I *know* I inspire some of us to feel uncomfortable. And I sincerely thank those of us who have had patience and compassion with me, as I fumble for words and ways to convey meaning for those of us starting to awaken and in various stages of awakening. Unity is not easy to communicate in terms of conflict. Unity embraces conflict but it doesn’t work the other way around. Conflict does not embrace Unity. It can’t. Because it’s conflicted. So you can imagine my dilemma.

I speak of Unconditional Love as a healing Power and cite our beliefs in conditional love, as the cause of all our conflict. It takes drawing a line to separate, in order to originally make parts. Once we have parts, THEN we can set these parts in conflict with one another. And that is what we have all been taught to do. Relate ‘parts’ in a pattern of conflict.

Like the way we ‘see’ oil and water…in conflict with each other. They just don’t mix.

And here I pop up and say, “Oh yes they do mix! Perfectly in fact. They respond to each other exactly as their nature programmed them to do.

Just like the rapist and his partner in victimization.  The rapist is a victim of certain attitudes of judgment and his expression is a result of it.

You see, it’s relating things in a way of cooperation rather then conflict that is the distinguishing characteristic of Unity. And it is also expressing this tone that makes a lot of us feel uncomfortable.

I see the rapist and his “victim” as ends of the same rubber band. And the rubber band’s name is “sex”. The rapists’ actions are born from urges beyond his control. And his “victim” is one of us who has radiated condemnation for almost all sexual activity. Most likely inhibited and judgmental of carnal desires.

Follow it along and we’d find that the rapist has been mentally and emotionally battered and beaten and abused, by the condemnations and judgments of the uptight and sanctimonious and there we have it….the two ends of the same rubber band. One end goes one way from “balanced” and it causes the other end to go in the opposite direction of “balanced”. *walla* The Universe maintains harmony between all ‘parts’, unbalanced or not, all the time.

Unity awareness is also being at Peace with things that cause others of us to wail and moan in horror. Unconditional Love is just the start. Unconditional Acceptance and Unconditional Tolerance are even HARDER to anchor, ground and integrate.

I extend Compassion but not Sympathy and a lot of us have the two confused. Sympathy is what us victims want; but not Compassion. For Compassion is when we claim responsibility for our life while sympathy requires we not.

I extend Understanding but not necessarily agreement. And this is where it gets *sticky*.

I can certainly understand conflict. There is simply no way I can oppose it and maintain any Integrity of being. Sure, I can say I oppose war, yet simply opposing it is the same as taking an attitude of warring upon it. ‘Make war on war’. It’s the same thing as hating haters and being prejudice against prejudice people. These are all idiotic ideas and I *know* because I happen to have been one of the idiots that thought such things once…what seemed like long ago.

I can extend Understanding; I simply cannot agree to conflict just the same and, express Peace with any semblance of Power or Integrity. A Sovereign cannot be partial. Always embraces ALL ways. The good and the beautiful, as well as, the bad and the ugly.

You see, when I was little and used to cry at the drop of a hat because I was so sensitive, I heard a song. I guess I heard it so often I took the words to heart. Little did I know where it would lead me or what it would lead me into doing.

By expressing being AT Peace, no matter what horror, no matter what disaster happens…I make those of us who are conflicted, (and I have certainly been there)…uncomfortable. But I won’t stop.

Because while many of us say we’d like there to be Peace in our World, it never has occurred to us that we’re the ones responsible for putting it there. And therein, is the reason why I respond to life the way I do. I’m working under Universal Law, sowing and reaping in my life. Like the song lyrics said:

Let there be Peace on earth
And let it begin with me.

This is an except from the “Bridge to Freedom” Journals, dating 1935-1937.

“By definition, the Elohim are great Beings of Love & Light, whose co-operative endeavors are the building of our Universes. Each One has learned how to successfully use the Creative Power of thought, feeling, spoken word and action, as “God” intended these Powers to be used from the very beginning of time.

Their evolution is through the Elemental Kingdom. El-e-mental, meaning “Mind of God’. (even energy, has to be 1st imagined) This is a story from the Elohim of Peace, whose name is Tranquility.

‘I was one among those Elementals Who followed the exact order of Creation. You have seen Universal Elemental Light filling in the atmosphere; those tiny electrons (quantum packets of light) seem to be going nowhere – just flitting hither and yon in the sunshine. You see, when one is first God-created, there is complete freedom to just enjoy one’s self.

