INNER LIGHT MINISTRIES JOURNAL VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2
LEAP OF FAITH
by Jim Gordon, President of ILM
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(an excerpt from the talk, The Tenth Door)
e aware if you find yourself, in your meditation, standing at the “tenth door” (motioning to the “third eye center” between the eyebrows), and you’re looking out and you might see a starry sky … if there’s something inside of you that is afraid or feels unworthy, or is in self-judgment, or if you’re afraid of God’s judgment upon you. If you feel any of this, move into loving, move into acceptance, move into forgiveness, move into that strength that is the Divine in you — and step forward. See where it takes you. In the movie, Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail, Harrison Ford’s character had to step forward, he had to take the ‘leap of faith’. He had to step off a cliff, not knowing if he was going to fall hundreds of feet down, or if somehow he was going to be able to miraculously walk across to the other side. This is a leap of faith. It’s leaving all that you know. In meditation it’s leaving the physical behind — the physical body, the imagination, the emotions, the mind — and stepping forward into something you may not have a lot, or any, reference point for. It’s a leap of faith. So — like Indiana Jones — step forward in your meditation and do it. Then the Holy Spirit can take your hand and say, “Okay, come on, let’s go quick! Don’t look back!” And off you go. This is where the story of Lot’s wife comes in. Don’t look back. Lot and his family were told to leave Sodom and Gomorrah (symbolizing the lower realms), and as Lot was taking his family out he was told, “Tell your family to not look back, but to ever look forward to where they are going. Do not look back from which you, and they, came. Because if they look back they will turn into pillars of salt.” So off they went on their journey. Lot was ever saying, “Look forward, look forward. Just keep looking forward to where we’re going. No matter what you see, no matter what you hear, whatever you feel, keep looking forward.” Well, Lot’s wife turned and looked back, and turned into a pillar of salt — she went back into the physical realm. So in truth, what that’s
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saying is: don’t look back at your past. Don’t look back at where you’ve been. Don’t look back at what you’ve let go of. Ever look forward and keep stepping forward into what’s next, what’s next. So, when you find yourself standing at the tenth door in your meditation, step into the ‘moment of God’. If you stop and look back, you will turn into a ‘pillar of salt’ — you’ll become a part of the physical-material world once again. You’ll get caught up in it. You’ll become a pillar of salt, and then you’ll have to separate yourself from the realms of matter once again. So ever look forward. Ever, ever look forward. In your meditation, in your daily life, ever step forward. Take that leap of faith — that’s what it is. Take it and know that nothing can hurt you in Spirit. Nothing can hurt you. Not even you can hurt yourself when you’re in the realms of spirit, when you are traveling in your soul body. Everything that confronts you is there for your freedom, for your liberation. So greet it, welcome it, love it, honor it, and you will watch negativity run from you fast, because it will not know what to do with loving. Negativity loves to create disturbance in you, to create fear in you, to create separation in you. It will do all it can to do that, whether you’re in the body here or whether you’re in your soul body traveling in the ‘outer realms’. If you just accept it and love it and say, “Hey! Welcome! I love you,” then it runs the other way. Then you can start running after it and say, “Wait! Wait! Where are you going?” It’ll just run faster and everything else will run away from you too because it’ll say, “Oh my God, they’ve got it figured out. They’ve won.” The lord of this creation will just let go of you, because the lord of this creation will know it no longer has power over you. You now have power over this creation. You are the lord of this creation. You can step free of it. Then you really do truly wake up. You wake up from this dream you’ve been in. You wake up and realize the illusion this really is. You wake up and realize that this really is a great stage that God created, and you’ve just been reading from the script all this time. You’ve been playing a part, a divine part, in God’s wonderful play, and all of a sudden you’ve read the last line and there’s no other part for you to play on this stage. Now (LEAP continues on page 12)