{"id":97,"date":"2013-12-31T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-12-31T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:18:28","slug":"week-7-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T.<\/span><\/p>\n

VII<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seventh Mystery: Humiliation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, this one that\u2019s comin\u2019 up sounds kinda peculiar, but I will give a little preliminary if I may.\u00a0 It is the Mystery of Humiliation.\u00a0 Now, the only thing that ever needs to be humiliated or can be humiliated is the \u201cself\u201d which is all these little things – the complainer, the blamer, the pleaser, the sticker-up-for rights, the quoter of authority, and the self-improver.\u00a0 Now we can either humiliate it by ignoring it\u2026 you know, that\u2019s the biggest humiliation you can give, is ignore somebody on the street or whatever.\u00a0 You become a \u201cno person.\u201d\u00a0 So we can either do that now, or we can let it go on and on until it\u2019s forcibly done.\u00a0 I choose to humiliate the not-I\u2019s right away.\u00a0 Ignore them, act like they\u2019re \u201cno-people.\u201d\u00a0 That really humiliates them.\u00a0 Now if you don\u2019t, they will take you through a lot of humiliations.\u00a0 If you want to do it the hard way, more power to you.\u00a0 If you want to do it the easy way, that\u2019s wonderful, too.\u00a0 But one way or the other it will happen if you continue along attempting to be a conscious person.\u00a0 One way or the other the humiliation will come along.\u00a0 The easy way is to ignore the not-I\u2019s which humiliates them \u2013 cause, that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s gonna be humiliated is the not- I\u2019s.\u00a0 But you see, most of us identify with them and so we wind up with lots of humiliations, right, Mary?\u00a0 Hmm? <\/span><\/p>\n

(Getting better.) <\/span><\/p>\n

Getting\u2019 better?\u00a0 (laughs)\u00a0 Might as well stop it, then it\u2019s not getting any better – it\u2019s gone, okay?\u00a0 So we will go through this one with that little preliminary that the only thing that ever is humiliated is the not-I\u2019s.\u00a0 If you identify with them \u2013 with the complainer, and the sticker-up-for-rights, and the blamer and the pleaser, the quoter of authorities and the self-improver – then the whole thing will experience humiliation. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Seventh Mystery is the Mystery of Humiliation.\u00a0 <\/span>Before I make you conscious of Myself, I cause you to struggle with a sense of separate existence.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You see, the not-I\u2019s are separate.\u00a0 They feel \u201cI\u201d and \u201cI\u201d have a mind, \u201cI have a body and God\u2019s off in Heaven somewheres, wearin\u2019 a purple throne and got a yellow pad, makin\u2019 marks on me.\u201d\u00a0 But\u2026 you know, one, two, three, four, psssst.\u00a0 [He makes like he\u2019s checking things off a list.]<\/em>\u00a0 You pray to something off into the blue yonder and you wonder if it heard you.\u00a0 Really, Life is so here that it can’t be not here.\u00a0 It does everything you say you wanna do. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So before I make you conscious of Myself, I cause you to struggle with the sense of separate existence.\u00a0 <\/span>When the sense of separate existence is overcome,\u00a0then you can be conscious of Me.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So when you realize that there is nothing that can say “I” that is real (not-I\u2019s), that the only thing that can really say I<\/span> is the Awareness Function of X, and the function is not a separate thing – it’s only a function of something that really exists.\u00a0 So you could be over it right now if you choose to look at it.\u00a0 So when all this sense of separate existence is gone, \u201cthen you can be conscious of Me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And that struggle will have developed the organ of the mind so that consciousness will be a great joy unto you.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now if there was consciousness probably without anything, it wouldn\u2019t be a joy. But if you been through all this struggle, then it is a tremendous joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, to overcome the sense of separate existence, you must be humbled.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s that which identifies with the not-I’s. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That individuality which seems to you to be yours exclusively, is really Mine, not yours.\u00a0 <\/span>That sense of deserving which you have, applies only to Me, not to you.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You know, you really feel you deserve to be treated a lot better than you are.\u00a0 And you deserve to feel better, have more things, be treated nicer, right?\u00a0 You deserve that?\u00a0 How come, I don’t know.\u00a0 You not only \u201cdeserve\u201d it, you\u2019re \u201centitled to it\u201d cause you were born, huh?<\/span><\/p>\n

