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Monday, May 10, 2010

The Greater Light into which all Lights Dissolve- 22nd October 1993

THE LIGHT OF LIGHTS is inextinguishable - just as fire never really ceases, it may travel out from one candle only to spring up where it has been awakened and invited - but it is always there.

One has never really needed the light to see by in Space. It permeates, yes, because it is uninterrupted. The walls of darkness or material may conceal its reality, which molds to shafts that become audible to the eye.

The higher body of light is forever present. One may picture correctly our Globe bathed in resplendent light, from without and from within. Further on we find that the entire strata of galaxies are saturated, and that there is a sea of light which twirls the pathways driven.


How may we define such a phenomenon? Light is more fluid than water, it is more invasive than fire but does not consume like fire; it is the vascular retainer of Life.

Wherever there are concentrated areas of activity (Life), there shall be illumined notches, knots, of nuclear light within. Remember back to the lesson of the peach and how it was that Man could not extract the very life-light within; that once he had prised open the precious fruit the exuberance dissolved, leaving behind, albeit, some remarkable qualities remaining. One must wonder as to whether this is referenced in terms of actual light: being visible to the ordinary eye - and indeed, in conditions as they are today, this light which is real is not perceptible, but nonetheless there.

Here is a mystery: Amongst the many, many configurations of concentrated knots of light - Life drawing in - there are self-illumined beings everywhere; however, as Law would have it, they may only 'see' according to the power of a higher light, which by its presence revokes the luminosity from all else respective to it. There is a merciful wisdom comprising this act. It is not that life is depowered or negated in any sense whatsoever, it is only that each beacon surrenders in the presence of the greater majestic Light, actually giving over to it completely.

We all travel in our dreams without the direct sunlight or without a battery torch. We see into worlds related and bound because our astral sight may distinguish the light values that are present, but undetected ordinarily.

Miners who became accustomed to the absence of sunlight would often begin to draw light in the caverns from the astral vision which began to supersede the ordinary sense of sight. Quite often there were tales of many ghosts, sprites and goblins detected because of the power their sun-deficient vision had.

We may take this a little further: We endeavor to surrender to the Will of God likewise - just as our 'little light' (or lights) within, are immediately taken up by the greater Light without. As individuals we may coast for a while with indifference to the higher and greater powers. In point of fact this nonchalance is lovingly amusing to the beings of Grace who oblige Man in every way they can. However, when he happens upon the selfless act with no mind to himself winning gain from the consequences, the applause and relief is great; because only from this greater determination may a man become as God.



Of course it can be said ipso facto, that God has given to us in every way. He, our Creator (Creator of all Creators), asks only for such acknowledgment that we can meet Him halfway. Down, out from High Heaven, His Being is carried - think of the many and varied creatures, the succession of angelic generations, the curios and the conceived, the wonders that are embodied in more forms than will ever be known by anyone, save God Himself, for the tremendous circumference of His Girth is untravelled.


One must not be afraid when contemplating the many fields beyond the confines of this, our home. The initiate does not venture into Hades only! He becomes a traveler of those places he has frequented already many times before, but not made the journey in full consciousness. It is a little like this: we may pack our bathing costume for a journey to the beach, we may take our wet-wear to the snowy hills, and only have upon us the costume most suited. Well, the initiate takes, as it were, the entire wardrobe: that he might endure also the cold nights on Mars and swim the frozen lake on Neptune, whilst also, equipped with a camera this time, to remember the journey.

After death we are inclined to apportion ourselves to the respective places of interest. As we progressively develop those centers which correspond to the starry terrains without, we shall have personally determined the visas respectively. For some the outgoing journey may be tedious, for if there is no foundation of interest set in life within the world, the individual shall pass through those terrains unconsciously, having no empathy to awaken the soul to further experience.

The initiate prepares to journey in wisdom, respectful of the qualities each and every cosmic 'port of call' does offer. With each circulation he may attempt new places of interest, gleaning new experience every time. There is no point whereupon the adept will tell you that he has 'seen it all'. There are grades of wanderings, yes, but it does seem spurious to entitle them as such.

