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How Can We Find God?

The question of how to find God does not have a definate answer. There are many ways to find God. There isn't an all encompasing formula that if followed would lead you to God. I believe just as there are many religions to meet the diverse needs of the people, all of which are viable in helping man, there are many ways to meet God. It is up to the individual to find the way that is best for them. The Cayce readings mention often that is up to the individual to decide and then stick with that decision, working with it constantly.

The Cayce source, however, does not leave us without any guidence in finding God. It does lay out a framework that will help us in our quest.

One thing the readings almost constantly hits upon is becoming one with God as it states in the Gospel of John, to be one with the Father as the Son is. We must understand the attributes of the Father and incorporate those attributes into our own lives. Once we do this we can feel the God within.

For, those that would find God must believe that He is, and in the daily walks of life give expressions of that which is an attribute that self would attribute to the Father. And thus may the soul become in patience, in hope, in faith, in love, aware of the Father's indwelling within it [505-4].

The readings also tell us that through prayer and meditation we will become attuned to the God Consciousness. There have been several readings that deal with just prayer and meditation and Appendix I of "A Search For God" deals with the topic of prayer and meditation. The differences between prayer and meditation is outlined in many readings, as well as in A Search For God.

Prayer is the concerted effort of our physcial consciousness to become attuned to the consciousness of the Creator, either collectively or individually! MEDITATION is EMPTYING self of all that hinders the creative forces from rising along the natural channels of the physical man to be disseminated through those centers and sources that create the activities of the physical, the mental, the sprititual man; properly done must make one STRONGER mentally, physically... As we give out so does the WHOLE of man - physically and mentally become depleted, yet in entering into the silence, entering into the silence in meditation, with a clean hand, a clean body, a clean mind, we may receive that strength and power that fits each individual, each soul, for a greater activity in this material world [281-13] (see also A Search For God, p. 174, 175).

Prayer - He knoweth what ye have need of, but it is that love, that hope within self, knowing, feeling the desire to approach, thankful, prayerful, and then listen for direction [ 1861-19].

The listening is meditation as the following states from a reading:

"Prayer is supplication to God and meditation is listening to His answer" [2946-6].

How do we prepare ourselves for attunment with God in prayer and meditation? The following reading gives us some guidelines:

Then, purify thy mind if ye would meditate. How? Depending on what is thy concept of purification! Does it mean to thee a mixing up with a lot of other things, or a setting aside of self, a washing with water, a cleansing or purifying by fire or what not? Whatever thy concept is, be TRUE to thine inner self. LIVE that choice ye make, - DO IT! not merely say it but DO IT! Purify thy body. Shut thyself away from the cares of the world. Think on that as ye would do to have thy God meet thee face to face. "Ah," ye say "but many are not able to speak to God!" Many, you say, are fearful. Why? Have ye gone so far astray that ye cannot approach Him who is all merciful? He knows thy desires and thy needs, and can only supply according to the purposes that ye would perform within thine own self. Then, purify thy body, physically. Sanctify thy body, as the laws were given of old, for tomorrow the Lord would speak with thee - as a father speaketh to his children. Has God changed? Have ye wandered so far away? Know ye not that, as He has given, "If ye will be my children, I will be thy God"? and "Though ye wander far away, if ye will but call I will hear"? [281-41].

Now as to where you will find God. It will be in the temple. What temple? The temple of thy body. The Bible and the readings make it clear that the body is indeed the temple of God and it is there that we will meet God.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (1 Corinthians 3:16).

The Cayce reading confirm that we are the temples of God.

(Q) Do I hold my healing meditations correctly?
(A) Who should judge as to whether one or another holds correctly? Does there come that answer within that thy meditation, thy prayer, is raising within thee that answer as thou would have go to those whom thou wouldst help? Then know that these are correct, when that answer comes. If these do not always answer, meet thy Lord within. Let Him, in the still, small voice from within, guide thee. For, He is not far from thee. Thou only needest to open the door of thy consciousness, that He may enter in [281-23].

This is only one of many readings that state that we will meet God within and that He will guide us through the "still, small voice" that is also mentioned in the Bible.

One must face self, as Cayce always said, and look deeply at ouselves and decide what must be done. Only the individual has the answers for himself.

Know, as has been indicated, all of the world (as ever has been, as ever will be) is represented in thee, thine own self. Look within. There ye will find the answer to every problem. Ye cannot ask a question that ye cannot answer within thine own self, if or when ye attune thyself to the infinite. Thy soul is eternal, thy soul-mind is eternal. Will ye as a child of the Most High listen to the voice within? For He has promised to meet thee within thyself if and when you attune to that. How? By the manner in which ye treat thy wife, the manner in which ye treat thy friend, the manner in which ye treat thy enemy. For the Lord, thy God is not mocked and thy troubles arise within thyself. Attune thyself to the God within. Begin with that which is best expressed in Deuteronomy 30 and in Exodus 19:5. There you may begin and you will find the answer if you will make of thyself not a slave, no, but one in accord with His will. For the knowledge of God, the Father is that which indeed sets thee free [4083-1].