On Dreaming- 20th November 1994

IN direct association and alongside this our world, there are many infra-activities of being whereupon ethereal men and Angels may meet together and expose their souls in so doing. This world indeed relies upon the unseen life and its conducts, and although it is the chief determiner and all does conspire around it, this current globe, one might also look to the unseen realms which shoulder that same physical presence, and begin to understand the relationships and the go-betweens.

The entrance for many is in dream. For others it may be the natural place of existence for them, to which the physical waking does not occur. Depending upon the being and the activity, it may be their only realm in which they dwell, notwithstanding the fact that it does coincide with a very definite physical brother.

Spaces have been made, manufactured and reserved, and very holy council may be found, guaranteed as it were, in certain places established and continued on. For all men need to have their allotments, as too those souls who are most capable and spiritually active - they have 'addresses' that may be permanently found and enjoyed by those who find their way to frequent there. And the key is affinity.

When we pass out from our bodies into varying dream conditions, we are afforded a necessary release from the strains of a bodily harbor. We are loosened, although not deceased, and by natural inclination we go seeking that which the soul loves best and does know.

Nightly all men - and little children besides - are given to wander freely without care or worldly caution, as they eventually take their heavenly supplication which shall sustain them through the following day. In episode, the consciousness is unrestrained; and depending upon the effort and intent, the calm and the preceding considerations, a man may translate some of his experience into the unseen places and know something of the elongated being he became. What is recalled however, accounts for very little of what actually was ventured into.

One has only to think in terms of commensurate time to find that the hours spent in slumber have been undeniably vague. Does one require or wish to have the gift of retaining full consciousness across the threshold? Is one prepared? This is indeed an interesting question, because eventually all men can and will enter into sleep and back out again with full translation, however what would that mean in the current conditions of an eager student?

Firstly let us say that the desire to become more conscious and awake in the world is always preferable to the alternative. We strive to hold such abilities which will quicken the processes of all exactings in such ways which are tolerable rather than painful, meaningful rather than nonsensical; and blissful that the understandings may be wholly embraced. So as students we are given to ask that consciousness be keener and that we become more capable, proving the worth of everything we do.

The passage into sleep used not to be an experience which was forfeited; indeed Avalon was only ever penetrated in the dream condition and could be visited then in groups who would hold consensus upon waking. These realms were given to the night, whereas the tardy occupations still held responsibility throughout the day. However, the overall abilities of consciousness altered - physically differed - and the men became more defined in their daily narrowings, and yet concurrently more active in the further realms (although not remembered so) during the night.

Consciousness is more than a mirror when there is an ego involved. The ego designates the specifics and the identification, the ego makes the distinctions between this and that, and it and that. Consciousness however, does not discriminate, for by nature it absorbs the experience of that which infills it.

So the consciousness of a man during its release in sleep, travels into many places and settles into certain experience. It may venture into parts of the man's physical body - particularly in the case of an illness it will do this, to discover what is unsettling it in those respective parts. It may drift within a few feet of the body and experience the room or the belongings within the room; it may travel to just one and spend time there communicating with all that that object has to say (in terms of memory impressions and so forth). This is why it is suggested that one be very prudent with bedroom decor.

Consciousness may move on to the food which is still to be digested and communicate/experience the qualities of that material. This would be done via the astral inclinations so associated. One might be drawn into the home paddock or parley with Bacchus and his usual ravings.

Then there comes the musings of the day and last thoughts for the night. Our desires take the consciousness further into directions appointed. The very contemplations which infilled the daily clarified consciousness, will send it searching in the night. It shall go precisely where it pleases, and here also we may have conference with like souls or souls to which there is karma detailed.

Finally there becomes also, our drift into the recess of Father God – to which the beings who may lift you hither are too beautiful to be remembered if ever fully seen - wherein the soul is renewed and endowed with its starry plasma and the man and his consciousness is completely overwhelmed.

Contrary to the accommodating nature of the consciousness, becomes the ego, which is as the very tip of the consciousness - it is extremely appreciative because it holds the ability to compare. In most dream conditions a man does not question where he is or what he does, as his consciousness is given to go where it will and be taking up necessary investigations into those things which took the soul's interest or the mind's time, but were not known to satisfaction. In this, the full experience credits us with a further knowledge, which although we do not carry through to our waking minds necessarily, does nonetheless bring information and pictures to our beings upon our re-admission into that realm of inquiry.

This is a healthy and healing activity, and in many respects the ego may not go comfortably where the consciousness can. So the adoption of the subsequent experience is not personal, but rather remaining general, and presents no burden to the individual to have ventured into any particular format for a time.

