INNER LIGHT MInistries Journal Volume 23 Number 1
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April, 2011
The Inner Climbing Mountain by Jim Gordon, President of ILM
(from The True Journey, 12/6/09)
he action of climbing the mountain in the Inner Kingdom, of walking through all these different realms and realities within ourselves, really is for us to walk. We’re the ones who take the journey. The spiritual teacher is there to assist us on the journey but isn’t there to do the journey for us. We have to do the walk; we have to do the work. It is a daily action, a daily experience, of sitting down and doing our meditation. When we focus our attention inward and upward, we begin to move through the different levels of the realms, and can then begin to detach from those things that have held us in bondage for so long, looking up even higher. Often times we think we’re gazing very high up into a realm or maybe into many realms, but in truth, we are looking just as high as we have the next attachment. All along this pathway in the physical, astral, causal, we have all kinds of attachments – conscious and unconscious, this lifetime and other lifetimes, and these attachments hold us in attention, in attraction, and in bondage. And it’s for us to release ourselves from those attachments. By holding the meditation practice on the Sacred Name, we begin to lift above many of our attachments so that we see them for what they truly are, and they can then be released. The hardest part of the journey, of climbing the mountain, is in the beginning of the journey. It seems to be the hardest, the steepest, the most challenging. In the beginning we are cutting a pathway for ourselves to the top of the mountain, and it is this pathway that is going to take us Home to God. It’s the discipline of coming every day into meditation, going to the mountain, and beginning the journey upward once again. At first, it may seem like it is impossible because there is no footing, no pathway, no clarity as to what direction to take, but the key that the initiate has that non-initiates do not have is the Sacred Name. The Sacred Name of
God contains the very movement of Loving in which God created our soul, and that Loving is ever with us, waiting to guide us back Home. If we will just begin to follow the frequency that is in that Name, the pathway will be shown; we will find our footing and will see the direction we are to be going. We will also get the inspiration to come back tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and so on, to continue our journey. Now, there may be days when we are following the Loving in meditation and won’t have to begin at the base of the mountain; instead, we’ll go to a higher level right away, climbing ever higher. Other days, we might be caught up in the world, in our emotions, in our mind, and it may seem like we’re starting all over again, struggling with the journey from the beginning. In truth, we are ever clearing a pathway up that mountain. We are the ones that place the debris in the path to make it look like the path was never there. So it is for us to keep that pathway clear by ever loving God first and God only. Through loving God, and through taking responsibility for our thoughts, our feelings, our actions and reactions in our daily lives and on our inner journey, our efforts will keep the pathway clear. And then, we don’t have to do anything except be present in that movement of God’s Loving as He lifts us higher, away from this world, and above our attachments. It’s a simple journey. God will get us to the top of the mountain very quickly but we have to allow it. When our focus is on our worries, our fears, our judgments, our anxieties, the problems of the world, or whatever it might be, we give them form, shape, consciousness and life. These worldly attachments stand between us and God, and can only dissolve when we stop feeding them energy. But, by holding our focus only on God, by holding our attention on the Sacred Name in meditation, we can pull our attention above what stands between us and God, and eventually these attachments of the world will simply drop away. And, if we do feed them anything, we just feed them the Loving.