The Quest
Stanzas 200 to 299

200

Loneliness is naught but self inspection,
The happiest person does not even know oneself exists.
For such a person lives in a world of ALL about one being beauty,
That then is what has become oneself.

201

One's own imperfections,
Are remedied by performing acts of love for others,
For often the person who is hungry,
Needs only to make a coat for the farmer in order to gain food.

202

In the performing of acts of love for others,
Which is fitting together into other's needs,
Are the habits of perfection formed,
And in this one discovers,
The place in Heaven which has been prepared for him-her.

203

To know oneself,
Is as being bound in the pit of outer darkness,
For it is only by first having reflected the knowledge and actions of others,
That one's soul comes into being.

204

The happy person has formed habits,
Which guide one onward without striving.
The unhappy person when confronted with a task,
Must drive oneself on with will alone.

205

Spend your time training yourself to fit together with others,
Before a crisis presents itself to you,
And when it arrives, rather than being left with just yourself to solve it,
All of that with which you are surrounded if it is more than just yourself,
Will be the power and assistance in its solution.

206

The essence of that which is yourself,
Is your recognition of the total acts of your life,
This you gain by coming to know others,
And forming the habits of love rather than self obsession.

207

"BUT DID YOU TELL MANKIND OF HOW TO FORM HABITS,
"SO THAT THEY COULD LIVE WITHOUT THE PAIN OF DESIRE OR STRIVING?"

208

By teaching.
By bringing You to them before a time of necessity,
So that You rather than just themselves would be their guide,
When each time of action and creation arrives.

209

That being taught is the third of the seven steps to Paradise,
Is the third gate through which one passes,
Is the third level of one's consciousness,
And it is going toward the seventh which is completion.

210

That the first step is being itself,

211

The second is perceiving existence,

212

The third is assembling that which has been perceived in arrangements,
(which is being taught),

213

The fourth is conceiving how states of love exist in what one has learned,

214

The fifth is taking action,

215

The sixth is writing as law and procedure how righteous action can be repeated,
To cause creation or non-destruction to continue,

216

The seventh is combining what has come into being with what it is defined by

laws at the sixth level,
Into the Supreme Achievement; completion.

(end of the 7 steps to Paradise)

217

That in Your bow in the sky and covenant with mankind of ceasing destruction,
Have You continually put before every eye to see,
That which is the key to education and unlocking the secrets of all being,
And ending even the destruction which is death itself.

218

For a human as with all of the rest of being,
Is a device to arrange according to difference,
As one sees the colors arranged in a Rainbow,
From larger to smaller magnitudes.

219

And evidences of this which are already apparent in human actions,
Are alphabets, number systems, and tables of chemical elements.
All of these are like the index of color positions and lines in a Rainbow,
Revealing the inner secret of God,
And how to solve all problems and achieve Paradise.

220

For it is by indexing the location of differences,
Rather than by trying to store differences as memory,
That a teacher makes the model of teaching,
Like the plan upon which all of being is constructed.

221

Teach a child first the beauty and arrangement of a rainbow,
Then extend this plan to include anything everywhere,
Then show repeatedly how failing to achieve graduated magnitude arrangement

as in a Rainbow,
Is the shape of deterioration, destruction, and failure,
But achieving graduated magnitude arrangement in the way of colors in a
Rainbow,
Is the shape of harmony, happiness, understanding, peace, and creation.

222

Then I told of the three parts which make intelligence,
That is the way in which these three are combined,
That causes each person's individuality,
So that one soul is known from another,

223

And I said the three parts are named:
Correlation, Retentivity, and Habit.
That correlation is how many differences one can arrange,
Retentivity is how long one remembers,
And habit is how often conscious will must be repeated,
Before one comes to live without striving,
And by these three can all be measured.

224

That habit lies in the pulses and cycles with which one is surrounded,
And correlation within the body of each person,
And retentivity is that which is You,
The substance out of which all being is composed.

