Ship of Fools- 1st December 2024

There are tensions and torsions that are healthy - required for the contrast and momentum of life - and then there are tensions and tearaways too great to be contained, that are destructive to the life that would most normally and adequately contain them.

A bird song for instance creates a tension within the ethers to which the life around it responds and flourishes thereby. And similarly (although distinctly) so does the voice of another human being affect and afflict the ethers, the ears, and the minds of others - for better or for worse.

In other words, one is not imagining that there is an actual, pivotal change occurring when another person speaks out loud. Silent retreats, conclaves, certain orders, recognise that within this silence comes the restoration of self, of prayer, of presence. Insults and curses are distinctly detrimental and carry with them the seal of royalty as it were - that of the human spirit, who is ordained spiritually - and so such deleterious expletives are profoundly harmful, especially for those in close proximity around them.

The indigent who is cursing randomly is unfortunately spreading a spiritual filth that is hazardously poisonous and is best to be avoided as quickly as one can, dismissed with a prayer for them, and for self, and for containment. However whether mumbling or screeching their dark complaints, the atmosphere itself is permeated with sickness and disruptive chaos - literally contaminating all who suffer their presence even for the shortest period of time.

This is no small thing for even though the individual maybe seemingly mindless, the rants and ravings hold dark intent. There is a supreme difference between the human being who has withdrawn and it is childlike or vacant, to the fevered individual who is vocally abusive.

The power of words is far stronger than any virus - and if we can be mindful of this we can remove ourselves as quickly as possible from certain situations, realising it can take days to recover from the fatigue that can ensue from this. 

Our physical body and our spiritual-physical body are both resistant in respect to any permanent damage, with the seal and power and construct of Christ we are impervious to the insults and assaults of others - however both are tired and worn by said afflictions (especially in the world at present) and require actual time for restoration after any disruptive event as described. 

Most folk ordinarily want to pick up and move forward - even though they may be exhausted one way or the other, yet the exhaustion will be prolonged if there is no chance to come to the quiet.

Therefore a solitary walk, waking before the household rises, preserving one’s thoughts, retiring quickly away from conversation: one will find their own path to preservation if they are thoughtful as to the necessity for such.

Contrast - 8th November, 2024

Arild Rosenkrantz 

Contrast is imperial to perspective - both visually and conceptually. 

Mental acuity, as well as the depth of one’s soul’s activity, is all about observation and contrast - and later, further to this, discernment and definition.

And for contrast we require light, and discernible, palpable substance.

It is with the power and blessing of the light there becomes suitable graduations of defining contrast: light in the world, light in the mind, light in the soul.

And then also, there needs be without and within us a panorama, a vista, a scenery of detail - a catalogue of knowledge to choose where to fix our outer gaze or inner vision; and this is of course the realm of experience whereby we carry within us the certain knowledge of that we have formerly experienced.

And once again it is the light - the divine light - that reveals and finesses this contrast with its revelation of detail.

We must not judge our brothers for lacking in discernment, wisdom, or common sense. For the most part they are truly doing their best, and unless they have fallen into depravity, their testing and trying in life is no more and no less than what it could or should be.

In other words one may become exasperated wondering how it is that another simply cannot see what you plainly can see - but not only is a point of reference required for this meeting of minds, but the contrast as well for like thinking to occur.

It truly is a fool’s pursuit trying to force this upon another and one could say a lack of contrast in and of itself. 

Prayer is the secretum, the ad hoc, and the great improviser.

Prayer unites all by drawing in the light - opening hearts and minds to the effulgent, the incandescent ways of insight and inner vision.

Through prayer the contrasting light pours forth out and into the world redefining its worth with every new lumen.

Perspective is important, but it cannot exist without the light itself - and the pathway to this light is prayer.

The New Jerusalem- 26th October 2024

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

-Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky

Hans Georg Leiendecker

Whether we are aware of it or not, our dual existence is maintained ever throughout our lifetime of sleeping and waking; for this is an oscillation that perpetuates us forward.

