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The Awareness of Metaphysical Laws and Principles Part 4
Another point of considerable importance is in the realization
that divine revelation is not a static impulse of a moment in time but one that
is continuous in the unchanging background of eternity. Divine Laws are no
respecters of persons. We may believe in a single revelation of God for humanity
for all time and consequently seal ourselves in a cage of human thought, or we
may understand the nature of revelations to be forever unfolding its petals of
divine truths commensurating with the development of man's mental and spiritual
capacity. In one case spiritual stagnation may result, in the other continued
growth. It is, therefore, a good idea for the metaphysician to attune daily with
the Divine Mind to uncover the many laws and principles applicable to humanity's
evolution, and to unfold his intuitive and mental faculties that spiritual
truths may be easily discerned and assimilated.
Theological dogmas misdirect man's attention to a false perception and
understanding of Reality. For example, we are given absurd theories by the
Church concerning cosmology and anthropology which we are to consider as Truth.
The Church fails to realize that the progressive modern mind of man requires
practical, factual and experiential knowledge. Blind beliefs are out of place
and faith without a true foundation no longer fascinates the maturing soul. The
true purpose of life is left untouched and unconsidered by the leaders of the
Church who prefer instead to build one's faith upon the dogma of a
"sole" Son of God for salvation; of teaching and emphasizing a God of
wrath; of an eternal hell which the God of Love was supposed to have created,
etc., ad nauseam. One is left guessing as to what Truth is or to what it refers
to. The scriptures, however, are explicit in their statements as to what Truth
is, what it entails, and implies--including life's purpose as planned by God;
but most adherents of the Christian religion go over them too lightly. Because
the incarnating soul tends to forget its origin and purpose of being while
sojourning in physical matter, we feel that the metaphysician should remind the
masses repeatedly of life's purpose even if it means ending-up as a shooting
target for rotten eggs and tomatoes. Below we present just five of the many
important statements that sums-up the purpose of man's sojourn:
1) "Know ye not that ye are gods?" (Psalms 82:6, John 10:34)
2) "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
perfect" (Matt 5:48)
3) "I and my Father are One." (John 10:30)
4) "Seek ye first the kingdom of God . . . " (Luke 12:31, Matt 6:33)
5) "Get wisdom, wisdom is the principle thing." (Proverbs 4:7)
Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods
Whoever wrote Psalms knew man's true identity to be divine, and that which
appears to be a mortal representation of man merely a façade of the soul.
Christians have long believed in a "sole" son of God, but this is
disputed by the Master Jesus himself when he echoed the words of Psalms to the
Pharisees and the Doctors of the Law. In the Corona Class Lessons, the
"Master Jesus" complains:
"One of the greatest weakness of so-called Christianity lies in the fact
that they have deified me as a god to worship or bow down to and to make
wishful prayers to; yet my mission and message they often neglect . . . "
(1986:27)
And one of the contents of this "message" is to know that we ourselves
are gods and legitimately the spiritual children of God. It is humanity's
mission to reflect, to express their Father-Mother in all of the countless
worlds, realms, and dimensions.
We repeat, humanity is an expression or partial manifestation of God, and are
therefore sons and daughters of the Supreme Being. To consider ourselves any
less is to demean the utterance of Truth by the Nazarene. This statement from
the scriptures point out that humanity must eventually come to realize this
Truth here on earth and in waking consciousness. This truth is what emancipates
a person from all mortal states and conditions.
