Spiritual Letter 70 - E-mail Version - Go To: Introduction - to E-mail Version of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: E-mail Version - of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: Expanded Overview - of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: Related Material - to Spiritual Letter 70 Introduction - to E-mail Version of Spiritual Letter 70 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is the E-mail version of the beautiful letter that was sent to a High School Classmate of this child, to a Mr. Ellis Thomas, hopefully for your reading enjoyment and sharing. This is the version that was sent to Mr. Ellis Thomas as an E-mail and does not have the Mutiple Outline, that is, the "Brief Outline" and the Expanded Outline", along with the "Brief Summary" and the "Expanded Summary" of each Topic of the Outline, that is provided in the "Outline and Summary Version" of this letter, which first comes up when you access this Spiritual Letter on-line, that is, by using the following URL or Web Address: www.SpiritualLetter070.homestead.com. However, we have included the "Silent Outline" of the "Outline and Summary Version" at the beginning of this E-mail version so you can use the Hypertext capabilities of the on-line version to easily access each Topic of the Spiritual Letter, and navigate around the letter. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. E-mail Version - of Spiritual Letter 70 Outline of E-mail Version: Page 01: 01. Introduction - to Page 1 of E-mail 02. Our Choice - is an eternal life either as "One with" or as "separate from" God 03. The Judgment & Salvation - of each one of us is the "Word of God" for our age Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 Page 02: Introduction - to page 2 of E-mail 04. The "Gift of God" - For Our Age, is the life and teaching of God for our age 05. What Has Happened To Us? - that we are still living as if we are "separate from" God within us 06. The Nine Openings - of Our Body, now rule over us, with God's permission 07. The "Main Goal" - of Our Life, is to again become "One with" God within us 08. The "Main Obstacle" - of Our Life, is our ego, is our current life "outside" of us 09. The Subtle "Sin of Righteousness" - has over taken all of us, and is leading us all to hell, without us even realizing it 10. The "Answer" - To Our Life, is to again become "One with" God, before we die Page 03: Introduction - to page 3 of E-mail 11. The Nature of "True Prayer" - is "us" making the correct life choice, is "us" learning to use God within us to become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, that is, to join in partnership with God within us, and to stop working for wages to get into heaven on the "outside" of us, before we die to the "outside" of us Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 30 & 31 Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 43 & 44 12. Our Current Way, Life, and Prayers - are not acceptable to God within us Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 24 Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 01, Verses 10 to 14 13. The True Nature -of Each of Us in this age is the "Oneness of God & True Man" Text of E-mail Version: (Note: You can also read this Spiritual Letter on-line as a Web Page, in its entirety, and with a Hypertext outline, which makes navigation a lot easier, by clicking on the following: Spiritual Letter 70, which has the URL or Web Address: www.SpiritualLetter070.homestead.com) Page 01: 01. Introduction - to Page 1 of E-mail Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis Thomas - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). In the process of sending you Page 3 of 4 of our first Spiritual Letter, back in January, that is, of "Spiritual Letter 66", two beautiful discourses, from God within us all, came into the heart of this child, for "us", that is, for you and this child, and for all of the Children of God for this age, if we only truly want it, if we only truly want to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. All praise and praising belong to God, and to God alone. Only God is Great. Amen. We included these two new beautiful discourses from God within us all, as the new Page 3 of "Spiritual Letter 66", which was given the title, "Thank You For Showing Us Your Faith & Trust In God", instead of the original Page 3 of that letter, and then we made the original Page 3 of that letter into Page 4 of "Spiritual Letter 66", and Page 4 into Page 5, and in this way, we made "Spiritual Letter 66" into 5 pages. And we also made the first of these two new beautiful discourses, which is now "Discourse 01" on Page 3 of Spiritual Letter 66, which was given the title, "And The Truth Shall Make You Free", into a new Spiritual Letter, actually into the following three new Spiritual Letters, Spiritual Letters 67, 68, and 69, all of which, along with the original "Spiritual Letter 66", you can access by clicking on the following: 1) Spiritual Letter 66, "Thank You For Showing Us Your Faith & Trust In God" 2) Spiritual Letter 67, "And The True Shall Make You Free" 3) Spiritual Letter 68, "What Has Happened To Us?" 4) Spiritual Letter 69, "Invoking the Presence of God Within Us" And we have now also made the second of these two new beautiful discourses, which is now "Discourse 02" on Page 3 of Spiritual Letter 66, which was given the title, "Bear Not Witness of Ourselves, But Only of God Within Us", into this new Spiritual Letter, into "Spiritual Letter 70", which you are now reading, giving it the same title. And please be patient my dearest loving brother Ellis with all of this adjustment, this adjustment to our sharing at this time of the "Gift of God" for our age, because in truth such is the nature of God within us, and such is the nature of our life within us when we truly join in partnership with God within us, that is, when we start to again live as "One with" God within us, rather than continuing to live as if we are "separate from" God within us, and as if we are "separate from" each other, on the "outside" of us, and as if we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, all of which is not true. Rather than continuing to live as "one with" our current life of sin, as "one with" all of the lives of darkness, of hell, and of evil that in our ignorance have grown within us, like weeds growing in a flower garden, but lives which in our ignorance we only see as our current life of "separation and differences", as our current life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, all of which is false. Because in truth we are all "One with" God within us, whether we believe it or not, and even whether we want it or not, such is the truth of us, and the truth of God within us, which is the "Oneness" of "us", of all of us, and of God within us, and of True Man within God within us, at least up to the point when we die to the flesh, when we die to the "outside" of us. For if we die still truly affirming our "separation from" God within us, with our every breath, our every thought, our every word, our every prayer, and our every action, for then, what then can God do, because in this case, we have sealed our own fate, a fate that is then an eternal life within us as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" the "truth of us", and the "truth of God" within us. Amen. And unless God within us all again intervenes, my dearest loving brother Ellis, and gives us another beautiful discourse to share, as part of this Spiritual Letter, as part of our sharing of "Spiritual Letter 70", as He did before with "Spiritual Letter 66", that is, by placing "Discourse 01 and 02" within the heart of this child, for all of us, as He did before in our Sharing of "Spiritual Letter 66", unless God does this, then God willing, this is the last of our current correspondence, our current sharing about the "Gift of God" for our age. About the life and teaching of God for our age, about the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, and of His Children which is every one of us living in this age, if we truly want it, that is, if we truly want to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. That is of course, unless my dearest loving brother Ellis has something to share from his heart with his dear brother Louie, or unless he has a question or comment about what was now been shared, shared by God within us all, to the Children of God for our age, which God has shared from the heart of this child, as these 5 beautiful Spiritual Letters, which in truth is "our own life speaking to us", if we only want it, that is, if our true intention is to become again "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness", of our "Oneness with" God, with each other, and with the Creation of God within us, so it will never leave us again. Amen. That is of course, if we do what Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us to do, over 2000 years ago, and what our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, has now told us again in our age to do, and what His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, are now telling us to do right now, in these beautiful Spiritual Letters, are telling us about the "True Secret" on the path of God within us, which is "Oneness", which is learning to use God to get to God within us, and to stop using what God has discarded to get to God, by becoming again "One with" God within us, and "One with" what God is doing within us, before we die to the flesh, which is the "True Secret" on the path of God within us, as follows: "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there." In this way, may we learn to come together as "One with" each other, in the Name of God for our age, and in this way, become "One with" Jesus (peace be upon Him) within us, and in this way, in truth become "One with" all of the 124,000 Prophets, Heavenly Beings, and Lights of God within us, which in truth are all "One" within us. And now in our age, learn to become "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, "One with" the life and teaching of God for our age, for the Children of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Short Overview of E-mail: (from the Top or Header of the Web Page version of this letter, written to the brother and sisters who may access and read Spiritual Letter 70) In this fifth and last in a series of 5 beautiful Spiritual Letters to our dearest loving brother Mr. Ellis Thomas, a High School Classmate of Louie, we provide "Spiritual Letter 70". A letter to Mr. Ellis Thomas who has been recently told by his doctors that he is currently dying of a terminal illness, and only has a short time to live. A letter to Ellis and to each of us, who in truth have also been told by our doctor, by our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and by God within Him, that we are also dying of a terminal illness, and also have but a short time to live, dying of the terminal illness of "separation from" God within us. A letter which is a summary of the previous four letters that "we" sent to Ellis, at least in our heart, that is, a summary of the "Major Goal" of our life, which is to become again "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and the "Major Obstacle" to our reaching this goal in our own life time, which is our ego, which is our current life of "separation and differences", our current life of "mine and yours", of "I" and "you" on the "outside" of us, our current life of sin, that we are currently living with our dearest loving brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but which in truth is really within us, has really grown within us in our ignorance, and is now ruling over us as the 9 openings of our body, with God's permission. Organization & Content of E-mail: My dearest loving brother Ellis, we included at the begin of this on-line version of this E-mail an Outline of the entire letter to guide you through the rest of this E-mail version of the letter. Also, in this Outline we have added the planned Page Breaks for the letter, that is, where in the letter we currently plan to go to Page 2, and Page 3. We had to break the letter up because AOL limits how much text we can include with each page of E-mail. Currently there are 3 Pages planned for this letter, but this number and the outline could change, as happened with Spiritual Letter 66. To deal with this problem of multiple pages, and to provide a permanent record of this beautiful letter for others to access and read, if they like, as well as to provide a version of the letter that is easier to read and navigate, and provides both a Brief and an Expanded Summary of each Topic in the letter, we have also made this letter into an Internet Web Site, giving us an on-line version of Spiritual Letter 70, which you can read in its entirely, navigate around easily, with only one page break, whenever you wish, and which you can access right now, if you like, by clicking HERE. The URL or Web Site Address of the on-line version of this letter is as follows: www.SpiritualLetter070.homestead.com. What comes up when you access this URL is the "Outline and Summary Version" of this letter, which is longer than the E-mail Version because it includes multiple outlines and multiple summaries. However, you can also access this E-mail Version on-line after the other version is up, by clicking on "E-mail Version" in the "Main Menu". You can also access the on-line version of this letter at both the top and bottom of this E-mail, and by typing the above URL into the Address field of your Web Browser. But remember when typing this URL into the Address field of your Web Browser to type in the number "070", not "70", as this is a common error. Finally, the on-line Outline and Summary version of this letter provides the following capabilities not available with this E-mail version, which includes: 1) A Hypertext Function - which allows you to click on each of the following Outline Topics and automatically go to the place in the text for that Topic, and when finished automatically return to the Outline, making navigation around the document much easier. 2) A Brief & An Expanded Outline - a Brief and an Expanded Outline of the Letter which includes a Brief and an Expanded Summary of each Topic in the letter. We have included the Expanded Summary from the on-line version of this letter with this E-mail version of the letter, putting it at the beginning of each Topic. However, please keep in mind, my dearest loving brother Ellis, that these Expanded Summaries are written to a wider audience who may read the on-line version of this letter at a later time, and hopefully will also benefit from what we have shared, and as a result in them we may refer to you and this child at times in the third person. Please forgive this child if this shift in reference, from personal to third person, offends you in any way, but it seemed necessary when addressing this larger audience. Ok? 3) An Expanded Overview - an Expanded Overview of the Letter. We have included a Short version of this Expanded Overview in the "Introduction" to this E-mail. And Ellis, the same caution about the shift in reference, as noted above, from personal to third person, also applies to the Overview. Ok? 02. Our Choice Expanded Summary of Topic 02: "Our Choice" is the choice each of us must make before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, if our life is to become truly successful in our own lifetime, which in truth is a choice between an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, and in truth there is no other choice, everything else that we think as a choice is just drama, the drama of "separation and differences" that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. A drama which in truth we can only win by "not playing". But a drama which in truth is really within us, as the lives of darkness, of hell, and of evil that in our ignorance we have allowed to grow within us, like weeds in a beautiful flower garden, which if not regularly pulled out, destroy the flower garden, becoming the drama on the "outside" of us that keeps our ego alive and well within us, a drama that keeps us "Bearing Witness of Ourselves" on the "outside" of us, rather than "Bearing Witness of God" within us. A drama within us, that we see in our ignorance on the "outside" of us, that is leading us to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, to 105 million rebirths within us, with "us" potentially ending as a worm in hell within us with only one level of consciousness, of feeling, and in this way, with "us" ending within us with an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, as our reward for having come to this first of "God's Schools" within us, which is the "School of Contrasts" we are currently attending, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, where we came not to die, but to understand what is currently "separating us" from God within us, and then to join as "One with" God within us, to be "born again", as Jesus (peace be upon Him) teaches us in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 03, Verse 3, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" Text of Topic 02: My dearest loving brother Ellis, here is another beautiful discourse from God within us all, to all of us living in this age, coming into the heart of this child, about the "Choice" that each of us must make before we physically die to the "outside" of us, if we are to truly become successful in our own lifetime, which is to use our life to "Bear Witness" to either "Ourselves or God", that is, to decide between either becoming again "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of that "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, or of continuing to live on the "outside" of "us" as if we were "separate from" God within us, living as if we truly had our own life "separate from" God within us, until we die, and then after we die to "harvest the crop we have grown" and "move into the house that we have built". And about the "major obstacle" standing between "us", and "us" making the correct choice, and "us" sowing the good crop, and "us" building the proper house, before we die to the flesh, the "major obstacle" which is our ego, which is our "bearing witness of myself", and which is our current life of sin, of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which is our receiving honor one of another", as Jesus (peace be upon Him) warned us about, and told us not to do, over 2000 years ago. As Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us not to do, as recorded by the 13th disciple of Jesus (peace be upon Him), by the "One loved by Jesus", by the One told by Jesus (peace be upon Him) to "Tarry till I Come". That is, Jesus (peace be upon Him) told the disciple Barnabus (peace be upon Him) to "Stay alive in the world for another 600 years" until Jesus (peace be upon Him) came again, to finish what He started, that is, to "Take away the sin of the world", to "Make straight the way of the Lord", which is to "separate from" man all that "separates man" from God, coming this time as the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him). As recorded by the first and the last disciple of Jesus (peace be upon Him), by the disciple Barnabus (peace be upon Him), over 2000 years ago, and as recorded now by this child in this letter. For example, as recorded by the disciple Barnabus (peace be upon Him) in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 05, verses 31 and 44, recorded as the "major obstacle" standing between "us" within us and God within us, which is our ego, standing between "us" within us and living again as "One with" God within us, standing between God within us and the Creation of God within us, preventing both from coming to completion within us, as the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. And doing all of this, at least truly starting it by truly joining in partnership with God within us, by accepting and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, and doing this before "we" die to the flesh, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, and in this way, removing in our own lifetime what is currently standing between "us", and "us" becoming the "Witness of God" within us, and the "Witness of what God is doing" within us, which is God revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen In this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, the first four Spiritual Letters, that is, "Spiritual Letter 66, 67, 68, and 69" are trying to focus "us" on the "Choice" that each of us must make before we physically die to the "outside" of us, if we are to truly become successful in our own lifetime, the "Choice" to either "Worship Ourselves" on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us, which is the falsehood of us on the "outside" of us, or to "Worship God" within us, as "One with" God within us, which is to become "One with" God within us, which is the truth of us within us. And "Spiritual Letter 70" is trying to focus us now on the "major obstacle" to making this "Correct Choice" in our lifetime, that is, to becoming "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, the "major obstacle" which is our ego, which is "us", that is, the "current us", the "us" of living a life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, which is our current life of "separation and differences". About the "major obstacle" to making this "Correct Choice" in our lifetime, which is ego, as well as the actions and attachments of our ego, as reflected in our current prayers to God, our current understanding of God, and our current duty to God, a life that we are currently living, and prayers, understanding, and duty to God that we are currently performing and are attached to, which in truth are not acceptable to God within us, because they are being performed by "us" as "separate from" God within us, and by "us" as "separate from" our dearest loving brothers and sisters. Are being performed by "us" in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but which in truth is a world of darkness, a world of hell and evil within us, a world of darkness, of hell, and of evil that "we" in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, and which in maturity now rule over us, as the 9 openings of our body, with God's permission within us. With God's permission within us until we see God and steady God within us, for then God sets about "Curing Himself of us" within us, because then "we no longer exist" as "separate from" God within us, for then we only exist as "us" within us as "One with" God within us, and as "One with" what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen 03. The Judgment And Salvation - Of Each Of Us In Our Age Expanded Summary of Topic 03: The "Judgment and the Salvation" of Each of Us In Our Age is the "Word of God" for our age, is the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. As it was the life and teaching of Jesus (peace be upon Him) for our dearest loving brothers and sisters who lived at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and as it was the life and teaching of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) at the time of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) at His time over 1000 years ago. Amen Text of Topic 03: Also, my dearest loving brother Ellis, as explained earlier, this Spiritual Letter, that is, "Spiritual Letter 70", is an expanded, and an Outline & Summary Version, of the second of the two beautiful discourses that came into the heart of this child, to "us" from God within us all, as part of sending you an E-mail version of the first Spiritual Letter that we shared with you, almost three month ago, that is, the second of the two beautiful discourses that became "Discourse 01 and 02" of the new Page 3 of 5 of "Spiritual Letter 66", which we gave the title, "Thank You For Showing Us Your Faith And Trust In God". Coming to us now as "Spiritual Letter 70", as "Bear Witness Not of Ourselves, But Only of God Within Us", coming again as the second of these two beautiful discourses, that came into the heart of this child, to "us" from God within us all, that is, from God within us all, to this child, and to you, to you my dearest loving brother Ellis, and to all of our dearest and loving family and friends, to all of the dearest and loving Children of God for our age, which is everyone of us living in this age, if we truly want it, that is, if we truly want to again become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Please realize this truth of our lives, of you and the life of your dearest loving brother Louie. For in truth we are one, in truth this is "our own life speaking to us, from within our very own heart. Please don't ignore it, or make is something that is "separate from" you. Amen. In this way, such is the judgment and the salvation of each of us for our age, which is the "Word of God" for our age, as it was for our dearest loving brothers and sisters who lived at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and at the time of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) over 1000 years ago, and as it is now, in our age, at the time of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us. Amen. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 May we all know this now, without the slightest doubt, before it is too late, because if we have doubt, then we are "out". This is the truth of our life, and of God within us. We must realize this without the slightest doubt and start to act accordingly. Amen. For Jesus told us this truth over 2000 years ago, and again in our age we were told this truth by our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and by God within Him, and right now through these Spiritual Letters His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are telling us once more, once more about the truth of us and about the truth of God within us, we are all being told again on the "outside" of us so we can begin to change on the inside of us. Amen. For example, as recorded in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 5, Verses 19 to 31, we are told: -- Beginning of Quote from the "Gospel of John", Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 -- "Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and He will shew Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father which hath sent Him. Verily, verily, I say unto to you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself. And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My will, but the will of the Father who hath sent Me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true". -- End of Quote from the "Gospel of John", Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 -- Page 02: Introduction - to Page 2 of E-mail Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis Thomas - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is Page 2 of 3 of "Spiritual Letter 70", hopefully for you reading and sharing enjoyment. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. All praise and all praising belong to God and to God alone. Only God is Great. Amen. 04. The "Gift of God" For Our Age - the "Life and Teaching of God", the "Word of God" for our age Expanded Summary of Topic 04: The "Gift of God" for our age, the "Life and Teaching of God" for our age, the "Word of God" for our age, is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) now on the "outside" of us. For example, this "Gift of God" for our age is now being explained on the "outside" of us by this child, by this Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) through this series of 5 beautiful Spiritual Letters to Mr. Ellis Thomas, starting with the first Spiritual Letter to Ellis, "Spiritual Letter 66", that we shared in January, 2005, and ending with this new Spiritual Letter to Ellis, "Spiritual Letter 70", that we are currently sharing now in April 2005. And this current series of Spiritual Letters to Ellis are being sharing with Ellis as the "Gift of God" for our age in the context of Christianity, in the context of the life and teaching of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, as recorded in Chapters and Verses in the "Gospel of John" of the Holy Bible. Also, we have and will continue to share the "Gift of God" for our age in the context of the other Major Religions of the world. For example, another series of beautiful Spiritual Letter is currently planned and starting to happen as follow, explaining the life and teaching of God for our age in the context of Islam, in the context of the life and teaching of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, as recorded in Chapters from the Holy Qur'an. For example, as recorded in Chapter 86, "At Tarique", or "The Night Visitant or Morning Star", as well as in the last Chapter in the Holy Quran, as well as in Chapter 114, "Nas", or "Mankind", and in Chapter 113, "Falaq", or "The Dawning", and in Chapter 112, "Ikhlas", or "Purity", and in the first Chapter, Chapter 01, "Suratal Fatihah", or "The Opening Chapter" of the Holy Qur'an. Also see Spiritual Letter 63, "Review of the Holy Qur'an: Sura or Chapter 86, "At Tarique", review of the "First 3 Lines" Text of Topic 04: In this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, "Spiritual Letter 70" is now coming to us as the end of this series of beautiful Spiritual Letters, at the end of "Spiritual Letters 66, 67, 68, and 69", coming to "us" from God within us all, explaining the "Gift of God" for our age for the Children of God for our age, explaining the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. And explaining it in the context of the life and teaching of Jesus (peace be upon Him) on the "outside" of us, and of God within Him, over 2000 years age, an explanation that starts with the preceding 4 Spiritual Letters, that is, with "Spiritual Letters 66, 67, 68, and 69", which focuses us on "Main Goal" of life, that is, the "Choice" that we all must make in this age, if we are to become truly successful in our own lifetime, a choice of either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from: God within us, and ends with the "Main Obstacle" to our correctly realizing and making that choice, which is our ego. The "Main Obstacle" to true success in our own life time, which in truth is "us", which is the current "us", which is the "Enemy of the soul", which is our current life of sin, of "separation and differences", that we are all currently living, with "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters currently living in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but which in truth is within us. But which in truth is within us, as a world of hell and evil, a world of darkness or ignorance, that in our ignorance we have allowed to grow within us, as a person might order a ton of top soil to grow a beautiful garden, but in his ignorance allow only weeds to grow, eventually coming to believe that the weeds are of great value, forgetting his original intent, for having ordered the rich top soil in the first place, which was perhaps to grow a beautiful flower garden for all to enjoy, or to grow a beautiful "Victory Garden", as some of us did in America during the "2nd World War", to help feed us, and to help comfort and strengthen us during that very difficult time over 50 years ago. Such is the current state of our life, a beautiful flower garden, or a "Victory Garden", that through our ignorance we have allowed to turn into a ugly garden of weeds, into a wild jungle of no real value to anyone, my dearest loving brother Ellis, that each of us must come to understand and transcend through our faith and trust in God, through our again becoming "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. Allowing our wisdom, and the truth of God within our wisdom, to cut down the wild jungle that we have allowed to grow in our ignorance, and chase away all of the wild animal that we in our ignorance have befriended, and then plow us under with the enlightening words of the Qutbiyyat, which is the wisdom of the Qutb; the sixth level of wisdom within us; divine analytic wisdom, which differentiates man from all of the other Creation of God; the wisdom which explains the truth of God. And then plant the seed of God within us, and protect, and nourish it until it becomes the "Crop of God" within us, which is then harvested by God within us. And if we do this with our life, rather than what we are currently doing, which is in truth just wasting in on our own "selfishness", if we allow God to transform us in this way, from a useless garden of weeds or from a dangerous wild jungle of no real value, into His flower garden, into "His Crop" for the benefit of all of His Creation, then we will have moved from being "His Earth" to becoming "His Crop", and as such will have become "One with" Him within us, in our own lifetime. Then our wisdom will have reasoned over our fate, then the qualities of our higher selves will have become victorious over the qualities of our lower selves. Amen. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 05. What Has Happened To Us? Expanded Summary of Topic 05: What has happened to us, since we came to this earth world, to this "School of Contrasts", to this first of "God's Schools", to learn about who we "Already Are", to learn about what "separates us" from God within us. We must know the answer to this question, and then correct the mistake, before we die to the flesh, and in our age we most certainly can both know and correct this mistake. For In our age His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us about what happened to us, teach us this in the beautiful book of Wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 6, in the "Forward" to that book, for example, teach us that, "Man appearing on the earth, forgets God and falls into many a trap, he does not know to seek himself although God exists within man". And now His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) also teach us, now from the "outside' of us, also teach us about what happened to us, teach us that upon coming to this earth world, we forgot about God within us and fell into the trap of living a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, in this way, seeing both "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living a life as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. That is, as "separate from" the "Earth of God" within us, that we must first join as "One with" as the "Seed of God" within us, before we can germinate, before we can reveal what God has hidden within us, which is the "Tree of God" and its "Fruits of God", which in truth is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, just as the apple seed buried within the earth must first join as "one with" the earth that holds it, before it can germinate and reveal the apple tree and its fruits. Amen Text of Topic 05: My dearest loving brother Ellis, this is the truth and the falsehood of our life, which we must come to understand before we die to the flesh, if our life is to become successful in our own lifetime, if we are to come to understand through contrast who in truth we "Already Are". This is certain. If we are to come to understand who in truth we "Already Are", through the contrast of heaven and hell within us, which is the wealth of the world of souls or awwul within us, which is where we all were before coming here, and through the contrast of good and evil within us, which is the wealth of this earth world, this dunya within us that we have now come to, this dunya or earth world which is really within us, but that we now see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. And through the contrast of wisdom and fate within us, and the contrast of the qualities of God and the qualities of the Creation of God within us, which is the wealth of the next world within us, that is, is the wealth of the hereafter or akhirah within us, which is where we will all go when we finally die to the flesh, when we finally die to the "outside" of us, which is where we will all be given either an eternal life as "One with" God within us within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us. And the choice is ours, not God's, because God has already made His choice, and He chose "Oneness with" us, and that is why we are now alive on the "outside" of us, to choose, to choose either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, and we make that choice here, within the context of our current life on the "outside" of us, and in truth "what we do", not "what we say", will tell God our choice, for a man is known by his actions, not just by his words alone. Amen. For as our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us in our age, and now as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) also teach us on the "outside" of us. For example, in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 6, in the "Forward" to that book, we are taught, "Man appearing on the earth, forgets God and falls into many a trap, he does not know to seek himself although God exists within man". In this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, we forgotten God within us, we have forgotten the true nature of God within us, which is "Oneness", and we have fallen into many a trap, which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, and fail to go in search of our true self, which True Man, which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which can only be found within God within us, after we become "One with" God within us. After we join in partnership with God within us to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, by first revealing True Man to True Man within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of True Man within us, or at least join in partnership with God within us to start this story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and in this way, become truly successful in our lifetime, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. In this way, the first 4 Spiritual Letters, from God within us all, that is, Spiritual Letters 66, 67, 68, and 69, that we have shared over the last month, at least within the heart of this child, have focused us on "Our Choice", and this fifth and last Spiritual Letter which we are now sharing, focuses "us" on both, on both the "Main Goal" of our life, which is to become again "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of this "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and on the "Main Obstacle" of our life, which is standing in our way to our reaching this goal, which is our ego. Which is our own existence as "separate from" the existence of God within us, which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, in ignorance of God within us, and in ignorance of what we have allowed to grow within us. 06. The Nine Openings of Our Body - that now rule over us Expanded Summary of Topic 06: "The Nine Openings of Our Body" that now rule over us, with God's permission, and the forces and energies related to them, that we in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, are in truth what currently "separates us" from God within us, that currently "separates us" from each other on the "outside" of us, and that currently "separates us" from the Creation of God within us, all within the "justice of God" within us, and with God's permission, until we "See God" and "Steady Him Within Us", and then God sets about "Curing Himself" of "us", of "us" as "separate from" God within us, as He did before, in order to become God within us, but doing it this time within us, within the "Earth of God" within us, within the Creation of God within us, within Adam (peace be upon Him) within us. Within Adam (peace be upon Him) within us having recovered from the fall of Adam (peace be upon Him) within us, this time becoming again "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of both His fall from grace, and His "Oneness" with God within us, so it will never leave Him again, and if we like, will never leave "us" again, that is, if that be our true intention for our life, if our true intention for our life is to become "One with" God within us before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, so God can successfully complete what He started within us a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen Text of Topic 06: My dearest loving brother Ellis, in ignorance we have allowed lives of darkness, of hell, and of evil to grow within us, which in their maturity have now become the 9 openings of our own body which now rule over "us", with God's permission, rule over "us" as "separate from" God within us, until we "See God and steady Him" within us. That rule over "us" as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, the Creation of God that God has lovingly and ever so patiently placed within each of us, as "His Earth", within which He will plant the "Seed of God" within us, and grow the "Tree of God" within us, and bear the "Fruit of God" within us, when we have proven to God within us, by our actions and not just by our words, that "we can be cured", that God can "Cure Himself of us" within us, after He "accepts us", after we have "seen Him and steadied Him within us", because in truth "we do not want" anything that God has discarded, to become "God within us. And what God has discarded to become God within us, which He must do again within us, if we are to be cured, because the "cure of us is God" within us, what God has discarded to become God within us is everything we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. 