Prayer is the Answer: The Meaning of the Sacraments by Joseph Murphy

Author:Joseph Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2019-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Wonders Happen When You Pray

Eucharist—Holy Communion

The cause of sickness, lack, and limitation is due to the fact man has surrendered his real heritage (spiritual dominion). Man’s free will ends when he makes the wrong choice—a belief and faith in outer effects; this is really the meaning of the fall of man, the original sin. Man has forgotten his Divine Source and has made the opinions of man the Commandments of God. The problem of salvation is getting back to the choice of good—our Father’s Kingdom within. The sense of separation from the One God is original sin (falling away from or missing the mark). We are then the fallen angel, i.e., fallen from Heaven, the ideal state. The fall always occurs when a sense of want and deprivation is experienced; this sense of want or lack becomes an urge to growth—to return to The One.

The birth of Christ or Holy Communion is a perpetual process which is experienced whenever you make a better conclusion by arriving at a conviction to be passed on for planting in the subconscious—the strong arm of the One Power. Be careful to make the right choice based on spiritual standards. Never fall into temptation by choosing a false basis of fear-laden beliefs and shallow opinions nourished by propaganda. The sin against the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit indicates failure to believe in the One Power ascribing power to outer things, and living in bondage to false gods.

The sacrament of the Eucharist together with all the other sacraments are steps in spiritual rebirth or various stages back to the Father’s House; this whole process is known as redemption. The beauty, the glory, the ecstasy, Divine joy, and mystic significance of this process is sometimes lost in the beautiful ceremony and ritual unless we understand the inner meaning of the ritual or dogma. Look at all sacraments as a sacred covenant or agreement between your conscious and subconscious mind. When the two touch and agree on anything, such as health, peace, abundance, or the solution to your problem, God or Peace comes in and steals over your mind.

In sacrifice and sacrament is the basic idea of giving something up to God (your higher self). Since God is all and possesses all already, why give him lambs, bullocks, children, daughters, sons, etc., as if he needed something. We have covered this adequately in the first chapter. We will stress the following point again; however you cannot give God anything but recognition, praise, and thanksgiving. You offer a sacrifice when you give up all your false beliefs and erroneous concepts. Study the proper interpretation of the various sacraments and you will become sanctified (made whole, an integrated personality) by means of your Godlike ideas concerning yourself, your neighbor, your so-called enemies, your relatives, and your God. At the point of conviction, the ideas you entertain will become manifest, for the “word (idea, thought and feeling) is made flesh” according to the sacramental esoteric covenant for “as ye sow, ye shall reap,” “for as a man thinketh in his heart (subconscious mind) so is he.

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