Food For Thought

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A Prayer For Mother’s Day

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Today is Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is a modern celebration that has its origin in North America. It honours our own mother, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers in society in general. This day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May.

The celebration of Mother’s Day began in the United States in the early twentieth century and is not related to the many festivities of mothers and motherhood that have been part of our world over thousands of years, such as the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria or the Christian Mothering Sunday celebration, which originally celebrated the church as the mother of humankind, not motherhood in general. Despite this, in some countries Mother’s Day has become synonymous with these older traditions.

Father/Mother in Heaven
Whose love is Divine,
Thanks for the love
Of a mother like mine.

In Thy great mercy
Look down from above
And grant my dear mother
The gift of Your love.

And all through the year,
Whatever betide her,
Assure her each day
That you are with her.

Father/Mother in Heaven,
Please show me the way
To lighten her tasks
And brighten her day.

And bless her dear heart
With the ability to see
That her love means more
Than the world to me.

Helen Steiner Rice
Adapted by Aquarius

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Our loving thoughts and prayers go to the Great Mother of all life to bless those who once were our mothers and are now enjoying their well earned rest in the world of spirit.

From ‘A Celebration Of Mothers’

Happy Mother’s Day.

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What Is Hope?

When things go wrong, as they sometime will,
The optimist thinks: ‘They’ll come right again!’,
While the pessimist grumbles: ‘It’ll only get worse!’
And as our thoughts and beliefs create our earthly reality,
Both forecasts duly come true.
Each one nodes sagely: ‘I told you so!’
That’s why when times are hard,
Positive thinkers say to themselves:
‘Things will get better and become easier again.’
And although this may take time,
They invariably do.

What then is hope?
It is not the closing of one’s eyes to
Difficulties, risks and possible failures,
But an inner trusting that:
If we fail now, we shall not do so forever.
If we get hurt, we shall be healed.
If we make mistakes, we shall learn something,
And that will eventually move us on to higher learning.

Hope is the awareness of our innermost soul that
Life is good and the power of love is the most powerful
Force in the whole of Creation that is capable
Of straightening all crooked corners and, if we but ask,
Helps us to make good and heal everything,
Especially our most difficult situations and relationships.

Hope is an inner knowing that in God’s time, not ours,
All things on the Earth plane will come right;
That our present existence can be likened to
A huge stage and that one of these days
We shall step in front of the curtain
Behind we have been acting for such a long time.
Like performers we shall then stand
In the world of light before a friendly audience
Of Angels and Masters, friends and helpers.

Every participant of the comedy of errors that is Earth life,
Eventually feels the need to nail the desires of their small self
To the cross of consciousness of the Earth.
At the end of their present lifetime,
Wise ones, who have willingly submitted themselves
To Saturn’s demands and shown the restraint of self-discipline
And self-mastery in all their relationships,
Have left behind good and healed ones only.
Life itself present them with a leaving certificate
That sets them free from the need of requiring
Further lessons on the Earth.

Like in earthly schools, their teachers,
In this case the Angels,
Move the wise ones on to increasingly elevated
Levels of existence and studies.
And that is how all human souls,
In the fullness of time, take their final bows.

United in friendship and love,
Smilingly we reach out for each other and, holding hands,
We enjoy the roar of applause that greets us,
Although in truth we are much more eager to see
Where the Angels now wish to lead us.

Having surrendered our small earthly self to our Highest Self,
In the shelter of God’s mighty wings,
In all Eternity we shall serenely venture forth,
Never to be frightened or lonely again.

‘I will abide in Thy tabernacle forever.
‘I will make my refuge the shadow of Thy wings.’
Psalm 61:4

Recommended Reading:

‘The Legend Of Pandora’s Box’
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From ‘Wisdom For Creating The Relationships Of Our Dreams’


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Death As Teacher
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In God’s eyes each one of us is special, unique and precious, but in spite of this it is good to know that we have many things in common with everybody else. For example, no matter where we were born and which race we belong to, there is only one way of coming into this life, for departing from it again and of where to go after leaving the Earth plane. The thought that death is inevitably the end of every human lifespan on the Earth provides our lives with a certain order and structure.

Every death in our surroundings serves as a reminder of our own mortality and some scary questions are bound to rear their heads, for example: ‘What if it were me lying there? When will it be my turn? How will I go?’ and so forth. And the way people sometimes are very suddenly and unexpectedly taken away from our midst drives home the point that life is a precious gift that can easily be taken from us again. This reveals to us the fragility and temporariness of everyone’s earthly existence.

Through death life itself teaches us to bend our knees before the Highest. This means the love and wisdom of the Great Mother, who knows the exact moment of our birth and departure from this plane of life, and the power and might of the Great Father, who through Her brings us into being with the help of an earthly set of parents, at precisely the right moment. It is the same power that takes us out of Earth life again at the predestined time, which was written in the great book of life a long time before we ever put in our present appearance in physicality. What greater wonder and miracle than this could there be anywhere? Just think, this is only the beginning and the scratching of the surface of the mystery of our being!

For many of us this lifetime is going to be an extra special one, because anyone who is ready to listen to what the voice of their spirit and soul has to say, God and the Angels are glad to show them how to return into the conscious awareness of their true nature and origin. When this happens we gradually become aware of our true nature again and that in truth we are beings of love, created by love. We then realise that the higher purpose of each new lifetime on Earth always has been to present us with fresh opportunities for learning how to love wisely, the way God loves us, totally and unconditionally. This shows us that what is commonly thought of love in earthly life is usually emotional love. And if we are really honest with ourselves, it is probably not love at all, but an expression of needfulness and emotional dependence, no more and no less.

As we know by now, every experience can teach us something, and it makes no difference whether on the surface of life something appears to be good or bad. The knowledge of this helps our earthly self to recognise that our life and all life is by no means chaotic, that everything is organised in a certain way and that there is a purpose and a higher meaning to Earth life and that every human soul has a high and holy destiny.

We may often still fail to grasp the purpose of the events in our lives. But this is no tragedy because we now appreciate that all we need to do is listen to the small still voice of consciousness, the wise one within, our intuition, and it will tell us what the Universe and our Highest or God Self is trying to convey to us through our experiences. The understanding of the processes and the higher purpose of life that is gradually developing in our consciousness helps us to make sense of our present existence and eases the pain when the death of a loved one comes round.