Who are you, apart from Me?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, what would be left if Life departed from one of these bodies here today?\u00a0 What’s left?\u00a0 Nothing – a corpse, a stinky mess you got to get rid of somewhere.\u00a0 It’s very expensive to dispose of \u2018em these days, too.\u00a0 So what are you other than that Life which dwells in this body?\u00a0 What are you?\u00a0 Nothin\u2019.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019d be easy to get through our heads.\u00a0 Just imagine if X says, “pluup” and takes a ride this afternoon.\u00a0 Fires up its helicopter and takes a run.\u00a0 What’s left?\u00a0 Hmm?\u00a0 Nothin\u2019, okay? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Learn that there is no such person as the “self”.\u00a0 <\/span>Learn that I, and I alone, exist and animate the body; that I, and I alone, do all things that the body does.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

X does it all.\u00a0 It digests the food, walks, talks, eats, sleeps – the whole schmeer.\u00a0 We don’t know how to do it.\u00a0 Did you ever try to force yourself to sleep at night?\u00a0 Didn’t work, did it?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(You\u2019re talking about last night.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn too, that I take the responsibility upon Myself\u00a0for all that the body has done, is doing or will ever do.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So you don’t have anything to worry about, ok? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To another age I gave this Mystery of My responsibility for all things\u00a0by the symbol of the cross; \u00a0teaching them that I took their sense of guilt upon Myself, and purged it upon the cross.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Christ said He took the sins of the world on; He’s responsible for all of it.\u00a0 So He got rid of \u2018em.\u00a0 So He left you and me scot-free.\u00a0 So if you will take it, you don’t have anything to be guilty about now.\u00a0 Life said it took it all that everybody has done, is doing, or will ever do, okay?\u00a0 So you don’t have anything to fret about. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But unto you I give the Mystery of Humiliation, teaching you that you are nobody at all, <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Period. \u201cI\u201d is a \u201cno thing\u201d, not a \u201cnothing\u201d, a \u201cno thing\u201d.\u00a0 That’s what the word nothing means, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 A \u201cno thing\u201d.\u00a0 Now you’re a nobody at all; and<\/span><\/p>\n

and that it is I who live in the body.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

X is the one lives there and that sense of separate existence is only a dream.\u00a0 Like a grasshopper dreaming he’s a man, or man dreaming he’s a grasshopper, you know. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can have no guilt, and you can have no merit.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So don’t pat yourself on the back or feel how terrible you are; you’re neither.\u00a0 Period.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, that in you which thinks it is a person shall suffer humiliation after humiliation until it dies, leaving the body free to enjoy Me.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now we might as well let that not-I clan die today cause I am not separate.\u00a0 I am nothing, I am a no – thing.\u00a0 Only X lives in this body and this idea of personality that I\u2019m separate from Life, and I can tell it what to do.\u00a0 You know, did you ever go to church and the preacher gets up and prays, “Lord, have it rain, and Lord, get the floods out of the way, and Lord, cure all the sick, and Lord do this and Lord do that,” like you didn’t know enough to get in out of the rain, so you have to tell him.\u00a0\u00a0 Can you imagine that?\u00a0 That really takes audacity.\u00a0 Humiliation – you can see the necessity of it in cases like that. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Many pray, \u201cLord, make us humble\u201d,\u00a0yet when I visit them with humiliation, they recognize not My hand.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know it’s like the guy that prayed, “Oh Lord, give me patience and do it now!” \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Humiliation is the most painful thing the pride can suffer;\u00a0yet must it suffer before it can die.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026.because as long as it gets all of it’s way and everything goes on, so it seems that it would be to our advantage to give it the suffering, you know, and just say, \u201cYou’re a no \u2013 being. You’re a nothing, you’re a not-I and you don’t belong to me and you don’t have anything.\u201d\u00a0 I know people say \u201cmy not-I\u2019s” do this, do that.\u00a0 They even claim the damn things! \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Has the pride hopes that it shall save the personality?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh yeah, everybody wants the personality.\u00a0 That’s why, you know, a lot of folks believe in reincarnation.\u00a0 That means, \u201cYou ain\u2019t gonna get rid of me all that easy.\u00a0 I’m gonna come back and haunt you next time around.\u201d\u00a0 And so forth\u2026\u00a0 It’s inconceivable to many people that the personality, which is nothing but the not-I’s, could ever cease to exist.\u00a0 And it is<\/em> going to cease to exist.\u00a0 You can do it the hard way or the easy way.<\/span><\/p>\n

