O Infinite Father
Keep me, direct my paths
Melt opposition before me
Stretch round about me
Thy banner of Holy Fire
That no perversion can enter in
Reside with me always
Even as the stars reside with
the heavens
Surely goodness and mercy
Shall follow me all the days
of my life
And I shall dwell with Thee
In the house of the Lord
Forever
Beloved El Morya Khan
--- a post by sister Shanti!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Love and tact
Question: When we get an intuition, gnosis, truth of some kind, should we automatically act on it? Should we be a 'pure channel'? Or is it up to us to make sure, and act on the intuitive knowledge with Love and *tact*?
From my perspective, we are responsible with what we do with these intuitions and inspirations... these truths. If we have Love, then we cannot possibly empty ourselves out with these truths, Gnosis or intuitive knowledge that we gain... *if it hurts another*. Sure, at the end, it might help the other person, but does our end justify our means?
Love is higher than that. Love means that even if the greatest of knowledge comes our way and we have the enormous need to impart it to another, we are still responsible for the mode, the means, the way we impart this knowledge! If a budding flower is not ready for a bucket full of water, do we still pure this water on the little budding flower? Even if this bucket is so heavy that it pains us to hold it? Or do we give this flower a bit of water every day until it is grown large enough to take the whole bucket of water.
The point here is that *we* are responsible with what we do with the knowledge that we gain. We will have to use our God given mind to figure out what is the best way to impart knowledge. We are responsible for its karma on another and on ourselves for giving it away carelessly. Love does not mean dishonesty... Honesty means that we partake in the purity of becoming honest, and at the same time use Love... which means the use of 'tact'. Love & Light in this world of Action means use of subtly and tact.
Just some thoughts and in Love,
a +brother
Friday, January 21, 2011
on the Worlds
There are worlds within worlds. The Cabalah describes them as:
Assiah (עֲשִׂיָּה) or World of Action / our world, the 'Physical' world
Yetzirah (יְצִירָה) or World of Formation / the 'Astral' world
Beri'ah (בְּרִיאָה or alternatively[3] בְּרִיָּה) or World of Creation / Spiritual (intuitive) world
Atziluth (אֲצִילוּת), or World of Emanation / world of causes, the Unity, Oneness
from personal experience there are no worlds, but degrees. The physical, astral, spiritual, and Unity worlds are here and now! We have access to them all in one, in our world.
The physical we know. This is the solid matter world. If we think of these worlds as water, then this physical world would be the ice.
The astral world is the world of more subtle matter. If we access it, we understand that our emotions rule it. If we emotionally feel a certain way in this world, then it happens. If we feel religious, we enter cathedrals build on the astral, if we feel happy, we encounter happy beings and so on. This world is full of entities just like in the physical world. There are 'good' and 'bad' entities... honest and not so honest ones out there too. This astral world has also beings of darkness that can only go as far as the astral and not higher. Dark magicians that are there to feed on fear. If we fully trust in the Sacred, then they have no power over us. Our body in this world is an astral, subtle body. If we think of this world with the reference to water, then this world is liquid water.
The Spiritual world has no form. It has no 'pictures' that we see, it is Intuitive! We get knowledge there that comes from the higher world, world of Unity, but here we are conscious of this knowledge. If we have questions and are honest about asking, then we can gain answers from the Spiritual world. It is Gnostic in the way that we gain information. We have no body here but a consciousness that forms a spherical pattern as we can see and know in all degrees. We gain Light from here. If we think of this world in reference to water, then this world would be vapor or gas.
The world of Unity is the Sacred. It can be accessed only if we give up all wants... including knowledge. It is the oneness with the Sacred. The oneness with all Life. It is the Cause that radiates down to the other 3 lower worlds. If we are looking for the Cause of all, then this is it, but we have to go down to the Spiritual world to be conscious of these causes. In oneness we simply are. It is the 'Being' that we feel deep within us. If we think of this world in reference to water, then this world would be the *cause* for water in all its manifestations.
