Dear Seeker,

     As near-death survivor and author Dannion Brinkley puts it, we are not human beings, but rather spiritual beings having a human experience. Spirituality is the crux of life, the hidden coding and inner working of the universe. Spirituality transcends religious doctrine, though it lies at the heart of each religious inception. Spirituality is a map of where we came from, and to where we are going.

    This page features the insights of theosophists and spiritual pioneers, including C. W. Leadbeater, Annie Bessant, Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, and mystics, adepts and saints, East and West. We also welcome spiritual insights, miracle testimonials and witnesses from readers, including accounts of near-death experiences.

 

The Lord's Prayer from a Native American perspective, by John Denver.
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Explore the Science of Miracles, with Gregg Braden. An inspiring presentation on science, the lost teachings of the Bible, eastern and western spiritual truths, the web of light and the power of feeling in prayer. Watch it here.

We can rewrite the code of consciousness to overcome negative prophecies and events, by being kind and through prayer Part 1 and Part 2

An extraordinary quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

 

Lord Sakka's Restraint

As we contemplate the heavenworld, four essential qualities emerge for our consideration--commitment on the line of the Father, earnestness on the line of the Son, devotion to life on the line of the Mother, and graciousness on the line of the Holy Spirit.

We are shifting from Pisces to Aquarius, and the feminine qualities of the Mother and the Holy Spirit Girlchild are coming to the fore. Graciousness is an extraordinary quality that all of the heavenly beings embody, and through which they relate to one another. True graciousness says, “I value you, not for what you bring to me, but simply because I love you. The God in me loves the God in you.”

The same divine graciousness that gave us free will, frees us through the Holy Spirit initiation that is coming upon Terra. It will help us to love our enemies, to forsake negative competition, our calculating human agendas and all of our dislikes and resentments.

The initiation is described in Lord Sakka's Restraint, a story Gautama Buddha taught his disciples about an ancient battle between the angels of light who are the devas, and the fallen angels or asuras. The devas are victorious and the asura king Vepacitti is captured and imprisoned. Then Lord Sakka, the ruler of the gods, visits Vepacitti in prison, and Vepacitti abuses and reviles him with rude, harsh words, to which Sakka does not respond in kind. Afterwards, Sakka's charioteer questions Sakka about this, expressing concern that some would see Sakka's response as indicative of fear or weakness. Sakka replies:

It is neither through fear nor weakness
That I am patient with Vepacitti.
How can a wise person
Engage in combat with one who is foolish and deluded?
... Of goals that culminate in one's own good
None is found better than patience.
...One who repays an angry man with anger
Thereby makes things worse for himself.
Not repaying an angry man with anger,
One wins a battle hard to win.
He practices for the welfare of both,
His own and the other's,
When, knowing that his foe is angry,
He mindfully maintains his peace.
When he achieves the cure of both —
His own and the other's —
The people who consider him a fool
Are unskilled in the Dharma.

Though paradoxical to our human ego, it is through the seeming weakness of patience, gentleness, forgiveness, forbearance, compassion, tenderness and graciousness that the meek do inherit the earth and that we can change in the twinkling of an eye.

Lord Sakka, the incarnation of Brahman, is our beloved Sanat Kumara. He brings us this Kshanti initiation of patient endurance, which, like a sparkling stream, polishes, smooths and wears down the rocks of our pride, our ambition and our deified sense of separateness. He reveals to us the holy mystery sealed as the gift of the Girlchild within us, that lifts our consciousness through the doorway of the heart.

Angels among us

Although we find the statement in theosophical literature that the angels do not cross over into the Christic evolution, what was meant was that they do not cross over as angels, but must incarnate as humans. When an angel embodies in a human form, a tremendous spiritual sacrifice takes place. They must give up their angelic fluidity, expansiveness and flight ability.

It seems as though the angelic being has been greatly reduced by entering the Christ consciousness as a human who must start at the bottom of the evolution, but nothing is actually lost. All of the previous spiritual attainment, power, ability and advanced evolution becomes stored at the level of the Angel of the Presence (our highest spiritual self) and its animating consciousness, which is the I AM.

In the heaven world, angels do not have complete free will until they reach the archangelic level. Until this time, as they ascend from the fairy kingdom into the devic kingdom and on up, they are gaining more and more free will. The kind of free will that angels enjoy is much more unhampered than for the average human who is in physical incarnation on the path to their personal Christhood.

