True Clairvoyance, Safe Ritual, & Holy Water- 21st February 1998

Question:
Dear Teachers,
Today I have a question from Lillian concerning her experiences - she writes:
I will try to list some of how I see or hear or feel that is coming out of the spiritual world….
My big question is, what is seeing and hearing like coming from the spiritual world into our earthly bodies? What is considered imaginations?
I see color in a lot of instances:
When I visualize a meditation scene.
When I picture the route I will take on a trip that day.
When I visualize color around a person for their protection.
When I see a spirit being that may be present after I have thought about who may be present.
When I do healing it is sometimes with color. I consciously visualize a color around them.
There probably are other instances which I can not think of right now.
Another way to visualize is to see the person in the mind's eye and to see what is bothering them in a particular instance, and to see where their negativity lies. Anything that is visualized to help them for there good is only what they agree upon.
As I said before, I see black or gray areas where the illness or negativity lies. That can be any part of the body.

Another question: are any of the above evil or something that is spiritually undesirable?
- Lillian

REFERENCING knowledge translates differently for some, yet actually maintains the same or similar processes which all men may use. Psychic practices where there is procedure and intent are not in the category of the above described experiences, because as either magician or novice there becomes no willful exchange amongst the ethers, no condescending to elemental beings, no derision of natural force and inclination, no manipulation of human desires or wills afflicted, no conjuring, confixing, collaborating or congealing; and no immediate vision extending above the circumstance with an ensemble of full interpretation.

Men and women who are clairvoyantly sensitive enough to derive impressions through intuitive and imaginative means are referencing information which otherwise might be left to the administration of the soul-consciousness alone. Aptitude in this area relates to the physical disposition of the receiver, and also to the very nature of the interpreter in how they personally exchange with the world at large.

Referencing as such, is relied upon in many different contexts, in both mundane and exceptional ways. Just as our sensory organs help us to determine properties of the world about us, we are attuned to the realities of more subtle exchanges coherently also.

When our senses greet the world they do so in such a way, that within margins we are able to interpret, tolerate and enjoy the experience of inference. Inferring could be painful if it were that our own perceptors overly reported their details - were that the smells too strong, light too bright, color too vivid, motion too great, tastes too powerful, sounds too loud, and so forth. If we were too sensitive, if we felt the rise and fall of the earth beneath us, if we heard and saw just the physical properties that there are (excluding the subsensory and supersensory astralities) we would be overwhelmed with discomfort.

Of course, by and large the physical world is very kind to Man in all aspects; being congenial also to our beings with regards our needs and pleasures. Angelic beings (those who are not with physical correspondence) can find that the conditions are altogether painful and intolerable; whilst demonic creatures would also differentiate agonies from yet from other sources perceptible in the world, such as fragrances, melodies, laughter etc.

Interpreting conditions, soul conditions around us, is experiential and not intellectual. Similarly to our direct perceptions, we infer much of moods and placings, beings and their beingness - we may even scan the immediate futures and go prospecting for possible outcome, drawing from spiritual realities which are close to us, and to be known. 

Most men and women will feel the life around them in an overall way. Let us explain: an infant physically feels with all of his body as though it were one organ of touch - he does not discriminate the centers to the extent that he will later go on to do. Pleasure and pain will tremor through the whole of his small frame. This is how most folk will come to experience the soul-world amongst them. Their inner correspondences and further outgoing inquiries will be perceptible as one overall impression.

The ability to refine this comes to the point where we can translate and be particular within ourselves and our interpretations. The language of self explanation will be through the known understanding of the sensory organs in the physical, coupled with the imaginative forces required as well. Clearly we know that we do not see or feel in the physical sense. On the other hand, one can be understood to wonder when it appears to be all imagined as well. However there are many engagements we take part in which border worlds, being partly here and partly there.

When a painter paints a picture he may try to realistically reproduce that which he immediately perceives to photographic accuracy, or he may imaginatively and artistically create an image which is untrue to his eyes, but is in accordance with his inner landscapes. Nothing comes of nothing. An artist will tell you that he fervently feels the reality of his work, and providing his talents can meet with his vision, you may glimpse the soul aspects in the physical creation through that labor. A musician likewise does not bring us an imitation of collected sound true only to his physical experience - car-horns and indiscriminate noise - he borrows also from his soul-life and translates it then into melody.

Now, likeso the processes of visualization and healing can be viewed. Men are blessed with creativity, with artistry, and no less when it comes to a prayerful and meditative endeavor. We do not come empty-handed into our contemplations. We enter in with a certain expectation, perhaps a longing or an inquiry, a curiosity, and further to that we shall bring many hopes besides - all which are very much according to our own beings and design.

All extraneous things are affected by us. In our meeting, in our knowing, in our experiencing us of them, they are thereby thereafter affected. When we come to another we secure a short-term impression of them, and then we may search within for more information to reference. Once again, this may become in most just an overall feeling, or when distinguished in the particular it may translate into something which corresponds with our understanding. The important thing firstly to realize though amongst all of this, is that it is coming to us, but interpreted by us, to the point that we are responsible for the experiences then known. We may reference in this way but we will also be then going on to interpret according to our own understanding, and because of this much true detail is missed by even the sensitives.

Another point to be regarded, is that this kind of development is natural to some and therefore quite wholesome in its function. Providing we are not intrusive to others (and therefore unlicensed) we may acceptably have many ways of sensing the day. Some may silently confer with the angels of others, to speak of their concerns or inquiry; some may know these beings as color made manifest to them, because it is color rather than being that will translate into their sensory knowledge defined. Not only do angelic beings give their bodies over to the various colors, there are also characteristic qualities which are subsinct to the manifestative display. So when we see color around a person for their protection, it is an angel whose face might be hidden from us, but whose duty and love is made known.

Question: There has been much dialogue lately about Christian ritual and magic - it is two-part: Firstly, how do we define a good or safe ritual which is permissible and how is it different to other magical invocations?

There are the sacraments, the rituals of the Orthodox church that coincide, and also here is an example of one that was offered:
(Readers please note: I had an example here of a certain invocation which the teacher asked me to remove so that it would not be circulated. I personally understood nothing of it - but it did have some important looking Latin names and interesting things to do as an example of ritual. I have done as is asked, so we'll proceed without it!)

Secondly, is there a good recipe for Holy Water we can ask you for - and instruction with it, please? And what is it?

