Despair & Hope in the Charitable Man- 5th June 1991

PATHWAYS indicate that one is to go somewhere. However there are those pathways which folk choose for nature-study, which meander through winding leafy trails and are enjoyed for the leisurely exploit whereupon one reacquaints oneself with the joyful exploring of the surrounding habitat.

T.S. Eliot put to words - cynical conjecture of - people’s disposition to pursue tennis balls and golf balls through such pathways, rather than allowing time to 'take in' the countryside and experience the growth and vitality, the beauty and the balance - how modern man had repelled the natural world, replacing his center of activity with trivial pastimes of his own making.

Master Eliot saw death before him continually, and therefore could not abide with folk who were insensitive to the precious aspects of life. He was tormented by those within the ministry, and sought for comfort in the arms of Mother Nature before he could try to embrace human nature.

In our complicated modern existence we are required to fix our attention to meet with a multitude of demands, many of which are in opposition to one another, all of which discourage soul-interest in the world. Quite often there is a good man who strives to lovingly assist his brothers. By the end of his days and such efforts, he has been so tired, so frustrated, that the very passion of charity is extinguished and the love for fellow man has turned sour: from love, to empathy, empathy to pity, pity to frustration, and disgust. Such a man, who being of good intentions and goodwill, can be crushed by measuring success within the outer world. Eliot was such a man. 

Fruit trees of today do not bear fruit immediately. One must truly believe that all help, all work, offered in the right spirit (given to the world self-excluded) has already in the very nature of the effort, wrought marvelous transitions. And such marvelous transitions do not need visible expression, in fact are quite often veiled from the man of charity, but nonetheless with time, bear good fruit for humanity. If one desires a betterment for the whole of humanity rather than a determined outcome, one will never feel the painful disappointment that cuts at the root of many a charity.

There can never be self-made conditions placed on God. His timing is perfect. Men have to have their freedom, and it does not excuse the man of charity to seek to deny such freedom in the name of love. 

Essentially, we should all be wishing to strangle each other, in such an effort of loving help! Of course, such a thought is preposterous. However, the man of charity may experience so many frustrations outwardly, that he keenly despairs at ever having taken on 'God's Work'. To do 'God's Work' is far

different from trying to be God - there is a subtle difference.

 

There are many winding pathways and they all lead to our Father. Men may choose to 'take in' the delight of the nature-study or drive balls down their course; some would delay, some would hurry through - many, picnic! So be it.

Frustration from another's recreation, in the belief that it is misguided and foolhardy, is of itself fruitless and destructive. Rather we hold happiness, in that humanity has a great future to look forward to, and for those privileged to have glimpses of destiny yet to come, we rejoice.

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With a name goes a commensurate association - this cannot be helped. Such associations and affectations affect the teachings. It will come to you of its own; be patient. This is no rebuff, but for your sake. If we said that we were R. H., it would only mean that you would come to like R. H. (we hope that it would mean this). If we offered a pseudonym it would be lying, and this we do not enter into.

We should come to see these teachings in all, for the light of truth and the spirit is truly within us all; otherwise it should not be identified.

You have not asked for too much, it is reasonable to inquire and also reasonable to be answered. If it were possible, we should give to every man full knowledge tomorrow. This is the heartache of any teacher, that mere words do not of themselves impart such knowledge. In fact too much too soon can rob the soul of that very excitement and joy which is to be had in revelation and discovery.

As for publications, try 'Mr. and Mrs. B.Hive'. That is pretty close to the mark!

Graduation 1991

Good Morning,

SCALES of fish, scales of weight, scales of music: all of these scales denote graduation, one built upon another. Measure necessitates the beginning scales before one can build-up or onto the higher register, the heavier block, and so forth; gradual build-up that means that even though the identification of the latter scales can be made, the higher are achieved and comprised of the first essential scales always - the cornerstones to actuality. Before these can express themselves in physical actuality the invisible scales preside on which to be built upon, in order to call into being the pattern set for the rest.

If in music one perceives a high note, it is in fact not one note alone but the sum of notes in the scale prior, with one added to it. In weight of course the same applies - and just because one might identify it as one pound, for example, does not mean it to be any different to the ounces that comprise it, save by one. Color in its scale is the same- we add and take away, and adjust; but not one color is in isolation, save in the identification.

Thus if we have a good man, he has to be containing the phases within that helped to elevate him to his present status. One can proceed from lower to higher or higher to lower principles, but all are interconnected and woven completely. The invisible principles on which to build on are there to be called on, but selection is not possible.

