IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT WHICH YOU ARE NOT THAT WHICH YOU ARE IS NOT

You can know yourself as Light, but you cannot experience yourself as Light, because there is nothing else but the Light.

You can know yourself as Good, but you cannot experience yourself as Good, because Evil does not exist.

The formula is this:

IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT WHICH YOU ARE NOT THAT WHICH YOU ARE IS NOT

That is, it cannot be made real in your experience. You can know yourself conceptually, but you cannot know yourself experientially. You can conceive of yourself in a particular way, but you cannot experience yourself being that way because there is nothing else but That Which You Are.

Here, then, is the Conundrum of God: How can God experience Itself? By not being God.

Unless It was not God (that is, not the Totality of Itself), God could understand Itself to be magnificent, but God could not experience Itself being that. Again . . . why? Because there was nothing else but “magnificence” in the Realm of the Absolute. God could

understand Itself to be enormous, endless, and timeless, yet these concepts had no meaning since there was nothing that was not “enormous,” “endless,” and “timeless.” God could understand Itself to be All Powerful, yet power could not be experienced in an environment in which there was nothing but absolute power in equal measure.

Since God wished to Know Itself experientially as well as conceptually, God created a place in the Kingdom (or, if you will, in Ultimate Reality) where all that God Is could be experienced as well as known.

God did this by dividing Itself up into a million ka-jillion different parts, or Aspects of Itself, with each of the Parts created in different sizes and shapes, colors and textures, speeds and sounds, and levels of visibility and invisibility. Then any Part of The Whole (that is, any Individuated Aspect of Divinity) could look back on The Whole from which It emerged and say, “Oh, my God, how magnificent Thou art!” All it would take would be for that particular Aspect to have sufficient consciousness (self-awareness) to do so.

And so, after dividing Itself up into a million ka-jillion individual parts, God merely had to imbue some of those parts with sufficient consciousness to recognize (that is, re-cognize, or “know again”) Divinity when it was looking right at It. (Not all human beings have risen to that level of consciousness.) God put into place a system by which Individuations of Itself could rise to such a level, and that system was called evolution.

This is the System of the Soul.

You now know about the Mechanics of the Mind and the System of the Soul. There is more to learn, however, about this System—which you will do presently.

We see, then, that the Realm of the Absolute (also known as the Realm of Spirituality) is where KNOWING everything takes place, and that the Realm of the Relative (also known as the Realm of the Physical) is where EXPERIENCING everything takes place. It might be said, then, that souls come to the earth in order to gain a world of experience.

We therefore can give the realms in the Kingdom of God yet another name . . .

Whichever of the three labels you choose, you will be correct. These names are interchangeable, and the various names have been given to us so that we might look at Ultimate Reality in whatever way makes the most sense to us, thus allowing us to

comprehend the incomprehensible.

But it was said that there is a third realm in the Kingdom (or in Ultimate Reality), do you remember? We said, at first, that there was the Realm of the Spiritual, the Realm of the

Physical, and, at the cross point between them, the Realm of the Spirisical.

Spirisical is, of course, a word that I simply made up, because there is no word currently in human language to indicate what this realm is all about. This realm is not a place where the other two realms combine, but rather, a space from which the other two realms emerge. It is difficult to describe in human words the exact nature of this realm, but if we drop down to our third set of labels we perhaps can get close.

In our third set of labels we called the realms of the Kingdom of God the Realm of

Knowing and the Realm of Experiencing. The third realm, the realm at the cross point, might then be called the Realm of Being. Situated at the cross point of the figure 8, this is what you experience when you cross over. That is, when you move from the Realm of the Physical to the Realm of the Spiritual.

This Middle Realm is where pure being occurs.

Yes? Are you getting it? Are you beginning to see a Larger Picture?

Now you might ask, “What is that? What is pure being about?” My answer would be that in the space of pure being you both know and experience Who You Really Are. This

knowing and experiencing simultaneously is the experience for which God yearns. It is God’s greatest joy. It is the wonder of Divinity, fully known and fully expressed! It is nirvana. It is bliss. It is heaven.

Yet heaven is not limited to this. The whole process is heaven, and the wonder of the process is that the Total Being That You Are can be in nirvana, bliss, and absolute joyfulness at any point in the process. The cross point was simply created in order to ensure that each Individuated Aspect of Divinity would never be lost from the feeling, but would be

guaranteed nirvana, bliss, and absolute joyfulness.