These worlds are the Jacobs latter of the bible. We can go up and down these worlds.
In truth, these worlds are not separate, but simply degrees of awareness.
Happy traveling and in Love, Light, and Life,
a +brother
Assiah (עֲשִׂיָּה) or World of Action / our world, the 'Physical' world
Yetzirah (יְצִירָה) or World of Formation / the 'Astral' world
Beri'ah (בְּרִיאָה or alternatively[3] בְּרִיָּה) or World of Creation / Spiritual (intuitive) world
Atziluth (אֲצִילוּת), or World of Emanation / world of causes, the Unity, Oneness
from personal experience there are no worlds, but degrees. The physical, astral, spiritual, and Unity worlds are here and now! We have access to them all in one, in our world.
The physical we know. This is the solid matter world. If we think of these worlds as water, then this physical world would be the ice.
The astral world is the world of more subtle matter. If we access it, we understand that our emotions rule it. If we emotionally feel a certain way in this world, then it happens. If we feel religious, we enter cathedrals build on the astral, if we feel happy, we encounter happy beings and so on. This world is full of entities just like in the physical world. There are 'good' and 'bad' entities... honest and not so honest ones out there too. This astral world has also beings of darkness that can only go as far as the astral and not higher. Dark magicians that are there to feed on fear. If we fully trust in the Sacred, then they have no power over us. Our body in this world is an astral, subtle body. If we think of this world with the reference to water, then this world is liquid water.
The Spiritual world has no form. It has no 'pictures' that we see, it is Intuitive! We get knowledge there that comes from the higher world, world of Unity, but here we are conscious of this knowledge. If we have questions and are honest about asking, then we can gain answers from the Spiritual world. It is Gnostic in the way that we gain information. We have no body here but a consciousness that forms a spherical pattern as we can see and know in all degrees. We gain Light from here. If we think of this world in reference to water, then this world would be vapor or gas.
The world of Unity is the Sacred. It can be accessed only if we give up all wants... including knowledge. It is the oneness with the Sacred. The oneness with all Life. It is the Cause that radiates down to the other 3 lower worlds. If we are looking for the Cause of all, then this is it, but we have to go down to the Spiritual world to be conscious of these causes. In oneness we simply are. It is the 'Being' that we feel deep within us. If we think of this world in reference to water, then this world would be the *cause* for water in all its manifestations.
These worlds are the Jacobs latter of the bible. We can go up and down these worlds.
In truth, these worlds are not separate, but simply degrees of awareness.
Happy traveling and in Love, Light, and Life,
a +brother
Sunday, January 9, 2011
on Religion
Religion, or Religion as it should be, is the manifestation of our Spirituality. It is the Spiritual put into action. What we are and feel with the Divine on the inside of us is put outside in the form of Religion. Religion is about Love as Divine is Love. Religion is the act of worship of the Divine outside of us as we are the worship of the Divine on the inside. In the rituals of Religion, the Divine that is inside of us is brought out in full view. The world herself is the Divine 'inside' of us manifested on the 'outside'.
There is no inside or outside. There is just Being. Religion, in its ideal form, has always been about bringing the process that we feel and think inside of *deepest* of being, into the outer consciousness that we call our reality. What is on the 'outside' world is symbolic of the process in our 'inside' world.
From this perspective, there is only one Religion, as there is only one Being. The Religion of the God of our Hearts... There are many ways to get there, but the ideal is the same.
In Service,
a +brother
There is no inside or outside. There is just Being. Religion, in its ideal form, has always been about bringing the process that we feel and think inside of *deepest* of being, into the outer consciousness that we call our reality. What is on the 'outside' world is symbolic of the process in our 'inside' world.
From this perspective, there is only one Religion, as there is only one Being. The Religion of the God of our Hearts... There are many ways to get there, but the ideal is the same.
In Service,
a +brother
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