EVERYTHING IS VIBRATORY

I accept that everything in the universe is vibratory,but how do vibrations relate to passive state like meditation?

      Vibrations are the basis of everything in the universe. This is not a mystical tenet,it is part and parcel of elementary physics. Everything we experience is caused by vibrations and without there would be nothing,literally a void in the most absolute sense. As Mystics,we are fully aware of this,but we also know that anything whatsoever that vibrates,sends out waves similar to the waves produced in a body of water when a stone is dropped into it.The waves spreed out in all directions from the source of disturbance, and in times will affect all things within proximity of the source of the vibrations.

      Objective consciousness, which seems so powerfully to be located in our physical brain,is analogous to the hand that causes a tuning fork to be struck, thereby sending out sound waves in all directions.It is also like the hand that flicks a switch which cause a modulated current to flow in the tuning device found in a radio or television transmitter. Those electromagnetic waves also spread out into space in all direction and are picked up by similarly constructed radio and television receivers.In a very real,physical sense then, there is a connection between transmitter and receiver, though separated only by times and space.

     If we had some sort of biological equivalent of television receiver circuitry in our brains,we would be able to pick up and see television programs directly,and without the need for a television receiver. That may seem a rather silly example,but it is close analogy to the operation of our psychic faculties.Through the exercise in the mystical classes, we learn to tune in to impressions far more subtle and refined than television signals, and we do this through a gradual process of awakening our psychic center/chakra, Overlain over those centres of information exchange are physical areas of the body that enable this information exchange to be perceived by the brain,and hence  brought into objection consciousness. The psychic centers act as regions of our being where specific frequency ranges are stepped up or stepped down, depending on whether we are sending or receiving information or vibrations. Meditation is indeed a passive process, but only at the summit of the experience.Building up to the experience,which may last on a few seconds ,or a few minutes at most,is a process of tuning out' all but the most subtle and high frequency vibrations passing through our five sense faculties,and 'tuning in' and amplifying to the greatest extent possible,impressions that we constantly receive from the Cosmic ,and which contain information vitally necessary for our spiritual growth. The first steps of this process involve learning to hold our tuners on one frequency,and this is the active stage of the meditation process.

   We also need to collect new data from frequency that we are not familiar with,in order to lay a foundation of experience for understanding and utilizing the guidance available to us from our inner self. As we gain more experience in controlling this process,our consciousness is slowly transformed,it becomes more attuned with the exceptionally high frequencies of the Cosmic ,and begins to apply meaning to the information which flows to it.It also becomes easier with practice to enter the ultimate stage of meditation where the internal chatter cease, all sense impressions are at the maintenance of life,and the mind is in the most receptive state possible to perceive the extremely rarefied and subtle vibration that carry the information we need most.

     On a purely practical level,the more we unselfishly serve the interests of others, the more we are able to transform our objective thoughts into thoughts in harmony with the Cosmic,and easier it becomes to enter a true state of meditation.The experience of service recall old ideas and impressions from the memory,allowing them to be re-examined in the light of higher consciousness and returned to the memory in a form compatible with high vibrations we have received during the brief ultimate stage of meditation.Through service,we find practical,down-to-earth ways of putting the new understanding we cumulatively gain through meditation into practice.

      The meditative state may seem passive by the standards of our normally active chatterbox minds .But at no point do we cease receiving and attempting to apply meaning to the Cosmic vibrations that constantly bombard us. We may be a supremely passive state,but we are still perceiving and analyzing very much, though in this case,information of very focused and concentrated form. Every thought.word and deed that is inharmonious with the creative,constructive force of the Cosmic must be ferreted out before we enter full mediation. But when at last the mind has been 'purified' through years of hard effort,we will be able to partially merge if for varying lengths of time with the Divine Mind.And from this we one day accomplish the crowning glory of life, the Mystical Marriage or Cosmic Consciousness.