This is what you experience when you “cross over” at the moment of your “death” (which does not really exist) and at the moment of your rebirth (your next re-entry into the Realm of the Physical).

You see, the Ultimate Reality is actually a circle. One rounded whole. The energy of life travels in this circle, through all eternity. It is the cycle of life. In the beginning, God WAS this circle, in place AS the circle, complete. When God individuated Itself, it sent the

individual Aspects of Divinity on a journey around the circle. So fast did these infinitesimal bits and pieces of God travel that they seemed to be everywhere all the time. Like a tire spinning so fast that it seems like a solid circle not moving at all, so, too, the cycle of life replicated the Always Everywhere-ness of God by seeming to create a solid where there were really moving parts.

By dividing itself up into a million ka-jillion such parts, each part could look back upon The Whole and suddenly have a context within which to consider the magnificence of The Whole—and thus, to know God. Yet how could each of the Individuated Aspects also know

Itself as God? That was the question! While each Individuation raced through the cycle of life, how would it know what it really was? Seeing the rest of It, would it know that It WAS the rest of it, in singular part?

To know this, the Individuated Aspect would have to be able to experience the utter joy that was now God’s—for God, through the cycle of life, could now know and experience Itself simultaneously— and that was bliss, indeed. Yet how could it be guaranteed that each Individuation would move into this bliss as well?

Ah, there’s the twist. And so, in order to ensure this, the Circle that is God twisted itself to form a figure 8, reasoning that if at one point both sides of the circle could touch, then the Totality of Being God could at that point be known and experienced by every one of God’s Individuations!!!

Do you get it? Do you see it now???

Each Individuated Aspect of Divinity, traveling on its journey through the endless cycle of life, may both know and experience Itself as Who It Really Is at any place on that cycle. You can do this now, in any moment of your present lifetime. Others have done it. Masters have done it. Masters are called “masters” because they have known themselves as God.

Some of them have even called themselves that. Yet when you call yourself Divine as you travel with those who do not know themselves as that, they are liable to be offended by you.

They may even crucify you. They will surely disassociate from you, even as they long to be and experience what you are demonstrating.

Do you get it? Do you see it now???

When you reach the Cross Over Point on your current cycle of life, you will know the bliss and the joy of Being the Totality of Who You Are. And you will do a great deal more.

You will decide how you wish to expand that. You will choose what you next wish to know, experience, and Be—for life is a continual process of recreating the Self.

This is what God is up to!

God is doing this through the reformation and the transformation of every aspect of Itself, one aspect at a time. You are, in fact, doing exactly that during every passage from realm to realm on the eternal Journey of the Soul. You just may not know it. When you do know it—

when you are aware of who are you, where you are, and why you are here—you will then have evolved in consciousness sufficiently to do the work of God, and not just what appears to be the task of being human.

This is what I have meant all along when I spoke to you earlier of the difference between the Apparent Truth and the Actual Truth. All of which brings us to the answers to

Fundamental Questions #3 and #4:

3. You are where you are because in the Realm of the Spiritual you can know absolutely who you are, but you cannot experience that in relative terms. And so, you venture into the Realm of the Physical so that you may gain a “world of experience.”

4. What you are doing in the Realm of the Physical is using the tools and devices (which

include your own body, by the way) that are only available in this realm to bring you the experience of what you have decided, in the Realm of the Spirisical, that you wish to be, and that you then come to know your Self as in the Realm of the Spiritual.

Creation and Re-creation of Self is a three-step process: Choosing, Knowing,

Experiencing. You cannot experience what you do not know, and you cannot know what you do not choose to know. It is really quite simple, and the model is elegant in its design.

This is the System of the Soul. This is who you are, where you are, why you are where you are, and what you are doing here.

I Am That I Am and so much more:

the Light, the Sound, the Living of God on the Ground.

I could show you every feather in the Wing.

Every color and hue.

Every Beautiful thing.

But I Am That I Am

wants to LOVE

Whoever has not yet had it.

Whatever has not yet known it.

However Life’s not yet done it.

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There is still so much Loving, yet to be found,

just

Living God on the Ground.

—‘I Am That I Am’ © 2007 Em Claire

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