Aldous Huxley in the introduction to the New American Library edition of the Bhagavad Gita interprets the Gita as not only the distillation of Hinduism but also the distillation of religion in general. Huxley claims that the theology of the Gita is relevant to all religious people not just to the Hindu because he says it presents the four basic elements of a spiritual world view.
He presents these four fundamental doctrines as what he calls the Perennial Philosophy:
"First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness - the world of things and animals and men and even gods - is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial realities have their being, and apart from which they would be nonexistent.
Second: human beings are capable not merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference; they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known.
Third: man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the inner man, the spirit, the spark of divinity within the soul. It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
Fourth: man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground."
Of course, Huxley's Divine Ground is called Brahman in the Gita. But after Huxley discusses these four aspects of religion giving examples from a variety of religious traditions, he comes to the modern world-view and conjectures about why modern people have turned away from religion - he blames industrialization and technology.
Because of technological progress, Huxley claims that a utopian vision of life on earth has driven people away from the thurst for spiritual knowledge. He writes about the doctrine of progress through technology: "These false and, historically, aberrant and heretical doctrines are now systematically taught in our schools and repeated, day in, day out, by those anonymous writers of advertising copy who, more than any other teachers, provide European and American adults with their current philosophy of life."
I think we should put Huxley's pessimistic remarks about modern technology into historical perspective. He wrote these words in 1944 at the height of World War II. The technological innovations that he was witnessing were the most destructive forces of terror that man had ever unleashed on the planet. It is no wonder, then, that he sees technology as the antithesis of the religious life.
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Tuesday 18 January 2011
new age religions materialism and idealism in life
Materialism and Idealism in life, the ideas of Eastern mysticism, and the concept of idealism. The history of Western systematic philosophy from Plato to the late nineteenth century may be seen as one long argument between the idealists and the materialists, an argument about metaphysics.
Metaphysics asks questions about the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual world, between phenomena and numena, between the body and the mind. The idealists claim that reality is mind. They claim that the phenomenal world is a manifestation of ideas and that these ideas exist on a transcendent level, above and of a higher status than the physical.
Whether this numenal world exists within the mind of God, within Plato's world of ideas, or within the Christian heaven is unimportant for an understanding of metaphysics. Essentially, metaphysics postulates a dual view of the universe. The materialists also postulate dualism because, although they deny the existence of a world of spirit, they take part in metaphysical discourse, claiming that there is a subject to argue about.
To make a superficial but useful analogy from contemporary technology, it's like arguments one hears today about whether software is more important than hardware. Is it the physical components of a computer that is essentially the machine or is it the code that makes it possible to operate a computer that is essentially the machine. It's a silly argument; a computer is both software and hardware (some folks add a third component, wetware - a living operator, us.) The materialists claim that we can easily conceive of a body without a mind - rocks, air, stars - but that it's absurd to assume the existence of minds without bodies - ghosts, spirits, gods.
Whereas the idealists reject material as essential because of the definition of the word "essential." Things have essences or else the word would be meaningless. Things are not just what they appear to be, but have some basic essence that can't be experienced physically.
Idealists often use arguments based on definition to defend their positions. For example, the Christian philosopher Anselm used definition to prove the existence of God in his "Ontological Proof of the Existence of God." Anselm asks his readers to imagine a most perfect being in their minds and then to postulate a most perfect being in the real world. He then asks the readers to compare the two.
How are they different? Of course the only difference is that the being we imagine doesn't exist and the being in the real world does. He then asks us to decide which being is greater. Of course, the real being is greater. Anselm then writes, that because, by definition, God is the greatest being and since the existent being is greater than the non-existent being, then we must accept the theist position, God exists.
Hinduism rejects metaphysics. There is no dualism. Both a world of spirit and a world of material are equally nonexistent. The position of the Bhagavad Gita is that metaphysics is a silly argument, both the mind and the body are illusions. The Hindu would say that when the materialist claims that we can easily imagine bodies without minds he or she is as deluded as imagining a computer without software and that the idealists are as deluded as those who claim that a computer can exist entirely made of software.
All things seem to exist in either physical or mental manifestations but they don't. All things are essentially Brahman, and Brahman is neither spirit nor flesh.
Metaphysics asks questions about the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual world, between phenomena and numena, between the body and the mind. The idealists claim that reality is mind. They claim that the phenomenal world is a manifestation of ideas and that these ideas exist on a transcendent level, above and of a higher status than the physical.
Whether this numenal world exists within the mind of God, within Plato's world of ideas, or within the Christian heaven is unimportant for an understanding of metaphysics. Essentially, metaphysics postulates a dual view of the universe. The materialists also postulate dualism because, although they deny the existence of a world of spirit, they take part in metaphysical discourse, claiming that there is a subject to argue about.
To make a superficial but useful analogy from contemporary technology, it's like arguments one hears today about whether software is more important than hardware. Is it the physical components of a computer that is essentially the machine or is it the code that makes it possible to operate a computer that is essentially the machine. It's a silly argument; a computer is both software and hardware (some folks add a third component, wetware - a living operator, us.) The materialists claim that we can easily conceive of a body without a mind - rocks, air, stars - but that it's absurd to assume the existence of minds without bodies - ghosts, spirits, gods.
Whereas the idealists reject material as essential because of the definition of the word "essential." Things have essences or else the word would be meaningless. Things are not just what they appear to be, but have some basic essence that can't be experienced physically.
Idealists often use arguments based on definition to defend their positions. For example, the Christian philosopher Anselm used definition to prove the existence of God in his "Ontological Proof of the Existence of God." Anselm asks his readers to imagine a most perfect being in their minds and then to postulate a most perfect being in the real world. He then asks the readers to compare the two.
How are they different? Of course the only difference is that the being we imagine doesn't exist and the being in the real world does. He then asks us to decide which being is greater. Of course, the real being is greater. Anselm then writes, that because, by definition, God is the greatest being and since the existent being is greater than the non-existent being, then we must accept the theist position, God exists.
Hinduism rejects metaphysics. There is no dualism. Both a world of spirit and a world of material are equally nonexistent. The position of the Bhagavad Gita is that metaphysics is a silly argument, both the mind and the body are illusions. The Hindu would say that when the materialist claims that we can easily imagine bodies without minds he or she is as deluded as imagining a computer without software and that the idealists are as deluded as those who claim that a computer can exist entirely made of software.
All things seem to exist in either physical or mental manifestations but they don't. All things are essentially Brahman, and Brahman is neither spirit nor flesh.
Hinduism - brahman the hindu god
Although the belief system labeled Hinduism is incredibly diverse, the Shankara school of thought which teaches pure Advaita (non-dualism) best presents the unique character of Indian theology as compared with Western traditions. According to this school, Brahman is the only thing that exists. However, Brahman cannot be empirically verified - cannot be seen, smelled, heard, felt, or seen.
In fact, Brahman is totally beyond comprehension and cannot be thought about at all. Also according to Hinduism, everything that can be empirically verified and everything that can be comprehended do not exist - everything but Brahman is illusion. Yet, Brahman can be experienced, and the experience of Brahman is the only purpose for human existence. Of course the experience of Brahman is irrational, intuitive, and mystical.
This belief in Brahman presents a number problems for Westerners who have accepted a logical positivist world view, who have accepted the leap of faith that the scientific construct of the universe is, in fact, a description of reality.
In fact, Brahman is totally beyond comprehension and cannot be thought about at all. Also according to Hinduism, everything that can be empirically verified and everything that can be comprehended do not exist - everything but Brahman is illusion. Yet, Brahman can be experienced, and the experience of Brahman is the only purpose for human existence. Of course the experience of Brahman is irrational, intuitive, and mystical.
This belief in Brahman presents a number problems for Westerners who have accepted a logical positivist world view, who have accepted the leap of faith that the scientific construct of the universe is, in fact, a description of reality.
Monday 17 January 2011
what is the witchcraft religion
The Craft, or alternatively, Wicca, Witchcraft, or Paganism, has been traced successfully through a 25,000 year history, by Dr. Margaret Murry. The Craft originated in the ancient past, and has maintained a more or less unbroken line to the present. The Craft was born out of the ancient Animistic cults of prehistory, where a God controlled the wind, rain, hunt, waters, etc... It was in this time that Magic first mixed with the beginnings of religion. This early Magic was likely of the sympathetic variety.
Together with the God, the Goddess evolved, and Fertility was her domain. The Fertility of the animals and the peoples that hunted them was important to the continuance of the race. The God has changed little over the intervening millennia, while the Goddess changed dramatically with the advent of the agricultural society, and the Goddess expanded to cover the Fertility of the crops. The year then fell into two halves, the Summer, when the Goddess and the crops predominated, and the Winter, when the people had to revert to hunting and the God predominated. With the Goddess and the God of hunting growing in power in the society, as the chiefs among the deities, the other Gods fell into secondary roles, and were then, finally, forgotten. As the race spread across Europe, the Goddess and God were carried with them, and as the nations rose, and languages changed, the Names of the deities changed, but the essential force of the deities remained the same. The Celts, Heathens, Nordic, Greek, Latin's, and all the other races have the same Goddess and God at the center of their religions.
With the development of civilization and the the learning of the ability to store food, hunting became less important, and the God took the role of God of Nature and the Wild Places in general. The Goddess grew into both the Goddess of Fertility and the Goddess of Rebirth, as life after death and reincarnation had evolved in the religion. As time progressed, and the Rituals became more involved, a Priest class developed to insure the Rituals were carried out properly and the knowledge was carried on. These people became known as the Wicca, the "Wise Ones." The power of the Wicca was such that it infused the entire religious and political structure of the nations. The Kings of Anglo-Saxon England would never make any important decision without consulting the Witan, the Council of Wise Ones.
With the coming of christianity, there never was the mass conversions that the christians claim. While whole nations were classified as christian due to the fact that the leaders had converted, the populace, in general, kept the old ways. The most important attempt at mass conversion was imposed on the Wicca by pope Gregory the Great. He ordered the construction of new churches on the sites of the old temples and the creation of new holy days on the Wicca Sabbats. In reality, the attempt was only partially successful, for the only available craftsmen to build these temples were the Wiccan, and these craftsmen very cleverly hid their own Goddess and their God in the decorations of these churches. That way, when the Wicca were forced to worship here, their Goddess and God images were also present. It was at this time that Lucifer, became the Horned Satan, the new christianized image of the Horned God, and the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, was Sainted, a new christianized Image of the Goddess. The charge of Devil Worship is therefore a contrivance of the christian church in an attempt to eradicate it's rival for the attentions of the populace. The contrived god of the new religions is the god of a complex civilization, developed to control a rebellious people, rather than the loving embrace of the people, as they are, that the more Human Old Gods offer. As the influence of the new religion grew, through force of arms, the Old Ways only survived in the outlying districts and counties. These people became known as Pagans, from the Latin Pagani meaning people who live in the country and the Heathens, which means one who dwells on the heath. The derogatory connotations are again undeserved and a contrivance of the new religion.
The persecution of the Old Way continued and grew with the advent of the Papal Bull against Witches of pope Innocent the VIII, in 1484. Two years later, two infamous German Monks, Hienric Isnstitoris Krammer and Jacob Sprenger, produced the most baleful contrivance of of anti-Witchery ever produced, the Malleus Maleficarum (the Witch Hammer). In this book they provided definite instruction for the persecution of Witches. Although this book was never accepted by the appointed church censor, the approval was forged by the authors, and then the hysteria spread like wildfire throughout all of Europe. The forgery was not discovered until 1898.
Throughout all of Europe, the new religion used Witchcraft as an excuse to murder any people they felt were an enemy of the church. The old, invalid, mentally ill, women, healers, and of course, the true Witches. Since the Witches held fertility as an object of great importance, the christian Judges gave these sexual rites unnecessary prominence and seemed to delight in the prying, often through torture, the details concerning them from those accused of participating in them. The religion of Wicca is an extremely happy and joyous religion that was totally incomprehensible to the dour and repressed inquisitors and reformers. The total estimated number of people burned, hung, or tortured to death on the charge of Witchcraft is nine million.
It was during these times, the burning times, that the Craft began to go underground, for safety. Also the members of the Craft realized that the Craft was in danger of losing it's knowledge, as the Craft was being so mercilessly hunted and killed. The High Priestesses and High Priests began to keep records of the Rites, Rituals, and esoteric knowledge. These books of the Craft were kept hidden from the enemies of the Craft, they were kept "in the shadows" and it was thus that gave rise to the term for the Witch's Book as the Book of Shadows. It the Burning Times there was but one such book in a Coven, and all were contributors, but with the resurgence of above ground Witchcraft in these modern times, it has become accepted for each individual member of the Craft to have their own personal Book of Shadows, which is, in the view of the Coven of the Fiery Skies, a very good thing, as this will help ensure the dissemination of reclaimed knowledge, and thereby help insure that it is not lost again. Modern Witches still use this as the title for their book to Honor our lost Sisters and Brothers.
By the late seventeenth century, the Craft was well underground, as it was also illegal to be a Witch, as well as against the Cannons of the church. In 1951, the last of these laws was repealed, and the first Witch to speak up in defense of his religion was Gardner, and through him, all of Witchcraft was able to resurface, in its many forms. Now there are many Covens out in the open, and many many more still in hiding, fearing a resurgence of the persecutions. In America the first Witch to come forward was Raymond Buckland. Sybil Leek and Gavin and Yvonne Frost followed in his footsteps, then a rush as more and more Covens came out into the open. Now, even the US Army, with the publication of Army pamphlet 165-13, A Handbook for Chaplin's, recognizes Witchcraft as a Religion
Together with the God, the Goddess evolved, and Fertility was her domain. The Fertility of the animals and the peoples that hunted them was important to the continuance of the race. The God has changed little over the intervening millennia, while the Goddess changed dramatically with the advent of the agricultural society, and the Goddess expanded to cover the Fertility of the crops. The year then fell into two halves, the Summer, when the Goddess and the crops predominated, and the Winter, when the people had to revert to hunting and the God predominated. With the Goddess and the God of hunting growing in power in the society, as the chiefs among the deities, the other Gods fell into secondary roles, and were then, finally, forgotten. As the race spread across Europe, the Goddess and God were carried with them, and as the nations rose, and languages changed, the Names of the deities changed, but the essential force of the deities remained the same. The Celts, Heathens, Nordic, Greek, Latin's, and all the other races have the same Goddess and God at the center of their religions.
With the development of civilization and the the learning of the ability to store food, hunting became less important, and the God took the role of God of Nature and the Wild Places in general. The Goddess grew into both the Goddess of Fertility and the Goddess of Rebirth, as life after death and reincarnation had evolved in the religion. As time progressed, and the Rituals became more involved, a Priest class developed to insure the Rituals were carried out properly and the knowledge was carried on. These people became known as the Wicca, the "Wise Ones." The power of the Wicca was such that it infused the entire religious and political structure of the nations. The Kings of Anglo-Saxon England would never make any important decision without consulting the Witan, the Council of Wise Ones.
