Fortitude and resilience are the two qualities, the two strengths, that assist the wakeful spirit in every activity about.
Added to this there is a tensile strength which holds a particular quality peculiar to itself.
And so we have:
1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength
4. and then lastly, the fourth quality to consider is motion/as opposed to inertia.
Inertia, from a spiritual perspective, is literally the cousin to death and often precedes the arrival of death.
This does not have to mean a physical death departing this life, but of course it is an indicator and precedent of such ... but moreover those forces leading to the dissipation of any such thing as a thought, or behaviour, a desire, a relationship, an aberration, a health issue and so forth.
The checklist tells us definitively how something is going when we ask ourselves do we have:
1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength
4. Motion/not inertia.
Spiritually speaking we can look to how one may acquire more strength itself - whilst remembering also that all qualities begin at their source: one needs to acquire spiritual strength if they are to have robust strength within their will or physical body, or thought, or morality, firstly.
Strength improves with repetition - it is percussive - it is why the army will march to a set rhythm drawing in more strength with every repeating beat of footfall. Equally the repeated mantra or prayer will bring in a certain strength that gets more incarnated into being with every repetition.
Exercising can begin with the tapping of a finger in a repeated sequence - for it is the repetition that brings the strength even though the movement facilitates or enacts and feeds the tissue, it is the will just repeating itself that casts the etheric energy into the mix and fortifies the whole.
Resilience enables us to withstand and tolerate the forces all about us - without resilience we would literally fall apart. It is the power to be oneself, and the ability to remain oneself; and in many respects most individuals are lacking in this coherent shield by which we maintain our personal identity, thought, selfhood, sensibility, reasoning, physical structure, etc.
Resilience is a wonderful quality which again is primarily cosmic, beginning with stepping back, stepping away, rather than engaging with something we instead pull back just far enough to get out of its way, but hold it still in plain view.
It is a shift of perspective and the motion to retreat, to separate, to absolve oneself, and if necessary, to remove oneself, from a condition or situation. It is fluid, responsive and adept to adapt. This quality is improved with humility, for humility is the spiritual precedent and kernel to such an adaptation as is resilience.
Tensile strength proffers a quality of elasticity and a combination of the first two qualities becoming now something that is yet separate again: to be strong with humility is perspect to the divine.
Lastly, motion/not inertia: motion of course precedes repetition and is key to all action. It becomes a chicken and egg consideration to ask which comes first: the motion or the will to drive it? Or is it the will merely riding it?
Nonetheless we never really do more than channel the motion itself - not one individual actually motivates anything at all of himself. We are as infants in toy cars as far as that goes ... science may pretend it can captivate forces and compel them, however they coerce them at best and only then for a time, and only if the greater Will permits. In truth not one of us compels or invokes the powers of universal motion outside of our own small sphere - no, we literally ride waves, and for this we need to be synchronised to the heartbeat of the life around us.
And so lacking in motion i.e. inertia, is symptomatic of one being out of rhythm in general.
This is why in spiritual science so much attention is given to the cycles and rhythms, and maintaining practices that coincide with these repetitions. In this way we may gain a personal momentum that can carry us well throughout our lives and beyond.
Inertia, from a spiritual perspective, is literally the cousin to death and often precedes the arrival of death.
This does not have to mean a physical death departing this life, but of course it is an indicator and precedent of such ... but moreover those forces leading to the dissipation of any such thing as a thought, or behaviour, a desire, a relationship, an aberration, a health issue and so forth.
The checklist tells us definitively how something is going when we ask ourselves do we have:
1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength
4. Motion/not inertia.
Spiritually speaking we can look to how one may acquire more strength itself - whilst remembering also that all qualities begin at their source: one needs to acquire spiritual strength if they are to have robust strength within their will or physical body, or thought, or morality, firstly.
Strength improves with repetition - it is percussive - it is why the army will march to a set rhythm drawing in more strength with every repeating beat of footfall. Equally the repeated mantra or prayer will bring in a certain strength that gets more incarnated into being with every repetition.
Exercising can begin with the tapping of a finger in a repeated sequence - for it is the repetition that brings the strength even though the movement facilitates or enacts and feeds the tissue, it is the will just repeating itself that casts the etheric energy into the mix and fortifies the whole.
Resilience enables us to withstand and tolerate the forces all about us - without resilience we would literally fall apart. It is the power to be oneself, and the ability to remain oneself; and in many respects most individuals are lacking in this coherent shield by which we maintain our personal identity, thought, selfhood, sensibility, reasoning, physical structure, etc.
Resilience is a wonderful quality which again is primarily cosmic, beginning with stepping back, stepping away, rather than engaging with something we instead pull back just far enough to get out of its way, but hold it still in plain view.
It is a shift of perspective and the motion to retreat, to separate, to absolve oneself, and if necessary, to remove oneself, from a condition or situation. It is fluid, responsive and adept to adapt. This quality is improved with humility, for humility is the spiritual precedent and kernel to such an adaptation as is resilience.
Tensile strength proffers a quality of elasticity and a combination of the first two qualities becoming now something that is yet separate again: to be strong with humility is perspect to the divine.
Lastly, motion/not inertia: motion of course precedes repetition and is key to all action. It becomes a chicken and egg consideration to ask which comes first: the motion or the will to drive it? Or is it the will merely riding it?
Nonetheless we never really do more than channel the motion itself - not one individual actually motivates anything at all of himself. We are as infants in toy cars as far as that goes ... science may pretend it can captivate forces and compel them, however they coerce them at best and only then for a time, and only if the greater Will permits. In truth not one of us compels or invokes the powers of universal motion outside of our own small sphere - no, we literally ride waves, and for this we need to be synchronised to the heartbeat of the life around us.
And so lacking in motion i.e. inertia, is symptomatic of one being out of rhythm in general.
This is why in spiritual science so much attention is given to the cycles and rhythms, and maintaining practices that coincide with these repetitions. In this way we may gain a personal momentum that can carry us well throughout our lives and beyond.