Space travel (the kind without rocket propulsion) occurs on a daily basis. Incoming souls, outgoing souls, polar-bound souls, associated beings, elemental beings (primarily mineral-based), even the angelic beings of which cloud formations gather around, are transvested out from the stratospherical circulation for regular intervals. The occasional demon that has combined with the soul-remains sloughed, will have entry into the adjoining realms beside this world. We expel also, and in this there are beings/creatures, no longer to be called Men, which are so hostile to this planet they are rebuked and repelled and spat into space. (They are eventually taken up and found homes along the way.)

So when one considers the multiplicity of entities, each bearing the brilliance of their own radiance, it is of great issue to further consider the godliness of all. Further to this we may observe love in action in those men who are in obeisance to the greater determinations: that the Light of lights is respected and acknowledged and received, that we may come to know of much more than ourselves, self-centered.



Beckon me, dear Christ, the Illuminator,
That I may come out from my introversions.


I thank Thee, oh Father God,
For that portion of divinity
Which verily is me!


I am bedazzled by this Eternal Light -
Your Life that swells in me.
And I ask today that I may give
All that I can back to You and to Christ,
And to my beloved: to my brothers.


For this light, now of Love,
Knows the Higher Power,
And is transfused in the Presence,
In an ecstasy of selflessness and gentle being.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

The Three Moments- 18th October 1993


IN those places of sand, there was not always sand, loose-capped and scurrilous, a habitat whipped by a wind that chafes the barren furrow. Hot and haughty, the landscape bleeds into reds and into browns, where once upon the melting hills, foliage had clasped the warm, damp earth and tussled the ground fervently.

In those places hidden beneath the sea there are valleys and roads, once frequented by giant men. In ages long past, these watery hollows now engrossed in fibrous slime, weed and grit and countless shell, these sea-swept terrains were firm earth from which the stars were once viewed, where passionate men pronounced their immortality and that their homelands should be forever protected.

It is inconceivable to ordinary men that great change presents outwardly to all things that comprise our Earth - by this we mean even the passages of local history, amounted and passed with the rising of pertinent passions and the falling with every closure of opportunity.

There are those men who are stimulated to a great passion of purpose, whilst there are those who care not. (To qualify: by 'caring not', is meant specifically as regards Purpose - they fully realize their 'portfolio' in those things meager and readily achievable and are satisfied without presuming greater cause or greater motivation.)

The 'purposeful' drive demands upon a man that he contains the inner tensions, exerting them into those activities remedial to his sense of purpose. In other words, some men may individually recognize the symptoms of the push and the drive that this purpose-fullness promotes inwardly. The tensions so mentioned, carry the tightness of determination, the seizure of readiness, and the energy so summoned as to parley with chance – and thoughtless courageousness, spontaneous and undeniable, because the intentions demand requital and by some measure, promptly. So it goes that whatever the drive be, behind the purpose and the sense of purpose there shall be great tension until it may be resolved in activity - in doing and in being.


However, this is not to suggest that all examples are righteous, warranted or related to the initial design of the purposeful individual. Many battles have been lost before time, when the soldiers spent themselves in premature conflict amongst their own! This is because they had summoned the 'charge' inwardly and could not contain their God-sent strength which poured out amongst each other, to the very contrary of their original will and intention.

The 'three moments' - the past, present and future - as pointed to, explain the lofty tenet of poignant time, that the magistrate of purpose be exercised deftly: that for the arrow to hit its mark it must not fall either side of the proper time.

Esoteric studies do tend to produce impressions in the students which draw their focus back into historical account; particularly in respect and of respect to those significant happenings either of note personally or of worldly importance. It is usual and expected that the beginnings of advancement may overwhelm the student somewhat with mixtures of these past impressions stirring all manner of provocation. However, the feast of historical recall is persuasive. If we look to study the ghosts and their times passed, it is necessary to distinguish the then from the now. This has to be specified, even if it appears 'stern to bow' in the light of former teaching.


You see, you must be warned thoroughly as to the powerful uses your newfound gifts carry. This is the beginning to the formation of direct perceptions, qualified inwardly. All of the students who work to search through the scattered inspirations do so amongst some fully loaded articles - this being the truer and very real meaning to the phrase 'buyer beware!'

It is not that we say: "Here, you may look once to see what we shall now have taken from you", but rather to forever caution the fearless to halt overeagerness and rather attempt slow mastery over that which they desire.

