Tri Tri Again!-1991

OF ALL the mysteries perhaps one of the more deeply profound is the question as to why Man did suffer such a 'falling-out' with Paradise. Why he during the course of a life, cannot recollect with clarity the spiritual worlds.

Overall one is a question for the theologians, as too for philosophical inquiry. The other one is of individual perspective. There are even some questions (wonder of wonders!) which we do not hold complete detailed perceptions of. It is unwise to be specific to the extreme when faced with enormously profound whys and wherefores. However, what is known is a question which only time can answer.

Because Paradise has been, because all men do know it, it shall be once again. There is a solemn truth which designates all that is past to be renewed and reborn. Therefore perhaps the issue of what occurs in between the first and second Paradise, is yes relevant to the moment, but not relevant to God or the Cosmic perspective. The question relates rather to timing. As we trust that this is always perfect, the question relates to patience and being content with such.

Individually however, it is a different question as to why the cosmic children have been spun down into realms manifest, where the Face of their Father has been hidden from them. Does He watch us at play, as through the great kitchen window? Do the children rebelliously mimic and laugh, or obediently come when the Father does call? 

We may not live the lives of our children on their behalf. Benevolence and unconditional love, strict insights and family treasures, this we pass on. Concern is not worry, concern is correct. Worry is unknown to our Father.

Each man bears duty to the family of his world. Also too, he must answer the Cosmic Kingdoms and align himself in their accord. But for now, he is afforded a time to play and experience. Yes, these are the salad days!

Our Globe does encircle the girth and girdle of the Lord, and we on said Globe are given such freedoms that Angels do dream of. Many a Kingdom is fascinated by our endeavors and exploits- many a chuckle and a titter, from below and above. There has to be humor in the Divine or we should not be manifest! 

For all the awkward recklessness of Man, there shall be the quiet times to come. We must continue to work, and with grave concern, definite intent. 

If this dialogue appears that we care not and wish to partake in the antics, we have misled your thought. But needs be that one is balanced in perspective, that overall we draw courage from the big and sturdy truths, that we may address all work at hand in full knowledge of such overall perspectives. Then we apply the grave concern. For laughter is twofold.

We may not become so complacent about the prospects of destiny that we expect all future to unravel of its own. Besides there is always the possibility, which none of us can answer, that if Mankind chooses not their destiny then perhaps another shall fulfill it. That is the grave concern part. Of course if one holds to opinions unselfishly, then all prayers are answered. If Mankind and the folk you have come to know are especial to you, then it is your desire to set them on the course which was their inheritance in the first place, to be afforded to them.

One can hope! No, we are not gambling men! We do not speculate, we do not give odds. We are in good company. We have all the help one could ever ask for. Time is on our side, as time was brought into being by Man himself. Man does unfold mostly everything that is needed, out from his own constitution.

Impulses and inclinations change so radically from century to century, swinging backwards and forth. Very little remains remotely similar to its cousin of the past. But for those with overview, we are given the fount of the future to draw our forewarnings of change from. The silver-glass which reflects all cosmic change may be previewed way before such movements stir in the fate of Mankind. 

There has to be much counterbalancing at given times. If the course is to journey straight to desired goal, our position is to effect the balancing when the soul waivers between the extraneous and the spirit.

Never accept the disheartened point of view. This is the sufferance which is borne of the men who deny the spiritual realities. When focused upon the outer world and its aspects, step back and widen such perspective. 

Remembering, reminding oneself, that worry brings failure; and worry is unfounded, failure is apparent. "Let me introduce you to my friend" says Worry. Enter Failure. Best not entertain Worry at all. If Failure turns up, thank him for pointing out error and circumstance, and then bid him go far, far away. Worry brings Failure prematurely. They have a close relationship. Failure is very obliging. He will visit where needed and where not needed, if called upon by Worry. As it is he is overworked, so best not disturb him more than need be!

So be of good cheer and strive to assist the progress of Man whenever, and wherever the opportunity presents. In this there will be felt and acknowledged the great family from which one is so importantly a part of. One may go running to the Elders for help if the children 'play up' or assume responsibility and take the matter in hand yourself. Either way, be happy in this. 

