Faith Spans the Futures- 13th August 1995

IF a man may hold even slightly to a possibility, that measure of faith shall bring him to a condition whereby the future may begin to unfold and make itself apparent to him.

In our physical development and our current status, there may be ways in which our senses and our thinking are quite unsuitable to the soul who has come to that divine logic which travels a broader reach. Nightly experiences during sleep may not form coherent pictures within the waking consciousness to the degrees known in the extraordinary senses. Various centers, physical organs, may require time for transition, when the inherited characteristics or past modalities within the system have been confronted by the inner man who has pressed ahead of his physical capabilities.

The renewal and revitalization of the constitution expresses the 'new' man, who has met with death and yet taken the road to change, rather than continue on with the repetition of the past. This reworking of the system takes time, however we are obliged to consent that our physicality is very much suffused by our very selves, and we may understand that debilitation is not vacancy, but rather a prelude to new forces which are to come and work within the man as he prepares.

The perception of our Christ at present, within this time and physicality, is at best dull. His occupation is filled with bringing to us the substances of our worldly reality and the substances of our heavenly traces. He does not emphasize Himself, but is 'hidden' in these substances which are all about us and known within us.

Were Christ another god, one to whom there required an obeisance to ego, He should have impressed us all with visions of His great being, albeit modified, that we should comprehend it. Universally there are galleries upon galleries of such gods who became hardened to all time - hardened in the sense that their first vision was to define their greatness and build upon it. 

The laws which apply to Man seemed to pertain to these heavyweights conclusively, that by the very process of retaining 'self' without the receiving of true life from without, they became sclerotic and slowed to the pressures and forces of change which inevitably came in upon them. Some sought to bring life into themselves by consuming it from others; then there were those too 'pure' to tolerate the lesser emanations. The results were the same, that the minor gods who ceased to draw willingly from the higher spheres became disparate and were overcome by sloth. Being so fixed in that which was their own creation (mainly themselves) they forgot to honor our Father God and their influences were thus diminished. 

The fairy folk play hide-and-seek with Christ because He is everywhere and nowhere. They are charmed by that kind of intrinsic magic, which to them is far more appealing than the fireballs and thunder shows given to the tensions in the angelic realms. The etheric realm is lit with that same golden richness which comes from a ripe and languid sun. It is the place of late summer days and then spring beginnings, with never a winter or an autumn to follow.

Then to the contrast, we may find in the World, the icy masses, impenetrable seas, the membrane of cloud, down to the baubles of dew. With perpetual reticulation, from aggregation into humidity, condensing and expiring, infilling and free-flowing, the transparent waters give form, though themselves are formless, being an immediate example of this paradox of knowing Christ well.

Illusive - why, even our saints are intrigued! The mystery and majesty never ceases. Necessarily Christ is way above and beyond us and cannot be totaled therefore by our perceptions. How then and why then? (As the question was asked.)

We are taught that much rests upon our own self-determination, inasmuch as it requires for men to desire and to accept the blessings of Heaven that they be administered. At any point a man has the freedom to be satisfied with who he is and has become, and just as the minor gods aforementioned, who did become immobilized by their own fixations, we too may mistake our own flash of divinity with the whole of Divinity, believing them to be one of the same.


Understandably this is attractive to man; it also is part of the parcel of knowing our God and our Christ. But still, as wonderful as it is, it is not enough without the added labor it requires to hold distinction, that we may find the Christ outside of ourselves and appreciate Him from the outside in, as it were, as it is also.

We began by discussing that Faith provided the bridge into the future, and here we find that the Christian faith is especially proven. It is the ticket onto the boat. It is the pilgrimage into the future. For the souls who have aligned themselves with Christ and go to Him in a confidence which is seemingly unjustified, there becomes an inspiration of possibility, because in that process they are instantly drawn out from themselves and so humbled.

When we come out to meet with Christ we return with new life, a life empowerment which wouldn't have been received had we not requested it. This Christ-life quickens within the Man in various actions, some which will continue on after death and enable him to incarnate quite differently further on. It is a matter of preparation. It is a matter of future.

