That Which Is - Alfred Aiken

God has no reflection of himself. There is no one or thing to do the reflecting.

The One Self is the Self of All, all Self. A reflection would not be the original, but
rather an “image,” a “likeness,” hence a counterfeit which is worthless, valueless, a
fraud. The Perfect One includes nothing fraudulent.
Moses caught a slight sense of all-inclusive Perfection, heaven at hand; when in
Light he perceived that, “the place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (Ex.3:5). In
Perfection, Omnipresence, there is no separation, no division, no need for atonement
or a return to the Infinite One, for God is not variable, not changing, but is the same
sinless One forever present. The Infinite Individual, the All-knowing Mind, your
present and only Identity is the Authority, the Power, the Presence that is conscious
truth; conscious functioning Power being fully Itself.

Stop assuming Identity to be cooped up in the form, body. Stop assuming your Self
to be what It never can be. You are not a human, an animal, a mortal, a personality
or a sinner. You are never separate from Existence, the Life that is your Self. Stop
assuming biology, ignorance, superstition, duality or sin to be your cause or
beginning—the origin of your Life, Being, Substance, Intelligence, Consciousness.
Identity—or that you must “emerge,” or “evolve” from an imperfect or lesser state of
Existence into the perfect Self. You are none other than the one you are—the Infinite
Intelligence, the Sole One-Infinite-Individual who is all of all NOW. Act from this true
and onlyIntelligent viewpoint. Rejoice in who and what you are by rejoicing in what
Mind knows Itself to be. Conscious Intelligence alone does all seeing, all knowing,
and does it without cessation, interruption, interference.
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Things are ideas, forms which mind conceives, manifests. These forms appear
instantly, as Mind knows them. To Mind, the action, the manifestation, is instant, one
and the same. It requires no process or evolution. Being one, whole, Mind must
actively be aware, inclusive of its ideas, or It would be static, and without forms, void.
(See Gen. I: 2)
That which is manifest, this world we behold visibly, enjoy, is Real. Do not go about
denying hotly, tree, ocean, stars, earth. Do not declare ideas, things, to be material,
temporal. Nothing is but God, The Invisible One is visibly manifest in an infinitude of
forms, but all Spirit only.

If something seems wrong with your world, with body, turn from it and its seeming
condition. Look wholly to God—rejoice in what Infinite Mind is knowing Itself to be.
God’s condition—the condition of The Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniacting One is
the only state, the sole condition of every idea, thing, inclusive of body. No Fault
exists in Substance. Light; no wrong, no constricting Action or lack of Action. No dis-
ease exists in all-inclusive Intelligence; Spirit cannot conceive, express, form or
pattern Its reverse, nor can be perverted to know or experience the Forever
impossible.

Mind’s conceptions, ideas, are perceptible, are visible things to Mind. The letter “a”
would be useless if left unidentified without form, in Mind. Infinite Intelligence is
forever its Conceiver, its Possessor, its Perceiver, its User. Regardless of national
boundaries or language, how used, when or where, on earth or some distant planet,
it is still Intelligence only who has it, identifies it, or to whom it is of “use.” It never fails
to be present, abundantly available to Conscious Intelligence. Nothing can go wrong
with it, destroy it. It is not material, finite, the product of evolution or revolution. The
language in which it appears, spoken or written, does not change, alter or destroy for
it is in Mind only.

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Let us stop laboring to make unreality Real, or lift a fable into the realm of Fact. It
cannot be done. Whatever is wrong, troublesome, lacking, no matter in what field of
human classification it falls, cannot be found anywhere in God—Mind cannot find
trouble anywhere in Infinite Intelligence. If not in God, Existence, why be agitated?
Can evil he found outside of Infinity? How all-inclusive is Infinity? Is there an
“outside”? Is there more than All? Does our Infinite Self-Identity possess less? No!
This is the Truth. Rejoice in It forever more.
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God being the sole Self of you, there is no personal self; Truth is not something one
can apply to anything, anywhere. Truth is not a medicine for the ills of the world or
the flesh, yet it may appear so when all sense of suffering vanishes, never to come
into mind or be remembered any more. (See Isa. 65:17)

The Divine Ultimate is already present, aware of Himself in all His Beauty and Action.
There is no other who has to work to attain God or maintain Him. God already has
done all for God that can be done—all that needs to be done to make Him all—to
sustain I-Am forever in His Eternally Present Perfect State of Totality.

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Love being Pure Wisdom, includes nothing, mortal, human, mine or personal. Love
cannot know what Being is not. Purity has nothing to deny, reverse, heal, cast out, lift
up, cleanse, emerge from, or evolve to; nothing to atone for; no sacrifice to make; no
need for propitiation, redemption, or recovery. Love knows only Its Pure, Unalterable
Being, being forever unaltered.

Pure Love cannot have a dual vision; cannot look down upon a world of sin, disease,
and disaster; cannot include imperfection, know or feel pity for it. Absolute Love,
being absolutely Its own pure Self only, cannot look out upon another; cannot see
anything save Its own pure Being, for there can be nothing beside Infinite Love.

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If you are not aware of Love, your Self-Identity, you are like the one who sits in
darkness merely because he refuses to open his eyes and enjoy the brilliant Light all
about him. Your personality does not need to turn the bight on, nor can it. In Truth
there is no personality, no personal you or me. There is but the one I, the Divine I
that I am—there is no other I than this One. I am not double, dual; not Real and
unreal, Divine and material, Actual and a sinner, Alive and mortal, Intelligent and
double-minded!

