Love & Enduring Love- 8th November 2009

THE channels between humans open only when love is present, and remain locked to all else, in reality. An open channel requires love from both souls - it is not enough to have love from just one; and so it is that even love itself cannot coerce the flow-way to comply.

This tells us also something about the human ego and its presence of self, in that even love and the loving commute arises from an innate decision to do so - to be consent and predisposed to the love of another.

Yet there is fairness in this too, for we know that all beings are sovereign to themselves and protected from the outer influences of others, so that they may slowly build up that which they desire to become. If the reverse were true, the power of the love could become corrupt and demanding, in that he who loved the most would acquire an open door into the hearts and lives of everyone they chose.

Sometimes with an animal the latchkey of a fond and pure love will turn, and the beast itself acknowledges the life and soul of their human companion so cherished.

Romance today emphasizes the 'winning' of love between a man and a woman for a life or eternity; and the events that unfold around such unions are generally and fantastically haphazard and unpredictable. There may or may not be existing karma between the two, however the force of reasoning that magnetically compels this coupling could be from causes mundane to sublime - from the need of companionship to the Cherubim's promptings - and although such beginnings start energetically, they usually decline at some time earlier than first supposed or was hoped for. However, if true love had become present during any of the time they were together (and it seals in just a moment), it becomes enduring love for all time.

The true love, as qualified just earlier, requires the consent and openness of both the individuals to one another concurrently, thereby establishing an open channel for all times thereafter. With that open channel there literally becomes a living link to that soul wherever and however they be. Whether incarnate or disincarnate - whatever form they take - this loving flow-way connection is rapidly exchanging a commute.

Firstly we have our fellowship of Humanity and our common brotherhood with which we share this Kingdom. And in truth, for all of us present, we are so combined that the evolution of all, heaves and sighs in but one motion. And the condition of all is experienced in part by all.

This is not ordinarily a conscious relationship, but rather adopted within the fabric of our worldly and other-worldly life. Similarly also we have sub-groups in which there is a sharing - although not necessarily on a self-conscious basis either - through racial, religious, commercial or familial ties.

Then we have the handshake relationship - literally a combining where the individuals have met together during any lifetime and are thereafter enabled to find and recognize one another, regardless of form etc., but with a key that is made now between them. This key is created with a handshake literally - where the heart forces have combined through the palms to enable this.

What this key does is to bring back into contact those people we have shared past meetings with. If they are in proximity to us in any place or time, they are likely to be drawn back into our company. It is not so personal, nor consciously decided. Such keys can infill with mutual and shared experience - it does not have to be particularly loving, but may become because of common interests or concerns.

The next form of connection and attraction is the karmic compulsion whereby the relationship to one another may have been in another life - brief or long, informal or commercial - but whatever the case, it was unequal and there were karmic responsibilities still owing left over from this time. This attraction drives many folk to return into each other's sphere of activity until resolved.

The Christian principle of forgiveness puts peace to this compulsion - which proves to be of tremendous benefit both to the creditor and the World at large by its consequence. For unless the criminals, who in the past did you wrong, have reformed themselves and made better their characters, you may not want them continually turning up in your life to be given a chance to make good for the difficulties they have caused you in the past.

You see karma presents opportunity but does not compel action to the extent of forcing any one thing to happen. Some things may be easily rebalanced but not the willful intent or physical actions of another, for there needs to be a genuine reality to what is, and not just a pretence or play act of what should be.

We are never roboticly so motivated to play out the dictates of a karma due. The debtor needs to sincerely reconcile his past actions, not merely turn up on time to play out a role he has no heart in.

So you can see that over a relatively short period of say, twenty past lifetimes, you may have had ten where there has been a number of undesirable characters cause harm to you - either directly or indirectly - and possibly multiples of them during some episodes. Well if you accumulate the karmic debt it is possible for a good number of these fellows to re-enter your current life, driven by the push and the need to make good for what they have caused and aggrieved.

During this time a great many may have improved, however this kind of criminal does have a long way to climb ordinarily. It is very possible you simply do not want these folk back in your life at all. Under the new law of Forgiveness they are released from this most personal obligation but not released from their duty.

