Brainwashing, Inc.
October 19, 1958
Matthew 5:29-30 & Matthew 6:19-23
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than your whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29-30
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The light of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light. If your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:19-23
To wash something cleanses it. "Brainwashing" is a process of persuasion, propaganda or indoctrination that changes some factor of thinking or emotional quality. Learning good manners was probably your first exposure to brainwashing. Everyone uses it as persuasion to bring people together, and to get them to work in harmony. Tyrants and dictators have used brainwashing as propaganda on the negative side.
The practice of brainwashing began with the discovery that subconscious mind is a reservoir of hidden memories that frighten us. We incorporate brainwashing in Ascension work to cleanse the brain cells of darkness, and since we know it works, we can discern that some great underlying power operates to this end.
Since Love is the only power in the universe that can recondition or change Substance from one form to another, brainwashing must operate under the Principle of Love, which we apply to change our minds. The expression of Love is all-powerful, but can be evil when inverted and applied as hate. Unfortunately, people believe more firmly in the power of hate than in Love. Brainwashing is evil only when it makes another do something evil, or when it changes good into evil.
Prayer is the highest outer expression of our love of God. Prayer is the invisible bridge between us and our Creator. Brainwashing in its supreme degree represents the prayer power of the Elect. Mesmerism, hypnotism and lies are at the low end of the pole, but are still part of Love. The petition prayer of the masses asking for something personal lies between.
Hypnotism, at its highest point, is used for good, often to heal incurable ailments. Publicity and advertising are hypnotic on the low pole, a lesser vibration of the great Principle of Love. Suggestion is a high point of hypnotism. Television and radio commercials use the power of suggestion to entice us to buy products. A good treatment for children who watch television is to declare that they’re wearing rose-colored glasses. Use the clockwise rotary motion over their heads to brainwash their brain cells, eyes and ears with the Light of the River of Life.
How do we apply brainwashing to our life of Ascension? We change our thinking from orthodoxy, prejudice and opinions. As we follow the Christ in Ascension, we let our Oversouls brainwash our subsouls and convince our subconscious minds to leave behind the doubt and fear.
"If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you." The "right" in Ascension work means up. The right eye symbolizes your physical eyes becoming the single mystic eye of God. The left eye represents Imagination and Vision. Pluck it out and brainwash yourself if it causes you to sin. The right hand is the hand of execution. The Light in your body becomes offensive if you cater to darkness or misuse your executive power. Cast out the prejudice and emotional negativity influencing your life, the opinionated thinking that drags down and interferes with Soul Vision. Brainwash your little self into casting out the darkness in your left eye. "I’ll try" to cast it off means you didn’t intend to do it. Don’t join the "tryers" and the "almost-hardlys."
You are the sum of your words: The heart speaks through your words, which are you. Light brainwashes you when you no longer subconsciously submit to the world mind, newspapers, gossip, television. Cast out idle words – "I feel awful. I’m lower than a snake’s belly" – which circles the world, accumulate seven times their weight in similar force and return with a good, hard blow. The "world mind" operates on a hypnotic influence of suggestion, and you’ll use idle words if you allow the world to influence your thinking. As you read headlines of disaster, lift them. Move on and up and do. If you look down, you become dual-minded, admitting two powers, good and evil. You are admitting that you are wrong when you declare someone else is. God cares for us. He credits us according to our words, not others’ words about us. God takes a chunk of your credit and gives it in compensation to those you resent and criticize.