BECOMING THE LIGHT - THE EGYPTIAN WAY

We are all living in the light. All life came forth from the activity of light on the elements of this planet, creating the conditions for the emergence of life in the smallest organisms. As subsequent advanced and highly complex creatures in the evolutionary stream, we humans continue to be maintained by this light.The Ancient Egyptians had a profound understanding of the nature of light and how one could live in the light, and furthermore, how one can become light. This article will explain their concept of light in both physical and metaphysical terms, and note its significance in their understanding of human life in our universe. To align ourselves with the Ancient Egyptian philosophical mindset we shall review some of its basic tenets.

      The first tenet pertains to their view of life and death. We moderns regard the afterlife, following  the death of the body, as a spiritual state that has a separate existence and final point. However, the Egyptians saw each individual life as a continuation of three states- the earthly existence, which was the start of the journey into the Duat, and which included experiences in the second stage of one's life, and the third stage which followed the final transformation of the individual into a 'Light Being' in the Cosmos. Thus an individual life was seen as a continuity over three dimensions, and furthermore, as a necessary agent in the continuity of the creation.

      The second basic tenet relates to their concept of  reality. The Egyptians lived with an awareness of a reality that is best described by the term imaginal reality. This reality is what is 'imaged' in your consciousness; it may be derived from the subconscious or from images obtained by contact with entities or events of another, non-physical world. It is not imaginative, for imagination is what you consciously or unconsciously create following the desire of your mind. 'For the Egyptians, the agencies and powers that can be reached through contact with the imaginal world are more potent than anything merely physical, because through them physical reality can be transformed', states Jeremy Naydler(2007,p.31).

      Robert Clake gives this realm further definition; 'The Egyptians knew this other reality was not basically physical... So, despite not being solid like the Earth, it nevertheless definitely existed and was just not a matter of belief or postulation with them. In fact, it was the way of life eternal and is the way was even more real than earthly existence'(2005,p.72).

       Stated in terms of the Theban cosmogony, the Creator was described as a Being (Amun) who was an unmanifest aspect of all existence, specifically a nameless, formless Being of Light that was the source of all that is manifest. So here we find light used to describe the nature of the Creator. Light describe the act of union between the spirit and matter in the act of manifestation. This Light pervaded two worlds, the spiritual, divine or heavenly world and that of the world of matter. At the human level this is what gives us self illumination or consciousness.

      Thus there existed a reverent feeling for the Cosmos as sheltering a spiritual world, a different kind of reality from the mundane world that we see with our physical sense. Geographically the Egyptians saw their life's journey as one life extending over  three periods; life on Earth(Ta), life in the netherworld (Duat), and life beyond that in Heaven(Pet). The transition proceeded from one phase to another. In the first phase , having served its time on Earth, a person's physical body ceased to function and its soul elements were released. This immaterial part then continued its life's experience in the Duat, which was the second phase. In the third phase the soul elements(soul personality), after being reborn as Akhs (shining lights or spirits),were then assigned to hold a place as gods among the imperishable stars, or to become servants of Ra in his daily journey through the upper and lower worlds, or to live as if they were living on Earth, but more pleasantly in the Field of Aaru. Each person's destiny, after life in this world of Daut, was to become a Light Being, a container and a giver of inner spiritual illumination. The experience were all of the same reality, but were at different level of consciousness. The Light was strongest in Pet, for Heaven was where they had come from and where the must return.

   Into this model we have to fit another concept, the Akhet, which, to Egyptians, was a transitional and transformational place or point in their destined journey. The root word Akh means one who is 'light' or 'shining'. The term Akhet, usually translate as 'horizon' because this was where the sun's light frist shone, was also a 'place' of spiritual transfiguration after one traveled from sunset to sunrise in the darkness of the Duat. Reaching this point at dawn indicated that one was ready, having survived the ordeals and joys of the Duat, to live in anew, spiritual world. It was the place where, or the moment when, the Light Being' was created.

      We can understand why the Pharaoh Khufu named his pyramid Akhet to represent his place of transformation. it may also tell us why Pharaoh Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten( Brilliant light of Aten) and why he called his city Akhetanten (Place of Light or Place of Transformation). Akhenaten's new solar manifestation of the original God Aten was made into Ra's most sentient aspect , the sun god's visible body or light energy. The cult of Aten centered on the worship of the life force and energy emanating from the sun. In time, the power of the god Aten and the pharaoh had himself become the source of celestial light.

