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THE SCHOOL OF TRUTH
LECTURE

WHOLE LIFE

Nicol C. Campbell
© The School of Truth
Lecture given in October 1986, at Johannesburg, South Africa.
Source p. 133, June/July 2005 - The Path of Truth

Two thousand years after the Master's lessons in Truth people are still insecure, concerned, anxious about their future. They have not ingested the teachings and still feel isolated from God. They still have a duality-consciousness - God and themselves. They still find it hard to resolve the personality and the Individuality. They cannot conceive of the reality that God is in them as them.

In my fifty years in this work of teaching I still hear people say that they pray to God, and nothing happens. But they still associate the Presence of God with something outside themselves, not in them, as them. Once you truly accept in mind and heart that every cell of your being is permeated by Omnipotence and Omniscience, your fear dissipates back into native nothingness.

During these decades as a student of Truth I have questioned myself: Is God able to do this for me? Am I deserving of it? How do I know it is His will for me? And I am constantly uplifted by this affirmation: "My true desire is God's desire for me. It is the thing itself in incipiency." It is God speaking within his temples, Mind speaking to the intellect, directing the little self to the Big Self. Thank God I learned this lesson decades ago: There is only one Source constituting me. I do not have to ask God for health, happiness and prosperity, because they already are me - as they are you.

Human behaviour reminds me of a gardener holding a hosepipe praying for water, but the tap has not been opened. Why is it that man cannot comprehend the great Truth that God is me, that He permeates me from the centre of my being to the circumference of my body and affairs, that the wholeness of Omnipresence, Omnipotence and Omniscience is in my every cell and in your every cell? To comprehend it we have to use it, have to distribute it. If you love you have to radiate love, if you want health you must breathe, live and act health, and if you want prosperity, even if you have nothing, you must start giving.

Decades ago, when I was still very young, and all I had on a day was a "half crown" coin, I said to myself "I dare not limit myself to this amount. I must use it." So I walked to a certain place about three miles from central Johannesburg where religious books from overseas were distributed and I said to the receptionist "This is my offering. It is all I have but I bless it. May it multiply for you." She responded "In your giving you will be receiving. You will be blessed because you are giving of yourself, and you will never have nothing."

I take as an affirmation "I dare to act fearlessly and to hope in God." Never impose a limit on God or yourself, even though you are starving and cannot pay your rent. Act as though supply is yours. In those days I waited two years for God to guide me. I felt like shouting "Where is this God in Whom I am trusting? I have isolated myself from all worldly security. I stand here alone. Where is He?" Then one day I was walking down Rissik Street in central Johannesburg, when I met a friend of my brother - who is today a leader in his profession - and he said to me "I am so glad to see you. When I did not have the money you paid my train fare to Johannesburg. Do you remember?" "Yes" I replied "it was a gift." "Well" he said "I would like now to repay it - if you don't mind" and he handed me the money.

I knew that his hand was the hand of God. How propitious it was that I needed to walk up Rissik Street, a street that I hardly ever used. There I was, wealthy! Now I had my fulcrum. Was it "positive thinking?" No. It was my persistent held trust that my need was met.

As I have said before, if a man and a woman have a tremendous desire to have a child, and pray for a child, but do not cohabit, they will never get a child. Just so is the union of mind and heart, the thinker and the feeler, necessary to demonstrate your need, to answer your prayer. Thinking on its own is non-productive. Solomon said "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." So, begin to feel the truth of your affirmations, regardless of present conditions. There are no excuses. You have got to think, feel, speak and act the fulfilment of your desire. It is like arithmetic - if you want to resolve your problem you have to add, subtract, multiply and divide, making no mistakes. Start rejoicing from the depths of your soul, giving sincere thanks to God: "You are my protection, You are my guidance. You are my prosperity fulfilled."

Do not listen to what people say. Why waste your time on their predictions of failure when God is the Almighty, is Omnipresence. Live Truth, even though it hurts.

Let me tell you about an experience I had many years ago. When I returned home one evening I suddenly got an unbearable pain down the back of my neck, as though a red-hot rod was being inserted there. It was impossible for me to lie down, so I walked up and down all night holding my neck. In the early hours of the morning I could bear it no longer and cried out "If there is a Jesus-Christ Presence, help me!" Immediately, as one takes a sword out of a sheath, I felt myself being taken out of my body, and there I was standing on top of my own head looking down on myself. I thought I was going mad. I went to my study door to open it, and there I still was, standing on top of myself looking down at myself - and then I realised the pain had gone!

