Chapter 7 ~ From External Forms
to Internal Formlessness
"There
are . . . intangible realities which float near us,
formless
and without words; realities which no one
has
thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."
Natalie
Clifford Barney (1876-1972), U.S.-born French author.
Quoted
in: "On Writing and Writers," in Adam, no. 299
(London,
1962; tr. by Ezra Pound).
You move out of your morning meditation and
into your day fully aware of the fact that God is all you are
ever going to be and God is all you are ever going to encounter.
If dream illusions linger, you are no longer in the least bit
perturbed by them, because you know that no matter how much of
a scene they may display, they have no reality whatever. Right
there where these errors appear, YOU KNOW with CERTAINTY there
is only God in perfect peace, splendor, presence and fullness.
You may not always see it manifest in the dream world. The dream
world may still seem persistent in presenting many "ungodly"
appearances. But you DO SEE it in the spiritual world. Your knowledge
of the certainty of Truth grows into an INTERNAL VISION. You
may appear to be living at times "between two worlds,"
but more and more you begin to SEE that there is only ONE world
-- God's world -- and that there simply isn't any other world
for you to be caught between.
You know, or "see," inwardly and
formlessly, that God is 100% present right now. The erroneous
appearance on the other hand has some FORM to it, and appears
EXTERNAL to you in some fashion. So you don't SEE your VISION
of Truth in FORM or anything EXTERNAL. Yet each moment of the
day your entire approach to living is to always be inwardly looking
up from the appearances of external form to the inward, formless,
everpresent Truth they were lying about. It is vision that is
formless and internal, in contrast to the human vision of seeing
EXTERNAL FORM.
You relate to your dream world fully aware
that in reality there is only the ecstasy of God here. As a result,
you leave a trail of miracles you know nothing about. For there
is no miracle in nothing remaining nothing. The only reason why
the miracles appear to take place is that you got to the place
of knowing that the illusion NEVER DID have any reality, that
it ALWAYS WAS nothing. You are no longer trying to make the distress
disappear. Rather you realize that it's appearance IS NOTHING.
Your priority vision is no longer on the world of appearances.
Your priority vision is your vision of Truth. And the more clearly
you SEE, with your inward, formless, spiritual vision, that GOD
IS ALL THERE IS, the more clearly you SEE that any appearance
to the contrary is therefore ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. If the appearances
to the contrary continue to appear a while longer, you see them
as a thin mist, a transparent veil, behind which radiates nothing
less than GOD.
The appearance has nothing to do with your
vision of Truth, nothing to do with your certainty of Truth.
Rather, the infinite consciousness that you are reveals to you
through insight that GOD REALLY AND TRULY IS ALL THERE IS. And
your contemplation of this insight reveals an unfathomable well
of feeling. You more and more open yourself up to feel what it
feels like to know with certainty that GOD REALLY AND TRULY IS
ALL THERE IS, and as you do so you discover an unfathomable well
of peace, equanimity, joy, stillness, gratitude, freedom and
love.
Every moment of life you are beholding God
with your inward vision and nothingizing anything that appears
not to be God. Every moment of your life you are seeing through
any ungodly appearances to the Truth the appearances were lying
about. The more you do so, the more the world is revealed to
be what it only can be and always has been -- the omnipresent,
infinite manifestation of God in infinitely perfect Sacred Geometry,
the Divine Dance, the Symphony of God.