For as long as our eyes were focussed purely on the material world and its requirements, the way they did in the past, the meaning behind life’s major lessons remained a closed book to us. As a result, whenever we had to endure and work our way through difficult and traumatic times, we could do nothing but come to the conclusion that life had dealt us a particularly rough deal. This changes profoundly with the awakening awareness that there are other dimensions of us and our world, that nothing in anyone’s life happens perchance and that every experience has a specific meaning and only ever comes our way to fulfil the higher purpose of teaching us something.

When this understanding has been found and someone goes from us – even if it happens suddenly and in tragic circumstances – our suffering is no longer as intense as it once used to be. The pain of parting is eased by the fact that in truth there is no death, that our loved one has merely moved into another dimension of life and still loves us the way he/she always did. Their love is likely to deepen and increase because their vision is no longer clouded by earthly concerns, which all too often gets into the way of relationship on the Earth plane. The wise ones in charge of us in the world of light smile and rejoice each time this happens. It shows them that not only one but two of us have woken from our spiritual slumbers, the first on this side of the veil of consciousness and the second on the other.

It is everyone’s own responsibility to go in search of the messages someone’s death is trying to bring to those left behind. If, in spite of our efforts, we cannot find them, God and the Angels are glad to help – if we but ask. The deep underlying purpose of all suffering in our world is to help our soul to grow and our consciousness to expand in wisdom and understanding. Trying to get comfort and healing for the things that are painful in our lives, physically, emotionally and spiritually, in the end results in the knowledge that lights the way back home into the conscious awareness of our relationship and loving union with our Creator.

For those who are still lost in the illusion of Earth life, the moment of going down on their knees and reaching out for the blessing, healing and helping hands of the Highest forces of life also comes eventually. These hands are always reaching out to us and waiting to be called upon.

Recommended Reading:
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  [*=center]‘You Are Special’

From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’

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The Peace Of The Elements

Deep peace of the gentle Lake to you.
Deep peace of the flowing Air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet Earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining Stars to you.
Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.

A Celtic Blessing

‘Pachelbel’s Canon in D major’

From ‘Words & Prayers For Peace, Comfort & Healing’

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Today is the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] March 2105 and the Sun is moving into Aries, the sign of the uprushing fountain of life, resurrection and renewal of all life. The Sun’s entry into this sign is the day of the Spring Equinox, a time for celebrating and thanksgiving that winter is over and spring has come.

Springtime Prayer
For flowers that bloom about our feet,
For tender grass, so fresh and sweet,
For song of bird and hum of bee,
For all things fair we hear and see,
Great Spirit, Father/Mother,
We thank Thee!

For blue of stream and blue of sky,
For pleasant shade of branches high,
For fragrant air and cooling breeze,
For beauty of the blooming trees,
Great Spirit, Father/Mother,
We thank Thee!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adapted by Aquarius

Recommended Viewing:
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  [*=center]‘A Celebration Of Spring In Pictures And Sound’

From ‘Words of Wisdom For The Seasons Of The Year’

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Parents And Children
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Kahlil Gibran wrote in his poem ‘About Children’: ‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing to experience itself. Your children come through you, but they are neither of you nor from you. And although for a time, they are with you, they do not belong to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own pathway to walk and thoughts to think.’ I share this view and accept that our children are but a gift on time, and that they – the same as we ourselves – are the response of life’s yearning for growth and evolution, through real life experiences. Spiritually, our children are our sisters and brothers, and so are our parents. They too are our siblings in the great family of humankind, no more and no less, and therefore not truly our parents.

The same applies to partners and other family members who, if we were lucky or rather had karmically deserved it, once provided us with a sense of belonging and security. In spite of the fact that their spirit never really does go from us, their physical death reveals that the security we thought we had with them was part of the illusion of Earth life. Sooner or later we come to the conclusion that true security can only be found through our inner connection with higher and higher levels of life and ultimately with God, never in people and/or earthly possessions, in which we may have tried to ground ourselves. The best we as earthly parents can ever hope to achieve for the children who come through us is to create a temporary illusion of security.

Clearly then, everything that is in our lives is there to teach us something and death is no exception. Most of all it shows that nothing and no-one on the Earth plane has any real power. No matter how powerful and splendid someone may think they are, the Angel of Death – who is part of the Great Mother’s wisdom and love – calls them away at its bidding, not the one with the inflated ego – just the same as everybody else. This is a demonstration of the fact that true and lasting power never belongs to any one of us earthlings. It belongs to God alone and the hierarchy of wise ones, who have been appointed to be in charge of us and who act on the commands of those superior to them on the highest levels of live.

The Angel of Death is a group of Angels. None of them has anything in common with the images of the grim reaper we know from days gone by. The countenance of these Angels is kind and loving and they radiate nothing but love. When we are ready to leave our physical body behind, one of them comes for our spirit and soul. Taking the hand of our astral body, it wraps its wings of golden light around us and takes us to the world of light.

Sending absent or distant healing to someone who is preparing to go from this life is most beneficial. The Angels fill the person’s whole being with golden healing light and create an aura of the same around them. Any prayers that are sent from nearby and faraway places, including those from other parts of our world, add to these loving vibrations. They are a considerable help with easing the patient’s passage when for them the right moment for letting go of their earthly existence has come.

Our Guardian Angel never leaves us and shows us the way and assists us with getting re-acquainted with our old home. Having left the Earth plane, the only things that are still with us then are the soul qualities of our Christ nature we have been able to bring forth thus far. They are our only property and are of the greatest value and significance, as their development is the only way spiritual progress can be made on the evolutionary spiral of life. Anything else just holds us back.

Every new lifetime in physicality is a gift that is granted so that we should learn to rise above the downwards drag of our earthly nature’s desires, for example greed and power-seeking for personal benefit and glory. In due course every human soul is required to follow the upwards pull of their spirit and soul instead. While we are here, the physical part of us belongs to Mother Earth and everybody’s own spiritualisation assists this development for our planet. This is one of the main reasons for our presence on the Earth. And everything that happens to us is our true parents’ way of providing us with the security we always dreamed of and could never find in earthly life, simply because it doesn’t exist there.

