“If we allow ourselves to follow a path of evolving consciousness as individuals, in response perhaps to some deep yearning for peace and happiness and for a greater freedom from the afflictions of disconnection and distress and disease, sooner or later it will have a profound impact on our relationships with each other and on the society and world we inhabit. It has to.

“Peace and happiness are not commodities to be acquired or conferred but qualities that are embodied and lived. They can only be embodied and lived in practice, not merely by the enunciation of principles, however lofty. Thus, here at home, we have seen all those who were originally excluded by law and social mores from participating in and benefitting from the declaration of inalienable rights of freedom and self-governance ‘for all,’ by fits and starts and through tenacious and courageous struggle transform in tandem, however slowly and painfully, both our consciousness and our laws—regarding slavery, race, indigenous peoples, women, children, sexual orientation, marriage—as well as our understanding of the infinite suffering of real people and real families occasioned by exploitive institutions and the laws and social conventions that uphold them and will uphold them until they change and are, in their new form, vigorously enforced.

“In an evolving democracy, the list of current social injustices and grievances at any given moment is likely to be a long one. But the growing goes on to.”

–Jon Kabat-Zinn

A Path of Evolving Consciousness

Some spiritual students don’t realize that the quest for spiritual development and the quest for higher levels of consciousness are the same thing, but they are. Some people think that such evolution doesn’t need to be sought, that it just happens automatically. It doesn’t. Just as the body and mind have to be intentionally developed, so does the spirit. Kabat-Zinn says that some seek out a path of spiritual development because of a deep yearning for peace and happiness, and that is true. Others do it because they feel that something is missing from their material life and realize that it is the development of their spiritual side which includes the development of higher levels of consciousness. Humans are already at one of the highest levels of consciousness possible for a physical being. The only way to reach even higher levels is through the development of the spiritual faculties.

Impact on Relationships

The development of higher levels of consciousness will indeed have a profound effect on our relationships with other individuals, societies, and the entire world. It will not only impact our relationships with other humans, but with all beings, and the change will be for the better. We are already seeing this to some degree even with only a small percentage of humanity engaging in consciousness evolution.

Not Commodities

It is true that peace, happiness, and love are not commodities that can be bought or conferred on others. They must be gradually awakened by the development of our spiritual faculties. Nor can peace and happiness happen simply by telling people that they should live together in peace and harmony. If we want that to happen, we must encourage spiritual development, which is the only true path to the awakening of internal peace and happiness.

Government for All

Government and a social order that treats all people equally never happens overnight. It takes slow and gradual progress to grant rights to one disadvantaged group after another. Even more to grant rights to animals as well as humans and to understand that all life is sacred since God is the only creator of life. We have seen in recent years that when a government that promotes greater rights and freedoms for all is put in power, the next election may bring about a reversal of such advances and push us back several years. Nonetheless, the overall movement over the past few centuries has been toward greater inclusion, greater harmony, and greater freedom for all. As more of us awaken spiritually, that trend will continue until we finally see an end to hatred, slavery, wars, etc. and a return to what we were before the Great Fall from Heaven.

“It is from water and fire that the soul and the spirit came into being if is from water and fire and light that the son of the bridal chamber came into being.

“The fire is the chrism, the light is the fire. I am not referring to that fire which has no form, but to the other fire whose form is white, which is bright and beautiful, and which gives beauty.

“Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images. The world did not receive truth any other way.

“There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth. It is certainly necessary to be born again through the image, for resurrection.

“The image must rise again through the image. The bridal chamber and the image must enter through the image into the truth; this is the restoration.

“Not only must those who produce the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, do so, but they have produced them for you.

“The Lord did everything in a mystery, a baptism and chrism and a eucharist and redemption and a bridal chamber.

“He said, ‘I came to make the things below like the things above, and things outside like those inside. I came to unite them in the one place.’”

–Gospel of Philip(58-61)

From Water and Fire

When we read ancient documents, we must understand that fire often means light as fire was the only way to make light back then. It is also true that fire often means energy of any kind, so this really means from Water and energy. The next sentence adds light. It is an allegorical use of those elements. It is not physical water or physical light that brought the soul into being, nor is it the physical elements that awaken and develop the soul in us. The soul is spiritual, and it is spiritual water, energy, and light that awakens the spirit.

