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Ageless words of wisdom can spur us on the Path. Study of scriptures, traditional and alternative, combined with meditation and prayer have been encouraged by wisdom teachers through the ages. The passage below give a clear and magestic picture of universal process. We don't know the author, but if you do, and are first to email us with a educated guess, we will give you a free Natal Birth Report.
I teach another dimension to the meditative process, which changes from a passive technique of emptying the mind to an active technique of directing the mind and emotions. I call these active meditations "spiritual exercises" which suggests the activity of exercise combined with a spiritual focus and thrust. This book deals with spiritual exercises although I'll use the word mediation because it is familiar and many people are comfortable with it. .
The Soul is an extremely dynamic, forceful, creative unit of energy. It is alive in the truest, most pure sense of the word. It is the part of every person that never dies, always exists, always is. It is an extension of God and a spark of the Divine. It is your truest reality. The body, mind and emotions are the vehicles through which your Soul gains experience in this world. They are not who you are. They are illusionary and transient.
Because the Soul is active and dynamically alive, you must become active and alive in order to know that essence of yourself. You must awaken yourself to that reality, that dynamic beingness that is your Soul. You cannot awaken to that which is active by being passive. You must become active to reach Soul consciousness. That is why I teach the active process of spiritual exercises as the key to Soul Transcendence.
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5. Every Solar System is a perfected ordered mechanism which is not only governed by immutable laws of Nature, but is the manifestation of a transcended Intelligence which is called God or Logos.
6. The physical sun and the planets connected with it are the outermost or densest part of the Solar System, there being several invisible worlds composed of increasingly finer matter interpenetrating the physical world.
The following is from educator John Roger's "Inner Worlds of Meditation," Mandeville Press, Los Angeles, 1997, available through msia.com. It's hard to top his books, tapes and seminars for practical keys to spirituality so let more Light ... shine in!
4. The innumerable Solar Systems which form part of the manifested universe are expressions of this Ultimate Reality, each Solar System forming an independent unit, and yet remaining rooted in the Ever-Unmanifest Reality.
Key Ideas in Spiritual Philosophy
1. "The manifest universe is rooted in an Eternal, Boundless, Immutable, Ever-Unmanifest Principle which is called the Absolute, Parabrahman or the Ultimate Reality. This Principle transcends the power of human comprehension.
2. Consciousness and Power, or Spirit and Matter are not two independent realities but polar aspects of the Absolute. They are the first products of differentiation, and the basis of Manifestation.
3. From this Triad proceed all the numberless universes which appear and disappear in an endless cycle of Srishti and Pralaya, or Manifestation and Dissolution.
7. The whole Solar System with its planets, visible and invisible, is a vast theater of evolution on which life in its various stages and innumerable forms is evolving to greater and greater perfection.
8. All this stupendous process is taking place according a definite plan present in the Divine Consciousness and controlled and guided by various hierarchies of Beings at different stages of evolution.
9. The evolution of humanity on our earth is guided by an Occult Hierarchy, composed of perfected human beings who have unfolded within themselves transcendent powers and faculties of which we can have no conception at our present stage. They are in constant and intimate touch with one another and with the affairs of the world, and guide it according to the Divine Plan with consummate skill and wisdom.
10. Life evolves gradually stage by stage through the mineral, vegetable, animal and human kingdoms, evolution continuing even after the perfection of the human stage has been reached.
11. Every human being is divine in essence, contains within himself all the qualities and powers which we associate with Divinity in a germinal state, and these are unfolded gradually, leading to an ever-increasing perfection and expansion of consciousness which as no limit....
The Solar System
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12. Not only the physical but all other aspects of human life are governed by natural laws operating in their respective spheres. This all embracing law of cause and effect, which is generally known as Karma makes man the master of his destiny and the dispenser of happiness or misery to himself.
14. As the evolution of forms in the vegetable and animal kingdoms can be accelerated by utilizing biological laws, so the evolution of man can be greatly accelerated by the application of mental and spiritual laws operating on their respective planes.
15. The Science of Self-Culture is based on the application of these natural laws in their totality to the problem of human evolution, and is therefore as certain and reliable in giving definite results as the laws working on the physical plane are in the field of modern science."
