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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Out of the Blue- 1995 Christmas


THE distance which seems to be between us and the starry belt beyond is only an exaggeration of consciousness - ours, and that of this planet. In truth, all places are 'twixt and twain', they are together in habitude, in recess. Every place and plane, memory or projection, is neither near nor far, being simply here or there in relation to us. That is the larger, more comprehensive overview.

The blue ethers expel memory, as if to discount substance, and memory of substance 'vanishes' amid their erasive powers. 'Annihilation' it is called, not meaning to be 'snuffed out' or destroyed, but rather to be counted as nil - to be as though one were not, displaced in space and in relation to, dissolved in the blue, rendered with impermanence, concealed with invisibleness - this is ethereal annihilation. It is the 'empty' spaces in which we see nothing but where there is much. Light penetrates blue ether and will not be dissolved therein. It is a lover of specifics and ignores the illusions of space.

The Sacred Planets are not round places - planets as depicted for convenience as balls upon a map. This type of thinking is misleading to the truth. It is and it isn't post-positive. For one thing, everything is spherical, and so the apt description is the reality view - however, with tension upon the circumference and higher worlds central to the being (accessible thereby) all Life is orbital, planets or otherwise.

The seven Sacred Planets have been held to much controversy and speculation. This paper shall not end such but begin anew, adding to it with but a few more. You may picture sandbars with wading water in between. These sandbanks are as the perimeter of each world, whilst the waters are the blue ethers, which by their intrinsic powers of rendering specific invisibility, do cordon the sandbars exclusively from one another.

The Moon Sphere is both within this of our own, whilst also extending out (as far as the extremity of slag remaining in the silvery disc; that being the edge of the sand bar, as it were - as it is). The moon material incorporated is pound-by-pound slight indeed. However, when it is considered what is actually attached to that mass, it may be appreciated that there is a much larger sphere so connected to it, where there is yet another repository of mimicry to the Earth. This is an ancient astral sheath which is inseparably hovering alongside the Moon's mass; and it is upon this astral cadaver that verily the 'sins of the past' still haunt us.


To make a point, there becomes a leaning from one to another - this world's immediate astrality with its former host of 'hangers on', whilst the recollection of the former world as it was, is beneath the skin of this our world, and faithful in realm to the past, in perfection. So there are two Moons from one Moon, except to say that the Moon is now the Earth - and so one may say in such context that there are in fact three Moons to be considered.

These are not example to the three immutable currencies (past, present and future). For they are:

Past Preserved (Inner Moon)
Past Disconsolate (remains and decaying Moon)
Past Incarnate (the present sphere - our Earth)

There is no element of future within these immediate three. There is a living sojourn, a very real relationship here, which although may be separated up by those distinctions, does nonetheless prevaricate one globe in beingness.

Now to the point: the mystery-spheres as named, are of realms which dwell concurrent to our own; just as the Moon in its three phases is present, so too are the sacred spheres belonging to the higher realms. If they didn't already exist there should be no point entering into discussion about them. They either are, or are not- and they are.


The Venus incarnation of this planet shall be of attitude rather than ensoulment. Once again, we ask that the former concepts of floating balls be put away for the time being. For the domains of Venus are already frequented and inhabited and specifically characterized of its rightful order. When it is spoken of in terms of our own planet re-embodying into one which we will call Venus, it is not to become as a hijacker to a planet, nor is it to be that same spirit which is, but that it will ascend into corresponding mass and become Venus imbued, and therefore Venus entitled.

The name of this planet has hitherto been guarded, so guarded as to be confused and neglected. For the spirit to which we cling, propels our passage throughout the phases of heavenly development, sensitive to the guidance of the traveling humanity. The spirit whose arms do cradle us are of Venus herself (ever present), whilst the being which is the Earth is as a child.


The planetary influences - the characteristics of their realms - are with us in part, present today. The seven Angels of the seven domains are irreproachable and quite removed from any mixture of influence or play upon the theme. The seven ruling Angels stand away from each, but are the as the upstanding grain of the pearl, essentially signatory to those conditions as are then to be represented.

There are also Lords of the Domains, who are creative by nature and responsible to each. These Lords (overlords) are benevolent caretakers who are not fixed in time or place, even though they are usually duty-bound to remain within their respective domains. It was three such lords who did make a visitation heralding the blessed Christ. You see, it was much more of a vacation from soul in body to make way for the Christ. It was a planetary soul who too departed so, leaving to become our Venus, as we will come to know.



The three Kings (and Kings they truly were) were of Venus, Jupiter [Sangus/Sancus- son of Jupiter] and Conundrum - who besought to negotiate the said transition. The spirit-being which had up until that time brought the gathering mass to be this World into conspiration, was to empty out and exhume itself. This spirit was Elijah-John, who although is buried with the remains of the Moon has now gone on to prepare for the incarnation of Venus.

This planet did not die but continued to be. The former worship of her is now irrelevant. Christ fused into the orb because only then could all matter become completely revivified and resurrected. His Body and the body of the World, as He entered into His own Creation, echoed such remonstrations as were matured by His Rapture.

Question:

What is Corundum? [As per initial transcription]

Answer:
Conundrum! Not Corundum! The unseen planetary sphere. (The Negro King) The Unnamed Realm: Conundrum.



Comment by J. - I get a strong picture of the three Kings at the birth having the same experience that Christ had at the transfiguration. That is one of Brotherhood, Constancy and support.

Answer:

Perhaps as the brotherhood of Uncles, one might say! These founders to the planet’s associates are most definitely held and fixed in common trust. The beams of support are a triple A gauge and the connecting junctions are riveted with Love.

Comment by J. -
Denial is there in both - Christ, although picking up some followers, is predominantly a story of denial. The virtuous three were denied by the men of the World.

Reply:
Denial in the World? From denial alongside evidence, comes great sadness in the spiritual worlds. For there is no sustaining ecology of belief given to those who deny, and to their others. It was as though men simply passed back their futurious gifts. 



