Precedent is not Principle
 
Socrates stated, “When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations.  But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward…My journey revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom.  And that life has always been, and will always be arising in Mystery.”

Many of the ancient philosophers that we still hold in high regard today stated that wisdom is knowing when you don’t know.  “Wisest is he who knows he knows not.”  The reasoning behind this concept is that when we look with limited perception we might not fully understand that which we gaze upon.  Generally when we believe we know everything we gaze with that same perception categorizing input based on our own belief system.

Of course we might say that isn’t it only our own perception that should be important?  To some degree that is true.  Regarding attaining the highest wisdom inherent in that which confronts us, perhaps not.

When one uses intuitive power rather than analytic power, a broader spectrum of wisdom will open to the seeker.  Gathering information using just our five senses certainly brings knowledge.  Knowledge is not Wisdom.  Deeper mastery of science and other subjects lies in the intuitive apperception of the principles behind science. 

Precedent is not Principle.  Because something has taken place in our observation does not necessarily mean that what we experience is the ultimate reality or sole aspects of that which we perceive.  When an individual, group, culture or society believes something and assumes it as law, then all their energies and beliefs sustain and create that law.   The continual process of belief causes a fixation to intensify and crystalize.

Attitudes of individuals grow, nourish and establish boundaries within the mental field.  ‘Small children retain a capacity to penetrate dimensions along with primitive people who have not locked into the mental fields that have been constructed.  Primitive people are close to nature and not conditioned by sophisticated intellectualism.

We have directed and trained our faculties only in one analytical direction.  Our senses do not take in “a full area that they might be able to uncover, had they received adequate instruction.”

We generally make our discoveries through physical appearance and ignore the deeper psychic and etheric fields that encompass physical objects.  We have the ability to perceive things either according to their outward natures or according to their inner nature.

We perceive outward things by our own outward senses and we can perceive inward things by our inward senses.

“The heart has eyes as well as the body.  The mind has ears and virtually all internal parts of people have inward equivalent senses of cognition.”

“By observation we behold things lighted, by intuition we behold things self-luminous.”  Through intuition we can behold the true inner light of all creatures and substances.  In truth, outwardly we see only the reflection of light upon things because they are visible to our outward sight. 

The ancients believed there are 3 suns that bestow life according to their own natures.  “The physical sun warms and reveals body.  The psychic sun reveals and nourishes the soul and the spiritual or root sun, nourishes and sustains spirit.” 

“The Universe in its totality is suspended in an infinite extent of spiritual life-light.  All things exist within this light.  It permeates space mingling with spiritual light of other suns and cosmic centers in all existence.  The sea of Eternal Light is the Luminous Nature of God.”

Thinking, moving, sharing, observing and expressing from the highest light within ourselves opens up greater senses of awareness and a greater appreciation for our gift of life.

So said the ancients.

In love, with love and through love.

Imagination and Will

Imagination is a person moving away from himself, out of the common place, escaping boundaries and barriers or tradition and authority.

Will is the genii of Aladdin’s lamp.  Whenever the Will can be brought into activity, invisible changes take place that lead into physical reality.   When Will is under discipline, then all changes are possible.  The ancients believed that all wonders in nature are the work of Divine Will.

“In the normal exercise of our daily life, we are continuously calling upon some phase of the Will, we cannot move without it, we cannot act without its motivation.”

All vortices and foci in the magnetic fields that surround us can be influenced by the exercise of our human Will.  We are bathed in fields of magnetic and electric currents that are responsible for our existence.

Our Will is not as sharp as it might be because we use it merely in the gratification of whims and passing interests.  When Will is used and cultivated in its highest potential, all things become possible.  When we add imagination to Will, the rates of vibrations can be altered and we can move from one level of manifestation to another.

Imagination, or ‘Creative Will,’ can refine magnetic currents, specializing them, detailing them and enhance their quality and effect.  Using Creative Will, backed by sufficient wisdom, holding the correct attitude, proper vibrational currents can be stimulated and become medicinal.

There is a complete science for the control of magnetic currents by the Will.  A strong desire, a prayerful attitude and deep love will also suffice to accomplish what is desired.

The average person cannot hold a thought and this leads to comparatively little exchange or control of the magnetic currents.  When we develop the visualization intensity through imagination as to what we want to accomplish, we can control the flow of energy for ourselves or others who might need our assistance.

Extend your feelers, trust your touch, participate in all flights of your imagination and be not afraid of your own sensitivities.

Every stage of people’s progress is made through the exercise of one’s imagination and feeling.  By creating an ‘ideal’ within our mental sphere we can feel ourselves into this ‘ideal image’ till we become one and the same with it.

Fill your images with love and walk in an attitude of creating the highest and best in all of your thoughts and actions.

No great creative thinker, scientist or philosopher is deficient in imagination.

“If we can dream true, we are true.  If we can imagine correctly (that is of the world of the human soul and of the universal mystery), then indeed we possess those things which we have imagined.”

The training of imagination is a sacred art and was of the highest importance to the philosophers and mystics of old.

With love, in love and through love to you.