Chrism and Light

The second paragraph in the quote now says that “fire is the chrism, the light is the fire”. So Philip is saying here that the words fire and light are used interchangeably. He adds that he is not referring to the fire which has no form, but to the fire that is white. So there are three levels of light: the mundane or physical light, the spiritual Light that comes to us primarily through the Spiritual Sun, and the highest level of Light which is Divine Light. Only a fully awakened and conscious Soul can partake of Divine Light.

Truth does not Come Naked

Truth comes into the physical world in symbols and images as its true spiritual nature cannot be comprehended by physical beings. Zeven as symbols, it cannot be understood by the human mind, but it is understood by the Soul.

Rebirth Through the Image

It is through the image of God that we are reborn as spiritual beings, and that image is the Light of the Spiritual Sun and the even higher Divine Light. When Philip says the image must rise again, he means that the world must become spiritual again, and that is happening now, but it is a slow process as people gradually awaken to the truth. That is what it means when Philip quotes Jesus saying “’I came to make the things below like the things above.”

“Christ said. Unless ye turn and become as children, ye shall not see the Kingdom of God. Again, he said to Nicodemus; except a man be born again, of Water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; for that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

“Scripture positively declares that the fleshly natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know or achieve them.

“Now seeing that all of us have Flesh and Blood bodies, and are mortal, as we find by experience, and yet scripture says that we are Temples of the Holy Ghost, who dwelleth in us, and the Kingdom of God is within us. … Therefore we should seriously consider what kind of person it is that is capable of being thus like the Deity.

“For it cannot be said of the mortal flesh … that it is the Temple of the Holy Ghost; much less can it be said that the New Birth comes to pass in this earthly flesh, which dies and putrifies.”

–Jacob Boehme

Become as Children

This is one of the most misunderstood things that Jesus said. He didn’t mean that we should physically shrink down to the size of children. Nor did he mean that we should be uneducated in a general sense. What he meant is that by the time we become adults, we are full of beliefs, ideas, and concepts that are sometimes false, or only partially true. These beliefs and concepts prevent us from seeing things that do not fit in with our beliefs. The best example of this is the Story of Christopher Columbus landing in the New World. The Native Americans saw the small boats that brought Columbus and some of his crew to shore, but they could not see the large ships those boats came from. Their beliefs blocked them from seeing something that contradicted those beliefs. Only the Medicine Man, the most open-minded of them, saw the big ships and slowly described them to the others. Once they were told about them, they were suddenly able to see them. This is true for many beliefs that we hold about God, spirits, and just about everything. It is most important for the spiritual student to learn to push aside those beliefs and concepts in order to see what is truly there.

Water and Spirit

This is an allegorical saying as well. It does not literally mean water, as in baptism, but the Spiritual Water, the Grace of God. The point is, to reborn does not mean to study scripture or to be ordained a minister. It means to take in the Spiritual Light that awakens and develops the Spirit. That is being Reborn.

Flesh is not The Temple

The material body of flesh cannot be the Temple of the Holy Spirit, yet Scripture tells us we are such a Temple. It is the spirit of man that is the Temple. The spirit is our link to heaven, to the Angels in Heaven, and to God. But that link doesn’t function if we allow the spirit to stay in the dormant state it was in when we were born. We must awaken and develop the Spirit until it becomes a conscious Soul. That is what the ancient mystery schools taught. It is what the Gnostic groups taught in secret to their members. It is what was truly taught by Jesus, Buddha, and the other founders of great religions. It is the developed Soul that will go to Heaven, not the physical body. The physical, being created by the Demiurge, cannot go to Heaven. In the not-very-distant future, though, matter will change back to its original form as spirit and all will be as God wants it to be.

