In the child to mother or father relationship you know
yourself to be young, not as powerful or as knowledgeable as the higher consciousness
itself but at the same time beloved of it and intimately sharing in its nature and
purposes. Certainly it’s fine for a seeker to imagine — or strive to develop
— this mood without actually being in the achieved state. The ideals of this
relationship are lofty and comforting. The mood
itself, however, becomes established usually
only after considerable purification through the awe, servant, and friend relationships.
Most scriptures strongly advocate that you accept you are a son or
daughter, a child of the Lord. It’s fine, certainly, to start your mood of love with
this child relationship as long as
you grow in the other attributes which will help you be a loyal and constantly loving
child.
It’s wonderful to think — in a religious sense — that the Lord is like a
father or mother who is deeply concerned about the welfare and happiness of his or her
child, and who will accept and love that child as part of its own being forever.
Indeed, the higher consciousness will guide and raise you up into the fullness of life.
You’ll find it most precious to have an ongoing mood, a momentum in your heart, which
continually affirms such an intimate relationship with the higher consciousness. Love
continues, dynamically...