07. The "Main Goal" of Our Life Expanded Summary of Topic 07: The "Main Goal" of Our Life is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, but this time with an understanding of our fall from grace, so we will never fall again, that is, but this time with an understanding of our fall from the grace of God within us, from the "Spirit" of God within us, into the flesh of us, into the "outside" of us, into our current life of "separation and differences" that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. Into our current life of arrogance, karma, and illusion, into our current life of desire for earth, women, and gold, into our current life of "selfishness" as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, as "separate from" the Creation of God within us which is the "Earth of God" within us, within which God must plant the "Seed of God" within us, to grow the "Tree of God" within us, and harvest the "Fruits of God" within us, if we will only let Him. That is, if we are to become truly successful in our lifetime, before we die to the flesh of us, before we die to the "outside" of us, so in this way, God can complete what God has started within us, a very, very long time ago, a time way before we were born into this earth world, which is to reveal God to God within us, which is to answerGod's question of God within us, the question, "Who am I?, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. Text of Topic 07: Such is the "Main Goal" of our life, my dearest loving brother Ellis, which we must accomplish, or at least truly begin to accomplish in partnership with God within us, by realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with, by becoming "One with", the "Gift of God" for our age, with the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, like this letter. Such is the "Main Goal" of our life, my dearest loving brother Ellis, which is making straight the "Path of God" within us, the "Way of the Lord" within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Amen. 08. The "Main Obstacle" of Our Life Expanded Summary of Topic 08: The "Main Obstacle" of Our Life is our ego, is our belief and our affirmation of "us" as the center of our life and of our world, is our belief and our affirmation with each breath, with each look, with each thought, with each word, and with each action, of "us" living as "separate from" everything else on the "outside" of us, of "us" living on the "outside" of us as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. The "Main Obstacle" of our life is our belief and our affirmation of our own existence as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which in our ignorance we see as all occurring on the "outside" of us, starting and really ending, if we reflect on it a little with our wisdom, with the first of our affirmations, the affirmation that "I exist" as "separate from" God within us, when in truth it is God, and only God who exists, who exists within us, that in truth, "There is nothing other than God" within us, "You are God" within us, and that in truth "God is One" within us. Which in the Islamic tradition is called the "First Kalimah" of Islam, of the "Five Kalimahs" of Islam, or the First Affirmation of the Truth of Allah, of the Five Affirmations of the Truth of Allah, the "First Kalimah" of Islam which in the Arabic language is recited by all Muslims, that is, by all those who have truly "Submitted to the will of God", recited in Arabic as "La illaha Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasul Allah", or recited in English as, "There is nothing other than You. You are God. And Muhammad (Sal.) is the Messenger of God." Text of Topic 08: And such is the "Main Obstacle" of our life preventing that, my dearest loving brother Ellis, preventing us from reaching this goal, which is our ego, the main obstacle between "us" and "us" becoming "One with" God within us, the main obstacle which is "us" living a life of sin, a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, the main obstacle between "us" and "us" realizing and making the correct choice in our lifetime, the choice of "Oneness with" God within us, for eternity, and truly making this choice before we physically die to the "outside" of us. And another facet of the "Main Obstacle" of our true life as "One with" God within us is our current beliefs and practices, that our current beliefs and practices are already Ok, that what we currently understand about "us" and God, and what we are currently doing in relationship to God, that is, our duty to God, is just fine, that we already correctly believe in God, and correctly pray to Him, love Him, trust in Him, and do duty for Him. So what else is needed?. 09. The Subtle "Sin of Righteousness" Expanded Summary of Topic 09: The Subtle "Sin of Righteousness" In Our Life has over taken all of us living in this age, which is the sin that Jesus (peace be upon Him) warned us about over 2000 years ago, indicating that only later on, in our age, would we become strong enough to hear about this subtle "Sin of Righteousness", when Jesus (peace be upon Him) would send us the Comforter of God, the "Spirit or Consciousness of Truth" to teach us about this subtle sin and lead us past it and back into "Oneness with" God within us, before we die to the flesh Text of Topic 09: And my dearest loving brother Ellis, as noted earlier in this letter, but which needs repeating, over and over again, as it is the very heart of our sharing, and the main trap that we have all fallen into, the first 4 Spiritual Letters, that is, Spiritual Letter 66, 67, 68, and 68, also focuses us on the "subtle sin" that we have all fallen into, as members in all of the religions of the world, including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as another facet of the "Main Obstacle" to our "Oneness with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, which is the "Sin of Righteousness" that Jesus (peace be upon Him) Himself warned us about over 2000 years ago. That Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us over 2000 years ago was the one thing that He wanted to tell us about, before He died, but couldn't because at that time, we "could not bear to hear it", but that later, after He physically left us, He would send us the "Comforter", the "Spirit or Consciousness of Truth", who would come to us in our greatest hour of need, which is now, and would teach us about this most subtle of all sins, the very sin that in our ignorance we have all fallen in to, in many cases without even knowing it, about this "Sin of Righteousness", and reprove or gently remove it from us, if we will only accept Him, as truly coming from Jesus (peace be upon Him), and then let Him correct us, when Jesus (peace be upon Him) later sends Him to us, sends the "Comforter", the "Spirit of Truth" to us. Which is what is happening now, my dearest loving brother Ellis, in our age, which in truth is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and now of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which in truth is the reason for this letter to my dearest loving brother Ellis, and to all of the Children of God for this age. Amen. 10. The "Answer" To Our Life Expanded Summary of Topic 10: The "Answer" To Our Life is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and to do this by becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, with the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us. For example, like these Spiritual Letters from God within us all, from this child, to the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in this age, if that be our true intention, that is, if our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh. Amen Text of Topic 10: So in summary, my dearest loving brother Ellis, the first four Spiritual Letters, from God within us all, focus us on, "Our Choice", describing the only true choice in our life, the only thing truly left in our life after we cut away the drama of our life on the "outside" of us, the choice that we all must make in this age, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, if we are to become truly successful in our own lifetime, realizing that a "no choice" in our lifetime is still a choice, a choice that is then made for us, by God within us, a choice we will most certainly live to regret, if God has to make it for us after we die. And in this way, a choice which when truly understood with our wisdom immediately answers all of the most serious questions of our life, questions like "What is the purpose of my life?, and "Who am I", "Where am I", and "What is truly happening in my life?" And the answer to our life is, that we must again become "One", but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness", we must again become "One with" God within us, and "One with" all of our dearest loving brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, and "One with" the Creation of God within us, and we must do this because God is "One" within us, and God is "One with" everything, both within us and on the "outside" of us, and because in truth we are "Of God", and "Of what God is doing within us", we are not of the Creation of God within us, or of the elemental spirits that have grown within us in our ignorance, which we have in our ignorance become "one with". This is the answer to our life, we must again becoming "One with" God within us, and "One with" what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness", so it will never leave us again. Amen. And we must do all of this before we die to the "outside" of us, or at least truly begin it in partnership with God within us, as "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, because after we physically die to the "outside" of us the opportunity to do this is over, the opportunity to become again "One", with an understanding of our "Oneness", the opportunity to become again "One with" God within us, and again "One with" what God is doing within us, is gone, because that is the way God set it up. And that is the reason for the "outside" of us, that is why we are now alive living in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, to correctly make the choice, the choice between living as "One with" God within us, and living as "separation from" God on the "outside" of us, and to make this choice while we still can, before we die to the flesh and God has to make this choice for us. May God help all of us realize this "truth of our life", that in truth we are the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within us, we are "God happening" within the "Earth of God" within us, and the truth of God within us, that in truth God within us, as the "Tree of God" within us, is the "Seed of God's Fruits" within us, is the "Seed of True Man" within us, is "True Man happening" within the "Tree of God" within the "Seed of God" within the "Earth of God" within us, without the slightest doubt, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, all of which in truth is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Page 3: Introduction - to Page 3 of 3 of E-mail Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis Thomas - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is Page 3 of 3, that is, the last page of "Spiritual Letter 70", hopefully for you reading and sharing enjoyment. This completes "Spiritual Letter 70", and we would like to thank you, thank you very, very much my dearest loving brother Ellis, for letting us share with you the "Gift of God" for our age, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, as the coming of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and the coming of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) over 1000 years ago, was the "Gift of God", the life and teaching of God, for these earlier ages. And now for our age, this "Gift of God" for our age, this life and teaching of God for our age, if we want it, is the life and teaching of our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) now on the "outside" of us. And now the life and teaching of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, which in truth is each of us living in this age, if we truly want it. That is, if we truly want to again become "One with" God within us, and again "One with" what God is doing within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and what God in truth is doing within us, is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother of the "One Open Heart" of God for our age, of the "One Open Heart" of our Father, of God, and of His Children, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. Amen. Please give my love and salams, the greetings from my heart, to your wife and children, and to all of your friends and family. Please tell them that Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) loves them very, very much, and that they are always in our prayers. And please try to join as "One with" your wisdom, and with the truth of God within your wisdom, to share this beautiful sharing with them, because only God within us knows what any of us need. Please try to join in partnership with God within us all to do this "Heart's Work", and if you do the true terminal illness of all of us, which is our current "separation from" God within us, will be cured within you, and then nothing else in your life will really matter. That is for sure. That is God's promise for our age. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. All praise and all praising belong to God and to God alone. Only God is Great. Amen. 11. The Nature of "True Prayer" Expanded Summary of Topic 11: The "Nature of True Prayer In Our Life" is "us" correctly making the one and only true choice of our life before we die to the flesh, that is, the choice to become either "One with" God within us or to become "separate from" God within us, for both now before we die to the flesh, and for late, for eternity, after we die to the flesh. And the correct choice is "Oneness with" God within us, both now, in our current life in the world on the "outside" of us, before we die to the flesh, and then for eternity after we die to the flesh, after we die to the "outside" of us, in this way, with "us" choosing this correct choice rather than choosing the wrong choice. And the wrong choice is "separation from" God within us, both now, in our current life in the world on the "outside" of us, before we die to the flesh, and then for eternity after we die to the flesh, after we die to the "outside" of us, in this way, with "us" choosing this wrong choice rather than choosing the correct choice. And in this way, the wrong choice is "us" continuing to conduct our life in the world with "business as usual" on the "outside" of us, is "us" choosing to continue to live our life as if we are "separate from" God within us, as if we are "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as if we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, until we die to the flesh, and then, when we die to the flesh, if this be our choice, if we have made the wrong choice, then with "us" getting the same life of "separation and differences", the same temporary life of sin that we are currently living on the "outside" of us, but this time for eternity. And then this wrong choice becomes our fate, becomes our choice for eternity, because that is what "we" have decide for "us", not what God has decided for "us", that is, such becomes our fate, an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, if we do that, that is, if "we" make this wrong choice for our life our eternal life, by the way that we live and act on the "outside" of us. And if we continue make this wrong choice for our life, until we die to the flesh, then this becomes our eternal life in the hereafter, in akhirah, in the next world within us, an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, an eternal life as "separate from" the "truth of us" within us, which is the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, and as "separate from" from the "Truth of God" within us, which is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us. This most certainly will become our fate if we continue to make this wrong choice while we are still alive and living in the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, in the world that in truth is within us, not "outside" of us, a world within us that in truth is a world of darkness and evil that in our ignorance we have allowed to grown within us, like weeds growing in a flower garden, eventually if not regularly pulled out destroying the original flower garden, world of "separation and differences, a world of sin, a world of arrogance, karma, and illusion, a world of mind and desire, a world of desire for earth, women, and gold, that now in maturity rules over us as our 9 openings, with God's permission, until we see God and steady Him within us. In this way, if we keep telling this to God within us, that we are "separate from "God, that we are "separate from" each other, and that we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, and that we love and trust in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, if we keep telling this to God within us over and over again, with our every look, thought, word, action, and intention, no matter what God shows us to the opposite, that in truth God and Man are "One", if we keep telling this to God within us, until we die to the flesh, then what is God to do? If we keep telling this to God within us, by the way that we live and act on the "outside" of us, if we keep telling this to God within us, that this wrong choice is really what we truly want, no matter what our words or preaching may be saying on the "outside" of us, then that is what we will get for eternity, with this becoming our fate for eternity within us in accordance with the "Justice of God" within us, for God within us teaches us in this age, that "whatever we intend is what we will get". Amen. That is, if our own life in the world on the "outside" of us is telling this to God within us, over and over again, is telling God within us that we want to continue to live "separate from" God within us, that we do not want to become "One with" God within us, either now before we die to the flesh, or later after we die to the flesh, that we do not want to give up our current life of "separation and difference", our current life of sin on the "outside" of us, either now or later, that we do not want to give up our current life of "separation from" God within us, of "separation from" each other on the "outside" of us, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, that this is our choice, that this wrong choice is our choice for both now and later, then what is God to do? And in this way, if we do this with our life on the "outside" of us, if we make this wrong choice on the "outside" of us, and choose "separation from" God within us as our life choice for both now and eternity, rather than choosing "Oneness with" God within us as our life choice for both now and eternity, telling this choice to God over and over again by the way that we live and act in the world on the "outside" of us, then what is God to do?. Then what is God to do? But to give us what we want, but to give each of us what we told God within us, over and over again, what we want, while living on the "outside" of us. For our reward for our