The Steep Incline- 2nd July 2023

Fortitude and resilience are the two qualities, the two strengths, that assist the wakeful spirit in every activity about.

Added to this there is a tensile strength which holds a particular quality peculiar to itself.

And so we have:

1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength 

4. and then lastly, the fourth quality to consider is motion/as opposed to inertia.

Inertia, from a spiritual perspective, is literally the cousin to death and often precedes the arrival of death.

This does not have to mean a physical death departing this life, but of course it is an indicator and precedent of such ... but moreover those forces leading to the dissipation of any such thing as a thought, or behaviour, a desire, a relationship, an aberration, a health issue and so forth.

The checklist tells us definitively how something is going when we ask ourselves do we have:

1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength
4. Motion/not inertia.

Spiritually speaking we can look to how one may acquire more strength itself - whilst remembering also that all qualities begin at their source: one needs to acquire spiritual strength if they are to have robust strength within their will or physical body, or thought, or morality, firstly.

Strength improves with repetition - it is percussive - it is why the army will march to a set rhythm drawing in more strength with every repeating beat of footfall. Equally the repeated mantra or prayer will bring in a certain strength that gets more incarnated into being with every repetition.

Exercising can begin with the tapping of a finger in a repeated sequence - for it is the repetition that brings the strength even though the movement facilitates or enacts and feeds the tissue, it is the will just repeating itself that casts the etheric energy into the mix and fortifies the whole.

Resilience enables us to withstand and tolerate the forces all about us - without resilience we would literally fall apart. It is the power to be oneself, and the ability to remain oneself; and in many respects most individuals are lacking in this coherent shield by which we maintain our personal identity, thought, selfhood, sensibility, reasoning, physical structure, etc.

Resilience is a wonderful quality which again is primarily cosmic, beginning with stepping back, stepping away, rather than engaging with something we instead pull back just far enough to get out of its way, but hold it still in plain view.

It is a shift of perspective and the motion to retreat, to separate, to absolve oneself, and if necessary, to remove oneself, from a condition or situation. It is fluid, responsive and adept to adapt. This quality is improved with humility, for humility is the spiritual precedent and kernel to such an adaptation as is resilience.

Tensile strength proffers a quality of elasticity and a combination of the first two qualities becoming now something that is yet separate again: to be strong with humility is perspect to the divine.

Lastly, motion/not inertia: motion of course precedes repetition and is key to all action. It becomes a chicken and egg consideration to ask which comes first: the motion or the will to drive it? Or is it the will merely riding it?

Nonetheless we never really do more than channel the motion itself - not one individual actually motivates anything at all of himself. We are as infants in toy cars as far as that goes ... science may pretend it can captivate forces and compel them, however they coerce them at best and only then for a time, and only if the greater Will permits. In truth not one of us compels or invokes the powers of universal motion outside of our own small sphere - no, we literally ride waves, and for this we need to be synchronised to the heartbeat of the life around us.

And so lacking in motion i.e. inertia, is symptomatic of one being out of rhythm in general.

This is why in spiritual science so much attention is given to the cycles and rhythms, and maintaining practices that coincide with these repetitions. In this way we may gain a personal momentum that can carry us well throughout our lives and beyond.

From the Highest Perspective- 25th June, 2023

Freydoon Rassouli

The highest perspective is not always ‘top down’ but one that can incorporate and reconcile often unseen or extraneous elements, which may be of time, or of place, or of plane, and so forth. And of course wider perspectives, loftier insights, experience gained ... these lend some predictability to one’s thinking, adding to the gift of foresight.

And this form of predictive comprehension is precisely what a baby comes to develop with their awaking consciousness - a predictive foresight where they may gauge with reason an expectation of something outside that of their own longing, those happenings in their day, and this becomes their anchor in their small lives proceeding forth.

