Excerpt from   A Guide To Awareness And Tranquillity
By William Samuel         

JUDGMENT AND THE APPEARANCE OF "THINGS" AND EVENTS

QUESTI0N: I've never understood the statement inherent within so many philosophies that there is no matter. Will you explain this?

ANSWER: The statement "there is no matter" does not mean there are no mountains or flowers. It simply means that mountains and flowers are not outside consciousness, are not external. Indeed, there are mountains, and little boys climbing them; there are flowers, and little girls picking them; but they are not apart from the Awareness that perceives them. They are not "out there." They are not one thing and Awareness another, just as the images on the television picture tube are not one thing and the picture tube another. Images, picture tube and television set are one.

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How things appear to us depends on the degree to which we consider our self a possessor of the viewing. To the extent we cease playing the possessor of Awareness-letting that one go-and consciously are Awareness alone, "things" appear the beautiful, flawless and harmonious aspects of Deific Isness they are. It is not that images change, or that Awareness changes; it is that the no-identity, the dark glass, is let go and cast aside. The veil is rent. The mist lifts.

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Because Isness, Deity, is all, Conscious Awareness is Deity's own knowledge of Deity. Images (things) are the qualities and attributes that Deity knows Deity to be. This Awareness that reads these words is this knowing going on, and the objects of perception are the specific "what" Deity knows itself to be! If there is anything to be done, it is to see the absurdity of a "me" getting into the act, who judges the things seen and then makes demands of Awareness to coincide with those judgments.

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God, God's Awareness of Himself, and all God knows Himself to be are all one God-being, and in action! This is the "mystery" of the Trinity.

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We know the images on the television screen, the screen itself, and the television set are all one functioning television set; exactly so, Knower, knowing and known are one. Here and now, the reader, reading and read is the One in action, effortlessly beholding another aspect of the infinite Selfhood.

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Awareness is an obvious fact because we are aware. All that "needs be done" is to acknowledge this Awareness, here and now, to be God's alone. It is our good pleasure to be the Deific Awareness of Deity! This is true! It is a fact! We do not have to do anything to make it so; we do not even have to acknowledge it and act it; but when we do, we behold wonder after wonder everywhere and see the ills of the old vision vanish.

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WE MAKE NO DEMANDS

End the attempt to make experience (Awareness in action) conform to the demands of the "Bill" or "Elizabeth"-container-of-Awareness we have believed our Identity to be. There is neither "Bill" nor "Elizabeth" identity outside the belief that they, as the possessors of Life, are who we are. Letting go that belief (to be the Identity we are instead), "things" appear beautifully, perfectly, gloriously! How else should Isness see Isness? How else should perfection appear to Perfection? How else can Health, Sufficiency, Tranquility and Peace appear to the Deific Godhead, "Father" of this very consciousness-I-am?

You see, only the pseudo-identity, the "Bill" or "Elizabeth," sees "things" as fouled up, messed up, mangled and mashed. Only "Bill" and "Elizabeth" see images as separate and apart from themselves, "out there." They live a lonely, limited, lackluster life of lack because they hold themselves in another world, unreal from beginning to end. Holding themselves separate from "things," they hold themselves separate from Reality, which is being "things," and, for them, "religion" is just what the word means-a binding back to God, a prodigal's return from the land of Nod.

Religion seeks to return the possessor of Awareness to that place from which Awareness itself has never departed. By now, we understand that God's own Self-knowledge has never gone awandering, and we are that Self-knowledge! We are God's awareness of Himself. Could anything be more wonderful than to be the knowing of everything Infinity determines to know of Itself?

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