A lot of folk presume that all karmic debt is cancelled by forgiveness, but this is not the case - largely for the sake of the soul's learning and experience also. What this means is that the personal bonds have been dismissed yet the offending soul may have great opportunity within the larger and needing community to do a good work there. This has a double benefit because the good in the World increases thereby.

It is practical therefore to forgive, and release yourself from difficult ties and at the same time pass on a benefit to others along the way.

The next form of relationship is that of the enduring love - and this connection is first made real through the eyes - the simultaneous acceptance of the other into the spaces of their very soul, in mutual knowing and regard.

This love can come from romance but does not have to - it can be with parents and children, brothers and sisters, or stem from deep friendships; it has no relationship to gender or action, to karma or title, to obligation or owning.

Once this true love is established it is there to remain. And whether or not such souls are living presently within our lives, each man and woman has hundreds of such living relationships connected to their being.

This is vital to the life of the soul to have so. Without these channels connecting us, how very lonely an eternity of infinite possibility would become. These individuals are the true constant in our soul's lives and travels. They are our equals, our companions, trusted and beloved, with mutual cares, strivings and history. Our epic journeys are forever to conjoin, and the happiness of their presence gives us strength beyond measure.

One cannot synthetically produce such energetic love. A false guru or obsessed stalker cannot compel the yoke of the two by the want of the one. Nor can deceit, desire, or lust drive its happening - not governed by will or want or by correspondence alone either.

Yet once made, such true love enables each to share their experience and learning with profound complexity. The channels not only impart energetic love to one another throughout a vast yet intimate Cosmos, they also commute the enlightened exchange of each other's wisdoms gathered.This is the star ray that supports us all, the true networking, the very real connecting ever present in loving abide - that which was made so enduring.

Halloween Message- 1st November 2009

TIME is derived out from Life, not Life from Time, or its opportunities. Life maketh and createth the Time, yet neither is compelled into substance or in being.

Manifestation is a true concert of wills: the Divine driving consciousness and the participant... who exaggerates himself forth into the glamour of substance. And whilst Time itself requires the cooperation of the Spiritual Infinities, it does not enter into any warranty of permanence, but rather stands alone within the confines and perimeters self-defined.

For it is that Time pertains only to its own relevance, and is marked and measured by decay. When the World has achieved the transubstantiation of all substance and therefore the substantiality of such matter, the World will become as timeless as any other realm within the Corporeal and Heavenly domains.

Hell, by its own nature, is decay.

Derision lacks permanency - this is how the Universal Good succeeds all. Literally, Love endures; phenomenally that which is good, sound and pure and most Holy, is incorruptible - whether it be souls of the Kingdom, or deeds personified.

Yet that which is becoming fixed within a persuasive permanency is not perhaps the apex of hope for Mankind within itself. An illustration of this exists within the well meaning kingdoms of Lucifer, where a certain immortality was prematurely realized, and although the aging and decaying process was halted and his realm was locked somewhat into perpetuity, it has a hollowness in quality and a certain presence of an ongoing memorial to past life rather than a continuum of genuine living. And so there is a form of 'perfection' and 'goodness' which can stand alone and achieve a super-substantiality and yet in the same, lacks verve.

Verve is a great word, isn't it? Sounds like "nerve", yet it has the 'v' for vitality. A forceful motion forward - a vitality that is imbued with creating something inspired and character filled - an energy that is not just pure energy alone, but driven by purpose. The vitality of verve is the very purpose that inspires it.

The fixed nature of Lucifer's world lacks an ongoing purpose because it has achieved a homeostasis it does not want challenged. It is only strong enough to stand alone if kept to principles that define it, and in this respect becomes in truth a tomb and but a repetition of itself... without the prospect of ever advancing forward.

Generally speaking it is a universal principle to incrementally incorporate small and positive change. Beings do not hazard themselves with challenges that will defeat them. Evolution is the gradual adoption of allowable, permitable and livable consequence. Evolution could not survive itself if it took major risks upon itself. It is not reckless, nor haphazard, nor a gamble with that which it already has achieved. The further advancements are negotiated before possibility and viability, all the while sustained by an overall goodness.

How then you ask, can Hell and its diminishing exist? Why do the Spiritual Worlds even harbor any such places of spiritual disease and death?

