“Ask, and Ye Shall Receive"

Ask, and Ye Shall Receive.

Walter C. Lanyon

FOREWORD

These are books of inspiration, decoding of the WORDS of Jesus Christ. They are recorded as they came into being – with little or no change. They are for contemplation.

When a man hears, he will go within – shut out all the nonsense of human thought and when he comes forth, he will be divinely indifferent for he will know.

When these manuscripts were ready for the publisher, the urge came so strongly to lecture on them – and a series of lectures was given and recorded. It was most interesting to discover that the spoken word the lectures – seemed to have caught a certain clarity or revelation which was thought to be worthy of retention and accordingly they have been included – though they cover much of the material in the written word. The emphasis lay on repetition.

CREDO

To sing, to laugh, to dream,

To walk in my own way and be alone,

Free, with an eye to see things as they are,

To fight – or write. To travel any road

Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt

If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne –

Never to make a line I have not heard

In my own heart; yet, with all modesty

To say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers,

With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them

In the one garden you may call your own."

>From Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

Translated by Brian C. Hooker

THOU HAST CONQUERED GALILEAN

If the thing called AGE had any REALITY, God would be hoary with years. Age is the illusion that is accrued by memory. The Countess of Patoka died at eighty. An autopsy reported her body to be eighteen. She became mentally stationery at THAT AGE, due to a great shock. This is only an incident, – and is tossed aside as a once in a while. Yet do we see that if Age were a reality then God would be the first to record it, and all emanation from God would be decrepit and ancient. Yet is the day perpetually new, the tree, the bird, the flower. Memory then is, as the old song says, The only thing that grief can call its own – and it might be added that Age can call its own. The human mind is invincibly maladroit. Anything can happen if it has an excuse.

That which kept the garments new in the desert for forty years – and which RESTORES Thy Youth like the eagle’s, and causes transformation and transfiguration to take place is not THOUGHT OUT, or made to appear by thinking.

It MAY be satisfying to know how to work out a GIVEN problem. A child could memorize the formulae for a problem in Euclid, – set it down and show the results – but that is the end of his manifestation. The slightest SHADE of difference in the problem leaves him helpless. Did the people who wore the garments and shoes that waxed not old, age? If so, why?

If he understood the PRINCIPLE of the law, – he could work out endless combinations called problems. All problems are only mental equations. They have no actuality. They all start with the acceptance of a false equation. Even the problems in arithmetic have to be made up, in order that you may return to the place from which you started, – the NO PROBLEM place, the One. Everything in human thought must eventually return to the ONE. Life in the raw – the undesignated substance which is everywhere present and appears when recognition takes place. Hence a man can and does produce in the desert that which cannot be produced according to the appearances of things. Clouds of words have obscured the Laws given by Jesus Christ.

How hardly then shall a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven. He is rich and loaded with beliefs and records established on the flimsy basis of that which his ancestors have accepted as Truth. When he awakens, he HEARS – Come out from among them and be ye separate. Come out from among what? and why? and Where? It is all so much talk and meaningless until you begin to sense-feel the difference between Spirit and thought. The Place of suspended animation – the place of Beholding something too big for thought and utterly impossible of definition. It is the discovery of God – the universal – the ONE – the LIFE.

LIFE is that immaterial substance everywhere present; – ready to come into manifestation at the moment of recognition. It is that IMPELLING force back of you which from the moment of your creation has been with YOU, and is instantly available. Now you are becoming conscious of your immortality, and when you begin to sense this, you will see what Jesus meant when’ he implied that you had never been born and consequently have never been unconscious. The eternal creation of God in all its glory and perfection has never gone through the processes of birth and death. It is eternally what it is – a creation of the Living God. As we sense this ETERNALITY of the LIFE CREATION, we begin to see how it might be likened unto a bolt of Lightning which passes through a hundred incarnations of human belief.

Who are your father, mother, etc? Who are you? What are you doing? Where have you been? In the land of NOD- belief in an existence apart from God, hypnotized by the Adam mesmerism, – dazed and bemused into believing that you were a matter body, a creation of man and woman, that your days were naturally filled with fear, sickness and trouble, quibbling about going to heaven even as you profess belief in Jesus Christ, who explained the Kingdom as here.