225

That a teacher is one who can see these three clearly always before him-her,
And describe them to any who come to a teacher searching,
To be able to arrange a greater number of differences,
So that others will know of You consciously.

226

That a teacher plays upon these three as on a harp's strings,
Played well, beauty and peace cometh to all to whom one speaks,
But exceeding the number of any of these three with one's disciples,
Therein does a teacher become hated, misunderstood, and as an uncut diamond.

227

A teacher fitteth oneself to these three of those who come to him,
He is away from the course of righteousness if he endeavors to make them

change,
For in righteousness does each person remain one's own master,
This is not said if the teacher becomes part of the three of his disciples,
For then the disciples come to depend on the teacher,
Instead of being in control of themselves.

LIVING AS AN ART FORM
(quintessence to students)

228

Living as an art form,
Is combining what you already are,
With the knowledge of the harmonies, and inharmonies of nature.

229

It is causing your body, your eyes, your ears, your hands, your mind,
To be a brush that sweeps beauty as it touches life,
That moulds creation,
With what used to be called problems.

230

Harmony is response, reinforcement, communication,
Like the communion of music,
Or waves combining, separating, sweeping, receding,
Or love's thrill.

231

Knowing as an artist knows,
Is conscious knowledge of what others only experience.
Beauty is waves combining, creating, repeating until new forms arise.

232

Among the beauty and repeating we find around us,
Are the cycles of life itself.
Let us see how they can be understood and used as an art medium.

--- FRIENDSHIP ---

233

"BUT DID YOU REVEAL HOW A TEACHER CAN GUIDE HIS DISCIPLES

RIGHTEOUSLY?"

234

By gaining friends and friendship.
By showing how to fit one's life into another.
By making love always to be.

235

That a friend is a warm garment with which one is covered,
Or the arms of one's lover as they caress,
A friend is a needed part to be trusted,
An enemy is a slave to be set free.

236

No greater friendship is there than that which is complete trust,
And if it is a woman, that which is complete belief.
Honesty is the essence of belief and trustworthiness,
The honest person has friends without number.

237

For every person who speaketh the truth of one's heart,
Is looking for someone with which to share the treasures one has found,
The lonely are those who have lost their belief and trust,
And thus are separated from friendship.

---TALKING ---

238

"BUT DID YOU TELL MANKIND HOW ONE FRIEND COULD COME TO KNOW

ANOTHER?"

239

By talking.
By the way in which one makes one's treasures known to others.

240

This is done by some by the painting of a brush,
By others with a hammer and a sculptor's chisel,
Some use their lives as their talking,
And all are given the power of words.

241

For talking is only revealing that You have been found if one is honest,
It is what makes You to be and be glorified for all who discover creation,
Only the wicked use talking for destruction,
Herein are the righteous known from the hypocrites.

242

For each word said is as a wave stirred in an ocean,
Once said it goes forth to mingle with all being,
It is henceforth that which is ever after one's effecter,
In it one has either glorified or blasphemed God.

243

For You are the substance which surrounds any entity,
As one talks, one also thinks the words spoken which then become a part of You,
It is such words detected in You again which is memory,
Memory lies not within one's body, but within You.

244

Those who went before me said this mystery was unknowable,
But prophesied that someday the mystery would end,
Now in the understanding of electricity, waves, and what now is called an

electro-magnetic spectrum,
Is the mystery of God finally ended.

245

For memory is that which is God Himself.
It is like the wave of a radio flowing through one's body,
God is as conscious as all consciousness which has ever existed,
For He is the substance which has been rippled,
By every thought and action which has ever taken place in the universe.

246

One who is the son of God,
Is one who is guided completely by all of the rippling.
Such are usually called prophets, teachers, or Masters.
A mortal is one who has not yet come to be effected,
By all of that of that which is God,
Such a person is a searcher embarked upon the QUEST.

