Miracles are the highest form of metaphysics. The first miracle for us was Creation, the extension of God's Love. All other miracles are a variation of the first. They extend God either into form, or into the mind of the perceiver, or both.

The defining place where gold magic leaves off and miracles begin is blurred. The major difference between the two is long-term intent of the operator. The miracle worker tends to be devoted to God more than a gold magus, and is more selfless. Miracle workers work from moment to moment in God. They are less concerned with long term goals and are more concerned with doing God's work.

As with everything, the power of miracles stems from the Precious Moment of Eternal Creation. As I said earlier, the Eternal Moment of Creation is/was the first miracle. Unlike most magi, the miracle worker's points of tangency within their matrix (which taps that power) are more stable. The gold magus may not always have their internal matrix in alignment to God for the work to happen. Whereas, because the miracle worker's matrix is more focused on God, there is less conscious direction (and effort). The Eternal Moment of Creation flows through them. Of course, all of this is according to what Love sees is needed at the moment.

Remember the mirror analogy. The correction function of the mirror is to reflect mistaken thinking back on itself and is totally neutral. It just reflects, for the sole purpose of the thinker to turn thinking and choices to God. With the mirror analogy, physical and temporal forms¹² are perceived. The physical form is part of the mirror. The mirror is linked with the perceptions and desires of the perceiver, be it one person or a culture.

A person at one with God has the truest perception there can be -- truest perception meaning they see that which is behind the form, rather than just the form. They perceive God and the spirit/Truth within the form. This true perception, just as with you and me, is reflected back by the mirror.

An example of how this may appear to a non-mystic is say, you walk out into a garden, and you see some roses. You see this beauty within nature from the roses in this garden and you have this quiet appreciation. Then, an individual who is at one with God comes into the garden with you. As your bubble of temporal reference interacts with the bubble of temporal reference of the mystic, those forms will reflect the mystic's true perception. So... your perception will jump from just seeing the beauty of the garden to seeing something equivalent to the presence of Eden or heaven everywhere. Because you happen to enter the bubble of temporal reference of a person who sees that in their mind, the form reflects it back and you happen to perceive it also.

This is how it works with the saints. They do not seek to achieve anything. Things change around them. They do not see a need, they work with the Mind, and any perceived need brought into their BTR is filled, without effort.

An excellent example of this kind of operation, and one of the circumstances of canonizing a saint, occurred with St. Romuald after death. When he was dug up from the grave five years after his death, he was not decayed.¹³ The saint is not even alive, and yet there is no effort. His body was still as it was when it was first laid in the ground, five years earlier. This is very common with saints. They lived in a life they saw as Eternal, so when they die, their bodies -- which reflect what they saw -- take on Eternal attributes. Saint Romuald fits in this category

It was reported when Paramahansa Yogananda died, his body lay in state for view for 21 days in India, in the tropics. After that 21 days, his body pretty much had scientists stumped, because there wasn't one sign of corruption.¹⁴ It did not start to rot. This shows that this is not just Christian characteristic. This is an old rule that applies to saints everywhere. It's because of the perception of the individual, the saint, who did not see corruption.¹⁵ Since the physical form reflects his or her mind, when they are gone their form, the only form left of them (body) reflects that Eternal beauty, that Eternal moment. It stays in that Eternal moment and does not rot. That is what other people see as a wonder. From God's or the saint's reference point, it is only natural.

And that people can see it too when they are with the saint?

They can see the form after he is dead, or she is dead, but yeah, when they are alive too. There are stories of when the Buddha was in a grove, people walking up to the grove lose all their cares and worries as they get closer. Part of this was the natural telepathic level the Buddha was working on, and part was the very grove itself would be reflecting the mind of God. So... the people would be walking into this mind of God.