The mechanism of denial is related to the astral mirror which deflects the truth unfaithfully. When men qualify the astral delusions, it is generally because they are bound to the astral realities with inordinate desire. Astral passions alone, without soul connection or inspiration, are lifeless and therefore life-consuming. Denial is consequential to the routine involvements in soulless passion as inflamed. The virtues in purity were to give to men their possibilities into the future, but were denied because the men were engrossed with lower passions, ignoring the heart's qualities and reference to cosmic passion, which should have uplifted and thereby purified all passion.

Comment by J. -
Death looms over both events. In the Babe we have the death of the Cosmic Christ (in part) as He desires and accepts His gravitation. At the transfiguration Christ finds the wherewithal to proceed to Calvary.


Reply:
This would take an entire essay at the very least to comment upon, for the exact definition of Death itself is an imponderable. The Cosmic Christ gathered and then disseminated; and also by that same doing, revalued the entire World.

Although Death 'loomed' it is perhaps not the rightful theme to His tearing apart in the perishing. Death is an individual being - and we would say that Christ never actually gave it all up to him. Properties were transformed.

At the Transfiguration - the positive old Moon forces borne by John the Baptist/Elijah were transformed so that they could still be part of the future with Christ (John's trunk and limbs).

At the birth, Celestial Joy, Beauty and Youth yet to be experienced fully in future epochs, are nonetheless made available now in Christ. Christ is central to both. Yes, as the above now tells - in more ways than thought of. However, that very question necessitated the answer. And so it goes.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Beloved Christ- 25th December 1994 Christmas



Beloved Christ,
When we were wan,
You tripped into our hemisphere;
Made saturate,
Our beings here,
With antidote;
Ignored the perilous threatenings there,
In pain and passing,
You suffered our fear.

Beloved Christ
The children await.
You come to each and breathe for them,
With visions outstanding,
Dreams of sacred terrain,
Unspoilt but unkempt,
Still saved to remain.

Beloved Christ,
You whisper in the ear,
Of infants dear,
Of joyous songs;
Such sing-a-longs,
Tell this of futures clear.

Beloved Christ,
How near You be,
In each spent grace,
The child in me;
And with thine eyes,
I'll see for Thee.

Beloved Christ,
We wait with joy,
To know Your promise is half-filled,
Remiss, for which,
This very world has grain on table,
Yet crops untilled.


Beloved Christ,
I know Your Love,
It moves the tides that well in me,
As soul does waft and then condense,
I cling to your Divinity.

Beloved Christ,
Born in Man,
How can we be as best we can?
You love us ever,
Forever, no matter,
And we love you so,
Returned in fashion.

Beloved Christ,
How small it be:
The greatest, when compared with Thee,
And what of time?
It is but all the moments You decreed;
Your breadth and depth,
Extends to me,
Whilst I make skate peripheries.

Beloved Christ,
The foe did fall,
I saw him cower,
Beside that well;
My heart felt same pity,
For which You resolved,
Each droplet that fell,
Into mine own mirrored soul.

Beloved Christ,
Thou knowest all there is to learn,
And so to tell,
May I come to Thee,
For such study,
Inscribed only by Your Great Wisdom?

Beloved Christ,
My self does flit,
In juxtapose, and concentrate,
From here to there
I know not where,
And seek your Guidance everywhere.

Beloved Christ,
The memories fail;
There were but few,
From which great love brought flames,
To cauterize this spirit,
And grant indelible recollection,
Of love's Divinity incarnate.

Beloved Christ,
The seasons tremble,
With a tension each so does submit,
With certain death then comes renewal,
To a character most foreign to it.

May I weather the changes inspired?
Forecast and foretold in the stars?
Where the winds do blow in from the Cosmos,
And the warmth comes from fires afar?

Beloved Christ in all Your plans,
Did You make for me,
That special trace.
Amongst this sea of Humanity,
Each man has his purpose,
Shines a different face.

Beloved Christ,
Dear Christ,
Our Hope unsurpassed,
You are our flesh and blood,
As we are Yours,
In family and in being.

Beloved Christ,
Please know this true,
That with all the inner might from You,
We hold,
We shall try to try to remain,
To withstand,
And to love unreservedly,
As is Your plan,
As Son of God,
And Father of Man.
We love You now and forever,
Amen

Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Nature of the Three Kings- 1995 Christmas



ALL physical manifestation has spiritual beginnings causal to its perceptibility. Many spiritual realities do not become manifest. Many are unrealized within this world or are yet to be made apparent. Every visible thing is a spiritual marvel given credence, and substantiality and was brought forth unfurled from the great mind of spirit-divinities and design.

The penetration into this world is dependent upon very specific allowances and also opportune maneuvers on behalf of all causal bodies. There becomes great history and lesser history, and in this we try to confine our attentions to the magnificent proofs of Christ and His impacts. The lesser history, although remarkable and significant, is all subsequent to Him, and it is partial to the very realization of Him.

The problem of conceiving the Wise Men as being ethereal or corporeal is in the nature of the assumption that the Christ event of Incarnation was limited to a set period of thirty-three years, and also that it was solely a happenstance of this World. His preparation and infiltration has been, always and forever (broadly speaking), whilst the stories which relate to the sequences of remarkablities are told for the exact purpose of conjuring memory along those lines. However, should no pictures come naturally (with their spiritual stories attached also) then it is a befuddled approach necessarily, because like a yeastless bun, the description gives rise to nothing - only being what it is.


In order for the Christ event to be, there was the very same dictum as is preceding all matters of matter - of material realization - that the spiritual worlds were thus imprinted. Herein is one deciding key to the questions pertaining to predestination and as to who decides what. However, one may always remember this: that in the dress rehearsal there shall be a very definite plan executed and to be the model for the true performance, and yet the key players can and do play to variations, which in the real moment may by choice or necessity, go very differently.

