Lullaby for the Procession- 1995

In fields flagelled,
By lonely pass,
The scores of souls
Who, with bludgeon cross heaved higher,
Yet to stride with burden held aloft -
The Cosmic tread hard trod.

Fresh born,
The dust of Heaven,
Immigrates with those who stepped,
The dew of its far reaching plains.
These bright-eyed men,
Traveled well in a circulatory horizon,
And then to form and gather and form again.

In marshes distinct
From the crusty outcrops,
Arbarnarthon waits welcoming
The souls entering the World.

The Woods, still and silent,
Ancient elders who surpassed
The centuries advance.
Watchfully, there -
The Master can tell the whys from the wherefores,
The spirit from the soul.

By links with dorsal aptitude,
The concord lives by euphonic justice.
Peopled, then coupled then peopled once more -
So builds the World,
So builds the World.
This physics of nations,
Compounding their trades,
With goods port to port,
Interbound in craft, in blood.

Each man-child born beneath this our Sun,
Is a Christ-child first with a Heavenly home.
As we as men depart from distinction,
Through Him,
- Unique yet not so far removed ...
For each being sits underneath the one Sun,
And wonders out of his future to come,
And of who he has been when that day is done -
And who he shall be with the new day begun.

Thoughts on the Soul of Australia-17th October 1995

THERE are protected spaces sometimes imposed upon great expanses, so made so by pioneering souls in the original survey ... and much of the country of Australia was thus reconciled - to wit, given to an order of solitude. 

The imprints of men are to be found all of the way around the Globe, beneath the seas and underneath the muds, trapped fast in rock and sandwiched in upon the alluvious remains. Although their footprints have long followed both the foot and its shadow, the greater imprint of a man's being is incised upon all matter that did know him, and still voices his impressions thus left within the World.

In all that we are and all that we give out into the ethers and beyond, we impart ourselves in situ, localized into those material places in which we abide. So it is that lands themselves become colored and characterized with all kinds of deeply held impressions from their countrymen, so that only after but a very brief episode of centuries past there becomes an atmosphere marked and immovable, attached to the mineral remnants within the ground. 

Organic matter is free from these impressionings. The etheric life does not inhibit itself with past reckonings. It is one of a selective memory, in that it gives to future life and does not hearken to the ways of a strangulating death; such as one does find in past palaver of the ghosts of men preceding. 

It is true to say that there are noble stories amongst them all, but out of all of those, what truly was good made recovery and moved on. The goodness of a man travels with him, and as he makes his way into future realms his glory becomes his apparel. Whilst the sad echoes of former stories usually tell only in part, that of his real impressions thus had, we find that recounts are in tenor most melancholy or frivolous, factual or eventual, but without the humors or the lusts; the gravitation of eager recovery, as is also.

This is why it is that a man's review of his past lives so lived, may well prove misleading even by that of his own interpretation. All that was delightful has traveled with him and exceeded those details which remain relatively lifeless, now committed to the past. The collection of detail and of service, the evidence of his very being, is but hollow and no clear portraiture of the minutes and heartbeats won and then gone. 

There are often fantasies given about time-travel and such access into the past happenings. Should this discount the present were the clarity the same? Would it be possible that the fervor of the future could be known again and again, played out with but starch and salt? No, it is there to be witnessed just as a cellophane film; and true also that there are possibilities with every representation, that we may come to contact the present-day soul to whom that past was connected. But in themselves such impressions in the world are as empty of soul-meaning as the whining winds which sing through the rockface pass - as sing they do, and the men who catch their breathless sound bend their thoughts to find interpretation in the enchantment of a voice which comes without tongue and resounds from no being. 

Countries are populated by ghosts. They become opinionated with ghosts. They are contaminated by ghosts, save for those areas which have been concealed from the emmanatory influences of men. Australia is as young as she is old. Her population of ghosts is few. Her desert areas were once infilled with great numbers, however the periphery which is, was once but a plate below sea level.

Long before the Atlantean period there were communities of 'plasmic' men whose sensualities were overall. These men had intense sensitivity at the edges of their mortal bodies, and when plant or creature was surfaced to them they would identify their form within their own constitution and become visibly much altered. They appeared almost as the womb sac which contains a baby, and would take on the images of that which they came to, that it could be seen through the 'skin' of the outer of themselves. They were the original shape-changers, which later on various races could still mimic in like manner. However, these bodies of men were organized in such a world which was not hardened or with contrast as it later became. To take on the form of that which you came to was not as great a marvel for those times as it would subsequently be, of course today.

The actual discernment between what was the man and what lay without him was difficult. The consciousness at that time was quite dreamlike, and yet too there were about them those whose wills were most powerful and commanding. These men could not only 'become' in like fashion so seen inwardly, but could impose outwardly their imaginations so that they could creatively become what they willed. This involves a far more developed exploitation of matter.

