Joy is Life- 10th September 1994

IN all that we've done, from all that we've been, we are here today sharing this moment. Our gowns which spread back to our eternal beginnings, are tasseled like medallions, with each and every learning. Whilst our beings, pure and in perfect Grace, await the supplication that only love's Wisdom brings, in accordance with the Heavenly Order.

Our wonderings, once fired, expel the old lethargies, which make no protest in evacuation, resolving their witless obstinancies.

We give measure and account, but by no means strive to bind and contain that which we embrace. Our passage together is brief but constant, in this our reuniting; and with episodes between there comes the diversity and gifts we bring to offer here today.

Our souls are hungry for nourishment and for steady commune with like souls and with Christ and with the benevolent beings who serve Creation.

We belong to Father God and as tribute to Him we admit ourselves into His Care, knowing that all will be well, always and forever. So we may not accompany our studies with a fear which suggests a divine inadequacy ever, but rather be safe in the knowledge that calms and exposes those happy and fantastic joys. For every injection of such joyful, inspired awakening fortifies the student in all parts of his body - of which there is only one to which the essences combine and the fiery forces circulate and the organs cleave to the bones and gravitate. Only one body we avail, and it is ours and us, and coherent with Life. (For fractious thinking in this regard leads to ill-health.)

It is that this body is not merely representational or superfluous to soul, but is indefinably so connected and permeated that it is our substance. This substance is primary to Holy Cosmic influence, responsive to its virtuous impulses which characterize what we identify as fractured aspects within a man.

However, we are exceptionally instilled with such higher nourishment from without every time we come to a realization that reaches into the soul - be it gently or all at once. That comprehended, spiritual reality will invoke an accompanying joy which shall in turn, call upon the Graces from without and manifest them again within the body of the man.

Men die because they have too little such joy in their lives. This is the one and only reason - and then too, sometimes the artificial lead-ins to the ecstasy of Heaven invoke a sudden death because they are not enstrengthened by their own means to journey back.

The physical body corrupts because the governing life becomes impoverished over time. Would that the true Life was given expression and fulfillment in soul terms, then it would be obedient to the principle and ever renewing. This of course, will be very much the circumstance in further incarnations, but we advance towards this from this point on.

It is not that we seek to be eternal beings, or for that matter, eternally young, for we are all already this beneath the skin, and unhampered by death in the long run. However, it is a natural development of that part of our body - our communal selves - whereby we gather as men at our home station with our consciousness becoming exact and defined, and our interactions exceedingly significant.

Our purpose with this planet and with each other, is rarefied by our attendance. The incoming souls at this time, have been called to and sought for from all of those places the deceased operate out from; both real and creatively real, in spheres of consummate activity. They have been called to attendance because their dear planet has urged it so, as a mother craves her children to return home once again.

So it is that we obligingly turn back from whatever the wonders were which entertained our subtle beings. Her call is heard throughout: it even penetrates the hellish catacombs where souls toy with monstrous astral wraiths, who in captivity are now bled from their own desires, being overly pronounced in this 'man and demon' project of concern. For when men love men and act so, they are enstrengthened, but when men love their demons moreso, they are enstrengthening their bedfellows and committed to them after death.

But the Mother calls for return, and even the weary may remember enough of their humanity, and as quick as the inspired desire, it becomes in motion. Once again the starry streams make their way to the entrance of the Globe.

No, there is no guilt to be felt in desiring the highest or humblest of joys, for this is Life. Truly, what not only sustains us but supports us, substantiates our commitment to reincarnate. Even the most tortured men who suffer ill-health, extreme poverty or great threat in their lives, have to know their measure of these joys else they would not struggle to remain and be adamant about their withstanding.

We celebrate Creation in our admiration for Her, and we celebrate our hearts and minds by our purpose, our use, and in our sharing of them.

Oh Joy!

New Consciousness & Doubt- 28th August 1994

The following essay, comments on the experiences and apprehension of some students regarding their spiritual experiences.



EVEN we startle easily!

What you have spoken of is of two differing concerns. Firstly, a mind which is unaware of extraordinariness becomes a dim one indeed. Comparison and contrast! Remember?



