The Spiritual Path- 1991

BECAUSE there is no such thing as cessation, because nothing ever stops, comes to an indefinite halt, we have change - small change, loose change and big changes. 

Coexistence requires laws of definition and boundary, definitive laws which imply definite limits in which one may operate at a given time. Movement from one set of limitations to another is change, and there is no such thing as change for change's sake. In this sense all that is and is to be is never chance, as sequences of opportunity within expression and exploration are structured and flow from one to another progressively, regardless of one's perception of the multifaceted laws one is interred in.

The law of limitations and the law of change- one is preceded by the other. Such laws are example of greater and smaller laws of the same. This is spiritual science. In time, with observation of such rhythms of the laws of change and limitation, one may begin to understand the necessary relationships one has to all and the polite and orderly workings of the conspiring superstructure that supports coexistence.

Recognizing duties in life is exemplified by the attitude of obeisance to given laws. Respect and regard for all life and her participants is experience of truth and reality. Denial of laws and subsequent rudeness of attitude is but self-delusion, which ever way it cuts. For consciousness does not determine that sphere of activity it dwells in, consciousness has choice to lovingly embrace or ignore selectively.

There is a certain uprightness one may feel when certain truths and laws of Spiritual Science are experienced; very much akin to the uprightness and firmness of a tree. 

Steadfastness in a sea of change is a useful stance in the world, as the world itself presents daily many a test and a challenge to our concepts that infill our fiber and light our inspiration. Fixing one's roots in the good earth of morality, watered with heavenly impulses bathed in the golden glow of our Father's countenance- there is much to be learnt and mastered accordingly to the principles of right thinking, right knowledge and right application. Fortunately also there is that which a man may recognize immediately for himself, in which he 'knows' something to be true and he is glad. That truth can resound through his being so loudly that echoes from past experience sing out and gratitude is awash, bringing tears to that soul who feels the certainty and the revelation that the experience of Truth brings.

This is the experience we seek to learn by: the essential and most powerful truths. One can really tell by this yardstick what is correct for them alone. No other can impose or incite, that it is a true recollection of inner reality.

Daily we practice wakefulness, aligning, attuning and cooperating with a consciousness that shall one day be finely strengthened accordingly. And this does require work: work in the form of attempt and failure, with a history of practice - simply getting it right! The practice itself should and cannot be missed out or replaced by quick and easy measure, like the ten day world discovery tour!

It is well and good if others measure their wisdom as greater than yours. In truth one would certainly hope that there is the possibility that greater wisdom is enjoyed by other folk somewhere in the world. But personally the only impression one can effect upon another is by example. There is no fee or latitude whereby one individual may do the work of another.

Some individuals require that they be entertained with cake and some with biscuits – for some, offerings are given to personal choice and personal freedom. If an individual commands that respect and loyalty be offered, then it is preferably commanded by example and same attitude. There are of course those who set themselves upon high station and feel the need to be adored and ask for unequal relations man to man. This speaks to us of uncertainties and misguided triumphs, or perhaps roles and games which can be innocently challenged or wickedly contrived.

Christ does not talk down to Man, if anything He 'talks him up'. He desires that Man be exalted and shall rise to greet Him, that arm in arm one may explore the worlds together in friendship. Beware of the exalted who rise at another's expense.

Pain- 1991

TO SUFFER PAIN is to suffer the pain of all. One does actually feel that pain which is so strongly present throughout humanity. For pain itself does have roots - as do all fractional experiences which speak to us when entered into, of that which is cosmically orientated, no less with pain. The miracle is that we are not aware of the pain all of the time, that pain is usually localized and set within confines to be realized. But it is there. It is without and within all manifestation.

For what is the nature of pain, but resistance. Within all of the harmonious interplays of nature's wondrous realm, there is much change and necessary/unnecessary resistance.

Usually we are quite saved, nay oblivious, to 'the Pain' that is extremely present throughout. We are called to summon those fiery vitalities to meet with an immediate disorder, whereupon we are opened to that all consuming condition, so uncomfortable, or so intolerable - depending on the measure, depending upon the mean of the consciousness.

In the instance of shock, when one is literally lifted from the bodily connections, and the internal/external rush of fiery substance is sheared so dramatically, then the consciousness vacates and saves the sufferer - and yet this cannot be indefinitely, would that the physical connection is to endure.

