The Path to Common Sense- 18th April 2010

DIVINING reason is not always or exactly through the mechanical conduits of brain-based thinking. As logic would have it, there are many linear conclusions that all appear 'reasonable' when aligned from the same starting point, yet in the main can be as nonsensical and unhelpful as an egg counter is to a chicken.

Reason and commonsense thinking involves a practicality that has bearings all of its own. It needs to pertain to something defined that has a purpose, also which is clearly recognized; and therefore there is the ability of foresight, which is required from the outset. So we cannot have practical and helpful thinking without the ability to foresee what it is we are trying to achieve via our mind's collective.

Now purpose, or at the very least, a sense of purpose, is also necessary for us to be able to begin and carry through with our cognitive enquiry. This is a very interesting point, because all learning - and this follows also for the highest of learning - must begin with either a conscious or innate purpose driving it. The very key to unlock any knowledge is Right Purpose.

And what is 'Right Purpose'? Firstly, the word 'purpose' does relate to a cause - but mainly it is also a very distinct feeling or emotion experienced quite strongly either in the heart or the gut or the chest, by the plaintiff, knowing what is missing from their lives so far.

Purpose drives all of nature, and in its highest aspect it becomes the sensing and being of the Divine Will. It is not the Life itself that drives the Divine Will - although it can 'feel' like it - but rather the sensing and the moving with the current of this massive life-force which inspires all energetic happenings around us. It is a motivator to sense this purpose - but purpose itself is the sensing of this Divinity moving and expressing its way through All.

Every aspect of nature and being is fundamentally and principally aware of and emanating Divine Purpose. This is the living realization of that which the Divine Will operates, moves and manifests through.

In more archaic times, when folk spoke of sensing or feeling the purpose of something, they literally meant that they had consciously come to know the feeling of the life, pulse and Divine presence within something, which was confirmation to them of it being 'real', or with the strong possibility therefore of becoming made real.

The act of coupling which could eventuate with a newborn, is given to this push and presence of strong purpose being experienced - bringing an elevated experience of the driving force within.

The scientist or the artist is often encouraged past physical endurance to work to tasks because they can sense and also bring to themselves, some of the energetic life which moves to enable the fruition of their tasks or projects envisioned.

It is this fundamental sense of purpose which motivates every movement within our own bodies, and daily enables us to wake, to eat, to speak and to participate in a concert of society; this sensing of the life within; a feeling for the Divine Will and its own knowing. Without this principal sensing, an individual can become ill in a variety of ways: lose coordination in body or function, in speech or rationality, in optimism or spirituality. 

This is why one never meets a happy atheist - because fundamentally they have lost their ability to sense the Divine Will and its energetic Life moving all around and within them. Without this faculty of sensing, is no sense of divine or personal purpose. Without this sensing or knowing of its presence, they have not the faith in there being purpose, which is greater than themselves or wonderful within themselves. An all-pervading sense of futility prevails instead.

Optimism requires the ability to sense and believe in happy outcomes. This is relatively easy when one 'feels' purpose all around. We are content that even if we do not have the foresight to know exactly how something might be arrived at, there is the experience nonetheless of the pure purpose which is getting us there. Without this there is little or no confidence, and only the negatives around us are perceived.

The question here is how an individual can find their way back to being able to experience the purpose and Divine Will all around them? Folk who have difficulty with purpose are often within situations which make it generally worse for them - never themselves being involved in tasks which have a beginning, a middle and an end. They are rarely if ever, investing themselves in a labor that requires foresight, hope, reasoning, projected outcome, purpose and positive outcome.

Folk who nurture crops experience great purpose with planting and also the results. This experience spills over into a generalized sensing which affects all parts of their lives and thinking.

It does not have to be growing one's own food that will enable this however, basically any labor that is actively participated in, that has a beginning which is different to the end, and takes some time and effort to achieve, will bring success in this.