With the coming of christianity, there never was the mass conversions that the christians claim. While whole nations were classified as christian due to the fact that the leaders had converted, the populace, in general, kept the old ways. The most important attempt at mass conversion was imposed on the Wicca by pope Gregory the Great. He ordered the construction of new churches on the sites of the old temples and the creation of new holy days on the Wicca Sabbats. In reality, the attempt was only partially successful, for the only available craftsmen to build these temples were the Wiccan, and these craftsmen very cleverly hid their own Goddess and their God in the decorations of these churches. That way, when the Wicca were forced to worship here, their Goddess and God images were also present. It was at this time that Lucifer, became the Horned Satan, the new christianized image of the Horned God, and the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, was Sainted, a new christianized Image of the Goddess. The charge of Devil Worship is therefore a contrivance of the christian church in an attempt to eradicate it's rival for the attentions of the populace. The contrived god of the new religions is the god of a complex civilization, developed to control a rebellious people, rather than the loving embrace of the people, as they are, that the more Human Old Gods offer. As the influence of the new religion grew, through force of arms, the Old Ways only survived in the outlying districts and counties. These people became known as Pagans, from the Latin Pagani meaning people who live in the country and the Heathens, which means one who dwells on the heath. The derogatory connotations are again undeserved and a contrivance of the new religion.
The persecution of the Old Way continued and grew with the advent of the Papal Bull against Witches of pope Innocent the VIII, in 1484. Two years later, two infamous German Monks, Hienric Isnstitoris Krammer and Jacob Sprenger, produced the most baleful contrivance of of anti-Witchery ever produced, the Malleus Maleficarum (the Witch Hammer). In this book they provided definite instruction for the persecution of Witches. Although this book was never accepted by the appointed church censor, the approval was forged by the authors, and then the hysteria spread like wildfire throughout all of Europe. The forgery was not discovered until 1898.
Throughout all of Europe, the new religion used Witchcraft as an excuse to murder any people they felt were an enemy of the church. The old, invalid, mentally ill, women, healers, and of course, the true Witches. Since the Witches held fertility as an object of great importance, the christian Judges gave these sexual rites unnecessary prominence and seemed to delight in the prying, often through torture, the details concerning them from those accused of participating in them. The religion of Wicca is an extremely happy and joyous religion that was totally incomprehensible to the dour and repressed inquisitors and reformers. The total estimated number of people burned, hung, or tortured to death on the charge of Witchcraft is nine million.
It was during these times, the burning times, that the Craft began to go underground, for safety. Also the members of the Craft realized that the Craft was in danger of losing it's knowledge, as the Craft was being so mercilessly hunted and killed. The High Priestesses and High Priests began to keep records of the Rites, Rituals, and esoteric knowledge. These books of the Craft were kept hidden from the enemies of the Craft, they were kept "in the shadows" and it was thus that gave rise to the term for the Witch's Book as the Book of Shadows. It the Burning Times there was but one such book in a Coven, and all were contributors, but with the resurgence of above ground Witchcraft in these modern times, it has become accepted for each individual member of the Craft to have their own personal Book of Shadows, which is, in the view of the Coven of the Fiery Skies, a very good thing, as this will help ensure the dissemination of reclaimed knowledge, and thereby help insure that it is not lost again. Modern Witches still use this as the title for their book to Honor our lost Sisters and Brothers.
By the late seventeenth century, the Craft was well underground, as it was also illegal to be a Witch, as well as against the Cannons of the church. In 1951, the last of these laws was repealed, and the first Witch to speak up in defense of his religion was Gardner, and through him, all of Witchcraft was able to resurface, in its many forms. Now there are many Covens out in the open, and many many more still in hiding, fearing a resurgence of the persecutions. In America the first Witch to come forward was Raymond Buckland. Sybil Leek and Gavin and Yvonne Frost followed in his footsteps, then a rush as more and more Covens came out into the open. Now, even the US Army, with the publication of Army pamphlet 165-13, A Handbook for Chaplin's, recognizes Witchcraft as a Religion
what pagans and new ager's believe in general
There are many Gods and Goddesses
In the wild space of chaos and the swelling of the multiverses into infinite convolutions there came complexity which turned aware. The Lords of Chaos...those we call Gods and Goddesses...came into being. Some aware of each other, others not. Some overlapping, sharing parts of each other, and others complete unto themselves.
The Goddesses and Gods are not aspects of a single divinity
No single Goddess/God can represent all the spinning creatures and creations of Chaos any more than one human can represent humanity. Neither is the totality of all Goddess/God's a conscious entity any more than the sum of humanity is a conscious entity. We view the modern attempts to perceive 'all as one' as remnants of Catholic doctrine in the upbringing of otherwise well intentioned Pagans or misinterpretations of Pantheism.
Technology is merely magic which has been understood (sometimes) and applied.
Much of our modern technology in medicine, engineering, astronomy, and chemistry is directly taken from the Pagans and Magicians of earlier eras. Scientists are only modern alchemists who would do better to remember that. Pagans who reject technology, reject their own heritage...spell crafters who reject technology are fundamentally self-contradictory.
Good and Evil have no empirical substance.
The poles of morality are fleeting whims in the course of human existence. The consequences of any action are so manifold as to challenge omniscience. Good and evil, or right and wrong, can only exist as relative and arbitrary choices of the moment. Beneath what you are taught by society is the moral truth that must guide you through your existence.
Polarity is the defining tension of our existence.
Polarity serves as the great and true force of creation/destruction. It gives rise to passion as productive love or destructive violence...both of which must be valued. Properly managed it is the source of all magic...the akashic principle. Poorly used or denied it corrupts all effort. The Goddess is not defined without the God...life is defined by death...all things exist by virtue of their opposition. Between these poles are the places of greatest fertility of self and spirit.
Paradox is only a limit of our understanding.
Contradiction is only a state of perception. Within the universe paradox is common...mathematicians have known this for quite some time. All things can be true, including those things that exclude themselves. So....
Reality is our perception.
We are the masters of reality joining our Mother/Sister/Daughter/Father/Brother/Son deities in the wild dance of chaos as the multiverse wheels through it's cycles.
In the wild space of chaos and the swelling of the multiverses into infinite convolutions there came complexity which turned aware. The Lords of Chaos...those we call Gods and Goddesses...came into being. Some aware of each other, others not. Some overlapping, sharing parts of each other, and others complete unto themselves.
The Goddesses and Gods are not aspects of a single divinity
No single Goddess/God can represent all the spinning creatures and creations of Chaos any more than one human can represent humanity. Neither is the totality of all Goddess/God's a conscious entity any more than the sum of humanity is a conscious entity. We view the modern attempts to perceive 'all as one' as remnants of Catholic doctrine in the upbringing of otherwise well intentioned Pagans or misinterpretations of Pantheism.
Technology is merely magic which has been understood (sometimes) and applied.
Much of our modern technology in medicine, engineering, astronomy, and chemistry is directly taken from the Pagans and Magicians of earlier eras. Scientists are only modern alchemists who would do better to remember that. Pagans who reject technology, reject their own heritage...spell crafters who reject technology are fundamentally self-contradictory.
Good and Evil have no empirical substance.
The poles of morality are fleeting whims in the course of human existence. The consequences of any action are so manifold as to challenge omniscience. Good and evil, or right and wrong, can only exist as relative and arbitrary choices of the moment. Beneath what you are taught by society is the moral truth that must guide you through your existence.
Polarity is the defining tension of our existence.
Polarity serves as the great and true force of creation/destruction. It gives rise to passion as productive love or destructive violence...both of which must be valued. Properly managed it is the source of all magic...the akashic principle. Poorly used or denied it corrupts all effort. The Goddess is not defined without the God...life is defined by death...all things exist by virtue of their opposition. Between these poles are the places of greatest fertility of self and spirit.
Paradox is only a limit of our understanding.
Contradiction is only a state of perception. Within the universe paradox is common...mathematicians have known this for quite some time. All things can be true, including those things that exclude themselves. So....
Reality is our perception.
We are the masters of reality joining our Mother/Sister/Daughter/Father/Brother/Son deities in the wild dance of chaos as the multiverse wheels through it's cycles.
what is pagan religion beliefs about?
Pagan is not about hugging trees. It is not about feminism
It is not Wicca (though Wicca is a neo-pagan religion)
It is not about casting spells...or runes...or telling fortunes with Tarot cards
There is no Pagan Rede...or watchwords
It is definitely not satanism...and it is not just 'not being christian'
Paganism is about knowing who you are and what you are
It is about accepting that humanity is part of nature not exempt and superior to it
It is about hearing the voice inside you and following it to your bliss
It is ultimately eclectic
So...here are some odds and ends of Pagan practices and philosophies
None of them are truth and all of them are truth
It is not Wicca (though Wicca is a neo-pagan religion)
It is not about casting spells...or runes...or telling fortunes with Tarot cards
There is no Pagan Rede...or watchwords
It is definitely not satanism...and it is not just 'not being christian'
Paganism is about knowing who you are and what you are
It is about accepting that humanity is part of nature not exempt and superior to it
It is about hearing the voice inside you and following it to your bliss
It is ultimately eclectic
So...here are some odds and ends of Pagan practices and philosophies
None of them are truth and all of them are truth
Sunday 16 January 2011
Pagan Theism Polytheism Pantheism Monotheism Religions
Polytheism: the belief that there are numerous individual and unique deities.
Pantheism: the belief in a single deity exhibiting aspects - a composite or sum of the self-aware universe.
Monotheism: the belief that there is only one deity with a singular aspect and usually places the universe as a product of that deity rather than a part of it.
Monotheism is clearly different from pantheism although the distinction sometimes seems to be a semantic matter.
It should also be clearly understood that polytheism and pantheism are NOT the same thing. In reality that no longer seems clear at all. This leads to some very uncomfortable questions. A polytheist is absolutely a Pagan, but is the pantheist truly Pagan? What of the Neo-Pagan Wicca? As Wicca continues it’s burgeoning popularity there is increasing friction between pantheistic and polytheistic views.
The two camps are more frequently coming into contention as each seeks to establish themselves as the standard. Can there be coexistence or will the human tendency to polarize result in a schism as destructive as the Shi’ite and Sunni divisions of Islam?
To the polytheist the God/desses are each very real and separate beings. Through the progression of cultures many of the deities have been renamed so that often there are several names for a single deity. The polytheist does not require that these deities even be aware of each other. Omniscience is not requisite of polytheistic deity.
Some of these beings share characteristics much as humans may share DNA but the sum of deities is no more a deity than humanity is a human. While there is semantic truth to the idea that all comprise a whole it is an idea that is stunningly trivial to the polytheist. Somewhat akin to stating that the contents of a box make up the box.
The Pantheist views can range somewhat in reality. Rigorous pantheism includes each blade of grass and grain of sand as part of the construction that is god. The popular modern views of all God/desses being aspects of ’the One’ remains pantheism - a liberal form of monotheism that permits some personal discretion in how the ultimate deity shall be worshipped at any given time. The aspects are used as expression rather than as personal deities. To the pantheist any polytheistic insistence of unique and independent deity is the result of a woeful inability to apprehend totality.
Many pantheists are actually incapable of perceiving the difference between their view and that of the polytheist. In a popular undergraduate anthropology text a reference is made to the many God/desses worshipped by the rural population of India stating that an uneducated Indian understands that...these are all aspects of one divine essence.” In fact, this is not so. Polytheism does in fact lurk in the heart of many Indian peasants. Although the campaigns to eradicate this ’Hindu heresy’ were not as dramatic as the Xian crusades and inquisitions the pressures of the caste system served to eliminate public debate on the issue.
Polytheism is generally, although not always, the most tolerant of belief systems. There is strict polytheism, as there is strict pantheism. Recognizing the existence of multiple deities does not mean worship of all of them. The polytheist reserves formal recognition to a select grouping and usually forms a personal relationship with only one or two of those.
At the extreme ends of polytheism, to do otherwise is viewed as an utter lack of real commitment to spirituality. While most polytheists are tolerant of pantheism there are those who view it as the empty philosophical maunderings of the spiritually bankrupt...a refuge for those that lack the ability to commit to belief.
By strict definition Pantheism is not Pagan. Pagan comes from the term paganus meaning peasant or country dweller. Pantheism has always been a sophisticated urban tool for allowing the peaceful coexistence of religious diversity and for conquering and absorbing other cultures. Even Hinduism was established during the consolidation of the region by a conquering culture. Pantheism has never been a belief system of the country.
The question really becomes one of whether Paganism can remain permissive of pantheistic practice under the guise of Paganism. More and more declared Pagan organizations freely range between deities even within the confines of a single ceremony or ritual.
Many of these recognize the unique and individual identities of these deities. Several feminist Pagan organizations use such ceremonies to glorify all of the Goddesses in celebration of the female principle - consistent with polytheistic ideals. Other groups blandly excuse this mixing of deities by the pantheistic statement that ’they are all really just aspects of the One.’
The division becomes clearer in the explosion of Wiccan Covens that have adopted pantheistic philosophies. Many people have been drawn to Wicca as an alternative to a Xian infrastructure that is again exercising it’s formidable capacity for intolerance. In a very real sense they cling to the ’God of their fathers’ and the notion that all is really one makes their Paganism more palatable.
This can be brought full circle as I can personally report of a neophyte Wiccan seeking more knowledge in the Way who, after receiving a great deal of help from other ’Wiccans’ who held the pantheistic view, happily converted to Catholicism. His new understanding of Paganism left him content in the realization that the form did not matter. For him, the extensive infrastructure of Catholicism provided the best venue for helping others to achieve spiritual fulfillment.
Pagan capitulation to the encroachment of Xianity was a practical necessity. Xianity entered the region in urban areas, consolidated its hold on the cities, and entered the countryside with weapons and organization that pagans were completely incapable of resisting. It is possible that there is no more avenue of resistance to the invasion of pantheistic theology into Paganism than there was to Catholicism. It is also possibly unimportant. Polytheism will certainly survive...it always has.
It is possible that the polytheistic viewpoint will prove out to be, when all things are known, a provincial and unsophisticated caricature of a conscious cosmos. It may prove out that the pantheistic philosophy is nothing more than pedantic word play. Monotheism could even prove to be truth and many of us shall find ourselves unwillingly called to account before a wrathful, egocentric absolute deity.
But, there is a rich and complex Pagan theosophy that is being denied expression and exploration in the face of the, often arrogant, pantheistic insistence of unifying everything. It does not seem that our quest for spiritual enrichment is enhanced by this co-option of an entire school of thought. The Pagan seeker should not be forced to wade through a morass of pantheistic philosophy in search of his/her Way.
Nor should the fledgling pantheist be required to chip away at a veneer of polytheism to gain access to the vast body of extant pantheistic thought. If we seek fellowship of our own kind as we journey upon our respective Ways we must be careful to assure that our way is well marked and limit our tolerance for those who would seek to rewrite the signposts out of convenience or conceit.
Paganism may be under threat once again but this time from a force more terrible and destructive than the sword and fire of the inquisition. I have often spoken with Priests and Pastors who believe that the worst blow to Xianity was public acceptance and popularity in the Roman culture.
Paganism has become fashionable. With this dire event comes the inevitable influx of the intellectual effete who wear their religion as an accessory to their stylish life. As Paganism is pulled into the centers of culture it becomes corrupted and changed to suit the fancy of the moment. This cavalier Paganism loses the very character that makes it pagus...of the country.
Pantheism: the belief in a single deity exhibiting aspects - a composite or sum of the self-aware universe.
Monotheism: the belief that there is only one deity with a singular aspect and usually places the universe as a product of that deity rather than a part of it.
Monotheism is clearly different from pantheism although the distinction sometimes seems to be a semantic matter.
It should also be clearly understood that polytheism and pantheism are NOT the same thing. In reality that no longer seems clear at all. This leads to some very uncomfortable questions. A polytheist is absolutely a Pagan, but is the pantheist truly Pagan? What of the Neo-Pagan Wicca? As Wicca continues it’s burgeoning popularity there is increasing friction between pantheistic and polytheistic views.