Water itself is conducive to all life. Water upholds life whilst being faithful to Father God in its very substance. Water empowers the manifestation of all organic and physically living beings represented here ... it bears their exact appearance in the spiritual worlds and in vapor or in crystalline form it is true to the forces which promote existence. It is the all encompassing ego which envelops safely all other egoic forms. It maintains, infills, instills and swells. It conducts the soul-forces, as they are compelled to discharge only in fluidic configurations - enabling the soul-expression in the physical world to emit and discharge and immerse and comingle.

Etheric forces which are characteristic of particular substances will be enhanced and empowered further in the presence of water, not only when it comes to homeopathic extractions, but also in relation to the elements and nature of a man (i.e. when you shower or bathe watch your thoughts - and see how potently they will then work amongst you thereafter! Whatever you focus upon will be enstrengthened and blessed).

One can think of the first event of Baptism when the body of Holy Water was indeed a living river! It has been thought that immersement was important because folk were encouraged to almost drown therein - to excarnate out from their worldly consciousness, sever their physical constraints and literally pass back in having been reborn in the experience. But we would disagree completely with this practice or interpretation of such Baptism.

Before Christ the purpose of a Baptism was to bring the consciousness of the child (or more correctly then the man) into the affiliation of his brethren and of his manhood. Demons were known commonly and of a marked threat to every individual. The ego of a man adhered itself to larger bodies of thought and being, without an independent view of its manhood or its separate individuality.

The unification of man to man in the water ceremony in this ritual, was effective enough to mark a binding commitment thereafter. Had this been to cause a disincarnation from the temporal (as many rituals did indeed do) they would have used other means - suitable narcotics, sexual ecstasies, atavistic guides who wilfully drew a man out from himself. Initiations both pure and corrupt used other means for disassociation - water was not the preferred!

When Christ entered into the waters, Christ entered into the Water. At the time of the Baptism when John passed the keys to this World to its Sovereign, our beloved Christ brought with Him the Presence of the Holy Spirit as was never known hitherto to Man before. As we have established before, the fiery lively element of the Holy Spirit works its way into this world inspiring all Life - not only in a combusting and active way, but also through the powers of continuum, propulsion, interaction, and in that aspect of Father God which is Life. 

When Christ entered into the body of Jesus, and enter He did, He was received into water firstly. The Father held His Son. The Waters upon and within this Earth were transformed. Christ, agent for the Will of our Father, carried His Presence consciously and adeptly into the nature of all water to follow. And this was mighty. With the fire of Spirit, Christ quenched the very thirst of the Water itself! Our Father incarnate!

Oh Divine and prosperous Water,
Body of Angels,
Faithful to God,
Servant to all,
Deliverer of the World,
May Christ yet transcend thee,
And so blessed be, make pure me!

This was rightly so: that Christ should both bring the ego to Man as well as the Will of our Father. Through Christ we no longer go to the water to conjoin with a limited number of like souls, or unify with one race or religion. By Christ we are given the passport to the greater Humanity and a shared existence with all men of difference. We are afforded the inner access to our Father; we are given our individuality which is stronger in sense of being than any other being outside of it. Through the nature of water we can find both supplication and spirit - not only may it bring cohesive properties, but now empowering, enlivening enhancements as well.

Water may easily become contaminated in the sense that once it has embraced a particular substance it has, in its body, given over to the influence of that inhabiting substance. Holy Water, which is at its optimum, should be of distilled water firstly, which is kept in a vessel made of gold (or lined with gold). Second to this one can use a quartz crystal, marble or a lead-free glass container. There must be a lid of the same.

Preferred to salt is sunlight. For this the water needs be placed in direct sunlight (with the lid off during this) and attended to at all times whilst exposed. Commonplace discussion or wayward thought is best dissuaded. Usually the water may be corrupted by immediate influences, so you must pay attention as to who or what you may be placed near to during the sunbathing episode. This is the time for prayer - prayer to go into that water and be received; prayer that will be then so potent and ennobling, and remedial with holy aptitude. You may do this for five or more minutes every day for an entire lunar month - the water need be brought into the light and prayed over - preferably at the same time each day in the early hours of the sunlit morning. This is the best recipe we know for a really good holy water.

Now, as to what to do with it: for some vials are carried everywhere. In ages past such vials could be produced and scattered when met with a needy exorcism or sickness or devil. Droplets placed on thresholds of houses - for others, entire fonts at doorways in every room. There has also been a practice of fluidic emissions (particularly of the sick) to be placed into the Holy Water, that the purification could work its way upon the signature of the individual for whom the emissions belonged to; the water then afterwards is to be discarded straightway. Let it be poured onto sunlit ground and relinquished.

This also makes for a good and commonsense way of discarding the residue of ashes from the cremated. Rather than setting the remains into the simple sea or host of dirt, a beloved of the deceased may prepare with many pertinent and thoughtful prayers the Holy Water, and then after one month (or later) may admit the ashes into the vessel and then into a further trough or encasement. Essentially the water works on that which holds etheric vitality or influence in the first place - however, even with the ashes of the dead we have on a higher level their extending signatures which do lead to them and connect to them continually. This influence of prayer and exposure, thus will have an effect upon them as a happy tonic, and does hold a profoundly joyous influence.

As for the drinking of this water, it is suggested that each may make his own. A man would have to hold much trust for another that he might partake in this water prepared. There is argument to say that whenever Christ is called in there would be a protection and effectiveness of sorts? This is and isn't so. Remember too, that it is so much more important for you yourself to take a hand in your prayer life, spirituality and intent ... and not expect it to be just received easily from another's labors. It is pertinent to your being to take time with some things and not require them to be done for you. So for this reason alone, without suspicion of the inadequacy of others being a possibility, we caution you this way in that respect to be considered.

The water once prepared may be kept in its container (sealed) indefinitely. It becomes a protective, it holds an inner phosphorescence. Droplets can be used just about anywhere! However, do not put it into food or drinks etc. or use on people who are unaware of what you have.

One drop can help purify the psychic discharges in a room and atmosphere; and in this it is permissible to make trails in public places also. One can take it into hospitals, hospices or gaming houses, hotels, or even transport (particularly when you may be confined in small, but crowded environments and prone to the atmosphere then shared with mixed company).

Now to the other part of this question: when is ritual good and when is it unworthy of Christ and of Man? Some of the darkest most evil of rituals conducted have used and blasphemed the names of Father God and of Christ. The mechanics of much which is evil is best not explained and thereby encouraged an interest in, and so it is difficult to fully give reasons as to what is and isn't acceptable.

The first consideration we would ask one to employ is this: can we measure our intent before any given procedure? Intent in occult matters is tantamount to everything. It holds more power within the ethers and beyond, because it is of the first-born driving out the will corp - it is the precursor and decider to all.