It is not the naming of Christ which is so important. The name of Christ has gathered unto itself an attachment to Him and strength which does follow, but is not His true name. It is not His proper invocation. It has no universal patent.

When a man seeks to know Christ he has immediately conceded a great truth. He has also conceded his own humble standing in relation to a far higher and grander ego than his. Once again we may express the importance of this concession occurring within the psyche and intelligence of that man. The atheist defies God by his snubbing, with such stupidity which confounds the wisdoms which cannot reach into him. His willfulness sadly removes him from his own source of life; and in the case of Christ, once again the man who is not prepared to accept Him as his life, is going to 'miss the boat' time and time again.

So it is not a question of instantly knowing the unknowable, but rather an inner perspective for which we may identify the great soul of Christ as Lord over all, and prepare to receive His Ways in Man and for the World in preference to the challengers a'many to whom men may profess submission to.

Before the point of death a man shall have Christ before him, just as He stood at the side of the crib. As the memories trace back to this beginning of the lifetime, the man will know his Christ in the same way he could receive Him then. The little infant has not yet made fusion with an active ego, and receives his Christ with a heart and mind which are one. This experience will return again at the point of death, and is most fitting, because the soul of the man should know of the love which has contained and embraced him from his beginnings.

One can never predict those vital moments which come upon a man in his consciousness or in his activity. What may be foretold is that truths which are presented to him during the course of his life, remain within close proximity always after; that he has had the connection with them. So that whether or not he has come to consciously concede or comprehend such a valued truth, it is there nonetheless for that time in which he may come to know it.

Also the domino effect comes into play; particularly when circumstance (as in just prior to death) realigns the thinking in such manner that overturns the habitual reasonings. It can be that so many worthwhile offerings as brought to him by others who have come to their faith or their truths delighting in them, catch the intelligence and are made known as for the first time.

It is an especial privilege for the one who makes wishes for another, to witness this process of realization. It does happen this way frequently, because not only do our desires for another's wellbeing draw us closer in actuality and karma, but also after death we are privy to the consequences as well.

The fervor which comes to 'Christianize' the World is far from being selfish; without it the World would be barren, it could not prepare to receive Him further.

As pictures which flit before the mind's eye too rapid to be seen, we glimpse the future's horizon, and we know that He is there ... Though His silhouette is barely visible, His Love is known by us and will carry the infant Man through into the reaches of faith and then ... beyond.

Propriety Limited- 11th August 1995

ALL individuals have a right to privacy - their private individuality - which may well contradict another's title-holding to them, such as with family, with commerce or laws given to social and state positions placed within the assumed jurisdictions. It is a blessing that we or others, cannot storm in upon the thoughts of all else, uninvited and unempathetic, and foraying their inner seclusion. Each must do his own thinking, feeling and willing, dreaming and realizing, to choose and be as he sees fit, knowing his own heart and mind with far greater authority than those who would usurp it for their own, if given the occasion.

It is true to say that like attracts like, that we win love with love, respect, with the giving of respect; and gravity by measure of our own serious aspect.

We can assume from the start that all men mean well, that they are embellished with constant trying; whether mistaken or true, they happen upon their circumstance circumspect, loath to bring the heavens down upon them. Even reckless people, so named, are not so carefree as to deny their soul's margins. They are living on the periphery, for it is there that they feel placed, not because of defiance to life with incredulent scorn or apathy for life; they are rather, uncouth in their in involvement, skating at the edges as it were.

From man to man (as in one soul unto another) there are myriads of relationships which span the lifetimes, and weave a constant story. The value of soul-kinship brings to each endowments which could not be understood or made known through relationships with other kingdoms directly. Perceptions come to us because of realities shared and quite often forged by past hopes mutually built upon.

Modern thinking tells us that things are as we make them, that reality is as we do - in a manner of speaking. However, reality is realized by the power of two; and two or more may effectively call into being, whereas one on their own may not.