Even then it happened too that the impressionings of men made their way into the immediate substance of the minerals about them; with this difference, the mineral bodies themselves were also quite different, being far from their manifested selves as we recognize now. Minerals were not caught in form either, but appeared in fluidic trace and also in ether as advanced spirits from those quadrants which they originated. 

These spirit-beings of the mineral world gave men their elemental virtues, and these virtues took visible form; and the men in turn could 'become' in their likenesses also. Today they reside in Man in minute quarry. Their spirit selves are divided into other realms, with their consciousness living elsewhere. Man's virtue is now his own, although he has made it such with the help of their association. Their traces still make for this within him, yet their immediate beings are no longer incommunicado. They cannot penetrate the ways of matter or the consciousness of men, for the gateways closed with the seizing of the Sun.

Christ determined His sole relationship afore and beyond the lesser principalities. Gold verily became the king of the metals as it embraced the etheric properties of Christ, which the other metals and minerals could not. The Beings of Virtue were evacuated and made distinct from their 'bodies' of metal. Gold itself incorporated each higher part which was hitherto empowered, and the minerals slept dormant beneath the ground, forming and growing just like the toenails of the gods.

The men of Will aforementioned, brought a perilous threat to those fellows who were susceptible to trusting and becoming as they bid. Formerly a man could mirror life and this would be to no great harm, however the men of Will conjured lifeless forms, from which when assumed were as a condition of disease upon the whole, for the interpretation of the further world became confused by those deceived with this creativity, and ordinary men did not hold the means to know what was real and what was glamour. (Similar to the foodstuffs consumed at the table nowadays.) There becomes a dim and shaded sense for the life properties within any given material, and in this instance it did affect the man markedly with a confusion which injured his whole being.

The beings of Virtue were implicated here by their very involvement with form. Although matter was precondensed it was nonetheless remarkable unto itself. That is to say, that although quite fluidic it did not combine and was not solvent, and in this was enabled by the presence of mineral bodies encased in an etheric world. 

Men themselves were wise and knowing, but even a literate man in a pitch-dark room cannot read; and the Men of Willing found the means to darken the World with their imagining's shadows. This behavior was not all of their planning; it itself had come about from the 'progressive' elements assisting the men to develop themselves so. And thus they were banished. Even virtues can present with overwhelming strength which endangers their usefulness and can cripple a man. This was just such a case. In intermingling with Man the influences of the stars fought for predominating sway. They ventured outside of their license and were sent back to their respective realms that they be coherent there from afar.

Deposits of gold bloomed in those areas where the men of Will came to renounce themselves. At the time when the Beings of Virtue had departed, Christ offered a chance to each man that they had choice to follow on and leave this World (and Mankind), or that they should stay and surrender up the powers turned wicked. Of those that chose to pursue their given bent freely, they were allowed their leave, deported to Mars, Venus and Jupiter.

Of those that stayed, faithful and dependent to all of this World, there was a gift in place of the powers lost, and this was of a spiritual Gold. Christ did commute from the Sun and gave His Signature (in part) into the Gold, and into this He sealed the other elements also. 

There became a transference of signature and organic matter would then go on to leave such residue which collected the metals upon it by virtue of its own. Virtue was inherent in Man and he could command it. Virtue then became inherent in matter and matter itself could receive it.

At the turnposts of life, where the organic matter is so reduced and lifeless, it may receive life anew with bacteria or with metal. The induction of metal precludes the bacteria. It does not present an etheric life, but it does not inhibit it either. Some bacteria consume the etheric forces out from that which they inhabit. They are not self-perpetuated but rather are pirating life from elsewhere. The appearance of minerals can be an antidote to this occurrence, both in the constitution of man and also in the earths upon the Globe, by which the astral invasion of a belying bacterium may be held back from a rampant disclosure.

It is the nature of history that the markings of a particular cycle shall be repeated in that same area for which it was given to. This has been witnessed both in great and lesser periods, whereupon trends and impressions have taken similar route; although it may be added that consequence from time to time does vary. Quite so in regards to Australia and its deep history associated with that earlier time involving the Beings of Virtue and the Men of great Will, and that time of transmigration with the metals and their associated keepers. Throughout Africa and Egypt and into the Americas, these continents too, witnessed the reformation of the powers within the Mineral Kingdom as such. However it was to be that Australia was from where it began, and was then so kept protected because of that.


A similar contest will one day come to Australia again. Christianity itself has new charges with not the contaminated history it has suffered on other shores. It is true to say this for the spiritual atmosphere, because it has known and won a great success, and such successes are paramount to future wins. 

The special nature of Australia was not originally preordained. It came about because of the intensity at that time of both the powers represented and the powers then overcome. It was to have the first of the men to whom the resignation came, and it was the first home to be of the converted, transformed Gold.

