Christ & the Holy Mysteries, & Pledges- 15th April 1994

Questions:

1. What is the significance of a pledge which is physically signed? This morning I heard of a program for wayward children, where contracts were given, their [the children’s] signature too, promising this and that; and I wondered what the underlying reality behind the signing of our names was.
2. Why do I hesitate to ask certain questions of you, particularly of those pertaining to Christ and the associated Holy mysteries? Instinctively I feel like I should lower my 'voice' (inwardly) and tread very softly, and also that perhaps I am not entitled to know many things of which I might ask for myself, or on behalf of someone else. Can you comment on this please?
   

THERE is a Promise of promise, which is because of those laws as set down by God Himself; and that has set the lesser pattern, for which we too are bound and made accountable to honor. The larger Promise made to Man was one wherein all suffering and need was to be compromised and addressed throughout time.

There was much which became unavoidable. The progressive man sought the experiences which would enrich and fulfill his own ego-knowledge and subsequent incorporation. And it has come to pass also that treacherous influences have raged upon the oceans of innocents too, and that many do suffer the total of their kind and are promised compensation.

The promise of all wish’s fulfillment is given to Man for he is so loved; and in similar measure a man must make good all of his promises also, and is given the opportunities from lifetime to lifetime to honor such pledges. There is no need to be uneasy at this thought. When one stops to question just how many such promises have been issued in the forum of an unremembered past, there is no concern warranted, as one is only oath-bound to those things which are intrinsically spiritually enhancing. Never is one obliged to carry forth with a promise which is destructive, threatening, insulting or unwittingly harmful. Such issues are not substantial within the spiritual realms; they leave nothing to build upon if in the business of unmaking.

Then there becomes the question of those who do offer their selves or their souls in service to some authority. Essentially we are drawn to return to those beings or souls to whom we have had commerce with; and there becomes a significant rapport with a certain few, who through the unveiling aspects of mutual love, become receptively obedient to the other’s influence.

There can be a recognition of past promises whereby each individual is confronted inwardly, and the seeds for continuance so planted may actually rise from many eons passed. So it may be acknowledged that the promises one may give to another can be more than well-meaning, but also well spent and carry forth into future circumstance as preliminaries for creative outcome.

Now the question so asked of the written signature in application, implies a conscious act of will which has underlined that which we have expressed our pledge to. It may be difficult to comprehend, but the degree of conscious effort and of willing really does make much in spiritual aspect. For although not always, the physical world, generally speaking, follows after the formations as applied in the nuance of the spiritual worlds; and in thus coming after it is amassed with influences of varying determination. One of the most potent influences is in the calling of a man, when he does consciously drive his will into spiritual aspect, for he may stimulate the higher innate forces merely by correct concentration, and summon all manner of influence thereby.

Holy water becomes activated, beginning with the conscious design and calling of the man so willing as to call forth its majesty. The water's powers were always there afore the man, however there is indeed a physical transformation as well as an etheric empowerment, when the man acts knowingly, with direct intention that the blessings be called forth.

In other words, there may be a spiritual definition given by a man, if indeed he consciously works his imaginative powers and wills it be so. Equally as powerful is a promise as given, to which we incorporate our name.

The writing of one's name is most especial to us and significant after death. During our episodes of residual review, we are given to great clarity reviewing those circumstances in which we actually signed our name. It is an exercise in self-consciousness to do so, firstly. Secondly, if it has been to seal a promissory commitment, we are obliged to review in all accuracy the conditions as given at the time; and then also we are presented with what may or may not have come of it. 

The post-death effect is exactly the same when it comes to a promissory handshake also. It becomes a wonderful reminder to what one has pledged and what did become of it. It is of solemn significance and no light matter that we enter into any agreement which commits our future activities and being. It can work well and be of supreme usefulness, that there are provisions for reminders for the soul which at times advances into shadowy domains, and is thereafter prompted to recall that which was previously significant and entitled to pursuance.

We are not answerable to all undertakings in the immediate however, as there are considerations as to those 'promises' as borne by the soul in terms of personal karma also. This variety of promise does not need a conscious affirmation to be binding, but rather is presuming because of past conduct alone. The workings of karma - the greater and the personal - are ceaseless. How could they stop? There is no provision for rest or for lack of contribution, as long as we negotiate the many influences within and without us. Motion summons karma. The very slightest movement awakens karma. For it must make compensation in the great shuffle - where one moves we all move, and must make adjustment. Can you picture that? That there is effect everywhere by everything, and it is ceaseless!

At certain conjunctions within an individual's lifespan there become aspects highlighted, as it were, incorporated within the active man. And he is as new, given many challenges all throughout this course, that he may enter into the marvels of the world with variations in his tapestry of experience. There was a question as to whether or not a man might disband those affectations of past karma and begin afresh within a single lifetime. It must be credited from the first, that so very much of one's ongoing circumstance is directly related to some past acquaintance or involvement or experience. 

You are in this respect, always inseparable to the past. There can be no severance and no acquittal. The fresh opportunity to go forth and forge anew is there at all times, also. This needs be afforded and is the Grace of God (literally) that this is so - it is complete forgiveness in actuality that we may be released from the otherwise all consuming ties of past karma sufficiently that we may effect change out from such and into improvement.

