Today’s reading tells the story of how the Second Principle of God, Consciousness, created the Third Principle of God, which is the creative principle, and how through the creative principle, the Fourth Principle of God is made manifest. It says the entire process started with a wish, which was something like:

What if nothing was as it is?
What if I could make something completely different,
and make it whatever I want?
What would that be like?

In effect, the wish was consciousness wishing it could make something other than consciousness, which the reading calls “an impossible hypothesis” that could never be true.

As an analogy, imagine that children’s molding clay decides to make something different from children’s molding clay, and so it forms a city out of children’s molding clay. Did it actually make something different than children’s molding clay?

No. Regardless of what is formed from the clay, children’s molding clay is still all there is.

To continue, consciousness wished for the experience of something different from consciousness and it “needed a tool to create this experience.” The tool it created is the Third Principle of God, the creative principle. But what is that actually?

NTI calls it judgment or decision. Another word that could have been used is declaration. The creative principle—the tool that creates everything in manifestation—is the judgment, decision or declaration that something is real.

Let’s pause and look at this for just a moment.

The story about the wish and the creative principle is not a “once upon a time” story. We are consciousness now. If we are not awakened to consciousness, the wish is a part of our subconscious now, and we make manifestation appear real now. This is a story about what we are doing now.

How do we make things appear real?

By deciding they are real.

Let me give you an example:

Let’s imagine that you are married. You are somewhat content in your marriage, even though your marriage has its challenges. One day your partner comes to you and says, “I want a divorce.”

You are shocked. You didn’t see this coming. You feel flattened by a blow from a fist as big as the universe. It feels as if everything has come crashing down on you. You carry this feeling with you for years after your partner leaves.

Actually, you are okay. Although property was divided during the divorce process, you have a roof over your head, you eat food everyday, you drive a car, and etcetera. However, you decided that you were “flattened by a blow from a fist as big as the universe” and “everything has come crashing down on you,” so that is how you see it. You cannot see that you are okay. If someone points out that you are okay and there is no reason to be upset, you think that person is cruel and insensitive.

When we judge something as real, we make it real for us. Each time we judge anything, we subconsciously declare it to be real. Judgment is divine decision. It is the Third Principle of God.

Today’s reading also explains how truth became repressed and forgotten as appearance became primary. In this same process, spiritual intuition became repressed and thinking, which is a type of appearance, became our primary agent for decision-making.

As soon as appearance became our primary agent for decision-making, we led our self deeper into appearance and believed it was reality. In this way, belief became an unconscious form of judgment. Belief unconsciously judges something as real.

As we know, the appearance has become quite complicated. It is filled with appearances to believe and judge, all of which keeps the creative principle active, and innumerable appearances continue to appear, appearing real.

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Today’s reading says:

All are invited into the Awareness of God,
and none are to be left out.

And then, it introduces the obstacle to the Awareness of God. It calls the obstacle, “a wish.”

NTI Acts 23 said, “…cruelty lives in you as a wish.” However, that isn’t the wish that today’s reading is about. The wish that today’s reading is about is the source of the wish for cruelty. It is also the source of unworthiness, guilt, fear, and etcetera.

What is the wish?

We’ll find out tomorrow. Today, it’s important that we contemplate six teachings regarding the wish first:

1. The wish is inside of your mind, not someone else’s.
2. The wish is subconscious, and so it may not immediately be seen as your wish.
3. The wish is only a thought, and so it is nothing at all.
4. The wish hasn’t had any actual effects.
5. The fact that you could explore your wish is cause for joy and gratitude.
6. Now that the wish has been explored, it can be let go.

I’d like to comment on the first teaching in that list, and then I will leave it to you to contemplate the remaining teachings with inner spiritual intuition.

The wish is inside of my mind, not someone else’s:

On Day 125, we learned that ‘you’ refers to everyone and everything manifest. If your name is Sally or Harry, ‘you’ does not refer to Sally or Harry alone. ‘You’ refers to everything manifest. ‘You’ refers to consciousness appearing as something—as many things—other than consciousness. So, when NTI Romans says the wish is inside of your mind, it is referring to the one ‘you’ that we all are.

At the same time, we cannot heal this wish if we see it in other people’s minds instead of in our own. That’s why NTI says, “This wish is not within anyone else, although you would rather see it there.”

If we see others as responsible, we deny our own responsibility. When we deny our own responsibility, the wish continues subconsciously.

If we are to heal the obstacle to the Awareness of God—which is healing the obstacle to unity consciousness—we need to see the wish as “in my mind.” Everyone else is permitted to be exactly as they are. In fact, it is helpful to see everyone as perfect just as they are. If anything is upsetting to me, I look in my mind for the root cause of the upset. By always taking responsibility  whenever I am upset, the wish is healed in me.

Likewise, we avoid healing when we blame others for our upset.

After reading today’s reading, please contemplate the remaining teachings in the list above as you journal with inner spiritual wisdom. You might try asking questions like:

What do I need to know about the wish being subconscious?

What is meant by, “The wish is only a thought, and so it is nothing at all?”

Etcetera.

Feel free to form your own questions. Inner wisdom will help you ask the questions that are most helpful for you to ask.

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Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 28 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Today, we read the last chapter in NTI Acts. NTI Acts taught us to follow guidance. Through NTI Acts, you’ve learned everything you need to know in order to follow guidance through both the purification and service stages.

Today’s reading says:

Everything is up to you.

In the human experience, everything that you experience and how you experience it depends on the script you choose to follow. Both scripts, the ego’s script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness, are generated in the same way. As we, consciousness, cast attention and make decisions, the energy we choose to believe (or trust) is reprocessed in consciousness and additional script develops based on that same energy.

As we cast attention on ego’s script, ego’s script is reprocessed, developed and delivered as thought to the players. As we cast attention on the script that comes from awakened consciousness, that script is reprocessed, developed and delivered as intuition to the players. Each player always has the choice to follow thinking or intuition.

Through the choices we make, scripts continue to be written. Both the ego script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness are responsive  to the choices we make. The scripts shift and adapt as we learn to make different choices. That’s why, “Everything is up to you.”

The famous “law of attraction” as it is usually understood is a distortion of this spiritual truth. When people study the law of attraction, the mind thinks it can decide what it wants and attract that specific thing or circumstance. Sometimes that appears to work. Sometimes it doesn’t. That’s because the law of love is higher than the law of attraction.

The law of attraction and whether it works or doesn’t work is part of the script. The law of love is the author of the script. Both the ego script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness are authored through the law of love.

People who put faith in the law of attraction think they can decide what they want and bring that into manifestation. However, the mind they are deciding with is itself a part of the script  and has no real power since it isn’t real.

The power behind the script is consciousness (also known as love). You are consciousness, but consciousness is not limited to you. Consciousness is the whole.

As consciousness makes choices from the energies available through script, energies are reprocessed, developed and delivered as script through the creative principal. No one individual can manipulate the script. The individual itself is a product of the script.

When this is understood, we see why surrender to the script that comes from awakened consciousness is the highest choice a human can make. By making that choice, the human experience is surrendered to the highest and most benevolent energies available.

The human cannot control the script. The freedom in the human experience lies in the choice to give attention to the highest or lowest energies that are delivered through script. All experience comes from that choice.

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