The two camps are more frequently coming into contention as each seeks to establish themselves as the standard. Can there be coexistence or will the human tendency to polarize result in a schism as destructive as the Shi’ite and Sunni divisions of Islam?
To the polytheist the God/desses are each very real and separate beings. Through the progression of cultures many of the deities have been renamed so that often there are several names for a single deity. The polytheist does not require that these deities even be aware of each other. Omniscience is not requisite of polytheistic deity.
Some of these beings share characteristics much as humans may share DNA but the sum of deities is no more a deity than humanity is a human. While there is semantic truth to the idea that all comprise a whole it is an idea that is stunningly trivial to the polytheist. Somewhat akin to stating that the contents of a box make up the box.
The Pantheist views can range somewhat in reality. Rigorous pantheism includes each blade of grass and grain of sand as part of the construction that is god. The popular modern views of all God/desses being aspects of ’the One’ remains pantheism - a liberal form of monotheism that permits some personal discretion in how the ultimate deity shall be worshipped at any given time. The aspects are used as expression rather than as personal deities. To the pantheist any polytheistic insistence of unique and independent deity is the result of a woeful inability to apprehend totality.
Many pantheists are actually incapable of perceiving the difference between their view and that of the polytheist. In a popular undergraduate anthropology text a reference is made to the many God/desses worshipped by the rural population of India stating that an uneducated Indian understands that...these are all aspects of one divine essence.” In fact, this is not so. Polytheism does in fact lurk in the heart of many Indian peasants. Although the campaigns to eradicate this ’Hindu heresy’ were not as dramatic as the Xian crusades and inquisitions the pressures of the caste system served to eliminate public debate on the issue.
Polytheism is generally, although not always, the most tolerant of belief systems. There is strict polytheism, as there is strict pantheism. Recognizing the existence of multiple deities does not mean worship of all of them. The polytheist reserves formal recognition to a select grouping and usually forms a personal relationship with only one or two of those.
At the extreme ends of polytheism, to do otherwise is viewed as an utter lack of real commitment to spirituality. While most polytheists are tolerant of pantheism there are those who view it as the empty philosophical maunderings of the spiritually bankrupt...a refuge for those that lack the ability to commit to belief.
By strict definition Pantheism is not Pagan. Pagan comes from the term paganus meaning peasant or country dweller. Pantheism has always been a sophisticated urban tool for allowing the peaceful coexistence of religious diversity and for conquering and absorbing other cultures. Even Hinduism was established during the consolidation of the region by a conquering culture. Pantheism has never been a belief system of the country.
The question really becomes one of whether Paganism can remain permissive of pantheistic practice under the guise of Paganism. More and more declared Pagan organizations freely range between deities even within the confines of a single ceremony or ritual.
Many of these recognize the unique and individual identities of these deities. Several feminist Pagan organizations use such ceremonies to glorify all of the Goddesses in celebration of the female principle - consistent with polytheistic ideals. Other groups blandly excuse this mixing of deities by the pantheistic statement that ’they are all really just aspects of the One.’
The division becomes clearer in the explosion of Wiccan Covens that have adopted pantheistic philosophies. Many people have been drawn to Wicca as an alternative to a Xian infrastructure that is again exercising it’s formidable capacity for intolerance. In a very real sense they cling to the ’God of their fathers’ and the notion that all is really one makes their Paganism more palatable.
This can be brought full circle as I can personally report of a neophyte Wiccan seeking more knowledge in the Way who, after receiving a great deal of help from other ’Wiccans’ who held the pantheistic view, happily converted to Catholicism. His new understanding of Paganism left him content in the realization that the form did not matter. For him, the extensive infrastructure of Catholicism provided the best venue for helping others to achieve spiritual fulfillment.
Pagan capitulation to the encroachment of Xianity was a practical necessity. Xianity entered the region in urban areas, consolidated its hold on the cities, and entered the countryside with weapons and organization that pagans were completely incapable of resisting. It is possible that there is no more avenue of resistance to the invasion of pantheistic theology into Paganism than there was to Catholicism. It is also possibly unimportant. Polytheism will certainly survive...it always has.
It is possible that the polytheistic viewpoint will prove out to be, when all things are known, a provincial and unsophisticated caricature of a conscious cosmos. It may prove out that the pantheistic philosophy is nothing more than pedantic word play. Monotheism could even prove to be truth and many of us shall find ourselves unwillingly called to account before a wrathful, egocentric absolute deity.
But, there is a rich and complex Pagan theosophy that is being denied expression and exploration in the face of the, often arrogant, pantheistic insistence of unifying everything. It does not seem that our quest for spiritual enrichment is enhanced by this co-option of an entire school of thought. The Pagan seeker should not be forced to wade through a morass of pantheistic philosophy in search of his/her Way.
Nor should the fledgling pantheist be required to chip away at a veneer of polytheism to gain access to the vast body of extant pantheistic thought. If we seek fellowship of our own kind as we journey upon our respective Ways we must be careful to assure that our way is well marked and limit our tolerance for those who would seek to rewrite the signposts out of convenience or conceit.
Paganism may be under threat once again but this time from a force more terrible and destructive than the sword and fire of the inquisition. I have often spoken with Priests and Pastors who believe that the worst blow to Xianity was public acceptance and popularity in the Roman culture.
Paganism has become fashionable. With this dire event comes the inevitable influx of the intellectual effete who wear their religion as an accessory to their stylish life. As Paganism is pulled into the centers of culture it becomes corrupted and changed to suit the fancy of the moment. This cavalier Paganism loses the very character that makes it pagus...of the country.
Tuesday 11 January 2011
what is gnostics and gnosticism and links to the new age religion?
what is gnostics and gnosticism and links to the new age religion?.
Gnostics - Mystery and Myth - Finding the Way - Rosicrucians and the Birth of a New Age Youtube Video
what is gnostics and gnosticism and links to the new age religion, i think gnosticism is one of the biggest components for a new age religion, the links to new age ideas are quite telling.
if you read this basics of gnosticism write up that is on a lot of gnostic websites it shows, the basics of gnosticism and the belief structure of the gnostics.
i also think it highlights the similarities between new age thinking and gnostic thinking.
considering though gnosticism is a really a old world religion, though gnosticism as always seemed to appear throughout history as being a underground or hidden movement, hence now the gnostics coming out into view in the new age of aquarius, at the end of the old piscean age of things from the last 2000 years, and the progression into a new age with new spiritual ideas and concepts and teachings.
Gnosticism is the teaching based on Gnosis, the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. Although Gnosticism thus rests on personal religious experience, it is a mistake to assume all such experience results in Gnostic recognitions. It is nearer the truth to say that Gnosticism expresses a specific religious experience, an experience that does not lend itself to the language of theology or philosophy, but which is instead closely affinitized to, and expresses itself through, the medium of myth. Indeed, one finds that most Gnostic scriptures take the forms of myths. The term “myth” should not here be taken to mean “stories that are not true”, but rather, that the truths embodied in these myths are of a different order from the dogmas of theology or the statements of philosophy.
In the following summary, we will attempt to encapsulate in prose what the Gnostic myths express in their distinctively poetic and imaginative language.
The Cosmos
All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect. Where they differ is in the explanations which they offer to account for this imperfection and in what they suggest might be done about it. Gnostics have their own -- perhaps quite startling -- view of these matters: they hold that the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner.
Like Buddhism, Gnosticism begins with the fundamental recognition that earthly life is filled with suffering. In order to nourish themselves, all forms of life consume each other, thereby visiting pain, fear, and death upon one another (even herbivorous animals live by destroying the life of plants). In addition, so-called natural catastrophes -- earthquakes, floods, fires, drought, volcanic eruptions -- bring further suffering and death in their wake. Human beings, with their complex physiology and psychology, are aware not only of these painful features of earthly existence. They also suffer from the frequent recognition that they are strangers living in a world that is flawed and absurd.
Many religions advocate that humans are to be blamed for the imperfections of the world. Supporting this view, they interpret the Genesis myth as declaring that transgressions committed by the first human pair brought about a “fall” of creation resulting in the present corrupt state of the world. Gnostics respond that this interpretation of the myth is false. The blame for the world’s failings lies not with humans, but with the creator. Since -- especially in the monotheistic religions -- the creator is God, this Gnostic position appears blasphemous, and is often viewed with dismay even by non-believers.
Ways of evading the recognition of the flawed creation and its flawed creator have been devised over and over, but none of these arguments have impressed Gnostics. The ancient Greeks, especially the Platonists, advised people to look to the harmony of the universe, so that by venerating its grandeur they might forget their immediate afflictions. But since this harmony still contains the cruel flaws, forlornness and alienation of existence, this advice is considered of little value by Gnostics. Nor is the Eastern idea of Karma regarded by Gnostics as an adequate explanation of creation’s imperfection and suffering. Karma at best can only explain how the chain of suffering and imperfection works. It does not inform us in the first place why such a sorrowful and malign system should exist.
Once the initial shock of the “unusual” or “blasphemous” nature of the Gnostic explanation for suffering and imperfection of the world wears off, one may begin to recognize that it is in fact the most sensible of all explanations. To appreciate it fully, however, a familiarity with the Gnostic conception of the Godhead is required, both in its original essence as the True God and in its debased manifestation as the false or creator God.
Deity
The Gnostic God concept is more subtle than that of most religions. In its way, it unites and reconciles the recognitions of Monotheism and Polytheism, as well as of Theism, Deism and Pantheism.
In the Gnostic view, there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who is beyond all created universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word “create” is ordinarily understood. While this True God did not fashion or create anything, He (or, It) “emanated” or brought forth from within Himself the substance of all there is in all the worlds, visible and invisible. In a certain sense, it may therefore be true to say that all is God, for all consists of the substance of God. By the same token, it must also be recognized that many portions of the original divine essence have been projected so far from their source that they underwent unwholesome changes in the process. To worship the cosmos, or nature, or embodied creatures is thus tantamount to worshipping alienated and corrupt portions of the emanated divine essence.
The basic Gnostic myth has many variations, but all of these refer to Aeons, intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate, True God and ourselves. They, together with the True God, comprise the realm of Fullness (Pleroma) wherein the potency of divinity operates fully. The Fullness stands in contrast to our existential state, which in comparison may be called emptiness.
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.
The Human Being
Human nature mirrors the duality found in the world: in part it was made by the false creator God and in part it consists of the light of the True God. Humankind contains a perishable physical and psychic component, as well as a spiritual component which is a fragment of the divine essence. This latter part is often symbolically referred to as the “divine spark”. The recognition of this dual nature of the world and of the human being has earned the Gnostic tradition the epithet of “dualist”.
Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them. This ignorance is fostered in human nature by the influence of the false creator and his Archons, who together are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant of their true nature and destiny. Anything that causes us to remain attached to earthly things serves to keep us in enslavement to these lower cosmic rulers. Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world.
Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation. Some are earthbound and materialistic beings (hyletics), who recognize only the physical reality. Others live largely in their psyche (psychics). Such people usually mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have little or no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.
In the course of history, humans progress from materialistic sensate slavery, by way of ethical religiosity, to spiritual freedom and liberating Gnosis. As the scholar G. Quispel wrote: “The world-spirit in exile must go through the Inferno of matter and the Purgatory of morals to arrive at the spiritual Paradise.” This kind of evolution of consciousness was envisioned by the Gnostics, long before the concept of evolution was known.
Salvation
Evolutionary forces alone are insufficient, however, to bring about spiritual freedom. Humans are caught in a predicament consisting of physical existence combined with ignorance of their true origins, their essential nature and their ultimate destiny. To be liberated from this predicament, human beings require help, although they must also contribute their own efforts.
From earliest times Messengers of the Light have come forth from the True God in order to assist humans in their quest for Gnosis. Only a few of these salvific figures are mentioned in Gnostic scripture; some of the most important are Seth (the third Son of Adam), Jesus, and the Prophet Mani. The majority of Gnostics always looked to Jesus as the principal savior figure (the Soter).
Gnostics do not look to salvation from sin (original or other), but rather from the ignorance of which sin is a consequence. Ignorance -- whereby is meant ignorance of spiritual realities -- is dispelled only by Gnosis, and the decisive revelation of Gnosis is brought by the Messengers of Light, especially by Christ, the Logos of the True God. It is not by His suffering and death but by His life of teaching and His establishing of mysteries that Christ has performed His work of salvation.
The Gnostic concept of salvation, like other Gnostic concepts, is a subtle one. On the one hand, Gnostic salvation may easily be mistaken for an unmediated individual experience, a sort of spiritual do-it-yourself project. Gnostics hold that the potential for Gnosis, and thus, of salvation is present in every man and woman, and that salvation is not vicarious but individual. At the same time, they also acknowledge that Gnosis and salvation can be, indeed must be, stimulated and facilitated in order to effectively arise within consciousness. This stimulation is supplied by Messengers of Light who, in addition to their teachings, establish salvific mysteries (sacraments) which can be administered by apostles of the Messengers and their successors.
One needs also remember that knowledge of our true nature -- as well as other associated realizations -- are withheld from us by our very condition of earthly existence. The True God of transcendence is unknown in this world, in fact He is often called the Unknown Father. It is thus obvious that revelation from on High is needed to bring about salvation. The indwelling spark must be awakened from its terrestrial slumber by the saving knowledge that comes “from without”.
Conduct
If the words “ethics” or “morality” are taken to mean a system of rules, then Gnosticism is opposed to them both. Such systems usually originate with the Demiurge and are covertly designed to serve his purposes. If, on the other hand, morality is said to consist of an inner integrity arising from the illumination of the indwelling spark, then the Gnostic will embrace this spiritually informed existential ethic as ideal.
To the Gnostic, commandments and rules are not salvific; they are not substantially conducive to salvation. Rules of conduct may serve numerous ends, including the structuring of an ordered and peaceful society, and the maintenance of harmonious relations within social groups. Rules, however, are not relevant to salvation; that is brought about only by Gnosis. Morality therefore needs to be viewed primarily in temporal and secular terms; it is ever subject to changes and modifications in accordance with the spiritual development of the individual.
As noted in the discussion above, “hyletic materialists” usually have little interest in morality, while “psychic disciplinarians” often grant to it a great importance. In contrast, “Pneumatic spiritual” persons are generally more concerned with other, higher matters. Different historical periods also require variant attitudes regarding human conduct. Thus both the Manichaean and Cathar Gnostic movements, which functioned in times where purity of conduct was regarded as an issue of high import, responded in kind. The present period of Western culture perhaps resembles in more ways that of second and third century Alexandria. It seems therefore appropriate that Gnostics in our age adopt the attitudes of classical Alexandrian Gnosticism, wherein matters of conduct were largely left to the insight of the individual.
Gnosticism embraces numerous general attitudes toward life: it encourages non-attachment and non-conformity to the world, a “being in the world, but not of the world”; a lack of egotism; and a respect for the freedom and dignity of other beings. Nonetheless, it appertains to the intuition and wisdom of every individual “Gnostic” to distill from these principles individual guidelines for their personal application.
Destiny
When Confucius was asked about death, he replied: “Why do you ask me about death when you do not know how to live?” This answer might easily have been given by a Gnostic. To a similar question posed in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Jesus answered that human beings must come by Gnosis to know the ineffable, divine reality from whence they have originated, and whither they will return. This transcendental knowledge must come to them while they are still embodied on earth.
Death does not automatically bring about liberation from bondage in the realms of the Demiurge. Those who have not attained to a liberating Gnosis while they were in embodiment may become trapped in existence once more. It is quite likely that this might occur by way of the cycle of rebirths. Gnosticism does not emphasize the doctrine of reincarnation prominently, but it is implicitly understood in most Gnostic teachings that those who have not made effective contact with their transcendental origins while they were in embodiment would have to return into the sorrowful condition of earthly life.
