Freedom Talks, number 2 | Page 6

as they develop to the place of understanding, and find the
real holy ground within the center of their own being.
God, or the Universal Cosmic Consciousness, has always been revealed
to men through the risen Christ consciousness within the self. The men
of old who walked with Him were those who had lifted their personal
mind to the level of the Universal Mind, so that from the shores of the
Infinite Wisdom great thought waves of Love, Truth and Peace beat in
on them and filled them, and their lives became a center of illumination
for all.
There never was and there never can be any conflict between the power
of human consciousness and God consciousness. Truth is always Truth,
and Truth in the hearts of men build them back into the Great
Harmony.
The Absolute never contradicts itself; as fast as lives are unfolded to
the Christ Consciousness, they leave the old thought life like an empty
tomb and push themselves into a glorious human expression, just as the
Easter lily rising above the dust and mould of earth, pushes itself
upward into the clear sunlight of a world where flowers are revealed,

just so the soul pushes on through consciousness and
self-consciousness, into the glory of the risen Godhood.
We can hear the voice of the Universal calling us through our Christ
Consciousness today, just as it called to men throughout the ages, and
we know that everything that throbs with natural life or comes into
objective expression in our human world, is really only the voice of the
Universal Cosmic mind speaking in the holy language of the human
heart.
Every experience, every heartache, every joy, every despair, every
pulse-beat is only the text by which the great child mind of the world is
spelling out God.
The Risen Self comes into realization of the great white light of the
soul, and it enables us to see all life in its completeness. Human effort
and human endeavor glow with an unexpected radiance when seen
from the table-land of the risen truth.
The human soul then rejoices in its Divine possibilities. Jesus said: "I
do always the things that pleaseth the Father," and the voice from
heaven said: "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased."
When we turn to those who ask for proof of the risen Christ-self within
us, we have only to point to them the empty tomb of the old lives which
men everywhere leave behind them. If we desire we can go farther and
point them to the production of those in whom this great consciousness
is waking; all human life that is alive with thought and faith and deed,
is vibrant with a great vital spiritual force.
The signs of God Consciousness and the conscious union of God and
men is rampant everywhere in the natural world. Every factory, every
steamship, every invention, every composition, everything in form sets
its seal upon the genuineness of the existence of the spiritual exaltation
of the minds of men, and higher than the things of the natural world,
there stands the achievements of the mental and inspirational souls; the
libraries with their tens of thousands of written pages, the art museums
and galleries of precious dreams; all over the world there are hung on
walls and chiselled into glistening marble the story of the glory-gazing
of some Christ-illumined soul. And again sounded forth from
thousands of churches each Sabbath morning, there is swelling out
majestic songs sung by myriads of voices now, but sung first in the
silence of some dim, deep soul-dream, in the Christ consciousness of

some risen mind. That grand harmony was born on the table-lands of
human illumination, registered on the human brain, and worked out
into tangible form here on earth to bear witness to the home-land of the
God-man.
Christ consciousness is the final destiny of every soul; it is what we
really live by and today we know, as never before, that in order to
advance and grow, we must consecrate and bring it here and now, into
its fullest expression in our life.
There are bound to be born, at first, many things on this table-land of
new understanding that will be worked out indifferently by our limited
brain, and when challenged by the strain and stress of life they will
depart because they will be unable in their present form to answer to
the great world's need. But increasing consciousness makes everything
more powerful, and as we go on we learn to build sublime and lasting
things, to stand the test of time because they have their root, not in the
old thought self, but in the unfolded risen self, and they are grappled to
the heart of the very Rock of Ages.
Standing,