Ever after this country was given to keep much of its original wisdom, without having to suffer from the impressionings from great numbers of men. It is not to say that countries do not love their men, for it would be false to imply that - no indeed, a country does welcome all manner of people to people it, however and regardless of the changes which do consequently occur upon its face because of it. Yet there was need also for virginal land to be kept for those histories yet to be succeeded, and succeeded with no distraction of defeat. 

The people who inhabit Australia at present are often known by this attitude amongst them. Defeat does not hang heavy or shroud their concerns; and for this they are held to be immature or childlike in their countenance. As with the plasmic men of much earlier times, they have the same innocence to suggestion, characterized also in their willingness to experience the outer life, rather than diffract upon the inner concerns. The activities depend largely upon physical and material involvements. As a nation they have not yet developed a thoughtfulness or reflectiveness born from suffering or dark history. This is not their compulsion. However, for those amongst them to whom this does not apply completely, we find that there can be remarkable degrees of genius in our 'panning for gold'.

Dear Christ of the terrible Love,
As here Your sacred party stands,
With fine and solemn expectancy -
We men may languish, fail, waste and weaken -
Yet in Spirit are Your perfection truly,
Because we are Yours, dear Lord,
We are Yours.

The eager watch is held from the summit,
And so cast down into silt and condensation,
Into likeness and its hideous representations -
May we pray for the forgeries and the impermanent.

Luxor on its mount invisible sits,
Ethereal and intangible,
The second Avalon,
Car for the elect,
Known as a gypsy town,
With no particular country home;
The embassy being held for all men,
Stalwart, faithful with a stronghold impenetrable to infirm minds and witless scoffs.
You may come with only the highest vanity in likeness.

Christ, You are above us and upon us,
You bring us here the lover's promise appealing faith in fact,
Entreating just one sovereign resolution,
And that is Love:
That love to brave its contenders tirelessly,
Matching the irate with an affection,
But no retraction or apology;
Your love is terrible, formidable and stirring,
Vigorously vital and exacting,
Dynamic, irrevocable and ever there,
Driving, imposing terrains with always new life;
Constantly welling fluidic charm,
Coursing the inconsistencies and objectifying a harmony,
Insisting a compassion, a fierce championing Spirit
And securing each soul,
Your Love's tenacity is the most potent power of all,
Without a doubt Dear Lord, without a doubt.

We pray to know this terrible Love,
As it spills through the gates of heart and into Men and back again,
Forthwith to God, we say:
Amen!

Streams of Interest & Enlightenment in the Decad- 8th October 1995

[Continuing the Rosary Meditation]

1. Our Father: ACTIVE LIFE- The Will & the forces of Ego.

THE primordial definition of Will is Movement. In origin the Will that drove Creation's promise and animated Life at every conjuncture, this Will streamed from one being into the many that were to be, and it was to be seen as pure movement.

Now, in physical existence a man's mobility is given to the extent of his will and his mastership of it. The essence of ego-direction and application has at its heart the fiery action of the Holy Spirit. Although the Will of our Father is not unusually apparent in the particular, it is evident in all being. There has been confusion in the past as to the rightful place and purpose this mighty force holds within Man. For it has been coupled with a creative self-consciousness which is capable of devastating - either with clumsiness or evil management. Man cannot be innocent of his own powers. More and more he is called to become capable and coherent, that he create a'further, rather than simply undo such splendors already done.

One may understand Christ's gift to Man in relation to his ego by asking what would we have were Man without Christ? To this we would suggest we would have Lucifer. Or we would have another who also seeks a reign of forfeit, whereupon the men are magnetized together with one group will. Christ has enabled men to keep to their separateness that they may develop their own. This is no small matter.

The nature of Will is of paradox in that whilst it is motivated out from its initiator it may also be persuaded by that whom it does recognize as a greater power of will also. In this way we succumb to the laws around us without forever contesting the humdrum or necessary values which dictate to all. We have no choice individually in how the Globe glides (and it does not spin), we do not will for the sun to rise (not even in our selves) and we may not cause our will to cease ourselves being, in the true sense of soul and spirit. Therefore we have from this a simple proof that whilst we have will, that will is also obedient to greater will constantly.

The ego of Man is generously given, because it is the sum-total of the experience which has gone before and of all of the good which was to be harvested therefrom. Whilst the soul is so characterized, it also is not. Our soul selves are primarily angelic in their desires and in their attractions and perceptions. The soul is moreover satisfied with the enjoyment of Creation as it is. The ego of Man, on the other hand (which it does contrast right from left), advances into aspects of newness, which enables the being of man to take into himself much of the future.

The soul embraces the past and reveres it. The soul is joyous with simple and humble pleasures of spiritual ecstasy, whilst the ego to a great extent does tire of them. The ego pleads to take to itself more and to be known to be more; it has to be different to what it already contains in ways of experience and comprehension.

