Essay 14: THE BUSINESS OF BRINGING FORTH

“Whatever is unalterable truth must stand forth. This is bringing forth. The nearer the tongue comes to telling the unalterable Truth, the more perfect the bringing forth of health, life, intelligence.” (Esoteric Philosophy page 56:4)

“Bringing forth” demonstrates the Presence of Immortal Mind. There is nothing we can see, or hear, or touch that, by proper reasoning, does not show forth the Invisible Nature of the Divine. Bringing forth is the exposure of Reality, the fruit of the Tree of Life.

Material nature, or what we call Mother Nature, brings forth in its own way and replicates the Nature of Original Mind. From the miracle of childbirth to the order and perfection of planetary systems, Life brings forth. From a blade of grass pushing up through the smallest fissure in a sidewalk to the majesty of an expansive forest, Reality stands forth. From the perfection in a single drop of water to the power and life present in an immense ocean, the Nature of the Divine is exposed. Life is the very essence of “bringing forth” and it is only by understanding the Truth that is beyond any condition that conditions become perfected by our own bringing forth, the Light of our own Christ Mind making the Word flesh as Jesus did. The Word spoken forth from Original Mind always shows forth as Life in its irresistible and unmistakable pattern.

What Emma terms as “bringing forth” and what we might call “showing forth” have their foundations in different levels of consciousness. In the ultimate example of the former, “the earth was without form … and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Gen. 1:2) When we “show forth” from our mixture of human mind and Original Mind, our own spirit moves over those same waters of unformed Substance, but is diverted, dissipated, and distracted by the icebergs, shoals and reflections that make up our hypnosis of matter. The activity of “showing forth” for us is usually tied to the illusion that “something” is missing. It is the human error of duality and belief in opposites that hold that illusion in place and wrap around the Immortal Mind Presence we truly seek. The “clothing” of our own ideas shows forth as identity, specificity, and attachment in our prayer.

 We are constantly bringing forth from some “mind.” The question becomes, from what mind are we originating this irresistible process in our daily lives- True Mind or human mind? Do we place our confidence in a mind that specifies and manipulates to the last cell and atom or the Original Mind in us that brings forth Order and Perfection without any knowledge or attachment to outcomes or forms? Can we say with conviction and in every circumstance, situation, and condition, that “Thy will be done, not my own?” (Luke 22:42) When Divine Intelligence thinks and Mary Mind brings forth through us, we stand with Jesus and proclaim “I have overcome the world.” (John. 16:33) Reality is exposed, Truth commands, and miracles are the order of the day, when Spirit flows through us unimpeded. What we call a miracle is simply a demonstration of how compliant and obedient material mind and matter can be, when freed from the insistence we have that they are or ever were real.

The bringing forth, the revealing power of Truth, is the Mary Mind aspect of Immortal Mind. This aspect of Mind is literally the Mother of Perfection. The English word “mother” originates from an ancient, Anglo-Saxon phrase meaning “to bring forth or deliver.” To be a Holy Mother in our own lives is to be as Mary, reunited with our own Native Innocence, free from our own mortal thoughts, receptive and purified. “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matt. 5:5) In the spiritual sense, meekness is a condition of being in which there is no more “me” remaining so that Original Me can be All. By our meekness we become totally worthy, yet totally surrendered. As we reclaim our Native Mary, Christ is born in us completely and we bring forth as Truth.

As ministers in Christ, it is our “business,” or as Paul stated, “our reasonable service” (Rom. 12:1), to expose Reality in all that we say and do. As Mother Nature brings forth in the world, the Mother in our Nature gives birth to something even more magnificent and exalted, “a new Heaven and a new earth” (Rev. 21:1-4) of consciousness, not only in ourselves, but in all those whom we serve.