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July 19th 2006
Dear Friends,
Copied below are a number of quotes about miracles from a diverse array of people. They are so soul inspiring and thought-provoking that it seems the obvious thing to share them here.
This list has been compiled by Bentley Kalaway and is part of her website www.bentleyk.com/miracles/ and it is with thanks to her that they can be shown again here. May they bring you a heart-surge of upliftment:
Miracle, Noun, 1. any amazing or wonderful occurrence.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." ~ C.S. Lewis
"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth." ~ Chinese Proverb
"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle." ~ Marianne Williamson
"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle." ~ Walt Whitman
"A miracle is nothing more or less than this: Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him." ~ Ralph Waldo Trine
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." ~ Willa Cather (1873-1947) American journalist & novelist, 1923 Pulitzer Prize,
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." ~ Francois Mauriac (1885-1970)
"The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have." ~ Leonard Nimoy
"Expect a miracle. Receive the miracle with great humility." ~ unknown
"The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they happen." ~ G.K. Chesterton
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it." ~ Mother Teresa
"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness." ~ unknown
"All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second." ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American philosopher & naturalist, writer of Walden
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." ~ Helen Keller (1880-1968) American writer & lecturer, blind & deaf
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened." ~ Libbie Fudim
"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." ~ Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
We must be ever thankful for small miracles, and ever hopeful for receiving greater ones. ~ Elmer A. Shultz submitted by Carol A. Shultz
"Each of my days is a miracle. I won't waste my day; I won't throw away a miracle." ~ Kelley Vicstrom
"The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world." ~ Unknown Author
"I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do - if that's to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles." ~ Jim Rohn
"Impossible situations can become possible miracles." ~ Robert H. Schuller
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts." ~ Ray Bradbury
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." ~ Buddha
"Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before." ~ Ellen Greene
"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." ~ Maureen Hawkins
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." ~ Anais Nin
"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar." ~ Pablo Picasso
"The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing." ~ Israel Baal Shem
"As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?" ~ Walt Whitman
Many of the above are about perceiving miracles and that brings awe into one's life. The wonderful news is that walking with Jesus is the fast track to experiencing miracles. He can and will - gladly - lead all who are willing to the place where miracles become their gift, from the Creator, without limit, to themselves and to their fellow travellers.
May the Diary entries (from February 18th - March 25th 1990) bring you encouragement, new light of understanding and a renewed spring in your heel as you continue your journey on the Path of Eternal Progress.
Brian Longhurst
August 2nd 2006
Dear Friends,
I am overjoyed to share with you these wondrous messages from the living Master Jesus, from the Diary records of February 21st - March 28th 1993, bringing such love, blessing and upliftment of the spirit to ‘all who will’ receive them freely into their heart, mind and soul. For these communion messages are not for me alone but in truth are for each and every one who resonates with the words and responds willingly to them.
You will see that several references are made in them to ‘the evil one’ and ‘the enemy.’ As explained in SFGS:
…the concept of evil, the devil and hell are mythological/allegorical constructs to explain the opposing forces of the world of relativity...
Throughout most of my journey with Jesus he continued to use these allegories that he used during his Earth life - and that are part of biblical and religious terminology - in his leading me to a more spiritually awakened state of consciousness. There is nothing wrong with the allegories; it is the limitation to growth of understanding that rigid maintenance of such terms as literal that is unserviceable to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
The use of such allegories, or symbols, to the ‘children of Earth,’ or, as the Master has often described such, ‘My Little Ones,’ has served its purpose during the last 2,000 years (‘the second measure of meal’) but now that we are in the nascent stages of the third, and final, measure, new understanding of the meaning behind these symbols is emerging into the conscious awareness of Earth-life humanity, through many present-day, enlightened sources, messengers, harbingers. What has emerged about the enemy, the evil one, satan through ‘A Course in Miracles,’ the writings of Eckhart Tolle and many others, is that this describes ‘Ego-mind self-will,’ or the perverse, contrary, spiteful, attacking, destructive part of our mind, brought about by a delusional attempt to separate ourselves from ‘God,’ the Creator Spirit and from our True Selves (the higher, God-conscious, un-manifest part of our being), which is in full at-one-ment with the ‘Father’ at all times and can never be otherwise.
The great Truth of our real nature is that we are all, as One, the Son (‘Offspring,’ if we prefer the non-gender-specific form of reference) of the Father Creator and that the delusional attempt at separation, which in the Eternal Consciousness has not - and could never have - actually taken place because it is, in reality, impossible to be apart from the Spirit of Creation, in whose ‘image and likeness’ we are created. One of the terms used for this ‘One, True, Only Son’ is ‘Christ’ and Jesus is the first of the ‘separated sons’ to have been fully and totally restored to One-ness with the Father, over a vast, indeterminate era. Having thus been restored and become aware of the illusory state of separation and its attendant distress in which his siblings are still so afflictedly languishing, he who incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth, sought and received a command (authority, commission) from the Father to rescue us from this illusory, separated state and restore us all to the Oneness with him (Jesus) in the ‘Sonship’ or Christ-conscious state of full At-One-Ment with the Father Creator.
