Table of Content
Book One:
The Great Reflection
1. Introduction
2. Images
3. God With Man
4. Patterns and Shadows
5. The Classic Pattern:
Fiery Serpents
6. The Two-Sided Existence
7. Mirror Image
8. Facing the Mirror
9. Through the Interface
10. Elusive Reality
11. USMs: Universal Spiritual Mechanics
Laws and Theories
12. Rhyme and Reason
Book Two:
The Spiritual / Corporeal Handshake
1. Dualities
2. Following Suit
3. Actions Initiated From the Other Side
4. Does the Spiritual Require the Corporeal?
5. Ups and Downs
6. More Toward the Spirit
7. Working the Lines
8. Man / Son of Man
Part One
Book Three:
The Upper Room
1. Man / Son of Man
Part Two
2. Man / Son of Man
Part Three
3. Ingestion
4. The Holy Ghost
5. Holy Communication
6. Spirit and Truth:
a Two-Sided Coin
7. Man and God:
a Two-Sided Coin
8. The Power of the Mind
9. A New Focus
Book Four
What Exactly is Spiritual?
1. The Effort to See
2. Our New Mind
3. Crook’d Staff in Hand
4. Am I a Rock, Am I an Island?
(Are your thoughts really your own?)
5. What Exactly is Spiritual?
6. Perception
7. Practicing the God-Mind
8. Mapping Out Your New Mind
9. The Purpose of the New Mind
10. Every Man is a Letter
11. Realization
12. Embracing Spirituality
13. Discerning Spirits
14. Heart and Mind
15. Discerning Evil Spirits
16. Levels and Types
Emotional Levels
Lost Levels
Social Levels
Aggregate Levels
The Mindful Type
The Spiritual Archetype
Three Bonus Studies
Book One
The Great Reflection
INTRODUCTION
I am entering a study that chases shadows; that pursues phantoms. It will be a study that will
stalk secrets and clutch clues. I will conclude with a greater understanding of the relationship
between what is corporeal and what is spiritual. I will look at the interface between the two; a
looking glass not unlike Alice’s, where secret transactions occur, and the stirrings of enlightenment
are broadcast.
We are familiar with the concept that the earthly temple is a reflection of the Heavenly, a
shadow of things to be. This study, then, will deal with ‘mirror images’; and of all reflections, I will
begin with man, for man was created in the ‘likeness’ or ‘mirror image’ of his creator; and while the
flesh may be a secondary issue, we may see that, of our nature, we have inherited certain family
traits. If we, then, derive what we call human nature from God, it should be no surprise that God
displays some of those same traits.
Micah 1:8 gives us an image of God in His own words, “Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.”
We, as a race, struggle with our search for a concept of God. It is a real issue for us because
we ‘feel’ connected, but are hardly sure how. Accordingly, many cling to a fragmented concept: the
group on the right will say God is love; the group on the left will say God is a man of war - both
concepts are scripturally based. Both, however, are examples of people seeking a single, simple
answer. I might be jumping ahead of myself, to introduce the meat of the word of God to those not
yet weaned from the milk, but quite frankly, a stronger constitution is needful to bear up under the
weight of the ‘bigger picture’.
Isaiah 45:7 gives us that bigger picture thusly, “I form the light, and create darkness: I
make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”
This may not sit well with those who believe that God ‘cannot’ look upon evil. It may not
sit well with those who believe that God ‘cannot’ lie. As for me, I think it wise not to place
limitations on God. He can do whatever He wants to do. He’s God. I don’t have a problem with that
concept of God; to me, He is still Holy and Reverend. The point I wish to stress in regard to Isaiah
45:7 is that if we are made in the likeness of God, we should not whitewash His or our nature. I think
we must simply trust that He has a plan. Some people, and not a few, get caught up in that whole
‘how can God allow bad things to happen to good people’ thing.
Hosea 6:1-3 gives us a better mental approach to the issue, “Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”
An interesting note about this particular verse is its reference to ‘cyclic’ occurrences such as
rain, such as the rising sun. The word ‘prepared’ is significant, as will be seen later. Note, too, that
the ‘cyclic’ reference is but a small part of a larger reference, or ‘a shadow’: and that is our salvation
in Christ through His resurrection - He being lifted, or raised up, draws all men up with Him. It bears
repeating that this study will deal with shadows and reflections. If you are desirous of truth, as am
I, then what we want out of all this is an understanding. We just want to know. By and by, we will
know, that is if we do not trip ourselves up on old preconceptions. It would not do if our best
reasoning only led us back to incomplete first thoughts.
If God’s word is, as the scripture states and I believe, a treasure chest containing both old and new treasure, should we ignore the new? Take for example the concept bodied forth in Isaiah 43:10. As concepts go, this will seem foreign to many staunch advocates of God’s God-ness. So many times have I heard from them that God has no beginning and no end, even though they will completely accept that Christ is the Alpha and Omega (beginning and end).
Here is what Isaiah 43:10 says: “Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me.”
And here is my paraphrased version of that verse: “You are My witness and My chosen servant, says God, that you may both know and believe that I am actually God. There was no god formed before Me, and there shall be no god formed after Me.”
If we truly believe the verity of God’s written word, then what we see here is God, Himself,
indicating how He came into being: by some process (here unstated) of formation or realization. In all of our experience, the process of formation requires an external power or agency to form the thing that is formed. In the absence of another power, God was the agency that formed himself.
So then, what of man: that we are formed in His image? Is not a reflection an image of something
that we believe to be real? If we look into a mirror, our reflection reenacts our every posture, and the
image appears just as real.
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