Stepping Outside of Ourselves- 4th September 1995

Question:
We have a question from one of our dear friends about an episode which happened when she was a child.... There was a time of great distress for her around the passing of her father, when at the funeral lunch she had been told to leave (because of her age) and go to her neighbor’s residence to be cared for. What transpired was that sometime after the upset she actually found herself sitting in the gutter of a nearby street - with no recollection as to where she had been or how she had got there. No other person could help her with this, except to say that it seemed to be three hours or so which had lapsed. Her question to you is: Can you help explain what did happen?
Thank you.

FIRSTLY we may reassure all such people who have had similar experiences of memory deficit that there shall be due occasion prior to death and most certainly after death, whereupon they may review the happenings unknown which will then become most plain. 

This is a comfort to the many that have vacant spaces yet to be filled; and it may also be pointed out that whilst there are great differences between unconsciousness and semi-consciousness, all men in their conscious receptivity are lacking somewhat in their observation and retention. There requires that time indeed, whereupon they may explore the events with a fuller aspect of ingenuity, and so one cannot expect to have such a defined 'grip' on the happenings around them at any given time, let alone with a reliable continuity.

This is not to suggest either that all men are mad. Fortunately this is not the case at all; there are measures of reality established concurrently and the more obvious truths are received en masse. However this is leading into an interesting realm when we try to understand how it is that men may comprehend events in the first place. By what tools do they interpret the happenings of the world?

To define our daily waking consciousness we may begin by agreeing that it does differ from the consciousness which has moved on and out of the body during sleep. During nightration, when the body rests without the will of the man to guide it, the animal of the man is somewhat divorced from the governing soul which inhabits his body. Just as you may tie your mare or stallion to a post, we depart our bodies nightly with but a slender unseverable rein, exchanging our charge for the wings suited to Heaven, returning refreshed with feed for our physical body, which is knitted together with all of the necessary cosmic forces which comprise the physical substance life-bestowed.

Consciousness cannot be in two places at the one time. It is where it is. It may certainly be projected out from a thinking man, and the man is therefore transported to that place or that person which he has cast his intentions (or love); however, it may not be here and there, as it is the foot-runner to the soul, going first, presenting first, at all times. There should be great divisions made within our nature if it were to be otherwise. If creatures or men, could manufacture a secondary consciousness then it should happen that they would be two beings and not coherent or consistent within their own whole.

The way that this is tolerated is quite wonderful. We are afforded the abilities to step outside of our own selves. In wakefulness we may negate the responsibilities of our earthly representation of ego and will (in the instance of a stroke say for example or in the briefer sense the departure through meditation or in active combining) and forego the necessity to drive ourselves with complete detail. 

The expression 'to be lost in thought' denotes that occurrence when the man himself has directed his attentiveness into a realm where he shall leave his ego or powers of willing behind temporarily. He doesn't as a consequence, keel over in a swoon from such a process (the point being that should this occur there still remains the capacity for reorder and finding the way back); however he frequents realms of thought and beyond, in a way that cannot be fully retained at that time. 

We can find an immediate experience of this when we are caught by such beauty which inspires us to leave ourselves in the very transaction of contrast. When we are witness to an ambient sunrise or sunset we are almost incapable of comprehending the occurrence with an active consciousness. The event does not relate to our own selves, in the sense that we have not willed it to be so. We have willed that we be there for the happening, this is true, but once there, as we stand we may find that the colors in the clouds take us out from ourselves, not with split consciousness, but with all the vagueness of one who is experiencing a marvel without needing interaction of self. Much joy comes from this. 

We can know joy, because of that 'selflessness', given in the meaning just described. You may understand that we are enhanced by such happenings, for this is not injurious in any way to a man, he becomes forgetful of self only temporarily. However several things shall ensue from this condition which we shall describe.

In the first instance, in relation to the sunrise example the man has ceased with a tension inside. Maintaining constant consciousness in active willing - deciding and thinking, planning and involvements - wakeful consciousness may be depleting to the man as it requires self exertion to be maintained. When we exert our selves (even in opinion) we are responsible for that effect which we give out into the world; and reasonably we may assume that until such a time in which we are adept at carrying ourselves and our beings with the profile of an angel and all of the positive forces of Christ, then we may assume for the time being that we (understandably) are given to error and misjudgments constantly. We are liable to cause more havoc and consume more than we offer; we become karmicly entangled over and over with a seemingly impossible store of mistakes to make answer for. 