And it should not be regarded solely either - but it does ease the pressure of this dilemma. The spiritual worlds for this point alone, can be thought of in terms of a 'dress rehearsal' - largely they are the major reality of course, and so without meaning disrespect, we enter into analogy for the purpose of describing time and its problematic variances. 


And too, one may begin to see how so many 'well laid plans' go askew with the final arrival into material play-out, for everything is subject to preceding consequences and this may not be deviated from remarkably either. For the frame of this world is positioned and substantiated by such dependable laws, therefore we or anyone else must regard the way it goes; and also in marvelous aspect, be forever prepared for surprise, otherwise it (this World) would be an exact mimicry of what has already passed - we would all be 'living' in the past, literally, and that is not healthy. We have seen such circumstance - there are actual realms and beings locked into this manner of being. (Angels for one.)
Herod waited two years for the return of his Magi 'informants'. It was then that his trust was dismayed. The Jesus-child as often described, was not a new-born babe when come upon by the majesties, but rather was a young child, having been born some time before their arrival. 


The World had become gloomy and impenetrable. The lofty saints of the three majesties were loathe to enter in ahead of Him. (Picture if you will, an astral corona so tacky and unpliable - the World had become isolated and withdrawn.) Their empowerment issued where it was not received and so could not 'take' or fasten as virtue to endure. No, they did not pre-empt His base arrival, but followed in thereafter, directly from the upper realms, the synthesis being complete. 

The spheres belong to Man. It is because they are in the aspect of Man and therefore of Christ, that there is an ability for interchange and physical admission. If you had met with one, and had the eyes to see, there would have been such a rush of remittance within your humbled psyche; for they are the true majesty in the highest - exuding and being that which they have come from in fiery life, both great and grand.


The persona of Celestial Joy is delightful, but upsetting (unsettling) to be confronted with. Everything else dims around him; where his aura touches comes freedom. The bursting of the egg-shell; the breathing through into realisation; the license to go forward into emphasis with exaggeration; the untold being spoken; the thrust which surpasses strength - joy, celestial joy, delivers us into happiness. It frees all things that they may know happiness. And this was his nature so expired.


The persona of Beauty was/is a stern and noble king - to be before him was to be almost affrighted that he should so perfectly speak or move, or even cast his glance upon you. It is not adoration that is subsequent to this meeting; it is a reflective awe which resounds quite deeply throughout the cavities and likenesses of the man before him. Great Beauty which is true, is in likeness to God and therefore shall always be 'breathtaking' to stand before. His gift is such reminiscence as is true to the spirit likeness as is possible - reminding us too of the realities within the haphazard and impermanent world.

The true Venus is 'Heaven on Earth' - not as a receptacle for pleasure seeking but as true a dedication as can be; with all elements redeemed. In false paradise there is false entry and false presumption. False beauty is not Godly but of itself given for other superfluous purposes. 

The Venus attributes are adherent to the splendors of true love. To meet eyes with the overlord King of that sphere, is to be graciously penetrated with the solemnest regard - one which knows the soul and respects it well, and in love for God strikes you with an unforgettable seriousness. It is because of the quest for healthy exactness to God that we are so inspired to recreate this World. It is the deliverer of purpose and shall necessarily draw us forward into the future.

The persona of Youth, our King of the Unknown, is pure and remarkable to all things possible. In Venus we have trueness and dedication; by the yoke of Conundrum we have yet a further stage of Creation. In Venus is the principle of two - for by Love in two there becomes a known reflection. One is realised by way of the other when perfectly aligned. 

In the qualities of our third King we find future possibility calling us into change which shall be enabled by the freedom to do so (in Joy), and the true and proper remonstration of God (in Love) bringing us into a future impacted with new possibility (Youth).



To meet eyes with this King makes us forgetful of our former selves, and we would be quick to up and follow him - this is why not much shall be maintained of this realm, because at this point, at this stage, as unprepared as we all are, it would be perilous to advance so far into unrestrained possibility. 

A star is a stellar being. Before Christ assumed a human form he was that stellar being which the three Kings followed as it blazed its way into the Earth sphere in concentrated brilliance. It penetrated the heavy-set astrality, it commanded the ethers to obey its Presence and it shone with an unmistakable fury. 

This 'star' was not visible for some time after the Cosmic day - like unto the fireworks you've seen. It melted into hearts and into Earth - from one brilliant shatter there came a multitude of fractional stars that showered the realm with His Being.

John Duncan


When He resumed Himself into semi-detachment, He came to his awaiting Kings who had been searching for His whereabouts. His consciousness went to them and brought them to a child to bless - that that child may have also the very qualities which would be needed in future Man (that were not nearly fully present hitherto). For Christ was to make way for future man in His appearance, and this child was so chosen to bless. They gave their gifts and so departed; however, by coming to one child, once again, all babies were thus visited, for it was from thereon that all would be loved equally and impartially, as was/is His way. The unique singular remonstration was blessed by Christ and therefore to be conclusive to the whole incorporation. Although there could be but one individual who would later serve to be as curator for his Master, there was a complete understanding also, that in this one attachment came the bonding amongst all men, and the deciding qualifications of this association came to be that very comprehension.

Likewise our bodies may be His Body should we dedicate it to Him. And by the grace of those gifts as brought by the visiting Kings, this shall be so.

Amen







Saturday, July 17, 2010

Christ in Child- 24th December 1994

THERE was a hurling and a rushing as the spaces parted, making way before Him as He pressed so. He did bear down with almighty gravitation, out from the four corners of space and from beyond; He did gather Himself into a parcel amenable to solemn reconciliation. Particles which were, He dispensed, and flew freely. The outer Cosmos became as with a dust storm, where more seeds were spawn, flouncing from His excess.


It was need that called to Him, the need from an overburdened Humanity: too sensitive to material entrapments, too lithe to loathe the true upsets of the soul. Downcast and ignoble they had scorned their own, with uncharitable and pitiless rebukes, seeing not the salve of pure love and its hundred and one applications. 