“As the husbandman governs a yoke of oxen and tills the ground, so Jesus, the fair true husbandman, yoked the apostles two by two and sent them forth, tilling with them the ground of those who hear and truly believe. Only this is worth saying, that the Kingdom of God and the preaching of the apostles is not in the word of hearing only, like one who knows a set of words and rehearses them to others, but the Kingdom is in the power and the effective working of the spirit. This was the sad case of the children of the Israelites; always studying the scripture, and in fact making the Lord the theme of their study, and yet not receiving the truth itself, they parted with that inheritance to others. So those who rehearse to others words of the Spirit, while they do not themselves possess the Word in Power, part with the inheritance to others.”

-St. Macarius the Egyptian

As the Husbandman Governs

Many don’t know that a husbandman is not someone who helps women find husbands. A husbandman is an outdated term for one who cultivates the soil, or quite simply, a farmer. In the time of St. Macarius, farmers didn’t have tractors, but usually used draft animals such as oxen to pull the plow and till the field. Macarious is comparing this to Jesus sending out the Apostles to teach the true knowledge of God, and the practice of spiritual development necessary to reach the Kingdom of God.

Memorizing and Repeating Words

Parrots, Macaws, Ravens, and some other birds can memorize and repeat words. If the words they hear come from scripture, that is what they will repeat. They will not become enlightened as a result. St. Macarius tells us that the Israelites of Jesus’ time liked to memorize and repeat scripture, but that did not bring them to the Kingdom of God. Today, many Evangelical Christians do the same thing and are proud of the fact that they can quote from much of the Bible. The image I used to illustrate this post was from an article titled “ The Importance of Memorizing Scripture” and is one of many promoting the idea to Christians. The article promotes the practice because the Bible tells us to learn the Word of God, but the Word of God is not static and locked up in any book of scripture. The word of God is dynamic and must be learned directly. But a Parrot can be taught the same words, but it does not comprehend their meaning. Likewise, those Christians who memorize Bible passages, without understanding their actual meaning, or practicing the spiritual development teachings that were key to the teachings of Jesus, are not moving any closer to God. It is also important to understand that scripture is often written in allegorical language, so memorizing the words is meaningless.

Possess the Word in Power

What St. Macarius is implying here is that one must practice the teaching of holy ones like Jesus, not simply memorize their words. It is in practicing spiritual development techniques that we develop our own spirit. You don’t get the benefits of a healthy diet by reading about it but eating junk food instead. You don’t get strong, healthy muscles by reading a workout plan, but only by putting the plan into practice. Likewise, knowing that the realm of Spirit exists doesn’t make you a spiritual person. You must practice spiritual development methods regularly and develop your spirit, not just read about it, or memorize scripture.

A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow of his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding , the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and reverence for the Lord.

His delight shall be in the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear.

But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall destroy the wicked.

Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins.

The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid,

the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them…

The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put it hand on the adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

On that day, the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples; the nation shall inquire of him, and the dwelling shall be glorious.

On that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people…. He will raise a signal for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts, and gather the dispersed from the four corners of the earth.

– ISAIAH 11: 1 – 6, 8 – 12

The Book of Isaiah

Isaiah was one of the greatest of the Bible writers and prophets, but his writings are ignored by most modern Christians because it is written in such an allegorical way that little of it is understood. He was an Essene, the real spiritual people of Israel and Egypt.

A Shoot from Jesse

This is an allegorical reference to Jesus, the Messiah. The branch coming out of the shoot refers to what Christians call “The Second Coming.” This one who comes as Christ will council with the wisdom and understanding of God. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes or hears with his ears because the physical senses can be deceiving. He will know what is in the hearts and minds of people, and from that will he judge.

Extend His Hand a Second Time

When the Second Coming happens, it will be a return of Christ, not Jesus. As all humans come into the world, he will be born an infant, not a great warrior as some expect. He will come to bring peace, not war, but it will be at a time when there is much war. War between groups of humans, war of Nature against Man, and war of the Cosmos as the Realm of Matter tries to stop the takeover of the Realm of Spirit. Yet he will not bring more war, but a promise of peace, love, and harmony for those who listen. He will bring about that promised day when the lion and the calf will lie together, and that will mean that peace has come to humanity, in thought as well as deed, for it is the thoughts of Man that cause other species to be violent.

