The Kingdom Within

2000-1-25 18:32:00

Sterling Writes:

"What is missing here for me is that in describing the step four, "soul contact," he describes a person turning "inward" for answers, to their own soul; but he omits from the discussion any form of turning "upward" to heaven for answers. To me, if it doesn't also include turning "upward," then that turning "inward" means nothing but self absorption and hence opening oneself to the master deceiver."

JJ: And how do you look "upward" toward heaven? When you pray do you leave your eyes open and look up in the sky? Of course not... Mormons, and most other religions I know, pray with their eyes shut with their consciousness focused within. If it was without, you would pray with your eyes open.

Since Jesus said the "kingdom of God is within you," (Luke 17:21) and such statement registers so true to the souls of men, it is difficult to see how seeking this kingdom within as "self absorption." Perhaps seeking the kingdom without could be called thus, but within? - I don't think so.

When we pray Jesus said to "enter into thy closet." Where is our closet? Is it out there somewhere or is it within?

When you draw within to pray, meditate or seek for answers, where is up or down, right or left? Technically they do not exist, for the Spirit of God dwells in the very center of your being. When that center is found, you seem to be lifted up in awareness and thus God is refereed to as "up there,'. But it would be more accurate to describe him as "in there." If the kingdom of God is within then it only stands to reason that God dwells in his kingdom, does it not?

What is the difference between those who have the mark of the beast and those who have escaped the mark? Concerning those who escape the mark it is written:
"And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads." (Rev 14:1) Where was the Father's name? It is not "up there" but written within "in their foreheads." One must go within and find God to escape the outward authority of the Beast, which has his mark in the foreheads of the deceived, which mark is an authoritative "God out there" which is represented by some authoritative figure.