Our contribution to the cosmos
“I am the Door of the Sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not heed them.” John 10:7
The I AM is a door to spirit. We are the sheep. On one side of the door are thieves and robbers snapping at our heels. On the other side of the door is our spiritualised being and our spiritual contribution to the Cosmos. These thieves and robbers are the forces within us that keep us from entering through the door. They keep us from entering into a right relationship with our I AM.
Have you ever walked into a room and had an uncomfortable feeling about happened there before you entered? You experience what another person has left behind in the room? The clairvoyant can see in an Imaginative picture what emanated from that person.
Do we think about what emanates from us every moment of everyday? In everything we do we send out spiritual substance into the world, it is perpetually passing over from us into the world. It rays forth from us and influences the whole world.
Every thought of love, every kindness, every prayer, and every lie, every judgment, all our irritability and our anger. These are actual substances, however fine, that ray forth and they are perceptible to those who have eyes to see. This substance continually fills the world and creates the future. This is how we provide the building-stones for the future. So it follows that the present world is the result of all the thoughts of love and hate from the past.
So we stand on the doorstep of the I AM in everyday life deciding to enter into that right relationship with it. Sometimes we can be objective and control our temper. Sometimes we can love where love is not returned. At other times we snap and abuse someone. Or we lie or cheat or blame others so that we don’t have to take responsibility for what happens to us.
So what rays forth from us falls into two parts; that which is gladly received by the cosmos and that which the cosmos rejects. All that is negative does not please the cosmos so it leaves it alone. It remains where it is. How long does it remain? It remains there until such time as we come and destroy it. All false thoughts, all ugly feelings, whatever is morally evil - a man must himself erase from existence if it is to be no longer there. It will follow him continually until he has erased it. How is it erased? With true thoughts, beautiful feelings and good deeds.
Knowing this might motivate us to decide here and now never to create anything on the side of the door where the thieves and robbers are. But what about the ‘stuff’ that we have already created? Everyday we have the opportunity to deal with that. Yet how many people disown what they have created by not accepting responsibility for what is happening to them by blaming someone else?
If we want to pass through the door freely, having the right relationship to our I AM, then we must become the sheep, the sacrifice. If someone does us wrong then we must as quickly as possible neutralise our feelings about it. Otherwise those angry feelings will thieve and rob the forces of the I AM. We will create more substance that the Cosmos rejects.
This is exactly why the little tests of life come our way, to give us the opportunity to erase the past, nay, to redeem the past. Christ is the key to this process. He has given us the power that makes it possible to be continually creative, to continually create what the cosmos will accept. He stands there in the etheric world just on the other side of the door, patiently waiting for us – “I am the door, if any one enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”
It is awe inspiring to think that we can make this contribution to the cosmos. It is almost beyond comprehension that the light of our love, of our prayer, and the light that ignites when a spiritual truth thrills us, can create the future and resolve the past.