Most ritual magic has been superseded by the age itself these days. Whilst there is always a spontaneous magic coexisting alongside our natural world - where the extraordinary penetrates the mundane and is guided by higher beings and higher desires - there has been a weakening of the machinations of ordinary magic, whereupon the angel-raping and the devil conjuring is less convincing than in ages gone by. Remnants of old world mentalities and efforts still do exist, and yet a true revival is not possible because the consciousness of Man himself has been cordoned off from most of the necessary abilities - those which are required for the underdeveloped to cross worlds. (And we say the underdeveloped here, because they are the only ones who contrive the physical sciences and work the ethers so.)

Adepts who hold true ability in their development have exercised their will and desire to a degree whereupon their psychic faculties have been replaced by a higher eye. For astral capabilities within this immediate ensheathment do little to clarify the true spiritual qualities belonging to the higher astral arrangement. The organs of perception in this instance have to be formed through those gateways of virtue - the stars become eyes, as they say.

Rituals which call in the lower forces that feed around the lower astral palaver, are abhorrent to anyone or any being who associates the higher realms. Whilst this is so, it can be added too that there are different ways of getting the job done.We may ask here what is hoped for in these rituals? There are set affirmations which are tried for within the Sacraments whereupon we invite Father God and Christ into our company, into our passage. We endeavor to spiritualize formally that of this world, but we do not effectively demand it.

The prescription of the Holy Water is an example of something powerful yet relatively safe, because of the medium to begin with. It could be seen as a somewhat mechanical recipe for effectiveness were it not for the element added of personal prayer - one which must come from the heart and soul of the water-bearer, not one which is a parrot-fashion recitation. There is nothing incorrect with repetition - in fact there is a given strength in it, were a man to make of his own and use it so - but here we comment moreso on such invocations as you did bring to us within the question (now censored). Bear in mind that all such verses, all writings, are traceable to their creator. In magic one is connected to the originator of that piece, and so it goes. Therefore, is there any sweeter and more potent passage than that of the Lord’s Prayer?

Homeopathy is ritual magic utilizing a percussive effort to promote etheric qualities in potency. Newageism promotes many ritual magic practices in the realm of projecting thought-forms, visualizations, invocations etc. Transplant surgery in its disruption of the forceful processes throughout the emanatory, karmic bodies of recipients and donors incorporates a magic of men interfering with the natural law. Driving a fuel empowered vehicle is cooperating with the beings that fire the engine and would have you travel faster than you yourself can run - this is a magic too. When you have an extended ability outside of your natural means, then this is a magic - i.e. departing the otherwise natural law.

There is also another type of magic which surpasses the natural thinking and leaps into wonderment. This is High Magic because it is transformative with love. Adoration, selfless enthusiasm, rapture etc. all bring a man out from his egoic concealment and accelerate him further than he could have possibly taken himself - when the drawing magic is love inspired.

Time and time again we are provoked to question hard what it is we truly seek to effect upon this Globe and within ourselves. There will always be predictable magic and its qualifying rituals. Even the best of them, when given to tired priests or participants, are ineffectual and possibly more damaging than profitable. If there is no true spiritual or heartfelt investment living in the moment, there will be no real call effectively upon the higher worlds. For this investment we need refine our longings and infuse them with such urgent realities as they are required.

Christ Lives in the personal man. Generic religiosity as a facade is unconvincing to Heaven. He requires sincerity. Sincerity is harder to manage amongst methodology, and in this the plain path to the Father is truly through the heart, in love, humility and honesty. 

Amen

Narcotics- Corrupting the Astral- 26th January 1998

TODAY we are to make a study on the discharges born from a corrupting astral body. It has been observed that in our present time there are individuals inflicted with a devilish conduct which appears to have resulted from certain narcotic catalysts. Invariably it is with young people who were not hitherto known for such overbearing malice or madness, and who have seemingly swapped character and personality with an extraordinary rapidity.

Should these individuals be viewed astrally it would become apparent that there are fissures all over their starry frame that bleed vital etheric fluids in their physical connection, and are alike to dark pits and pockets, 'holes', whereupon the usual vitalities may have crossed. They now pool and become redirected.

It is true to say that our astrality has a plasticity which is responsive to desire (the lower qualities being so known as a Desire Body), however in one higher context we can also see the starry impulse of greater virtues which are implicated and manifested through a man's desire world.

Firstly we may then ask of desire and our comprehension thereof. The Buddhists would translate the meaning of desire into that of 'discomfort'. We can observe all primal motivations in this light, i.e. it is from the promptings of a discomfort that we are caused to awaken and to move, and to seek an answer to that very prompting. We are appeased (and quite happily) when a desire becomes fulfilled. Therefore discomfort brings pleasure if met with its need's answer. 

Consciousness itself is a sequence of such discomfort and disclosure.

Self-consciousness is provoked into being and sense of being, by its stirring to have certain needs met, needs which can only be answered outside of oneself and not answered within.

There is also a popular thought which rests on a man being able to 'find all within' or to encompass all higher thought in that of his Higher Self etc., which suggests that we can and are quite independent creatures. With such self-contained wisdoms we may become self-reliant and need not the outer influences. Whilst a man has the abilities in abundance to recognize the higher truths, and keys also into the empathetic sense of practically all other kingdoms besides, he has not in reality a vacuuminous nuclei of the complete box and di - otherwise by that very incorporation he would be outside of himself with no fixed point of consciousness within. For in the context of a compressed completeness contained and distinct, there requires no one specific foci point (i.e. no consciousness of a particular placing), but rather an overall tension of that which inhabits that all.

We are enabled to be specific and narrow down our conscious efforts because there are 'spaces' within our varying bodies. These spaces may act as portals which communicate between spheres of related activity and existence, relaxing a tension and also insinuating an incompleteness just by their action and presence.
That space which coincides with the heart for example, is consistent with our entire being, flowing up through the various bodies in dialogue with the soul/spirit, according with the divinity within. However, this is not so with other such gateway portals in use within the various bodies: those which are responsible to the physical organs entitle activities which do not correspond with the ego or soul of the man, but do hold discourses with planetary beings and influences belonging to the greater astral body without.

So from this one can picture that within our own physical and astral makeover we have doorways in which our beings may pass through, obtaining much; one of those being that of our own heart, by which we may confide with both Father God in relation to our inner reckonings and know our own distinctions; whilst the other openings to that which lies beyond ourselves will bring us to aspects which are not directly of ourselves, but of other natures and of other beings.