Men were troubled and troublesome. There were uneven powers upon the Globe, invasions of tyrannical persuasions, who sought to behest such lasting and imperishable blights upon soul and heart, and also upon the shining face of knowledge, for it too was marred and cunningly overworked with a mantle of filigree deception to cherish the false gods and false models whose doctrines were of nonsense, a nonsense which would merely confound and perplex the soul yet further.


Here He was, our beloved Christ. He held this world in his hand like a bubble and He peered into it. There between the forefinger and thumb it rested and His desire drew Him in, into the very core and out again. 

Our Lord perished when He entered into His World. He had scattered Himself everywhere at the last, and by entering into the obstinate mass He had only to deny Himself Himself, and by so doing He perished somewhat. The death-wrastle did not win over Him, but moreover did afflict His constitution as it does all men. He shall be subject to those unravelings perhaps even long after His men have succeeded and acquired their plastic frame. It is as His stigmata, that He wears the death of men perpetually.

The tents were embellished and the festoons were elaborate. The air was scented and the anticipation was great. Our three Kings were three attending planetary spirits. They were Jupiter, Venus and Conundrum, and they were present to be sage to the receiving of His plenty. These three had been denied by men, wherein assorted scholars had plotted their powers and rays, and so judged them by their movements, but invested no real attribution to their influences, as they did offer in virtue to men. Their time was also to be realized and brought forward, stimulated by the Christ, in His Powers of receiving. They brought the gifts which were there and awaiting: celestial joy, beauty and youth - tonics to replenish the wizened souls. 


All of the babes on that day were Christ-filled. Every one which was then born thereafter was visited by Him. It was an occurrence. It so happened. The children whose souls bore resemblance to Him in purity of spirit, in function and in fine, these became also as intimately refined to His presence, which was still searching for that final terminal that could encompass but a portion of His mighty circumference.

Infant man could receive Him - this was His first association, for the evidence of ego would otherwise withstand even He who made it so. That He could first associate with little children was following the path of incarnation also, for as men we enter into our bodily realms most slowly, there is but due time for fruition in aspect. This too was followed by Christ, as in the ordinary man; and so it was in accordance with the natural perforations by which He too recalled Himself, culminating finally in the exaggeration of the Baptism.

Praise be to little children, for here we find the spirit supple and the heart forthcoming. Oh the perils of age! To this day, every small child is still infilled with Christ, as before, at the time of that first prelude to Christmas, as He searches for adherence and He readmits each man into sanctity.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Sexuality, Homosexuality & Soul-twins- 15th December 1994

AS far as there are two souls who are so linked to one another, as from the split-egg of presoul in grand soul, there is always an invisible connection maintaining an equilibrium of sorts, wherever and whoever they are. 

Homosexuality is brought about by the circumstance of both twin souls concurrently manifesting in the expression of the same sex. This is unusual, however should one of the two repeat an incarnation of gender and the other swing back, there shall be a natural yearning from one to another, searched for in that form, by such relationship for that period.

This explains also how it can be that an individual may indeed alter their inclinations during the course of the one life, wherein their soul-twin has ceased their incarnation, or just entered into that stage of physical development and become so responsive as to alterably affect their partner thus.

The confusion is explained in many formats and for many given reasons, which may or may not be relevant to the adaptation of this primary event. However, as one can see from the above explanation, the etheric as well as astral magnetisms are determined by such a primary relationship as is inherent, to be later recognised in part, in relationship/s unknown.


The topic of sexuality is usually not broached as it is beswept with the issue of Origin. Not only in regards to propagation but in cosmic terms there are mysteries involved which are potent to Life, potent to potential, and potent of the past. Entire doctrines (such as the Eastern-Indian) are with understanding of the essential connection which streams into a man and out from a man bringing elements of cosmic fire and cosmic seed into the beingness of manifestation.

The question of Lucifer's relationship is answered by saying that he is too young for such a maturity. If Lucifer were a man he would not sprout a beard. He is bound to the affection of an ideal rather than an actuality - i.e. soul in manifestation. Therefore anything which is expressive of actuality comes in after him. As discussed, his power as witnessed directly through those men who have 'given up the ghost' (the Holy Ghost) and meditate upon nothingness with narcotic dreams, they are limp and witless and disorientated, they would not desire, for desire is too difficult for Lucifer and his world of ease.

Having said that, and in returning to the matter of study, it would be an impropriety for such a lesson to be introduced within a group situation, or even for some, to be sent out for solitary study. Whilst we do not deny that there is much to be comprehended, and many a marvellous mystery for which worlds unfurl daily because of, it is not for public consideration at this time. (Partially, nay mainly because there is so much material we should like to address and impart - would that we could work through it with you – that needs to be concerted in streams pertaining to the immediate and far future, at the present.)

As far as the student and the personal aspects go, they may come to know the wisdoms involved, by such means that no text could tell. The judgments which are half-informed are dangerous, as far as the forces which are so implicated are little understood by those who are not situated so (as in the case of homosexuality).

Homosexuality does deviate from the natural law, but is also subject to a natural law which has determined it. We have seen great sadnesses result, and from this we learn to pity any circumstance in which a man is outcast and resistant to the ordinary. Remembering too, that the genitals involved are quite typically plant-like and can be responsive completely amongst their own, without a need for soul or mind to correspond or convene upon the involuntary needs or actions. Likewise, they are so connected with essential forces which ebb and circulate, which culminate around all life (all things living), being quite natural to it. Therefore the association between an individual's consciousness and his sexuality (active or latent) may be, at certain times, disparate.

It is not a frivolous subject, and may we qualify also by saying that there can be great reverence offered, even in contemplation, for the actual holiness inherent in sexuality, which is not to be demeaned by attitude or action which is inconsistent with its true expression, and that expression's source.