To some, all of physical existence may be interpreted as pain itself, incarnate. This a most difficult concept, and does not bear too much pondering - and yet one may conjecture, was the pain of our Lord borne at the summit of the Crucifixion, to be compared with that pain, which He in grave sympathy did bear of the spiritual malady which irked Mankind with seething intensity? One pain is no less real than another. The only comfort to be had is that one may not indefinitely be consumed by any one type of experience, but rather comes to know the gravity by which we are compelled hither and thither.

Furthermore, depending upon the nature of the extremeness and intensity of the experience, comes the sweet recompense which accordingly does follow- great highs and great lows, little lows preceded by little highs, and so forth. But interestingly enough, one man's sadness may be another man's toothache.

Intention to inflict injury is as injurious, if not more, than certain physical outcome. One comes to see the ills of the world as communal, but particular to individual experience- largely one great problem, one great pain; and if one wound weeps, we all weep. There is no distinction for humanity. Here at least is one key to the bonds which inextricably do link us all. It is undeniable fact, and to the adept, overwhelmingly apparent.

If the ship sinks we all go under. Therefore the business of brotherhood and mutual understanding is to be necessarily recognized, with each and every man and woman eager to give everything they have got to assist. No amount of waving hands or flummerying around will do it. No lifeboats with certain destination!

Concern need not be selfish, but practical. As the science of thought and the wisdom of morality essentially is pertaining to the health, the healing, and sustenance, giving over to the larger vision, incorporating a greater humanity, it goes further than fine philosophical speculation, but is necessity of the extreme.

Awareness can be painful, and as said before, and if so shall be answered with sweet reward, if suffered. However, if folk are to awaken and find that their former ways were painful to them, and find that the aggravations were due largely to the 'sleepiness' of such standards set, better sooner than later! Better to welcome the change of conditions that demand such revision.

Awareness of pain comes in the intermediary transitional stages of change. Once the transition is effected, the awareness of the pain does cease: I may come to a river and am happy on the bank. I step into the water and the sharp cold contrast of the water will shock me. If I become accustomed to that water, I shall feel not the initial pain of the coldness. However, the water itself will not be any the warmer: I shall have made the transition over to that condition, not it to me. Should I leave the water, I shall feel colder than when immersed, and the transition of sharp coldness will again be the same as it was when I entered.

Would that in life, we all had a wetsuit!

Oxygen & Color- 15th June 1991

OF all the colors exhibited within the natural world, in shade, variation, luminosity and brilliance - even fluorescence - the tropical fish wins the prize for its extreme examples of such varying and wonderful extraordinary colorations.

The paradox is that the very complex regions which are inhabited by such fish are seldom seen by the human eye. One cannot readily penetrate the waters and behold firsthand the magnificent array of Nature's palette: gliding and a glimmering, flying hither and thither throughout a buoyant sky.

Oxygen can to a point, produce dramatic color change and induce color intensity. The kiln-fired glass and glaze suggest such radical change, which relates not only to temperature but also to oxygen deprivation. This explains in part why the mineral composition of a precious gem may be exactly the same for gems of differing colors. Lava is not red until exposed to air. 

Organic colors fade in time when released from the organism that controls such reduction, i.e. the coral, flowers, vegetable dyes and so forth. Red blood blackens when moisture no longer harvests the oxygen.

When Man registers the color black (if black can indeed be called a color), he has come to the extreme of a spectrum, which at that boundary enters into a range of colors, that whilst are beyond physical perception, are in fact discernibly real. Black denotes the colors that we cannot see. White tells us of all of the colors combined that we can perceptualize. Black may denote substratum distinctions of such a color range, or in fact imply higher etheric gateways into levels beyond - either way black tells us physically that we have reached our limit of perception. There will come a time when the scientist can measure distinguishably many differences between one black and another.

The colors that are perceived today within the physical world echo back to the early periods of water existence. This quite rightly suggests that men and women of former ages past enjoyed an environment that was visually richer and more colorful to the eye. When humidity was greater, as in the remnants of the tropical regions, the colors were brighter. Not only were the landscapes thus affected, but the peoples also, who born of such conditions have like perception. Folk who dwell in such humid regions today still show preference in colorants for costume and decoration to be brilliant and bold rather than subdued.

Oxygen, pure oxygen of itself, can kill out life. Oxygen is required to be put into a process of transformation, and a commensurate ability must be performed by the living organism. This process does not only occur in physical extraction and in an eliminative way. This process denotes manifestation in physical existence, being operative from soul-life which primarily belongs to the mainstream evolution and thereby has a very real driving connection with the process of repetitive re-embodiment. Otherwise one could animate all manner of physical vehicles, maintained for the purpose of would-be indwelling entities that do not belong to mainstream evolution. The regulation of breath requires such membership in the commensurate existence. Coloration is exacting such regulation and processes according to the spirit within. 