In regard to salvation, or the fate of the spirit and soul after death, one needs to be aware that help is available. Valentinus, the greatest of Gnostic teachers, taught that Christ and Sophia await the spiritual man -- the pneumatic Gnostic -- at the entrance of the Pleroma, and help him to enter the bridechamber of final reunion. Ptolemaeus, disciple of Valentinus, taught that even those not of pneumatic status, the psychics, could be redeemed and live in a heavenworld at the entrance of the Pleroma. In the fullness of time, every spiritual being will receive Gnosis and will be united with its higher Self -- the angelic Twin -- thus becoming qualified to enter the Pleroma. None of this is possible, however, without earnest striving for Gnosis.
Gnosis and Psyche: The Depth Psychological Connection
Throughout the twentieth Century the new scientific discipline of depth psychology has gained much prominence. Among the depth psychologists who have shown a pronounced and informed interest in Gnosticism, a place of signal distinction belongs to C. G. Jung. Jung was instrumental in calling attention to the Nag Hammadi library of Gnostic writings in the 1950's because he perceived the outstanding psychological relevance of Gnostic insights.
The noted scholar of Gnosticism, G. Filoramo, wrote: "Jung's reflections had long been immersed in the thought of the ancient Gnostics to such an extent that he considered them the virtual discoverers of 'depth psychology' . . . ancient Gnosis, albeit in its form of universal religion, in a certain sense prefigured, and at the same time helped to clarify, the nature of Jungian spiritual therapy." In the light of such recognitions one may ask: "Is Gnosticism a religion or a psychology?" The answer is that it may very-well be both. Most mythologems found in Gnostic scriptures possess psychological relevance and applicability. For instance the blind and arrogant creator-demiurge bears a close resemblance to the alienated human ego that has lost contact with the ontological Self. Also, the myth of Sophia resembles closely the story of the human psyche that loses its connection with the collective unconscious and needs to be rescued by the Self. Analogies of this sort exist in great profusion.
Many esoteric teachings have proclaimed, "As it is above, so it is below." Our psychological nature (the microcosm) mirrors metaphysical nature (the macrocosm), thus Gnosticism may possess both a psychological and a religious authenticity. Gnostic psychology and Gnostic religion need not be exclusive of one another but may complement each other within an implicit order of wholeness. Gnostics have always held that divinity is immanent within the human spirit, although it is not limited to it. The convergence of Gnostic religious teaching with psychological insight is thus quite understandable in terms of time-honored Gnostic principles.
Conclusion
Some writers make a distinction between “Gnosis” and “Gnosticism”. Such distinctions are both helpful and misleading. Gnosis is undoubtedly an experience based not in concepts and precepts, but in the sensibility of the heart. Gnosticism, on the other hand, is the world-view based on the experience of Gnosis. For this reason, in languages other than English, the word Gnosis is often used to denote both the experience and the world view (die Gnosis in German, la Gnose in French).
In a sense, there is no Gnosis without Gnosticism, for the experience of Gnosis inevitably calls forth a world view wherein it finds its place. The Gnostic world view is experiential, it is based on a certain kind of spiritual experience of Gnosis. Therefore, it will not do to omit, or to dilute, various parts of the Gnostic world view, for were one to do this, the world view would no longer conform to experience.
Theology has been called an intellectual wrapping around the spiritual kernel of a religion. If this is true, then it is also true that most religions are being strangled and stifled by their wrappings. Gnosticism does not run this danger, because its world view is stated in myth rather than in theology. Myths, including the Gnostic myths, may be interpreted in diverse ways. Transcendence, numinosity, as well as psychological archetypes along with other elements, play a role in such interpretation. Still, such mythic statements tell of profound truths that will not be denied.
Gnosticism can bring us such truths with a high authority, for it speaks with the voice of the highest part of the human -- the spirit. Of this spirit, it has been said, “it bloweth where it listeth”. This then is the reason why the Gnostic world view could not be extirpated in spite of many centuries of persecution.
The Gnostic world view has always been timely, for it always responded best to the “knowledge of the heart” that is true Gnosis. Yet today, its timeliness is increasing, for the end of the second millennium has seen the radical deterioration of many ideologies which evaded the great questions and answers addressed by Gnosticism. The clarity, frankness, and authenticity of the Gnostic answer to the questions of the human predicament cannot fail to impress and (in time) to convince. If your reactions to this summary have been of a similarly positive order, then perhaps you are a Gnostic yourself!
Gnostics - Mystery and Myth - Finding the Way - Rosicrucians and the Birth of a New Age Youtube Video
what is gnostics and gnosticism and links to the new age religion, i think gnosticism is one of the biggest components for a new age religion, the links to new age ideas are quite telling.
if you read this basics of gnosticism write up that is on a lot of gnostic websites it shows, the basics of gnosticism and the belief structure of the gnostics.
i also think it highlights the similarities between new age thinking and gnostic thinking.
considering though gnosticism is a really a old world religion, though gnosticism as always seemed to appear throughout history as being a underground or hidden movement, hence now the gnostics coming out into view in the new age of aquarius, at the end of the old piscean age of things from the last 2000 years, and the progression into a new age with new spiritual ideas and concepts and teachings.
Gnosticism is the teaching based on Gnosis, the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. Although Gnosticism thus rests on personal religious experience, it is a mistake to assume all such experience results in Gnostic recognitions. It is nearer the truth to say that Gnosticism expresses a specific religious experience, an experience that does not lend itself to the language of theology or philosophy, but which is instead closely affinitized to, and expresses itself through, the medium of myth. Indeed, one finds that most Gnostic scriptures take the forms of myths. The term “myth” should not here be taken to mean “stories that are not true”, but rather, that the truths embodied in these myths are of a different order from the dogmas of theology or the statements of philosophy.
In the following summary, we will attempt to encapsulate in prose what the Gnostic myths express in their distinctively poetic and imaginative language.
The Cosmos
All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect. Where they differ is in the explanations which they offer to account for this imperfection and in what they suggest might be done about it. Gnostics have their own -- perhaps quite startling -- view of these matters: they hold that the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner.
Like Buddhism, Gnosticism begins with the fundamental recognition that earthly life is filled with suffering. In order to nourish themselves, all forms of life consume each other, thereby visiting pain, fear, and death upon one another (even herbivorous animals live by destroying the life of plants). In addition, so-called natural catastrophes -- earthquakes, floods, fires, drought, volcanic eruptions -- bring further suffering and death in their wake. Human beings, with their complex physiology and psychology, are aware not only of these painful features of earthly existence. They also suffer from the frequent recognition that they are strangers living in a world that is flawed and absurd.
Many religions advocate that humans are to be blamed for the imperfections of the world. Supporting this view, they interpret the Genesis myth as declaring that transgressions committed by the first human pair brought about a “fall” of creation resulting in the present corrupt state of the world. Gnostics respond that this interpretation of the myth is false. The blame for the world’s failings lies not with humans, but with the creator. Since -- especially in the monotheistic religions -- the creator is God, this Gnostic position appears blasphemous, and is often viewed with dismay even by non-believers.
Ways of evading the recognition of the flawed creation and its flawed creator have been devised over and over, but none of these arguments have impressed Gnostics. The ancient Greeks, especially the Platonists, advised people to look to the harmony of the universe, so that by venerating its grandeur they might forget their immediate afflictions. But since this harmony still contains the cruel flaws, forlornness and alienation of existence, this advice is considered of little value by Gnostics. Nor is the Eastern idea of Karma regarded by Gnostics as an adequate explanation of creation’s imperfection and suffering. Karma at best can only explain how the chain of suffering and imperfection works. It does not inform us in the first place why such a sorrowful and malign system should exist.
Once the initial shock of the “unusual” or “blasphemous” nature of the Gnostic explanation for suffering and imperfection of the world wears off, one may begin to recognize that it is in fact the most sensible of all explanations. To appreciate it fully, however, a familiarity with the Gnostic conception of the Godhead is required, both in its original essence as the True God and in its debased manifestation as the false or creator God.
Deity
The Gnostic God concept is more subtle than that of most religions. In its way, it unites and reconciles the recognitions of Monotheism and Polytheism, as well as of Theism, Deism and Pantheism.
In the Gnostic view, there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who is beyond all created universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word “create” is ordinarily understood. While this True God did not fashion or create anything, He (or, It) “emanated” or brought forth from within Himself the substance of all there is in all the worlds, visible and invisible. In a certain sense, it may therefore be true to say that all is God, for all consists of the substance of God. By the same token, it must also be recognized that many portions of the original divine essence have been projected so far from their source that they underwent unwholesome changes in the process. To worship the cosmos, or nature, or embodied creatures is thus tantamount to worshipping alienated and corrupt portions of the emanated divine essence.
The basic Gnostic myth has many variations, but all of these refer to Aeons, intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate, True God and ourselves. They, together with the True God, comprise the realm of Fullness (Pleroma) wherein the potency of divinity operates fully. The Fullness stands in contrast to our existential state, which in comparison may be called emptiness.
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.
The Human Being
Human nature mirrors the duality found in the world: in part it was made by the false creator God and in part it consists of the light of the True God. Humankind contains a perishable physical and psychic component, as well as a spiritual component which is a fragment of the divine essence. This latter part is often symbolically referred to as the “divine spark”. The recognition of this dual nature of the world and of the human being has earned the Gnostic tradition the epithet of “dualist”.
Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them. This ignorance is fostered in human nature by the influence of the false creator and his Archons, who together are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant of their true nature and destiny. Anything that causes us to remain attached to earthly things serves to keep us in enslavement to these lower cosmic rulers. Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world.
Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation. Some are earthbound and materialistic beings (hyletics), who recognize only the physical reality. Others live largely in their psyche (psychics). Such people usually mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have little or no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.
In the course of history, humans progress from materialistic sensate slavery, by way of ethical religiosity, to spiritual freedom and liberating Gnosis. As the scholar G. Quispel wrote: “The world-spirit in exile must go through the Inferno of matter and the Purgatory of morals to arrive at the spiritual Paradise.” This kind of evolution of consciousness was envisioned by the Gnostics, long before the concept of evolution was known.
Salvation
Evolutionary forces alone are insufficient, however, to bring about spiritual freedom. Humans are caught in a predicament consisting of physical existence combined with ignorance of their true origins, their essential nature and their ultimate destiny. To be liberated from this predicament, human beings require help, although they must also contribute their own efforts.
From earliest times Messengers of the Light have come forth from the True God in order to assist humans in their quest for Gnosis. Only a few of these salvific figures are mentioned in Gnostic scripture; some of the most important are Seth (the third Son of Adam), Jesus, and the Prophet Mani. The majority of Gnostics always looked to Jesus as the principal savior figure (the Soter).
Gnostics do not look to salvation from sin (original or other), but rather from the ignorance of which sin is a consequence. Ignorance -- whereby is meant ignorance of spiritual realities -- is dispelled only by Gnosis, and the decisive revelation of Gnosis is brought by the Messengers of Light, especially by Christ, the Logos of the True God. It is not by His suffering and death but by His life of teaching and His establishing of mysteries that Christ has performed His work of salvation.
The Gnostic concept of salvation, like other Gnostic concepts, is a subtle one. On the one hand, Gnostic salvation may easily be mistaken for an unmediated individual experience, a sort of spiritual do-it-yourself project. Gnostics hold that the potential for Gnosis, and thus, of salvation is present in every man and woman, and that salvation is not vicarious but individual. At the same time, they also acknowledge that Gnosis and salvation can be, indeed must be, stimulated and facilitated in order to effectively arise within consciousness. This stimulation is supplied by Messengers of Light who, in addition to their teachings, establish salvific mysteries (sacraments) which can be administered by apostles of the Messengers and their successors.
One needs also remember that knowledge of our true nature -- as well as other associated realizations -- are withheld from us by our very condition of earthly existence. The True God of transcendence is unknown in this world, in fact He is often called the Unknown Father. It is thus obvious that revelation from on High is needed to bring about salvation. The indwelling spark must be awakened from its terrestrial slumber by the saving knowledge that comes “from without”.
Conduct
If the words “ethics” or “morality” are taken to mean a system of rules, then Gnosticism is opposed to them both. Such systems usually originate with the Demiurge and are covertly designed to serve his purposes. If, on the other hand, morality is said to consist of an inner integrity arising from the illumination of the indwelling spark, then the Gnostic will embrace this spiritually informed existential ethic as ideal.
To the Gnostic, commandments and rules are not salvific; they are not substantially conducive to salvation. Rules of conduct may serve numerous ends, including the structuring of an ordered and peaceful society, and the maintenance of harmonious relations within social groups. Rules, however, are not relevant to salvation; that is brought about only by Gnosis. Morality therefore needs to be viewed primarily in temporal and secular terms; it is ever subject to changes and modifications in accordance with the spiritual development of the individual.
As noted in the discussion above, “hyletic materialists” usually have little interest in morality, while “psychic disciplinarians” often grant to it a great importance. In contrast, “Pneumatic spiritual” persons are generally more concerned with other, higher matters. Different historical periods also require variant attitudes regarding human conduct. Thus both the Manichaean and Cathar Gnostic movements, which functioned in times where purity of conduct was regarded as an issue of high import, responded in kind. The present period of Western culture perhaps resembles in more ways that of second and third century Alexandria. It seems therefore appropriate that Gnostics in our age adopt the attitudes of classical Alexandrian Gnosticism, wherein matters of conduct were largely left to the insight of the individual.
Gnosticism embraces numerous general attitudes toward life: it encourages non-attachment and non-conformity to the world, a “being in the world, but not of the world”; a lack of egotism; and a respect for the freedom and dignity of other beings. Nonetheless, it appertains to the intuition and wisdom of every individual “Gnostic” to distill from these principles individual guidelines for their personal application.
Destiny
When Confucius was asked about death, he replied: “Why do you ask me about death when you do not know how to live?” This answer might easily have been given by a Gnostic. To a similar question posed in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Jesus answered that human beings must come by Gnosis to know the ineffable, divine reality from whence they have originated, and whither they will return. This transcendental knowledge must come to them while they are still embodied on earth.
Death does not automatically bring about liberation from bondage in the realms of the Demiurge. Those who have not attained to a liberating Gnosis while they were in embodiment may become trapped in existence once more. It is quite likely that this might occur by way of the cycle of rebirths. Gnosticism does not emphasize the doctrine of reincarnation prominently, but it is implicitly understood in most Gnostic teachings that those who have not made effective contact with their transcendental origins while they were in embodiment would have to return into the sorrowful condition of earthly life.
In regard to salvation, or the fate of the spirit and soul after death, one needs to be aware that help is available. Valentinus, the greatest of Gnostic teachers, taught that Christ and Sophia await the spiritual man -- the pneumatic Gnostic -- at the entrance of the Pleroma, and help him to enter the bridechamber of final reunion. Ptolemaeus, disciple of Valentinus, taught that even those not of pneumatic status, the psychics, could be redeemed and live in a heavenworld at the entrance of the Pleroma. In the fullness of time, every spiritual being will receive Gnosis and will be united with its higher Self -- the angelic Twin -- thus becoming qualified to enter the Pleroma. None of this is possible, however, without earnest striving for Gnosis.
