THE SPIRITUAL THERMOMETER

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As I wrote in my previous article, the past is not dead but lives within everyone, giving birth to events of its same nature. But the past is not definitive, for the very reason that in this world of ours everything is subjective, and it's that subjective factor to make it changeable, otherwise we all would be helpless, all tied to our mistakes and irreparably condemned to suffer their consequences, but this cannot happen because the ultimate
state of consciousness of every human being is the absolute freedom in the identification with the Creator, who is pure consciousness, pure imagination, infinite and unconditional eternal life. As I often use to remind: the law of which I speak is the biblical 'law of liberty', but of absolute liberty and the term 'absolute' doesn't admit exceptions. Therefore, even if you have generated everything in your life, you are not forced to carry on the burden of any mistake, indeed you are called to 'wake up' to your inner power and to redeem them by using the same factor that created them, namely yourselves! This is done through the change of that subjective element which is your attitude towards those events but how do you have proof that this change has happened? The verification is very simple.

The thermometer of your habitual psychological state and therefore of each of your inner changes resides in your reactions, do you observe them? It is the ideal that you embody that reigns in your world, not you! And your reactions tell you the nature of that ideal. For example, if by remembering an undesired fact you feel angry and resentful, it means that you are that person of the past, with the consequent result that that mood will bring you to experience more anger and resentment, not only in the facts of life but also in your health because the human body is an emotional filter and is affected by all the feelings you entertain. The only way to put an end to such a situation is an inner change because the relation 'as within, so without' cannot be violated, it's law.

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"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (John 1:25)