a saying of the Buddah

"If you meet a concept-idol of the Buddha on your Way, and it is blocking your path, slay it." _ paraphrased from a saying of Buddha's

I take this as any concept created as we try to explain our reality as we get closer to The Truth. imho, the mind should be flexible enough to break these concepts as they become outdated during our human and personal evolution. Jesus did not come for us to make yet another 'construct of reality'. He came to break older constructs and teach us to do the same. Reverence will be kept for the old ways as they helped us sprout up through Tradition, but we must be agile minded in order to progress. This saying of Buddah is a key to our mental honesty (purity).

in Love and Light,

a +brother

The Ocotillo

The Ocotillo tree

who is born of the desert

leans towards the east at first glimmerings of Venus the Light bearer anticipating the Sun

flowers blood red in spring at the first rain from the heavens

protects itself by its thorns... its own ego

and a nest for the turtle doves of the hot springs.

... Basking in the Beauty of the 4 worlds,

a +brother

Inside & Out

Looking at the world we can see a lot of similarities between us and the world in general. Take a look at a tree for example and compare it to our lungs... the upside down tree. The tree has a trunk as compared to trachea of our lungs, has branches (bronchi), has leafs (alveoli) and both function to *breath*. Take a look at the earth, with its many striations and different compositions of rocks and dirt, then take a look at our skin under a microscope... again similar. Take a look at the Sun with its illumination, warmth, and the giver of life then take a look at our Heart.

Maybe, what is on the outside is in direct symbolic relation to us. Maybe when we look out we are seeing a representation of ourselves. Maybe our world, our reality is inside out?

If we take this line of thought, then the chaos we see in our world, in our reality might also be a representation of the chaos we have internally. Maybe the turmoils of life, the wars, the famine, the despair is what we are internally? Maybe if we don't heal what is on the inside we have to heal and deal with it on the outside? Same goes with peace or any other feeling or desire. Maybe when we look at the sky, the planets, the sun and the moon, we are seeing representation of our own chakras with their own relations to our consciousness.

... and maybe, when we reconcile our own duality, our own shadow, we reconcile the world...

in Reconciliation, Regeneration, Reintegration!

... a +brother

A Freemason Symbol

The circle with the dot in the middle is the Symbol of the All, the unchanging, the Universe on all levels of manifestation. The two St Johns on either side... one the Evangelist as young and the other as Baptist as old.

One represents Change (St. John the Evangelist) and one represents Tradition (St John the baptist). These are two forces that get us to better understand the whole (circle with the dot in the middle). The young St John represents Change, but as a rapid, drastic, free for all type of change that comes from the young and more inexperienced. The old St John represents Tradition, as the static, unmoving, dogmatic type of tradition that keeps to the past as the more experienced. The Bible on top is balanced on the circle with the dot in the middle, *balanced*!! This Symbol represents how to Change in a *prudent* manner. That being of taking the St John the Evangelist's young, rapid, drastic, and free for all energy and *balancing it* with the old Traditional experienced St John the Baptist type of energy. Coming to a well balanced, middle path of change that is slower yet prudent, moving towards progress yet with the wisdom of the ages, helping in the evolution of humanity without 'crash and burn' of rapid change and stagnation of Tradition! Just another symbol of Balance of the Forces that we, as humanity are here to accomplish.

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!

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

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