Faerie, the Home of Imagination- 5th May 1996

THERE are preserves set aside from Man for Man, in which things are kept and held perfect; places and conditions in which time does not spoil or tire, stature does not wilt, spirit is manifest and glorious, sanctity is eminent, and Paradise withstands.

Each man has his own such secure; as he also has those keys which bring him directly home back to his Father wherein all pure beginnings have remained with hope intact. Though projections long have passed before, out and into the future's entirety, we may be summoned, we may advance, but we are always in part, completely with our Father.

Amongst our many stations of preserve there is the island of Faerie. Its timelessness befuddles many, as the quizzical observer may expect a sequence and consequence to which this realm adheres not. For some things may it only imitate at best, whilst in other conditions it would appear as if this World, our physical world, did but ennoble itself upon Faerie's Grace and had not the same reaches into Heaven or wherewithal to know of the spiritual essences apparent and alive.

For every condition there is of Man there is a place. There are planetary homes which encompass the virtues which live out through Man's community amongst his own; tangible realms that men do go to when they are fully awake unto their properties. Spheres and planes do not adequately describe - that they are more natures and nobles, populated by men who developed and worked their condition during the course of their life. There are realms of charity, community, sociality, architecture, congeniality, creation, application; there are continents of music and planetary deposits of war. For all of the attributes and conditions of soul made manifest there are spiritual homes also.

One such ark is often confused with the astral adherent to our world, but is indeed quite innocent and untouched by its mythos. The astral regions are 'magical' in that they lay also outside of our time and there are transformations taking place continually. Forms are unreliable and contrasting, they are threatening to the wellbeing of Man as a concentrate of passions in collective. Here is not a realm of safekeeping as is found in the Etheric World, but moreso of dispatch - the astral mirror-world is residual to Man's effluence, and the lower reaches are grim depositories with phantom life.

However Faerie was born before Men had an astrality, before a physicality, before desire became mingled with selfishness. When a man desired something of beauty in ages past it was not that he should keep it for himself or make use of it, it was rather that the attraction was as natural as we still today may find in communion with a sunrise. In all things this was usual, and delight abounded on behalf of all - the ego was one and cared accordingly without distinction.

The corruption as known to the physical and astral worlds does come about because of involvements which dissuade the natural order with an unequal force; that man or beast exerts their own wants within the world, and does this with an unstable projection because it is unequal to that which it would take for itself. 

In the truth of Spirit when we are moved by the beauteous and the good and knowingly proceed closer to that which will infill us and fulfill us, there becomes an inner response to want, to want not only for that experience of the beauteous and good, but also to want to give something to it. This is natural to our innermost drives. That men would enhance or beautify is an example of the inner goings on herein described. Although it is the simplest of primeval reactions it is most noteworthy, because from this we may acknowledge our future redemption and distinguish our natural involvements, crediting them as due.

Here we may come to the subject of Art, for there is a very special place which brings into being the ego of a man alongside his compulsion for a spiritual beauty. The composer (whether he be composing with a medium of palette, word or refrain) has all the pre-ego adoration for the spirit of that which he now mingles amongst. To create in Art is not to attempt to promote oneself in the effort, but to put effort from oneself into that which is creative for the promotion of its being separate to that of our own. 

Therefore the artist is noble in his unselfish love and by his effort, he touches his work only briefly before giving it out into the world, being the vessel for heavenly transmutations effected by his very love.

Once again the message here is no new teaching. But the subtleties often escape the men who claim 'practicality' to be the principle to usefulness. God's palette was not merely practical, but it is measured in its usefulness by the extraordinary manner of its very being. We qualify ourselves, and that is our position and our place - but not to qualify others in their usefulness to God, for He has taken care of that already; and this of course shall be beyond our discernment where compared with His.

There are scores of beings who are all credited with manifestation and character and spirit and Godliness. Although the families are extended they do remain, and not one being is without the pity and the grace that Heaven will afford. Not one stands apart from our Father God.

