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  CHRIST IN YOU
by Joseph Brenner




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Book Description

Christ in You by
Joseph Brenner (1872-1941) is one of those books that helps you clarify your mind. The Truth of Life is expressed clearly here, allowing for changes in your life, if you study this teaching deeply and apply it with intent. The other ones that come to mind are, the Impersonal Life, The Door of Everything, God I Am, A Course in Miracles, and of course, the Tao Te Ching. The main thing is to be ready for all this, then one blooms naturally, as a flower. It's the only way it happens. One cannot awaken oneself, this being a movement of the ego. One has to become an invitation for the One to take over. These books help one learn to become an invitation; they save us time by helping us be ready. This book was originally published anonymously in 1910.

A Reader's Comments

"Christ in You is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. I'm now reading it for the third time, and it still blows me away just as much as the first time I read it. It contains some really deep spiritual truths, referenced to verses in the Bible. But an open mind is required. If you're positive that you know all there is to know about God and the Bible's messages about Him, you'll likely dismiss much of this book outright. But I see it as the most succinct collection of Christ-centered wisdom available. Short chapters only a few pages long make it a great daily reading. A few pages a day are enough, because there is *so* much to think about in each page. Get the book, and ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you as you read. "


Book Contents

PART I—CHRIST IN YOU

1 A VOICE FROM THE HEIGHTS
2 FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING
3 CHRIST THE LIFE
4 PRAYER
5 THE TRUTH OF BEING
6 GOD ALL IN ALL
7 GET UNDERSTANDING
8 FROM GLORY TO GLORY
9 PERSONALITY
10 THE BOOK
11 SIN, SEPARATENESS
12 "HE THAT HATH SEEN ME, HATH SEEN THE FATHER"
13 CHRIST IN YOU
14 OUT OF DARKNESS—LIGHT
15 JESUS CHRIST—THE RACE MAN
16 TRUTH IS STEADFAST—IMMOVABLE
17 IMAGINATION
18 IDEA—THE EXPRESSED IMAGE
19 HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU
20 GROWTH REAL AND UNREAL
21 MATTER AND ITS RELATION TO SPIRIT
22 "MY THOUGHTS ARE TOWARDS YOU"
23 THE CENTRAL LIFE IS LOVE
24 OMNIPRESENCE
25 OMNIPRESENCE (continued)
26 THE CONTROL OF SELF AND ENVIRONMENT
27 THE DEATH OF MORTAL MAN—RENUNCIATION

PART II—MIND AND SOUL: THEIR RELATION TO THE BODY

1 "LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE
2 BORN OF THE VIRGIN
3 MIND AND ITS POSSIBILITIES
4 PERSONALITY
5 THE TRUE; SELF
6 THE TRUE SELFISHNESS
7 DWELL DEEP
8 UNFOLDMENT FROM WITHIN
9 THE SOUL

PART III—DIVINE HUMANITY

1 I IN THEM
2 "THOU IN ME"
3 "SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND"
4 THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD SHALL COVER THE EART"
5 THE WILL OF GOD
6 WORKERS TOGETHER WITH GOD
7 THE CREATIVE ENERGY
8 GOD THE ONLY LIFE
9 HE GAVE HIMSELF


A VOICE FROM THE HEIGHTS

I AM obliged to use your words and modes of expression, but I must say at the beginning that they are wholly inadequate to convey spiritual truths. I long to help people who seem to be in the same mistaken conditions in which I once was, for man does not know himself.

We will consider together something of the truth of being, the most essential and the first of all things. You are not the outward and visible form; this is the feeblest and the most distant likeness of your real self. I will explain by illustration.

When an artist paints a picture, he does not put on canvas the reality, he gives you simply a copy of that which is within himself. The real picture is on the spiritual plane and exists there much more truly than on the canvas; the real picture remains for ever, the canvas does not. No poet can give you his true poem. He does his best to convey something of its beauty, something of its life, but even then it is far removed from his ideal. That, too, is on the plane of reality.

