Your Faith Is Your Fortune - Chapter 24
"Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?" (Mark 8: 18)
True clairvoyance rests, not in your ability to see things beyond the range of human vision, but rather in your ability to understand that which you see.
A financial statement can be seen by anyone, but very few can read a financial statement. The capacity to interpret the statement is the mark of clear seeing or clairvoyance.
That every object, both animate and inanimate, is enveloped in a liquid light which moves and pulsates with an energy far more radiant than the objects themselves, no one knows better than the author j but he also knows that the ability to see such auras is not equal to the ability to understand that which one sees in the world around about him.
To illustrate this point, here is a story with which the whole world is familiar, yet only the true mystic or clairvoyant has ever really seen it.
Synopsis
The story of Dumas’ “Count of Monte Cristo” is, to the mystic and true clairvoyant, the biography of every man.
I
Edmond Dantés, a young sailor, finds the captain of his ship dead. Taking command of the ship in the midst of a storm-swept sea, he attempts to steer the ship into a safe anchorage.
II
On Dantés is a secret document which must be given to a man he does not know, but who will make himself known to the young sailor in due time. This document is a plan to set the Emperor Napoleon free from his prison on the Isle of Elba.
III
As Dantés reaches port three men (who by their flattery and praise have succeeded in worming their way into the good graces of the present king) fearing any change that would alter their positions in the government, have the young mariner arrested and committed to the catacombs.
IV
Here in this tomb Dantés is forgotten and left to rot. Many years pass. Then one day Dantés (who is by this time a living skeleton) hears a knock on his wall. Answering this knock, he hears the voice of one on the other side of the stone. In response to this voice Dantés removes the stone and discovers an old priest who has been in prison so long that no one knows the reason for his imprisonment or the length of time he has been there.
Commentary
I
Life itself is a storm-swept sea with which man wrestles as he tries to steer himself into a haven of rest.
II
Within every man is the secret plan that will set free the mighty emperor within himself.
III
Man in his attempt to find security in this world is misled by the false lights of greed, vanity and power.
Most men believe that fame, great wealth or political power would secure them against the storms of life. So they seek to acquire these as the anchors of their life, only to find that in their search for these they gradually lose the knowledge of their true being. If man places his faith in things other than himself, that in which his faith is placed will in time destroy him; at which time he will be as one imprisoned in confusion and despair.
IV
Here behind these walls of mental darkness man remains in what appears to be a living death. After years of disappointment man turns from these false friends, and he discovers within himself the ancient one (his awareness of being) who has been buried since the day he first believed himself to be man and forgot that he was God.
Synopsis
V
The old priest had spent may years digging his way out of this living tomb only to discover that he had dug his way into Dantés’ tomb. He then resigns himself to his fate and decides to find his joy and freedom by instructing Dantés in all that he knows concerning the mysteries of life and to aid him to escape as well.
Dantés, at first, is impatient to acquire all this information; but the old priest, with infinite patience garnered through his long imprisonment, shows Dantés how unfit he is to receive this knowledge in his present, unprepared, anxious mind. So with philosophic calm he slowly reveals to the young man the mysteries of life and time.
VI
As Dantés ripens under the old priest’s instructions, the old man finds himself living more and more in the consciousness of Dantés. Finally, he imparts his last bit of wisdom to Dantés, making him competent to handle positions of trust. He then tells him of an inexhaustible treasure buried on the Isle of Monte Cristo.
VII
At this revelation the walls of the catacomb which separated them from the ocean above cave in, crushing the old man to death. The guards, discovering the accident, sew the old priest’s body into a sack and prepare to cast it out to sea. As they leave to get a stretcher Dantés removes the body of the old priest and sews himself into the bag. The guards, unaware of this change of bodies, and believing him to be the old man, throw Dantés into the water.
Commentary
V
This revelation is so wonderful that when man first hears it he wants to acquire it all at once; but he finds that, after numberless years spent in the belief of being man, he has so completely forgotten his true identity that he is now incapable of absorbing this memory all at once. He also discovers that he can do so only in proportion to his letting go of all human values and opinions.
VI
As man drops these cherished human values he absorbs more and more of the light (the old priest) until finally he becomes the light and knows himself to be the ancient one.
VII
The flowing of both blood and water in the death of the old priest is comparable to the flow of blood and water from the side of Jesus as the Roman soldiers pierced him, the phenomenon which always takes place at birth (here symbolizing the birth of a higher consciousness).