According to his parable of the three measures of meal, this rescue programme is a 6,000-year-long process, split into 3 x 2,000-year phases (see SFGS, Chapter 11). We are now at the beginning of the third and final measure. At this stage, a tiny proportion of humanity is awake or awakening to this cosmic reality and it is not hard to see how it will take the rest of this 2,000-year epoch for those who are still deeply slumbering to have been lovingly, gently restored to full wakefulness. Wakefulness enables us to see past the symbols, analogies, parables, allegories, to the reality behind them, freed from our literal-minded Earth-contrariness and restored to remembrance of who we really are within the Truth of Eternity. Most of us will require a number of further incarnations to enable the outworking of this Process to be completed. The number will be determined by our readiness, willingness, how truly we seek and earnestly desire, to embrace the truth of eternity.
May these Diary entries encourage, exhort and uplift you Heavenward.
Many blessings, always,
Brian Longhurst
August 9th 2006
Dear Friends,
The Diary entries (from March 20th - April 24th 1994) include some references to the passing and rescue of Ted, Theresa’s father. The full story of that is to be found in SFGS, Part Two. That story is recounted in detail there because in this dysfunctional world there are many broken and dysfunctional relationships and these can cause untold and enduring misery. Many, if not most, are not reconciled – the issues behind them outworked, resolved and true forgiveness on both sides given and received, enabling restoration of the relationships to loving, joyful, peaceful and dynamic fulfilment of the original purpose of the relationship – before one party or the other departs this life.
This can add exponentially to the misery by a profound sense of regret and lost opportunity that the differences could – and indeed should – have been resolved and loving goodwill restored between the parties involved and that now, after the apparent separation caused by the demise of one or other of the parties, this is, seemingly, too late and thus impossible.
There is always a reason for such dysfunction - which in reality is actually an opportunity, disguised as adversity - and a true, sincere and deep desire for resolution can and will enable it, regardless of the ‘time’ involved or whether one or both parties are in this life or the next. It makes no difference to Papa because ‘time’ and ‘death’ are illusory.
A greater insight into and understanding of these matters is the objective of the Honest to Goodness website, so that the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth can come meaningfully, palpably, actively into the lives of ‘all who will,’ helped by the conscious co-operation of each who truly seeks and earnestly desires it.
These Diary entries are not restricted to the matter of dysfunctional relationships, their cause and resolution, but are mainly about other matters of a very positive, exhorting, Kingdomly nature that I sincerely hope and trust you will find uplifting and inspiring, affirming and encouraging in your grand, adventureful journey.
With deep, heartfelt love and blessings,
Brian Longhurst
August 16th 2006
Dear Friends,
As chaos continues to increase and the world leaders, who exhibit no light of discernment of the unconditional love that is the reality of eternity, continue to try to resolve the karmic issues between nations, peoples, groups, by ego-mind methods, so is the tendency of the children of Earth to gravitate into a downward spiral of fear, anxiety, dismay, hopelessness.
This is the intent of darkness, ego, the enemy, antiChrist, whatever one chooses to call the ‘prince of Time and Place.’ Wisdom tells us that this can serve no saving, redeeming, uplifting, constructive purpose.
Over decades the Master Jesus has consistently counselled that we ‘Fear not; all is well;’ or ‘Peace be with you,’ or some similar words of encouragement. For most of that time I have faithfully recorded those words but outward events at a personal or wider-world level have tended to dominate my reaction to those events and if anxiety, doubt or fear were the vibrations they engendered, I tended to involuntarily get drawn in that downward direction, in spite of the Master’s peace-filled exhortations to the contrary. His peace-filled exhortations always uplifted and restored me to that state of inner peace but it would get eroded away by outward conditions and events, until the next restorative communion with him.
Only in more recent time have not just his words but the eternal reality behind them become more part of my inmost being, enabling unsettling events or experiences to either impact me not at all or to be dissolved and inner peace restored rapidly. Truly his endless love and patience with my slowness to learn has been beyond words to describe in their magnificence and have ultimately been proved to be just as he has stated.