Be Ye Therefore Perfect, Even as your Father Which is in Heaven is Perfect
We falsely believe in the non-attainability of perfection, and yet, if it were
so, the Nazarene would not have made the above statement which is to be
understood as a commandment and not as a mere suggestion. Granted, that
perfection is non-attainable in the sense that it is no static condition of the
soul, but an ever-growing impulse toward a higher ideal--for instance, a perfect
human being is but an embryonic, imperfect god. However, the goals set for
humanity that represent the state of human perfection by the Divine Mind is
attainable here and now. In fact, this is one of the purposes of the cycle of
incarnation and reincarnation. It is evident that perfection is not attainable
in a single life-time, hence the need for re-incarnating to assist the process
of soul-unfoldment and reach the "Insan Kamil" (Perfect human being)
level as expressed in Islam. The perfect man is a hermaphrodite in a
psychological and spiritual sense. Alchemists and Hermeticists knew of this, and
Carl Jung rediscovered this principle. He believed that society's psychological
ills stems from the non-integration of the many opposite polarities. To put it
succinctly, and from the psychospiritual/psychobiological point of view,
perfection is attained when the positive male and female qualities are
harmoniously united in an individual and the awareness principle centered and
functioning from that state. Below we present some of the associated components
of the male and female:
Female
Right side of the brain
Intuition
Pituitary gland
Sympathetic nervous system
Compassion/Understanding
Subconscious mind
Imagination
Kundalini-Shakti
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Male
Left side of the brain
Intellect
Pineal gland
Central nervous system
Power/Wisdom
Conscious mind
Will
Shiva-Holy Spirit
Imperfection appears real, but life itself is perfect, for life is an expression
of the Supreme Being. To believe that human perfection is a chimera is to
believe in a cosmic deception. Although perfect human beings are seldom seen
they do exist, and they usually live in the discarnate state having fulfilled
the requirements for perfection. The citizens of the Kingdom of God are those
that are perfect in the human sense.
I and My Father are One
This is a statement of Truth, and may result as a spontaneous expression of
one's state of consciousness, rather than a reminder and an affirmation of one's
inner unity with the First Cause. Fundamentalists in certain religions may
consider it blasphemy for one to enunciate this truth, yet, from the spiritual
perspective, the opposite is true. A sense of separation from God is a sacrilege
and is the root of all evil expressions. Man's spiritual growth commensurates
with his growing realization of the unity of all life. Life is evolving every
unit of consciousness to the point where it realizes its individualized identity
in the presence and oneness with the One Supreme Being. This evolutionary
process is hastened with the cooperation of the life-unit itself when it has
reached the stage where it is able to exercise the will of the soul. The will,
however, is often misdirected in appeasing the purposes and goals of the
personality which simply retards the life-unit's sense of divinity, immortality
and identity in God.
Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Seeking externally for a permanent peace of mind, contentment, and happiness
only results in failure. Acquiring and heaping material things in one's home, on
one' person and in one's bank account eventually brings about an empty feeling
in the soul. All that is external to us is transient in nature; therefore,
dependency on externals for our spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being are
likewise short-lived. Caesar's and Mammon's kingdom fail to provide us with
anything of eternal worth; it is only be seeking within that we acquire the
immaterial things beneficial for our continued soul-existence. The kingdom of
God is within and at hand, and not as Christian theology has taught: a place
situated in a paradisical garden in the higher worlds or in the Last Days
waiting for the faithful to enter at some uncertain date. Heaven does exist as a
spiritual archetype and must be manifested in our consciousness and in the
physical world. The Kingdom of God within is an inner reality that life is
directing us to realize and to manifest in our mundane sphere, our external
reality. Once we have gained the Kingdom of Heaven, it is up to us how we will
manifest it on earth. We may choose to manifest worldly abundance, or we may
not. Nevertheless, what is certain is that suffering will be a thing of the
past, for it is promised in the scriptures that God shall wipe away every tear.
The Kingdom's successful appearance is dependent upon the way we think and live,
and the focus and quality of our consciousness.
