True Thinking and True Knowledge
We are familiar with the words: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” These words aren’t spoken to the angelic Identities; they are spoken to fallen human beings who feel imprisoned and frustrated, one way and another. As we know, consciousness emerges out of physical substance, and there are gradations of substances and qualities of consciousness. Because there is a lack of the finest quality of spiritual substance in human beings, there is not available that quality of substance which blends the dimensional world into the undimensional.
And so, in the human experience there’s a gap in this transitional level. Therefore, the human sense of identity is constructed in the coarser levels of substance that are available. One consequence of this is that when the words “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” are heard, there is a mistranslation. The human consciousness, with the ceiling of a void of substance, can only perceive in any meaningful way downwards into the coarser levels of substance, so the truth is sought there in the form of knowledge-the collection of socalled facts.
But a fact named by the human consciousness isn’t a true fact. In order to know the truth about a fact, you’d have to know what that fact is connected to, because no fact is isolated, and we can easily recognize that only very localized particles of knowledge are known by the mind. For true knowledge, one would have to know all the facts, because they’re all connected together-they’re all facets of one thing; they all work together. Ultimately there is only one fact, and that is the fact of the totality of Being.
The fallen consciousness of mankind is rather like a mouse on a treadmill. It can’t stop collecting facts. Its avenues of knowledge, once embarked upon, are endless; and there’s no way out of this predicament. The human mind must continue down paths of exploration, acting upon that incomplete and therefore destructive information, all the time thinking it’s progressing. We could examine any line of knowledge- from the discovery of fossil fuels to nuclear power to computers to genetic engineering. And although when they were initially discovered just a few years ago, they looked to be creative and useful, because those tiny patterns of knowledge are isolated from the whole, ultimately they must prove to be destructive as they are increasingly activated with no knowledge of the wider ramifications. Human beings have fooled themselves that they are experts in certain areas. From the true perspective, we can see there are no experts. It’s a delusion. Parenthetically, I’d say that nevertheless we are thankful to those who have some expertise in a limited way, because they have made life in the unreal state slightly more tolerable. We appreciate that-and yet it is necessary to see the larger picture, so we can be open to move with Spirit’s re-creative processes.
So the truth that needs to be known is not knowledge collected by isolated human minds. The truth that the consciousness needs to become aware of, in order to know freedom from misery and isolation, is the truth of Being, the truth of one’s divine Self-the Presence which created the consciousness for Its use in the first place. This Self is an aspect of Life, an aspect of the Archangel, which is expressing Itself through all form. This true Self has the essential characteristics of Life, because this is what is animating all these dusty human forms. What are some of these essential characteristics? Well, Life is all knowing.
There is something within the human form called Life, which really does know everything. There is a level of mind present within the organism that is integrated with the mind of all Being. How does the outer mind access this cosmic mind? It orients to the creative spirit and character of Being. And looking in that direction the mind lets the quality of radiation from the undimensional levels move through it, animating its thinking. This is how finer substance is consciously generated, and as the radiation moves out of the undimensional levels through the transparent substance of mind, it creates the thoughts that need to be thought in any particular situation.
The radiation that emerges out of the undimensional levels of Being is one with Being everywhere, and therefore knows exactly what Being is seeking to do in the dimensional world. The thought that emerges in the conscious mind of the individual, on this basis, is coordinated with that one overall movement and purpose. This sounds very simple-and it is. And the very fact that we can consider this means that the gap is being closed with finer substance. So the mind is not struggling-it is letting the radiation of the tone of the Creator shine through it, creating form within its substance. This is true thinking.
Intimations of Archangelic Essences – Alan Hammond -Volume One
