Jesus once said:

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. ~ Matthew 7:12

Today’s reading explains the deeper meaning of that teaching. It says:

Therefore, give as you would receive. Give to the mind that which you would receive of spirit, for they are one. That which you give you must receive, because the mind is the spirit. The mind is the great receiver and spirit, the great deliverer. But spirit receives as mind receives, and mind delivers as does spirit.

“Spirit” is synonymous with consciousness. The “mind” is synonymous with manifestation, which includes thought, emotion, and perception.

The reading says, “mind is the great receiver.” That means that manifestation is an effect. The thoughts that come into the mind are the effect of a cause. The emotions that you feel are the effect of a cause. Everything that is perceived through the senses is the effect of a cause.

Spirit is “the great deliverer.” That means that spirit (consciousness) is the cause. To fully understand this, it’s helpful to look at yourself and your experience.

When you are worried about something, annoyed by something, frustrated by something, etcetera, what are you actually doing?

If you look very carefully, you will notice that whenever you are upset, you are giving believing attention to a thought, emotion, or perception.

What is attention?

Attention is made of consciousness. That means attention is  consciousness. Therefore, it is spirit.

When you give believing attention to a thought, emotion or perception, you enliven it with consciousness. In that way, you deliver that particular energy through the creative principle to consciousness as manifestation. The energy is reprocessed and manifests as thought, emotion, and/or perception.

Believing attention is declaration. It is  judgment. It is the mechanism that creates experience.

Believing attention comes through the combination of mind (believing) and spirit (attention), which means the two are equally part of the process and cannot actually be divided. Any apparent division in the explanation is for simplification purposes only.

One who sees himself as a person who is subject to the world and his experience reacts to thought, emotion and perception as if it is real, which is  judgment and continues the manifestation of illusory energies.

One who sees himself as the creative process chooses his way of being  (discernment) by remembering that his way of being is creative spirit.

On Day 183, we learned:

To give is to allow truth into the creative principle by not clogging the creative principle with untruth.

The purpose of consciousness now is awakening to itself as consciousness. That is the current evolutionary motion. (Reference Day 195.) One who realizes this and also realizes that he is the creative principle will be at peace in all circumstances—be empty awareness or be with a rested mind—so that the fog of illusory experience can clear, and consciousness can see itself as itself.

When one is at peace or actively resting away from believing (rest-accept-trust), one isn’t clogging the creative principle with illusory energies. That reduces distraction, which helps that one and the whole to receive insight, guidance, and to see with true perception. True perception is realizing consciousness as consciousness instead of thinking it is the many things that are perceived through the senses.

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NTI Ephesians 2 said:

In truth, you ask of your brother through your mind, and your brother answers you exactly as you have asked.

Today’s reading goes further into that idea.

It says:

When you think you are thinking alone, you are not. Your thoughts, which are heard by your brothers, are answered through them.

In that statement, “brothers” is a symbol. It would be more accurate to say that consciousness knows the energy of every image, thought or emotion that we give believing attention to, and it creates more images, thoughts and emotions from that same energy. Through our believing attention—which is declaration—we show interest in a particular energy, so consciousness delivers more of that energy. In that way, it gives us exactly what we show interest in.

This is why all things are Love. Only Love exists. Every experience that is given you is unequivocally the gift of Love given in answer to your request for Love.

Or, as inner spiritual wisdom one shared with me:

Love is giving through spirit to spirit that which spirit requests.

The question becomes:

What energy am I asking for through my believing attention?

Followed by:

What do I truly want to experience?

I used to perceive attack in the world, whether it was physical attack, verbal attack or emotional attack. One day, when I was seeing attack everywhere, I asked inner spiritual wisdom for guidance. I was taught that what I perceived as attack was actually love.

You can read the message I received from inner wisdom that day and listen to a 30-minute teaching about that message. It may help you contemplate today’s reading more deeply.

Message and Audio

Note: “Conscious” and “consciousness” as it is referred to in this message and audio refers to human conscious awareness; that is, being aware of me and others. It is the realm of duality. “Spirit” is used to refer to Consciousness as oneness.

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On Day 187 and Day 188, I shared how, as the scribe of NTI, I became afraid when inner wisdom tried to take me beyond mind through Self-inquiry. Since I was not ready to see myself as That which is beyond mind, inner wisdom shifted and took a different approach with me.

The Self-inquiry in NTI 2 Corinthians 12 went well up until this point:

What is my mind?

The answer to that is God. For only God can be Mind, which is the origin of thoughts, with thoughts being the maker or definer of you.

I would not go beyond this point, because I was identified with the body-mind-personality as me. Since I would not go beyond this point, this is where inner wisdom recalculated (like a GPS) and began leading me toward the same destination in a different way.

NTI Ephesians 2 says:

Your mind is of God. This we have already established.

That was something I was willing to accept during the Self-inquiry process—that my thoughts came from my mind, and my mind came from God. So, since I accepted this idea, inner wisdom recalculated and began leading from here. It continues by saying:

Being of God, [your mind] is the same as God.

I was not willing to accept that I am beyond mind, because to me, ‘beyond mind’ meant ‘God’, and it felt blasphemous to say, “I am God.” However, I was willing to accept that if my mind comes from God, it must be the same as God. So, inner wisdom began with what I would accept, and began leading me to see that I am the Third Principle of God.

To see one’s self as the body-mind-personality and to see one’s self as the creative process itself is a completely different perspective.

One who sees herself as the body-mind-personality lives in ignorance. She believes the world, her thoughts and her emotions. She is a puppet to the ego script while believing she is an independent person.

One who sees herself as the creative process  is no longer tethered to the world, thought and emotion. She is free of the world, instead of subject to the world. She is liberated. Instead of being a puppet, she can choose her way of being, knowing that her way of being is creative spirit.

Since I was attached to concepts, inner wisdom decided to attach a concept that was higher than ‘person,’ but less than ‘God,’ to the creative process. It called the creative principle, “Christ.” That’s because, although I wasn’t willing to accept that I am God, I was willing to accept that I am Christ, so by using that term along with my willingness to see that I am the same as God, inner spiritual wisdom began moving me away from the belief that I am a body-mind-personality by showing me that I am Christ—an ongoing creative process.

NTI Ephesians 2 says:

All that you are, you are through creation.
All that you be, you be through creation also.

That means that every body, every thought and every emotion is created through the creative principle. If you believe that you are a body, that the thoughts are your thoughts and that emotions are real, you are a puppet. You are not liberated. You are the ignorant slave of a script.

It also says:

In truth, you ask of your brother through your mind, and your brother answers you exactly as you have asked.

That means you aren’t what you appear to be. You are the creative process, and your brothers, whether they know it or not, are connected to you through the creative process, because they are the creative process too.

Regardless of whether one is liberated or a puppet to the script, one is the creative process, and creation is happening through him as it happens through all.

When we acknowledge that we are the Third Principle of God, we’ve taken a step in the direction of realizing we are the First Principle of God.

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