Our true self-consciousness is seldom rarefied, being somewhat enmeshed within a substitute mind, self-made and repetitive, rather than responsive in the minute, in the present, in the very here and now. A sharper consciousness would be painful and we all settle for the buffer-zone thinking, relatively speaking. The point being expressed here is that the individual is taxed by the repeated exertions of self, and he may find a respite when he can invest his attention elsewhere.

This holds good of course for the immediate also. The here and now is an eternal, and when we find sense of the immediate, of the here and now, we thereby experience the duration of the eternal. We find God in that - not in the minutes, but in the minute, not in the divisions which identify, but in the underlying spirit shared. 

Now the fact that we can commune in such a way is remarkable; and that we are not rent apart in the process. In the story as given from a little girl in sad circumstance, it may be said that this was a time whereby her sense of self was exchanged for her longing for her father. Some individuals are so placed with empathetic longings that they may well go in consciousness apart from their own egos, and in this instance, it too must have been the will of the father that this be so. Because as explained, it was not a matter of will for the child once there. What kept her apart from herself would have been her father himself, who as it is to be remembered, was very much present at that special time. Her longing coupled with his love and longing to, drew her out from herself to where he could be found. 

Usually it would be that the father would have gone to the child (or whoever), and he would flit in and out of their consciousness that they would be distracted by his presence. However here we have a little child who had traded her ego-consciousness fully. Her own will forced her self to repel away from her ego and be with the soul in consciousness that she chose to be with. A child can manage this best for their consciousness and projected imaginings are empathetic with the world rather than taken with their self's self - this being but an extreme example of a very sensitive individual whose love went beyond herself.

The memory of what transpired shall return and become a treasured keepsake for the soul who now feels the need to understand. We often try to recapture such realities that do not translate into the reasoning because they cannot translate into the reasoning, however the soul's perspective and comprehension is there, in which the account will be found, and therefore such experiences are not lost but rather recovered with merriment and great meaning. When this recovery does happen (particularly after death) our consciousnesses has thereby adapted everything in full knowledge. This is why our faith may bring us privileges after death that cannot be realized in life. All of our findings are exalted. The sunrise which saturated us then, is seen in full glory and comprehended in totality and it is magnificent. 

Remarkably, the principle as described before applies right here, and it can be said that there is a greater will which receives us within the sunrise that we may go to it. The invitation is there, the consciousness meets with our own and we commune with a mutual affection. The sun we may lovingly cast ourselves out into, at dawn or at twilight, does truly know us. We are received. And our joy so known, though oft forgotten in clarity, inspires rapture in the infinite, to be realized in our being.

Faith Spans the Futures- 13th August 1995

IF a man may hold even slightly to a possibility, that measure of faith shall bring him to a condition whereby the future may begin to unfold and make itself apparent to him.

In our physical development and our current status, there may be ways in which our senses and our thinking are quite unsuitable to the soul who has come to that divine logic which travels a broader reach. Nightly experiences during sleep may not form coherent pictures within the waking consciousness to the degrees known in the extraordinary senses. Various centers, physical organs, may require time for transition, when the inherited characteristics or past modalities within the system have been confronted by the inner man who has pressed ahead of his physical capabilities.

The renewal and revitalization of the constitution expresses the 'new' man, who has met with death and yet taken the road to change, rather than continue on with the repetition of the past. This reworking of the system takes time, however we are obliged to consent that our physicality is very much suffused by our very selves, and we may understand that debilitation is not vacancy, but rather a prelude to new forces which are to come and work within the man as he prepares.

The perception of our Christ at present, within this time and physicality, is at best dull. His occupation is filled with bringing to us the substances of our worldly reality and the substances of our heavenly traces. He does not emphasize Himself, but is 'hidden' in these substances which are all about us and known within us.

Were Christ another god, one to whom there required an obeisance to ego, He should have impressed us all with visions of His great being, albeit modified, that we should comprehend it. Universally there are galleries upon galleries of such gods who became hardened to all time - hardened in the sense that their first vision was to define their greatness and build upon it. 

The laws which apply to Man seemed to pertain to these heavyweights conclusively, that by the very process of retaining 'self' without the receiving of true life from without, they became sclerotic and slowed to the pressures and forces of change which inevitably came in upon them. Some sought to bring life into themselves by consuming it from others; then there were those too 'pure' to tolerate the lesser emanations. The results were the same, that the minor gods who ceased to draw willingly from the higher spheres became disparate and were overcome by sloth. Being so fixed in that which was their own creation (mainly themselves) they forgot to honor our Father God and their influences were thus diminished. 