How quickly a man discounts those qualities that are vital to God and belittles the divine inner realities so connected. This is why there is disgrace to those whose heart is distinct from the act; whereas it is truly a heart connection for which the soul itself would seek out and then meet in compliance and with culmination

The homosexual metabolizes his etheric fluids quite differently to the heterosexual. Even though the soul partners may be in no close proximity (perhaps in different countries), the activities of the one in this regard, shall hold effect upon the other until such a time that the etheric body may adapt and 'rearrange' itself to try to stabilize the constant desires at play. 

There are many young deaths at present, and this is of itself a great piteous tragedy; however it is also a signature of this age, when there are soul-twins becoming released by their partners thereby. Many soul-twins may be incarnating at this period beginning - just as babies or about to descend and come through - and before they come to an adolescent maturity their soul partner has desisted his body in a way of soul sacrifice. The exact reasoning for their appearing in the same sex concurrently is not to be noted here, but what can be said for all of the individuals who have re-entered the Heavens prematurely, is that they shall be returning within the lifetime of their soul-twin, rapidly by standards, that may 'take in' the Event which is summoning many back with precious timing.

When the soul-twins are harmonizing to each other, there is not only an equilibrium to each, but a vortex too (alike to spirit-space) which is accessible as an open gateway through to each other, reminiscent of their former whole. Most have developed quite naturally and happily (if that term can be used) being together as progressive as one another. Any discordance is usually but temporary, and yet necessary too to the ever-challenging ego-status of each.

In most instances the souls live distinctly apart without ever any contact for the reason, perhaps, that fulfillment is not 'enough' for the ego itself, though it be for the soul. The ego craves to learn and bring to itself an understanding of all men, and further to that of other beings that it may be adapted so as to survive its positioning. The soul's loves nourish, whilst the ego's loves bring the future into being and the present to be known and grappled with.

Without the nourishment of soul-love we could not withstand the forces as brought to us by our own ego, and without the curiosity and love from the ego embracing all newness, we should not recognize the inner soul qualities from which the love resounds.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Lucifer- back in the box- 11th December 1994


He chose not himself,
That light from Heaven's ray,
There but a play-back,
Sullen and ill-illumined,
Where shadows are neither,
And light is just minor,
And life only rumor,
With parties consistent without gravitude,
There was no warrior,
And he couldn't find humor
.


Perpetual solitude,
Self-amassed and pleased,
So snug in smug with unrelease,
A mausoleum with unsparked spirits,
One great creation fixed,
As all art is the jailer of its very beauty,
By design and by intention -
It lives in its decease.


Had Christ written, he too should have subjected His power, in part, to the jailer. The Living Word was not to be captive in any respect; and furthermore there is no reliquary incised with His impressions. Only the devoted may feel His Presence acutely and bear His Aurora. 

The physical remnants all changed, and were of themselves transmuted and reborn, along with the catalytic action that was the resurrection over death. Yes, Christ won out over Lucifer and would not play his games with him. 

"Look around you" He would say, "See the noble and unique spirit within the presentation" ... "Look further and don't stop looking; as we cherish our Love from our Father". He mingled Himself with all Art in this way, that men may look further and know of a living reality attached to the fixed memory; and so the evil is lessened, yet more persuasive, as the records amount and the future beforehand swells to overfull.

Arguably such speak about Lucifer may be as delightful as a box of chocolates, however the student is asked to go cautiously into this subject and retain due solemnity. See what befalls when he is invoked!- the careless, unloving demeanor. He is critical, bitchy-critical, he is farcical and uses laughter to scorn with unfair, unkind spar. This not what we would have ourselves be. Let us love with intensity and divulge the depths of an adequate seriousness. Beware of the frivolity of Lucifer for he is the grandest time-waster of all Humanity. 


So dear ones, the exercise has been done and the reasoning made clear. Of course Lucifer's name need not be the only daring invocation. Contrariwise, if you know him well enough you may then distinguish him from Christ, and find that quite so (as commented afore) the two are confused - just as Jesus and little Jim - by those who saw likeness and knew not of difference.

Christ would have us appreciate a man through to his highest attribute of soul and spirit; Lucifer denies the soul's individuality and would love only the representation of perfected spirit. 

By Christ we have conscious unity, where even the combinings invent further marks of individuality; the signatures are still distinct and precious, and belonging to the souls who have thus become mutually fused, in part. However, by Lucifer all signature keys are his and given over to him in surrender of self - he is the lover and there is the stipulation of such combining. He would be at the bedside to the graveside indulging in the loveless and mediocre passions of men, lascivious to their over-spill.

Christ does not impinge upon experience, He would lead a man to his Father directly: He is as the Water, as the Light, which all may pass through where will and the waters and the light oblige. He is fulfilled by the true meaning, and by that which makes all men so dear to Him - their innate godliness, unique divinity, to be self-realized in this, His World. He is called upon very clearly with revelation and with awe. 

Conjecture may be as a murmur, but when a man sees a truth he sees Him - right before the soul, He is there - for He is drawn to the man who experiences the divine aspirations, and their answers through revelations. A revelatory knowing is as a breath in for the soul's breathing. The uptake in - the "oh!" - as the focus has sharpened and just briefly the man has "got the picture" as it is before him. Then the release - the soul breathes out with great issue and peace. The knowing follows, for the goodness taken in from the finding is retained and the breathing out is synergistic to this imparting/departing process.


Combined but separate, we truly become what we love. We are nourished and infilled by what we love, and then also so characterized, but still distinct. What a man abides with in his heart, in his waking hours and with his attention, so too he shall take to himself and be, accordingly. The man who expends himself with hate becomes precisely what it is that he does hate - and in good measure - for the soul then truly knows its brother well, and if nothing else, learns charity, a charity which shall desist from such a judgment. 

Fixations - even the holy and desirous ones - are too consuming. For a man to become himself requires that he not seek to blend egos or experience one hundred percent of the time. Solitary meditations shall make balance of the account of all experience, that the individual may digest quite thoroughly and happily his life's score. This time for stillness (other than sleep) is paramount to the further ingestion of divine observances. For we ask that our ego come to identify the truly wondrous aspects of life, which surely are all around us, that we rest most buoyant upon daily and thereby experience that truth, as the gates of the water-course submit, right up to soul, and the revelation rushes in completely.