The higher angelic beings know us when we come to know ourselves as mirrored by another. Often the joy as expressed and received in company is directly related to those beings’ excitement who participate as from afar. It is as a light made possible by deflection, as the consciousness of one satellite, one man has been met with and is received by another. Effectively we become as suns and stars of their inner-reaches.

Likewise, such evolvement amongst men in communion, affects the animal realms quite also. For here the ego of man is rendered quiescent for a time, and it is during that episode that the animal-soul may begin to comprehend its parent, rather than by being excluded from the activity as it most normally is. It becomes as if the audible world produces words now understood, it is their way in, when there becomes such incorporation.

Further to this becomes the opportunity for evolvement in the passing on of various developments. As stipulated before, one may not make something out of nothing; we are in that sense, predestined to be what we are already, kept hid or manifest within our being. But subject to this is that we may lend some of that which comprises our beings, and share those qualities with another, thus transferring them by way of the signature keys. This is how a master may teach a pupil for example, how it is possible for the pupil to be brought much further than if he were to study by lone observation or merely with equivalent colleagues.

It works also to the principle of nutrition precisely. And it is natural for a man to seek the company of those who are in high commune, for the instinct for such ways to betterment is as old as his being. This is how he began and is compelled to continue.

Our Christ does not distinguish one love from another. Where He finds it He is. He has no preference to any particular Church or institution, nor union named or unnamed; He is not partial in His Nature. Love is the supplication, and the ennoblement of Man, it is the realization as it is the gateway through to all else.

The Mark of the Christian Christian- 14th July 1995

THE Christian Christian always holds to the greatest ideal; with mercy at the stead, he is graced and ever forgiven. There is a parallel and there is not, in those things he may be subject to, contesting his prudence as an encore to sin rather than reproof. 

Ideals are not a vanity, nor are they imperishable. The preponderance of ultimate virtue often brings argument, for one virtue may insist upon another- the libertine will find this (libertine - free thinker). It does not decry the Virtues in all, but it does censor their convenience. 

If we as men give preference to counter considerations equally, as they assemble in the cloisters of the conscience, if we are sincere and unafraid to examine them all, we shall be equally bemused if not guided by a differential of a promotion of reasoning and forsooth of circumstance, with the assumption of Love.

The Christian Christian is not in the business of sin for sin's sake. His quandaries are of different category, his choices are for which higher principle; and he must come to be a man who truly knows his heart and acts accordingly. Therein the highest principle may be settled upon, for out of Love rather than fear must we be stimulated into effectiveness.

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

1 Corinthians 2:7-16

Children & Discord- 12th July 1995

Question: It can happen in families that there are distinct differences between child and parent, which may manifest at an early age, or become obvious and difficult as the child reaches maturity. As a consequence there may be discord and unhappiness from either involved. Can you tell us of the purpose and reasoning for such? We have a parent who has asked this, who has wondered to what purpose she has been placed in tensions aggravated by another.

IT is not our sole duty to appease the nature of another, when mishap and mayhem are cataclysmic to one particular individual. It becomes a natural instinct, praiseworthy and imperative, that we desire to make aright and restore some order to a chaotic and rowdy personality. Yet so said, it is almost an impossible task to forcibly quieten another by any means without it causing due harm to them and consequently to yourself into the bargain.

Such frustrations brought about by the disruptive influences which challenge our own sense of equilibrium, bring about untold injuries in time, during episode and thereafter, if not met with capably. Assault in the ethers directed from one individual to another, can take many forms, be them obvious or not, intentional or otherwise.

Underlined verbally or held in thought, there are critical violences occurring when the will of one man comes up against the will and ego of another and the two do not coincide. We have therefore, a problem and an examination within the question. The study is as to why the problem is, and as to how we may best answer the torrid and the persuasive with minimal 'wear and tear' upon our being's resistance.

Firstly, our differences between one another and the world at large are accentuated by Christ as much as they are answered in Him. This rule is important to go by and to honor, and needs be taken for consideration. The careful balance of our being incorporates our godliness which excels each man foremostly, and encourages him to qualities known and experienced, such as certainty, surety, forthrightness, willingness (and to a lesser degree willfulness), the making in creativity and so forth. He has a cosmic confidence if you like, which enables him to be insufferably obstinate and definite, forming himself as he goes with those God-given elements making him so remarkably wonderful in all that he truly is.