    On a mystical level, and by his example, was he not trying to point out that he visible sun was the most obvious sign of the presence of his Light 'in potential' within everyone? We see the sun disc most of the day, and lose sight of it at night. However, it is our destiny to be in the eternal Light, to become an Akh-Being, combining all other spiritual components of the person to make real the potential Akh-Being. This would be the ultimate mystical experience unity with the divine.

     The Duat is normally invisible to us; when the body is dead, the immaterial elements continue life's journey through the Duat. It is a predominantly watery world, boggy, and topsy-turvy , a world inhabited by spirits. The human spirit must negotiate its way, and try to gain power over this world, with its own effort, and with some help from other spirits. The Duat is a spiritual dimension full of Beings- the dead, helping spirits, various gods, as well as formidable opponents who obstruct one's way. It present many challenges, for it is a dangerous world, and to negotiate it requires knowledge and skills, and some magical power.It is a place of purification, a necessary condition for the transformation to occur in Akhet.

    Mystics past and present have repeated that shifts of consciousness can transport us across different dimensions of reality. Such shifts were know and experienced by initiates of the mystery school in Ancient Egypt. In fact, priest-initiators were able to induce state of consciousness in neophytes to help them face the realities of the Duat and reach the Akhet stage and bring about their transformation into Akhs or Being of Light.

    To take one example, in the pyramid text of unas, utterance no 260, it is stated that after the pharaoh had participated in 'secret rite' in which his limbs underwent the Osirian dismemberment, rememberment and eventual rebirth, the pharaoh, with his limb reunited, went forth as an Akh or Living spirit'. Unas, presumably, knew that he was going to be one of the luminous, celestial Being after his initiation in his present life.

    In the New Kingdom Texts, the deceased, or a living candidate seeking initiation into the Egyptian Mysteries, proceeded through the Duat and absorbed the experience of the sun god, Ra, the source of Light,as he passed through the Netherworld. Every day Ra's Light diminished in the west, but illumined the darkness sufficiently to reach the breakthrough point at Akhet in the East, where he was reborn in all his glory as the god Khepri, recharged to resume his cyclic journey through the world above and below.

     Another example of bestowing the initiatory experience is found in the coronation inscription at Karnak where the living Pharaoh Thutmose III is depicted as 'transforming himself into a falcon and then being taken up into the Akhet, where he communes with the Sun God Ra, becoming  infused with Ra's akh power. ' The connotation of the word Akh in the inner illumination as well as the primordial creative power. Used in the initiatory sense, the Akh might best be translated as 'an enlightened being". one whose consciousness has become open to the reality of the spirit world'(ibid.p.254)

   Akhs can meet each other in the other world, and even in the one at heightened levels of consciousness. Perhaps this is similar to a belief that enlightened mystics, easily bridging the various dimension of reality, can recognize one another wherever they meet.

    The journey through the Duat, as narrated in the New Kingdom is the Amduat and the introduces a further refinement of this transitional phase. The sun god, Ra, passes successfully through the twelve chambers of the Duat and on the completion of the twelfth chamber he is lifted up from the waters of Nun,reborn in the resplendent, shining state of Khepri. He is boldly to bring light upon a world that has been plunged into darkness through the night. There were the processes of Akhet. Every Pharaoh or initiate was expected to join and assist him on his night journey and eventually earn his right to take his place with the gods or serve in Ra's boat, as a co-worker in the maintenance of the creation.

    We may find thios Egyptian understanding of life in this universe of great value to us. To be Light Being means you are generator of Light. You cannot keep the Light to yourself. To the Egyptian, the stars spread across Nut's body were manifestation of the unseen inner Light beyond. Your main value in your earthly sojourn as a Light Being is to bring this starlight to shine on others and, in cooperation with the main source of Light, spread the Light all over the universe. After all, as a human, you have the responsibility to assist in the Creation, for the creation us an ongoing process, a process that begin when Light first broke through a dark, amorphous watery mass.

