Author: Gerry

Ripples of November 2011 – consumed by keen intransigent kindness

I spent a lot of time from August 2011 sharing the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood. I was writing the whole time, so it’s time to clean out the notebooks.

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Now within my self
Spirit in dwells quietly
Holding silence there.
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Fly white butterfly
Through mid October sunshine
Flitting here and there
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Holly comes prancing
Through the back door so sprightly
Like a ball bouncing
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Sunrise reflected
On glass windows through the fog
Surreal glimpse of light
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She is consumed by
Keen intransigent kindness
En route to heaven
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The turtle lady
Travels night and day looking
For a turtle man
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Touched by the Lord’s light
Awareness of only presence
Each moment of life
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A dream in the night
Forgotten upon rising
Was it angst or joy?
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The southwestern sky
Clear, crisp, flickering full of
possibility
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Flickering mind’s eye
Has the possibility
To see the great light.
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Angels have angles
For getting into the heart
Blessings come unseen
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Having to deal with
Narcissistic selfishness
Relationship hell!
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In Eureka

The brown leaves flutter
Down like butterflies of Fall
Watch nature descend
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Stand of trees arise
Where redwoods once enshrouded
Light and life abound
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Shining wisp of cloud
Deep green deciduous trees
Beautiful Fall day
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June 1, 2012
Seasons

A tulip a rose
Seasons of blooming/fading
Contentment with you

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May 30, 2012
Basket of Dreams

Basket of dreams laid
Sandy forlorn abandoned
Like the weaver’s heart

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May 22, 2012
4/30/2012 12:53 PM

Life and the events
It is both more and less than
It appears to be

April 30, 2012
Final Installment of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

The first installment with the introduction is here.

The twelfth installment is here.
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It was promised that in obedience to the words given you would be protected and held together, held from your own scatterings
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…It is necessary to keep joyous in understanding love, to keep faithful because that is where your heart is, inspired, transcended that you may know yourself as a child of the Creator. When you affirm this joyous and indomitable resolution and keep yourself involuntarily within yourself, calm, sure, undismayed, unafraid – then you will not scatter and be at the mercy of the violences and the jealousies, the humiliations and dullness of stupid events.
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The time has come for you to march against this tide of darkness and carry your lighted lamps quietly, steadily …. Come in where you belong and give this tragic world the infinite qualities of spirit when you let it have its way with you as channels for joy, beauty and truth. You are spiritual beings, you are great and noble people when you are your divine selves.
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All the great works and wonders that the Creator has ever wrought, … or even the Creator with all the Creator’s goodness, can never make me blessed, but only in so far as they exist and are done and loved, known, tasted, and felt within me.
Theologica Germanica, 1497
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The simplest metaphor is that you are a lamp, for you can become illumined and the invisible rays of light that shine through your even fitful awareness, then touch elements of which you have no knowledge.

…We fitfully hold in awareness the illuminating spirit.

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Do not be self conscious about self discipline for then it is easy to become self-righteous. The advice is, take action but be silent, for the real purpose is to awaken your faculties to a clean awareness of the reality of the Spirit. Let everything you do be toward that goal – everything. But for the sake of your personal lives do no do it too eagerly, do it silently, easily as breathing and thoughtfully. Fast from too much talk (as well as food) in things spiritual; you will be told when to speak.
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You are to be still, tenacious, faithful, that you may be an impersonal channel for the outpouring of wisdom and peace. As one said, “When you meditate upon not only your listening mind but the other door of your mind as well so that eternal love streams out as fast as it comes in. Store nothing. Go into the calm and luminous silence to renew, but stay in the soil of your life for your strength. Do not waste time asking for peace; get more fearless peace into your souls, then you will be some good – and peace will follow.”
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When you walk in immortality there is neither big nor little, and when you “deny yourself” by making clear the way for the Spirit, you are giving light to the world – giving it when, of yourself, you do nothing. What is asked of you is to keep the light burning brightly in quietness and to carry your illumination with you always.