Recommended Reading:
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  [*=center]‘The Prophet – About Children’
  [*=center]‘The Truth About Parents’
  [*=center]‘Healing Prayer For Parents And Children’
  [*=center]‘Absent Or Distant Healing’

From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’

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How We Love
Life has taught me this:
Everyday is new
And if anything is true,
All that matters when we’re through
Is how we love.

Faced with what we lack
Some things fall apart.
From the ashes new dreams start, but
All that matters to the heart is how we love.

How we love, how we love.
From the smallest act of kindness
In a world of smart and hurt,
In spite of all mistakes chances come again.
Whether we lose or win,
All that matter in the end is how we love

How we love, how we love.
I will not forget any act of kindness,
Each time I needed it so much.
We cannot always be strong
In this world of right or wrong,
But all that matters when we’ve gone
And all that mattered all along,
The only thing that remains in the end
And truly does live on –
Is how we have loved.

Beth Nielsen Chapman
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words Of Hope & Encouragement’

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The Art Of Listening

Teach me the art of listening, Great Spirit,
To my nearest and dearest:
My family and friends,
Neighbours and co-workers.
Help me to become aware that,
No matter what words anyone uses,
The underlying message always is:
‘Listen to me and accept and love me,
As the person I truly am.’

Teach me to listen, Great Spirit,
To those far from me –
To the pleas of the frightened and lost,
Lonely and forgotten,
And to the cries of the anguished.

Teach me to listen, Great Spirit,
To my own deepest, innermost needs.
Help me to become fearless enough
To trust that the small still voice of conscience
That speaks to me from my heart,
Is the voice of Your wisdom and truth.

Teach me to listen within, Great Spirit,
In busy-ness and boredom,
Certainty and doubt,
Noise and silence –
To the sound of Your beloved voice.

Teach me to listen, O Wise One within.
Now that the Age of Aquarius is with us,
And my earthly education drawing to its close,
Help me to transform all my relationships into friendships,
And to leave no unresolved issues behind,
When my departure from this plane of life has come,
Teach me to listen.

Created by Anon.
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words & Prayers For Friendship Healing’

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Stargazer’s Philosophy Behind The Divine Science

Our Character Is Our Destiny – How and Why?

Come And Share My Dreams

Had I the Heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

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If the cloths of the Heavens were mine to give, I too would spread them under your feet. Being but a stargazer and poor like the poet, all I can do is share with you my hopes and dreams for our world through the Wisdom from the Stars I have been allowed to gain access to. And so I am spreading them before you instead. Please tread softly when, by partaking from what I have to give, you walk on my dreams.

My dreams are of a peaceful world where human beings live and work together in peace and harmony. Instead of exploiting, oppressing and enslaving those around them, unselfishly they help and support each other wherever they can. All accept responsibility for themselves, each other and our world. Everybody is a wise one who has taken charge of their character and with it their own destiny and that of our world. People are tolerant and patient with each other. They have a kind and loving word not only for their nearest and dearest but for everyone, including members of other races and cultural backgrounds. Pulling in the same direction, all together we are moving forwards and upwards into an ever more peaceful and prosperous present and future.

Aquarius is the sign of siblinghood, kinship and friendship among all peoples, nations and ultimately all life. It symbolises revolution, renewal, transfiguration and transmutation. In the Age of Aquarius, now upon us, humankind’s highest hopes and aspirations personally and collectively are going to find their fulfilment, on every level of our existence. Now, imagine for a moment that we are already in the midst of this new golden age. Hunger, starvation, sickness, violence and crime are no longer known. We co-exist with honesty and integrity. Lying, cheating and corruption have long been forgotten. Religions, humankind’s age-old favourite excuse for spreading hatred and bigotry, warfare and destruction, have vanished because all on this plane of life are awake to their true nature. They have re-established their inner connection and direct link with our Creator. Hand in hand with God and the Angels all life once again moves smoothly along, the way it once did in past golden ages.

During the final assault on the peak of the spiritual mountain of being reunited with our Creator, the Angels and Masters, guides and helpers from the world of light showed us ever more peaceful and loving ways of being. They taught us that every human soul can beneficially influence the flow of their own destiny and that of our world by seriously working on the improvement of their character through bringing forth only the best and highest of our inner qualities. Thus we transformed our weaknesses into strength and further enhanced and made best possible use of the characteristics that had already been developed by us into strong and positive ones in other lifetimes.

Making this peaceful dream world into a reality on the Earth plane is why I am spreading the cloth of my dreams at your feet in this part of the Stargazer’s Astro Files. The same as all my other writings, it has been woven with many colours, lots of love and a great deal of care. All those who are willing to work with me on making our dream world into a reality on the Earth plane, I ask to proceed gently and with kindness, for you will be walking not only on my dreams but also your own. And they, in the final analysis, are the visions of God and the Angels for our whole race and our world.

We are part of God and God is part of us – we are God. The Godhead experiences itself through us and dreams its visions through us. At the same time, we are the dreamer and the dreamed. In some human souls the Great Father/Mother of all life experiences itself in great material riches of the Earth, in others it dreams of spiritual wealth and hopes for the freedom and ultimate release from the shackles of our planet in the Age of Aquarius. One dream is not better than any other. Each is merely a different kind of learning and our Creator getting to know different aspects of Itself.

Recommended Reading:
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  [*=center]‘Climbing The Spiritual Mountain & Living Creatively’
  [*=center]‘Transforming Weaknesses Into Strengths’
  [*=center]‘The Godhead Dreams Through Us’
  [*=center]‘My Thoughts Are Not Like Your Thoughts’

From ‘The Astro Files Philosophy’

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Trust
Lead, kindly light,
Amid the encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on.
The night is dark
And I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on.

Keep Thou my feet.
I do not ask to see
The distant scene.
One step forward is enough for me.

It was not always thus.
I did not pray that Thou
Should lead me on.
I loved to choose and see my path,
But having grown wiser and older,
Lead Thou me on.

I’ve had enough of garish days,
When in spite of my fears
Pride ruled my will.
Help me forget those past years,
And lead Thou me on.

So long Thy power hath blest me,
Sure, it will still lead me on,
O’er moor and fen,
O’er crag and torrent,
Till the night has gone.

And with the morn, the Angel faces smile,
Which I have always loved,
And only thought I’d lost for a while.

Anon.
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words & Prayers For Peace, Comfort & Healing’

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What Is Truth?