Now when it comes to the age of forty-nine and after, there becomes a substantial shift - which began at forty-two or thereabouts - that stands determinedly upon the outer earth and now looks skyward. Traveling through the years, it is as though the wherewithal within the worldly sophistication has only just reached culmination and the individual actually feels now equipped to progress further, into whatever direction their lives have thus brought them to. (One hundred and forty-two is quite a milestone too.)

However, at no time is there alteration in the periphery of pervading and cradling karma, for it is karma also which causes us to be allowed for; it is karma which provides the space for our expression of individuality, and it is karma which defends our being.

Physical karma need not translate with physical ramification. "An eye for an eye" was descriptive of the way in which karma used to operate when it came to the individual being answerable for every blight and scourge he did cause. (And we mean every.) The circumstances were that a murder was definitely and unalterably commissioned for any who did murder, that the physical consequences were commensurate with the act of cause, and that a man might live the experience he invoked upon another, having need of that experience from the other angle.

However, this obvious example among many, proved to be the first law of prophecy as worked over by Christ. Much future prophecy is kept guarded and prepared by the Lords of Karma. Prior to the transmigration of beloved Christ, the walls surrounding the fate of men were engraved so heavily by their past digressions into mishap, that the entire world would have been bound to repeat and suffer the sorrow until the planet's expiration.

For this reason alone there was need for a higher command which might elevate the conditions of rebounding karma into spheres attributable within the spiritual worlds firstly. That a man could play out his judgments - which we might add, are imposed and created solely by self - during the interlude between death and rebirth, and work in and around the ensuing presentations in due time and in differing ways.

The precept of an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was not meant as criterion for retaliatory conduct, but rather as an explanation of the then workings of a strictly defined karmic system. Further to that, comes the question of bearing the karma of another, that the weight of the account be so burdened as to be unbearable by the individual, but may be alleviated by the loving sacrifice of another soul who has intentionally taken it upon themselves to arrest the consequences. This sacrifice is indeed possible once again in the light of the new law (as made by Christ) which has surpassed the exactings of the obstinate tax-man (old Karma), and has been effected through great love, charity and sympathy in the extreme.

To a lesser extent we may alleviate another's ledger of debt with the very issue of forgiveness, which shall determine that the individual concerned may be offered great opportunities to address his actions in a positive way. In other words, karma would have us learn and learn well. It is not merely the indiscriminate force that compels compensatory action and reaction- it is determined by those who are involved. Therefore one who forgives another (where there is reason) has altered the relationship to begin with. For on the most important level of all, there is already a degree of quiet, of peace, and this does release the other from anguish that would otherwise come to him.

There becomes a certain necessity, that thoughts which begrudge or accuse, condemn or stingingly rebuke, are to be calmed and set to ease, rather than perpetuated. For rightly or wrongly, with just cause or without, the ongoing armory of insult inflicts unseen pain upon the person to whom they are directed, and aggravates their station in the world. The overall remedy for every soul is the cessation from such calamity, either offered or received.

On the lighter side also, one might be mindful of those who we choose to contest with arguments left unresolved; that it shall be with these people to which we are entangled with in conflict, that conflict itself will oblige resolution, and we shall be assured of many dealings with them further on. Therefore if one does not wish for a protracted association, they are well advised to be peaceable, and resolute to pray for that man's salvation, rather than demise.

The intricacies of karma are all digested and comprehended by the being of each and every man. The soul knows the reasoning behind every charter; and we are fulfilled completely, having craved the very avenues of experience as are brought before us.

For the more advanced men upon this Globe, the hosts of Karma and the ribbons of consequence are equally enforcing; and we deliberate with caution in obedience to the law. But even the most advanced have their times of being caught in double-sided decisions, and rest on the issue of the heart before the law and wear the consequences willingly.

As to the second question: concerning your general apprehension: we too are delicate in this approach and know that the level of understanding may be undertaken, but very slowly. Great truths, those truths which are associated with Christ and the Christ Being are so very wonderful, but very terrible in the strength of their power as it works in the realities. You must recognize that already there are those things which you know, that if you would take but one of them and treasure it in full contemplation daily, there would be so much made apparent thereby, and enough to keep you occupied and enlightened in this life.

It is not really even a matter of reward - although reward is what it is - that when an individual really works upon a spiritual truth, applies it, digests it and becomes it, he becomes ready for another on a vastly different level than before; and so it goes. All of the knowledge, all at this once, would not be beneficial or attributable, but be as only jargon.

Worse than that is the violation of the truth when it is mistaken and abused. This is not to say for one moment that the Christian Mysteries are at risk with this with the consideration of faithful students. However, to say that they are simply placed would be a lie in itself, for they are not. The explanations as to the events leading up to and proceeding, are not easily assimilated - our scribes are still reeling from the massive tumultuous changes which turned much around in but an instant.

The destinies of one man or many men are watched with curiosity, and in part may be predictable insofar as there are only so many roads open to them that they may travel. However when Christ entered into this World and reclaimed the mass in all its entirety, much of what was to be then following was unpredictable and totally unknown. For this was He and the great plan was His - in consultation, that is.