In September 1991 he said this:
I counsel you, in your heart draw close to me that I may put upon you the cloak of my love and the crown of your glory, that the light within you may burst forth into the dark corners of your life and of your fellows and show to you there is truly nothing to fear. For we now enter the final phase of the banquet feast, wherein the New Heaven shall manifest itself into the New Earth. I counsel you also my beloveds, let not your vision be double, for that which you see with the Earthly eye is confusion created by the disintegration of that which passes away; rather, focus with thy single eye upon that which is new, upon that which already is -- My reality; that which shall not pass away; that which is here in the midst, more real, more tangible, more lasting, more fulfilling than all that the double-vision can encompass. And all this is yours freely and gladly and joyfully. It is your inheritance from the Father, which it is your birthright to receive, for you are all His Children. I am the Way by which this joy, this wholeness, this fulfilment may be yours. I am your friend. Speak with me as such. Walk with me, take my hand in yours. I give it always for your reassurance, for your peace, for your strengthening, that we may be together, for I know that which is in your heart and that which is your desire and would release the chains, to unveil that which is truly you.
Ponder these things and speak with me and in the stillness I will speak with you. Peace, be still. All is well.
The ‘single eye’ is, of course, our inward, soul/spirit vision, which each and every one of us is at free-will to choose to one-pointedly focus upon the good news that Jesus has received all (spiritual) power and authority in Heaven and in Earth to lead us (all) back to God, the Creator Spirit, our Heavenly Father; that we are now ‘entering the final phase of the banquet feast’ - the 3rd and final ‘measure of meal,’ the Kingdom Age (to which some refer as the Aquarian Age in the precession of the equinoxes).
Many will say, ‘But one, we have free will and if we are so stupid as to choose to destroy ourselves, God cannot and will not stop us, because that’s what free will means; and two, humanity has been at this place before (as with ‘Atlantis’ and who knows whatever else) and no Deity stepped into the breach to prevent it.’
This is where, this time, there is that all important difference: Jesus. Whatever happened at ‘Atlantis’ or any other cataclysmic, pre-history event, there evidently was no ‘3-measures of meal’ (see SFGS, chapter 11) rescue programme, under the executive leadership of One empowered with all authority in Heaven and Earth. This is reality, in spite of the failure of the church to win the hearts and minds of humanity to this truth (all of which was prophesied in Revelation 18:4 ff).
In “A Course in Miracles,” the ‘Clarification of Terms, section 5. Jesus – Christ’ he says:
There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left. But there is need for help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs of your Identity, Which God alone established in reality.
The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but who saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ… at one with God. Jesus remains a Saviour because he saw the false without accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.
In his complete identification with the Christ, Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him and he followed it. He made a clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God's Son.
And therefore all your sins have been forgiven because they carried no effects at all. And so they were about dreams. Arise with him who showed you this because you owe him this who shared your dreams that they might be dispelled. And shares them still to be at one with you.
Is he the Christ? O yes, along with you. He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God and when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of Christ are shared. Walking with him is just as natural as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is.
Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ's single message of the Love of God.
The rest I shared with you a few weeks ago but it is worth repeating here:
You needed no other. It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him and leave them both to find the peace of God. Yet still it is his lesson most of all that he would have you learn and it is this:
There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God's Son. And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you.
Over the years I have repeatedly been assured by the Master and the Inner Plane Servers under his authority that his plan is infallible and unstoppable, ‘Therefore I counsel you, let not the awfulness distress you unduly and let it not remove you from the aura of my Peace and stillness, for therein is your strength and your empowerment -- in Truth and Righteousness and Love and Compassion.’
Only by keeping steadfastly focused on the infallibility, certainty and unstoppability of the Master’s plan can we, each of us individually, contribute empowerment to it for the help of our fellows, including the world leaders who flounder in fear and bewilderment without the light of spiritual discernment. Our focus, our love, prayers and blessings can, of a total certainty, help strengthen the power for Kingdomly outworking of each and every crisis and situation that looks, to the ‘double vision,’ hopeless; for while with man many things may appear impossible, in our togetherness with God, ALL things are possible, including and especially the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
We are now in the chaos time, the inevitable phase between the changeover from the old order to the New, Kingdom Order. This is an essential part of the Process and is known in its entirety by Papa, with whom and in whose universe there are no accidents. Without this essential part of the Plan there can be no transformation from the old to the New. It is like having your garden landscaped or your kitchen renewed; the old has to be removed before the new can be installed and that removal always causes a period of chaos, where everything appears to be an awful, disorganised mess. This is the time for holding fast, in absolute faith, trust and commitment, to the certainty that He Who is thus empowered shall succeed in His Great God Mission for All Mankind.
Today's Diary entries, (from February 26th - March 19th 1995), for your further blessing and encouragement. May they help you to be strengthened in your faith, trust and commitment that there IS a perfect, unstoppable Plan, it is proceeding under the leadership of Jesus, the One who is empowered, by his own faith, trust, obedience and commitment, and the total, tender, unconditional love and compassion he has for us all, to bring it to its perfect, Kingdomly conclusion.
With much love, always,
Brian Longhurst
August 23rd 2006
Dear Friends,
There are many who are deeply concerned about contact with the ‘spirit world,’ other than the Lord Jesus himself, on the basis of understanding that this is forbidden in the Bible. Some perceive this as ‘spiritism’ or, to use the more modern term, ‘spiritualism,’ and are concerned that such activities will attract into the lives of practitioners evil, demonic, satanic entities from the ‘invisible realms,’ not to mention the judgement of Almighty God Himself.
