Spiritual Letter 67 - Expanded Material 01 - For: Topic 5 on Page 1 of 2 "Establishing The Presence of God Within Us" Go To: Expanded Material 01 Go To: Spiritual Letter 67 - page 1 of 2 Go To: Spiritual Letters - Home Page Expanded Material 01: (Note: when you are done reading this expanded material for Topic 5 on page 01, please repeatedly click on the "BACK" button at the top of your Web Browser to return to the same place in the original document where you invoked this expanded material, or click HERE, or at the top or bottom of this page, to go back to the top of Page 1 of 2 of this letter. Also, due to the importance of this Topic, this expanded material was made into a new Spiritual Letter with a similar name. To access this new Spiritual Letter please click on the following: Spiritual Letter 69, "Invoking the Presence of God Within Us" (www.SpiritualLetter069.homestead.com). Thank you. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar) For our age, the name of that "Oneness of God" within God within us, is the name of the "Gift of God" for our age, is the name of the life and teaching of God for our age, and for our age, that is the Name of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Name of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which in truth, when they come to maturity within Him, becoming "One with" God within them, is the same name. Which in truth for this age, are the five steps of spiritual ascendance, of walking back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in the Islamic tradition is called Shari'at, Tariqat, Haqiqat, Ma'rifat, and Sufiat, or using the name of His Holiness, is respectively, "Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen", "Shaikh Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen", "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Muhaiyaddeen", "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", and finally, the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. Such is the Name of God for our age, the name of the five steps on the path back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us all, as the Name of God in the age of Jesus (peace be upon Him), over 2000 years ago, was Jesus (peace be upon Him), which was the name of the liberated soul joined as "One with' wisdom, the name of the Three of God, of the Holy Trinity of God, the name of the Flower of True Faith in God, which was "John the Baptist", and of its Fragrance, which is Jesus (peace be upon Him). And as the Name of God in the age of Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon Him), over 1400 years ago, was Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), the name of the beauty of God in the purified heart, in the Ahamd, reflected in the face, in the Muham, which joined together becomes the name of Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon Him), the name of Iman-Islam. And as the Name of God in the age of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), over 1000 years ago, was Qutb Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), the name of the Muhaiyaddeen of God, of the "Giver of Life back to True Belief", the name of the "Bringer of the Pure Light of Truth", and in the Hindu religion, the Name of God is the name of Murugan (please and blessings be upon Him), which is one of the 201 names of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon Him). And Bawa teaches us, that after this explanation, if you still prefer to use the Name of God that you are used to, to invoke the "Presence of God" within you, before you "say or do" anything, the Name of God that you have grown up believing in and practicing, then that is also fine, for using any of these earlier Names of God for these earlier ages, for establishing the "Presence of God" within us in our age, before we "do or say" anything will produce the same results. Because in truth They are all One within us, that is, using the Name of Jesus (A.S.), or Muhammad (Sal.), or Qutb Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.), or Murugan (Sal.), will all do the same thing, will all establish the "Presence of God" within us in our age, before we "say or do" anything, as long as our intention is correct. For initially the most important point here is our intention, not the saying of the Name of God for our age, the main point is our "making God's intention our search" within us, is our "intending as God intends" within us, that is, is our truly intending to again become "One with" God within us, as God is now "One with" us within Him, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, not the saying of these names. But once we do have the correct intention, then it is important to correctly invoke the presence of God within us, by calling out His Name for our age, or His Name for previous ages, for then the use of the Name of God for our age, or for earlier ages, becomes required, in order to truly establish the "Presence of God" within us, in order to cause our mind and desire, to cause our ego, to sit down within us, by allowing God to stand up within us. Amen. Because as Bawa teaches us, "The mind will only sit down, when wisdom stands us". So from this perspective, the Name of God for our age, is the Name of our wisdom for this age, the name of the wisdom surrounding our soul for this, which is awakens to the "Word of God" for our age, to the life and teaching of God for our age. And God within us is within our wisdom, so in order to get to God within us, in order to become "One with" God within us, we must first become "One with" our wisdom, and in order to become "One with" our wisdom, we must give up, and hand over, the "Enemy of our soul" to Him, we must give up, and hand over to Him within us, "us" as "separate from" God within us, we must give up, and hand over to Him within us, our current life of sin, our current life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, and join with Him within us, join with our wisdom, to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul". For the "Enemy of our soul" is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, the "Enemy of our soul" is what currently defines "us", and our world, and our relationships, and our wealth, and our family and friends, and our business and religious groups, on the "outside" of us, which in truth are the "societies of hell" within us. So, from this perspective, invoking the "Presence of God' within us, before we "say or do" anything, after correctly setting our intention, after "intending as God intends", after intending to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, and then calling out the Name of God for our age, the Name of our wisdom, so our wisdom will stand up, so our mind and desire, our ego, will sit down, so our wisdom can then successfully do battle with the "Enemy of our soul", is the path back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in the Islamic tradition is called the "Straight Path", and in the Christian tradition is called, the "Way of the Lord". The "Way of the Lord" that John the Baptist told us to "Make Straight", as recorded in Chapter 01, Verse 22 and 23, in the "Gospel of John", "Then said they unto him, Who art thou? That we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?" "He said, I am the voice of the One crying in the wilderness, Make straight the Way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias." In this way, after correctly setting our intention, then we must use at least one of these Names of God, or all of them if you like, before we "say or do" anything, causing our wisdom to stand up, and our mind and desire, our ego to sit down, in order to establish the "Presence of God" within us, so the One "saying or doing" anything within us, is truly God within us, is truly the "Oneness of God" within God within us, and not what God has discarded within us, not "us" as "separate from" God within us, not our mind and desire, not our ego, not the "Enemy of our soul" within us. Amen. And in this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, we must learn to use God within us to get to God within us, and stop trying to use what God has discarded within us to try and get to God within us, and we do this by correctly setting our intention, and by then by calling out the Name of God for our age, or for previous ages, the name of the "Oneness" within God within us, to get to God within us, in order to "steady God" within us, to get God to come into us, to come into our mind and desire, which is where we currently live within us, and deal with "us" as "separate from" God within us, by coming out of the tiny place of purity within us, no bigger than an atom, which is where God, and all of the "Stuff of God" within God, live within us. And He will come and our mind and desire will sit down, perhaps for the very first time in our life, if our intention is correct, and if we learn to correctly call Him, correctly invoking His Presence within us, before we "say or do" anything, and when He is done dealing with what we have called Him to do, as our wisdom, He will then return to His place of purity within us, awaiting our next call, which can come in our next breath, or only again when we are facing our physical death, the choice is always ours. And in this way, God is available within us, but not resident within us, as our mind and desire are, with Him only join as "One with" us in our mind and desire when He is called into action by us, so as this child has learned to do, we call Him before we start each prayer, each line of each prayer, thought, each duty, and each of everything that God places before this child, in this way, transforming "my life" into His life, transforming everything that "I am doing", like writing this letter, into what "He is doing", with "me" then becoming His witness, the witness of the life and teaching of God within us. Amen. And in this way, to get God within us to "Cure Himself of us", of "us" as "separate from" God within us, and in this way, we get God within us to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul" both within us and on the "outside" of us, causing it to sit down, allowing the grace, the wisdom, and the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God to flow within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. And in this way, we stop trying to use what God has discarded within us, to get to God within us, and we stop using all of the names of what God has discarded, to get to God within us, the names that we have in our ignorance given to the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, the "names" of all of the people and things on the "outside" of us. Which in truth are the names of the "Enemy of our soul", which is all of the names that we in our ignorance have given to the "outside" of us, including our own name, like Louie Beutler, or Ellis Thomas, and the names of our relationships, like the names of the members of our family, like wife and son or daughter, or of our friends, like good friend, or reliable friend, as well as, the names of all the groups that currently define us, that define "us" as "separate from" each other, like male and female, or college graduate, or rich or poor, or white or black, and names that differentiate us as "separate from" other groups, like Muslim, or Christian, or Zoroastrian, or Hindu, or Jew. For all of this naming on the "outside" of us, and using these names to define us, protect us, or strengthen us in the world, only acts to strengthen our "separation from" God within us, and our "separation from" each other on the "outside" of us, and our "separation from" the Creation of God within us. And in this way, once we have correctly set our intention, intending as God intends, we must then use God within us to get to God within us, not what He has discarded, which is the "outside" of us, by invoking His Presence within us, by calling out His Name for our age, or for previous ages, by calling out the name of the "Oneness" of God within God within us, inviting Him to come into us, and become "steady" within us. Inviting Him to transform us, to make "us" as "separate from" Him into Him as "One with us, inviting