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CONSCIOUSNESS IN RELATION TO TIME

by Serapis Bey 

ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE CLOCK AND CALENDAR

Mankind is a slave to the artificial element which has been created as the measuring rod of growth, unfoldment and accomplishment, and which was primarily established to be a guide to the intellect wherein it could measure the cooperative flow of nature's forces from season to season. 

In this manner man could assure himself of the cosmic release of the vibrations from nature's heart which would ensure completion of his endeavors in agriculture, navigation, and so on. 

The early fathers of the race, therefore, established this artificial measurement, tracing the course of the Earth around the Sun that the mass of the people might know when the currents of nature would be most auspicious for planting, sailing, and other activities. 

Examination of the consciousness will reveal that TIME has become the measuring rod by which ALL achievement of progress and unfoldment are developed. TIME has become the oppressor and the human body outpictures the disintegration and ultimate dissolution resulting from the belief in the subjection of the consciousness to this artificial mechanical measurement. 

DISMISS ENTITY OF TIME FROM CONSCIOUSNESS 

In the search of the development of the Spiritual Consciousness, however, the student must come to the realization that the entity of time must be reckoned with and dismissed from the consciousness as a limiting condition. The eternal NOW must be contemplated and entertained as the ONLY quality of being both with regard to spiritual illumination and with regard to financial freedom, health, eternal youth and all the other qualities. 

FEEL OPULENT ALL THE TIME 

Examination of the consciousness will reveal the acceptance of a limited human being who - IN TIME - evolves into a spiritual entity; and it will also reveal that all financial status is built upon the element of TIME. There are limitations dependent upon the time when Opulence is released in definite rhythmic pulsations of recorded time, whether each week or each month. Thus, the consciousness dwells in opulence at whatever TIME income is expected to be forthcoming, and dwells in the feeling of privation during the TIME when payments are to be made! 

People have fallen further under the mesmerism of time by reason of the present system of installment purchases wherein they accept that IN TIME they will own their particular manifestation or whatever it may be. 

A careful study of one's inner state of being will reveal that TIME is the predominant master of one's life. Even the actions of the average man are conducted, regulated, supervised by and controlled entirely by this artificial mechanism revolving on a pivot. You will see the foolishness of this in relation to the universal opulence and health when you give it a little thought. 

For instance, so many revolutions of this mechanical contrivance, which is a measurement of time, results in a salary: So many revolutions of this mechanical contrivance results in the course of a disease! So many revolutions in the course of a life, this robot (would by the hands of an infant) becomes the master of the race: 

In the case of death or some other unhappy experience of the third dimensional plane, the statement is used: "Time will heal the wound; Time will fill the loss"'. People have no concept of the tremendous limitation that this element of time has placed between them and full freedom. 

To re-orient one's inner consciousness into a state of acceptance of ALL GOOD - financial, physical, mental and spiritual - the element of time must first be dealt with within the consciousness and the feeling world of the lifestream. 

The discerning mind will immediately question the rhythmic rising and setting of the Sun, etc. These activities are NOT under the direction of TIME but are the pulsations of Life's energy releasing GOOD and then contracting to draw GOOD from the Universal Father, and the result of this in-breathing and out-breathing has given the pattern by which the artificial element of time was set up. The Sun is not bound to rise at five or six o'clock; the Sun rises and sets according to the pulsation of its own Heart Flame, and the shadow it casts mankind have interpreted as TIME. 

The Universe and all created Life lives in rhythm, just as your heart beats in a rhythmic pulsation which can be measured by time as forty or sixty pulsations to the minute, but your heart does not wait to fit into the rhythm of the clock - the clock merely records the pulsations of the heart. 

It must be thus in your individual lives. Your pulsations of opulence, of health, of illumination, of Freedom may be recorded by the artificial standards of time - BUT - they must not be dependent upon or subject to this artificial element of TIME: When this is understood, greater Freedom can be assured.