If you’ve ever complained, "I prayed so long but God never answered me," your soul substance went to those you criticized and blamed between your prayers. Prayer is spiritual brainwashing, and only through prayer does anyone’s mental life change. Quickly brainwash yourself whenever you begin to feel "pure," proud, self-pitying, or "yak" about your family and the world – if they would be good, you would be happy. As your mental life ascends under high hypnosis, it signals the physical life to change. True brainwashing reconditions your whole life, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Lift your emotions to Love. What do you do with the people who offend you? "What is that to you? Follow me." If you stick your nose in people’s lives, you’ll eventually put it in their garbage. Part of you ends up in your friend’s trash can if you criticize and blame, and it comes home like a buzzard to roost. Admitting a problem admits you have lost contact with the Source of enough Power to solve any problem. We never admit problems if we have enough real desire to lift our share of world problems. Self stops and asks, "Does this belong to me?" We tell God to "go to thunder" if we protest, but instantly put ourselves in orbit around the Source when we accept, and say, "Here I am, Father. You can trust me with anything." We have the right to brainwash offenders, but only through prayer, by saying "I love you. You’re wonderful." This routine works! God’s Power uses you to wipe ugliness from the minds and hearts of others. Use the power of suggestion on offenders, and declare the Power of the living God fills their hearts as Light, cleansing them of negativity.
From a mental viewpoint, heaven is in your Thinking and Imagination. Soul virtues are your "treasures in heaven." Brainwash yourself of the ability to use idle words, and automatically your words will be "This is good." Let God adopt the evil you lift for cleansing. He gives it His earth name, Good, and so should you.
"Moths" eat good things. Everybody has moths of doubt, regret, boredom and resentment that nibble at their highest ideals. Moths represent people who eat at your ego. We exalt self whenever we allow a moth to chew on us. Take your worst favorite and put him where he belongs under the Laws of the Almighty. You can’t push him down, so declare him good. His Guardian Angels, who want to see him good, will release Power on your declaration.
"Rust" is the dry rot of laziness, indifference, lukewarmness and self-pity, which rust your little ego. Your joints creak when your self-pity is groaning at the world. Grief and tears rust you out and cause the squeak. Oil yourself with plenty of love, prayer and praise.
The greatest of the big family of "thieves" are pride, prejudice, opinions, irritation and criticism, which steal your energy. Our subconscious is like a junk room, filled with thieves. Why waste time looking for results? Go about your business and love God. Having done all, you stand. All is how much you love God. Stand with Him when you have finished. You then see the need for prayer for those in trouble. The Father lifts His hands and Lights flash to surround the object of your prayer.
The "single eye" is keeping your eye on the mark, seeking first the kingdom of heaven, oneness in heart, mind and purpose, a single I. Simplicity, which is protection, Light and glory, is the gift of the single "I."
The higher we ascend, the more Light uses us as a prodding challenge to our family, bosses and friends, as though to say, "I dare you to speak negatively to me." To avoid offending your family, keep declaring "I love you. You’re wonderful," to avert their anger and your self-pity and grief, which cause resentment. We must love God enough to free the world of ourselves. See problems only to lift, and don’t analyze when another wants you to be the "dumping ground" for his troubles. Ask what he thinks and neutralize his thought processes with Light. It doubles your responsibility to know too much about another’s problems.
One sentence spoken in Love, backed by absolute Law, seems as if you had talked all evening. Yet the more Light you carry, the more devastating your idle words. Never let another cause you to rust, but oil you both with love when you rebuke another. Brainwash your enemies with the Love of God. It works. Declare that God contains war until Light brainwashes the aggressors. Do you comprehend the Love of God as well as you do the world’s evil? As we grow in comprehension, we become untouchable and immoveable by the world’s hypnotic influence, untouched by moths, rust, or thieves.
Brainwashing is self-discipline and prayer, God’s Love and Power in action. To use brainwashing and the power of suggestion as the pure, undiluted Love of God creates Light so bright that you can accept and meet more challenges than you dreamed possible.
October 26, 1958
I Thessalonians 5:14-23
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all. See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves, and for all. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophecies. Prove all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. Now may the very God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I Thessalonians 5:14-23
From the time a lifespark is freed from the Source to manifest, it begins in unceasing movement the long journey back to the Source. From the creature to Creator, from the animal kingdom to the ascending Creator gods, we must accomplish Pilgrimage. Every lifespark must ascend. The desire to ascend is a hallmark of substance and consciousness.