You see, manifestation is a cooperation of beings. It is always a collective effort, and no less when it comes to the incarnating man. We require supportive forces and influences from materials and entities which dwell within their own respective spheres. We are enabled to pass through to them and extract that which we may require for our own depth of existence through such linking gateways as we do have. It is only commonsense to realize that not all is manufactured in sole production within one man. Much of what we are is being imported moment by moment, and from which we may also too desist, were it to be chosen thus.

This has much to do with the freedoms of Man also. When we regard that we may be endowed with the properties of many lesser gods but not be so bound or obliged as to actually become them, then we are truly privileged in this eclectic experience of holy beingness. And holy it is, for the marvelous virtues known in part in Man preexist the evil which was to follow, and radiantly continue their emanatory influence inspiring the Cosmos at large. Every good inspiring quality we have enjoyed, either in ideal in another, in literature or in hope, comes from a source which is unspeakably quite profoundly beautiful.

The Arthurian Knights saw these beauteous virtues and by their love for them gave service to them, dedicating their lives and defending their honor, with an upright joy and long-lasting infatuation of a true romance to be had. For there are many presences which represent these cosmic-born virtues; and to each one also a great and grand being who is principally the benefactor of. 

Aside from the aspirant's influences, which wend their way from the starry sources of charity, we have smaller portals also which are connected to sources that would teach us of physic and coordination. We require the ability to draw from the ethers without, much of the blueprint articles that inspire our subtle bodies to correspond with the working designs as known to existence. It is important for a man to be able to interpret the designs so to speak, and also to be able to 'converse' with other beings in a way which is compatible to both. These two features are something which, once again, require a relay - it is not something that one can independently come to without taking counsel outside of oneself. One can picture these perhaps, as the little offices of the secretaries and engineers, which we may consult for needs of correspondence and further works of being.

Now having mentioned these gateway portals and established that a man requires a fluidity of movement between, we can go on to examine what it is that happens when the traffic is interrupted and why.

Whilst one interpretation of the word 'desire' may be discomfort, there is another which is preferred by Christians which is: dulcified: of God (oh sweet desire!). That desire itself be holy, is given to the first example whereupon our Father so desired us. This was verily the precedent for being enabled to remove oneself from oneself and travel out ... not with an inverted love, but a controvertible love which gives being also to that which answers the original need now met.

Suffering is viewed similarly, for surely suffering is only second to love when for love. We are taught that all deficits bring us redeemable joys. All cries for pity from Heaven are answered in Calvary. Where there is a space in us created, there can be the place for divinity to enter in. Desire of itself is not despised by the Christian - no! it is welcomed as a precursor to further being.

Now we come to the action of the narcotic when it is absorbed into the consciousness, the physical body, and the astral body of a man. What occurs? Firstly, our Desire Body (that aspect of the astral body which responds accordingly) is to be alikened collectively to one great empathetic nerve. Our condition of being in preparedness, or in response, is active and taut; it is sensitive to life itself and familiar with, resonating up and down that nerve to all that awakens its liveliness. For this part of the astral body - as opposed to the uppermost astrality which empathically resonates with the starry body of Christ as mirrored in the Zodiac - this part of the astral body knows and measures life by such responsive due; for this is what it does and is.

A flaccid astral sheath would mean a decaying or deadly etheric and physical body also. (Although it is possible for an over-active astral body also to dominate the physical body and animate it for its own purposes.) However, in the context of health - both spiritual and physical - we are suggesting that an astral responsiveness is necessary to further living (this does not imply specific over-indulgence of any given enlivening of course. We seek here to examine due use and not over-use) and that were one to disassociate from desire effectively then they also disassociate from life accordingly.

Narcosis corrupts the Desire Body in a man firstly. This can be witnessed in a variety of ways, all which imply a chaotic behavior in the individual which is inconsistent with his former self. In earlier times men who were given to narcotic stupor would disincarnate, they would be given to either death or to fit, for there was an immediate severance there between the astral ambiguity and its anomalies, and the incarnating strength of men at that time. However, as the ego has progressed it has negotiated its own terms with such a stronghold into life and into consciousness, that no longer does it so easily slip out from any given circumstance, anomaly or no. This is important in one respect because men crave certain experience, and whilst the continuation of life and of consciousness does ensure a greater experience, it is to good purpose that a man sees consequence from some vantage in that which he does. Yet we are not so sophisticated as to do more than continue on with the life-ties themselves. We cannot maintain a Desire Body for example, when we have just coerced it from another existence ... and herein lies the trouble.

It is perfectly natural for a man to crave goodness and virtue. It is necessary to his wellbeing and to the life which seeks to manifest itself through him. The exercise of the virtues is a delicate and well formed development. Ordinarily a man who gives out into the world with good conduct is replenished with more of the same of that wonderful vitality for which he has become vessel for. It is the promise of Heaven that all of the virtues and their corresponding gifts are unlimited in resource. 

The youth (or older sage too) who seeks out the narcotic experience, has come to find that the gateways to certain virtue are relaxed within him and receptive when he has contaminated his bodies thus. The experience is pleasurable and the visions are most beautiful - as we have discussed. All in all, one might remark, quite spiritual. The outfall to this is though, that there has been no one thing given to the world by the narcotic user, and this is then far from reward. He has gone to the font to drink for himself, but shared nothing, and no Grace will have this, for it is not in the nature of any Grace that it be not forwarded on and delivered through.

Sadly, we cannot sneak such treasures and thereby become a better person. Were better folk so manufactured, then we would surely be as angels are! And one can well understand the temptations which bring men on to seek the higher bound desires, and promise to deliver them to a greater sense of being. But no, as they say, it does not work that way.

The astral world has long been termed the mirror-world; partly, a nerve's responsiveness is in the equal and opposite reaction it acknowledges with. In the astral substance there is the mirroring aspect which answers the impressions of that to which it sublimates. In a man who contrives a virtue by his own goodness there will be a desire for that goodness preceding the opening of the gateway to that given impulse. In a man who experiences a virtue by way of a narcotic there is no desire as would naturally pre-empt and inspire the good virtue; there is a selfish desire, whose action is in the reverse to the corresponding intent.

The narcotic takes the man inside himself and to the doors he does seek to experience from. There may be a great need in the soul for the supplication of such, and the greater the need as he goes on, the more driven to that door he will be. But he goes with the persuasion of the false ticket, so to speak. He goes with no qualification of good intent; but rather as cheat of himself and of the virtue, he goes to profit alongside the demon which accompanies him (from the narcotic). When this occurs the astral impressions are given firstly to the man, and not moreover, the higher distinctions as would have been in ordinary circumstances. An astral counter-opposite to a virtue becomes a demonic deviant which is then experienced throughout his whole nervous system, and at times even breaking into the consciousness where it may become apparent.