So we are introduced to a dissatisfaction from which we are prompted out into betterment and further development. The parcel of the two - of both will and ego contained and made active within our selves - brings also the consequence and knowledge of consequence, personally revealed. What we will and conjure in action or by active thought, is consequently offered to us in the opportunity to perceive the outcome and effect of our doings and to answer them.

Karma, in this respect, is a gift from the gods also. We shall not say that it is intrinsic to Christ, for He in relation to karma has brought His addition to Man. Not only are we ensured experience for the ego by all that we will and therefore do, we are also given the grace of deferment, in that our governing angels may decide much about what, when, how and who, that we are not overcome by ourselves and by our mistakes and have to answer them all totally and in the immediate. The soul qualities of Man are quite aware of past purpose when it presents and acknowledges its due. This too is a grace.

So when we contemplate the forces of Will and active Ego we may bring thankfulness into our heart for the very Will of Father God as it moves throughout Creation; and the Ego of Christ which umbrellas our own - being the greater Ego overall, saving us from the unsavory attractions of lesser but more powerful persuasions.

2. PEACE & CONTAINMENT - particularly in relation to # 1.

THE aspect and influence of peace and containment brings to Man his knowing of true happiness. In the primordial glamor, peace was as invisible and unknown, for there was no contrast to go by. Containment was and wasn't; however its formative evolutions were set to work almost immediately, although held transiently. Systems unfurled and designs shifted with a precocious aplomb. Containment was as but a brief hesitation on the way to a greater and more complex proposal to be formed.

Peace always brought the forces inward for that time when they were contained and held back from transmuting further. Peace enables us to collect ourselves and remain relatively stationary in a vortex of change and impending chaos.

In the very real sense of it, the influence of Peace is timeless and calls to halt time. Of course it cannot effectively do this indefinitely; however this is our chief meditation here - which, it may be added is paramount to meditation itself.

From concerns of time we are reprieved temporarily, that we may look down upon what we have and what we are; that we may be motionless, quieten our own wills and thereby know the expression of God's Will as is. That we may not drive our selves to constant distraction, but come to a reflection in still and perfect waters; that we may quell the ego's habitual prompting - overriding our own driving forces therefrom - that in itself is necessary and most powerful, more powerful than the will and ego themselves, that it can restrain the two and do so harmoniously!

Our meditation upon this gift is one of happiness whereupon the ego can afford to relax. Peace is no jailer; it also brings commensurate joy with its application. It is the initial substance from which all substance was derived and subsequently born out from; and that is precisely why we are enabled to return to it.

3. STRENGTH - sustained and active, to be used, summoned by the Will.

Strength is a corporate quality which as an influence empowers permanence. In the higher order a permanence resides, that although not gauged by Man, is there and in place and thus permits all other constancy to be.

Strength is undeniably amongst us. The permanence within the spiritual Worlds has been guaranteed in the memory of Father God. Such permanence affords all beings the ability to receive the future because the future does not threaten the wellbeing of what has been brought from the past.

We can begin to realize that the constant changing about us, the forming and reforming, works upon a higher principle of constancy which does stream through it. Just as peace itself resides as the essence within all motivated life, so too does a permanency engage itself within the struggles of manifested life as it consists and desists and rebuilds anew.

In no way does permanency imply stagnation, for stagnation is peace which has overrun its time in relation to time's demands. Permanency as an essential quality of influence, primordially speaks to us of the highest drafts which once laid down are here to stay.

Initially those things which were given in the Spiritual Worlds have the strength to remain, to continue regardless of what else is to follow, because Father God does not take risks - He does not seek change merely for change's sake. The future would not be qualified if it in any way threatened our spiritual heritage. In this sense, as things that were, so shall they be. However, Man himself has the choice always to depend on this strength, but travel out from its source and become different also.

In our very beginnings of the making of soul - those were the 'days' when things were built to last. This is the meaning of that: a time of pure strength and resilience, when the patterns were laid down and Man was then given all gifts and purpose, affiliations and loves which he carries to this day, by which it is strength itself that will ensure their permanence within him.

Our meditation on strength - as it is shown actively or by containment - is one of thanksgiving for that which does and will endure. Strength clearly comes from God, for without Him there would be no permanence, no jot would remain.

4. SEXUALITY and the various aspects related.

Sexuality is union, productive union, whereby two individuals are enhanced by combining together rather than by remaining separate. Offspring which follows consummates the proper value of the combining. There is no true sexuality without combining harmoniously and in agreement. In other words, in the context of this talk of this influence we shall not confuse the term with primary functions of the physical genitalia, for they alone have no essence of true sexuality; but rather we shall look to the spiritual significance and meaning for which there is always an implication of two, and an action of interaction.

