Letter from Wenda - Thoughts to Build Upon

Man is formed for purposes of high resolve and great accomplishment. Man should seek by all means at his command to work out what he believes to be his destiny.

Knowing, as the wise man always knows, that his destiny is to attain to God-likeness, not merely in terms of moral goodness but in terms of spiritual power, not only will he work by all the means at his command, but he will command the means, for man has resources of which, until he arrives at a true appreciation of himself, he is not conscious.

Therefore the only excuse for any form of instruction is to make man aware of those inner potentialities so that he may no longer make excuses for himself. Neither birth nor our environments are sufficient in themselves to justify failure or mediocrity, for these are based more upon ignorance than upon prenatal conditions and limiting surroundings.

Not knowing our divine privilege, we are slaves of conditions which we presently overcome as soon as we discover our true being.

The man who has found himself, no longer whines over conditions, for he knows that these are not insurmountable. On understanding, strongest wings, he soars above untoward conditions.

Formed for greater things, and knowing he is formed for great things, he no longer grovels on the refuse heap of his fears, neither does he shrink at imaginary impending calamities, for past, present and future contain nothing for him but the harmonious working of that immutable law which can never work contrary to its own nature.

When truth becomes apparent to man, he will enter at once into the enjoyment, not of things which have not always belonged to him, but of things of which ignorance has deprived him.

The cry of every soul is for better conditions individually and collectively, and because of this we infer that this instinctive longing is based upon the conviction that there is something better in store for man than man is at present experiencing.

We look upon a world filled with fruitless work and we ask if God has forgotten it. To our disturbed mentalities the eternal Christ is ever saying, “Peace, be still,” but our inner ears are stopped so that we can hear nothing save through the outer ear of sense; hence all our fears and doubts. For the outer has nothing else that it can convey, since it bears no message from the Highest Truth.

Truth bids us, “Be not afraid,” while error seeks to terrify, and will continue to terrify so long as we believe error to be Truth.

The cure for all the miseries in the world of sense is to turn at once to that Eternal Order which underlies all reality.

When the enlightened soul perceives the Eternal Order to be the governing force of all things, visible and invisible, it loses its fear through the conviction of negative’s nothingness, for Truth realised, furnishes man with the strong cord which binds all error with consuming fire.

The Kingdom of God will come upon earth, as Jesus prayed it should, when man, instructed in Truth, shall co-operate with that Truth in the working out of all his problems, and not to solve those problems, as he does at present, by resorting to error’s ways.

As God, Divine Mind, is the same, yesterday, today and forever, He knows neither love nor hate, approval nor disapproval, favouritism nor prejudice. He regards all things with most impartial eyes, for all He knows is that for which He Himself is responsible, and this He has pronounced “very good.” It is for this reason that we read in the Scriptures that His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than our thoughts.

Spiritual understanding is the Saviour, the Redeemer. When God the Holy Spirit, removes the inner cataracts from the eyes of the soul, the soul sees the ‘new heaven and the new earth,’ and the old concept of earth and heaven passes away with the ignorance which begat it. In this hour a great revelation takes place. Every place becomes sacred. The worship is no longer confined to what is called the ‘sacred precincts of the church.’ There also are no times, nor seasons, for prayer to the man who has glimpsed the Whole which contains all its parts, for to such a man, religion becomes something infinitely more than the adoration of something abstract.

Religion dominates such a man’s whole being, so that he intakes and out-breathes the Divine that is in him, as it was in Jesus.

The events which, prior to this revelation of the Son of God in him and the torments which came from that belief, all fade from memory so that nothing can ever again give reality to that which Truth annuls. Space, matter, time and thought become the servants of him who knows that only God rules.

All things are being re-created for him who sees beyond the merely visible, but it requires keenness of perception to note the gradual renovation. It is when men ask questions of their inner monitors concerning their thoughts and acts, that questions get answered in no uncertain tone.

Illumination comes to the soul which has prepared for it, just as light shines through a lamp which has been cleaned and filled with oil, and the wick properly inserted and lighted.

The sun shines always for everyone, but only those who come out of the shadows enjoy its warmth. Divine Love is the same for all, but man must enter into the spirit of It if he would taste the blessings It bestows.

Source: W John Murray (Mental Medicine 1923)