Calamities & Calm- 3rd May 2020

Out from a solitary window cries the voice of Man interred...

Walls and floors and ceilings, boxes, caves with stone doors, containers, duplex, multiplex, prisons, confines ... there is a significant psycho-spiritual complication that arises when a man, or a woman, is no longer free.

There are two considerations in this: in the first part to ask what it is, how it is, that the soul of a man is fundamentally altered in captivity.

The second part is simply to state that all of Humanity is the veritable sum total of many many lifetimes - and that the individual comes to this very moment born of the preceding lifetime’s experience, from which in many of these lifetimes the soul had encountered periods of confinement and captivity.

Now of course we are all captive by circumstance - whether as free men or not, whether in open air or, free to go about where we may - there are restrictions; a lot we can and cannot do, both lawfully and karmically, and realistically - this is true. But what is to be measured here today is when the will has been thwarted and the individual has been interred - constrained in ways that are not of his own choosing, and, to whit, internally he cannot reconcile this happening.

The anguish that comes from this is magnified almost always because of former suffering having been recalled from within the deep recesses of the soul - added to which it is also directly contrary to our beings to be held captive, as all naturally seek the freedom that is God-given.

This is not to say that ever are men in any way entitled to take liberty over another with hurt or harm, but it is rather to go to the very heart of freedom itself - for example: of the spirit journey that nightly rises up and out into the starry plains of discovery and flies its courses.

And it is that the former memories of internment can somewhat accumulate and exaggerate in a pictorial representation that is invisibly kept, but nonetheless apparent, for example: being locked in a lift or in any small space, for a child or an adult, claustrophobia is more or less past experience being relived in the present. Ghosts come in many forms, and the most frightening of all is that of our own - our own astral spectres that have remained and carried over into subsequent lives.

Added to this is that the measure of suffering relates to both will and to choosing - not necessarily to conditions at all. Such as: whether it be womb or the shelter and protection of a bedroom, a home, a hotel or a guest house, or anywhere that supplies warmth and keeps out strangers, predators, noises, and the world at large. Any area we can call our own, any space that becomes defined and lockable to our choosing, any place that is warm, comfortable where we are content that it is safe. This then is of course a most pleasurable and happy environment for which we seek ordinarily. Conversely, the same surroundings may become repulsive if we cannot leave. And with this then the will will want to challenge its captivity.

Our wills are extraordinarily powerful and even though we equate them with our consciousness, they are also in part the driving engine of our physical wellbeing; motivating the fiery forces throughout the limbs, the heart, the pulsing heart, the firing sparking brain, the digestive forces, the eliminative forces, the ambient forces, that of going forward, that of standing up, that of using our eyes to see, waking up and out from our thoughts into the world, divining truth, calling the consciousness forth, amidst an orchestrated harmony of health, deliberating the perfect fit of subtle body into animal self, and collaborating the two.

These forces of will are strong in healthy individuals and it needs to be to motivate all of that fantastic collaboration, which is life within the world particularly.

Cosmically, of all the places in this Cosmos, the organisation of the will in Man, shines its brightest within the physical world, because it is there that it is required the most.

Therefore it is no small matter to restrain, constrain or chemically compel an individual in ways that challenge a will into madness.

The word ‘madness’ is not meant lightly, and it may be but a temporary affliction, momentary, or chronic. What is meant by ‘madness’ is that there are those things that make sense, those things which follow predictable roads of healthy design and then there is the chaos where life is fractured and becomes undone, or thwarted or contained, and from this, energetic rebound and confusion becomes madness understandably.

Illness, all illness is in fact a form of madness. The sane become insane. It may not reflect in the consciousness, but it is a madness in the organ it afflicts. Its tune is of discord and its palette is a muddy complexion, however, any tangle of complication - almost any tangle of complication - can be righted in the physical constitution, for there is the blueprint which keeps the madness from the ordinary.

We are corrected and dissuaded away from such madnesses continually, and it also is part of life itself; and there is a proper containment, a proper boundary that we experience where physically, mentally or spiritually, we may step out from a boundary and be corrected from a madness that would otherwise ensue.