Gnosis and Psyche: The Depth Psychological Connection
Throughout the twentieth Century the new scientific discipline of depth psychology has gained much prominence. Among the depth psychologists who have shown a pronounced and informed interest in Gnosticism, a place of signal distinction belongs to C. G. Jung. Jung was instrumental in calling attention to the Nag Hammadi library of Gnostic writings in the 1950's because he perceived the outstanding psychological relevance of Gnostic insights.
The noted scholar of Gnosticism, G. Filoramo, wrote: "Jung's reflections had long been immersed in the thought of the ancient Gnostics to such an extent that he considered them the virtual discoverers of 'depth psychology' . . . ancient Gnosis, albeit in its form of universal religion, in a certain sense prefigured, and at the same time helped to clarify, the nature of Jungian spiritual therapy." In the light of such recognitions one may ask: "Is Gnosticism a religion or a psychology?" The answer is that it may very-well be both. Most mythologems found in Gnostic scriptures possess psychological relevance and applicability. For instance the blind and arrogant creator-demiurge bears a close resemblance to the alienated human ego that has lost contact with the ontological Self. Also, the myth of Sophia resembles closely the story of the human psyche that loses its connection with the collective unconscious and needs to be rescued by the Self. Analogies of this sort exist in great profusion.
Many esoteric teachings have proclaimed, "As it is above, so it is below." Our psychological nature (the microcosm) mirrors metaphysical nature (the macrocosm), thus Gnosticism may possess both a psychological and a religious authenticity. Gnostic psychology and Gnostic religion need not be exclusive of one another but may complement each other within an implicit order of wholeness. Gnostics have always held that divinity is immanent within the human spirit, although it is not limited to it. The convergence of Gnostic religious teaching with psychological insight is thus quite understandable in terms of time-honored Gnostic principles.
Conclusion
Some writers make a distinction between “Gnosis” and “Gnosticism”. Such distinctions are both helpful and misleading. Gnosis is undoubtedly an experience based not in concepts and precepts, but in the sensibility of the heart. Gnosticism, on the other hand, is the world-view based on the experience of Gnosis. For this reason, in languages other than English, the word Gnosis is often used to denote both the experience and the world view (die Gnosis in German, la Gnose in French).
In a sense, there is no Gnosis without Gnosticism, for the experience of Gnosis inevitably calls forth a world view wherein it finds its place. The Gnostic world view is experiential, it is based on a certain kind of spiritual experience of Gnosis. Therefore, it will not do to omit, or to dilute, various parts of the Gnostic world view, for were one to do this, the world view would no longer conform to experience.
Theology has been called an intellectual wrapping around the spiritual kernel of a religion. If this is true, then it is also true that most religions are being strangled and stifled by their wrappings. Gnosticism does not run this danger, because its world view is stated in myth rather than in theology. Myths, including the Gnostic myths, may be interpreted in diverse ways. Transcendence, numinosity, as well as psychological archetypes along with other elements, play a role in such interpretation. Still, such mythic statements tell of profound truths that will not be denied.
Gnosticism can bring us such truths with a high authority, for it speaks with the voice of the highest part of the human -- the spirit. Of this spirit, it has been said, “it bloweth where it listeth”. This then is the reason why the Gnostic world view could not be extirpated in spite of many centuries of persecution.
The Gnostic world view has always been timely, for it always responded best to the “knowledge of the heart” that is true Gnosis. Yet today, its timeliness is increasing, for the end of the second millennium has seen the radical deterioration of many ideologies which evaded the great questions and answers addressed by Gnosticism. The clarity, frankness, and authenticity of the Gnostic answer to the questions of the human predicament cannot fail to impress and (in time) to convince. If your reactions to this summary have been of a similarly positive order, then perhaps you are a Gnostic yourself!
Monday 10 January 2011
the violet flame meditation of transmutation for protection
the violet flame meditation of transmutation for protection.
Violet Flame Meditation
How to Use the Violet Flame Daily (good meditation ideas here)
Meditation and movement within our innermost being provides the experience that God lives within us as an energy, a light, a consciousness that can be contacted and appropriated. Energy as God is our greatest concern as we analyze our point in time and space. We are in a moment of the greatest revolution ever known.
It doesn't take a great perception to read the hand writing upon the wall of events in this and every nation. We read our newspapers. We look here. We look there. And there are days we would rather not look.
There is a very deep fear-a fear of something that the soul knows at subconscious levels but is not able to face in the conscious mind. It is a fear of coming events. We fear to bring forth from the dimness of an ancient memory the soul awareness of a shocking past-and an even more shocking future. And because we don't allow it to surface, we have a nation of insomnia, emotional and mental disorders, heart failure, and terminal disease.
We all sense an impending something. People are in a state of panic at subconscious levels. And that panic outpictures in vast "star wars" and wars across the face of the earth as the valve of the pressure cooker of the subconscious is opened just a little bit. Out it comes-like Pandora's box. The failure to resolve the inner compo- nents of being.
Inharmony within results in outer chaos. And yet we say, "What can I do? There's no point looking beyond my personal interests because I can't do anything anyway."
We think of the time before lightning was harnessed into electricity or before Einstein split the atom and gave us the formula E = mc squared. We say those were the dark ages. But today we know no more about the imprisoned light- ning of God within us than was known centuries ago about the most basic physical forces.
It is so near and so close. Yet we are on the brink of self-destruction because we have allowed ourselves to say that God is past or future or in here or over there- but never close enough to be that practicable application for the healing of our souls.
There are spiritual forces within us-within every single atom and cell, within the fire of our heart. If we would discover what these forces are, we would know how the fervent, white-hot heat of meditative love can burst that atom of Self and release the energy that has framed the worlds, that has created and uncreated the Void. It can begin a revolution of light. And it can make the imminent Aquarian age truly an era of peace and enlightenment.
The cycles of God Self-awareness move in two- thousand-year periods. In each two-thousand-year cycle, there's a dawning of a great light. In the age of Aries, the Judaic tradition taught us to understand God the Father, the personal God individualized in what Moses experienced as the I AM THAT I AM.
The next two-thousand-year period, marked by the coming of the avatar Jesus Christ, was the Piscean dispensation intended to give us the understanding of God as Son.
And so through reincarnation, lifetime after lifetime we were intended to put on the consciousness of God the Father and God the Son. Now as we feel the winds of the Aquarian age, we find the energy of the Holy Spirit upon us in many ways. New sounds, new rhythms, new science, new technology-and, above all, a new freedom.
The Aquarian age is the moment of understanding energy and its conquest in time and space through the perfect polarity of the masculine and feminine principles of the universe-Spirit('heaven')/Matter('earth'). The "cloven tongues" of fire that sat upon each of the disciples on the day of Pentecost are these 'twin flames' of the Father/Mother God which give to us the impact, the energy, the control of creative flow.
This descent of the Holy Spirit is a tremendous force. It is intense love. And this love-action is transmutative-that is, when this energy flows through us it is able to re-create us after the image of the Real Self.
Just as Jesus stood as the open door to the attainment of the Christ consciousness in the two-thousand-year Piscean cycle, so the Aquarian master Saint Germain comes today to initiate us on the path of soul liberation through the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit which we call the violet flame.
The violet flame is the energy of freedom. People who are free have the violet light vibrating in their auras-unmistakably. The violet flame is also an energy of mercy and forgiveness. And transmutation.
Transmutation means to change-to alter in form, appearance, or nature. The term was used by medieval alchemists who attempted to transmute base metals into gold, separating the 'subtle' from the 'gross' by means of heat.
That is precisely what the energy of the Holy Spirit does. It is a tangible emanation of spiritual fire that actually "melts" the "elements" of our subconscious "with fervent heat"-as the Bible says.
This is the way to undo psychological problems, emotional hang-ups, records of the past. We don't have to go back through hypnosis or regression. Send the love-fire of the Holy Spirit through-and it all begins to change by the alchemy of the violet transmuting flame.
The scientific use of the violet flame in this age has been made possible by Saint Germain, who offered the violet flame garnered within his own heart (over many thousands of years) as a momentum of light-energy so that we could experiment with the alchemy of self- transformation through the sacred fire.
The violet flame has always been used in the inner retreats of the Brotherhood. Up until now, it has been reserved for the privileged few-those initiates who were found worthy-members of 'secret societies', or communicants of the flame in the 'mystery schools'.
Early alchemists pored over minutely ciphered texts in search of the mystic-magical philosopher's stone. For them it was worth a lifetime to decode the mystery of this 'stone' which symbolized "the transmutation of the lower animal nature into the highest and divine."
Theosophical alchemists gloried in the vision of a "secret flame." The coveted philosopher's stone, "the Stone which is no stone," was not physical but spiritual and created out of fire!
According to Neoplatonist predecessors of medieval alchemy, it was a sacrificial, self-transforming fire that would lead the soul upward-and, in the process, transmute the "hard and refractory materials" in the human body to materials more luminous and rarefied. In this sacred experiment, the alchemist would become "like the gods," pursuing what one seventeenth-century text called "the gold of the wise and not the vulgar metal." Sacrificial fire, the texts explain, leads up to the "fire of the gods" by drawing upward to the Spirit all qualities that drag downward and oppose the celestial essences. Transmutation, then, was a spiritual process which exalted the soul into a state of unity with the Divine.
Now (thanks to Saint Germain!) you can begin to experience the action of this sacrificial fire-the violet fire-passing over the pages of the subconscious record of your incarnations on earth. The violet fire is sacred "secret" fire. It penetrates the most secret little places of our mind and memory. It comes in, sweeps through- and, with a roaring crackle, sweeps out the dust of centuries. Line by line, letter by letter, the flame- intelligent, luminous, directed by the mind of God-sets free the energies, electron by electron, of our past misuse of the sacred fire, thereby restoring the natural resource of the inner light.
Isaac Newton observed that a ray of sunlight, when passed through a prism, will separate into the seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. This visible light is only a tiny portion of an electromagnetic spectrum of varying frequencies or wavelengths which include radio waves, infrared radiation, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays. Today, scientists know of 60 to 70 octaves of light.
Violet, with the shortest wavelength, has the highest frequency in the visible spectrum and is at the point of transition to the next octave of light. To the ancients, this transitional, transcendental color was a spiritual rather than a physical phenomenon.
Egypt cherished the deep violet amethyst as a soothing, a healing stone, even as divine protection from evil. The Greek historian Lucian describes a fabled city of gems-whose altars are enormous blocks of amethyst.
Homer's Odyssey was sung by bards ceremoniously wrapped in precious purples. Agamemnon's wife rolled out a purple-crimson carpet to greet him home from Troy-"tinted splendors," noted the king, reserved only for the gods. Caesar also craved the costly color as the mantle of the supreme god, Jupiter.
When Pilate's soldiers platted the crown of thorns for Jesus "King of the Jews," they also put on him a purple robe. Thus purple became symbolic of mystic 'suffering', sacrifice, and penance. And violet was designated for liturgical vestments during the seasons of purgation-Advent and Lent.
Behind the scenes of visible color and light, mystics of all ages, East and West, have glirnpsed a "spiritual spectrum." Radiant colors, purer and more rare than those of earth, emanate from a brilliant white "inner" light that is divine in nature.
Scholars are beginning to see ancient "sun worshipers" as devotees of this transphysical spiritual light-the divine sun that illumines the inner world, 'the Sun behind the sun'.
The Zohar, an important work of the Jewish Kabbalah, affirms that "there exists a sort of fire which is stronger than other fire Above the white light and encompassing it is yet another light, this one symbolizing the supreme essence."
Zarathustra witnessed the creation of all things from a single fire. Mithraic prayers adore the Lord of Light as the "Fire-hearted One. . .whose Body is of Fire."
"In a flame of fire" the angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses. And out of that flaming flame was the contact of a soul with his own higher consciousness. Based on that experience, Moses told the children of Israel: "The Lord thy God is a consuming fire!"
And Jesus Christ summed up his mission in nine words: "I am come to send fire on the earth."
While in a state of ecstasy in dialogue with God the Father, Saint Catherine of Siena dictated these words: "I, Fire, Acceptor of sacrifices, ravishing away from them their darkness, give the light; not a natural light, but a supernatural. . .
John of the Cross was inwardly transformed in the "living flame" of love. "Such is the activity of the Holy Spirit in the soul," he writes. "The interior acts He produces shoot up flames for they are acts of inflamed love."
Esoteric researcher H. P. Blavatsky describes the divine light in terms of seven colors, or 'rays'-each of which has specific attributes or qualities. The violet flame comes forth from that aspect of the white light which is called the 'seventh ray'.
Just as sunlight passing through a prism is refracted into the rainbow of the seven rays, so in the consciousness of the Holy Spirit the light of the Christ is refracted for our use in the matter plane.
Each of the seven rays is a concentrated action of the light of God having a specific color and frequency resulting in a specific action in body, mind, and soul. The violet flame is the specific of the Holy Spirit, the antidote, that dissolves the delusions of the pseudoself-and even the laws of old age and death. It is the fulfillment of the prophecy of God's own law of transmutation "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
The violet flame does not destroy, for the law is precise: God's energy is neither created nor destroyed. The violet flame changes the water into wine. It strips atoms and molecules of the dense overlay of human imperfection and restores the natural divine perfection of the soul and its original desire to be whole.
Now let us examine what happens when the specific of the violet fire is applied to the accumulation of karma in the subconscious.
Instantaneously, the fire begins the work of breaking down particles of substance that are part of hundreds and even thousands of incarnations. Believe it or not, this energy can be as hard as concrete as it fills the wide-open spaces between the electrons and the nuclei of the atoms causing mental recalcitrance, hardness of heart, a lack of sensitivity to the needs of others-and creating a dense mass that prevents the soul from receiving the delicate impartations of the Holy Spirit.
Man is a microcosm-a miniature representation of the cosmos. Just as there is a vast space between the planets and the sun, so there is vast space between the electrons and the nucleus inside every cell and atom of your body consciousness.
The space between the electron and the fiery nucleus is known as 'virgin' or 'hallowed' space. It is filled with the pulsating energy of the Holy Spirit. It is essence-an essence of God.
We are constantly using this vital essence that is between the electrons and the nucleus of the atom. We are constantly qualifying that energy-stamping it with the impressions of our minds and hearts. And this is how densification occurs.
You can imagine filling the space between electrons with molasses-a sticky astral glue that blocks the flow of light from the Macrocosm of God to the microcosm of man. What happens to the electrons? They slow down. They can't pass through.
That is, in effect, what we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. We have been filling the space between the electrons with discord, with a lack of wholeness-call it what you will. Call it "bad karma." Call it "sin" if you must. Essentially any manifestation of imperfection fills that 'hallowed' space with density.
Dr. Bernard Jensen reports that hatred and other negative thoughts and feeling actually create acids (excess amounts of phosphoric acid, uric acid, and carbonic acid gases) that the body cannot assimilate. Hence the density of disease persists within the physical orbit.
Atoms of consciousness have become so polluted that our environment is now polluted as well. We have polluted the atoms of air, polluted the atoms of earth, polluted the atoms of water-not simply with chemicals but with our thoughts and feelings. Physical pollution is but an effect of mental and emotional pollution. There- fore, to solve the problem of pollution, we must restore the native flow of the Holy Spirit.
That's the science of it. The dilemma is, How do we speed up our electrons? By removing the effiuvia that is caught between those wide-open spaces. How? There is only one way. By using the same energies that we have misused-the energies of the Holy Spirit.
The accelerating, violet-flame energy of the Holy Spirit envelops each atom individually. Can you imagine what a tiny particle of substance an atom is? Yet the flame of God caresses and wraps each atom indi- vidually. Instantaneously, a polarity is set up between the white fire core of the atom (which, being matter, assumes the negative pole) and the white fire core of the flame (which, being Spirit, assumes the positive pole).