(Don't Worry, Be Happy!- Good song, very inspired.)

Self-Doubts- 4th July 1991

SELF DOUBT is often confused with humility and proper caution, but is neither of the two. Doubt need not be based on the truth of any given matter, but rather lends itself to a symptomatic condition invoking more of the same. Doubts may be seeded by another. Self doubts persuade one to believe that certain inadequacies (real or imagined) will block one from their desired goal.

Positive-thinkers, so-called, have a tremendous control over such self-doubting; and the results do prove themselves. Quite often those individuals experience possibilities and extended limits that would have been otherwise.

Caution alerts the wary to be sensitive to that which is incompatible to their very nature: an unwholesomeness, a danger impending, a foulness, and so forth. Cultivating a sense of caution is extremely useful, as it is firstly a learned discipline of holding one's self back, giving time to contemplate, rather than to act out of rashness or impulsiveness. Caution hesitates before proceeding, and yet may or may not inhibit such procedure, if necessity does not prevail. However self-doubt, having no real substance other than the doubt itself, may still restrain the individual, immobilize the will as it were; and has no usefulness, has no application.

Humility, as discussed so frequently before, is a Divine revelation of itself, and is the very substance of progressive 'openness' to Heaven herself. It is a true and proper perspective which is paramount for the student to realize, as prerequisite to contemplation and inquiry, as to the inner nature of the true order of the Mysteries. Humility tells us that no matter how grand or wonderful our experiences may be, they are but the smallest fly-speck on the window of Creation. Humility reminds us that in order to observe the world, we must step back and allow the world to have its turn in speaking to us, rather than we address it, pronouncing philosophy and dictating whims and wants. This again has no bearing directly upon that condition of self-doubt, as it encourages interaction with the world and its findings, rather than completely enclosing the doubter within a shield of inner conflict.

Many a nervous individual suffers daily from self-doubt. One can see with every twitch and random impulse, that the turmoil and the struggle is uprising in chest and flowing to mind, poking away as hot pointed spikes, contrasting the 'divineness', the 'uprightness' of the individual with suggestions of hopelessness and total inadequacy.

Because self-doubt is not related to a given reality and is rather a condition, it should be treated as such. A condition of being, that interestingly enough does relate indirectly to the target of self-perception and the accordance of the life being lived. A good example of this is an individual who plays out many a role assuming a personality and behavior which conflicts with his inner sensibilities, his inner knowledge of that which is moral and beneficial and conducive to right living. This individual has not managed to come to a point of making the necessary changes in lifestyle or in attitude because the elements of self-doubt have thwarted such efforts before they have surfaced the consciousness. Yet the self-doubts are in fact rooted in there being a total problem as opposed to any one distinct problem.

Here is a position where it is almost impossible to address the whole situation, given that the individual concerned is consumed by haunting nervousness daily that begins to deteriorate all of the functions, resulting in extreme nervousness and possibly mental breakdown. There is something of a communication problem with the inner self and its dictates, and the outer worldly personality who is continuing on in the same direction but suffering the consequences of perpetual self-doubt. There are times when the self-doubt would be better dropped completely, in order for the individual to clearly review the order of his life.

Most folk know if there is something amiss or awry in their life. It will be displayed in many a symptom, which does not necessarily speak to them directly of the concern. It is extremely difficult for individuals who from childhood carry a bank of misconceptions to draw from and know not where to turn or how to turn towards a fresh and healthier directive.

The positive thinker applies a dynamic approach, whereby he casts aside the self-doubts and then focuses upon that which he should like to be rather than that which he is or is not. Yes, here is the 'grafting on of virtues', which does seem to be the proper solution to an otherwise indefinable problem. As said before, the doubts a man may hold prohibit dynamic action and discourage the change so sorely required in that lifestyle. Therefore one must assume another personality, another set of values, which if higher placed, will assure a rising consciousness and a new set and range of possibilities and achievements. Recognize that the condition of self-doubting has spoken to us of an overall 'unsettledness' and begin anew in every way, replacing a vision of higher expectations on oneself, rather than envisualising and predetermining a lower range of inadequacies.