Him to "destroy us and reveal Him" within us, in order to establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything, so the one who is "saying or doing" anything from us is only God within us, is only the "Oneness of God" within God within us, is only "us" within us as "One with" God within us, and is not "us" as "separate from" God within us, on the "outside" of us, is not the "Enemy of the soul" within us, disguised in "sheep's clothing" on the "outside" of us. Amen. And in this way, when we properly do this "Heart's Work" within us, we are elevating "us" up to God within us, and elevating "what we are doing" up to what God is doing within us, we are elevating ourselves and everything that God puts before us, to God within us, and to what is doing within God within us. And if we properly do this within us, learning in this way, to do "nothing properly", learning to hand over the responsibility for everything to God within us, never having the thought that '"there is something that I have to do", then our life, which in truth is "us" within us, not "us" on the "outside" of us, and what we are actually doing in our life, which in truth is what God has put before us in our life, becomes of great significance, of great value, to "us" within us, to the Creation of God within us, to God within us, and to the "Oneness of God within God within us, in this way, taking on the significance, the value, of God within us, and the significance, the value, of what God is doing within us. Amen. This is what this child has learned to do, my dearest loving brother Ellis, living at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of God within Him, for the last 29 years, and so can you, and so can all of the Children of God for our age, before we die to the "outside" of us, if we like, if we truly want to. And this is what this child has done with "us", my dearest loving brother Ellis, with the significance of "us", and with the significance of what we are both doing, on the "outside" of us, that is, elevating both "us" and what we are doing up to God within us, and up to what God is doing within us. Rather than trying to bring God down to us, down to the "outside" of us, and rather than trying to bring what God is doing within us, also down to us, also down to the "outside" of us, down to our current state of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, down to our "separate" lives, prayers, and duty, and down to what we may think in our ignorance that "we are doing" in our life, or that is "being done to us" in our life on the "outside' of us, for all of it is false, all of it is just a dream, all of it is just our drama. The drama of "you and I" living on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which in truth is the "Earth of God" within us, within which the "Seed of God" within us must be planted, so it can germinate, and reveal the "Tree of God" within us, which is True Man within God within us, and all of its fruits, all of the "Fruits of God" within us, which is the understanding of the Creation of God within us, and again the "Seed of God" within us, but this time a 1000 fold. Amen. And the only way to win our drama, to win the drama of the "outside" of us, as "Bawa" teaches us, "Is not to play". And in this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, this is the purpose of this letter to "us", from God within us all, that is now being shared between the two of us, if you like, elevating everything of "us" up to God within us, and to what God is doing within us, including "your" terminal physical condition, and "our" communication, "our" sharing, "our" Spiritual Letters, elevating all of "us" up to God within us, and up to what God is doing within us, and in this way, and only in this way, truly getting rid of it. Because then God within us will set about "Curing Himself of us", of "us" as 'separate from" God within us, on the "outside" of us, because then, we no longer exist as that, as "separate from" God within us, and God can then remove all of this "separation and differences" from us without removing "us" from Him within us, without removing "us", because now we have become "One with" Him within us. And in this way, then God within us "Cures Himself again", as He did before, when He became God within us, and we became "separate from" Him, we became "one with" what He "separate from" Himself, God "Cures Himself again", but this time from within us, and we will be within Him. Amen. And in this way, making both "us", and what we are both experiencing, as the "outside" of us, as something that in truth is "of God" within us, and "of what God is doing" within us, and is no longer just "of us" as "separate from" God within us, or just "of us" as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, or just "of us" as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. And with "us" within us doing all of this, all of this, as "One with" God within us, so like some apples seeds buried within the earth, we can truly germinate, we can truly use our life, and what is happening in our life, in partnership with God within us, as "One with" God within us, to finish what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, before we die to the flesh of ourselves, to the "outside" of ourselves. And in this way, transforming "us" and what "we are experiencing" on the "outside" of us into God and what God is experiencing within us, that God is experiencing within God within us, which is the "Oneness of God" within us, with "us" now exiting within God within us, within the "Oneness of God" within God within us, as the witness of God within us, as the witness of God within God within us, as the witness of what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen And in this way, with "us" no longer existing as "separate from" God within us, on the "outside" of us, and in this way, with "us" now existing within us as "One with" God within us, completing God's intention within us, which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. 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