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Category: Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood – Third installment

    The first installment with the introduction is here

    The second installment is here.

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    He is to be sought through the refinements of the heart.
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    Lake Nagasawa on a kayak-11

    Be holy by pouring the light on humble ordinary things. You will be transfigured and your day blessed.
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    Your direct action is when you go back to your world charged and supercharged and stay charged.
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    He abides in a lifted heart so an attitude of joy maintains our connection to the forces of spirit within.
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    Do not wonder what to do. Keep a naked intent toward the Creator of all things. It makes for the capacity of loving stillness. It gives gentle holiness and protection so that you may stand strong and alert.
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    It takes courage, therefore, take courage and give it.
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    Fall sunset
    Do not be fearful ever of being fearful, but rather abide where you will be given these things that will protect you.
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    The next installment is here.

  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood – Second installment

    The first installment is here

    The nearest way to His nearness is through a refined essence of spirit
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    When you are plunging into the sea of sensuous existence your true life leaves you like smoke.
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    If you desire to be in the presence of the infinite omniscient spirit it must mean that you lay down your sensuous material life, that you may find strength and happiness and beauty and knowledge, by being in holy communion with the spirit within… To meet this spirit within you must acquire a quality and a technique in dwelling in the invisible while in the visible.
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    My first photos 11/19/1975

    Now that you know, now that you begin to realize your godhood, take measures to keep invisible in a visible world, immortal in a mortal world, eternal in a changing world, continually reborn in a dying world.
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    Peace can only be found in action.
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    When you seek the spirit within, you become more alive, or better still, more awake.
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    Examine each moment as it comes and thus make it spiritual.
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    Relax in quiet and in the confidence which is your strength.
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    For you carry with you your knowledge of high peace like a lofty peak. High up in the silence near the stars.
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    Cherry blossoms

    The gift a man or woman has with animals, or with children and flowers, is inarticulate and silent and unselfconscious without words that have been thought out.
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    The next installment is here.

  • Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

    Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood was a book I found while I was looking for something else. It took me six (6) years to read “Letters” the first time. I was convinced that some deep answers lay in the pages. It did hold some revelations which emerged gradually.

    Since I’m reading it this time with notebook nearby I will try to pass along some of the shiny jewels.
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    At our full stature
    We show the joyful spirit
    Of a tender God.
    #lsb
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    Open to the Lord
    Today action through waiting
    Be the instrument
    #lsb
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    As people who want
    True joy we must have faith and
    Seek confident joy
    #lsb
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    The pearl of great price
    This is what you are here for
    Find it now and live
    #lsb
    [For me the “pearl of great price” is the realization that the Creator is within each person and the goal of personhood is to humbly be a channel for the Creator’s action in the world without resisting. See also an earlier view.]
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    Within me in the quietness beyond silence is the assurance of immortal life and the potentiality of peace here and now.
    #lsb page 11
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    I know that as I live this life it is but an echo as compared to the life within: Eternal, immortal, omniscient.
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    Know with confidence that gentleness within is your strength.
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    The very quietness of goodness is undramatic and therefore too often unseen.
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    Beneath the obscure darkness of wisest silence, the hidden jewel.
    Silence beyond silence is the silence He presses through. (Wait upon it and in it.)

    #Lsb
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    The next installment is here.