Spiritualism is contact with the spirit world through the agency of a trance medium and if that activity is not under the committed guidance and protection of the Lord Jesus or a soul empowered and authorised by him from the Realms of Light, and is undertaken with anything other than the highest spiritually motivated auspices, for the common good of all, there is a significant probability of attracting visitors from the spirit world who are also not thusly intentioned.
Rather than forbid contact with visitors from the spirit world, the Bible advocates that we ‘try the spirits.’ 1 John 4 says: 1: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2: Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
It has been my committed intent from ‘Day One’ to place all my endeavours under Christ guidance, protection and authority; this was strongly and energetically advocated and encouraged by Olga Park and has served Theresa and me to the utmost throughout the years.
All the contacts with the spirit realms with whom we engage in loving communion, fellowship and exchange have stated unequivocally that this is their position: devotedly and one-pointedly espoused to the Lord Jesus and his great purpose of bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth. According to Revelation chapters 21 and 22, such can readily be construed as ‘the Bride of Christ.’
There are those who proclaim that the church of Earth-established structure and institution – or its membership - is the Bride of Christ but Revelation clearly indicates this cannot be so, for Rev. 21:2 states: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And verses 9 -11 state: And there came unto me one of the seven angels … saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
It is worth bearing in mind that a ‘city’ is primarily so-called because of its citizens – the people who dwell there. Clearly, the citizens of the Heavenly ‘New Jerusalem’ are the Bride of Christ and are ‘coming down out of Heaven’ to commun(icat)e with those on Earth who truly seek and earnestly desire the Kingdom and are ready and willing to receive and embrace such visitors into their lives for such Kingdomly fellowship.
Who, one might readily ask, that professes a love for and commitment to, ‘the lamb’ – Jesus Christ of Nazareth – would not readily embrace and welcome his ‘bride’? In contrast, it is equally clear that the Church of Laodicea, the ‘neither cold not hot, but lukewarm’ church so widespread in today’s world, which Jesus states he will spue out of his mouth, cannot be the beloved Bride of Christ.
Many in today’s world alternatively claim the church to be ‘the Body of Christ’ but clearly no ‘Laodicean, lukewarm’ church, of which Jesus states his intent to spue out of his mouth (Rev. 3:16), could be either the Bride OR the Body of Christ.
It is, I earnestly hope, reassuring then, to any with doubts or concerns about such contact with souls from the ‘invisible realms’ as they read the following Diary entries, that all our friends and loved ones in the spirit world freely and unequivocally profess their love for and commitment to the Lord Jesus. No such visitors have ever said or done anything that indicated that their motives were other than in harmony with that stated position.
The Diary entries for today (February 4th - March 10th 1996) are given with many blessings and for your encouragement that the purpose of God for the restoration of all His Children – including the most doubt-ridden and fear-filled among us – to the Love, Joy and Peace of Eternity is progressing to its certain fulfilment. We do not have to wait until we have departed our earthly lives for that condition to be brought to us or for some future, indeterminate time or event to take place in the Earth; it is available to us ALL, freely, right now. All that is required of us is our desire for it and our willingness to receive it.
Brian Longhurst
September 6th 2006
Dear Friends,
How easy it is to see ourselves as ‘little,’ inconsequential, insignificant in the great, cosmic, eternal scheme of things; that we are powerless to change the destiny of our self and the rest of humanity. If ever there was a ‘lie of Satan,’ assuredly, this is it! This is the consequence of many centuries of conditioning by the inculcating of fear into the group psychic consciousness of humanity. The constant repetition that we are unworthy, sinners, deserving of judgement and condemnation by an angry, vengeful, wrathful ‘God’ has impacted with devastating effect on countless generations of souls in the Earth life and this is accumulative.
The inevitable legacy of this is fear-motivated lack of self esteem, hopelessness, anger, bitterness, resentment, all of which lead to a lashing out, attacking, because as we are reminded in A Course in Miracles, all attack is a cry for help.
This situation seems to many of us here in the Earth life an almost insurmountable obstacle; that the problem has become so deeply ingrained that it is now beyond redemption and we are on an inexorable downward spiral to annihilation.
But the better than Good News is that, as Jesus reminds us, ‘With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible’ (Mat. 19:26). This is not some vague platitude, designed to keep us subdued on the way to destruction. It is all known, understood and part of the Great Plan, the Three Measures of Meal rescue package that is infallible and unstoppable and we are now at the beginning of the final stage of this programme. I state this with the certainty of 40 years of experience of walking with and guiding, tutoring, inspiring, enlightening, encouraging, exhorting from the Commander in Chief of the Programme, and after being blessed with many, many assurances to this effect over those 4 decades. One of the most definitively positive assurances was this, from August 1991:
Master Jesus and all our beloved friends and fellow servers: We rejoice with joy-filled hearts at the wondrous events of the Kingdom programme.