It is true to say that as men we are privileged and burdened in ways which distinguish us from the hosts that support and guide us. For Man is central to them, being not yet fixed or bound in capability. 

The incarnating of those properties which are spiritual into the fleshy world is a process of art and creation in the highest sense. The transformative powers involved work their way into ramifications throughout all of the realms, for in this there becomes a space made, as it were, which was not formerly so.

Where spirit meets in flesh and works its way through the currents and moves with the fluidic wash, expiring the system, there is a presence which was hitherto locked out of, abandoned and unknown. For by contrast the spiritual realms may know themselves as they have never before, through this very process of incarnation. By the recognition of the ego of Man and with his love, they may fully become and be recognizable.

As odd as this may sound, and it is not to contradict the very tangibility that presides in higher realms, it is true to suggest that the physical world can hold imprints; that rather than those vaguely dismissed in snow for example, we have now seen those impressions cast most visibly in the clay. Though no one can grasp and keep indefinitely the higher principles and determine them to a lower definition (God forbid), they can give them a body of form, that they find new expression in physical life.

Further to this there is then an inverse magic so known, in that lemniscate law of promotion and return, that the further away from something we skate to the very limits of, the closer to return we become.

When Heaven sacrifices itself into the physical it is given more closely its relationship with God. This is why also that Man is envied, for he is no 'in between'. He has both the depths and his principal nature. He has the desire inhabiting of the demon and desire cohabitating of our Father; and within his own composite shall he bear down upon the former with such spirit as is the Father, that he shall invoke the greatest of magics: redemption. All beings and creatures of the night are redeemed by the true and selfless love of a humanly compassion. Driving down into our humanity comes the procession of beings who gather for Man's blessing, that they shall thereby come closer to our Father, that through Man they shall know of His Love.

We affect so very much within our realm and this extends out into all of those important places that live in spiritual testimony elsewhere. That which passes between men in a love that redeems all else as well, becomes the very love of Christ working between them, for in this they are borne higher than before and so are blessed thereby.

The habitat of Faerie is a kingdom that knows men and loves them well, for they are the 'little Angels', the spirits of our Nature, who have continued to tend to a paradise which coheres with our natural world, in not only plant but in the hearts of men as well. It is the home of imagination, which projects through to the essence of a spirituality untouched by any wizard's demands, for selfishness is exposed there for what it is, and no poisonous plants may take root for they are from the astral domain.

But it cannot advance from the dream that it is until men find the same beauty within their natural world; and that is their peril. For the connections which bring Man into his life strongly, are threatened by astral and sub-astral forces. The astral passions bring Man below his earthly reality when he is intoxicated or given to subject himself to loveless pursuits which excite the forces without equal purchase. The death-forces then corrupt the being, and the physical body is divorced from his etheric vitality and he begins to lose his connection with this incarnation and all of the joys therein to be known by his spirit and his soul directly.

The sub-astral influences have electromagnetic forces which now come to Man through the many illusory, false-natures which draw the ego away from his natural distinctions. Any interaction which is artificial in this way invokes a sub-awareness that does not connect with the vitality linking itself to an etheric life, but rather to the vehicle of 'electric' life as does facilitate the medium in which the ego is lent.

The plant kingdom offers Man his life connection into this incarnating process whereby the soul and spirit are honored well. If we are ignorant of the many virtuous forces as offered directly, then we become unresponsive to their gifts in being. The danger here is that Man collectively will isolate the plant kingdom in a way similar to the disassociation from Faerie that has now happened. If this were to occur and he should give himself over into the astral persuasions or sub-astral conditions, then he should also lose his ego forces, then becoming as the 'undead' we shudder from.

However, he shall strengthen his life's vitality and ego-forces in a love for the natural world, and with an unselfish employment. In turn the lower astral influences will become permeated with yet a higher power defined, and in time our planet's condition shall be worked over that it too shall be more conducive to life and to incarnating the heavenly powers. Then the "little Angels" whose evolution is quite parallel to that of our own, shall be rewarded for their having safe-kept so many essences precious to Man and profound.

