Dr. Joseph Murphy - Love is Freedom

Love is Freedom

TITLES BY JOSEPH MURPHY

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This Is It

How to Use Your Healing Power

Living Without Strain

Love is Freedom

Magic of Faith

Peace Within Yourself

Pray Your Way Through It

Prayer is the Answer

Quiet Moments with God

Techniques in Prayer Therapy

The Miracles of Your Mind

Traveling with God

You Can Change Your Whole Life

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Believe in Yourself

Fear Not

How to Attract Money

How to Use the Power of Prayer

Nuclear Religion

Riches Are Your Right

Stay Young Forever

The Healing Power of Love

The Meaning of Reincarnation

Why Did This Happen to Me?

Love is Freedom

Joseph Murphy

Ph.D., D.D.

Published 2019 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

ISBN: 978-1-7225-0131-0

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2230-8

10987654321

Dedicated to Vere Brunt who suggested the title of this book.

Contents

Foreword

rue mysticism is the ability inwardly to sense the invisible things of Spirit and through feeling, present them to the intellect.

In discerning the deep things of the Spirit, the intellect must follow the intuitionand it will never follow it in vain, for that which the intuition reveals, the intellect may later analyze. It is this feeling back toward spiritual prototypes that marks the work of the true mystic in any age.

In this book Joseph Murphy, one of the outstanding mystics in the metaphysical field, has presented a depth of feeling seldom expressed through the written word.

Those who have had the privilege of listening to the discourses of Dr. Murphy have felt that which was not spoken, the impartation of a spiritual essence which can only be felt. I am certain that the readers of this book will find a response in their consciousness to that invisible and ineffable beauty which it suggests.

Ernest Holmes

President and Founder of Institute of

Religious Science and Philosophy,

Los Angeles, California

Introduction

by Joseph Murphy

T he Bible has been said to have seven layers of meaning:

1. The physical and historical. All Scripture was held (by ORIGEN) to be written ab intus, from the inward mystery, and not ab extra with a mystical sense put into it. In every case the historical account is the rind or coating, the mystical meaning being the essence of Holy Scripturenot the former the essential truth containing a mystical sense. As St. Paul says (I Cor. 2:14), the truth of the Scriptures must be spiritually discerned. This implies that the inspired element is underneath the phraseology rather than on it. We must drill beyond the merely semantic layers and sands before the oil of the Spirit is struck and a gusher is brought in.

2. The solardealing with the garden in which man finds himself.

3. The phallicconcerning the throb of life coursing through all animate beings.

4. The mentalwhich is ruler over many things, but not all.

5. The psychicwhich approaches the Holy of Holies, but does not always make it because of astral distractions in the forest of illusion. (Hindu Maya)

6. The mysticin which the seeker longs for God as the heart panteth after the water brooks. Many falter on the way here as they get stuck in the mire of the mere play of mental operations, which practice often misses the manna falling from the Throne of God. (I and the Father are one type of consciousness.)

7. The absolute spiritual consciousness in which God functions through the God-man outlet.

We must remember that there are many overtones in the field of consciousness. There are many mansions in my Fathers House. There is an atomic science of the spirit also, with its own wavelengths and electronics. Let us enter into the high oscillations of the spirit by focusing our attention on He who Is. If thine eye be single, thy whole body is full of light. With mine eyes stayed on Thee, there is no evil in my pathway. This viewpoint requires skillful mountain climbing with the mystics sure-footedness like hinds feet and not mere elementary psychology or hypnotics. We must seek reality In Him whom to know aright is the highest wisdom. For God isHe was not made.

Chapter 1

T he scripture says, God is love, God is all, over all, through all, all in all. Therefore, love is resident in all men and in all things. And so let us seek it in all. Seek and ye shall find. Yes, if you truly look for the God love in the other it will shine forth in all its pristine glory. The first thing we do when we see another is to look for that Divine Love to radiate through his thoughts, words and deeds. If we truly recognize it as being within him, it must certainly appear on the without. As within, so without. As above so below. As in heaven (consciousness) so on earth (manifestation).

We must not let fear step infor it is the opposite of love. There is only Love, and fear is the inversion of Love, or Love turned upside down. If man recognizes Love in a dog, the animal responds in kind. When we fear the dog or any other animal, the latter senses it and it strikes up a similar response in him.

When we are faced with a problem let us become still and feel within ourselves that the Divine Love is working through the situation now and that only harmony and peace prevail, and then dismiss it from our minds knowing that it is so. We will find a perfect solution is offered us which blesses all.

A woman told me a few years ago that her son was an aviator during the war. Each night while he was away, all she did was simply to take her son in her arms in meditation, realizing that Divine Love enfolded him in the midst of the chaos of war. The aura of His Love surrounded the plane, always making it invisible to the so-called enemy. The boy was never attacked; the enemy planes never saw him, so how could they attack him.