247

Humans created in God's image,
Are the shape that was God each time their memory activates a human body form.
Thus their shape which is God's image,
Is like the shape of a sphere with ripples on it.

248

Duplicating this shape makes death to end for any person, Living by the principles such duplicating demonstrates, Shows the way to live as the angels in Heaven (end or avert destruction), Violation of the inherent relationship it demonstrates of arrangement like a

Rainbow,
Produces the entities and relationships of that which is against God
and creation.

--- TESTING FRIENDSHIP ---

249

"BUT DID YOU SHOW MANKIND HOW TO TEST EACH OTHER,
"SO THAT ONE COULD KNOW A TRUE FRIEND FROM ONE WHO IS FALSE.

250

By how they speak of peace.
By whether their actions coincide with their speaking,
By whether their soul sees the same vision as yours.
This is how to test a true friend.

251

That to test whether one is a true friend,
Leave a little task undone which a friend expects of you,
Then when it is inquired why the task has not been completed,
Ask the person being tested what the task undone has to do with peace for

everyone.
This is a test to open their soul suddenly to all that is.

252

If their reply is: "What has the task undone got to do with peace?"
Therein does such a pereson show,
That as they are not thinking always of how all fit together in peace,
The occasion will arise in your association with them,
That what you see in all that is,
Will not be in their thoughts,
And that you likewise will be in what they do not see.

253

If, however, a person reveals by their words and actions as this test is made,
How the task undone is part of peace for everyone.
And in the pleasure of two souls expanded in conversation,
Beyond a small diversion of the moment,
Then complete the task for them that was left unfinished.

254

For you have found that which is truly a friend even like a part of your own

soul and body,
The rest of which they have shown they are also thinking,
Is part of the same spirit and body as yourself.

--- TESTING SELFISHNESS ---

255

I revealed this device to test one whom you suspect,
Of saying he or she is thinking of you, and believes in peace,
But who may be lying and engaging in deceit,
To gain an end for themself by stealing from you.

256

To reveal a selfish person I taught,
Offer such a person something they desire,
But tell him or her that part of its price is to come to believe in peace

upon this earth for everyone,
If the person does not evade or argue against peace,
But instead reveals to you how what you offer,
Will lead to peace for everyone,
In such revealing do they show it is not thoughts only of self gain with you
omitted,
That is their true intention.
And remember to observe in any testing,
Words matching actions.

--- FALSE DOCTRINES ---
--- FALSE PROPHETS ---

257

To test if a doctrine and its prophet is false I taught:
Be not concerned as your principal test with what is promised,
But rather with the MEANS whereby the promises will be achieved.
For it is not an end (or promise) that justifies a means,
But rather the means that DETERMINES the end.

258

Examine closely to see if DESTROYING what the doctrine or its prophet

(or spokesmen) say is wrong,
Or are its enemies that first must be murdered or enslaved,
Is the implementation taught to achieve its promises.
It is false, and its prophet is false,
IF DESTRUCTION IS ITS METHOD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT.

259

For the way of God is all fitted together, Nothing by the true way of God is destroyed, Only arranged by alternate criteria until harmious resonation is achieved. (see "Difference Arranging" in other writings)

260

But see that you do not offer what you cannot give in these tests,
For in doing so you would bear false witness,
And in this become as unrighteous as those whom you seek to test,
And thus bring discredit to the way of peace and creation,
And in seeking to test others, have tested yourself,
And failed the test.

261

Now we observe a human mind as a VISION PRODUCING DEVICE,
For if visions are not seen,
It is as if death has embraced you while you are still living.
But keep always in your consciousness and self discipline,
That the only true way of God,
Is a vision that shows the way to creation.

--- TIME ---

262

"BUT DID YOU REVEAL TO MANKIND HOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I ALREADY AM,
"AND WHAT I HAVE NOT YET BECOME?"