Further to this the actual gateway portals that have been artificially relaxed can remain afterwards quite unresponsive and part-paralyzed in relation to the rest of the body that they belong to. Vitality begins to seep its way to those gateways, running currents of interest. But in making no real connection with the spiritual source beyond, there becomes a deficit of etheric force bleeding out from the individual concerned. This can explain why there can be a propensity amongst narcotic users for unstable behavior, poor health and lack of desire; whilst also, with some, a most frightening recess of accompanying evil as well.

Nature does not reward selfishness. When we meet the needs and desires of others we do this with the supplication of love. When we seek to answer our own needs and desires we must find a way to this which comes of love, i.e. a connecting force which has a lively participation.

Food which has no life force within it will not sustain us. Food which has still its etheric vitality has also the being connected to its source, with which we participate in the combining. Love in this instance lies in the predisposition the two have for each other, followed through in the combining.

Now why can this not also happen as well with the narcotic? The answer here is, whenever a man makes a decision to deride his own consciousness he insults God. When he dims the flame, when he disassociates from himself, when he closes his heart, when he consciously begins to kill all that is lively about him in a trade-off with a drug, then he insults the Life within those centers that strive always for refinement rather than death. He insults himself.

The issue of narcosis is not one of cause and effect firstly, but largely of the disposition of any individual who would surrender themselves thusly. That is the greater of the problems, and such attitude is given over in men in a variety of ways - a carelessness for self, which later translates into a carelessness for others as well.

What would prompt a man to deny all that is good about himself? Wherein is the motivation to open oneself to such an extent that the astral nerve cannot any longer withstand the common world, but is jarred and pained with joy and with life - at the mention of Christ the emaciated wince and strain and crawl within. However, can then the happiness become so very painful?

There can be 'mechanical' disruptions in one's empathetic reasonings. What is meant to say here is, that for some, the responsiveness of their 'nerve', as the astral body in empathy and likeness, is so damaged that there is little or no capability there, no capacity to try or to adapt, or to experience. Ordinarily this ability is something refined over lifetimes, whereupon some individuals have remarkable affinities and sensitivities of responsiveness, that their egos coinciding with their astral counterpart can differentiate others and yet respond to them with feeling and warmth as well.

Narcotics actually freeze this ability within a man. The world is viewed through the inbound experience, and whilst the individual believes he has a heightened empathy for the greater world, he is mirroring self to the greatest, most tension filled degree. And quite often then, the world becomes hateful and dark ... there is much which he finds of himself so projected in his consciousness, as belonging now without. It is small wonder that panic usually accompanies this experience.

The question then becomes one of whether or not there is a way for returning to health that which has been so disrupted? And on what level should we address this question importantly?

The first consideration here is as to what we are to hope for in another, and in that given Man's freedom in all things, what are our own jurisdictions in this matter? We may know of certain maladies and their causes, we may begin to perceive the dark spaces in another; we may trust that Christ Himself may fill those very spaces were He just asked. But what are we to lawfully do or say in relation to another's situation given this predicament?

One concern here is that it is simply not possible to forcibly bring another to morality. The word morality is not used in the social context or even in the common, but in the principle of inert value that a man may discern through the heart for himself. A true morality is empathic and giving by nature, open, demonstrative and perhaps even exaggerated in joy. (The true meaning of morale - to keep them high.) Not morality in the depleted sense of restrictive license; rather an internal discernment which corresponds with God.

This form of discernment is acquired by the cooperation of both the ego and soul of the individual (through the means of the Arterial Self) and simply cannot be imposed. This would contradict its capability and eventually lead to exactly the same problems as manifest with the artificially open fissures so described. Yet it is with this sense of correctness within, shall the individual come to know whether or not he or she should reclaim their existence and thus begin to heal.

As harsh as it might sound, the drugs themselves do not precipitate the problems (even though they are a catalyst to further complications). The spiritual issues need be addressed, and many are accelerating fast into the future with such tests to their beings as have never consciously been tried before. Men need to know what it is that they can and cannot do; particularly those who are undeveloped in their empathic learnings, who cannot read from the collective or the specific enough to interpret much of the world that way. Of course the problem then being that the avenues so trod here disarms the empathies much further, and so the learning alone continues on - and will so for perhaps lifetimes to come.

In a former teaching we suggested that water (drinking and bathing) brought remedial supplication to those who were mentally fretful or misplaced. The natural world has its loving arms around us everywhere: the comforts in the sunlight and in the rain, in the salt the sweet, and also in the very depth of sky - not just as inspiration, but as true comforters with medicinal promise. There are physical gifts around us imbued with healing.

We can remind such folk that they may pray and address our Christ who does override the powers of any other god or demon in our life. We can pray for them that their experience bought is not too costly; and that also we may make for better examples that others may be encouraged also.

Lastly, we are to say that we have always, the rights as men to reject the evil that another man may bring to us. No one must suffer it from another; and as a parting comment, which must be said for the sake of those whose kindnesses would forfeit themselves, if you find the love to offer, then by grace it is theirs. If you do tire and have no love there, then by obligation it is not for you to go looking for. Each soul must stand with Christ and make do for himself.

Often the demons surrounding the more vampiristic of individuals, terrorize the good-natured with their consuming needs that bleed their 'loved-ones'. Even Father God does not give His Love on demand, nor His Pity because it is willed by another. No one man owes another so much of his own life that he gives it away to them upon such request - Christ demands nothing from us does He? Nor should they. Be strong in who you are, and cherish yourself before others' demands and considerations, and then be courageous in your love in the World - and unfaltering! To love well is to love freely.

Where does the mandrel of the heart,
Keep its cogs and spores?
If sold out to a loveless flout,
In only expressionless chore?

Creep, creep the doubts,
Tear, rip the hate.
Our falter makes for devil's plunder,
But 'tis no joy or gravitate,
Or wealth of life asunder.

Sloth be gone to mine active heart!
By Christ I'll love complete!
In measures full and full again,
No more to doubt entreat.

And with the vigor of the gods,
No light askew,
But shone on Master's face,
That one edict we've all been shown,
Was simply asked -
Love well, love well!
For mine own soul,
He said "Love whole",
For this, my brother,
He asked: "Love all",
For He, my God,
He cried: "Love so",
"Love well, love well, love well!"