   If you were an Ancient Egyptian, you would not be happy to be just the receiver of Light. You would be living in the light and you would be yearning to be the light. Your entire journey on the three planes would reflect this purpose and your destiny.

   And that is the Egyptian way of living in the Light. that is how we can become the Light, even as we try to survive, semi-blind, in our present secular, materialistic culture that relentlessly detaches us from our true nature and leaves us in darkness,

EMPIRICAL PROOF AND BELIEF

       Belief can be a very frustrating experience. Most of the time we try and back up our belief with objective experiences that would tend to verify them, but sometimes they are simply blind faith, and in the absence of anything better, we hold onto them. We know we can't always rely on our senses, and especially with the view of the universe we have gained in recent decades from quantum physics.We know now that seeing is no longer necessarily believing. So what do we believe in, and how valid are our belief? Can we really go through life in such a state of doubt? How can we set any kind of meaningful course in life in the face of a reality that seems to change so often?

      Before empiricism, or proof, there is 'feeling', and feeling is what we need to rely on before we have empirical proof. From all the information we accumulate, we need to select that which feels right for us until such time as it can be empirically resolved. What is important is that we keep an open mind. It isn't always a question of believing or disbelieving. Often it should simply be a matter of being open-minded on any subject, even those whose truth has seemingly been demonstrated.

      Science has come a long way in demonstrating esoteric principles in the same experimental and measurable fashion as was once used only for material research. Empiricism is as valued in esoteric study nowadays as it is in scientific study. Mystic Order approach to esoteric study is in fact demonstration and experimentation.What cannot be demonstrated empirically must remain in the realm of speculation and theory, in other words belief. It does not have to be discarded any more than a scientist would discard a theory simply because it cannot be demonstrated yet. String theory cannot be proven yet,but the theory behind it is so elegant, beautiful and logical that the mere fact that it has not be proven does not mean it has to be discarded. Allowance must always be made by challenged one day by new evidence and new discoveries, and we must be open-minded in this regard always.

      Examine again some of the things you believe in simply on the basis of sheer faith. If their truth has not actually been demonstrated in your own experience, you are obligated to your own search for truth, and to reserve judgement on the faiths of others. Meanwhile, it is not good to live a constant state of disbelief, either. As there is do much we cannot know for certain at any given time, we get on with life through a system of belief derived from our feelings and from the best information available to us. T o believe is something is generally better than to believe in nothing, as long as psychologically we are always in a state of preparation for change.

FINDING YOUR MISSION

How can i determine my mission in life? How do i know what i'm supposed to do? I haven't the faintest clue. Will it come to me one day in a flash of inspiration ?


      This is a very common question. Almost everyone has at some point in life questioned what they should be doing. Such questioning is often the precursor to deeper, more existential questions which in due course leads one to at least a partial discovery of the answer to our main concern. So, let us give this a few minutes thought and analysis.

     First of all, we must remember that the knowledge we acquire is as a direct result of our daily experience and activities. As we interpret and assimilate these experiences and activities we form our particular character, the outer personality. But we are more than just an outer being, we are the manifestation of a soul..., specific, unique and never to be repeated..., which in turn is a partial expression of the universal Soul. The deepest and most permanent manifestation of our living  being, is the personality that the soul manifests in life, the 'soul personality'. This is the 'being within' we aspire to reach whether we are aware of it or not. It is a being of great refinement and supreme accomplishment; and it is more aware of the laws and principle governing our lives than anything we could ever know. The wisdom of the soul is not limited to any particular circumstance but provides the key with which we may interpret all situation that may arise. And it is also the key to discovering our mission in life.

    Our purpose or mission in life is first and foremost to fulfill our growing capacity for expressing the wisdom of the soul in our everyday affairs. Obviously, this implies 'right action'. Ask yourself: What is it that i really want from life? Most assuredly, your answer will include some form of action or activity. The inclinations of the soul personality, its talents and desires, will determine at the deepest levels which particular activity is most suited for us.The soul personality provides the guidance necessary  for us to express our outer personality(our character) to the greatest degree possible in any endeavor.

