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Location: United Kingdom | The Tale Of The Brick
One day, a successful young business man was travelling down one of his neighbourhood streets. He was the proud owner of a new sports car and was going too fast. In the distance he saw some children playing between the cars parked on either side of the road. Slowing down, he could see no children nearby, but suddenly a brick flew through the air and crashed into the side of his beloved new toy. Slamming on the brakes, he reversed to the spot from which he thought the brick had been thrown.
Angrily, he jumped onto the pavement and grabbed hold of a boy who was standing there. Pushing him against the car, the man shouted: ‘What was that all about and who are you? Just what do you think you are doing? This is a brand new car and the repair of the damage your brick has caused is going to cost me lots of money. Why did you do it?’
The boy was most apologetic and pleaded: ‘I’m so sorry, mister. I just didn’t know what else to do. I threw the brick because no-one would stop and help me.’ With tears rolling down his face and dripping off his chin, he pointed to a spot just beyond a parked car. ‘I did it for my brother,’ he said. ‘He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair. On my own I’m not strong enough to lift him.’ Sobbing loudly by now, the boy asked the man: ‘Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and far too heavy for me on my own.’
Moved beyond words, the man swallowed the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. Together they hurried to the wheelchair and lifted the handicapped boy back into it. Using his fine linen handkerchief, the man dabbed at the invalid’s cuts and bruises, but he could see that everything would be fine.
‘Thank you and may God bless you,’ the boy in charge of the wheelchair gratefully said to the stranger. Too shaken for words, the man could do nothing but nod his head and watch the boy pushing his brother home. Deep in thought and very slowly he walked back to his car. Although the damage was very noticeable, he never bothered to have the dent repaired. He kept it as a constant reminder of: ‘Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!’
Our Creator, the Great Father/Mother of all life, is alive in all of us. It is the small still voice of conscience that communicates with us through the world of our feelings and whispers in our hearts. For each one of us there are times when life appears to bombard us with one brick after another. This is likely to continue until we finally slow down and start to pay attention to the lessons we have come to learn in our present lifetime and the messages the Universe is constantly trying to give us. Eventually every soul re-awakens to its true nature and begins to realise which things are truly important for us as God’s children of the Earth, and finds a set of eternal values.
We are all loved just the way we are. The living proof of this is that the Universe at all times showers us with its gifts, like food to eat and clothes to wear, flowers in spring and a new sunrise every morning. The only thing we have to do is take possession of, enjoy and be thankful for everything that is on offer. All the Universe expects from us each one of us is that we should make an effort to learn something from all our experiences, so that we may evolve and grow in wisdom and understanding of ourselves, each other and our world.
When we freely and voluntarily and with a loving heart give of ourselves and use the special talents the Highest has bestowed upon us, which may have taken many lifetimes to develop, we do our share of making our world into a better, more beautiful, harmonious and peaceful world for all. This is how our worthiness of being called a son/daughter of God reveals itself to the wise ones in charge of us.
The Great White Spirit, Father/Mother of all life, never promised us that all humankind’s days should be without pain, and that we should have laughter without sorrow and sunshine without rain. What S/He can and does give us is strength for each passing day, comfort for our tears and light for our way. Furthermore it gives an eternal assurance that each time one of us has to endure the most bitter and painful life lessons of their lives, the wise ones in the world of light, the Angels and Masters, guides, friends and helpers will always be there to accompany us and guide us safely through them.
Edited by Aquarius 2/18/2016 7:24 AM
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| Thanks Aquarius - well I would hope that everything here on the Board is prose for the soul, otherwise what is it doing here? | |
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Location: United Kingdom | How right you are, dear Ophiucus. Yet, some things are more so than others, don't you think?
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| Everything is as it is, and if it were not, it would not be so
..... was it Miranda in The Tempest whom Shakespeare had say:
'Everything is for the best, in this, the best possible of all worlds' ... [that quote may not be exactly right]?
... although to which, Groucho Marx might have said
"And who is she kidding?" [but I made that link all up]
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Location: United Kingdom | 'It's a good one. Write it down,' as one of our comedians used to say. Sorry, can't recall his name. * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | White Eagle On Trust
‘God’s plan is perfect. Why then do you allow yourself to become so anxious and worried? Nothing happens by chance, everything is ordered by Divine law. When one ‘sins’ or rather breaks spiritual law, the result is always put to good use by the Divine laws. This is how God and the Angels are constantly repairing and healing individual souls and those of the nations. And though it may seem to you that certain things happen perchance, in fact everything works together according to the Divine will. Always remember this and when you have done your best with the material that is available to you, surrender the rest to the Divine love and perfect law.’
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Location: United Kingdom | I Can See Clearly Now
For far too long the fog and mists of false beliefs, prejudices and superstitions about God’s true nature and our own, and of the purpose and meaning of our earthly existence have been clouding humankind’s vision and understanding. The spiritual wisdom and knowledge that is flowing ever more powerfully directly from the Highest levels of life into the consciousness of our world are clearing them away. And an ever more beautiful picture emerges of the bright and sunny future that indeed lies ahead of us and our world. That’s why there is every reason for our hearts and souls to rejoice and sing:
I can see clearly now, the rain has gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-shiny day.
I think I can make it now, the pain is gone.
All of the bad feelings have disappeared.
Here is the rainbow I’ve been praying for.
It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-shiny day.
Look all around, there’s nothing but blue skies.
Look straight ahead, nothing but blue.
I can see clearly now, the rain has gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-shiny day.
Johnny Nash
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Location: United Kingdom | About Time
Refuse to think of time in the earthly sense. Consider only the timelessness of Eternity and look at life from the viewpoint of your Highest immortal self, Me. Know that everything that happens in your world rests safely in My hands and is part of the Great Plan of spiritualisation and bringing forth the self-realisation that enables you to recognise yourself as part of Me and Me as part of you – that in fact you yourselves are God. This process involves you as individuals as much as your planet. Fields of exploration and adventures await you that so far lie beyond the reach of your wildest dreams. Rest assured that everything will be for your highest good and greatest joy. Good is the ultimate goal of all life. True and lasting happiness and great miracles and wonders are in store for each one of you in the conscious reunion with Me and the returning home into My loving embrace.
Your planet is the only place where the concept of time exists. In truth it is always now. There is no tomorrow and no yesterday. They are merely ideas that had to be created especially for your world, to assist you with setting boundaries and giving structure and shape to your earthly sojourns. Know that you are in Eternity and that Eternity is now, that attitude is everything and that there is no need for you to worry about tomorrow. All you will ever have is your present moment and every new one of them will always bring fresh learning opportunities for those who are ready to take advantage of them. Let tomorrow take care of itself. If they so wish, let others worry about it but refuse to join them.
Because on the inner level of life all is one, when one of you changes their attitudes and thinking patterns, everybody else changes with them. If you are familiar with spreadsheets, think of humankind and your whole world as a gigantic one of these. Now, change one figure – imagine that this figure is you – and watch the effect rippling through all the others – the rest of humankind and everything else in your world. See how they too are all changing – it’s pure magic! The world you are inhabiting is a wondrous place. Alas, to unaware souls who are as yet unable to look beyond the ends of their noses and below life’s surface to perceive how I, the living spirit, am at work throughout all life, the insecurity of Earth life can be very frightening.
Rest assured that nothing can manifest itself in your environment unless it has first happened on the inner level of life. As a result, each time one of you consciously changes their inner perception and attitude towards life, your whole world follows suit. And when you save and redeem yourself in thoughts, words and actions, your world is saved and redeemed with you. So, go your way with your eyes wide open and be alive by taking an active interest in what surrounds you. Your intelligence is part of and one with Mine. Use it for good purposes only and strive to make your world a better place through bringing a renewed understanding of the true purpose and meaning of your earthly existence to as many as you can. Share the knowledge you find to help ignite the Divine spark in people’s hearts and souls, and the small still flame of spiritual understanding comes alive in them and renews their faith and trust in Me, your Creator, and the goodness of the life I have prepared for each one of you.
Assist the people you meet to become aware that in truth there is no yesterday or tomorrow, only this glorious moment of here and now, and that every moment of their lives is part of Eternity and precious. All who at any given time are dwelling on the Earth plane are aspiring to become a lightbringer and healer, who in the fullness of time can be used as a channel through which My wisdom and truth, the macrocosm, flows ever more forcefully into the consciousness of your race, the microcosm. Know that the power of creation is in you and that imagination is the source of all creation. Use yours to create the ideal world of your dreams where all live together in peace and harmony, and where warmongering, sickness and death are no longer known. By thinking about this often, you call it into being. And when you meditate and reflect upon it, through your inner guidance I will show you how you can do your share of bringing your new world about.
Rejoice in your oneness with Me and experience the elation of acting as a true child of Mine by assisting others to become aware that they also are the daughters and sons of My eternal spirit. In the name of love I ask this of each one of you.
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Location: United Kingdom | Plea To My Spirit And Soul 
Oh, my spirit and soul,
Where are you and what are you made of?
Being invisible and incomprehensible,
Do you belong to the Divine part of me?
Whenever my eyes gaze upon
The beauty and wonder of God’s Creation
And I feel the loving embrace of the Sun,
I am in touch with you.
My inner ears listen and
There’s no doubt in my mind
That you are there.
Although my earthly eyes
Still fail to see you,
There’s no doubt in my heart.
Intangible as you are,
You are not understood by the masses.
You can neither be weighed nor measured,
But when I close my eyes in disgust over something
Or when I am frightened and cover my ears,
Deep within I feel your presence and reassurance
That guides and protects me,
By day and by night.
Only a fool would deny your existence.
And yet, to this day many choose
To ignore your callings that come to
Us earthlings from deep within
The very core of our own being.
If only you could be seen and heard
And were shouting, at least sometimes,
As a loud voice in the marketplace,
People would listen to your pleas
And do their best to bring a more peaceful
World into being by becoming
More peaceful, kind and loving themselves.
Oh, my spirit and soul . . .
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• ‘What Is Soul?’
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Location: United Kingdom | Doing The Right Things
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred.
You don’t have to like them, but love them anyway!
They are all part of your spiritual family.
They are part of you and you are part of them.
They may not yet know it, but you being wiser,
Love them anyway!
People may project their own ulterior motives onto you,
And accuse you of having them.
Rest safe in the knowledge that the Universe
Knows their hearts as well as yours.
Do good anyway!
If being successful means that we can only win
False friends and real enemies.
Succeed anyway!
The good we do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do it anyway!
What could have taken years of building up,
Can be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway!
People who are in need of our help,
May attack us whilst we are trying to help them.
Help anyway!
Give the world the best that is within you,
And should it be rejected, do not stop giving.
Give anyway!
The Universal Law of Karma ensures that what we send
Into the world, has to return to us.
Give of your best and only the best is sure to return!
Bishop Abel Muzorewa
African Spiritual and Political Leader
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘The Astro Files Philosophy’
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
Your diagram seems a rather truncated version of human/divine experience/interaction if you do not mind my saying ... sorry!
there is no reference to
the heart
the mind
to say nothing of other stuff ....
the interstellar impregnation of starry materials with our cellular structures, for example
And as for 'doing the right things'
I think Norton Juster said that very well in the Phantom Tollbooth
Let me know if you would like the quotation, Princesses of Rhyme and Reason
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Or then again, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's, 'Whom Am I?" prayer ...
Love
Paul
Edited by Paul Joseph 2/20/2016 3:18 PM
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| Friends
Since it is presumed that every communication on this Board is of the soul, the idea of a thread proclaiming prose for the soul seems tautologous ...
So I am freezing this thread at this point
Blessings
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| Since I have unfrozen Poetry for the Soul, I thought it only fair to unfreeze this one also to evoke a full range of spiritual reflectivity ....!
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Location: United Kingdom | Thank you. Much appreciated. Surely you can by now trust me that I would not post anything unsuitable here or anywhere else on the Forum.
With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Reflections On Beauty
To paraphrase Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss Psychiatrist and Author: ‘Truly beautiful people are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, loss and who worked their own way through these experiences, hand in hand with God and the Angels. Out of the depths of the hell of human suffering they have risen with a fresh appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving empathy with the pain of others. Beautiful people do not just happen, they can only grow and evolve on the Earth plane.
The small earthly self of those who emerge with these qualities from their suffering has died on the cross of Earth life. The characteristics of their Christ nature are breaking through and their spirit and soul has been resurrected. Through their behaviour to the world around them it is taking to its spiritual wings and doing its share of establishing God’s kingdom on the Earth
Physical beauty as often as not goes only skin-deep and with the passing of time it goes from us in any case. At the latest this happens when we leave our earthly existence behind. But any kind of inner beauty we have found by then is ours to keep forever and it was the wisdom of the Highest who decreed that this can only be done in earthly life. That’s the only thing we take with us into Eternity and when we do, it considerably eases our pathway through life during all subsequent earthly sojourns.
I know which kind of beauty I prefer. How about you?
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Edited by Aquarius 2/25/2016 6:49 AM
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Location: United Kingdom | All Of Life Is Flowingness 
And in this flowing, there is meaning and law.
I cannot lose, what is my own;
I need not seek, what is my own,
For what belongs to me, will come.
Whatever goes does not belong to me.
Only what I am has power.
I now give up all personal struggle and ambition,
Knowing that all that is rightfully mine
Will then be drawn to me. So, I now let go,
And trust my Highest Self and the Universe,
To run my life for me
And to always show me the way. Anon.
Edited by Aquarius 2/25/2016 1:57 PM
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Location: United Kingdom | About Prayer
Then a priestess said: ‘Speak to us of prayer!’
And the Prophet replied:
‘You pray in your distress and in your need.
Would that you might pray also in the fullness of your
Joy and your days of abundance.
What is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ethers?
And if you receive comfort through pouring your darkness
And negativity into space, at least make an effort to create balance
By also sharing your delights and pleasures with the Universe.
Don’t forget to give thanks for all that Earth life itself,
Your kind and loving teacher,
Brings to you all the experiences that help
To learn and grow ever more heaven-tall.
For as long as you are still asleep to your true nature,
You cannot help weeping and complaining
Rather than giving thanks and praise to your Creator.
So whenever your soul summons you to prayer,
Shed your tears and be comforted by God and the Angels
Who bring you healing as soon as you draw closer to them.
Learnt to surrender all your troubles and woes
To your Highest or God Self so that you,
The small earthly self, together with your spirit and soul,
Will soon be smiling again.
When you go within to communicate with them,
In your prayers you are rising to meet in the ethers those
Who, like you, are praying at that very moment
And whom, save in those moments
Ob bliss you would otherwise
Never be able to get in touch with.
In the long course of your evolution and in the fullness of time,
May each of your visits to your inner temple of the soul
Be for nothing but spiritual ecstasy
And sweet communion with
The Great Father/Mother of all Life
And the Angels.
But take care that when you go there,
You do not make demands on them.
Isn’t it enough that you are allowed to enter the temple
And be there for a while,
To be recharged with God’s loving energies?
Nobody can teach you how to pray in words.
God does not listen to them, save when S/He
Utters them through your lips.
And because you must all learn from your own experiences,
Nobody can teach you the prayers of the oceans,
The forests and the mountains,
Except those who were born of these places.
They know such prayers in their hearts.
And if you but listen in the stillness of the night,
You can hear their silent pleas:
‘Our God, who art our winged self.
It is Thy will in us that willeth.
It is Thy desire in us that desireth.
It is Thy urge in us that turns our nights, which are Thine,
Into days, which are also Thine.
We cannot ask Thee for aught,
For Thou already knowest
Everybody’s true needs before we are born.
Each spirit and soul is born of Thy desires
And Thou art our need.
In giving us more of Thyself,
Thou givest us all.’
From ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese/American poet
Edited by Aquarius
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Location: United Kingdom | Healing The Relationship With Ourselves And God
Searching For Peace Deep inside me there is something,
Hiding but calling and ever abiding.
It unfurls a deep grief in my breast
And will not let me rest.
Could it be a longing for a different place,
Maybe for disappearing without trace?
Searching blindly, I continue my quest
To heal this pain in my chest.
Having explored some of the dark aspects of life,
I feel like a freak who is caught in a trap
I race forwards and yet peer back
At the mistakes I once made,
And the wages of my sins waiting to be paid.
There just has to be more to this life
Than the drawing of a card
And the rolling of a dice.
I’m reaching for a higher realm of understanding,
Something to give my life a purpose that’s more demanding.
It’s an inner war I’m fighting,
Which I’m sure I can win.
And so I keep trying again and again.
But still I act like a freak who’s caught in a fiendish trap,
Running scared and yet without stopping to look back.
What sacrifices am I willing to make to find peace?
If it’s my life, o Universe, it’s yours to take.
I willingly pay what you are demanding
To gain Your forgiveness and understanding.
The wages of sin are I am paying now
Are worse to endure than death.
And I would give my dying breath
To let go of my inner demons,
So my soul rests and finds peace
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The Great Mother’s Response Beloved child of the Earth, you are dear and precious to My heart much more than you will ever be able to understand. The seafaring folks’ of your world are giving you a demonstration of the behaviour of all human souls during their lifetimes in earthly life. Whenever they are at home with their mother and other loved ones, they are only happy and content for a short while. It does not take long until they once more begin to yearn and pine for sailing the seven seas of your world. Each one of you is a sailor on the great ocean of life. You and your earthly character are the boat and destiny that has been given to each one of you. And you alone are responsible for commanding and steering it back home to Me.
One of these days you will be back home in the world of spirit, with the Angels and Me, and other human souls you have come to love during your many earthly adventuring and exploring sojourns. Although you love it there, it will not take long until you become restless and long for more consciousness expanding experiences that help you to grow in wisdom and understanding of yourself, the world around you and life in general.
Now that you have reached quite an advanced evolutionary level, refuse to look at yourself as some kind of a freak, even though at times you had to take the boat of your life through some of the most loathsome whirlpools of earthly experiences. None of them have made you a freak, My dearest child. You did nothing worse than studying in the school of Earth life and everything you ever did took place because you were attending the lessons that are prescribed by the curriculum of this institution for every one of its pupils.
When you look back and recognise that you did not like some of your lessons, that to Me is a sign that you have not been wasting your time. You have made progress on the evolutionary spiral of life only because the happenings in your life made you grow in wisdom and understanding. Rejoice, for now you are ready to choose a different pathway that – if you so wish – will lead you forwards and upwards only, rather than moving down, down, down the way you did in the past. Your yearning for experiences of a higher and more elevated nature shows the Angels in charge of you and Me that all is well with you and your spiritual development.
Know that nothing on the Earth plane or anywhere else ever happens perchance or coincidence, the drawing of a card or the rolling of a dice. Everything is part of the great plan of life and the pathway through it for each one of you is mapped out, complete with the people and events that can help you at any given moment to take part in the lessons you are ready for. Your own energies draw them towards you and you always have the freedom to choose whether you wish to walk the upper or the lower road.
Eventually for each one of you there comes the moment when you realise that the lower road is no longer right for you, because it fails to give you the satisfaction you had hoped to gain from it. And that is what’s happening to you and why you cannot shake off a nagging feeling that there must be more to life than what you have been experiencing in the past. You are right, there is. That’s why you are beginning to draw people into your orbit who are willing to share with you the higher things and understanding their own life’s experiences has taught them.
Naturally, that is no coincidence either. In the school of life you are presently attending, whenever one of its pupils is ready for a more advanced lesson a teacher appears from somewhere, as if by magic. In Earth terms this is magic. It’s a sign that in the spiritual background the Angels and Master, your spirit guides, friends and helpers are watching, guiding and coaxing each one of you along the pathway of their earthly sojourns. Events of this nature reveal their presence and intervention.
At all times they are willing to support and guide you, but they cannot do your learning for you. No-one can do that, except you. You yourself have to walk through the depths to which the desires of your lower earthly nature are capable of leading you. But eventually there comes the time when your Highest Self takes you by the hand and shows you how to leave the pull of the desires of your lower animal nature behind. Through the world of your feelings your God Self has always been guiding you. When you have reached a certain point in your development vague and uncertain feelings begin to disturb your peace of mind and you sense that the lower road is not worthy of you and the hopes, dreams and aspiration of humankind’s higher nature. The way you feel about yourself and the things that have been occupying you is your Highest Self coaxing you along, so that under your own steam you can gradually come to the conclusion that enough is enough.