Love, Light & Live-16th March 1996

THE sounding of the rain outside our windows as it falls into the night, as it presses in upon the pane and pools without, the choirlortuous din of varied note, the bass thrumming, the arpeggio within a singular splash, with a mixed and varied rhythm.... Listening to the waters come, whether heralded with tumultuous groan or in the gentle simplicity of a summer's fall, we may sense an exact process being mirrored to that which occurs within our being, that very processing of such experience, from the 'inside out'.

As described, there are some which this pleasurable life denies a reliable pane to view the outside. The 'rains' press inwards upon their constitution, all weathers be them savage or obtuse, can dampen and damage those resides which are porous with spaces unfilled, unsealed to the tempest's designs. For those individuals who are not strong within this world, it is no wonder that their reasoning, along with all other faculties in this regard, should be pitched and turned against the discomfort which they endure.

There are men, (a few) who are placed well within each body which houses their manifestive beings, and here we might add that a man is twofold in this respect, just as the mystery of the planetary conditions was brought to bear.

Man too has his organs of being which are active and connective, whilst also he brings those hidden 'sentient' organs of fathoming the spirit-soul activities, which are not in any way represented or manifested in the world or objects; or for that matter, fully developed in Man. Thus we do make a distinction between a man's manifestive powers and properties, and those which are sense impressionable to God.

So in returning, there are men who are snuggy-comfortable within their exterial devices that they inhabit and maintain, whilst there are those who are not. 

Christ's healing appealed to the many planes of Man, not the least which pertained to these connecting 'organic' forces in the first and essential instance. The healings as described within the Gospels are, on the face of it, precipitating the spiritual healing to follow. Yet in the reality of all such about-turns as they occur within the obvious example, there has to be change within the spiritual world effected that the physical world may then follow. We can remember however that the Gospels do not maintain to examine the workings of the spiritual world primarily, but do cordially account for this World in truth, as was best recorded. For the purpose of this was plain and faithful and connected to the original power of its happening, for by entertaining a spiritual conjecture alone, one would have kept it upon that plane of understanding, out of reach from the world they sought to bring the connection to.

The 'living word' in this example, is one which the presence itself as witnessed, has testimony and shall of itself bring about the spiritual awareness as it becomes known - but known it needs be first. The Bible is of incarnating; that is its function: to incarnate spiritual events by the record of their happening within the world. It is quite unashamedly exoteric in this regard, as it is necessarily so.

Worlds converge in physical expression, particularly in the turnaround of an immediate and obvious healing, and yet we may understand from this plainly, that the events which led up to the very happenings and intercourse had to be forsworn and foretold within the spiritual mappings. Physical life is anything but random.

Ongoing malady needs an interruption which usurps its authority and overrides its current reality. Only within the spiritual domain may this occur. Apart from which, in the case of the healing, it is the spiritual world reclaiming its reality by setting in order that which has the right to remain.

There is a natural preference for harmonious health. There is a better expression to return to, in likeness to God, rather than in unlikeness to God (i.e. anything but - distortions of the fact, underdeveloped and incomplete).

The Incarnation was for all incarnation, the transference of the heavenly worlds into a world to be made perfect in relation to the harmonious order to be. Although we are saturated with heavenly substances, although Man is heavenly, once cast into the physical world he becomes detached, semidetached from his divine properties and incoherent to their worth. When a man is overwhelmed and awash with love that flows to and from another he is immediately converted to Christ. All is proven and all goes well. Heaven rejoices and the world itself swells because of it. However, men do not come to love easily. The experience can be inhibited by many causes which will not be entered into today, but instead we shall address that concern whereupon the constitution itself is disrupted and unfavorable.

The Moon is the cold womb of the world from an ancient mother. Her time, though passed, still expels the very forces which once gave creativity into the new being; whilst now she calls by memory alone, entering into the cycles made manifest which pertain to the fertility of all womanhood as well as the planet. When the waters are driven by her magnetic wanderings, when the children of the harvests are plump with the world's waters, when the children to be are washed out from the womb, her matriarchal governance still maintains our physical periphery.