For every evil there is antidote. By our studies we may learn of these antidotes and understand how to administer them into the world (both at large and of thought). Effectively our work is placed with the wherewithal to negotiate victories, that our humanhood has many a skill to learn, acquire and practice, and then to impart - all the while for a redemption for the whole, as gratitude and respect for our Father foremostly.

Reverence for Life itself is necessary; and however obvious that may sound, it will be surprising to the student how commonplace irreverence to Life actually is. Such irreverence is heretical- even moreso than the actual kill. Yet, as painfully sad this may become to our students, we are mindful of the karmic obligations which are certain to pronounce, and are satisfied that the insolent men are soon exposed to their own weaponry - knives and all.


Let us pray then not for cleverness, but straight-knowledge, which is as clear and precise as the first light of morning.

Lucifer would have us bear no karma, and by his assurity a man would and could not learn for himself the golden principles. (Peter Panism.) Let us not flinch from experience, but rather make of experience all that is worthwhile, praying that our adherences are well chosen and beneficial to the World.

Some knowledge is best kept like the trinkets put away, viewed occasionally and then placed back in secure storage ... Lucifer may be placed back in his box now.
Some knowledge is as the amulets borne plainly and most proudly, that become as part of the personage - that of our dear Christ - let us carry Him into our consciousness and not hesitate to love Him as He loves us.
Amen

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Lucifer & Contrast- 27th November 1994


THE soul is most private, and when it comes to certain confrontations it may well accord to flee from the demands of another's consciousness and its intent. 

The very speak about dreams, in company, invokes both recent and deep impressions which imbue the material of the man, whether realized or not. In order that the waking consciousness, the self-consciousness, negotiates these impressions, the man himself must be well ready to do so. The fact that these impressions have belonged to the dream condition in the first place, already tells us to caution a forced attempt. So it is that there may be an uncomfortable reality present, or further to this an even greater disturbance, particularly in the case when there is a being involved whose sole communication is via his dream connection, and he is threatened by the eye of self-consciousness turning towards him.


It is not unusual for us to converse with many creatures and beings as well as fellow men and angels during our nightly peregrinations. However, there are too those beings who attach themselves quite fondly to a particular soul and frequently associate (yes, literally associate) themselves with that man; and all the while do not wish to be seen.

Men have the advantage over such beings, in that they are always the 'loudest' to be heard. The beings to whom we refer are subtle nonetheless, and with this intimate endorsement, they truly do believe themselves to be part of the man to whom they have gravitated to, and for that time in a way most peculiar to him, and are indeed identifiably so. However, the man is free should he wish to be and obviously independent of any being (save himself), and when given the choice knowledgeably, he may sever such connections; or in the case of mutual love he may further the sympathies and meet-equal the attachment.

By this one can see also that there are undeniably good reasons for our survey of the dream conditions we inhabit and partake in. Also, that it is cautionary in regards to other folk who may be immeasurably upset by the very concept and articulation of their soul's endeavors. For herein is a delicate transition: that of meeting what was formerly unrecognizable by the daily consciousness; and the bridge in needs be woven two-ply, slow and strong. 

Men are protected from their greater realizations. The fantastic revelations which occur during the day and during their night also, are enriching to the soul itself and saved by it. The soul is the overseer of the individual, which will forever remember the memorable - the grand and the good, the beauteous, the impassioned, the pious, the grave sympathies, the congenial rests, the glories, the gratitude and awe and essence when met with a greater being and furthermore to be acknowledged by that higher being, the love from a like soul now incorporated, and the love which did come back from the very birth of soul out from Father God. These are the soul's memorabilia which are kept safe for all time. 

Amongst such there are those revelatory experiences, to wit those received by the soul, not yet entering into the self-consciousness most fully (if at all), whereby the man himself is deranged in said aspect, largely because he is not equipped or prepared to come to the happiness which would follow. Eventually, as the man becomes aligned with the activities and desires coherent with the soul-qualities, he shall find that there will be a cortex of experience reflective of that fantastique revelation. 

Returning to the subject of beings to whom one might take counsel from: All advice must bear scrutiny, for it is obliged to do so in the offering, and it is furthermore a kindness to all concerned if one questions all such ideas put forward from the invisible realms and holds them to stern review.

There are gradients of beings everywhere. There are those who are marvelous, and marvelously mistaken. If you come to think of the men you have known who could really 'tell a good story', then there is but a fragment of what there may come from the beings who would bend an ear, would that there was someone to listen. The fascination with invisibleness is therefore grandly misleading - that in itself is no qualification for the truth of a worthy insight. Amongst this, we are intuitive also - once again, this operation advances us into our activities far more than is realized - and that intuition, that immediate 'knowing' is direct discernment from our souls, who hold the upper and overall view. 

And not only are we accompanied perhaps by beings who are frivolous or misleading, but also if worthy, we are befriended by genuine confidantes, who are more interested in us for our sake rather than hungering for our vitalities to be expended. The benevolent beings are enabled to usher wisdom to us in many different ways, and usually the gifts brought to us come briefly, but are empowered with an accompanying joy - once again, alike to a fleeting fragrance, the signature of their presence: never overwhelming, never overstated, touching the consciousness but lightly.

When it comes to lengthier encounters, those which are necessarily consuming to some degree or another, it is imperative that the individual searches the words through to the thoughts, to the source, and decides for himself. . . and decides well. There will always be a need for such discernment to be exercised. 

As the student progressively encounters all manner of interesting and inviting influences throughout his expanding cosmogenic arena, he shall be required to come to judgments continually. A man could possibly also, sit amongst the mud-worms and prove the case for indiscrimination, however to this we should add that the mud-worms have not the choice the man has; and would that they did, they would not choose to be mud-worms, but to be rather a man! And so to try to prove equality, cosmically, is not ideologically loving (knowing), but ideologically untrue.