All along I am there with you. I am your Highest or God Self, the wise one within and when you are suffering, I suffer with you. Whether you are laughing or weeping I am sharing every experience with you. And I speak to you through the small, still voice of your conscience. At some stage in your spiritual development it begins to whisper to you and makes itself felt through an ever growing aversion against your adventuring of the past. When you start to listen to your feelings and respond to them by taking constructive actions to leave the darker aspects of life behind, you have reached a vital evolutionary turning point.
Your decision to start a new chapter in your life proves to the Angels in charge of you and Me that you are growing from spiritual infancy and adolescence into adulthood. Now you are ready to take charge of your earthly self’s character and that empowers you to positively and creatively influence your destiny of where and how you will be spending future lifetimes. But for the present you are moving ever closer to fulfilling your high and holy destiny as a true child of Mine, who through its behaviour and thinking patterns is doing its best to establish My kingdom on the Earth plane.
With the help of the knowledge you are now finding you can afford to look at you and your ways of the past not with loathing and disgust but with love and compassion for the suffering it has brought you. Enduring them have been the wages of sin and you have paid them already, many times over. Don’t keep on doing this over and over again. There is no point in it and there are no prizes for martyrdom. Rather than wallowing in self-pity, rejoice and celebrate for you have grown stronger and wiser. I am proud of you, My child.
Your feelings of guilt and shame, unworthiness and uselessness, and that your life is lacking purpose and direction have been part the wages of sin you had to pay. Your feelings are important, they have purpose and meaning, the same as everything else that is in your life. Listen carefully to the whole gamut of them, as each one is a signal from your inner Highest Self, the wise one within, Me. Through the world of your feelings I was showing you that the manner in which you had been conducting yourself was no longer right for you.
Because you had reached a sufficiently high degree of spiritual maturity, I was knocking at the door of your inner consciousness to call you back into the awareness of your true nature and your oneness with Me. I am glad that you finally set off in search of the missing parts of yourself. This quest is bringing you ever closer to me.
You will have heard it said that love understands all and forgives all. You probably know by now through your own life’s experiences how true this is. When you love someone and they trespass against you in some way, if you make the effort to look into and understand their motivations and the lessons they are currently taking part in, you can do nothing but forgive that person. And because I understand the whole of our pathway throughout all lifetimes, from the beginning of each one to its end, and the suffering your soul has already endured, I find there is nothing to forgive. As a matter of fact, each one of you is forgiven before you set out on your first visits to the Earth plane.
Because I love all of you totally and unconditionally and understand the trials and tribulations that are lying ahead and have to be gone through by each and every one of you, there really IS nothing to forgive. And because you now understand why everything you experienced was a necessary part of your earthly education, the time has come for you to look at yourself with compassion and love, and to forgive yourself.
For a long time you have felt an ever increasing emptiness and a void within you. Whatever you tried to fill it, be it alcohol and drugs, money and material possessions, and endless pleasure-seeking, the barrenness would not go away. When you had tried all those things unsuccessfully, your soul with the help of your feelings was showing you that ultimately the only thing that can fill such inner voids is a conscious reunion with Me. Many of you are working on it now and I bless each one of you for the troubles you are taking upon you to bring this about. Peace be with you, always. Dedicated to Firemajic WF – with love. From ‘Astrology As A Lifehelp In Relationship Healing’
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Location: United Kingdom | Hope
What do optimists do?
They hope! But what is hope?
It is not the closing of one’s eyes to
Difficulties, risks or failures.
Hope is an inner trusting that:
If we fail now, we shall not do so forever.
If we make mistakes,
We shall learn something from them
And if we get hurt, we shall be healed.
Hope is an inner knowingness that:
Life is good.
Love is all-powerful.
It can heal, mend and resolve everything,
Even the most difficult situations and relationships.
Hope is one of the Universe’s finest gifts.
It enables us to trust that in truth
The moment of physical death is not an ending,
But a new beginning and a release into
The greater freedom of our true home,
The world of light,
Where those who have gone before us
Are waiting to welcome us.
From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’
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Location: United Kingdom | Moving On
As every flower fades and youth must give way to old age,
So all wisdom and each virtue may be valid only in its day.
Nothing but our Highest Self stays with us forever.
At life’s calling we have to say farewell
And be ready for a new beginning.
Bravely and without sadness we need to
Enter into ever new learning,
Resting safely in the knowledge that
In the background of all life dwells the power of the Unseen,
Who guides and protects us and helps us to live,
Wherever our destiny may one day take us.
We are meant to move happily through space and time,
Without making our home on the Earth plane,
Because our true home lies elsewhere.
The Divine Spirit of the Great Father/Mother of all life
Never aims to tie and restrict any of Its children.
Quite the opposite is true.
Step by step the Universe constantly tries to lift us
Beyond the horizons of our present understanding.
Whenever we are in danger of staying
With one particular way of living for too long,
Our spirit and soul stagnates and starts to yearn for
Fresh learning through new adventures and explorations.
As soon as we awaken to the awareness that there is no death,
That life is eternal and has neither beginning nor end,
We give in more readily to life’s demands,
When our time for moving on has come.
It eases the hour of our departure from the physical plane of life
And we can consciously enjoy our rebirth
In the world of light on another level of existence
And learning of a different kind.
The realisation that life’s call
For all human souls will never end
Fills our heart and soul with good cheer.
It enables us to say good-bye willingly and happily,
Whenever the need for it arises.
Peacefully we go forward because at last
We have found rest and healing
In the conscious awareness of
Our oneness with God.
‘Stufen’ by Hermann Hesse
Freely translated by Aquarius
From ‘The Spiritual Aspects Of Depression And Suicide’
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Location: United Kingdom | Thank you Aquarius for reminding us of that great poem which appears in Hesse's The Glass Bead Game as being written by the book's hero, and Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht ... this is how I first read it there, translated by Richard and Clara Winston
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
More of Hesse's (or Knecht's!) poems can be found on this web-link
http://southerncrossreview.org/67/hesse-poems.htm
I make the distinction between Hesse and Knecht, in the same way as it evokes the question of how much an author's character's words reflect the author's own beliefs.
Hence Shakespeare can make one of his tragic characters (Macbeth) say;
'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing'
Whereas another (Hamlet) takes a rather different view:
'There is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may'
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With which one do we resonate, or neither?
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Paul, Thank you for sharing this translation of Hermann Hesse's poem with us here. As pointed at at the end of my version, I freely translated Hesse's words and re-interpreted them in keeping with the advanced knowledge we by now have about the meaning of life and death. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | There Is No Death
‘There is no death,
Only a change of worlds.’
Chief Seattle
Extract from a talk at a Remembrance Service by White Eagle, from ‘The Way of the Sun’: ‘There is no death. Of what are you afraid? You may look upon an empty shell – like the shell of a chrysalis – and say: ‘This is death!’ No, this is not death, it is rebirth and life. Life continues. It always is, always has been and forever will be. We, your guides from the world of light, who are fully conscious of having passed the great initiation called death, come to you having crossed the bridge of love, which is partly created by the love you are giving us. God, the Great Spirit, has so created you and your bodies – your physical and your higher bodies – that you have the power within you to commune with those you love in the world of spirit. You have material available for the construction of this bridge between your physical world and the worlds on the higher ethers. We are coming to you and you can also learn to join us in full consciousness.
‘In your earthly life you can be builders, together with us, your companions of your spirit, of a bridge between your state of life and the higher life. When humankind has accomplished this task in full consciousness, it will know that the Angels and Masters, the great siblinghood of the Christ Star, are with you to inspire and assist you with all your tasks in earthly life. This does not mean shifting your present responsibilities onto the companions of your spirit. It means you yourself are acting on the Divine laws of the Universe. Some people seem to think they can sit back and let God and the Angels do the work. This is not the case. You are on the Earth to learn about vital spiritual truths and these lessons can only be learnt through everyone’s own daily experiences. You have to learn to do and act with love and great care. Merely saying so is not good enough.’
The following is the essence of a White Eagle Message from the Star Link 7.12.2013: ‘Love is the law of life and the greatest force in the whole of Creation. In love and on the inner level of life there is no separation, all is one. Your loved ones are not dead. Your love for each other has created a bond between you that nothing and no-one will ever be able to destroy. They have not gone from you and contact with them is always possible for you in your thoughts and meditations.
‘You are on the Earth plane to rediscover the awareness that life is eternal and ever renewing itself. When you know that God is love and loves each one of you totally and unconditionally, you cannot help loving your Creator, the Great Father/Mother of all life. Every human spirit and soul is part of God and immortal, for in God’s consciousness there is no such thing as death. Because your loved ones are alive in that love and therefore also in your own spirit, they are with you and will never leave you.’
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Location: United Kingdom | The Daffodil Principle
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say: ‘Mother, you must come and see the daffodils before they are over.’ I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from my home to hers. ‘I’ll come next Tuesday,’ I promised, a little reluctantly when she asked me the third time. Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into my daughter’s house, after hugging and greeting my grandchildren, I said to my daughter: ‘Let’s forget about the daffodils. The road is almost invisible in the clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and the children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch.’ My daughter smiled calmly and replied: ‘We drive in weather like this all the time, Mother.’ I replied: ‘You won’t get me back on the road until it clears, and then I’ll be heading for home!’
‘I was hoping you’d take me to the garage to pick up my car,’ my daughter said. ‘Okay, I’ll do it. How far is it?’ ‘Just a few blocks,’ came the reply. ‘I’ll drive because I’m used to the road conditions.’ I knew where the garage was and after several minutes in the car I asked: ‘Where are we going? This isn’t the way to the garage.’ ‘This time we’re going the long way round past the daffodils,’ my daughter smiled.
‘I don’t want to go there, can’t you hear me? Please turn the car round and let’s go home.’ ‘It’s all right, Mother. I promise you, you would never forgive yourself if you missed this experience.’ After another twenty minutes or so we turned onto a gravel road. At the end of it a small church came into view and on its far side a handwritten sign said: ‘Daffodil Garden’. We got out of the car, each took a child’s hand and we followed Carolyn down the path. When we turned a corner and I looked up, I gasped with astonishment at the glorious sight before me. It was as if someone had taken a huge vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and slopes. There were flowers everywhere. They had been planted in majestic, swirling patterns – great ribbons and swathes of deep orange, white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, saffron and butter yellow. Each colour variety has been planted as a group that seemed to swirl and flow a river with its unique hue. Altogether there were five acres of flowers.
‘Who is responsible for this?’ I asked Carolyn. ‘Just one woman,’ she replied. ‘She lives on the property, it’s her home.’ My daughter pointed to a well kept house that looked tiny and very modest in the midst of the glory before us.
Walking up to the house, on the patio we found a poster that read:
‘The Answers To The Questions You Are Going To Ask’.
- 50,000 bulbs.
- One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, not much money and very little brain.
- Started in 1958.
I realised that from now on experiences of this nature would represent the Daffodil Principle for me. They would make me think of the woman who more than forty years ago had begun to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountain top. By patiently planting one bulb at a time, year after year, she had created something of indescribable magnificence, beauty and inspiration. She truly had changed the world in which she lives and made it into a better and more beautiful place for all.
The principle behind this is one of the greatest of all. By learning to patiently move forwards towards the fulfilment of a dream one tiny step at a time, by loving what we are doing and being really interested in it, the Universal forces reward our efforts and perseverance. They smile upon us and help us to make our vision become a reality in earthly life. By combining tiny fractions of time with small but continued efforts, truly magnificent things are achievable in the fullness of time and we can indeed change our world.
I have to admit that the sight of the daffodil fields made me a bit sad, too. I couldn’t help thinking what I might have accomplished if only I had come up with a great idea thirty-five or forty years ago. What if I had worked at it ‘one bulb at a time’ in the subsequent years? It didn’t bear thinking about what I might have been able to achieve. When I told my daughter, she paused for a moment and replied: ‘Never mind. It’s not too late. How about starting tomorrow? I believe it’s pointless to think of all the lost hours of yesterday. The best way of making learning a lesson a celebration instead of a cause for regret is by asking: ‘How can I put this to use today?’
‘You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate.
You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water.
You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.’
Kathy Seligman
And from small acorns great oak trees grow.
Created by Anon.
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Words Of Wisdom & Healing From The Tree Of Life’
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Location: United Kingdom | When someone is in distress and our first reaction is to reach out and offer a helping hand, and this has become not our second but first nature, we are true to our real nature. When we have re-learned to follow the instinctive and intuitive reactions that come from our Highest Self, rather than the urge of our lower earthly nature to turn away, our progress on the great wheel of fortune that is this life speeds up considerably. Every small kindness rendered to any of God’s creatures is valuable and counts spiritually.
Even if at times nothing can be done except giving a person in distress a friendly smile, a few words of encouragement and comfort, a shoulder to cry on and/or a hug. When the recipient is lifted and helped above their present situation, even if only in a small way, the law of Karma sees to it that our thoughtfulness one fine day in some form or another returns to us. Hence the saying that bread cast onto the waters of life does return. This means that help is sure to come when we require some. It may not happen through the people we once helped. In fact, it hardly ever does, but come it will and that often quite magically and then only seemingly out of the blue. If you want to be happy in life,
Contribute to other’s happiness,
For any joy we give
Returns to our heart.
Goethe
Edited by Aquarius 3/7/2016 7:56 AM
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Location: United Kingdom | Just A Thought Away
There’s a place somewhere,
Where loved ones come together
After having left the earthly plane.
It’s not in some far distant heavenly place,
But on the inner level of life,
A world that’s only ever
As far away as a thought.
Fear and anger, loneliness and pain
Are left behind at the threshold
Of this world of warmth and light, love and healing.
All human souls at various intervals set off
From this place for yet another
One of our earthly quests,
So that we may learn from our experiences
And grow in wisdom and understanding.
To this place we return each time
We’ve had enough of Earth life’s
Trials and tribulations.
Having attended to our lessons,
We return to it to seek comfort and healing,
Companionship and rest.
With love and compassion, empathy and grace
Angels are waiting to attend to all our needs
And answer our questions.
Once more we know that in truth there is no death
And that all worlds and beings always have been
And forever will be
Safely enfolded in God’s loving embrace.
From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’
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Location: United Kingdom | I have taken to wondering, what happens if those we have loved and have gone to the Land of Light, then their soul forms decide it is time to return to another Earthly incarnation ... will we know that, so as not to then expect to see them when it is our time to venture beyond that veil, or to ask the same question another way, if we have been meditating/communing on their presence as if they are in the realm of Light and Angels, but they have left there and returned to this world but in another incarnation, will we be meditation/communing in the wrong frequency and wasting our previous etheric energies ... ? I am finding it a little confusing ...
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Location: United Kingdom | An interesting question! I would imagine that, if a spirit and soul has left the world of light for another reincarnation onto the Earth plane, it would no longer be possible to get a connection with them on the same frequency. Or maybe, because the biggest part of us is our Highest Self, who is always wherever its earthly counterpart is, we connect and don't notice any difference. In the final analysis, does it really matter where the loved ones are - whenever they are not within our physical reach? The inner connection is one of love and that's one that cannot be destroyed or disrupted by anything - it never ceases. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Come to think of it, because on the inner level all life is one and we are connected with each other in any case, being an individual in our present existence is an essential of the illusion of Earth life. We were created this way so that we should be able to recognise that each one of us is an individual and unique spirit and soul, unlike any other in the whole of Creation. Therefore, on the inner level of life the other one's spirit is part of ours - and so is everybody else's. That no doubt is why we are told by the wise ones in charge of us that what is done for one is done for all, i.e. when we are hurting someone we are causing pain to the whole of life and when we are making good the damage we once did and are healing. all life and lifeforms are doing the same. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Messengers And Their Messages 
A Truth Seeker Speaks:
Preacher man or woman,
Can you save my soul
Or is your Bible just for show?
Tell me the truth. I need to know
Preacher man or woman,
Heaven sounds like a cosmic place,
Where grief disappears without a trace
And there is no shame or disgrace.
Preacher man or woman,
Can I get forgiveness for MY sins,
Forget who I am and what might have been,
Start all over and be born again?
Julia WF My beloved children of the Earth, do not pour your wrath onto the poor souls who stand on pulpits and podiums to assure you that every word of what to them is a holy book is true. It is all they know and that so far is their truth. They are your younger and less experienced siblings in the family of humankind and that is all there understand at present, and in the fullness of time they too will discover the advanced knowledge that has already come to you. Pray that it will keep on flowing and be thankful for this blessing.
Forgive them because they themselves have been misled, so have those they are working for. Now that humankind’s great awakening to the revelations of My wisdom and truth is taking place, you can be sure that they will resist it and fight against it, for as long as anyone lets them get away with it. The Christian church’s predestined role from its earliest beginnings has not been the bringing of My wisdom and truth to the human race, but to hide and suppress it for as long as possible. It will do them no good to continue with this. Either they adjust to the religion of the new age – see the link at the end of this chapter – or they will just dwindle away and perish, because people will no longer interested in what they have to offer. In the long run spiritual progress cannot be held up by anyone.
The tale that a saviour and redeemer would one day appear to make good all humankind’s sins and save you and your soul and keep it from harm forever is a legend. The truth is that you alone can save and redeem your soul. You are responsible for its wellbeing. It’s up to you to nurture and protect it by filling it with good and positive thoughts and seeking uplifting experiences. They are the things you need to do to save your soul and no-one can do them for you, neither on the earthly plane nor in the world of light. Strive to create good Karma at all times, so that nothing but the best can in due course return to you. This is done by simply being a good person and not through ostentatiously being good, whilst behaving like an impersonation of the devil towards those around you.
Opposing forces like those of masculine and feminine, good and evil, darkness and light are part of God’s duality and our own. They are at work on all levels of life and therefore also constantly manifesting themselves on the Earth plane. Darkness means the absence of light. Light is the giver and supporter of all life. In its presence all darkness soon disperses. Spiritually, knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness. The light of spiritual wisdom and truth slowly but surely absorbs the darkness of all ignorance into itself, until the whole scene has been lit up and no darkness is left.
This process is similar on the material plane of life, as you can watch every morning when the Sun rises over the horizon of your world. Its light penetrates the darkness and disperses it. As the darkness of not knowing on the Earth plane gradually gives way to the light of My Wisdom and Truth, this is what for some time has been happening on the inner level of life to the hearts and minds of humankind. As time goes by, it is making itself known more and more on the Earth plane.
Whenever you want to find some of My wisdom and truth, there is no point in going to a preacher man or others of his kind. Instead look into your own heart and listen to what it has to say. Your heart knows the truth and tells you about it through the world of your feelings. It reveals it to all for whom the time is right and if you are reading this and your heart says: ‘Yes, this is true!’ then for you it is. Forgive those who do not yet share what you know to be true, because your heart tells you so. Pay attention to your heart, for that’s where I dwell and from there I am guiding you. Do this each time some new spiritual knowledge comes to you, no matter where you find it.
Many Christians to this day are focussing too much on the legendary figure of Jesus, when in truth the story of the Master’s life from the moment of its conception merely served as My messenger. Those who are still taking this tale literally are missing its most important parts, namely the messages that all along have been hiding behind its surface words. The Jesus story came into being as My awakening call to humankind. It was written the way it is so that in due course each one of you would once more become aware of their own true nature and the responsibilities and duties being a child of Mine brings with it. It has always been part of My great plan of life that this will not merely happen for the odd one here and there, but for each one of you.
For many it is time to come to terms with that there will never be anybody who can or will make good and forgive everyone’s sins and to save and redeem you and your world. The only one who can do this is every one of you for themselves. The impression that one fine day someone from the highest levels of life would appear in your world to wave a kind of magic wand and speak some magic words to do these things for you is a wrong one. Believing such things was good enough for you during your spiritual infancy and childhood, as during that phase of your earthly development it would have been impossible for you to comprehend the truth.
Wise ones who have grown into spiritual maturity recognise that each one of you individually, as well as all of you together, is responsible for themselves, the state of your world and everything that shares it with them. They appreciate that in the final analysis every human soul has been placed on the Earth to evolve through growing in wisdom and understanding. In the course of many lifetimes each one of you assists your planet with its evolution and slowly but surely grows into the role of its keeper and guardian.