Little ones: In these times the confusion is greatest as the old order crumbles and Earth-mind man reels to and fro. The energies are concentrated at all levels and intensified as the programme focuses upon the "final assault" on antiChrist. Fear not, it is not a "full frontal" assault as in warfare of Earth, but an infiltration of energy as cracks appear in the system -- and believe me, there are plenty of those. The energy shall thus gain entry and transform from within. It is like cancer in reverse. The system shall not be aware of its defences being "breached" and shall continue as traditionally. But changes will begin to happen from within and great surprise and astonishment shall come upon the inhabitants of the citadel. (Friends: you may wish to ponder who/what is the citadel to which reference here is made! It may bring you a new, expanded perception of the Earth power structures.)
New awareness shall be the order of the day. This is real, tangible, transforming activity. Focus, we counsel you, upon this for your own benefit and upliftment. Be aware of the new energy -- take no notice of the old; it shall be astonishing but let not your equilibrium be disturbed by it.
All is well. We are closer to you all then you know and the banner of Christ Jesus is the cloak also by which we are all enfolded and protected. We go forward to a certain victory. Praise be to Almighty God and His blessed Son. Amen.
If we allow our focus of attention to dwell on this wavelength we can SEE this ‘cancer in reverse’ at work, bringing about a massive shift, a metamorphosis of consciousness in the structure of the affairs of mankind, effective at every level, from personal awareness to interpersonal relationships, to national and international relationships. This is, as assured in the above message, from the within and there is nothing the enemy – the old order of ego-dominated, fear- and guilt-ridden consciousness, ‘antiChrist,’ – can do to stop it because it has no awareness of how it is happening or where it is coming from.
I hear a ‘but’ coming from somewhere in the back of the auditorium! To that voice I say, please re-read the last-but-one paragraph of the above message again; print it out and pin it up somewhere prominent, so that you can be reminded of this every time the ‘but’ butts in and tries to dislodge you from the comfort-zone where all is one-pointed, unwavering, positive commitment to the Kingdom Programme. And alongside that, for further reassurance, pin this, from September 1991:
I counsel you, in your heart draw close to me that I may put upon you the cloak of my love and the crown of your glory, that the light within you may burst forth into the dark corners of your life and of your fellows and show to you there is truly nothing to fear. For we now enter the final phase of the banquet feast, wherein the New Heaven shall manifest itself into the New Earth. I counsel you also my beloveds, let not your vision be double, for that which you see with the Earthly eye is confusion created by the disintegration of that which passes away; rather, focus with thy single eye upon that which is new, upon that which already is -- My reality; that which shall not pass away; that which is here in the midst, more real, more tangible, more lasting, more fulfilling than all that the double-vision can encompass. And all this is yours freely and gladly and joyfully. It is your inheritance from the Father, which it is your birthright to receive, for you are all His Children.
I am the Way by which this joy, this wholeness, this fulfilment may be yours. I am your friend. Speak with me as such. Walk with me, take my hand in yours. I give it always for your reassurance, for your peace, for your strengthening, that we may be together, for I know that which is in your heart and that which is your desire and would release the chains, to unveil that which is truly you.
Ponder these things and speak with me and in the stillness I will speak with you. Peace, be still. All is well.
Further reassurance is in the Diary entries (February 1st - March 1st 1998). The time is NOW to make the shift from negative to positive and we are all helped from above/within to make that shift; all we have to do is desire it.
Many blessings, always,
Brian Longhurst
September 13th 2006
Dear Friends,
During school sports day there was always a tug o’ war. Two teams line up facing each other at either end of a thick rope and try to pull the other team across the middle line. The referee oversees proceedings, which he starts by saying, ‘Take the strain… heave.’ At this signal everyone pulls with all their might and unless it is a very one-sided contest, both are heaving but getting nowhere for a while. Sometimes one side gains some ground and then the other wins it back, the contest oscillating back and forth for some time, causing all involved to become exhausted.
This is an allegory of life in this ‘fallen world,’ where we are all heaving with all our might against a perceived enemy or adversary, who are also heaving with all their might against their perceived enemy: US! We don’t think of ourselves as an ‘enemy’ and neither do they, yet we perceive the other in just that manner.
And both ‘sides’ are being exhorted by their respective coach to ‘hold’ if they are losing ground and then to ‘heave’ even harder. (The role of ‘coach’ can be played by the boss, the political leader, the religious leader or whoever we allow to fill the role in our life).
For what?
To ‘gain advantage’ over our fellows in the tug o’ war of life; and/or to prevent them from ‘gaining advantage’ over us?