To answer this we must first consider the several states of life and death throughout the Cosmic Spheres:

• Death/Cessation
• Autumnal Death
• Death - into Resurrection
• Static Life - as Death
• Life via Resurrection
• Life via Evolution (the constant gradient)
• Creative Life
• Holy & Miraculous Life

Death/Cessation: The Grand Finale

This term applies to those conditions, manifestations or beings that were once existent and now extinct - without recovery or transformation or resurrection. (Eventually to be discarded - even in the recorded Mahalayas*.)

Autumnal Death: The Cyclical Sloughing

This form of Death is perennial to some annual need of self determining or administration. It is accounted for and recommended for the advancement of the Life experiencing it.

Pertaining to a reorganization and a cleansing, where new life quickly rechannels where needed, this form of sloughing and mini-death can be fragmented and repetitive, constant and energetic.

Resurrective Death

The Resurrective Death process occurs at the baseline of life where the two worlds meet … in contrast to the ordinary Death that happens end point, at the highest exhaustion.

An example of these is as follows:

• Man goes to sleep - Autumnal Death: partial death to the waking consciousness which finds renewal.
• Man awakes - Resurrection Death: comes back in through the gates he left by.
• Man dies. End point cessation - ordinary Death. Exhausts its physical capacity.
• Man awakes in the Spiritual worlds - Resurrection Death: back to where he started.
• Man reincarnates into the World again - Autumnal aspect to the shedding of lives.
• Man forgets his former lives when in the World - Cessation/Death to past consciousness.

The key to resurrection is the returning to the beginning and starting over. If you come to think of this as being pretty good, it will make up for the other connotations diminishing their strength in any matter. Most folk equate resurrection with a triumph and an improved circumstance. Indeed it might have both in consideration to it being required, however its application is simply that of going back to the very beginning - not an improved beginning, but the beginning - in order to start again. Resurrection alone does not bring betterment by its action.

Static Life as Death

Where Life is manifest and not disintegrating or desisting, and yet does not change for the better either - if it cannot and does not respond in kind to the life outside of its own realm, but rather has become an island of such plastic creation, this is known as a form of Death also - fixed, impenetrable, incontrovertible, and without the traffic of the Heavenly Graces permeating through it (such as Humor, Charity, Empathy, Love).

Life via Resurrection

That which lives gathers experience. It wears its experience in a myriad of ways. It does not have to be maintained or realized in the working consciousness, but is ever present in the fibrous sinew of the very soulic enterprise of being. And whilst the Resurrection Death process is of itself a relatively mundane action, the response to the re-embodying Life who experiences this process, is considerably strengthened and invigorated.

For some reason (a Divine mystery) when Life returns from the point of a death, it does so with a voracity of splendor. So it is with both bud and Man. This energetic drive is known as the Resurrective Life.

Life via Evolution: The Constant Gradient

If this Principle did not govern our Spiritual realms we would be all in static death placement or disintegration.

The provision for change is incorporated mercifully within all of Life, and the very push for actual improvement comes from the bulk and body of those coming up from behind those who have advanced.

Magnetically, profoundly, intuitively, and conducively, we are all awakened within by the call of further knowledge of those enlightenments that are shared by the collective experience of the luminaries who have gone before us.

This Divine evolutionary calling draws us all the one direction - without conflict or contradiction towards the infinities.

Creative Life

The Creative Life has a resurrective element insofar that the individual who experiences creativity, does so by going back to the threshold of their own experience and knowledge to the gateway of the spiritual imaginations, to experience and relate something unbefore known by them or the World they are in.

The Creative Life force has that resurrection life force which energetically charges the project entered into. The Creative Life can apply to:

• the propagation of children physically and spiritually;
• the incarnating of 'new' thoughts and ideas;
• the constructs of inspired design;
• the motivations of all learning;
• the lively interactions of purposeful relationship;
• the perseverance of task (i.e. creating a garden, a quilt, a building, a manuscript);
• wonderings and musings;
• Divine inspiration and revelation.

On a cosmic level the Creative Life is powerfully driven through the Gods themselves who expel from their own Being the perspiration of intent. In reverence and celebration, their projects are excitedly looked on upon and participated in. And once again - even for Deity design - there becomes the elements of both Resurrective Death and Resurrective Life contributing to their project.