Part A
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God’s sacred wisdom and truth were mentioned so many times in the previous chapters that you could be asking yourself: ‘What precisely is truth?’ The dictionary explains it as that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality, a quality or state of being true, and a fact or belief that is accepted as true. Surprisingly, truth is something quite flexible and as the religions of our world throughout the ages are clearly demonstrating, the things that are commonly accepted as truth are not necessarily the ultimate or God’s truth.

The reason behind this is that the spiritual development of our race has always been subject to the process of evolution, the same as everything else in the whole of Creation. Because of this the purpose of every new religion has been to gradually, one small step after another, bring us closer to the revelation of God’s eternal wisdom and truth that had to remain hidden for a very long time at the back of every one of the sacred teachings our world has ever known. This brought with it the necessity to change the perception of God’s truth from time to time. Equipped with the gift of hindsight, as we are at the time of writing this in the year 2015, it is easy to discern how each new religion emerged from those that came before, integrating the best and discarding the things that had outlived their validity and usefulness.

To teach us and our world the lessons for which we were ready at any given time, every so often new religions and belief systems had to rise on the horizon of the consciousness of the small earthly selves of our race, which in the early days was extremely limited. In spite of this, all of them to some degree contained God’s wisdom and truth, though only in small nuggets, which had to remain hidden for a very long time. This was for the simple reason that it was all we could comprehend in those days, but with the increasing spiritual maturity many have reached by now, the time has come for unearthing the spiritual gold that has been waiting for so long to reveal itself to us.

All truth comes from the same source, wherever we may find it and whoever may be its bearer. There is only one truth and that is constantly expanding. Deciding how much of it can safely be released to humankind and in which form it should be presented at any given time, is the task of the Angels around the throne of God. This is why throughout the ages many different interpretations of Gods’ truth about the creation of us and our world and our rightful place in it had to appear from time to time. Every one of our religions has tried in myths and legends, with more or less success, to bring us closer to understanding the mystery of our existence.

Various scribes down the ages acted as channels through which the Divine wisdom was transmitted into the consciousness of our race. But even if these people were reasonably highly evolved, in their time it would have been far too early to reveal the esoteric truths behind the surface words of the sacred texts that were given through them. If the revelations that came had not been masked in this manner, neither the scribes, nor their masters and least of all the general public would have been able to comprehend their true meaning in any case.

This is how it came about that the same points were made time and again in the religions of the past. Each time another one of them came into being, the points were presented in a different way. To fulfil the wise and higher purpose that was their very reason for being these religions could only ever supply us with temporary truths. Behind them God’s wisdom had to remain concealed, though with the passing of time gradually in a lighter camouflage, until the right time for their revealing had come, in the Age of Aquarius. Each new belief system that appeared was meant to take us another bit up the spiritual mountain and closer to the ultimate, God’s truth.

Now that the Age of Aquarius is with us, increasing numbers of us are sufficiently evolved to understand that if a real spiritual Master had been nailed to the cross, he would not have uttered the words: ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ There would have been no need, because this man would have been well aware that our Creator is at one with all life and therefore also with him, and that therefore it would be impossible for God to forget any one of us, never mind him, the Master on the Cross.

We too are now aware that the cross represents the oldest symbol known to our world of humankind’s earthly existence, and that the esoteric truth behind Jesus’ death on the cross is a metaphor for humankind’s small lower self on its earthly sojourns, when time and again it finds itself trapped in experiencing and learning from life in physicality. ‘Father, why have you forsaken me?’ cannot be the cry of the Christ on the cross, because He would know better if he had been there.

The man’s cry is the lament of our lower earthly part, when we find ourselves nailed to the cross of Earth life and have to endure the suffering that is the result of the Karma we ourselves created in previous lifetimes, as yet unaware of what we were doing. It takes a long time until the small lower self comes to terms with the fact that God never leaves any one of us, no matter how depraved someone becomes in any of their lifetimes. God is part of everything and therefore also of us. Because of this the Divine would never dream of leaving us. God’s eternal truth, which has for so long had to remain shielded by the surface words of the story of Jesus death on the cross, is that our Christ Self knows this and therefore would never have spoken those words of doubt and despair.

Other equally precious parts of God’s wisdom have been contained in similar manner in every one of the legends, myths and tales of our world. In the original versions of all of them God’s wisdom has been trying to speak to us about our own Divinity and how we were created by Him/Her, the Great Father/Mother of all life. To find God’s truth all one has to do is look in the right places. Alas, the original texts were transcripted many times over and human nature being what it was in the days of yore, and unfortunately to a large degree still is, they gradually became more and more distorted, misunderstood and misinterpreted, only sometimes unintentionally.

The sacred texts of the religions of the patriarchy very quickly developed into the tools of their power-crazed priesthoods for the submission and exploitation of the masses and in particular the suppression of the feminine principle. None of it happened against the will of God – nothing in the whole of Creation ever does. Everything that took place was part of the plan for the development of the masculine forces of our race. Every bit of power we were allowed to wield in our lifetimes as men in the name of the patriarchy and the resulting misdemeanours were permitted by the wise ones on the Highest levels of life on the principle of ‘Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves in the end.’ And that indeed is what’s happening now.

Recommended Reading:
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• ‘The Symbolism Of The Cross’
• ‘On The Wings Of God’s Truth’

Part A – ‘The Truth About Truth’
Part B – ‘What Is God?’
Part C ‘Do Things Work Even If I Don’t Believe In Them?’

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From ‘Our World In Transition’

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What Is Truth?

Part B

Thou Shalt Not Kill!
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In my view, it does not make any difference whether a man by the name of Jesus ever walked the Earth or not. God’s truth, contained in the Jesus tale since it first came into being, is that we too are half human and half God just like the person portrayed in this story. The figure of the Master was given to us as a metaphor for the aspect of our own inner Christ nature. All of us, without exception, possess this part. For a very long time it slumbers in the deepest innermost recesses of our being, ready do awaken and come fully alive when the small earthly self has reached the right evolutionary level.

Jesus represents our Highest, God or Christ Self. This is the only one in the whole of Creation who can save us in the end. Our small earthly self is its counterpart and our Highest Self alone is capable of showing us how we ourselves can make good and redeem every one of our sins. The highest duty that has to be met by every earthling in the fullness of time is to create inner and outer peace and harmony between the different aspects of their own nature. This is our contribution towards restoring the balance of our world in thoughts, words and actions.