Still too the ego has its choosings - much of which the waking consciousness may not surrender to for one reason or another. One reason being that the vessel is too small, that one cannot pour a pint into a dram, and that the higher experiences of the ego need have a man who is practiced in his thinking daily, to be qualified to make the translation. The other reason also, is that a man's daily consciousness is literally pulled this way and that - he is subject to the reasonings of others which impinge upon his thinking, he is given to the clouds of concerns which envelop his thought, he is restricted by the overall thought and feeling activities which permeate his environment, he is excessively strained by the very qualities of all exterial exposure and persuaded by the senses; and so the translation of such ego transactions of the night are largely unheeded.

When a man is given to obscure recollections which are unsavoury or troublesome, he is usually being confronted with the day back to front. In other words, as we have described, much of the outer influences in a man's day may make recollection prohibitive, and if upon waking he is given to the 'hellish' nonsensical variety of dream recollection, it is but a mirror of those influences which are daily inhibiting him from the more fantastic recollections which would if they could, surface the consciousness.

However, in this one need not be dismayed at the array of carnival visions they endure, when compared to those places so frequented which are of singular importance and significant to the soul. All men are spiritually sustained, however the man who is intent upon the religious life is often met with bizarre presentations because he is struggling with much of his daily life - that there is a very defined extreme between the outer and inner activities, and his ego and that of others also.

When we add intent into our consciousness, with the desire for a self-consciousness within our dream life, we are directing our ego to be active, we are deciding to be particular. With times given to review and such practice, there will be a sifting and a sorting enabled within the individual for the full experiences to be made known.

However we do not recommend 'consciousness at all cost' to be the attitude. The transition and the journeys which the ethereal man may nightly enjoy cannot be forced by intent alone. We must win the soul's place by the very nature of that which we pour our intent into. We must characterize those special places or events which we shall arrive at within the spiritual realms, for the key in is affinity.

All of us have met and do meet within the sleep times. It often brings a smile to us to hear our friends exclaim "Oh, if only I could but meet with one of them!" - and yet precisely the night before they themselves came before us and stayed a while. Our concerns with the world must not be given up because we seek the spiritual places, yet those very places and stations and souls within, are imperative to our life, our daily life also.

Many astral (not astrea) travellers have become quite ill physically because they have lost much of their association with their physical body. They become so used to pushing themselves out from it that it becomes permanently loosened. Of course this too can be a natural consequence of ill-health generally, that the individual is therefore predisposed to his astral wanderings. However in this one may be as a traveller without a map, and once again we are to remind that it also requires a lofty ideal travel to or a situation of likeness, which will give merit to the journey, rather than just the overall attempt to self-consciously go anywhere indiscriminately. The key in is affinity.

Night Prayer:
This day is gone and I must ask:
What has past? What has past?
Dear Christ this day did baffle me,
My life, my loves, its mystery,
In all I was, in all I could see,
May I make better from this memory?


Morning Prayer:
And now is morn and I must ask:
What did pass? What did pass?
Dear Christ this night did baffle me,
My life, my loves, its mystery,
In all I was, in all I could be,
Please give to me, that memory.

The Giraffe & Our Mission- 16th October 1994

SEE now the patches, the remaining of the dark of his coat - these are where his body first began, and then as it grew larger they became separated by the spaces in between. (Alike to the earth when it splits and cracks in the heat, with islands of body insisted upon by the swelling ground beneath uprising.)

See also the noble breadth, wherefore he is reminiscent of that former time when all creatures were vast and even men stood twice as tall. He bears that tendency from an old Earth period, which also brings too, the inclinations which shall return; that the overall height will once more be regained, only this time it shall be by physical charge.

So our Giraffe is a fellow of the future, and not some archaic remain or contortion of the past. His elegant neck was not grafted, but inspired. As the top new shoots are always juicier and sweeter, he sees their flame and protest into life. He tastes paradise and knows it as he idles beside the glamor of an outstretched tree. He is fondled and sat upon by those nature spirits who too belong, living an etheric consciousness. He lives from horn to hoof and back again. 

He knows happiness and this is a key to his affable nature. He knows precisely what he wants and has the means, when uninterrupted, to savor it. He is fully conscious in that moment, that moment of ongoing happiness, because he fits with the circumstance with a perfect fit, when that joy surrenders the being into bonding with that moment. There is no argument with such a peace- there becomes no contest or awkwardness of being. 