There is a vast amount of creative energy working in and through the material plane. Like the picture and the poem, this energy is invisible to you. We want you to distinguish between reality and shadow. The physical plane, or plane of the senses, is a shadow, a faint imitation of the spiritual and the only real. Your work is to show forth higher laws, to live and breathe entirely from the plane of spirit, to create anew from the very centre of all life, to make one the kingdom of earth and the kingdom of heaven. You are not to think of yourself and the universe now visible to you as real. It is this that constitutes the difference between us.

We have entered into a larger consciousness of God, whereas you are content with the shadows of things. Just think how all your finest thought seems to vanish with the passing of great minds from your midst, yet this is not the case, as you will discover when you awake to the knowledge of a life that ever progresses from the unreal to the true. When this consciousness permeates the whole human race, you will be lifted to a higher plane, for growth is simply a larger consciousness.

Heaven is not a place, but a consciousness of God. God cannot be thought of as a personality, since God is all and in all. The Absolute is above and beyond the conception of finite mind, yet infinitely meek and lowly, filling all space. As you emerge into this allpervading love, the true life becomes manifest and is always the answer to the deepest and highest aspirations of the soul. It is love fulfilling itself. Thank God for Now. Learn first and thoroughly that you have been, and will be, for ever. Your present condition is an opportunity for spiritual advancement. Make the most and the best of your life NOW.


FREEDOM BY UNDERSTANDING

IT is wonderful to realize that we are one great and unlimited whole. I could not understand this once. Your Scriptures tell you that all things are open to the eyes of God. How slowly we learn that God and man are one. Do away with your limitations. Stand out free in the strong life of God. You are like children with your walls and partitions, your churches and chapels. We, too, wonder why we were so long learning the things that have since become quite clear to us. God is all life, seen and unseen. Millions on the material plane are in bondage, yet all the time the doors stand open. You will long to tell them this when you come to us. We are permitted to come to you at some cost, only do believe what we say, and act upon it. We want to help you to live your real life.

Begin by obedience to the dictates of the spirit within yourself; it will lead you into truth. This is not easy, as man is always hedged about by a false personality, a Satan of the senses—this shadowy nothing must be cast behind us, for it is of the senses and would deceive humanity. It is sometimes like an angel of light, so much does falsity imitate reality; you can always distinguish it from the spirit, however, if you remember what I say. The Voice of Christ is fearless, all powerful, the voice of a conqueror; the voice of the shadow of good suggests limitation, sickness, death. Hold fast to the All-good, the only real.

We worship God through Jesus Christ. There is no other way, and there never has been, except in name. One title for God is Father, and it is the best we know, but it becomes much more comprehensive as we grow in the knowledge of God. You4 have the power of a great victory within you, and God is continually speaking. In Him we live and move and have our being.

Many who are working among the downtrodden and degraded ask: "How is this?" "And why?" We would tell them that every created being must work up and through every necessary phase, evolving from the lowest point of created life. Yet we know neither the day nor the hour When the Son of Man cometh. Often in the deepest darkness of experience, illumination arises, changing the whole aspect and environment. The soul at once recognizes that only through this period of apparent degradation and ignorance can it evolve. Make the most and the best of every experience, you will thank God for them all. Do not weep with those who weep, but help them by a mighty love, pure as a mother's, for in the love of a mother is the unselfishness of God. Learn to become unselfed.

You are not an atom, you are the whole. Every true unselfish life lifts the race nearer the Godhead. We are finding channels everywhere, teaching all over the earth by secret ways. Above5 all things, walk by the spirit of God; as you do this more and more you will become conscious of harmony in your surroundings. Keep your hearts full of love to God and to all men, and we will teach you much. If you do not understand what we say, wait; we will teach very simply; but we beg you to realize our teachings in your lives.




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