My Love Is Alive is a love story of Consciousness to Itself. It portrays the Idea of Consciousness for the sole purpose of illuminating Consciousness to its Self. Imagine your shadow on the ground in front of you. Who you really are, Infinite Consciousness, is the One watching the shadow. My Love Is Alive is the process of accepting, embracing, and living this reality in and as your life. The result is an outpouring of love for yourself and your experience. The ideas circle in a repetitive dance of discovery as the concepts sink deeper and deeper into the reader's understanding. There is a powerful and undeniable message of life that has never been so fully unveiled. Using Biblical references, the author repeatedly demonstrates the true nature of our essence. The text is thought provoking at the least, and utterly transformative in its fullest meaning. My Love Is Alive is a doorway only you can walk through. You will transition from the experience of believing that you are one of many individuals that make up the whole, to embracing the experience that you truly are "The One" Allow yourself to go through this process of My Love Is Alive with expectancy!
My Love is Alive
The Living Keys to the KingdomBy Dempsey HarshawBALBOA PRESS
Copyright © 2012 Rev Dempsey Harshaw
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4525-5669-7Contents
Acknowledgement....................................................................................viiForward............................................................................................viiiPreface............................................................................................xBelieving–Your Power–Your Being........................................................1The Rich Spiritual Ruler...........................................................................7The Fourth Element of Descriptions.................................................................13The Land of What I Believe as My Power.............................................................21Reasoning..........................................................................................23Choice.............................................................................................27Doing..............................................................................................29Vulnerability......................................................................................37Living in the Have-tos.............................................................................45The Land of I Am The Believer......................................................................53The Word of God....................................................................................63Why Bibles Scriptures Were Written in Storyline, Parables, and Seeming Riddles.....................71The Name of Jesus: Calling on The Name of The Lord.................................................81The Message of Jesus...............................................................................89The Book of Thomas.................................................................................111The Head Cornerstone...............................................................................119The Holy Revelation–The Revealing............................................................127Seven Churches.....................................................................................143The Perfect Beautiful Lie..........................................................................163The Beast..........................................................................................171The Harlot–The Woman.........................................................................181The Antichrist.....................................................................................193The Lamb with Two Horns............................................................................197The Four Creatures.................................................................................203The Trumpets.......................................................................................207The Message–The Keys.........................................................................227The Seals..........................................................................................235The Book of Life...................................................................................243The Marriage and Intimacy..........................................................................259Justice and the Jubilee............................................................................273Proof of Life......................................................................................287The Real Blessing..................................................................................293Setting the Captive Free...........................................................................295Cause and Effect in the Storyline..................................................................305Joy and the Storyline..............................................................................321Hide and Seek–Playing Peek-a-Boo.............................................................327I Illumination, I Consciousness....................................................................341
Chapter One
Believing–Your Power–Your Being
Rev. 3:7-8 "These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having the key of David, the One opening and no one shuts, and shuts and no one open; I know your works. Behold I have given a door being opened before you, and no one is able to shut it ..."
In the pages set before you is the reality and embrace of the very Keys to the Kingdom as the reality of Heaven opened. The Keys, the Kingdom and Heaven are all just metaphors and signposts to describe the reality of who you are.
What is offered here, to you, is the reality of understanding of that which is hidden behind the symbolism in the book of The Holy Revelation, the entire message of Jesus, as well as in other scripture. They are given in powerful, dramatic, and graphic metaphor. On the surface they may seem extremely heavy-handed, judgmental, and dualistic, and to some, bizarre and beyond any comprehension.
There is no way to express, in mere words and descriptions, how powerful and absolutely important this message is. I know for those that hear and embrace the knock on the door, it will be opened. This is for You–the very One, the breath, life, and love, the Infinite. It is for the one that thirsts for nothing else but the full embrace of all they really are. It is for the one that is willing to hold onto no thing, so as to embrace their Infinite self as the Self-Existent One. It is also for the one that does not yet recognize their thirst but is drawn to this moment of recognition.
What is offered here is your infinite reality, your embrace of Heaven opened as the life of who you are.