There is a tight-fit of consciousness as it melds with its partner in being - ipso facto the nature-spirit of the tree - as our Giraffe is divorced from distraction, almost incapable of being distracted, aloof to the hurried lives which pass on by beneath his out-reached torso.

If we are to hold a soul-picture of this friend, then we may find that he is not overwhelmed with a sense of his own presence particularly, as the creatures who are active with the equivalent to hands in action. He is unaware of himself and his conspicuousness. He does not set a space around himself as some beasts would do in defining territories and thereby extending their bodies so, trying to expand into a largeness which is further than their physical presence. He adopts the space he is in, but does not seek to make it his own. Most creatures are covetous by nature which is not a contradiction to their being, but is pertaining to that 'gathering in' so required by any developing spirit; for to pursue the course of experience is a constant acquiring of sorts. But not so the Giraffe, he is one of those uncanny animals who are naturally satisfied, too satisfied to ponder the discomforts of a longing or a proving.

So we may see that this essence - the grace of complete comfort, fulfilment and happiness - is known to Man in part and necessary to him, and yet at the same time is kept distinctive to him that he may also aggrieve enough to go on and better yet his situation. For a man, to know moments of perfect happiness is primal to his being and to his being's future. Such moments are not to be denied because they are his life and that time when he 'fits' in alignment, that alignment of heart and consciousness, and is relieved of the worldly burdens and delivered to God by such love as is known. Compliant with an irresistible joy, Man is renewed by that happiness which invites him to stay in the present wholly and fully and without remission. 

So to have this within a life is contrasted by intermissions of solitude and struggle, of intensity from egos without, and remonstrations from that individuality which is ours; and the 'essence of Giraffe' is not long-staying, though it may live in him throughout each and every day. We in definition, do waver from the sublime pitch into the recesses of ineptitude, comfort and discomfort, realization and perfect knowing plummeting into further questioning, perhaps even sweeping by the unfathomable depths of doubt, and ever to set ourselves that time for attachment and that time for detachment.

From this we may well feel confused as to our 'real mission' in this lifetime and for the future, because any certainty shall fall away, and yet assuredly, if it is reliable, know also that that certainty will return. This applies to anything. Perhaps we address the broader aspects here, but the personal quandaries share much in common, enough to say that quite often the emotions which are experienced are more natural to their commodity rather than to resolution. 

What is meant by this is that if one is ever given an answer which defines their direction in life, it is no more satisfying, it does not hurry it along any quicker. Outcome is truly best saved for its time to which it belongs, and not to be attempted to be pre-empted out of time. However, having said that, a man must set himself that destiny to which he will work towards. The details of getting there are another matter and largely 'hit and miss' (necessarily), but to arrive somewhere does require a fixed purpose or need or wish, if one cares to call it that- and largely we are all allowed precisely such determination. (Providing of course that there is no freedom of another disallowed for in the equation.)

The desire for the 'mission' is a wonderful characteristic of the selfless pupil. It becomes consistent with the gratitude for such learnings which fulfill the soul and re-establish identity with reality, being natural for us all to feel the collective push onwards and upwards for the whole of our dear Mankind, that the consciousness will be urged by the 'mission' into the light of freedom from ignorance, that ignorance which constrains to the point almost of death and departure. 

We know that desire well; it never leaves one but indefinably gets stronger and more fervent that it be perpetuated. And all of those men who likewise appreciate the possibilities for greatness up ahead, they too by the qualification of their yearnings on behalf of their brothers, are but part of that 'mission', which at present gives back more of the same! Ever stronger- quite so, until all of Humanity has been gathered up and gathered in. 

It is exciting, frustrating, near disastrous and never completed. Each student who does offer himself to the World to do as he does best, to give when and where he is obliged, and does recognize such - each one is an encouragement to the cause, and so needed. Nature and her laws do tend to work to a very tight schedule - the 'just in time' approach - which, when witnessed from an overview, is breathtakingly bewildering to see that such a fine line is drawn time and time and time again. 

The student will find this: that he becomes necessary to the moment. He shall recognize by the intimations of others before him, what their souls need from him, and he shall respond. That he is aware for the sake of those who are not, that he is ever ready to offer the wisdoms that they simply cannot gain elsewhere - given the fact that they are brought before you and in your presence which is reinforced by prayer and by study and by careful consideration, and by the light in your eyes which travels out from one who knows.

The World truly is hungry for spiritual consolation at this time. Moreover than any other impending need, it is the struggle of spirit and sanity of spirit, which is of first issue. Furthermore, every student is an encouragement to his teachers and his angels and relied upon with huge hope; supported also by his desire for this cause.