The dual action of the sacred fire in the center of the atom and in the violet flame without establishes a forcefield that causes the untransmuted densities to be dislodged from between the electrons. As this substance is loosed, the electrons begin to spin more rapidly in their orbits-and by centrifugal force it is thrown into the violet flame. On contact with this fiery essence of freedom's flame, the misqualified energy is transmuted into its native purity.
The violet flame is the spiritual wine of forgiveness, the quality of mercy that, as Shakespeare wrote, "is not strain'd," that "droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
That "giving" and "taking" is the constant of flow. Flow is the interaction of energy between God and man. Flow is the return to the Source of energy so that that Source can release more energy.
All of cosmos depends for its very existence upon that flow. When you stop the flow, you have death, disease, disintegration. Disintegration-the 'dis-integration' of the atom that is devoid of the integrating essence of the Holy Spirit.
If we can't let go to this cosmic flow, this mighty movement of the Spirit of God, then we have lost the essential reason for being-for life itself. That is why the violet flame brings such feelings of joy, lightness, hope, and newness of life. It restores the flow. And with the restoration of the Macrocosmic/microcosmic flow, it is as though clouds of depression were being dissolved by the very sun of our own being.
When the spirit of man flows into the Spirit of God and the Spirit of God flows into the spirit of man, there is a divine exchange-a cosmic transmutation-and both God and man enjoy the feeling of sharing and of belonging to one another.
All problems of the economy, the ecology, and the government can be resolved," Saint Germain says, "if you will take only ten minutes each day to go within and to find your own God Self; to meditate and to use the science of the spoken Word whereby you chant the mantra of the free: I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
"This is my mantra which I give to you as your initiation into the Aquarian age."
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
The sacred name I AM releases the fire locked in the nucleus of the permanent atom of Self.
Remember when Moses was on the mountain and there was a bush that burned but was not consumed- and then God called to him out of the midst of the burning bush? Moses understood God as fire. But at the precise moment that God reveals himself as an energy, as that flaming flame-at that moment the Lord God steps right through that energy and becomes a person talking with Moses face-to-face. The energy speaks. It becomes an identity, an individuality-the very person of the Holy Spirit.
When you look at the nature of energy, you realize that it is always simultaneously principle and person. Principle and person is simply the plus and minus polarity. The positive polarity becomes negative as the negative polarity realizes individuality.
God is the cloven tongues of fire-Spirit/Matter. Spirit represents the principle of universal energy. Matter represents that energy becoming a person. By the law of polarity, that which is principle must become person. It is a lesson in science and mathematics.
Moses had that experience. Energy became person-a person that was a friend. God manifested himself as friend and talked with Moses face-to-face out of that burning bush. Why? To initiate his mission in life.
What does initiation mean? It means that God imparts to us as individuals an increment of light, or energy, which enters into our soul and gives us a push, a thrust, a consciousness, an idea, an awareness. It's like wind in our sails.
So Moses stood there and the voice spoke out of the flame and the Lord God said to him: "Let my people go!" God is sending Moses to rescue the people of Israel from a false sense of freedom, a very entrenched materialism. But Moses was very timid. He feared. He doubted his own ability.
Moses trembles before that person-as we would also tremble before the sacred fire. He said, "I'm not qual- ified. The people will not listen to me. Perhaps if they know who sent me they will listen to me-someone, perhaps, more powerful than I. Whom shall I say sent me? By whose authority shall I deliver this word? Who are you, anyway?"
The resounding Word that comes back is the resounding Word that we hear in our own inner being- the declaration of the presence of God where we are. The voice of the Lord speaks out of that flame to Moses and says:I AM THAT I AM. I AM WHO I AM. I will be what I will be. OM TAT SAT OM.
The name of God I AM THAT I AM is a key to energy. Every time you use "I AM" you are declaring, "God in me is." It is an affirmation of your true Self. It releases the fire of your heart to fulfill the destiny to which you send it forth. This is more than the power of positive thinking. Make no mistake. This is the alchemy of the sacred fire.
"I AM" is a loaded word. It is loaded with the power of the nucleus of your being. If you say, "I am well, I am happy, I am whole," the fire leaps and makes a cycle through your mind and heart and soul (and when you say the reverse, you create the consequences).
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
When you give this mantra, the flow of the Word goes forth in a clockwise spiral around your being. And you, as a pillar of energy, become a coil of the fire of freedom.
In the flow of the mantra, the stepping-up of the tempo corresponds to the stepping-up of the vibration of the light flowing through you. When you let God speak the Word through you, the natural flow of light intensifies the flow of the mantra.
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
This is an example of how the white fire core receives all back unto itself. All of the colors-the rainbow rays of the prism of God's consciousness-return to the white fire core. And the violet flame becomes the white light as the mantra converges in the AUM.
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
AUM
Scientists now recognize the fact that each individual has his own 'cosmic clock'. We each have a unique vibration. That vibration consists of the frequencies of all of our atoms and molecules.
All our atoms and molecules put together make the 'tone' of identity which we recognize when we greet our friends, when we have affinities (and perhaps repulsions) for one another. Those 'vibes'-that frequency- have to do with how the Word is flowing.
When the flame of freedom comes into being and you become that flame-you have a new pitch, a new sound, a new consciousness. And as you increase the tempo of the mantra, you are controlling a whole cosmos of atoms and molecules and energy fields.
We begin slowly, controlling each word as we control each electron. Then we step it up and we find that we can maintain control at an increased vibration-just as man has conquered movement in time and space, securing inventions for greater and greater speed and finally breaking the barrier of sound. This we do by the control of the Word and the science of the Word.
Experiment with the mantra. If you do not exercise the power of the spoken Word, you will be an island in the midst of a sea of flame. For by free will that flame cannot coalesce and form that spiral if you do not give the fiat. This is the law of free will and of the science of the spoken Word. The flame is unknown until you make it your own.
This is a simple mantra that you can accelerate and accelerate and give it as a perpetual prayer on your lips as you go about your daily life.
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
Start getting rid of the consciousness of self as old, dense, feeble, ugly, stupid, bored, poor. All of a sudden you are "a being of violet fire." You're just a flaming flame-pulsating, moving with the Spirit. You move in a beautiful sea of violet flame.
As you give that mantra and accelerate and accelerate its speed-so you have the dissolving of the substance between the electrons and the nuclei. The electrons whirl faster and faster and faster. And you get lighter and lighter. Higher and higher.
This is a mantra you can use anytime, anywhere. You can make use of the Word within you instead of staying there in that same dense vibration-a victim of your circumstances in time and space. When you start feeling tense or irritated or tired or heavy or burdened during the day, just say a few "violet flames" and you'll be back into that cosmic flow.
Give it making breakfast, driving the car, washing the clothes-even taking a shower.
Visualize your morning shower as a shower of violet flame. See the flame scrubbing the pores, passing through the nervous system, the arteries, the bloodstream-right down to the marrow of your bones.
And whatever you affirm for your- self; you can affirm for your city or for the entire nation. You can say, America is a land of violet fire- America is the purity God desires! Simply change your visualization- like adjusting the lens of a camera.
You can just as easily invoke enough violet flame to transmute the density of a city or a nation-or a planet or a solar system.
There is unbounded creativity in the violet flame! It liberates the en- ergy of Aquarius in you-the full cre- ativity of the Holy Spirit. It liberates love as the discipline of creative fires.
Whatever your field, whatever your calling, you can take the sound, the rhythm, the energy, the Word- and feel yourseff freer and freer.
The violet flame will unlock in you everything else that you have ever sought as consciousness and teaching and self-mastery. It's the key. It locks in everything else-because it transmutes the dross that impedes the flow of this stupendous light of the Holy Spirit.
Here's what people who have experimented with the violet flame are saying:
". . .Well, I think a lot clearer. I feel lighter. I'm a lot more sensitive to vibrations. And I feel the movement of light almost physically rather than just at subtle levels."
". . .My relations with people are lighter and more smooth. I don't have that sense of friction."
". . .At one time I was heavy on drugs and I knew I'd gone too far. The violet flame has cleared up my memory so that now I can think clearly and creatively."
". . .I can feel an actual lightness in my step and a peace about things that could make me anxious."
". . . It gives me emotional control and the ability to be more sensitive to the thoughts of God."
It is God's own infinite consciousness that you have gained by going into your interior being. What are we going to do with it? We can't just bask in the Sun. Let's tackle the earth! Let's start a revolution!
Violet Flame Meditation
How to Use the Violet Flame Daily (good meditation ideas here)
Meditation and movement within our innermost being provides the experience that God lives within us as an energy, a light, a consciousness that can be contacted and appropriated. Energy as God is our greatest concern as we analyze our point in time and space. We are in a moment of the greatest revolution ever known.
It doesn't take a great perception to read the hand writing upon the wall of events in this and every nation. We read our newspapers. We look here. We look there. And there are days we would rather not look.
There is a very deep fear-a fear of something that the soul knows at subconscious levels but is not able to face in the conscious mind. It is a fear of coming events. We fear to bring forth from the dimness of an ancient memory the soul awareness of a shocking past-and an even more shocking future. And because we don't allow it to surface, we have a nation of insomnia, emotional and mental disorders, heart failure, and terminal disease.
We all sense an impending something. People are in a state of panic at subconscious levels. And that panic outpictures in vast "star wars" and wars across the face of the earth as the valve of the pressure cooker of the subconscious is opened just a little bit. Out it comes-like Pandora's box. The failure to resolve the inner compo- nents of being.
Inharmony within results in outer chaos. And yet we say, "What can I do? There's no point looking beyond my personal interests because I can't do anything anyway."
We think of the time before lightning was harnessed into electricity or before Einstein split the atom and gave us the formula E = mc squared. We say those were the dark ages. But today we know no more about the imprisoned light- ning of God within us than was known centuries ago about the most basic physical forces.
It is so near and so close. Yet we are on the brink of self-destruction because we have allowed ourselves to say that God is past or future or in here or over there- but never close enough to be that practicable application for the healing of our souls.
There are spiritual forces within us-within every single atom and cell, within the fire of our heart. If we would discover what these forces are, we would know how the fervent, white-hot heat of meditative love can burst that atom of Self and release the energy that has framed the worlds, that has created and uncreated the Void. It can begin a revolution of light. And it can make the imminent Aquarian age truly an era of peace and enlightenment.
The cycles of God Self-awareness move in two- thousand-year periods. In each two-thousand-year cycle, there's a dawning of a great light. In the age of Aries, the Judaic tradition taught us to understand God the Father, the personal God individualized in what Moses experienced as the I AM THAT I AM.
The next two-thousand-year period, marked by the coming of the avatar Jesus Christ, was the Piscean dispensation intended to give us the understanding of God as Son.
And so through reincarnation, lifetime after lifetime we were intended to put on the consciousness of God the Father and God the Son. Now as we feel the winds of the Aquarian age, we find the energy of the Holy Spirit upon us in many ways. New sounds, new rhythms, new science, new technology-and, above all, a new freedom.
The Aquarian age is the moment of understanding energy and its conquest in time and space through the perfect polarity of the masculine and feminine principles of the universe-Spirit('heaven')/Matter('earth'). The "cloven tongues" of fire that sat upon each of the disciples on the day of Pentecost are these 'twin flames' of the Father/Mother God which give to us the impact, the energy, the control of creative flow.
This descent of the Holy Spirit is a tremendous force. It is intense love. And this love-action is transmutative-that is, when this energy flows through us it is able to re-create us after the image of the Real Self.
Just as Jesus stood as the open door to the attainment of the Christ consciousness in the two-thousand-year Piscean cycle, so the Aquarian master Saint Germain comes today to initiate us on the path of soul liberation through the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit which we call the violet flame.
The violet flame is the energy of freedom. People who are free have the violet light vibrating in their auras-unmistakably. The violet flame is also an energy of mercy and forgiveness. And transmutation.
Transmutation means to change-to alter in form, appearance, or nature. The term was used by medieval alchemists who attempted to transmute base metals into gold, separating the 'subtle' from the 'gross' by means of heat.
That is precisely what the energy of the Holy Spirit does. It is a tangible emanation of spiritual fire that actually "melts" the "elements" of our subconscious "with fervent heat"-as the Bible says.
This is the way to undo psychological problems, emotional hang-ups, records of the past. We don't have to go back through hypnosis or regression. Send the love-fire of the Holy Spirit through-and it all begins to change by the alchemy of the violet transmuting flame.
The scientific use of the violet flame in this age has been made possible by Saint Germain, who offered the violet flame garnered within his own heart (over many thousands of years) as a momentum of light-energy so that we could experiment with the alchemy of self- transformation through the sacred fire.
The violet flame has always been used in the inner retreats of the Brotherhood. Up until now, it has been reserved for the privileged few-those initiates who were found worthy-members of 'secret societies', or communicants of the flame in the 'mystery schools'.
Early alchemists pored over minutely ciphered texts in search of the mystic-magical philosopher's stone. For them it was worth a lifetime to decode the mystery of this 'stone' which symbolized "the transmutation of the lower animal nature into the highest and divine."
Theosophical alchemists gloried in the vision of a "secret flame." The coveted philosopher's stone, "the Stone which is no stone," was not physical but spiritual and created out of fire!
According to Neoplatonist predecessors of medieval alchemy, it was a sacrificial, self-transforming fire that would lead the soul upward-and, in the process, transmute the "hard and refractory materials" in the human body to materials more luminous and rarefied. In this sacred experiment, the alchemist would become "like the gods," pursuing what one seventeenth-century text called "the gold of the wise and not the vulgar metal." Sacrificial fire, the texts explain, leads up to the "fire of the gods" by drawing upward to the Spirit all qualities that drag downward and oppose the celestial essences. Transmutation, then, was a spiritual process which exalted the soul into a state of unity with the Divine.
Now (thanks to Saint Germain!) you can begin to experience the action of this sacrificial fire-the violet fire-passing over the pages of the subconscious record of your incarnations on earth. The violet fire is sacred "secret" fire. It penetrates the most secret little places of our mind and memory. It comes in, sweeps through- and, with a roaring crackle, sweeps out the dust of centuries. Line by line, letter by letter, the flame- intelligent, luminous, directed by the mind of God-sets free the energies, electron by electron, of our past misuse of the sacred fire, thereby restoring the natural resource of the inner light.
Isaac Newton observed that a ray of sunlight, when passed through a prism, will separate into the seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. This visible light is only a tiny portion of an electromagnetic spectrum of varying frequencies or wavelengths which include radio waves, infrared radiation, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays. Today, scientists know of 60 to 70 octaves of light.
Violet, with the shortest wavelength, has the highest frequency in the visible spectrum and is at the point of transition to the next octave of light. To the ancients, this transitional, transcendental color was a spiritual rather than a physical phenomenon.
Egypt cherished the deep violet amethyst as a soothing, a healing stone, even as divine protection from evil. The Greek historian Lucian describes a fabled city of gems-whose altars are enormous blocks of amethyst.
Homer's Odyssey was sung by bards ceremoniously wrapped in precious purples. Agamemnon's wife rolled out a purple-crimson carpet to greet him home from Troy-"tinted splendors," noted the king, reserved only for the gods. Caesar also craved the costly color as the mantle of the supreme god, Jupiter.
When Pilate's soldiers platted the crown of thorns for Jesus "King of the Jews," they also put on him a purple robe. Thus purple became symbolic of mystic 'suffering', sacrifice, and penance. And violet was designated for liturgical vestments during the seasons of purgation-Advent and Lent.