They Will Not Hurt Those on The Holy Mountain

It doesn’t seem like much of a hope to say that those who dwell on a particular mountain will be saved, but that statement is allegorical. It means that the materialists will, in the end, not be able to stop the spiritual people from bringing God’s Truth, Wisdom, and Love into the world. Unfortunately, before that day we will probably continue to go through much suffering and abuse at the hands of the materialistic people and the demons and dark forces that control them. But as Isaiah says, in the End Times, which are happening now, God will recover the remnants of His people. Those people are not from a particular faith, nationality, or race. They are those who listen to God, who follow His Law, who awaken and develop their spiritual Self, and use the spiritual truth and wisdom they gain to help others.

“When the false theologies disappear, then true prehistoric realities will be found, contained especially in the mythology of the Aryans – ancient Hindoos, and even the pre-Homeric Hellenes. One writer on mythology asserts that the Egyptians imagined a cat behind the sun, which is the pupil of the cat’s eye. But this imagining is all modern. It is the Mullerite stock in trade. The moon as cat was the eye of the sun, because it reflected the solar light, and because the eye gives back image in its mirror. In the form of the goddess Pasht, the cat keeps watch for the sun, with her paw holding down and bruising the head of the serpent of darkness, called the eternal enemy. …

The untiring research of Western, and especially German, symbologists, during the last and the present centuries, have brought every occultist and most unprejudiced person to see that without the help of symbology (with its seven departments, of which the moderns knew nothing) no ancient scripture can ever be correctly understood. Symbology must be studied from every one of its aspects, for each nation has its own peculiar method of expression. In short, no Egyptian papyrus, no Indian tolla, no Assyrian tile, or Hebrew scroll, should be read and accepted literally.”

–Helena P. Blavatsky

False Theologies

The theologies practiced in most religions and churches today are far different than what was intended by the founders of those faiths. Partly, this is because certain people—usually politicians—have changed what they say, but also because the symbolic language of the original writers is misunderstood. We might understand the symbols used in recent writings, but those of ancient times are little understood except by the students of a few spiritual schools.

Symbols of Ancient Egypt

When we read the writings of ancient Egypt, we think that cats were worshipped by them, but that may not be true. The images of cats as gods and goddesses, such as the one illustrating this post showing the goddess Pasht with the head of a cat, are symbolic. I don’t know the spiritual significance of the cat symbol, but I do know some of the others from ancient Egypt.

One famous work of Egyptian art shows the sun shining down on ancient Egyptian royals with the rays of the sun ending in hands. This is an obvious symbolic way of saying the sun lends a helping hand to man, but there is more to it than that. This well-known image is actually symbolic of the Light of the Spiritual Sun lending a hand to awaken the dormant spiritual faculties in Man.

We know that it is well-accepted today that the Egyptian Ankh is a symbol of eternal life, but it is not understood that it symbolizes a sun with a cross under it, so another symbol of the Spiritual Sun.

Another important symbol was the solar boat. It is said that Ra, the Sun god, road this boat to carry the sun across the sky. It is also said that this boat carries the human soul to the afterlife, again relating the Spiritual Sun to eternal life. An interesting recent discovery is that there was originally a moat around the Sphinx of Egypt with a solar boat in it, relating that monument to the Spiritual Sun.

Symbols of Ancient Greece

One Greek symbol that is well known is the Rod of Asclepius, which is a rod with a snake wrapped around it. This was a symbol of healing, both physical and spiritual. Alpha and Omega is another Greek symbol that has significant meaning. In the Greek alphabet, Alpha is the first letter, and Omega is the last letter, so It is like saying “everything from A to Z”. In the Book of Revelation, Alpha and Omega is used as a symbol of God, as God is the creator of all. The Minotaur, a creature half man and half bull is imprisoned in the Labyrinth. This represents a person who has become completely materialistic, and so is lost in the labyrinth of the realm of matter.

