2024-10-17-Amanson on The Inner Light

Session

Lesson

The Inner Light is the way-shower. As a lantern leads us through a dark night, so the lantern that is your Inner Light illuminates your way over high hills, through deep valleys, the long tundras and slow-moving episodes that beset a pioneer on the trail of that which satisfies beyond mere satisfaction; a person in search of the origins of life and its purpose, a life more than just survival, but one that meets the soul's requirements of Beauty, Truth and Goodness: the reflections of God, or of Love, if you prefer.

Your Inner Light is not only a gift but a collaborator, a conscious Partner who knows your ways, speaks your language, understands your propensities and is more than willing to guide you by - and into - the Light, so that your ways, language and propensities can be used to the good of all your fellows and their Inner Lights; Lights which, unbeknownst to their hosts, are in fellowship themselves, constant communication. This fact alone should - when known - alert mankind to the Oneness that permeates all living things, all life.

You've heard those famous words "Omniscience", "Omnipresence", "Omnipotence". Well, those are the characteristics of the Light you are host to. You carry these powers within your very being. Such is your Inner Light, this Light in contact with all others. But while you focus on the outside world (never stopping to consider the reflection factor, that what your particular attention is drawn to is but a reflection of your interior activity!) you don't bother to quiet down and actually await this Inner Light, wait quietly and expectantly upon this Inner Light. So the benefits, the advantages, the blessings your Partner has been recruited to show you go unobserved, unexperienced.

And the more chaotic the outside world grows, the more trial and tribulation appear on the horizon like ships steaming forth to the shoreline, advancing nearer and nearer with every passing headline, the more this Inner Light becomes your most necessary port of call. For the seas will be shaking, the sands wind blown, and it is only the calm, the redoubtable, the intractable bulwark that is your Inner Light that will serve as your port of refuge. It has done so in the midst of merely uncomfortable times; it has done so in times of great distress; and it will do so in the most tumultuous times, times like those coming, where the world will receive a new referendum, a new lease on life, and choose a new and friendlier set of rules to live by; guidelines based on the very Inner Light which will keep you from being buffeted about by the passing storm, the storm that no matter how empowered it seems to grow will not - cannot! - lay a finger on your devoted and devotional Inner Light. Pay attention to that Interior Fire. It is your Partner. And you are His.

Dialogue

(The next day, I had a question)

Me: For clarity, is the Inner Light experienced as an actual light?

Amanson: It is a knowing, a security from Beyond. It is the rock upon which Peter built his church, but it is better to not link it to any one tradition. It is a Reality that transcends, and outdates, all traditions. All traditions but one: you.