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The
Awareness of Metaphysical Laws and Principles Part 1
INTRODUCTION
The upsurge of spiritual energies encircling our planet at this present time,
has resulted in an awakening in humanity of the existence of higher realities.
Whatever the cause of this spiritual conflagration in the hearts and minds of
humanity may be, the effects of its pulsation are readily apparent in the
interest taken by the general public in the many metaphysical arts and sciences
that were once considered occult and mystical, studied and applied by only an
elite few. This higher awareness is gaining momentum with the aid of scientific
research and study that is being carried-out in various universities and
colleges--researches based on the theories of hyperspace and quantum physics,
and also in the field of parapsychic science. Various paradigms of the
constitution of man and his occult anatomy as found in Eastern philosophy and
Yoga are being discovered to contain elements of truth. Even the nature of the
occult processes of death are now being studied through various methods already
established by science, such as hypnotic-regression. The problem now facing the
metaphysical teacher and practitioner is:
1) The integrating of present findings of science to traditional metaphysical
knowledge so as to be able to convey spiritual truths and Cosmic Laws in a
rational, logical and intelligent manner to the educated masses who are wary of
traditional cultural values and knowledge that are out-worn or unscientifically
presented, such as precepts of value that are sometimes wrongfully considered to
be superstitions.
2) To present new ways of teaching and healing in an efficacious and holistic
manner.
3) To personally prepare the metaphysician's own mind, body, and soul that s/he
may effectively heal the dis-eased psycho-somatic principles of humanity.
4) To present metaphysical truths that would stimulate and awaken the innate
divinity of those interested persons, thus fostering spiritual growth in
contradistinction to the development of religious fervor, bigotry, zealousness,
and fanaticism. The precept of universalism falls upon the shoulders of
metaphysicians to educate the masses.
The four points above should be the main goal of metaphysics. Too often we see
so-called metaphysical counselors degenerating into psycho-deceivers and
rapists, into street fortune tellers and psychic readers who present sensational
readings to appease the lower selves of their clients. Such a manner of
counseling causes a dependency to others on the part of the client. As a result,
spiritual growth is stunted for both the client and the counselor; for the
counselor is responsible for what he teaches. Most people seem to believe that
psychic ability indicates a high spiritual development. This is one of the
erroneous beliefs concerning metaphysics that has to be rectified. A psychic
person may not be spiritual, neither does a spiritually-evolved person to a
certain degree have to be psychic. Low forms of psychicism may be atavistic, an
indication of soul-regression, for certain animals have shown to be sensitive to
psychic impressions. Psychic abilities may deceive a person and others into
thinking that one is an "old soul." There is an element of pride in
this and is a spiritual pitfall. Like the medical profession that upholds the
ethical code of Harpocrates, the metaphysician should conform to the divine
moral principles that resides in his innermost being, and not deceive anyone,
himself included, as to the puerile over-concern over one's soul status or
spiritual standing.
In this dawning of the Aquarian Age, every person is to be their own priest and
healer. This should be kept in mind by those who are seeking to be shepherds of
men. Like Socrates, counselors should be adept in awakening the inner
intelligence of those who come to his sanctum for advice by mystical,
metaphysical and psychological means, and not simply repeating scriptural verses
or platitudes parrot-like for their clients to swallow. People may reiterate
verbally the wisdom of others, and yet in their lives we see nothing--no
divinity expressing through them. To practice what we preach is a trite saying,
but a true one nevertheless.
Metaphysical and spiritual teachers should strive to connect every person who
calls at his door to the person's own Inner Light, to the person's own innate
wisdom or Buddhic Mind. We should all take responsibility for our own spiritual
unfoldment. Self-reliance and self-motivation are factors that indicate the
maturing of the soul. It is of vital importance to educate people the lesson of
non-dependency upon the unreal, that which is false, the non-self, upon
externals, and upon the fallible human intellect.
