On Acts of Commitment to the Higher Path

When a truth is adopted into practice and the serious student-teacher has developed their choices accordingly, there are both tests and strengths which will come in outstanding proportion.

If he is to be beset by demonic challengers, who with chaotic and indiscriminate intent seize upon his equilibrium - often there are contests that only he can manage for himself – his friends, his teachers, his muses and spiritual colleagues may or may not understand the full weight of the contest ongoing or about this man. Furthermore, the closer he may be to becoming equipped and enabled, the more he may find that he is dissuaded from his original intention by the mischievous interruption that ensues.

Yet above all of this, he shall find his way through, neither corrupted nor dissuaded from the higher path he strives for, regardless of such distractions. It is good to go to the quiet meditations during this time, in faith that the outward storms will resolve and desist their botheration, tiring themselves eventually.

He is as the knight valiant, flanked both by fire and water besides; each which becomes holy to him. The very fire that would scald him and deter him from his going forward, inspirits his passion for all he holds important enough to protect and to fight for. The waters that would rise up upon him recede at the feet, bringing honor to his soul; and herein all Heaven shall be reflected in their stillness for his viewing.

He is good, strong and capable. When it comes that he is moved to act upon a truth put before him and he does well, then further strength will come to him as never before.

On Hopes Invested & Accrued

Disappointment is inconsequential to hoping. Hopes are good for a man; they are of Sun-material, Christ-material, and 'future-stuff'.

Dreams and longings go well also, but hopes are not fainthearted: they are resistant to defeat because they are planted in the future! When doubts are done the hopes go on. They are the seeds of Man's own creativity. And each one if maintained, is fulfilled.

On Windows of Insight

Imagination transports our thought beyond our immediate fixed knowledge. It is intuitive, and therefore reactive upon an altogether higher plane, giving emphasis to qualities rather than components. The quality of something speaks to us distinctly, but not always perceptibly as to why. 

The reasoning that we may come to with direct insight brings the knowledge transcended as from above, from the heart working outwards; whereas the reasoning which follows a stipulated course of conjecture works its way up and into the heart in correspondence (if it is correct).

On Companionship

There are two roads to God and He is to be found at their convergence.

With true spiritual companionship we are taught of the freeing of limitations. By freedom it is meant that the constrictions of prejudice have fallen away, that in mutual respect there are no considerations held to be more important than the friendship itself. The inner being has been recognized and outward appearances are no longer reconciled or weighed. Race, age or gender are unremarkable to the soul and without consequence to those who hold a genuine commune in spirit.

From this the World at large can take example. They may come to understand that the faces of men shift and change and are not reliable to the complete characteristic of the man within. As they enter into the many differing streams of incarnation they change; as they come to age and then to resemble their fathers and then to youth again they change; but the love which is spiritual cares not for the appearance for it knows only the higher nature, and the true face of that man that is forever.

If our rapports are independent of likeness, at odds rather than at evens, then we shall find that the higher nature overrules the objections which proceed from a prejudice and exoteric distinction. Great and lasting fellowships have been born from men of differing faiths and varying contradictory circumstances, and regardless of 'sensibilities' have proven the soul's greatest friend and true deliverer.