Text: "The fact that "all knowledge exists" and that it is omnipresent and available you all for the asking or desiring is fast being discovered by those of you who have become most proficient in the art of meditation. And there also is another cause for gratification in the increasing comprehension of what meditation means. Meditation is not for the purpose of acquiring a state of BLISS or of divine ECSTASY. Its purpose is to transform one from the condition which CREATION IS to the condition which CREATION IS NOT. When one acquires that state of universal stillness by overcoming his senses, he IS IN THE CREATIVE STATE. He becomes ONE with the Creator. The ecstasy or bliss of that condition is not sensual although, unfortunately, many students interpret the idea of bliss as a condition of the senses. True meditation transforms one to a state of mental bliss which only the creative genius knows. The more you can comprehend that, the more you can conquer your senses by stopping the action of your thinking to "become still and know". We tell you this because by far the greatest number of questions ever asked of us concern this most important of all human functions, the function of meditation. No decision of man should ever come from his senses. One must cultivate the art of seeking the quiet stillness of the meditative thinker before he answers any question, or makes any decision, even though that interval is but a small fraction of a second. It is not easy to comprehend or practice this principle of timeless decentration, but the more you think inwardly the more you will find that God thinks with you by sending His message to you in TIME-LESS LIGHT FLASHES which we call "inspiration". Inspired knowledge is Cosmic knowledge. You do not for a long time realize that those flashes are God's thinking and your thinking as ONE, but they are. That is why geniuses bring ideas into the world which were never before known in the world. That is why a Beethoven can think with God and interpret God's rhythmic thinking. That is why you can suddenly know something which you have never known before. That new knowledge comes to you in timeless flashes because you have desired it - because you have asked God to tell you NOW what you have never before known. And He does tell you. He tells you in those Light flashes of MIND THINKING." Russell, Home Study Course, unit 5, page 376-377

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