Conscious Identity of Being
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I identify my awareness
[as divine Mind],
the cosmic administrator,
the creative impulse of
self-referral evolutionary activity,
the silent witness,
creative intelligence in action,
the omni-acting bestower of
the crystal clear resplendent glory of
the fullness of Life.¹
— attributed to Maharishi Vedic Science
God is my Mind
and yours.
There is but one Mind.²
— attributed to Mary Baker Eddy
God doesn’t have intelligence—
God is intelligence.
— Joy Hirshberg
That field of divine intelligence
is [our] own functioning intelligence.
— teaching from Maharishi Vedic Science
In Science, it can never be said
that man has a mind of his own,
distinct from God, the all Mind.³
— Mary Baker Eddy
God isn’t the best or highest
presence, power, and consciousness—
God is the only presence, power, and consciousness.
God is All.
— Joy Hirshberg
We have declared
an omnipresent God long enough—
the time is here for us to prove
this Omnipresence.
Tennyson wrote, ‘Closer is God than breathing,
and nearer than hands and feet.’
Can you conceive of God being any closer
than the discovery that
divine Mind is your own Consciousness? ⁴
— Vivian May Williams
(italics is in the original)
It is most important
to maintain our thought
as the conscious identity of divine Mind.⁵
— Martha Wilcox
The Christ-consciousness
is your consciousness.⁶
— Bicknell Young
The entire secret of harmonious living
is in the realization
of God as individual consciousness.⁷
Assume all the right and prerogatives of divine Mind.⁸
— Bicknell Young
Let this Mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus.
— Philippians 2:5 KJV
I AM THAT
THOU ART THAT
ALL THIS IS THAT
THAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS¹⁰
— The Upanishads
I AM THAT.
I AM!
— Joy Hirshberg
inspired by Exodus 3:14
Every human thought must turn instinctively
to the divine Mind as its sole centre and intelligence.
Until this be done,
man will never be found harmonious and immortal.¹¹
— Mary Baker Eddy
If we understood that the consciousness that we now are,
reflects or shows forth the one and only consciousness,
then our consciousness is true.
But if we believe that we are a personality,
and include a consciousness of our own,
then our consciousness is false.¹²
— Martha Wilcox
The belief that we are a person with the faculty of awareness
to the understanding that we are awareness itself…
has enormous implications for any individual
and for the evolution of humanity as a whole.
Indeed I would suggest that this is
the next evolutionary step, and that upon which
the survival of humanity as we know it depends.¹³
— Rupert Spira
…Man is what he is—
the conscious identity of Good—
and nothing can change that fact.¹⁴
— Margaret Laird
References
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg15446.html • 06.29.2005
From clues in the original on an obscure website, this is assumed to be posted by a serious student of Maharishi Vedic Science. To capture the oneness—the allness, the absolute non-duality—of divine consciousness, [as] replaces “with,” [divine Mind] replaces “supreme intelligence,” [cosmic] replaces “highest,” and [omni-acting] replaces “supreme.”
[2] Course in Divinity and General Collectanea of Items by and About Mary Baker Eddy, compiled by Richard Oakes (Healing Unlimited, 2006), p. 61
[3] Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 204
[4] Vivian May Williams, There is Nothing But God, (The Rare Book Company, 1934), p. 19 • [God] replaces “He,” [divine Mind] replaces “He”
[5] Martha Wilcox, Association Address 1947, (The Bookmark), p. 3
[6] Bicknell Young, God is Individual Consciousness, The Collected Writings of Bicknell Young, Collection III, (The Bookmark), p. 1
[7] Ibid., p. 3
[8] Ibid., p. 4
[9] Martha Wilcox, Association Address 1947, (The Bookmark), p. 70
[10] Anna J. Bonshek, Mirror of Consciousness: Art, Creativity, and Veda, (Jainendra Prakash Jain At Shri Jainendra Press, 2001), p. 197
I AM THAT Aham Brahmāsmi Bṛihadāraṇyak Upanishad 1.4.10
THOU ART THAT Tat Tvam Asi Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7
ALL THIS IS THAT Sarvaṃ khalvidaṁ Brahm Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1
THAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS Pragyānaṁ Brahm Aitareya Upanishad 3.1.3
[11] Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, (First Church Christ, Scientist, 1924), p. 307-308
[12] Martha Wilcox, Excerpts from Class Teaching, (The Bookmark, 1986), p. 27
[13] Rupert Spira, Humanity’s Next Evolutionary Step, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYoX6T3GfoY 04.03.2024
[14] Margaret Laird, All Is One, (Institute of Metaphysical Science, Kindle Edition, 2017) p. 2
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