The thinking process is selective in consciousness and identifies all facets of living, regarding even time as a concept in isolation. Disregarding the completeness, one is taken by the view from that part of the road which one is presently on, the distance prior seeming to be of small consequence.

Memory and self-consciousness cannot concurrently function. It is one or the other. Pure consciousness, however, as discussed in the animal’s awareness, is split even more keenly…

The EGO-IDENTITY & the Sins of Division: Acquisitiveness & Delusion- 3rd June 1991

ENGRAVING AN opal is an extraordinarily difficult task, but when one has accomplished shaping the surface area with deep crevices of design (as with a deep-cut seal for example), one can find the profusion of split colors, in such refraction, quite exquisite. 

Many gems have a totally altered appearance, in the cutting and the polishing. It requires someone of skill, expertise, and a sound knowledge of gemology, to foresee the possibilities of an uncut rock. Man has sought out such gems for acquisition, in both talisman and luster ornament, for as many eons as he has sought for new foods - long before the tendency towards 'acquisitiveness' formed, the beginnings of such were founded in the love and lust of the gemstone.

Here we may find marked and explicit changes within the consciousness of Man. Imagine a man moving about the world, with the assistance of his lower ego, identifying all that is perceived to be the arm and the leg, as it were, of his entire being. If a man's consciousness is fully immeshed within the physical conditions that support him and in compliance with this, his consciousness is attuned to the nature, the spiritual nature, of his environment, and the two are compatible, then there is no division between the element of ego-consciousness and its recognition of self, as opposed to the understanding and interpretation of the surrounding world.

However, within the light and glory of the gem-world, man discovered elements within the gem that were not so easily identified within himself. Therefore, he felt the need to take such a substance to himself, and keep it for himself.

All sins originate in the stepping down and out of paradise. Here is the sin of the divided consciousness of ego-identity.

If man were to return to the paradise state of paradise-ego-awareness, then man should have to be compatible with that paradise. However the environment of the world today offers man no chance at such compatibility, therefore no such paradise-awareness may overcome the ego-identity that decides and measures itself against the outer world. 

This is necessary to an achievement of a higher ego-identity awareness. For one truly must enter into the higher consciousness to find the paradise that once reflected the Heavens on Earth.

However, all good things come with time, and whilst man has consciousness placed on Earth, the object of the learning is exactly placed within such processes of acceptance and rejection, of consciously identifying the chaff and the fodder, from the food of the soul.

The gem speaks to man of the higher cosmic values. From the sin of division, we find the sin of acquisitiveness. Whereupon once a man was content to experience the beauty and the form, the life and the spirit of that which was outside of his own being, he now seeks to control and determine the confines of that which excites his attention. This is referred to as a sin, as it is in reality an untruth.

One may never artificially take and keep for oneself anything of the outer world for any great length of time: swallow the gem, but will soon pass through! In fact men of the western world, curiously, gather to themselves all manner of objects, which befuddle the onlooker, as to what held the appeal in the first place. 

This of course is another matter, but not totally unrelated. However, it should be most useful if one were to examine each and every object that is taken into the house and even treasured, and ask why.

Observe such curios and establish their true significance, for this practice will help one when the time comes that through entering Heaven we take only that which is of true significance and leave the rest behind.

Of course all objects smell of memories. One finds today that folk seldom study any collection of objects for what it is of itself, but of what they should like to make it. So we have a reversal, whereby in the first instance there is immediate recognition that we and the world are one. 

In the second, we discover that which we see not in ourselves and seek to take it into ourselves. 

Thirdly, try to make a gem from a lump of glass, and then believe it to be so- the sin of delusion.

True observation requires the skill of restraining one's lower ego, whilst being receptive to the impulses of the higher ego; to hesitate before judgment and impulse and consciously direct one's attitude after having been open to such impartial observation. Not all situations allow one to delay the identification of the outer world. However, when this is possible, such delay, such a pause during the process of inquiry and discovery, is invaluable.

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THE point that was entirely missed was that of living the MORAL life. Here is the perfect example, of the unbalanced mix of quasi-spiritual/psychic perception and intrigue, without the strength and fiber to support and sustain the individual concerned. Moral strength has to be the foundation in any teaching, and is a necessary practice before all else. This is fact.

As for communication: telephones and semaphore, fax and shortwave signals, are not spooky. Telepathy is a communication of the future, and is not spooky. We are very much alive and well. You know of no imposition.

One must never underestimate the soul-importance of living an ethical and upright life. These sorry experiences of your friend, hopefully if anything, shall speak to her of her personal perils, and alert her to her inner problems. Here lies their usefulness.