That is where some folks get the idea of ‘heaven’ being a place of eternal enjoyment, rest and general “do-as-you-please” attitude. They remember backwards.

Long, long ago, I was one of these tiny Elementals, flitting hither and yon in My Universe; whenever I felt like it, attaching Myself to some Light Ray projected by some Being of Whom I was scarcely cognizant. At times, I rode upon a great beam of Light which was destined to become part of a Star or some other lovely God-creation. I had no responsibilities and no obligations.

Then, suddenly, one day there came a feeling within Me that I wanted to be a conscious part of Creation. When this takes place in anyone, it means that the activity of the First Ray is born within them – the WILL TO DO. So it was with me.

Then I sought out someone Whom I knew could tell Me just what to do and, when I had found such a one, I was told that, if I cared to go to a certain Nature Temple, I could learn how to build form – perhaps a flower. To do this, together with others of like intent. I had to learn to hold the thought-form shown to Us by the presiding Deva, Our Instructor. After enrolling Myself as a student in this Nature Temple, My first assignment was to build a five-petaled, yellow flower and I shall never forget it.

O, there must have been a couple of hundred of Us in the class – all quite as irresponsible as Myself. We could hear the beautiful music outside the Temple; the air was so lovely and fresh; the beautiful Beings of Light were passing through the atmosphere outside the windows, – and the holding of the pattern of that flower got so monotonous, I can tell you! However, the Deva just stood there and from Himself He externalized the pattern of this flower which We were to learn to create. He tried to catch Our thoughts and focus them upon that flower. But, I soon found that just the WILL TO DO was not enough – there must follow the other six “steps” of Creation to perfect the activity.

Then suddenly, PERCEPTION came into My mind and I thought – “Yes, this is a part of Creation” and I PERCEIVED, at least, what the Deva wanted Me to try to do. Up until that time, I just enjoyed the fragrance, the color and the symmetry of that form of that flower. I did not feel that I wanted to do anything more than that about it. As that feeling of PERCEPTION took possession within Me, I consciously tried. O, but that first form which I attempted to create was certainly a distorted one – it was sort of square; it did not have enough petals; nor did it have the right fragrance. Besides, just as soon as I took My attention away from it – the form was gone! Now, some in the class were still not very concentrated in their attention and were still “flitting around”. However, those of Us Who really meant business finally moved up to the front of the room, nearer the Deva.

Well, as We continued to absorb the instruction and tried again and again, finally, one day, the little yellow flower appeared in My hands and I was so happy! This time I had the right number of petals and the right fragrance for My flower but – my goodness! Just as I was about to present my flower to the Deva, one of the Archangels went by the window and My attention being drawn by His magnificent light, it left My flower for an instant. When I looked back at My hand – the flower was gone! Just a lack of concentration, you see!

Now these Devas do not speak at all. They give all Their instruction through radiation and Our Teacher Deva suggested to Us that if we wanted to create these flowers consciously, We could add beauty and perfection to a Springtime on some lovely planet which the Elohim in charge of that planet were to beautify for the blessing of an evolution of living Souls. As I thought of this, LOVE for My endeavor was born within Me. I felt that I wanted to make that little flower perfect enough, fragrant enough, beautiful enough and make it last long enough to really bless some part of life. That was the third aspect of Divinity – LOVE – you see! Then I forgot Myself and the distraction of Those who were going by outside; then I really wanted to create that flower and I stayed with it!

What happened then? I received an assignment. The Devas do not assign one to the task of even becoming an apple blossom until They know you will stay with that task long enough to complete it. In My new assignment, I think there were about seven hundred of Us directed to adorn one big tree. Incidentally, the yellow flower I was to create does not grow on your earth – nor does such a tree. perhaps, one day it shall.

Here came another lesson which I did not learn at once. Our Teacher reminded Us that when We went to that planet with the Great Deva of the tree to be formed, We would see all different kinds of trees. He warned Us to watch and see that Our individual flower to be created did not become just like that which we saw on some other shrub or tree. I forgot his admonition and Mine did! I saw pink flowers, blue ones and white ones and, by the time I was through looking at them all. I had nothing definite of My Own in mind – and therefore no manifestation.