Awareness of higher realms is not synonymous to the ability to function in those
states. Before one can operate one's microcosmic components in higher dimensions
and apply the laws governing any field of evolution, the laws of those states
must be understood; the occult nature of man must be known and developed. For
without the understanding of such, wisdom and power lies dormant. The Universe
operates through Cosmic Laws and creative principles. By knowing and
understanding these laws, it is possible for the human mind/will to apply and
direct these laws so as to manifest perfection in mind, body, and soul. Cosmic
energies may be harnessed by knowing its source, nature, and how it operates in
the universe; and by duplicating the processes of creation in our individual
lives, we raise our creative level and output that eventually manifests in
abundance, prosperity, peace, health, love and fulfillment. A high level of
awareness creates strong, constructive survivors out of us. It stimulates in us
a profound interest in the abstract, in the first causes of mundane
manifestations of circumstances, conditions and states that fill our lives.
An intellectual understanding of the Cosmos and its laws, and Reality, is
insufficient, however. At a certain point of one's probing into Reality, the
intellect has to be transcended and a higher faculty of the soul brought into
activity. It is incumbent upon the metaphysical counselor to unfold divine
qualities such as wisdom, love, power, and intelligence that he may be an
effective instrument in the hands of the Divine Being.
Laws of Nature belonging to any realm of existence are natural. It is only by
non-awareness and non-apprehension of those laws that we call them
"super-natural." Nature manifests as a whole spectrum of energies, and
only an infinitesimal part of it is perceptible to man's senses. By expanding
one's consciousness by daily attunement with the Divine Mind, one gradually
realizes the interrelationship of all manifestations, which in reality is of one
essence. This awareness assists us to get into touch with the immaculate being
of other people, and from such a level of awareness it is possible to aid them
to improve their lives in a beneficial manner.
Our purpose in this paper is to present some of the important points of Cosmic
Law and principles that the metaphysical counselor should be familiar and fully
grounded with, thus increasing his effectiveness in his ministry. In Christian
Tradition, it is believed that St. Peter holds the keys to the portal of heaven.
"Peter" means "rock," which in a philosophical and esoteric
sense, signifies something fundamental, a foundation, a basis. Therefore,
spiritually interpreted, Peter and the keys simply mean the fundamental laws and
principles that when applied, opens our awareness to the spiritual heavenly
state of our primordial consciousness. Higher metaphysical awareness can only be
acquired when the fundamental laws of the Cosmos are sought, understood, and
applied. There should be a sincerity of purpose in the heart of the
metaphysician, for without it divine attunement would be difficult. This lack of
divine attunement manifests in a poor expression of one's ministry. The
metaphysician must be attracted to the human soul and its manifold qualities;
its struggles, its pain, its sorrows, its aspiration toward Truth and the Light,
and its endeavour to acquiring freedom from mortal limitation and delusion. Such
an interest unfolds one of the most important divine attributes in
man--compassion. The true metaphysician is a mystic and an occultist, a
magician, a philosopher, priest, scientist, and a humanitarian. All true
servants of the Divine Being and humanity are Bodhisattvas. As a public servant,
the metaphysician should live-up to this image--by expressing his innate
Buddha-Mind in the world of men. This he should do so if he is to avoid being a
metaphysician in name only.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
In this chapter we will present two themes which we feel are the basis of
metaphysical thought and awareness, and possessing the potentiality of spiritual
application. To the metaphysician, they are the keys that unlock the door to
myriad possibilities in healing and counseling. We will not overburden this
section discussing the many excellent books and literature on the subject, we
will, however, quote a few passages to support our notions and assertions. In
the following chapter we shall present several principles and laws as related to
those two themes that could be expressed as "relative and Absolute
Reality."
Awareness of the Mind and its Relationship to Mundane Reality
Metaphysics is the study of true perception; the knowing of the First Cause that
brought the universe into being and the ontological processes that manifests
life in the physical dimension; it is the personal awareness of the causes that
creates one's reality, the causes that are beyond the physical and material
plane. The word "Reality," of the above heading here refers to one's
mortal experiences in the samsaric, relative worlds and not to the Absolute.