This is intrinsic and at the very core of our 'work' (our life). It is a good question and one we hope will never stop being asked! Asked and answered.

Toodleoo.

The question from our friend was: "What is my real mission in this incarnation?"

The Animals & Man (continued)- 9th October 1994

IMAGINE this if you will: you have just completed the most exquisite set of pictures applying artistry and exactness, definition, realism and creativity; studies, some bold, some of delicate hue, one after another, each being quite different, each most marvelous as a reproduction of the inner picture which so composed it. One could say that it was the very final result of a definite term - the accomplishment now being obvious in these fine and individual works - and also that they were indeed a mixture of soul and what comprised soul up to that point, with a gradient of development actually captured in the pictorial account.

Now it happens (we may continue to imagine) that the backing material which each entire piece was worked upon, is tinged with an overall color not before assumed, and over time our palettes have noticeably corrupted from what they originally were. The definition too is somewhat rearranged by the added shade and the overall aspects are not quite the same. We are disappointed and dissatisfied with what now remains; it is unusual to us, having taken on a different and removed character overall; for in being the artist we are particular to the original vision and intention. So we put them to one side and begin again on a new set, working the visions this time on the equivalent to an acid-proof paper.

Our blessed beasts were adopted by Gods, Gods who are distinct from higher Angels because they have a self-directed will which determines within the 'limits' of creativity; whereas Angels do not create, they imitate perfectly the Plan and the Law in general and sublime obedience. However, Gods, lesser Gods are as barons of the future, and employed in amongst the unstable waters of creative design.

Our Animal Kingdom, as dismissed by Man, was so outcast at the juncture of being more wonderful than cumbersome. The divisionings were not because of evil or unwontedness; they were as the altered compositions of that artist, having been worked marvelously from great and lesser substance, but then fained by a tragedy of virus- contaminated at a point - which allowed only for separation. Then, as unrecognizable to the parent as they'd become, they were taken in and fostered by 'like' souls who were advanced enough to pool their aspect and attribute, and begin the grand revision. 

Massive collections, herds, were gathered up and gathered in, for their astrality could command a physicality within this World, and their 'humaness', their human qualities, being born from such, gained then a place and a perpetuation into re-embodiment within the Earth. But once attracted there was to be no leaving, and the animals themselves are bound to this Globe without the freedoms Man or the lesser Gods expire.

Firstly we must say that the Animal Kingdom drew many fine attributes, albeit raw and unfinished, into its natures. Conversely, there will be in time, some attributes which shall be reunited and resumed; but this is to occur only when the true and proper coincidence arrives. For to attempt to draw in any particular animal influence at this point is perilous for many reasons, one of which is the fact that they at present are under the governance of their lesser god. He has not freely relinquished them back, and so to incorporate an animal, any animal, back into one's being is to become obedient to his rightful keeper whose characteristics will then dominate the aspiring human traits that freshly attempt their expression into life.

Each keeper of the animals is an awesome being to behold, he has now the full astral force of that group of his dominion, he has their exaggerated characteristics impressed within his own 'like' being, and he is essentially, a being who has much insight and experience behind him. He is duty-bound to his collective and for they who have no ego naturally- theirs are true to his identity as far as he is to they.

Further to this, each species of creature is split into groupings which are self-limiting and then complete. There was a time initially when the physical substance abounded and the admission into life was unharnessed, however this is not now the case, and the fleshes which comprise one species will be the same in weight and measure and not added to. They are theirs to re-embody into and if the evolution of the animal itself changes that which is remarkable to it, then the capacity for incarnation remains too, but this is distinct to the earlier phases whereupon the physical fleshes were shared and indistinguishable.

When a man or an animal re-embodies they are entitled to a particular substance, and because of this there is fortunately quite a distinct separation on the physical level between Man and beast. The soul of a man knows one from the other. If a man consumes meat his astrality can and will be affected, however he will not take on the physical substance of that cadaver - his body will refuse every atom of it. Proteins will not come directly out from that substance, as the man's physicality will not combine satisfactorily. 

Astrally the nature of the animal may lead the constitution into a mimicry, i.e. the gathering of fleshy mass, as the cow does know by the right manipulation and digestion of the grass. This is what will work upon the man - apart from other characteristics of cow nature - not the immediate flesh equaling flesh.

