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WHAT IS AWARENESS?*

“Set your heart on the higher talents. And yet I will

go on to show you a still higher path.” l Cor. l2: 31

The majority of people talk so ignorantly of that which is within. Do we
not talk of that which is within as something that is separate from ourselves?

So we create an image of that which is within. But that which is within is not
an image, it is not an idea nor a belief.
Now, an image, an idea, a belief is self-created, so we create an image,

an idea, or a belief in a God according to our own standards, each having a
God of his own, separate and distinct from the other and certainly separate
and distinct from ourselves.

Look into your minds and you will see that this is so. Then this thing
within is worthless to you, it has no more power than an image, an idea, a belief
which has no power of its own only the power you give to it, therefore your

God is a relative God and what is relative has no power at all, therefore
your God is a false God.
The prophet, seeing the truth, says, “thou shalt not have an image before
me.” Therefore an image in the mind is just as false as an image of stone or

wood or any other kind of image which the majority worship at a shrine, a
shrine that is outside themselves.
What I want to do in this letter is to show you the falseness of “an

image, a belief or an idea” of Reality. Without this understanding there can
be no love, no freedom, no relationship with one another, only an isolation
which we build up through our ignorance of the truth of our “Being.”
Those who are always talking about the truth and have no awareness

of “Being” are in the same position as those who know nothing at all about
“truth.”
It is only when we begin to know the process of thought, images and

ideas do we find that which is “beyond,” then you will know yourself to “Be”
now. This “Being” is a continuous conscious renewal of Life Itself. When
you know yourself to “Be” which is not an image of that which is within,

there is “awareness.”
This “awareness” is not a thought, nor an image nor an idea, it is not
something apart from yourself. I cannot put it into words, to put it into words

* See Notes 378
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