263

By time.
By the relationship of the past to the future.
By understanding of the purpose of a moment of awareness.

264

That those who have not understood what God is,
Have not yet perceived the meaning of Past and Future,
For they feel that something not yet existing proves that God is imagination,
And call the past which was once non-existence fact instead of proof of God.

265

I taught that to know time,
Marry the past and future,
Bring together the material and the spiritual,
Create eternal love, understanding, and peace,
These show how to accomplish all understanding.

266

Then I taught one way to penetrate the mystery of time,
Is to perceive that each moment has seven parts to it,
That in seeing the symbols of these seven parts that combine for any moment,
Makes God to be a tangible fact, Can make one's consciousness resonate to

what has been,
And what will be.

267

Peace is wedding understanding to action,
Is wedding the spiritual to the material,
Spanning mass to energy,
Arranging from total rest to total motion.

268

Believing in God but not yet knowing Him,
Is the engagement of this marriage,
Coming to understand and use what is revealed here,
Is the Marriage to God that was promised,
Thus bringing into being as prophesied by these methods,
The Kingdom of Heaven.

269

As you enter Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana,
You see the world, the universe, your fellow human beings about you,
Through the eyes of God,
Instead of through the eyes of incompleteness,
Which is the way of mistakes and destruction.

270

The material and the spiritual are married in you as one,
And the greatest part you will find therein,
Is eternal life in love, happiness, peace, and the end of destruction forever.

271

Look upon these seven parts of any moment I will now tell you,
As a journey through the world of understanding,
You are wise or a fool according to your completeness,

272

It is the intertwining of the seven chosen from all of being to make any moment,
That destiny comes to be which is creation,
But which fails to be creation and thus you fall short of your destiny,
To the extent you are a fool by ignoring or trying to destroy any parts

shown you.
Also see stanza 472.

(The form of these 7 steps is that of an initiation and a focusing of one's mind at evolving stages upon shapes and symbols. It is not a philosophical or doctrinal statement as in the rest of this writing.)

THE UNDERSTANDING OF
BECOMING AND BEING

273

(1) The FIRST of the seven parts of time is PAST.
The keynote of the past is KNOWLEDGE.
It is as the storehouse in which all awareness is captured,
It is the treasure chest of all guidance.

274

The past is that which has gone before you,
It is what has made you what you are today,
Within this all you have so far studied and experienced,
Lies somewhere resting in that which is God.

275

In this you have come to know what THE FATHER is now,
But not what the WORLD is now about you,
For what you have in your memory this instant,
Is that which the universe WAS at some time in the past.

276

You are this instant the understood instants of past history,
You have not yet perceived what these will be in the future,
Nor do you feel that you know well even what these mean in the present,
It is because of this that you say you are searching for knowledge.

277

(2) The SECOND part of time is the PRESENT.
The keynote of the Present is SECURITY.
It is as the love you have come to cherish,
It is the gift you have been given for your righteousness.

278

The present in this instant in history,
Is what you are today.
The life you are living upon the earth at this instant,
Is your invitation into the realm of ALL understanding.

279

In this you are coming to know what the world about you is NOW,
But not yet what it will be,
For what your senses reveal to you this instant,
Is only that which has so far been materialized from the spiritual,

280

You are this instant experiencing what the past has made to come to pass.
This instant which CAN be understood,
Is what will make the not yet understood future.
The future is then no longer a cause for fear and apprehension in you,
For in what you sense today,
Do you know you have the elements of what tomorrow will be.

281

(3) The THIRD part of time is the FUTURE.
The keynote of the Future is ACTION.
It is the hand of God which reaches forth to guide you,
It is the road, the way, the golden path to all fulfillment.

282

The future is that which lies ahead of you,
It is that which you are going to be.
The awareness you will experience in the future,
Will come to you just as easily as this you are experiencing now.