In the spiritual meaning we find that there becomes a culmination of a longing realized because of another like soul, and the two have met so in agreement at those conjunctures for this to be realized.

When two individuals meet so together, they invoke forces of creation with great rapidity; not only in terms of bringing new souls into the world by such physical conjoining, but there are myriads of creative forces which also transpire at varying levels in which the two may communicate.

Sexuality was not always expressed as it is in the World today - and certainly in the higher worlds it is far different in action and application. However there are male and female angels, contrary to opinion; save to say that their determinations in this way are not with male rods or female wombs and they do not combine in this manner as played out in the physical realm today.

The forces which characterize the female are soul forces - they seek to contain, to embody, to acquire and to keep. The intuitive spirituality of the female influence contrasts the active knowing of the male whose primordial disposition is to go forth with great activity, desire and will, and with constant promotion. The action of the will and ego as described are masculine, whilst the action of both peace and strength are quite feminine. These influences counterbalance each other with a remarkable complement.

Now of course it must be said that neither man nor woman is confined to sole attributes of manliness or womanliness. In this we have a paradox but an answer also, because it is necessary for Man to know both, and to know and identify both he must have both. However one is active and one is quiescent at the one time.

Just as with conversational dialogue it requires one to will and work the words and one to remain silent and take them into their consideration. This is a fine example of the male/female exchange which is enjoyed with differing roles throughout any given day by men and women who inter-engage with both aspects demonstrably.

That a man may execute his own plans projected he must necessarily have those female attributes to contain all else about him. That a woman may come to know of the world outside of herself she must assume a manly attribute that she may leave herself in the first place.

Some things are best achieved with the assistance of another. Unwittingly we combine continually - we are exacted by conflict and difficult exchange. But then, how marvelous when two coincide in deep agreement, and their position of soul, as well as the rest, is receptive to a far greater result thereby. Men can decide upon affiliation and agreement with a self-conscious decision. They choose to be with other souls reflecting upon the needs of their ego, and the gifts they can share.

This is unknown by the angels and the beasts - who have not the direct ability to consciously choose in such a way. They gravitate to their own quite naturally, and combinings result from proximity rather than acknowledgment of differing individual characteristics. It is by affinity that they would come together; and yet in Man, he is given the appreciation of all that is different in a being other than him, and he can still come to love, and is enhanced by it! This is the beginning of a most marvelous mystery so told, and a greater step to egohood, as contrasted by but a lonely entitlement.

Our meditation upon sexuality is thus: We give a gratitude for that creativity which is spawned from two beings having harvested much love within each other. The primordial force here is an etheric milk which nurtures us all; which springs from the love in both warmth and in fiery desire. We can remember that all physical modems reflect a higher principle at work, and that the underlying forces which compel a sexuality are God inspired from the earliest moments of this parent universe. The Cosmic seed and semen is spirit and soul, whilst the Cosmic womb is Man.

5. GOOD NATUREDNESS: humor & goodwill.

There is an adage to suggest that nothing divines as aptly as good-naturedness. This is to say that should you wish to ask something of the universe you will best get your way with her if you are in good humor about it.

This force (and force it is) is as sophisticated as it is not. The primordial influence we experience here sprang from a gaiety as known by the original Spirits of Form. Cooperation began at this early phase and what followed was and is the delights now known by us. We go from the deep knowledge that two may incur within each other to the added creativity as brought about by more than two.

Good naturedness and goodwill extends out from the personal implications and divinations of ego and gives of itself without demand. (This by the way, is the true meaning of Christian Love.) That we do not invest our own interests is paramount to the effectiveness of the task to be executed.

Now there is nothing wrong with a man who seeks to care for himself, for ennoblement and enhancement and the desire for such, come of this right. That is one issue of Man. Counterbalancing this necessary ego-desire is his cooperation with the forces of life which hold him buoyant; and to this he is required to cheerfully submit!

If being happy was a command one could give, it would be one! The truth of the matter however is that it is not, but in time the satisfaction of harmonious interplay does make itself apparent to Man and he shall respond obligingly.

The meditation for this stream of influence is cooperation. We offer a gratitude for coherence and the forces thereof, and that the experience of humor saves us from the rigidity of self-centeredness and brings us into an expanse far further than ourselves.

6. OUR FATHER, PASSIVE- The Divine Will of utter existence: Quiescent.

The influence which predominates the forefinger titled number one, has been recognized as movement with the advancing of both the Will and the Ego's forces to propel ever further out into the beyond. Now we come to the forefinger which is same, but not so same, whereupon the chief influence here is of Father God also, however our Father who is not known to us in action or in movement, but rather in stillness of being, in those recesses to which we must go to penetrate His solemn Mystery.

