Finding One’s North Star- 5th November 2023

Both bearings and polarities shift continuously within the individual in relation to time and place; and these polarities relate not only to circumstance, but to those issues of health and to strength, resilience, vitality, wellbeing and to also conditions where there maybe too much vitality directed or misplaced inwardly, outwardly, or insufficiently - and added to this, even a virtue can become too much depending on the axis and the polarisation that occurs.

Similarly in life our personal coordinates readjust continuously. That is to say that our destinies are never static: they are dependant upon choices made daily, hourly, and minute by minute - and none of these are ‘bad’ choices we may add.

If a soul withdraws to heaven it is a choice that they themselves have made, and a happy one. However and not forgetting that this does not apply to murder, for murder is not a choice and nor is it karmic, and it does most definitely cut short a plan by which the starry overview has considered and hoped for eons prior to the incarnating individual.

All warfare is murderous regardless of the site so chosen or the falling one.

Defence is not however murderous by intent or action or consequence, yet retaliation without direct causation is.

Death can be confusing to the soul who has hitherto planned a long and good life and had it cut short so.

For every child who has been taken too early, there is an angel to cradle them immediately, soothingly, who delivers them into the arms of their loved ones in the spiritual worlds.

The children themselves are barely conscious in young life and in many respects this is a blessing when it comes to a premature death … for their recollection, if any, is very small, and their knowledge of what has befallen does not mark or mar the individual going forth.

Our physical bodies tremble, and have far more consciousness than is realized.

If you were to communicate with the brightest of the animal kingdom and befriend and raise them and then walk together, and feed the beast … as with, for example, the horse who becomes compliant and then a friendship and an understanding follows - or the humour of a dog with playfulness, and the accord, the shared astrality, the sympathetic resonance, the defensiveness - yes think of the astuteness of an animal you may have known, and then realise that your physical body, the animal body, is far far more intelligent, reasonable, cooperative and literally awake and aware, as it accommodates you within this earthly realm.

Added to this, everything we do impinges upon and within this animal. Our habits, what and when we consume, and then, most subtly, our personal tides of emotion, as well as the higher impulses of striving, of wondering, of virtue.

Our animal body is happiest when we are happy, and it is quick to be sad or inflamed when we are so.

And to picture this animal body with its acquired wisdoms, its working intelligence, parallels many of the attributes a toddler might have. It does not hold a cunning or an observation that extends past the feelings or the nature of the indwelling spirit - it cannot independently operate within the world of its own - but its understanding and its nature and responses do hold a sophisticated intelligence towards the soul within.

There exists an elevated, almost angelic nature, in so far as the body itself gives over to the soul, and its purpose is one of the greatest of cooperation generally.

It can though, just as a rabid dog in some circumstances - particularly with those of addiction or severe astral impairment - turn upon the soul within and be in conflict.

Remarkably, surprisingly, and confusingly and wonderingly, the very bodies of animals can be viewed in a similar light - in so far as they host a spiritual being who is not fully incarnate or representing themselves completely in the world - and there are two coinciding intelligences.

Physical matter of itself is the most mysterious to be had and it becomes ever more mysterious when it is imbibed with warmth and movement dancing throughout life in cooperative force.

And there are ever yet more distinctions with the interactions of a tree trunk, tree leaf and breeze and bird; insect and flower; sunshine and bee and blossom - it is not a linear relationship - and quite so also in relation to our health, our physical health in the world.

None of the things that we take into ourselves in the form of medicine and food works within us in just one particular way. Not only is quantity and quality and pedigree of importance, but also so do the coordinates of time have a bearing in relation to the spheres and their influences, the seasons and so forth - affecting the animal body and the soul - and all of these things change throughout the day and the year.

And whilst certain habits can provide a strength to conform with, it is most remarkably true to say that every individual will react at different times to different things in different ways accordingly from one another.

And so the role of the physician is never absolute. In relation to food and medicine we are always pleasing two masters: both the soul within and the body without.

The physical body generally has great instincts as to the foods it would consume and often the consciousness of the indwelling individuality can experience through the body what the body tastes etc but can be partial to its own likes and wants and needs because it is collecting subtle forces as well from the experience of the food - unless of course it has little value. And in this circumstance the understanding is not entirely mutual. But there is the possibility of the occasion for the individual within to ignore the needs of the body - this maybe for sleep for example, and in this circumstance there is a measure of hardship which follows.