If humankind’s ways of the past and present were to continue and your education demanded further lifetimes in earthly life, you would then have to live with the consequences of ages of exploitation, raping and pillaging of Mother Earth’s precious resources. Not wishing to reincarnate onto a ruined and devastated planet, you do your best during this one to put a halt to such irresponsible behaviour and protect the Earth as best you can. And I am here to show you how to go about it.
Therefore, in all your efforts listen to Me, your inner guidance. Rest safely in the knowledge that whenever you are following My advice, you cannot go wrong and that everything I show you is the right thing and for the highest good and the greatest joy of all. If you hear something that feels detrimental, negative and destructive to you, stop and say to yourself: ‘This must be the instincts of my small and mean earthly self speaking. I do no wish to follow its desires when at the same time my higher instincts and impulses are telling me that it is wrong. I refuse to do it.’
No highly evolved soul would dream of causing pain to someone and thinking: ‘If I hurt others, it’s okay. Why are they getting in my way? Who am I to know whether my own evolution does not depend upon me trampling on others, so that I may gain some satisfaction from every one of my experiences? Anyway, whenever someone tells me I’ve been sinning, I’ll go to church, confess to my priest and be forgiven by him or her. Then I can do it again. What a life!’ It is understandable when young and inexperienced souls behave in such a manner, for this too is an essential part of the phase of their earthly education they are undergoing at that moment.
Unaware of the fact that there is such a thing as Universal or God’s laws and in particular the law of cause and effect, the law of Karma, young and inexperienced souls go ahead and kill and maim to the content of their lower earthly self’s desires. Because the first law of life is love and My love knows no chastisement or retribution, but constantly gives of itself without expecting anything in return, the law of Karma was never intended to punish any one of you. It is about learning and teaching and that is why either later in your present lifetime or in future ones, through the lessons you receive life presents you not only with opportunities for learning but also for making good and redeeming yourselves.
In this manner the law constantly provides each one of you with gateways to new experiences and more advanced studies. It shows you how you can do better where once you went wrong and sinned, simply because you did not yet know any better. This is how life itself assists each one of you with the things and experiences you need to grow in wisdom and understanding. This continues until you succeed to bring forth from within the very core of your being the Christ qualities of decency and honesty, tolerance and patience, compassion and love.
As you can see, Karma is neutral and in itself cannot save anyone. And because on the inner level all life is one, that which is done for one affects all of you and is done for everybody. That is how in the process of redeeming and saving yourself, you are doing the same for the whole of your race and your world. Love is the law of life and the greatest force in the whole of Creation. In love and on the inner level of life there is no separation, all is one. And when you work for the highest good and the greatest joy of the whole of humankind, on the inner level of life your love connects you with every one of your siblings. They are your sisters and brothers in spirit. Your love creates a bond and a link between you and them which nothing and no-one will ever be able to destroy. Contact with any one of them is always possible for you in your thoughts and meditations.
You are on the Earth plane to rediscover the awareness that life is eternal and ever renewing itself. When you know that I am love and that I love each one of you totally and unconditionally, you cannot help loving Me, your Creator, the Great Father/Mother of all life. Every human spirit and soul is part of Me and immortal, for in My consciousness there is no such thing as death. Those who have left earthly life before you have their being in My love and are alive in it. They are as much part of your spirit as they are of Mine. Therefore they are with you and will never leave you. Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Religion Of The New Age’ From ‘Total Surrender To God – Becoming The Lamb Of God’
‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’
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Location: United Kingdom | There is none so blind as those who will not see.
We must not close our minds, but let our thoughts be free.
For every hour that passes by our world gets a little bit older
And the time has come to realise
That beauty lies in the eyes of its beholder.
And everything is beautiful in it’s own way.
Like a starry summer night
And a snow-covered winter’s day.
Everybody is beautiful, each in their own way and
Under God’s Heaven, guidance and protection,
Our world is sure to find its way.
Ray Stevens
Adapted by Aquarius
From‘Was I Ever A Dinosaur?’
‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World
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| Dear Friends
In Aquarius' adaptation, Ray Stevens appears to be starting with an adapted quote from the (Christian) Old Testament book of the Jewish prophet Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 5:21New International Version (NIV)
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Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.5.21
Coming up to Easter, arguably the most sacred time in the Christian calender (and with due acknowledgement to the serendipity of other Middle and Near Eastern religious festivals as has been pointed out before by Aquarius, as was also formerly excavated in the writings of J G Frazer in The Golden Bough, and later Robert Graves' The White Goddess', and more recently C G Jung), it might be helpful to offer a reminder that this Discussion Board is open to all people from every faith path (or indeed, none: all that is required is an adherence to Board rules, an open mind and heart), including Christianity, Judaism, all and any other faith or none, or as in Aquarius own case, the White Eagle Lodge.
Thus all comments that appear, as in Aquarius' case, are the opinions of that author, whose writings do not necessarily reflect the stance of UMS (which is open to be discernment on other parts of the UMS site).
One other contemporary alternative to Aquarius' White Eagle writings for any reader interested in exploring further, is Ken Wilber's exegesis on Integrative Spirituality:
https://integrallife.com/contributors/ken-wilber
The purpose of the Discussion Board is to offer free, respectful and open debate of a spiritual and metaphysical nature to all who wish, and are most welcome, to join in the discussions and be part of the debate. This is a debate which, given the ongoing crisis in world affairs, could be argued to be one of the most serious discussions that anyone might ever have.
Namaste
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Ophiucus, Thank you for your notes and your invitation to the followers of all faiths - as well as the freethinkers, i.e. those who are spiritually mature enough to make up their own minds. The thought came to mind earlier today: 'Where does the word Easter come from? Could it have something to do with the arrival of spring, the Sun's return as the Sun moves into Aries on the day of the vernal equinox, tomorrow, 04.30 Greenwich Meantime? Could it have got this name from the Sun rising in the East and setting in the West?' I found the following on the web: 'Where does the word Easter come from?' With love - Aquarius * * *
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| Dear Aquarius
Thank you for the link.
Reading your reply evoked a question as to whether the 'spiritually mature' comment is meant to imply that a person of faith is not spiritually mature? That would trouble me a little if so. Note that I did not use the term 'follower'
Blessings
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Ophiucus,
The more one matures spiritually, the more one becomes capable of picking the raisins from the cakes of all the religions of our world. One then recognises that each one merely represents a different pathway up the spiritual mountain. This enables us to accept and embrace ALL belief systems of our world, without feeling the need to be the follower of one particular one. That is the time in one's life when one intuitively writes things like:
For a long time the Angels and Masters, together with all your other friends and helpers in the world of light, have been working on preparing you and your race for occupying your rightful place in the Universe. The spiritual beliefs of your world that previously served to separate you from each other, are in the process of changing into bridge building ones. And the awareness that on the inner level all life is one draws all of you closer together. The further you advance into the New Age, the more you will become aware that truthfully:
There is only one religion, the religion of love.
There is only one country, the whole of Mother Earth.
There is only one race, the race of humankind.
There is only one gender, who is androgynous, whole and holy.
There is only one language, the language of the heart.
And there is only one God, the God of love,
The Great Father/Mother of all life
And I, their only born Son/Daughter.
We are one Holy Trinity, who is
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.
Each one of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam is a branch of the same tree. Or to be more precise, they are twigs of the same branch of the religious tree of your world. None of them represents the tree itself. One of these religions evolved from the other and Judaism grew from the religions that existed before it. Islam, the most recent arrival, was the last one of the patriarchal religions to emerge. It does therefore not come as a surprise that it developed into the fiercest and most fearful belief system that focussed on the systematic suppression of all aspects of the feminine, and that it is the last one that tries to cling onto the in other parts of the world long outdated patriarchal customs.
P.S. One does this because one's inner guidance says: 'This is what's right for you now. No matter whether it is for anyone else, it is for you.' Life as a pioneer of anything is bound to be a lonely one at times. That's especially true for pioneers of a new age for the spiritual development of humankind and our world.
Edited by Aquarius 3/20/2016 8:59 AM
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Location: United Kingdom | Opening Your Inner Vision A covenant has always existed between Me and humankind. It consists of a special agreement that the Angels and I are constantly taking care of everyone’s true needs as well as those of all creatures that share your world with you. This will forever continue, but for as long as humankind’s inner vision remains closed to the higher realities of life that are constantly unfolding in the background of your earthly existence, life to you may at least at times appear to be grossly unfair and unjust. However, as soon as you awaken to your true nature and become familiar with the workings of the Universal laws, My laws, especially the law of Karma, the scales fall from your inner eyes. For the first time you will then be able to see for yourself that in sharp contrast with your former beliefs life is at all times utterly fair and just, in fact so much so that it can be hard for your small earthly self to comprehend. Life itself has always been your teacher and Earth life in particular has been specifically designed so that everybody at all times is acting as teacher and pupil for each other.
To help you become familiar with every aspect of your nature, the highest as well as the lowest, the first part of your journeys of exploring your existence as physical beings takes you into the deepest and darkest recesses of human depravity and recklessness. When you have reached the bottom of this abyss of darkness, there comes a turning point. However, the curriculum of your earthly education decrees that on your way down you should forget who you truly are, where you are coming from and will one day be returning to. This is how it comes about that while one section of human spirits and souls in earthly life is occupied with learning how to kill, hurt and destroy, another one is busy with developing their skills of repairing and healing and bringing good from the evil they spread during their downwards journey.
As you move forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life, it will eventually no longer be necessary for you to wait until you have moved into your other world and true home, the world of light, before you understand how all this works. Whilst still on the Earth plane your consciousness and with it your inner vision gradually opens and you begin to perceive things how they really are. The true purpose and meaning of your own existence, that of your world and everything in it, as well as all other parts of My Creation, then reveal themselves to you. These are gifts every spirit and soul develops in the third and final phase of your earthly scholarship.
This is a far cry from the periods you spend as a first grader of Earth life. During those lifetimes you exist like in a dark box that cannot yet be penetrated by any glimpses of the light of spiritual wisdom and truth. All you can see is darkness. It takes until the end of the first grade and the beginning of the second one that you begin to catch the occasional first glimpses of this light and they start to seep through the protective blinkers you have been carrying for so long over your inner eyes.
And that is why first graders in the school of life have difficulties accepting that the Jesus story is not meant to be taken literally. At that stage of your development you are convinced that Christianity murdered Jesus, although in truth he never existed. It is for this reason that to this day many followers of this religion cannot accept that the story of the Master’s life is but a legend. It is too early for them to recognise that the true esoteric meaning of this tale up until quite recently had to remain hidden behind its surface words, which after all are the foundation of their religion.
The belief that the Jewish race murdered Jesus Christ has been a false one and the cause of much suffering that has been inflicted on Jewish people throughout the ages. Included in this is the Nazi regime which, during its fortunately short-lived reign, extended and deepened a false belief and defamation that has been haunting Judaism for much more than two thousand years. Isn’t that in itself a good reason for humankind to rejoice and be glad that the story of Jesus is but a myth and a legend, that the murder never took place and that therefore there is no need for guilt complexes or looking for scapegoats, who can be blamed for humankind’s atrocities of the past?
Independent of what anyone in your world believed, said or did down the ages and is doing now, the basic spiritual concepts of life have remained unchanged. The law of life always has been and forever will continue to be love and branching off from it is the law of evolution. This law decrees that everything throughout the Cosmos, including humankind and its world, ever since they first came into being have constantly been changing, growing and evolving.
Most of the religious teachings that are still used in your world were given during the depth of the patriarchy. They were designed to drive humankind and its world deeper and deeper into experiencing the ever more destructive and devastating effects of the masculine’s lust for personal power, empire building, dominion and warmongering. Only through the absence of something can you, My beloved children of the Earth, learn to appreciate anything. The patriarchy has been My way of teaching your world the value of peace. The exclusive rulership of the masculine force has served this purpose well, but by now it has run its course and is therefore in the process of crumbling away.
Through the suffering the patriarchy inflicted upon you and the Karma it brought about, individually and collectively, you and your world have grown in wisdom and understanding. And the new spiritual wisdom and truth the Angels and I are now bringing to you from the highest levels of life are endeavouring to keep pace with your race’s growing capacity for comprehending spiritual concepts. This ensures that the awakened ones in your midst keep on growing and evolving, some of them to such an extent that many of your younger siblings are finding it hard to comprehend what they are talking about.
Many times before I have pointed out in other parts of Stargazer’s writings that the words of none of the sacred texts your world has ever known, for example those of the Bhagavad Gita, the Torah, the Bible and the Koran, to name but a few, have ever been intended to be carved in stone and unchangeable. As this is a vital part of your earthly education, I am telling you once more that the knowledge of spiritual wisdom and truth is a constantly expanding and evolving dynamic force that has to keep pace with My evolutionary plan for the whole of My Creation. Spiritual teachings render themselves obsolete and die a natural death when they resist the waves of fresh understanding of the esoteric wisdom that for a long time had to remain hidden from humankind’s view for the simple reason that you would have been unable to understand it. Having served its usefulness, any teaching that refuses to adapt itself and enlarge, with the passing of time is bound to quietly fade away until it has been forgotten.
As you grow into spiritual adulthood and are maturing the way you should, you will be required to make up your own mind about what you can and want to believe. You are then expected to come to your own conclusions about spiritual matters and have your own insights, instead of swallowing things wholesale the way you did in the past, believing them blindly just because they were printed somewhere. Rather than regurgitating parrot-fashion what someone else wrote – no matter how long ago or recently, how revered the writer may be or have been by the mass of people, and how sacred the texts still are to some – each one of you is taking part in earthly life to evolve into a healer and lightbringer.
Spiritually light is knowledge. Eventually you will be required to add something of your own to that which others found before you. In the beginning this will only happen occasionally, but with practice you will soon be able to constantly make your contribution to the spiritual wealth of your world. To fulfil these requirements it is essential that you listen to Me, your inner teacher, so that with My help you can learn to discern and discriminate truths from untruths, and right from wrong.
And then, one of these days the inner vision of every one of you will have opened up. Your religious/theological/spiritual horizons will then have expanded sufficiently for you to comprehend that the new spiritual knowledge you are presently receiving poses in no way a threat to the old religions of your world. There will come a time for all the belief systems that are still with you when all their followers, not merely the more highly evolved souls among them, will be able to perceive that every word of My newly arriving wisdom and truth is meant to be an extension, enhancement and enlargement of the ancient spiritual texts of your world.
The fresh knowledge you are receiving forms an essential part of the natural renewal process that is presently taking place for the whole of your race. It brings to those who are ready to receive it an improved understanding that reveals the connection of all scriptures with the realities that lie beyond the horizons of earthly life. As time goes by, ever more of you will be ready to receive into their hearts and consciousness the wisdom and truth that now flows directly from My heart into yours. From there it proceeds, with the help of the Angels on the Highest levels of life, into the heart and soul of your whole race, thus assisting you and your world with moving forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life.
Sooner than you may think the day will come in earthly life when all of you will be able to understand. There will then no longer be any need for anyone to doubt the correctness and truth of the spiritual knowledge that your world for some time has been receiving in ever increasing abundance. Throughout the ages many myths and legends appeared from time to time in your world. They were given by the Angels and Me for the simple reason that this was all you, My beloved children of the Earth, could understand and connect with during the various phases of your earlier spiritual development. This also applies to the Jesus legend.
Recommended Reading:
• ‘Baking A Rich New Cake’
From ‘Total Surrender To God – Becoming The Lamb Of God’
‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’ 
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There are differing views and many perspectives on the themes discussed by Aquarius, to which everyone is encouraged to contribute: or why not start your own thread on another metaphysical topic?
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Location: United Kingdom | Baking A Rich New Cake Never forget that you, My beloved children of the Earth were created in My image and that what is in Me is also in you. Now that your individualising process is drawing to its natural conclusion, each one of you is on their way to becoming one fully integrated being, a whole and holy trinity, just like Me. The three aspects of your being are mind, body and spirit. I dwell in everybody’s own heart and during this lifetime I wish to teach you from there how to co-ordinate all parts of your nature and heal them together into one harmoniously functioning unit. This process includes integrating the Divine aspect of your nature and learning to love from the heart, the way we spoke about earlier. Love always tries to bring back together that which has become separate. What your earthly minds once split off for evolutionary reasons is waiting to be brought back into unity again by each one of you. The love in your hearts alone can achieve this and when you make a genuine effort at sending nothing but loving thoughts, words and actions into your world, the mind in your heart develops.
And if you wish to find the nuggets of genuine wisdom that are buried in all the belief systems your world has ever known, call upon Me. I am your inner guidance and the living God within, waiting to be called upon to help you train your earthly minds and to teach you its wise use, so in future you will never again fall prey to false beliefs, prejudices and superstitions. I am the only one in the whole of Creation who can and does reliably tell you truths from untruths and false beliefs from true ones.
Take possession of the tool this places into everyone’s own hands, as the time has come for treating each one of the remaining old faiths of your world like a cake. I am ready and waiting to show all of you how to recognise and extract the raisins and cherries of truth each one of them contains. Your task as aspiring lightbringers and healers consists of keeping and conserving their best, that which is true and of value for all humankind. The rest needs to be discarded. Through gathering and joining together the manifold treasures you are going to find in this way, you and I together are lovingly baking a rich new cake that is of such wealth of My spiritual wisdom and truth as thus far has been unknown in earthly life. Getting their hands on their very own portion of this delicacy is every soul’s birthright.
As young Gods in the making, because of life’s oneness on the inner plane, growth by any one of you can only be achieved through constantly interacting with the rest of life. My Cosmic law of evolution decrees that no individual soul in the whole of Creation shall grow and evolve in isolation, and that every part of life forever shall depend upon all others for its survival and wellbeing, or otherwise. Event though on the surface of things you may like to think of yourself as an independent being, you are still reliant upon millions of others on many different levels of life, from the highest to the lowest. They are constantly influencing you in everything you say and do, as much as you are influencing them.
Evolution’s ultimate purpose is to bring all aspects of life into co-operation by harmonising and co-ordinating them into one stupendous crescendo of Universal love. When all of you have successfully finished tuning your instruments, Heaven and Earth will be one. Together with the Angels you will join hands and the song every loving human heart joyfully sings will make its own contribution and add a very special note to the almighty symphony of worship, thanksgiving and praise of the whole of Creation. Every human soul’s thoughts, words and actions, indeed your whole life creates a vibration and a sound. Each one of you strikes their own chord and whenever peaceful, loving and harmonious, blessing and healing vibrations go forth from you, the Angels see to it that they unerringly find their intended destination and from there wing their way back to you with ever more potency. My Universal law of cause and effect ensures that everything has to return to its source. That’s why no matter what any one of you sends out and whatever sounds you produce, it will return to you. All my laws are very exact and apply on all planes of life, therefore also on the Earth.
Because you are magnetic beings, you can only attract into your orbit what you are yourself. As soon as you have reached a sufficiently high evolutionary level that nothing but Christ love flows from your heart and loving thoughts from your mind into the whole of Creation, your whole being slowly but surely fills with harmony and peace of mind. You then draw towards you and absorb only that which is good and right, harmonious and peaceful, loving and progressive from your environment. Nothing else can touch you and fill you and your aura any longer. Recommended Viewing:
• Videos showing that the religions of your world have their origin in Sun worship based on ancient astrology:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3 From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’
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Location: United Kingdom | My earlier post about not being quite well enough to be too involved with the Board currently was deleted a few posts back by the looks of it ... anyway, in relation to Aquarius' latest offerings, I am a bit confused, sorry ... who is the 'Me', 'I' and 'you' being referred to ...? I find it hard to identify with but it all makes me feel rather defensive ...
We often on the Board seem to have references to 'the Jesus legend' at around Easter time, but there is historical and surviving contemporary evidence from multiple sources that Jesus lived, was crucified and resurrected - or resuscitated ... I posted these up before now, often - I agree that all of the great religions of the world have a central core of truth (rather than containing currants to be picked at will): this truth is Love. Yet equally there have been significant people 'of faith', including survivors of persecution for their faith (still ongoing today) whose contributions to bringing light to this world have been immeasurable - sometimes unknown.