And so one could say that there are forms of containment and confinement all about us working their ways continuously, that push back in degree against an all too fervent immature will, or perhaps when the forces of will so strongly present there is a containment nonetheless holding all in place.

And so limitation of itself can indeed be helpful to the organisation within and without the individual’s commodity of life.

In times past, and indeed in some cultures still, a malady, a malaise, is said to be spiritual in nature and causality firstly. And yet any practitioner of the past until now understands that the physical world itself can impact the physical body directly without the predisposing substructures being essential to any given problem.

Life itself is a contest of wills in respect to our will pushing back against the forces that would otherwise break down our very substance and being were it not that our driving forces push back. Life erodes life- constantly breaking apart and rebuilding - and so these complex forces have, if nothing else, a subtle balance and finite reparations in their design.

Particularly in relation to the will an individual is an homogenous being, and even though there are so many compartments and references, the will itself leads us, corresponding with this Holy Spirit being essentially the one.

It is coupled to the Divine motivating Spirit - the Greater Spirit without. And our own wills with which we have sovereignty, determine so much about what becomes of us. Not only in capability but enquiry, and in building our futures to come - it is our holy allowance, to determine so much about ourselves.

And so when the will is unduly suppressed there becomes, in part, a tremendous malfeasance within the individual responding to the chaos that ensures.

And of course one will often crosses another, person to person, justly, unjustly in work or in love, in discipline, or in hardship, fairly or unfairly. The human spirit has an intelligence all of its own. Even without the ego or the operating consciousness, the Spirit divines immediately truth from untruth, right from wrong, fairness from unfairness. If this were not the case the ego or its consciousness could not have any appeal or discrimination in such. This knowing goes a long way to the cooperation of the health and balance aside from the madness perceived.

The spiritual nature of an individual operates out from the perspective of truth and goodness with a sunny disposition understanding that the essential motivation to all life is abundantly good.

When an individual becomes disconcerted it can happen that their own very layers of being are called upon to understand the anomaly they are experiencing.

This is our desire and prayer for peace. That in effect disharmony on any level may be reconciled, and that we may refer to the wisdom of the spirit within as to that place that has only essential goodness, and the stability of eternal health.

The physical world is tumultuous and rarely within its singular sphere can such peace be arrived at, for in truth, it is a constant tangle of forces, of change, and, ever evolving conditions with both creative and destructive impulses from without.

Interestingly the Spiritual worlds themselves do not like structure or definition and beings of all kinds incorporate themselves into dwellings and spaces that are defined, and separate for a time, themselves from others. There are countless homes to which they go to that they make their own. There are spaces that have windows and doors - windows to look out from and doors to leave by - and these spaces so defined actually repel the forces from without and accomodate a quietude within.

Such containment in the Spiritual Worlds helps any entity to define themselves. It is a mode of being which offers a favourable place to establish identity separate to the light filled Cosmos, whist at the same time being a part of its community. Any containment affords us a personal space by which we begin to define who we are.

A dispersement of light or of consciousness or of spirit, or of thought, that travels out and onward, that is not contained, affords the experience of great wonder and oneness, and we do have this continuously to refer to. But there are those times necessary where any individual needs to collect themselves and take stock and know themselves separate to the rest in order to go on to develop or to change, or to simply be.

And so it is that our chosen ‘homes’ are not only for shelter and protection, but a space to define ourselves, for which we seek containment.

Megalomaniacs seek to confine, contain, and change other individuals, to purpose them for their own design. And megalomania itself is quite separate to its outcome or desired outcome one should say. This sickness of soul and conduct, is also borne from lifetimes of wilfulness in which the individual has coupled themselves with entities stronger than they who have in fact possessed them as their own.

Alarmingly, and most woefully, there is not one tyrant or would-be dictator that has not this problem of forced compliance themselves. It is the very men who would control the freedoms of other men that do this because they are no longer free - and are so distant from the recollection within their spirit of what it means. Tyrants and persuaders, are given to the will of a complex of beings, who in universal terms are also not ‘free’ and so it goes. The hierarchy of Evil is a most misfortunate corporation of subjugation.

