' When the outside becomes the inside '...

In one of those apocryphal books which was rejected by those men who formed the canonical collection called the New Testament--a rejection in which they were sometimes wrong, and certainly in this instance--there occurred a saying of Jesus which runs,

"When the outside becomes the inside, then the kingdom of heaven is come."

Can we expand this mystical phrase into non-mystical language?

Yes, here it is: "When the outside world is known and felt to be what it really is--an idea--it becomes a part of the inside world of thought and feeling.

When its joys and griefs are known to be nothing more than states of mind, and when all thoughts and feelings and desires are brought from the false ego into the true Self at their centre, they automatically dissolve--and the kingdom of heaven is come."



-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 5: The Key To the Spiritual World > # 93
-- Perspectives > Chapter 21: Mentalism > # 57
Paul Brunton