And similarly, it will come to pass after death that there can be another dual existence, whereupon we are ‘awake’ and conscious, looking back into this world, and then for a period ‘sleeping’ and reaching into, and learning, in yet higher realms, and so forth.

This process, this passage of experience, truly nurtures and encourages the consciousness to grow in ways that living in a singular existence only could not.

It has been said that materialism is sclerosis of the soul i.e. that the focus on earthly life alone inters the mind, the consciousness; and the being who becomes so invested within only worldly parameters eventually finds that their thinking narrows, their consciousness thins, their social, moral and spiritual values are exchanged for investments in wealth and power.

Inevitably concerted efforts into wealth, for example, are not of themselves dangerous to the soul where there is attention and practice given to spiritual pursuits also, as well as a measure of benefaction.

The giver cannot do so merely as a shill but from true charity from the heart - for the heavens, and our own souls, will not be fooled.

Returning to materialism it is easy to see how inevitable it is for individuals to very quickly lose their sense of spiritual self and become entombed in the ideals of their own making.

One could say that the entrapments of the devil are very simple in this – and the hopeful who are excited with the glamour of lust's prospects all walk into an early grave.

For it is the spiritual worlds that sustain us – in every way.

Our journeys there during sleep truly provide the sustenance for our daily drive – the forces that motivate our limbs, and even that of our thinking, come from our gathering during the night when we are out and about our bodies.

The materialist however is often ‘earthbound’ to a great extent and could be mistaken as a ghoul or wraith in the neighbouring astral realm even whilst alive in the world.

For truly it is that what we focus upon we become and furthermore, who we focus upon (associate, assist, care for, pray for) broadens our own being and its reach.

Fundamentally selfishness in both rich and the poor is the cause of such misery (miser = misery) and in larger terms with broader reach the volatilities within countries and peoples are suffering generally because of this imbalance.

The New Jerusalem seeks to cohabit the souls of Community with the Heavenly perspective once again – bring into the world itself the forces required for its peoples to thrive.

And this is not reachable or achievable unless the hearts and hopes of men and women are once again enlightened and enlivened with the sweetness of true spiritual reward.

This: the experience of the greater expanses, the recognising of our beloved Christ within us, and our beloved Christ all about us, and the very simple truth understood that life itself is so much bigger than the temporal - as are we - gratefully, humbly, illumined for eternity.

Effluence- 22nd October, 2024

Evelyn de Morgan

Effluence is the run-off, and/or the expiration of the excess that departs the naturally divided waters, and many other substances besides. It generally goes its own way out from its source.

The frothy effluent on a beach or from a herbal medicinal compound contains extracts and properties that are now as the rarefied ethers - embellished and emboldened, enriched and if not contaminated, this shedding contains a wealth of dynamic properties carried through.

This form of extract has departed its natural ways and has been collectively composed.

Perfumery with all of its etheric vitality and cosmic exuberance is a succinct example of the powers of native effluence.

Homeopathy is a form of such extraction also becoming the potency- following the principles of the run-off, rather than the main.

For it is in the action of the departure we find such a critical change providing its gift to become so potent within our own homogeny thereby.

The distinction of this process is that the main body of substance is not the primary source, but rather that which comes from it: i.e. the fruit, the leaves, the flowers - the syrup (especially maple syrup) being the effulgent run-off from its host captivating this lively action and consolidating etherial and physical mineral properties that work stimulating and nourishing and imparting within the human system co-operatively - something of the nature of the Maple as well.

Effluence is a form of extraction that can be contextualised in mortal faith. It is not our thoughts or words that feed the world and the heavens above - it is the rarefied condensation overall - pertinent to its ‘currency’ of its living motion.

All acts of faith are dynamic: what may appear to be inwardly peaceful can be etherically very active - conversely where a mind/soul is in turmoil (perplexed, astrally desirous, angered, psychotic) they are almost etherically inert.

During a service of faith there is always a great spiritual activity all around - contrasting the gentle folk constrained to the quiet or the routines of recitals yet with the buzzing and lively ethers of many happy beings so surrounding.