Then I learned the fourth lesson – the PURITY of holding to the Divine pattern which had been given me in the beginning. When We finally went back to Our Nature Temple ‘schoolroom’, none of Us Who had ‘lost out’ was at all proud of His accomplishments. You see, Those in charge always prepare more Elementals then They know will be needed for a certain creation and, therefore, the creation was completed by those who could do the work. I did not volunteer so quickly for the next experience, I can tell you! However, within Myself, I determined that I would hold the pattern of that yellow flower until I had brought it forth in perfection.

Finally, I did not even have to volunteer. My Teacher Deva, in mercy, said to Me, one day: “All right – you may go and try again”. This time I closed My eyes, My mind and My attention to everything but to the becoming of that yellow flower. Yet, there remained even more for remember – CONSTANCY – for I allowed My petals to fall before Springtime was over! I had to learn the fifth activity of CONSTANCY and CONCENTRATION until the Deva called me home. Because of my lack of CONSTANCY, after the premature falling of My petals, I was home a whole month before the others! I must tell you that I did not go into the Temple for quite a while – I walked up and down outside but I did not go in! At last, I had to go in – you know that! Whenever you are and whatever you volunteer to do, you must finish it one day.

When We gathered again before the Deva in the Nature Temple, I was seated far back in the last row. I was small of stature and I thought I would not be too easily seen there. Thinking to Myself, I said: “I shall never go out again. I’ll just stay right here”. However, next We were taught the lesson of RHYTHM.

Here I learned that I had to hold the purity of form and that I had to stay at My post until I was released by the Being Who had sent Me forth. That was CONSTANCY. Then, amazingly, I learned that I had to go every Spring! My goodness! I thought going once was a major achievement, but learned the lesson of RHYTHM – yellow flower – yellow flower – yellow flower – over and over again, each and every Spring. I shall not attempt to tell you how many Springtimes I became a yellow flower. Doing it once was a novelty; even a dozen times was fun; but every Spring seemed to Me like a long, steady, relentless “grind”! Obedience! Obedience! Obedience! to the end!

The last step to learn in this process of Creation was to HOLD THE PEACE. The last time the Deva told Me that I was going to be a yellow flower again – I nearly lost the whole course!!!! You see, in the meantime, others of My friends had become beautiful trees, shrubs and other lovely creations but I was still a little, tiny, yellow flower. So, you see, I had to learn to HOLD THE PEACE – PEACE which I became Myself – mind you – in a far distant scheme! So, if you are one of those “little yellow flowers”, learn to HOLD YOUR PEACE! Who knows what anyone’s use of free-WILL may do?

At last, on this final trip, I just let go! I really did! I thought: “If God Wills it, I shall be this blossom for Eternity!” That was My last trip! That absolute surrender gave Me My release and, that time, when I returned to My Deva in the Nature Temple, he crowned My service of the ages – AGES I SAID!- with Victory! Then I was graduated into the Devic Kingdom.

Now, proceeding along these “seven steps” of activity is the way by which the Elohim expand Their consciousness from an Elemental Being to a Great Builder of Form; it is the way by which the tiny Cherubim become great Devas of light and, passing through those “steps” also, the spiritually unawakened Soul eventually awakens and becomes an Ascended Being of Love and Light.

There is no escape from the following of these “steps” anywhere. Some natures are such that they accept and follow those “steps” quickly and some take a longer time to accomplish. Believe Me, I know! I think I was the slowest pupil of all the groupings of Elementals with Whom I started out but, one thing I learned (if nothing else) was to HOLD MY PEACE and abide in the Wisdom of Creative Law!

For the Kindness and the Courtesy of your attention and for your Love, I thank you! Will you remember always, please, that PEACE IS A POWER! I – Who have passed the way of evolution before you – I Am yours to command! I leave you with my Blessings. May all your Creations be perfect; your ‘flowers’ beautiful and all your endeavors successful in His Name! Thank you and good morning!”

Greetings!

There is a topic that keeps popping up all over the place in my life.  When I go surfing, I go surfing with my awareness wide open.  I deep listen to our media.

I have learned when something keeps popping up,  to write about it.  It is going to be integrated in the next of my ‘hercules’ series, ’cause it’s the riddle of ‘gemini’ and the “Gathering of the Golden Apples of Hesperides.”