current life in the world on the "outside", as we lived it before we died to the flesh, then becomes just that, after we die to the flesh, then becomes an eternal life as we lived it on the "outside" of us, then becomes either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, because this is what we have intended, because this is what we have told God within us that we wanted, because this is the crop that we have sown, this is the house that we have built, according to the way that we have acted while living on the "outside" of us, because this is what we have done with what God gave to each of us in the beginning, because this is what we have done with the wealth that God originally gave us. Amen. This is the "Justice of God" within our life, this is our judgment and our salvation within us, that is, our reward in the next world is determined by our life in this world, is determined by our actions in this world, not just our words, a world which for most of us is the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, unless we join with God within us to become wise before we die to the flesh, and begin to journey within ourselves as truly "One with" God within us. Amen. In this way, what we get next is determined by what we do now, that is, by the way that we have lived our short temporary life on the "outside" of us, by what we have loved and trusted, by what we have placed our faith and trust in, while alive and living in the world on the "outside" of us, so then this is what we then get for eternity, when we die to the flesh, either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, that is, then this is what we get, according to the justice of God within us, an eternal life as "separate from" the "truth of us" and as "separate from" the 'truth of God" within us. In this way, if the wrong choice becomes our fate, that is, if an eternal life as "separate from" God within us becomes our fate, then we will have suffered the same fate as an apple seed that fails to germinate, forever "separating itself" from the story of the "oneness of the apple tree and the apple" hidden within it, that it came to the earth, to join as "one with" the earth, to tell. And in this way, if this becomes our fate, if we continue to make the wrong choice, if we continue to live as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, until we die to the flesh, that is, if we too fail to germinate, which in our case is to germinate the "Seed of God" within us, then like the apple seed that fails to germinate, we too will be forever "separating us" from the story hidden within us, which in our case is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, that we have come to the "Earth of God", which is the "Creation of God" within us, to join as "One with" the "Earth of God" within us, with the "Creation of God" within us, to tell. My God help us all. May we not show God within us a life in the world on the "outside" of us that makes an eternal life as "separation from" God within us our fate, but rather may we show God within us a life in the world on the "outside" of us that does not make this our fate, that instead makes our fate an eternal life as "One with" God within us. And before we die to the flesh may we realize this truth of our life and this truth of God within us, without the slightest doubt, that in truth "we" are the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, and as such in truth we are "God Happening" within the Creation of God us, as an apple seed buried within the earth is in truth the "apple tree happening", and that in truth God within us is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the "Creation of God" within us, and as such God within us in truth is "True Man Happening" within "God Happening" within the Creation of God within us, as the apple tree hidden within an apple seed that is buried within the earth is in truth the "apple fruits happening" within the "apple tree happening" within the earth. And may we realize, also without the slightest doubt, that this life choice that each of us have came here to make is our choice to make, not God's choice to make, because God has already made His choice, and He chose "One with" us, and that is why we are now alive in the world on the "outside" of us, to now make our choice, so God can either finish or permanently stop what He has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. And this choice is ours, not God's, this choice is ours, to germinate or not before we die to the flesh, this choice is our, to either join in partnership with God within us, and stop working for wages to get into some illusory heaven on the "outside" of us, in order to allow "Us", in order to allow God within us, as "One with" us within Him, and to allow "us" as "One with" God within us, to reveal what God has hidden within us, which in truth is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and within God within us, before we die to the flesh, all of which is the truth of us, and the truth of God within us, in this way, letting the "truth surrender to the truth" within us. Amen. Or to not do any of this, that is, to not join in partnership with God within us, but rather to continue to act on the "outside" of us as if we "separate from" God within us, as if we are "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as if we "separate from" the Creation of God within us, and to continue working for wages to get into some illusory heaven on the "outside" of us, continuing to live this way until die to the flesh. And then, if we have made the correct choice with our life, if we have truly decided to "use God" to get to God within us, to become "One with" God within us, in this way, having joined in partnership with God within us, in order to make the correct choice within us, then join with God within us in order to reveal the result of this correct choice within us, and to do all of this before we physically die to the "outside" of us, or at least to truly join with God within us to again start our life moving in that direction, in the direction of what God has intended for our life, in the direction of what God is doing within us, in the direction of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, in the direction of telling this story within us, the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. For then God will do everything else, for then God will complete it, for then God will complete what He has started within us, within each of us, a very, very long time ago, for then God will reveal God to God within us, for then God will answer the question God asked of God within us, in anathi or the time darkness or "lack of understanding" within us, the question "Who am I?" within us, for the benefit of all the Creation of God within us. This is God's Guarantee for our age. Amen. Text of Topic 11: And in truth, my dearest loving brother Ellis, this is our "True Prayer" to God in our lilofetime, this correct choice is our "True Prayer" to God within us, this choosing God as "One with" us o ver "us" as "separate from" God within us, is our only true life and our only true prayer, the only true prayer to God we can do, and the only true life that we can live, as "One with" God within us, the prayer and the life of "Oneness", the prayer and the life of the "Oneness" of "us and God within us. Not what we are currently doing in our ignorance on the "outside" of us, in the dream of us, in the drama of us, as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. Amen. Not what we currently call prayer to God, not what we currently call our life on the "outside" of us, which are all prayers and a life of "separation and differences", prayers and a life that say to God, that "I am a Christian and you are a Muslim", or that "I am a Muslim and you are a Jew", or that "I am a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew, and you are a Hindu, or a Zoroastrian (Fire Worship)", or any of the other subdivisions of prayer or life that "we" have made up, not that God has made up, that we have made up in our ignorance, in our arrogance, karma, and illusion, to please our mind and desire, but certainly not to please God within us who has none of this, none of this "separation and differences" within Him. Amen. No this type of worship or prayer, this type of life, is not acceptable to God within us, especially in our age, when God has given each of us everything, both within us and on the "outside" of us, that is necessary for "us", for each of "us", to transcend these thoughts and prayers and life of "separation and differences", thoughts and prayers and a life that are not really worshipping God at all within us, who in truth is "One with" everyone and everything, both within us and on the "outside" of us, but rather prayers and a life that are really worshipping "ourselves" on the "outside" of us, that are really only worshipping "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. This is our flaw, our only true flaw, which is what we have become, not what we are doing, and this is our current prayer and life, this is our flaw, which is what we have become, which are our current prayers of "separation and differences", our current life of "separation and differences", our current life of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us. A flaw, a prayer, and a life that Jesus (peace be upon Him) started to warn us about, started to explain to us about over 2000 years ago, when He told us in the "Gospel of John", not to "worship ourselves" by forming into groups, calling us "this or that" group, as separate from other groups, because in truth we are all "One, we are all "The Children of God". For in truth God is "One", and so are we, and God is the "One" that we all must worship, as "One with" God within us, and "we" are the "One" who must worship God within us, as "One with" each other on the "outside" of us, and this is what we must believe about both God and about "us", this "Oneness", which in maturity within us is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. And in this way, to truly pray to God within us we must come together as "One" within us, as the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is" within us, and on the "outside" of us, if we come together to pray to God, we must come together as "One", all gathering under "One" tent to worship the "One" God, as "One Group", as the "One Religion of God", not as "separate groups", both "separate from" God within us and "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us. Only this way of worshipping God within us, as "One with" God within us, and as "One with" each other on the "outside" of us, is acceptable to God within us, not what we are all currently doing. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 30 & 31 For as Jesus (peace be upon Him) tells us in Chapter 05, Verses 30 & 31 in the "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My will, but the will of the Father who hath sent Me." "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true". Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 43 & 44 And further in the Chapter 05, in Verses 43 & 44, Jesus (peace be upon Him) teaches us, "I have come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." "How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" In this way, when we separate ourselves off into groups, and define "us" in terms of those groups, define "us" as members of this or that group, as "separate from" other groups, with a common set of beliefs and practices, "separate from" the beliefs and practices of other groups, like as a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Hindu, or a Zoroastrian (Fire Worshiper), we are doing just that, we are bearing witness of ourselves, as "separate from" other Children of God, and we honoring one another as members of our designated group, as "separate from" other groups. This is wrong, and is not acceptable to God within us, for anything that we do in this context of "separation and differences" is against both God and True Man within us, is against the "Oneness" that is God within us, and is against the "Oneness" that is True Man within us, is against the "Oneness" of God within us and against the "Oneness" of "us" within God within us, is against the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, which in truth is the very essence of God's existence within us, and of our existence within God within us, of "us" within God within us. 12. Our Current Way, Life, and Prayers - Are Not Acceptable To God Expanded Summary of Topic 12: - In Process. Please come back later. Thank you - Text of Topic 12: And in this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, our current way of life, our current prayers, our current life, as well as our current learning, and our current duty is wrong, and is not acceptable to God within us, because in this context, in our current state, everything that we "say or do" is wrong, that is, with "us" living just on the "outside" us, as if we are "separate from" God within u s, which is not true, as if we are "separate from" each other, which is also not true, and as if we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which is also definitely not true. That is, with "us" not yet having shifted our focus off of "us" on the "outside" of us and onto God within us, off of our "selfishness" and onto God's selflessness, and in this way, all that we "say or do" is wrong, including our prayers and our life of "separation and differences", and our learning, and our duty of "separation and differences". May God protect us from continuing to make this mistake, from continuing to use what God has given us in this way, and instead open our heart to the truth of these words. Amen. Please forgive me my dearest loving brother Ellis if this upsets you or any of your dearest loving family or friends in any way, but it is the truth, it is the word of God within all of us for this age, for the Children of God for this age, and to be successful in our own lifetime we must accept it as such, and join with God within us to become "One with" God within us, and "One with" what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. And we must do all of this "Heart's Work", all of this again becoming "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, or at least truly join with God within us to restart this journey up again within us, this journey of the soul within us back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, but this time with an understanding of that Oneness, so it will never leave us again, which in truth is "Who we are?. In this way answering God's question of God within us, that was asked by God of God within us, a very, very long time ago, even before there was time within us, even before kalam or time within us started leading us to Kalan, to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, the question, "Who am I?" . Amen. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 24 For as Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us over 2000 years ago, as recorded also in the "Gospel of John", also in Chapter 05, in Verses 19 to 24, and as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us again in our age, and as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are teaching us right now, "Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." "For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and He will shew Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel." "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will." "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father which hath sent Him." "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." Amen. And each of us, my dearest loving brother Ellis, in this age, is this "Sun of God" or Light of God to the world, that Jesus (peace be upon Him) showed us an example of over 2000 years ago, if we like, if our intention is truly to become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 01, Verses 10 to 14 For as God told us over 2000 years ago, as recorded also in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 01, in Verses 10 to 14, and as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us again in our age, and as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are teaching us right now, "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not." "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe in His name." "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwell among us, full of grace and truth." Amen. 13. The "True Nature" of Each of Us In This Age Expanded Summary of Topic 13: - In Process. Please come back later. Thank you - Text of Topic 13: Such is the true nature of each of "us", my dearest loving brother Ellis, to truly receive God within us in our age, as Jesus (peace be upon Him) did in His age, and in this way to receive God's power to become the "Son of God" in our age, to become the "Word" make flesh in our age, and dwell among all those living in this age, as the Sun or Light of God to the world, in our age, as Jesus (peace be upon Him) did in His age. Such is the true example of Jesus (peace be upon Him) for our age, to do as He did, both within us and on the "outside" of us, in our age, to make the story of Jesus (peace be upon Him) in His age, our story in this age. Amen. Such is the true nature of each of "us", my dearest loving brother Ellis, of "us within us as "One with" God within us, which is "Oneness", and the true nature of God within us, which is also "Oneness", as "One with" what we can truly become within us, in our own lifetime within us, which is True Man within God within us, which in maturity is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. With "us" within us as the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, which when we join as "One with" God within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, becomes the "Tree of God" within the Creation of God within us. And with God within us as the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, which after the "Seed of God" within us germinates, becomes the "Seed of the Fruit" of God within the "Tree of God" within the Creation of God within us, within the "Wish-fulfilling Tree" which in the Islamic tradition is called the Katpaha Virudcham, which "contains the Power of God, the light of the grace-awakened wisdom of gnanam, from which you can receive whatever you ask for, whatever you think of". With this "Seed of the Fruit" of God first appearing as the "Flower of Wisdom" on the "Tree of God" within the Creation of God within us, as the 6th level of wisdom within us, the wisdom of the Qutbiyyat or Power of God within us, the "wisdom beyond intellect that teaches, analyzes, and controls" everything within us, which if it is properly fertilized by the "Honeybee of God" within us, which is from the "Mountain Top" of God within us, which is the "Throne of God" on the top of our head, the place in our body that can support the weight of God, that is, fertilized by the "Primal One" within us, with the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God within us, allowing this "Flower of Wisdom" within us to become the mature fruits on the wish fulfilling tree of God within us. And these mature fruits includes all of the religious scripts of all of the religions or paths of God that have come into the world, since Adam and Eve (peace be upon Them) came into the world, over 200 million years ago, including everything in the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible, the teaching in the Jewish and the Christian traditions, and everything in the Holy Qur'an, the teaching in the Islamic tradition. And the One who tastes the sweet taste of these mature fruits within us, which is the taste of God within us, and then distributes these "Fruits of God" to all of the Creation of God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, is True Man within God within us, who in the Islamic tradition is called Insan Kamil, or "Perfected Man". Amen. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 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Spiritual Letter 70 - E-mail Version - Go To: Introduction - to E-mail Version of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: E-mail Version - of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: Expanded Overview - of Spiritual Letter 70 Go To: Related Material - to Spiritual Letter 70 Introduction - to E-mail Version of Spiritual Letter 70 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is the E-mail version of the beautiful letter that was sent to a High School Classmate of this child, to a Mr. Ellis Thomas, hopefully for your reading enjoyment and sharing. This is the version that was sent to Mr. Ellis Thomas as an E-mail and does not have the Mutiple Outline, that is, the "Brief Outline" and the Expanded Outline", along with the "Brief Summary" and the "Expanded Summary" of each Topic of the Outline, that is provided in the "Outline and Summary Version" of this letter, which first comes up when you access this Spiritual Letter on-line, that is, by using the following URL or Web Address: www.SpiritualLetter070.homestead.com. However, we have included the "Silent Outline" of the "Outline and Summary Version" at the beginning of this E-mail version so you can use the Hypertext capabilities of the on-line version to easily access each Topic of the Spiritual Letter, and navigate around the letter. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. E-mail Version - of Spiritual Letter 70 Outline of E-mail Version: Page 01: 01. Introduction - to Page 1 of E-mail 02. Our Choice - is an eternal life either as "One with" or as "separate from" God 03. The Judgment & Salvation - of each one of us is the "Word of God" for our age Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 Page 02: Introduction - to page 2 of E-mail 04. The "Gift of God" - For Our Age, is the life and teaching of God for our age 05. What Has Happened To Us? - that we are still living as if we are "separate from" God within us 06. The Nine Openings - of Our Body, now rule over us, with God's permission 07. The "Main Goal" - of Our Life, is to again become "One with" God within us 08. The "Main Obstacle" - of Our Life, is our ego, is our current life "outside" of us 09. The Subtle "Sin of Righteousness" - has over taken all of us, and is leading us all to hell, without us even realizing it 10. The "Answer" - To Our Life, is to again become "One with" God, before we die Page 03: Introduction - to page 3 of E-mail 11. The Nature of "True Prayer" - is "us" making the correct life choice, is "us" learning to use God within us to become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, that is, to join in partnership with God within us, and to stop working for wages to get into heaven on the "outside" of us, before we die to the "outside" of us Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 30 & 31 Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 43 & 44 12. Our Current Way, Life, and Prayers - are not acceptable to God within us Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 24 Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 01, Verses 10 to 14 13. The True Nature -of Each of Us in this age is the "Oneness of God & True Man" Text of E-mail Version: (Note: You can also read this Spiritual Letter on-line as a Web Page, in its entirety, and with a Hypertext outline, which makes navigation a lot easier, by clicking on the following: Spiritual Letter 70, which has the URL or Web Address: www.SpiritualLetter070.homestead.com) Page 01: 01. Introduction - to Page 1 of E-mail Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis Thomas - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). In the process of sending you Page 3 of 4 of our first Spiritual Letter, back in January, that is, of "Spiritual Letter 66", two beautiful discourses, from God within us all, came into the heart of this child, for "us", that is, for you and this child, and for all of the Children of God for this age, if we only truly want it, if we only truly want to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. All praise and praising belong to God, and to God alone. Only God is Great. Amen. We included these two new beautiful discourses from God within us all, as the new Page 3 of "Spiritual Letter 66", which was given the title, "Thank You For Showing Us Your Faith & Trust In God", instead of the original Page 3 of that letter, and then we made the original Page 3 of that letter into Page 4 of "Spiritual Letter 66", and Page 4 into Page 5, and in this way, we made "Spiritual Letter 66" into 5 pages. And we also made the first of these two new beautiful discourses, which is now "Discourse 01" on Page 3 of Spiritual Letter 66, which was given the title, "And The Truth Shall Make You Free", into a new Spiritual Letter, actually into the following three new Spiritual Letters, Spiritual Letters 67, 68, and 69, all of which, along with the original "Spiritual Letter 66", you can access by clicking on the following: 1) Spiritual Letter 66, "Thank You For Showing Us Your Faith & Trust In God" 2) Spiritual Letter 67, "And The True Shall Make You Free" 3) Spiritual Letter 68, "What Has Happened To Us?" 4) Spiritual Letter 69, "Invoking the Presence of God Within Us" And we have now also made the second of these two new beautiful discourses, which is now "Discourse 02" on Page 3 of Spiritual Letter 66, which was given the title, "Bear Not Witness of Ourselves, But Only of God Within Us", into this new Spiritual Letter, into "Spiritual Letter 70", which you are now reading, giving it the same title. And please be patient my dearest loving brother Ellis with all of this adjustment, this adjustment to our sharing at this time of the "Gift of God" for our age, because in truth such is the nature of God within us, and such is the nature of our life within us when we truly join in partnership with God within us, that is, when we start to again live as "One with" God within us, rather than continuing to live as if we are "separate from" God within us, and as if we are "separate from" each other, on the "outside" of us, and as if we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, all of which is not true. Rather than continuing to live as "one with" our current life of sin, as "one with" all of the lives of darkness, of hell, and of evil that in our ignorance have grown within us, like weeds growing in a flower garden, but lives which in our ignorance we only see as our current life of "separation and differences", as our current life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, all of which is false. Because in truth we are all "One with" God within us, whether we believe it or not, and even whether we want it or not, such is the truth of us, and the truth of God within us, which is the "Oneness" of "us", of all of us, and of God within us, and of True Man within God within us, at least up to the point when we die to the flesh, when we die to the "outside" of us. For if we die still truly affirming our "separation from" God within us, with our every breath, our every thought, our every word, our every prayer, and our every action, for then, what then can God do, because in this case, we have sealed our own fate, a fate that is then an eternal life within us as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" the "truth of us", and the "truth of God" within us. Amen. And unless God within us all again intervenes, my dearest loving brother Ellis, and gives us another beautiful discourse to share, as part of this Spiritual Letter, as part of our sharing of "Spiritual Letter 70", as He did before with "Spiritual Letter 66", that is, by placing "Discourse 01 and 02" within the heart of this child, for all of us, as He did before in our Sharing of "Spiritual Letter 66", unless God does this, then God willing, this is the last of our current correspondence, our current sharing about the "Gift of God" for our age. About the life and teaching of God for our age, about the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, and of His Children which is every one of us living in this age, if we truly want it, that is, if we truly want to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. That is of course, unless my dearest loving brother Ellis has something to share from his heart with his dear brother Louie, or unless he has a question or comment about what was now been shared, shared by God within us all, to the Children of God for our age, which God has shared from the heart of this child, as these 5 beautiful Spiritual Letters, which in truth is "our own life speaking to us", if we only want it, that is, if our true intention is to become again "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness", of our "Oneness with" God, with each other, and with the Creation of God within us, so it will never leave us again. Amen. That is of course, if we do what Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us to do, over 2000 years ago, and what our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, has now told us again in our age to do, and what His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, are now telling us to do right now, in these beautiful Spiritual Letters, are telling us about the "True Secret" on the path of God within us, which is "Oneness", which is learning to use God to get to God within us, and to stop using what God has discarded to get to God, by becoming again "One with" God within us, and "One with" what God is doing within us, before we die to the flesh, which is the "True Secret" on the path of God within us, as follows: "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there." In this way, may we learn to come together as "One with" each other, in the Name of God for our age, and in this way, become "One with" Jesus (peace be upon Him) within us, and in this way, in truth become "One with" all of the 124,000 Prophets, Heavenly Beings, and Lights of God within us, which in truth are all "One" within us. And now in our age, learn to become "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, "One with" the life and teaching of God for our age, for the Children of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Short Overview of E-mail: (from the Top or Header of the Web Page version of this letter, written to the brother and sisters who may access and read Spiritual Letter 70) In this fifth and last in a series of 5 beautiful Spiritual Letters to our dearest loving brother Mr. Ellis Thomas, a High School Classmate of Louie, we provide "Spiritual Letter 70". A letter to Mr. Ellis Thomas who has been recently told by his doctors that he is currently dying of a terminal illness, and only has a short time to live. A letter to Ellis and to each of us, who in truth have also been told by our doctor, by our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and by God within Him, that we are also dying of a terminal illness, and also have but a short time to live, dying of the terminal illness of "separation from" God within us. A letter which is a summary of the previous four letters that "we" sent to Ellis, at least in our heart, that is, a summary of the "Major Goal" of our life, which is to become again "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and the "Major Obstacle" to our reaching this goal in our own life time, which is our ego, which is our current life of "separation and differences", our current life of "mine and yours", of "I" and "you" on the "outside" of us, our current life of sin, that we are currently living with our dearest loving brothers and sisters in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but which in truth is really within us, has really grown within us in our ignorance, and is now ruling over us as the 9 openings of our body, with God's permission. Organization & Content of E-mail: My dearest loving brother Ellis, we included at the begin of this on-line version of this E-mail an Outline of the entire letter to guide you through the rest of this E-mail version of the letter. Also, in this Outline we have added the planned Page Breaks for the letter, that is, where in the letter we currently plan to go to Page 2, and Page 3. We had to break the letter up because AOL limits how much text we can include with each page of E-mail. Currently there are 3 Pages planned for this letter, but this number and the outline could change, as happened with Spiritual Letter 66. To deal with this problem of multiple pages, and to provide a permanent record of this beautiful letter for others to access and read, if they like, as well as to provide a version of the letter that is easier to read and navigate, and provides both a Brief and an Expanded Summary of each Topic in the letter, we have also made this letter into an Internet Web Site, giving us an on-line version of Spiritual Letter 70, which you can read in its entirely, navigate around easily, with only one page break, whenever you wish, and which you can access right now, if you like, by clicking HERE. The URL or Web Site Address of the on-line version of this letter is as follows: www.SpiritualLetter070.homestead.com. What comes up when you access this URL is the "Outline and Summary Version" of this letter, which is longer than the E-mail Version because it includes multiple outlines and multiple summaries. However, you can also access this E-mail Version on-line after the other version is up, by clicking on "E-mail Version" in the "Main Menu". You can also access the on-line version of this letter at both the top and bottom of this E-mail, and by typing the above URL into the Address field of your Web Browser. But remember when typing this URL into the Address field of your Web Browser to type in the number "070", not "70", as this is a common error. Finally, the on-line Outline and Summary version of this letter provides the following capabilities not available with this E-mail version, which includes: 1) A Hypertext Function - which allows you to click on each of the following Outline Topics and automatically go to the place in the text for that Topic, and when finished automatically return to the Outline, making navigation around the document much easier. 2) A Brief & An Expanded Outline - a Brief and an Expanded Outline of the Letter which includes a Brief and an Expanded Summary of each Topic in the letter. We have included the Expanded Summary from the on-line version of this letter with this E-mail version of the letter, putting it at the beginning of each Topic. However, please keep in mind, my dearest loving brother Ellis, that these Expanded Summaries are written to a wider audience who may read the on-line version of this letter at a later time, and hopefully will also benefit from what we have shared, and as a result in them we may refer to you and this child at times in the third person. Please forgive this child if this shift in reference, from personal to third person, offends you in any way, but it seemed necessary when addressing this larger audience. Ok? 3) An Expanded Overview - an Expanded Overview of the Letter. We have included a Short version of this Expanded Overview in the "Introduction" to this E-mail. And Ellis, the same caution about the shift in reference, as noted above, from personal to third person, also applies to the Overview. Ok? 02. Our Choice Expanded Summary of Topic 02: "Our Choice" is the choice each of us must make before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, if our life is to become truly successful in our own lifetime, which in truth is a choice between an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, and in truth there is no other choice, everything else that we think as a choice is just drama, the drama of "separation and differences" that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. A drama which in truth we can only win by "not playing". But a drama which in truth is really within us, as the lives of darkness, of hell, and of evil that in our ignorance we have allowed to grow within us, like weeds in a beautiful flower garden, which if not regularly pulled out, destroy the flower garden, becoming the drama on the "outside" of us that keeps our ego alive and well within us, a drama that keeps us "Bearing Witness of Ourselves" on the "outside" of us, rather than "Bearing Witness of God" within us. A drama within us, that we see in our ignorance on the "outside" of us, that is leading us to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, to 105 million rebirths within us, with "us" potentially ending as a worm in hell within us with only one level of consciousness, of feeling, and in this way, with "us" ending within us with an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, as our reward for having come to this first of "God's Schools" within us, which is the "School of Contrasts" we are currently attending, whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, where we came not to die, but to understand what is currently "separating us" from God within us, and then to join as "One with" God within us, to be "born again", as Jesus (peace be upon Him) teaches us in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 03, Verse 3, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" Text of Topic 02: My dearest loving brother Ellis, here is another beautiful discourse from God within us all, to all of us living in this age, coming into the heart of this child, about the "Choice" that each of us must make before we physically die to the "outside" of us, if we are to truly become successful in our own lifetime, which is to use our life to "Bear Witness" to either "Ourselves or God", that is, to decide between either becoming again "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of that "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, or of continuing to live on the "outside" of "us" as if we were "separate from" God within us, living as if we truly had our own life "separate from" God within us, until we die, and then after we die to "harvest the crop we have grown" and "move into the house that we have built". And about the "major obstacle" standing between "us", and "us" making the correct choice, and "us" sowing the good crop, and "us" building the proper house, before we die to the flesh, the "major obstacle" which is our ego, which is our "bearing witness of myself", and which is our current life of sin, of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, which is our receiving honor one of another", as Jesus (peace be upon Him) warned us about, and told us not to do, over 2000 years ago. As Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us not to do, as recorded by the 13th disciple of Jesus (peace be upon Him), by the "One loved by Jesus", by the One told by Jesus (peace be upon Him) to "Tarry till I Come". That is, Jesus (peace be upon Him) told the disciple Barnabus (peace be upon Him) to "Stay alive in the world for another 600 years" until Jesus (peace be upon Him) came again, to finish what He started, that is, to "Take away the sin of the world", to "Make straight the way of the Lord", which is to "separate from" man all that "separates man" from God, coming this time as the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him). As recorded by the first and the last disciple of Jesus (peace be upon Him), by the disciple Barnabus (peace be upon Him), over 2000 years ago, and as recorded now by this child in this letter. For example, as recorded by the disciple Barnabus (peace be upon Him) in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 05, verses 31 and 44, recorded as the "major obstacle" standing between "us" within us and God within us, which is our ego, standing between "us" within us and living again as "One with" God within us, standing between God within us and the Creation of God within us, preventing both from coming to completion within us, as the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. And doing all of this, at least truly starting it by truly joining in partnership with God within us, by accepting and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, and doing this before "we" die to the flesh, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, and in this way, removing in our own lifetime what is currently standing between "us", and "us" becoming the "Witness of God" within us, and the "Witness of what God is doing" within us, which is God revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen In this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, the first four Spiritual Letters, that is, "Spiritual Letter 66, 67, 68, and 69" are trying to focus "us" on