At the time of the fourth root race, Lucifer was an archangel who had reached a certain level of initiation, and instead of passing that initiation, decided of his own free will to rebel against God. He gathered support among his lieutenants and theese ones led a rebellion in the heaven world until Archangel Michael cast them out of the etheric octave. This is recorded in the book of Revelation. “And there was war in Heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and is angels, and prevailed not. Neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

The angels on the upper echelons of the angelic pyramid that fell (Lucifer, Satan, Serpent, Moloch, Beelzebub, and others) knew what they were doing. As a result, they did not incarnate in human form. They were restricted to the astral plane because of their karma. From the astral plane, they continued to orchestrate their rebellion, like a mafiosi boss in jail, enticing the embodied Christed and angelic evolution to follow their downward spiral.

At the time of the fall, the angels who served under rebellious ones did not have full free will. Initially, they did not know that their leaders had fallen. They were simply exercising obedience. As an act of mercy, these deceived ones were allowed to embody in the physical plane to break away from their hierarchs and redeem themselves. As soon as they incarnated, they received the gift of free will which allowed them to make that turn around. This is why the Book of Revelations describes, “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth (the physical plane) and of the sea (the astral plane) for the devil (the deified energy veil created by Lucifer and other fallen ones) is come down unto you having great wrath. Because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

When the angels in heaven saw what had happened to their brothers and sisters, many volunteered to come into embodiment to rescue those who in their ignorance, had unwittingly followed Lucifer in his fall. Such was the example of the Archeia Mary, who long before becoming the mother of Jesus, incarnated in places yet to be revealed, as well as on Atlantis, and as the mother of King David (who was the soul of Jesus in that previous incarnation.)

Though embodied angels lost conscious access to their former attainment, this seeming great loss was actually an investment into a far greater potential for spiritual advancement. Once incarnated, their tremendous life force became available to the physical plane. Now the most mundane tasks for right action release that life force, which in turn contributes to the advancement of the general human evolution.

For the angels who embodied on the rescue mission, what was gained was the exercising of free will and the opportunity to regain their past glory through service to God, Elohim, elementals, the Christic evolution and their own angelic evolution, that they may choose to rejoin after the higher fourth initiation, as did our “Queen of the Angels.”

Incarnated angels have greater difficulty operating at a human level, especially initially, because they have larger emotional bodies, making it harder for them to master their feelings than for the christed evolution. This initial disadvantage becomes a great advantage when the embodied angel develops the mastery of selflessness. Then, their large emotional body becomes a mighty chalice for the Holy Spirit in a “larger than life” capacity.

The quickest way for embodied angels to achieve the level of selflessness and emotional self-mastery required for the victory is to develop a relationship with a sponsoring ascended master. In this relationship, the master teaches the embodied angel to forsake the path of emotional reaction. Though it is especially hard for people with large emotional bodies to submit to the seemingly external authority coming from the master and give up their often cherished emotionalism, when this is accomplished, great service can be rendered. The master will help the embodied angel harness the tremendous energy in motion (e-motion) that is contained within their auric field, as well as to unfold their Christ consciousness for the saving of mankind.

Following her lifetimes of service on Earth and her ascension in the light, Mary now bears not only an angelic crown but one of greater glory, described in the Book of Hebrews. This crown of greater glory awaits all of the angels who incarnated into the Christed evolution on a rescue mission for their brothers and sisters and for child humanity, who will ascend home from that Christed evolution.

-by Brian and Therese Emmanuel Grey

 

 

Busting Loose from the Money Game, a book with tremendous insights on working with the superconscious and the unconscious mind to gain spiritual freedom and magnetize abundance into our life. The author writes,

The I Am Self projects the Christ into the world of souls and human personalities to be able to perceive the illusion of evil, but does not itself perceive it, ("Mine eyes are too pure to see iniquity I am only able to perceive Reality" Bible quote referring to God). Therefore the Christ is the redeemer of the lost parts of God's consciousness from the illusion of evil to the actuality of Good/God reality, transitioning consciousness from the impermanent to the permanent.
Read more about the book here.

 

An amazing documentary about water, the power of mantras and the science behind our spiritual interconnectedness. Watch it here

 

 

Love, idolatry and becoming the master's vessel

It is natural to want to be important, to feel appreciated, to elicit a positive response from other people. The thing is, we have to look at how we go about it, and whether our intentions are based on idolatry and self-idolatry, or love. Both idolatry and love are ruby ray initiations. Idolatry is a result of selfishness and love is a result of selflessness. Idolatry comes from a place of being alone and love comes from a place of being all-one. When we are looking at ways to be important, it is actually because we feel alone, so we pursue external validation and external authority.

We are important, but not in the sense that importance is defined through idolatry or self-idolatry, or through the meachanism that says, “You're one up,” or “you're one down.” What is important about us is our soul, our connection to our higher self and our personality, as long as it is making choices that lead to a permanent spiritual reality.