I’m kinda’ *busy* right now and it is not the time for me to write this next one.  I can, however, share the gist of it.

There are 3 levels of ‘mind’.  Just like light comes in different spectrums, so does consciousness or awareness.   These three are called Instinct, Intellect and Intuition.

Instinct is an expression of Love for Life.  No mineral, plant or animal is going to choose to kill itself.  And will defend its life, instinctually.  Since we are all born of biology, we are all born with this Instinctual awareness.  We are ‘sons & daughters of Man.’

It takes the presence of the next level of mind, a ‘higher’ band along the spectrum, to Master our Instinctual level.  It’s called Intellect.  Basically it takes the ability to understand abstract thought to rein our horses in and not be the horse itself, running wild throughout the coutryside. 

Once we can do this, the next level comes into operation: Intuition.  This means connecting with all those feelings and emotions we ran into our heads to distance ourselves, from.   We ran away.  We tried to detach, disconnect, divorce, you name it, what ever put the most distance between us and our feelings, was what was in “style”.  

These things that weigh heavy on our hearts are just too much to deal with.  So let’s run away into our heads for a while. 

 I know the procedure.   Done it many many times.

The things about it…is where ever we go, there we are.  Our feelings are ours.  They are a part of what makes us ‘Us’.  We can pretend we don’t feel them, like stuffing them inside the closets of our bodies as if they were skeletons and spooks.  But the only ones we fool are ourselves and, others of us that want support for our illusions of denial, too.

Our issue is Intimacy.  Most of us are terrifed of it.

And the reason we are is because we know…that we aren’t that great at keeping all those skeletons and spooks stuffed inside of us.  They escape every now and then or at the very least, make a bunch of racket with all those chains they rattle.

One of the things this transition is bringing to our shores, are a lot feelings we haven’t allowed ourselves to feel.

When these experiences happen, the wisest thing I can share is to look within.   First, BREATHE.  But don’t breathe like you were trying to mentally muscle up some courage in the face of fear.  The more we do that, the more we add the power of our creative wills to the fear.  That’s what I call the boomerang effect.  Got whacked with that on more then one occasion.  This monkey doesn’t press that button anymore.

Breathe in the feeling…the ones we don’t want to feel.   Breathe WITH the flow instead of battling it.  IT is going to ‘win’ anyway; we might as well not exhaust ourselves in the process.  With the breathe will come the sensitivity to a Presence.  We are NOT ALONE. 

Spirit isn’t anyplace else.  Don’t have to jump through any hoops, learn any lessons.  Just breathe.  And with every breathe the awareness of Spirit will come with it.

Love the parts of ourselves that we have denied.   We’re still carrying the hurt.  No matter how far we’ve run into our heads and technology trying to avoid it.  We can’t get rid of it.  Not an option.

We can transmute it.  Change it.  Uplift it.  And heal it.

Then we live FREE of it!

Don’t be afraid of what ever comes up.  Because the Spirit of Liberty is on the other side.

{{GentleEssenceD}} sent me this link:  http://spaceweather.com

“SOLAR CYCLE 24 BEGINS: Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of a reversed-polarity sunspot to signal the start of the next solar cycle. The wait is over. Yesterday, a magnetically reversed sunspot emerged at solar latitude 30 N.

For reasons explained in a recent Science@NASA story, this marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 24 and the first step toward a new solar maximum. Intense solar activity won’t begin right away. Solar cycles usually take a few years to build from solar minimum (where we are now) to Solar Max (expected in 2011 or 2012). It’s a slow journey, but we’re on our way!”

I was asked if I would comment on what type of changes I had been talking about on another’s blog:

http://savemenot.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/is-disney-evil/

A meta-physicist would say: The Spiritualization of matter.  “Going into Light Body”.  Like the change in our solar activity has just signaled as regards our solar ‘body’.  This requires exciting all quantum light packets into a higher vibratory rate.  Accelerating spins along certain rotational axis’.

Any plant requires different frequencies or different radiations of light from the sun in order to grow to maturity.   Any child of man requires different radiations, different stages of experience, in order to grow into maturity.   I’ve been endeavoring to communicate that a child of God is exposed to the same thing.  And what we’re doing is spiritually maturing from adolescent to adult.