Geography & the Perceptions of Man- 2nd June 1991

The sound of the rain is truly soothing, isn't it? When we spoke the other day of the etheric impact that sound explains something to us of, think of how in illness and in health one might remember this.

It is instinctively known that the very ill should be kept very quiet, with no 'jangling' noise to disturb them; and sadly for those in hospitals with much equipment and bustle, there are too many disturbances. Think also back to those favored lyres, that although they may not relate any particular sequence to make music, have a profound effect, bringing soothing and imagination into the surrounding ether.

THERE ARE very few jungle regions in the world today, and contrary to the belief of those who picture a past paradise, there were as few centuries ago, to be compared with today.

The life-forms belonging to the humid regions, the prolific wild vines and trees, the exotic plants, the three hundred thousand or more, varieties of creepy-crawly; the enlarged and colorful reptilian host and lastly, the dazzling bird-life - all of these cohabitants belonging to the jungle environment, give to man the closest concept of the nature of the astral world.

It is a dangerous, unfriendly and extraordinary environment. There are very few folk, who, not born within and native to those regions, could endure a stay of any duration, let alone feel comfortable about the prospect of settling there permanently for an entire lifetime. Very little peace is to be experienced and although there is much vitality and such prolific, almost crazed growth, the experience of man in such a jungle usually ranges from extreme annoyance, watchfulness, to a condition of aggravated fear with subsequent aggressiveness.

In contrast, the nature of the European landscape offers man, in experience and perception, a certain repose for soul-reflection. The threat of the climate is of chill, but does not of itself cause the glandular system to work overtime in sustaining from one breath to another. The tone and the impact of the colors of such a countryside are issued from a different scale, and the native to these regions experiences sight very differently to that of the jungle tenant.

Colors speak to the eyes, and eyes that are accustomed to receiving vivid perceptions, cannot in fine detail, distinguish aspects that the eyes of the watercolor region have adapted to. The South American, the African, could not conceptualize visually, the detail that the Swiss or English could discern. However, the European man visualizes as through a window, and cannot adapt to the strength and intensity of visual conception and relay that the man of the tropics has developed to receive.

The physical skill of the tropical man is adept, with a keen motivation from instinct. The reflexes of such a man are sharp, and the muscular drive is superior in ability. A European man would have little or no hope of matching physical skill and endurance with the native of the tropics.

Returning to the visual aspects and perception, one can see that within the relationship to the applications of fine art, the European displays great finesse and tardiness in respect to fine detail. Blatant symbols and brushstrokes that are indicative to the tropical man are transformed by the 'window' perception of the former.

The careful and precise artistry of the Oriental tends toward both perfection and inhibited interpretation. One should not find flourishes of extreme color, nor clumsy application. The pictures of the Oriental do not suggest that this man is immeshed within the astral consciousness. With careful, planned, exact application, the Oriental could, with photographic skill, replicate portraits, but does not choose to incorporate such talent, tending rather to convey with simplicity, the essential nature of the study chosen to reproduce.

The Western man can find much difficulty in developing such talent. Usually there are few who can exceptionally work with brush on paper with skill. The Western art today implies a free hand, whereby the man is rarely connected to the hand that works the brush, and the necessary discipline or instinct, cannot find its way to motivate the artist.

The children enjoy the tropical man's aspect, growing up in the formative years from one to seven. However, as the consciousness shifts, and the flurry of environment presses in, there is much visual contrast and conflict that deters artistic interpretation and expression. Cartoons seem to be the end result, unless rarely, the individual has a strength of ability, a determination of character, that can overcome the physical inadequacies and overlook the physical/visual bombardment that is encountered in later life.

Usually true art is motivated by the spirit of the subject speaking to the artist, and the desire of the artist to reproduce the image that speaks to his soul. However, within the Western World there is an extreme influx of a sequence of images whereupon inspiration would be very difficult to derive. Visually there is a great clashing and a clanging of forms that are 'soul-less' and images that are incoherent to the soul-speak.

This environment, of course, mirrors the concepts of the modern man, who has set upon a path of adventure seeking the free, the extraordinary, the unique; and subsequently has surrounded himself with concrete, Walt Disney, and food that has to spring from a package being enclosed in colors and writing quite foreign to the former nature of that food. The artistry must be abstract if the life experienced is abstract.

One often considers the perceptions of Man to go as follows: early childhood: Tropical man; teenage recklessness: Western man; middle age: European man; old age: Oriental man.