So it is understandable that you should be respectfully cautious before asking of this or that; but it may also be said that any question phrased in earnest is welcome and worth honoring. If it cannot be explained sufficiently there shall be a time given in the future to the inquirer, in which the reality shall be put before them.

A reliable key into the events of the past - and in particular the Christ-events - is in having a direct connection. Of course this excludes many who could not be in the vicinity at the time and therefore have not the ability to enter into the memory of what transpired. Quite often a higher vision is offered by angelic representation - how it was as they did witness - and such pictorial images leave wonderful soul imprints and are historically loose as to actual words passed and towns trod. They are more as from the view from the spiritual worlds, where souls who were met with along the way could be seen to respond in a manner which would send ripples of joy through the angelic onlookers.

Another mystery of this Mystery is that much of the actual happenings whilst Christ did stride the Earth have been concealed, as it were. The record is not there. In the Akasha, He does not represent. The men to which He had dealings are visible (and those who are here can make good account too), but in review of the Akashic memory they can be seen to be talking to the air rather than to an identity.

We do have a way to go, and with patience shall we get there. (And that was not intended as a pun.)

Goodnight

Rudolf Steiner on the Akasha:

"Let us imagine these words congealing somewhat as water congeals to ice by sudden, intense cold. In such a case the words would descend to Earth as congealed air and we could recognize each word by its form.

"And now, instead of a process of densification, let us imagine the reverse. We know that matter can pass through the most solid to the most rarified states: solid, liquid, gaseous. Matter can be subtilised to a point at which we are led over to `negative' matter — Akasha. Events on Earth impress themselves into this akashic substance and can be rediscovered there even those which occurred in far remote ages of the past.

"Akashic pictures are not static and immobile. They unroll before the eye of the seer as living tableaux where objects and persons move and even speak. The astral form of Dante would speak as he spoke in his own milieu. It is almost invariably this kind of image that is seen in spiritualistic seances, where it is thought to be the spirit of the dead.

"Our task is to learn how to decipher the pages of this book of living images and to unroll the innumerable scrolls of the `Chronicle' of the universe. This can only be done if we are able to distinguish between appearance and reality, between the human sheath and the living soul. Daily discipline and long training are necessary if false interpretations are to be prevented.

"Definite answers to questions, for example, might be received from the form of Dante thus perceived. But they do not emanate from the individuality of Dante, for the individuality continues to evolve; they emanate from the ancient figure of Dante,`fixed' in the etheric milieu of his time."

So if Dante can speak to us from the Akashic Chronicle, what about Christ Jesus? Of course it has never been done. It is impossible because He is not there. And what an immense tragedy it would be if Christ allowed a double of Himself to be available in this way.

As discussed, the akasha is only one form of memory manifest. There are many systems of memory that operate concurrently- the Astral Light, the Etheric (memories of blueprints), being others. Apart from the "dead" systems of memory there are the memories of spiritual beings- Angels have long memories.

In the dead systems of memory we can find the `who', `where' and `what', but the `why' is no longer there. The Akashic Chronicles in themselves, are not self-conscious. Though the image of say, Goethe is there, and he may impart new poetry and answer questions, the "living
image" is essentially one of death.

Christ has the power to alter the Akashic Record:

"If one surveys the course of human evolution since the Mystery of Golgotha and approaches the Akashic Record without being permeated with the Christ Being, it is easy, very easy indeed, to be led into error, for one will find records which very often do not coincide with the karmic evolution of the individuals concerned. For example, let us suppose that in, say, the year 733 some man lived and incurred heavy guilt. The person now examining the Akashic Record may at first have no connection with the Christ Being. And behold — the man's guilt cannot be found in the Akashic Record. 

Examination of the Karma of this man in a later incarnation reveals that there is something still in his Karma which he has to wipe out. That must have existed in the Akashic Record at a certain point of time, but it is no longer there.

"A strange contradiction! This is an objective fact which may occur in many cases. I may meet a man today, and if through grace I am permitted to know something about his Karma, I may perhaps find that some misfortune or stroke of fate that has fallen on him stands in his Karma, that it is an adjustment of earlier guilt. If I turn to his earlier incarnations and examine what he did then, I do not find his guilty deed registered in the Akashic Record. How does this come about?

"The reason is that Christ has taken upon Himself the objective debt.

"In the moment that I permeate myself with Christ, I discover the deed when I examine the Akashic Record. Christ has taken it into His kingdom and He bears it further, so that when I look away from Christ I cannot find it in the Akashic Record. This distinction must be kept clearly in mind: karmic justice remains, but Christ intervenes in the
effects of the guilt in the spiritual world. He takes over the debt into His kingdom and bears it further. Christ is that Being who, because He is of another kingdom, is able to blot out in the world our debts and our sins, taking them upon Himself."

The Foundations of Esotericism:

"For example, Caesar conceived the idea of crossing the Rubicon and this roused in him certain feelings and desires. What took place at that time corresponds to a combination of astral impulses. The physical deeds on the physical plane have vanished for all eternity.

Caesar's advance can no longer be seen in the Astral Light, but the impulse which drove him to it has remained there. The karmic (astral) correlations with what takes place on the physical plane remain in the Astral Light.