The fairy folk play hide-and-seek with Christ because He is everywhere and nowhere. They are charmed by that kind of intrinsic magic, which to them is far more appealing than the fireballs and thunder shows given to the tensions in the angelic realms. The etheric realm is lit with that same golden richness which comes from a ripe and languid sun. It is the place of late summer days and then spring beginnings, with never a winter or an autumn to follow.

Then to the contrast, we may find in the World, the icy masses, impenetrable seas, the membrane of cloud, down to the baubles of dew. With perpetual reticulation, from aggregation into humidity, condensing and expiring, infilling and free-flowing, the transparent waters give form, though themselves are formless, being an immediate example of this paradox of knowing Christ well.

Illusive - why, even our saints are intrigued! The mystery and majesty never ceases. Necessarily Christ is way above and beyond us and cannot be totaled therefore by our perceptions. How then and why then? (As the question was asked.)

We are taught that much rests upon our own self-determination, inasmuch as it requires for men to desire and to accept the blessings of Heaven that they be administered. At any point a man has the freedom to be satisfied with who he is and has become, and just as the minor gods aforementioned, who did become immobilized by their own fixations, we too may mistake our own flash of divinity with the whole of Divinity, believing them to be one of the same.


Understandably this is attractive to man; it also is part of the parcel of knowing our God and our Christ. But still, as wonderful as it is, it is not enough without the added labor it requires to hold distinction, that we may find the Christ outside of ourselves and appreciate Him from the outside in, as it were, as it is also.

We began by discussing that Faith provided the bridge into the future, and here we find that the Christian faith is especially proven. It is the ticket onto the boat. It is the pilgrimage into the future. For the souls who have aligned themselves with Christ and go to Him in a confidence which is seemingly unjustified, there becomes an inspiration of possibility, because in that process they are instantly drawn out from themselves and so humbled.

When we come out to meet with Christ we return with new life, a life empowerment which wouldn't have been received had we not requested it. This Christ-life quickens within the Man in various actions, some which will continue on after death and enable him to incarnate quite differently further on. It is a matter of preparation. It is a matter of future.

It is not the naming of Christ which is so important. The name of Christ has gathered unto itself an attachment to Him and strength which does follow, but is not His true name. It is not His proper invocation. It has no universal patent.

When a man seeks to know Christ he has immediately conceded a great truth. He has also conceded his own humble standing in relation to a far higher and grander ego than his. Once again we may express the importance of this concession occurring within the psyche and intelligence of that man. The atheist defies God by his snubbing, with such stupidity which confounds the wisdoms which cannot reach into him. His willfulness sadly removes him from his own source of life; and in the case of Christ, once again the man who is not prepared to accept Him as his life, is going to 'miss the boat' time and time again.

So it is not a question of instantly knowing the unknowable, but rather an inner perspective for which we may identify the great soul of Christ as Lord over all, and prepare to receive His Ways in Man and for the World in preference to the challengers a'many to whom men may profess submission to.

Before the point of death a man shall have Christ before him, just as He stood at the side of the crib. As the memories trace back to this beginning of the lifetime, the man will know his Christ in the same way he could receive Him then. The little infant has not yet made fusion with an active ego, and receives his Christ with a heart and mind which are one. This experience will return again at the point of death, and is most fitting, because the soul of the man should know of the love which has contained and embraced him from his beginnings.

One can never predict those vital moments which come upon a man in his consciousness or in his activity. What may be foretold is that truths which are presented to him during the course of his life, remain within close proximity always after; that he has had the connection with them. So that whether or not he has come to consciously concede or comprehend such a valued truth, it is there nonetheless for that time in which he may come to know it.

Also the domino effect comes into play; particularly when circumstance (as in just prior to death) realigns the thinking in such manner that overturns the habitual reasonings. It can be that so many worthwhile offerings as brought to him by others who have come to their faith or their truths delighting in them, catch the intelligence and are made known as for the first time.

It is an especial privilege for the one who makes wishes for another, to witness this process of realization. It does happen this way frequently, because not only do our desires for another's wellbeing draw us closer in actuality and karma, but also after death we are privy to the consequences as well.