You see if something were to start perfectly without needing revision, it would be self-fulfilled and static - statically dead from its beginning. This is where the notion came from that it is important for there to be a little fault or flaw in one's creation.

In many respects a project must renew itself with a regulated death and resurrection process, before it can find its place in the evolutionary life process where it is elastic enough to simply go on from one perfection to the next.

Holy & Miraculous Life

This Life is the very life behind the Life which is, and the Life that is yet to be. Miraculous Life, it is said, is the font of all Humor. It has an element of unpredictability and Grace; it has a power that exceeds and succeeds all Death.

The Miraculous Life in our experience, is consciously responsive to need and to plight. It is not mere force, energy or opportunity - it has discernment and charity. The more one sees this Life in action, the more one comes to regard the Divine in personal consideration; and with such, in deep respect and gratitude also.

The question as to how the Spiritual, diseased and death can exist is a twofold question. If you see a human or a demon that is beyond redemption and destined for the internments of Hell, you will find that the Spirit that was within either being originally, has departed and returned back to its very own beginnings.

The creatures of Hell are not living with a living life - they exist with a static life, being fixed at that point where in abhorrence their spirit disconnected from them permanently. They continue in what they have become - at that lowest point of behavior and conduct, with no motivation for evolutionary life and no means to obtain it - destitute spiritual corpses devoid of empathy, compassion or humor.

There are certain magicians and black demi-gods who choose to create armies of such beings, perverting life into zombie separations, where the evolution is stripped back and the men or elemental lose their sense of the divine and holy life. And yet the consequences for such, always - always - come back upon them, resulting in them also coming to forfeit the very same as they have invoked in others. For such is the wisdom of the Miraculous Life... Who by its benevolence and luminosity will further goodness before evil every time.

There are many beings and men whose behavior is unsanitary, and yet there is a life spirit still connecting enough for future learning, to enable them to improve themselves beyond the dark phase of their existence. Most beings will do this - and find their way out from Hell before it collapses in upon them. Only a few will become so displaced that they are so made zombie and divorced completely from their Spirit.

Eventually the Zombie Hell does disintegrate, for with every renewal of the sphere they are in, there is on the second round, no real life to bring them back into existence; and the bodies are evaporated and made cosmic dust - screaming vapors which echo sadness and disappointment. However, these final stages of wretched existence are appearance only of living beings, and no different to an earthly corpse, except for their perpetual animation.

Many ghosts are exactly the same as described above - they bear resemblance to the life that created them, but have no real connection within the current sphere of being. These too need clearing away, and can have quite an evil influence emanating from them - a sort of virulent discontent - which is manifest by only the 'undead'. 

Currently within the popular media there has been a revival interest in vampires and zombies, presenting a romantic and lyrical view. It is as comedic as demons doing household chores and acts of charity - not impossible, certainly not likely. And this comes in a period when the esoteric knowledge is finding expression here and there... with keen minds divining the truth, and excited by the fantasy.

The elements which are seemingly missing are that of gravity and strong purpose for the spiritual quest. Drama itself does not necessarily relate to seriousness and commitment - it just sometimes devolves back into chaos after a short respite from its calamity.

It is almost as if the 'spiritual' considerations of the young today, have become distracted by the greatness of it all, rather than the meaning. They are not so engaged, but rather walk their lives as if a tourist with a short term visa. In eons past, men have felt humbled before Nature, inspired by the Stars and ennobled by the Heavens. There has been before them an innate sense of the higher purpose that drives their life - not just a party.

Seriousness itself does not have to come only from the bereaved - and yet where is it to be championed? Mainstream thought now equates seriousness with fanaticism, and through a homogeny of philosophy seeks out an acceptable method of merely hoping for the best. In an age where the macabre is but another entertainment, one has to question at what point will the individuals of today reflect in earnest on the images before them, and realize their true causality?

All Life is intrinsically benevolent; yet beware the path of Death, for Death of itself brings nothing - especially not a good laugh.

Trick or treat? Quite a moribund question really...

