May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

Inner Faith vs Outer Authority (even more)

A fundamental, universal, cosmic Christ radiation exists. Yesterday, today and billions of years ago, this radiation was and is exactly the same. It does not change. This universal grace is and remains eternally unchanged unto itself.

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

Inner Faith vs Outer Authority (more)

“For several millennia and in various cultures there have been persons who testified of a divine reality, encouraging their fellow human beings who were receptive to this message to contact this other reality and begin living from It.

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

More Encouragement

”The greatest ‘sin’ is to call yourself a sinner.” Instead, if you don’t want to blame God (which Yogananda insisted, however, is perfectly fine with God!), tell yourself, “Maya (cosmic delusion) committed this deed through me. I dissociate myself from everything connected with it. In my true Self, I am untainted and ever free!”

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

What God Wants

God is not worried about your mistakes. All He wants from you is your love. Love Him ever more deeply.” He also used to say, God has everything, except one: Loving you, He wants your love in return.”

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

Buffalo

“To be truly ignorant is to reject with a dull heart any offer of a way out of the mud flats of nescience. The truly ignorant, in their stupor, ask no questions of life, and recognise no opportunity for self-improvement even if it offers them everything.

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

Look Within

"I realise that under the circumstances you have described you feel the need to see clearly. But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity.

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

Holy Aim

"We intend to place you once more before The Holy Aim, which is hidden to those who are understanding and wise by the standards of this world. If only you can find the missing thread again and hook the missing link to the chain again, then for you the Call will not have sounded in vain.

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May 2022 Paul Betteridge May 2022 Paul Betteridge

Summary

Based on the Universal Teachings.

Teachings that fallen humanity has been left as a gift. A set of directions passed on by many individuals in different cultures and in different languages and symbols through the ages since the beginning of time (literally), when this portion of humanity fell in vibration, into time and matter, due to wrong focus and orientation.

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April 2022 Paul Betteridge April 2022 Paul Betteridge

Two Kinds of Intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorises facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences.

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Inner Detachment

"Perhaps you can now understand what the School means by ‘negation’. Negation is no exaltation or denial of dialectical reality, but an inward detachment from it. And this detachment means hastening towards a wonderful liberty. Is such a negation an act of will as many people suppose?

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April 2022 Paul Betteridge April 2022 Paul Betteridge

Sin

The Greek word for sin (hamartia) is derived from archery and means something like missing the goal and not being well-focused. So, sin is actually not badness in a moral sense, but rather ignorance and lack of practise.

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Repair

Now let us analyse this mystery. The true pupil is able, in his broken and mortal microcosm, to construct amidst this perishable world, something imperishable and immortal, namely: the mental conception of immortal man, the mental image of the immortal, heavenly being.

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Human Love vs Divine Love

When you understand what Lao Tzu really meant to convey, many of your preconceptions will be shot to pieces, for it tears apart the whole paradigm with which humankind has surrounded itself and which has been handed down from generation to generation since time immemorial.

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