Words

2005-2-17 05:49:00

I just have a few minutes this evening so I will answer a question:

John C writes:

You say "it's difficult to explain but I am going to think about how to express these ideas in words". I agree with this, but I thought you had always taught that all true principles could be expressed in words and explained to a child, and that if a person couldn't express it in words, then it wasn't true. But parables are words, and they use the law of correspondences.

First, thanks for your comments on the chapter, John. So you see an Indian too? Interesting.

Yes, I stand by my statement that all things which are true can be expressed in words. In fact, creation begins in the formless worlds by the distillation of the ideas and energy into form. When creation descends into form it does so through the power of a word. The vibrating creation is a word which is an expression of the invisible formless planes.

Now putting an explanation of the higher planes in regular language words is more difficult than merely looking at something and describing it. The reason is that almost all words we speak circle around a physical form of some kind.

Even so, I have done a lot of thinking about it and have put into words teachings of the higher planes. We covered this a year or so ago. It might be a good idea to review it some time.

Rob writes:

I don't think anyone could be faulted for failing to come up with a question on the spot for Jesus. If Jesus suddenly appeared to me I'd probably need to: a) be revived, b) change my underwear, c) have a shot or two to calm my nerves, d) come to grips with the fact that a man just appeared out of thin air in front of me and that man is Jesus, e) overcome the deception that just because I was not able to come up with a question on the spot under these circumstances does not mean I'm not a seeker.

After all this maybe, just maybe, I'd be able to think up a question.

I'm sure after the dust settled you'd have a number of questions.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)