   Regardless of what course of action we choose, it is essential that it be one that we truly desire from the level of the soul personality, rather than from the much more changeable outer personality. And it must clearly be something we are well suited to undertake, or at least to be able to learn to master. Unless the outer personality is functioning in harmony with the wisdom and collective experience of the soul, the experience of life, while possible pleasing in the short term, will not lead to the experience that our deepest nature requires. what does our deepest nature 'require'? Clearly it requires what its karma mandates it must experience in order to grow and expand in spiritual awareness. And only this deepest part of ourselves can know therefore what is best for us and therefore what our main mission is life should be. Following any other course of action will be at best partially wrong or wasteful of the resources of the soul, but could also be catastrophic for the remainder of pour life.

   Therefore, by listening to the wisdom of the soul through meditation and attunement , we contribute to the fulfillment of our individual mission. It is the way is which we find our mission in life. Through the continued practice of listening to the Inner Master, and then acting accordingly, there emerges a pattern which is soon realized as the guiding force in our life. As this harmonious pattern rises to consciousness, so does our mission come into focus.

    No matter how suddenly the awareness of our mission occurs, and it may or may not occur as an intuitive flash, we may be sure that it has been developing long periods of time, from incarnation to incarnation.

LIGHT OF THE WORLD

The light of the world is always a hope in the hearts of those who seek a greater role in the world. There is an inner conviction for those who have awakened their spiritual sight; a conviction that the day will come when certain spiritual leaders will appear on the world scene who will raise the spiritual consciousness of humanity by their individual effort in various fields.

   Many who believe they recognize this trend in world affairs, point out the growth of interest in occult phenomena and in subject related to parapsychology which catch the public eye. But popular interest in occult and psychic phenomena does not equate to a spiritual awakening of humanity. There may be a peripheral awakening, but psychic phenomena and the occult in themselves, can exist entirely devoid of any real spiritual content.

    There is a trend however on the part of many good people, to be concerned about the spiritual, emotional and material welfare of underprivileged communities. This deep concern for other reveals a spiritual  awakening in many people who give no thought to the phenomena of so-called psychics and occultists. Their only concern is to do something now fro those needy people who have been cut off from the mainstream of life. They are the outcast, handicapped and underprivileged masses who have been cast aside by society because they don't or can't conform. Many are children, unwanted and without the love and guidance of parents or friends. In their eyes, nobody cares.

DEDICATION TO SERVICE

If scientist and politicians directed their attention to lifting a little of the burden of humanity, the light of the world would stand revealed. But we're still waiting while we direct our attention to the sufferings of others in need. Although we may feel powerless to help then many people in their plight, we must hold fast to the knowledge that what little we can do is needed and help is on the way. We must persist in the knowledge that our good works and prayers are helpful and achieve worthwhile result, even though we sometimes see little evidence of it. There is a gradual awakening of the part of many who dedicate themselves to service. Their concern is for more human values which reveal spiritual insight and deeper values.

   Those who have dedicated themselves to helping the needy, whether in the fields of medicine, sociology or many other sphere, aren't necessary mystically inclined; but they do reveal a deep spiritual motivation which  is greatly needed today. It is to be hoped that those who are mystically inclined will also become involved by radiating a spiritual love to all humanity service is the keynote of all mystical work. For preparation is the mystical life we must sooner or later feel the stirring of our deeper spiritual self which urges us to serve the interest of raising humanity to a higher lever of thought and conduct.

   Without the slightest doubt, there is a new spiritual awakening today. Small though it is, it can seen here and there where dedicated people are prepared to stand against all odd and be counted for the advancement of humanity, and especially to assist the underprivileged in society. This trend shows that the light of the spirit of humanity can be rekindled and that there is hope for the future destiny of mankind as long as there are men and woman who place their spiritual qualities above their material desires.