So one may begin to understand that there are many derivative astral characteristics that effectively work upon a man - as the Asiatics in particular endorse. However, the desirability of these potent behavioral forces is to be questioned with cautious concern, for is a snake or a rhinoceros anatomically compatible? May we withstand the tiger once we have unleashed him into our astral metabolism? What does an octopus know of our movements or abilities? If we are to believe that Man has already a full set of capabilities determining the organization of his constitution and giving expression to his being, then we must naturally question our need to borrow from the animals any aspect peculiarly theirs by this means of astral investiture. 

Initially all creatures were born out from Christ, having been aspects to Man. In their pure form those attributes are still in Christ's keeping and discharged by Him, to Man and now to animal also. The highest of the attributes will be essential to Man within his development, but once again they shall issue from Christ, and His Greater starry Body, and not come from the animals or their keepers, even though they are related or shared.

If a dog knows selfless obligation then it continually derives that virtuous impulse from its ability to absorb that influence, which has been received by the group spirit of its species which in turn carries it into the Pneu, the collective soul-knowledge, which has its pourings from the stellar Christ Body. The ability inherent in that dog to act for selfless obligation has been as it was in Man before he was made separate. Though the two do still cooperate in likeness, they do not draw such influence from one another. (That is not to say that one may not inspire or invoke similar inclinations in the other.) However, as far as source and substance go, the source is the same, the substance is distinct. As abstractions they have altered past recollection. However, we are nonetheless, 'family', with all of its implications.

The Animals & Man- 2nd October 1994

INFINITY works backwards; and if there were no model in exactitude for a future conforming design and being, then there should be no reconciling towards it. One cannot advance into 'empty space' and arrive somewhere without there being that somewhere to arrive to. Just so, we cannot realize an evolutionary result without that result already born in our Creator's Mind, with an existence being paramount to what we might edge our ways towards.

By this logic it may be ascertained that men have always been men. They began as they should, they did not transmute or transmigrate out from a galactitude of quirks and freak mutation. Nor did Man drive his Humanity from those echelons lower than his original being, for this is not possible.

The lowly aspects of any contrast are just that, and proportionately there can be no raising higher out from purely the lower, if the lower is all that is known and provided for. Man therefore required full being from the beginning of the advance, and could not have climbed a non-existent ladder in order to become a nil-determined creature of no fixed address!

From our aspect on this there are accounts of preceding consciousness from which we may date some varying changes. These accounts will be only superficial in time, and extraordinarily misleading insofar as Man as a being is actually older, far older than such an account would imply. 

This is not said as simple comment - say for example, as our being's seeds being in the Heart of Father God, or even a gleam in His Eye. It is more concerned with the proofs which arise to suggest that mankind has taken a second route to some former way which is now quite barred from his recollection. This was an older residence, an older being, which to itself would have gathered and earned an empirical wisdom which has now translated into active capability - much yet unrealized, but nonetheless there. He has not, by any standards, simply "fallen on his feet" but rather scored the terrains of an extremely high history and scuttled down again; for what explanation we know not. 

It is always surmised that failure is indicated whereupon a course-direction is altered, and yet that is the cynical approach of today and not the basis for Creation and her reasoning. We do not grow from failure or because of it - this too is false logic with no sense implied. There always seems to be a need for a greater plan - that ongoing in the supreme resolute - and so we may simply sigh and continue on, rather than ever indicate we went wrong. For surely any distance traveled to bring us to our present station has involved no wrong measure.

If we begin our story then, with these few platitudes which resign Man to be Man without believing him to be something else, then we may proceed confidently into examining the abstract expressions he has ventured part into, along the more recent course in later development.

Just as a man may have children, Man has had animals. Bizarre as this may sound it is explanatory of his position; except to say that the consciousness is carried into those animals also. If we are to believe that Man was preconceived and already with attribute, we may look to the diversification and see how Man himself materialized the kingdom we have today. 

The animals were born out from his zoology of pre-existing experience and exterialized and further separated, so that: 

a) They may have life of their own and
b) Man may loosen his connections in order to advance further farther - he had 'dropped the excess baggage', so to say.

When we shafted off from ourselves those creatures (which were then quite tame), we did not cease our obligations to them, nor our binding affections. They are still, for the most part, ours and us, and all the while they proceed into experience and become more defined and adept in their being. We too are profiting by this as the creatures' Pneu pours into that pool of our own.

Likewise and for the record, this system applies to us and our Angelic protectors: they profit from our experience - in the long run, discounting the suffering too. Further to this the greater Angels are nourished by they as well.