Some people seek to escape their commitments and spiritual debts to Universal Law by saying they don’t believe in reincarnation or karma. Those who refuse to accept responsibility for their creations find they must return until they fulfill the commitments of this life and those from past incarnations. Others return to earth to accompany their laggard loved ones. Every lifespark harbors in its heart a responsibility for honor. Jesus spoke of that original responsibility when he said, "Cast your burden on me, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Accept the yoke of responsibility and you’ll find its weight and colors are also Light. "I accept" is the first fundamental Law of governing, and a higher responsibility of all humanity. Doctors, scientists and professionals in the business world all accept their responsibilities. Yet, responsibility means bondage and enslavement to most people. Why is it so hard to accept the higher authority of God?
Religion unfolds material reality, and includes the synthesis of every particle of matter, a process that we call Ascension. Man ascends the scale of civilization in science, the business world and every field of endeavor. The whole process of life is based on Ascension. All improvement is Ascension, whether selfish or godly. Bettering oneself is Ascension. People improve their jobs, their homes and move to better neighborhoods. Life’s keynote is "I accept," which opens the vibration of Ascension.
Obedience is a quality. Constancy refers to quantity. Science uses the term "constant" to indicate a set amount. The technician can’t make a perfect serum, for instance, unless the quantity and quality of ingredients are perfect. Constancy in obedience refers to the quantity and quality of ingredients permeating your life. You think you let the Love of God possess you, yet how constant is your love’s quantity? You think you are obedient, but is your obedience constantly perfect in quality? Anything unlike Love cuts it off, resentment for instance.
You can judge where you are by your degree of acceptance and obedience. From the creature stage to the Son of God, we ascend from Egypt, the three lower creative centers in the abdomen, by our acceptance. We enter the Promised Land, represented by the physical stomach (assimilation and acceptance), heart (love), and lungs (expansion, inspiration and aspiration). Soul Vision opens in the Promised Land of perfect Mind, which has nothing to do with earthly education. As vision expands, we broaden our assimilation and love. Acceptance ascends us to the higher throat, brow and crown centers and the Garden of Eden, the head. The throat is the "I-me-my" center. Many get stuck on "I don’t care. I can’t" – I. I. I. No one can ascend without sacrificing "little self" at this center. From blindness of self to soul comprehension, this is the Path.
What is the formula of Ascension? A climber remembers every mountain he has ever seen or dreamed of climbing. First, he prepares to climb by gathering the equipment he’ll need. He can’t just sit and wait for a mountain to appear, but finds one to climb. To ascend, you first prepare, then exercise perfect control over your life to follow Law. You decide where you want to go and gather the "tools" you’ll need to make the climb. Study and reading are not enough. You must do, too. You can groan about being too tired to attend classes, pray at night or read the Bible, but you are the one who must do the ascending.
We find many formulas for Ascension in the Bible. The various authors of scripture don’t list the Bible’s Mysteries in order, verse after verse, but separate them, often by much between. We must integrate them, so we sift and tie them together to climb the mountain of comprehension. We have so many sects and ways of ascending because each interprets truth his own way.
Our "What to Do to Ascend" formula contains six steps we call the Laws of Comprehension: "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all things shall be added to you." This Law covers everything, and shows exactly how to keep your Vision focused.
"Agree with your adversary quickly while you are on the way with him." Do it now without giving subsoul the chance to respond first.
"What is that to you? Follow me." Follow the Master. Ignore everything that would take your eye from the kingdom.
"Abstain from all appearance of evil." Don’t do or say things that will stall your progress. Use no idle words.
"I, if I am lifted up, will draw all others to me." Lift everyone you contact.
Look into failure and defeat and say, "This is good and very good." The secret ingredient of perfect creations is "This is good."
These are Laws for conquerors, not martyrs. Pride of self fills every martyr, who is too proud to let others know they’re hurt, or doesn’t want others to gloat. To deflate the criticizer’s balloon, say, "How wonderful you are to love me enough to want me to be perfect." These are vital Laws of Ascension for health, a Godlike body, and for business and personal success. Use what you already have. How much do you apply these "What to Dos" of Ascension?
We add six "How to Do Its." Nothing is impossible to God, and we have not yet touched the mental fringes of Jesus’ statement, "Ye are gods." Six steps teach us how to ascend and earn comprehensive blamelessness: Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing and give thanks for everything. Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophecies. Test all things, which means to love all things. Hold fast what is good.