the "Choice" that each of us must make before we physically die to the "outside" of us, if we are to truly become successful in our own lifetime, the "Choice" to either "Worship Ourselves" on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us, which is the falsehood of us on the "outside" of us, or to "Worship God" within us, as "One with" God within us, which is to become "One with" God within us, which is the truth of us within us. And "Spiritual Letter 70" is trying to focus us now on the "major obstacle" to making this "Correct Choice" in our lifetime, that is, to becoming "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, the "major obstacle" which is our ego, which is "us", that is, the "current us", the "us" of living a life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, which is our current life of "separation and differences". About the "major obstacle" to making this "Correct Choice" in our lifetime, which is ego, as well as the actions and attachments of our ego, as reflected in our current prayers to God, our current understanding of God, and our current duty to God, a life that we are currently living, and prayers, understanding, and duty to God that we are currently performing and are attached to, which in truth are not acceptable to God within us, because they are being performed by "us" as "separate from" God within us, and by "us" as "separate from" our dearest loving brothers and sisters. Are being performed by "us" in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but which in truth is a world of darkness, a world of hell and evil within us, a world of darkness, of hell, and of evil that "we" in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, and which in maturity now rule over us, as the 9 openings of our body, with God's permission within us. With God's permission within us until we see God and steady God within us, for then God sets about "Curing Himself of us" within us, because then "we no longer exist" as "separate from" God within us, for then we only exist as "us" within us as "One with" God within us, and as "One with" what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen 03. The Judgment And Salvation - Of Each Of Us In Our Age Expanded Summary of Topic 03: The "Judgment and the Salvation" of Each of Us In Our Age is the "Word of God" for our age, is the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. As it was the life and teaching of Jesus (peace be upon Him) for our dearest loving brothers and sisters who lived at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and as it was the life and teaching of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) at the time of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) at His time over 1000 years ago. Amen Text of Topic 03: Also, my dearest loving brother Ellis, as explained earlier, this Spiritual Letter, that is, "Spiritual Letter 70", is an expanded, and an Outline & Summary Version, of the second of the two beautiful discourses that came into the heart of this child, to "us" from God within us all, as part of sending you an E-mail version of the first Spiritual Letter that we shared with you, almost three month ago, that is, the second of the two beautiful discourses that became "Discourse 01 and 02" of the new Page 3 of 5 of "Spiritual Letter 66", which we gave the title, "Thank You For Showing Us Your Faith And Trust In God". Coming to us now as "Spiritual Letter 70", as "Bear Witness Not of Ourselves, But Only of God Within Us", coming again as the second of these two beautiful discourses, that came into the heart of this child, to "us" from God within us all, that is, from God within us all, to this child, and to you, to you my dearest loving brother Ellis, and to all of our dearest and loving family and friends, to all of the dearest and loving Children of God for our age, which is everyone of us living in this age, if we truly want it, that is, if we truly want to again become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Please realize this truth of our lives, of you and the life of your dearest loving brother Louie. For in truth we are one, in truth this is "our own life speaking to us, from within our very own heart. Please don't ignore it, or make is something that is "separate from" you. Amen. In this way, such is the judgment and the salvation of each of us for our age, which is the "Word of God" for our age, as it was for our dearest loving brothers and sisters who lived at the time of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and at the time of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) over 1000 years ago, and as it is now, in our age, at the time of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us. Amen. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 May we all know this now, without the slightest doubt, before it is too late, because if we have doubt, then we are "out". This is the truth of our life, and of God within us. We must realize this without the slightest doubt and start to act accordingly. Amen. For Jesus told us this truth over 2000 years ago, and again in our age we were told this truth by our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and by God within Him, and right now through these Spiritual Letters His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are telling us once more, once more about the truth of us and about the truth of God within us, we are all being told again on the "outside" of us so we can begin to change on the inside of us. Amen. For example, as recorded in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 5, Verses 19 to 31, we are told: -- Beginning of Quote from the "Gospel of John", Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 -- "Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and He will shew Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father which hath sent Him. Verily, verily, I say unto to you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself. And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My will, but the will of the Father who hath sent Me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true". -- End of Quote from the "Gospel of John", Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 31 -- Page 02: Introduction - to Page 2 of E-mail Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis Thomas - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is Page 2 of 3 of "Spiritual Letter 70", hopefully for you reading and sharing enjoyment. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. All praise and all praising belong to God and to God alone. Only God is Great. Amen. 04. The "Gift of God" For Our Age - the "Life and Teaching of God", the "Word of God" for our age Expanded Summary of Topic 04: The "Gift of God" for our age, the "Life and Teaching of God" for our age, the "Word of God" for our age, is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) now on the "outside" of us. For example, this "Gift of God" for our age is now being explained on the "outside" of us by this child, by this Child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) through this series of 5 beautiful Spiritual Letters to Mr. Ellis Thomas, starting with the first Spiritual Letter to Ellis, "Spiritual Letter 66", that we shared in January, 2005, and ending with this new Spiritual Letter to Ellis, "Spiritual Letter 70", that we are currently sharing now in April 2005. And this current series of Spiritual Letters to Ellis are being sharing with Ellis as the "Gift of God" for our age in the context of Christianity, in the context of the life and teaching of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, as recorded in Chapters and Verses in the "Gospel of John" of the Holy Bible. Also, we have and will continue to share the "Gift of God" for our age in the context of the other Major Religions of the world. For example, another series of beautiful Spiritual Letter is currently planned and starting to happen as follow, explaining the life and teaching of God for our age in the context of Islam, in the context of the life and teaching of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, as recorded in Chapters from the Holy Qur'an. For example, as recorded in Chapter 86, "At Tarique", or "The Night Visitant or Morning Star", as well as in the last Chapter in the Holy Quran, as well as in Chapter 114, "Nas", or "Mankind", and in Chapter 113, "Falaq", or "The Dawning", and in Chapter 112, "Ikhlas", or "Purity", and in the first Chapter, Chapter 01, "Suratal Fatihah", or "The Opening Chapter" of the Holy Qur'an. Also see Spiritual Letter 63, "Review of the Holy Qur'an: Sura or Chapter 86, "At Tarique", review of the "First 3 Lines" Text of Topic 04: In this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, "Spiritual Letter 70" is now coming to us as the end of this series of beautiful Spiritual Letters, at the end of "Spiritual Letters 66, 67, 68, and 69", coming to "us" from God within us all, explaining the "Gift of God" for our age for the Children of God for our age, explaining the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. And explaining it in the context of the life and teaching of Jesus (peace be upon Him) on the "outside" of us, and of God within Him, over 2000 years age, an explanation that starts with the preceding 4 Spiritual Letters, that is, with "Spiritual Letters 66, 67, 68, and 69", which focuses us on "Main Goal" of life, that is, the "Choice" that we all must make in this age, if we are to become truly successful in our own lifetime, a choice of either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from: God within us, and ends with the "Main Obstacle" to our correctly realizing and making that choice, which is our ego. The "Main Obstacle" to true success in our own life time, which in truth is "us", which is the current "us", which is the "Enemy of the soul", which is our current life of sin, of "separation and differences", that we are all currently living, with "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters currently living in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but which in truth is within us. But which in truth is within us, as a world of hell and evil, a world of darkness or ignorance, that in our ignorance we have allowed to grow within us, as a person might order a ton of top soil to grow a beautiful garden, but in his ignorance allow only weeds to grow, eventually coming to believe that the weeds are of great value, forgetting his original intent, for having ordered the rich top soil in the first place, which was perhaps to grow a beautiful flower garden for all to enjoy, or to grow a beautiful "Victory Garden", as some of us did in America during the "2nd World War", to help feed us, and to help comfort and strengthen us during that very difficult time over 50 years ago. Such is the current state of our life, a beautiful flower garden, or a "Victory Garden", that through our ignorance we have allowed to turn into a ugly garden of weeds, into a wild jungle of no real value to anyone, my dearest loving brother Ellis, that each of us must come to understand and transcend through our faith and trust in God, through our again becoming "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. Allowing our wisdom, and the truth of God within our wisdom, to cut down the wild jungle that we have allowed to grow in our ignorance, and chase away all of the wild animal that we in our ignorance have befriended, and then plow us under with the enlightening words of the Qutbiyyat, which is the wisdom of the Qutb; the sixth level of wisdom within us; divine analytic wisdom, which differentiates man from all of the other Creation of God; the wisdom which explains the truth of God. And then plant the seed of God within us, and protect, and nourish it until it becomes the "Crop of God" within us, which is then harvested by God within us. And if we do this with our life, rather than what we are currently doing, which is in truth just wasting in on our own "selfishness", if we allow God to transform us in this way, from a useless garden of weeds or from a dangerous wild jungle of no real value, into His flower garden, into "His Crop" for the benefit of all of His Creation, then we will have moved from being "His Earth" to becoming "His Crop", and as such will have become "One with" Him within us, in our own lifetime. Then our wisdom will have reasoned over our fate, then the qualities of our higher selves will have become victorious over the qualities of our lower selves. Amen. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 05. What Has Happened To Us? Expanded Summary of Topic 05: What has happened to us, since we came to this earth world, to this "School of Contrasts", to this first of "God's Schools", to learn about who we "Already Are", to learn about what "separates us" from God within us. We must know the answer to this question, and then correct the mistake, before we die to the flesh, and in our age we most certainly can both know and correct this mistake. For In our age His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us about what happened to us, teach us this in the beautiful book of Wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 6, in the "Forward" to that book, for example, teach us that, "Man appearing on the earth, forgets God and falls into many a trap, he does not know to seek himself although God exists within man". And now His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) also teach us, now from the "outside' of us, also teach us about what happened to us, teach us that upon coming to this earth world, we forgot about God within us and fell into the trap of living a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, in this way, seeing both "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living a life as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. That is, as "separate from" the "Earth of God" within us, that we must first join as "One with" as the "Seed of God" within us, before we can germinate, before we can reveal what God has hidden within us, which is the "Tree of God" and its "Fruits of God", which in truth is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, just as the apple seed buried within the earth must first join as "one with" the earth that holds it, before it can germinate and reveal the apple tree and its fruits. Amen Text of Topic 05: My dearest loving brother Ellis, this is the truth and the falsehood of our life, which we must come to understand before we die to the flesh, if our life is to become successful in our own lifetime, if we are to come to understand through contrast who in truth we "Already Are". This is certain. If we are to come to understand who in truth we "Already Are", through the contrast of heaven and hell within us, which is the wealth of the world of souls or awwul within us, which is where we all were before coming here, and through the contrast of good and evil within us, which is the wealth of this earth world, this dunya within us that we have now come to, this dunya or earth world which is really within us, but that we now see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. And through the contrast of wisdom and fate within us, and the contrast of the qualities of God and the qualities of the Creation of God within us, which is the wealth of the next world within us, that is, is the wealth of the hereafter or akhirah within us, which is where we will all go when we finally die to the flesh, when we finally die to the "outside" of us, which is where we will all be given either an eternal life as "One with" God within us within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us. And the choice is ours, not God's, because God has already made His choice, and He chose "Oneness with" us, and that is why we are now alive on the "outside" of us, to choose, to choose either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, and we make that choice here, within the context of our current life on the "outside" of us, and in truth "what we do", not "what we say", will tell God our choice, for a man is known by his actions, not just by his words alone. Amen. For as our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us in our age, and now as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) also teach us on the "outside" of us. For example, in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 6, in the "Forward" to that book, we are taught, "Man appearing on the earth, forgets God and falls into many a trap, he does not know to seek himself although God exists within man". In this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, we forgotten God within us, we have forgotten the true nature of God within us, which is "Oneness", and we have fallen into many a trap, which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, and fail to go in search of our true self, which True Man, which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which can only be found within God within us, after we become "One with" God within us. After we join in partnership with God within us to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, by first revealing True Man to True Man within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of True Man within us, or at least join in partnership with God within us to start this story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and in this way, become truly successful in our lifetime, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. In this way, the first 4 Spiritual Letters, from God within us all, that is, Spiritual Letters 66, 67, 68, and 69, that we have shared over the last month, at least within the heart of this child, have focused us on "Our Choice", and this fifth and last Spiritual Letter which we are now sharing, focuses "us" on both, on both the "Main Goal" of our life, which is to become again "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of this "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and on the "Main Obstacle" of our life, which is standing in our way to our reaching this goal, which is our ego. Which is our own existence as "separate from" the existence of God within us, which is our current life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, in ignorance of God within us, and in ignorance of what we have allowed to grow within us. 06. The Nine Openings of Our Body - that now rule over us Expanded Summary of Topic 06: "The Nine Openings of Our Body" that now rule over us, with God's permission, and the forces and energies related to them, that we in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, are in truth what currently "separates us" from God within us, that currently "separates us" from each other on the "outside" of us, and that currently "separates us" from the Creation of God within us, all within the "justice of God" within us, and with God's permission, until we "See God" and "Steady Him Within Us", and then God sets about "Curing Himself" of "us", of "us" as "separate from" God within us, as He did before, in order to become God within us, but doing it this time within us, within the "Earth of God" within us, within the Creation of God within us, within Adam (peace be upon Him) within us. Within Adam (peace be upon Him) within us having recovered from the fall of Adam (peace be upon Him) within us, this time becoming again "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of both His fall from grace, and His "Oneness" with God within us, so it will never leave Him again, and if we like, will never leave "us" again, that is, if that be our true intention for our life, if our true intention for our life is to become "One with" God within us before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, so God can successfully complete what He started within us a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen Text of Topic 06: My dearest loving brother Ellis, in ignorance we have allowed lives of darkness, of hell, and of evil to grow within us, which in their maturity have now become the 9 openings of our own body which now rule over "us", with God's permission, rule over "us" as "separate from" God within us, until we "See God and steady Him" within us. That rule over "us" as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, the Creation of God that God has lovingly and ever so patiently placed within each of us, as "His Earth", within which He will plant the "Seed of God" within us, and grow the "Tree of God" within us, and bear the "Fruit of God" within us, when we have proven to God within us, by our actions and not just by our words, that "we can be cured", that God can "Cure Himself of us" within us, after He "accepts us", after we have "seen Him and steadied Him within us", because in truth "we do not want" anything that God has discarded, to become "God within us. And what God has discarded to become God within us, which He must do again within us, if we are to be cured, because the "cure of us is God" within us, what God has discarded to become God within us is everything we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. 