The riches of the past are the most hallowed and revered illusions beyond all others. No matter how good the teacher or how ecstatic the exquisite review, the past is nonetheless, that which has been; and though immortalized in fragments everywhere, it is an illusion best realized as such from the outset. It becomes a necessary discrimination before attempting to enter back into the streams of influence which hold great attraction in heart and desire.

When the confusion is addressed, only then may the student visit the past at will - inwardly in feeling and later in clearer clairvoyance - and draw back sufficiently as to maintain his equanimity with the present.

Forecasting is to be with equal caution. As we have maintained previously: it is to be that Man is empowered with greater envisioning and thereby creating, becoming strong in the will and imagination forthwith; and that this creativity need be tempered with a pure motivation, exercised masterfully with the decorum of precision and good purpose.

If we are to execute that which we would project for ourselves we must be thoroughly prepared for realization. Of course, every detail of the day has been in answer to just such determination, whereupon we personally have projected and met with exactly what we have called upon.

Above all it becomes prudent to acknowledge that the current time we exert ourselves in is most relevant, and need be relevant, no matter. This does not mean that we are so fixed that a man cannot change his circumstances; moreover, that before he may instigate his happiness he must find his true place in time.

The ocean beds may have claimed your home and there is no going back. The wise ancients that you call upon in vision, were marvelous in their special moments, in their prime, in those 'cameo performances', and we may give thanks also to the great souls who have shaped the world thus. However, you will separate yourself from the reality and truth of their current personages if you indeed forget that they too have gone further.

We must allow for such change. It is difficult it is true, to fix and apportion times and events, only to disassemble again and give them over in order to come to the present. This is no small lesson. For there are countless individuals today who are continuing to reincarnate within the same location, within the same race etc. refusing to diversify and ignoring the ways to advancement. Traditions offer much, and yet if the ancestors claim the young, the ghosts are best exorcised and sent away from the present that they challenge.

Why is it that men do not wonder more often what became of our Christ? But instead they are attached to a connection which presumes Him to belong only to the past. The continuity is gone.

There is no denying the massive relevance our holy history entails, but it is right to remind ourselves that we may use the illustrations shown us in the past to illumine the current realities now, and to actively try to incorporate this in our comprehension. That we may pause and reflect and then move on, fully withdrawing ourselves from the impressions of the past. It becomes a true paradox that our relationship with the past must be acknowledged gratefully, and even though it may delay us to frequent our passages of memory, equally it will delay us to ignore them.

We can truly cherish the dear souls that we share company with, without the necessity to explain such rapport by the past. The grand moment is undeniably now.

We cannot afford to invest ourselves in the remains of the past, nor promise eternities naively. We command all moments from the pivot of this present moment and give thanks for the freedom to move out and about, whilst also we are grateful for the firm station in which we are fixed knowingly, resolutely, receiving right now.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Wheeling Sun- a commentary- 11th October 1993

The wheeling Sun drew the stars down,
And around,
In virtuous complicity.
Oh savory wolf, biting ankles of change,

The SAVORY WOLF is the Moon which 'dogs' this planet, as it were, dragging and pulling at the feet which attempt advancement. The old ways of the old Moon were dominating the men that they, in ancient clairvoyance, clung to the past realities, being destined to retrace rather than move forward. The Moon influences neither encouraged individuality or Heavenly perspective, but rather brought the motion of memory upon the face of the Globe.

The rhythm produced encouraged much life to be and continue, as well as those 'beginnings' derived from moon-matter - the astral point of 'new' and deceased organisms. However, from a point of view of Man, the Wolf (the Moon) would refuse the change necessary for the World to continue on.


Lucid and weary, the man-beast remains,


Thus was the struggle of the LUCID AND WEARY Man, under the champion of the Moon and its influences before our Christ interrupted the gain.

Two for the temple, two for the altar,
The TEMPLE is the physical 'house', the ALTAR, the 'God-space', the Spirit. Man has the dual combination in both his higher and lower aspects. Both are signified, only that the higher man redeems the grosser aspects and delivers them into purified being by the relationship, whilst the lower aspects redeem those of the higher; for the soul is nourished by the upgrading and developing ego-consciousness.

TWO FOR THE TEMPLE, TWO FOR THE ALTAR: The duality of Heavenly-Man and Individual-Man is incorporated at the soul level and within the physical realm also. Such duality is represented in the twin-soul doctrine, whereupon the active ego-male divisioning is distinct from the heavenly-encompassing dream condition of the soul-consciousness.