* From Sanskrit Maha- "great" and Laya:

A "point of disappearance" - which is the Sanskrit meaning. Laya is from the Sanskrit root li, meaning "to dissolve," "to disintegrate," or "to vanish away." A laya-center is the mystical point where a thing disappears from one plane and passes onwards to reappear on another plane. It is that point or spot - any point or spot - in space, which, owing to karmic law, suddenly becomes the center of active life, first on a higher plane and later descending into manifestation through and by the laya-centers of the lower planes. In one sense a laya-center may be conceived of as a canal, a channel, through which the vitality of the superior spheres pours down into, and inspires, inbreathes into, the lower planes or states of matter, or rather of substance.

-Quoted from The Occult Glossary by G. de Purucker

Salvation is with us- 18th October 2009

IT has happened. Salvation is with us- salvation which is the keister* to all. In these times when the ownership of associations and churches has been dilute, when the ordinary man is now eclectic in opinion, and the heart is opening (whether knowing or not) this very time is of our God Incarnate in the World - yes, this God, our World, being the Living Connection to All.

Facts do not need discussion for their substantiation. Evidence does not need philosophy to make it ever more real. Perception comes after. And the rotund of Nature glistens under the sweat of good men who try to spin her weight through time and space ... whereas and yet, she dances quite freely!

A church here and an ashram there - sublime in dedication, but still witless to the greater Glory. Yet soon forthcoming - as is to the honest quest - the finding that right now, in each, in all and throughout, our Christ has verily risen!

*Keister meaning: (old English) a safe secure chest box - a place to stash things of importance.

The Traveler's Guide- 9th August 2009

OF that which is most prominent about and around one's traveling, is the feature of accelerated karmic interplay that is experienced; for to put one's feet onto a soil far from their homeland, invites an orchestrated and complicated destiny which works double time in its guidance and motivations.

Of course, to stay confined in our homes bears also a syntax of horology ('horology', i.e. how one measures their time) - one whereby our angels and guiding spirits converse our souls; and our step is no less important to be safely delivered and our frames and mind held high, wherever, whenever, we are. Yet both the impressions and navigations are far more awake and intense when we are in an unfamiliar place... and our own sense of self is challenged thus thereby.

For with all things 'new' (even though they can be ancient of themselves) there is a constant contrasting and realigning of what is known, with that which is before you for the first time. And whilst within the soul experience we live the eternal paradox of every moment being new and yet familiar also, we find also that the mind and the ego fight to keep up with the persuasions of adjustments new experience brings.

Some folk go through this, yet albeit unconsciously. What is meant here to say, is that there are those travelers who are never particularly mindful of their surroundings and company, so that the impressions that register and impinge upon them, from their backyards to the Moon, really do not give them pause for thought when different or unusual. 

If you are unused to using your mind or reflective/contemplative reserves, then you really cannot exercise them upon will, want or with need, when the life outside becomes challenging - nor can you after death for that matter, either. This is one very good reason to practice consideration and learning from wherever one is presently, and bring such 'living' abilities into oneself, building up a strength and capability that is durable, and translates into future encounters and experience. 

But for those who live fairly superficially - i.e. stimulated by the physical world and little by an interactive creative consideration of the inner workings around them - these folk are incapable of experiencing much more than the physical realities of wherever they are. 

This is something of an explanation as to why most travelers can relate accounts of what they did and what something looked like, but nothing of the experience within their soul, of the history and travail of any given place; of the grandeur and the striving; of the sufferable and wild climate; of the nature of the nature (crops and forests foreign to them); of the seemingly millions of impinging emotions and stories that are calling out from each hand-laid brick that has weathered the centuries soaking in the voices and cries all around; finding structures and artworks that have outlast their creator, memorializing yet faithfully, the original vision that began their manifestation... when history becomes condensed beside a burgeoning future, when the push into incarnation from the souls and ideas yet to come, wrestle in a tort of the surviving issues from the past.

These things and more are known within the soul of the wakeful individual, and are both marvelous and aggravating to the peace within. It is probably not a thing to ever get used to, for this is the very price of consciousness in its true aspect, rather to learn therefore a strength about it all, than to seek an asylum from true perception. 