One must accustom oneself to look away from all physical perceptions and only to see the karmic impulses. One must hold fast to these and consciously transpose them back into the physical. There is no purpose in looking for something which might be seen, as though one were looking at a photograph.

The greatest impulses of world history can however no longer be read in the Astral Light, for the impulses of the great initiates were passionless. Whoever therefore reads only in the Astral Light, for him the whole work of the initiates is absent: for example the content of the book `The Great Initiates' by Edouard Schuré could not have been found in the Astral Light. Such impressions are only inscribed in the Ether. What one can read in the Astral Light in connection with what the initiates have done is based on an illusion, because one can only read the results of the lives of the great initiates in the impulses of their pupils. Pupils and even entire peoples have experienced strong and passionate emotions in regard to the actions of the great initiates and these have remained in the Astral Light. But it is so difficult to study the deepest motives of the great initiates because they are only present in the ether.

"Cosmic events — metamorphoses such as those of Atlantis — remain at a still higher level, no longer in the Ether, but in the actual Akasha.

"That is the Akashic Chronicle. This latter is nevertheless connected in a certain way with the most earthly concerns of mankind. For the human being is connected with the great happenings of the Cosmos.

"Every single person is to be found sketched, as it were, in the Akashic Chronicle. What is present there continues further and works its way into the Ether and the Astral Light. The individual human being becomes ever more clearly discernible the more one seeks for him in the lower spheres. And one must study all these spheres in order to understand the real mechanism of Karma."

-Rudolf Steiner

Seven Aspects of a Sanctified Space- 8th April 1994

A PRESCRIBED chapel becomes as a very anteroom which does rest then between this world and that. Attributed and made special, purpose-used it makes over itself quick-soon the halo, encompassing that very room now made holy.

1. 1. We make welcome all souls, saints, angels and Deity.

Admission into closed spaces is not easily negotiated by the many invisible beings, who would by invitation, become present. The focus point, the altar, is usually the very doorway into which they are drawn, and it is the nature of many beings to remain outside of any walled room if not given an invitation or direct calling (by certain desire) to be there.

It is not so much that the walls translate into the spiritual domains, but moreover that the walls actually impinge upon the space, as in what goes in and goes out of it. This is true for many emanations and perceptions, and the laws of the angle-meet where lines confer and enclose, do work for certain containment.

This is relevant to that time in particular ceremony where the bells are rung and notice is given for the clearing of a space of unwelcome beings who may not be benign to such activity, and the windows are given an invisible membrane likewise, in the issue of the ringing.

Some beings (the lesser variety) have little or no mal-intent, but are obnoxious because they have been around coarse men and become quite characterized by their behavior. These beings may impinge upon a holy gathering and cause much unwanted disruption, making for irritation and actually trying to invoke or induce a havoc-causing rendition. The reason being that they may feed from the lower emanations as given by the men or women who react in a particular way.

There are of course, mischievous creatures also, which would upset a prayer or interrupt a meditation, for want of attention- which they are used to in the ordinary day to day living. These types of elementary beings are actually brought into the chapel accompanying each individual, who best leave them at the door, literally; and hope that by their future conduct they may be empowered to rework their elemental offspring into finer examples of higher influence.

Added to the attitude and prayers of welcoming to all desirable noteworthys (i.e. calling upon all who revere our Father God and acknowledge Christ as King of the World) we may also assure a special attendance by the way in which the chapel itself is characterized - that it is by its own gravitation inspiring to the gentler beings who would otherwise be offended by ordinary rooms of inhabitance. Which leads us to:-

2. We enhance the area, and seek to ensure the chapel be inoffensive to the Divine.

Enhancing a chapel need not involve extraordinary means of lavish proportion. The properties of any sacred space require that:

a) It be well lit by natural sunlight, and never, if possible, darkened (even when not in use).

b) It be furbished with those requisites which signify with either some direct purpose of usefulness, or hold beauteous value as objects of inspiration or significant meaning.

In other words, every piece within the chapel is to be there for a well thought-out reason and acknowledged as being important to the contribution of the room. If something is unnecessary, then it is best left outside. This too may be well applied to those articles which may be thoughtlessly brought into the room by the attendants (books, handbags, etc.) for it is better to avoid superfluity and its contrasting emanations than hazard them.

c) Ensure that representatives from the plant kingdom be present (either pot-dwelling or fresh-cut). The chapel space becomes as 'outside-in'.

There are compensations to be adjusted because the devotions are within a certain confine - all of the abovementioned prerequisites are exactly that - and no less is the provision of plant life brought into the space. We respectfully acknowledge the life of the plant/s within this special area: the life to which they are firstly connected and do spring out of, is the essential life which inspires us also; with this difference: that the plants actually generate more life than they expire, and for this reason we do venerate them and are uplifted with their presence.

d) The concerted activities and inner expressions of the participants shall speak more for the environment and determine its appeal thereby. It shall be known for what it is, and it can be said, that if there is any such place where something is truly perceived for exactly its value, it is surely in a sanctified space of which this world's veils are transparent.