This is why we brought certain allusion to the analogy of the rains outside the window, for verily this is what occurs within the woman as she is overcome with those moon-forces which she cannot withstand or be impervious to. Furthermore, the problem is so common it is not to be thought remarkable or even outstanding, for it is to many a question of degree rather than title of a particular or given illness. There are moonly occupations and persuasions that incline an individual to become even more susceptible to moon-madness and the disincarnating process to follow. Interestingly enough, the nocturnal lifestyle which has been cited to correlate with those folk who are so inclined, is the first issue, symptom and aggravant of their condition.

The first and immediate relief can be effected when the consciousness is brought into line with sun time; and yet it can also be said that the sleeplessness of the 'misfit' concerned usually occurs because of the impeding moon influences beating in upon them in a way which they are acutely perceptive of. It becomes as a nightly lamp made visible (with or without the eyes shut). There is no reprieve. They are therefore more stimulated according to the density of the Orb above, and then encharged throughout the remainder of the day with moonly effluence as well.

In the healthy perceptive constitution wherefore the individual is cordoned well from the explicit gravitations of the moon influence, we find that the 'new man' of the future has emerged with the vitality which defies the deathly corrupting vapors which have overstayed from the remaining lady.

The Moon is in the process of decease, although in technical terms it did die long, long ago. Associated with the Moon, alongside those attributes which we must give due gratitude for (maintaining our entrance into this world, it does come through the portals of the past in ancient rhythms) there are also many undeveloped beings which have yet to know the light of Christ, for they are eyeless creatures of no warmth, clamoring about the lower recesses of humanity. The base demonic clan which is attached to the Moon's influences have yet still quite a way afore reformation. Their populace is made of the stuff of nightmares (literally) and their devious blood and bile is generally anti-Man - one could not describe them as pretty beings at all. That is not to say that they shall not find their time and place alongside Man in future ages to come. However in the present time we can add most blunt and plain, that their aspect is promoted in moon, but denied in Christ. Here we have the picture in miniature of good versus evil, made candid and bold.

Narcotics lend a man into moon-influences as they overshadow that glorious light which otherwise illumines his godly reasoning, his imaginings (in pertinent and wondrous projections), his foreseeing, his comprehension, and his light into perception into this World. Enter in the forces of the night when we take the draught of death, the smoke of ambiguity, or the drug of the ego's slashing - every time we forsake our selves, we do weaken our self's resistance furthermore. Enter into the heart the corruptions of a corrosive sin, corrosive because it does wear away at the man in those hatreds and malice and resentments harbored and accounted for. These sins darken the disposition just alike to the clouds which censor the Sun; and the warmth of the man leaves him with but a cold and uneasy passion in the world. Therefore if lusts are sought in this condition of malady, they are entered into in an attempt to bring warmth and vitality back, but the pleasures weaken the failing constitution further because there is a lack of connection to the true life as manifested through the heart.

Life which comes outside of the heart will consume a man in whole, in part. Life without love becomes a death. Too much life, too quickly in proportion to what a man may withstand and take to himself and give back into the world through those Christly faculties which are loving firstly, will become as death for the reason that he has not the wherewithal to suffer them.

Therefore the pleasures as experienced in part by the individual who partakes in false loves (e.g. drugs), are only vaguely promoted experiences of love and goodwill because of the drug and not because of the ego so knowing it; i.e. narcosis is a false loving because one does not experience the love outside of the ego, it is rather experienced all within the being - it gives nothing and receives nothing.

There can be a false love with fornication whereupon the couple cannot complete the rapture and make manage the fiery essences that are invoked if they do not hold a true love, respect and knowing within the ego also. It then in consequence becomes as powerfully detrimental, as it can be archetypically divine.

There can be a false love when truth is departed from and the passion of a 'good story' is preferred to the reality as perceived, for then it does happen that the individual prefers their own being's interpretation before the love of the truth. This false love so named is then dangerous as regards to further chances at true perception to follow.

