I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For Yourselves And Everyone Else… All Around The World. And To Truly Love Ourselves – Inwardly First, Then Outwardly – Is To Love The Living God That Sustains Us… Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”.
Then, When We Connect With And Begin To Sincerely Love Our Own Life Streams… We Will Find It Easier… To Love And Appreciate All Life… Everywhere! For Love Is Life; And Life… Is Love! And Without The Expression Of Sincere Love In This World – Which Is The Love And Light Of The Living God… Radiating Through Each And Every One Of Us; The Beauty And Enjoyment Of Life… On This Earth As We Know It… Slowly Withers… And Fades Away. Amen… 🤗💜💜💜
Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life… 🙏🏾💞
And Y’all Be Love… 💗💗💗
“What is Constructive Idealism? It is a process whereby we strive to construct, develop and project an ideal personality on the spiritual, mental and physical rungs of human evolution. It is training, self-imposed and self-directed. Man’s immediate developmental conditions are, beyond all doubt, thought structures materialized on the physical plane, since Man is ever the reflex of his mind. Could we lift the brain-cap of a man and watch the interplay of Will, Emotion, and Intellect, we should in no time become convinced that our thought-life has never lost the grand and stern emphasis of its dignity. But it is given to us to make or mar, to raise or to lower ourselves.
Efforts to call up the resurgence of the spiritual forces that inhere in us and that are inter-affinities to the psychic realms of vibration are so many blooddrops from the core of our being, sprinkled upon fertile soil. Our reaction upon Nature determines the center and turning point of our life. This reaction is due to the action of the Free Will. The Will, is the pivotal point round which revolves the issues of destiny. Constructive Idealism then, is a life-building assimilation of the highest and the best within the reach of our mental and spiritual vision. It is from my point of view a determined effort to intensify ourselves along lines of human uplift, by a systematized application of the laws of psychology. It is the putting forth of positive effort to develop and expand our spiritual stature.
Life in this world is a gymnasium for the exercise of the will. It matters little how many years you have been here in this world. It matters little how many moments of sense enjoyment you have had. Indeed, you may be as old as Methuselah; your entire lifespan may have been enjoyable. Such things do not count. What is of vital moment is how far you have succeeded in your triumph over your lower Nature, how far your Spirituality, Firmness, Conscientiousness, Veneration, Causality, etc., are developed, how far you feel for suffering humanity, how far your Soul is on the ascendant, and your flesh is under your feet. For this last is the crown and climax of all human endeavor along right lines.
It is chastity alone that can give us a lift up from the quadrupled stage. With ordinary humanity, with even the intellectual classes – in some measure – it is a step forward and then a long stagger backwards to the animal stage. This phenomenon is so constant that the aspiring soul stops, hesitates, and then as if a douche of cold water had been poured upon it, shrivels up in fear and heaves a sigh, “O, it is impossible; It is my nature! How can I transcend it? Impossible, Impossible!” Poor Ignorant Man, how he weeps and wails. He does not know that nothing is impossible to the Divine Spirit; that there is ever a way out; that there is ever a way up, if its vision were a bit wider and better trained.
Know My Reader, what is soul-force inside of yourself, is the mighty Law of God, outside; and relief and joy are dependent upon pre-established harmony between the two, for at the center, they are One! Is it possible then? What. Self-conquest? Yes. You can conquer, even utterly crush the lower nature. If it be within range of practicability, why then is the major portion of humanity groveling in carnality. Because they do so willingly.
It is the animal soul that has fastened its grip upon them. The Higher Soul has been almost buried under coating after coating of carnal tendencies. Man has not obeyed his inmost thought, he has ever yielded to his impulses, he has had his face in a bush, and ostrich-like, he has considered himself safe. The memories of superstition, the blotted pictures of Heaven and Hell, the preacher of religious dogmas, know-nothing religions, slave-trading and slave-trading religions. The squalor of animal lust, greed, and hard selfism, and every other stripe of absurdity that stalks the land often under the cloak of religion, have so magnetized the eyes of man that he sees nothing better, higher, and purer.
Today, materialism has lost not a bit of the old emphasis of its personality, although people struggle hard to dress it up in a clean shirt and present it to the world at large, under the guise of religion. Today, more than ever, is the grim hand of the butcher clotted with gore, and shambles reek with the blood of innocent animals. The cry transpierces the heavens, yet the ears of man are hermetically sealed. Today, more than ever, does a pious demeanor cover scarlet indulgence. Indeed, Man is lifting the veil from dark proceedings, and striving to justify them to our eyes. Hence, more misery, more pain.
