God's Body
God is Spirit = Infinite Sentient Power, the only Being. La 'ilaha illa 'llah. Whatever is is this Sentient Power. Thus all beings are but modalities of this power. The difference between one being and another is the difference of the aim or object of identification, and this is a difference of interest. The Infinite Power is interested in all possibilities of being, and this interest makes beings. A being is simply a centre of interest, created and maintained by interest and dissolved by cessation of interest. Interest may be narrowed or widened or deepened. Thus Sentient Power can posit a minute centre of interest (e.g. electron, proton, etc.) or a larger centre of interest (atom) or larger still (molecule) or compound of these (higher order being, e.g. plant, animal, man, etc.). Nothing ties Sentient Power down or up to any level, but interest. Sentient Power knows its interests, fastens itself into them in order to exhaust their possibilities, (Thus it becomes to fulfill all righteousness) and will not let go its interests until the full implications of these have been reached (consummation of days, or enlightenments).
A being is conditioned by its interests. If these are finite, its being and consciousness of being are finite. To escape finitude, one must become interested in infinity. But the Infinite will not allow return to it until all the implications of one's finite interests have been exhausted.
Thus to return quickly to the Infinite (= God = Spirit = Free
Immediacy) one must quickly exhaust the implications of one's
present interests. One must realise that curiosity is Kyriosity, an
attempt to become Lord (Kyrios) of the situation. One may desire to
be Lord for one's own sake merely(which is sin), or one may will to
be Lord for God's service, to act as steward for Him in the world of
phenomena. If the first, one becomes fixated on finite
self-hood; if the second, one sees in all things nothing but
modalities of God, posited for examination and delight. The "flower
in the crannied wall" is seen (with the crannied wall) to be God
in process of divine manifestation. One "sees heaven in a grain
of sand". One's interests become universal and infinite. One
focuses for God; one measures (is Khalif) for God; one remembers
God in all one's doings, physically, mentally, affectively,
volitionally, episcopally. One sees oneself as an Eye of God (
),
watching for Him, joying in His wondrous works, working for
Him, with Him, by his Sentient Power. One studies His straight
statements ( I ) and His diplomacies (
),
His self-evident truths and His parables (which are stories to catch
the people's interests and mnemonics for the initiates.)
The quickest way to God is hinted at by the words of Jesus, "Who has seen me has seen the Father". The phenomenal world is the noumenal world, seen bit by bit. The phenomenon is Sentient Power phenomenalised by, with and for Itself. To remember this continually is worship. These letters, the pen that writes them, the eye that looks at them, the mind that interprets them, the heart that joys in them, all are God (= Spirit), self modalising. This body, of which the hand is a part, is a body of God in this place. To see this is to see the Father (= Generative Power) in the Son (= the Form) and its activity (= the Holy Ghost, so-called because it is an appearance of Spirit or Geist).
To see one's body as God's body in the place where one is, is to annihilate the distance between God and oneself. One's body is God modalising a vehicle of expression for Himself, a chariot for Him to ride in, a pulpit for Him to preach about Himself to those who have forgotten Him, and who developed enough to wish to remember Him. Also an anchor for His infinite will, a haven for His incessant working Self, a rock for His restless spirit to rest upon a while, as an Infinite Eagle pausing a moment in its flight from the everlasting to the everlasting.
To praise the Lord is to justify one's own being as His representative in the place and time where one is. To praise oneself for one's clever deeds as apart from Him, is sin, the missing of the true Mark.
How to remember God at all times? There is only one way; to be interested in Him and in His works, knowing there is nothing else. Even illusions, if they exist, are but phenomenalising of some part of His noumenal power, fallen out of the true context. Therefore, whatever one sees, or hears, or smells or tastes or touches is but God presenting Himself for interest in that place.
Looking for God, remember the Eye of Horus, and note the straight and the curly, the direct statement and the veiled indication. Learn to speak straight to yourself as soon as you can bear to do so, and to others also, if they can bear it without loss of intelligent integration. To the rest, speak indirectly of things they cannot yet bear; give hints but sparingly, as one would display priceless pearls to thieves.