The meditation of Christ being the Light and the Way is the most wholesome benediction and remedy a misfit may have. If they may hold this before them - perhaps it may be suggested that it is inscribed in words that they may carry if it is not possible to commit it to conscious remembering, then as short answer in recommendation we do suggest this.

"I am the Light and the Way" is remedial, powerfully remedial in that it strengthens a man, calling for the light of love and knowledge to be inspired within as a cohesive harmony, being the most powerful truth for Mankind for now unto eternity, that we may view the world not by moonlight but by sunlight evermore.
 

Our Repetitive Easter Story-17th April 1996

Unsheathed, this sword is brought forth in peace;
His Light rays out from behind the shield,
And our warrior Lord, naked save for his armor of Light,
Stands upright deflecting the bows of iniquity.

Of whose might and of whose splendor shall we attest?
Wherewith the frame, yet subtlety?
Love, most pliable, endures beyond all else,
And it shall not be vanquished, defeated or decried.
Christ, You are the Heavens, Holy Waters and the space between,
You shoulder men and carry them,
Knowing both of their fathers and their children to follow.
You know of their histories, the public and private,
Of the eons upon eons which brought them to this moment
And you know of their destined ways,
Designed with Grace, made strong in You -
You know.

Common to all and yet a specific,
Mighty above all, and yet the provider.
Where shall we find thee?
Once again the angels cry.
Once more comes Eastertide, and He has gone.
And then returns.

OVER and over His story repeats in Man. Inwardly working, the powers involved turn over in Man with dramatic repercussion. This He owns, as too the world He dwells in, a copyright to Christ's own story, as the self of man does struggle too for recognition.

The higher man, the Christos-self, holds presence within the corporative body, soul and ego of Man. Our own personal divinity urges to incarnate and become recognized. It brings into the consciousness the full weight and meaning of all things important. It is cohesive to being and to knowing other beings, bringing healing and new order. This gracious and most noble self of selfs, overlights our contrasting consciousnesses and inspires us to an illuminatory advance beyond our simple and meager selves.

The story as recounted strikes deep and true within each man as he finds that the insult to Christ Jesus is but a daily occurrence within himself each time he denies his heart, conscience or higher determining. We negotiate daily and sell ourselves short; we deny ever having known our higher being when we subscribe to the folly and imbrevity of the common rabble. With mock revelry and choice-picked slang, a man may pride himself with a deceit and a treachery if by his associations he is trying to hide in amongst them saying "I do not know my higher being, my innermost drives, my Christ-self from which this world gathers mass, as the grit of the pearl".

Christ surely grieves when we disown Him like so. Furthermore, as the story goes, we too know well of the crucifying. Bind our hands and bind our feet and bring a death to all that is pure and fresh within, each man. Each and every man bears these demons which commission the insult; for harm is harm, whether grand or slight, it offends and contests the higher powers, and until our words, our deeds and even our refuse is pure, we shall continue to bring suffering to our greater Christ, our lesser Christ and our self's Christhood in being.

Figuratively speaking we are perfection realized already, but that is simplistic in terms of the truth. For truth has many parts to it and a beginning an end. Truth requires context and application and only then may it find its place amongst its own. Essentially we may be perfect, however and accordingly we know that in worldly life our struggles are born of inadequacies. Whether by physical limitation or in spiritual definition, we have yet to make immortal this world.

Would that men did honor their Christ within, the matter of this World would be transformed and made impervious to decay and to ruin. The spiritualizing of matter as echoed in the rising of the dead is a condition of the etheric regions predominating our physicality to the point of exchange. What is meant by our taking His Body into ours is this: the original condition of our Globe in immaturity was etheric before the physical world could gravitate organically and then take to itself those mineral properties which were later to follow. This etheric globe was (and is) the inner sun within, being core unto the rest, being also the gateway to the very soul of the planet and its being.

