The ancients knew that the secret name of God had power. Now we do.
You are told it happened on the Sabbath. The Sabbath is only the mystical sense of stillness, when you are unconcerned, when you are not anxious, when you are not looking for results, knowing that signs follow and do not precede. The Sabbath is the day of stillness wherein there is no working. When you are not working to make it so you are in the Sabbath. When you are not at all concerned about the opinion of others, when you walk as though you were, you cannot raise one finger to make it so, you are in the Sabbath. I cannot be concerned as to how it will be, and still say I AM conscious of being it. If I AM conscious of being free, secure, healthy, and happy, I sustain these states of consciousness without effort or labor on my part. Therefore, I AM in the Sabbath.
God is immovable, unlimited, unchangeable. The “I AM” within you never changes, it is always the same, but the external form changes because it is relative. Yet the Substance which; is the basis of the form is a Perfect Substance. Relative things are not realities. Therefore I want you to recognize that Reality exists everywhere, and is the basis and the essence of everything. If the external form seems to you imperfect, the Substance and basis of it all is perfect. You have heard of miracles, yet they are nothing more than the perfect action of a Perfect Law that exists eternally and is omnipresent: present everywhere always.
The masterful individuality which speaks from the soul is the Supreme Self, or I AM of God. This I AM is always conscious of Itself. It responds to the man outside as he responds to It. Spirit knows man only at the level of his ability to know himself. Through the spirit . . I AM, we can in the Silence establish a means of communion between the man outside and the Man Inside. Each one of us must contact God through his own mind until He takes possession of our consciousness. The secret of spiritual power is the individual consciousness of union with God. The I AM is Good. It is Love, Life, Law Intelligence and Power, but it interprets Itself to man only as he mentally embodies the whole, only as he recognizes the I AM as the changeless Principle of his own mind. The more completely he becomes conscious of this union, the more power and dominion he expresses. Health, harmony, happiness and prosperity are effects, not causes.
The name Eve means “elemental life,” “life,” “living.” Eve represents the soul region of man and is the mother principle of God in expression through which life is evolved. The I AM (wisdom) puts feeling into what it thinks, and so Eve (feeling) becomes the “mother of all living.” Back of feeling is the pure life essence of God. Adam and Eve symbolize the I AM individualized in life and substance. They are the primal elemental forces of Being itself.
So we see, you must separate the things external to yourselves. Separate your body, your mind from your real self, YOU. That which you are analyzing cannot be you, can it? It is proof of the fact that it has no power of its own, is it not? Do you not see, the Consciousness is always analyzing something external to itself, but it can never analyze itself. It can never know what It is, but only know that It is. So, do not waste your time trying to find out what it is, only know THAT IT IS, and this is the secret. The more you know that It is, the more will it grow in strength and power. Then you will know “I AM.” Immediately you analyze anything external to yourself, even all the forces of the Universe and all in the Universe, even the elements that make up the Universe, you will know they have no power of their own except the power that you give them. You are Spirit individualized. The Eternal Spirit of God is in you, the actual you. Then you will find power and majesty in your Oneness with God. The Consciousness must analyze everything external to itself. When you say “I AM.” realize that it is real. The “I AM” enables you to move, think, act and you are using your instruments as a means of expression. The Substance of the Great “I AM” is the Perfect Substance out of which all things are made, the Substance of the Great “I AM,” the Substance of God. The Great “I AM” is individualized in you and that enables you to say “I AM.” Out of that Substance and in that Substance all things are created and that Substance is perfect in itself. How can any form created in it and out of it have any flaw in it except the individual give it power, who does not understand the Truth?
Jesus found God to be His (I AM) awareness of being and so told man that the Kingdom of God and Heaven were within. When it is recorded that Jesus left the world and went to His Father, it is simply stating that He turned His attention from the world of the senses and rose in (I AM) consciousness to that level which He desired to express. There He remained until He became one with the consciousness to which He ascended. When He returned to the world of man, He could act with the positive assurance of that which He was conscious of being, a state of consciousness no one but Himself felt or knew that He possessed. Man who is ignorant of this everlasting law of expression looks upon such happenings as miracles. To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles.