The purpose of every new religion that came into being was to provide humankind a different pathway and a temporary walking aid up the spiritual mountain, no more and no less. The esoteric meaning behind all their teachings invariably contained two hidden messages, the first one tells us that every one of us is one of God’s children of the Earth. The second one is that in the course of many incarnations on our present level of existence, we are in this life to enable us to evolve from being mere earthlings, who are totally unaware of their true nature into the conscious awareness of their Divine origin and inheritance.

The coming of Christianity brought us the Jesus legend and the message that our Creator is a God of love and light. This brought us demands like ‘Love one another! And love thy neighbour as you love thyself!’ Because the three Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam evolved from the same roots and each other, contain the Old Testament with its command: ‘Thou shalt not kill!’ The Hebrew Bible contains numerous prohibitions against unlawful killing, but also allows for justified killing in the context of warfare, capital punishment, and self-defence. With great gusto this was carried forward into the other two religions and the warmongering continued unhindered and growing ever more cruel and devastating.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are part of the religions of the patriarchy. The words of their sacred texts were written by men for men and specifically aimed at the suppression of the wisdom and truth of the feminine. In its time this was right for teaching our race what the over-development of the masculine at the expense and exclusion of the feminine would lead to. Everywhere in our world the results are clearly visible.

One look at our history shows how each new religion that came into being provided a Heaven-sent excuse and ever fresh opportunities for the patriarchal belief systems to go to war against each other. Preaching love and peace and making hatred and war. The priests on both sides of the conflict blessing the weapons and praying for the victory of their side. None of the patriarchal religions ever stopped its most devout followers of all nations to go to war, to kill and maim – supposedly with God’s blessings. How much more hypocritical can anyone be?

While in one part of our world astronomical sums are annually spent on weapons to destroy each other that are becoming ever more sophisticated and destructive, in other countries millions of our siblings in the human family of life have no clean water to drink, food to eat and are starving. A world out of balance created by the patriarchy in pursuit of power and glory. The task of all healers and lightbringers is to each do our best to remedy this situation by allowing the feminine to have its say in the running of our world, whenever a possibility for it arises. Instead of following in the footsteps of the masculine, women are required to take action that is in keeping with their softer and more caring feminine nature.

This does not mean a return to the matriarchy of past ages, which was as unbalanced as the patriarchy is in many parts of our world to this day. Having been through both, we are ready the new experience of the feminine and masculine, in both genders, working together as equal partners. It is no longer a situation of men against women and women against men, but both of them working together as equal partners. When each is in possession and command of every aspect of their nature, therefore whole and holy, and therefore seeking to labour hand in hand with God and the Angels, true and lasting peace will come to our world much more quickly and easily than we can imagine now.

In this our new world everybody will be giving of their best and co-operating in peace and harmony with each other for the highest good and the greatest joy of all. It cannot be achieved by women who behave like men and act the part of the warmonger in pursuit of fame and glory, power and the amassing of ever more material wealth at the expense of spiritual gain and growth. To tone down their male aggressiveness and arrogance, wise men tune into the caring and nurturing aspect of their own inner woman and bring it into play. Wise women use their masculine side for stepping forward and claiming their birthright to bring their love and wisdom to their role as equal partners of the masculine into the running of our world. In all of us the ‘I am God’s gift to the world’ syndrome can easily be overcome by adding ‘So is everybody else’.

Now that ever more of us are becoming aware that nobody is all woman or man, the final goal of a balanced and healed world that is enjoying a true and lasting peace is moving into our reach. A world where the material and spiritual aspects co-operate, one supporting and complementing the other, instead of struggling against each other. Humankind was created so this could be achieved in the days when our wrestling with physicality and its demands are finally over and done with. This can only be achieved through the realisation of our own Divinity. For the awakened ones God needs to become an inner reality and an aspect of their own nature.

Through our inner and outer behaviour we have to prove to the wise ones in charge of us that we are evolving into ever more God-like beings, who instead of thinking of God as a man and an outer manifestation that in truth only ever existed in the form of a myth. We now realise that Jesus is a metaphor that stands for the God side of everybody’s own nature, which is love. Only when we respect and honour this aspect of ourselves as well as of everyone else, are we true to it.

In this manner each one of us has their contribution to make towards taking all of us, together and individually, step by step higher up the slope of the spiritual mountain, until even the last one of us is once more fully and consciously aware of God’s true nature and their own. Love is the only key that can unlock the gates of Heaven for any of us, because love is the law of life that opens the inner doors to genuine, everlasting and continuing spiritual growth. On this plane of life it is one of the easiest things to talk about love and to say: ‘Love one another’. Acting upon it, however, is something very different. In the end it expresses itself quite naturally as friendliness and tolerance. When finally our whole being has evolved into one loving entity, acting with kindness and consideration, compassion and love to all we meet happens quite naturally.

From ‘Our World In Transition’

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What Is Truth?

Part C

Where Do Our Religions Come From?
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Looking at the multitude of belief systems of our world in the past and present, one cannot help wondering how they all came into being. This theme has been dealt with extensively in various parts of my jottings, for example in ‘Astrology – Not A Belief System’, ‘The Religion Of The New Age’, as well as ‘The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle Of Life’ and ‘God’s Chosen People’. For more details please follow the links here or those at the end of this chapter. May it suffice to say here that none of the religions of our world appeared out of nowhere and that they all evolved from each other.

The first religion brought us the knowledge that all of us are the children of the Great Father/Mother of life. It taught us that we had once been released from our Creator’s loving heart and sent on an evolutionary journey of exploration and discovery. Lifetime after lifetime spent in earthly life is but one of the phases of our development. When this chapter has been completed, the memory of God’s true nature and our own reawakens in us. It was planted into the deepest recesses of every individual spirit and soul’s memory, as well as that of our whole race, at the moment of our release from the source of our being.

This memory has accompanied all of us down the ages, up to the evolutionary point we have reached now: the Age of Aquarius. This is going to be an age of wisdom and truth in which the recognition of God’s true nature and our own will gradually come alive in ever more of us, and the ultimate purpose of our creation as young Gods in the making is making itself known. On our way to this recognition, when our small earthly self at long last recognises what Earth life is about and that all our trials and tribulations have always served a wise and higher purpose, and as a deep inner faith begins to take root in us, our thinking and behaviour becomes more positive.