Lift your hearts high above the storms of hatred and fear. A great role can be yours if you will be simple, and in all tenderness and love and assurance we ask you again to stand in the light and not waiver. Keeping your emotional centers where they belong is your safety and in so doing you help profoundly in the regeneration that will come to pass.

Love within is the beginning of all things, and you are forever beginning.
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Nothing can release you so much as your awareness and sense of oneness with the presence of the Creator.
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The gift of beauty
Leave all quietly to God
My soul only joy.

Melt into the invisible serenity of the Creator in you and the healing rays will go forth doing the works.
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Those who can find safe haven in the spiritual awareness of their own godhood, awareness of the Spirit within them not only stand near to the love of the Creator but lift the race with them. Whenever you draw near to the secret place (of inner connection with our Creator) you do not go entirely alone; you take mankind with you…. By the healing and renewing of your own spirit you send out light to all consciousness.
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Your awareness should not be a divided thing, feeling he Creator one time and then having long intervals of forgetfulness. It is rather that you feel the Creator within you, beside you and about you actually while in different environments. Keep the contact if you can as an undertone or overtone; carry your stillness with you.
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Be dismayed by nothing. Keep this inward contact secure in your outward living; for this is being in the ark of salvation, and this is the way to keep yourselves channels for the Spirit to pour through to those who walk in darkness. Hold your light high by being faithful and abiding in all you have learned of enlightenment.
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Each one has to go through the process of finding out that the fight with materialism and all the cyclical forces, is one where he or she fights alone, and the fight is choosing the ideas or awakening to the idea; and new ideas are always painful to the unspiritual.

If you approach the spiritual growth by planning you will delay your progress.

What are you trying to bring forth is a living consciousness of oneness with the Creator.

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The quietness is a steadying strength not of our own making though of our own accepting; and what is given forth from it is felt also.

Your dominion over yourself and the circumstances of your life can be glorious if you keep your center clean, illumined and still in immortal silence. Here is selflessness, here is revealed true knowledge, wisdom, power, and courage; the dignity of courage which is loyal to that which is not your human self. You will be given divine strategy in dealing with seemingly hopeless difficulties.
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Down through the ages humans have attempted to hold a half awakened consciousness to the nearness of the presence of that which beats the heart and gives us life. Naked you are born, and naked you die; it is seldom realized that naked and defenseless you live.
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I tell you that the Spirit can overcome the sword and pain and sorrow. The Spirit, completely realized, will guide and protect you and lead you through all dangers; it will give you strength, power, and inward peace. This is the reward of eternal vigilance, of realization of the Creator as your constant companion.
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All that you have ever been told, all that you have sensed of the Spirit is reduced to the simple instruction…. Keep in touch with your divine companion in all the ways of your life.

Oh listen, listen, listen all the day through.
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April 23, 2012
Twelfth Installment of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

The first installment with the introduction is here.

The eleventh installment is here.
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The mystery of each person’s life is not revealed at once, but day by day, little by little, and, only to the seeker.
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The next and final installment is here.

Walk confidently carrying your dawn with you. Within you is the dawn, within you is the light, within you is the freedom, therefore with eye turned inward you are safe. …And the far reaching of the Light you trust in is boundless, and unknown to you as you sit here in this hour, in this century, in this universe.
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You must not trouble yourself with whys and wherefores because it is a waste of time.
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Every individual has within themselves a great part to play. Let no one think he or she is too small, too insignificant. For the power of the kingdom of heaven, when you make way for it to pour though as a channel in the stillness of disciplined and controlled emotion, cannot be measured. There is nothing too great, nor nothing too small for the part you play.
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Everyone has a divine spark and it is realized for the most part, but also forgotten often.
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Bring this light within you into your eyes and hands and feet; into your comings and goings; into every small effort, for the more you use it the more wonderful will be your reward.

The quiet effort is toward awareness, keeping cool and unruffled in perfect faith, in celestial stillness – in your daily lives.