That you have difficulty accepting a condition which comes to you when you are unprepared, is only to be expected and of no concern. Surprises are surprising. So you must not expect to be capable of being 'matter of fact' about those things which are not so.


We do have very subtle ways also. Keep a look out over the months to come, stay more awake and you may catch on to what we do for you. This shall encourage alertness in this world, for this is what we would have, not mindlessness or camouflage.

As for the second part to this: the overall issue of such total experience, from which afterwards a man is never the same again. We would suggest that the 'peace' will come moreover, and not so the frantic overhaul as imagined and even feared. The unsettledness comes from living those aspects which compromise the noble being within. We (as in you) can rework the life or adjust one's tolerance accordingly. The choices will always be there before you. 

Experiences will come, should you desire, and they may be unlike any before and shall be as worthy of you as you are of them. Not all experience, particularly in this realm, is to be held to suspicion or regarded as injurious, providing it is understood also that the most exquisite of challenges will depart, and come again.

To feel the brush of an angel's wing, their tear or their kiss or that one embrace which does embrace all of humanity with a boldness and a braveness that truly believes Man to be lovable; or to find in Nature amongst its rapid outbursts of impetuous expression, the whisperings which issue from the aliveness that has endured ever triumphant, the assault of those astral groans which the slag of an intemperate Man has expelled all the vileness into, and the passion of anger, of corruption, and worst of all, of revenge, which does perpetuate the grief.

Yes, one can feel the optimism of the etheric world in its crystalline laughter which echoes the fall of water, out and into the cavities waiting, defying the dross and the ill-tempered demons who contest beauty because they have none, and so despise the natural world in its lavish dedication to this happiness.

Yes, you might even find Christ amongst the haphazardness, and in the quiet and in the challenge of knowing serenity once and for all; and in the certainty which you shall never change around again, but defend because He is your life.

Perhaps the greater question must lie in what that implies, when the minutes and the days take on new importance and one now comes to review that which may be done with them. New consciousness is awkward whilst the old, distracting. The adjustments in themselves, may be taxing because of their necessity to succeed.

Christ does not underestimate your love. As a man you may do this about yourself and feel keenly inconsequential and also may need to outwardly remonstrate and signify this deepest feeling within. All of this is wholesome and good, and from it there shall be that seriousness of importance; but all the while this is not what Christ needs, for He knows your heart and mind as you are, and knows the girth and gravity of your deepest love. Therefore no man is required to put himself to the test artificially- karma takes care of that in between the maneuvers of options placed within its score. So we are not forcibly (against the grain) determined to become or display such attributes of being which we are uncomfortable with or unsuited to.

The great Masters each developed such talents as they are now known for individually. The 'all-rounder' as you say, is a little disqualified from mastery - oddly enough, because one such acquisition of talent tends to conform to another, in which none are then especial.

It is a privilege to become tempered by our weaknesses and intent to assume our place above them when at the Will and Willing of God we are afforded. It is a privilege also, to make use of those particular strengths and talents we enjoy indulging in, and spinning them throughout our realm of activity in wise and wit and in becoming.
Therefore we do not grow into anything for which we have no loving in becoming in the first instance. There need not be fear that great change shall occur in consequence to the inner-life flourishing.

Doubt is a demon and a liar also. Don't believe him. One may always tell the difference between doubt and concern, and doubt and proper caution: Doubt pulls faces (with a flair for the dramatic) does a lot of waving arms in the air, justifies itself in defeat, and is contemptuous of loss. Concern, on the other hand, is instructive, informative and impartial to contempt. Caution as brought to us from our inner guidance, knows danger to be presenting and then seeks the source of that alarm. Therefore the actual reasoning is not relied upon, but that the intuitive faculties are awakened and cautioned before proceeding further into that which we are cautioned of. We may still tarry on, but in ever readiness to respond in a way which hitherto might not have occurred to us.

Therefore, Doubt is not accommodating to the current condition. It is a no-way one-way entity, which brings death to those it wins. (Death, as in cessation to ideas, plans, hopes, futures which would have been spawned etc.) Doubt rebukes oncoming success, and when it presents to the man who needs optimism within his spiritual outlook (inlooking), it may dissuade him from Christ, in the suggestion that he is not worthy enough. However, you may well believe that you are loved and that Doubt is no authority on this or any other matter. You are loved by Him and can know that all of the tremblies live on a different plane of interaction, whereas the silent commune you share with God is unfathomed by they who contest your sincerity and promise.