The fervor which comes to 'Christianize' the World is far from being selfish; without it the World would be barren, it could not prepare to receive Him further.

As pictures which flit before the mind's eye too rapid to be seen, we glimpse the future's horizon, and we know that He is there ... Though His silhouette is barely visible, His Love is known by us and will carry the infant Man through into the reaches of faith and then ... beyond.

Propriety Limited- 11th August 1995

ALL individuals have a right to privacy - their private individuality - which may well contradict another's title-holding to them, such as with family, with commerce or laws given to social and state positions placed within the assumed jurisdictions. It is a blessing that we or others, cannot storm in upon the thoughts of all else, uninvited and unempathetic, and foraying their inner seclusion. Each must do his own thinking, feeling and willing, dreaming and realizing, to choose and be as he sees fit, knowing his own heart and mind with far greater authority than those who would usurp it for their own, if given the occasion.

It is true to say that like attracts like, that we win love with love, respect, with the giving of respect; and gravity by measure of our own serious aspect.

We can assume from the start that all men mean well, that they are embellished with constant trying; whether mistaken or true, they happen upon their circumstance circumspect, loath to bring the heavens down upon them. Even reckless people, so named, are not so carefree as to deny their soul's margins. They are living on the periphery, for it is there that they feel placed, not because of defiance to life with incredulent scorn or apathy for life; they are rather, uncouth in their in involvement, skating at the edges as it were.

From man to man (as in one soul unto another) there are myriads of relationships which span the lifetimes, and weave a constant story. The value of soul-kinship brings to each endowments which could not be understood or made known through relationships with other kingdoms directly. Perceptions come to us because of realities shared and quite often forged by past hopes mutually built upon.

Modern thinking tells us that things are as we make them, that reality is as we do - in a manner of speaking. However, reality is realized by the power of two; and two or more may effectively call into being, whereas one on their own may not.

The higher angelic beings know us when we come to know ourselves as mirrored by another. Often the joy as expressed and received in company is directly related to those beings’ excitement who participate as from afar. It is as a light made possible by deflection, as the consciousness of one satellite, one man has been met with and is received by another. Effectively we become as suns and stars of their inner-reaches.

Likewise, such evolvement amongst men in communion, affects the animal realms quite also. For here the ego of man is rendered quiescent for a time, and it is during that episode that the animal-soul may begin to comprehend its parent, rather than by being excluded from the activity as it most normally is. It becomes as if the audible world produces words now understood, it is their way in, when there becomes such incorporation.

Further to this becomes the opportunity for evolvement in the passing on of various developments. As stipulated before, one may not make something out of nothing; we are in that sense, predestined to be what we are already, kept hid or manifest within our being. But subject to this is that we may lend some of that which comprises our beings, and share those qualities with another, thus transferring them by way of the signature keys. This is how a master may teach a pupil for example, how it is possible for the pupil to be brought much further than if he were to study by lone observation or merely with equivalent colleagues.

It works also to the principle of nutrition precisely. And it is natural for a man to seek the company of those who are in high commune, for the instinct for such ways to betterment is as old as his being. This is how he began and is compelled to continue.

Our Christ does not distinguish one love from another. Where He finds it He is. He has no preference to any particular Church or institution, nor union named or unnamed; He is not partial in His Nature. Love is the supplication, and the ennoblement of Man, it is the realization as it is the gateway through to all else.

The Mark of the Christian Christian- 14th July 1995

THE Christian Christian always holds to the greatest ideal; with mercy at the stead, he is graced and ever forgiven. There is a parallel and there is not, in those things he may be subject to, contesting his prudence as an encore to sin rather than reproof. 

Ideals are not a vanity, nor are they imperishable. The preponderance of ultimate virtue often brings argument, for one virtue may insist upon another- the libertine will find this (libertine - free thinker). It does not decry the Virtues in all, but it does censor their convenience. 

If we as men give preference to counter considerations equally, as they assemble in the cloisters of the conscience, if we are sincere and unafraid to examine them all, we shall be equally bemused if not guided by a differential of a promotion of reasoning and forsooth of circumstance, with the assumption of Love.

The Christian Christian is not in the business of sin for sin's sake. His quandaries are of different category, his choices are for which higher principle; and he must come to be a man who truly knows his heart and acts accordingly. Therein the highest principle may be settled upon, for out of Love rather than fear must we be stimulated into effectiveness.

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

1 Corinthians 2:7-16