Could anything be more magnificent than the prayer Now O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was? What world? The world called John Smith? The world of hypnotism and belief which you have taken upon yourself, over and over, as you went wandering through the thing called reincarnation. There is the sudden remembrance, and the SUDDEN arising and the sudden going to the Father state of Life; the re-discovery that you were Created by God; – created perfect. As you sense this, perfection begins to appear; when the body is absent from the mind, the bondage of fear and disease are relaxed. The temple is cleansed and comes again to its fair proportions. It is wonderful – it is filled with wonder and Light – revelation – recognition and secrecy. It is as morning radiance filled with splendor. You will say with the Emperor Julian, after he had seen all the hellish devices to destroy the Christ Revelation fail – Thou hast conquered, Galilean. As the Lord said to Moses – See, I have made thee a God, so has He said to thee; – thou Golden One, made in the image and likeness – given power over all the things on the earth, under the earth, and above the earth; – created a little lower than the Angels – (the great centers of power and force emanating from the Center of Centers) – the heart of God – that which operates the universe and all its wonders from the tiniest manifestation unto the greatest.

This deeper abiding consciousness causes you to KNOW all the things that are to be added.

The believers in ONE God change not, age not, die not; everything else: earth, men, their beliefs and opinions is subject to decay and change.

Sophocles.

Thou hast conquered Galilean.

That is what his crucifiers had to say. What else could they say? The Galilean is still conquering.

THE SPACE BETWEEN

The space between the cruse of oil and the manifestation of abundance stems from the belief there are vacuities in God. The space between is like the apparent space between electricity and equipment … nothing can take place until a tiny fuse is inserted and the space between is filled. The omnipresence of God needs only this fuse (you) of complete recognition or belief to cause the oil to start flowing and from three drops come barrels of oil. It will not stop flowing as long as there is an empty measure.

All this lovely symbology is nil until man discovers that he is the fuse: – the thing which fills the space between something and nothing, and causes manifestation to take place. No wonder Jesus stressed the importance of being silent. No wonder He asked you to be absent from the body, and to come out into the ONENESS of spirit wherein you would find FREE ONENESS. Free Oneness is an Oriental expression of oneness with God. Man is then freed from all beliefs of degrees of life. It is wonderful.

So you enter into the Space Between. You are now at the place where the invisible becomes visible. No one believes this. That is why you are told to place the coal of fire on your Lips, and to go within and shut the door. This law is much disobeyed by earnest seekers of the Light who cannot understand why there are no results, and why the oil does not pour. Yes, you are to borrow vessels not a few. And it means just that. You have been living in a world of limitation.

When you enter or become the Space between the flow fills everything around you, – and neutralizes the belief so completely that the problem of lack and limitation does not exist in your universe.

Enter into the Place between and let the flow of light come through you and fill all measures not for the sake of self aggrandizement, but for the free oneness of you and God.

Yes, you are the space between … Enter in and let the flow of LIFE begin to take place. You, yourself, are the answer to prayer. Free ONENESS:

Take it into the sanctuary. Take that word and return unto Jehovah, – the point of power and creation, and see what takes place in the movement of ONENESS when it is freed from the involvement of your human belief, teaching, and thought. You are suddenly a new creature in this light and understand how it is that FREE ONENESS moves by its own power, and has nothing to overcome. It suddenly arrives and IS, and so do you go within and shut the door and stop telling of and about, and begin to experience the action of FREE ONENESS in your own life. Yes, it is like the man who found the pearl of Great Price and bought a field and buried it, after he had let go of all the old worn out cliches and ideas he had picked up from the man whose breath was, and is, in his nostrils. And that buried pearl will illumine the whole earth. Go in – shut the door – put the coal of fire on the lips. IT IS WONDERFUL.

HE OPENETH HIS HAND

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

With this overshadowing comes the peace that passeth ALL. An osmosis – absorption – a blending; into the ONE takes place and there is no longer question and answer, problem and solution.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing becomes a reality. There is no limitation – no questioning whether the desire is good, bad, or indifferent – for from this elevation the desire is the shape of the idea sent straight from the heart of God, and is made alive by the pulsating heartbeat of the universe.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing yet are you desireless, free from wanting and ready to move into a place of substance, out of the place of things and yet in the midst of them all. You are suddenly One. There is no more you and your problem, there is only you. You pass easily through the crowd of beliefs.

