Your Christ self can be seen as an
angel who is assigned to help you regain your conscious contact with
your I AM Presence. In other words, your Christ self was not originally
part of your lifestream. It is a helper that comes to you from outside
yourself, and this being has a personality and individuality that is
different from the individuality anchored in your I AM Presence.
Obviously, your Christ self is compatible with your individuality, but
it is not identical with it.
When you begin to attain inner communion, you will first attain communion with your Christ self. In the beginning, you will experience this in the form of intuitive insights. This will often come as a sense that something you read in a book is correct and applies to you. As your communion becomes clearer, you will eventually hear or sense the still small voice of your Christ self within your heart. This is not a physical voice, an audible voice, but an inner voice. Yet you will still recognize it as a voice that speaks to you from somewhere outside your conscious mind.
As you grow on the spiritual path, you can go through the process of the alchemical marriage, whereby you attain spiritual union with your Christ self. Yet that Christ self is still separate from you, just as your marriage partner is different from yourself even though you can attain a great sense of union with your spouse.
You Christ self can give you directions from itself, or it can pass on directions from your I AM Presence. One might say that your Christ self acts as a translator for the directions from your Presence that your outer mind cannot hear or understand directly. So as you sharpen your attunement, you might be able to identify a direction from your Christ self and a direction from your Presence. This can give you the sense that you are hearing the voice of your Presence.
As you move to higher levels of the path, you can eventually attain direct communion with your I AM Presence. Many people have attained some communion with the Presence, but most people fail to recognize it for what it is. One reason is that it is easy to identify the voice of your Christ self because it comes to you as a voice from outside yourself. Communion with your I AM Presence is not a voice speaking to you from outside yourself. The reason being that your I AM Presence is not outside of or different from yourself. It is yourself. It is your Self.
One might say that you cannot receive communication directly from your I AM Presence because communication implies distance. To make contact with the Presence, you must surrender and overcome the mortal sense of identity. You give up the outer personality that has been created during your many embodiments in the material universe. You overcome the sense of separation so that you begin to identify with the Presence. Therefore, your Presence can now act through you. You are literally being the Presence in action in this world. Therefore, you can say, as I did, “I and my Father are one.” When you achieve this oneness, you are not technically communicating with the Presence—you are being the Presence.
One might say that when your Christ self gives you a direction, you experience it as coming from an outside source. You therefore have a decision to make as to whether you will heed the voice. The impulses from your I AM Presence do not come from an outside source, and therefore there is no room to make a decision. One might say that while there is a space between you and your Christ self, there is no space between you and your I AM Presence. You cannot decide to follow the voice of your I AM Presence, you can either be or not be your I AM Presence in action. To be the Presence in action, you must surrender the will of the ego and outer personality to the higher will of your God self. You must decide to be who you really are instead of who your outer mind thinks you are.
I realize this is difficult to understand intellectually, and the reason is that the intellect always thinks in linear terms. Therefore, it wants to see a separation or distance between your lifestream and your I AM Presence. As long as you think in linear terms and think in terms of separation, you will find it difficulty to commune with your I AM Presence. You need to think in different terms and see that your lifestream is not somehow separated spatially from your Presence. Your lifestream is more like a wave which is not separated from the ocean but is simply a manifestation of the ocean.
http://www.ascendedmasteranswers.com/spiritual-path/higher-self/121-the-difference-between-the-holy-christ-self-and-the-i-am-presence
When you begin to attain inner communion, you will first attain communion with your Christ self. In the beginning, you will experience this in the form of intuitive insights. This will often come as a sense that something you read in a book is correct and applies to you. As your communion becomes clearer, you will eventually hear or sense the still small voice of your Christ self within your heart. This is not a physical voice, an audible voice, but an inner voice. Yet you will still recognize it as a voice that speaks to you from somewhere outside your conscious mind.
As you grow on the spiritual path, you can go through the process of the alchemical marriage, whereby you attain spiritual union with your Christ self. Yet that Christ self is still separate from you, just as your marriage partner is different from yourself even though you can attain a great sense of union with your spouse.
You Christ self can give you directions from itself, or it can pass on directions from your I AM Presence. One might say that your Christ self acts as a translator for the directions from your Presence that your outer mind cannot hear or understand directly. So as you sharpen your attunement, you might be able to identify a direction from your Christ self and a direction from your Presence. This can give you the sense that you are hearing the voice of your Presence.
As you move to higher levels of the path, you can eventually attain direct communion with your I AM Presence. Many people have attained some communion with the Presence, but most people fail to recognize it for what it is. One reason is that it is easy to identify the voice of your Christ self because it comes to you as a voice from outside yourself. Communion with your I AM Presence is not a voice speaking to you from outside yourself. The reason being that your I AM Presence is not outside of or different from yourself. It is yourself. It is your Self.
One might say that you cannot receive communication directly from your I AM Presence because communication implies distance. To make contact with the Presence, you must surrender and overcome the mortal sense of identity. You give up the outer personality that has been created during your many embodiments in the material universe. You overcome the sense of separation so that you begin to identify with the Presence. Therefore, your Presence can now act through you. You are literally being the Presence in action in this world. Therefore, you can say, as I did, “I and my Father are one.” When you achieve this oneness, you are not technically communicating with the Presence—you are being the Presence.
One might say that when your Christ self gives you a direction, you experience it as coming from an outside source. You therefore have a decision to make as to whether you will heed the voice. The impulses from your I AM Presence do not come from an outside source, and therefore there is no room to make a decision. One might say that while there is a space between you and your Christ self, there is no space between you and your I AM Presence. You cannot decide to follow the voice of your I AM Presence, you can either be or not be your I AM Presence in action. To be the Presence in action, you must surrender the will of the ego and outer personality to the higher will of your God self. You must decide to be who you really are instead of who your outer mind thinks you are.
I realize this is difficult to understand intellectually, and the reason is that the intellect always thinks in linear terms. Therefore, it wants to see a separation or distance between your lifestream and your I AM Presence. As long as you think in linear terms and think in terms of separation, you will find it difficulty to commune with your I AM Presence. You need to think in different terms and see that your lifestream is not somehow separated spatially from your Presence. Your lifestream is more like a wave which is not separated from the ocean but is simply a manifestation of the ocean.
http://www.ascendedmasteranswers.com/spiritual-path/higher-self/121-the-difference-between-the-holy-christ-self-and-the-i-am-presence
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