The Divine Will has a twofold characteristic, as did the Will lived out in action and movement. Whilst it is causal to being, it is obedient to lesser wills who do desire and promote themselves either in conjunction or conflict to the greater Will of God. If this were not the case there should be no such thing as the will living in men at all.

The Divine Will allows for and makes way for its immature siblings. Yet there is further to this something quite wonderfully apparent - that is when a man wills correctly, with just or creative cause, he gives to the Divine Will and the Divine Will responds. This may only be felt upon the ethers - it is not to be visibly so seen - but it is known to men who have drawn upon their wills after consulting in prayer firstly and are so doubly empowered in action by this.

So we hold within our beings that access road into yet a higher determination. On the one hand we are personally empowered to be as definite and creative as a God, directing our Wills with the bidding of our Egos, always nonetheless remarkably subservient to the higher Will regardless. Then on the other hand, we have with us the living Will, passive though it rests, of God Himself; and we are given this that we may know His choosing and call upon His Will with any matter that is before us. 

When contemplating His non-apparent Self we are drawn to Him and subsequently relieved of the ego's tensions in this. If sleepiness results it is merely because our definitive selves have given over into His embrace then known. One day, as our development brings us closer to Him in our sharpened consciousness and ego activity, we will be enabled to go to Him and return with some recollection.

Our meditation for this stream of influence is:
"Dear Kind and Gentle Father, You are hidden from me, yet ever present. Your Will is truly known by me, and here I do recognize this gift of knowledge. I am thankful for this recourse, and ask of myself to ever learn to seek out Your Will before that of my own."

7. DISINTEGRATION: the power to desist, to dissolve.

Our mirrored finger, as discussed for this one, is one of Peace and Containment. In seeming opposition to this we have the chief influence of disassociation, whereupon the forces which were formerly adherent in property or makeover, have desisted and made way for new form and force to exchange.

As said formerly, Peace as a cosmic element exists as the primary substance; and once again, the forces of dissolution require the substantiality as it were of Peace, that they may presume upon form and design and desire.

Peace may be thought of as the pause between out-breaths and in-breaths. The evacuation of the out-breath is life metabolized. The exchange and corruption of the new breath requires dissolution - we negotiate substance and ether with the processes of dissolution and then assimilation or part retention.

We know these forces not only in death and in our dissolving out from this package. We know them by our constant evaporations out from our alluvial selves, in soul qualities that move in differing densities.

The power to desist and withdraw allows the ego to return unto itself; and so in similar quality to that of Peace we have the same aspect, for primordially this influence also calls to halt time, to return to the original aspect before the form was created; and so it calls for dissolution every time.

That we incarnate with worldly gravitation, that we can love so many harbors, not only here but in the spiritual worlds, and leave them all, this is with the same influence known, of returning to that which was before and before all. Because of this we find the World’s a fragment and time washes boulders into sand, but we move on.

Our gratitude here is for the might of disintegration, whilst also its providence. Although cautioned by its presence, we are as the ants and the miners, breaking apart those things necessary for conversion to greater purpose.

8. OBEDIENCE: Strength curtailed - servitude.

On the one hand the finger presents that strength which has sustained all being - representing Permanence. On the other we come to know of our strength's strength, the virtue of personal obedience.

Here we have the contrast of strength serving us - our example is clear within the Heavenly Worlds and all of Creation as it binds and supports us completely - to the ability which we may develop of serving also.

Obedience and servitude require an exact strength, measured and equal to that which is necessary; an apportioning, if you like. For to be obedient, through choice (and not because of force) requires the will and consciousness of the man to double-back upon his own ego.
Born of either trust or necessity, we are giving our strength into the hands of another. The primordial characteristic here is the station to which we know ourselves to be in - our true positioning, quite evident with spiritual sight in earliest being.

On the one hand there is the greater strength; on this hand we are given the particular which works within ourselves and that we may utilize such strength as needs be that we can curtail it and direct it with exactness defined. That we may effectively be strong, we must also be obedient - paradox though this is, this is Law. One may only be strong within the given parameters of power and influence, for either way other, the strength itself is compromised by lack of qualification. 

We may offer up a gratitude for strength enhanced with servitude. As men who willingly submit by choice, their strength to work for the best purpose as recognized, our egos become more apt in just how such strength is to be exerted and determined, and appointed in the now, and then later into the everlasting as well.

9. REVERENCE - the power to surrender to God.

This is distinct from the above, as reverence itself is an experience of attitude rather than of application. In the context of the Will of our Father becoming apparent to us, we are regarding a course of action, and doing and therefore subsequently becoming. All of this requires a measure of ego-activity within the man, which as alluded to earlier is an experience of the masculine order primarily.