Paul
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Location: United Kingdom | Paul Joseph - 3/21/2016 2:32 PM My earlier post about not being quite well enough to be too involved with the Board currently was deleted a few posts back by the looks of it ... anyway, in relation to Aquarius' latest offerings, I am a bit confused, sorry ... who is the 'Me', 'I' and 'you' being referred to ...? I find it hard to identify with but it all makes me feel rather defensive . . . Could this have happened because you did not see the last line of my posting? Just in case, here it is again:
From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’ With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
Thanks for asking: forgive me, are you saying you speak literally as the 'Universal Christ'? Please forgive my impertinence in that case ... so is that how and why we can relegate Jesus to legend ... ?
By the way, neither am I a 'Bible basher', nor pulpit preacher - but is it not vital to deal in truth - the truth of history - otherwise indeed we have eyes that do not see, and ears that do not hear?
The problem also with currant - or cherry - picking is, who determines which cherries we should swallow? You might say intuition, or 'inner Voice', but I can think of a few despots from history (one obliquely referred to in your post) as well as others whose judgement is questionable, who claim access to an inner voice.
Best wishes
Paul
Edited by Paul Joseph 3/21/2016 9:55 AM
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Paul, I am not speaking as the Universal Christ. I am merely acting as the channel and humble servant through whom Its wisdom and truth have been flowing into our world for quite a long time by now. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Paul Joseph - 3/21/2016 3:44 PM . . . is it not vital to deal in truth - the truth of history - otherwise indeed we have eyes that do not see, and ears that do not hear? . . . Bearing in mind the weaknesses of human nature, how much of what the history books of our world are telling us to this day is actually true? Shall we ever know? What we do know is that history has always been written by the winners, who were free to represent the events according to what suited their requirements best. Regarding the life of Jesus, considering the crimes that have been committed in his name - warfare, inquisition, witch hunting and so on and so forth, wouldn't it be better if he had never existed? One cannot help wondering. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | P.S. My posting 'Opening Your Inner Vision' is one of the chapters of a whole new section of 'The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World'. Should you be interested in reading more of it, you might like to follow the link below: ‘Total Surrender To God – Becoming The Lamb Of God’ With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
Thanks, I shall check out your updates.
As for my comments, I was not referring to books as sources of evidence ....
As for wars and persecution, they have been perpetrated both for religious but also non-religious purposes....
As for Christianity being a patriarchal religion, I would commend to you recent (relatively!) findings of the Gospel of Mary, which indicates that Mary Magdalene was (at least - some would say more than that also) the highest disciple of Jesus, but that her place was expunged (due to negative patriarchal forces that were nothing to do with Jesus).
Best wishes
Paul
Edited by Paul Joseph 3/21/2016 3:39 PM
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Location: United Kingdom | Paul Joseph - 3/21/2016 9:39 PM . . . As for wars and persecution, they have been perpetrated both for religious but also non-religious purposes. . . Two wrongs never did make one right, did they? With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
I do not understand your reply.
My point in that line of mine was that wars were fought before the time of Jesus, and have been after; as was persecution perpetrated. I therefore fail to see how Jesus can be blamed for having existed or conveyed his teachings: which were quite antithetical to violence (hence his inspiration for Dr. Martin Luther King amongst others).
Indeed the Gospel accounts indicate that the one time a sword was drawn in his presence by one of the disciples to protect him, he asked that it be sheathed.
Although the Gospels as we have them today in the Christian canon were not the more solid and contemporary evidence to which my post also referred.
Easter blessings
Paul
Edited by Paul Joseph 3/23/2016 5:11 PM
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Paul, I understood the point you were making very well, but there really wasn't any reply to it. There isn't one now. We shall simply have to continue to agree to disagree. For me, the words of my Highest Christ Self are MY truth, even though they aren't yours. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
How do you know what my truth is ... ? I am sorry if I misunderstood, but when you speak as the 'Universal Christ' it reads to me as if you are speaking in very absolute terms that include, or exclude, all.
Easter Blessings
Paul
Edited by Paul Joseph 3/25/2016 6:43 AM
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Paul, The problem with you and me is that we are both right, each for their own present level of spiritual awareness and understanding. You alone can decide what is right or wrong for you at any given moment. To decide what is, it is necessary to pay attention to what our inner guidance has to say about the things we see, hear and/or read. With ever more practice this becomes much easier. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
Yes, thanks - I was thinking a similar thing ... very well put if I may say!
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Location: United Kingdom | The Lamb Of God 
All of you are on the Earth plane to bring forth your Christ nature, meaning that which is best and holy in you. When you practise it at all times and in every one of your encounters, it moves more and more into the foreground of your consciousness until you truly behave like a son/daughter of Mine and a young God in the making. Christ the redeemer has been born in your consciousness and heart. This is how in the fullness of time it will appear in all human hearts and souls.
That is the message the Jesus legend with its image of the child in the manger in a stable at Bethlehem has been trying to bring to your world all along. Bethlehem and the stable are metaphors for the human heart, the most humble place on the Earth. Only by coming alive in human hearts can Christ the Saviour and Redeemer be born. Thus the old prophecies will be fulfilled at last.
The depiction of Jesus as the beloved lamb of God is an allegory of this final initiation that awaits every human soul at the end of its earthly education. Having grown tired of the trials and tribulations of Earth life, every soul reaches the evolutionary point when it is ready to be released from it. Freely and willingly you then turn to Me and surrender every part of your being, especially your will, to Me and My will. All your sins, i.e. the drives and urges of your lower nature, have been left behind. Through lack of use they fade ever more from your consciousness until they have been dissolved and gone from you for good. The motto ‘use it or lose it’ applies to all aspects of your being, the higher as well as the lower ones.
And that is the only way anyone can be cleansed from the so-called ‘sins of the world’. The only desire that then fills your whole being is to serve Me as a channel for bringing healing and peace to your world. This you do whenever you help one of your spiritual siblings to rediscover their true nature, origin and destiny, as that enables them to find their own way back into the oneness with me.
Neither Jesus, even if he ever had existed, nor anyone else can do this work for you. You alone are responsible for yourself, your character and your destiny. You on your own, with the help of the Angels and Me, have to freely and willingly walk in the footsteps of a spiritual Master and become one yourself. A Master is someone who with every passing day grows more thoughtful and considerate, kind and loving, patient and tolerant. This has always been the hidden esoteric message of the Jesus legend.
The original idea of Islam represents the initiation when the human soul re-awakens to its true nature and re-establishes and heals their relationship with Me. The more you surrender yourself totally and unconditionally to Me, your Highest or God Self, the more your lower earthly nature fades away. As you increasingly pay attention to and follow the guidance you receive from Me, the living God within you, the earthly self slowly dies on the cross of its earthly existence. As often as not this is quite a painful death. Jesus nailed to the cross depicts this phase of your development.
With the passing of time your trust in Me, My guidance and protection grows so much that eventually you follow the instructions you receive from within without hesitation. The more you do this and place your whole being into My loving hands, the more we grow into one. My desires and hopes, dreams and aspirations for you and your world have always striven to bring about the highest good and the greatest joy for all of you. These dreams are yours now, too.
Total surrender to God is the principle and most fundamental teaching of Islam. In Arabic, the word ‘Islam’ means submission or surrender. It has its origin in the root word ‘salam’, meaning peace and safety. Many people feel that Islam implies some sort of enslavement to Me. Yet, surrendering your whole being into My loving hands, to be guided and protected by Me and shown the way at all times has nothing to do with selling your soul into some kind of slavery.
Many religions contain the idea of surrender to Me. To encourage it, Jewish history speaks of a time when the ancient Hebrews obeyed My commands and because of it enjoyed a long period of prosperity and stability. In Christianity, surrendering to Me is a way of putting your life into hands that are more capable than earthly ones: Mine. That is why in the Jesus legend the Master asks his disciples to surrender their livelihoods and follow him. The esoteric meaning behind these words is leaving the desires of your lower nature behind and following those of your Highest or God Self, Mine. That is what I ask from each one of you as budding Masters, each in your own right.
Allah is the Muslim word for Me and it is true that when you obey My commands and trust My wisdom and truth, not because it is printed in an ancient book that has long become outdated, but as each one of you can now receive it intuitively and directly from Me. That is the only way any one of you can find the peace Islam promises its followers. In its original and most profound meaning this religion never did represent a one-sided relationship with Me, in which the believer is My slave. Instead of this it points to the fact that a covenant and a special agreement has always existed between humankind and Me, the Great Father/Mother of all life, and My only born Son/Daughter, the Universal Christ, the light of all lights.
As you know, the law of life is love and when you endeavour to conduct your life strictly in keeping with this law by being kind and loving, thoughtful and generous, patient and tolerant to everyone you meet, all you are doing is being true to your real nature. When you are taking your character and with it your destiny into your own hands and place them into Mine, in total faith and trust that no harm will ever come to you, isn’t that freedom of the highest kind? Not by any stretch of the imagination could it be interpreted as enslavement.
When you follow the instructions you receive from Me, the living God within, through the world of your feelings, you are surrendering yourself to Me. And when you surrender your will to Mine you are doing it in exchange for the gift of living in peace and safety, and that not only in your present earthly existence but forever. Look forward to the times when you once more walk hand in hand with the Angels and Masters, your friends and helpers in the world of light, seeing them and communicating with them. If you so wish, you will be allowed to join them in their work of helping those who are struggling on the Earth plane, the same as you are doing now. I do not think anyone could wish for more.
Muslims believe that the Quran is the verbatim word of God as it was revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. They also follow the sunnah teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts called hadith. Muslim is an Arabic word that means one who submits to God. Many of them to this day have yet to discover what total surrender to Me entails, namely by obeying My laws, in particular the laws of love and Karma, as well as that of equal rights and duties for all My children of the Earth.
Total surrender to Me means letting go of your small earthly self’s ambitions for self-aggrandisement, powerseeking, empire building and the endless warmongering these things bring in their wake. When instead in your visions to see yourself as unselfishly serving Me in some kind of fashion, you are ready to be used as a channel for bringing renewed hope, faith and trust to your world, so that peace and goodwill may come to it at last. That’s when you are surrendering your small earthly self and nailing it to the cross of the spiritual ignorance of Earth life.
The more you act kind and loving, thoughtful and compassionate, tolerant and patient towards everything that crosses your path in all your daily encounters, the more God-like you are becoming. As are doing your share of establishing My kingdom on the Earth for all members of the human race and everything that shares it with you, your final loving reunion with Me grows ever closer. There is no need for anyone to wait for it until you have left the earthly plane. When I, your Highest or God Self, have finally taken over your whole being – while you are still dwelling there – you have evolved into a Christed one in your own right. Recommended Reading:
• ‘Healing – The Sacred Marriage’
• ‘Colonising New Planets’
• ‘We Three Kings Of Orient Are’
• ‘Away In A Manger’
From ‘Total Surrender To God – Becoming The Lamb Of God’
‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’
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Can you imagine what would happen,
If the Earth’s diameter were only a few metres
And it floated just above the ground?
Come with me and see:
Visitors are arriving from far and wide.
They’re walking around on the Earth,
Marvelling at its big and small pools of water,
And the water that flows between them.
Admiring her mountains and valleys,
They’re wondering at what kind
Of wisdom it was that thought of surrounding
The globe with a thin layer of gas,
In which water is suspended
To sustain all its lifeforms.
The visitors are watching the
Great and wondrous diversity of Earth’s living things.
Not merely the upright walking human beings,
But also its animal and plant life.
Some of the creatures are walking about
On the surface of the globe and others live inside it,
And more of them still exist in its waters.
Marvelling at all these things,
They can see that the globe
Is a unique and precious jewel.
Their scientists looked into it
And could not find another one quite like it
Anywhere in the whole of God’s Creation.
Realising this, they cherish the Earth
And all the visitors that come
Wish to do their best to protect the globe,
To make sure it doesn’t get hurt or damaged by anyone.
Realising what kind of a wonder and a miracle the Earth is,
People wish to get to know it and its spiritual background better.
That’s when they discover to their astonishment that
The globe’s beauty is a reflection and outer manifestation
Of their own inner roundedness and exquisiteness,
Which many of them to this day have yet to discover.
Wise ones, however, know that such an exquisite work of art
Can only have been created by the Divine heart and hands
Of the Great Architect and Designer of all life,
The White Spirit, who is also their own Father/Mother.
Bending their knees in awe and wonder,
Brings them healing and peace
In mind, body and soul.
Having come to love the Earth,
Ever more of the visitors are ready to defend it,
If need be with their whole being, for now they know
That their lives, their own wellbeing
And wholeness depends on that of the planet.
Can you now see how wise people would become,
If the Earth were only a few metres in diameter?
Well, why can’t more of us be like that in any case
And wake up from our spiritual slumbers,
Before it’s too late?
And then the miracle happens and
The first signs are appearing that humankind’s age-old
Dreams, visions and highest aspirations of a peaceful world
Are approaching fulfilment.
Hallelujah!
The Earth is in the process of being transformed
Into a planet of light, peace and healing.
Rapidly we are approaching the time
When the only souls who reincarnate onto this planet
Will be those who are sufficiently evolved to freely and willingly
Live and work together in peace and harmony
With each other and all lifeforms that share
Our precious jewel, the Earth, with us.
All of us will know that everything we see around us
Is part of us and merely
An outer manifestation of our own inner world.
How much are you doing to make this
Dream into a reality in earthly life?
Recommended Viewing:
Anon.
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’
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Location: United Kingdom | Mother Earth Sees Herself
Mother Earth sees herself through our eyes.
She dances with our senses
To each new day’s surprises.
The rainbow of existence says:
‘Time for waking up and becoming the real you.’
Mindfully awake and grateful
For the gift of life that has been given to us.
We have come into this lifetime
To act as the Earth’s guardians and caretakers,
Instead of robbing and plundering
Her of her precious resources.
The love that is in our hearts and souls for
Mother Earth and all her kingdoms
Blesses and heals them as well as us.
Through us and our efforts
She is slowly transforming herself
Into a planet of healing and peace.
As beloved children of the Universe,
Whose true nature is love,
Each one of us has the right
To find happiness and fulfilment,
To love and be loved.
Yet, this cannot happen until we ourselves
Become more loving and giving,
For we are integral part of the living and beating
Heart of the whole of the Creation.
The Earth we walk on and the Sun that shines upon us,
Mother Earth and Father Sun,
Are physical manifestations of
The Great Mother/Father of all life.
They are experiencing themselves through us.
And it is our loving devotion and gratitude
For the life they are giving us,
Each day anew,
That blesses and heals all parts of
Us and our world into one, so that
The illusion of separateness dissolves
And once again we are consciously aware
Of our loving union with all life and lifeforms.
Thanks and praise be to Thee,
Great Spirit and Your only born Son,
The Spirit of the Universal Christ.
From ‘The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World’
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May Divine peace fill your whole being, within and without, today and forever.
May you be content with yourself and love and accept yourself, just the way you are.
May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you always be aware of the infinite possibilities that are born of trust in the goodness of life and its Creator,
the Great White Spirit, Father/Mother of all life,
to provide for all of everyone’s needs, including yours.
May you use the gifts the Universe has bestowed upon you,
to do your share of making our world into a better and more beautiful place
for all its inhabitants.
May you be able to give the full measure of the love
that is the most natural and important part of your being,
to everything that comes your way.
May your soul enjoy the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love
whatever is waiting to be taken possession of by you
every moment of each day, week, month and year of your present lifetime.
And may God and the Angels bless you and keep you safe, forever.
Amen
From ‘Words & Prayers For Peace, Comfort & Healing’
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O Holy Trinity,
Great Spirit, Father/Mother Creator,
And your only born Son/Daughter,
The Spirit of the Universal Christ,
Please hear my prayer.
I so very much want to trust and believe,
I know that Your deep love and mercy,
Forgiveness and understanding
For the trials and tribulations
Of all human hearts is very real.
But still I doubt.
Please help me to overcome my unbelief through an
Ever increasing understanding of the mysteries
Of my own existence and Yours.
I pray that may my perceptions
Should no longer be based on mere surface words,
But on a deep inner knowingness
Of the hidden meanings behind the texts of all
The sacred teachings of our world.
Help all human souls to grasp Your wisdom and truth,
The way we did in past lifetimes,
When this state of consciousness was known as gnosis.
The dawn my soul has patiently been waiting for is here,
Because I now realise that it was You who guided me
Through the lonely watches of dark night of my soul,
And through the narrow tunnel of my grief
Over thinking that I had lost my inner connection with You.
No longer do I have to wait,
Tortured and alone in the creeping loathsome dark,
Dragged along the labyrinthine maze that lacked
The knowledge that eventually the healing rays of the
Universal Christ, the Sun beyond the Sun in the sky above me,
Of Your eternal wisdom and truth would bring about
The rebirth of my own soul and that of our world.
Triumphantly, the iron gates of pain, which once held me
Prisoner in the dungeon of my ignorance, are breaking down.
They are bringing new life where broken hopes
Used to lay crippled among the ancient battlements
Of my soul and the soul of our world.
With all my heart and soul I pray
That my lack of faith in You should be replaced by
A deep inner awareness of Your Divine presence in me
And also my companions,
As each on their own way and all of us together,
Hand in hand with the Angels and You
Are walking back home into the
Conscious awareness of our oneness with You.
Great White Spirit, Father/Mother of all life,
As surely as a new day follows every night,
Now the darkest hour of humankind’s spirit and soul
Is reaching its natural end and the
Radiance of Your Light reigns supreme,
Now and forever.
Amen
Randle Manwaring
Adapted by Aquarius
From ‘War And Peace Between Nations’
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Since time immemorial human beings have been trying to recover the blissful state of peace we once knew when we still were fully aware of our oneness with our Creator, the Great Father/Mother of all life. It is therefore not surprising that during the earlier phases of our earthly development, to this day the favourite escape route from the demands of the trouble and strife of Earth life is the use of a multitude of substances like alcohol and drugs. It is for wise reasons that the peace we are after can only be found on the inner and higher levels of life. That is why, for as long as we insist on looking for it on the Earth plane, all our attempts of this nature are bound to be in vain.
The only way of re-entering into the peaceful state is through regularly communicating in prayers, meditations and quiet reflections with our Highest or God Self. Over time this re-establishes our inner connection with it. As each one of us can only do this for themselves, nothing is lost when the earthly self in the early stages of its development discovers to its disappointment that no matter what it tries, time and again it fails to find peace and that on each occasion it has been barking up yet another wrong tree. The mental and physical health problem this kind of experimenting brings with it, together with the fears and anxieties caused by the ignorance of our true nature and the purpose of our earthly existence, topped by the sheer drudgery of Earth life, the best and only way out of this predicament in the end appears to be suicide.
And so we attempt to finish our life. What a surprise awaits us if we succeed and get to the other side of the veil that separates our two worlds. We can then see for ourselves that the death of our physical body has been but a transformation into a different lifestate and that death is not at all like the kind we had been dreaming of in earthly life. When we ourselves no longer dwell in a physical body, there is no longer any doubt in our mind that human beings are spirit and soul, who merely sometimes get encased – trapped – in physical bodies. Once again we are aware that all human spirits and souls are immortal and will never die.
Now we are clothed in our astral body, which is of a much finer and lighter substance than our physical body, under which it is worn. Released from the limitations and restrictions of Earth life, we are ready to enjoy the greater freedom of the spirit world and take part in the learning available there. At a later stage of our development the astral body will also be shed. What a joy it is to know again that even the last one of us will eventually do this and move on to ever higher and more elevated levels of experiencing life. Let me leave the way I wish.
Give me this one last gift.
Let me have some control.
May God have mercy on my soul.
Let me choose how I want to die.
Let me decide when to say goodbye.
When I am ready I will know.
May God have mercy on my soul.
For my final sin I am willing to pay.
The price for throwing my life away.
This is one thing I will control.
May God have mercy on my soul
Let me find the peace I seek,
From secrets I dare not speak.
Just say goodbye and let me go
And pray for mercy on my soul.
Now my darkness has turned to light
And I’ve found peace, a beautiful sight.
I finally took control
And God had mercy on my soul.
Julia WF The feelings expressed in this poem and the writer’s longing for being in control, this in itself is the obstacle that stands in the way of finding the inner peace all of us are hoping to find one day and never can, for as long as we look for it on the Earth plane. It is this trying to stay in control no matter what that stunts so much of humankind’s spiritual growth and hinders its progress on the evolutionary spiral of life. Wise ones, however, whenever they have to confront difficult situations, surrender them to the Highest and most humbly pray: ‘Please show me the way. Thy Will and not mine shall be done! May Thy will be mine and my will be Thine, so that everything unfolds in accordance with your will and wishes.’
