“The reason we can call to God and He will answer is because WE ARE CONNECTED TO HIM. We are His sons and daughters. We have a direct relationship to God and He has placed a portion of Himself in us.
In order to better understand this relationship, the Ascended Masters have designed the Chart of Your Divine Self. It is a portrait of you and of the God within you. It is a diagram of yourself and your potential to become who you really are. It is an outline of your spiritual anatomy.
The upper figure is your “I AM Presence,’ the Presence of God that is individualized in each one of us. It is your personalized ‘I AM THAT I AM.’
Your I AM Presence is surrounded by seven concentric spheres of spiritual energy that make up what is called your ‘causal body.’ The spheres of pulsating energy contain the record of the good works you have performed since your very first incarnation on Earth. They are like your cosmic bank account.
The middle figure in the Chart represents the ‘Holy Christ Self,’ who is also called the Higher Self. You can think of your Holy Christ Self as your chief guardian angel and dearest friend, your inner teacher, and voice of conscience. Each of us has a Higher Self or ‘inner Christ.’ Each of us is destined to become one with that Higher Self — whether we call it the Christ, the Buddha, the Tao, or the Atman. This ‘inner Christ’ is what the Christian mystics sometimes refer to as the ‘inner man of the heart,’ and what the Upanishads mysteriously describe as a being the ‘size of a thumb’ who ‘dwells deep within the heart.’
We all have moments when we feel that connection with our Higher Self — when we are creative, loving, and joyful. But there are other moments when we feel out of sync with our Higher Self — moments when we become angry, depressed, and lost. What the spiritual path is all about is learning to sustain the connection to the higher part of ourselves so that we can make our greatest contribution to humanity.”
Saint Germain — Mystery Of the Violet Flame, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, pgs. 83 – 86.