On the inner level we are all one and influence each other. As a result of this, without being aware that something like this is happening, our newly won trust in life radiates from us into those in our environment, and from there into the heart and soul of our whole world. Souls in pursuit of wisdom and understanding emanate a light that impresses itself on the etheric around them. These people create an atmosphere around them that is filled with the vibrations and the colouring of the beauty of their souls. This is enhanced by the rays they naturally draw to wherever they may be.

Being a spark of the Divine, every soul has a light. In our young and inexperienced state, it is just a low gleam, but the more highly evolved we become the more bright and radiant it grows. As soon as a light reaches a degree of radiance, it attracts other lights into its orbit. The wise ones on the higher and highest levels of life are constantly watching us and our lights. The higher ranks of our friends and helpers in the world of spirit are supervising every step we make, without interfering with us. As soon as they spot that someone’s light is beginning to radiate more brightly, their power and light is attracted to it.

In this fashion each one of us gradually moves forwards and upwards on our pathway through life. At a certain point one of the Masters or even an Angel takes over the showing of the way and provides us with the guidance and special protection we need against unwanted influences, from within and without, which otherwise would interfere with the special mission we have agreed to carry out, before we entered into this lifetime. Whenever one of us asks for the assistance and support of these wise ones, they are happy to show us where to go, what to do and say. We then feel instinctively drawn to what they wish to bring to our attention and their instructions come to us intuitively. You can read more about the special mission each one of us has come to carry out by following the link to ‘You Are Special’ below.

As we spiritually progress on the evolutionary spiral of life, we gradually get to know the different planes on which we are now functioning. The more the energies of the lower and Highest Self mingle and eventually become one, the more we benefit from it not only during meditations and other quiet spiritual times, but also in everyday life. The lower mental plane of Earth life is somewhat cold, detached and isolated, but the higher mental plane is much kinder and more gentle than its earthly counterpart. The most beautiful conditions exist on the higher mental plane, where the truth and beauty of the Great Spirit’s love and wisdom is experienced in harmonious and loving ways. During this process the highlands of Heaven are created on the Earth and another small part of God’s kingdom established on our planet.

Recommended Reading:
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  [*=center]‘You Are Special’

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  [*=center]‘Astrology – Not A Belief System’

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  [*=center]‘The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle Of Life’
  [*=center]‘The Religion Of The New Age’
  [*=center]‘God’s Chosen People’

From ‘Our World In Transition’

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Created In God’s Image

Great Spirit, Father/Mother of all life,
You created us in Your image and placed us on the Earth,
So that in the course of many lifetimes
We should evolve and grow ever more like You.
Your powers are also in us,
Please show us how to master and handle
Them safely and responsibly,
Following Your will and wishes, not ours.

You granted us the gift of our present lifetime,
So our earthly self can at last become aware of its true nature.
The wisdom of the Mother’s love from time to time gave us
New myths and legends that brought us ever closer to this discovery.
This included the tales like the ones of Uranus and Gaia,
The Lords Krishna and Buddha,
Abraham and Moses, Jesus and the Virgin Mary,
And many others whose traces are lost in the mists of time.

The latest one, the Jesus legend, you gave us as a metaphor
And to illustrate all human soul’s predestined pathway through life.
It reveals to us the initiations all of us have to experience,
To evolve into a Master and a Christed,
Each in their own right.
Through the death of the man on the cross
You showed us that our life, too,
Is an absolute continuum
That has neither beginning nor end.

For all these things we give thanks and praise to You,
Because now the Spirit of the Universal Christ,
Your only born Son/Daughter, is calling all of us
To make the Jesus story a reality in earthly life
By carrying out the work
For which You created us and brought us into being,
In the first place and now into our present existence.

You are our true Father/Mother and the spark of
The Christ spirit is stirring from its slumbers
And coming alive in ever more human hearts.
In Your presence and Your holy name,
We enter into our mediations and quiet reflections
On the beauty and wonder of Your Creation
And what great honour it is to be allowed
To take part in it.

You are the Source of all inspiration
And we pray that all our thoughts and ideas
Should have their origin in You
And be for the highest good and the greatest joy of all.
Please show us ways of conducting the gift of life
You have bestowed upon us to worship and adore You,
Your love and Your glory,
So that enriched with the learning of all our lifetimes,
We return into the conscious awareness
Of our oneness with You.

Amen

From ‘Our World In Transition’

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Teach Me To Listen

Great Spirit, teach me to listen to Your voice.
I hear it in everything, as much in
The sound of the wind in the trees and the falling rain,
As the song of the birds and the call of the seagulls.
The haunting sound of the foghorn in the bay,
The crashing of waves that hit the shore,
The roaring of surf and rumble of traffic in the distance.
All these things are the sound of You.
They are part of the song of life
You are constantly composing for us.

In the wailing cry of each newborn child
I hear Your cry of joy for another human soul
Being released from its unconscious existence
In the darkness of the womb of time into Earth life,
Where for a time it will no longer be aware
Of Your true nature and its own.
You are granting this child the gift of another lifetime
That will be filled with the promise of coming closer
To the light of consciousness and a renewed understanding
Of the purpose and meaning of its existence.

In the last sighs of those who are passing from the earthly plane
I listen to the joy of their returning to their true home
And into the awareness of their Divinity and eternal reality.
At the same time I hear Your relief about another of us,
Who has fulfilled the purpose of their present lifetime and who,
Hand in hand with the Angel of Death
Safely walks home into the world of spirit and light.

I hear You in the voices of my brothers and sisters,
In their talking, laughing and singing,
As much as in their sobbing and weeping.
I listen to You in the murmurings of
My own small still voice of conscience,
Who dwells in my heart and
And speaks to me Your words of wisdom, truth and love,
And who, whenever I feel frightened, lost and lonely,
Reassures me and tells me what to do.

I hear Your voice
In the barking of a dog and the mewing of a cat,
In the sound of a blow from a workman’s hammer,
And in the whining of aircraft engines in the sky above me.
In them I see You looking with pride onto us,
Your beloved children of the Earth, how we with Your help,
Are creating the technological wonders of our world,
And I thank You for the wealth of ideas You are giving us,
So that bit by bit we can make our world a better place for all.