The individual whose mind has unraveled into a futility or hopelessness could have arrived there by quite a few means. The person of wealth often lives their life within short compartments, rarely getting the opportunity to do or even witness the long chain of laboring events that lead to positive outcomes. The less they exert themselves in 'whole' areas of work, the less they begin to perceive its functioning everywhere like that. It is symptomatic of the modern era.

Individuals whose minds have been scattered, using thought diffusing intoxicants, often feel the blackness of a hopeless depression, because their own sensing of purpose has been annihilated also. It is a desperate state to be in, and often the anger, pessimism and atheism to follow, is just symptomatic of this terrible loss in relation to the Divine Will moving through them and through others.

When you see groups of recovering individuals doing craft works - perhaps to sell at a charity stall - this is tremendously remedial to their situation. It is not just a casual pursuit or something to keep folk occupied with, it really is the road home to recovery.

Creating and working a garden, knitting a garment, preparing and cooking a meal, any industrious act which requires planning, effort, time and delayed yet worked-for outcome, will be the most positive remedy to give to the person who is suffering from Divine Purpose sense deficit.

And now to Right Purpose: We have just discussed what it is to know and to not know, the sensing of Purpose in general as it moves around us in our every day lives, but what of one's own personal purpose? That which has driven us into this life, and gives us our own sense of meaning which is especially significant to our visions and goals?

Right Purpose is, quite naturally, distinctly and inextricably connected to its brother, Right Conduct. This is the first principle to realize of Right Purpose.

How often our own personal paths give way to doing the wrong thing morally, believing it is in the name of our overall personal purpose, not realizing that it only ever takes us many steps back once entered into.

With hand on heart we all sense our own primeval purpose. Whether recognized, or on the way to becoming made real or not, every individual has a higher purpose and gift to Creation that is signature to them. This is not a mere nicety or placating sentimentalism offered to the hopeless, it is a truth which speaks to the nobility of Spirit and the promise that it offers each and every one. For you see it is not enough within Creation to just be beautiful. Creation likes to see you do things as well.

 Beings thrive on activity, and the souls of men and women are no different. Inactivity is not natural to any world - either here or beyond.

However, if an individual is participating in conversation or activities or employment, where they are going against their innate sense of right conduct - against their heart's discerning – then this will block their higher purpose's design, effectiveness and becoming.

This may appear simple - i.e. just do the 'right thing' - however, as most of us reflect, we are singularly compromised daily with all kinds of thoughts and behaviors that are less than we would ideally visit and become.

The Christian repentance serves to swiftly realign the purpose in a positive way. It does not of its own, accomplish any recompense of course, but it does automatically (if sincere) get the individual back on track with their path to Right Purpose.

Realizing infringements is key to reform. If one has a general sense of purpose in this, there will also be the optimism that it is worthwhile in the effort, and sainthood can be achieved!

One very important point about the Path which is often overlooked, is that we all have already traveled a very long road and achieved so very much already. None of us (including the Masters) are yet complete, and nor expect to be any time soon. We all work with the task at hand, and learning to do this is in itself a great virtue.

Honesty, frankness and pragmatism are requirements for self-assessment when it comes to entering the path of reason. Demons of the personality do not like these three (Honesty, Frankness and Pragmatism) and hide behind such concealments as vanity, pride, false egoism, and indulgence.

These Demons deter one also from finding their true purpose. They work to feed themselves; and work hard they do. All of the personal energy of the individual who entertains them gets spent defending and protecting the continuation of deadend exploits that prop up and support their grave façade of usefulness.

Foresight is not logically arrived at, in respect to it being relative to that which has not already occurred; and having not yet actualized, has no clear and distinct patterning as to its logical pathways. One can presume patterns will follow past patterns, but higher logic realizes that with the multitudinous variables in any circumstance, the future is always unknown until it arrives.

Putting it more plainly, foresight is not mere reasoning alone. It is a mix of intuitive sensing, planning, hoping, purpose, some logical surmising and inspiration. And four of the six of these are not logical, mathematical, or purely rational, but rather imbibed with imagination and spiritual induction.