So we may ensure that the environment is pleasing to higher activity by our direct conduct within the space, and that it be solely for the purpose of devotion, kept strong in that and not weakened by extraneous involvements. Of course there are some chapels in which folk are brought food and associated conversations are unavoidable, however if circumstances allow the strict privilege, then it is best that the convening for consumables and throwaway conversation likewise, be offered in another area, far removed.

3. We build an altar and make an altar-space.



The altar, as stated before, is the actual inner door to the room. It is to where all eyes do go, when projected openly. It is where the concentrated forces are pinioned by the eyes of the men, by the activities streaming in and around that focal-piece.

Raised off the ground, this area is marked with lit candles. These candles preface the way for all of those invisible; and whilst there may be others besides placed here and there about the room, it is recommended that there be several upon the altar, on each corner or end of that space. They are best placed in water, that the water may reflect their light, and there are many ways this can be achieved. (Standing the holders in small baths, or floating candles.)

The candlelights not only help to purify the space, but also to sanction it. The flame brings man a very old representation which enthralls his being, because the fire he has known always, and it is far older than ere even his recollection. Many turn inward their ponderances by glancing at the tip of the candle, and the fire without speaks to the fires within of the many motivations which react within the living core.

The water beneath signifies the perfect containment of each flame, and by the reflection we are caused to ponder our own being, as similar. The water too has ancient origin, and is revivifying to all that lives because its body is Life itself. The action of fire may be considered as the Holy Ghost in element: ever moved to enliven, whilst the water embraces all by its perfection - the I AM of Christ, of which all is contained. The sunlight as does penetrate is verily the consciousness of Christ, and all that is touched by this light is known by Him directly. Let prayers be addressed to the region of the altar, and when spoken openly may this also be, for we bear in mind that it is through this space we are sending our words and our thoughts and our commiserations heavenward, and looking for reply. Therefore the host to the Communion is best facing it also, be it from the back or the front, with attention dwelt there.

4. That we provide an ornamental Cross.


This may or may not be positioned at the altar space, however it is best to be nearby, where it may be appreciated. The actual shape of the Cross reacts with the ethers directly around it. There becomes a conspiring, an activity, out from this humblest of forms. The image of life commands life. This is an esoteric law. The Cross, amongst many other things, is the image of man - in his simplest form. Other images more complex, can be more defining or exaggerated, or in striving for likeness lose to accuracy. However the law is that the model of a man is enough to draw to it the gravitations of life: certain vitalities, properties, elemental attachments etc.

This is our mark, our notation. When upright, it becomes a noble meditation. It says "Man!" It hums in the darkness, it perseveres throughout all time. It signifies our destiny as charted by our Christ, who ennobled it further by His great act of Sacrifice in becoming man.


5. We ensure that the tones of the colors are respectfully pure and inoffensive to the eye.

The colors in a given space hold supreme effect upon those within that space. They need not be seen to be appreciated, and have great sway over those individuals who are steeped in solemn propriety. For it is partial to the sensitivity as brought about by devotional contemplations, that such 'ordinary' contributors become extraordinarily powerful in their persuasion.

So we must be mindful of this and begin to discern this color from that, and come to know of those which contradict and argue with each other, and those which are uplifting to be with - preferably pure and light-filled, rather than muted or muddied in aspect. Each color attracts to it a corresponding being also and so we may happily represent all colors of the spectrum at the one time, providing that they are rich or clear and not combined.

Woven variables are best excluded where possible, keeping the sectors of color clear, plain and precise. This is also more pleasing in aspect and the overall psyche of the individuals in the room shall feel the difference also. Clean, crisp colors, warm rich colors - both are reflective. It is the manner in which they are displayed and combined that is of issue. Patterned fabrics are argumentative and a distraction. Paintings and wall-prints are to be scrutinized as well as to whether or not they truly merit the displaying of, particularly in special regard to the aspect of colors.

6. That we offer song with our dedications.

Music combines in a way which creatively works within a man, and yet also may stretch out from his being into further realms far beyond the reaches of the initial sound. The interplay of harmonies is a statement of both a rejoicing in being and an active creativity, and although Man is only just beginning to come into the realms of song and know of its powers, he is nonetheless rejuvenated much by this participation; whether it be in actual vocalizations or by the reception of another's voice. In song we aspire to our highermost selves, for it is the language of the soul, the notation of harmonies.

7. We may make tributes to the virtues and signify them.



Words indeed are powerful. Usually the fewer there are, the more power there is attached. We may use single words or fully phrased verse, prayer or statement, and have such displayed round-about, here and there, in order that we may be reminded of certain qualities which we should fix our attention upon. Not only do these serve as useful to read, but also the very associative emanations hold beneficial contribution to the chapel as well. Such deliberate contemplations awaken us to our purpose and intent, and are remedial to such failings as we may suffer.

The chapel is not the venue for discussion or open conversation, but rather is to be reserved for spiritual commune and revelation. It is with obedience to the truth and reverence before God, that we enter a sanctified space in full expectation. We are not required to compromise our earthly world, but rather to uphold it by the returning to its strengths and origins, and incorporating the spiritual world back into this existence.

The serious nature of such an endeavor is awesome, for here we have an intent on behalf of those who conspire to enjoy this sacred space and make much of it in the glory to God! No matter what residence or who the people involved, it is a dedication which is respectful, and hopeful and encouraging to all.