Behind the scenes of visible color and light, mystics of all ages, East and West, have glirnpsed a "spiritual spectrum." Radiant colors, purer and more rare than those of earth, emanate from a brilliant white "inner" light that is divine in nature.
Scholars are beginning to see ancient "sun worshipers" as devotees of this transphysical spiritual light-the divine sun that illumines the inner world, 'the Sun behind the sun'.
The Zohar, an important work of the Jewish Kabbalah, affirms that "there exists a sort of fire which is stronger than other fire Above the white light and encompassing it is yet another light, this one symbolizing the supreme essence."
Zarathustra witnessed the creation of all things from a single fire. Mithraic prayers adore the Lord of Light as the "Fire-hearted One. . .whose Body is of Fire."
"In a flame of fire" the angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses. And out of that flaming flame was the contact of a soul with his own higher consciousness. Based on that experience, Moses told the children of Israel: "The Lord thy God is a consuming fire!"
And Jesus Christ summed up his mission in nine words: "I am come to send fire on the earth."
While in a state of ecstasy in dialogue with God the Father, Saint Catherine of Siena dictated these words: "I, Fire, Acceptor of sacrifices, ravishing away from them their darkness, give the light; not a natural light, but a supernatural. . .
John of the Cross was inwardly transformed in the "living flame" of love. "Such is the activity of the Holy Spirit in the soul," he writes. "The interior acts He produces shoot up flames for they are acts of inflamed love."
Esoteric researcher H. P. Blavatsky describes the divine light in terms of seven colors, or 'rays'-each of which has specific attributes or qualities. The violet flame comes forth from that aspect of the white light which is called the 'seventh ray'.
Just as sunlight passing through a prism is refracted into the rainbow of the seven rays, so in the consciousness of the Holy Spirit the light of the Christ is refracted for our use in the matter plane.
Each of the seven rays is a concentrated action of the light of God having a specific color and frequency resulting in a specific action in body, mind, and soul. The violet flame is the specific of the Holy Spirit, the antidote, that dissolves the delusions of the pseudoself-and even the laws of old age and death. It is the fulfillment of the prophecy of God's own law of transmutation "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
The violet flame does not destroy, for the law is precise: God's energy is neither created nor destroyed. The violet flame changes the water into wine. It strips atoms and molecules of the dense overlay of human imperfection and restores the natural divine perfection of the soul and its original desire to be whole.
Now let us examine what happens when the specific of the violet fire is applied to the accumulation of karma in the subconscious.
Instantaneously, the fire begins the work of breaking down particles of substance that are part of hundreds and even thousands of incarnations. Believe it or not, this energy can be as hard as concrete as it fills the wide-open spaces between the electrons and the nuclei of the atoms causing mental recalcitrance, hardness of heart, a lack of sensitivity to the needs of others-and creating a dense mass that prevents the soul from receiving the delicate impartations of the Holy Spirit.
Man is a microcosm-a miniature representation of the cosmos. Just as there is a vast space between the planets and the sun, so there is vast space between the electrons and the nucleus inside every cell and atom of your body consciousness.
The space between the electron and the fiery nucleus is known as 'virgin' or 'hallowed' space. It is filled with the pulsating energy of the Holy Spirit. It is essence-an essence of God.
We are constantly using this vital essence that is between the electrons and the nucleus of the atom. We are constantly qualifying that energy-stamping it with the impressions of our minds and hearts. And this is how densification occurs.
You can imagine filling the space between electrons with molasses-a sticky astral glue that blocks the flow of light from the Macrocosm of God to the microcosm of man. What happens to the electrons? They slow down. They can't pass through.
That is, in effect, what we've been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. We have been filling the space between the electrons with discord, with a lack of wholeness-call it what you will. Call it "bad karma." Call it "sin" if you must. Essentially any manifestation of imperfection fills that 'hallowed' space with density.
Dr. Bernard Jensen reports that hatred and other negative thoughts and feeling actually create acids (excess amounts of phosphoric acid, uric acid, and carbonic acid gases) that the body cannot assimilate. Hence the density of disease persists within the physical orbit.
Atoms of consciousness have become so polluted that our environment is now polluted as well. We have polluted the atoms of air, polluted the atoms of earth, polluted the atoms of water-not simply with chemicals but with our thoughts and feelings. Physical pollution is but an effect of mental and emotional pollution. There- fore, to solve the problem of pollution, we must restore the native flow of the Holy Spirit.
That's the science of it. The dilemma is, How do we speed up our electrons? By removing the effiuvia that is caught between those wide-open spaces. How? There is only one way. By using the same energies that we have misused-the energies of the Holy Spirit.
The accelerating, violet-flame energy of the Holy Spirit envelops each atom individually. Can you imagine what a tiny particle of substance an atom is? Yet the flame of God caresses and wraps each atom indi- vidually. Instantaneously, a polarity is set up between the white fire core of the atom (which, being matter, assumes the negative pole) and the white fire core of the flame (which, being Spirit, assumes the positive pole).
The dual action of the sacred fire in the center of the atom and in the violet flame without establishes a forcefield that causes the untransmuted densities to be dislodged from between the electrons. As this substance is loosed, the electrons begin to spin more rapidly in their orbits-and by centrifugal force it is thrown into the violet flame. On contact with this fiery essence of freedom's flame, the misqualified energy is transmuted into its native purity.
The violet flame is the spiritual wine of forgiveness, the quality of mercy that, as Shakespeare wrote, "is not strain'd," that "droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
That "giving" and "taking" is the constant of flow. Flow is the interaction of energy between God and man. Flow is the return to the Source of energy so that that Source can release more energy.
All of cosmos depends for its very existence upon that flow. When you stop the flow, you have death, disease, disintegration. Disintegration-the 'dis-integration' of the atom that is devoid of the integrating essence of the Holy Spirit.
If we can't let go to this cosmic flow, this mighty movement of the Spirit of God, then we have lost the essential reason for being-for life itself. That is why the violet flame brings such feelings of joy, lightness, hope, and newness of life. It restores the flow. And with the restoration of the Macrocosmic/microcosmic flow, it is as though clouds of depression were being dissolved by the very sun of our own being.
When the spirit of man flows into the Spirit of God and the Spirit of God flows into the spirit of man, there is a divine exchange-a cosmic transmutation-and both God and man enjoy the feeling of sharing and of belonging to one another.
All problems of the economy, the ecology, and the government can be resolved," Saint Germain says, "if you will take only ten minutes each day to go within and to find your own God Self; to meditate and to use the science of the spoken Word whereby you chant the mantra of the free: I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
"This is my mantra which I give to you as your initiation into the Aquarian age."
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
The sacred name I AM releases the fire locked in the nucleus of the permanent atom of Self.
Remember when Moses was on the mountain and there was a bush that burned but was not consumed- and then God called to him out of the midst of the burning bush? Moses understood God as fire. But at the precise moment that God reveals himself as an energy, as that flaming flame-at that moment the Lord God steps right through that energy and becomes a person talking with Moses face-to-face. The energy speaks. It becomes an identity, an individuality-the very person of the Holy Spirit.
When you look at the nature of energy, you realize that it is always simultaneously principle and person. Principle and person is simply the plus and minus polarity. The positive polarity becomes negative as the negative polarity realizes individuality.
God is the cloven tongues of fire-Spirit/Matter. Spirit represents the principle of universal energy. Matter represents that energy becoming a person. By the law of polarity, that which is principle must become person. It is a lesson in science and mathematics.
Moses had that experience. Energy became person-a person that was a friend. God manifested himself as friend and talked with Moses face-to-face out of that burning bush. Why? To initiate his mission in life.
What does initiation mean? It means that God imparts to us as individuals an increment of light, or energy, which enters into our soul and gives us a push, a thrust, a consciousness, an idea, an awareness. It's like wind in our sails.
So Moses stood there and the voice spoke out of the flame and the Lord God said to him: "Let my people go!" God is sending Moses to rescue the people of Israel from a false sense of freedom, a very entrenched materialism. But Moses was very timid. He feared. He doubted his own ability.
Moses trembles before that person-as we would also tremble before the sacred fire. He said, "I'm not qual- ified. The people will not listen to me. Perhaps if they know who sent me they will listen to me-someone, perhaps, more powerful than I. Whom shall I say sent me? By whose authority shall I deliver this word? Who are you, anyway?"
The resounding Word that comes back is the resounding Word that we hear in our own inner being- the declaration of the presence of God where we are. The voice of the Lord speaks out of that flame to Moses and says:I AM THAT I AM. I AM WHO I AM. I will be what I will be. OM TAT SAT OM.
The name of God I AM THAT I AM is a key to energy. Every time you use "I AM" you are declaring, "God in me is." It is an affirmation of your true Self. It releases the fire of your heart to fulfill the destiny to which you send it forth. This is more than the power of positive thinking. Make no mistake. This is the alchemy of the sacred fire.
"I AM" is a loaded word. It is loaded with the power of the nucleus of your being. If you say, "I am well, I am happy, I am whole," the fire leaps and makes a cycle through your mind and heart and soul (and when you say the reverse, you create the consequences).
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
When you give this mantra, the flow of the Word goes forth in a clockwise spiral around your being. And you, as a pillar of energy, become a coil of the fire of freedom.
In the flow of the mantra, the stepping-up of the tempo corresponds to the stepping-up of the vibration of the light flowing through you. When you let God speak the Word through you, the natural flow of light intensifies the flow of the mantra.
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
This is an example of how the white fire core receives all back unto itself. All of the colors-the rainbow rays of the prism of God's consciousness-return to the white fire core. And the violet flame becomes the white light as the mantra converges in the AUM.
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
AUM
Scientists now recognize the fact that each individual has his own 'cosmic clock'. We each have a unique vibration. That vibration consists of the frequencies of all of our atoms and molecules.
All our atoms and molecules put together make the 'tone' of identity which we recognize when we greet our friends, when we have affinities (and perhaps repulsions) for one another. Those 'vibes'-that frequency- have to do with how the Word is flowing.
When the flame of freedom comes into being and you become that flame-you have a new pitch, a new sound, a new consciousness. And as you increase the tempo of the mantra, you are controlling a whole cosmos of atoms and molecules and energy fields.
We begin slowly, controlling each word as we control each electron. Then we step it up and we find that we can maintain control at an increased vibration-just as man has conquered movement in time and space, securing inventions for greater and greater speed and finally breaking the barrier of sound. This we do by the control of the Word and the science of the Word.
Experiment with the mantra. If you do not exercise the power of the spoken Word, you will be an island in the midst of a sea of flame. For by free will that flame cannot coalesce and form that spiral if you do not give the fiat. This is the law of free will and of the science of the spoken Word. The flame is unknown until you make it your own.
This is a simple mantra that you can accelerate and accelerate and give it as a perpetual prayer on your lips as you go about your daily life.
I AM A BEING OF VIOLET FIRE-
I AM THE PURITY GOD DESIRES!
Start getting rid of the consciousness of self as old, dense, feeble, ugly, stupid, bored, poor. All of a sudden you are "a being of violet fire." You're just a flaming flame-pulsating, moving with the Spirit. You move in a beautiful sea of violet flame.
As you give that mantra and accelerate and accelerate its speed-so you have the dissolving of the substance between the electrons and the nuclei. The electrons whirl faster and faster and faster. And you get lighter and lighter. Higher and higher.
This is a mantra you can use anytime, anywhere. You can make use of the Word within you instead of staying there in that same dense vibration-a victim of your circumstances in time and space. When you start feeling tense or irritated or tired or heavy or burdened during the day, just say a few "violet flames" and you'll be back into that cosmic flow.
Give it making breakfast, driving the car, washing the clothes-even taking a shower.
Visualize your morning shower as a shower of violet flame. See the flame scrubbing the pores, passing through the nervous system, the arteries, the bloodstream-right down to the marrow of your bones.
And whatever you affirm for your- self; you can affirm for your city or for the entire nation. You can say, America is a land of violet fire- America is the purity God desires! Simply change your visualization- like adjusting the lens of a camera.
You can just as easily invoke enough violet flame to transmute the density of a city or a nation-or a planet or a solar system.
There is unbounded creativity in the violet flame! It liberates the en- ergy of Aquarius in you-the full cre- ativity of the Holy Spirit. It liberates love as the discipline of creative fires.
Whatever your field, whatever your calling, you can take the sound, the rhythm, the energy, the Word- and feel yourseff freer and freer.
The violet flame will unlock in you everything else that you have ever sought as consciousness and teaching and self-mastery. It's the key. It locks in everything else-because it transmutes the dross that impedes the flow of this stupendous light of the Holy Spirit.
Here's what people who have experimented with the violet flame are saying:
". . .Well, I think a lot clearer. I feel lighter. I'm a lot more sensitive to vibrations. And I feel the movement of light almost physically rather than just at subtle levels."
". . .My relations with people are lighter and more smooth. I don't have that sense of friction."
". . .At one time I was heavy on drugs and I knew I'd gone too far. The violet flame has cleared up my memory so that now I can think clearly and creatively."
". . .I can feel an actual lightness in my step and a peace about things that could make me anxious."
". . . It gives me emotional control and the ability to be more sensitive to the thoughts of God."
It is God's own infinite consciousness that you have gained by going into your interior being. What are we going to do with it? We can't just bask in the Sun. Let's tackle the earth! Let's start a revolution!
What is Ásatrú, Wyrd, Seaxnet, Blæd, Ðrægan, Barhelm heathen religion?
What is Ásatrú, Wyrd, Seaxnet, Blæd, Ðrægan, Barhelm heathen religion?.
find this quite interesting some old english or anglo saxon words, take a look, well worth a read, some of these ideas seem to sometimes be incorporated into the new age religions as well.
"Blæd Ðrægan Barhelm
[Old English, or Anglo-Saxon]
Blæd: blowing, blast, inspiration, breath, spirit, [breath of Woden?{Oðin}], (stroked 'æ', Hyper Text Impared)
Ðræ'gan: strong; to go, journey, etc.; [(poetic) to run]
Bar'helm: helmet with sacred Wanic boar image (stroked 'a', Hyper Text Impared)
Wyrd: [Old English] briefly; in the Germanic cosmology having to do with the World Tree Yggdrasil and the Well of Wyrd. A non-linear time concept of 'that-which-is' connected with ancestral memory, deeds, spinning & weaving, the Nine Worlds, the Norns, u.s.w. Check out The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture, by Paul Bauschatz for the ultimate explanation.
Seax'net: one of many spellings [East Saxon] for Saxnôt, a deity of the ancient Continental Saxons, their eponymous ancestor, possibly Freyr, or Tiwaz/Tyr. Means something like 'Friend of the Saxons', or 'Sword Companion'. A sax/seax was a short sword or long knife used by the barbarian Germanic tribes and now days is generally a straight single edged knife used for carving runes in wood.
Ása'trú: [Old Norse] a modern reconstruction of the ancient pre-Christian pagan/heathen religion of Northern Europe. Here is Gamlinginn's definition of Ásatrú at the Ring of Troth Official Web Page and Ingeborg's FAQ.
"The mythology of a people is far more than a collection of pretty or terrifying fables to be retold in carefully bowdlerized form to our schoolchildren. It is the comment of the men of one particular age or civilization on the mysteries of human existence and the human mind, their model for social behaviour, and their attempt to define in stories of gods and demons their perception of the inner realities. We can learn much from the mythologies of earlier peoples if we have the humility to respect ways of thought widely differing from our own. In certain respects we may be far cleverer than they, but not necessarily wiser.
