That Which Is - Lessons In Reality: by Alfred Aiken

Aloha and welcome everyone. It's so lovely to see you here today. We're here for our inspired readings session. Today we're exploring "That Which Is - Lessons In Reality" by Alfred Aiken.

What I invite you to do, as always, is to relax, rest back in Truth (Being As I Am Here & Now). What can be so difficult to grasp in Self-realization is that this is a game of relaxed certainty. This is not a journey in time of seeking something which is missing. It is, in fact, one of recognizing, revealing That Which Is ALREADY Here & Now.

And so today I want to read some of the really profound excerpts from Alfred Aiken's book "That Which Is", profound lessons in Reality. Alfred is a teacher of unparalleled purity and clarity of vision, and so I invite you to allow these words to fan the flame of Truth in/as you, that you DO actually already 'know'. The truth that YOU are already whole, perfect and complete. This is, in fact, your only true Awareness, the Consciousness that is God Consciousness, Pure and Entire, Unopposed, Unconditioned. It already is what you are. Allow these words to simply point to that truth that is already established, whole, fully fleshed out, if you will.

You will find the transcript below along with the video/audio you can come back to & go deeper still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7BKm6ZiKqg

God has no reflection of himself. There is no one or thing to do the reflecting. The one self is the Self of All. A reflection would not be the original, but rather an image, a likeness, hence a counterfeit, which is worthless, valueless, a fraud, the perfect one includes nothing fraudulent.

Moses caught a slight sense of all inclusive perfection, heaven at hand when in light, he perceived that the place where on thou standest IS Holy Ground, in Perfection, Omnipresence. There is no separation, no division, no need for atonement or return to the Infinite One for God is not variable, not changing, but is the same sinless One, forever present, the Infinite Individual, the All Knowing Mind.

Your present and only Identity is the authority, the power, the presence that is conscious Truth, conscious functioning, power being fully Itself. Stop assuming identity to be cooped up in the form body. Stop assuming yourself to be what it never can be. You are not a human, an animal, a mortal, a personality or a sinner. You are never separate from existence, the life that is your self, stop assuming biology, ignorance, superstition, duality or sin to be your cause or beginning, the origin of your life, being, substance, intelligence, consciousness, identity, or that you must emerge or evolve from an imperfect or lesser state of existence into the Perfect Self.

You are none other than THE One. You are the Infinite Intelligence, the Soul, One Infinite individual who is All of All. Now act from this true and only intelligent viewpoint. Rejoice in Who and What YOU Are by rejoicing in what Mind knows Itself to be. Conscious intelligence alone does all seeing, all knowing and does it without cessation, interruption, interference.

Things are ideas, forms which Mind conceives manifest. These forms appear instantly as mind knows them. To mind, the action, the manifestation is instant, one and the same. It requires no process or evolution being One Whole, Mind must actively be aware, inclusive of its ideas, or it would be static and without forms or void. That Which Is manifest, this world we behold visibly and enjoy is real. Do not go about denying Ttee, ocean, stars, earth. Do not declare ideas, things to be material, temporal. Nothing is, but God.

The Invisible One is visibly manifest in an infinitude of forms, but All Spirit only. If something seems wrong with your world, with body, turn from it and its seeming condition and look wholly (Holy) to God. Rejoice in what Infinite Mind is knowing Itself to Be. God's condition, the condition of the Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniacting one is the only state, the sole condition of every idea, thing, inclusive of body. No Fault exists in Substance, Light, no wrong, no constricting action or lack of action. No disease exists in All Inclusive Intelligence. Spirit cannot conceive, express form or pattern its reverse, nor can be perverted to know or experience the forever impossible mind's conceptions.

Ideas are perceptible, are visible things to mind. The letter A would be useless if left unidentified, without form. In Mind, Infinite Intelligence is forever its conceiver, its possessor, its perceiver, its user, regardless of national boundaries or language, how used when aware on earth or some distant planet, it is still Intelligence only who has it, identifies it or to whom it is of use. It never fails to be present, abundantly available to Conscious Intelligence. Nothing can go wrong with it or destroy it. It is not material, finite, the product of evolution or revolution, the language in which it appears, spoken or written, does not change, alter or destroy, for it is Mind only.