And then there are periods of worldly life where such change enters in - either to the economy or country - more specifically change itself in spiritual causality and this is something that the consciousness could not have readily foreseen ... and the highest perspective during times of catastrophic change takes us to a place of peace: the soul escapes the tumult of that change up and out and into the quiet - the Angelic resonance, the Christly illuminated mind, the love that cradles our own central space, the peace that is untouched by time or its controls - the ineffable, ephemeral sweet home within us.

Yes, when conditions become so ‘out of hand’ and beyond our determining, there is this peace to go to, that is the highest perspective of all.

Over the Hills-18th June, 2023

There is a quiet sense of humour beneath every circumstance, every event, and every being in existence. For humour belongs to its family of virtue whereby life is swiftly inebriating that which it infills - and bestowing heavenly qualities of vim and fervour throughout.

The Holy Spirit is humour personified. The words: ‘it can’t be, yet it was, here it is” is a process of the magic of rapid change and manifestation. With humour we are compelled by surprise and then taken into a different space ... something appears that was not hitherto before, and as a divine example of penultimate copula - there is humour.

And even when we are overwhelmed with dire circumstances it will be humour especially that may save the fragile soul from despair. And within this there becomes also both incarnation and newness arising.

There is most obviously the mirth of little children to whom all things are new and appear ridiculous to their sensibilities. The unexpected gives the mind a shock however this startling is also enlivening sweeping away the dusty mindset and former presuppositions of bias and control.

For stability is but surreal - the worlds are ever changing, and with that we truly are the children of the universe, happy and excited to see what comes next.

On the Other Side - 11th June 2023

The sheath of life is a membrane that does not separate one world from another, but rather enables a particular exchange to pass through it, backwards and forth - it joins the realms - and affords a certain passage of continuity to occur. 

And so you can understand from this that a membrane is not as a wall or fence or obstacle per se - it is an enabler - and meant for both to coexist, and allow for this and that, back and forth, and so on. 

In spiritual terms last century it was referred to as ‘the veil’ when a medium could perceive something of the souls who had dissolved their physical bodies and relaxed into their more familiar forms. 

To be able to see beyond the veil was to be able to sense through this membrane; however, and nonetheless, this partition to both remained, and the visions were never truly as clear and concise as the reality was on the other side. 

And even within our dreams, our consciousness and recollections, membranes are there of many kinds: personal and worldly, for which images and meanings distort, going from one to the other. 

And so it is not impossible - in fact it would not be practical - for ourselves to remain solely within the physical realm without such constant transport … the soul at all times belongs in the realms that lie further - in their own natural space. However, in waking life, and on the other side, our conscious recollections are mixed and muddled, confused and unclear. 

In near-death experiences an individual will have a physical connection (a body etc.) remaining and often you may hear their account in the spiritual worlds of being. And then they are told of their life, reminded of their purpose, and guided back so that they can continue on. 

Now had a physical death occurred, the consciousness is both expanded and compacted to a much larger degree. When some time has passed and a good many
processes besides, the individual will be mindfully far clearer and distinct, organised, awakened, and intelligent in the spiritual worlds thereafter. They do not behave as in the dream state, or as remembered, but are incarnating well, and where they are. 

Similarly and by contrast an individual can be fully present within this world; or may daydream permanently, living their best part into the spirit realms, losing their definitive consciousness within the physical world.

With this the spirit takes in fleeting impressions of the physical world which then becomes similar to our recollections of dreams: often nonsensical, incomplete,
crumpled, associative, emotional, and somewhat lacking continuity to reality overall. 

Crimes are most often committed in this condition. Delusional behaviour and self aggrandising proves the opine between the inner dialogue and reality ‘living the
dream’ as it were. In the extreme there develops senility and then death. 

Day-dreaming, meditation and imagining are all relatively safe practices so long as the individual self-consciously embarks on entering into the borders of their being knowingly, with the distinction and understanding that their impressions gleaned are
at best substandard to the underpinning realities experienced. 

The comfort to be had is that we are far far more present in our consciousness, and are in control of ourselves after we have passed over into death than realised whilst alive; and although dreaming and the memories of such afford us small insights, they
are not representative of the completeness we will experience, or of our heavenly abilities and endeavours once there.