Is it possible then, to go beyond the lower Nature? Not to flatter the intellect by feeding it upon dirty and unclean garbage, but to expand it to the light of Reason; not to pass the lazy hour, but to press it into substantial service; not to pander to the flesh, but to render it a clean and fitting temple for the sojourn of the spirit; not to flinch from pain in creep-mouse style, but to face it resolutely, if need be, and make it yield up its last lesson, not to move along lines of least resistance, but to set the will against all else, not to wish for and accept ease, but to live and breathe for the joy of others. This line of plain-living and high thinking is a decided step out of a chalk circle of imbecility, into strong doing.
You have to develop a life-purpose; our work is our life-preserver. Remember: “Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose, it resides in the moment of transition, from a past state into a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.” You must reach out to the highest and the best within the sphere of your vision. Thus, alone can you stand out of the deep rut formed by ages of crass ignorance. Your ideal must compel your entire being. There must be tugging hard at the center of your being and earnest longing, to live up to the highest within you.
Perhaps it is the flesh that reacts so viciously upon your efforts, your doings and thinkings. Perhaps it is a hypersensitive nervous system that has dragged you on to a low plane of living. Perhaps it is a weak mind that would neither be coaxed out, nor dragged out, nor be lashed out of its chronic condition of fearfulness, general depression, sluggishness, despair and melancholy, worry, hurry and flurry, jealousy, fretfulness, and all-consuming hatred, that sees obstacles where there are none; that is so delicately hinged that a slight feather’s weight tips the beam; or a breath of air flings wide the doors to perdition and you are sent flying into the Slough of Despond. Perhaps, anxious thoughts loom large, threaten, and then destroy repose.
What a catalogue of weaknesses in human nature! Yet, is it not all fact? Morbid thoughts, impure desires, self-pity, painful introspection, continual anticipation of perpetual loss, constant dwelling on a lazy ideal, pessimism, causeless apprehensions. All these and many more are the pitiless enemies and lifelong associates of a negative, resistless, nerveless, willess cast of minds, a mind void of stamina, a character out of joint with the laws of right-living and right-thinking. Heredity, environmental conditions, emotion, and ignorance, all contribute their quota to the emasculation of man’s resistant forces. Fact is, men are as lazy as they dare to be. If they work at all, there must be a strong incentive to back up their sudden fit of activity. It is the prospect of an ease-living, lazy life, that allures them to activity. It is a long spell of active inactivity that most people want. No wonder their powers of resistance are in a state of atrophy! No wonder they land themselves in a vicious circle! Truly, most truly, has it been said that an idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
Now, reader, are you one such? I hope not. But if so, why so? Listen to one of Maeterlinck’s symbolic stories.
In the middle ages there lived a powerful man who was impressed by the fact that each wish that he had conceived had caused him years of toil, struggle, and hard exertion before it could be accomplished, and that too, when he was on the verge of failure. He could not understand why success was so hard to achieve. He thought hard and searched much. At last, he felt that there was a secret enemy that constantly antagonized him. He determined to find him out and crush him. The rugged side of life repelled him; he wished to press on to the fascinating by-ways of pleasure and ease. Life under old conditions was not worth living. This barrier removed, he could be happy. One evening while out walking he saw a man approaching him and he “intuitively identified” him, as his evil genius. He resolved to destroy him. When he came closer, his enemy was discovered as being masked so that none could see his features. “You are the man”, said he, in resolute tones, “who from my youth has been thwarting my purposes and nearly defeating me. I am resolved to kill you, and yet am constrained to give you a single chance for life. Draw, and defend yourself.” “I am at your service”, replied the stranger, as he drew his sword, “but before we fight, I want you to identify me”; upon which he drew off his mask, and the challenger found that he stood before himself.
Thought? So it is, with all of us.
Do you remember that song of Omar Khayyam’s: I sent my soul into the Invisible, some message of the afterlife to spell, and by-and-by my soul returned to me, and answered, ‘I myself, am heaven, and hell.’ There you are! Nothing could be more pointed. We men and women carry our own racks and stretch ourselves thereupon, as often as we dash up, against the Immutable Laws of God.”
Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness, by A.P. Mukerji, 1911
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