Teach us how to use all Your gifts
For the highest good and the greatest joy of all life forms,
Who share Your precious jewel, Mother Earth, with us.
Guide and protect us against the destructive urges of
Our race’s lower nature, so that ever more of us
Willingly and lovingly serve You whilst resting securely
In the knowledge that we and or world
Will forever be safe in Your loving hands.

Amen

From ‘Words & Prayers For Friendship Healing’

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Call Me By My True Names

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow
Or that I have never been,
As every day I newly arrive.
When you look deeply you will discover how
I newly arrive in every moment.
I am the buds on a spring branch,
The tiny bird with fragile wings,
Learning to sing and fly while still in the nest.
I am the caterpillar in the heart of a flower
And the jewel that hides in a stone.

I arrive so that I may experience myself
Through laughing and crying,
Fearing and hoping.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
Death of all living things.

I am the mayfly that metamorphoses on the surface of the river,
And I am the bird which, when spring comes,
Arrives in time to be nourished by the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond
And I am the grass-snake who,
Approaching in silence, devours the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
My legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
I am as much in the arms merchant who sells deadly
Weapons to countries worldwide,
As the victims they kill and maim.
I am the little refugee girl on a small boat who,
After having been raped by a sea pirate
Throws herself into the ocean and drowns,

But I am also the pirate whose heart cannot respect and love
Because his inner eyes have not yet opened.
I am a member of the politburo,
Who holds more power in his hands than is good for him
And I am the man who redeems his Karmic debts
By dying in one of this man’s forced labour camps.

My joy is like spring.
Its warmth makes flowers bloom in all walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears,
So great that it fills all the oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
So I can hear all my cries and laughs at once
And recognise that my joy and pain are one,
So at long last I re-awaken to my true nature
And in my heart the door of compassion opens.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk and Peace Activist
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words & Prayers For Peace, Comfort & Healing’

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The Tree Of Life

Yggdrasil

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‘The concept of a tree of life as a many-branched tree is an illustration of the idea that all life on Earth is related. It has been used in mythology, religions and philosophies, as well as science. A tree of life is a motif in various world theologies, mythologies, and philosophies. It is a mystical concept that points out the interconnectedness of all life on our planet and a metaphor for the common descent of all life from the One in the evolutionary sense.’ From ‘The Mythology Of The Tree Of Life’

The tree of life of the Norse religion is called Yggdrasil. It represents the world and is sometimes considered to be a yew or an ash tree. Extensive lore surrounds this tree. Accounts have survived of Germanic tribes who honoured sacred trees within their societies, for example Thor’s oak, sacred groves, the sacred tree at Uppsala and the wooden Irminsul pillar. An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil appears in the Icelandic Prose ‘The Edda’ by Oluf Olufsen Bagge.

I am the root, I am the tree.
I am the soul of harmony.

I am the leaf. I am the flower.
I am the moment and the hour.

I am all-life and transient death.
I am the all-sustaining breath.

I am the Spring. I am the Fall.
I am the One, the source of all.

And though the Ash of Earth declines,
The wind of changes screams and whines,

My Will is limitless and strong.
My say: Eternal Summer’s song.

On the deepest, innermost level of life,
Hand in hand with God and the Angels,
Yggdrasil, the sacred tree of life is healing,
And all life and lifeforms with it,
From the lowest to the Highest
And from the Highest back to the lowest.
The human race and our whole world are healing with it,
And so is every aspect of my being .

Pauline Brehony
Last verse by Aquarius

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Because our thoughts and words create our reality on the inner level of life and in due course manifests itself on the outer plane, you might like to include the last verse in your daily prayers.

From ‘Words Of Wisdom & Healing From The Tree Of Life’

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A Tribute To Yggdrasil

I bring this, like a basket of my good graces,
I set it at the base of the greatest ash tree.
What names have burned and turned this tree to ash?
Odin, for one.

As I look up, I catch glimpses of stars and water drops.
Faith in the old ones above is telling me that
There are wells in the Heavens,
That this tree connects with all worlds
And that I am at its apex,
Alive and well to be able to say this.

Grow on, Yggdrasil.
Your roots reach deeper than I care to go.
I pray don’t take me down to Níðhöggr.
The serpent’s wrath is something I must still my soul for.
But at this time my spirit is teeming
With the waters that flow from the Heavens
Down your trunk into your roots and my mind.

Yggdrasil, a living pyre to the ashen old and bold ones.
The coldest nights usher its leaves to your doorstep.
The hottest days bring you a thirst for its eternal wells
Of God’s sacred wisdom and truth.
May you some day evolve into one of the wells
That nurture Yggdrasil.

Anon.
Edited by Aquarius

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What miracle is this?
This giant tree stands ten thousand feet high
And reaches deep into the ground.
Its roots must hold the sky.

Anon.
Edited by Aquarius


Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Tree Of Life’
• ‘The Mythology Of The Tree Of Life’

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The Beauty, Wonder And Magic Of Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the Earth’s sweet flowing breast.

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts its leafy arms to pray.

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in its hair.

Upon whose blossom snow has lain
And who intimately lives with rain.

Poems were made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

Recommended Viewing:
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From ‘Words Of Wisdom & Healing From The Tree Of Life’

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By The Will And The Grace Of God
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As sparks of the Divine and children of God, all characteristics of our Creator are also in us. Each one of us is a chip off the old block – if that isn’t too disrespectful an expression. As above, so below. Darkness and light, positive and negative, masculine and feminine, higher and lower aspects of our nature, are all in God and therefore also in us. Although on the surface of life some people appear to be all good or bad, do not allow appearances to deceive you – we all have everything within.

The Earth is one of our training grounds and it is the will of the God – which in this context means the Great Father/Mother of all life – that each one of us has to take part in every one of the experiences the grand panorama of this existence has to offer. This is the way the Highest is teaching us to differentiate between opposing forces in the whole of Creation and therefore in us, i.e. good and evil, right and wrong, truth and lies, and so forth. All these things have always been ruled by God’s will and power, and our task as young Gods in the making is to learn how to control and master these different aspects of our nature.

Earth life is a school and the education it provides for each one of us is only complete when we have developed a thorough grasp of all its subjects. The human evolutionary journey takes all of us without exception from experiencing the lowest levels of existence and eventually takes us up to the highest. At some stage every human soul has to walk a pathway that takes it down to utterly evil and, to create the necessary balance, subsequently completely good. Yet, no matter how dark and gruesome some of our lessons may turn out to be, there isn’t one from which the grace of God will not eventually release us and return us into the conscious awareness of our Christ nature, our true nature which is nothing but love. The story of the resurrection of the Jesus myth describes this process.

