Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. Now, It Is Apparent That Sincerely Loving Others During This Trying Period Of Mankind Can Be Somewhat Challenging; Due To Those Dark Hearts And Minds Filled With Much Ignorance And Hate That Surrounds Us. Now That’s That Hateful Energy! But What Those Dark Hearts And Minds Obviously Don’t Realize… Is That In Seeking The Devastation And Destruction Of Others – In An Attempt To Rule Over Or Eliminate Them; They Inevitably… Secure Their Own. And That’s That Karmic Energy! But While They Are Cheerfully Dealing From A Place Of Ignorance And Evil… Let The Children Of The Living God – Those Individuals Devoted To The Love And Light Within Their Hearts – Rise Up – And Wield The True Power Of Your “Mighty I AM Presence”; And Dominate And Defeat The Darkness That Seeks Control And Destruction. Now, That’s That Loving Energy! Amen…  15.1emoji-timelineemoji-timelineemoji-timeline

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…    emoji-timelineemoji-timeline

And Y’all Be Love…  emoji-timelineemoji-timelineemoji-timeline

“To realize fully how much of our present daily life consists in symbols, is to find the answer to the old, old question, What is Truth? And in the degree in which we begin to recognize this, we begin to approach Truth. The realization of Truth consists in the ability to translate symbols, whether natural or conventional, into their equivalents; and the root of all the errors of mankind consists in the inability to do this, and in maintaining that the symbol has nothing behind it.

The great duty incumbent on all who have attained to this knowledge is to impress upon their fellow men that there is an inner side to things, and that until this inner side is known, the things themselves are not known. There is an inner and an outer side to everything; and the quality of the superficial mind which causes it to fail in the attainment of Truth is its willingness to rest content, with the outside only. So long as this is the case, it is impossible for a man to grasp the import of his own relation to the universal, and it is this relation which constitutes all that is signified by the word “Truth.”

So long as a man fixes his attention only on the superficial, it is impossible for him to make any progress in knowledge. He is denying that principle of “Growth” which is the root of all life, whether spiritual, intellectual, or material; for he does not stop to reflect that all which he sees as the outer side of things, can result only from some germinal principle hidden deep in the centre of their being.

Expansion from the centre by growth according to a necessary order of sequence, this is the Law of Life of which the whole universe is the outcome, alike in the one great solidarity of cosmic being, as in the separate individualities of its minutest organisms. This great principle is the key to the whole riddle of Life, upon whatever plane we contemplate it; and without this key, the door from the outer to the inner side of things can never be opened. It is therefore the duty of all to whom this door has, at least in some measure, been opened, to endeavour to acquaint others with the fact that there is an inner side to things, and that life becomes truer and fuller in proportion, as we penetrate to it and make our estimates of all things according to what becomes visible from this interior point of view.

In the widest sense, everything is a symbol of that which constitutes its inner being, and all Nature is a gallery of arcana revealing great truths to those who can decipher them. But there is a more precise sense in which our current life is based upon symbols in regard to the most important subjects that can occupy our thoughts – the symbols by which we strive to represent the nature and being of God, and the manner in which the life of man is related to the Divine life. The whole character of a man’s life results from what he really believes on this subject – not his formal statement of belief in a particular creed, but what he realizes as the stage which his mind has actually attained in regard to it.

Has a man’s mind only reached the point at which he thinks it is impossible to know anything about God, or to make any use of the knowledge if he had it? Then his whole interior world is in the condition of confusion, which must necessarily exist where no spirit of order has yet begun to move upon the chaos, in which are, indeed, the elements of being, but all disordered and neutralizing one another. Has he advanced a step further, and realized that there is a ruling and an ordering power, but beyond this is ignorant of its nature? Then the unknown stands to him for the terrific, and, amid a tumult of fears and distresses that deprive him of all strength to advance, he spends his life in the endeavour to propitiate this power as something naturally adverse to him, instead of knowing that it is the very centre of his own life and being.

… What then is this central principle which is at the root of all things? It is Life. But not life as we recognize it in particular forms of manifestation; it is something more interior and concentrated than that. It is that “unity of the spirit” which is unity, simply because it has not yet passed into diversity. Perhaps this is not an easy idea to grasp, but it is the root of all scientific conception of spirit; for without it there is no common principle to which we can refer the innumerable forms of manifestation that spirit assumes.