To be able to gather one's strength when the influences and voices are altogether too compelling, is firstly achieved by the aspect of humor. Not to make light or discount any given situation, but rather that position within the heart you can feel when a child or animal is endearing to you and creates within, a sense of wellbeing - to find something curiously cute about where you are. To actually look for it - even in the midst of grave necessity; for instantly tension is expelled when this aspect is nurtured. This is sweet when one considers the fears and strife of parenthood for example, because the children naturally inspire good humor and a cheerful response, which act as antidotes to the stress they also incur. 

This is not to suggest a joke for every serious happening, but to go further and explain a position of self within that you can experience. You can actually go to any thought that works for you, which encourages this lightness of aspect. But the key is that sweetness known by something or someone that has appealed to your sense of appreciation in this merry and appealing way.

Desires which are astrally harbored are way too intense to truly alleviate the pressures of serious tensions experienced by us. It is a common mistake of many to believe that such stress is alleviated by the passions, for this wakes intensity, tension and energetic response - it does not diffuse stress at all; a bit like trying to put a fire out with a tank of petrol and about as safe as well. 

But it is easy to understand why folk try - especially when they are caught up within so many impinging stresses, that they are unclear how to escape the pressure of them. Famous folk suffer this immensely; and without gentle humor and a commitment to propriety (i.e. not indulging overtly in astrally inflamed conduct), then either the stress or the behavior itself will defy their strength to survive.

So what are the inflammatory astral behaviors? Well one interesting pointer about going too far into such behaviors is the very loss of gentle humor thereby, when the seriousness itself of the endeavor becomes subterranean - lower than the point it should dive to. Have you ever felt seriousness dive to a point below its usefulness into dread?

Firstly it should be noted for the contrast, that gentle humor is not the babbling of the drug induced, for that is but an empty facade of humor, it has no spirit or substance and cackles like a ghost that is free from the mind within; that is all. 

Gentle humor is an esoteric experience of the heart; it is a perception that takes us right up to the perspective and seat of our Father; it is beauty and wonder in its lightest and brightest of plays. Gentle humor is infilled with a love and consideration, and gives to all around it - not derisive or critical, yet keenly and supremely aware. It is a conscious humor of the highest, because it comes from a serious mind to begin with, and that is precisely what makes it the gold that it is.

The adoption of excessive astral endeavors can range from emotions to indulgences (and cravings/desire). Exhibiting and relishing too much emotion incites and expels a wealth of polluting energy out from the individual, which internally becomes quite poisonous to themselves and all around also. 

Excessive emotions can be: 

• anger,

• temper,

• aggravation,

• neediness,

• frustration,

• complaining,

• misery,

• talking too much (without thinking; in repetition),

• demanding,

• commanding,

• laughing too much (in a negative manner),

• self contemplation,

• desiring food,

• desiring gratification,

• desiring excitement,

• desiring willfulness,

• desiring fate,

• inciting upset,

• inciting romance,

• inciting fear,

• inciting terror (women are good at this),

• indulging in gratifying behaviors (self serving),

• indulging in gluttony,

• uncommitted sexuality,

• narcotic or liquor stupors (and cravings),

• self opinion,

• self flattery,

• self delusion,

• avarice for wealth and

• avarice for acquisition.

The states above are not helpful to the state of soul that is best to live with. In plain and simple terms, to live the 'good' life, is of itself its own reward. 

Too many times folk have mistaken such judgment as condemnation of the mistaken individuals who are still given to astral exploits. But criticism and condemnation are not the point of the matter and in fact deter an individual from realizing the true point at hand - namely that of strength and survival, for excessive astral reckoning depletes and cripples the individual who attempts to live with it. Literally, the etheric vitality is rendered wan, and the soul itself is held in remittance.

Seriousness of soul in the highest context, perceives the majesty of good conduct as opposed to the utter wastefulness of poor conduct. The path of poor conduct - of selfish self-serving lascivious indulging - can appear to be important because of the intoxicating pseudo-seriousness it incurs. Yet this kind of gravity which is subterranean, as mentioned earlier, truly comes from the soul within, knowing the terribleness of the exploits it has ventured into - whereas the Gravity that pins us to God is truly selfless - unweighted by our own concerns.
And so, to wherever we are or wherever we go, let it be the quizzical, endeared, yet most lofty of perspective that lights our guidance and steadies our reactive nerves. And know also, you truly are never alone, not now or ever - you are loved and treasured and cared for.