Every temple, every chapel, every sanctuary, every church, redefines and upgrades a portion of earthly space, that we may begin to offer back to God that which is His - namely, us. We attribute all that we are and all that we be, to Him. Out from ten grains we give one grain. Out from this plenitude of space, we make but a small space and dedicate it to Him and His, and in earnest searching we may go to this space, singly or in community, and bring gratitude for this our true spirituality.

To Know Him Well- Easter 3rd April 1994

OUT from the tomb He sprang: this sweet release from fathoms of impiety. There where the death-odors could not penetrate but had clung around the opening and hung waiting in all dark places. . . there inside that cavity then made secure, that in the name of final sanctity the One whom they loved as no other, could now hide cold and silent from the world which had refused Him; with His tortured body dignified and His Angelic armies abashed and dismayed.

"How could this have ever come to be?" they wailed.
"Return to we who love you best!" they implored.
"Where, oh where has He gone to?" they entreated.

For no one did know. No one could see. Christ had returned back to Father God for final counsel and for His provisions.


The Christ had tried on the raiment of imperfection; for it is that Man is incomplete and with need. The path of mortality, the subjugation of Man and his impieties, was so far removed from the original vision, and yet with seed and score intact. The symptoms of evil were the blight of the earth and the abandonment of a Humanity, which was naive to its potent powers of thought and of being.


For in activity one is experiencing- which is necessary to the fulfillment of inner knowledge. However, in the midst of such experiencing one is not relaxed and is unable to refer to that wisdom accrued. Humanity was embroiled in constant activity, relishing the confusions of a vivid and dangerous existence, steeped in the contrasts brought before the soul which accompany the conflicts - and in that time they became overexcited with the scent of blood, and not pious, nor respectful, but rather stimulated by the physical essences.


The Christ was not a dainty, for He was and is the very Strength of the World. When He called upon the Father in His final moments upon the cross up on that hill, it was then His chosen time to withdraw. However the exit was halted by His very Love for the World, and His binding to the frame was as so secure that no shaft or bleed would warrant His Death. He needed also our Father to draw Him back, that He could loosen unto death.

Christ's Body was ever renewing. Just as so He could share the empowerment of His Law over the physical domain, (as well He did by such numerous healings and manifestations) the same empowerment was His also, for that capsule of His. Yet He denied Himself. The Martyr bore the insults of a fraudulent office. He let way to their choices, their prophecy, and surrendered unto the pain of Mankind sufficiently to meet it where it could be found. He wrestled then, with those choices, with all prophecy and with that pain; for His Vision is complete, and His Might the more persuasive, and His Tolerance is as supplication.


Upon His journey back to that same spot - same spot which was to have held the holiest of reliquaries (sweet-smelling not because of the balms that smothered, but perfect within the rancid overflow) - He advanced in completeness, having surveyed the summit and the depths of this His own determination; that He, Christ the Being, pledged Himself to the wanting World and had begun to fulfil the greater works within ongoing Creation. Creation has an unashamedly intemperate wildness about her - youthful in her enthusiasm, still moved to go forth and go on into new and newer expression, ever rejoicing the majesty which motivates her so.


Christ traveled the passage of time that would take Him to the very end. For it was to be that long before He could salvage each soul (out of time) and commend them, He worked the future backwards, He stormed the lower worlds, He made His Presence known, He reclaimed His World, perfectly.


Then, in what appeared as just a matter of days, he returned to that same spot to where His followers had remained and He smiled upon them. He was not over-weary, because He had won out; even over weariness itself, He had won out.


He gave gifts to the mourners and gifts to the disclaimers. He stepped into the shell once more, to prove yet His mastery over this our manifestation. It did comply because there are none who may deny Christ when He is so revealed unto them, and He is convincing by His sweet Presence alone, of which one is overfull with pure joy and pure love.

"Tell us Lord, what it is that You would have us do?"
"Tell us Lord, what it is that You would have us be?"
"Show us the way, and we shall gladly follow and be compliant in earnesty."

Christ craves harmony, and He does promote all that combines in treaty, in unison, in conjoining within Creation and in Spirit, in Man and his World, in Cosmos and its extreme. If every man could but follow His example and love one another, all else would take care of itself. For He is the doorway through to true Life; the mirror of the heart, that only by which may one faithfully represent and retain the truth and the beauty of all spiritual reality.


May we cherish Christ in His actuality. Let no man defame Him, for they who lack the grace of such piety shall soon learn of their misconduct by their expediency, of a tethered soul becoming both frail and without life.


If we seek to know Him, afore qualification, we are nonetheless assured of great and grand result in time. Whereas the man who never wonders and is sore tempted to inquire of Christ, shall be given also that which he has asked for, albeit nothing.

Suicide- 27th March 1994

THERE becomes a queasy faintness rushing over a man who is caught all of a sudden by a remembrance formerly disbarred from the consciousness; and as it comes all at once, he is then perhaps committed to acknowledge this or that past association which quite innocently comes to him. Whether he proceeds to befriend the pressing memory is a deliberate decision we all are brought to continually.


