A Blessing- 2016

The gracefulness that is love,

Brings the light to life,

And the Spirit into being,


Celebrate, commemorate,

And know that by this blessing of blessings,

The World and its Heavens,

And all the mighty engines,

Are replenished by this moment.

Preparing for Death- 23rd July 2023

Life is kind, life is sweet, and death, dear death, is sweeter still.

This is the home to which we all will go - the marzipan* and the willow switch* - the sunlit shadow.

Where every striving will bring forth its reward, and with one’s release comes also the satisfaction of living one’s life will be known.

Time cannot penetrate the heavenly regions, and mysteriously, completely, we are not only united with those souls who have past gone that we have cherished, but also it is as if immediately that we are with our dearest friends and loved ones from the here and now living in the physical world also.

For during their sleep they transport to us ... especially when grieving they are drawn to thusly, and there we continue on as before with our connections and friendships and family - being a conduit thereafter to both the past and the present.

They gather to us, and although those within the physical world mostly cannot recall these nightly meetings, and needs must continue their lives still so, they have the nightly peregrinations which take them to they who have departed.

For the heavens celebrate the bonds of life so loved, and as natural law they ever seek to join and co-join one another.

Rest assured dear soul that truly a greater life awaits - one that is without pain, struggle or solitude.

This communion of life is the ultimate good fortune won by effort and kindness and kinship that is personal, significant and resilient - this is the immutable way - that we go to a greater life from life, beyond the constraints herewith.

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* On Marzipan: For it is in Lubeck, an island in the middle of a River, quite close to the Baltic Sea—that a strange myth, concerning the invention of Marzipan, has been propagated. According to the bare bones of the story, Marzipan was invented in Lubeck in 1407 during a Famine, or Hungersnot so severe that all there was left to eat were some almonds, eggs and sugar. When these three ingredients were combined, so the story goes, Marzipan was invented, and the villagers (presumably) escaped death at the hands of the Hungersnot.

Indeed, by implication, the Marzipan could be said to have saved the people of Luebeck from hunger forevermore, thus constituting a miraculous substance, not unlike the breadtree explorers dreamt of transporting across entire oceans, or manna flung down from Heaven.


**The Willow tree was often a symbol of Death.

A Divine Countenance- 30th July 2023

The portals to behaviour are many and varied and yet most individuals choose but a few, and prefer these few throughout their life in repetition and with familiarity.

And then it is that some behaviours do not have portals as such, but rather they come directly from what would be an arterial vein if it were a vein, from the heavenly character itself. And so the grace which is sincerity, charity, kindness - these things which we will name a'further, do not require additional sheaths as it were, of presentation or characterization.

In other words an individual can either behave in a way that is characterized of, and by themselves, or they can actually behave with a heavenly grace that is characterized with a divine countenance.

And so our interactions with others depend on not a few circumstances for which we may choose one above the other.

Even the saintly individual who is complicit, who is honest, who invokes their manner according to having a good character, this individual still requires a set of superficial behaviours as well, and will often utilise the lesser aspects depending upon who and what comes their way.

For example: most of us enjoy our own company, within our own thinking and being; and the more dutiful or honest an individual has become, the more this is to be true ... and so when such a person finds themselves in the company of others who they do not meet minds with then, or understand their spiritual perspective, they are compromised from the outset. It is a difficult relationship to be had when one person simply does not understand the other.

Ideas can clash literally, even in the ethers before a word is spoken. And so perhaps it is that the most honest of souls finds this contest difficult and can revert into behaviour which is somewhat disingenuous because of the circumstances.

The only other alternative in this situation is to be perfectly quiet and say nothing at all, however, even with this the ideas will still clash above them and the contest will be very real nonetheless.

Now with all this being said it would appear that interactions are difficult even at the best of times, and yet this is not really the case insofar as people enjoy these confrontations, particularly on a spiritual level where in truth such communications are taking place all the time, in lively ways. It is our nature to love such energetic meetings and cooperative ventures.