Amen

The Greater & Lesser Principles- 11th January 1998

Life with Christ in Man and throughout his multifarious adjuncts, is Principle.
Principle builds worlds.
And the substance of Principle is Love.
- Principles

ALL manifestation is being, and comprised of beings firstly. Substance makes it its own by gravitating around being (or more correctly, a being). Beings are not born of substance, substance is born of they.

Out from the being of Father God has spun whorls of substance. We cleave to His Persona essentially, yet live in His Principle finding the lively realities therein made manifest.

However we as men were not the first-born. Principalities before us, recollecting a time eternal, have become and been born into being also, which by their substance to follow, offered Man the many divine attributes which were to contribute to his being e'er after.

The following discourse may hold to tautological riddles in some parts, yet there is a purpose to our grappling with cosmology and its application within the material world now realized. There is much worth, if only we come to a deeper thankfulness, consciously within, for those very many individual beings who have given of themselves that we may be.

It is good for a man to come to understand whom he should pay respect to in the privileges he has been afforded. By such respect and gratefulness can only then our powers so given be activated as it were; for we rely on all parent sources of virtue and insight to remain with us, in a deciding, with intention, of what it is that our own beings should rightly entertain. Such deciding is imperative, for this is how it goes with Man - decisions of will and the building of ego relies on his participating alongside the experiences so brought to him. 

There was a subject made mention of this week whereby a student cited the offensiveness of the concept some hold of hierarchies. This is an important point, because one could wonder how is it that anyone could be cautioned by the thought, when there are so many good and glorious hosts to which we are indebted to. Angels which enable us to perceive the light and the colors through our vision for example; the architects; the keepers of Karmic requisition and definitive Law; the hosts of supplicatory comfort; the angelic forces pertaining to the planetary virtues without and within Man's working fields; the angelic body of the memories, the recording angels; our defensive core, guardians of this planet and far further accompanying Man throughout the realms even beyond the immediate tension of this Globe, etc. Yes, one could wonder why it is that the hierarchical companies which grace our existence are ever doubted in their goodness. And yet this happens.

Perhaps one answer to this lies in the contrariness Mankind has been blessed with, in that both by his thought and own nature Man holds the ability to surprise the entire Cosmos with his freedoms, and is still loved so very much into the bargain! What is meant by this is to say: we are quite the unruly, yet beloved children, who disable the furniture in the nursery just to build our imaginary houses; and with doing so now will one day become heaven's own architects building cities of light in starry fields throughout the reaches.

By Christ's own proving in us we can consciously question the systems which support us; we have the ability and pseudo-strength of ego-consciousness to examine ourselves in relation and distinction from powers of influence much greater. And by this we can choose. We can consciously and graciously accept the vitalities which stream from the multifarious beings. We can discriminate who and what we are to associate with further. We can go on to create our own being (alongside our Christ) that in futures to follow, other beings will be born.

Already we have many associated kingdoms which rely on Man in his evolutionary pathways of course. Both our animals and elementals follow at our heels with an earnest love and adoration; unquestioningly they are as much a part of us as we of them.

However, there will be other individual entities to follow too, and distinct from the evolutionary family that we hold to incorporate now. Also there are those beings sloughed off from such times as before the incarnation of this Globe which are to be retrieved and worked over and assimilated into the Worlds to come. Many entities also will try from neighboring perimeters who are attracted to our system (such as the viral activity seeking physical entrance as well) and this will be in consideration as we go along.

The question at hand as put to us by A.D. (and thank you for your kind thoughts and comments dear soul) suggests that the overall consciousness and needs of consciousness now differ, that our sense of self may become so differentiated that we are rebellious and dreadful when it comes to acknowledging our placement snug-fitting amongst the 'Great Chain of Being'; that we are no longer comfortable, as once was, with apportioning our place amongst the hierarchical rises respectively.

Further to this is added that in seeking the Kingdom of Heaven we are searching 'without and within', with esoteric and exoteric means ... 'as both a transcendent and an immanent reality’ and that this might cause one to rebel at the idea of being placed into a hierarchical scheme which in itself holds associations of 'corporations, monarchies, caste systems or bureaucracies'.

Now firstly, when it comes to social microcosmic structures as given to in corporations, monarchies etc. the question would have to be directly pertaining to the worth and value, the goodness and benevolence, the wisdom and the correctness of that individual who leads and takes charge of the whole. Because of personal disappointments known by men in the past there is often a pervading presumption that such systems are an 'evil' of themselves, rather than in view of the patriarchal figures affronting them.

This is a very good question because it draws together the elements of time in our comprehension of the Kingdom of Heaven; and we would add one more to the transcendent and immanent realities, and that is the concurrent soul-perception also, which presses back to the furthermost recollections of our own origin and remains as a constant within our beings. It can (and does at certain intervals) override the immediate (for example, in sleep) when a man has already the knowing of our Heaven, as he has always done.

Therefore, the transcendent endeavor is one of retrieving the soul's knowledge, and the immanent reality sought is one of the ego-consciousness actually participating in the Kingdom itself. One does not negate the other, as it is that the ego and the soul are in constant dialogue with one another; and so too are the 'modern' approaches to civility and spirituality now coinciding.

In our studies we endeavor to highlight the good and useful purposes attributable to that which we observe. The first fundamental premise given is that good reasons and good beginnings underpin the extraneous realities; and through investigations we can look to causes which are wonderful (at the very least at their outset or origin) and comprehend them accordingly in relation to all else.

One can make a study of failures and of perversions. We do also venture into the less happy conjectures and projections as either an exercise or a caution, however we always begin (and end) with the assumption of a good. Overall there is a healing for the world, as well as for ourselves with this approach, and a common sense which appeals to the spirit which abounds through life and knows of its own goodness. That spirit will take us into greater perceptions - i.e. it will be through our love for something rather than our suspicions that we will be guided into further insights and take that very knowledge into ourselves.

Folk stray into associations which hold to negative implications, particularly in great contrast to the goodness their subject may truly stand for. Whether we choose to see this as our Doubles contesting the light within their own shadows, or simply the personality ensheathed with a self-limiting doubt, we may counter this tendency within our own thinking when we come to a confidence born from making study and enterprise of that which we truly love.

This cannot be emphasized too strongly to our dear friends- the importance of the joy born from loving activities we may reconnect repeatedly with in this world and beyond. For then, and then only is the ego content, and with Christ in the heart knowing also. For the Life of Christ lives through our loving connections and cannot permeate the mind or heart of a man who is lackluster or weary with droll.