Following the intuitive guidance they receive from their inner selves, the living God within, enables them to come into alignment with the flow of their lives and go with it. All of life is flowingness
And in this flowing,
There is meaning and law.
I cannot lose, what is my own.
I need not seek, what is my own,
For what belongs to me, will come.
Whatever goes does not belong to me.
Only what I am has power.
I now give up my personal struggles and ambitions,
Knowing that everything that is rightfully mine
Will then be drawn to me.
Therefore, I now let go,
And trust my inner guidance
And the love and wisdom of the Highest,
To run my life for me
And to show me the way, now and forever.
Amen The cross is one of the most ancient symbols known to humankind. It was not invented by Christianity, but merely adopted from much more ancient religions and cultures that preceded it. The cross’s vertical bar stands for the God’s Will, as it reaches down from Heaven to Earth. The horizontal one is the symbol of humankind’s will for as long as it crosses the Will of God and struggles against it. When the two bars at last have been taken apart and are lying peacefully side by side and working harmoniously together, there is no more cross and there is PEACE!
In its original sense it never stood for death and crucifixion, but for the goodness and blessings of Earth life. It is intended to convey the idea that the human spirit with the assistance of its Highest Self is capable of overcoming and rising above everything that happens on the physical plane. The cross contains the message that until all human spirits and souls in their earthly existence, have imbibed their lessons in the course of many lifetimes. Until they have become sufficiently evolved, they have to remain firmly fixed to the cross of consciousness of earthly life.
There is no point in fighting against any of this because the material and spiritual education that our planet alone can provide is essential for our individual and collective evolutionary development. That’s why it is compulsory and unavoidable for all of us. Going with the flow and submitting ourselves willingly to whatever presents itself to us is the best we can do. This brings us much more easily into harmony with the energies of the Highest Forces than anything else. We have been granted the gift of another lifetime so that we may serve them and learn how to co-operate with them. Extract from
‘God’s Lament Of The Piscean Age’
Unbeknown to your earthly selves for far too long
I, the Divine Spirit in you and all life,
Have been held prisoner by the darkness of humankind’s
Ignorance of its own true nature and Mine.
This bred false beliefs, prejudices and superstitions,
Which now stand in the way of
Your personal and collective evolution.
To set yourself free and fully reconnect with Me,
You have to let go of each one of them.
Know that you are responsible for yourselves,
Your whole race and world,
And every one of your thoughts, words and actions,
You are the captain of the ship of your own life and destiny.
Although you are in charge,
You will always be accountable to Me.
I am the Admiral of the great fleet of humankind
In the vast ocean of life of the whole of Creation.
I am the Supreme Commander of all beings and things. White Eagle: ‘Try not to overlook your constant need for remaining calm, tranquil and still within. Even when you are active with your hands and doing all kinds of work on the physical plane to serve those you love, deep within it is possible to keep still and tranquil deep within, at peace and looking up to the Angels.
‘Every one of your actions has its origin in your innermost centre. It is the basis of all life and the place where your own and everybody else’s Highest or God Self dwells. It knows the answer to any question you may ever care to ask. Your ability to act in more and more positive and harmonious ways grows when you are still within. When you strengthen your inner connection with the spirit of the living God inside you, you will find that you are gradually reacting to life in ever more perfect ways.’
White Eagle Calendar November 2016: ‘On the astral plane all limitations fall away and the soul perfectly expresses itself in colour, form and music. This brings intense happiness.’ Recommended Reading:
• ‘Walking Away From Drama’
Dedicated to Julia, who inspired this new chapter of my jottings,
and to all those who are searching and suffering like her,
With love – Aquarius Feedback: ‘Thank you for sharing your words of wisdom, they have brought great comfort to me and made my world a brighter, and a more beautiful place... may your spirit dwell in peace and love... your friend Julia.’ From ‘The Spiritual Aspects Of Depression And Suicide’ | |
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius et al
Is not the problem with walking away from our external drama that the external is a reflection (even for some a creation, or projection) of our internal drama? So any immediate and seemingly quick fix gained by creating an alternative external drama cannot simply adjust our internal drama, or our system-within (psychological/spiritual/emotional) ... is an appearance of change, not a reality ... like the karma that we will ultimately have to repeat, either in this 'world', or the 'next' (when actually everything is in the paradox present moment: including the peace you describe). Unless of course we are in an abusive and life threatening environment, as a fact rather than a drama, in which case we must of course flee, not walk ...
For any other interested readers, the works of the late Rene Guenon are readily available on-line, who wrote much of an integrationalist view in the early 20th century, one of his great works being The Symbolism of the Cross ... as for a contemporary physicist's take on consciousness, the work of Robert Lanza is interesting: 'Biocentrism'; though Capra's The Tao of Physics predated his findings to some extent.
Love
Paul
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Location: United Kingdom | You Can Do It!
You don’t need to be told:
‘Life’s not easy and some hills are hard to climb!’
You don’t need to be told:
‘Have patience, it’ll all come in good time!’
You’ve got enough determination
To see you through,
And if you muster the patience,
Good luck will come, too.
You may have to weather a storm or two,
But don’t put your plans on the shelf.
You’ll only get where you’re going
By believing in yourself.
So go on, give life your best shot.
Success will not pass you by,
If you remember that the only failures
Are those who never try.
Anon.
From ‘Words Of Hope & Encouragement’
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Location: United Kingdom | Don’t Quit
‘Winners never quit
And
Quitters never win.’
Anon.
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and debts are high,
And you want to smile, but have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down more than a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don’t ever quit.
Life can be strange with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns.
But many a failure can turn about,
And we could be winning, if only we stick things out.
Don’t give up, even if the pace appears to be slow.
You may succeed, with just one more blow.
Success is failure turned inside out.
It’s the silver tint on the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close to it you are,
It could be near, when it still seems very far.
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit.
And when things seem at their worst.
That’s the time when it’s most unwise to quit.
Anon.
The way I see it, when things sometimes seemingly go wrong in our lives, it is always us who are out of step with the Universe and not the other way round. It is then more than likely that the energies it is currently putting at our disposal wish to tell a different story and are trying to steer us and our life into a different direction. If one seemingly runs into one invisible wall after another, when obstacle after obstacle rears its head, it is a safe bet that the Universe is attempting to give us a message that somehow we are barking up the wrong tree. It may well be the case that it has something much better up its sleeve for us, if we but pay attention.
The world around us is a mirror of what is taking place inside us. Through the actions and reactions of the people around us it is constantly trying to provide us with some kind of feedback. This is known as Universal guidance and we do well to listen to what the Universe has to say. And whenever things in our lives are not going the way we would want them to, almost certainly this is a signal from the Highest that for us the time has come to take stock and make some changes. Making an effort to attend to the special lessons we have agreed to learn in the course of our present lifetime, long before we entered into it, re-aligns our energies with those of the Universe and we get back into harmony with ourselves and the predestined pathway of our life.
Whenever any change of direction is required, we do not have to do anything of the kind, because we have been given freedom of choice. However, wise ones pay attention to whatever guidance comes their way and when next time something appears to go wrong in their lives, they try their hand at something else and look towards channelling their energies into different avenues of expression. The Universe constantly offers us choices and no-one can force us into doing anything we do not like or to believe things that do not sound true to us. There is always a choice and it has to be made – by us. But, before we can choose wisely, we first have to become aware of the fact that we are allowed to choose. Try not to overlook that not choosing also amounts to a choice.
Humankind’s much cherished freedom is comparable to a dog going for a walk on a lead. We are the dog and our Karma is the lead which our Highest or God Self holds in its loving yet stern, undeviating and unrelenting hands. It alone knows our true needs and whatever is the right thing for us in any given moment. It constantly guides us into our next adventures on the Earth plane. For each one of us this is the only authority in the whole of Creation who really knows which lessons still have to be integrated by us and which tests and trial are necessary to lead us home into the oneness with God.
If at any given time evil desires of our lower nature rise to the surface of our consciousness, we are free to decide whether we wish to follow them and act them out or not. The more highly evolved we become, the easier it becomes to acknowledge and accept such things as part of our lower animal nature, which have outlived their usefulness. Whenever this happens, wise ones reach for the hand of their Highest Self and request its help to change and transmute the energies of the desires that are no longer in our interest into something that serves the highest good and greatest joy of all life.
It is possible to save ourselves many disappointments when we bear in mind that doors will only ever open for anyone when they are meant to. And when one of them does, the experience can be likened to something that can usually only be seen in funny films. Having so got used to pushing and shoving uselessly at far too many doors, there may well come a moment, when – metaphorically speaking – we have at last found the right one. In that case the door flies open so suddenly that it makes you feel almost as if you were shooting out through the window, at the other end of the room. Why not try it out for yourself sometime?
True faith in ourselves, our own life and the goodness of the Universe can only grow in anyone through growing and learning from our first hand experiences, like the one that now lies before you. On this road of learning to trust, when we unsuccessfully tried one door after another and none will open for us, no matter how hard we try – when things seem to be going wrong, as they sometimes will – it is worth our while to stop in our efforts and reflect. It is worth our while to have a bit of a dialogue with ourselves that goes something like this: ‘Let me see, what I am trying here is obviously not meant for me. Maybe the Universe has something else for me in mind, possibly something better. If so, I’ll be patient and wait for another opportunity that will surely come, especially if I ask for it.
‘Are things really going wrong in my life or is merely that the Universe is trying to give me a message that I need a change of direction? Could this be happening for my own good and because the Universe loves me and knows my true wants and needs better than I do? Could it be protecting me against myself, because it wants me to find what is rightfully mine? Is it possible that something better is in store for me, something I might not have imagined even in my wildest dreams? Perhaps I better wait patiently for a while, so that another chance can come my way.
‘That’s a great deal better than despairing or even swearing at the Universe because it does not seem to wish to fulfil my wishes. I am your child and my true nature is love. Help me try the loving way instead, with love in my heart for myself and the people involved in my enterprise. Alright, here I go! I love you and trust you, as you love and trust me. After all, that makes an awful lot of sense, you know!’
And when funds are low and debts are constantly high, it is time for some soul-searching and asking myself: ‘Why am I not taking part in the Universe’s abundance? Is it because I am not sharing my own abundance with others, my gifts and talents, of which we all have many? How can I increase my input into life, so that I can get more out of it? Do I need to be less selfish and think more about the good of the whole of society, life, our beautiful planet and the Universe? Why don’t I try and see what happens?’
Recommended Reading:
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This is what I was referring to on my post on another thread, that we need to be wary of blaming the victim ... are the poor to blame for their poverty, the oppressed for their oppression? Surely not ...
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Location: United Kingdom | Never Give Up
‘It doesn’t matter how slow you go,
As long as you don’t stop’
Confucius 551 – 479 BC
When cares threaten to overtake you
And you’re waiting for the sky to clear,
Remember that life is a series of changes,
And a brighter tomorrow is always near.
Each day is a brand new beginning,
And each one brings a beautiful dawn.
So, when you come to the end of your rope,
Tie a knot in the end and hang on,
Filled with hope.
Anon.
From ‘Words Of Hope & Encouragement’
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Aqua-what is the relationship between post 27206 and 27202? I don't get it.
Smatherings from the Dense Macabre Virgo,
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Marty, Sorry to have confused you. It is possible that there is no connection between the two. Maybe I just clicked the reply button of one item at random. I do this sometimes. Hope you'll forgive me for such sloppiness. 
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Location: United Kingdom | P.S. My offerings do not necessarily have to be connected one with the other. They are picked at random, often in keeping with what is happening in my own life or someone else’s who is asking for my support. You’d be surprised how often someone somewhere gets in touch to tell me: ‘It’s precisely what I needed at this moment.’ With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Bridges
Do not cross any bridges till they come into view.
Do not waste time wondering what you’re going to do
Should you meet disaster or adversity.
It may never happen, it may never be.
Anticipating future trouble is more than foolish.
Wait until you are up against some of it
And then trust your Highest Self to intervene.
Pray that something unexpected and unforeseen
Is waiting for you round the corner,
To help you and change everything.
Situations alter, so never waste time worrying.
Instead, in your mind build bridges of faith and trust
That through your inner guidance God and the Angels
Are sure to guide you successfully through anything.
Patience Strong
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Words Of Hope & Encouragement’
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Location: The Heart of Space | Halloo Aqua: "You’d be surprised how often someone somewhere gets in touch to tell me: ‘It’s precisely what I needed at this moment.’" -from your post.... Actually, no I am not surprised, it is how published horoscopes work. For the myriad number that will find them completely useless, some one, somewhere will reply as above, and perhaps some others will do the same. I was hoping you would reply to Paul's post, as I have often found that a fair amount of what you write tends to "blame" the victim and provides a priori comfort to the those that suffer. Yours, Martin Catless
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Marty, Where did I ever publish a horoscope of any kind? I wonder what gave you the impression that I did.
As far as blaming someone is concerned, that is not the issue at all in any part of my writings. I believe - and that is MY truth - that we are responsible for every one of our thoughts, words and deeds and that the Universal laws, God's laws, bring back to us whatever we send out into our world at any given moment. Something could have been a great many lifetimes ago, but when the time is right and we can cope with the lesson that is waiting for us - in whatever form it may present itself - it will come. That is the justice of the Universe, God's justice, at work. It is so fair and just that it can be hard for us earthlings to understand. There is no blame, no punishment, no retribution - just Love because the law of life is Love.
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Both (and anyone else looking in!)
We might CHOOSE at some point in our cosmic incarnation recycling process to experience any or all kinds of experiences (which seems to me close to what Christine teaches) as part of our path to wholeness/holiness and absorption ultimately into the Divine All, but that is quite different to the whisperings of karmic wreckage that we might wreak on ourselves eons past into eons future ... otherwise we are at risk of substituting a vengeful Yaweh for a vengeful cosmic super ego ... equally, once we have experienced the full range of our cosmic recycling opportunity, we might as in Buddhist teaching, refrain from entering Nirvana until all souls have reached that equal opportunity status, in which we take upon ourselves a mission to return and assist others in the enlightenment process (and risk crucifixion for our pains).... all those threads of perception make rather more sense to mine divine vibe
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Location: United Kingdom | The whole point of the exercise is that eventually we should become aware of the presence of the Universal laws, God's laws, to which all life is subject. This happens when we grow from spiritual infancy and childhood into spiritual maturity and adulthood, a young God who understands what his/her existence is about and therefore ready and willing to take responsibility for ourselves and every one of our thoughts, words and actions. Through the lessons we encountered along the way we have become wiser and kinder, more understanding, patient and loving towards our own shortcomings and those of others. With love and respect for the One, whatever name you use for it, who brought us all into being and has always taken care of every one of our true needs and forever will do. If this consists of learning a certain lesson, that's what happens. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | I think God/Goddess, Blessed be sh/he is timeless, so stands outside time and resides in Eternity, so how can anyone be a 'young god in the making' (your capital deliberately omitted, sorry) ...?
Everything else from our world here and now is from our perspective; the Divine's [for the sake of another term) perspective is different. This world as it is is an inversion of the Divine.
We might get glimpses through prayer and/or meditation
Arguably we brought ourselves into being to fulfill and enhance the will of the Divine ....
Sorry, gotta go and make dinner now.
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Location: United Kingdom | Guten Appetit when you've got it ready. As far as the other points are concerned, we once again have to agree to disagree and - hopefully - remain friends. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Thanks - but it is not my appetite, I am a carer so cook for others on a deadline ,,, was merely excusing myself with apology from a live discussion ...
Happy to disagree and remain friends, at least the trio of our discussion - you, Marty and me, with the occasional Ophi - shows the Board remains alive
We are all on the same page, only S/He knows the difference .... 
As for the internet tht merely perpetuates the illusion of unreality
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Location: United Kingdom | Everybody perceives the truth in a somewhat different way. That's what makes our world so interesting! To me it does.
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Location: The Heart of Space | My apology Ack....I did not write clearly enough...... "Actually, no I am not surprised, it is how published horoscopes work. For the myriad number that will find them completely useless, some one, somewhere will reply as above, and perhaps some others will do the same." - from my post Let me try another way.....you thought I might be surprised that something you wrote might touch someone somewhere and somehow. Further, that they might say that it is "just what they needed". I compared this sentiment of yours to horoscopes that I and many others read every day. The way they work is though they are written for a mass audience and could not possibly be pertinent to the entire audience each and every day, every now and then, one reads a prediction which is so close or identical to something in one's life that it makes continued reading every day worthwhile. I never said that you published horoscopes (thought you should as you are good at astrology). And, again Aqwah, in the recent flurry of posts, there is one which speaks of a "god" of justice and fairness, but again offers little comfort to those that suffer. More egregious, the "god" does these things to people so that they learn a lesson. Peace to All, Marty
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Location: United Kingdom | Thank you, Marty, for explaining what you meant. It may interest you that I have never written a horoscope and that I never read any, for the simple reason that I am no friend of fortune-telling. I believe that we are here to learn to trust the goodness of life and that it will always bring us that which we truly need, at any given moment.
As far as the higher or rather highest fairness and justice that is the basis of all life is concerned, as pointed out many times before, I believe that life on Earth is a school. All of us - without exceptions - are taking part in it so that we may grow in understanding and wisdom. Each one of us can only do this through their own experiences. From the mistakes we make, in this lifetime and previous ones, we learn to do better. And so on and so forth. That is MY belief and MY truth. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Truly caring friends are the ones who know how to be silent in moments of despair or confusion, who stay with us in hours of grief, bereavement and loneliness, content with not knowing, curing or healing our wounds of soul and body. The presence of such friends helps us face the reality of the basic human predicament of powerlessness before the great issues, like life and death. People who can do this are outer manifestations of the living God inside the one who is suffering. With the compassion, total and unconditional love and acceptance they are showing us, the Divine embraces and comforts every distressed soul on the Earth plane. By applying simple human kindness and friendliness, consideration and respect for each other in all our relationships, the alchemy of love can take place and transform the base metal of even the most ordinary or difficult connection with others into the pure gold of truly caring friendships.
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Location: United Kingdom | Doing The Right Thing
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred.
You don’t have to like them, but love them anyway! They are all part of your own family.
They are part of you and you are part of them.
They may not yet know it, but you being wiser,
Love them anyway! People may project their own ulterior motives onto you,
And accuse you of having them.
Rest safe in the knowledge that the Universe
Knows their hearts as well as yours.
Do good anyway! If being successful means that we can only win
False friends and real enemies.
Succeed anyway! The good we do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do it anyway! What could have taken years of building up,
Can be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway! People who are in need of our help,
May attack us whilst we are trying to help them.
Help anyway! Give the world the best that is within you,
And should it be rejected, do not stop giving.
Give anyway! The Universal Law of Karma ensures that what we send
Into the world, has to return to us.
Give of your best and only the best is sure to return! Bishop Abel Muzorewa
African Spiritual and Political Leader
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Location: United Kingdom | The Galilee Song
Deep within my heart I feel
A voice is whispering to me.
Words I fail to understand,
With meanings I cannot clearly hear.
But they’re calling me to follow,
Leaving behind my earthly self and
The evening shadows of a world
That is entering into the bright light
Of the dawning of a new age.
In my memories I know
God sending me familiar rains
That fall gently on my days,
Dancing patterns on my pain.
And I need to learn once more
In the fortress of my mind,
To believe in the goodness of life and rain,
When exploring the spiritual desert
Of earthly life.
As I gaze into the night,
Ahead into the future of my years,
I’m not sure I want to walk
Past horizons that I know.
But I feel my spirit called.
It’s a stirring deep within,
Wishing to safely live
Beyond the fears that
Have always closed me in.
And so I leave their boat behind and
Set off from the shores that are familiar to me,
To look into and search the deepest innermost
Recesses of my heart and soul
How I can follow You, my Creator,
The greatest love of my whole being,
The Spirit of the Universal Christ.
You alone are My true Lord and Lady,
Master and Mistress.
Not a mystical figure sitting
On a throne in some distant realm,
But here and now,
With me and part of me.
How could I not love You
How could I not trust You?