From a young age I had suffered from terrible headaches caused by nervous tension. But from that day I ceased to have them. The doctor told me that the dreadful pain I had experienced was a nerve being destroyed, setting me free.

You cannot think yourself into health, or happiness, or prosperity. You have to become these God-qualities. You have to be as an actor on the stage of God and accept in toto, and with feeling, that He is available, that He is in every cell of your body as the fulness of All-power and All-knowledge. I believe I can speak now with conviction, with authority and with the knowledge that comes from true experience. I am eighty, and can say without hesitation that, throughout these past fifty years lived in Truth, God has always saved me. Never, not once, has He failed, even though I have been on the brink of failure many times.

But we fail Him. We do not have the courage to take Him on trust. Think of our universe if you can, billions of light years in extent, and we are one with the Whole, with all knowledge and Power. It is us, but we have to permit It to flow through us. We are each like a tiny drop in the ocean, yet one with the whole of the ocean. We have to be receptive, our minds and hearts open to the spiritual Presence of Love, for love is the fulfilment of the Law. I have seen people so physically warped that they were terrible to behold, and I have seen those same bodies made whole, through Love. I have had to remind myself that what he or she has accomplished I too can accomplish - as I have the same acceptance that they had.

Also many years ago a friend said to me "You teach abundance, but why do you not have a car?" It was a good question. Buses and trains were my way of getting around in those days. I had a nice home, I even had a garage, but no car. So I said to myself "Why don't you simply believe that you have received one - it is what you tell others to do." Then each morning I used to open my garage door, then the gates, get into my imagined car, start it, reverse it out, get out and close the gates, and get back into my car and drive off to the office. My wife used to watch me from the window. One day she said to a friend who was with her "He's going mental trying to believe that he has received a car." To me the bus became my car, and I had a chauffeur driving me.

I play-acted like this for some time. Then one day I had to go to a neighbouring town to see someone on business. On his desk he had a notice that read "Brand new Plymouth Business Coupe - 200 pounds." I glanced at the sign and he said to me "It really is brand new. It had done only eighteen hundred miles." I went on with my business and then left. The following week when I returned the sign was still there and I asked about the car. He told me it belonged to his daughter, that her husband had died and that she could not drive. He asked me if I would like to see it - it was a beautiful dove-grey coupe - and then we returned to his office. "Well?" he asked. "It is a lovely car" I said "but I don't have the money." There and then he phoned his daughter: "Mr. Campbell, you know him, is very interested in your car but he doesn't have the money right now." His daughter replied that I should take it and pay for it when I could, without interest.

I got in the car and drove home. I opened the gates, as I had so often practised, and drove in. My wife came out and said "Where did you steal that car?" "I did not steal it" I replied, "I bought it." "With what?" she asked. "I don't know yet" was my answer to her, but at the end of that week I found out that 200 pounds had been deposited into my savings account. To this day I do not know who did it.

Do you see how it works? "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Unless you have the courage to take the practical steps, you will never have a real demonstration. If you become aware of a need you must "with prayer and thanksgiving make your need known to God." You do this for yourself, because God knows what you need before you ask. Then you have to live in the consciousness of your need fulfilled. It starts in the mind, and from there it goes into the heart, then you speak of it and act as though it were true, and it manifests itself. There is no time in God. God is the nowness of anything we could ever need.

The Lord is my shepherd, I cannot want. But I must do my part by giving of what I want. If it is love that I want, I radiate happiness. If it is material supply that I want, I give of my substance, no matter what the appearances may be. The measure of my consciousness is the opening of my hand and letting go. It is not a game, it is very serious. It means a whole life - a healthy body, a happy heart, and prosperity to share and to spare.

So question yourselves, examine your minds and hearts. Do not blame circumstances or personalities. "You are the temples of the living God" and He is the same today as yesterday, and forever. God in the midst of us is almighty to heal, to release, and to bless, but the keynote is not in the intellect - it is in the heart. Love is my shepherd. It is love that makes me to lie down in green pastures, that restores my soul. It is Love that puts supply into my hands. "Love ever gives, forgives, outlives, and ever stands with open hands, and while it lives it gives, for this is Love's prerogative, to give, forgive and give."

As it emanates through you, as you, people will seek you out. They will want to be in your company because they feel secure with you. You are secure with God.

Use the 23rd Psalm with understanding when you awaken in the morning and you will find every channel opened for use in terms of good, every door opened that was closed. So go in peace with Him, in love with Him, knowing that your every need and true desire is already fulfilled.

(Ref. Johannesburg 861026)

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