Whether a mystic or an occultist, there would be no true Kingdom, immanent or transcendent without such love! And what of the consequence of such were this to be? We can look to the schedule of keywords given in relation to the Principles for something of an insight - (for further study see the essay: 'Within Reason - The Fire of the Twelve'):

Our Arterial Principles of The Absolute

Element Key words

Air infinity The

fire activity Body

water universality of the

earth containment Absolute.

Our Christ's Principles of the Archetypal

Element Key Words

air echoes of god The Word.

fire knowing The

water love shared body of

earth development Christ.

Our Holy Spirit’s Life Principles

Element Key Words

air ever resonating

fire ever seeking

water ever conscious

earth ever grace

If we are to define the mystic's approach as moreover soulic in comprehension, and the occultist's approach as being egoic and self-consciously directed in its endeavors, then we may look to the above table for the keywords which share in those principles which are both health and antidote to those conditions without.
At the beginning of this paper we opened with:

"Life with Christ in Man and throughout his multifarious adjuncts, is Principle.
Principle builds worlds.
And the substance of Principle is Love."

This passage is saying that the Principle is Christ. It is Christ that builds the worlds, and out from Christ we know the Love, that being His own and very substance.
So our dear J., when you ask "What is Principle?", half of the question answered here is that Christ Himself is that Principle; that Being (Christ) precedes any projection, principle or subsequent substance. All life comes from a personified being firstly.

Before we examine the lesser principles which maintain the world and Man, we can acknowledge also that as well as Christ being the greater Principle here, He is, though dearly held, the lesser Principle to that of Father God too. This of course goes without saying, but needs be said anyhow!

In table 5 from the same essay we have the reshuffling of keywords offering us the correspondence of the physical, soulic, egoic and spiritual extractions, and as we can see the chief considerations for the soulic influences are universality, love shared and consciousness, whilst the egoic transactions are in activity, knowing and seeking.

Physical Keys to health EARTH element

Containment
Development
Grace

Soulic Keys to wellbeing WATER element

Universality
Love shared
Consciousness

Egoic Keys to wellbeing FIRE element

Activity
Knowing
Seeking

Spiritual Keys to wellbeing AIR element

Infinite
Echoing God (being faithful to)
Resonance

If we are given to understand that love is the very substance of Principle, and of all subsequent principles, then there may be no real principle of substance without it. It is interesting here to note that the whole entire concept of Maya, of illusion, is born from loveless conceptualizing. When reality is underpinned by love, i.e. by principle, by the Principle, it is no illusion. The only illusory material is that which is artificial: without true life existing or origins thereof - without love.

The properties of love free the ego-nature of the individual, releasing it sufficiently for the comprehension to increase. In order to seek out something I am required to go beyond what is already in my realm of ego and stretch it further ... it is only the love of something other than my own ego which will draw me out and overstep those limits. This is not an action or experience which is lasting, however the effects of the process are. The action of seeking and acquiring knowledge is one of expansion and contraction, giving times to selflessness and love beyond self, to remaining contained and assimilating, discriminating what is to become. (Oh yes! "The need to discriminate"!)

However, it is possible for men and women, even those who are 'advanced' and with intelligence, to become repetitions of themselves, rather than finding their loving connections and interests in that which lies in the outer world. Perhaps this is something of the apprehension known and spoken of by A.D. when it comes to the hierarchical hold? For they are cordoned off from communicating, and yet we sense that the correspondences which flow in higher conduits are not understood at this time with our egoic intelligence. Our relationship therefore to the masses of beings with which we are involved is subliminal and without the form of that loving knowledge, that the ego itself is quite 'greedy' for. This is of itself an anomaly and uncomfortable to consider. Yet we are quite capable of coming to a loving connection with experiences and like souls who inspire and evoke in us something of our own deeper natures, and through such encounters may we come to sense the heavenly activity further.

Here is an old joke as they say, but a good one! In short it goes:

Q. What do you call an occultist who loses his love for this world?
A. A mystic.
Q. What do you call a mystic who loses his love for this world?
A. An occultist!

We set about to find what the consequence would be for an occultist who went about his life without such empathetic and inspired loves in this World; if his activity within the world was humorless and tiresome, if his body became a burden, if his knowing was self-interested and self-based only, if his seeking was seeded by not the love of the subject but rather too his love of self excluding all but God - what would you have? You would have a mystic!

Conversely, what would you have if you had a mystic who did not seek the greater consciousness but preferred to narrow down his own; if his love shared was abstract conjecture and his sense of universality not a living reality but rather an intellectual fundamental? You would have an occultist!

Sadly, such converse patterns can occur. As undignified as the above remarks may appear, it is nonetheless a phenomenon of sorts to be observed in many good folk who do begin quite splendidly and yet result with an uncanny over-balancing from one tendency, towards impulse and fall into another!

With both individuals it can well begin by a form of 'self-lessness' and unselfishness, which deters the men in question to seldom partake in that which brings them real joy. Both the ascetic and the scientist can believe that they are putting their ideals into being by living out day-to-day with a romantic, yet distant worship of the ideal of such love, denying however, their own liberties of expression. The result which comes is but a premature death of either soul or ego or both. For without a loving connection in the world the faculties and conjunctures eventually will withdraw and seek a connection elsewhere.

The properties of the mystic who loves within this World brings to the World an enhanced consciousness in toto. Men need a certain requisite of happiness in order to cherish their life and its greater Principle.

The occultist who successfully loves within this world brings in the future for all men. This same love will transpire into a reasonable knowledge, one that can be worked a'further, and brought into its usefulness by its empathetic answers to the needs. We need qualify the world with both occupations for the Kingdom, for herein we have the soul and ego of Man then best represented - the containment and the activity; the spirit of the past and the spirit of new life to come, learning from each other the hidden and mystical ways of both.

The second half of the question as to what is Principle, pertains to the Divine Soul-fluid; and just as the Holy Spirit brings to us anima and the propulsive impulse, out from Principle comes the characteristic life-substance, to which the Principle body is parent to.

The attributes as mentioned - of infinity, activity, universality, containment, reproduction, knowledge, sharing love, development, empathically resonating, inquiring, being conscious, and of grace - these aspects and attributes are all directly part of the being of Christ in Himself. They do live in Him that they may be living in us. The preempting vehicle for the substance of these is Principle. Principles precede actualities. They determine their nature.

J. wrote: "to come together without Principles, is not just chaotic but is in league with the Anti-Christ and his spirit of mischief which then flagrantly contests our Christ". Yes! and this is the very real meaning of the word 'illusion' in relation to its evil. Everything and every thought, all that is manifest and also all that is not, has its own parent reality which it is continuously and inextricably connected to. This may be traced or just instinctively known. This is the reality to all, that there be a parent reality which is present regardless of time.

