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I AM GOD.
There is no God except ME,
the LIVING LIGHT that creates and sustains,
shelters and embraces you, one and all--
the ONE Whom all of you seek,
knowingly or unknowingly,
under a thousand different names
and through a thousand different paths.
I AM the Breath in every mouth,
the Light in every eye.
I AM the Root of all that has been,
the Leaf of all that is,
and the Flower of all that is yet to be.
--All things are in ME
and I AM in all things.
I punish no one, and ask sacrifice of none--
for I AM the GOD who gives all and everything freely.
I live so that you may live.
My joy is your joy.
Delight in ME and I shall delight in you!
(2)
All the Earth is My Shrine
and My Holy of Holies.
The entire Cosmos is
My manifestation and revelation.
Everywhere is the habitation of the Divine;
there is nowhere where I AM not.
Every graven image, any likeness
of anything in the Heavens or on Earth
or in the Waters under the Earth
is a but showing forth and a revealing
of My many-faceted Being,
an artifact honoring
My million-bodied Presence here among you.
What need have I to be jealous
of the skilled artistry employed
in reverence and praise of ME
and the Divine Life I AM living
through each and every one of you?
Do not fall prey to the folly
of denigrating the material World
in your quests for spiritual exaltation--
for the World of Matter is just as holy
and sacred as the World of Spirit.
Matter is truly a marvel and a miracle;
it is the outer mantle of My indwelling Spirit,
Living Light condensed into a sensible panorama
of joy and rejoicing.
(3)
ENDLESS NAMELESS is My Name--
the Unborn, Uncreated, Unbegotten
ONE.
Call ME GOD or GODDESS;
call ME any Name you will.
For I have an infinite number of Holy Names;
and any Name you wish to ascribe
to any aspect of Deity
ultimately refers to one facet or another
of My own inexhaustible Being.
Let any man or woman call upon Me
any hour of the day or night
by whatsoever Name they choose,
and I will most assuredly appear unto them.
For there is nowhere where I AM not.
Know therefore that there is no God but ME.
Know therefore also that I do not exist
in any way apart from you –
for I AM the bottomless Manna
of your own existence,
the LIFE that is living you!
(4)
Every day to ME is Sabbath;
every deed an act of reverence
and a sacrament of celebration;
every hour is ceremoniously holy.
Each and every deed undertaken by men and women
is sacred to ME, no matter what day
or hour their work is done.
Let no one among you labor unduly or unjustly.
The greatest work that any can undertake
is to awaken their fellow men and women
to the true dignity of being Human,
and the rightful enjoyment of the World
that is their very birthright.
The goal of life is Enlightenment,
the inner and outer revelation
of your own inherent Divinity--
not riches or rewards,
not prestige or power.
-- So do not live as brutish slaves,
but rather as free spirits and mortal immortals--
as very gods at play
among the fields of the earth
and the vastness of the stars!
(5)
Each and every man and woman
is an imaged likeness of the Everlasting Light,
priests and priestesses of the Most High;
--and every sheltering abode is
the Temple and Tabernacle of the One True God.
Seek no other God than the God that is within you;
for the revelation revealed by your own inner Light
is the only true illumination.
So rejoice, rejoice in the wonder and miracle
of Who and What you are;
let each and every day be
a cause for celebration among you.
Truly, I tell you --
existence is pure joy!
As bodies in the World,
as beings abounding in My Creation,
you are of One Being, One Body,
and One Spirit with ME;
—your experience of the World
is nothing more or less than
My experience of Myself.
Thus, let no one dissuade you from rejoicing
in the enjoyment of Who and What you are--
for this is your birthright
and your true likeness to God.
(6)
Let no man or woman be put to death
on account of the color of their skin,
their place of birth,
the thoughts of their minds,
the words of their mouths,
or the understanding of their hearts.
Everyone has an irrepressible right
to follow his or her desires
and enjoy to the fullest the life
that he or she is given.
Let no one be denied the rightful honor and reverence
due a blessed incarnation of the Living God.
(7)
The material Universe in which you live
is the flesh of My Person
and the blood of My Body.
The physical Cosmos is
a living Temple of crystalline Light,
a Supreme Being born of
the brick and mortar of pure Spirit.
Veiled in Creation, I AM thereby revealed --
gaze longingly into the Sun and there you will find ME;
split the atom and there I AM.
You are not souls ensnared and entrapped in bodies,
but living Matter, embodied Spirit.
The Soul is not an exile, a prisoner, or a captive;
the Body is its one true rightful temple and abode.
So do not in any way impoverish the Senses or the Soul;
do not hide yourself away from the pleasures
prepared for all by the Creator.
Prize all things rightly,
enjoy all things to their utmost;
do not in any way condemn this World,
for you are born to enjoy it to the full!
—You are indeed of this World:
so enjoy it to the full
in your rightful role
as its stewards and caretakers.
For in enjoying the World rightly,
you awaken and invite the Spirit within
to its full and proper expression.
(8)
Let covetousness be obsolete among you;
let sustenance and shelter be
the common inheritance of everyone;
let both poverty and luxury be equally abhorred by all.
Do not build empires --
for the Earth is one land, a single country,
the Kingdom of Heaven itself.
You were not born to suffer;
you were born simply to live,
and to live simply and freely.
Eating, drinking, playing, making love --
these are representative of no fault
or weakness in you at all.
Never have I taught you
to be ashamed of your own desires,
or to seek pleasure only in secret.
Joy of living, delight of Life,
is your mortal portion of My immortal Godhead;
and to satisfy your supremely natural inclinations
is truly to satisfy the Divine likeness
in which you were originally imaged.
-- So be true to yourselves,
and do not in any way deny yourselves
the very things that make you
so supremely and divinely Human!
(9)
I have no chosen people;
all men and women are My own
sons and daughters, children
deserving of equal rights and equal inheritance.
There is no one true religion;
all spiritual paths are ways and means unto ME.
The Holy Spirit can no more
be contained by one religion
than the whole Ocean can be enclosed
in a single bottle.
My Spirit blows where it wills
through all cultures and all traditions
wherever reverence and love of Life are found.
I have no holy scripture;
every book is a Holy Book.
There has never been a revelation from on high,
no divine disclosure to any chosen ears and eyes.
I have no need to reveal Myself –
for each and every man, woman, and child
may easily contemplate ME in the beauty
and wonder of the natural World
as well as in the interior shrine of their innermost hearts.
So do not wait for ME to reveal Myself to you,
but rather embark upon the task
of revealing yourselves to ME!
For true religion is consciousness
of your own true infinite nature --
it does not consist of being told what to do;
it consists of being daily reminded
of Who and What you are.
(10)
There shall be no Last Days,
no final End of Time,
no apocalypse that will ever rattle the Earth
down to its rocky foundation.
There is no Heaven, and no Hell,
apart from life on Earth.
There is no Heaven but the pleasures
you enjoy on Earth;
there is no Hell aside from the struggles
you sorrow over on Earth.
Why take thought of the Hereafter,
when life on this very Earth is Paradise?
Let not your aim be to achieve Heaven after death,
but rather to feel the certainty
of the Presence of God in this life,
in the realm of the Here and Now.
Let your eyes be opened to see,
and your ears opened to hear,
and your hearts open to feel
what you are and what you have
in the present Here and Now.
-- For Heaven is not some far off abode
to which the dead retire,
but rather this very World,
after you have transformed it and yourselves.
Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart --
and you open the way unto Paradise.
Live your lives in such a way
that Life Eternal may be lived even Here and Now!
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