It is the conception of Life as the sum-total of all its undistributed powers, being as yet none of these in particular, but all of them in potentiality. This is, no doubt, a highly abstract idea, but it is essentially that of the centre from which growth takes place by expansion in every direction. This is that last residuum which defies all our powers of analysis. This is truly “the unknowable”, not in the sense of the unthinkable but of the unanalyzable. It is the subject of perception, not of knowledge, if by knowledge we mean that faculty which estimates the relations between things, because here we have passed beyond any questions of relations and are face to face with the absolute.

This innermost of all is absolute Spirit. It is Life as yet not differentiated into any specific mode; it is the universal Life which pervades all things and is at the heart of all appearances. To come into the knowledge of this is to come into the secret of power, and to enter into the secret place of Living Spirit. Is it illogical first to call this the unknowable, and then to speak of coming into the knowledge of it? Perhaps so, but no less a writer than St. Paul has set the example; for does he not speak of the final result of all searchings into the heights and depths and lengths and breadths of the inner side of things as being to attain the knowledge of that Love which passeth knowledge. If he is thus boldly illogical in phrase, though not in fact, may we not also speak of knowing “the unknowable”? We may, for this knowledge is the root of all other knowledge.

… The Science of Spirit is thus not one whit less scientific than the Science of Matter; and, moreover, it starts from the same initial fact, the fact of a living energy which defies definition or explanation, wherever we find it; but it differs from the science of matter in that it contemplates this energy under an aspect of responsive intelligence which does not fall within the scope of physical science as such.

The Science of Spirit and the Science of Matter are not opposed. They are complementaries, and neither is fully comprehensible without some knowledge of the other; and, being really but two portions of one whole, they insensibly shade off into each other in a borderland where no arbitrary line can be drawn between them. Science studied in a truly scientific spirit, following out its own deductions unflinchingly to their legitimate conclusions, will always reveal the twofold aspect of things, the inner and the outer; and it is only a truncated and maimed science that refuses to recognize both.

The study of the material world is not Materialism, if it be allowed to progress to its legitimate issue. Materialism is that limited view of the universe which will not admit the existence of anything but mechanical effects of mechanical causes, and a system which recognizes no higher power than the physical forces of nature must logically result in having no higher ultimate appeal, than to physical force or to fraud as its alternative. I speak, of course, of the tendency of the system, not of the morality of individuals, who are often very far in advance of the systems they profess. But as we would avoid the propagation of a mode of thought whose effects history shows only too plainly; we should set ourselves to study that inner and spiritual aspect of things which is the basis of a system whose logical results are truth and love, instead of perfidy and violence.

Some of us, doubtless, have often wondered why the Heavenly Jerusalem is described in the Book of Revelations as a cube, “the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.” This is because the cube is the figure of perfect stability, and thus represents Truth, which can never be overthrown. Turn it on what side you will, it still remains the perfect cube, always standing upright; you cannot upset it. This figure, then, represents the manifestation in concrete solidity of that central life-giving energy, which is not itself any one plane but generates all planes, the planes of the above and of the below and of all four sides. But it is at the same time a city, a place of habitation; and this is because that which is “the within” is Living Spirit, which has its dwelling there. As one plane of the cube implies all the other planes and also “the within”, so any plane of manifestation implies the others and also that “within”, which generates them all.

Now, if we would make any progress in the spiritual side of science – and every department of science has its spiritual side – we must always keep our minds fixed upon this “innermost within”, which contains the potential of all outward manifestation, the “fourth dimension” – which generates the cube; and our common forms of speech show how intuitively we do this. We speak of the spirit in which an act is done, of entering into the spirit of a game, of the spirit of the time, and so on. Everywhere our intuition points out the spirit as the true essence of things; and it is only when we commence arguing about them from without, instead of from within, that our true perception of their nature is lost.

The scientific study of spirit consists in following up intelligently and according to definite method, the same principle that now only flashes upon us at intervals fitfully and vaguely. When we once realize that this universal and unlimited power of spirit is at the root of all things and of ourselves also, then we have obtained the key to the whole position; and, however far we may carry our studies in spiritual science, we shall nowhere find anything else but particular developments of this one universal principle: “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.””

The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward 1921

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