The incorporated Animal Kingdom is not as easily discernible as thought of. Things are definitely not as they appear - according to their respective placement within the chain of activity. Many small forms of life, though mobile and with an adept metabolism, are but a form of plant life and do not directly owe their origins or title to the animal realm.
Many insects are plants. Birds (the non-violent variety) are also. The bird's substance and life is born out from the realm of the fiery plant ethers, which assist in the mineral body's compound of fragile shell and skeletal frame. Their legs are but mobile twigs and their heart-respiratory system comes from Man directly; whilst their natures are developing parallel to their air-spirit, which distances them from earthy magnetisms and lower astral persuasions. The birds are magnificently free from the dross and heavy-bound influences, and by this they are purpose-built to renew the world daily in their physical presence as example.

Many insects are animate rock which has combined with an organic compound, but with all of the mineral tendencies and structure of the immobile and inorganic variety. Beasts of land, sea and air are a jubilee of remaining form, out from a period in which they were, by appearance, quite consistent with their true nature.

Children today still find a corresponding resemblance. The form of the animal suggests to them something identifiable in themselves; and it was recognizable in ages past, in perfect accord. So the beasts were not representational, they were what they were, and when men likened characteristics to their species, it was a way of viewing that attribute specific to a man.

It is inconceivable to Man that we shall ever have been without them. However, as Man projected out from himself, so too was he separated. The cold-blooded reptiles, the old and ancient fellows, are possibly the furthest removed from the actual heart region of Man. They were certainly the first to go. You see, these living attributes may now be worked upon in a simpler fashion because they are made distinguishably separate to Man, and the venom will continue its manufacture until such a time that men cease their own poisonous poolings. This is quite the case and obviously difficult.

The Etheric World became into being before the fleshy animals were pronounced. Adam was an etheric man firstly. His Paradise was all sustaining and he need never have ventured out from it into the deeper Cosmos. In the etheric realm light pours out from the heart of everything - it is like all are the Sun in miniature, that their stream of life-essence is apparent and everything in the region is a vessel for that light.

Adam was a perfect Man - 'perfect' as in intact. But as we indicated before, we do not go by the opinion that he was naive in spirit at this point or at former, but that rather he was quite ancient and traveled and also inherently wise. His episodes on former Globes were intelligent, they were not of an amoebic consciousness living in a floating soup environment, they were not as insubstantial as a gas or flip and flighty as an inordinate vapor. He was akin to Angel consciousness, i.e. born wise. 

When natives venerate the various wisdoms of their totem animalia, they are preferring their former status, they are yearning for a retrogressive reunion. The beasts of this World today are fixed in their modalities, and fortunately for men they are confined to their particulars, depending upon Man for their release.

The Elder Brothers have retained their pre-Adamic consciousness, however they (we) too are consciously divorced from our earlier beginnings. Once again we stipulate that this is not because we simply had not the power of conscious comprehension, but that the recollection was translated into further actuality.

Man's astrality gave birth to the animalia form by form: from the first man of this World came the astrality for which his dual soul might enter into, to clothe herself in flesh, that she would later incorporate him in return, and his desire and design for the consequence of offspring. But before this was to take place, their etheric paradise conjoined with its astral dimensions also. Then, as milky starlight, it clung like wet dew and tack to the forms in the etherious paradise; and it solidified, drawing outer elements into itself, making stable and fixed what was hitherto but a dream.

Where were the men - all of the men - from the former World? They were there, but not there. They were waiting, held back by the Principle. Then their astralities combined with the fresh starry substance of the sun-filled World, and the bodies condensed and the beasts were imparted into the Globe. In this they did come before their men, their masters, who spewed them out from their entirety; and the Earth became a vestibule of a refracted Humanity which was so great and so complex that it was divisive unto itself.

What remained in men was more akin to what Man was before, in those unspoken-of origins, in that of his pure self and what he then could go on to find in the love as known from his soul-in-kind, there to regain himself by such knowing.

CONTEMPLATION FOR COMBINING

May we combine
With the birds and the fish
And their spirit of the air
And of the water,
With the Virtues,
And the flowers,
The beauteous empowered,
Nature's landscape defined.

And may we give ourselves
To that which is of You, firstly -
Worthy of our fulfillment and combination,
And do it well,
Wholeheartedly.

Knowledge is so intimate -
We seek to combine with knowledge also;
And we pray that our union be with Your Knowledge -
Pure, Straight, Enlightening and Reasonable.

We wish to combine with another by hearts,
May we do so unconditionally,
With our only expectation being
Their perfection realized.
AMEN