Something Almost Unknown Within the Kingdom

"As long as you must be vigilant against anything, however, you are not recognizing this mutual exclusiveness and are holding the belief that you can choose either one. By teaching what to choose, the Holy Spirit will ultimately be able to teach you that you need not choose at all. This will finally liberate your will fro m choice and direct it towards creation within the Kingdom. Choosing through the Holy Spirit will lead you to the Kingdom. You create by what you are, but this is what you must learn. The way to learn it is inherent in the third step, which brings together the lessons implied in the others and goes beyond them towards real integration." Tx:6.88

Be Vigilant Only for God and His Kingdom

Behold, when you know the sorrow of being ruled by thoughts that seize you unbidden, then shall you know the blessing of ruling yourself in light. For thoughts that creep like thieves into the cracks of your armor find no dwelling where the inward chamber shines with radiance. 

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven” say, “Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Tx:3.71).

If the walls of your fortress are but paper, written with the morbid record of yesterday’s sins, then easily are they torn, and false alarms rush into your vitals, calling forth a host of shadows to feed upon your fears. Therefore keep thy inmost heart clean and bright, vigilant as one who guards liberty with his life. Yet more than liberty is here, for the victory of the spirit requires ceaseless watchfulness—day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. 

"The Kingdom cannot be known by divided minds. 

Only the oneness of knowledge is confirmed within it." (Tx:3.80).

Live, then, with the forces that beat your heart and guide the hidden workings of your flesh. Refuse the terrors that weaken, and you shall find the body itself rising to your aid, health and wisdom flowing into your days, until you learn the dominion promised from the beginning: rule over the earth of your own mind. 

"You have never understood what “the Kingdom of Heaven is within you” means. The word “within” is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven is you." (Tx:4.41).

Say then within yourself: I will discipline myself. For even as you would guard a child with constant care, so must you guard your own soul. For moods and petty angers, prejudice, self-justifying pride, gossip, and the gnats of idle words are forever at the door. They strike down the ninepins of ordered thought even as you set them upright. 

"Yet remember: The Kingdom of Heaven is you. What else but you did the Creator create, and what else but you is His Kingdom?" (Tx:4.41).

It may seem hard to men, this charge to love what cannot be seen, to turn toward the Light that dwells within and is yet unseen. Easier it seems to love a dog, a child, a woman. Yet this is the way: to love first what is imagined until it becomes the greatest reality. You cannot see God, nor yourself transfigured, yet you shall feel Him, and in the hour of need you shall turn within and be comforted. For spiritual things are spiritually known. The heart that seeks shall be changed, and the inner Light, the inner Love, shall bear witness in you. 

"You too have a kingdom which your Soul created. It has not ceased to create because of the ego’s illusions." (Tx:4.42).

Therefore, remember Him in all your ways. When you pause in the street, when you wash, when you clothe your body, let your thoughts be cleansed as well. Say within yourself: I stand in Light. No foolish thought, no false image, no terror comes near, for I love the Light, and I serve it. I stand purified, dedicated to honor, to health, to peace, and to life everlasting. 

"For the Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it." (Tx:4.43).

This is the counsel of love in an age of restless minds. Keep the quiet pools of the spirit, where you drink deeply of peace. Learn to discipline not with the fist, which wearies, nor with the mind, which forgets, but with the heart, which remembers. For love is vigilant, love is still, love is gentle and strong. Love is the oil of joy that feeds the flame of the Light within. 

"The calm being of God’s Kingdom, which in your sane mind is perfectly clear, is what you must choose to remember." (Tx:4.55).

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Thomas Fox, J.D.
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