None of ill health is to cast blame for the discord experienced or the failure or the breakdown of the body itself. There is a saying: “we live in an imperfect world” and it is most definitely true that this physical world is evolving and improving and adjusting in a most wonderful way. It is because of this evolving that we often come to an impasse - a conjuncture - where there are opposing forces or conflicting circumstances and the physiology breaks down. This is by no means a fault of the body or the soul: it is a consequence of living.

If we wanted permanence we would walk as spirit, but this remarkable etherial project of the physical world has many more mysteries that we at present do realise. Its prospects are so exciting because the collaboration of the realms and the various participants is an orchestration of Creation that has not been cosmically witnessed before: where the many beings of the hierarchies mix and mingle participating together with a sharing of experience like no other.

The Great Ones- Onward & Upward- 29th October 2023

The Great Ones who went before us: those who travailed the world, who tried with all with an intent that ran deep and wide - those souls that came in whose hearts were open to Humanity, whose vision reached far enough to see beyond the mundane and perceive the possibilities for each and every individual within the earthly plane … those with hope and with such foresight that gave them the verve and vigour to continue forth day after day, eon after eon - they, these Great Ones, are still with us.

Such souls who are invested in their work and in their hopes never really leave the world after being here. Whether departed now from the physical realm, they may be many planetary spheres away and yet still be so attached by their gifts and by their pain, by their effort, that they have forever a window into our lives currently and beyond.

And these may be many types of individuals who have laboured in various fields lovingly for the betterment of all. For this is the key primarily: that the desire for such advancement is not personal or private but is that which is one, broadly speaking, on behalf of the Human Spirit.

Just as Nature versus Nurture is contested, so too there are questions as to the pedigree of human souls and their influence, their advancements and their opportunities. But in truth we are only as good as we become, and are.

Many of the Great Ones have become so by their own deeds and by what they have proven to themselves, and to their inherent compassion made manifest.

By and large a pedigree (if such thing exists) would count for nothing if not enacted upon with courage and commitment becoming a worthy vessel for the universal light, for the blessings of the divine, being steadfast with this, throughout the duration of one’s life - upright and committed to being goodly and Godly, loving and wise.

And some are fortunate enough to feel this interior passage which connects one and all to those who have gone before, who have pledged their lives and their thoughts, their pursuits, to the greater spiritual trek on behalf of the many.

It may be but a fine differentiation as to what is personal advancement and what is done on behalf of all - but it is in this aspect of willingness to share, of a greater desire to participate with an openness for the many to benefit in the consequence of one’s own strivings.

This therefore will give to the world and allow for other souls to perceive keys into wisdoms that may have been kept solely and soully to one’s self otherwise exclusively.

If one does not consciously choose to share their advancements then they are closed off from others understandably, for at all times we draw certain parameters by which we live by - however for the student of the esoteric it is clearly defined in the who’s who of schools, if you like.

Names of organisations have little to do with the interior truth but what is evident individual by individual is the light that shines upon their heads that the seer could perceive most readily. It is whether or not there is enough love in their heart for others that they wish and will the truth to be for all and not just for a certain few or for themselves only.

This is a sublime difference and over time (perhaps many lifetimes) it builds, and for the souls who have taken to themselves the plight and concerns of the many, these dear folk will be given opportunities further on to do just what they desire and this may be physical opportunities made manifest in the world or spiritual opportunities that come to them through greater teachers suitable for their instruction.

Heartfelt and as simple as this may sound it is perhaps the most vitally important signature one can carry; it is the difference between great and greater, the wholesome approach that would incorporate everyone and see each shining soul come to peace, to light, to wisdom, and furthermore in their own time and in their own way.

This is not a dictatorial pledge, it is one of an open-hearted giving, a thoughtfulness, and a kindness - that is all.

The Windfall- December 2013

The Windfall

a Meditation

To the Masters who have stepped 

the starry paths before us 

and returned back into the World

with their gifts from abroad 

with pictures and tales of future men

having travelled ahead on the spiralling road. 

For their encouragement 

and constancy

to ever stick by us 

ln the quiet, in the sterness 

through the tides of time they steer us …

With the pulse of one and the Will Divine 

our teachers of Men 

believe only the best

will remake ourselves well -

with the fabric of soul 

the Cosmos spins all 

and the hopes of good men, 

with their work in the World. 