Get Wisdom, Wisdom is the Principle Thing
According to Tradition, Solomon is supposed to be one of the wisest men who ever
lived. The above statement, therefore, takes on a greater significance for it is
attributed to the Hebrew King who was responsible for the building of the
Temple. Wisdom may be categorized into two types: mundane wisdom of the worldly
man and spiritual wisdom of the enlightened person. The spiritual wisdom of the
enlightened person is much wider in perspective, and all-encompassing than the
wisdom of the worldly individual. Wisdom in its essence is Soul-knowing,
Soul-loving, and Soul-willing. It is one of the aspects of the Spiritual Triad
within the microcosmic being of man. Its unfoldment and application in one's
world assists in proper assimilation of one's mundane experiences. Wisdom in its
lower spiritual form, as understood in Hindu philosophy, is the application of
Viveka and Vairagya, or discrimination and detachment--discrimination as to what
is real and unreal, and the detachment of that which is unreal and false.
Meditation, introspection and prayer are some of the principle means whereby the
wisdom of the Soul may be evoked into waking consciousness. Knowledge that is
spiritually understood is the acquisition of wisdom, and as wisdom grows, so
does one's illumination. Salvation is automatic when one attains illumination.
Without wisdom a person goes through life making foolish mistakes and karma that
bind him or her to samsara--or the lower worlds. Wisdom, therefore, has an
emancipative quality which directs a person to Reality and is to be considered
as a "principle thing" to be acquired.
The Laws of Life
The average person drifts through life without sparing a thought as to its
purpose. When facing problems he usually either flees from it, in which case he
confronts it in another form because the seed of the problem lies within, or
else he submits feebly to its occurrence. In both cases he fails to extract the
teaching that it may convey to his evolving soul. Without a proper philosophy of
life man lives like the lower life-forms, indulging in the lower senses and
gratifying the base appetites and instincts. An improper philosophy of life is
materialistically oriented--it is deemed improper because it neglects the
spiritual side of Nature and because of such it fails to answer adequately the
many vicissitudes and paradoxes of life that confronts man daily. What we
propose is a metaphysical philosophy in which is based the Cosmic Laws and the
Eternal Purpose. Such a philosophy may come about as a result of a growing
sensitivity to the divine nature within--to a metaphysical awareness of the
Soul. In this philosophy all of the beliefs and tenets of a materialistic way is
replaced with a loftier understanding and attitude as seen from a spiritual
base. For instance, science informs us that we all possess several instinctive
urges that motivate our zeal for life; they may be summed-up as follows:
1) The instinct of self-preservation
2) The instinct of self-perpetuation
3) The herd instinct
4) The religious instinct
These instincts are well known in psychology, therefore we shall not take the
time to explain them. We shall instead analyze their hidden, occult nature, as
seen from a spiritual standpoint.
The Instinct of Self-Preservation
At a higher spiral of evolution, this primal instinct of self-preservation
applies to the soul being of man where it is transformed into the evocation and
preservation of one's Higher Self in one's waking consciousness. St. Paul calls
this the forming of the Christ within. As man is transformed spiritually, he
displaces the lower self, the false ego, with the preservation of the Real Self
with which he identifies himself. Mortality is thereby transcended as the
divinity of the Real Self is preserved, maintained and lived. We must be careful
not to limit ourselves because of the false image or conception we have of what
we believe ourselves to be. That which appears is unreal; that which is Real, is
hidden. It is the archetypal image of man that God created and saw that it was
good. There should, therefore, be a cessation of the identification with the
unreal.
The Instinct of Self-Perpetuation
This instinct of self-perpetuation is a creative impulse that the biological
being of man translates into procreation or generation. From the spiritual
standpoint, creativity is in manifesting the qualities of man's innate divinity,
and in expressing the divine urge to create outwardly through the mind with the
symbol and tool of his will--the hands; and to internally re-create or
regenerate anew the quality and life of the cells composing his organic being.
Self-perpetuation, therefore, takes on a spiritual nature in which the
"self" that is perpetuated is the intrinsic genius and uniqueness of
the Soul expressed and moulded upon inanimate and animate matter. Mediocrity is
the result of our own sense of self-limitation and false identity. Our true
potential is realized by giving up this false state and expressing what really
lies within our spiritual nature. Self-depreciation and exaltation of the lower
self simply shuts out the light of our Higher Self.