Without the inner sun the planet would decease and be unable to respond to the many inflowing forces which are attracted and permeate through the many substances incorporated presently. However, the etheric shell which layers the planet, haloes the band of world - the plane of world that we know it to be. That etheric shell provides the bed of life in which the physical sits and pertains to it, according to its needs.

Man alone and without Christ dwelt upon a planet that was decaying prematurely. The soul and the body of this planet needed Him also, for it is as the heart is to the spirit. Alone, the inner heart-sun could not sustain and support the whole; the mass could not find the connections into life and then further on, and so Christ lent part of His own Body into what is now our Etheric region, changing its makeover into that which as we may understand it, was somehow meant to be. One could see this in the light of it being the spiritualization of the planetary being within, that this enspirited planet has received Christ in that way that we also in turn shall take example of and be renewed thereby.

The only afterthought here is to add that remarkably it has been Man himself which has detracted in the first place from the high station of spirituality of our beloved planet. That is to say that by our corruption along the way we have corrupted the bodies of the incarnating globe who has suffered and surrendered to sustain our manifestation.

Once again we find The Story told. Once again it strikes as a truth within our darkened stage, with curtains drawn we witness its play, again and again - the sacrifice, the suffering and the overcoming, the resurrection.


The event of Resurrection is as a birth played backwards in respect to the Fall happening. Most usually, as is known in time these days, we have all things born being subject to certain death - beginning with those perfect qualities and properties and virtues which are both sublime and pertinent to incarnation, to then be followed by eventual death, with some measure of forfeit and suffering in the process. The story of Man is of inevitable death, were it not for Christ. So we now find that it has been turned in reverse. On behalf of the higher suffering which has instigated this change (as only it could) the powers which make cause for desisting and resisting life are now subject to an etheric enhancement which transposes the law with a divine contradiction. Namely, that we may embrace a death firstly that we may go on into eternal life, suffer first but not last in the sequence of renewal.

We can call out to the Christ in our brother that he may show himself, but be prepared also that by contrast the higher man may be unrecognizable to us, unless we truly know him well. 

When it is said that the Christ event is played out in Man again and again and that he is moved to recognize the story from the inside out, it is intended to convey to you that this is so in a soul-reality - most real and visible to one who can perceive what goes on inside an individual. It is so tangible it may be witnessed, even though the man himself may not realize the many impressions that live and work within him.


Such stories live, truly live and breathe with varying spreads of intensity and power. When we turn inwardly and are drawn to concentrate on associations that invoke a stronger relationship with this particular story, then it happens that our 'firsthand' experience can bring significance and understanding, whilst also our interpretations shift and illumine special moments, roles and powers. When we are presented with choices we then go internally and seek our roles in this matter, in this story, and then out again into the demands of present time.

But all the while the higher self of man which is indeed his most valued and credible part, is abandoned to idleness and unemployment. The gifts, talents and attributes afforded to this higher man are not called upon because the consciousness dies - lives and dies - many times a minute. The thoughts which have entered into the consciousness have difficulty finding a sustained and nourishing concentration, that and in turn they must discharge quite quickly and often without embellishment.

In time, as man does strengthen (as this is achieved with practice and repetition) he may manage the concertive powers in a way which brings life and not death, to that which he harbors. One way we may do this is in sacrificing self to higher thought. In greediness our whole being seeks to saturate itself and bloat with whatever influence it seeks. In being immature to such procedures we take ravenously, when our attitude is greedy - greedy in the sense of self being first and more important than that before us.

When one is rapturous, for example, in a condition which has led one out from self but into a knowing of something other than self, then the attitude of ego has altered the process of receiving and giving. Greed by nature expends life (in both parties) whereas love restores life to each. If I am greedy for food and take it to myself to solely appease an appetite then I shall have sacrificed the material of the substance and have it die. Whilst also, the very same shall take place in a part of the physical constitution correspondingly. It too shall die a little. In this way feeding oneself may be starving oneself into the bargain. In due reverence for Life we may love that which we take to ourselves. Our greed (our sole preoccupation with self and all else in relation to self) may be exchanged for a greater interest in that which presents and may come to us. It is an attitude of being, it is an openness to other beings and it is conducive to Life itself.

