Meditation Defined

Meditation Defined
PJ#34

The seat of Consciousness, which is the Light in man, centers the seat of sensation from which the electric action-reaction sequences of thinking extend. In meditation, you are partially or wholly severing the extending sensations of your thinking in order to find the stillness of the Light, which your Consciousness is. You thus lose your manifestation of life–which your body is–to find the eternal life–which your Soul is.

Let us again define meditation in other words: Meditation is a communion with God for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and power to manifest God as co-Creator of His universe. In different words, it is to enable Mind to control matter. That acquisition gives you the power to create your individual universe in the image of your individual Self, as God creates His universe in His image. Through meditation, you free your body from slavery and acquire mastery over it. The human race has been a slave to its body all down the ages.

You and every other man are slaves to your bodily senses until knowledge gives your Mind mastery over them. Since different words about the same thing have connotations which lead to better understandings, let us again define meditation with different words:

Meditation is the basis for intercommunication between your immortal mind and the electric senses of your mortal body.

Meditation is a conference between your immortal Mind-Self, which knows, and your thinking, which builds images of your knowing–also your body, which acts in obedience to the will of your Mind.

Meditation is an expression of desire for knowledge of perfect CAUSE for the purpose of producing perfect EFFECT.

In communion with God, you acquire God-awareness, which means Cosmic Consciousness, by forgetting body awareness, which means material sensing. God-awareness in you brings realization of the Light of Cosmic Consciousness in you. When your realization of your cosmic unity with God is strong enough, your cosmic power is the measure of your intensity of that realization. The only way you can multiply your strength to think, or to create, or to command matter to your obedience, such as commanding your body to health, or commanding masterly achievement by control over your body, Is to multiply God-awareness In you.

Your Mind is God’s Mind. Your thinking is God’s thinking. Your creative processes are God’s creative processes. When God concentrates His thinking, body-forms appear in the image of His desiring. When God decentrates His thinking, those body-forms expand into disappearance to reappear when God reconcentrates His thinking. You do likewise, for there is but one KNOWER, one THINKER and one CREATOR In the universe.

God is all that IS. YOU are all that IS. In meditative communion with God, you become aware of that. To be alone with God is to know the wonder of that awareness. Meditation is for the purpose of recollecting your immortality. God creates His universal body by extending the electric pulsations of His thinking from the stillness of the Light of His knowing. Idea of God’s knowing is projected by light-waves through the motion of His thinking to mirrored image waveforms of idea which we call matter.

All matter is but electric wave-pulsations of His thinking, recording the idea of His thinking in forms which appear, disappear, and reappear to synchronize with the cyclic sequences of His concentrative-decentrative and reconcentrative thinking which characterize the entirety of effect in this dynamic universe of His creating.

God’s eternally-creating universe is the result of His eternally-continuous meditation and desire to manifest idea.

You create your universe in the same manner and by the same processes and method under control of the same law. There is no other manner, nor process, nor method, nor law. Your universe is your Mind-idea of what you are. It is your Soul’s desire manifested into the material image of your thinking. It is the fruit of your meditation.

The most wonderful thing about it is that God will give you whatever you ask, fulfill your desire no matter what you desire. You can make yourself into the kind of person you desire to be, whether bishop, poet or thief, for the whole universe will work with you to fulfill your desire if you work with its law. If you work against the law, it will avail you nothing, even if you fulfill your desire. Balance your desires, therefore, and their fulfillment will, likewise, be balanced. Communion with God in meditation will not only mold your desires in harmony with Divine Law but will give you knowledge of the nature of God–which will become your nature. To the extent that you reflect God’s nature, your desires will also reflect God’s nature. THIS SHOULD BE YOUR CONSTANT ENDEAVOR FOR ITS SUPREME ATTAINMENT IS YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL.