The Light of Day by Associate Denny Highben
This is being written in the morning
hours of December 23, 2022, when I can see the light of day but not the sun.
Here, as in much of our immediate world, we are experiencing the “cyclone
bomb.” Its creation and approach had been announced for many days and now,
finally, it is here.
No one should have been surprised.
Whether you choose to say we were told or we were warned, it boils down to the
same thing. (Ironic, don’t you think -- the use of the word “boils” when the
wind chill has left “mere freezing” in the rearview mirror.)
The light of day comes through the
obscurity imposed upon us by the forces of nature. It may seem weakened, but it
is not; a little more focus may be required of us to understand the light, but
it is there. Only dimmed by the forces of nature.
Belief, believe it or not, is a force of
nature. Actually, it is the strongest force of nature. It is the primary
resource, for lack of a better word, available to us in both the physical and
spiritual worlds with which we must contend every moment of every day until
moments and days are no more. It seems to me that is the crux, the essence, of
William Allen LePar’s message: How we freely choose to use the awesome power of
belief determines our tomorrows.
Through the years a lot of attention has
been given to the so-called “psychic” or “spiritual” source which spoke through
LePar during his extremely deep, catatonic-state trances. Simply, that source
is known as The Council, a cooperative effort of souls. But it is so important
to remember that, had he not chosen to be utilized in such a way, had he not
believed strongly in the spiritual value of his service, he would not have done
it. As The Council said in the very first trance communication preserved by
SOL, they were brought forth by the spirit whose physical body they utilized to
talk with the material world.
When you think about beliefs, the
mechanics of how belief works, a good source for that reflection can be found
in what SOL calls “The Children’s Trance.” It is unique among all the
communications because it was held specifically for the children of SOL
Associates. The initial goal was to help LePar prepare for his first fully
public trance, when the audience would be filled with strangers who were there
primarily out of curiosity. That occurred in 1989, when SOL held The Million
Word Celebration – more than a million words of dialogue with The Council had
been received and preserved by then. But it turned out to be really so much
more.
One child, in a child’s way of being
direct, asked The Council: “Were Adam and Eve really made from dirt?”
In their answer, The Council utilized
the natural process of a magnet attracting “a bunch of little metal chips
around it.” That is an excellent image for understanding the power of
belief. Like those little chips of metal, what is attracted to us depends on
what we believe, what we desire. Our “magnetic power,” so to speak, is the
power of our spiritual essence, our divine nature. We attract elements of light
to us by what we choose to believe. That process creates the presence for us to
use as we move through physical life.
Those elements of light are attracted to
us, become a part of us, solely on our belief in them and our desire for them.
The less desire, the less belief, the less powerful the force of attraction.
Free will is always maintained.
The opposite is also true. The spiritual
elements of darkness, however, are another matter. Remember that what is above
is below. Nature abhors a vacuum. If little or nothing exists by our choice to
fill our little sphere of activity, something will occupy the vacancy. If it
isn’t elements of light, by choice, something less than light begins to fill
the void.
Earlier, the statement was made that
belief is the strongest force of nature. Some may quickly argue (rather
sanctimoniously, I might add; but then I am arguing with myself, so never mind)
that love is the strongest force of nature. No. Love IS nature, our spiritual
nature in its purest form. In one of the most succinct statements in The
LePar/Council archives, The Council says that love is all there is. Love is
everything. Anything else is something less. So, if love is really all there
is, then belief must be a force, a tool, for love to use to accomplish
something. But what? To go from relying on belief, the light of day sometimes
obscured by forces of material nature, to achieving once again a total
awareness of self and of the spiritual universes that belong to love.
Back to the explanation to the SOL
children of Adam and Eve. The Council:
“Well, you could say that Adam and Eve,
their soul, when they came near the earth kind of pulled a bunch of stuff
towards it and it kind of made their body then, and these things that had
pulled towards them were the elements of nature, but God really didn’t pick up
some mud and make a body like the story tells you. What the story tries to tell
you is that you are part of this earth and that you have to do the best job
living that you can, so that you don’t have to be around here forever and ever
and ever. Do you understand what we are saying?”
So, the sun -- our physical source of
light -- may be obscured this day but the Light is still there. And it may be
helpful to remember that, at this moment, our physical days are once again
getting longer. The darkness is receding once again. But in the mind, in the
soul, do more than remember. Believe.