For we are not bound by our self-image. For a time we may be sorely discouraged and ineffectual because of a given self-image. And it may be added here that for most people, their self-image has been adopted largely by the dictates and pictures of others and has not begun to be worked on by the self - rather impressed as clay upon a rock. And if the self-image be degraded, then it is incorrect.

Christ assures us that our likeness is of His. This is all we need to focus upon.

Fellowships- 3rd July 1991

THERE are streams of individuals who work in a fretwork that encompasses both centuries and the Globe, in which certain unique influences characterize the teachings and involvement they impart- much like the Scottish clan system, whereby many designated parties belong to one country, each with individual symbol, each with characteristics and history dating back to the founding forefathers.

Unknowingly, we have partaken in this way- gravitating to this or that which is akin to the streams we have formerly belonged to: fellowships where past connections link back to sympathies expressed during life and laid down in Heaven; connections for future involvement, recognized or not, with peoples and ideals that are marked as a map on our being.

This is a distinction however from the racial bonds and necessary immigrations that occur from life to life. One may certainly have strong connections with geographical sites and the influences that they hold, also with a bloodline of a people following the course of a certain evolution.

Outside of these influences, which may characterize preferences in worldly perception, there is the fellowship/s that are established through experience, where souls striving are mutually impressed and have desire to work together, to come together some time in the future in mutual assistance. And so these streams of individuals are progressive by nature, as it is a conjoining for future ideals, rather than historic ties.

The establishment of communities by preference and design (rather than estate from one or another) is an outward reflection of such endearing fellowship, consciously recognized and worked through. Of course this doesn't mean to suggest that all folk from a particular stream have the resources or means at hand to be together in same time and place. However, pockets of individuals may gather in this way from such past associations and with future ideals.

The 'commune' is basically a creative venture with mutual sympathies. The monasteries, the cloisters, the retreats, perhaps the five-star hotel, have this in common. Folk have moved on, leaving behind the home and hometown, migrating in flock to weave their own nest with their own string and straw of ideals. 

Much respect is to be given to these endeavors of fellowship, as fresh possibilities and bonds of mutual interaction are gathering together also: communities for the future, not only for the present day. In striving to establish a unit, a social model for the propagation of high living set with the correct values that assist and enable each member to contribute and co-work, they begin to perfect the relationships of man to man in the very striving. Whether or not there are conflicts is of no importance, it is the commitment to the fellowship (not imposed by state or race), that when put to task founds a lighthouse for those in the future who may better the objectives of mutual striving and support.

One need not share the toothbrush to be of good example to this. Actual community need not even imply residence, but to happily acknowledge that there are indeed very real relationships that have been worked through in the past, whereby our involvements and empathies may take fast in future work.

In church and in charity, and many other venues for fellowship, there are wonderful bonds between soul and soul, and marvelous strivings together. Who among us does not need companionship? Were we to drift in and out of life making no friends we should not learn of the satisfaction that comes from the importance of mutual striving and mutual work, rather than self-importance (which on its own, says very little).

Oddly enough, fellowships may have respite periods. It is possible too, that a stamp club today may have comprised the same individuals yesterday who might have been Druids or may have worked together in excavation after a dire earthquake. They may have been bakers who shared the same merchant of spices. They may have been babes all born on the same day. They may have held court as duke and duchess determining land fallows and application.

When people are gathered together under a common flag conjoined, it may appear to be of little significance, however the true significance lies in the effort and in the bonds that are established thereby.

Conformity is not the important point here. The point is that through the freedom of individuality that we all enjoy, we also share divine capacity to embrace and co-work with other individuals and do add to such enterprises, in giving of ourselves and our time. This is fruitful in the common meeting of man to man.

True society will one day be realized. Man must work ever towards that goal of true communion and respect for such fellowships. Not because they are caught in bonds which inextricably tie them to laws imposed by such orders, but that they come to recognize the value of mutual striving and the support then given.

