[The complete text of this rare Psychiana book, Dr. Frank B. Robinson's "The Pathway to God" (1943) is being presented in a series of installments. For additional posts please click the book icon in the right column. To learn more about Psychiana please use the column links.]
THE FIFTH STEP
Marry God
(Part D)
This is a different life from the one you have been living. There's a Power in it now there never was before. There's a recognition of the Power of God in it now, and that was never there before. There will come an expansion of your physical life. It will grow more and more like the Life of God. The closer you keep to God, the constant conversation you have with God, the impelling Power of the Spirit of God in you, all these will make you more like God. The closer you keep to God, the more of the Spirit of God you will know. The more of God you know, the more like God you become. When you feel that there is a definite impression that you should make some move to tell others about the Priceless Gem you have found, follow that lead.
This world is dying for men and women who, having found God, will go out into the highways and byways and tell others. It will not be long before the world will know that there is a different sort of God being offered to it. A God who can do things here and now. A God who did not hide His face from the man He created for the past 100,000 years, but a God whose Power has only recently been made known to mankind.
This revelation of the Power of God is coming to earth at this very precise moment. We haven't seen the last of this war yet. We shall bleed here in America, for this truly is a world revolution. In reality it is but the birth-pangs of a new day which is to be ushered in. This new day will not be built upon any four freedoms. It will not be planned by Mr. Roosevelt, or Mr. Churchill, or Mister Anyone else. It will be planned by Almighty God, and in such a manner as to make the Presence of Almighty God the greatest single factor in human lives everywhere.
If the world could get a universal concept of God - if the world could discover a universal Power which was instantly available for black, white, green and yellow - if humanity could have a real demonstration of the Power of God - if it could be told that all the Power of God is bending over backwards trying to reveal Itself to man, then we should have a platform upon which a world order of joy could be built. But to build it without God - never. That's been tried from time immemorial. All such attempts have failed because the truths of God have not yet been brought to humanity. Now they are coming. I do not know how long it will take America to grasp them. But they will be grasped. What has been going on is well known to our churches who, seeing their fragile untrue structure falling, have attempted to crucify this prophet of God.
But he cannot be crucified. Even if he were, the foundation of these divine truths are already built. The seeds have been thoroughly sowed. The rich harvest will appear in due time. Those privileged to work for the Master now, just before the harvest, are fortunate. Sometimes, when I consider the abject misery in which the world finds itself, and when I think of how three mad-men have been allowed to advocate their hellish philosophies, I cannot resist again urging our churches for God's sake to get rid of old myths from the dark ages, and change them for the pure unsullied truths of God. Let's change "belief" into knowledge. Let's change the "faith" we hear so much about into actual Power, brought to us because we have finally discovered, in us, the Power of the Spirit of God.
Religious tradition has always died hard. If men would be willing to die as hard for God as they are willing to die for their churches - if they would be as willing to fight for God as they are to fight for their churches with their unprovable theories about God, this world could be made to blossom as the rose in a very short time. It might be well for those of us who know the actual Power of God to remember our churches. It might be well for us to use the Power of the Spirit of God in such a manner that these good brethren will, in some manner unknown to me, give up theories of God which never have been able to reveal God to humanity.
I don't think we can bank on that though. This new revelation of the Power of God is coming to humanity entirely outside of our religious bodies. Thus, is history repeating itself. The truths of God often have to sneak in wearing the garb of a burglar. Those who would reveal the Spirit of God have always had to travel a hard path. But the trials and tribulations of the prophet of God who is pioneering the actual truths of God, will all be forgotten in that hour when the glorious knowledge of the existence of the Spirit of God on earth becomes fully known.
So to be married to God carries a responsibility with it. It's something like one who possesses a very valuable jewel. He protects that jewel. He is careful that no one has an opportunity to steal it. There is this difference though - there is no possibility of anyone ever stealing the Power of God from you. You may lose it or you may deliberately choose to ignore it, although that's not likely. But no one can ever steal this priceless jewel of the Power of God from you.
There exists then the responsibility of keeping this Jewel of the Power of God in your possession. This brilliant Flame of the Love and Power of God is the greatest spiritual possession you will ever have. Through it, an abundance of all spiritual and material things can be brought to you. In no other way can they come.
When you, recognizing the hidden treasure of the Spirit of God in your life, consciously live your life by and through this Power, whatever you need just naturally comes to you. Your every longing is anticipated in the Realm of God, where provision has already been made for those longings. They exist in God. With the Spirit of God in you, and the conscious ability to talk with God about those longings, and with the creative ability and divine nature of God on your side, don't you see - you cannot lack anything which is for your good, and thereby for the good of the rest of the human race - provided of course that you have fully realized the fact that it is your life's work to tell others of the amazing things the Spirit of God can do for them.
Of course, neither you nor I can bring the full consciousness of the Power of God to the world. That consciousness will come, and the day is not far off. But much has to be suffered first. There's too much selfishness in the world. There is too much distrust of "the other fellow". There is too much of this business of "holding what we have".
At this writing, Admiral Standley has just released a statement from Russia telling the world that the Soviet government is leading the Russian people to believe that Russia is winning the war all alone, and without help from anyone. He seems to be concerned over the implications of this attitude, for, he states he has looked in vain in the Russian newspapers for one word telling of the aid the United Nations are giving. He doesn't understand it. Neither do I.
[To be continued.]
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Dr. Frank B. Robinson
Excerpts from:
"The Pathway to God"
Psychiana, Inc.
Moscow, Idaho, 1943.
Monday, December 14, 2009
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