Truly an absurd illusion, designed to hold us in the thrall of itself, in the hope that we will not see through the unreality of it all.
But such a real-seeming illusion that most of us are asking, ‘How do we bring this fruitless exercise to an end?’ In many ways it can seem more like having a tiger by the tail than one end of a rope; one dare not let go.
Yet, that is precisely the way to end it all.
Let go the rope.
Let us examine what happens if we do that:
Our ‘enemy,’ taken off guard, fall flat on their rump, from which position no advantage is to be gained by them. Neither can we gain advantage over them because we have let go the rope. But both have gained the advantage of no longer engaging in an enervating, fruitless exercise. Even more important, they are, instantly, no longer to be seen as our adversary but our brothers.
Further, there never was an advantage to be gained because the whole tug o’ war was only ever an illusion of time and place (itself an illusion) and can be immediately seen as such once we choose that change of perspective and realise that we can cease our heaving and be at peace with ourselves, our brothers and the universe.
For those at the other end of the rope were never our enemy, adversary, competitor but our fellow travellers on the Path of Eternal Progress, who, like us, have been manipulated, deceived, conditioned into believing that heaving at one end of a rope is their role in life, as the only way to gain ‘advantage’ or to prevent the loss of same.
Some perceive this and all such acts instigated by the separation consciousness as a ploy by ‘Satan’ to ensnare us and keep us prisoner, separate from God. This is based on the mythology of a ‘fallen angel’ – Lucifer – who then brought about a second fall from Grace: US, in the form of Adam and Eve.
There has only been one ‘fall from Grace,’ one separation from our true Home in Eternity with Papa God, the Creator Spirit, and that is us – all of us - the true Son of God, along with Jesus of Nazareth, who is our Big Brother, fully restored to the Sonship. ‘Satan’ is a mythological character, a construct of our Earth-mindedness, so that we can cast blame for our mistakes, our falling short of the mark, our ‘sins’ somewhere outside ourselves. The true ‘Satan’ is our own ego, the part of our mind that is negative, accusatory, judgemental, comparative, critical, spiteful, attacking, fearful, manipulative, self-serving. This was never part of our true Self (the fully God-conscious, perfect, all-loving offspring of the Father), but something we made ourselves as a result of the illusory attempt at separation from Papa.
Of course this is an illusion. How can it be possible to be separate from the Source of All Life, God? The Spirit of Life is everywhere, all-pervasive throughout the universe and not least within us, the very essence of our living being.
All we have to do to get back on the wavelength of our true Home is to ‘let go the rope’ and the entire dynamic of this illusory construct will collapse in a heap. Then we will see with our true vision, our ‘single eye’ (The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Mt 6:22) that the ‘enemy’ is, in truth, not our enemy but our brother – our fellow traveller – equally deluded into believing that he also must heave with all his might on the other end of the rope.
When we stop pulling and instead let go the rope we can then help each other up, shake off the dust, take a new look and will recognise our brother, whom we can then embrace with all our might and all our love.
Every day we can find ourselves in one tug o’ war or another and all we need do is remind ourselves to ‘let go the rope,’ for true empowerment comes from letting go, not from holding on.
Then we will have Peace, Joy, Love; the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
Alleluia!
Brian Longhurst
September 20th 2006
Dear Friends,
From time to time over the weeks and months, additions and amendments are made to “Synchronicity, for Goodness’ Sake” (SFGS) and as this happens, the HTG website is updated accordingly, so that the ‘SFGS online’ and the PDF versions are kept in line with the amendments. If you have printed a pdf copy it is possible to check if it is the current version by comparing the date at the bottom of the last page with the date on the last page of the online or pdf versions on the website.
During the last few days an addendum has been made to the end of chapter 12, along with other additions and amendments. It says on the HTG Homepage:
As with life, SFGS is a work in progress and the great thing about the internet is that the work can be updated from time to time as new revelation from the Spirit of Truth is experienced.
The addendum to chapter 12 is pasted below, for your ready reference. Parts of the last paragraphs of the chapter are also shown before it because the addendum is asterisked to it and this provides the context within which the addendum is given. The sentence to which the addendum is asterisked is underlined but a more comprehensive context can be obtained from reading what precedes that sentence:
After the experience of entering the parlour for afternoon tea with Papa, I was not sure where I went from there and contemplated this very carefully for some time. Although I knew this event was the ‘entering in’ to the Holy of Holies, the question was: What happens then? And the answer at which I have arrived is that the Holy of Holies is, in a greater sense, not just a place but a state of being into which one enters, as a Citizen of the Kingdom of God and in which one is able to come and go freely, but whether in or out, one remains a citizen of the Kingdom just as a citizen of a country on Earth is a citizen of that country whether in it or travelling abroad at any given moment. I realised that entering into the Holy of Holies is entering into ‘the Togetherness’ with the Creator Spirit and that after the initial entry process and the period of adjustment that takes place after such a magnificent, wondrous event, one’s awareness emerges into a further state of being and that is that even more than being in the Togetherness, one is a part of ‘the Oneness.’ This is part of the cosmic-consciousness ‘process’ and our own, Earth-mind-conscious self-will (ego), action or determination plays no part in it.* It is in response to the desire of our heart and soul that we are drawn by the Creator Spirit, one step at a time, at a pace with which we are comfortable, able to assimilate the meaning of the process and remain in a state of peace, harmony and balance.
Being in ‘the Oneness’ is a conscious awareness that there is no difference, no distance, no separateness between oneself and the universal, omnipresent, eternal Creator Spirit; that ‘His’ consciousness is your consciousness, indivisibly One. One has access to it at all times, is a part of it and yet there is no part of it which oneself is not; no part of it that is withheld from oneself because one is the ‘One-Self.’
There is no reason or cause for fear at this, at ‘losing one’s identity;’ this process is not about becoming less but about becoming more...
*It is made totally clear in ‘A Course in Miracles’ (ACIM) that the ego is the upside-down part of our mind that came into being as a result of a delusory attempt to separate our self from our Heavenly Father. Of course it is impossible to be separate from God because He is the Essence, the Source, the Origin of Life, Creativity, Consciousness that occupies every cubic centimetre of the universe – in fact ALL universes – and that keeps us and all things in this world operational.
The separation is, therefore, an illusion but very real-seeming to those of us in the Earth life who see the ‘physical’ universe – including their own bodies – as the reality, the truth, the actuality for them.
According to ACIM the upside-down half of our mind (not brain) is the antithesis of all that characterises the Creator Spirit (unconditional Love) and manifests in our Earth-life character as negative, accusatory, judgemental, comparative, critical, spiteful, attacking, fearful, manipulative, self-serving. This is the ‘true’ ‘Satan’ as characterised in religious mythology. Until humanity is able to metamorphose from its self-perception as a ‘caterpillar’ into a soaring ‘butterfly,’ all those qualities will continue to manifest in the Earth-dimension of human consciousness.
‘Ego-mind’ is very powerful, deceiving, and breaking free of it is possible only, first, by desiring it and second, by accepting the help of Papa God, the Holy Spirit and the first ‘butterfly,’ Jesus (all three of whom act in unison, as One Mind, One Consciousness). That requires a shift of perception from the ‘I will’ of ego-mind to the ‘I AM’ awareness of eternity.
This is no more possible for the human intellect than it is for the intellect of a caterpillar to effect its own metamorphosis into a butterfly. It is nothing to do with intellect but is of the Life Force. The caterpillar, led by the drawing power (which is Love) of the Life Force (‘God’) withdraws from its previous activity and is dissolved, at a cellular, molecular level, then reconstructed in its true form as the butterfly it always truly was, is and will be.
This allegory is equally true, at a metaphysical, mystical, esoteric, spiritual level (the true, eternal reality) for God’s Children: US.
We have to be willing (that is, desire) to allow Him to lead us in this process, accomplish this for us, because He has endowed us with free will and He never withdraws that free will and imposes upon us what we are unwilling to receive.
This is the only real challenge facing humanity today and all the other perceived challenges stem from failure to recognise this real challenge - actually, opportunity - and embrace it, totally.
Fortunately for us, Jesus does recognise this and is implementing the Great Programme, the Great Rescue Plan for us all, (including those of us who have no awareness of it or refuse - through ego-mind dominance - to recognise it) empowered for this by the Source of All, our Heavenly Father. Resisting it is, as ego-mind humanity is experiencing, noticeably less comfortable and noticeably more fearful, painful and destructive. Co-operating with him and the Plan will enable this more quickly and more comfortably. We are at free choice, every moment.
I profoundly hope the Diary entries (April 10th 1988 - May 1st 1988) will bring you an island of the Peace, Joy and Love of Heaven, in the sea of chaos of this world in transition,
Brian Longhurst
September 27th 2006
Dear Friends,
We are here, in the Earth life because we have ‘unresolved issues’ to outwork, with our self and with our fellows. This is, of course, a deep subject, which cannot be addressed fully here but thankfully there are many helpful books on these matters. The point here is that these issues cause us to see life, the Creator and our fellows from our individual – and therefore, singular – perspective. This can only be incomplete because Eternity encompasses all - indeed, infinite - perspectives.
Most of us in the ‘Western, Christian’ cultural tradition have had centuries of perspective that we are ‘sinners,’ unworthy and that God is angry, wrathful, judgemental, ingrained into the group and generational psyche. The misperception that we are separate from each other and from God has caused us to believe that we have to ‘make it,’ succeed, achieve our desires by dint of our own hard work, sacrifice and that if we are amongst the lucky ones who do ‘make it’ it must be at the expense of some of our fellows; a win/lose situation.