The Path to Common Sense is the least dangerous road traveled. It defers to the conscience as much as it does the logic of past happenings, and all the while so buoyantly held and delivered by the swift push of purpose onto the glory of its divine delivery!

I give you my word and my Word gives you His- 2nd April 2010 Easter

My Life is as the Wind

As it passes over Earth,

Touching the faces of my beloved;

All around them,

Yet they do not see Me

But know My breath daily...

Air of air, Life of life, Light of light -

I am around you unto Eternity.

People ask, what rotates the World?

What moves the heart?

Is it Love or the blood?

I can tell you it is neither,

For what truly moves the heart -

Be it with a saint or be it with a villain -

Is Goodness alone.

Goodness infills the cavities of want,

And where there is wanting,

There I be.

For in Me there is supplication,

Constant remuneration

And continual salvation.

From me the four winds issue:

Of Knowledge, of Peace, of Striving and Grace.

It is asked, where does the World come from?

Is it from the Mind of the Divine?

Or from a corruption of matter into genius?

Or has it peeled time backwards

Perhaps to end as it had begun?

Yet time is not servitude to matter

Nor its commander;

Such worlds are as the cosmic dust,

That glitter the pavements of Heaven,

And are as many in number.

For all of the scores of souls and beings

That populate the Heavenly Graces

Within this whorl of Worlds and times,

Of past and now and so to come,

Are loved and saved, each one.

This World is no different in that

Its substance did come from

Same infinite source,

From which all worlds are drawn.

But time is no master,

And of itself creates nothing,

It only serves to debilitate;

It cannot create.

The origin of Life is Goodness,

And it is all around you.

Find it and you find also,

The answers to all questions.

There are no mysteries - only confusion.

There are no secrets, only exclusion.

There is nothing that cannot be known,

Should you become it yourself.

Our Heavenly home

Does not tithe the wisdoms,

But delivers them daily.

What of the Bloods and why?

Blood conveys life in a singular way.

It has helped to contain that part of a man

Which is unique to him.

We do not bleed in Heaven,

But wear ourselves on the outer side.

And what of the sexes?

Mothers and Fathers -

Not eagles and serpents.

Communion, not feasting;

A higher ordinance calls to the soul

To participate in the sumptuousness of knowing,

And from that becomes Creation.

Knowledge itself is not witless;

It has already a mind of its own.

Men are not exclusive to mind or its imports.

There is not one thing to be known

That has not already been known.

Christendom makes for an awkward franchise -

In service to its people

It can be gracious and healing;

Yet it can also be quick to bully

The very many who are

In most need of a gentle hand up.

Tyrannical rules of salvation

Preclude all true salvation.

For the holy meaning of its delivery,

Is through the sanctity of divine retribution

And forgiveness alone -

And is not in any way

Dependent or assured by a Papal official.

No man can fathom the heart of another

Or deliberate the justice of his term.

The very moment a sin has been entered into,

The heart of the man darkens for that time

And feels the pain of it upon him.

Truly this World is not as substantial,

As you or I would have it.

Yet what we began is circumspect;

It is a house without windows or walls,

Windows for which to see heaven,

Walls that define the very spaces within,

And then multiply increasingly

To the needs of the Earth.

There are two faces to suffering:

The unjust and the incomplete.

Sorrow has meaning,

Whereas cruelty is random

And almost impossible to make peace with;

Therein lies its infection.

For violence incurs the terrible storms,

And a tumult of irrationality manifest.

Jubilation becomes grief,

And we all sorrow

When an unkind thought

composes its malices.

Yet often such torrents of ill reckoning

Come from a deficit of gladness.

The insults of a blasphemy

Know nothing of a true gladness

Or its benefactorial merits.

The angry and abusive are sodden in want

Without the gratitude for that

For which they already have.

Gladness is the cream that sits atop

The sweet milk, not the sour.

Not all words can bring comfort and consolation temporarily,

And not all things of this World may also.

But at the closing of one's life,

And the beginning of the heavenly term,

It is all but washed away and given meaning.