07. The "Main Goal" of Our Life Expanded Summary of Topic 07: The "Main Goal" of Our Life is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, but this time with an understanding of our fall from grace, so we will never fall again, that is, but this time with an understanding of our fall from the grace of God within us, from the "Spirit" of God within us, into the flesh of us, into the "outside" of us, into our current life of "separation and differences" that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. Into our current life of arrogance, karma, and illusion, into our current life of desire for earth, women, and gold, into our current life of "selfishness" as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, as "separate from" the Creation of God within us which is the "Earth of God" within us, within which God must plant the "Seed of God" within us, to grow the "Tree of God" within us, and harvest the "Fruits of God" within us, if we will only let Him. That is, if we are to become truly successful in our lifetime, before we die to the flesh of us, before we die to the "outside" of us, so in this way, God can complete what God has started within us, a very, very long time ago, a time way before we were born into this earth world, which is to reveal God to God within us, which is to answerGod's question of God within us, the question, "Who am I?, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. Text of Topic 07: Such is the "Main Goal" of our life, my dearest loving brother Ellis, which we must accomplish, or at least truly begin to accomplish in partnership with God within us, by realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with, by becoming "One with", the "Gift of God" for our age, with the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, like this letter. Such is the "Main Goal" of our life, my dearest loving brother Ellis, which is making straight the "Path of God" within us, the "Way of the Lord" within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Amen. 08. The "Main Obstacle" of Our Life Expanded Summary of Topic 08: The "Main Obstacle" of Our Life is our ego, is our belief and our affirmation of "us" as the center of our life and of our world, is our belief and our affirmation with each breath, with each look, with each thought, with each word, and with each action, of "us" living as "separate from" everything else on the "outside" of us, of "us" living on the "outside" of us as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. The "Main Obstacle" of our life is our belief and our affirmation of our own existence as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which in our ignorance we see as all occurring on the "outside" of us, starting and really ending, if we reflect on it a little with our wisdom, with the first of our affirmations, the affirmation that "I exist" as "separate from" God within us, when in truth it is God, and only God who exists, who exists within us, that in truth, "There is nothing other than God" within us, "You are God" within us, and that in truth "God is One" within us. Which in the Islamic tradition is called the "First Kalimah" of Islam, of the "Five Kalimahs" of Islam, or the First Affirmation of the Truth of Allah, of the Five Affirmations of the Truth of Allah, the "First Kalimah" of Islam which in the Arabic language is recited by all Muslims, that is, by all those who have truly "Submitted to the will of God", recited in Arabic as "La illaha Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasul Allah", or recited in English as, "There is nothing other than You. You are God. And Muhammad (Sal.) is the Messenger of God." Text of Topic 08: And such is the "Main Obstacle" of our life preventing that, my dearest loving brother Ellis, preventing us from reaching this goal, which is our ego, the main obstacle between "us" and "us" becoming "One with" God within us, the main obstacle which is "us" living a life of sin, a life of "separation and differences" on the "outside" of us, the main obstacle between "us" and "us" realizing and making the correct choice in our lifetime, the choice of "Oneness with" God within us, for eternity, and truly making this choice before we physically die to the "outside" of us. And another facet of the "Main Obstacle" of our true life as "One with" God within us is our current beliefs and practices, that our current beliefs and practices are already Ok, that what we currently understand about "us" and God, and what we are currently doing in relationship to God, that is, our duty to God, is just fine, that we already correctly believe in God, and correctly pray to Him, love Him, trust in Him, and do duty for Him. So what else is needed?. 09. The Subtle "Sin of Righteousness" Expanded Summary of Topic 09: The Subtle "Sin of Righteousness" In Our Life has over taken all of us living in this age, which is the sin that Jesus (peace be upon Him) warned us about over 2000 years ago, indicating that only later on, in our age, would we become strong enough to hear about this subtle "Sin of Righteousness", when Jesus (peace be upon Him) would send us the Comforter of God, the "Spirit or Consciousness of Truth" to teach us about this subtle sin and lead us past it and back into "Oneness with" God within us, before we die to the flesh Text of Topic 09: And my dearest loving brother Ellis, as noted earlier in this letter, but which needs repeating, over and over again, as it is the very heart of our sharing, and the main trap that we have all fallen into, the first 4 Spiritual Letters, that is, Spiritual Letter 66, 67, 68, and 68, also focuses us on the "subtle sin" that we have all fallen into, as members in all of the religions of the world, including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as another facet of the "Main Obstacle" to our "Oneness with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, which is the "Sin of Righteousness" that Jesus (peace be upon Him) Himself warned us about over 2000 years ago. That Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us over 2000 years ago was the one thing that He wanted to tell us about, before He died, but couldn't because at that time, we "could not bear to hear it", but that later, after He physically left us, He would send us the "Comforter", the "Spirit or Consciousness of Truth", who would come to us in our greatest hour of need, which is now, and would teach us about this most subtle of all sins, the very sin that in our ignorance we have all fallen in to, in many cases without even knowing it, about this "Sin of Righteousness", and reprove or gently remove it from us, if we will only accept Him, as truly coming from Jesus (peace be upon Him), and then let Him correct us, when Jesus (peace be upon Him) later sends Him to us, sends the "Comforter", the "Spirit of Truth" to us. Which is what is happening now, my dearest loving brother Ellis, in our age, which in truth is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and now of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which in truth is the reason for this letter to my dearest loving brother Ellis, and to all of the Children of God for this age. Amen. 10. The "Answer" To Our Life Expanded Summary of Topic 10: The "Answer" To Our Life is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and to do this by becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, with the life and teaching of God for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us. For example, like these Spiritual Letters from God within us all, from this child, to the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in this age, if that be our true intention, that is, if our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we die to the flesh. Amen Text of Topic 10: So in summary, my dearest loving brother Ellis, the first four Spiritual Letters, from God within us all, focus us on, "Our Choice", describing the only true choice in our life, the only thing truly left in our life after we cut away the drama of our life on the "outside" of us, the choice that we all must make in this age, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, if we are to become truly successful in our own lifetime, realizing that a "no choice" in our lifetime is still a choice, a choice that is then made for us, by God within us, a choice we will most certainly live to regret, if God has to make it for us after we die. And in this way, a choice which when truly understood with our wisdom immediately answers all of the most serious questions of our life, questions like "What is the purpose of my life?, and "Who am I", "Where am I", and "What is truly happening in my life?" And the answer to our life is, that we must again become "One", but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness", we must again become "One with" God within us, and "One with" all of our dearest loving brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, and "One with" the Creation of God within us, and we must do this because God is "One" within us, and God is "One with" everything, both within us and on the "outside" of us, and because in truth we are "Of God", and "Of what God is doing within us", we are not of the Creation of God within us, or of the elemental spirits that have grown within us in our ignorance, which we have in our ignorance become "one with". This is the answer to our life, we must again becoming "One with" God within us, and "One with" what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness", so it will never leave us again. Amen. And we must do all of this before we die to the "outside" of us, or at least truly begin it in partnership with God within us, as "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, because after we physically die to the "outside" of us the opportunity to do this is over, the opportunity to become again "One", with an understanding of our "Oneness", the opportunity to become again "One with" God within us, and again "One with" what God is doing within us, is gone, because that is the way God set it up. And that is the reason for the "outside" of us, that is why we are now alive living in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, to correctly make the choice, the choice between living as "One with" God within us, and living as "separation from" God on the "outside" of us, and to make this choice while we still can, before we die to the flesh and God has to make this choice for us. May God help all of us realize this "truth of our life", that in truth we are the "Seed of God" buried within the Creation of God within us, we are "God happening" within the "Earth of God" within us, and the truth of God within us, that in truth God within us, as the "Tree of God" within us, is the "Seed of God's Fruits" within us, is the "Seed of True Man" within us, is "True Man happening" within the "Tree of God" within the "Seed of God" within the "Earth of God" within us, without the slightest doubt, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, all of which in truth is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Page 3: Introduction - to Page 3 of 3 of E-mail Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis Thomas - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Here is Page 3 of 3, that is, the last page of "Spiritual Letter 70", hopefully for you reading and sharing enjoyment. This completes "Spiritual Letter 70", and we would like to thank you, thank you very, very much my dearest loving brother Ellis, for letting us share with you the "Gift of God" for our age, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, as the coming of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and the coming of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) over 1000 years ago, was the "Gift of God", the life and teaching of God, for these earlier ages. And now for our age, this "Gift of God" for our age, this life and teaching of God for our age, if we want it, is the life and teaching of our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) now on the "outside" of us. And now the life and teaching of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, which in truth is each of us living in this age, if we truly want it. That is, if we truly want to again become "One with" God within us, and again "One with" what God is doing within us, before we die to the flesh, before we die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again, and what God in truth is doing within us, is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother of the "One Open Heart" of God for our age, of the "One Open Heart" of our Father, of God, and of His Children, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us. Amen. Please give my love and salams, the greetings from my heart, to your wife and children, and to all of your friends and family. Please tell them that Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) loves them very, very much, and that they are always in our prayers. And please try to join as "One with" your wisdom, and with the truth of God within your wisdom, to share this beautiful sharing with them, because only God within us knows what any of us need. Please try to join in partnership with God within us all to do this "Heart's Work", and if you do the true terminal illness of all of us, which is our current "separation from" God within us, will be cured within you, and then nothing else in your life will really matter. That is for sure. That is God's promise for our age. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. All praise and all praising belong to God and to God alone. Only God is Great. Amen. 11. The Nature of "True Prayer" Expanded Summary of Topic 11: The "Nature of True Prayer In Our Life" is "us" correctly making the one and only true choice of our life before we die to the flesh, that is, the choice to become either "One with" God within us or to become "separate from" God within us, for both now before we die to the flesh, and for late, for eternity, after we die to the flesh. And the correct choice is "Oneness with" God within us, both now, in our current life in the world on the "outside" of us, before we die to the flesh, and then for eternity after we die to the flesh, after we die to the "outside" of us, in this way, with "us" choosing this correct choice rather than choosing the wrong choice. And the wrong choice is "separation from" God within us, both now, in our current life in the world on the "outside" of us, before we die to the flesh, and then for eternity after we die to the flesh, after we die to the "outside" of us, in this way, with "us" choosing this wrong choice rather than choosing the correct choice. And in this way, the wrong choice is "us" continuing to conduct our life in the world with "business as usual" on the "outside" of us, is "us" choosing to continue to live our life as if we are "separate from" God within us, as if we are "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as if we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, until we die to the flesh, and then, when we die to the flesh, if this be our choice, if we have made the wrong choice, then with "us" getting the same life of "separation and differences", the same temporary life of sin that we are currently living on the "outside" of us, but this time for eternity. And then this wrong choice becomes our fate, becomes our choice for eternity, because that is what "we" have decide for "us", not what God has decided for "us", that is, such becomes our fate, an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, if we do that, that is, if "we" make this wrong choice for our life our eternal life, by the way that we live and act on the "outside" of us. And if we continue make this wrong choice for our life, until we die to the flesh, then this becomes our eternal life in the hereafter, in akhirah, in the next world within us, an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, an eternal life as "separate from" the "truth of us" within us, which is the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, and as "separate from" from the "Truth of God" within us, which is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us. This most certainly will become our fate if we continue to make this wrong choice while we are still alive and living in the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, in the world that in truth is within us, not "outside" of us, a world within us that in truth is a world of darkness and evil that in our ignorance we have allowed to grown within us, like weeds growing in a flower garden, eventually if not regularly pulled out destroying the original flower garden, world of "separation and differences, a world of sin, a world of arrogance, karma, and illusion, a world of mind and desire, a world of desire for earth, women, and gold, that now in maturity rules over us as our 9 openings, with God's permission, until we see God and steady Him within us. In this way, if we keep telling this to God within us, that we are "separate from "God, that we are "separate from" each other, and that we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, and that we love and trust in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, if we keep telling this to God within us over and over again, with our every look, thought, word, action, and intention, no matter what God shows us to the opposite, that in truth God and Man are "One", if we keep telling this to God within us, until we die to the flesh, then what is God to do? If we keep telling this to God within us, by the way that we live and act on the "outside" of us, if we keep telling this to God within us, that this wrong choice is really what we truly want, no matter what our words or preaching may be saying on the "outside" of us, then that is what we will get for eternity, with this becoming our fate for eternity within us in accordance with the "Justice of God" within us, for God within us teaches us in this age, that "whatever we intend is what we will get". Amen. That is, if our own life in the world on the "outside" of us is telling this to God within us, over and over again, is telling God within us that we want to continue to live "separate from" God within us, that we do not want to become "One with" God within us, either now before we die to the flesh, or later after we die to the flesh, that we do not want to give up our current life of "separation and difference", our current life of sin on the "outside" of us, either now or later, that we do not want to give up our current life of "separation from" God within us, of "separation from" each other on the "outside" of us, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, that this is our choice, that this wrong choice is our choice for both now and later, then what is God to do? And in this way, if we do this with our life on the "outside" of us, if we make this wrong choice on the "outside" of us, and choose "separation from" God within us as our life choice for both now and eternity, rather than choosing "Oneness with" God within us as our life choice for both now and eternity, telling this choice to God over and over again by the way that we live and act in the world on the "outside" of us, then what is God to do?. Then what is God to do? But to give us what we want, but to give each of us what we told God within us, over and over again, what we want, while living on the "outside" of us. For our reward for our current life in the world on the "outside", as we lived it before we died to