From this very picture alone one can begin to understand the importance of freedom - the freedom of Man - and how exactly it runs counter-current to those forces that seek to manipulate lives and control and disquiet, to terrorise, and to thieve from communities that could otherwise live their lives in simple joy.

And so there are those who essentially would be free, and those who simply are not.

To varying degrees it can be said that when one wishes to control or override the will of another (who is mature and not a child), that wilfulness of itself is misplaced.

Thy Will be done is the ultimate prayer to save our own souls - for deferring our own will to that of God is ultimately safe and fruitful.

The Haves & Have Knots- 26th April 2020

From the outset it should be said that this paper is not weighing the question of the poverty of hardship against inequities within finance, or skill, talent or beauty or enterprise, etc. within the material world.

Nor is this essay considering ‘gathering for Winter’ - i.e. that which compels either man or animal or cell to acquire and store in reserve.

In summary, this paper will endeavour to explain Entitlements and Contracts.

The word ‘entitlement’ in its purest form is simply that which entitles the holder or the receiver. In its derogatory form it implies that perhaps there is a party who may feel or believe themselves to be entitled, when in fact, they are not.

There is a fascinating element to contractual agreements in spiritual law: that it is reflected within the World. Law itself can be divided, and yet its principles, when goodly and for the common good, directly parallel the wider cosmic laws for which they emulate.

It is the very precipitation of Cosmic laws that have given way to there being justice in the World. It can be noted quizzically, that even the darker side of Man and Demon recognises contractual obligations to some extent, and historically the Devil has employed contracts with Man, who unwittingly in part, unknowingly in whole, has committed to such binding relationships.

Fascinatingly one can already glimpse that there must be a very occult esoteric commitment in relation to contractual agreements, whether they be material, or in principle of promise.

One could say that the major element within any contract or title is that of Time. The contingency and substance of a contract is wholly reliant and presuming of a future time, when that which is titled is held to be relevant and withstanding. It is a promissory note, reliant on there being both a future and similar circumstances in the future, as to be relevant to the agreement or promise formalised so.

Its very essence, apart from its nature, therefore is comprised of time - a time that has not yet occurred.

We can pause for one moment to consider the recklessness and hopefulness of any contract in the light of this - be it spiritual or material. In and of itself, the essential elements therefore involve literally the unknown.

This is ironic because it is also the nature of any contract to formalise the will of one or more parties to create a future going forward into time, and esoterically, there will become of this formalisation, a great motivation for it to become fulfilled, as best it may be.

Added to this, is the illusory substantiveness any contract or title imparts with the glamour of its own authority. Whole societies are literally forged with bits of paper, and those who prize such paper with intense promise, completely in the belief of their own accreditation.

This is not to say that contracts and entitlements are abstract or worthless of themselves, but to realise that they are largely valuable in relation to the future - a future time - which is both temperamental and unknowable.

Treaties and agreements between territories and countries are authored by individuals and yet are meant to incorporate sizeable constituents. These agreements and contracts are usually for purposes of mutuality, for trade and stability, however, esoterically the principle would be that the country or people would not be bound or accountable, as they themselves have not penned the agreement. Karmically there can be associative responsibilities when individuals support a governor or political party - but strictly speaking they are in no way responsible for the contracts signed by the leading parties who enter into them.

When dignitaries can be seen to sign such agreements there is conversely a tremendous responsibility they are entering into. These heads of state or corporation are literally putting themselves on the line - that the weight of the Karma that falls from these decisions and binding agreements, will impact them personally in times to come. It is an extraordinary level of commitment and extrapolation that they are entering into.

From this we can see how easy it is for a people to ‘love’ their leader, inwardly realising that not only are these individuals emblematic of their cause or country, they are taking the burden of the Karma to themselves and representing the people with such considerable weight and measure.

This can be said for CEOs as well as Prime Ministers - for which the implications are vast and heavy. The CEO is often awarded what appears to be an enormous remuneration for their duties, however it is a pittance in return for their obligations that may well haunt them for centuries to come.

Dynasties are no different, however there is also the aspect of family Karma entered into, as well as the compelling purpose to return back into the same family line through the responsibilities entwined. Many people will reincarnate back into the same family line, without being a king or a queen, but to fulfil contracts and liaisons agreed upon some centuries earlier by themselves.