The Light universal keeps shining. As it intensifies, it absorbs the shadows of human belief; nothing matters, yet, everything does. It transform the Temple-body into a tenuous substance, through which it can shine forth, – assuming any attribute of God at will. Healing is not, then, some wonder projected through human thought, but rather the enveloping of the Golden Shadow. It is a natural blending with LIFE which rules out the narrow confines of health and strength in humankind. I AM suddenly submerged in a sea of LIFE – eternal, golden, and all redolent with the LOVE of God.

For the first time, the mystical becomes the intensely practical – the only real thing you have ever known. Sight becomes a capacity to peer through the dense midnight of thought, by means of the Light which projects its Golden Shadow from the Mind which was also in Christ Jesus and which you realize is the mind that is also in you.

No longer will you compromise with this power and put it through a thousand and one beliefs concocted by the mind of man. Instead, you permit it to take shape and form, even as the air takes the shape automatically of any vessel, yet never congeals or becomes set in that form, but lasts only for the moment of the duration of the desire.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing – it is a carte blanche releasement of HIS Love, and it has to be received naturally and not as some special dispensation. It is as though the Golden Shadow has cleared away all obstruction between you and His Love, and you can hear, and really HEAR what is being communicated to the earth plane; now you can really know the full dimensions of His Love, and that all manifestation will take place, independent of your thought and without any effort.

As a sudden heavy rain falls upon a parched desert and is instantly absorbed, so does this descent of spirit come upon you. It instantly changes the nature of the desert and the very seeds already there begin to stir. Something is to take place – the desert is to blossom as a rose – because of the downpour of His Love, and because of the Recognition. You are being conditioned to a new dimension.

The Golden Shadow is the Golden Fleece which you have sought for so long and which has been guarded by the Gorgon, with her snaky locks of human devices, ways and means. Upon whomsoever this Golden Shadow rests, something – a quickening, takes place – without effort, and without any of the old ideas of healing and helping. It is entirely impersonal and natural and has nothing at all to do with human thought. Nothing can stay it, nothing can project it; it is a natural movement or urge in the mind of God passing through the temple-body (man) casting the Golden Shadow of Love and doing the things called miraculous by its revealing Light.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. Heaven and earth are full of thee – full, pressed down, and running over – there is not one empty vessel left, – even the borrowed ones are full. The Love of God keeps flowing until everything is satisfied. And all the while the Golden Shadow keeps revealing the intensely practical angle of it. It is not a mystical intangible thing, but something to be experienced and something to be handled with the hands and something that causes the wine of inspiration to flow through the body-temple with the rush of a pure mountain torrent. Health is absorbed into the LIFE of GOD, which knows no limitations.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. You must be ALIVE to participate in this benefit. You have to come out of the tomb of human thinking into the clean, fresh and almost fierce tides of LIFE. You have to be ALIVE in the recognition and the instant response to HIS Voice.

To human thought His word is almost unbearably stimulating, breaking its limitations. The Spirit refuses to be longer held in the narrow confines of the letter. The grandeur, the magnificence of pure Spirit leaves you speechless and bereft of all thought. Let the earth keep silent before me and renew her strength – the body, the temple, the earth of you is experiencing the renewing of self-revelation.

You have entered a new mansion where there are singing masons building roofs of gold.* Beauty, then is the destiny ** which begins to shape itself and put to flight the FATE of human thought.

Yes, thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desires of every living thing. Right now – stay there a moment.

Not to desire is to have. Can you hear?

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* Shakespeare. ** Plato.

CONDITIONED

Transformation takes place when the Mental is released into the Spiritual. You become conditioned to reality. That which emanates from the mind of God is designated as LIGHT, GRACE, GLORY.

What comes out of the brain machine is constructed of all the limitations of judging from appearances, ancestor teachings, and superstitions.

The only possible way to escape the dire effects of thought is to pick up the force in apparent evil, merging it in the one source God, thereby depriving the manifestation of its power, hence it falls into the dust for it has nothing to support it. The thought machine stops functioning and the manifestation of evil disappears.

Return ye even unto ME with all your hearts and ye shall find rest for your souls – when you return to the one, you leave false mis-action of thought. Once I was blind NOW I can see for the moment the distorted sense of LIGHT, which is causing the blindness through taking thought is released, and the whole picture becomes NOW – the only so-called time there is. Human thought stretches in both directions from NOW – but