate school, but by degrees. As consciousness explores and creates itself it moves slowly up the staircase of awareness. It is not that one who is in deep darkness and ignorance suddenly plunges into brilliant Light and total responsibility as they lift from the physical body. That would go against the Divine contract of consciousness creating its own reality
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| levels of truth There many levels of truth, All of them contribute to your total awareness. Follow each thread in its own level of perception and do not be confused by the lying together of what seem to be opposite circumstances. Ultimately, these dualities will be seen as necessary parts of the whole. Yet it is in that very illusion that seed of your truth lies. As you explore the pain in your life and accept that pain as your own creation you lead yourself directly to the illlusion, to the darkness within you. Through understanding and assuming full responsibility for that darkness, you are then able to unweave the tangle of that particular area and bring it back into the flow of life, into truth.
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| your truth is your power Your truth is your power. The truth is the most freeing discovery you can make. To be free of the fear of death, to be free of distrust, of limitation, to be free to be who you really are-- these are the gifts that you will receive by paying the price of introspection and honesty. Human life is a most difficult classroom until you learn the simple fact that your truth is your power, your salvation, your fulfillment, your purpose and your way. Once you can truly believe that life becomes the joyous and abundant garden that it is meant to be.
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| through the universe Joy is the sound that echoes through the universe You hear that sound when all of your struggles are seen for the misapprehension that they are. Then all of the confusions, indeed, the human condition at its best and at its worst is seen as the illusory creation of the soul's consciousness seeking for the Oneness that it already has.
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| freedom Freedom is not an illusion. Freedom is the natural way of being. It is your birthright. It is your home.
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| shadows Be willing to accept the shadows that walk across the sun. If this world were a perfect place where would souls go to school? Do not weep for the limitations that you see existing in your world. These limitations are there for a purpose. Where would there be an opportunity to learn if not in a world of imperfection? Do not grieve for those who suffer, who are subjected to limited capacities for living. View your world as a transient place where souls choose to come because this is what they have selected as their mode of learning to the most minute detail.
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| God All things are of God and all consciousness eventually knows its oneness with God. The natural flow of consciousness is towards Light. The only resistance to Oneness is within your own consciousness. Here is the struggle. As awareness expands, it connot contract. It can be distorted, but it connot contract Once one has known a human consciousness there would be little use in being a blade of grass again, for the karmic structure of the human being is far more complex and aware. Experiences manifested in your life by the resistance you still possess are there in the interest of truth and Light. They show you the pain of these obstructions so you will move through them. In faith of knowing that all things are moving towards God the obstructions take on a different meaning and form. They are at the human level to obstruct, but at the ultimate level, to instruct.
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| seeing the beauty in everything Whether temporal or infinite, all things are beautiful. Some of you want to see only what is already lighted, hoping to void what is still in darkness in your world. Life does not have to be whitewashed in order to be beautiful. If you were to dissect a human being and break him up into all of his components, there would be no need to apologize for any of the parts.
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| the state of awareness There is life in everything, and there is consciousness in everything. If the consciousness has reached the level of a blade of grass then that is where it is. As the consciousness grows and perceives itself in a more aware state than it manifests into a more aware state.
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| the battle within The battle of light and darkness is within you This is not a world of victimization. You are very much in control of your own life. You are here to see where you are in Light and also to find the residual areas of darkness that are determined to sabotage that Light. It is all too common to feel victim to negativity whereas the negativity is really owned by the individual as part of the karmic structure..
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| choice Darkness is a choice. We are speaking of a denial of Light not an absence of Light. The concept of God being in all things, therefore, Is not so irreconcilable.
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