Personalities are like the costumes we wear as the character in a particular play. When we come into a new life, we put the former personality back up on the hanger and don a new outfit. We must forgive ourselves for our past life personalities and their mistakes. We must stop idolizing them and making them and their mistakes more imporant than what they really are. They are like costumes hanging in the dressing room. Only when we make our ascension are they reintegrated into our being in a permanent way. We have to stop shaming ourselves by giving them more power, because this becomes the activation of a husk. The not-self, of course, wants us to do so, like the big Tibetan mask parades that masquerade.

So we have to look at the idolatry that we have for our present and past-life personalities, and how we assign to the personality more importance than it really has. We also have to look at the idolatry that we project onto our higher self and sponsoring master, and how we, in turn, feel unworthy. Idolatry of the higher self and idolatry of the master isn't love.

Think about this. How would you love the master without idolatry, and help the master meet his or her needs? How would you serve him when he walks into your living room, into your life and your heart, without idolatry? Jesus said it when he said, “This which ye do to the least of the brethren you do unto me.” The challenge is we have to serve without resentment, without pride, without thought of self-gain and all of those dweller motivations. This takes the “zing' out of service and makes serving feel heavy, until we get to that place where we move into the bliss of selflessness and all-oneness.

Yes, we are important, but we must be careful not to yield to the flip side of the equation that says, all is all right. It's like the song lyrics, “How could anyone ever tell you, you were anything less than beautiful, how could anyone ever tell you, you were less than whole?” This is true for the soul in her innocence, but we have to be completely on guard with the not-self, the dweller-on-the-threshold who is our own creation, and for which we are 100 percent responsible.

Our dweller is not wonderful and we must take full responsibility for our human creation which keeps tripping us up. That is being adult. We understand that we are important in the sense that we are stepping out of the carnal mind so we can be vehicles for the Christ mind.

We stop idolizing the master, as well as other people, and then trying to tear them down. That is iconoclastic behavior, the tearing down of idols that we had previously erected. We have to look at what is authentic and real.

There are so many distractions and opposing factors to the quality of love, projected at us all the time, and welling up from within as records that must be transmuted. We experience fear, doubt, the sense of injustice, of being done to and taking offense. We have envy and jealousy and fatigue and discouragement.We have the stress of coping and the need to feel secure and protected. In the face of all of this, we must learn to expand love and give more love, not less.

The Five Dhyani Buddhas will help us. The Buddha Vairochana brings to us the all-pervading wisdom of the Dharmakaya to consume in us the poison of ignorance. The Buddha Akshobhya brings to us mirrorlike wisdom to consume in us all anger, hatred and hate creation. The Buddha Ratnasambhava brings to us the wisdom of equality to help us overcome spiritual intellectual and human pride. The Buddha Amitabha brings to us discriminating wisdom to help us overcome all cravings, covetousness, gredd and lust. The Buddha Amoghasiddhi brings to us all-ccomplishing wisdom that consumes in us the poisons of envy and jealousy. Now combining their strengths as Vajrasatva, the buddhas bring to us the diamond will of God to free us from fear, doubt and non-belief in God.

Love is the universal language that cuts through all different levels of consciousness. It is where we are counted on. It is where we are important. Look then, at the different areas of your service and see where you infuse the greatest love, not self-love but love. That is the greatest quality, as the apostle Paul said.

Jesus told his disciples, “Love one another as I have loved you.” How did Jesus love us? Jesus loved the real self. He did not condemn the soul/personality and rescued Mary Magdalene. Simultaneously, he was fierce in confronting the not-self and often rebuked Peter and the other disciples. He honored Zaccheus for his earnestness and went to visit him in his home. And as he was walking to his crucifixion, he was thinking about the initiations his disciples and followers would also have to face in the next two thousand years and was concerned and invested in their long-term victory. He also had no idolatry for himself and said, “These things that I do ye shall do, and greater because I go unto my Father.” The relationship was real and down-to earth, even as it brought heaven closer.

Now it is our turn. Can we really love the master without idolizing him, and invite him in for a cup of tea, or to sup with us? Can we be adult with the master and relate with respect, consideration, love, devotion, friendship and the willingness to roll up our sleeves alongside him? Can we relate without idolatry, without giving in to the lower impulse to tear the master's work apart or to tear ourselves down?

People will come to us for a love that is greater than ourselves but we have to open the door and prime the pump. Jesus was an example of that love and the multitudes flocked to him. When this contact with the master is made and sustained, we will truly be important. We are important already because we have the free will to facilitate this all-important event. When this connection occurs however, our vibration changes. We become all-one. We become selfless, meaning “less” the lesser self, and in that moment, the greater self comes in.

We don't have to put out all this effort to try and be important anymore. We feel the all-oneness and it no longer matters whether we are important or not. All that matters is that we stay connected and true and authentic and dependable and trustworthy and loving.

We have become the Good Shepherd.

-by Therese Emmanuel Grey