The Light of Love is shining, in all Its glory all about you, encompassing your
universe. Open your eyes and see! You do not need to construct, make It, wait or
beg for It. It is yours, tree, now. Use It!
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God is His own Presence, His own Intelligence, Life, Being. Mind is Its own Supply of
Truth. God-I, I-God, I-Am-Being is the only I there is: all of I there is; The I of all there
is throughout Infinity.
Where can Being be that I am not? Wherever Being is, there I am, and vice versa,
even though “I make my bed in hell.” Though “I take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,” behold I Am there. (See Ps. 139:8-9) Truly,
where can The Infinite I Am go that I Am not? Can I escape the I that I am—escape
from my Infinite Mind?

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To escape any human destiny, difficulty, disaster and death turn to the Allness of the
Mind-I-Am, your sole I-am-Mind, Identity, the All of all. Here in Reality there nothing
mortal existing, even though all the universities, churches, national assemblies and
every person on the face of this globe swears to the contrary.

I Am is the Uncontending, Uncontested, Unchallenged. There is only Spirit. When

then is there a doubt? Who has it? Who can question the works of God’s hands?
Intelligence is absolutely certain of Truth. There is no blind I Am. Within Infinity there
is but Conscious Awareness, Positive Perception. The Know-How and the Power to
form all things of Myself, in myself, for Myself.

As pointed out so often, “thinking” is not Knowing. Taking-thought is not Action.

Intellectual reasoning or wrestling is not Intelligence. Assumption is not Truth. Belief
is not Absolute Certainty. Finity is not All-Existing Infinity, Reality. Mortality is not
Everlasting Life. What is not, is not what is. Personality is not the Self I am.
Why battle Over what God is not? Why concern yourself with what Omnipotence
cannot be? Why work yourself into an ecstasy, or a state of fanaticism over cult,
doctrine, ritual or ceremony in-the-name-of-God only, when God knows nothing of
such service? Words or deeds from such an approach arc useless and imply that
God is aware of the evil but does nothing to wipe it out, or, even more strange,
implies that God uses evil as a means to make weak humanity grow strong—allowing
them to be tempted, punishing them for yielding, dangling promises of good before
there while making it almost impossible to comply with His purported demands! What
manner of God do you worship? Is He this atrocious concept? If God is Omnipotent
why does He not expunge evil? Does He derive pleasure by seeing the human race
writhing about in agony, groping in darkness, paralyzed with fear, distorted with pain,
warped and degenerate? No!

God is All. God leaves no place or presence to evil. He leaves no history of humanity,
no record of Satan’s earthly fling. Spirit leaves no time: no past, no future wherein a
devil can plague its victim, nor wherein God has to fight another to regain what He
has never lost!

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Spirit is the entirety of Itself. No portion of Spirit can be missing. Spirit is One Whole
Indivisible Entirety. Finite sense would have you believe in separate Adam-Eve
individuals with destinies and responsibilities of their Own; separate minds, lives,
bodies and souls cooped up in a physical, material, changing, dying world of time.

Spirit is the Substance of all, inclusive of the universe. The only Identity that Infinite
Love can consciously be aware of is Its Own, present here as The Infinite Individual
One, This I-that-I-Am. As pointed out, while there is but One Infinite Individual
Consciousness there is an infinitude of ideas (bodies, things), each being specifically
conceived by Mind, eternal in Mind. A single one is inadequate, insufficient, Mind
being Infinity.

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Remember, there is no human you; none to begin with, to correct, to elevate, to heal;
no shining or suffering you; no mortal or man-you. Your Whole Being right here is
God only. The “mist”-identification has not altered God nor your Identity. In Truth
there never was a “mist that went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of
the ground.” (Gen. 2:6) It never happened. There never was a double-minded, racial
or Pilot Lord God; a human or divine creation. God never fell into, nor for sin; never
had a bad angel; never had to devise methods of redeeming or regaining His status
of being The One-Alone All.

God has never had offspring, nor did Adam. There are no children anywhere needing
succor, help, a lifting-out-of-the pit. God has always been the Perfect One without
another. God has always been Almighty, the Absolute. God will forever be Whole,
Entire, Infinite. His is the Soul-Infinite-Individual. He is the sole Mind including the
infinitude of variation of beauty, Intelligence, Substance, Reality. Outside of God
there is nothing. Within God there is God only in all His Perfection, activity of form,
conscious Individual Awareness. There is no idea, no thing in Mind, but God is
making full use of it. Mind forms no useless ideas. The Action is Mind, however, and
does not stem from the idea, the thing.

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Dr. Alfred Lewis Aiken (1897 – 1968) was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was both
a dentist and medical doctor. He became a professor of Massotherapy and
Naturopathy in the School of Rational Therapy in New York. He eventually completed
his studies in drugless methods, and became a licensed dental surgeon in
Connecticut. He practiced general drugless healing for a time instead of dentistry.

After World War I, Dr. Aiken he became a metaphysician. He eventually left his
practice and went to California to write plays and poetry. During World War II he was
inducted into the Army where he examined thousands of potential soldiers prior to
deployment. After World War II he lived in Hell’s Kitchen where he wrote That Which
Isand The Unchallenged Self in 1954.
From That Which Is, by Alfred Aiken. Copyright © 1955 by Alfred Aiken. Revised
Copyright © 1971 by Hillier Press, Birmingham, Alabama. www.hillierpress.com