What one experiences in life is determined by the attitudes, thoughts, beliefs,
opinions and feelings one revolves in one's psyche. They are the cause of our
fortune or misfortune. Our mind is an expression of the Divine Mind of the
Universe, and thus, functions in a microcosmic manner and in the world as a
creator. The mind creates in the world of form whatever lies within its
consciousness, and more subtly but forcefully, whatever lurks in its
subconsciousness. How we use our mind in filling these lower streams of the
Divine Consciousness causes the many circumstances in life that we find
ourselves experiencing. By creating our inner reality, we manifest our external
reality--the outer is but a reflection of the inner. Animal breeds after their
kind, so do our thoughts and feelings. For instance, poverty thoughts create
poverty while sickly thoughts manifest sicknesses. Negative thoughts expresses
outwardly as negative words and actions, and they usually rebound back to us as
negative feedback from all those around us. What is true for the negative is
also true for the positive polarity. This is the law of "like attracts
like" in operation within the psychological and psychospiritual being of
man. It is in this wise that we create and are responsible for our own heaven
and hell on earth. We are creators and not mere creatures. The Aquarian Gospel
puts it this way:
God never made a heaven for man; he never made a hell; we are creators and we
make our own." (33:9)
Living in hell-like circumstances and states is is the result of one's ignorance
and misapplication of the laws of the mind. Our mind is a two-edged sword that
either "slays" the Real by its misperception or able to cut-through
the unreal by its power of discrimination between the true and the false. Man
was given the "freewill" to choose either one. Correcting one's inner
state--one's attitudes, and belief-framework by positive, uplifting,
constructive and lofty thoughts cause, spiritually speaking, the manifestation
of heaven in one's mundane experiences. Heaven is actually one's way of
perceiving things. We may see things as they are, or as they appear to be.
Appearances are deceptive, a veil of Maya upon the senses. Hindu philosophy
knows the world to be a play of the mind--Krishna's leela. True perception is
the de-hypnotizing of the mind of its false conceptions and ideas based upon
opinions and not facts--that it may see beyond the veil--that it may cognize and
recognize one's true nature as the New Jerusalem.
It is well known to mystics, and documented by psychic researchers, that the
subconscious mind radiates or broadcasts thoughts and feelings. Thoughts are
patterns of energy-waves that tend to actualize or concretize in the world of
form. Our minds, at a subconscious, psychic level, have the power to create
sub-atomic particles from the Universal Substance. Whatever we conceive and
generate in our minds, whether expressed or repressed, we influence our outer
and inner environment--and thus, indirectly speaking, to us personally. It is
for this reason that in order to create abundance, peace, health, and
contentment in our lives and in the lives of others, the first step that we have
to take is in the amelioration of the nature of our thoughts. Aside from
improving one's life, lofty thoughts also stimulate the higher chakras, or
psychic centers. Prince Gautama who became the Buddha, discerned this truth and
incorporated it into his teachings, in order to relieve the state of suffering
in humanity and to set their feet firmly onto the path of spiritual integration.
"Right Thinking" as taught by the enlightened prince, is one of the
steps in the Buddhistic Eightfold-Path.
How one creates one's reality is a theme in many of the channeled teachings that
is being conveyed to us at our present area. This is, however, but an echo of
the ancient sages and their teachings."New Age" truths are but
fragments of the eternal Wisdom that was taught by them. There is, as the
Solomonic saying goes, "nothing new under the sun." Understanding how
we create our reality is one of the points that the metaphysician should be
familiar with. It is one of the basic teachings that has to be inculcated in the
minds of men, for the correct apprehension of this principle has the power of
transforming a person's life.
The metaphysician has to awaken a sense of responsibility in his clients, that
they take control over their world. Many people believe that they are weak and
powerless to change things directly or indirectly. This may or may not be true;
however, one still has the freedom to choose one's response and attitude toward
things; and more important, one has the power of putting the right causes into
motion in the realm o the mind that will indirectly change and influence
conditions and events. Such an awareness should be instilled into the minds of
people that they begin to live harmoniously, for when the source and cause of
abundance are known and applied, less tension will there be in the struggle for
survival. The laws of the jungle will be replaced with the Law of Love. Instead
of competition there will be cooperation. There will eventually be more time and
energy for higher pursuits. Without a higher awareness of life, man wastes and
squanders his time and resources on trivial matters, and this causes one's
evolution to stagnate.
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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