Righteousness is applying our highest Vision to everything we do, the "right-use-ness" of Power. The Kingdom of Heaven is the perfect realm of "I accept." I accept the obligations I have formed, the commitments I have or have not fulfilled. We lose the Kingdom if we have not fulfilled our thousand days of burnt offerings. We use our credits and soul substance to repay unfulfilled commitments. No one can "blow his top" without blowing out atomic substance all over the body. Doctors would have far fewer patients if we stopped doing this. Can you understand this? The feet represent understanding. Are pointed-toe shoes ruining your feet? Your understanding should be free. People whose arches have fallen have also dropped their truths.
"How" to ascend is to "rejoice always," seek the kingdom of heaven and ascend from Egypt. Praise vitalizes every cell in the body, ascending each in rhythm. Add Love, Vision and Power, and your hands execute righteousness. We lift all things, even plants and animals, using praise.
Keep rejoicing. Adversaries of self-pity, pride, resentment, criticism, gossip and blame will end your rejoicing. What quantity of time and quality of response do you give to a silly remark? What will it matter who said what in a year’s time? You can’t rejoice unless you obey "This is good," or you may slide down the pole. Declare it good no matter what. Giving an adversary the first and last words is easier than to argue or persuade. Say, "You are wonderful. How did you think of it?" He forgets his plan to criticize or blame you. Life is a school with a million grades, and each is in the right one. Love people where they are, and work to ascend. Some think they will lose their identities by agreeing and adjusting, which is silly, for you lose only your petty little ego.
You’ll hold to the goal, if you want the life of an ascending Creator god. The constant quality and quantity of prayer go with this. If you forget your high ideals, your prayers are weak. You are praying without ceasing if you live up to your Vision of Glory. Pray in the bathroom, if necessary, to keep peace in the family. You can do anything you wish, without criticism, when you pray without ceasing.
"Quench not the Spirit" by giving thought to anything that is not part of your ideal. "What is that to you? Follow me." People are so interested in what others do. Human nature is too critical, bossy and inquisitive, and would rather die of indignation than give up its opinions and resentments. You can ascend any darkness, physical, mental or spiritual with enough praise, and praise the most belligerent person up and out of hostility. The quality of your praise is important. Is it selfless or are you trying to remake the other fellow in your idea of perfection? You can’t make anyone else good, even God can’t. Quench not your own spirit by recognizing darkness anywhere, but see the spark of goodness in others. The sharp tongue scatters evil like an exploded bomb. Forget evil now. Sometimes, even speaking to prevent another from committing a blunder is worse than the act itself. Just stand and pray to see the glory spread.
Make yourself good, and you’ll gradually ascend. Integrate this with "Seek first the kingdom of God" and "This is good." Use your equipment to see the quantity and quality of good, not evil, or you can’t entertain the Power of God. Why take detours or land in the basement when you can go to your tower room to pray? Seeking answers when you already know what to do is just trying to find an easy way on another’s formula.
Add "how to do it" to "what to do." "How to ascend" is to sanctify yourself. "I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all to me." People run from sanctification that looks "holier than thou." Your family becomes furious when you look so sanctimonious and high on the ladder that you pull up after yourself. Living with a noble, joyous sinner is better than with a self-righteousness saint. Bless your life, make your commitments, and pay as you go. Be obedient to all these Laws. Declare everything good, presume all others are blameless, and it will preserve you blameless. Blame is the source of war, which is nothing more than self-justification. Never justify yourself before the world.
These six Laws will ascend you to the Glory of God. Responsibility is wonderful, and letting Light use you to lift others and the world is marvelous. You commit yourself to others when you involve them with your words. God’s Vibrations, Principles and Powers draw us closer to the Heart of the Source. Pettiness, hurts and charging debts of blame to others drags us down. Wouldn’t you feel funny to awaken on the "sea of glass" with your back to the Throne and everyone else facing God? Love God enough to put the right equipment in your pack, and march before the world.
©2002 Society of the Universal Living Christ