You're Already There

We are often told that creation is finished; allusions are made to the fact that which or whatever thing we'd like to manifest we already have presently.

This is an important concept. Really, it's the basis of all manifestation practice -- it's why what we do works.

But (and this is a major but), it's often lost on people just how literally the idea of creation being finished or your manifestations already being fulfilled is meant to be taken.

To try and help clarify this issue, let's take a brief diversion.

As Dante and Virgil descend to the 9th circle of hell in the Inferno portion of The Divine Comedy, they find an enormous frozen lake that is home to those whose most severe sin is treachery. Depending on the degree of one's wrongdoing, he is either partially or fully submerged in the ice.

Upon seeing one of these frozen sinners, Virgil explains to Dante that his fate did not come after death. It was Quite to the contrary, actually.

At the moment of his great treachery, this sinner descended downward into hell, into the ice, and began his punishment there. In the "world" his body appeared to persist and continue acting, but really, this was just a shade of the man's original self; he was already fallen.

The mechanics of how this works may seem confusing -- until you remember that the punishments offered in Dante's Inferno are metaphorical. The treacherous -- those who deny and betray the love and bonds of others live without love. They live without warmth and, thus, are frozen -- even in life.

This is only explained in the context of the treacherous, but I think we can extrapolate it out to every station of soul met throughout The Divine Comedy.

At the moment of death, nobody "goes" anywhere. Upon death, you remain exactly where you already were but see the state of your own consciousness more clearly without the illusion of the external world there to distract you.

Where your soul resides now is where it will continue to reside -- unless, of course, something changes.

So, to bring this back toward manifestation more directly, let me say the following.

Creation is not simply "finished" in some vague or intangible way. It is finished literally in the sense that whichever state of consciousness you choose to reside in is where you truly are -- regardless of how the world appears.

If something occurs in the world that makes you angry, that's because you were already abiding in the world of anger. If your attempts at manifestation make you sad and desperate, that's because you're living in the realm of desperation.

There is no need to "ignore" the 3D, except maybe if it's making it difficult to see clearly where you reside in consciousness. But it'll never be the case that the 3D world is so wildly out of step with where your consciousness resides that you have to fight against acknowledging it.

In other words, if the 3D seems cold, it's probably because you're neck-deep in a lake of ice. The world simply reflects this to you. Thus, your job is not to deal with or in the world; it's to start warming yourself up within your own consciousness.

When you reach a point at which your consciousness is a comfortable and pleasant place to be, your world will be comfortable and pleasant too. Until that moment, there's no need to even regard the world -- all the world can show or tell you is information that you already know.

As always, good luck.