That which causes suffering now vanishes,

Without a stain of even a remembrance,

And is resolved according to its first concern.

Robes are like uniforms,

And designed to hide a man

So that he becomes a face without a face.

Goodness is the ultimate chi,

And for those who do not live this,

They try to energize through other means,

Or people,

But to wit, die in trying.

Breathe goodness and you breathe life.

Gladness, Goodness and Grace - the treble gifts.

The health of the soul is paramount

To the future of Mankind.

This day of ghouls

Is a sad reminiscence.

Pity the ruthless

For they soon become toothless.

All Glory truly be to He,

From which all Truths were born,

And then to live and breathe as soul,

In myriad and manifest,

In places torn and houses blessed.

I give you my word and my Word gives you His,

And my vision of All as it dwells within Grace.

Feel its current,

See its being

In a constant reappearing,

In the wishing and the doing,

And the continual improving.
 Bless them All!

Let Thy Will be Done- 7th March 2010

TWO years before Time began, the days were created; and the breaking moment between existence and its motivated motion gave Time itself both momentum and the possibility of catch up... to be from that beginning moment onwards, 'out of synch' yet with a patterning and a precedence for back-changing, stopping, and the revision of what is to be.

All life manifests within the higher realms before the earthly worldly times embrace or follow these realities. Yet the World itself holds notions and actions of its very own which can be independent of the direct spiritual impulses. Both men and matter can move indiscriminately - even harmfully - and certainly (moreover) the freewill choices shuffle the boundaries of predestined happenings continuously.

Miracles and interventions are of the heavenly kind. This is not to say that a man, woman or child cannot of their own instigate a marvelous charity - oh yes, these choices and actions are real, deliberate and independent too. However the Graces of Divine Intervention are divine, i.e. the outcome hoped for has to occur within the spiritual blueprint firstly, and then into the worldly sphere incorporated within a certain time - for untoward rescues and turnarounds that are positive, are not effected solely within the earthly sphere.

Matter is responsive to Divinity's Will and to higher causal being - it is not responsive directly to even that of its own. Some science tends to assume that interactions of life occur in communication within singular planes, but this is not so.

Nor is it the case with people either. When individuals communicate from one to another meaningfully, it is not by the exchange of words alone but is manifesting over many higher planes above the physical conversation. There is literally an exchange of ideas and a conveyance of thought, and a sense of self and of angel and even of the very Presence of God, from one to another.

Not one thing is independently single layered. Referring to other planes of activity is essential to all action within life for even the simplest of transactions. And it is when an action becomes earthbound and renegade to this that there becomes a potentially devastating consequence to follow after. 'Other plane' referring does not have to be cyclical or predestined, but it needs to be discerned in accordance with so many otherwise varying factors.

To be in concert with higher wisdoms, determinings and considerations is not a matter of complicity or automation, it simply gives over the will of one into the consideration of many; and from this there will be a beneficial outcome.

It is both good and creative to hold personal hopes and ambitions, have wants and desires for all kinds of future events to come. But there also needs to be the attitude of spirit that, in a rather polite obeisance to the futures, exercises both patience and levity with a far broader perspective to our own personal requests.

At what point do we grow to become proper and worthy students of the higher path? It is precisely that point when we give over our personal desires into the higher considerations. We do not necessarily give up on them, just give them over. It is the exact and precise moment of realization that this world and the living beings and souls around me have their place, their needs and equal consideration.

As simple as this sounds, it is so often forgotten. Can you wait for your Mercedes until every last man and woman and child have full meals in their day? And if not, why not? Are you serious about effecting good work in the world? For in attitude it begins. One may not be particularly serious - one foot on the path and the other on the precipice - but this is not a journey, it is a nothing.

To mindfully pray "If it be Thy Will" before tasks and plannings, becomes a fine caveat for karma. It is not a renunciation of responsibility, yet in effect and by effect, it is. Our lives reform when this inner attitude is consciously deliberated.