The Anti-Christ impulse operates a deceptive look-alike substance. However the parent reality returns only to the Anti-Christ and not that which it may appear to be. If for example one believed that there was a spiritual experience to be had in accelerating the consciousness with cocaine for example, then the gambit of emotions so inspired by the drug (as opposed to the true reality) will take the individual back to the Anti-Christ in learning and affection. If a sweet has been artificially ennobled synthetically with the fragrance of a pineapple, but has no etheric virtues of a true heritage of pineapple, then it shall speak to one's system only of Anti-Christ.

He wears many masks which appear as Christ but are not. And the test of this is love. Each and every man is given the sense within to know for himself what is of love and what is not. We can identify the Christ Principle and measure this to all actions in the promotion of Life. And though it be by our lungs we discern, dear one, it is by our heart we decide! And decide we can - and for this Christ gives us His Passion to be and become - wonderful!

The Encore- 19th December 1997

I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also.
- John 14:6-7

EVENTS in time hold to concentric repetition. With seasonal prompts and precursors, they return within the spiritual peripheries and re-present their stories, over and over again. Perhaps this then brings us to marvel at newness when it becomes apparent manifesting in the physical sphere, inciting yet more repetition to follow.

Repetition, of itself, does not indicate goodness or worth. There are many retrograde forces interfering with the evolution of Mankind which remain because of the momentum et perpetua ... and we can witness this for ourselves in almost any untoward behavior, that it is indeed an 'unconscious' act moreover, rather than one which is well thought out and prepared for. It is stale for men to act ungraciously, not unique. Just so for much of the evil which stagnates the Globe today; it is the filth of a yesteryear remaining, not new or remarkable in any respect.

Now this is a most positive contemplation because in itself we can establish that Man has already progressed past the seeds of influence. Even when it is not so apparent manifestly, it is a point of focus for the whole future concerned.

Having pointed out that there is no especial merit to be had in repetition for the sake of itself, we can continue on in thought to look to its percussive effort in the etheric as it resounds our Christ Story year by year. As the gates reopen we may look in to see that the pictures before us are not of the usual contemplatory death scenes (which are foremost in the Christian presentation throughout the rest of the year); but different, in that the birth of the child Jesus and the harbingering of the Messiah has freshened the World with the hope, honor and glory attributable.

This was much awaited for and yearned about many centuries before His Coming. Great individuals, whose souls' proximities were as far from, as they were close to Him by the nature of their wisdoms carried - great souls almost bereft of patience, had planned for Christ, and kept the 'spaces' open that could receive Him.

This was very much a time for them - for those of the past, all the fellows B.C. who knew with their love that our God was to be received ... and also, from that then Happening, that intrinsically all things would evermore change.

There were many other goodly souls besides, who refused our Christ (before the Incarnation). Their motto, if voiced, might have been 'matter doesn't matter', for they believed that our 'entrapment' in flesh was a punishment (largely undue) which contradicted our spiritual heritage. This 'body' of men who held fast to the denial of this World, and subsequently of our Christ also, were not actively opposed to Him, but because of their own preconceptions married to their splendid beings, they did more to hazard the impact of the Incarnation than any objectionable force could have possibly realized. For the 'anti-matter' group-soul adhered to the angelic line, who perceived anything short of perfection to be worthless. Christ turned that around. Christ taught the angelic host that patience and tolerance brought great results.

You see, when a spiritual being sees a seed which is to become a flower, it perceives the flower already before it. Can you imagine? There are few surprises in the spiritual worlds. All things are apparent to those who have the eyes to see. What something may be destined to become in time, is already there in the spiritual worlds. But not so with Man! Not so with the World!

Therefore it is understandable that there is little confidence and small faith in One who explicitly sets out to change the Future and reshape it, asking all concerned to 'wait and see' before it is revealed. This is revolutionary to much of the Cosmos. This is why so many were opposed to our Christ's entrance deep within Man and all of his expounding futures.

There are those who recognize Christ to be our founding Creator and future Benefactor to Man forever, and then there are those who disassociate and prefer to relate to Father God wholly and utterly, trusting to no other. He gave men their freedom in this, partially because He did not want to ever give cause to come between any soul and our Father. Though He be 'the Way' He still gives men the opportunity to use Him passively. Like so many quadrants in the Heavens where beings pass through oblivious to their surroundings, many men dwell in Christ's own Heart but do not know of their own assumption there.

However, He did make the journey into matter, thereby setting the example of the uppermost spiritual deity suffering the bonding of the flesh. This point is paramount to the Event, for this eased the conflicts within those who suffered so and made their bodies ever after, habitable. Those who were of a pure temperament, yet unsuited to the earthly existence, were clairvoyant enough to perceive the changes Christ signified within even the flesh itself. On their behalf, flesh became deified and was not resisted in terms of it hindering the heart and ego within; and they were then appeased.

No longer was a man held separate to the greater World around him. Nevermore would he feel as distinct from the Heavens during his intercessions incarnating into matter. Already the great improvement has begun, and yet there will be so many adaptations refining all conjunctions so met.

Now men defend their existence here, eager not to pass over and desist from their earthly constraints. Here now, because of Christ's own incarnating, we have the percussive story returning within our own innate knowings, retelling of His persistence as it works its way in us. We may sense the possibilities arising up ahead. We may feel that we can and shall become, yet more with a happy anticipation. 

There is the sublime contradiction. Men have always been of God, and therefore sparky, radiant and perfect, yet their expression of self and capabilities within any given realm is open still to change and becoming increased.

Christ brings us increase through his Love for us. As that same love works its way into our beings and becomes expressed from one unto another, it will certainly awaken new futures of grand and glorious possibility for all men to come. The narrowness of those who rely on the past solely, often exclaim to Him "But Oh! that can't be done!" ... His answer to Mankind has always been, smiling:

From I who bring you
Your very own self,
The one who feels
Passion and pain.

From I who redeems death
In every new birth,
In your heart, hopes
And future, remain.

With LOVE I shall increase all things,
For this is how I made this World,
As my Father taught me;
As my Life,
As my All,
There is naught without Love,
Naught to know.

From the Depths to the Rise,
Where beginnings go on,
I AM ears, I AM eyes,
I AM the minds of you All.

I AM both Stars and their Skies,
And their Heart and their Will -
For in Me is the Life.

I AM all things possible!

Christmas