When he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth. The Spirit of Truth is the I AM of the Universal Mind. When man recognizes that his consciousness is One with the I AM Consciousness, the recognition will guide him into all Truth. We cannot change the truth, but we can change the manifestation of the Law. There is no lack of substance in the great Universal Mind of God, but it is impersonal. Man can always enter the stream of this Universal Substance through the Intelligence and Power of his own I AM, but he can never approach it through the personality or human intellect. Only by surrendering the finite belief in a personal mind and personal self and personal desire that continually tries to demonstrate substance, is it possible to enter the very Substance Itself.
For your five senses act like five husbands who constantly impregnate your consciousness, your I AM, which is the great womb of GOD; and morning, noon, and night they suggest to you, and dictate to you that which you must accept as true. He tells you the one you would like to have for your husband is not your husband. In other words the sixth has not yet impregnated you. What you would like to be is denied by these five, and they hold the power, they dictate what you will accept as true. What you would like to accept has not yet penetrated your mind and impregnated your mind with its reality. He whom you call husband is really not your husband. You are not bearing his likeness. To bear his likeness is proof that you are his wife, at least you have known him intimately. You are not bearing the likeness of the sixth; you are only bearing the likeness of the five. Then one turns to me and tells me all that I have ever known. I go back in my mind’s eye and reason tells me that all through my life I have always accepted the limitations of my senses, I have always looked upon them as fact; and morning, noon, and night I have born witness to this acceptance. Reason tells me I have only known these five from the time I was born. Now I would like to step outside the limitation of my senses but I have not yet found within myself the courage to assume I AM what these five would deny that I AM. So here I remain, conscious of my task, but without the courage to step beyond the limitations of my senses, and that which my reason denies.
It is on the soul or substance side of consciousness that ideas are “identified,” that is, “named.” Whatever we recognize a thing to be, that it becomes to us because of the naming power vested in man (wisdom). “Every beast of the field” and the “cattle” represent ideas of strength, power, vitality, and life. These ideas must be recognized by the I AM before they can be formed. “The birds of the heavens” represent free thoughts and the interchange between the subconscious and the conscious activities of mind. Man has power to name all ideas that are presented to his conscious mind, whether they come from within or without.
As you progress along the path be not hindered by words, actions, thoughts or deeds of others. Realize that the Perfect is . . I AM That I AM . . and cannot be made more perfect; but the outer you should respond to the inner. “Be ye perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” The “I AM” within each is the Christ of God manifesting in humanity, and when this is realized fully by all, the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man will be established upon earth. Then, and then only, will we have supreme happiness. This rests with man, not with God. God has already established this for man, and man has only to accept it by acting according to the Law of God. These words and sayings will affect each and every one of you according to your enlightenment. The “I AM” within is your teacher, and will present to your personal consciousness the message for the moment.
All I AM Quotes From The Power of I AM Volume 2 are from the following Authors
Fay Adams, U. S. Andersen, Raymond Charles Barker, M. MacDonald-Bayne, Joseph Benner, Kate Atkinson Boehme, Thomas Parker Boyd, Louise Brownell, H. Emilie Cady, Robert Collier, Florence Gloria Crawford, Mrs. Dan M. Davidson, Walter Devoe, Franklin Fillmore Farrington, Charles Fillmore, Emmet Fox, John Seaman Garns, Harry Gaze, Neville Goddard, Henry Hand, Shirley Bell Hastings, Ernest Holmes, C. W. Kyle, Christian D. Larson, Elinor S. Moody, Joseph Murphy, Janeski Robenoff, Robert A. Russell, John Milton Scott, Elizabeth Towne, Thomas Troward, Helen Wilmans