Awareness and attention is all there is. Attention is the experience of awareness. Awareness and attention are the very same one and only reality. You are the attention that is always unfolding from your awareness. When I say unfolding I am not speaking about time and space as in something being sequential and moving forward. I am speaking of Consciousness. I am speaking of the realization in the attention of awareness. Attention is Consciousness believing. This attention of believing is your Infinite being. Attention is the only power and reality that is ever actually being experienced. You–the Believer are the attention of your every moment. Attention is who you really are. Attention is the experience and power of life. It is the Infinite one and only breath. There is no thing to give your infinite power of attention to that is the reality or power. You, the one and only attention are the only power and reality.
You are the Believer. You are all and complete Consciousness. The all and complete action of Consciousness is its own recognition, the recognition of who you really are. Recognition is the You–the Believer giving attention of awareness that you are the One Consciousness. Believing is the attention of awareness. This could be thought of as "knowing" but the word "believing" is more of an action in its expression. The essence of You–the Believer is all there is; all there is of any thing is a belief of You–the Believer. This is the same as saying that you are the Dreamer, and your dream is from you. You are not of or from your dream. The only thing real, in, about, and of your dream is You–Consciousness. The only essence and life of the dream is the Dreamer.
This is You–the Believer the all and only essence, life, and power. What-you-believe (a belief) is never, ever your essence, life, or power. Just as the reflection of you in a mirror is never your life, a belief is only illusion, a creation of your infinite essence. What-you-believe is a description (a pictorial, sensory representation); it is not who you are. You–the Believer are all and only power. All belief is subject to, reliant on, and captive by, the very infinite essence, you the one and only Believer. Just like the dream is subject to the Dreamer. A dream is from you and only exists because of you. The Dreamer is You–the Believer and the dream is your belief.
This may seem completely backward from what you have been taught, believed, or experienced, and it is the one reality. It is your true reality, and who you naturally are.
There is a phrase, "seeing is believing." In reality, believing is your real sight. Believing is all power. Simply know that your essence, life, and power is not What you believe. Think about What you believe in your own life. Your infinite power of believing is what makes your entire world of illusion powerfully believable. The realization of the reality of your true experience is discovered in the embrace that all your essence, life, and power is that you are the one and only Believer.
The recognition and embrace of who you really are is not a support or crutch, as a mentally digested concept, to get you through life. It simply is the only life, reality, and power; it really is YOU.
This is not a small concept or idea. It is also not just an idea that you can simply add to your already accumulated wealth of spiritual systems, descriptions, beliefs, and support structures to comfort your life in this world.
You being the Believer is really All and All.
All that you experience and feel are signposts pointing you to the life and power you are. The embrace and recognition of who you really are is what every signpost (your feelings and experiences) of descriptions and beliefs are pointing you to! Embracing who you really are is the only real value and comfort of life. To believe that life's value and comfort is in descriptions and beliefs is an illusion and can never be the real value and comfort. If you have been convinced that What you believe is the essence, power, and life, you will be subject to its limitations in the belief that you are finite.
Here are some quotes from "Free to Fly" as a refresher, or a first introduction, which ever applies to you:
"The power of you to believe is not in What you believe but, rather, simply that you believe. Follow this with me. What you believe in does not empower you to have a better or lesser life. What you believe is not ever your power.
If What you believe is your power then What you believe is also your owner. Yes, that means; who you are, and any degree of quality of your life and experience, is subject to What you are believing in. Your real power is really and actually in the knowing, accepting and understanding that you are simply the believer, unattached to any particular thing that you could believe in. Hear this again, your power is simply that you are the Believer. You are the creator. You are all Consciousness. There is no power outside of who you are. That is really all there is to know. Every thing that you see, every thing that you experience is what You–Consciousness are and have created to appear in your world. Yes everything that you feel and experience is because of You–the Believer.
The illusion of every addiction, every judgment, every discrimination, all hatred, all fear, all war and struggle, all feeling of lack is bound and tied up in the belief that your power is in and about What you believe. You will be and are bound, tied, and limited in your experience if you feel that your power is in What you believe. Then there is a needed perpetuation of belief that you feel you need in order to have the best human experience."