Let us stop laboring to make unreality real or lift a fable into the realm of fact. It cannot be done. Whatever is wrong, troublesome, lacking, no matter in what field of human classification it falls, cannot be found anywhere in God Mind. Cannot find trouble anywhere in Infinite Intelligence. If not in God existence, why be agitated? Can evil be found outside of Infinity? How all inclusive? Is infinity? Is there an outside? Is there more than all? Does our Infinite Self Identity possess less? No! This is the Truth. Rejoice in it, forevermore.

God being the full Self of you, there is no personal self. Truth is not something one can apply to anything anywhere. Truth is not a medicine for the ills of the world or the flesh. Yet it may appear so when all sense of suffering vanishes, never to come into mind or be remembered anymore. The Divine Ultimate is already present, aware of Himself in All His Beauty and Action. There is no other who has to work to attain God or maintain him. God already has done all for God that can be done, all that needs to be done to make Him All, to sustain "I Am" forever in His Eternally Present, Perfect state of Totality.

Love, being Pure Wisdom, includes nothing mortal, human mind or personal. Love cannot know what being is not. Purity has nothing to deny, reverse, heal, cast out, lift up, cleanse, emerge from or evolve to, nothing to atone for, no sacrifice to make, no need for propitiation, redemption or recovery. Love knows only Its Pure, Unalterable Being, forever unaltered. Pure Love cannot have dual vision. Cannot look down upon a world of sin, disease and disaster. Cannot include imperfection, know or feel pity for it. Absolute Love being Absolutely Its own Pure Self Only, cannot look out upon another, cannot see anything save its own PureBbeing, for there can be nothing beside Infinite Love.

If you are not aware of Love, your Self Identity, you are like the one who sits in darkness merely because he refuses to open his eyes and enjoy the Brilliant Light all about him. Your personality does not need to turn the bright on, nor can it. Does not need to turn the light on, nor can it.

In truth, there is no personality, no personal you or me. There is but the one I, the Divine I that I Am. There is no other. There is no other I than This One. I Am, not double, dual, not real and unreal, divine and material, actual and a sinner, alive and mortal, Intelligent and double minded. The Light of Love is shining in all Its glory, all about you, encompassing your universe, open your eyes and see. You do not need to construct, make it, wait or beg for it. It is yours here. Now use it.

God is His own Presence, His own Intelligence, Life being Mind is its own supply of Truth. God, I, I God. I Am Being is the only I there is, All of I there is, the I of all there is throughout Infinity. Where can Being be that I am not. Wherever Being is, there I am, and vice versa. Even though I make my bed in hell, though I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Behold, I am there. Truly. Where can the Infinite I am go that I am not? Can I escape the I that I am, escape from my Infinite Mind. To escape any human desert, destiny, difficulty, disaster and death, turn to the allness of the mind. I am your Soul. I am Mind, Identity, the All of All here in Reality. There, nothing mortal exists, even though all the universities, churches, national assemblies, and every person on the face of this globe swears to the contrary. I am, IS the Uncontending, Uncontested, Unchallenged. There is only spirit.

When or where then is there a doubt? Who has it, who can question the works of God's hand? Intelligence is absolutely certain of Truth (Itself). There is no blind I am within Infinity. There is but Conscious Awareness, positive perception, the know how and the power to form all things of mySelf, in mySelf, of mySelf. As pointed out often, thinking is not knowing, taking thought is not action, intellectual reasoning or wrestling is not intelligence. Assumption is not truth, belief is not absolute certainty. FINITY is not all existing Infinity, Reality, mortality is not Everlasting Life, what is not is NOT. What is personality is not the Self I am. Why battle over what God is not? Why concern yourself with what Omnipresence cannot be? Why work yourself into an ecstasy or a state of fanaticism over cult doctrine, ritual or ceremony in the name of God, only when God knows nothing of such service. Words or deeds from such an approach are useless and imply that God is aware of the evil but does nothing to wipe it out. Or even more strange, implies that God uses evil as a means to make weak humanity grow strong, allowing them to be tempted, punishing them for yielding, dangling promises of good before them while making it impossible to comply with his purported demands. What manner of God Do you worship? Is he this atrocious concept?