No one faces reality with more profound awareness than the person who looks upon it with the eyes of compassion that see through the wrong to the invincible right brooding near, waiting to be used, to pour out itself in abundant joy. “Of myself I can do nothing.” Abide in the Creator’s presence and bring this peace nearer than the despair of the world.
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Selflessness is a more-of-God-ness.
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There is a strange place in the thick realm between the hearing of the word and the assimilation of it – the acting upon it.
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You always loved the truth and it is strong stuff. We are trying to say that the beautiful, childlike thing to do is exquisitely joyful – hold yourself in a listening attitude and be artists in the Creator. [Or, in other words, be as a brush held in the hand of the Almighty to create art in the world.]
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Here you stand. It is the moment for you to realize that when you open to receive the spirit of the mind of the Creator, you let into this maelstrom of feeling a north wind to cool the heat and clear the skies and to know that you can be a means of bringing sanity and lifting hope.
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In the galaxy of thoughts that makes your mind you have the imagination of the seeing eye, the eye that perceives the invisible. Keep a childlike hopeful knowledge of the unseen goodness and a surety that the divine principle can be reached. Remember that though you may be very small outwardly you can be as the universe – your mind is limitless. Realize your cosmic powers and take time to be a channel for the infinite Spirit to pour through in this great war against the darkness, inertia, and savagery. As you walk your way and go about your daily lives, be measureless, be timeless, be eternal. Thus will you begin at this time, at this place, to fulfill the prophecy, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
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You have never been failed when you have wholeheartedly opened up to receive the Spirit that abides within you; opened to receive it into your mind, into your heart by transmuting all untoward emotions through it.
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All that is asked is an awareness of the Creator’s awareness of you, of the immense love of the Spirit for you. There is no “must” nor effort in this, for once the heart is touched by an awareness of the Creator it is comforted, reassured, and content.
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The next and final installment is here.

April 9, 2012
Eleventh installment of Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

The first installment with the introduction is here.

The tenth installment is here.

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The kingdom of all peace and power is within you
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Great and good forces are your companions; you do not walk alone.
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Be faithful in intent and all you need will be revealed to you.
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Take the dare and converse with God.
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Now is the time of your safe return, Salvation and immortality are already in you. Begin now to know immortality.
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Create the atmosphere of achievement in creative expectancy.
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You acquire a strength which will not fail, through the use of your daily companionship with the One who walks with you, whose strength you use, whose power is yours for the asking, whose mightiness is illumination and whose gentleness can make you great.
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In your outer life translate humble things into divine things.
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So peace be unto your hearts and great stillness and calm. Seek this creative peace within; here there is no struggle. Here are beauty and truth and protection and joy in abundance. Here is order, and here, locked away, is the divine plan. When you dissolve and become still, holy (wholly?) in that oneness with the infinite holiness, the divine plan comes to pass and you are free. You are challenged out there; in here the challenge is defeated. Seek and worship the Creator.
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You are a distinct portion of the essence of the Creator; and contain part of the Creator in yourself. Epictetus, A.D. 50
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There is nothing wrong with the human race except destructive emotions
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When you close your eyes and turn to the silence of the divine darkness you will have a sense of spaciousness without boundary, the timelessness of the joyous instant and the light of a new day.
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“Meditation is the clarifier of a beclouded mind.” The Tibetan Doctrine
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The thing expected of you, through your final realization of all that has been told to you, is to use your imagination so that you will not allow any separation from the Spirit by withdrawing into forgetfulness…. That does not mean that you are to think of nothing else – it is an attitude of mind. Bring everything to the high quality of spirit. Do not take thoughts and problems down into the gloom of materialism nor of negative and despairing solutions.
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If you say, “I have no life except with the spirit within me”, you wear the garment (spirit) through the sordid traffic of the world. And if it is unseen that does not matter to you.
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You can cleanse the body and cleanse the mind by the bright discipline of entertaining light (where “entertaining” means to “hold present”).
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Within this center of infinite quiet and peace lies resolution to action that is born of love and wisdom. Whenever challenged by the horrors or irritations of human living, you know that through the mind you can touch all that is august, deathless beauty and immortality.
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What do you desire above all, above all? Perfect peace of mind, integrity, order, the victory of goodness, honor, joy and eternal love, free from human sentimentality and emotionalism; the high clean impersonal rightness. Well all these are for your asking, not praying, for your accepting and realizing and wanting.