The lifepath of people like Gandhi and Hitler is typical of the juxtaposition of good and evil. Isn’t it reassuring to know that the most recent lifetime of each of these two souls – the same as everybody else’s – has only been one of many. There is no doubt in my mind that both men, each in their own way, will be offered as many opportunities as they require for the redemption of the Karma they created in the lifetime we are familiar with. To shoulder the responsibility of the kind of Karma they created is surely a sign these two men were old and experienced souls.

To enable us to get everything that has happened and still does on this plane of life into the proper perspective, the Universe is now granting us the gift of a renewed understanding of the spiritual concepts that lie behind all life on our planet and elsewhere. Having found a measure of it, wise ones refuse to sit in judgement over anyone, for the simple reason that they have no way of knowing a person’s Karma, the lessons they are learning and the special mission they may have agreed to fulfil. The wise ones know that all of us are like actors who, before coming into our present lifetime, have promised to take on a role and to play it to the best of our ability.

Wise ones are aware that nothing exists outside the will of God. Therefore, even the most abominable dictators our world has ever seen, people like Hitler or Genghis Khan, just as much as their polar opposites, say Gandhi or Mother Theresa, could only appear with the help and will of the Highest. The evil and the good in them are necessary to create the balance that is always required. Through the balancing act that is constantly taking place in our world, the same as elsewhere, we and our world are taught all our lessons.

Knowing that everything in our world always serves a wise and higher purposes, which we may not yet be able to recognise, drives home the importance of learning how to go with the flow and accepting that ‘Thy will be done, not mine.’ When people have spent a lifetime experiencing being evil to the core, like Hitler and Genghis Khan, balance has to created and spiritual debts paid to the full. Because of this it is highly likely that sinners will ask to spend their next earthly sojourn in a saintly fashion, like Mother Theresa or Gandhi. And if it takes a thousand lifetimes of this kind of living, even as monstrous a debt as Hitler’s and Genghis Khan’s will eventually have been paid. There is just one way the balance of our spiritual bankbook of life can be restored and that is through our own efforts.

Nothing in the whole of Creation has ever been beyond the reach of God’s will and power. When human spirits with their accompanying souls first descends into physicality, their earthly self is let loose and put fully in charge. The drives and urges of this part of our nature take us ever deeper into experiencing our lower and lowest aspects. This continues until we reach the evolutionary point when the Divine spark in our heart begins to stir from its slumber, and our Highest or God Self attempts to start guiding us from within. In the course of many lifetimes this part of our nature slowly but surely grows stronger. This continues until it finally takes over our whole being and the grace of God Him/Herself, from the very core of our own being, shows us how to walk hand in hand with the Angels, ever upwards and onwards onto the higher and ultimately the highest levels of life.

The old saying that knowledge is power is true. As soon as we are capable of using the spiritual wisdom that comes our way creatively, it can set us free. As soon as we grasp that considering one lifetime on its own will never get us anywhere, our knowledge becomes our liberator. However, for as long as our nose still remains firmly glued to the realities of Earth life and the limited horizons of its religions, God’s truth and with it the greater picture have to remain hidden to our eyes.

However, when we are beginning to awaken to our true nature we gradually become capable of rising above the concerns of Earth life by flying on the wings of God’s eternal wisdom and truth, and we recognise why it had to remain hidden for so long behind the surface words of the old sacred texts of our world. The greater picture then reveals itself to us quite clearly and with it the beauty and wonder of God’s great plan, in which all of us have their allocated space and role to play. We understand the significance of myths and legends, for example the one of Arachne, the sacred spider of Greek mythology. She is said to have been weaving the marvellous web of life since long before our race first appeared on the Earth and that she will forever continue to construct her web in all its majesty and splendour.

Our knowledge empowers us to set ourselves free from the religious slavery of the past, and it can do the same for anybody else whose time of waking up from their spiritual slumber has come. When we have become aware of or true nature and all this entails, we no longer look through a magnifying glass at anybody’s earthly personality, even when it comes to people like Ghandi and Hitler. We are doing this because we now appreciate that considering their character and behaviour for one single lifetime only will never get us anywhere in our search for God’s wisdom and truth, which as sure as houses lies behind the actions and motivations of these two men, the same as everybody else’s.

To grasp the purpose and meaning of someone’s life, we now bear in mind which kind of lessons they may have had to deal with in past lifetimes and especially their most recent one. Peering beyond the end of our noses, we ponder on what the future could be holding in store for them. That is also what we do each time we try to foresee the possible destiny of our race and our whole world, and the role each one of us individuals could be required to play in the end. We appreciate that only through considering the whole of someone’s evolutionary pathway, as well as that of our race and world as a whole, not merely over one single lifetime but countless ones, it becomes possible to find the forgiveness for ourselves and each other that is required at the end of every human spirit and soul’s earthly education.

For as long as our inner perception is closed to the higher realities of the spiritual background of life, in my view finding forgiveness that truly comes from the heart for someone is impossible. Only with the awakening of our higher nature dawns the realisation that pardoning someone for their misdeeds does not mean condoning them, only what they did. As soon as feelings like love and compassion come alive in us, we discover for ourselves why it has been said that love understands all and forgives all. When we understand and learn to love, forgiveness grows quite naturally upon hearing or reading about humankind’s suffering anywhere in our world. It then dawns on us why the Jesus legend tells us that the Master wept for the love of humankind.

This also happens to us on our road to mastering the earthly plane, because our vibrations become higher and our sensitivity to other people’s feelings increases. From time to time being moved to tears when we witness the suffering and misery human beings to this day are creating for each other is part of the road to Mastership. On such occasions something stirs inside and reminds us that in previous lifetimes we too did the things they are doing now. That’s when we feel an increasing urge to do something to alleviate humankind’s struggle and do as much as we can to bring it to its natural end.

If you are feeling this way, don’t overdo things in your eagerness to help. Quietly speak your truth, sow the seeds that are at your disposal, then step back and trust God and the Angels to do the rest. Those who are ready for what you have to give will understand. The others will follow suit when their time for it has come.

From ‘The Astro Files Philosophy’

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