Judgments within relative composure are necessary, that we may distinguish all things as they are and as they are relative to us, so that by this we may rejoice in their being, ultimately. Further to this it would appear that everything has its 'downside'. In other words, there is a fault and flaw so to speak, in the makeover of every individual being, whether divine or semi-divine. Whatever the inadequacy may be, whatever the mark of the make, there is that to which the being themselves would and should improve upon by personal choice. For this we can hope and pray for all universal beings, and eventually as we become capable of crediting them we shall actually know some of the characteristics which are unfavorable as well as wonderful. In this we may go on to appreciate their position and not to necessarily emulate the whole of them, but to know what is good from what is even so undesirable.

We have been asked why it is that there is little mention of Lucifer, that we have not called upon such other names also and brought the wisdoms directly from them or about them which are attributable. Similarly, when we do call upon the notorieties, their very properties are most powerfully represented, in both glamor and distraction, with fault and flaw quite concealed amongst the more dazzling investitures. 

Lucifer is extraordinarily suave. One may enjoy his artistry, but take care to invite him in person! (In your person.) He is also 'full of himself'. And there was his greatest flaw: self-rapture- taking all that he could of God into himself and believing it to be he and not Thee.


Now there is a second world, an entirely separate world, attributable to this grand being Lucifer. It is the other world, the false-Venus, as they say, to where the men may go and meditate and lose themselves in him.

And what was good? That he became as the first demigod, that he stepped out from the Divine inclinations and instituted the provision for his artistry, his creativity, which hitherto was queer and beyond imagination.

Our Creator was and is the creator before all else. The 'all else' were empowered by Him. The 'all else' were Him. He then gave a certain few the ability to create anew also. Not just to propagate the same, but to bring forth such variety within the life which turned the old laws (even if they were only one breath old) and make Change. (big C.)

Christ could not go against the Father. Change may be a corruption and therefore an outrageous rebuke to God to tangle with any law so placed. This would go against the heart of any being and no less our Christ also. Father God blessed Christ to go and split egos, to differentiate and then to create in the fashion according to His Will; and Lucifer having identified himself with Christ (some time further on after the divisioning of Men) took on qualities which he too desired to create and maintain. However he had not the power to endow a being with ego, he had no knowledge of ego himself and subsequently his influence and his world holds a counter-effect on men wherein they amass their consciousness to him as a whole and would willing trade their ego at the door for his paradise: his manufactured world.


Conversely, it was by Lucifer's lack of ego approach that the many properties of beauty were expounded in full. However in Christ we are given the opportunity to subdue ourselves but temporarily, that we may come to step outside from our own sense of compact self and become that which our consciousness chooses to adhere to. And also, by Christ we are given our separateness too, that we may not be lost to the mud-worms or their habitat of consciousness, should we choose to visit them, and that we may be fully 'recoverable' from wherever we may venture into.

Lucifer maintains (and it is all that he knows) that no being should suffer pain. This is interesting, because how often all men have wished this for the world, and we can see that it is indeed a compassionate plea, and also a great sympathy that there should be no sufferance to endure for anyone.


And so he would take what souls he may, and give to them eternal rest with eternal dreams of eternal pleasures in an eternal semi-consciousness - much like an anaesthetic for all time. A land of tranquil repose, where the delights are just dainty, never strenuous; for Lucifer would not have one try for anything. The pleasure may not be too great and the passion too strong nor the beauty too terrible. In fact, in his world it all becomes commonplace.


In Christ we have contrast.
By Christ we may know contrast.
We thank Christ for this contrast,
Because without which,
We have sameness.
Sameness is not to be confused with oneness.
We already have oneness.
We do not, in reality, have sameness.

Dear and beloved Christ -
When the differences become too painful
And we are too awkward in this our tenure -
Shall you come?
And by Your Presence,
May all differences be brought to harmony,
Yet still kept rightfully separate?

How brave we should like to be!
You have given us the means to discriminate,
To now awake ever moreso to life.
And to combine in such a way,
That a man is both chaste and in union
At the same time.

Such divine contradiction as this may be,
Is the very contrast which brings clarity.
And for this we thank thee,
Dear Christ,
AMEN






Tuesday, July 13, 2010

On Dreaming- 20th November 1994

IN direct association and alongside this our world, there are many infra-activities of being whereupon ethereal men and Angels may meet together and expose their souls in so doing. This world indeed relies upon the unseen life and its conducts, and although it is the chief determiner and all does conspire around it, this current globe, one might also look to the unseen realms which shoulder that same physical presence, and begin to understand the relationships and the go-betweens.


The entrance for many is in dream. For others it may be the natural place of existence for them, to which the physical waking does not occur. Depending upon the being and the activity, it may be their only realm in which they dwell, notwithstanding the fact that it does coincide with a very definite physical brother.

Spaces have been made, manufactured and reserved, and very holy council may be found, guaranteed as it were, in certain places established and continued on. For all men need to have their allotments, as too those souls who are most capable and spiritually active - they have 'addresses' that may be permanently found and enjoyed by those who find their way to frequent there. And the key is affinity.


When we pass out from our bodies into varying dream conditions, we are afforded a necessary release from the strains of a bodily harbor. We are loosened, although not deceased, and by natural inclination we go seeking that which the soul loves best and does know.


Nightly all men - and little children besides - are given to wander freely without care or worldly caution, as they eventually take their heavenly supplication which shall sustain them through the following day. In episode, the consciousness is unrestrained; and depending upon the effort and intent, the calm and the preceding considerations, a man may translate some of his experience into the unseen places and know something of the elongated being he became. What is recalled however, accounts for very little of what actually was ventured into.

One has only to think in terms of commensurate time to find that the hours spent in slumber have been undeniably vague. Does one require or wish to have the gift of retaining full consciousness across the threshold? Is one prepared? This is indeed an interesting question, because eventually all men can and will enter into sleep and back out again with full translation, however what would that mean in the current conditions of an eager student?

