"The Way to The Father"
 
 
"Jesus saith unto him, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life:  NO MAN COMETH TO
THE FATHER, but by Me."       John 14:6.
 
 
 
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the Husbandman.  Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away:  and every branch that beareth fruit,
 
 
 
He purgeth it,
"THE WHIRLWIND"
 
that it may bring forth more fruit."     John 15:1,2.
 
 
"Abide in Me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me.  I am the vine, ye are the branches:  he that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing."       John 15:4,5.
 
 
 
 
 
 
"If a man love Me, he will keep My words:  and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him."       John 14:23.
 
 
 
 
"He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me:  and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him."
John 14:20.
 
 
 
      "...and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's Which sent Me."       John 14:24b.
 
 
 
 
"HOME"
 
 
 
 
 
"HE carrieth thee" and beareth thee up on angels' wings lest thou dash thy foot against a stone"
"HER"
 
 
 
 
 
 
"For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin."       1 Peter 4.1
 

 

 "Whosoever is born of God committeth no sin...he cannot sin because he is born of God."

1 John 3:9
 
 
 

"As you say these words ["The Lord's Prayer" meditatively and reflectively], pledge yourself to a surrender to God's Will and to the laws of "Christing" that will turn you into an instrument of love on earth; pray with all your heart and mind and soul for the establishment of [His Kingdom] on earth in every arena, for as Origen says, "Each member of the church must pray that he may make way for The Father:  will intuit the same way that Christ made for it...For it is possible for one united to Him to become one spirit with Him...so making way for His Will as it has been perfected in heaven it may be so perfected on earth".  He adds, "Let us ask that the Will of God be fulfilled on earth as it is in Heaven...so that we may, so to speak, make earth Heaven, with the result that there will no longer be any earth, but all will become Heaven.  For if the Will of God is done on earth as it is in Heaven...the earth does not remain earth...we shall all be "heaven"....this way will initiate you progressively into one of the central secrets of Christ-consciousness:  in Christing yourself, you come to act as an agent of transformation on earth, a humble revolutionary of love, an instrument of that Divine Will that hungers and labors for the establishment of the Kingdom in time".
 
 

"To be active on Love's behalf and a tireless agent of God's Love and Justice, you will need constant supplies of Divine grace and Divine energy; you will need to root your whole life and being in the Source of infinite power that is the Father-Mother.  In praying "give us this day our daily bread", know that you are praying not only for the physical necessities of life but also for a constant infusion of the "Bread" of Christ-consciousness, of the Christ's passion, truth, energy, power, and living charity.  It is this "daily Bread" of grace that you will need more than anything if you embrace the challenges and ordeals of following Christ.  As Origen tells us, "The True Bread is He who nourishes the true man, made in the image of God; and the one who has been nourished by it will come to be in the living likeness of Him who created him...Daily bread, that is, bread for "BEING", is what corresponds most closely with a rational nature and is akin to "Being Itself".  It procures health, vigor, and strength to the soul, and since the Word of God is immortal, It shares Its own immortality with the one who eats It...just as corporal bread distributed to the body of the person to be nourished goes into his being, so the Christ, the Living Bread which came down from Heaven (John 6:51) is distributed to the mind and the soul and gives a share of Its own power to the person who provides himself food from it".
 
 

"If you have really surrendered yourself to the work of love, truly accepted the depths of surrender implied by the words "thy will be done", and in Teresa of Avila's words, "really become ready to suffer everything that His Majesty is pleased to send you", then when you pray "give us today our daily bread" you will pray with your whole being to be fed from the Source that Jesus Himself was fed from so like Jesus you can endure everything that is necessary for a life of active charity with His patience, faith, courage, and boundless stamina.  And you will discover daily, as Teresa promises, the "marvels that this Sacred Bread does in us".  Through eating this bread, exhaustion will turn to hope; passive desolation will be transmuted into calm and lucid action.  By flinging yourself entirely upon the mercy of The Father-Mother and acknowledging your total dependence on the Source for everything you are and do in Its Name, you will find that you will be fed directly by It and in the most direct, transformatory ways; your repeated, humble asking for "Bread" will make you more and more transparent to Its "reception", more and more able to "eat" Its grace in all the contingencies of life."

Andrew Harvey
 
 
 
 "BE YE, THEREFORE, PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."
MAT. 5:48
 
 
"And He gave some, apostles; and some prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
"For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ"
 EPH. 4:11-13
 
 
 
"GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD."
1 JOHN 4:4
 
 
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