We give thanks!

The Distinction- 22nd October 2023

There is always a question of intent with regards to a character of brutality, of evilty, and that is: is there a difference between a quick ‘clean’ death caused by another, or one that has incurred a suffering, whereupon fear, pain, torture, cruelty, and delight in such cruelty occurs?

 … The question goes to asking how much does context matter in any transactional death, and what of intent of purpose? Are there grades, are there levels, within this and what are the effects ongoing? Added to this we may bear in mind that children suffer in many ways and it can be through death in war, but also by the loss of their beloved parents - ultimately there is suffering with children during times of war.

There are so many aspects to consider during such times of peril and hateship, this morning the topic is of intention and delight in cruelty - for it must be said at the outset that if a soldier or a combatant was purely exacting retribution or reclaiming land or property, death alone would suffice. But if they are lascivious in the sport of torture and the emotions are exalted (or degraded more aptly put) into a frenzy of a heightened pleasure from the misery they are creating then surely this is a far different act than simply a causality of death itself. And as difficult as this maybe to contemplate, it is we suggest, a very important differentiation and something to consider going forward for the days and months ahead.

It is not to say that death in war is acceptable at all, however, there are grades of consequence to battle practices. When the devil enacts in Man his motives are far different to what is said: words, intentions and actions do not align. And whilst the mischief is largely for the purposes of chaos in its simplicity, a deeper darker design does often coincide with an intent to stain purity - to mar and mark what is good and Godly. And this attack can be on the soul, it can be to a country, it can be of those of faith.

A deeper consequence of the actions of torture is that the act itself rebounds into the astrality of the vicinity where it occurs and remains. It is not something that can be cleared away with the morning sun or dew. The astral permeability is a constant record of the harrowing and terror, and sadly its ghosts remain. And so this goes to a deeper issue whereupon we have men that act within the world justifying that which they do, and yet being unaware or uncaring of the ongoing consequences of their affiliation with the devils who travel beside them; such beings that they have invited to themselves purely by the hatred in their hearts and the actions they command.

It can also be stated here that the characters enacting these atrocities have degenerated over time; having began eons ago as clean simple souls - all of them living lives in paradise with no more hardship than perhaps hunger and disease - all of them, every mortal soul started out in the early stages of evolution with a quiet life and an angel beside them. But what you see today cannot be called a regression, because a regression for the human soul would be bringing one back to a state of perfection and purity.

It is however degenerative with the individual becoming less than what they were: for that which is good and holy has left the man. Added to this the heavenly helpers who would otherwise be accompanying and advising can no longer stand the presence of the torturer. At first the angels are ignored by the merciless and then shut out as their light upsets the devils equanimity … and then they are so offended with their conduct that the heavens retire away from them - they have not the power to withstand the ugliness before them nor the permission to approach. It is only the strength and mercy of Christ that saves them thus far, for He alone has the faith and He alone has the heart and the power to endure them.

There are actions that one can take in the theatre of the world and intentions one can have that disassociate from Humanity that will disinherit one from their rightful place along side the men and women and children of the greater society. Cruelty is a betrayal of a much deeper variety it goes beyond what may be perceived as the necessity of war. Personal cruelty is never needed or justified or warranted, and yet to some the delight in this will take them to the threshold of no return, for even after death, their own death, when they themselves will suffer time and time again that which they have inflicted from the others’ perspective, even then for most, their souls have been forfeited abruptly, and irrevocably. And this is a sadness for the heavens, a complete sadness, for the element of such destruction of soul is pitiable to all.

From Christ we are asked to love one another - these problems of course were evident during the time of His great incarnation, before, and beyond. And yet coming forward to this time now when the consciousness of Man has in many respects matured, there are opportunities given to every soul during this period - from then to now to heed His direction. Every soul has a character which chooses to respond decisively and there is no excuse ever for those who have chosen to find delight and actually take pleasure in the hardship and suffering of others. 

During these times of judgement the emphasis should really be upon each individual and their choosing, for the perimeters before them are being set right now in this present time. Woe to those who would cause harm to another - be it beast or to man - that to take a devilish pleasure to themselves for an intoxicating gratification short-lived and yet with eternal consequence for their own being.