Firstly let us say that the desire to become more conscious and awake in the world is always preferable to the alternative. We strive to hold such abilities which will quicken the processes of all exactings in such ways which are tolerable rather than painful, meaningful rather than nonsensical; and blissful that the understandings may be wholly embraced. So as students we are given to ask that consciousness be keener and that we become more capable, proving the worth of everything we do.


The passage into sleep used not to be an experience which was forfeited; indeed Avalon was only ever penetrated in the dream condition and could be visited then in groups who would hold consensus upon waking. These realms were given to the night, whereas the tardy occupations still held responsibility throughout the day. However, the overall abilities of consciousness altered - physically differed - and the men became more defined in their daily narrowings, and yet concurrently more active in the further realms (although not remembered so) during the night.

Consciousness is more than a mirror when there is an ego involved. The ego designates the specifics and the identification, the ego makes the distinctions between this and that, and it and that. Consciousness however, does not discriminate, for by nature it absorbs the experience of that which infills it.

So the consciousness of a man during its release in sleep, travels into many places and settles into certain experience. It may venture into parts of the man's physical body - particularly in the case of an illness it will do this, to discover what is unsettling it in those respective parts. It may drift within a few feet of the body and experience the room or the belongings within the room; it may travel to just one and spend time there communicating with all that that object has to say (in terms of memory impressions and so forth). This is why it is suggested that one be very prudent with bedroom decor.

Consciousness may move on to the food which is still to be digested and communicate/experience the qualities of that material. This would be done via the astral inclinations so associated. One might be drawn into the home paddock or parley with Bacchus and his usual ravings.

Then there comes the musings of the day and last thoughts for the night. Our desires take the consciousness further into directions appointed. The very contemplations which infilled the daily clarified consciousness, will send it searching in the night. It shall go precisely where it pleases, and here also we may have conference with like souls or souls to which there is karma detailed.

Finally there becomes also, our drift into the recess of Father God – to which the beings who may lift you hither are too beautiful to be remembered if ever fully seen - wherein the soul is renewed and endowed with its starry plasma and the man and his consciousness is completely overwhelmed.

Contrary to the accommodating nature of the consciousness, becomes the ego, which is as the very tip of the consciousness - it is extremely appreciative because it holds the ability to compare. In most dream conditions a man does not question where he is or what he does, as his consciousness is given to go where it will and be taking up necessary investigations into those things which took the soul's interest or the mind's time, but were not known to satisfaction. In this, the full experience credits us with a further knowledge, which although we do not carry through to our waking minds necessarily, does nonetheless bring information and pictures to our beings upon our re-admission into that realm of inquiry.

This is a healthy and healing activity, and in many respects the ego may not go comfortably where the consciousness can. So the adoption of the subsequent experience is not personal, but rather remaining general, and presents no burden to the individual to have ventured into any particular format for a time.

Still too the ego has its choosings - much of which the waking consciousness may not surrender to for one reason or another. One reason being that the vessel is too small, that one cannot pour a pint into a dram, and that the higher experiences of the ego need have a man who is practiced in his thinking daily, to be qualified to make the translation. The other reason also, is that a man's daily consciousness is literally pulled this way and that - he is subject to the reasonings of others which impinge upon his thinking, he is given to the clouds of concerns which envelop his thought, he is restricted by the overall thought and feeling activities which permeate his environment, he is excessively strained by the very qualities of all exterial exposure and persuaded by the senses; and so the translation of such ego transactions of the night are largely unheeded.

When a man is given to obscure recollections which are unsavoury or troublesome, he is usually being confronted with the day back to front. In other words, as we have described, much of the outer influences in a man's day may make recollection prohibitive, and if upon waking he is given to the 'hellish' nonsensical variety of dream recollection, it is but a mirror of those influences which are daily inhibiting him from the more fantastic recollections which would if they could, surface the consciousness.

However, in this one need not be dismayed at the array of carnival visions they endure, when compared to those places so frequented which are of singular importance and significant to the soul. All men are spiritually sustained, however the man who is intent upon the religious life is often met with bizarre presentations because he is struggling with much of his daily life - that there is a very defined extreme between the outer and inner activities, and his ego and that of others also.

When we add intent into our consciousness, with the desire for a self-consciousness within our dream life, we are directing our ego to be active, we are deciding to be particular. With times given to review and such practice, there will be a sifting and a sorting enabled within the individual for the full experiences to be made known.

However we do not recommend 'consciousness at all cost' to be the attitude. The transition and the journeys which the ethereal man may nightly enjoy cannot be forced by intent alone. We must win the soul's place by the very nature of that which we pour our intent into. We must characterize those special places or events which we shall arrive at within the spiritual realms, for the key in is affinity.

All of us have met and do meet within the sleep times. It often brings a smile to us to hear our friends exclaim "Oh, if only I could but meet with one of them!" - and yet precisely the night before they themselves came before us and stayed a while. Our concerns with the world must not be given up because we seek the spiritual places, yet those very places and stations and souls within, are imperative to our life, our daily life also.

Many astral (not astrea) travellers have become quite ill physically because they have lost much of their association with their physical body. They become so used to pushing themselves out from it that it becomes permanently loosened. Of course this too can be a natural consequence of ill-health generally, that the individual is therefore predisposed to his astral wanderings. However in this one may be as a traveller without a map, and once again we are to remind that it also requires a lofty ideal travel to or a situation of likeness, which will give merit to the journey, rather than just the overall attempt to self-consciously go anywhere indiscriminately. The key in is affinity.



Night Prayer:
This day is gone and I must ask:
What has passed? What has passed?
Dear Christ this day did baffle me,
My life, my loves, its mystery,
In all I was, in all I could see,
May I make better from this memory?

Morning Prayer:
And now is morn and I must ask:
What did pass? What did pass?
Dear Christ this night did baffle me,
My life, my loves, its mystery,
In all I was, in all I could be,
Please give to me, that memory.

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