Intense Combined Study- 24th August 1994

WHEN gathered with the purpose for study, one of you shall recite the work which all attention will be bent upon. This may be anyone and may be a shared occupation alternating one with one another. However there is an important point to be made about the role: that to all else it may be regarded that your very teacher is before you during this time as the words outpour. 

As your concentration moves in and around the text so given and now enlivened, being issued from the reader who is for that time not as himself but is as the author of whatever the study you have chosen, the aspects of that author who is connected become him, so it is preferable for that very time that he be regarded as such.

So enters the philosopher, the doctor, the naturalist, the specialist, the occultist or even the saint - and the beings who co-inspired - all are drawn to the one who shall address you on their behalf. May you come to know the due reverence which well respects the learned (and their representatives) as you are delivered of their offerings. And too, that those who enter through the gates of inquiry together shall regard the reading with such veneration that hesitates to violate the sequence with some interrupting remark.

This consideration of correct attitude is of importance, for it is that by such we may address any study, making more effective our effort. Reverence need not be reserved only for prayer. May we consider each and every time we prepare to work creatively together, what it is that we are doing purely in the attempt, and what that very attempt reaches out to.

Indeed there are marvelous accomplishments from good men who forge futures cooperatively, bringing design and all of its significant aspects- the divine and pure mathematics being combined with the uncertainties of variables, with then the multiples of variables, where entire towns are born and bravely engineered, then lost to time. The variable of that vision is lost too with the original men who have now evacuated to Heaven, and then to return to create anew in lands quite distinct, building cities and circuits and plotting clusters and citadels where the folk may go. How it is that they position the mazes, with dwelling upon dwelling, huddled in set formation with connecting lines, not only of waterways and now electrical route, but in maps of activity, and being of who they are and what they do and how it is, as it has all come together. 

Some men leave and in time yet again, the pattern breaks down and the souls of the community depart their grouping and move on. Is there nothing left? What is there for men if there is not communion? So more maps and charts, earthmoving and brick-slinging - divine charters infused with the material expression of this their vision - that men may be in community with one another for that time that they may have together. The configuration and their movements within are all of tremendous importance, each unto another. In commerce or in friendship there are constellations of men throughout this World which influence the individual within, now and for his future. And so we may also look upon our study-nebula likewise, to which the satellites are drawn.

There is no such thing as greed in the advance for higher knowledge; fervor, even yes a desperation - but that we should desire to learn and to know is holy, both in aspect and in origin. It shall be the reawakening to Wisdom which shall draw men out into the light of their extenuated souls and ennoble. It is the second savior to Man, bringing the power for Man to know for himself of the strengths and the beauty and the license he has been given to unlock those secrets of Heaven.

The Mystery Wisdom is there to be known! For it in itself may be loved and be cherished, being but the mirror to God; and what we may find in our learnings shall be that tribute and joy in the revealing of Him. Every wondering excites the ethers; and of that which we may ponder together with holy cause and attitude, pleases our divinity because this is the task for all Men: that we may bring divine comprehension back into the World, having made the journey forth retrieving this knowing into the harbor of the consciousness and thereby being causal to the upliftment also of all men. (Being a collective effort.)

This stern and noble enterprise therefore, may be begun with such thanksgivings as are attributable. Every pupil does revere his teacher, else he should not call upon him for instruction, and so it is good practice and polite, openly or silently, to offer gratitude to those authors of the study you are to commence. This is a practice which shall remain for a very long time to come, as there shall always be those just up ahead of you to whom you shall come to rely upon for guidance and instruction. Courtesies are valued and honored.

We may sincerely bring to mind that all thoughts which may follow on during later discussion and are subjected to the class for scrutiny, are significant, and when expressed are done so for a reason. It may then be the object to examine the pertinence and also that reason (if known), remembering that it is then and there that the worth of the associations can be realized; particularly for the one who has given them, there becomes an opportunity for either further insight or then the complete disregard of. In other words, a study group is a working group being active in that part which is designated so.

