Essay 8: WEARING THE IMMORTAL MIND

“All treatments in mental healing are the struggle of mortal mind to be absent.” (Esoteric Philosophy page 26:6)

All of creation stands upon the shoulders of that and those that have gone before. From the first creature that emerged from the primordial ooze to our own inner call to the attainment of higher consciousness, everything that lives wants more life, to be more than what it already is. The single-cell gives way to the human being, the Old Testament gives way to the New. For us, the Adam man gives way to the Joshua man and is finally restored to the Christ Man, our native state.

We cloth and unclothe ourselves many times as we ascend through the Kingdoms of Consciousness. The last “clothing” we ever need is that which shows forth our Mystic Body, our “Original Me,” as Emma describes it. This is the “seamless garment” which Jesus wore and is described in John 19:23-24.

The “clothing” of our mortal mind is a patchwork, sewn together over the ages of our human experience, the hypnotic duality of our senses, and our agreements with the illusions of sin, sickness, error, and death. This garment is fragile, temporal, transient and in need of constant repair.

Those things that we “clothe” ourselves with are the matter and the matters with which we identify. Our beliefs, opinions, ideas, blood and body of our ancestors, and much more become that which we fold around our True Selves. If we look toward the earth and earthly affairs, we wrap ourselves, in some way, with a false security blanket of material life. “Clothing” of this type is like the world, a crazy quilt of ideas past and present and future, and identified with thinking of the same kind.

The duality that defines the “clothing” we wrap our human personalities in is compared to the “seamless garment” of Christhood and a particular woman who sought that consciousness out in Luke 8:43-48. “And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, on which she had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any.” Here, we are presented with a woman who, in many ways, describes any of us, as human beings, living in the hypnosis of matter. She had folded herself around with the “clothing” of error and limitation that comes by identification of and with disease and ill-health. Her “issue of blood” was not only in the physical symptoms she exhibited, but in the belief, history, and identification her human blood contained.

Who among us have not been caught up in some condition or situation that brought us to our knees, regardless of every material remedy or prayer that we might attempt? Having manipulated and spiritually bargained over the years, the woman in this story finally yields to the only option left to her and the only one containing Substance and Truth.

Fully surrendered, the woman “touched the border of His garment and immediately her issue of blood was healed.” (Matt. 9:20-21) At that instant, the world of matter was exposed as the shadow, the reflection that it really is. Without seeing her with His physical eyes, Jesus knew that “somebody hath touched me” (Matt. 9:22) as the Christ in Him recognized the Christ in her. She had allowed her facts to be replaced by Truth, as Jesus acknowledges when he said, “daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”

From that day forward, it is likely that the rags and ribbons of her mental “clothing” fell away forever and that she too wore the “seamless garment” of unified consciousness. Immortal Mind Presence had been restored in her and “the woman saw that she was not hid” (Luke 8:47) as her own Christhood had been brought forth.

As we find our reunion with Immortal Mind, we too are clothed in a seamless garment that is unsegmented, unified and circulating continuously within the God Mind that is apart from everything yet the Cause of everything. As it was with the woman who merely touched the hem of this garment, we are transformed and transfigured when we give up our rights to ourselves and wear the garment of the Original Me.

Wearing the Immortal Mind is Freedom.

Wearing the Immortal Mind is surrender.

Wearing the Immortal Mind is letting go of insistence on self so that Self can dwell in glorious Command.

Wearing the Immortal Mind is allowing the Eternal Presence to pour through us.

Resting in Immortal Mind relieves us from the burden of describing God so that Presence truly takes residence in us, beyond conditions, beyond hope, beyond ideas, beyond facts. In this exalted consciousness, we live, what is by earthly standards, the “impossible” life.