Christian Symbols

The most important symbol in Christianity is the Cross. The early Christians knew the cross with four equal-length arms to be a symbol of God, which was true even before Christianity. Later, Christians changed it to the Crucifix as a symbol of Jesus and his death. Another is a fish which represents Jesus or Christ. Bread and wine is said to symbolize the body and blood of Jesus, but on a deeper, more spiritual level, it represents the Spiritual Light that awakens and nourishes the Spirit.

“When we possess the God-seeing life, we feel ourselves to be living in God; and from out of that life in which we feel God in ourselves, there shines forth upon the face of our inward being a brightness which enlightens our reason, and is an intermediary between ourselves and God. And if we with our enlightened reason abide within ourselves in this brightness, we feel that our created life immerses itself in its eternal life. But when we follow the brightness above reason with a simple sight, and a leaning out of ourselves, toward our highest life, there we experience the transformation of our whole selves in God; and thereby we feel ourselves to be wholly enwrapped in God.

“After this, there follows a third way of feeling, namely, that we feel ourselves to be one with God; for, through the transformation in God, we feel ourselves to be swallowed up in the fathomless abyss of our eternal blessedness, wherein we can nevermore find any distinction between ourselves and God. And this is our highest feeling, which we cannot experience in any other way than in the immersion in love. And therefore, so soon as we are uplifted and drawn into our highest feeling, all our powers stand idle in an essential fruition; but our powers do not pass away into nothingness, for then we should lose our created being.”

–John of Ruysbroeck

A God-seeing Life

What Ruysbroeck calls “the God-seeing life” doesn’t mean that anyone literally sees God, but more that one feels themselves to be in the presence of God. We read in scripture of people talking to God and God answering them, but that doesn’t happen now because man has become too densely material resulting in blockage of his spiritual faculties. If we awaken and develop those faculties, we become the people who possess the God-seeing life.

Shines Forth a Brightness

God is all about Light. Mystics have said that for ages. So it should not be surprising that when we awaken to God’s presence, God shines forth within us as brilliant Light, a Spiritual Light that is different from physical light. Light carries information in it. Even science is beginning to realize that characteristic of physical light, but the information carried in Spiritual Light is of greater importance to our immortal life. When we follow that Light, we do experience a gradual transformation to a higher version of ourselves. And as we are transformed, the world we live is is going through a similar transformation.

One With God

According to Ruysbroeck, the next stage in spiritual development is to become One with God, one with the All. That is one large step ahead, and some may break down the process into smaller steps, but becoming one with God is certainly the ultimate Goal. Ruysbroeck says this total immersion is God is one of Love, and that is true. Universal Love is part of what we develop as we approach that stage of being.

Ruysbroeck adds that our powers do not fade away when this happens as that would mean losing our created being, or individuality. Just as a board in a fence is part of the fence, yet still itself, so we become part of God and still retain our individuality. This may not happen in one lifetime, but the process will continue after the death of the physical body, as long as we start now and make as much progress as we can.

“Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes torpor, sometimes sloth; this is thy daily slavery. By little and little, if you do not better look to it, the sacred dogmata will be blotted out of thy mind. How many things be there, which when a mere naturalist, thou hast barely considered of according to their nature, thou does let pass without any further use? Whereas thou should in all things so join action and contemplation, that thou might at the same time attend all present occasions, to perform everything duly and carefully and yet so intend the contemplative part too, that no part of that delight and pleasure, which the contemplative knowledge of everything according to its true nature does afford, might be lost. Or, that the true and contemplative knowledge of everything according to its own nature, might of itself (action being subject to many lets and impediments) afford unto thee sufficient pleasure and happiness. Not apparent, but not concealed. And when will thou attain to the happiness of true simplicity and unaffected gravity? When will thou rejoice in the certain knowledge of every particular object according to its true nature; as what the matter and substance of it is; what use it is for in the world: how long it can subsist: what things it does consist of; who they are that are capable of it, and who can give it and take it away?”