That it shall find favor or gain power?\u00a0 <\/span>Has it hopes that it shall be judged \u201cgood\u201d, or that it will live forever?\u00a0 <\/span>Learn this – that there is no hope.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026for the not-I’s. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In deep humiliation it<\/strong> [the “self”] <\/span>shall die and pass away, and I alone shall live.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So let’s get that kinda straight.\u00a0 There’s none of us is gonna hang in here as the personality.\u00a0 Now if we get rid of the personality, all sorts of possibilities are open, but as long as it sits there, it’s a bunch of foolishness. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet has the imagining of the personality been good for the body, for it has developed the organ of the brain which shall hereafter become conscious of Me, the One Infinite Personality.\u00a0 <\/span>You think that the personality dwells in the body, and is more important than the body.\u00a0 <\/span>But I will hereafter reveal unto you that I am caring for the body and have provided it with the proud sense of personality to develop it, and that when the body is developed so that it shall have no further need of that proud sense,\u00a0I will send thee deep humiliations.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So let’s get rid of it now so we don’t have to put up with the deep part of it.\u00a0 But the whole bit is that personality is only education, pure conditioning, and has absolutely nothing you need.\u00a0 Now Life says it has used it to strengthen the body because of all the turmoils and it made you stronger by having it.\u00a0 And you appreciate getting along without it.\u00a0 But it has purely bits of conditioning.\u00a0 Had we grown up in a country where it was wonderful to eat, uh, that we had to hide away in a little private room when we eat, and that we could do all the bodily functions out in public, we’d be very humiliated if somebody saw us eating, is that right?\u00a0 Now it would have been just as easy to have put on you as anything else.\u00a0 Right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Now in certain areas in this world, you know in medical school, why the boys could take their shirts off; the girls only could expose their back and the girls could let it all hang out, that woulda been all right.\u00a0 [Bob notices a butterfly that came in through an open window.]\u00a0 <\/em>One of the little butterflies come in.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Lake Whitney\u2019s known for \u2013 its butterflies.\u00a0 It would be just as easy if you stop to think about it.\u00a0 You could have been conditioned any way there was.\u00a0 You were conditioned to speak English when you were born.\u00a0 It coulda been just as easily you\u2019d a been conditioned to talk Chinese or Japanese or something.\u00a0 And you would have thought that English sounded real weird.\u00a0 Even your name sounds weird sometimes, don’t it, Tina? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Well, if the personality didn’t exist.\u2026) <\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, it exists, as an illusion. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Okay, if it exists as an illusion, then what makes us all so different?\u00a0 Why is it that she’s different from me and\u2026.)<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve been through that all the time here.\u00a0 Everybody’s built different, but the conditioning is about the same in everybody.\u00a0 Thank goodness there is<\/em> an \u201cInfinite Personality\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cInfinite\u201d means without end, doesn’t it?\u00a0 So this body will express one way, that body expresses another way, that body expresses another way, this one another way, and that one over there another, cause all these bodies are different and they will express differently when only Life runs it – Infinite Personality.<\/span><\/p>\n

All these personal ones\u2026 you know they’re so similar, it’s unbelievable.\u00a0 I can make almost everybody fight at me by sayin\u2019 the same group of words at \u2018em with the same tone.\u00a0 Now see, I can say a word with one tone and you purr, and I say the same word with another tone and your claws come out, Tina.\u00a0 Hmm?\u00a0 That part\u2019s pretty standard, isn’t it?\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty standard.\u00a0 But the real person will all be different and they\u2019re spontaneous and totally unpredictable, ok?\u00a0 Cause each one of us is different from anybody else.\u00a0 Bodies are different and X expresses through those bodies as they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026I will send thee deep humiliations.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Then shall that proud sense be brought low and die.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, the not-I’s will die. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So when any humiliation comes to you, let the personality tremble, for its end is near; but let the body rejoice, for its freedom is at hand.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s nice isn’t it? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You think you have an aspiration to do good or benefit mankind.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know I run into all kinds of people that know they have a great mission if the Lord would just let \u2018em in on it – what they can do for the world.\u00a0 Tell \u2018em the best thing they can do is shut up. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But all desires, ambitions, and aspirations are of the personality and shall die with it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When it dies, all these great aspirations to \u201cdo well\u201d and to \u201ccure the world of all of its ills\u201d and \u201cto really do a great mission\u201d will all die with it, thank goodness.\u00a0 We won’t have to be bothered with all the do-gooders then.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many pray, \u201cLord if thou send wealth,\u00a0I will use most of it to benefit others to Thy glory.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