New is the virgin, but Nature her daughter.
The VIRGIN being the Spirit of the World - that Spirit incarnate in the world which brings forth our NATURE, being the Natural World to which we cleave.

Fill pail with semen, fill pail by slaughter,


"FILL PAIL WITH SEMEN, FILL PAIL BY BLOOD."
Two bearers of Divine Life are the holy fluids, distinct and characteristic: semen and blood. This combination perpetuates the generations; this, the semen and blood, are not only progenitors but also the fluids wherein there is no time.

There are provisions within these sacred substances for the future. There are marvels associated with the actual nature inherent in this substance, and usually not to be expounded further as the ramifications are often abused by the debased and the wicked, not only by the blending of races [non-human] and the bleeding of men, but by those sinister practices which extract the human essences and verily feed them to lusting devils.

However, returning to the script, there are meanings and also meanings: the PAIL, being this World herself, whereupon Christ has secreted much of Himself into the makeover and psyche of this sphere, and has bonded in union. The spending of the blood in SLAUGHTER was with that of The Greatest Violation of all; and as full-circle, Man had abused his very Creator. 


The essence born in Adam was given him by Christ, who was also to be Father of the twelve distinct races to follow. None of this is to be thought of directly in the explicit sense of the sexual organs and ejaculation as we carry and offer our seed as men - such 'spirito-vitae' in principle and in action is before the physical adaptation and subsequent performance in the lesser act, which may or may not have Divine implication also.

The MAN and the BEAST are uniquely separated in this manner. The animal is innocent and at the same time most conscious in those parts of the anatomy which are stimulated overly. The beast may be 'centered' consciously within the sense of the experience, placing for a time its 'thinking' within - for example - its stomach or its genitals; or even if sunning itself, in the spine which soaks the sun.

The blood and semen ascribed to the lone beast are not marked with the distinct keys of individuality that are unique to the Man who perpetuates his Divinity by such carrier also.


The saliva is an equal carrier of signature, but has no potency as does the blood. The saliva, the tears, the sweat, are not excretions in the sense of defecation, they help meet the exterial signatures and deny them in formation of their own. The man exudes himself in his clear bodily fluids, repels and offends other signatures; whereas the urine and faeces are the result - the off-casting - by a defined man, whereupon the governing signature prevails the domain.

Pillage and Warranty, one half, one quarter.
ONE HALF, ONE QUARTER: is the divisioning principle of propagation as the mixture comes together in the generations spawn: in the marriage of our World with our Christ - Christ being the WARRANTY - blended with the Earth which was plundered and beguiled by wraiths and demons and corrupted, wasted men. The PILLAGE had already occurred, His Warranty to this pillage in union renders both to be half as effective, neither totally prevailing. For it is not His Law to enforce His Law as He would have it.

The ONE QUARTER went to the Church, which split by two, was of PETER (of Earth) and of John (of Heaven).

By sea, by writ, by holy known order,
Peter came and spent it further,
Forced to wander,
Simon marked a little time,
And many more besides -
In little Jim the truth does hide,
What did become of him?


But flesh no more, the eyes can't see -
Or nod or blink or weep or wink.
The FLESH of Christ had been also the body of the SUN. The Sun was the 'eye of the sky' literally, and men with spiritual sight could look into the eyes of their God, of Christ, whilst He was manifest and held there.


At the Crucifixion there was that time when the light left the Sun, and it was then that Christ drew out and away from His Higher Body and became deeply withdrawn into the depths of death within this World. It was the final absorption.

The Sun itself is not dead however, and there is a further mystery as to how it is maintained and remaining. It is without our Lord because He inhabits this World and the Light of this World, particularly.
Judas the villain, with heavy remorse,
Pity the carrion, pity the ghost!
Far from the edges, crumbling ruins,
Sinks the scarlet dusty Sun,
'Tis the same, there sat beneath it,
The One to whom the twelve are drawn.
Resplendent be the company,
Portended for the suckling of sweeter life
And Grace's offerings;
We give, they give, to perpetuity,
We conspire to make linkage with the lineage of spirit which decided the perpetuity of the Holy Reality of Christ Incarnate; and with a true love of all Man, we come to the World assigned and conjoined with a stately fellowship, proving to be with the very best of COMPANY!