283

In this knowledge of its simplicity of understanding,
Shall you know the great vexation and confusion will no longer afflict you,
For at any instant will you be able in your mind to lay the whole universe

before you,
And in seeing all in one instant shall ye always know the way of creation.

284

You are this moment directing your senses to the future,
You are now seeing what is going to come to pass.
Herein you perceive at last true wisdom,
For ACTION, not contemplation, is what maketh the future to be.

285

(4) The FOURTH part of time.
And the central part of any moment is BALANCE.
The keynote of Balance is the symbol of the BALANCE SCALES.
This is the focus point of all understanding,
It is the door to complete enlightenment.

286

Your mind is now the center of the universe,
All that is now and will be in existence is now focused upon you.
It is this focusing that is CAUSING YOU TO ACT at this moment,
Your conscious mind is that of this all which you perceive is effecting you.

287

Now there is radiating out about you to concentric spheres,
The symbols of all that is past, present, and future.
On this planet the number of these symbols is three times seven which is

twenty one,
And one more which is you the viewer and actuator to make their number
twenty two.

288

Your consciousness is now the fulcrum of the balance of history past and

future,
Is the center of the universe that surrounds you,
You are now the viewer of all that is being,
Now you can see all that is, through the eyes of God.

289

But if you refuse to recognize a part of all that is,
In this you make imperfect the spheres of Balance surrounding you,
And in this turn away from all understanding.
It is this turning away that is preventing you from acting this instant,
And your deep mind thus becomes the part of this all,
Which you refuse to perceive is effecting you.

290

(5) Thus the FIFTH part of time is what you WILL NOT DO.
The keynote of what you will not do is NEGATIVISM,
Stated creatively the fifth part is said with the words NO MORE DESTRUCTION.
The fifth part of time is the power against against God which is seeking

always to lead you astray,
Yielding not to it will assure you of the way of the Supreme Achievement.

291

What you will not do is that which inharmonious to you,
The essence of harmony is vibration, pulse, cyclic rythm.
Therefore, NOT DOING is simply lack of harmony.
You can now train your senses to perceive this,
So that the path of light will always be known to you.

292

But you must know that each person about you is also a universe,
And what is not in harmony with you is harmonious to someone else,
Herein you have perceived that the way of righteousness,
IS NOT DESTROYING what to you is inharmonious,
But rather, to know what you cannot use,
Can be used by another.

293

Discord is that which is your personal Hell.
It is that which for your actions is blackness,
Do not enter into blackness which is seeking to destroy what to you is wrong,
And in this you will be granted all fulfillment.

294

(6) The SIXTH part of time is WHAT YOU WILL DO.
The keynote of what you will do is POSITIVENESS.
It can be said as EVERYBODY IS SOMETHING.
This is the journey of life at its greatest moment,
This is the dreams you have had in righteousness fulfilled.

295

What you ARE is the materialization of this instant in history in you,
The essence of what you are doing is the material as it actually exists,
Therefore, doing is becoming a part of all that is this moment,
You can perceive with your senses what this is.

296

But you must know that whiteness is ONLY DOING,
that which makes this instant fit together.
This is different from doing by taking this instant apart.
Herein you have perceived the absoluteness of ethics,
It is: Whiteness is putting together which is creation,
Blackness is taking apart which is destruction.

297

But destroying applies as much to the spiritual as the material,
So in whiteness shall ye destroy neither through thought nor form.
Thus the essence of ethical behavior in Whiteness,
Is perceiving the Balance of the thoughts and actions which surround you.

298

(7) The SEVENTH part of time is WHAT YOU HOPE TO DO.
The keynote of what you hope to do is PEACE.
This is THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT.
This is the eternal guidance which moves all creation.
This is the power of life itself.

299

What you hope to do in Whiteness is achieve total creation.
The essence of total creation is the fulfillment of all creative aspirations.
Therefore, what you hope to do is the cornerstone of your whole consciousness,
Your senses are what make this cornerstone real, known, and possible to you.c

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