–Marcus Aurelius

Toys and Fooleries

What Aurelius is calling “toys and fooleries” isn’t limited to the toys of children. He is talking about anything that distracts us from the serious side of life. Things like television, video games, and being on a cell phone so much you don’t notice anything around you. It is really sad that when I go to a fitness center to work out, there are always a few people who ignore the club rules and talk on their cell phones the whole time they are on the treadmills, stationary bikes, or even weight machines. The same happens in the supermarket. Aurelius is correctly labeling this attachment to these things as a form of slavery.

If You Do Not Look To It

The harm of getting too caught up in and attached to things in the material world is that it tends to cause us to ignore our obligation to develop our spiritual side. That is why the Forces of Darkness work so hard to get us to spend more time with video games, cell phones, television, etc. When Aurelius talks of being a “mere naturalist,” he doesn’t mean someone who is out in the natural world all the time, but one who is caught up in the physical realm of matter.

Join Action and Contemplation

What Aurelius is saying here is that instead of idly acting on anything that we find interesting, distracting, comforting, etc., we should think about what we are doing and act on the things that benefit us instead. There is nothing wrong with playing video games a little, but not for hours a day. I personally like to play solitaire on my Kindle Fire for twenty minutes or so each night before I go to sleep. It helps me relax. But I know better than to spend two or three hours playing such games. So when we contemplate what action we are planning to take, we need to ask if that action helps us grow, or not. We need to ask if there are some other actions we should be doing instead. Most of all, we need to be sure we are spending a reasonable amount of time on spiritual development. That doesn’t mean just doing techniques for a few minutes. It means reading books that help stimulate spiritual growth. It means that when we watch movies nd television shows, we choose those that do not promote violence, anger, vengeance, and other negative behavior.

Everything According to Its Nature

When we contemplate, we must think of what is the true nature of things. We must forgive the violent behavior of some animals because we know that it is not their true spiritual nature that is guiding them to do such things. Poisonous plants are not poisonous because they hate us. They are poisonous because their physical self is a product of the Darkness in the world and within all of us. Instead of condemning such plants and animals, we should seek to help them change. Likewise, we should seek to help other humans change. Foolish people sometimes depict angels destroying demons and devils by cutting them up with swords, etc. Nothing could be further from the truth. Contemplation should teach us that such behavior is just joining the darkness, not stopping it. The Angels and Beings of Light stop the demons by convincing them to change their ways. We must change our ways as well.

“Paracelsus recognizing derangements of the etheric double as the most important cause of disease, sought to reharmonize its substances by by bringing it into contact with other bodies whose vital energy could supply elements needed, or that were strong enough to overcome the diseased conditions existing in the aura of the sufferer. Its invisible cause having been thus removed, the ailment speedily vanished.

“The vehicle for the archaus, or vital life force, Paracelsus called the mumia. A good example of a physical mumia is a vaccine. … The most universal form of the Memia was ether, which modern science has accepted as a medium between the realm of vital energy and that of organic and inorganic substances. …

“Paracelsus discovered that in many cases plants revealed by their shape the particular organs of the human body which they served most effectively. The medical system of Paracelsus was based on the theory that by removing the diseased etheric mumia from the organism of the patient and causing it to be accepted into the nature of some distant and disinteresting thing of little value, it was possible to divert from the patient the flow of the archaea which has been continually revitalizing and nourishing the malady. Its vehicle of expression being transplanted, the archaea necessarily accompanied its mumia, and the patient recovered.”

–Manly P. Hall

Derangements of the Etheric Double

This is a way of saying that physical illnesses can have causes that originate in either the psychic or spiritual body. While we can’t say that all disease descends down to the physical body from the higher levels of being, we do know that some do. That is why Gene Savoy, Sr. taught that those who properly developed their spirit would achieve better physical health as well. You might ask, then, why do Cosolargists still have physical illnesses? The most common reason is that the person cannot mentally accept that the development of the spirit does eliminate most physical illnesses. Of course, it will never eliminate all illness, but in general, the spiritually developed people have less illnesses and less severe illnesses than the complete materialists.