Frank Andersen
Adapted for our time
By Aquarius
‘Dona Nobis Pacem’
J.S. Bach
From ‘Healers And Healing’
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Location: United Kingdom | I think the longing for that which we feel we have lost, although its essence remains within our hearts (sometimes unseen and overlooked), is one of the most poignant parts of being human .... | |
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Location: United Kingdom | The Time Is Now 
Time for celebration, relaxation and inspiration,
For new beginnings and finding better ways of being.
Time for fresh creation and affirmation,
For experiencing beauty and love
In more meaningful ways.
Time for living and forgiving,
For healing ourselves, each other and our world.
For listening to intuition and inspiration,
So that healing may flow through us,
Showing us ways of conducting our lives
More wholly and meaningfully.
For reaching out to each other in friendship
Learning to love wisely,
Totally and unconditionally.
Finding fulfilment by doing
Things for our planet and healing it,
Instead of merely taking from it.
Time for striving to fulfil our own Highest potential,
As well as that of all humankind and the Earth.
Every one of us doing their share of making
God’s greatest dreams and ambitions
For us and our world come true,
With our help.
Time for living in peace and kinship
With all sentient beings in this world
And our other world.
Time for freedom from all oppression,
Especially of the spiritual kind.
Shedding false beliefs, prejudices and superstitions,
Which far too long stopped us from recognising our true nature
And acting in keeping with it.
Time for walking our talk,
Living our ideals and following our
Highest aspirations by refusing to give in
To the desires of our lower earthly nature,
Resisting selfishness and greed and
Setting an example others may wish to follow.
Time for sewing fresh seeds,
In our own hearts and minds and those of others.
Mustering the courage to be heard
With the voice of our true selves,
So that we may fully become once more
That which we always have been,
Since long before all life on this planet began:
Children of God, whose nature is love.
That’s why I’m telling you: ‘The time is now!’
Anon.
Edited by Aquarius From ‘Words Of Wisdom, Hope & Encouragement’
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Location: United Kingdom | The Time is Now, by Moloko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFhBTvssznA
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Location: United Kingdom | If Luck Were A Raindrop
If luck were a raindrop,
I’d send you a shower.
If hope were a minute,
I’d send you an hour.
If happiness were a leaf,
I’d give you a tree.
And whenever you need a friend,
You’ll always have me.
Anon.
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Words Of Hope & Encouragement’
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Location: United Kingdom | Come To Me, My Truly Beloved
I have had enough of silent nights, of my unspoken grief and tired wisdom. Come to me, my truly Beloved. You are my treasure, my breath of life, dress my wounds and be my cure. Enough of words, just come to me without a sound.
Love means reaching for the sky and with every breath tearing away a hundred veils. Love steps away from the ego. It opens the eyes of inner vision and does not take this world so seriously. If you understand all this, congratulations, dear heart! You have joined the circle of lovers, but please tell me in your own words how all this began for you. For me it happened when I was absorbed in my work in this world, though I never lost my longing for my true home in the realms of the Highest. One day, exhausted with no strength left, I turned to God and the Angels and asked for their help. Suddenly they lifted me into the grace of Divine love. Words cannot describe the mystery of this experience.
Dear heart, why are you are so unreasonable? You have fallen in love. Why then are you still worrying about your life? Those who insist on robbing and stealing have reason to fear earthly laws as well as spiritual ones. But although you profess to be in love with the Highest, nonetheless you are worrying about what people may think of you.
While in earthly life, I will run fast and keep running until I catch up with the spirits of the air and the wind. I will dissolve into air and become nothing, so I can reach my Beloved more easily. I will become fire, burn my house and head for the desert. I will become all pain, so I can be healed. I will become humble and turn into soil so your flowers can grow in me. I will kiss the ground and become water, so I can flow into your rose garden. I will make my face shine like a golden coin, so I can become worthy of you, my one and only truly Beloved. I came in this world helpless and fearful but now that I am approaching the end of my journey, I am finding comfort and safety in you. The blessing of truth is like water, it can only flow downstream, back into the great ocean of life. Did it come into earthly life so that I can find the way back to you, my Beloved?
There is no bargaining with the love I feel for you. And the choices I make are no longer the ones of my earthly self but yours. Your will is mine and my will is yours. Now I know that love is the true nature of life throughout the whole of Creation and that it is also the essence of human nature that provides a mirror of our soul. This kind of love can only reveal itself to those who look into its face and have the courage to act it out in their own lives.
When you recognise the face of anger, false pride and all manner of other negative characteristics in others, do not turn away. Know that they are mirrors of your hidden inner self. Place your own negativity under your feet, turn it into a ladder for climbing ever higher into your true nature. There is no peace until you become the master of the desires of your lower earthly self. Let go of all anger. An outburst of it may taste sweet at the moment it is happening, but anger destroys – not merely the other one. In time it also kills you. Refuse to act as one of life’s victims. Be a conqueror by taking charge of every aspect of your being. If that sounds too difficult, ask God and the Angels for their help.
It takes humility to climb to freedom. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, do not harbour bad thoughts, do not gossip and do not teach what you do not truly understand yourself.
When a tree is planted every leaf that grows tells you of the tree’s love for its Creator. Let your life be like this and never forget that whatever you sow – in this lifetime and all others – is bound to bear fruit. Therefore, if you have any sense, my dear friend, plant nothing but love and remember that we show our worth by what we seek, not by our words but our actions and deeds. Water flows to those who want purity, so wash your soul of all desires and be cleansed for the table of the highest love.
Shall I tell you a secret? Flowers attract the most beautiful lovers with their sweet smile and scent. When writing poetry or prose, if you put the cravings of your small earthly self for fame and glory to one side and allow God’s inspiration to flow through you, it will do so and can then speak to people’s hearts and souls forever.
Do not spend unnecessary time with those who lack understanding. Never sit in judgement over them or throw stones at them or their talk. Each in their own sweet time they too will re-awaken into the awareness of their true nature. As the mirror of the soul easily gets rusty when dipped into muddy waters, it is better by far to keep the company of those who already have opened their hearts and learnt to love wisely, God’s way.
Maulana Rumi
From the Islamic Tradition
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Location: United Kingdom | The Tale Of The Butterfly  Once upon a time, by the side of a dusty road in India sat an old beggar who was selling cocoons. He noticed that a young boy had been watching him for many days. Finally, he beckoned the boy and asked him: ‘Have you any idea of what beauty lies within my cocoons?’ When the boy shook his head, the old man continued: ‘Every one of them is the home of a beautiful butterfly. I will give you one, so you can watch how it happens. But you must be very careful and not handle the cocoon until the butterfly emerges.’
Enchanted with his gift, the boy hurried home to await the emergence of the butterfly. He laid the cocoon on the floor and while watching it became aware of a curious thing. The butterfly seemed to be beating its wings against the hard outer shell of its chrysalis. ‘The poor little thing will surely perish before it can break free from its prison,’ thought the boy. ‘I have to help it!’
And so he pried the cocoon open. Out flopped a soggy brown and ugly thing that quickly died. After a while, the boy met the beggar again and told him what had happened. ‘Ah yes,’ the old man said: ‘It is necessary for the creature to beat its growing wings against the walls of its cocoon, until they have grown strong enough to support it when it finally emerges as a butterfly. Through its struggling alone can the butterfly’s wings become beautifully strong and durable enough to carry and support it. When this is denied, the creature dies because its only chance of developing the necessary strength has been taken from it.’
The butterfly is a symbol of transformation. The life cycle of each one of them represents a microcosm of the macrocosm of humankind’s individual and collective evolutionary process. May the walls of everyone’s cocoon be just thick enough – and no more – to support us in our struggle of breaking free from the mental prison of the cocoon of false beliefs, prejudices and superstitions about our true nature that have kept us bound to the Earth plane for such a long take. May every one of us at long last take to our spiritual wings to aid our flight of growing and evolving into the beautiful beings we are truly meant to be.
Created by Anon.
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Edited by Aquarius 4/26/2016 8:21 AM
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Location: NE Ohio | The tale of a man, who grew a tail..... he kept seeing it every single day, as it was there like a sore thumb,,,,, OUCH he said,,,, i need a fresh NEW path.... and so he did. No longer did he have to keep going in circles, no more stepping on his poor little fluffy tail.... This took courage to move forward: but alas.... DONE! Yay! Congratulations on the man in the garden, finely stepping out of the mud and onto solid ground! Congrats! | |
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Location: United Kingdom | Great tale of a tail Jill ... pithy and to the point | |
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Location: United Kingdom | Good tale, Jill. Any more where this one came from? With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Eternity
Eternity is not the hereafter.
Eternity has nothing to do with time.
It is now. This is it!
If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere.
The experience of Eternity lies in the here and now,
In the rhythms of the processes of life.
Heaven is not the place to experience Eternity,
It is here!
Joseph Campbell
From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’
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Location: United Kingdom | Yes, Joseph Campbell is one of the truly greats ....
"Follow your Bliss" as he said | |
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Location: NE Ohio | That was a channeled guide who spoke through me.... i didn't even know what i wrote (in trance), till after I was done. Many things i write come from with-in. My source is a spirit guide. I am so glad it touched someone and actually makes sense. To speak from a guide often gets metaphorically messed up... in my mind it makes sense, but to put it on paper, or writing it down is a whole different ball game. LOL I have some spelling errors to fix though... ha ha
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Location: NE Ohio | By the way, that was my attempt at some Poetry. If anyone has ever noticed.... i have never written anything in the poetry section because i have never been a fan of it, yet i love Music and the music lyrics, so i guess i love poetry after all. I've written a lot in the past, but never posted any of it because it's personal to me and I am a hyper critic of myself. Yet... why? I'm learning~ | |
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| Funny you mention music and music lyrics. I'm not a big fan of poetry either, I have a hard time writing it and a hard time understanding what people are trying to say with it. But as an angsty teen I was seriously into music and wrote a lot of song lyrics- and it really IS the same thing, isn't it? I don't have much trouble relating to music lyrics... | |
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Location: NE Ohio | Yes, it's the same thing and i have a very hard time calling it the same. Add music to poetry and we have beautiful masterpieces. I can relate to the lyrics in music. ... why is it so hard to relate when the music is missing? Lol Disa, such a great point.
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| IDK, it's the music that carries me away and speaks to my soul, while the lyrics speak to my heart and my mind. Maybe they just have to go together for us to get the full effect? | |
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Location: NE Ohio | I think so. .. i will completely burst into tears randomly while listening to a great composed song with matching lyrics that fit my rather strange life we call human. ... my body aches so bad on a daily bases but i keep trucking on, pretending its not present. Oh well. .. it wouldn't be so bad if the passion didn't cause a sudden heat flash, sweat.... the chills. One of the reason music helps so much. ... takes my mind right off pain. But. ... it comes right back cause it doesn't go away. Oh well. ... i feel the pain of everyone. ... then i feel nothing. .... lol. Love that song! | |
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Location: United Kingdom | Thought I had replied yesterday, but it did not seem to stick ... I said something about the root of the word for 'poem', being linked with 'to make' and therefore creation ... hence perhaps, 'in the begiining was the Word' ...
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Location: United Kingdom | Of Marriage [And Partnerships]
Almitra spoke again and said: ‘What of marriage, Master?’
And the prophet replied:
‘You were born together and you shall be for evermore.
You shall be together when the wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
That’s what I believed when I first wrote these lines,
But I know better now that I am dwelling on the other side
Of the veil of consciousness that separates our two worlds.
I can see clearly what a long way marriage
Has come since the days of the patriarchy
When it deteriorated ever more into
A more than somewhat archaic institution.
What a long way our world has come since then!
It gladdens my heart to see that for many by now
Marriage means forming a partnership
In which both men and women have equal rights
As well as duties to fulfil, because each one of you is an
Individual and independent spark of Divine consciousness,
Who once emerged from the heartmind of God.
Although in spirit all is one, when in earthly life you are married,
Make sure there is room between you.
Allow each other breathing space and invite
The winds of the Heavens to dance between you.
Love one another, but do not make a bond of your love
That ties you together as if with cast-iron chains.
Let your love be more like an ocean that moves
Between the shores of your two souls.
The other half you have been looking for without success
On the Earth plane in the course of many lifetimes
Is not meant to be found there and in other human beings.
The missing part of you that will make you whole is
The living God within, everyone’s own Highest or God Self.
Reuniting with it is the only marriage that in the end
Can still and satisfy your yearnings for a love that is true,
Accepts you totally and unconditionally,
Never leaves you and lasts in all Eternity.
That’s why I say:
You do not need anyone else to make you whole.
Each one of you has the energies of their counterpart within.
For a long time it had to remain dormant,
Waiting to be taken into possession by you.
Help each other to recognise and take possession of it.
Then with gratitude for the gift the other one
Has brought you, let go of each other again.
Even though you are married,
Never forget that each soul has its own pathway to walk,
Its own things to do and lessons to learn.
So share what nurtures you and fill each other’s cup,
But do not drink from the same cup or eat from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
But let each also sometimes be on their own,
Just like the strings of a lute are alone,
Although they vibrate with the same tune.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping,
For only the hand of life can contain them.
Stand together, but not too close,
Similar to the pillars of a temple standing apart,
Bearing in mind that the oak tree and
The cypress do not grow in each other’s shade.
Each in their own way and time has to learn their pathway to walk,
Their Karma to redeem and Highest potential to fulfil.
Let each learn to take the lead in some things whilst following in others.
Each contributing in their own special and unique manner
Not only adds variety and interest to your relationship,
It helps to make it last longer and ensures that both partners
Grow at an even pace, individually and together.
From ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese/American poet
Edited by Aquarius
Recommended Reading:
From ‘Astrology As A Lifehelp In Relationship Healing’
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Location: United Kingdom | Supernatural3 - 4/27/2016 7:24 PM That was a channeled guide who spoke through me.... i didn't even know what i wrote (in trance), till after I was done. Many things i write come from with-in. My source is a spirit guide. I am so glad it touched someone and actually makes sense. To speak from a guide often gets metaphorically messed up... in my mind it makes sense, but to put it on paper, or writing it down is a whole different ball game. LOL I have some spelling errors to fix though... ha ha Blessings~ Der Jill, It may interest you that all my writings are intuitive and original ones. They represent my Highest or God Self, who communicates with you through me. There's no need for going into trance or anything of that nature - I simply write. And my work is not based on any of the traditional sources, but the inspiration for it comes directly from the Source of our being, who tells me that the spiritual teachings of other times were valid when they were given, because that was all humankind could understand in those days. But by now increasing numbers of us are ready for the truth of the Divine that is waiting to flow into the consciousness of all who are capable of receiving it. And that is the reason why any of my writings ever came into being.
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Location: United Kingdom | 
I have never made a fortune.
It’s probably too late for that by now,
But I don’t worry about it much
‘Cos I’m happy anyhow.
As I’ve been walking along life’s way,
I’ve been reaping better than I sowed
And am drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
I haven’t got many riches,
And sometimes the going’s tough,
But I’ve got loving ones around me
And with that I’m rich enough.
I thank You God for your blessings,
And the mercies You have bestowed.
I’m drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
I remember times when things went wrong
And my faith wore somewhat thin.
But then at once the dark clouds broke,
And the Sun peeped through again.
Please help me God not to gripe
About the tough rows I have hoed,
Instead give thanks and praise to You
That I’m still drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
Give me Your strength and courage,
When the way grows steep and rough,
And I’ll not ask for other blessings,
As I’m already blessed enough.
And may I never be too busy,
To help others bear their loads,
So I can keep on drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
From ‘Words Of Hope & Encouragement’
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I have never made a fortune.
It’s probably too late for that by now,
But I don’t worry about it much
‘Cos I’m happy anyhow.
As I’ve been walking along life’s way,
I’ve been reaping better than I sowed
And am drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
I haven’t got many riches,
And sometimes the going’s tough,
But I’ve got loving ones around me
And with that I’m rich enough.
I thank You God for your blessings,
And the mercies You have bestowed.
I’m drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
I remember times when things went wrong
And my faith wore somewhat thin.
But then at once the dark clouds broke,
And the Sun peeped through again.
Please help me God not to gripe
About the tough rows I have hoed,
Instead give thanks and praise to You
That I’m still drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
Give me Your strength and courage,
When the way grows steep and rough,
And I’ll not ask for other blessings,
As I’m already blessed enough.
And may I never be too busy,
To help others bear their loads,
So I can keep on drinking from my saucer,
For my cup has overflowed.
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Location: United Kingdom | A May Celebration In Honour Of
The Great Mother Of All Life
Bring flowers of the rarest,
Bring blossoms the fairest,
From garden and woodland
And hillside and dale.
Our full hearts are swelling,
Our glad voices telling
The praise of the loveliest flower of the vale.
Great Mother, we crown Thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May.
Great Mother, we crown Thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,
Their Lady they name Thee,
Their Mistress proclaim Thee,
Oh, grant that Thy children on Earth be as true,
As long as the bowers
Are radiant with flowers,
As long as the azure shall keep its bright hue.
Great Mother, we crown Thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,
Great Mother, we crown Thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,
Sing gaily in chorus,
The bright Angels o’er us
Re-echo the strains we begin upon Earth.
Their harps are repeating
The notes of our greeting,
And You, Great Mother,
Are the cause of our mirth.
This hymn is sung during the ‘May Crowning’ of a statue of Mary in May.
Mary is one of the many symbolisms for the Great Mother of all life.
Author unknown
Edited by Aquarius
Recommended Viewing:
At the beginning of May the Sun moves through earthy and sensuous Taurus. It is a time that presents us and our world with a dramatic change of tempo. After the breakneck speed and impatience of Mars in Aries, in Taurus Venus enters the main stage. In this Earth sign the planet finds some of its finest feminine expressions and brings to souls born into it, and also to everybody else at this time of the year, a wonderful sense of enjoyment and appreciation of the good things in life. Slowly and with a deliberately measured pace, Earth presents herself as the beautiful young bride. Bedecked with a profusion of flowers, blossoms and new greenery as far as the eye can see, she reveals to us the freshness of as yet unspoilt youth.
Sun in Aries represents the renewed betrothal of Mother Earth and Father Sun. But when the Sun moves through Taurus her wedding feast is celebrated and the Universe invites us all to take time out and enjoy with all our senses one of the greatest Cosmic events, of which the wedding feast and the subsequent renewal of all life on the Earth plane are outer physical manifestations.
When it’s springtime in the Northern hemisphere and all of nature is stirring after its winter rest, spring blossoms appear everywhere in great abundance and beauty. Admiring them, let us remind ourselves from time to time of the process of spiritual growth and harmony that is constantly at work behind any manifestation in the world around us. All children of the Universal Life Force, who are aware of this, have their work cut out for themselves, not merely on the physical plane but by adding our voices to the chorus of praise and thanksgiving that is part of the great orchestra of life. Watching its unfolding helps us to become ever more aware of and in tune with those beavering away behind the outer form of life to bring forth the living manifestations of God’s life on the Earth plane.
Whenever an opportunity for it arises, let us therefore go out into Mother Nature. Under he canopy of Heaven we seek the shelter and shade of the mighty branches of the Universal Tree of Life, God, and absorb His/Her blessings of healing and peace for ourselves and for everything – seen and unseen – that shares this life with us.
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Location: United Kingdom | The Internet Prayer
Thank you, Great White Spirit,
Father/Mother of all life,
For the beauty and wonder of Your Creation.
Thank you for allowing us all to take part in
The natural beauty of the planet
You have given into our care,
Our beloved Mother Earth.
Thank you for also providing us with the ideas
For the technical revolution that has been taking place
In our world for quite some time.
May Your creative ideas continue to inspire all of us,
And especially our scientists and technicians,
So they too can do their share of making our world into
An ever more beautiful and peaceful place
Where all can partake freely and equally in
The gifts that so generously flow from Your abundance.
We thank You for the miracle of the Internet
And the connections it makes possible in seconds
For meeting and getting to know
Like-minded people throughout our whole planet.
Not only they but everyone is our sibling
In the family of humankind.
We are Your children of the Earth.
Please help all of us to become aware of our true nature,
So that we may tune into Your wisdom and truth
Until our whole world, including the Internet,
Is filled with Your light and Mother Earth
Turns into a planet of healing and peace.
Guide and protect us and show us how to use
All your gifts wisely and especially
The Internet. Help us to treat it with respect
And use it for the highest good of all,
As a tool and instrument that brings
Ever more understanding into our world.
