Be Yourself
(A talk given by 'Carlos', AKA Janus-Mithras at a public speaking platform on All Hallows Eve, 1972, at Center Island, Toronto)
Greetings Everyone!
First of all, I feel I must tell you that I am not a lecturer, nor a Guru and that I have not come here to
"sell" you a religion, a cult or even a method. I have simply come here to have a heart to heart, soul to
soul talk with you, about a very Important and Beautiful subject, Yourself.
Neither have I come here to tell you how wonderful I am, but to tell you how wonderful you are. Nor
have I come to tell you that I am a Divine Being and or an Incarnation of God, and that I am special. No, I
have come to tell you that YOU, each of you, is a Divine Being, that each one of you is an Incarnation of
God, and that we are all very very special.
I have most definitely not come here to be glamorized, worshipped or looked up to but to glamorize
you, to worship you, to look up to every one of you and try to wake you up to your true worth.
Therefore, I say to you all: Wake up, and claim your Divine Inheritance, look up to yourselves, cherish
yourselves, for you are not commonplace and unimportant. No, you are precious, valuable and
Beautiful indeed.
You are all eternal beings, immortal, without beginning and without end.
You are not your bodies, nor are you your emotions, not even your thoughts, these things are yours, but
not YOU. You are not any of these things which are continuously changing every minute. You are Pure
Consciousness, always aware, always blissful and immortal. You don't die when your body dies. You
don't burn when the body burns. You are, I repeat, immortal, eternal without birth and without death.
And please do not listen to those who would confuse you and demoralize you and rob you of your
Spiritual Inheritance.
Do not listen to those who would have you small, petty and ugly. Those who will tell you that you are
evil, sinful and doomed. Those who would split you into a thousand pieces and then tag them,
conscious, superconscious, unconscious, ego, superego, id etc. etc. Do not listen, do not believe them
for they will do nothing but butcher your Soul. You are One, not many. You are always conscious and
blissful, and the Universe is One Substance, and that One Substance is Consciousness and Consciousness
is the true and only god, and that Holy One sleeps in the stones, dreams in the plants, wakes up in
animals and becomes self-‐conscious in man. Therefore, everything is holy and everything is God.
Therefore, all things are basically Good and Beautiful and evil is only ignorance and the shadows of the
One Light.
And therefore, I say to you, please do not listen. This does not mean that those functions of
Consciousness do not exist. No, they do exist, but they are functions, activities, even powers if you
want. But they are not YOU, they are not the immortal ever conscious, ever blissful you, no more than
the eyes or ears or even the thoughts are you. These things do exist and they are yours, but they are
not YOU.
But perhaps you will ask me: Where is this Divine Consciousness, this Blissful Self of yours? How can I
find it? Has anybody ever seen it, or heard it or touched it? How can you prove it?
I answer you:
Is there a place where it is not? It is everywhere, and the whole of Creation with its millions of
Universes is only as a tiny sponge inside this Ocean of Consciousness. And you can not see this Blissful,
Ever Conscious Self for it is Himself the One Seer who sees through the eyes of all the millions of
creatures of this Universe, and besides Him there is no other one to see. And you can not hear Him, for
He is the Listener behind all ears. And to find Him you must become the Seer behind the eyes, and the
Listener behind the ears, remembering also that He is Himself the one who seeks in all of us.
How can I prove it? Must you have your own existence proven to you? Could you say that you are not,
that you do not exist? Can you deny yourself? Can you say that you are not here, seeing me, listening
to me, thinking of what I am saying, aware of my presence.
You answer: "Yes, of course I am." And right there, there in those few words is the whole Secret of the
Universe.
"Yes, of course I am." Wonderful words these, the Lost Word of the Ancients, the true Word of Power,
the Holy Ineffable Name of God.
"Yes, of course I am." I am, I am, I am; Isn't everyone? Doesn't everyone say also I am. Isn't this the
Chant of all Creation: I am, I am, I am; the birds singing, the trees swaying in the winds, the flowers
blooming, the grass growing, the planets revolving in their orbits, the stars flying through space and
billions of galaxies revolving and expanding all chanting I am, I exist, I am, I am, I am.
And it is this I amness which is the divinity in each one of us, it is this I amness which is the eternal,
immortal us. That is your true self, your real name.
So, I have come here, humbly and with love to ask you: Don't deny yourself. Be Yourself and accept
your Divine Inheritance, accept this simple faith, which needs no other proof, but your own being, your
own existence.
You need not do anything but accept yourself just as you are, trust yourself, love yourself, cherish
yourself, for you are a living God and the Soul of the Universe is your soul. There are no exercises to
perform, no concentrations, no meditations; nothing to pay, nothing to do, nothing, for nothing can
give you that which you already have, nothing can make you become that which you already are, let
your highest virtue be self-‐trust and simplicity and dispense bravely with all crutches and means to and
end. YOU are the Beginning as well as the End, so do not procrastinate with Reality and take your
Divinity for granted. Do it now, not eventually, and do not fall into the error of repeating "I AM" as if it
could make you more YOU. For Realization is not by the mere uttering of "I AM", nor by spiritual
practices and meditations but by the living fact of you being it already.
Do not even pretend to be "I", just be the Self absolutely, wholly and in reality, now as always.
Most emphatically there is no need for repetitious meditations or feeble imitations of Yourself. You are
alive, you are conscious, you exist, so do not rehearse reality, and thereby mock your very Existence and
the Reality of the Godhead you embody. For practices and rehearsing are nothing but simulations which
in themselves are a denial of the Natural Holiness and Oneness of all things. Such practices merely ruin
the Reality by assuming a moment, even a moment when we are not the Self and already fully realized.
Just be yourself, rise up to your true height and crown yourself with your own hands. Let all your
natural functions and actions be simple and loving celebrations of this simple fact. And in this, remain
humble and loving and beautiful with Perfect Trust and Perfect Love in your heart, remembering always
that what you have heard here today is equally true of everyone else.
And now farewell, and may you all go in Light and Peace all the length of your days.