That spill which flows down mountain to sea -

And now not only is there the flow of progeny from the spill of our forefathers to our present seed, but also there is this offering of the mysteries which perpetuate from one loving heart to another, so cherished. And as Father gives to his Son, so the CURRENTS flow of these mighty marvels safe-kept and honored, with wisdoms and learnings to enrich the noble spirit and feed the World also.


Through men of old, those men of then,
By currents spent such lives were rent
And offered back to God.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Indelible Remains- 7th October 1993


I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
-Ecclesiastes 1:16-18




WHERE in the catchment there is surplus there becomes overspill, and equally so may a man be overwhelmed with information that he may not contain any of it long enough to begin the assimilative analysis and comprehension thereof.

For why is it that some have nil capacity toward new thought and subsequent discovery, whilst others may advance with moderate ease? Attitudes and perspective are of great account; physiology also will determine perimeters of accomplishment, however all men are capable of a certain amount of clear and concise thinking, which becomes the mainstay to any investigation and any gathering of practical thought.


The greater difficulty arresting the student is that of distraction, rather than lack of actual ability. He or she is bemused by fleeting concerns, called hither and thither and relishing the free aspect of the mind's frolic; and it is this unstable flippancy that we may learn to quiet in meditation, that all learning itself need not be as 'free-falling' by nature or in consequence.

The necessity for straight knowledge has been doubted for many centuries. And oddly enough, it has been the scholar and the adept which have most fervently argued the case against. For knowledge unlike wisdom, expires and consumes the man in the learning. There is a price, there is a forfeit, there is a giving on behalf of he who seeks to obtain that certain knowledge. You are surprised? It is not as sinister or untoward as it may first sound. Perhaps we might be best to start at the beginning.


When Men were dumb and thoughts hung in the air unattached and unused by the soul-spirits amongst them, there was an understanding, an ordinary spiritual perspective, which enabled the men to comprehend quite completely - much as we still do in various phases after death and just prior to birth also.

This innate comprehension was indelibly marked within the then new constitution. The heart/soul of a Man had immediate access into the great truths of cosmic reality, and this understanding gave the memory of eons to each every individual, who then were as one ego so combined: split and differing souls, but with unrealized egohood, all sharing the similar realities and experiences in being.

One may look at the peace surrounding the beast or even the plant in the tightly-bound acceptance of who and what they are. The stretch to know more simply is not struggled with; adaptations [in plant and beast] have arisen largely because of such compliances, not for want or willing or self-direction.


When Men came to adopt knowledge they did so forsaking their heavenly inheritance of innate wisdom. The two may not actively coincide. Therefore the great masters who, having come up through those streams of thought, did make this discovery: that the price for these acquisitions was expensive to the very soul which sought them- expensive but not valueless.


This is the point we should best like to maintain. The type and quality of the knowledge (for all knowledge is empirically different) shall be the final deciding element in the proper advancement of the studious soul.

The very aversion to clear thinking may well be a result of an intuitive alarm which may not be formalized in actual recognition by the individual, however they are fearful of becoming wrongly involved, entangled and entwined with that which is before them. It is also that they discern that there is a 'loss' within of that 'unformed wisdom' every time their effort to know is provoked.

However and conversely, it can be also that it is as death to the soul not to advance cunningly into the realm of knowledge, for as times permit, the ways of men demand such change by decree of those forerunner souls, lofty and wise, who have survived knowledge and regained their wisdoms twice over.


Knowledge is tangible; it is the glue of the entire physical world. There is more determined obstinacy in the meet and makeover of certain knowledge than in the physical fabric of mineral or organism. For each and every knowable is unchangeable.

The nature of knowledge is limitation - confined to a set definition, and is precisely what it is. It is also astrality, for it is not what it resembles, but is the likeness, the image, that we hold.

Wisdom is the gateway link, the path direct to the reality that we combine with. It is therefore a living connection and interrelation between ourselves - via the heart - and that to which the wisdom connects us to. This is why we have encouraged the student to be able to come to both comprehensions in being. If we inspire the essential wisdoms and stimulate such further wonders as do elevate the soul, then the individual may begin to seek out such material knowledge as is desirable and profitable to the soul also.

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