A belief is a finite reflection of you, as is your shadow. It is not who you really are.
This is so important to embrace. This is core to all that will be presented and opened up. Who you are, the one and only Infinite Believer, believes and the belief is created, just as one would stand in the light and the shadow appears.
Allow yourself to keep this in your attention:
• Everyone is always (I mean you) and in every way expressing their power. There is only one power, and that power is the Believer believing.
• So, everyone (You–Consciousness) is always and only expressing from the one place of all power.
• The very act of taking any position at any moment in your conscious experience, is a moment of your all power.
• There is only one presence, and this one presence that you are, is always, in every moment, standing in all power and professing I am!
All is the one power I am. Everything is the appearance of the one power I am. There is only one power and this one power and life I am. This one power is the one power you really are and the only power you are ever experiencing.
Simply know that you are calling this unto your Self, from your Self. You really are only hearing your own Infinite voice from within. Embrace all you infinitely are in all you feel and hear within.
Be in your joy no matter what anything looks like.
If a belief is your joy, stay in it. If it stops being your joy, follow who you are and take the next step. Being in your joy, knowing your joy, and following it wherever it takes you is a wonderful experience. What I am presenting opens up your world to who you infinitely are to enhance and increase your joy to its fullest, as you embrace all you are.
You can never be less than the one you infinitely are. It is simply not possible.
You may believe that you are all power and life while also believing What you believe is your power. You may also believe and feel that you can hold to the belief in both as the power of your life. If You–the Believer are convinced that What you believe is the reality and life, it in no way diminishes that there truly is only one life, one Consciousness, and one Believer. You are always the one Infinite life. This is simply the only reality of who you are, and this cannot change.
You are always taking a conscious position of power in your experience.
You can do whatever you are inspired to do and it is all perfect. You are always in the recognition that you desire to be in as you are always the Infinite one. Whatever you embrace as your recognition is always perfect, right where you are. You are always in the place of power, simply as who you are. You are all Consciousness, the one only life and Believer. It is as simple as that.
Know that all comforts of belief that one may call life and reality will be revealed as a finite experience. Do you want to know what is true and real? If What you believe is your believed power, you will be decisively, and lovingly shown what that really means. You will be offered the understanding that not only are you living an experience of finite limitation, but also that you are being held captive in the illusion and belief of duality. In duality, your experience of life is that there is an other, called people (including your own persona), places, and things. In reality, there is only one power and life.
If you want to embrace all that you infinitely are and are so inspired to embrace and see that you, as all Consciousness, are the one and only Believer; if you are tired of the endless work of self-alignment, purification, and labor of belief, and desire the embrace of the one real marriage that cannot be taken, shaken or dissolved; if you have a feeling of deep conviction to embrace that who you are is the reality waiting to be recognized, then welcome to the supper. There is a full banquet table set, just for you, right here to feast. To the one that will, I say come.
What is being opened and presented to you in the coming message and pages is a powerful and vital message. Understand that for some this may feel like a tsunami. For others it may be like infinite rivers of living water. It may even be a little of both, as who you really are begins to recognize your reality. This is in your hands. It is not my intent, or purpose, to make it hard to see, embrace, or understand. It is available here and now, to make known to the open, thirsty, and ready heart.
I will paraphrase Morpheus, as he said to Neo in the movie The Matrix, "All I am offering you, is what is real."
If you are willing to allow the one reality and open the door, no matter what, then enjoy, and be full.
Rev. 3:20 "Behold I stand at the door and knock: If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will go into him, and I will dine with him, and he with me. The one overcoming I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also overcame and set with my father in his throne. The one that has an ear, hear what the Spirit says ..."
The Rich Spiritual Ruler
If there was one that said, "I have the keys to free you from death, hell, sacrifice, suffering, and any appearance of separation", would you want those keys?
If you heard there was one that held the Keys to the Kingdom of God, to all freedom, all joy, and who you really are, would you not sell everything you had to have these keys?