There will always be something we can do, no matter how small and inconsequential it may seem. The helping have we give to someone in needs of others. Service is the key to a better understand of life, for as we give of ourselves and share our lives with others, as fully as possible, so will our enriched. It is in giving that we receive, and to receive th greatest rewards in life we must be  prepared to put aside many of our self-interest and be more concerned for others. what we share will be returned to us in great measure.

    The more we give thought for each other and have the willingness to give some help to one another, the more the spiritual light will grow in the hearts of men and women, gradually bringing a new dawn of greater light and understanding between all people. Then will come to the fore those spiritually enlightened people of all races who will point the way to higher advancement, not by what they say, but because they will be living example of the spiritual way of life.

KNOWLEDGE FROM COSMIC

The ancient records reveals that the early leaders of the Great White Lodge had to depend almost exclusively upon Cosmic Illumination for the great knowledge which they preserved for us. With all their understanding of cosmic laws, they occasionally questioned some of the great truths that come to them. it seems, however, that at time wen by additional information confirmed the startling facts that they had received, and in this way their doubts were gradually cast aside and they learned to put dependence upon the knowledge that came from inner attunement .

The problem which we have to face today is due to the great  amount of education we have had in schools and through books and which is not correct or dependable knowledge. In other words, the ancients did not have a great storehouse of misinformation and untrue ideas which had to be removed as the new knowledge or correct knowledge came to them. We, on the other hand, have so much of this misinformation that is commonly accepted as true and commonly used in our everyday lives that when a different fact is given to us, even by some person who is a recognised authority, we are very likely to be doubtful and hesitate to accept the new information. If the new information conforms with what we have already learned or what we believe, we accept it readily enough; if, however, the new knowledge is so contrary and so different from what we have always understood, we either hesitate to accept the new facts or tend to modify them to fit our former beliefs.

It is plain to be seen, therefore, that the ancient had a great advantage over us. It may have taken them many centuries to learn how to mediate and to attune themselves with the Cosmic and thereby receive the great cosmic knowledge but in those centuries they had not acquired much untrue information which had to be set aside with difficulty. I do not mean by this that during the centuries of their evolution in thinking they did not build up certain belief and ideas of their own. These ideas were simply conclusions that they had come to from observation or from the expression of belief of others and such information did not constitute a system of facts. Everyone knew that most of the beliefs they had were based upon too greatly or adhered to against all reasoning or against new knowledge that might come their way. For this reason the thinking man or woman in the mystery schools of the past was always willing to cast aside any of the ideas that had been given to him or her by parents or friends or other for the newer facts that the Brotherhood taught.

Today, and for the past hundred years, we have been in a different position. Most of the fact and a great part of the knowledge that each one of us attains during childhood and youth come to us through printed books and through the word given to us by teachers in schools or by lectures. We have accepted such knowledge being the mere opinions or beliefs of other people but as being the actual facts discovered and maintained by scientific investigation. Therefore we consider our general knowledge to be very dependable and not such nature as to be cast aside easily. We are making a great mistake in this belief, however, because we are finding out daily that the mere fact that some explanation is printed in a book or taught by a thousand teachers is no guarantee that it is either correct or even partially dependable.

I say that we are discovering this. I mean that we, as mystics and perhaps several million other people are making this discovery. the vast multitude, however, have not made this discovery and they are still laboring under the impression that knowledge printed in a book or newspaper, or statement made by teachers, contain absolute truth, that the person who has a different explanation or knowledge must, first of all, disprove the information given in the books or taught by the teachers before he can present with conviction the new knowledge he has to offer. If we analyse the matter, however, we will see that there is no difference between the ancient teacher who stood in the midst of a green patch in a valley and expressed some of his beliefs about life and nature to a group of ignorant people who were ready to believe everything he said, and the man who has some peculiar ideas or explanations of his own today and is able to raise enough money to print those ideas in a book. Even teachers and professors secured their knowledge mostly through the reading of books written by someone else, and therefore they are expressing only the ideas of another. For this, the printed opinion is no more dependable than the verbal opinion. The only dependable source of knowledge is that which comes from within after we are attuned with the Cosmic.