At this point of development our egos are powerful; we might not all have a tremendous control or knowledge of their capability, but they are nonetheless very potent in their action. It is at this very point we learn to exercise the inner patience and converse in reverent consideration of the higher aspects of all that we do - to pause from our willing and be prepared to pause until such a time as the spiritual worlds can find a harmonious or beneficent time to manifest whatever it is we are trying to realize.

So much imagination is wasted by desirous or agitated projections that are willful. The very moment we give over these desires we are relieved of their energetic bearings and freed up to do what we can do in a day. The 'Universe' takes very seriously the souls who consult with an open heart and with consideration of others - obliged to circumstances.

At present this World is quite a magical place with vast and imposing limitations. It is still not easy to navigate or interpret, and there are many pioneer souls who are still mapping its ways, even whilst it ever reforms and changes also. It can be said that the conditions of living have wondrous moments - beautiful segments, pockets of happy times....but on the whole (and even for those how have developed and worked themselves far) it is still a terrain fraught with uncomfortable and perilous difficulties.

And so where would we be without the full blessing of higher guidance?

Should any man desire to go it alone and live by the standard "Do what thou wilt" - i.e. to suit only themselves and divine not the humors of the Heavens firstly - then it will be that they go throughout their lives without the full support that they could have been offered back.

If but for nothing else than practicality - if not for the affection of others, the compassion, the humanity, the charity, the moral duty, the receiving, the believing, the sheer relieving - if not for these but for nothing else than practicality, why not therefore live in consult with the wisdoms which incorporate the interests of all?

• Before our thinking: "Let Thy Will be done."

• Held before our wanting: "Let Thy Will be done."

• And before our choosing: "Let Thy Will be done."

And this is in cooperation (if not in deed but in heart) with the entire force of Life itself which seeks collaboration and duly awards he or she who bears this upon their breast and impresses the world with their sincerity, and from one to another do know each other as true brothers in this Community of the All.

You are but a student of one if you do not live by this standard. This is not to say that another individual or organization should dictate your doings and know above your own discernment as to what is required of you by God or by Heaven or for the betterment of all. It is not to forgo your own license to self but moreover to enhance such empowerment in refining both attitude and intuition to the spiritual frequencies.

By this we become more empathetic and sensitive to the conditions around us and informed of the realities about to prevail. Of ourselves no one man instigates the future - his decisions and actions can and do make small and great changes but when it is said: "Man ye are Gods" it could be better said:

"Man ye are Gods - among many Gods - enveloped and governed by The God, Our God, that contains us all."

The Death of a King- 22nd December 2009

WHAT is little known or remembered is the consequence which brought death to the visiting King the very night of the Child Christ's birth.

This old King had carried forth the gift of former impulses past - conceded now to the reign and manner of his Holy Superior.

It was as though a starlit planet had disappeared from the sky - even though all the talk was of new constellations to be revealed... and the old planet faded and was quick forgotten.

Who was this old King? And what did he represent in ages now given to veils? And why did he slip into fable, far from history’s reach? Emissary of the former Christ, beloved of the Ancient Realm, a sage whose life had spanned some hundreds of years, a master among men who had been both guardian and revealer of his time; yet he was not to live past the infant's coming, and bade not to see the tensions beyond.

Miramuse: the velvet gentleman. Velvet cloth, made from silk from the Orient, was available then - a bed of fine fibers like no other, that mimicked the weaving of pulled rugs in miniature grain - this cloth he wore, and it shimmered as he moved. He also had a private trade in the same, along with various exotic imports - so many exquisite high crafts of inlaid pearl, gold, metal smithing, strong yet light fine fabrics, animal husbandry producing curious pelts; marvelous tapestries depicting visions of sorts; dainty and salty foods which were pleasing and medicinal to take; remedies and tonics that were sweet but not corruptive; oils, fragrances and purgatives, sealed with wax and delivered in gold; manuscripts of secrets - as to the taming of beasts and the taming of man; recipes and instructions in simple key and script - so plain it was difficult to find the value therein; tools of Astronomy and Gastronomy; harbors with ships stocked in marvelous trade.

