I’ve been co-teaching a class based on Walter Starcke’s classic book, It’s All God. His writings are very much in alignment with Religious Science. In addition, he emphasizes what he calls “The Double Thread”... the intertwining of our humanity and our divinity.
He asks this question: How do I view myself? Am I Spirit having a human experience, or am I a human with divine potential? The way we answer reflects our priorities. Does the objective world of effects, our material world, take priority over Spirit? Do I think of myself primarily as an egocentric human, or as a spiritual being?
As a human with divine potential, I see myself primarily as a physical being subject to the limitations of the objective world. I may seek divine guidance outside of myself rather than from my own inner source.
As Spirit having a human experience, I am prioritizing my essential spiritual nature, my higher consciousness -- my infinite, eternal, invisible self. I experience myself as consciousness first, and then as a physical body. Cause before effect.
The belief that one aspect is better than another is a trap, he says. Our humanity is a virtue, and even with the flaws that we perceive in ourselves or others, we are still God in action, because It’s ALL God.
Starcke emphasizes that these two aspects of ourselves -- our human and our spiritual aspects, are integrated into one whole. Let’s not try to balance these two aspects, but rather honor each and integrate them.
Back in 1945, the splitting of the atom released a huge explosion of energy. The invisible became visible, and the earthly collective consciousness experienced a shift. As humans, we are made up of atoms. So is it a huge leap to see ourselves as powerhouses of pure energy, as both the visible physical and the invisible spiritual?
Our every thought, every word can be electrically charged -- can flow outward as spiritual energy.
When we truly live in awareness of both our human and our spiritual selves, we can move into absolute knowing that everything that God is, I AM. We can double-think, as both human and spiritual, and make the metaphysical leap into what Starcke calls “ascension consciousness.”
And so it is.