None of this information suggests that we are better to be non-committal and free of all obligation - but it is to mindfully question everything we are to pledge ourselves to - even that which is seemingly flippant or transitory.

For it is also a fundamental truth that the spiritual core of all men (and women of course) is empowered by the Promise of God - and we, are His representatives. Therefore, any and all formalised agreements are created with this emphatic future building, fate commanding, enterprise of Spirit.

Men, when conscious, are far more powerful in effecting their futures than they realise - this is an oxymoron of the worst variety - for mostly it is only by their actions do they perceive later the consequences in review.

However, futures are open to being decided, and with creativity within the margins - and contracts are but one way of enabling two or more to forge a new beginning or stabilise an old one.

THE BROKEN GODS- Good Friday 2020 Easter

Ladislav Záborský

The World does not permit anomalies. The constant correcting and re-installation within life is rather a process of creative perfecting - ambivalent to de facto cause, and its causality.

This principle holds tight on an otherwise burgeoning prothesis of composure: one that would infinitely randomise its own accord.

The essential Christ is one of such exploratory creativity - this element, His Element, is second to God - He, with the capital G - and with rare qualities - is distinct to the lesser party, with its hosts and dominions enthralled from the projections above.

There is required a certain servitude of Cosmic Grace to which the tenants of Heaven comply.

The propriety of universal conduct is anything but chaotic. Its own majesty is the elegance of restraint, whereupon spinning worlds synchronise themselves into patterns and planes of seasonal interplay.

Do not ever entertain the notion ‘that all times coexist comprehensively in the same conjunct paralleled’ with finality ... best not let this idea take away from the concurrence which really is: that which lives sequentially in real time, as it occurs, for the first time - for this of itself is a marvel.

Randomness and the conviviality of time are illusions of the catalogue - no more and no less - else newness could not partner with historical precedent.

Of course there is the patterning one may model the story on - and this too is the nature of Nature - where new life draws its clothing and behaviours from preexisting patterning - and herein is a tension and paradox were it not for the indwelling nuclei within is ever changing, improving and evolving.

The preponderance of Creation is revivifying to the inspired. Alike to the infilling grace of gratitude, the contemplation of harmonious life renews the cells and membranes - it become a reminder to our own chaos within that the substantial metric of all manifestation is reliably absolute.

Part 2.

There was a time when the concepts of chaos and randomness did not exist in the psyche of Man.

By appearance the infant and toddler are unawares and extremely chaotic in their expressions and thought - and yet it is that purpose drives every exploration, and they operate out from an absolute certainty, unless and until a pain or discomfort temporarily interrupts their innate cheeriness. Every thought and action of a child is purposeful to their development and striving - and is not as awkward or misplaced as it may seem.

Likewise our own souls are motivated solely with purpose - in divining, with striving, be it latent or active, there is the ever present desire to go forward into the future with purpose.

And equally concurrent to this is the essential desire for that element of purpose to be with goodness.

This is natural to the spirit of Man, as is with all of the supporting hierarchical natures upholding him.

And so - on the darkest of days on the cosmic calendar we are drawn to question the very men whose behaviours run counter-current to the natural ordinary congenial cohabiting synopsis - to ask: from where does the rot within these souls come from, who would wantonly destroy and distress their humanity?

It has always been a risky precursor to say one is motivated by a ‘higher purpose’. Societies that are orthodox seek compliance with the imposition of some greater good designated to, and for, the individuals who are expected to leave their own sense of deciding and purpose at the doors of their respective selfhood.

This synthetic prose of purpose is counterfeit to the discerning soul and collectively incurs a laziness of will whereby the organised group of people begin to display an inertia of sorts - thereby lacking will, commonsense, consciousness and general health.

Synthetic purpose and imitation goodness are debilitating for those to whom it is imposed upon, as well as for they who would impose it also.

There is a necessity to guard our truths most wisely. What is meant by this is that it can be good to speak truthfully and also be good to be silent; but given that our words are literally a living extension of our own beings, it is never good to speak deceptively, or with an untruth knowingly.