That is, until I get it.\u00a0 Then I’ll use it for myself.\u00a0 That’s just a gimmick to try to get Him to give it to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, would you help Me to develop and benefit mankind?\u00a0 <\/span>Do you know better than I do what others need;\u00a0and would you supply unto others that which I withhold from them?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know, you’re gonna go straighten out and interfere in the work of Life to benefit and fix everybody.\u00a0 You know, one of the greatest things to do is mind our own business. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That wish is simply the personality trying to assert itself.\u00a0 <\/span>Yet let it try and let it fail, reaping humiliation from all of its efforts and bringing humiliation to others, for thus do I use it to develop the body,\u00a0and also those other bodies.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So you see that all these people\u2019s out savin\u2019 the world.\u00a0 Out in California, everybody’s in the \u201cpeople savin\u2019\u201d business these days.\u00a0 Are they here, too?\u00a0 There’s one little magazine put out in San Diego called \u201cHolistic Living\u201d and everybody has an ad how they’re gonna save you.\u00a0 I suppose there is at least 200 ads every paper comes out.\u00a0 Everybody going to save you in their<\/em> way.\u00a0 Then, thank goodness, to balance it there\u2019s a little magazine put out same day called “Wolf”.\u00a0 Wolf.\u00a0 And it pokes a little fun at all these holes, you know, kinda keeps the balance going.\u00a0 It’s a little fun you can see what a joke all this crap is, you know.\u00a0 I think every community should have a “Wolf.”\u00a0 Have a \u201cWolf\u201d Magazine.\u00a0 They have ads in it that are fake-o ads, but they\u2019re offerin\u2019 all these great and wondrous things, you know, that everybody else is, only it is a little bit humiliating to the others.\u00a0 So that is where I think Life is running “Wolf.”\u00a0 It humiliates the others, the personality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0This Seventh Mystery is very hard for the conceit to learn. \u00a0But when you shall have suffered the humiliation yet in store for you, it will be a season full of joy.\u00a0 For behold you will be free of that conceit and the body will be an instrument of My joy alone.\u00a0 If you cannot yet receive these words, it is well that you should reject them.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 [Please.] <\/span>The present pride is as much My work as the humiliation will be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So we’re building you up for a sit down, you know. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For the body it is well that pride rules with it’s ambitions and desire until it works its power on you.\u00a0 <\/span>When its work is perfected, thou shalt cast it off, and the body shall arise from the death of the pride, strong to express Me.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the story of the Phoenix, the bird that burned up and out of the ashes arises.\u00a0 The false personality goes by the wayside and the real personality is born from the ashes of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

So the only way the real I,<\/span> or that Infinite Personality will arise (which is different in everybody but will be very, very much expressing, radiating life, love, truth, health, etc.) can only arise out of the ashes of the false personality, the not-I’s, being destroyed.\u00a0 The only way they can be destroyed is humiliation.\u00a0 Now, that’s the one thing they can’t stand is to be laughed at.\u00a0 They get very upset.\u00a0 Now as long as they can scare you, frighten you or you wanna fight with them they\u2019re in pig heaven.\u00a0 But if you laugh at them, they are in a mess.\u00a0 So it is well to laugh at them – for yourself.\u00a0 Now if you laugh at \u2018em in somebody else, you may not live to get rid of yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

So we will take another here without any further break: The 8th Mystery.\u00a0 Now, the 7th one is Humiliation – the not-I’s must die.\u00a0 Period.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Dr. Bob, it’s like the man with the acorn in his pocket.\u00a0 He said, “This acorn is going to be a mighty oak, but it’s not going to be unless it get’s out of your pocket.\u201d) \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Right.\u00a0 Leave it in the pocket so it won’t be any oak.\u00a0 So it is humiliation.\u00a0 Humiliation is the way we laugh at the not-I’s.\u00a0 They can’t bite you, they just carry on and make a lot of fuss and frighten people and everything.\u00a0 They’re really polished.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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