Wednesday, November 13, 2024

This past Saturday’s readings were from some of the Manichean scriptures (“Let us Worship the Spirit of the Comforter”) and from The Second Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 27: On the Birth of a New Religion (pp. 197 – 201). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture

Once again, please feel free to ask me any questions by calling 775-786-7432 or emailing me at messages@cosolargy.org. I am always at your service.

In Light+,

Gene

“Each one will speak concerning the place from which they have come forth, and to the region from which they received their essential being they will hasten to return once again and receive from that place, the place where they stood before, and they will taste of that place, be nourished, and grow. And their own place of rest is their fullness. All the emanations from the father, therefore, are fullnesses, and all his emanations have their roots in the one who caused them all to grow from himself. He assigned their destinies. They, then, became manifest individually that they might be perfected in their own thought, for that place to which they extend their thought is their root, which lifts them upward through all heights to the Father. They reach his head, which is rest for them, and they remain there near to it as though to say that they have touched his face by means of embraces. But they do not make this plain. For neither have they exalted themselves nor have they diminished the glory of the Father, nor have they thought of him as small, nor bitter, nor angry, but as absolutely good, unperturbed, sweet, knowing all the spaces before they came into existence and having no need of instruction. Such are they who possess from above something of this immeasurable greatness, as they strain toward that unique and perfect One who exists there for them. And they do not go down to Hades. They have neither envy nor moaning, nor is death in them. But they rest in him who rests, without wearying themselves or becoming confused about truth. But they, indeed, are the truth, and the Father is in them, and they are in the Father, since they are perfect, inseparable from him who is truly good.”

-the Gospel of Truth

Our Origin

Our Origin is not in the physical world. Our physical body originates here, but our true Self originated in the Realm of Spirit. And since time doesn’t exist in the spiritual realm, we existed as spirits long before we descended into the physical realm. As the quote says, the spiritual realm is the home of our essential being which is our spirit.

Hasten to Return

Some of us hasten to return to the spiritual realm, not by dying, but by living the Way of God. When we reach that realm, even for brief moments, we are nourished and grow. When we absorb the light of the Spiritual Sun, our spirits do grow and reach higher levels of consciousness.

Emanations From the Father

The emanations from God have been given different names, including Grace, God’s Word, God’s Wisdom, etc. All these emanations come to us through God’s Light and that comes to us through the Spiritual Sun. This also seems to refer to the creations of God, the Angels of Light, and the Spirits of humans.

Immeasurable Greatness

Those who partake of God’s immeasurable greatness by absorbing the Light of the Spiritual Sun do not go down to Hades when they die, but up to higher and higher dimensions until they reach the highest level where they become one with God, one with The All. They do know truth and wisdom and are not confused by the opinions of men. When you have received Truth and Wisdom directly from the source, you cannot dispute it.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

This past Saturday’s readings were from the 4th century mystic theologian and bishop, Gregory of Nyssa (one of the Cappadocian Fathers), and we also completed our readings from The Prophecy to the Races of Man, Chapter 70: The Great Day of God (pp. 454 – 459). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.

Once again, please feel free to ask me any questions by calling 775-786-7432 or emailing me at messages@cosolargy.org. I am always at your service.

In Light+,

Gene

“There are moments in the lives of all of us when we catch glimpses of a life—our life—that is infinitely beyond the life we are now living. We realize that we are living below our possibilities. We long for the realization of the life that we feel should be.

“Instinctively we perceive that there are within us powers and forces that we are making but inadequate use of, and others that we are scarcely using at all. Practical metaphysics, a more simplified and concrete psychology, well-known laws of mental and spiritual science, confirm us in this conclusion.

“Our own William James, he who so splendidly related psychology, philosophy, and even religion, to life in a supreme degree, honored his calling and did a tremendous service for all mankind, when he so clearly the fact that we have within us powers and forces that we are making all too little use of—that we have within us great reservoirs of power that we have as yet scarcely tapped.

“The men and women who are awake to these inner helps—these directing, molding, and sustaining powers and forces that belong to the realm of mind and spirit—are never to be found among those those who ask: Is life worth living?”

–Ralph Waldo Trine

Glimpses of a Higher Life

Many of us do have glimpses of a higher life. Some don’t, but still feel there is something missing from their life. Wealthy people are never satisfied, so they keep trying to become more and more wealthy without realizing that it is something other than material wealth that they yearn for. We do recognize that we are living below our potential and most of us want to improve. Unfortunately, many don’t know how, and governments certainly are not going to help. People who awaken their spiritual faculties are less easily controlled by governments and businesses, so governments are not going to promote any form of real spiritual development. Some are promoting simple form of meditation, but only because that has minimal effect on our spiritual growth, but does make us easier to control and manipulate.

Powers and Forces

There are force centers with us that are also called chakras. These force centers do have the potential to contain great power and energy, but in most of us, they are very weak. They need to be charged with energy to function fully and the best way to do that is by taking in sunlight at or near dawn. The physical sun will charge the physical centers of the body and the Spiritual Sun will charge the Spiritual centers of the Spirit.

I Have recently been watching an old BBC television series called “Wizards VS Aliens”. In this series, an alien spaceship is hiding near our moon and trying to get to wizards on Earth. The aliens have discovered that they can extract the energy of magic from the wizards and feed on it. In a couple of episodes, we see wizards that have had the magic sucked out of them, recharge by facing the sun at dawn. At least they got the idea of power and energy coming from the sun correct.

The Men and Women Who Are Awake

As the quote says, it is true that those who are awake to their spiritual Self do not ask: “Is life worth living?” They know for certain that it is, just as they know that there is an afterlife. They also know that they must prepare for this afterlife now, while they are still in a physical body and in the physical world. To believe that you can suddenly awaken your spiritual faculties at the moment your physical body dies is like believing that you can wait until the ship you are sailing on is sinking to start taking swimming lessons.

Personally, I really find it strange and sad that so many people today speak of being “woke” as if it is a bad thing to be avoided at all costs. I guess they like walking around in a spiritual coma.