Advent Journal: The Holy Spirit Will Not Deny You

The Holy Spirit will not deny you. Only the ego ever denies you.

If you feel anything less than perfect peace – perfect happiness, perfect rest, and perfect holiness – then you are listening to ego, who never means you well. This is not a crime against God or nature but there IS a better way: listen only to the Holy Spirit, who will not deny you.

II

The Holy Spirit will not deny you perfect happiness, rest and holiness. If you are experience anything other than perfect happiness, rest and holiness, then you are listening to the ego, whose only wish for you is suffering and death.

In other words, these things that cause you anxiety and worry, these things that you dread and resent, these things that take you so high and so low – work, money, sex, family, art, magick – are not the problem. The problem is the way you look at them.

The problem is that you don’t look with the Holy Spirit. You refuse its gift of Christ Vision. You still insist on ego – on chaos and violence. This is not a crime against God or nature but there is another way, which is the way of peace, the way of joy, the way of holy relationship.

The way of peace means looking at everything in our lives with the Holy Spirit. Nor will the Holy Spirit refuse to look with you. The Holy Spirit does not deny you ever.

III

The Holy Spirit refuses us nothing; when we ask it to teach us how to accept the Vision of Christ, it teaches us, and its teaching is perfect. Only the ego will refuse us; only the ego will deny us; only the ego will insist we dwell in houses of pain and confusion forever.

The Holy Spirit loves you and teaches you love by teaching you how to be grateful for Your Self, and for your brothers and sisters, without whom love would be less than empty.

Ego teaches you hate by insisting that you fear your self, and others too, and then counsels you to ignore every voice that tries to suggest otherwise.

If fear is your companion in any way, shape or form – here in this body in this this world – then you are looking at life with ego. This is not a crime against God or nature but there is a better way, and that way is to look instead with the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit remembers Love for you, and its remembering is your remembering. When you remember, you become willing to forget ego and its shifting lesson in uncertainty and doubt.

The ego cannot teach you hate because there is no hate – there is only fear. And the solution to fear is to remember Love. Love accepts everything unto itself, including fear, and thus undoes everything in itself, including you. Including this.

IV

The Holy Spirit brings you to the present moment where there is only Love, and nothing else. This experience undoes the value of every other experience, and so we release them. Who needs illusions when the truth is right here? When love is literally given to us and all we need to offer in return is fear?