However, the first part is that time wherein we may pledge obeisance to our teacher, realizing him before us in the man or woman who speaks for him. Let there be no argument against him as it is uncommon to proper consideration to issue objections and detract from the study thereby. The objections have their place, most certainly so, when the (reading) part is completed and discussion ensues; and yet we might add, that we have known recitals to actually extend over days whereupon the class have enjoyed the power given in the wisdom-rendition and lent themselves wholly to that teaching for that time.

Being asked, (this is only to say that if one wishes to experience a study which shall assist in proving a certain intensity- and this is not recommended to be the way for everyone or every gathering) we should advise that there are no consumables, (although water is beneficial) to be had during the study session of concentration; but that this is allowed for afterwards when the mind has relaxed and the study has been absorbed somewhat. The writing of notes is also to be discouraged as it is active and distracting to the full concentration - sleeping would be preferable to such activity.

The words as spoken - as distinct from being read silently to oneself, or listened to from a recording - shall as with the same qualities of melody, make impression upon the listeners. They shall impart some of that they are to convey. It is therefore to be well decided what it is that is chosen for study - the character and the nature - for the influence will be pronounced and withheld in the psyche and makeover of the individuals present.

One may make use of a bell, that it be accessible to all, in the event that one need to break the intensity for a period of rest. The bell may also be used to summon the reconvening, so as there is a very definite sandwich of study being made apparent and obvious to all concerned (the invisible presences also).

That a study may be enjoyed to be repeated many times over, can be valuable; bringing different qualities each time. This may be during the same sitting or over a period of weeks; and the participants will reckon with an eventual strength from that piece thereby. 

Group study requires much and cannot be mastered all at once. There becomes a delicate power accompanying intent and concentration when exercised constructively and cooperatively. In point of fact, each such effort is individual and builds upon itself according to the grace, characters and purpose set.

There shall be ongoing guidance as it is watched over with great interest from those who have made this very subject their business and their delight.
Happy trails.

Requisites: Flowers, Candles & Bell


At the beginning of the meeting:
• Ring Bell

A PRAYER FOR THE WORK

Beloved Christ, Master to all great teachers in the World,

We beseech Your Presence and commit all learning to Your Care and Direction,

We come to you today in prayer to ask for Your Guidance, in these our efforts.

Too often have we erred with false judgment,
And many times prone to sweet deceptions,
Still yet we are eager to become as perfect men and women!
We pray that we shall not be dissuaded from this,
But hold fast to Your Promise, Your Vision, which You defend.
And we shall be your champions also -
Defying doubt and the guiles of false logic.


Let those who protest the glory of men
Suffer their visions affecting no other;
Until such a time that we pray will arrive,
When they exhaust their improvisations
And come to You Dear Christ, again.


Lord, Your Sweet Breath enters this very room,
The same Breath which spins orbs upon their axes,
And moves with such might,
A might that will inflict no harm.
May we come to learn of the Mysteries of this;
And cheerfully repel the insults of all great and meagre contestants.

We ask today that the surrounding and immediate ethers be cleansed, that that they might be in accordance with those aspects most suitable to wholesome, healthy, enlightening discourse, meditation or prayer - that the atmosphere be relieved and be unencumbered.

Amen

• Prayer: We invite and offer thanksgivings, both silently and openly to the Masters, and our friends who also join us today. We are in gratitude to those authors, whose work we study. We pray that our will is pure and that which is given is given in the name of Christ.

• Divine knowledge surges in. 3X

• We now ask for silence.

• Ring Bell.

"It is a sad day if our students hesitate to proclaim Him as their course-leader or Him as their main fount of inspiration. What a wonderful and protected way to begin any new meeting with - alongside the public or with the students-in-common - to beseech His Presence and commit all learning to His Care and Direction." – Gravity & Levity, 1st July 1999

"Of the favored practices today, we find that folk do often sprinkle the water, light the candle and incense, ring the bells, the gongs or whatever, chant, incant, cut the air in imaginative motion, sit in circles, etc. etc., and or pray.