In the past, the teachers in the Great White Lodge very often startled and surprised their students with the revelation of facts not known to others  or by the revelation of facts that were contrary to what was commonly believed. It is fortunate for us that most of those who belonged to the Great White Brotherhood and who received this new knowledge accepted, tested, proved and continued that teaching of it. Otherwise, today we would not have the great knowledge preserved for us that we do have. Throughout the centuries that have passed, there has been a great deal of false knowledge growing up in the mind of people along with the true knowledge. We of this time and period in the world, have acquired and inherited a great mass of knowledge, part of which is speculative, untrue, doubtful and undependable, and part of which is absolutely correct and provable. What we are trying to do is to separate the one from the other and get rid of the information that is false, modify the information that is partially true and test the information that is doubtful, while at the same time we add to our minds the knowledge that has been proved true and absolutely dependable.

SEPARATION OF TRUE AND FALSE:

You will agree that it is a large undertaking to analysis inherited knowledge, test it and separated the pure from the dross. That is the reason for such organisation as Enlightened mystic Order, Amorc and so on with its rules and regulation; that is the reason we study and work together. All of us are naturally reluctant to cast aside such knowledge as seems to be true and to fit in with the scheme of things. Take, for instance, our belief in the effect of the moon on tides. There was a time when the average man, woman and child did not know what caused the rising and falling of the tides and, or course, when an explanation was given to them they were quite ready to accept it because they had no other belief about it that interfered with or affected their belief in the new information. After generations had accepted a certain explanation in regard to the effect of the moon  on tides and after million of people had found that explanation seemed to be perfectly satisfactory, it is only natural that such people would be reluctant to cast aside that information. Now it is true that for all general purpose the explanation that science gives us about the effect of the moon on tides, and which our parents and grandparents studied in school, appears to be true. Since it seems to conform with the other laws of the universe, we accept it as true and hesitate to have it cast aside or upset or contradicted by anyone who has a different opinion.

Let me ask you this question: have we any proof that is really convincing to us that the explanation about the effect of the moon on tides is correct ? The mere fact that it explains the coincidence between the moon and the tides or that it helps us to understand how the tide rises and falls and the fact the explanation fits in with the periods of the moon exactly to the hours and minutes, are really no proof that the explanation is correct.

The addition fact that our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents believed it, and the eminent scientists believe it, is also no proof that is correct. The minute we hesitate to accept new knowledge because our present knowledge satisfactorily explains things to us, we are closing our mind to illumination, thereby fooling ourselves. Long before the scientist, William Harvey, discovered that the blood circulates through the body, it was a common belief among the multitudes throughout the world that the blood did not circulate. The old idea about the blood had been  taught in every school by scientists and teachers to such an extent that everybody was thoroughly convinced that the blood remained stationary in the body. Harvey had great difficulty in convincing the world that the blood circulates. Another scientist had great trouble in convincing the world that the earth revolves; and we all know that Columbus, as well as others, had great difficulty in convincing the public that the earth is round.

Some of the general beliefs and teachings common to all religions are so unrealistic, when we stop to analyse them, that we wonder why we ever believed some of the theories . Let me give you an illustration of one of the most common belief that is certainly so unrealistic that we cannot help smiling at it: in the Christian teachings millions of people accepted as an absolute fact that God created and populated this earth, and that after God had put people on this earth. He send His Son Jesus here to save us and to redeem the world.

According to that story, this planet called Earth is the only planet in the universe and we are simply one ball floating in space. All the people that God made and everything else that God made are on this one earth. Therefore, Jesus had to come only to this one planet to save the people living here. Yet the very ministers, clergymen, priests, professors, teachers and others who teach this Christian idea admit that there are other planet that God made. If this is so, then God must have sent Jesus or some other son to the other planets to save the people and to improve conditions there, or else God ignored the other planets and simply sent His son o this one called Earth and gave all His attention to us.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ILLUMINATI

Reference to the illuminati often involves uncomplimentary remarks. This is due to the individual having an incomplete understanding of the history of the word, and the corruption of its original signification by groups and individuals. Mystics are often dismayed by being told that the illuminati is not the mystically or spiritually idealistic organization that they had believed. And, in fact, there is an negative connectation associated with the word. The world Illuminati, from the Latin, means "the enlightened ones." The word also derives its meaning from illumination, that is, light, which is to be taken both in the intellectual sense and as a physical phenomenon.