The mineral composition itself is dependent upon such conditions primarily. The Earth itself breathes. Minerals are cosmically attracted to the indwelling conditions of the Earth and deposit in remains of organic matter. So transformed as to be termed lifeless (named 'ash'), they have undergone release from the organic condition and become a receptacle for mineral influences. 

The body of Earth remains that which regulates such incoming and outgoing forces, and so too determines which mineral forces flourish and predominate in a given area. The colors are not determined by the mineral composition therefore, although the colors do speak to us of such attractions.

The intensity and brilliance of some colors as opposed to all colors, also denotes for us now a particular phase of evolutionary processes.

Artificial Flavorings- 14th June 1991

ARTIFICIAL flavorings and artificial sweeteners are a fine example of the complacency of men who cannot distinguish between deception and reality - with regards to the reality that men know best. Some of the chemical cocktails which are ingested are so cunningly devised that the difference between the manmade illusory substance simply cannot be told apart from the derivatives of life-imbued substances. The imitations physically appear to represent qualities of the reality. Of course, this applies also to our sense of smell; however the imitations of such are never as close to the reality to be believable.

Man is usually extremely selective as to the substances which he is invited to taste. The sense of taste may alert a man to a noxious material, or conversely, excite the man with a powerful pleasure. Although man perceives the world largely and accumulatively by way of the sensory perception of his sight, the sense of taste comes first and foremost in invoking immediate and recognized pleasure. The sense of taste is by no way related to the calls of hunger. The relationship between man and the substances he consumes is a very intimate process indeed.

One must question that the experience of tasting need not be connected with the need for nourishment or the acknowledgment of the imitated substance. When food is ingested the nature inherent in that particular food is also ingested. So to digest any substance, one is required not only to physically digest that substance, but also digest or discard the nature of that substance on the commensurate level: the etheric forces, the astrality of those substances. 

However, when a chemical compound is added to an etherically dead material, the individual does not have to work in the same way, overcoming and 'sorting out' the nature of that substance. It is truly the lazy man's way of consuming. The nature of man is not taxed by the nature of substance, although the physical body of man is not nourished by the physical substance, nor consequently nourished by the nature of such material. The forces which are brought into play, whereupon one meets the challenges of the nature of substance, have little or no use to be put to - in the instance of artificial foods.

This is why children in particular, respond to such imitative substances with an overactive reaction which stimulates both limbs and brain, in an unchallenged vitality. For the digestive juices required, do carry fluids to assist the process of assimilation. Such vitality is not required, nor spent, and must be worked off through the limb system (the extremities), via the nervous system. Within adults this process is related to an inner nervousness, and later into atrophy, whereby the digestive fluids become severely impaired through under use.

Synthetic compounds therefore, are destructive to the physical constitution of man because they give little or no impression to the etheric and astral constitution of man, but rather stimulate such vitalities unnecessarily. Furthermore these vital forces can do what they do best, and at times turn upon the individual's own physical constitution and begin to work upon it. The man begins to digest and assimilate himself!

Stimulants such as sugar, coffee, tobacco etc. are compatible with the constitution of man, but call forth more vital properties than are required in use, thus imbuing an overactive response.

Substances which are intravenously assimilated are bypassing the digestive process as described above. The patient cannot summon forth the required vitalities to meet and digest the nature of that which has been administered.

An example of this is best met by the nature of the heroin addict, who can testify as to the difference between the substance introduced by mouth, and the substance bypassing the digestive system. Medications also work in a completely different fashion, whereby the tolerance and resistance of the individual is markedly restrained, and the physical system receives automatically that which is administered through the blood.

Herein is the value of substances administered through baths. What a man may need for nourishment and cannot digest and assimilate, he may receive directly through his organ of skin. This is particularly useful where the functions of assimilation are inadequate or the vitality is weakened, but yet the constitution requires the properties of given substances to assist in wellbeing. Again, synthetic bath additives are to be avoided at all costs.

When man first encountered his ability to mimic and reproduce such clever forgeries, he should have left his chemistry to parlor tricks, rather than introduce them into everyday life. One can only presume that the motivation involved has a basis in monetary gain, as there can be no other value in the artificial substance and its foolhardy misrepresentations within the constitution of man.