Go ask any teacher in any junior high or parents of junior high students, how easy the transition is from baby to adult.  How easy the stage is entitled “puberty” and “pre-puberty”.   If we considered ourselves an ‘adult’, then we went through it ourselves.  It’s usually awful as we deal with all these conflicting feelings coming at us all at once.  We know we can be somebody’s baby but can we be our own person?  And will the person we turn out being, be accepted by “the group”?

“The polarities are reversing”, “the poles are reversing”, bi-polar this and bi-polar that…has been declared redundant.  As in, “knock it off”, “cease & desist”.  Bi-polar anything is of the ‘old’ POWER structure.  Notice any ‘problems’ with any ‘energy and power’ systems lately?  Any outages?

Bye-bye duality and polarity and all realities based on it….basically.   Why?

Because we asked for it.  How many of us for how long have desired Peace?  On EARTH?  What’s coming is the energy required to remove anything and everything standing in the way of precisely that happening.   Which means we’re all going to be faced with all our delusions.

Deluded, now that’s a word.

What happens to our World view when the perception changes?  When blaming others or the world for the reason we’re emotionally unstable and insecure is considered socially unacceptable?   And identified as an expression of being developmentally disabled?  When our beliefs are cited and targeted  as the causes of all our own individual neurosis’ ?

Deluded, just like George W.  One of the most sniveling neurotics I’ve ever witnessed.   And if the majority of us in our country weren’t just like him, internally, that electile dysfunction in Florida would have never occurred.

The changes are all based on Power and the use or mis-use of it.  As it has been applied over the past 15 years.   If this subject, of Power is of interest, then I will go into further if asked.  As best as I know how to convey the basics of it tho…

What most of us consider ‘power’ and ‘powerful’ in the World, I consider a joke.  Not only a joke but a pathetic one.  About as weak and powerless over reality as any of us could possibly get.  Take all the ammo and martial arts skills from all over the world and try, just try, to overpower the shift in magnetic fields the sun has just made.

Ignorance and arrogance have deluded us all.   And the sooner we face it, the easier and more graceful these physical transitions are going to be.

ANY use of force, be it applied physically, or intellectually in the manner of intimidation or emotionally in the manner of a judgment of condemnation or rejection, falls under the definition of “mis-use of power”.   It boils down to how ever many stones we’ve thrown at others over the past 15 years is how many stones we’re now going to get pelted with ourselves, magnified 100 fold.  What ever physical circumstances and conditions that will create for us, the reality we have created for tohers to experience, is what is coming.

We now reap as we have sowed.  And if we weren’t all so scared of being found to be ‘unholy’, it would make a great deal of difference.  Judgments and condemnations need to be seen as expressions of our deficits in substance of inner character. Lacks in Tolerance, lacks in Acceptance, lacks in Mercy and, lacks in Forgiveness need to be illuminated for what they are:  LACKS.  Instead of moral justifications of ‘holiness’.

Information about the Law of Attraction has mostly been used trying to further our outer ‘appearance’ world.  I tried, really I did, over the years, to convey the significance of noticing scarcities in our inner inventories of character.  Scarcity on the inside eventually manifests as scarcity on the outside.   The signal has now gone off.  The ‘race’ is now begun to stock our inner inventories as fast as we can…

Me?  I know I’m slow.  Not stupid, just dense.  I knew it was going to take me a while.  I started stocking my shelves long ago, so I would have some to share whenever required.   Knowing that whatever I share is like yeast.  It will continue growing and giving, forever expanding. 

Just like dropping pebbles in any pond.  Only I’m active in the waters of consciousness.  

Ever skipped rocks off a lake?  You could say I know how to pitch.  Sidewinders are my speciality.

Sincerely,

Sue Ann

Esoteric is the study of the transpersonal.  It is perceiving life in the context of an evolving consciousness.  Life then becomes a Spiritual journey.   The founding principle of esotericism is that we are essentially Divinity incarnating in form.  We are not our stories.   We are the Reader of our stories.

There comes a point in all our lives where a Spiritual path is consciously chosen.  Our focus then becomes split, on the ‘dual’ life of our Personality and our Soul.  With our goal to blend these aspects ‘parts of ourselves’ into a unified self expression. 