Sacrifice & the Holy Ghost- 1st July 1991

EACH RACE, each people, has its own gorgon, its own dragon which it has fed over time; a depository of sin, a beastie of quantified proportion, that, as in the myths and romances of the past, does hide face in lair, yet threaten the locality.

In the South Americas, where blood rites and sacrifice became such a fixation, to wit: human slaughter, there is now such an influence pervading that lingers heavily. One may tingle to the stench of past blood-letting and the cries of a betrayed humanity.

Geographically, any area which has been given over to tragedy in mass proportions is so marked, as it were, indefinitely; particularly where Man has sided with demon and turned on fellow man, pronouncing sovereignty over a people’s destiny by flinging those souls heaven-bound prematurely, hurling individuals swept with panic and sadness, denying them of a sweet and conscious passing.

Where violent death through violent intent and violation of humanity presides, that ground is so stained, that area so impressed, that the ghosts of the betrayed howl and moan to be heard. Their souls have departed: the individuals have gone on, but the entrails of such sheaths that were ripped so smartly, offcast, still linger and wander the unhappy ground. 

Like feathers plucked from bird, horn or antler torn, in violent death there is incomplete dissipation, and some constituents of the complete and entire constitution are not allowed adequate time to dissolve of themselves. So there are human remnants, remnants of an astrality so darkly impressed with pain and terror that no soul should wish to recover and absorb them. So they are left discarded and polluting that earthly space, where said sheath was first abandoned.

The people's gorgon, their hideous most monstrous pet, does feed upon such remains, having incited and encouraged the crimes firstly that he may swell and bloat on the pickings of the aftermath. Although quite invisible, all peoples who have by wicked means appeased the wretched beast, now suffer an ongoing relationship - the tormenting lamentations of an ever-hungry human-hating creature who ever demands satisfaction.

Cleansing and purification of such areas is as efficient as tweezers are to dusting, or mopping up water with a sponge at the seaside. For the innocent who are to suffer the atmosphere of demonic shrines, there is much illness endured, many intoxicants assimilated. Many a disease is born from such a location: disease that goes out and seeks further in the world that which may satisfy the beast of sacrificial urge.

This is the unsettling fact upon which all wars and conquests are entailed. Not only the loss of that period and certain peoples, but also too, the darkening of that defiled land in which the crimes occurred, and the generations who shall be affected in that region for centuries to come. Just as like attracts like, certain momentum is given to patterns of behaviour and designs of conduct - for better or for worse - affecting vast numbers of individuals in such propulsion, as inclinations and intentions are hurled and carried throughout the worldly arena.

We owe much to our forefathers, not the least which are the afflictions that carry on to present day sufferings. The legacy which we bestow upon our children of the future is therefore of supreme importance. How many ghouls and demons do remain to frequent the Earth, to incite yet more tragic demise?

Sacrifices are usually made in the name of another. But never may they be proclaimed in the sacred name of the Father. With the consequences of such having just been described, so slightly, one can envisage in truth, that with war or with religious enterprise, all tragedy makes for larger tragedies and goes on to make greater those demons of the underworlds.

In the instance of organ transplants, to be blunt and brief: we find that there are those sacrificing others in the name of 'life', and restoring life to those which such organs are shafted onto. Said sacrifice is imposed and the bodily parts so interfered with, that as with violent and tragic forms of death and subsequent dissipation, we have an incomplete deceased individual who cannot withdraw fully through to the higher worlds. There are some remains left behind for a period, long after the rest have dissolved.

These organs are very much of his own creation, they are singularly his, and yet now remaining and furthermore, being impressed and worked upon by another's impressions, another's astrality, which does not relate to his own constitution. It cannot be absorbed. Such disconnected remains (in the astral sense) will, as with the abovementioned, be earthbound for an indefinite period. The soul suffers the loss and the Earth gains another pollutant; which will yet further fertilize the lust of that gross community demon, who lusts after such human off-casts.