The Herd Instinct
Gregariousness, or the herd instinct in the lower being of man is the desire to
socialize, to identify himself with others like himself. This instinct gives
rise to the old proverb, "bird of a feather flock together." Man has
been called a social animal, and in this propensity towards others of his kind
lies the underlying, unconscious spiritual urge to be one with Nature, to unite
with God. Spiritually, man seeks unity with the Source of his being, to identify
himself with something greater than what he believes himself to be. Not
realizing the purport of this instinctive urge, man seeks outwardly for that
which can only be found within. Relationships with individuals, with groups,
with clans, with others of like creed will fail to satisfy the Soul-urge, for
all that which is external to man is ephemeral. Transcending mob-consciousness
is the way towards attaining superconsciousness. Man seeks to unite with God for
he senses a certain "separation" from his Source, a certain void in
his heart. A sense of separation ascribes to us all the opposite virtues of the
Supreme Being--its power, wisdom, and love. We falsely see ourselves as mere
humans, weak, powerless, finite, limited, mortal, and wisdomless. Nothing less
than the "mystical union" with the Universal Being will bring man true
peace, happiness and contentment. In order to enforce this sense of
non-separation from God, one ought to think, speak and act as though we were one
with God. Affirmations and decrees such as "I and my Father are one"
are of great aid.
The Religious Instinct
Carl Jung proposed that man possesses a religious instinct which motivates him
to recognize, or to believe, and be devoted to something higher than himself in
which he has come to call "God." Basically, this has a similar meaning
with the spiritual connotation, interpretation and application of the herd
instinct. It is actually the urge to evolve, to progress to a higher state of
consciousness. Animals, plants and lower life-forms move along the currents of
evolution in an unconscious manner. Lacking the mind-principle and the force of
the will, they are unable to participate in their own evolution. Man, however,
has all the tools, the faculties in his possession to take part in his return to
his "Father," like the prodigal son. We believe that either this
instinct has been misnamed or else it has been misunderstood, as it has
perpetuated man's bondage to religious creeds. Ignorant of the spiritual nature
of the religious instinct, man has created a demarcation between a life lived
spiritually, and religious devotions to man-made dogmas, often praising the
latter while condemning the former. Man will not fulfill God's Plan so long as
his devotions are directed to maya, glamor, and illusions rather than to Truth.
Man's present form of worship is directed to an idea, an image of a belief.
There is no true knowing by experience of what he worships. Unless he turns
towards that which is Real and reflects it in his life, man is not truely being
"religious." Instead of humanizing God, we should spiritualize man.
Understanding the primal instincts to be spiritual urges and laws with a
metaphysical application enriches one's personal philosophy and attitude towards
the purpose of existence. A philosophy of life should be based on Truth, based
on the Laws of the Cosmos that brought the solar system into being. Spiritual
laws unfold man's awareness when applied, and an understanding of those laws
gives man a greater direction in life, a greater sense of unity with Nature and
a responsibility to life as a whole. There are many Cosmic laws that man should
incorporate into his philosophy of life and turn into principles of living. Laws
of Love, of Harmony, of Justice, Beauty, Cooperation, and Service, for instance,
provides man with enough material to expand his awareness to embrace the Cosmos.
Divine Laws are a manifestation of the Supreme Being . By living in accord with
these Laws, we manifest in our lives abundance in a material and a
psycho-spiritual sense. It is these Cosmic Laws that the spiritual counselor
should teach all those that aspire to realize, to be, and to become their Real
Self.
Copyright © 2006 Luxamore
Bio:
Leonard Lee aka Luxamore: Metaphysical teacher, counseler, healer and merchant
of occult/magickal items of Indonesia. www.indotalisman.com
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