Help us to treat every one of the miracles
Of Your Creation, technical and otherwise,
With the reverence they deserve
And with love for You,
The One who brings all things into being
And who has created and constantly re-creates
Us and this splendid world for all to enjoy.
Guide and protect us and
Help us to make our contribution towards
Our own salvation and redemption,
Of each other, our world and
Everything that shares is with us.
Hand in hand with You and the Angels,
In accordance with Your will and wishes,
It shall be so, now and forever.
Amen
From ‘War And Peace Between Nations’
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| Dear Aquarius
I remember the 'Internet Prayer' from your previous posting of it on this very same thread not so long ago:
Posted 4/14/2016 1:22 PM (#27224 - in reply to #27223)
Subject: Re: Poetry And Prose For The Soul
Wondered if there is an especial reason for your drawing attention to it again?
Kind regards
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Location: United Kingdom | Thank you, Ophiucus, for pointing it out to me. I have made some alterations to it and updated it since my last posting. I'll look for the first one and delete it. Hope that's okay with you. With love - Aquarius * * * P.S. I have found and deleted the older version #27224
Edited by Aquarius 5/2/2016 1:53 PM
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| Thanks Aquarius ... it can help any newcomers and also students to orient and find their way around, as well as being able to see connections and links between ideas ... and the valued contributions that everyone makes towards making the Board a vibrant spiritual comunity ... especially too because as Jill points out, there is much treasure in the old threads ... as in the Euthanism ... Letting Go thread reposted today .. but there is a storehouse out there ....
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Location: United Kingdom | Thanks and God bless, dear Ophiucus, and nothing but good wishes are winging their way to you. With love - Aquarius
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Location: United Kingdom | Reflections On Prayer
During prayer our inner self is active
And with our whole being we give
Our undivided attention to our Creator.
Failing to pray is a sign that someone has not yet
Recognised their own Christ nature and that
Themselves are a spark of the Divine,
The same as everybody else.
All human beings contain this spark and also
Every other lifeform that shares our world with us.
Lacking the desire to pray merely means
That a person’s spark is still slumbering
And that their time for its awakening
Has not yet come.
Not praying, not even knowing how to,
Shows that we are out of touch
With the most profound aspect of our being.
Some believe that prayer is an element
That separates us from real life,
Which to them means our earthly existence.
Yet, quite the opposite is true.
Prayer reconnects us
With the eternal realities of our Christ nature.
It helps us to rediscover our own Divinity
And takes us back into the conscious awareness
Of our oneness with God and all life.
J.M. Cagodevilla
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Words & Prayers For Peace, Comfort & Healing’
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Location: United Kingdom | On The Wings Of Prayer
Just close your eyes and open your heart,
And pray that your worries and cares may depart.
Yield yourself to Mother and Father above,
And let Them hold you secure in Their love.
As life on Earth grows more involved,
Many problems arise that we cannot solve.
But God only asks us to do our best,
So the Angels can take over and do the rest.
The next time you’re discouraged and feeling blue,
Know that one door is always open for you
And that’s the door to the house of prayer.
Our Highest Self is waiting to meet us there.
This place is no further away
Than any quiet spot where we can pray.
Our being turns into a temple, when God is there
And we place ourselves in His/Her loving care.
All prayers are heard and responded to,
And burdens too heavy for us alone to bear,
Can be lightened on the wings of prayer.
Anon.
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Words & Prayers For Peace, Comfort & Healing’
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Location: United Kingdom | About Prayer
Then a priestess said: ‘Speak to us of prayer!’
And the Prophet replied:
‘You pray in your distress and in your need.
Would that you might pray also in the fullness of your
Joy and your days of abundance.
What is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ethers?
And if you receive comfort through pouring your darkness
And negativity into space, at least make an effort to create balance
By also sharing your delights and pleasures with the Universe.
Don’t forget to give thanks for all that Earth life itself,
Your kind and loving teacher,
Brings to you all the experiences that help
To learn and grow ever more heaven-tall.
For as long as you are still asleep to your true nature,
You cannot help weeping and complaining
Rather than giving thanks and praise to your Creator.
So whenever your soul summons you to prayer,
Shed your tears and be comforted by God and the Angels
Who bring you healing as soon as you draw closer to them.
Learnt to surrender all your troubles and woes
To your Highest or God Self so that you,
The small earthly self, together with your spirit and soul,
Will soon be smiling again.
When you go within to communicate with them,
In your prayers you are rising to meet in the ethers those
Who, like you, are praying at that very moment
And whom, save in those moments
Ob bliss you would otherwise
Never be able to get in touch with.
In the long course of your evolution and in the fullness of time,
May each of your visits to your inner temple of the soul
Be for nothing but spiritual ecstasy
And sweet communion with
The Great Father/Mother of all Life
And the Angels.
But take care that when you go there,
You do not make demands on them.
Isn’t it enough that you are allowed to enter the temple
And be there for a while,
To be recharged with God’s loving energies?
Nobody can teach you how to pray in words.
God does not listen to them, save when S/He
Utters them through your lips.
And because you must all learn from your own experiences,
Nobody can teach you the prayers of the oceans,
The forests and the mountains,
Except those who were born of these places.
They know such prayers in their hearts.
And if you but listen in the stillness of the night,
You can hear their silent pleas:
‘Our God, who art our winged self.
It is Thy will in us that willeth.
It is Thy desire in us that desireth.
It is Thy urge in us that turns our nights, which are Thine,
Into days, which are also Thine.
We cannot ask Thee for aught,
For Thou already knowest
Everybody’s true needs before we are born.
Each spirit and soul is born of Thy desires
And Thou art our need.
In giving us more of Thyself,
Thou givest us all.’
From ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese/American poet
Edited by Aquarius
Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Power Of Prayer’ From: ‘Words Of The Prophet – A Celebration Of Kahlil Gibran’
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Location: United Kingdom | A Prayer For Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day 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
Our loving thoughts and prayers go to the Great Mother of all life. They are accompanied by special blessings for all who once were our mothers and are now enjoying their well earned rest in the world of spirit.
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Location: United Kingdom | A Mother’s Love
There are exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking nobody loves us like our mother. Somewhere in the finely meshed fabric of life, she wove a strength, a kind of golden cord that tied us to her and released us into our present lifetime together with her. Ideally, this binding is not for possessing but protecting, so she can be there for us when necessary. In youth, we may feel this as a strain of too much watchfulness and too many questions.
Yet, the old equaliser time is likely to reveal to us eventually that the quality of her love has been less selfish than we thought and far more precious than we ever dreamed it could be. The best part of our relationship with her are not our blood ties but the karmic ones that reach way back into past lifetimes. This is the reason why she chose to love us and be our mother for this one. She did it because that’s what she wanted and not because it was her duty.
The awareness of this sets us free to say: ‘I like you, mother’ or ‘I love you, mama’. Quanah Parker from the Comanche tribe writes: ‘Comanche may die tomorrow or in ten year’s time, but when the end of this lifetime comes for any of us, we know that we shall all be together again in the world of spirit. I surely want to see my mother again.’
Even if the earthly mother of our present lifetime could not love us the way we would have liked her to, our Divine Mother always did and forever will.
Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Location: United Kingdom | Great Cathedrals – An Ode To Mothers
Why, when one of my children walks into the room while I am on the phone and asks to be taken somewhere, do I get these blank stares and the lack of response? I can feel my inner self rebelling each time something like this happens and I would like to shout: ‘Can’t you see I’m on the phone?’ But I control myself and say nothing. No-one seems to notice me whether I am on the phone, cooking or sweeping the floor, I could even be standing on my head in a corner. This makes me wonder whether I am invisible.
Some days I am a pair of hands, nothing more: ‘Can you fix this? ‘Can you tie this?’ ‘Can you open this?’ Some days I’m not even a pair of hands, never mind a human being. I’m a clock that can be asked: ‘What time is it?’ I’m a satellite guide who can answer the question: ‘What number is the Disney Channel?’ Sometimes it feels as if I were a taxi driver who is on call at all times and can be commanded with things like: ‘5.30 pm at Shirley’s, please!’
At times like that I look at my hands. They are the same ones that held books and the eyes that studied, what now seems a long time ago. I am still the person who once graduated with honours and who held down a responsible position for a good number of years. My thoughts go to my children. They are now the teachers who are helping me to graduate in the great school of life, with honours I hope. And I realise that this is far more important than any University or college degree could ever be, important though they are to us at the time.
I can’t help looking back sometimes and asking myself: ‘Has all that vanished from me without a trace, never to be seen again?’ When a tinge of sadness creeps in, I remind myself that I gave up all these things freely and willingly, because more than anything else in the whole wide world I wanted children of my own, a home and a family I could pour all my love into. And then suddenly an overwhelming thought strikes me: ‘Who was the person who did all the things I mentioned earlier? Where is she now? She has not left me, she is still here, but she has changed and grown immensely through her offspring. She’s less selfish and more thoughtful than she used to be. I like her much better.
One night a group of friends were having dinner together. Janice is one of our circle and we were celebrating her return from abroad. Having just got back from a fabulous trip, she went on and on about the hotel she stayed in. I was sitting there, having a good look at the others who were all turned out so well. It was hard not to compare and feel sorry for myself with my out-of-style dress, the only thing I could find that was clean to wear for the occasion. As I didn’t have the time to wash my hair before I came out, I just tied it into a knot. And then for a moment I was afraid a smell of peanut butter might waft from me to the others. I have to admit I was feeling a bit sorry for myself. But then Janice turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package and said: ‘I brought you this.’
It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe. I wasn’t sure why she had given it to me, until I read her dedication, which read: ‘To my friend, with admiration for the greatness of what you are building and what no-one can see.’ During the coming days I read – no, I devoured the book and discovered in them four truths that changed my perspective of life entirely. I discovered that the life of the builders of the great cathedrals of our world had been so very similar to mine.
Nobody knows who the builders were, as no records of their names are available anywhere. It could be that they dedicated a whole lifetime to a work they would never see finished. And so they probably expected no credit for their project. Their enthusiasm and love for their project may well have been fuelled by the belief that they were building for the glory of God and that the all-seeing eye of God would appreciate the sacrifices they made.
The book contains a legend about a rich man who came to visit one of the cathedrals while it was under construction. For a while he watched a workman who was carving a tiny bird on the inside of a beam. The rich man was so puzzled by this that he asked the workman: ‘Why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that will be covered by the roof? No-one will ever see it.’ ‘Ah,’ the other one replied: ‘It’s for God. The almighty sees everything.’
When I closed the book, I felt the small still voice inside me whispering : ‘All your efforts are not for nothing. I see even the tiniest sacrifice you are making each day, even though no-one else does. No act of kindness, no button sewn on or cake baked is too small an effort for me to notice and be pleased about. Be proud for you too are involved in the construction of a great building. You cannot yet see what it will one day be. It may even take until you return into the world of spirit, but from there too you will know that your efforts were not for nothing and that the seeds you have sown are indeed bearing fruit.’
It’s good to know that, just as the builders of those cathedrals are looking at their achievement from the other side of the veil of consciousness, at the latest I too will be able to view the results of my efforts when I join them. But, wait a minute. Some of those great edifices are hundreds of years old, so in the meantime the builders could have been recycled many times. Just think! At this very moment they could be standing in front of one of those old churches, admiring the work of their own minds and hands, unaware of what kind of an input they once had into it. They may inexplicably feel drawn to it, as if by some giant invisible magnet, to gaze upon and admire it. Isn’t it an amazing world we live in?
I have to admit, the feeling of being invisible sometimes is like an affliction. But I do no longer allow it to spoil my life, as I can now recognise it for what it truly is, namely a cure for my self-centeredness and an antidote to my strong and stubborn pride. My newly found vision of being a great builder helps me to keep the right perspective on my children, my life and myself. I too am one of those people who show up at a job they may never see finished during their present lifetime. And I also am working on something that may never bear my name.
The author of my book wrote that no cathedrals could ever be built in our present times for the simple reason that nobody would be willing to make the required sacrifices. Come to think of it, I would not want my daughter to tell the friend she brings home from college for Thanksgiving: ‘My mother is wonderful! She got up at four in the morning to bake some homemade pies and then hand-basted a turkey for three hours. On top of that she cleaned the whole house to make it look and feel good.’ I do not care for building myself shrines and monuments. I just want my children to come home. And if there is anything my children say to their friends, I hope it will be something like: ‘You’re going to love it, I’m sure.’
No matter what anyone may say about us mothers, in the great plan of life we are playing an essential role. Without us our world could not continue to exist. We are the representatives and temporary substitutes of the Great Mother, the giver of life through all her daughters. Like her, lovingly and silently we give of our best, so that She and Her Angels take care of the rest. As co-creators with God, women are doing their share of building mighty cathedrals. No-one, except God, can see all the sacrifices and efforts this takes. But throughout the ages in truth hasn’t our world at all times been marvelling at what wonderful buildings women’s endeavours have brought about by bringing up their children?
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Location: United Kingdom | An Exhausted Mother’s Prayer
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray that my sanity I shall keep.
For if some peace I do not find,
I’m pretty sure I’ll lose my mind.
I pray to find a little quiet,
That far from the daily family riot
I may lie back, not having to think
About what they’re putting down the sink,
Or who they’re with or where they’re at,
And what they might be doing to the cat.
I pray for time all to myself . . .
Did something just fall off a shelf?
Time for resting in my nice soft bed . . .
Oh no, she’s painted the curtain red!
A silent moment, but then – for goodness sake!
Did I just hear a window break?
I dream I need neither cook nor clean.
Well, I have the right to dream.
With that I lay me down to sleep
And pray that my wits I shall keep,
But looking around I know
I must have lost them long ago.
Created by Anon.
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Healing Corner For Parents And Children’
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Location: United Kingdom | The Homecoming
The Age of Aquarius is bringing us and our world
The long awaited spiritual homecoming.
It’s a time for leaving behind the false beliefs,
Superstitions and prejudices of the past.
By gazing deeply into the roots of our being,
Where we have come from and
Now are in the process of returning to,
We are discovering the true purpose
Of our earthly existence and the higher meaning
The periods that lie between these two events have served.
To perceive life with a clearer vision
And gain the higher perspective,
It is necessary to peer beyond the end of our nose
Into the spiritual background of life,
Where everything that happens in earthly life
And truly matters is brought into being.
What we are presently finding is faith, not ‘a faith’.
That would merely be like another religion.
The new faith is something much more
Basic and profound than any belief system
Our world could ever hope to be.
It is not a belief but a deep inner feeling
Of knowing and trusting that cannot
Be shaken or taken away by anyone or anything,
Because it is based on the spiritual knowledge
The Universe is helping us to find
Along the pathway of our life.
This provides us with the kind of faith
That trusts beyond any shadow of a doubt
That we always have been and forever shall be safe
In the loving hands of God and the Angels.
The new age brings us faith in the true meaning of the word,
Because we know from our own experiences
That in truth there is nothing for us to be afraid of
And that there is every reason for trusting the
Universe’s intentions that are based the infinite goodness of life.
This steadfastness of heart grows in us from the knowledge
That the Universal forces have always brought us
Whatever we truly needed
And that it will forever continue to do so.
The new faith is not something anyone can give us.
It can only grow organically within each one of us,
From their own experiences.
All together let’s fly on the mighty wings
Of God’s spiritual wisdom and truth
That’s now flowing ever more powerfully
Into every heart and soul and that of our whole world.
The knowledge we are finding is the tool we need
To release ourselves, each other and our whole world
From the suffering of earthly life
Into the greater freedom of the Aquarian Age
The freedom of knowing the truth.
Those who unselfishly giving of their best,
Are creating ever more positive Karma,
For themselves and our world,
Doing their share of establishing God’s kingdom on the Earth,
So that in the end nothing negative and destructive
Can return and touch us any more.
Peace be with us and our world,
Now and forever.
Amen
From ‘Healing The Conflicts Of Our World’
‘Astrology As A Lifehelp In Relationship Healing’
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Location: The Heart of Space | Hello All:
While the song is catchy, you might say a real toe-tapper; nonetheless some astrologers have quite a different view of the nature of the Age of Aquarius. Most all new-agers would rather have the "warm and fuzzy" Aquarian age. I prefer the truth.
We all must investigate for ourselves and determine where this age is taking us.
Our world is bound in the direction WE take it,
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Location: United Kingdom | Hi Marty
As someone born under Aquarius I resonate greatly with your vibe .... Uranus the bringer of revolution and rebellion ... all things becoming topsy turvy might work out in due course but we have a lot of hard work on ourselves to effect the change we want to make (to paraphrase Gandhi) .... else everything might vanish into thin (possibly nuclear) air ....
In hope, blessings but no guarantees
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Location: United Kingdom | mruppert - 5/14/2016 9:23 PM . . . I prefer the truth. We all must investigate for ourselves and determine where this age is taking us. Our world is bound in the direction WE take it, Peace, Marty Dear Marty,
I could not agree more! Nothing but the truth is good enough for us now the Aquarian Age is with us. And yes, all together let's take our world in the direction of PEACE!!!
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Location: United Kingdom | Paul Joseph - 5/15/2016 12:50 PM .... else everything might vanish into thin (possibly nuclear) air .... In hope, blessings but no guarantees Paul Dear Paul, Should the will of the Highest decree that we have to learn our lesson through this experience, then no doubt it will be so. But, let's do our best that it won't become necessary. Remember, our thinking creates our reality. It has made our world the way it is now. So, let's tune into the positive stream of consciousness of our world and project nothing but kind and understanding, positive and loving thoughts into any kind of situation. No matter how hard this may turn out to be at times, you can be sure that no effort is ever wasted or goes unnoticed. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | World Healing Prayer 
All glory, all honour and all praise be to You,
O Holy Trinity, Great Spirit, Father/Mother and
The Universal Christ and the Angels around Your throne.
We bless You, O golden light of the Heavens,
Sun of all Suns, Star of all Stars and light of all lights,
And we look up to You for guidance and protection in all things. You are the Source of all life, wisdom, knowledge and truth,
And we worship You, we give You thanks
And praise You for Your Glory.
You are the Great Teacher of all worlds and beings,
Promised of old and now in flesh appearing
In human hearts and souls. Flood us and fill us and our whole world and all other worlds
With the blessing and healing power of Your sacred love,
For You are the only born Son of the Great Father/Mother
And one of Your sparks is now coming alive in every heart and soul.
As we align ourselves with the sacred Fire of
Mother Earth and Father Sun, we return into the oneness with You. Thus, over time, each spark in its own right grows into
A blazing flame of love that, with Your help,
Burns away the dross of all darkness and fear
That still lingers in the consciousness of humankind,
And absorbs the remnants of the clouds of ignorance
Of false beliefs and prejudices that to this day
Abound in us and our world. May the gift of Your Divine radiance and illumination
Flow ever more strongly through each one of us
Into our world and all worlds, to uplift and transmute
All unwanted negative and destructive influences
Into blessing, healing and harmonising energies for all life,
In accordance with Your will and wishes. In the name of love we ask this from You
On behalf of Mother Earth and all her Kingdoms,
And all other parts of Creation,
For You are the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory.
And so it shall be, forever and ever. Amen From: 'Healers And Healing'
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Location: United Kingdom | The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth
In St. Matthew 5:5 of the Jesus legend I told you: ‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.’ This message to your world is as valid and true now, as it was when I first gave it to you. Many of you, My human children, are among the meek who are patiently and willingly beavering away in the background of life working on your own healing process. Even if nobody in your world has ever heard or seen them, every step of the way we, the Angels, Masters, friends and helpers and I are observing, guiding and protecting them and keeping them safe.
In spite of all that the only true meek ones your planet has ever known were never human souls, but the small creatures of the Earth. Since time immemorial, they have been her true inheritors, especially the worms and insects that crawl about on her, and the microbes and bacteria that are invisible to earthly eyes without a microscope. Pay your respects to the essential work these labourers are doing for and with Mother Earth and therefore also on your behalves. They do not expect anything in return and demand nothing apart from being allowed to pursue the lives they have been given without too much human interference. These creatures are the great recyclers of the Earth who were there long before any of you appeared on the scene. They will still be there and continuing with their work long after every last one of you, my beloved human children, has outgrown their need for spending further lifetimes in physicality.