Synopsis
VIII
Dantés frees himself from the sack, goes to the Isle of Monte Cristo and discovers the buried treasure. Then, armed with this fabulous wealth and this superhuman wisdom, he discards his human identity of Edmond Dantés and assumes the title of the Count of Moore Cristo.
Commentary
VIII
Man discovers his awareness of being to be the inexhaustible treasure of the universe. In that day when man makes this discovery he dies as man and awakes as God.
Yes, Edmond Dantés becomes the Count of Monte Cristo. Man becomes Christ.
Twenty-Third Psalm
I
The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
II
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
III
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
Commentary
I
My awareness is my Lord and Shepherd, That which I AM aware of being is the sheep that follow me. So good a shepherd is my awareness of being it has never lost one sheep or thing that I AM aware of being.
My consciousness is a voice calling in the wilderness of human confusion; calling all that I AM conscious of being to follow me. So well do my sheep know my voice they have never failed to respond to my call; nor will there come a time when that which I am convinced that I AM will fail to find me.
I AM an open door for all that I AM to enter. My awareness of being is Lord and Shepherd of my life. Now I know I shall never be in need of proof or lack the evidence of that which I am aware of being. Knowing this, I shall become aware of being great, loving, wealthy, healthy and all other attributes that I admire.
II
My awareness of being magnifies all that I am aware of being, so there is ever an abundance of that which I am conscious of being. It makes no difference what it is that man is conscious of being, he will find it eternally springing in his world. The Lord’s measure (man’s conception of himself) is always pressed down, shaken together and running over.
III
There is no need to fight for that which I am conscious of being, for all that I am conscious of being shall be led to me as effortlessly as a shepherd leads his flock to the still waters of a quiet spring.
IV
He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Commentary
IV
Now that my memory is restored — so that I know I AM the Lord and beside me there is no God— my kingdom is restored. My kingdom— which became dismembered in the day that I believed in powers apart from myself — is now fully restored.
Now that I know my awareness of being is God I shall make the right use of this knowledge by becoming aware of being that which I desire to be.
V
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 1 will fear no evil; for thou art with me; they rod and thy staff they comfort me.
VI
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
VII
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Commentary
IV
Now that my memory is restored—so that I know I AM the Lord and beside me there is no God—my kingdom is restored. My kingdom—which became dismembered in the day that I believed in powers apart from myself—is now fully restored.
Now that I know my awareness of being God I shall make the right use of this knowledge by becoming aware of being that which I desire to be.
V
Yes, though I walk through all the confusion and changing opinions of men, I will fear no evil for 1 have found consciousness to be that which makes the confusion. Having in my own case restored it to its rightful place and dignity, I shall, in spite of the confusion, out-picture that which I am now conscious of being. And the very confusion will echo and reflect my own dignity.
VI
In the face of seeming opposition and conflict I shall succeed, for I will continue to out-picture the abundance that I am now conscious of being.
My head (consciousness) will continue to overflow with the joy of being God.
VII
Because I am now conscious of being good and merciful, signs of goodness and mercy are compelled to follow me all the days of my life, for I will continue to dwell in the house (or consciousness) of being God (good) forever.
Summary
True Clairvoyance is Insight
True clairvoyance is the ability to understand what you see, not just see auras.
The Story is Every Man
The Count of Monte Cristo story is the biography of every man.
The Inner Plan
Within man is a secret plan to free his inner emperor, his true self.
False Anchors Fail
Seeking fame, wealth, power as security fails. Man forgets his divine nature.
The Ancient One Within
Inside is the ancient awareness to be rediscovered when we relinquish false anchors.
Patience for Wisdom
We must patiently let go of human values to absorb our divine wisdom.
Become the Light
As we shed human values, we become the light, aware of our true eternal being.
Freedom Through Self-Discovery
Discovering the treasure of awareness sets us free as divine beings.
I AM is the Shepherd
Awareness leads us to green pastures of all we are conscious of being.
Restore the Memory
Remembering I AM as lord restores the soul and kingdom of right self-definition.
Fear No Confusion
I will fear no confusion but walk through it calmly expressing my inner dignity.
Goodness Follows Awareness
Goodness and mercy follow me as I dwell in the house of God consciousness.
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