"Now the practice of the above list is fine and quite helpful, and certainly does make a difference (which we shall outline in a moment). However it is the last consideration which is of the greatest difference; and as one may often start with an opening prayer, it is advisable to include in this conferment, the wish and the need for a 'clearing of the ethers'. Because the very sobriety of prayer does indeed clear the room of unsavory influences to begin with - those which cannot tolerate prayer evacuate readily - one is halfway there to the whole job done. Furthermore, conditions surrounding one may be altered and attuned; but only if asked for, envisualized and concentrated upon. For not all have the good fortune to sit acrest a mountain top or bathe in the crystalline air of the sacred. One is impinged upon by influence upon influence; nothing which would particularly upset or hinder a man of itself, but does not make for a good response time, set in the spaces between a man and his thought."

-Sound in the Ether, 27th June 1992 

Humility, Devotion, Sensation & Intellect- 22nd August 1994

IF we may love it is because we have come to know that which we love truly, it is not because we have artificially manufactured the love as experienced. 


Similarly, when we come to humility it is not by immediate intention, but rather the humility comes as a natural offspring and response from a heart which is opened by love, and further moved by pity or by empathy, by commonalty, or perhaps the desire for striving (on behalf of the other), a desire for furtherance, for betterment, for the conditions or soul of another. 


There are acts which require willing and there are virtues which flow from a man in consequence, and also too, are largely involuntary and without conscious design or exertion. We may be aware of the experience, but not invoke the actual experience purely for the sake of it. 


Devotion is known and elemental to every being. It is not remarkable to one or another, but is subsequent, subsequent to life itself. Devotion insteeps our beings, for it comes from the spirit at the core of the infinitesimal to the All. There becomes a resounding rejoice for this rapture in the living, and were one to penetrate the starry domains they may sense the universal quivering, which when taken as silent, becomes devotion. 

Plants expire affection, a fondness, which is non-specific. The dews which pool in bead and orb, hold the fragrance of fragrance of their love, which bleeds and evaporates into the warmth of the morning.


Today we may look at those virtues which are incorporated within a man, which issue forth in a secondary response to the ego-consciousness and active will, but are primary to his spiritual being overall - the 'evaporative man'- in the soul-life, which is unconsciously emissive. 


Sensation requires response: response to identify, response to reconcile, and response to make adjustments. If I have the sensation of coldness, I may identify the coldness and from where its source comes, and I shall reconcile myself to it, that I may adjust myself in relation to the conditions without or those conditions as governed by my being in relation to it. For every series of such responses there are implications which command or inform yet other sensations, and so on. 

Many men live utterly in a cycle of sensation and response. After the wonder and newness of their childhood has diminished and become entangled in habitual thinking, if the soul-life is undernourished and ill-satisfied and the man himself is disqualified from a fresh attitude and is displaced in heart and mind, then he is often detached and remaining within this simple cycle of activity.


Further to this we are met with the intellectual provokings of inquiry, which bring a man out from his ordinary cycle of responsive events, and by the talent of directing a 'good question' into the 'unknown' he is given the invisible hand of the Muse of the corresponding Angel of Wisdom, who will guide him to which he inquires of. (We made use of the word 'corresponding', as this is precisely what is meant, that the individual shall be answered with the assistance of the one to whom he needs.) 

The intellect is quasi-thought-fluent and quasi-truth-coherent. There is a distinction here between thoughts (which are quite separate in one sense to that which they represent) and to the 'truth', the 'isness' as comprehended by the soul, as is then allowed for and appreciated by the fires of the intellect.


The thoughts encapsulate but are not the actuality. The intellect is capable of understanding both most wonderfully, and once again we may begin to tackle and comprehend the significance and usefulness of exoteric and esoteric thinking. 


Esoteric 'thinking' actually surpasses the thoughts and fires the intellect to be active in the essential comprehension of spiritual 'isness'. This is an exercise which is not independent of intellectual activity, for would that it was, there would be a ) madness, b) non-sense, or c) unconsciousness, and the future development of the mind would be isolated from its divinity and purpose. 


From this one may understand that the intellect, though evolving in Man and increasing in velocity of action, is intrinsic to the correlation between thought and 'new' thought. The 'sensory' man (sensation-response) suffers a 'like-so' thought response and this process is rarely interactive, although two such individuals often parley together. The reason for this is that the individual draws from a past consciousness which related to some experience in the past, and identifies the same in the present. This is relevant and necessary to all concerned, to a degree. 