The word and its equivalent in other languages dates back to antiquity and was used by esoteric, mystical, and secret orders, particularly by the Rosicrucians, as meaning a most enlightened state of mind. Simply, those who in their philosophical and mystical studies acquired a mastery of related teachings and doctrines which were being disseminated to them had conferred upon them the dignity and honor of being of the Illuminati,"the enlightened ones."

Such an individual had to exhibit more than an intellectual mastery of the teaching of the mystical or metaphysical Order of which he was a member. His moral character also had to be of the highest quality. These qualification are the original distinction associated with the word Illuminati and the Degree in the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, by that name.
In the sixteenth century, the true Illuminati were suppressed in Spain by the Roman Catholic Inquisition. The enlightened members of the Illuminati were "free thinkers." They sought individualism in expressing their thoughts, which brought them into conflict with the restricted doctrines of the Church. The action taken by the inquisition and the publicity given it made the otherwise uninformed public think of the Illuminati as some nefarious movement.

In 1776, a secret Masonic society with political overtones was formed by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law, that is, of legal procedure within the Church. Although Weishaupt had been educated by the Jesuits, his act of forming a secret Masonic society made him an apostate insofar as the Church was concerned. As a result, Weishaupt and his Masonic body were accused of being anti-Jesuit and were suppressed in 1785.
Weishaupt personally was also classified at the time as a "free thinker", The term was almost considered heretical by the Church because of the non-acceptance by such people of the dogmatic doctrines of the prevailing religion. Weishaupt and his Masonic order, which was of his own creation, were also accused of political interference. He advocated freedom of thought in the school and the right of the people to read any book they chose, even ones contrary to theological authority. This campaign for liberation on his part and opposition to the political influence of the Church caused Weishaupt to be accused of many acts of which he was not guilty, such as plotting a revolution. The literature of the day publicized Weishaupt's alleged villainy, and the Illuminati were wrongly associated with him.

Actually, the true Illuminati had been in existence centuries before the time of Weishaupt. They had no connection with his society and did not participate in a crusade against religion or secular affairs of the time. Nevertheless, for a long period reference works continued to associated the word Illuminati with Weishaupt and his activities . The name Illuminati was stigmatized by individuals who misused it for their personal ventures.

In the eighteenth century, the words Illumination and Illuminati again came to the attention of the people in another manner. This was the period of the beginning of enlightenment, and the word were used in connection with the interest being aroused in philosophy and scientific reason-that is, the appeal to reason instead of the blind acceptance upon faith. The Illuminati of this period were not, of course, associated with the earliest and continued use of it by the ancient, secret orders. Rather, it was identified with men and women of the eighteenth century who were given to the use of individual thought as " opposed to reliance upon external authority." This period was marked by the growth of metaphysical systems arising from the works of the philosophers Descartes and Leibnitz .

Summon The Sacred Within

We are all creations of God, who gifted us with all we need ...

Summon the Sacred 

not from our words
or from priestly incantations
but from our life, in the daily deeds and giving 

Summon the Sacred.

not by desire to fit in
or to please others expectation
but led by our heart's divinity discovered within

Summon the Sacred

not a voice that booms 
from out of the heavens 
from that still small voice that hopes we will listen

Summon the Sacred

not from teachers 
ensconced in their ivory towers
but from all creatures, mountains, rivers and flowers 

Summon the Sacred

not from learned books
or schools that may be the gates of hell
but from our natural and holy, heartfelt curiosity 

Summon the sacred

not by destruction 
wrought in the name of liberty
but with love, it flows like water, so smoothly and freely.

Summon the sacred within,

thanks sister Gael Bage .