Once more I remind you that there is no death. There is only one life that is constantly pushing forwards and upwards in vast evolutionary cycles. It will forever move you, your world and all worlds on to new and higher levels of existence, bringing new learning and understanding through fresh first hand experiences for every single one of you. Many by now are realising the dreamlike quality of life in physicality. They are right, it really is a dream and an illusion, but nonetheless it has to be dealt with in the appropriate manner by each one of you. Your earthly education can only be left behind when your thought and behaviour patterns prove to Me that your time for doing so has come.
Each one of you has been placed on the Earth to eventually wake up to the realisation that you yourselves are God. It was you who created the earthly dream world and simultaneously you are the dreamer and the dream. You and I are one. I dream My dreams and speak My sacred words and prayers through you. Those who listen intently enough can join them and consciously become one with Me. Humankind’s age-old yearning for a peaceful world to come is a manifestation of My vision in you. Although thus far it had to remain but a dream, now the time has come when hand in hand with the Angels and Me you will be making this dream into a reality.
The wars of your world have been and still are My teaching aids to show all of you the value of peace, so that when it finally comes you are sure to cherish, value and support it with all your might. Having known wars and all manner of other troubles and strife in the past, you will then sing My praises for having found true and lasting peace, within and without. From then onwards this is going to be your most treasured possession. You will safeguard it and make sure that no-one and nothing can ever disturb and upset it again. Unfortunately, this is the only way I could teach you, my human children of the Earth, the value of peace.
You are experience. You are life itself and you are life experiencing itself. Over the ages, through your prophets I told your world many times that earthly life is but a dream. Yet, for a long time you could not grasp that these words were trying to make it clear to you that in truth you are always in Eternity. The deep inner understanding this requires can only grow in human souls, each through their own first hand experiences and learning from them. But now that you are at last waking up to the realisation of your true nature, I beg of you not to delay putting into practice whatever wisdom you find until you have reached what you once used to think of as Eternity. Your work is on the earthly plane. This is your school and here you must learn.
Those who diligently pay attention to the education it can provide will never fail and whatever may befall them, they cannot lose. There are no losers in the whole of My Creation. As long as you learn willingly and apply your whole being to making the Earth a better place for everybody, you can be sure of counting among life’s winners. There is every reason why you should trust Me implicitly because it always has been a vital part of My great plan of life that good must prevail in the end. No matter how dire things may sometimes look on the surface of life, good will eventually triumph over every bit of evil that still exists in you and your world. My light is My knowledge and wisdom, your power and Mine. I share them with you to assist you with conquering every last shred of darkness within and without.
Rest assured that you, your true eternal Self, will never, never die – it cannot die. As I rise into your conscious awareness and gradually take over your whole being, you will discover that you yourself, each one of you, are the resurrection. You are the life, the way and the truth. Live it, take possession of it and endeavour to use whatever comes your way for the highest good of all life, for you yourselves are God and everything that is in your world and all worlds has been placed into your care and ultimately is your responsibility. The people you encounter in our earthly existence and also the things you require for your stays there were never meant for you to cling onto like grim death. Each one is a gift from Me. You borrow them for a certain predestined period only. I expect you to return them to Me in at least as good condition, ideally in an improved one, as you once received them.
For as long as your race has populated My beautiful planet Earth, I have allowed you free access to all lifeforms that share it with you. Now that you are evolving into spiritual adulthood, your hearts and souls are beginning to understand Mother Earth’s suffering and dilemmas. As a result, the wise ones among you are now willing to take better care of her and all life that is in her loving embrace. Having learnt from the mistakes of the past, these pioneers and pathfinders for the dawning of the Age of Aquarius are showing their love and respect to all of you by acting in ever more responsible ways. By living simply and modestly, they have left behind their role of one of Mother Earth treasures’ plunderers and are now playing the part of one of her guardians and safe-keepers. From: 'The Universal Christ Now Speaks To Us And Our World'
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Location: United Kingdom | How Shall The Meek Inherit The Earth?
When our times in the realities of Earth life are drawing to their close, to enable us release ourselves we need to evolve into one of the lambs of God. This is done by following our inner guidance and meekly surrendering our earthly self to the protection and guidance of our Highest or God Self. As demonstrated by the legend of the Master Jesus, it is necessary to freely and willingly endure whatever it takes to settle our karmic debts. In due course we shall reap the just rewards for all our efforts. Read more about this in ‘The New Golden Age Of Plenty’.
For some time now our planet and all its life has been subject to a demanding spiritual transformation. Even the tiniest contribution one of us makes to alleviate the suffering of all Mother Earth’s kingdoms is of vital importance and counts. Every lifetime we are allowed to spend on the Earth is in truth a rare and precious gift. The present one is potentially an extra special one for those who have matured into spiritual adulthood and are ready to take on the duties this brings with it. If we get things right and work as hard as we can on overcoming and rising above the desires of our lower nature and its character, this lifetime could be the last one as a physical being.
In order to reach this evolutionary landmark words are not enough. It is necessary to walk our talk and prove through our thoughts, words and actions our willingness to shoulder the responsibility of being a caretaker and guardian of our planet. This means meekly obeying the instructions of our inner guidance where and when to exert our influence, to enable us to do our best and freely give of the gifts the Universe has bestowed upon us.
To help us reach this evolutionary point in the journey of earthly life, we need to bravely and persistently work our way through all inner and outer obstacles and adversities we encounter. This is made easier by firmly keeping our inner vision fixed on the Highest Star and the Greatest Light. This ensures that we are making good progress on the evolutionary spiral of life. The more we strive to live in peace and harmony with ourselves and everything that is in our world, the greater and more valuable a contribution we are making towards our race’s healing process.
As we know by now, thought is the most powerful force in the whole of Creation. Our thinking processes provide each one of us with the power to change our own individual energies as well as those of our whole world. The Age of Aquarius is the age of friendship and siblinghood with all life and we are here so that we may introduce and practise these ideals on the Earth plane. When we are working with kindness and love in our hearts for all God’s creatures, we are doing our share of converting humankind from a race of warriors of past ages into the peacemakers of the Aquarian Age.
This is how we prove ourselves worthy of being allowed to continue with our role as caretakers and guardians of the Earth in the new world that is slowly beginning to emerge. Our just reward we shall receive not in some kind of never-never land but in the here and now, through returning to the realities of our vastly changed home planet, if that is what we wish for our next lifetime. Those who choose this option will be allowed to take part in earthly life – whatever that may mean when the planet has completed its transformation and it has become a peaceful place where all live and work together in peace and harmony. Greed and selfishness will be unknown factors because everybody is taking what they need – no more and no less.
Before deciding what we may want for our future and whether this will include another lifetime on the Earth, from the world of spirit we shall be watching the proceedings there with the greatest interest. How good it will be to witness humankind’s age-old dream of peace, love and goodwill between people and nations at long last becoming a reality in earthly life. Just imagine and visualise it as a place where the characteristics and desires of everyone’s lower earthly nature have been overcome and left behind for good. As a result, sickness, violence and crime have disappeared and concepts like greed and selfishness are unknown factors. And that I believe is the true meaning of St. Matthew 5:5: ‘Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.’
Recommended Reading:
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
I know we have been around these houses lots of times before, and we always end up agreeing to disagree, but just in case there is anyone else out there looking in, I repeat myself by saying, it bothers me not inconsiderably that you quote from the fruits of many sources, whose roots you disparage or disagree with, or say are legend and without factual foundation, when there is historical evidence for those sources, and the fruits you pick from have an internal consistency and symmetry that are lost if taken out of context.
Best wishes
Paul
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Location: United Kingdom | About My Writings 
My writings are an essential part of my contribution towards the process of healing the conflicts of our world, because in my view this can only come about through a better understanding of God’s true nature, our own and the higher purpose of our earthly existence. As many of you know, all my writings are intuitive and original ones. They represent my Highest or God Self, who communicates with you through me. There is no need for going into trance or anything of that nature – I simply write. My work is not based on any of the traditional sources. The inspiration for it comes directly from the Source of our being, who tells me that the spiritual teachings of other times were valid when they were given, because that was all humankind could understand in those days.
My writings came into being because increasing numbers of us had become ready for the truth of the Divine that has been waiting for aeons to flow directly into the consciousness of all who are capable of receiving it. That’s what my work since its earliest beginnings has consisted of. It embraces and honours the teachings of every one of the many belief systems that our world has seen throughout the ages. The aim of my writings has never been to wipe out any existing spiritual knowledge, but to add to it and in this way do my share of advancing humankind’s evolutionary progress. By updating and refreshing some of the ancient themes with new insights they are contributing to the expansion of our individual and collective consciousness.
I have not studied what any of the traditional sources have to say on various religious/spiritual themes, not in this lifetime anyway. Looking back from where I am now, this must have been an essential part of my preparation for the job I had come to do this time round. I did not know much about any of them for the simple reason that before my writing started, I had been too busy with things like running a home, bringing up children and in due course returning to full time work. My ignorance of the religious/spiritual traditions of our world ensured that I was unprejudiced against any of them. Therefore I was able to approach the wide field of the already existing spiritual knowledge with an open mind.
Now that I am equipped with the gift of hindsight it is not hard to see why it was that when I first started holding my insights down in writing, it felt like some kind of floodgates were opening inside me. The inflow of ideas to be developed and worked with was so great and the pace of writing so intense and fast that I would not have had the time to study any spiritual subject in the traditional manner.
Much later I found out that this is neither necessary nor desirable when one acts as a channel for the wisdom of the Highest. If anything, too much book knowledge and head activity can close down the heart-centre. This closes us off from the world of our feelings and therefore gets in the way of the intuitive process and stops us from developing into a clear and undisturbed communication channel. The heart-centre is the dwelling place of the Divine spark of our Christ nature. Even though at first this is there but in seed form, our Highest Self has always been with us and trying to guide us through the small still voice of conscience. When with the passing of time this aspect of our nature becomes stronger, it converses with us ever more clearly and speaks to us through the world of our feelings. The way we feel about something tells us whether it is right or wrong and what we hear or read is a truth or an untruth.
The teachings of every one of the old belief systems came into being just the same as my contributions to the pool of spiritual knowledge have been doing for around twenty years. The only difference between the scribes of the days of yore and modern ones is their writing instrument. The history of these appliances is so fascinating that I am including it.
As nothing anywhere happens without their intervention, undoubtedly everything connected with the art of writing was inspired by the Angels around the throne of God, who are in charge of us and our world. And that’s how it came about that around 4000 BC, during the Age of Taurus, lasting from about 4700 BC to 2500 BC, people scratched the surface of moist clay tablets with a bronze or bone tool. This was already quite a sophisticated way of making notes and communicating with the world around us, compared with the hammer and chisel we used in earlier lifetimes. It is likely that the inspiration for the idea of writing and the first attempts at this art-form came to our world during the Age of Gemini, from about 6900 BC to 4700 BC. Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are the Air signs. Each one of them in its different way is about improving our ways of communicating with each other through the spoken and written word.
As early as 5,000 years ago a Chinese Military Commander named Shen Loam, who was in charge of that Empires Western frontier, kept a written military log. Grateful for his assignment, he made it his duty to the Emperor to personally test every known edible plant for its food, non-food, medicinal and non-medicinal value. According to Shen Loam there are over twenty-five thousand edible plants on Earth. The written documentation of the tests proving that this is so were his gift to the Emperor in response to the honour of being elevated to Supreme Commander. The Chinese language is still basically the same as it was then, so it is fairly easy for current day Chinese to read these ancient documents.
Around 3000 BC the Egyptians developed a form of writing with pictures. For writing on papyrus scrolls scribes used thin reed brushes or reed pens.
1300 BC the Roman scribes wrote into thin sheets of wax on wooden tablets. A metal stylus was used and when the writing was no longer needed, it was rubbed out with the flat end of the stylus. In Asia scribes used a bronze stylus.
The Dark Ages. As well as writing on parchment, the Anglo-Saxons used tablets filled with wax for notes and planning the layout of large books. They wrote on the tablets with a metal or bone stylus with a pointed end. Words were rubbed out with its flat end.
600-1800 AD. Europeans found that writing on parchment with a quill pen altered the style of their writing. At first they used capital letters all the time, but later a faster style with small letters was developed. Quill Pens first appeared in Seville, Spain, were the writing instrument from 600 to 1800 AD.
1790s. Pencil lead was invented at the same time in France and Australia.
1800-1850. A metal pen point was patented in 1803, but the patent was not commercially exploited. Steel nibs came into common use in the 1830s. By the 19th century metal nibs had replaced quill pens. By 1850 the use of quill pens was fading because steel nibs had been invented and were improved still by tipping them with hard alloys of Iridium, Rhodium and Osmium.
1884. The insurance broker Lewis Edson Waterman invented the first proper fountain pen.
1888-1916. The principle of the ball point pen dates back to the late 19th century when patents were taken out by John Loud in 1888 for a product to mark leather and in 1916 by Van Vechten Riesberg. Neither of these patents were exploited commercially.
1940s. The modern version of the ball point pen was invented by Josef Lazlo and Georg Biro. In the summer of 1943 the first commercial models were made. The rights to Lazlo's patent were bought by the British Government. The ball point pen proved to be more rugged than the fountain pen and because of this sales rocketed during World War II, when the military needed robust writing implements to survive the battlefield environment.
October 1945. The ball point pen was introduced to the U.S. market. The pen was sold as the first pen to write underwater. About 10,000 of them were sold at its launch in New York October 1945.
1953. The first inexpensive ball point pens became available when the French Baron Bich, the BIC Company, developed the industrial process for manufacturing ball point pens, which lowered the unit cost dramatically.
1960s. The fire or felt-tipped pen was invented by the Tokyo Stationery Company, Japan. Papermate’s Flair was among the first felt-tip pens to hit the U.S. market in the 1960s, and it has been the leader ever since. Following their initial success with felt-tips, manufacturers branched out with a variety of fibre-tipped instruments, including highlighters.
1980s-1990s. Roller Ball Pens. Roller ball pens have been made since the early 1980s. Unlike the thick ink used in a conventional ball point, roller ball pens employ a mobile ball and liquid ink which produces a smoother line. Technological advances during the late 1980s and early 1990s have greatly improved the roller ball’s overall performance since then.
1990s. Rubberised writing instruments to improve their grip were commonly used by companies.
From 1997 to date. Ring pens are mass produced. They are designed for writing without having to grip the pen with three fingers.
By the year 2016 scribes are blessed with access to computers, word processors and the worldwide web for distributing the messages they are bringing.
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Location: United Kingdom | The following is my second part of my reply to Paul's posting 18th May 2016:
The Origin Of My Truth 
‘In the fullness of time, we shall no longer learn from others or from books. We shall find all knowledge within ourselves, for we are part of all that ever has been and all that ever shall be,’ White Eagle. That’s what for many years has been happening to me. The knowledge the Angels are bringing you through me are coming from the feminine aspect of the Divine, the Great Mother and soul of the whole of Creation. This soul is the storehouse of the memories of everything that ever happened anywhere and the wisdom that was gained from it.
The human soul is the soft, sensitive and vulnerable aspect of our nature, women and men alike. Our soul is an integral part of the soul of our world as well as the Great soul, the Mother of all life. Through re-establishing our inner connection with the Goddess’s wisdom, in the fullness of time all earthly selves will eventually learn how to tap directly into Her knowledge. This is our Divine parents’ way of helping us to release ourselves from the bondage with earthly life by finding the answers to all the questions we may ever need to ask. The replies received from this source are the truth.
As we know by now, everything in the whole of Creation is connected with and responding to each other. All life is subject to the Universal laws and on the inner level everything is one and functions as one. In the great plan of life all things have their allocated space and happen at predestined times. Our race’s earthly education is not excluded from this. As early on God’s spiritual wisdom and truth are too hard to grasp for earthly minds, with the passing of time on the Earth it has been changing and presenting itself in many different forms.
This explains the need for the new myths and legends that appeared from time to time. They are living proof that spiritual knowledge should not be stored in waterproof containers and that there is no point in trying to be too precise in defining it. The best we can do whilst playing the role of earthlings is to accept that the Divine plan and its laws are perfect and harmonious. The evolutionary process sees to it that everything in the end works out for the highest good and greatest joy of all, regardless of the fact that God’s way of going about it are frequently extremely hard to comprehend for human minds.
For some time now the Age of Aquarius has slowly but surely been moving us and our world forwards into a period during which all of us eventually will be freeing ourselves from slavery and oppressions of all kinds, especially religious/spiritual ones. The autonomy of the new age consists of being free to believe and follow what our heart, the dwelling place of the living God within, tells us is true. Let’s take a closer look at the structure of the energies of the Aquarian Age. The deeper we move into this age, the more powerfully they will be influencing us and everything else in our world.
Astrologically the heart is the domain of Leo, the Sun’s own sign. Aquarius and Leo are polar opposites in the zodiac. One is the sleeping partner of the other. Aquarius as an Air sign is of the head and its energies on their own are cold, logical and reasoning. In contrast to this Leo as a Fire sign is of the heart, loving, warm and feeling. Together they are the perfect combination for bringing God’s wisdom and truth down to the Earth. An excessive amount of Leo’s fiery nature, which may itself show as too much and misplaced enthusiasm, Aquarius cools down to a warm and agreeable temperature. In return for this Leo adds the warmth of its love to the coldness of the Aquarian energies. The combined force of the two signs makes the Divine Waterbearer’s knowledge pleasant and agreeable to us earthlings.
It takes many lifetimes round the zodiac and in Leo to acquire the ability to love wisely from the heart, the way our Creator loves us. Young and less experienced souls during their times in Leo tend to put loved ones on a pedestal to worship and adore them. This way of loving eventually lifts itself onto ever more highly elevated levels. The more we mature spiritually, the more the energies of Leo and Aquarius in us join forces and work as one. During the early stages of our earthly education Leo’s extreme selfishness and egotism are our hallmark. But with the passing of time when our time in physicality nears its end, this transforms itself into a love for humankind that worships and adores the One who brought all of us into being, who nurtures and cares for us and is sure to continue providing for any needs we may ever have.
For as long as our earthly self still functions predominantly on the outer level of our being, the desires of Air and Fire, head and heart, being polar opposites, are frequently at loggerheads with each other. But once we operate as well on the inner as the outer plane, they learn how to work as one, ever more peacefully and harmoniously. Aquarius represents the voice of God, which by the way I only found out recently. Leo rules the human heart, which is the receptacle of the creative ideas that are constantly flowing forth in great abundance from the heartmind of the spiritual Sun above and beyond the Sun in the sky above us, directly into our human hearts.
That’s how God’s wisdom and truth are presently finding their way ever more freely and powerfully into any heart that is open to receive it. This brings us the knowledge we need to release ourselves and our world into the religious/spiritual freedom of the Aquarian Age mentioned earlier. For some time this kind of information was given through spiritual mediums, like Grace Cooke. But because we are constantly moving forwards and upwards on the evolutionary spiral of life, this by now has changed into direct transmissions from the Highest levels of life. Read more about this in the section ‘Learning To Fly’, either here or by following the link at the end of this chapter.
My writings have always been part of this new approach. They represent my truth, which never was based on speculations, myths and legends. It consist of the knowledge that for some time has been flowing with ever increasing force from the source of our being directly into the individual and collective consciousness of our world. What a long time this kind of knowledge had to wait until the time was right for at last revealing itself intuitively and directly to us earthlings. Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Great Year And The Ages Of Humankind’
• ‘About White Eagle’
• ‘Learning To Fly’
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The above post was placed in a Moderator Alert section (not by me). Your posts had also been blocked pending moderation; I have removed that block currently. I am currently reading and reflecting on the thread and your last two posts in particular, and have temporarily approved them pending further reflection and any others' views.
But what I would say is that, as Paul indicates above, it seems strange that you should be so negative about 'book-learning', on this University site, which you are using to promote your ideas; and further, those ideas make use of other traditions that you seem to seem to disavow, as well as resuming the promotion of a particular religious society - the teachings of White Eagle, whilst casting aspersions on others.
I am minded to remove this post and might freeze the thread as it is going over repetitive territory, sometimes without due acknowledgement of past discussions, but will pend for further reflection.
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Ophiucus, Please bear in mind who is doing the speaking or writing through me. I posted the previous two chapters in the hope that they would help you to get a better understanding of the nature of the work I have been doing for more than twenty years by now.
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