July 3, 2019
Hello. I hope you are doing well and enjoying the season (Summer up North, and Winter down South).
This has been a very busy time for us here at the Community Center in Nevada. We came back from successful and productive trips both in Mexico and Japan, launched new websites for Cosolargy International (http://cosolargy.org) and the Healing Center at Steamboat Hot Springs (http://steamboatsprings.org), and are now fully preparing for this year’s annual Convocation which will run from Tuesday, September 3rd through Sunday the 8th.
As you may know, this year’s conference will also include a special extended two-day training seminar for our global representatives from Japan, Mexico and Australia on Cosolargy and Jamilian University operations as we roll out new outreach methods and procedures. This seminar will take place on Monday and Tuesday, September 9th and 10th and is by invitation only. Convocation is shaping up to be quite an exciting event as we also celebrate and commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Community in 1959, and I hope you will make every effort to attend.
It was asked of me the other day by a person inquiring into our System/School why we in this Community link spirituality and religion together “in a day and age when religion has very little to do with spirituality.” The individual asked for clarification, and I’d like to share with you my response. This is a common, good and valid question, and one which should always be answered. This is what I wrote:
“The first thing, I think, we need to differentiate between is True Religion and mundane religion. True Religion is the essence of the original teachings of the founders of the great religions before they were corrupted, perverted, changed, etc. This is what has happened to all the great religions over time. Therefore, in my estimation, all religions (or most, anyway) are mundane, meaning that they are earthly or worldly rather than heavenly or spiritual and therefore have become irrelevant in today’s world because they haven’t evolved, adapted or changed to address the cosmic/spiritual energies affecting humanity, the planet, the Universe, etc. today.
“This is why so many have turned away from religion and rightfully so because religion is stuck in the past. Jesus came to amend, supplement and bring new revelations to the Jewish religion of the day which had become stagnant. The Buddha endeavored to do the same with the Brahmin religion that had become corrupted and defiled. And so on. But in today’s world, the religions are stagnant and stuck in the past. So in that regard, it is good and fitting that people leave the old to make way for the new. But what is the new?
“If we speak about True Religion then there are universal and cosmic truths that do not change with the times. The purpose of True Religion is communication or communion with God/the Godhead. To communicate with God — which is Divine Energy, as you know — requires developing the means to do so, i.e., developing latent spiritual faculties which everyone posses but are dormant in the individual. The development of these spiritual faculties must be undertaken with care which translates to the application of certain disciplines and ethics in conjunction with the implementation of certain techniques which have been handed down from time immemorial. These practices have always been employed by those in high spiritual Orders. Please understand that I am not speaking of “religious” orders as we know them today.
“Therefore, the development of spiritual faculties is the domain of spiritual education and training with the ethics and disciplines of high religious order because we are dealing with complex levels of being — physical, emotional, psychological, psychic and spiritual. Providing an environment conducive to this activity is what a true religious Community does in a spiritual manner. These principles do not change from age to age. What does change are the revelations, supplements and amendments to the Teachings of Light that are given in each age according to its needs, as well as its level of ignorance. The world and the human family are in a new age. We require a new, highly spiritual religion which is dynamic and cosmic in nature. I believe this is what Cosolargy offers.
“I hope this addresses some of your concerns. Please feel free to contact me with any follow-ups you may have. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to visit our new website at http://cosolargy.org. I send you many blessings in Light+. Gene”
There is obviously a lot more to the answer than that. But it might give you some pointers the next time you are asked the same or a similar question. I look forward to resuming our weekly messages.
Once again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.