This was a finer time than is imagined today - one of subtle beauties and tastes that were rich and quick to fill senses, imagination and even soul, a period where there was a finery and grace depicted through the arts and sciences - in contrast to the violence about, which was not so much barbarous as it was pervertedly epicureal also - they found a hundred ways to kill a man as if this were an art form as well. 

'Modern man' of those days, considered himself at the apex of civilized behavior - and this attitude of mind and being was prevalent throughout every continent. 

At the time of the Christ Child's birth it was assumed that the standing of human civilization and development thereof, was almost, if not already, complete. Even certain trade relations were so amicable that the nations prided themselves on a sophistication that could take in the finer aspects of the other's culture in respect and beneficiary.

Whilst there were slaves and the military, the popular thought of this day was of the organization of this brute force ('brute' being meant literally) - which was again a matter of superior 'civilized' pride as well.

In many respects society had excelled in its thinking, its organizations, engineering, and peculiar fastidiousness - working with but raw materials, so to speak, being devoid of the old clairvoyance to guide it, and too young to fathom the electrical technologies to come - caught in a time of mediocrity of opportunity and trying to make the most of it.

You could purchase countless sweet cordials, each with a delicate and different flavor; but you could not see the mystery in the water, or the possible perils it could hold either.

'Decorum' was the word of that day; and with this emphasis of society came snobbery. Pure racism or religious bias is understandable - not condonable but quite natural to the unevolved. However snobbery is but a perverted value of self and self worth - it has no basis in real difference or concern. Although it may sound as trite as its bearers, it is in fact a very potent agent of evil, for it damages all parts of the individual who is supported by its frame.

Snobbery is literally a form of madness. Madness often comes of selfishness, and the assumptions of snobbery are both irrational and self-gratifying - an unfortunate spin-off from a 'discerning' society that has truly come so far with so little, in a world steeped in a materialism that is stifling the soul life. 

Amongst an orgy of one festival following another, their distraction from true faith and meaning meant that there had become a bacchanalian triumph - an attitude that even today from this, is so difficult to shift, as it migrated into the thought realm becoming a philosophy of material indulgence and superficial discrimination.

You see, whimsy preceded sophistication and came from a world that even predated romance. Whimsy is juvenile (in the real sense of the word, i.e. of Jove) being enthralled, joyful, excited in the collaborations of life - too captivated by pure love to be self serving, open and predisposed to almost any event that comes along, a time of noble ideals and concerns - an age to which we are only now returning.

What was to become the invisible planet still actually remains - yet not palpably so. Its influence does not infiltrate, its presence no longer permeates - a significant loss, a historical catalyst. It was the first rock at the mouth of the cavern-tomb - only that the rock was a planet removing itself, so that the light could infill the cavity within.

As with all else this planet and its presence was of Christ's own making firstly - rendered redundant through a complex necessity, deliberately disabled from its participation and contribution to this sphere.

This was a willingly given gift - a true act of self sacrifice and self denial for the betterment of this ornate World too immature for its offerings.

The very Gods seed and bead and embellish their creations; but not before they have animated them with a sturdy and pure life that is resilient to contamination.

Beware snobbery, for it has false attributes and brings nothing good.

This Christmas message has a theme to it of the gift of withdrawal - that of holding back and making way; of knowing when it is your time to speak or to be, and when it is not.

The rock had to roll for the light to come in.

The World shuddered and sighed - the birth was complete - the Christ Child had a mission to amalgamate a dismembered world and make it whole again.

Christ be my mind,

Christ be my eyes,

Christ be my hands,

Christ walk my legs,

Christ be my heart,

My heart be Thine,

Now and throughout,

All walks of time.

[How many Wise Men were there? The Gospel tells of three gifts and so we assume three. The ancient Nestorian teachings in the The Book of the Bee, state that there were twelve.

The three Magi visited when Jesus was a child, not a newborn. But did others visit at the time of the Birth? This is case with the old King, spoken of above. -Ed]