Recitations are debilitating to the will, whereas logic is stabilising, whilst knowledge (self acquired through study or firsthand) is healing.

Commercial societies and their enterprises promulgate ‘other truths’ that the populace is expected to adopt with such synthetic goodness, and moralistic mantras that circumvent the individual’s path of deciding and discovery.

Society (of any kind) is corralled into submission. Submission is the prelude to death.

Conversely, cooperation is the knit of great goodness where mutual striving and collaboration produce harmonious and like purposeful results - however submission denotes dominance - and this one might say, is an impulse that is anti-Man and anti-God.

The evilly of dominance is intoxicating to the would-be suppressors and manipulators of humankind - it is completely demonic without exception.

In the stead of finding life forces derived from goodly activity, the suppressor becomes (for a time) empowered by a sinister force, which in turn succours from the misspent energies of humankind.

This is precisely why freedom is so important in relation to the destiny of Man. It is not freedom for freedom’s sake - an anarchy which of itself implies a lacking of respectful goodness - it is the fundamental torsion of spiritual power that requires determining.

The mass-grab from suppressive forces has accelerated with ever growing infringements congesting the ethers with the greed for greater dominance - dominion over Man.

If there is a battle to be had, as champions of our beloved Christ - it is for those who choose self freedom to find and maintain their true purpose, whilst holding respect for all others to do so as well - unencumbered from the pressures and powers of outer persuasive elements who push constantly to impose their own design upon beings in various ways.

This is the age of true resistance.

Persuasion runs counter-current to goodness, as it oversteps its natural perimeters.

When we go inwards into prayerful commune, we seek to be heard, and we ask - we do not summon - we may hesitate to expect, and wait - because we do not wilfully command the powers we appeal to. And nor do the Heavens seek to control us either.

Free-will is essential to Divinity.

Synthetic purpose and artificial goodness hold no everlasting substantiveness. They are sterile to life - merely animated with a hidden purpose that is unattached to need or reality, often contrary to their own facade

“Man know thyself” is ultimately the key to overcoming the dark armies that stipend the joy from Man.

Think of the defiant Christ who would not betray Himself or Humanity with compliance to those who would have Him give over His veritable SELF.

Whilst one can appreciate the pathos of this day, there can also be seen the almighty defiance from the supremely free Spirit who had refused to accept the will of His treacherous suppressors.

It is God given: that we can protect ourselves and defy those forces who would subdue us - and with inner constancy we invoke the right to shed the influence of they who would seek sovereignty over our selfhood - that we can refuse them - and thereby encourage the greater World to become freed in spirit also.

Christ is our chief defender, and by His condolence to our suffering, we may be unshackled from harm and unhindered in Spirit evermore. 

Amen

Good Friday- 19th April 2019 Easter

It was a hot wind that chafed the frangipani and jasmine, drawing out their scent, to then carry their floral soul through to the One, who was laterally impaled for all to see.

Once plump raisins were also expiring in the sun, and the stench from their ferment travelled the alleyways and backways, throughout the sweating city, past the fumes of ovens and pipes, invading the temple and the bath-house alike.

The stables exuded their excrement, and the blood from the butcheries stuck its tacky stink onto every dwelling besides.

There were smells of bread and peat, and oriental offerings; of mule, of rug, of dried and urine soaked mud.

Pomegranates choked the aqueducts along with cart-loads of bitter oranges and sweet limes, that had fouled, from an excess of party, committed to the waterways, bobbing the canals, riding their rush into the open sea.

Vegan meats and floral tributes graced the merchants roadside stores. Tents with souvenirs and flags, with cages of pets to be bought for sport, or confinement. Rodents were free to forage, tourists followed the circuit of the city; donating to the priests who strode the roads, with coin gatherers following behind.

By and large the world was not watching - it did not see, and if it had done, it would not have understood. For the God who was betrayed by His own, was but a ghost to them. The Christ was made of ephemeral stardust. His consciousness was, and is, the Sun. His life and death was of Earth but not of this World - for it was out of time, and of the making of worlds to come.

"I ask only that you love as I do" his thought called to the vacated streets and sleeping souls. And they slept on ...