We may briefly converse with a stranger, or in lengthy dialogue - we may reach out in conversation to someone who is not in our physical presence and converse in spirit speak, and that too can be a fulfilling and very real back-and-forth on a higher level.

Returning to the arterial dialogue where a person speaks from the spirit directly in a genuine and unfiltered manner: if two people can achieve this at the same time then there is love experienced between the two. There within this interaction becomes a sense of that very moment in the present where heaven meets heaven.

Often that moment can be within a loving silence where the spirit dialogue meets - it can be at the bedside of someone who is ill or caring for another - or in the sunlight, shared in the warmth of the day - it can occur where two are thinking at the same time of one another despite there being a distance between.

When we speak to those who have departed and the honesty is raw and the expression is real, and they hear us, there becomes also this sweet timing, and the blessed sense of heavenly purpose.

The Steep Incline- 2nd July 2023

Fortitude and resilience are the two qualities, the two strengths, that assist the wakeful spirit in every activity about.

Added to this there is a tensile strength which holds a particular quality peculiar to itself.

And so we have:

1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength 

4. and then lastly, the fourth quality to consider is motion/as opposed to inertia.

Inertia, from a spiritual perspective, is literally the cousin to death and often precedes the arrival of death.

This does not have to mean a physical death departing this life, but of course it is an indicator and precedent of such ... but moreover those forces leading to the dissipation of any such thing as a thought, or behaviour, a desire, a relationship, an aberration, a health issue and so forth.

The checklist tells us definitively how something is going when we ask ourselves do we have:

1. Strength
2. Resilience
3. Tensile Strength
4. Motion/not inertia.

Spiritually speaking we can look to how one may acquire more strength itself - whilst remembering also that all qualities begin at their source: one needs to acquire spiritual strength if they are to have robust strength within their will or physical body, or thought, or morality, firstly.

Strength improves with repetition - it is percussive - it is why the army will march to a set rhythm drawing in more strength with every repeating beat of footfall. Equally the repeated mantra or prayer will bring in a certain strength that gets more incarnated into being with every repetition.

Exercising can begin with the tapping of a finger in a repeated sequence - for it is the repetition that brings the strength even though the movement facilitates or enacts and feeds the tissue, it is the will just repeating itself that casts the etheric energy into the mix and fortifies the whole.

Resilience enables us to withstand and tolerate the forces all about us - without resilience we would literally fall apart. It is the power to be oneself, and the ability to remain oneself; and in many respects most individuals are lacking in this coherent shield by which we maintain our personal identity, thought, selfhood, sensibility, reasoning, physical structure, etc.

Resilience is a wonderful quality which again is primarily cosmic, beginning with stepping back, stepping away, rather than engaging with something we instead pull back just far enough to get out of its way, but hold it still in plain view.

It is a shift of perspective and the motion to retreat, to separate, to absolve oneself, and if necessary, to remove oneself, from a condition or situation. It is fluid, responsive and adept to adapt. This quality is improved with humility, for humility is the spiritual precedent and kernel to such an adaptation as is resilience.

Tensile strength proffers a quality of elasticity and a combination of the first two qualities becoming now something that is yet separate again: to be strong with humility is perspect to the divine.

Lastly, motion/not inertia: motion of course precedes repetition and is key to all action. It becomes a chicken and egg consideration to ask which comes first: the motion or the will to drive it? Or is it the will merely riding it?

Nonetheless we never really do more than channel the motion itself - not one individual actually motivates anything at all of himself. We are as infants in toy cars as far as that goes ... science may pretend it can captivate forces and compel them, however they coerce them at best and only then for a time, and only if the greater Will permits. In truth not one of us compels or invokes the powers of universal motion outside of our own small sphere - no, we literally ride waves, and for this we need to be synchronised to the heartbeat of the life around us.

And so lacking in motion i.e. inertia, is symptomatic of one being out of rhythm in general.

This is why in spiritual science so much attention is given to the cycles and rhythms, and maintaining practices that coincide with these repetitions. In this way we may gain a personal momentum that can carry us well throughout our lives and beyond.