To realize our talents as well as our soul's attributes (realize, as in put to use), requires that our ego (our sense of our selves and that which knows that we are what we are and not something else) may discriminate in favor of our own personal will and wishes. This ability to cordon off extraneous influence and become self-interred is a function (cold word) of our self's egohood, that we may begin to examine the differences which confront us between what we have and are at any given moment and what we may become. Then we are conscious of a choice, a deliberate choice in which our will comes into play should we revoke our interest.

Our interactions with souls who have been brought to us by way of the family (bloodline or not) are most usually involving some carryover from past conduct. For us to be connected so intimately as we are within the family means we are refined - it is as a planetary dance of mutual magnetisms. We are held in our position by like individuals who share long and lasting histories of involvement with us. By and by, our relationships increase all the more from lifetime to lifetime. Therefore the few which we are met with and held with in terms of family title, are especially favored by us, by our soul-selves, who in overview regards the significance maintained.

Our personalities differ from lifetime to lifetime. The inherent traits which appear to be much of a man are often as not no clear indication as to the soul within. Our personalities belong to the activity of the lesser self in which we are settled within for most of our waking day. One's personality does not regard another's because it is incapable of weighing such consideration. It is rather, responsible for becoming the vehicle for activity and is marginally decided by extraneous factors such as our liaison with time tides and how we correspond to various planetary influences which work their way into the corresponding substances which receive them. Our own cosmology belongs within our biological system also, and we can reflect the heavenly transfigurations (or more accurately, certain aspects of) by those materials we attract to ourselves favoring this or that particular influence.

The personality equips us with a false veneer of being, protecting the sage as well as the idiot. It is disposable after death and we are unencumbered long after its effects have been dealt with. Our lesser selves, on the other hand, are developing also, for in accordance with them are 'families' which are attached to us invisibly and who are brought further within their development should we increase the value of our lesser selves by effort of a higher desire.

The willfulness of a child is distinct from the willfulness of a fully grown adult. Karmicly a child is ineffectual within the world and cannot be brought into account until he or she has broached the passage of puberty or beyond. Although this is no comfort to many who may have come to grievance with a young being, it is not intended to be, it is just simple fact. We can go further to discover what influences therefore may contribute to such a youngster who suffers an unruly disposition.

The occasion of parenthood brings the individual to his uppermost trial and glory. In the tradition of God we are brought to self by selflessness, brought to love by that love we offer, brought to another by our service to that other, resigned without question, misgiving or fear. Souls who come to us for that care to be had in infanthood and through to maturity (and beyond), have chosen us because of the indefinables; and it may be noted that no matter how wonderful or awful the past conditions encountered were, the mutual love to be had belongs right in the present and beyond, and therewith is the true significance. 

There are many items one could mention, and yet all important relevancies would still be left out, for it can be witnessed within the spiritual realms how exactly it is when one soul chooses those future families to correlate with. It is as a quick recognition which flashes like a fire in a diamond, a fire which may travel the expanses of a spirit-filled space to find its likeness and its future home to go to.

As we are born we are given to an assortment of difficulties, and although there may be many who benefit in learning from our shortcomings at any given time, it cannot be pure reason alone which decides for any weaknesses that we do endure. As children we are protected from harsh consequence, inasmuch as the individual within will not suffer that which the child endures. The naiveté of the child extends right up and into its higher mind, and comes to a conscious bonding gradually as the years progress, coming to know, decide and retain that which has passed.

All the while as the individual is forming, there are indications as to their overall nature and eventual selves, and yet they are incorporating into their manner, imitations of those who hold the greatest bearing within their short lives. These attributes are magnified, intensified and overtly displayed therefrom. The child can become a caricature of his surrounding personalities; exaggerated and worked upon with a happy nonsense this mimicry equips them in the world.