How often a person may remind us of another and we make such same comparisons and opinions which are presumed upon because of this likeness we identify. Yet by the same token it is completely mistaken thinking to employ this method as far as the 'new' individual before you is concerned. It is preferable to consider the man before you as a mysterious being, rather than believe you have him sewn up by your projected opinion of him.


This holds good, if for nothing more, than the exercise of beginning to 'see' what in the world is really before you; for there is no enigma quite like a man, any man, and this may be a reference for yourself. Humility here will follow. If we actively curtail our opinions, criticisms and even our evaluations of every man we meet and know, then we shall come to the peace which humility brings when it follows this one important premise:

I do not know you as Christ knows you. I should wish to come to love you as Christ loves you. I have no right to confine you by my entangled thoughts about the reality which is you. However, what I can say is that you are of divine origin (like myself) and we are brothers in this, and although I have no real notion of your trials perceived and your trials encountered, I shall assist you where I can, and be honored by your company.

The elemental kingdom, the fairies, actually do for the main part, hold this affection towards all men. Theirs is a pride of association and jealousy for ego, however they can and do serve this world and foremostly set the way for this humble attitude.


The importance of study, which employs the intellectual fires to both degrees, whereupon we rehearse what we know and then 'let go' of it in order to leap into the true reality upon which it leads us to, is that we may also draw into ourselves those virtues which accompany the esoteric thinking. This becomes yet a higher set sequence of sensation and response, for there follows a sensation which is in accordance with the heart (the mediator of the Soul - the Christ-Soul) and then a response of soul which evaporates out from a man. 


Many times there will also be a physical accompaniment which is obvious, such as the benefactions of the devotions which bring tears or varying emissions, consequential to. However, at the same time there shall be a pitch which is identified, reconciling and adjusting in the process of said response. The sensations are pertaining to the unseen realms of activity and so the identification is only momentarily acquired, as the new intellect may not sustain the constants for longer than a 'brief encounter'. Of itself this does only explain the fact and not the reason, except to say that development is gradual and may be improved when practiced. 


There are many experiences of soul which occur to you but do not reconcile within the self's consciousness within the World. That Christ is with you when you have called to Him, may not in the immediate, infiltrate the intellect, or even touch you with a 'tangible' sensation. It is often the lowly invisible beings who sweep impressions upon the astrality of men who seek sensation which is extraordinary, and not the higher more desirable beings. For the Angelic require only that you are lifted into their inspiration and touched accordingly, and that you may come to them in time befitting a proper development which is accomplished and won over with steady rehearsal only. 

Furthermore, as the penetrations into higher knowledge are pursued earnestly and with vigor, there becomes a propensity within the man to embrace all things and parts thereof, as well as beings, with the necessary humility which admits "I do not know", that we may learn. This was indeed a correct surmise as noted (by J.) - and if that accompanying revelation could be maintained throughout one half of the relative creativity, then the locking of consciousness shall be more readily come to. 


Yes there is a certain mystery in this. The exoteric thinking is a ' 7 ', being comprehensive of the thought-defined gambit. The esoteric moves into the ' 8 ', being beyond the range of the '7 '. 


When men combine they either remain as responsive individuals, or may for a time share a consciousness which actually responds but 'feels' and knows of the other's 'sensation' accompanying. When we 'know' something of a man we are better to know a truth, even if the truth acknowledged is that we do not know anything of the man. The closer we are to realizing and experiencing a valid truth leads us to higher comprehensions of the reality we experience; therefore, that thought alone shall in fact bring us closer to our brother, than bring separation. (Providing of course that it is not taken as a negative ruling for all time - it is rather a preliminary to learning.)


Some concepts only provide for a mind-muddle imploring confusion, even agitation. If this is experienced then it is best left alone, for if the individual for any reason has the response of antipathy and rejection, then there will be no opening for the thought to be exchanged for the higher experience. If on the other hand, there is a measure of joy or a pronouncement thereof, then there is a good opportunity to ride the wave into the starry domains to set up a sequence with the great and grandest, who will guide you aloft.