Reverence is a soul quality which denotes that combining between man and God. With the influences carried and known by the little finger on the other hand, we find that the combining and the creative associations are examples of the manner in which we combine with Heaven in the primordial sense. Reverence knows this, and expresses the love in return for God's infusion into these our beings. The sexuality of Man is redeemed in the celebration of reverence for his relationship to God firstly.

"Before all, dear God, I hold thee", and so in attitudinal devotion we come to realize that our mainstay of Creation rests with Him.

Just as our actions are effective when proper strength is apportioned correctly, just as we are given His conference, His Will to ennoble our will's willing, just as death uncovers peace as she sleeps beneath the decomposing past, so also may our combining with God bring us nearer to our ecstasies realized in love's expedient passions.

We may meditate upon this Reverence, finding our own ways to be with Him, and thankful that we are not forgetful of His great Love for us, and this dynamic combining.

10. NOBILITY: the abilities of being generous, upstanding & virtuous.

The thumb on the one hand epitomizes selflessness, goodwill and good humor - amiable and obliging. On the other hand we contrast this with virtues which are not obliging, but rather self-willed and quite defined within the man.

Especially as he progresses and the integrity is ever called upon and tested, the noble nature of a man is often poked and pricked by the lesser men who contest the value of his upstanding. This follows as night does day, that lesser men who are as yet underdeveloped by contrast, shall not be able to recognize the worthier aspects within another, and so presume with morbid projection.

That the virtues may be called upon and live in full color within the man's aspect, brings him to the occasion where he is made separate to contrasts within his immediate worldly activity. This does not detract from his overall good nature or goodwill to fellow men; however, as established there are differing needs that he may carry himself (and them) through the World as is best.

Our meditation here is for Mankind as a collective. We can perceive our own noble aspects inherited, and pray for their realization throughout the whole of humanity in time.
We can be generous with reservation - by that we mean to say that we should never be too generous, i.e. one does not give away their soul or their mother or their God for example. On the one hand we have an element of obliging, on the other there is a decided obstinacy and a decided giving made special. Our meditation here is one of finding our true natures, most perfect and complete in all that we are. That we have faults is part of being able to give only so much; however, virtues stream in and out of us regardless. We are individually entitled to our noble title for attached to us is Christ as He works the greater harmony amongst the individual men.

So the same theme of community rests with these digits, but with differing aspect where we may find that we are not compelled to group orientation and not committed to give what we give. Therefore a true value shall be known and a worthier nobility in each thereby; that it is not by compulsion but rather out from true love that we shall be and become.

Footnote:
Clarification on how to do the Rosary meditation: Firstly one might start with one quality per day. Then instead of going through the whole of one hand, start with a finger on the right and then follow with the mirror finger on the left. This is the balanced way to do it.

The Sea & the Sky- 20th September 1995

WE may grace the sea's horizon in thought, but we may not proceed to meet it on foot. Some places are not readily penetrable. Some scenes, though ever there, are elusive ... we trip their beauty with a profound ineptitude, and when we happen upon it, as it happens upon us, the lights, hues and nuances envelop our interest and are drawn to our raptures, meeting with us within rather than without. So settles the whole great landscape in our beings. 

Just as we may not readily catch our widest gaze in the particular, to look in upon the wholeness of a man presents us with such a beauteous sweep which is also impenetrable and impassable by the conceits and concerns of this world.

The sea with the sky imposing, has long been a membrane to the skull of this world. It does heave itself and lick-lap-lick, pounding and swelling, or with a supercilious trickle. It is the life-bearer of proteins converted out from a body of death (being salt).

The sky contorts obligingly, and the ethers and upper ethers wrap around the solid forms, hosting this world with light, that it be held and be visible. Yet by another membranous containment too, our skies are defined by the spaces beyond this World.


In Man the soul's forces oscillate between his fluidic systems, his physical form and then to his soul's own regions of being and also beyond, right up through and into the reaches of his spirit. As the bubble of skyline is penetrated by the Sun, thus giving it a home, so also is the soul-skyline with a translucency so penetrated and impressionable to Christ.

Divinity is to be glimpsed in the elusive and not in the obvious. At the furthest reach of mind or form, it does not stay around long enough for us to ever contain and hold it captive within the physical boundaries. The nature of divine insight is transitory because it is ever commuting from one plane into another. So we may snatch and snaffle something quite wondrous, but must be prepared that it will leave us also. This follows on from the colors of the Sun's rising to the concepts that come bearing the god-wisdom - moments which arrive and then pass, sometimes to which we question their ever having been; happinesses won and then lost, born and then gone, but kept ever alive and in being in the soul.

When we sleep the procession of images which move before us are comprised of ethereal realities brought by our wonderings. In our transition between consciousness and slumber, and also out from sleep into wakeful consciousness, there is a special time when we may slip over the threshold knowingly.