Why it is that children differ in their disposition to characteristics so inherited from parent and others is another matter. The point of origin lies with the surrounding adults, and if recognized may be answered by that adult also. This does not only work on the basis of imitation and example, it addresses the problematic thought-form to which the child and adult have become subdued.

A thought-form is that which has been characterized by the nature and the passion for which the thoughts reside. All men acquire them, all children are impressionable to them. We may clear them by revoking our vigor; and most particularly where there is conflict so known, for with conflict there becomes an expenditure of vitality which acts as a magnetic encouragement to every neighborhood demon in the immediate.

The child will exercise his will against that of the adult. As a man he shall need this strength and capability of will in order that he may withstand all that is wrong for him in the world, and consciously make choice for all that is good and correct to be put into action.

There can be children to whom there is a marked purpose requiring that they may exert themselves now so that in the future those properties are developed to meet the tasks ahead. Quite often where there have been worldly souls who are given to help shape humanity's changes, we find that there are sporadic outbursts and intemperate moods, as the pulse of their life-force drives rapidly and the individual is eager to acquire much, but frustrated by the necessary time it does take in the process. Therefore the child should be brought to enjoy childhood as long as is possible and distracted from his impending adult advancement.

Most would encourage the maturity in every form, believing that the child is capable of knowing what to search for, and it is understandable that we should follow the progress of an individual and seek to answer it. However, there are those things which may not be hurried, and when the will dominates the child's life with an urgency that he is ambitious to greet the future (as is the case with a worldly purpose-filled soul) he expires much healthy vitality of himself in the effort, and then draws from others as well.

We can bring a child back into childhood by those things which feed his soul rather than his intellect. Where cunning or cleverness is concerned, through to thoughtfulness and straight intelligence, the child may continue with relevant school work as is, but requires the release from his thinking as well. What brings him to simple joy, what leads him to take the time to find beauty (in nature or in art), what helps him to lose himself for a time that he is not so tight fixed within his ego? For he is acquiring his sense of self too rapidly to be given time to develop that self most adequately.

When we relax our ego that we may come to meet with the world, we then incorporate that which we have come to know and to delight in. Thus the world becomes us, as we are the World. This principle holds good for adults as well as for children, and yet there are those for which the opposite concentration must apply, who have to restrain from their advance out from their own egos and become more practiced in defining self.

The problem of weathering another individual's outbursts or 'assaults' as described earlier is one where there is a definite contrast known between being comfortable in the presence of someone, to being caused a discomfort by their behavior directed towards you or to another. It is not advisable for one to take the attitude that they ever 'deserve' incongruities which cause upset, nor that they should at all times somehow receive an insult or onslaught because they are duty bound as it were. We can and should be gracious about another's weaknesses and not retaliate to any degree, and yet we are also responsible somewhat for the continuance of their mistreatment of ourselves should we encourage it by our very acceptance of it in the first place.

Inner tensions do not begin or resolve necessarily within the mind. There is a delicate play between one and another, and usually a concordance which both may entertain each other without distress. Then for a variety of reasons, one may step beyond their license and try to exert their wilfulness upon the being of the other. It may be for a seemingly trivial 'reason' so given, whereas in fact there is the pleasure in the will's urging moreso than the noted endeavor. 

Our freedom as given to all men, enables us to refuse the will of any man, creature or being. In the short term (and speaking in overview terms) the worst that can befall a man is an early death when he rebukes the will of another. They may intrude only that far, but they may not take his soul lest he give it. The choice as to whether or not he does give way is always and completely his alone.

Taking this axiom into squabbles identifies the truth of the matter sufficiently. We may be compassionate to any man who tries to persuade us with this or with that, but we must be restrained from ever seeking to please such a man who is unreasonable with their requests. The strength that it requires to meet up against a practiced persuader soon tires if that is all that we have, and so if necessary we may direct our concentration away from their attentions and say this prayer within (the words themselves are not important, just the sense of it) –

Dear Christ,
Give this tenant his draft-plan,
And me mine also.
Bring him the good manners he lacks,
And me the good grace to receive him,
Where can and where not.
Enable me to withstand,
That I shall not corrupt myself
By failing myself and You also.
Amen