Go your way, step by step. Now is the appointed time to do your part; and your part, as you well know, cannot be done with righteous and breathless rectitude, but by being receptive so that you can be used as a channel, which is part of being a temple of the Spirit. It is the antithesis of noise and dubious fame; be the silent ones, anointed with rod and staff and the scallop shell of quiet and the promise of truth.
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Many people would be impatient if you should tell them that creative action, action based upon spiritual premises, is born in complete stillness, the stillness the inventor and scientist know in the laboratory. Not necessarily the stillness which is merely noiselessness alone but this intense quiet of drawing upon the source of inspiration.
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Those who go still further within themselves for the answer will find a timeless wisdom and inspiration to be translated into the human need of the moment. [Being still is “not movement, and, it is “still further” moving beyond the present progress.]
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Do not belittle yourself, for this spiritual concept within you is deathless and all powerful, measureless. Therefore when you look through your eyes at immensities know that that which you hold within is more powerful.
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The ignorant are awed by show, the wise are awed by what is not seen, by thought. Hold the concept which encompasses more universes than you are yet aware of and through complete humility of self and your service of faith you will become as yeast in the sodden world of materialism. Though your personal lives seem constricted and humble, it dos not matter.
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This infinite power is only revealed by the denial of self in the true sense and the glorifying of the Light within.
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This spiritual concept within you is deathless and all powerful, measureless (beyond what is seen in all of nature). …. The wise are awed by what is not seen, by thought….. through the complete humility of self and your service of faith you will become as yeast in the sodden world of materialism. Though your personal lives seem constricted and humble it does not matter.
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This infinite power is only revealed by the denial of self in the true sense and the glorifying of the Light within.
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Use this indwelling spirit! The Creator moves in you now through limitless space. Cast off your mooring from the land of fear and doubt; leave the prisons of despair and melancholy and set sail on a guided journey where the stars are in their appointed places and the voyage is true and beautiful and safe.
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Be alert, industrious in the habit of being in His presence. All that is asked of you is to be gloriously happy. Because of your intent you are being filled with healing, vitalizing, sustaining truth and eternal love. You will astonish yourself and if you can see the simplicity of this – the victory is yours.

Watch your every response and thought and bring to yourself a day, even a fraction of a day, when you have kept His presence; for this is the good news of which the prophets spoke, this is what it is all about.
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The next installment is here.

April 5, 2012
Tenth installment of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

The first installment with the introduction is here.

The ninth installment is here.

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You sometimes wonder why certain things are given to you to bear; do not, for it is a waste of time. Put your desire, your pent up feeling, into the pure desire of being with the Creator, and watch during the day the extraordinary waste of thinking that unmakes and weakens. It is the discipline of one’s thoughts that matters, the turning inward and resting in that deep center where all is still and safe and sure. Great is the companionship and the peace of so doing, and be sure you know you are doing your best.

Receive in quiet the assurance of your protection.
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When you place a new concept into your galaxy of thought it takes time for it to grow bright to outshine your old thinking.
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A very gentle, calm, unemotional selflessness and patient attitude toward your spiritual growth is essential.
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Illumine the common things (as remembrances of the Almighty) and you will fill your skies with stars. Go, seek goodness and you will find it; seek beauty and it will be upon your face. Thus will you walk the glorious way using the common elements of daily life as rods and shafts. Nothing is too small for your consideration and for your use.
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Make the habit of worship in every act of your daily life. “Not a solemn duty but an overture of feeling (and intention)…. Worship is the giving out of love to the Creator, and with it comes a warming sense of companionship. It is, as one has said, a witness to the glory.”
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Picture the spirit within you (quiet and alert and accepting) to which you turn as a calm inward flame; you quietly holding it is what is important…. You are actually being in space by pure thought; you are not a body corporeal; that is not the reality (of you). That is a stumbling experiment . You are deathless, true, divinely breathing eternity as you go.

Be patient.