If God is Omnipotent, why does he not expunge evil? Does he derive pleasure by seeking the human race, by seeing the human race, writhing about in agony, groping in darkness, paralyzed with fear, distorted with pain, warped and degenerate. No, God IS All. God leaves no place or presence to evil. He leaves no history of humanity, no record of satan's earthly fling. Spirit leaves no time, no past, no future. Wherein a devil can plague its victim, nor wherein God has to fight another to regain what he has never lost.

Spirit is the entirety of Itself. No portion of Spirit can be missing. Spirit is One Whole, Indivisible Entirety. Finite sense would have you believe in separate Adam Eve, individuals with destinies and responsibilities of their own, separate minds, lives, bodies and souls, cooped up in a physical material, changing, dying, world of time. Spirit is the Substance of All, inclusive of the universe, the only Identity that Infinite Love can consciously be aware of is Its own presence here as the Infinite Individual One, this I that I am.

As pointed out, while there is but One Infinite Individual Consciousness, there is an infinitude of ideas, bodies, things, each being specifically conceived by Mind, eternal in Mind. A single one is inadequate, insufficient, Mind being Infinity. Remember, there is no human you, none to begin with, to correct, to elevate, to heal, no sinning or suffering you, no mortal or man. You your whole being, right Here IS God only. The mist or mis-identification has not altered God, nor your Identity. In truth, there never was a mist that went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. As it says in Genesis, it never happened. There never was a double minded, racial or pilot Lord God, a human or divine creation. God never fell into nor for sin. Never had a bad Angel. Never had to devise methods of redeeming or regaining his status of being the only one, the One Alone All. God has never had offspring, nor did Adam. There are no children anywhere needing help, a lifting up out of the pit. God has always been the Perfect One without another. God has always been Almighty, the Absolute. God will forever be Whole, Entire, Infinite. His is the Sole, Infinite Individual. He is the Sole/Soul Mind, including the infinitude of variation, of Beauty, Intelligence, Substance, Reality. There is nothing outside of God, there is nothing within God. There is God only in all His Perfection, Activity or Form, Conscious Individual Awareness. There is no idea, no thing in Mind, but God is making full use of Mind forms, no useless ideas. The action is Mind, however, and does not stem from the idea the thing.

So just rest, let's experience God happening right here and right now. Experience the Presence that I Am AS All. There is only One Presence, THE Presence that you experience is the Omnipresence You BE!

SUMMARY HIGHLIGHTS

The key message of Alfred Aiken’s teachings can be put very simply:

You are already The One, Infinite, Divine Self (the “I Am”), and nothing real exists outside of that/this Wholeness.

More specifically, in this session Aiken is pointing to:

1. **Already-Complete Self**

- Your true identity is **not** a separate person, body, mind, sinner, or mortal.

- Your real identity is **the one infinite intelligence / mind / love**:

> “You are none other than the One… the Infinite Intelligence, the Soul/Sole One Infinite Individual Which Is All of All”

- Self-realization is not about becoming something else, but **recognizing what already is**.

2. **Only God/Spirit is Real (aka Reality)**

- There is only **One Presence, One Power, One Intelligence, One I**. No second self, no real evil, no separate creation, no history outside God.

- Everything truly real—trees, ocean, stars, body, world—is **spiritually conceived** as ideas in infinite mind, not material things separate from God.

3. **No personal doer, no process to God**

- God is already “his eternally present, perfect state of totality”.

- There is no personal self that has to attain, maintain, or fix God; no real “journey” from imperfection to Perfection (just drop the erroneous, non-existent notion of imperfection, something separate from Perfection).

4. **Pure love has no opposite**

- **Absolute Love** knows only its own pure being; it does not see imperfection, sin, disease, or disaster as real.

- If we seem not to experience this love, it’s like sitting in darkness with eyes closed in a room full of light.

5. **The stance of True Self-realization: Relaxed Certainty**

- Truth is not a debate, argument, or effortful seeking.

- The “way of walking the straight and narrow” is to **stand as the I that I am**, in **Relaxed Certainty**, and let appearances be corrected by the clarity of this recognition.

TO SUMMARISE THE SUMMARY

**Alfred Aiken is emphatically declaring FROM Truth, that there is only the One Infinite I/Spirit/Love, that this is your actual True and ONLY Identity Now, and that Self-realization is a relaxed recognition of this fact—not a project of self-improvement for a separate person.**