Your Faith Is Your Fortune - Chapter 20
Did the Prophet Elijah really restore to life the dead child of the Widow? This story, along with all the other stories of the Bible, is a psychological drama which takes place in the consciousness of man. The Widow symbolizes every man and woman in the world; the dead child represents the frustrated desires and ambitions of man; while the prophet, Elijah, symbolizes the God power within man, or man’s awareness of being.
The story tells us that the prophet took the dead child from the Widow’s bosom and carried him into an upper room. As he entered this upper room he closed the door behind them; placing the child upon a bed, he breathed life into him; returning to the mother, he gave her the child and said, “Woman, thy son liveth.”
Man’s desires can be symbolized as the dead child. The mere fact that he desires is positive proof that the thing desired is not yet a living reality in his world. He tries in every conceivable way to nurse this desire into reality, to make it live, but finds in the end that all attempts are fruitless.
Most men are not aware of the existence of the infinite power within themselves as the prophet. They remain indefinitely with a dead child in their arms, not realizing that the desire is the positive indication of limitless capacities for its fulfillment.
Let man once recognize that his consciousness is a prophet who breathes life into all that he is conscious of being, and he will close the door of his senses against his problem and fix his attention solely on that which he desires, knowing that by so doing his desires are certain to be realized. He will discover recognition to be the breath of life, for he will perceive — as he consciously claims himself to be now expressing or possessing all he desires to be or to have — that he will be breathing the breath of life into his desire. The quality claimed for the desire (in a way unknown to him)will begin to move and become a living reality in his world.
Yes, the Prophet Elijah lives forever as man’s limitless consciousness of being, the widow as his limited consciousness of being and the child as that which he desires to be.
Summary
Elijah Represents God Within
The prophet Elijah represents the God power, or man's infinite awareness of being.
Widow is Limited Consciousness
The widow symbolizes man's limited conception of himself.
Dead Child are Unfulfilled Desires
The widow's dead child represents man's unfulfilled desires.
Take Desire Within
Like Elijah, take your desire within and give it life by consciously claiming it.
Recognition is the Breath
Recognition of your wish fulfilled is the breath of life that animates it.
Consciousness Breathes Life
Consciousness breathes life into all it is aware of being. Claim yourself now expressing your desire.
Let the Inner Prophet Live
Let the inner prophet of consciousness live. It effortlessly fulfills all desires.
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