When we enter death, we have much to distil from that which we have made and collected of the substance which is attracted to form and design; physical counterparts to subtle bodies are refined and absorbed with vitalities and characteristics, which are of our own being. An individuality determines patterns which extend down into their physical substance and is very much connected, necessarily, with that physicality; even in the case of dismissing such a body in death. However, much like catching the hem of one's garment in a lift door, there is little to be done if the piece of cloth that remains is caught whilst the lift is progressing upwards.

You may take it on our say so for the time being, that dissolution of the physical psyche is far better to be complete, than incomplete. The organs are precious to us, and moreso their subtle stereotypes; for in which we carry many a characteristic, which is shown in personality, in longings, in acquired capacity for interpreting and infilling the individual with heavenly impulses, extracted and transmuted into that which is the physical and astral counterpart, that attracts such activity.

Each function and individual 'growth' that sprouts from an individual and harmoniously accords with higher motivations, channels that substance from Heaven, inspired firstly by that individual. It is as though the very complex and complicated strings of formulae, are recorded within the substance of the bodily functions (and of course in their subtle counterparts). The entities who are so envious of mankind, come as close as they can to humanhood by digesting the essential qualities and strings of experience, that should ordinarily be assimilated up into the higher substances of the refined subtle substance, shortly after death.

The demons (so called for the time being) seek out any part so touched by human design, in a gross attempt to become as similar to this intriguing evolution, which has certainly entertained and incited such attractions in the first instance. Love at first sight! It is a case where mistakenly, an entity who is not of human substance, seeks the experience of human life, which is recorded within the relevant organs (physically and astrally), and mistakes digestion of such experience, as the experience itself.

Worse than that, one may question the origins of these demons themselves and their relationship to humanity. Some, although not all, have foregone the destiny of Man and surrendered their own human qualities. Perhaps in some remorse or dim recollection, they still seek out that, which by rights would have come to them by the human path had they not renounced such a fate. We are speaking of opportunities lost a long, long time ago. However, there are ways which are correct in obtaining our desires and ways which are abhorrent to the order of Heaven. The path to progression is not advancing with a push and a shove up the line. It was that attitude that retained them originally. For now they have little to offer, save the unenviable duty of contrasting good and evil for humanity, playing the 'advocate' and assimilating the waste.

This is why one rarely hears of happy ghosts. In the case of entire sheaths abandoned and earthbound, it is because of shockingly unhappy circumstances, where even the maker, the owner of such a sheath, finds this to be unacceptable to dissolve in the conditions that ensued, surrounding an unhappy departure. A lot of a life's work has been abandoned quite wastefully when this dissolution has not been properly effected. The soul concerned will still however, have gleaned enough impressions to carry forth; but many an intricate detail is also discarded.

Sometimes it is sad to tell it the way it is, with no offering of immediate and long-lasting remedy. However, the way things stand in the world today, prompts us to moving operations for a better existence, and encourages us from that which is ugly, to that which is truly beautiful. Work to change current conditions, with a foresight that continues into a grander environment. Better to convert demons with the inspirations of men, than the entrails converting men to demons.

Christ did sacrifice Himself before any other. If sacrifices are to be made, they must not be imposed but self-decided. Why do men give of themselves to the devil? Why also, would they commit their brothers too? Perhaps, because they know not what they give.

By the power of the Heavens one may give of what is limitless. We are not asked to forgo that which we cannot afford to give. Love propagates, conceives and expels more of the same. We cannot take of another, that which is not ours to have.

Sacrifice is hope applied- hope for certain outcome. Many times outcome is predetermined by the quality and nature of that sacrifice- thus the true importance and distinction of many a sacrifice. For he who makes the sacrifice, through him and by him, such outcomes are half-determined.

Here was the peculiar purpose designed in the violent and torturous crucifixion: that a Sheath of Distinction, now bound to the Earth with Holy Ghost remaining but traveling freely, confronting all souls, imparting, is to remain married to the earthly condition until such time that Earth is totally transformed, having given of Himself truly.

Easter