Just as we each individually unfold higher understanding through life experiences, so does Humanity, as a Whole, become more enlightened.    This development can be traced through the Precessional Ages, in two and a half thousand year cycles.  For example we are moving out of the Piscean era into Aquarius and we can see world thought changing.

There are as many paths as there are branches of a tree but each have experiences in common and recognizable stages along the way.  

I’ll begin with an introduction to the Zodiac by Alice Bailey:

“The Presiding One looked forth upon the sons of men, who are the Sons of God. He saw their light and where they stood upon the Way, which leads back to the Heart of God. The Way sweeps in a circle through twelve great Gates, and, cycle after cycle, the Gates are opened and the Gates are shut. The Sons of God, who are the sons of men, march on. Dim is the light at first. Selfish the trend of human aspiration, and dark the deeds resultant. Slowly humankind learns and, in learning, passes between the pillar of the Gates time and time again …

From out the mass of men, one stood forth in ancient days and caught the presiding Elder’s watching eye…Who is that soul upon the Way of life, whose light can now be dimly seen? Watch over his steps and, when he has an understanding heart, an eager mind and skilful hand, bring him to me.

Again the centuries passed. The great wheel turned and, in turning, carried all the sons of men, who were the Sons of God, upon their way… The watching Teacher saw a man emerge… mount the fixed Cross, demanding deeds to do, service to render unto God and man, and willingness to travel the Way… Obey the Teacher on the Way. Prepare for the last tests. Pass through each Gate and in the sphere which they reveal and guard, perform the labor which befits their sphere. Learn thus the lesson and begin with love to serve the men and women of earth.”

The twelve great gates are the twelve signs of the Zodiac.  The fixed cross mentioned, is one of three.  Each cross is made up of four signs and represents a different stage in the unfolding of our awareness.

The Mutable cross is a cross of flux and change, of adapting to environment and circumstances.  It is the cross of our Personality development and where Humanity, as a Whole, has been focused.

The Fixed cross comes into play when we first become sensitive to larger issues and deeper concerns then just our Personality’s issues.  This is in response to the receptivity of spiritual impulses.  ‘Mounting the cross’ means when we have made the conscious choice to redirect our attention along the lines of our Soul life.  It represents a reorientation; a taking on of a spiritual discipline.  Because of this discipline, one who mounts the cross is called a Disciple.   This is a time of determination.  Sometimes called a time of testing.  Sometimes called a time of labors. 

The Cardinal cross is the cross of Spirit.  It represents an even more expanded stage of awarenessness, one called an ‘Initiate’, who has undergone the self directed ‘initiations’ of the Fixed Cross.

The three crosses represent Body, Soul and Spirit or Appearance, Consciousness and Life.

“Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of the Soul on this plane of existence, and the Soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestaton of the Spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all.”  –  The Secret Doctrine  

It’s the Fixed cross that Humanity, as a Whole, is now mounting, now transitioning to.   Because of this, I’m not going to call this a time of testing or a time of labors. I’m going to call it a time for puzzles.  Puzzles are more fun then labors or tests.  Like all puzzles, it’s so much easier to put the puzzle pieces together when you’ve got a picture to look at for reference.

There have been many stories in history of creatures born half god, half man, Divine AND human.  Even Pegasus, the winged horse, could travel both heaven and earth.  The most recent popular story was about a man called Jesus.  But there is a story of a half god half man that is even better known then his.  Of a Hero who lived in an age before. 

This man’s name was Hercules.  He was among the most celebrated heroes of Greek mythology.  The Greeks knew him as Herakles. He is generally known to have had Zeus as his immortal Father and Alcemene as his earthly Mother.  Half Divine and half Man. 

He was instructed by Zeus to submit himself for twelve years to the will of Eurystheus, the King of Argos.  If he fulfilled this requirement, he would become like the Gods, immortal.  At the bidding of the King of Argos, he performed the tasks known as the Twelve Labors.   His is a journey of a Son of God dancing around the twelve signs of the zodiac and in so doing, becoming one with his own divinity.

As he dances round the wheel, he expresses the characteristics of each sign, achieves some fresh insight into himself, knowledge that enables the demonstration of the gift the sign confers.  In each, he surmounts his natural tendencies, and becomes  a Master of his own reality.