What if you had these keys, and because of them all of Heaven was fully and completely open to you, through you, and as you? Would you really sell ALL?
Would you let go of, or even be willing to let go of all beliefs and/or sell every spiritual practice of comfort and spiritual alignment to experience the one reality? What would you hold onto of anything, to miss out on all that is, as all you are? Is there any so-called sacred cow of any thing that would be worth keeping? Would you really hold onto What you believe as a power if it meant that you would not totally embrace, and know your Infinite self? Really take that in, because that is exactly what is at stake here. What would you do if you knew that you could not have both as your experience? What will you embrace?
Would you desire to keep any thing that would prevent you from experiencing Heaven open and being in the Kingdom, knowing in complete recognition, that you are effortlessly the Infinite One? Really! What would you do?
Would you not sell and give all, including any laboring spiritual efforts, to know and embrace who you really are?
Let me tell you a story of a rich ruler that was offered the embrace of his Infinite self, and turned it down. I know that may seem hard to believe on the surface, but it was so.
I will begin with the story that started all of this for me. There was an explosion of clarity that happened within and as me as I was hearing the words that I wrote about believing in "FREE to FLY." I was powerfully feeling the contrast between What you believe as your power and You–the Believer simply being all power. As I was in the experience of this powerful feeling, the story in the New Testament of the rich and spiritual ruler emerged in my awareness. I felt them both within me. Visually it was like watching two hands merging until they were one. It was at that moment that clarity exploded for days, then for weeks, turning into months.
There are three references to this story in the Bible. The first two are in (Matt. 19:16-26 and Mark 10:17-27). I will be referencing from the third version of the story, which is (Luke 18:18-27).
There is a well-known verse that says "It is easier for a camel to go in through a needles eye, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Here is the story that goes with that verse.
There was a very rich ruler that came to Jesus asking what else he could do to earn eternal life. In prefacing his question, the ruler first addresses Jesus as "Good Teacher." This was to plant the seed, letting Jesus know before he gave his answer that this ruler knew what good was. This man was also implying that he was humble. He was not only saying that he was in favor with Jesus, but also that he himself was good. In other words saying, "I am one of you." In a way, the ruler was saying "I already know the answer." It was as if saying "I am asking you, so that you may confirm what I already believe of my righteousness and my earned inheritance."
In his response, Jesus first met this man in his own belief. Jesus challenged the ruler's accolades that he garnished upon him. Not only that, but he challenged this man's perception of God, knowing that he did not really see his message or who Jesus was. Jesus answered, "Why so do you call me to be good? No one is good except One God."
Jesus then gave him a to-do list of accepted beliefs of what was good. Jesus stated truths called biblical laws that were known as God's laws. He said, "keep the commandments, don't lie, steal, or have sex outside of marriage, honor your father and mother," and so on. The man responded, expecting to get his Jesus club card saying," "I have kept all of these my entire life, from my youth." He was basically saying to Jesus, "I have done all of what the commandments have asked of me to appear as perfect, and I have done it perfectly." His expectation was to return home and display to his spiritually rich and high ranking social society his absolute entitlement and power.
Jesus said; "One thing is lacking to you: sell all, as much as you have, and you will have treasure in Heaven. And come and follow me." The man upon hearing this became "very much grieved." The Bible says this man was not only rich but "exceedingly rich." He was beyond rich. He was wealthy.
Seeing him become "very much grieved" Jesus said, "How hardly those having riches shall enter the kingdom of God. For it is easier of a camel to go in through a needles eye than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God."
The disciples then said something extremely telling and important after this interaction and comment of Jesus. Really take this in. They were in astonishment and worry as they said to Jesus, "How shall anyone then be saved?" This statement, from his disciples, is the key to what this story truly reveals. The disciples didn't have any money to speak of so this question shows that this isn't really about money or the accumulation of things. In reality, it isn't about how much or how little of any thing you have. This story describes the belief of value. Not only is this describing the belief of value but also the value held, given to belief. It is about holding onto any value and power of What you believe as the reality.
(Continues...)
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