These misperceptions are VERY bad for our health – spiritual, emotional, mental and physical - and are entirely incompatible with Eternity, God, the Kingdom of Heaven, our own inner, higher Self (which is who we really are) and the Great Rescue Programme of Jesus to restore us to our ‘Right Minds.’
The best way we can ditch them is to become objectively aware of them. It is a matter of taking a step back from our self and becoming the observer of our Earth persona, then asking, ‘Is this a healthy, serviceable perception, for me and for the common good of my fellows – nearest and dearest as well as the rest of humanity at large?’ If the answer is ‘No’ we can then agree with our self that taking a fresh look must be a sound decision.
That is what Jesus is all about. The real, living, no doctrine and no dogma, but always unconditionally loving and trustworthy Jesus; helping us to take this fresh look. We, on our own, without some enlightened input from the Realms of Light, are very slow at this. That’s why history keeps repeating itself. It’s those ‘opportunities’ (to transform adversity into fulfilment) that keep coming round and round again and again on the carousel, repeatedly providing us with the chance to have another shot at getting it right.
Thank goodness, literally, we are now being offered the greatest opportunity in the history of humanity on Earth, not only to get it right, but with the greatest help ever: Jesus and what the Bible calls ‘the Bride of Christ.’ This is the billions of souls who have espoused their lives to his during the last 2,000 years (at least). Most of those souls are discarnate, dwelling with Jesus in the Realms of Light, completely unified in mind and desire for the same purpose – the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth – and are thus empowered for many great works of help for ‘the sick and fainting spirits of men’ in the Earth life, who are wandering blindly and aimlessly in the wilderness of spiritual forgetfulness.
But many of those ‘espoused’ souls are also now incarnate or newly incarnating in these times and are awakening to the realities of Eternity that Jesus came to help us with. Having established the foundation for the reality of ‘Eternal consciousness on Earth’ – the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth – 2,000 years ago, he then went back to whence he had come, to prepare the place for the rest us, so that he could ‘come back’ and receive us into that place.
At his departure, the Holy Spirit (also known as the Spirit of Truth or the Holy Breath) came to provide continuity in bringing to us the Living Word. This is in part the Bible (although that has been severely ‘got at’ by those with unKingdomly agendas, it still contains many highly serviceable Truths, if we, with the Light of Spiritual Discernment from the Holy Breath to illumine our minds, can recognise them) but is mostly ‘Him,’ speaking directly to us in our own hearts and minds (if we will still ourselves sufficiently to hear) of the Truth of Eternity and its unconditional love and beneficence. The Holy Breath is the Creative, Living Word and is one with the Creator Spirit, as is (and was) Jesus and are collectively referred to as the Holy Trinity.
The Trinity is fully aware that we are unable to ‘save’ ourselves from the plight we find ourselves in, for two reasons: First, because we haven’t a clue how to do it and secondly, because we, perceiving the illusory world we have created as ‘real,’ refuse to accept that we are unable to ‘save’ ourselves from it and believe, by the fabrication of ever-increasing ‘elaborate theories of men’ (increasing in both number and absurdity), that we can sort out the ‘fine mess we have got ourselves into.’
The good news is that, we don’t actually have to save ourselves. All we have to ‘do’ is desire to be ‘saved.’ Jesus is a pragmatist and his saving activity has nothing to do with religion or piety. It has everything to do with acceptance. All he asks of us is that we entrust ourselves into his all-sufficient care and allow him (for which one can equally read ‘Holy Trinity,’ or the 'Spirit of Eternity,' or 'Eternal Consciousness' because Jesus is fully conscious of and One with that state of Being) to do this for us. It is a free gift and that is why all that is required of us is that we are willing – or desire – to accept it. It is a process that takes place in and from our own Within and manifests through us from the Eternal Consciousness - ‘God’ – Who/Which is our true Home and Nature, birthright and Destiny.
This is the message with which he has been tutoring me since the 1960s and of which now there are multitudes of harbingers emerging around the world, all of whom have been, like Theresa and me (and the caterpillar!) entering into their ‘closet’ and shutting the door on the clamour of ego-mind activity in the ‘Without’ and the lie of Satan that we are all sinners and unworthy (if you will not go Within, you will go Without) and there, opening their hearts and minds to the Living Word, the ‘still, small voice’ that speaks with us all the time, if only we will be still and listen.
In a nutshell it is a ‘win/win’ message, for there are no losers in Papa God’s Kingdom and we, being His offspring, are fully empowered, by attunement of our lives to, and committed co-operation with, that state of Being, to manifest it here, now, in the Earth.
This is the message I am overjoyed to share with you and which you will see is affirmed in this week's Diary entries (September 10th - October 1st 1989).
Love, Peace and Joy of Heaven enfold and bless you, always,
Brian Longhurst
October 4th 2006
Dear Friends,