The Atma Jyoti Blog

The conclusion of “Are Miracles Possible Today?”– a talk given by Dr. M.W. Lewis in San Diego on August 9, 1953

We are made in the Image of God, but we have to first realize that omniscience. Everything comes from that omniscience, which is the Light of God made from these little free electrons. Think of the work of His great Mind, His Intelligence. You cannot comprehend it–how, from that one little thing–both a particle and a wave–this great universe has been formed. That’s the greatest miracle–the miracle of Light.

I’d like to read just a word from the Autobiography about this Law of Miracles, and then I will be through. First, as I have said, God is Light. Science, as I have said, has shown, is showing every day that everything is reduced to electricity and finally, into the Light of God, the Flame of God. And in 1st Timothy, the 6th chapter, the 15th and 16th verses, we read this: “The King of kings, the Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality,” There’s only immortality in God’s great Light, in His Eternal Flame, and we can be that. “Dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto.” There we have what the reality of life is. And to perform miracles, to understand them, we must be that Light.

A personal experience

One time not too long ago I was meditating a long time, sitting there relaxed, just a bit into that land of the shadow between wakefulness and sleepfulness. And a tremendous bolt of lightning hit me, and with it a tremendous clap of thunder. I can’t describe it. I didn’t know whether I was dead or alive. But I was fully aware that that was the Flame of God’s Presence. So these things are real. Follow the Self-Realization techniques. Meditate, with devotion to God, and He will give you the greatest gift–oneness with His Presence–oneness with His Great Light.

And so, in the Autobiography of a Yogi, if you want to know about miracles, read this Chapter Thirty. It’s far more than I can tell you. Read it; meditate for years and years. Then perhaps you will know about it. There it says: “Through a Master’s divine knowledge of light phenomena, he can instantly project into perceptible manifestation the omnipresent light atoms.” Everything is from Light. “The actual form of the projection (whether it be: a tree, a medicine, a human body) is in conformance with a yogi’s power of will and visualization.” Those are God’s Powers. God visualized this Creation; by His Power of Will He put that visualization into effect. We can do the same thing, if we couple ourselves with God’s Will. These are the Laws of Miracles.

Finally, I’d like to read from the same page when it says: “Innocent of all personal motives….” You cannot know God if there’s personality. You have to be above ego, above personality. That’s why Jesus said, “You must be like little children.” Again, “Innocent of all personal motives, and employing the creative will bestowed upon him by the Creator…” All saints say, “Thy will be done, not my will, Thy will be done.” Using that will bestowed upon him by the Creator, “…a yogi rearranges the light atoms of the universe to satisfy any sincere prayer of a devotee.” “For this purpose were man and Creation made: that he should rise [up]” above “as” a “master” does, above delusion, “knowing his dominion over the cosmos.”

“We are made,” as Jesus said, “in the Image of God.” We are His children, and the things which Jesus did, we can do, and greater things if, if we merge ourselves in the omniscience and omnipresence of God.

Conforming to the law of miracles

And so in closing, miracles are possible today, if you conform to the law of miracles, the greatest of which is that you lift yourselves from outward consciousness of duality into the omniscience of God. Then you are subject not to the outward laws, but to the laws of His omniscience. If you do that, then you’ll understand miracles. Then, when you see a person who comes to you, and you see him receive the Presence of God, part of His great Spirit, and you see him change before your eyes; that’s the greatest miracle. Because there’s no miracle greater than the miracle to change a person, and give him the ability of his own free will and accord, to lift himself from delusion and outward consciousness, into the security and the Presence of God, into His great Power–and greatest of all, into His omniscient Love. That’s the greatest thing.

In Ezekiel, the 43rd Chapter, the 1st and 2nd verses we read, in effect: He took me by the way of the east gate–that’s this gate here, at the point between the eyebrows. He took me by the way of the east gate…and the glory of God shone by the way of the east gate. That’s the way into the omniscience of God, into His great Light.

Know that Light, you will know all about miracles. He took me by the way of the east gate and the glory of God shone by the way of the east gate, “and His voice was like the sound of many waters.” And He filled my whole being with His great Consciousness. This is the door. Self-Realization will give you the techniques and the way to enter the door into the omniscience of God–into His great Light. Because the Master, who promulgated Self-Realization Fellowship, had the realization–was one with that great Light of God; is now in that great Light of God. Follow him, be one with him, and you will know the omniscience of God, and that you are one of God’s children.

Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this communion together in Thee, with Thy saints. Heavenly Father, may each one of us, by Thy grace, perceive our oneness with Thy Eternal Light. And greatest of all, may we perceive, and know, our oneness with Thy great Love. Be with each one of us. Bless us. Om, Peace, Amen.

Previously: Are Miracles Possible Today? (Part 1)

Listen to the the full audio file of the talk by Dr. Lewis: Are Miracles Still Possible Today?

Hidden Gems on the Atma Jyoti Blog:

• A Lesson on Respect
• Paramhansa Yogananda – Visions of India
• The Yogi as the Light in the World
• Spiritual Evolution