We cannot return to the mythological thinking of an earlier age; it is beyond our reach, like the vanished world of childhood. Even if we feel a nostalgic longing for the past, like that of John Keats for Ancient Greece or William Morris for medieval England, there is now no way of entry. The Nazis tried to revive the myths of ancient Germany in their ideology, but such an attempt could only lead to sterility and moral suicide. We cannot deny the demands of our own age, but this need not prevent us turning to the faith of another age with sympathetic understanding, and recapturing imaginatively some of its vanished power. It will even help us to view more clearly the assumptions and beliefs of our own time."
Hilda R. Ellis Davidson
Gods and Myths of the Viking Age
(also as Gods and Myths of Northern Europe)"
find this quite interesting some old english or anglo saxon words, take a look, well worth a read, some of these ideas seem to sometimes be incorporated into the new age religions as well.
"Blæd Ðrægan Barhelm
[Old English, or Anglo-Saxon]
Blæd: blowing, blast, inspiration, breath, spirit, [breath of Woden?{Oðin}], (stroked 'æ', Hyper Text Impared)
Ðræ'gan: strong; to go, journey, etc.; [(poetic) to run]
Bar'helm: helmet with sacred Wanic boar image (stroked 'a', Hyper Text Impared)
Wyrd: [Old English] briefly; in the Germanic cosmology having to do with the World Tree Yggdrasil and the Well of Wyrd. A non-linear time concept of 'that-which-is' connected with ancestral memory, deeds, spinning & weaving, the Nine Worlds, the Norns, u.s.w. Check out The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture, by Paul Bauschatz for the ultimate explanation.
Seax'net: one of many spellings [East Saxon] for Saxnôt, a deity of the ancient Continental Saxons, their eponymous ancestor, possibly Freyr, or Tiwaz/Tyr. Means something like 'Friend of the Saxons', or 'Sword Companion'. A sax/seax was a short sword or long knife used by the barbarian Germanic tribes and now days is generally a straight single edged knife used for carving runes in wood.
Ása'trú: [Old Norse] a modern reconstruction of the ancient pre-Christian pagan/heathen religion of Northern Europe. Here is Gamlinginn's definition of Ásatrú at the Ring of Troth Official Web Page and Ingeborg's FAQ.
"The mythology of a people is far more than a collection of pretty or terrifying fables to be retold in carefully bowdlerized form to our schoolchildren. It is the comment of the men of one particular age or civilization on the mysteries of human existence and the human mind, their model for social behaviour, and their attempt to define in stories of gods and demons their perception of the inner realities. We can learn much from the mythologies of earlier peoples if we have the humility to respect ways of thought widely differing from our own. In certain respects we may be far cleverer than they, but not necessarily wiser.
We cannot return to the mythological thinking of an earlier age; it is beyond our reach, like the vanished world of childhood. Even if we feel a nostalgic longing for the past, like that of John Keats for Ancient Greece or William Morris for medieval England, there is now no way of entry. The Nazis tried to revive the myths of ancient Germany in their ideology, but such an attempt could only lead to sterility and moral suicide. We cannot deny the demands of our own age, but this need not prevent us turning to the faith of another age with sympathetic understanding, and recapturing imaginatively some of its vanished power. It will even help us to view more clearly the assumptions and beliefs of our own time."
Hilda R. Ellis Davidson
Gods and Myths of the Viking Age
(also as Gods and Myths of Northern Europe)"
guardian angels spirits guides story new age religion
Members of your Counsel (Soul Group) may elect to play certain roles for you while you are on the earth plane (in the body). Let us start with one role that most people relate to and have at some time referred to, even though they may not believe or undstand its true function. This is the role of the Guardian Angel.
This is usually one of the members of your Counsel (Soul Group) that is NOT bonded with you in any way, except in the way of love of a fellow being. This being is usually from a higher plane of the spirit world. This being can and does intercede for you and against you if it is for your highest good. It does not interfere with your right of free will. This being, is what one might call, an Overseer of the plan and script (pre-programming) as has been agreed upon by you and your Counsel. The Guardian Angel oversees not only ones physical being but also guards the spirit of the person.
An example of the Guardian Angel's role is as follows:
This is a true story from life. A man was a pilot during the war, he was flying over Germany and his plane got hit. He told all the crew, except for the Navigator to jump out of the plane - which the did. His navigator had his parachute on, but he (the plot) did not. Just as the pilot was about to put his on, the plane exploded and he felt himself falling. It was a very dark night and he could see nothing. As he was falling to earth, he felt a bump. His instinct was to grab onto whatever it was he had bumped into. It was his navigator on his way down with parachute in tact. They both landed safely.
It was not time for the pilot to die as he still had some things in his life to complete. The circumstances were available to safeguard him at that precise time. The Guardian Angel overseeing this happening was able to intercede for his highest good. This may sound like an extreme example but there was an opportunity that allowed the Guardian Angel to work in the manner that it did.
Let us suppose that the navigator was not responsible in making sure that he had his parachute on. In this situation the Guardian Angel would then have had to ensure that the pilot was unable to fly that particular mission either by making him late at the air field or finding some different opportunity which there always is in life to ensure the pilot's safety.
Now we come to the other part of the Guardian Angel's job, that of guarding the spirit of the person. The spirit part of a person while on the earth plane can be in a kind of hibernation, if the person is not aware of the higher self or the spirit part themselves. While the spirit is in this kind of hibernation, it has to be nourished and guarded from any influence that may disturb its hibernation. It is nourished by the love of the Guardian. It can be disturbed by great shock or fear which can come from the person while on the earth plane.
How many times have you heard about someone that has had a great shock and become religious or decided to change their life pattern drastically. The change may not always be for the good of the person or inaccordance with their pre-programming or script. This is just a simple example of one role that the Guardian Angel can play.
The Guardian Angel is not just there to guard against outside disturbances to the person and the person's spirit, it has to guard against the person themself. As you may know many people are very unkind the themselves and the Guardian tries to ensure that the person does not hinder the progress of themselves and the spirit part of themselves.
This is not an easy situation to be in for the Guardian as the person has the right of free will and choice. No-one from the spirit side of life that has the privilege of being a Guardian (or any other role of a Councillor) would dream of breaking a Cosmic Law, irrespective of how much they love the person that they have agreed to interact with on the earth plane. So you can see that those beings that accept the role of Guardian (or Counsel etc.) or in a more active role, must be of the highest quality.
An example is given here of a person who has chosen a much harder life on the earth plane than necessary. After some time of trying and failing (not that there is such a thing as failure according to spirit), the person reaches a time when they don't think that they can go on with their physical life. They are contemplating suicide. This is the time when the Guardian Angel has to work overtime to try and convince the person to sleep on the idea.
It is during the sleep time that the Guardian Angel must appeal to the spirit side of the person not to commit the Cosmic crime. Most times this is successful and the person wakes up and decided to keep trying with life. Hence the saying "sleep on it" has more meaning. Of course, there will be some people that will not be swayed but more on that later. The role of Guardian Angel is also a service the Guardian Angel chooses to perform in order that this being can progress in its own development in a way of advancement spiritually, which is that of service to another being and is always done in love.
Saint Gabriel Archangel part of the new age religions? winter 2011
Saint Gabriel Archangel part of the new age religions?, i was wondering if old angelic orders are still applicable to new age religions, even though they have a history with other belief structures.
i still think it is interesting and necessary to look into old religious thinking and arch angelic orders to learn and get balanced information and ideas, also important this time of year due to it being winter 2011, is that the Archangel Gabriel is the Guardian of Winter.
Gabriel is also the archangel associated with 'vision'. He came to Mary to tell her that she would bear a child, the son of God, yet looking beyond the message, we realize he is sharing with her a vision of a role she will play in the Universe. Winter, therefore, is a time when the vision of our life will be revealed, if the necessary preparations have been made during the Fall Season.
During Winter, nature turns inward, and allows itself time to rest after the year's harvest. This reflects to us a time to be quiet, reflective, and allowing of new definition and revelation to come into our lives. After the releasing and purifying aspects of the Fall Season, Winter is a gentle peace which draws us inward, and reminds us tend to the inner-self for renewal. Perhaps the greatest gift you can bestow upon yourself during this season is the opportunity to look inward and allow a new expression of yourself, through thoughts, emotions, and desires, to take hold.
This is very appropriate after the Fall Season with its releasing and purifying qualities. The releasing and purification has created room for new expansion in our life. The Fall Season brings in a lot of new, usually in the material/physical world. This newness is given the chance of further refinement during the Winter as we spend time inside, both in the physical realm and in the mental/emotional and spiritual realms.
For instance, some people may find that they are not as judging or controlling as they once were. Perhaps, someone has come into their life who is teaching them to be more open and flexible. Or, maybe someone has quit a habit (cigarettes, perhaps), and now is challenged to find new ways to keep themselves occupied. These are just a few examples of what people may be experiencing at this time.
Winter is a time of realizing inner desires, and beginning the slow and steady process to anchor them into the physical. It is a time of 'vision' of where we are going, yet not necessarily how we will get there.
i still think it is interesting and necessary to look into old religious thinking and arch angelic orders to learn and get balanced information and ideas, also important this time of year due to it being winter 2011, is that the Archangel Gabriel is the Guardian of Winter.
Gabriel is also the archangel associated with 'vision'. He came to Mary to tell her that she would bear a child, the son of God, yet looking beyond the message, we realize he is sharing with her a vision of a role she will play in the Universe. Winter, therefore, is a time when the vision of our life will be revealed, if the necessary preparations have been made during the Fall Season.
During Winter, nature turns inward, and allows itself time to rest after the year's harvest. This reflects to us a time to be quiet, reflective, and allowing of new definition and revelation to come into our lives. After the releasing and purifying aspects of the Fall Season, Winter is a gentle peace which draws us inward, and reminds us tend to the inner-self for renewal. Perhaps the greatest gift you can bestow upon yourself during this season is the opportunity to look inward and allow a new expression of yourself, through thoughts, emotions, and desires, to take hold.
This is very appropriate after the Fall Season with its releasing and purifying qualities. The releasing and purification has created room for new expansion in our life. The Fall Season brings in a lot of new, usually in the material/physical world. This newness is given the chance of further refinement during the Winter as we spend time inside, both in the physical realm and in the mental/emotional and spiritual realms.
For instance, some people may find that they are not as judging or controlling as they once were. Perhaps, someone has come into their life who is teaching them to be more open and flexible. Or, maybe someone has quit a habit (cigarettes, perhaps), and now is challenged to find new ways to keep themselves occupied. These are just a few examples of what people may be experiencing at this time.
Winter is a time of realizing inner desires, and beginning the slow and steady process to anchor them into the physical. It is a time of 'vision' of where we are going, yet not necessarily how we will get there.
what are african traditional religions beliefs of africa?
what are african traditional religions beliefs of africa?, not something you really ever here or see a lot of is what are the native religions to the content of africa.
there are religions in africa pre the current popular religions of africa which are islam and christianity, but before these religions there were much older religions in africa.
with older religions in africa i would think they are along the lines of similarity to some of the old shamanic type system, with a belief in nature as well as gods, with the tribes have leaders along the lines of medicine men who would no knowledge that has been passed on generation to generation, similar to other parts of the ancient world.
there are religions in africa pre the current popular religions of africa which are islam and christianity, but before these religions there were much older religions in africa.
with older religions in africa i would think they are along the lines of similarity to some of the old shamanic type system, with a belief in nature as well as gods, with the tribes have leaders along the lines of medicine men who would no knowledge that has been passed on generation to generation, similar to other parts of the ancient world.
new age angels? some angelic quotes for a good 2011
new age angels? some angelic quotes for a good 2011, here are some excellent quotes by angels to bring in a happy 2011 in a new agey kind of way.
though of course angels being from old world religions as well so a bit of continuity from the old into the new with these angelic quotes that are well worth reading.
angelic quotes
All they ask is that you believe in them, and they will believe in you.
Guiding you, guarding you, if you only
*Believe*
Come sit by my fire and warm your soul. I wish to share peace with you, and love and gentleness, the world needs more of these things. I hope that this little spot of mine will bring you joy, it is my heart. I will try to mind that there is no knowledge of an angel that is absolute. Angel's are many things to many people, and I am but an innocent. I have no great knowledge, but I wish to share with you the beauty that abounds.
Eclectic Angels
I heard an Angel singing,
When the day was springing,
"Mercy, Pity, Peace<
Is the world's release"
~~ William Blake
Oh sovereign angel,
Wide winged stranger above a forgetful earth,
Care for me, care for me. Keep me unaware of danger
And not regretful And not forgetful of my innocent birth.
~~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am the Angel of the Sun
Whose flaming wheels began to run
When God's almighty breath
Said to the darkness and the Night
Let there be light! And there was light
I bring the gift of Faith.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the angel said,
"I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself,
but by love."
~~Leo Tolstoy
We are the stars which sing.
we sing with our light.
we are the birds of fire.
We fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice
We make a road
For the spirit to pass over.
~~Passamaquoddy Chant
Courage is the price that life extracts for peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid lonliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear,
The sound of wings.
~~Amelia Earhart
Angels
For You...
Angels, answer me,
are you near if rain should fall?
Am I to believe
you will rise to calm the storm?
For so great a treasure words will never do.
Surely, if this is, promises are mine to give you.
mine to give...
Here, all too soon the day!
Wish the moon to fall and alter tomorrow.
I should know
heaven has her way
- each one given memories to own.
Angeles, all could be
should you move both earth and sea
Angeles, I could feel
all those dark clouds disappearing...
Even, as I breathe
comes an angel to their keep.
Surely, if this is
promises are mine to give you.
mine to give...
though of course angels being from old world religions as well so a bit of continuity from the old into the new with these angelic quotes that are well worth reading.
angelic quotes
All they ask is that you believe in them, and they will believe in you.
Guiding you, guarding you, if you only
*Believe*
Come sit by my fire and warm your soul. I wish to share peace with you, and love and gentleness, the world needs more of these things. I hope that this little spot of mine will bring you joy, it is my heart. I will try to mind that there is no knowledge of an angel that is absolute. Angel's are many things to many people, and I am but an innocent. I have no great knowledge, but I wish to share with you the beauty that abounds.
Eclectic Angels
I heard an Angel singing,
When the day was springing,
"Mercy, Pity, Peace<
Is the world's release"
~~ William Blake
Oh sovereign angel,
Wide winged stranger above a forgetful earth,
Care for me, care for me. Keep me unaware of danger
And not regretful And not forgetful of my innocent birth.
~~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am the Angel of the Sun
Whose flaming wheels began to run
When God's almighty breath
Said to the darkness and the Night
Let there be light! And there was light
I bring the gift of Faith.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the angel said,
"I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself,
but by love."
~~Leo Tolstoy
We are the stars which sing.
we sing with our light.
we are the birds of fire.
We fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice
We make a road
For the spirit to pass over.
~~Passamaquoddy Chant
Courage is the price that life extracts for peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid lonliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear,
The sound of wings.
~~Amelia Earhart
Angels
For You...
Angels, answer me,
are you near if rain should fall?
Am I to believe
you will rise to calm the storm?
For so great a treasure words will never do.
Surely, if this is, promises are mine to give you.
mine to give...
Here, all too soon the day!
Wish the moon to fall and alter tomorrow.
I should know
heaven has her way
- each one given memories to own.
Angeles, all could be
should you move both earth and sea
Angeles, I could feel
all those dark clouds disappearing...
Even, as I breathe
comes an angel to their keep.
Surely, if this is
promises are mine to give you.
mine to give...
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