Contact With Other Bodies

This is the basis of the Sonatherapy that was available for years at our Steamboat Healing Center & Spa. The concept, developed by a British doctor, is that a sound that duplicates the frequency of a healthy organ can be used to help heal a diseased organ. For example, if someone has cataracts or other eye problems, the frequency of a healthy eye can help them to heal. Paracelsus didn’t use sound, but he did use the same idea with herbs and other natural medicines that worked in a similar way. Color can also be used to help with healing some illnesses.

Gene Savoy, Sr. told us that some medicines worked better than others because they were the proper color. For example, a blue or purple colored pill or liquid would be good for eye problems, while red or orange would be a good color for pills to treat a bowel problem. That doesn’t mean that the drug doesn’t work, but that it works better when the right color is used.

Shape of Plants

This is a new idea to me, but there may be something to it. Nearly all herbs are green, but they treat different illnesses in different parts of the body so that shape may be involved rather than color. The important thing in all of these healing methods is vibration. That which vibrates at a frequency very close to the frequency of a healthy organ will help that organ to heal when diseased or damaged. As geometry is the language of the soul, plant shapes could aid in treating illnesses that originated on the spiritual level.

Accepted by Some Distant Thing

This is what it means in the Bible when it says that Jesus drove demons out of a person and into nearby pigs. A better way to do this, however, is in the way that we in Cosolargy do using an advanced technique where we send negativity out of us to harmlessly disperse into the world, rather than sending it into another being.

“If we will stand still and calmly consider our past life (the present life, we mean) we will see that certain things have led to certain other things, and that small things have led to great things – that little turning points have resulted in an entire change in our life. We may trace back the most important thing in our life to some trifling incident or occurrence. We are able to look back and see how the painful experiences of the past have strengthened us, and have brought us to a larger and fuller life. We are able to see how that particular thing in the past, which seemed needlessly cruel and uncalled for, was the very thing which has brought us to some great thing in the present.

“All that is needed is the perspective of years. And if we get so that we are able to see this, we will be able to bear with greater degree of philosophy the pains and disagreeable occurrences of the present, knowing that they mean ultimate good. When we cease to think of these things as punishment …, or the cruelty of Nature, and begin to see them as the consequences of our own past life, or the result of the Spirit’s directing had, we will cease to protest and struggle, and will endeavor to fall in with the working of the great Law.” –William Walker Atkinson

Consider Our Past

Many of us do consider our past, often more than we should, but not in the way that Atkinson is advising us to. We look back at our successes and failures of the past and generally avoid those things that we failed at and only do those we were successful at. Atkinson is advising us to look more closely at the failures and what changed in us following those failures. If we do that, we will often find that difficulties often trigger us to make changes in our lives, hopefully for the better. It is a simple fact of basic psychology that when we are comfortable and things are going well, we don’t advance at all. We need some problems to push us forward.

Atkinson adds that when he advises us to consider the part, he means the present life. Why would he not want us to consider past lives? The only reason I can think of is that he doesn’t beleve in reincarnation. If he did, he certainly didn’t think blaming everything on past lives was a good idea. Neither is putting off change for a future life when we don’t know we will have one. We need to make the changes necessary in our current life.

Trifling Incident

Unfortunately, while it often is true that some trifling incident in our life may have led to great changes—hopefully for the better—we often don’t remember those small incidents. I am reminded of the story told by actor and singer, James Maslow, who was picked on as a child for being chubby. He didn’t let that insult limit him, but instead decided to change and became a very handsome and muscular young man. He did remember the incident that led to that change, but many do not.

We should also remember the story of the hurricane that may have been started by a butterfly flapping its wings. It is not known that this has actually happened, but it is theorized that a butterfly flapping its wings can start a tiny wind current that grows and grows as it crosses the Sahara and goes into the ocean where it becomes a hurricane. So big things can start small.

Cease to Think of Difficulties as Punishment

Atkinson advises us to stop seeing difficulties as punishment for doing wrong, and instead see them as pushing us on to better things. There are two good reasons for taking that advice. First, God does not punish us, so we need to stop blaming God and change things when necessary. Second, the Dark Beings and Forces will bring difficulties to us when we are succeeding in our path to spiritual enlightenment in an effort to get us to turn away. We must realize what is happening and instead double down and continue on harder than before.