Be in the light of the Creator.
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In reply to your need, I say that simplicity of approach is what you require at the moment; if you could only see, if you could only hear, if you could only know how simple, how tender, how radiant is the feeling of oneness with your indwelling Spirit!
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And remember that the more tender, the more open, the gentler you can be in your quiet time of acceptance, of stillness, the greater the power pressed through your silences. In quiet listen to the Spirit within you speak:

My will in you is joy, not sorrow.

My will in you is faith, not fear.

My will in you is awareness of My love for you.

Let My will within you be done.
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The blessed thing is that you have come into realization of the spiritual adventure and that your intent is forward.
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Can you stand and think in perfect stillness that you are but the expression of the long thrust upward of an idea, casting off all weights, all heavy feelings in the realization of the upward flight? Cast off everything; be the forward part of the thrust, illumined, your light breaking forth from within.

Live in eternity, the ever present.
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The natural instinct for joy is to become the joyful awareness of spiritual oneness with the Creator and the realization of the power there from.
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Do not waste time wishing for peace; there is no peace in a world, there is only peace in one’s own soul.
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The next installment is here.

March 27, 2012
Ninth installment of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

The first installment with the introduction is here

The eighth installment is here.

Do not strain nor make a mountain of your heaviness of spirit; keep the balance, for when down in the heavy flesh the subtle body tempts the soul with a sense of defeat. Then is the time to lift up gaily and press on.
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Another secret is to fill your reservoirs with light in times of well-being, so that when unease to the body or mind steals in like a thief you have the defense of the sword of the spirit (your inner self) which is light indeed.
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You have within you the power to make your days brilliant. On your brow, on your lips, in your ears, in your heart is the word – keep yourself gentle and tender, for it is the way of peace.
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The next installment is here.

February 14, 2012
Eigthth Installment of the Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

The first installment with the introduction is here

The seventh installment is here.

All is contained in the present, eternal, moment. There is no measured time at this place, no future, neither is there a past. I am in the eternal moment, the limitless, infinite, now. My spirit is deathless, immortal, and through it I am in touch with all wisdom, all beauty, and all goodness. In this eternal now I rest sustained, supported, and comforted.
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Lift you spirits high. It is so true that it is not a question of fighting but rather a need of lifting…. Will you succeed the first time? I do not know. Does it matter? Lift your spirit and you will hear the guiding voice and know the joy that is fulfilling.
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Keep awareness, like a finger touching a spot. Keep awareness of the presence in one-ness with the inner you; to be aware of the Creator all about you and in every activity of your daily life.
Turn to the light. Turn to it; stretch out the finger of your mind and touch this light. Touch it. Touch it all through the day and it will clear the mind of vain imagining, of fearful thoughts. Touch with your mind this high state, this high spirit, this light where you are!
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“The perfection of the soul consists not in speaking, nor in thinking much on the Creator, but in loving the Creator sufficiently.” Miguel de Molinas, 1640-1967
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It is the eternal struggle; the world so dramatic, so exciting; the spirit so gentle, so still.
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You are not asked to examine your faults for longer than it takes to be aware of them.
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All rests in feelings and emotions of the heart; they are like great living currents – hot waters and cold waters, boiling liquid emotion or iced and frozen secret feeling. How resentment freezes itself and keeps fresh and alive in ice!
All is feeling – terrible, stark, animal feeling. Transmute it with love, for love changes emotion to another state; it melts ice and changes fire to cool peace of thought.
Your gentleness will make you great. Be on guard and watch the temptation of judgment. Fill yourself with the guardianship of love itself and walk among men and women who have their own burdens. You will help release them; and by so much kindness you will bring the kingdom of heaven nearer.
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You will learn to rest in vigilance…. You will begin to see the importance of this vigil; how concentrated, how powerful, how impersonal and how stern it is. …Sins are the veils and chains and heaviness that keep your feet in swamps… Fight the good fight and be shriven of all non-essentials. Catch the idle moment and retrieve it to everlasting glory and joy.
Vigilance to the presence of the Creator each and every moment is our salvation. So go you way, perfect in intent.
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The next installment is here.

February 13, 2012