the flesh, then becomes just that, after we die to the flesh, then becomes an eternal life as we lived it on the "outside" of us, then becomes either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, because this is what we have intended, because this is what we have told God within us that we wanted, because this is the crop that we have sown, this is the house that we have built, according to the way that we have acted while living on the "outside" of us, because this is what we have done with what God gave to each of us in the beginning, because this is what we have done with the wealth that God originally gave us. Amen. This is the "Justice of God" within our life, this is our judgment and our salvation within us, that is, our reward in the next world is determined by our life in this world, is determined by our actions in this world, not just our words, a world which for most of us is the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, unless we join with God within us to become wise before we die to the flesh, and begin to journey within ourselves as truly "One with" God within us. Amen. In this way, what we get next is determined by what we do now, that is, by the way that we have lived our short temporary life on the "outside" of us, by what we have loved and trusted, by what we have placed our faith and trust in, while alive and living in the world on the "outside" of us, so then this is what we then get for eternity, when we die to the flesh, either an eternal life as "One with" God within us, or an eternal life as "separate from" God within us, that is, then this is what we get, according to the justice of God within us, an eternal life as "separate from" the "truth of us" and as "separate from" the 'truth of God" within us. In this way, if the wrong choice becomes our fate, that is, if an eternal life as "separate from" God within us becomes our fate, then we will have suffered the same fate as an apple seed that fails to germinate, forever "separating itself" from the story of the "oneness of the apple tree and the apple" hidden within it, that it came to the earth, to join as "one with" the earth, to tell. And in this way, if this becomes our fate, if we continue to make the wrong choice, if we continue to live as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, until we die to the flesh, that is, if we too fail to germinate, which in our case is to germinate the "Seed of God" within us, then like the apple seed that fails to germinate, we too will be forever "separating us" from the story hidden within us, which in our case is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, that we have come to the "Earth of God", which is the "Creation of God" within us, to join as "One with" the "Earth of God" within us, with the "Creation of God" within us, to tell. My God help us all. May we not show God within us a life in the world on the "outside" of us that makes an eternal life as "separation from" God within us our fate, but rather may we show God within us a life in the world on the "outside" of us that does not make this our fate, that instead makes our fate an eternal life as "One with" God within us. And before we die to the flesh may we realize this truth of our life and this truth of God within us, without the slightest doubt, that in truth "we" are the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, and as such in truth we are "God Happening" within the Creation of God us, as an apple seed buried within the earth is in truth the "apple tree happening", and that in truth God within us is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the "Creation of God" within us, and as such God within us in truth is "True Man Happening" within "God Happening" within the Creation of God within us, as the apple tree hidden within an apple seed that is buried within the earth is in truth the "apple fruits happening" within the "apple tree happening" within the earth. And may we realize, also without the slightest doubt, that this life choice that each of us have came here to make is our choice to make, not God's choice to make, because God has already made His choice, and He chose "One with" us, and that is why we are now alive in the world on the "outside" of us, to now make our choice, so God can either finish or permanently stop what He has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. And this choice is ours, not God's, this choice is ours, to germinate or not before we die to the flesh, this choice is our, to either join in partnership with God within us, and stop working for wages to get into some illusory heaven on the "outside" of us, in order to allow "Us", in order to allow God within us, as "One with" us within Him, and to allow "us" as "One with" God within us, to reveal what God has hidden within us, which in truth is the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and within God within us, before we die to the flesh, all of which is the truth of us, and the truth of God within us, in this way, letting the "truth surrender to the truth" within us. Amen. Or to not do any of this, that is, to not join in partnership with God within us, but rather to continue to act on the "outside" of us as if we "separate from" God within us, as if we are "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as if we "separate from" the Creation of God within us, and to continue working for wages to get into some illusory heaven on the "outside" of us, continuing to live this way until die to the flesh. And then, if we have made the correct choice with our life, if we have truly decided to "use God" to get to God within us, to become "One with" God within us, in this way, having joined in partnership with God within us, in order to make the correct choice within us, then join with God within us in order to reveal the result of this correct choice within us, and to do all of this before we physically die to the "outside" of us, or at least to truly join with God within us to again start our life moving in that direction, in the direction of what God has intended for our life, in the direction of what God is doing within us, in the direction of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, in the direction of telling this story within us, the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. For then God will do everything else, for then God will complete it, for then God will complete what He has started within us, within each of us, a very, very long time ago, for then God will reveal God to God within us, for then God will answer the question God asked of God within us, in anathi or the time darkness or "lack of understanding" within us, the question "Who am I?" within us, for the benefit of all the Creation of God within us. This is God's Guarantee for our age. Amen. Text of Topic 11: And in truth, my dearest loving brother Ellis, this is our "True Prayer" to God in our lilofetime, this correct choice is our "True Prayer" to God within us, this choosing God as "One with" us o ver "us" as "separate from" God within us, is our only true life and our only true prayer, the only true prayer to God we can do, and the only true life that we can live, as "One with" God within us, the prayer and the life of "Oneness", the prayer and the life of the "Oneness" of "us and God within us. Not what we are currently doing in our ignorance on the "outside" of us, in the dream of us, in the drama of us, as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. Amen. Not what we currently call prayer to God, not what we currently call our life on the "outside" of us, which are all prayers and a life of "separation and differences", prayers and a life that say to God, that "I am a Christian and you are a Muslim", or that "I am a Muslim and you are a Jew", or that "I am a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew, and you are a Hindu, or a Zoroastrian (Fire Worship)", or any of the other subdivisions of prayer or life that "we" have made up, not that God has made up, that we have made up in our ignorance, in our arrogance, karma, and illusion, to please our mind and desire, but certainly not to please God within us who has none of this, none of this "separation and differences" within Him. Amen. No this type of worship or prayer, this type of life, is not acceptable to God within us, especially in our age, when God has given each of us everything, both within us and on the "outside" of us, that is necessary for "us", for each of "us", to transcend these thoughts and prayers and life of "separation and differences", thoughts and prayers and a life that are not really worshipping God at all within us, who in truth is "One with" everyone and everything, both within us and on the "outside" of us, but rather prayers and a life that are really worshipping "ourselves" on the "outside" of us, that are really only worshipping "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us. This is our flaw, our only true flaw, which is what we have become, not what we are doing, and this is our current prayer and life, this is our flaw, which is what we have become, which are our current prayers of "separation and differences", our current life of "separation and differences", our current life of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us. A flaw, a prayer, and a life that Jesus (peace be upon Him) started to warn us about, started to explain to us about over 2000 years ago, when He told us in the "Gospel of John", not to "worship ourselves" by forming into groups, calling us "this or that" group, as separate from other groups, because in truth we are all "One, we are all "The Children of God". For in truth God is "One", and so are we, and God is the "One" that we all must worship, as "One with" God within us, and "we" are the "One" who must worship God within us, as "One with" each other on the "outside" of us, and this is what we must believe about both God and about "us", this "Oneness", which in maturity within us is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. And in this way, to truly pray to God within us we must come together as "One" within us, as the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is" within us, and on the "outside" of us, if we come together to pray to God, we must come together as "One", all gathering under "One" tent to worship the "One" God, as "One Group", as the "One Religion of God", not as "separate groups", both "separate from" God within us and "separate from" each other on the "outside" of us. Only this way of worshipping God within us, as "One with" God within us, and as "One with" each other on the "outside" of us, is acceptable to God within us, not what we are all currently doing. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 30 & 31 For as Jesus (peace be upon Him) tells us in Chapter 05, Verses 30 & 31 in the "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My will, but the will of the Father who hath sent Me." "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true". Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 43 & 44 And further in the Chapter 05, in Verses 43 & 44, Jesus (peace be upon Him) teaches us, "I have come in My Father's name, and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." "How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?" In this way, when we separate ourselves off into groups, and define "us" in terms of those groups, define "us" as members of this or that group, as "separate from" other groups, with a common set of beliefs and practices, "separate from" the beliefs and practices of other groups, like as a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Hindu, or a Zoroastrian (Fire Worshiper), we are doing just that, we are bearing witness of ourselves, as "separate from" other Children of God, and we honoring one another as members of our designated group, as "separate from" other groups. This is wrong, and is not acceptable to God within us, for anything that we do in this context of "separation and differences" is against both God and True Man within us, is against the "Oneness" that is God within us, and is against the "Oneness" that is True Man within us, is against the "Oneness" of God within us and against the "Oneness" of "us" within God within us, is against the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, which in truth is the very essence of God's existence within us, and of our existence within God within us, of "us" within God within us. 12. Our Current Way, Life, and Prayers - Are Not Acceptable To God Expanded Summary of Topic 12: - In Process. Please come back later. Thank you - Text of Topic 12: And in this way, my dearest loving brother Ellis, our current way of life, our current prayers, our current life, as well as our current learning, and our current duty is wrong, and is not acceptable to God within us, because in this context, in our current state, everything that we "say or do" is wrong, that is, with "us" living just on the "outside" us, as if we are "separate from" God within u s, which is not true, as if we are "separate from" each other, which is also not true, and as if we are "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which is also definitely not true. That is, with "us" not yet having shifted our focus off of "us" on the "outside" of us and onto God within us, off of our "selfishness" and onto God's selflessness, and in this way, all that we "say or do" is wrong, including our prayers and our life of "separation and differences", and our learning, and our duty of "separation and differences". May God protect us from continuing to make this mistake, from continuing to use what God has given us in this way, and instead open our heart to the truth of these words. Amen. Please forgive me my dearest loving brother Ellis if this upsets you or any of your dearest loving family or friends in any way, but it is the truth, it is the word of God within all of us for this age, for the Children of God for this age, and to be successful in our own lifetime we must accept it as such, and join with God within us to become "One with" God within us, and "One with" what God is doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. And we must do all of this "Heart's Work", all of this again becoming "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, or at least truly join with God within us to restart this journey up again within us, this journey of the soul within us back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, but this time with an understanding of that Oneness, so it will never leave us again, which in truth is "Who we are?. In this way answering God's question of God within us, that was asked by God of God within us, a very, very long time ago, even before there was time within us, even before kalam or time within us started leading us to Kalan, to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, the question, "Who am I?" . Amen. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 05, Verses 19 to 24 For as Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us over 2000 years ago, as recorded also in the "Gospel of John", also in Chapter 05, in Verses 19 to 24, and as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us again in our age, and as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are teaching us right now, "Then answered Jesus and said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." "For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and He will shew Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel." "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will." "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father which hath sent Him." "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." Amen. And each of us, my dearest loving brother Ellis, in this age, is this "Sun of God" or Light of God to the world, that Jesus (peace be upon Him) showed us an example of over 2000 years ago, if we like, if our intention is truly to become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, but this time with an understanding of our "Oneness" so it will never leave us again. Quotation from the "Gospel of John" - Chapter 01, Verses 10 to 14 For as God told us over 2000 years ago, as recorded also in the "Gospel of John", in Chapter 01, in Verses 10 to 14, and as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, teach us again in our age, and as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are teaching us right now, "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not." "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe in His name." "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwell among us, full of grace and truth." Amen. 13. The "True Nature" of Each of Us In This Age Expanded Summary of Topic 13: - In Process. Please come back later. Thank you - Text of Topic 13: Such is the true nature of each of "us", my dearest loving brother Ellis, to truly receive God within us in our age, as Jesus (peace be upon Him) did in His age, and in this way to receive God's power to become the "Son of God" in our age, to become the "Word" make flesh in our age, and dwell among all those living in this age, as the Sun or Light of God to the world, in our age, as Jesus (peace be upon Him) did in His age. Such is the true example of Jesus (peace be upon Him) for our age, to do as He did, both within us and on the "outside" of us, in our age, to make the story of Jesus (peace be upon Him) in His age, our story in this age. Amen. Such is the true nature of each of "us", my dearest loving brother Ellis, of "us within us as "One with" God within us, which is "Oneness", and the true nature of God within us, which is also "Oneness", as "One with" what we can truly become within us, in our own lifetime within us, which is True Man within God within us, which in maturity is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. Amen. With "us" within us as the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, which when we join as "One with" God within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, becomes the "Tree of God" within the Creation of God within us. And with God within us as the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, which after the "Seed of God" within us germinates, becomes the "Seed of the Fruit" of God within the "Tree of God" within the Creation of God within us, within the "Wish-fulfilling Tree" which in the Islamic tradition is called the Katpaha Virudcham, which "contains the Power of God, the light of the grace-awakened wisdom of gnanam, from which you can receive whatever you ask for, whatever you think of". With this "Seed of the Fruit" of God first appearing as the "Flower of Wisdom" on the "Tree of God" within the Creation of God within us, as the 6th level of wisdom within us, the wisdom of the Qutbiyyat or Power of God within us, the "wisdom beyond intellect that teaches, analyzes, and controls" everything within us, which if it is properly fertilized by the "Honeybee of God" within us, which is from the "Mountain Top" of God within us, which is the "Throne of God" on the top of our head, the place in our body that can support the weight of God, that is, fertilized by the "Primal One" within us, with the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God within us, allowing this "Flower of Wisdom" within us to become the mature fruits on the wish fulfilling tree of God within us. And these mature fruits includes all of the religious scripts of all of the religions or paths of God that have come into the world, since Adam and Eve (peace be upon Them) came into the world, over 200 million years ago, including everything in the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible, the teaching in the Jewish and the Christian traditions, and everything in the Holy Qur'an, the teaching in the Islamic tradition. And the One who tastes the sweet taste of these mature fruits within us, which is the taste of God within us, and then distributes these "Fruits of God" to all of the Creation of God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, is True Man within God within us, who in the Islamic tradition is called Insan Kamil, or "Perfected Man". Amen. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Ellis - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 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