In point of fact when we eat for life, rather than to appease an appetite, we are seeking nourishment for the host of beings which incorporate our many bodies and their manifestation. We may also begin to discern that which is right and proper to take into ourselves, and further to that we may responsibly apportion with gratitude those attributes and seek to give back to them (as is law anyhow) as they do give to us.

Our lives may reverse the death process essentially and completely by our selflessness, and conversely our egos shall enstrengthen thereby as well. The ego of Man may only incorporate into itself that which it loves and knows well and holds deep affinity with. In order for this to occur it must know how to lend itself in selflessness, which does not require giving but rather a lending, that we may go on to incorporate self as well without the loss of self in this happening.

Were Christ to lose His sense of Self we would all be lost and His gift would come to naught, for one must not entrust those of lesser ability to be solely responsible for that which is beyond their comprehension to care for. However, it is that He does lend Himself, in body and in hope, in sufferance and by endurance, in absolute faith and love, projecting now and for the future.

All things must live according to the Law. We are comfortable within the Law. But we must now work to transcend the common law with that which Christ has brought to challenge, reversing death and all of death's suffering. The key to this comes of a considered thoughtfulness, one of respect for His Creation firstly and one's own self then secondly.

Every millisecond as cells renew the flesh, as the air revives the breath, as the hope restores the outlook, as the shoot and spring defy the gravity, when the burgeoning blooms inhabit the once vacant space and the mists skip the grass reborn in the morning's dew, with the osmosis of soul-life in all its beading, seeping, saturations and humidities, as reasoning is crafted and the sensibilities are sharpened - each time with a life longer living and involved ... there He is.

Happy Easter! 

Abhorrence is to be Abhorred, Part 2- 28th February 1996

CHRIST will not be franchised. The spiritual realities will not be denied of their existence. Materialism is never useful.

It is materialistic to believe that spiritual powers and properties of sanctity may be invested artificially where they are not actively due. It is materialistic to maintain that Christ prefers a given when all is given by Him.

If men are to deny the esoteric teachings partially (i.e. they are not completely ignoble to higher thought, but are rather more dubious about the exotic and the fantastic) it is usually because they lack the imaginative powers to carry them forth into a sense for the extraordinary.

The word "imagination" is not used to imply an unreal fantasy or delusion, for it is the imaginative forces which penetrate through into those realms the senses cannot correspond with. It is the imagination which works our sympathetic and empathetic processes whereby we may travel through to another's soul and give blessing, recognition, communion, healing and love. And if not from our recollections of direct and immediate experience, it is our imagination which may instruct us so as to 'know' something of the instinctual, intuitional art-pneu-veau. 

The Petrine way was to restrain the creativities, even though in Christ-quality man has been given to life-as-art, life-as-soul, life as life. 'Freedom' horrified Peter, and in this he continues to deny Christ today, in that aspect so continued of the Church. In measure of safety, the confessors are withheld from greater realizations of the Christ as He lives and moves around the present-day world. The mediocrity insists that it has the whole value tied up, prior to the heavenly attainment to follow; and the established hierarchical systems feed themselves before all else - for this is the way of the papacy and the like, when the order so ordered, is said to be decreed by divinity. The concession that "God has no favorites" did not extend to the unnaturally elevated status awarded their own.

Understandably there shall be men whose place it becomes as a spiritual leader, who may guide men prudently and share their well-earned wisdoms. As Paul made a list of, there are officers and stations befitting many separate talents. But the Church itself is no more in complete dedication to our Christ, being rather in dedication unto itself - Oh! The perpetuality of a rotten corpse!

We do not discount that which the Church in intention has and does, and will come to stand for, but there are empty hearts and wondering men, who are of an age that presses for knowledge of our Christ in His action, as He moves here amongst us and calls to us to know Him better.