The adept may pass into sleep without losing his wakeful consciousness, just as all men one day shall negotiate heaven quite similarly. They may do this because they are prayerful. Their merits of thinking are conducive to the heavenly realities and they have the means to interpret the spirit-speak, whilst also the ego can withstand the beauty of the passages beyond.

Later too, the adept advances into regions which are similarly cordoned with veils which take his memory before passing back through the gates. This 'unknowing' enables the man to enter back into a region without the pain which would otherwise follow him.

No man would leave the side of God were he to remember Him. In His Love for us he has given Man forgetfulness, one which does not strip us of our intrinsic knowing. Nor are we denied the full recollection in the days to come, however for the periods in which we must venture into those corners of life that by contrast are stark, we are forgetful of our ecstasies. We are saved from the longings that would ensue. However, it is by our very ecstasy that we are healed and so renewed, out from the substances of titanic splendor.

Life feels good. Goodness and the subsequent pleasure thereof is natural to this universe, just as virtues and graces in pure form are exciting to the spirit of Man and held to be fantastically beautiful. Misery is but a fiction of worldly poverty. Christ Himself is no sad reality. The truth is Wonderful. Spiritual poverty first comes from the denial in Man to acknowledge this. But some of us know better!

So Man must learn to tolerate the contrasts between the ecstasies of his ardent life to that of the effort-bearing details he must equally enable (and ennoble) himself in. This is painful and difficult in itself, for the man who has little contrast is constant for a while, finding a 'settledness' within self until death, content to be content with only definition. Whilst the man who presses for development shall leave behind the fixed definitives to meet with those qualities of higher life which prove the luster of the soul's known world - albeit transitory to his given perception - and he shall waver in and out of the experience of oscillation as is his soul's own reality of being.

We intermingle with heaven during our daily incarnating. Man is not fixed entirely to where his consciousness goes.
Here is another thought also: just as Christ is with us, we are with Him. Where He goes go I. That means to say that as He permeates every cell filled with light, as He inspirits all men and illumines their hearts with keen knowing, as He Graces each plant and tree in foliage and in bloom and it pretends to be Him, as He is in the body of water and throughout the ethers above; in the moments to come in all that is to be, there is He, and also I - for I am with Him.

Herewith we can come to the mysteries of the very mysterious, for all things are known by Him - sown, grown and shown by Him! Thus we are allowed to know also these things.

Therefore it could be questioned: how can we help to encourage other men to come to a greater happiness and leave the 'comfortable' posture of a mean and arid outlook? How may men give up their forgetfulness when it was first given to them as a grace?

As said before, our perceptions are selective, for it is by stupidity, insensitivity, to all other awarenesses that we are enabled to concentrate upon particulars which are specific to our interest. We do not appreciate the full physical realities which are all around us, we are saved from overwhelming considerations of sense, having mostly just 'enough' to comprehend - the light is not too bright, the flower too pungent, the wind too warm, the edges too sharp, the taste too strong, the colors too vivid, the humming too loud, and so it goes. Were we more sensitive to sense impressions we should find the world intolerable. Were the physical realities themselves just marginally accentuated, then also we should find that their properties were heinous to our selves propriety.

Our passage into perception is already quite delicately placed. A man does not shift his position from this without challenging the desire to fall into forgetfulness – sleepiness, unconsciousness. Just as a man who is brought a new thought which disputes his given reasoning may answer you with a vacant expression of this 'unknowing', he is entering upon that threshold whereupon he has not yet earned his self-consciousness.

What was the grace of forgetfulness is to be replaced by yet a higher grace of full knowing. Christ does not contradict our Father as this would seem. For in higher terms the two are one and the same - only it is that one is the quiescent partner of the other.

Full knowing is that which is to be realized. The future must be in order for it to be known. It is played out. And that we may proceed forward we must turn our backs to where we have come from. We are forgetful of that past. In this our knowing embraces our forgetfulness. But we must have our knowing as well. A man who has only forgetfulness and no knowing shall have no future.

In time (and out of time) Father God by presence alone, dispels the 'enchantment' of our forgetfulness. Here it becomes more meaningful - the gift when given twice differently - just as something as is thought to be lost is found and ever more valued.

With a greater knowledge than before Man comes to his end station with the recollection of all of the former along the way. This then provides the wisdom of the experience without the hindrance at that time - the continuity innately known is fully realized. This is also the circumstance with reincarnation and forgetfulness, along with our sleep and its forgetfulness as well.

The greater grace of full knowing proves the completed value of the grace of forgetfulness. This is how it has been, and is to be. It is not that forgetfulness should ever dictate to make the confines of our knowing, but rather that our knowing is enabled firstly by our forgetfulness, and then secondly by our own efforts to know. By this effort our consciousness is won and our 'unknowing' is transformed with greater purpose - although subsequently dispelled; having sacrificed itself it is reborn in pure knowledge.