Reconciling changes within our continuity can cause havoc amongst those who do not perceive a far-reaching future – those to whom the present sleeve becomes all or nothing, and eternity is incomprehensible.


One can say about those who have chosen deliberately and cruelly to end their own life, that these folk are seized with but a temporary madness, overcome with a hatefulness which becomes inflicted upon their very selves because the will of the man is not being seen to be fulfilled at that particular time, in a particular way which does suit him. 


For the insult of suicide is wicked and unprofitable. The man suffers the consequences, as so does the world, as so does every being of light upon the planet who works only for the glory of the life of Man, and cannot bear its demise without feeling too the pain of their failure.


Self-murder is a betrayal of soul. Were that one person can read this stern text and be persuaded that there shall be every horror known to he who willfully executes his life's forfeit before time. It is the law that the time of departure is not to be of our choosing, and it is the law that our selves are as a treasured keepsake to God and are to be valued as such and protected from the will to destroy such creation. For nowhere within the scheme of larger Creation is there a provision that it should be permitted to turn back upon itself and decide in part or whole to simply cease to be. It would be entirely contrary to that law of Creation. It cannot be both. 


However, Man has such a flaw. This was the very worst spin-off from the experiment of his own freewill. There is glory if he decides on the side of Life, but there is tragedy insurmountable if he errs towards relinquishing that life. Apart from the ungratefulness and quite apart from the associated malevolence, the individual who desists from this planet shall rue his impatience, for the very reason that he has accomplished nothing to receive greater peace, no reward for his impulsiveness. And because of his self-chaos and injury to the law, it becomes extremely difficult for beings to approach him and be of assistance to encourage the lighter aspects once again.


Returning to the original explanation: it does happen quite frequently, particularly in this age of materialism, that individuals cannot readily shift perspective sufficiently to enable them to envisage a future. Without the ability to imagine thus, many consequences result and many do not. For example: if I am unable to realize change before it occurs, I am unable to prepare for it also. If I am unable to consider change in those conditions within or without, then I am not given to enjoy optimism which could otherwise carry me through the present and into happier times. If I am unable to perceive change and a future, then I might well believe that all that is pathetic and unworthy of myself shall always be; and this becomes an intolerable thought.


To some the actual reasoning (if it could be called that) afore the suicide, does make of a difference; and yet it can be added that the sorry results are all the same. We speak from the experience that daily witnesses the wraith-like wretches fixed to the Earth, with no freedom to move on until the term of what would have been their natural life is thus completed. Their days have time - unlike for those who may move on, these individuals are compelled to be wakeful (there is no slumber) for the entire day or night, and may not be released any further prematurely.

After the initial outburst has subsided - let us explain: the manner in which one dies holds extreme significance to how one is directly afterwards; also too the overall make-over of a man, his disposition, his charity, his qualities of love, his expressions, his strengths on the day of his death, shall go on and be continued and be profitable to him in the spiritual worlds, and in his immediate manner of receiving them. Now in the case of self-murder, the man has in his last moments, forged only unhappiness, he is enmeshed in sorrow and hatred, he despairs because he has begun to be persuaded by the demons which would happily push him over the edge into the abyss and laugh as he falls. As his clouds of denial thicken (soul-denial) his consciousness becomes stupid and lazy, intoxicated by the very choice before him (which ordinarily would not be a choice at all) and in insolence to the extreme, his dark thoughts finally come to the conclusion of annihilation. 


What he does not recognize is that annihilation is not so easily managed - oh frail man, who acts ungraciously and without care! If anything, he has bought the very opposite. How often these souls mutter "I only want peace, I only want peace" that there are pockets within them and within the world at large that are so disdainful to their soul-sensibilities that they are impatient to remedy the upset. They would cut out their own heart to punish it for not loving enough, they would fain to live loathsome and correct it in time. They cannot forgive others, they cannot forgive themselves. So in their passing, all of their upset travels with them and is there to be contended with ever after. Heaven would gladly help, but cannot be held to ransom. If these comments appear stern, it is because they have to be, saying only of the truth and with warning as to what shall befall any others who believe that there might be reward gained for so unworthy a crime. 

As for the souls who are now committed to live mid-worlds, one may pray for their wellbeing and try to envisage on their behalf, all of those attributes and occurrences that they themselves could not find. Many need counseling, for they still cannot find a 'future'. They do not realize, frequently, that they have passed over, and in their confusion are impelled to play out the act of death over and over again. Of course, it simply doesn't work. 


It is slow indeed, trying to reach these souls who are almost comfortless for the time of their intern. Much of the supplication that is needed is given many years later, at that date of what would have been their natural passing. (The first date, it should be added, for everyone does come to certain conjunctures where death presents and there is a choice then and there as to whether or not they wish to remain.)


It is rare and unusual for the same mistake to be repeated twice with this one. The consequences which are carried over into following lives can vary of course, however the actual urge to act in this manner is answered by the unpleasant experience so known. 

Having said that, there was a particular period where human sacrifices (particularly amongst the young) were prevalent and many stepped the threshold in this manner, into the arms of the awaiting demons who had commanded that the vitalities be given over. Those souls who were caught up in these periods and surrendered themselves thus were actually inclined to suicide in following lifetimes. The reason itself was simple, and although valid, quite worthless: of the many sacrifices played out (and we shall not go into by what method) there was, for those individuals, a great summoning of courage just preceding the death. This is in contrast to the actual suicide, who has lost all courage and is quite defeated. 


Now as specified before, the condition of the man just prior to death makes for very strong impressions which are translated and carried over and remaining; so too the aspect which leads up to the final moments. Such aspect is borne strongly in individuals and often presents during subsequent lifetimes; particularly if there is something there to prompt the recall. For example: there may be an unfounded but unspeakable urge to throw oneself into the volcano's mouth, and this is not uncommon amongst those who have vividly lived out the final moments falling from a height into death. 


Further from this is also- in the case of the sacrifice, the question of nobility, of worthiness, of courage etc. - one may picture that the parcel of whirling impressions combine within the man and with the future association; and so, misplaced as it is, he may well set about to repeat the 'ennobled' act, being so strongly impelled at those times of weakness, which strangle his perspective on the future.


To these particular fellows this actual knowledge can be of assistance, for if it rings true for them that there was such an occurrence in a former lifetime (and there is a very large possibility of this being so), then the observation can be enough to lessen it into distraction.


In the case of the terminally-ill (which is not a term we like at all - one is either alive or they are not, all are terminal in the worldly sense) it is exactly the same law as explained above. Perhaps one may consider that the days ahead shall be few, that they who have departed afore time shall remain earthbound - fewer than say, the suicide of good health. It can be noted too that the manner in which they depart, once again is of great importance, and extremely different to the exasperation of life, being an exasperation and quarrel with pain instead.


The question as to why there are areas in which the suicide-demon is more prevalent than others relates to numerous factors. Apart from the materialism and the outfall from such as mentioned above, there is also the consideration of intoxicating drugs and their effect upon the interaction of the soul and his lower consciousness.

There is a general misconception which suggests that mind altering toxins - for it has to be a poison in order to cause the disincarnating in part within a man, severing his usual ties and bonds and permeations - that such drugs or practices actually induce a more 'spiritual' awareness, having loosened the man from his earthly consciousness. This is not so however. The grades of consciousness respond spiritually to those influxes which are by nature, enlightening, invigorating, revealing, inspiring, and so forth. In other words, one is spiritually keener only by truly spiritual means.


Poisons, on the other hand, are not this. They are potent within the astral realm and relate to astrality rather than spirituality. Poisons or poisonous practices which invoke astral (lower astral) perceptions, desires, behavior, etc. actually demoralize the man within the man and demote his consciousness below his God-given awareness. If it were true that a pill or a potion could actually raise a man higher, then it would become unnecessary for one to even contemplate self-development and all the associated efforts. Picture-windows into other planes of being can be achieved in the very short-term by some means, however the result remains the same: the individual is severed from his earthly connections and his ability to remain intact becomes weakened.


The very young are more susceptible to this disease of false spirituality. They are so very full of expiring vitalities which may consume them readily if uncontrolled. What may be done, that we may try wholeheartedly to prevent yet another from that great act of anguish? There are two needs each being has: one is to be loved firstly and the other is to be enlightened to the truth that he may find the beauty and the worth that awaits his finding - to be set upon the path of a true spirituality, which is what he really yearns for. For the suicide is dissatisfied with what the material world has to offer and that is precisely why he chooses to relinquish it; however, as we maintain, he forgoes too much mistakenly.


In our efforts (our meaning us, all of us making effort) to work inwardly (in prayer and meditation), to work outwardly (in concerted teaching, in mindful observation, through great interaction, and last but not least with Love) we strive to effect changes that will uplift all men and remedy not only their inclinations for self-harm (which is what it is), but shall bring to them the confidence so desperately needed which firmly rejoices the wondrous and true realities in which we are cradled.


Bless all men and know on behalf of them, that we are all promised a continuity; which, by the way, indicates that it is not all change throughout eternity, but that one carries on from that past point always. We continue on. . . and so the work must begin now and it must begin with an optimism that is reasonable and specifies exactly all the good things it requests. We can do this for all men, we can do their wishing for them in the right way, and quietly know that they will come to fulfillment in the duration of their being. 


Bless the suicide who has been so corrupted by the one last false hope which has ever yet scorned him. Do not be afraid to admonish his act, for one cares for the man entirely and for this reason alone would not have had him suicide.


For those who are held midway, we may entitle them to such discourse as will be needed for them in order that they may begin to respect their life once again and realize where they are. For it is truly difficult for them to realize that they have achieved their death, whilst they are still conscious and suffering upset also. Once they have awakened to the mistake, they are doubly shocked and tortured yet again, only differently. This shock and despair at having chosen so wrongly is remedial to them ever after; and although painful is quite necessary. Without such suffering the soul itself may well become inclined to cessation, and then the true horror-story begins! 


Yes there is a slow form of soul-suicide, in which the man has regressed each subsequent lifetime, until that point where there is little to no receptivity for heavenly commiserations. So once again, we suggest that there can be no greater work that a man can instigate in order to help cease this suffering, than that of the promulgation of the true path - of the Heart - for all of Mankind.
AMEN