“Each new stage achieved in the mystical development of the spirit has meant, not the leaving behind of the previous stages, but an adding on to them; an ever greater extension of experience, and enrichment of personality. So that the total result of this change, this steady growth of your transcendental self, is not an impoverishment of the sense-life in the supposed interests of the super-sensual, but the addition to it of another life—a huge widening and deepening of the field over which your attention can play. Sometimes the mature contemplative consciousness narrows to an intense point of feeling, in which it seems indeed ‘alone with the Alone’: sometimes it spreads to a vast apprehension of the Universal Life, or perceives the common things of sense aflame with God.” ~Evelyn Underhill

Development of Our Spiritual Faculties

“Some people fear that the  development of their spiritual faculties will mean giving up their material life. Other fear that knowledge gained through years of study in material schools will be lost and replaced with the spiritual and mystical. This is simply not the case.”

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“The great Fifth Hermetic Principle—the Principle of Rhythm—embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion; a to-and-from movement; a flow and inflow; … a pendulum-like movement; … There is always an action and reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking; manifested in all of the airs and phenomena of the Universe. Suns, worlds, animals plants, … mind and matter, yes, even Spirit, manifests this principle. This principle manifests in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the history of all things; and finally in the mental states of Man.” ~Three Initiates

The Need for Cycles

“So many people misunderstand the principles of cycles and much of our difficulties are caused by our failure to recognize this principle. In order to breath, you must inhale and then exhale and repeat that cycle over and over. You can’t just breath in constantly because your lungs can’t hold all that air. Even if they could, the exhale serves more than to release the used air from which most of the oxygen has been removed, The exhale is a cleansing thing that helps remove certain toxins from the body.

“Back when electricity was being developed as a power source, Thomas Edison favored direct current which flows in one direction only. Tesla favored alternate current which moves in both directions in cycles. While direct current is easy to use (think batteries) its major problem is that it can’t travel far. If we had followed Edison’s plan, we would have direct current generators every few blocks supplying just a small area. Tesla say that alternating current could be used over much greater distances and it is the method we adopted.”

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“The Lord dwells in the souls of the humble; but shameful passions fill the hearts of the proud. Nothing so strengthens these passions against us as arrogant thoughts, and nothing uproots the evil herbs of the soul so effectively as blessed humility. Hence humility is rightly called the executioner of passions. Let your soul be free of evil fantasies and illuminated with thoughts of what is truly noble. Remember constantly the saying, ‘a self-indulgent heart becomes a prison and a chain for the soul when it leaves this life; whereas an assiduous heart is an open door.’ Truly, when pure souls leave the body they are guided by angels who lead them to the life of blessedness. But unclean and unrepentant souls will be taken in charge by the demons.” ~The Philokalia

Humility VS Egotism

“It seems today that a majority of people have embraces a world where the bigger your ego and the more grandiose your passions, the better person you are. Such people become celebrities, business leaders, and even run for president. Then we wonder how we ended up with a world where the one percent owns almost everything and the rest of us are, to all practical purposes, their slaves.

“On the other hand, there are those spiritual teachers and spiritual schools that not only say that humility is better than egotism, but that the ego must be utterly destroyed if we are to make any spiritual progress at all. A few years ago, a friend suggested I read the books of a currently very popular writer on the subject of being spiritual. I got about a third of the way through his book and gave up. He seemed to be saying only one thing on every page, but with slightly different words: the ego is completely evil and must be totally eliminated.

“The truth is somewhere between those extremes, but leaning more toward humility, at least if you want to get serious about developing your spiritual faculties. We don’t want to destroy ego because it gives us drive, it gives us the desire to accomplish things. Rather than destroying the ego, it needs to be controlled and governed by an awakened and developed spirit and soul. If you visit certain parts of the world, you can find many people with a great deal of humility, but because they have virtually destroyed their egos, they accomplish nothing, and have no desire to accomplish anything, including saving their own souls. Obviously, that is not the best way to do it. Develop humility, but don’t destroy the ego in the process, just keep it in check. Don’t let ego hold you back as in the illustration on this post.”

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“Next in order, above the Instinctive mind, is what we have called the Intellect, that part of the mind that does our reasoning, analyzing; ‘thinking,’ etc. You are using it in the consideration of this lesson. But note this: You are using it, but it is not You, any more than was the Instinctive Mind. …
“The third, and highest, Mental Principle is what is called the Spiritual Mind, that part of the mind which is almost unknown to many of the race, but which has developed into consciousness with nearly all who read this. … All the great thoughts and idea float into the field of consciousness from this part of the mind. All the great unfoldment of the race comes from there. … His [mans] knowledge of the great occult truths reach him through this channel.” ~William Walker Atkinson

Three Mind and Thought Levels

“Mr. Atkinson doesn’t specifically connect these three levels of the mind with the brain, but he seems to imply it. In that, we in Cosolargy disagree with him. The Instinctive  and the Intellect are together what I call the brain-mind to show the relationship, but the spiritual mind is part of the spirit, that part we call the soul. And it is not surprising that it is unrecognized and unused in most people because it is dormant when we come into the physical world, and must be awakened to be used.”

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“If man were all of one piece—I mean, if he were nothing more than a mere thing, acting and acted upon according to a fixed nature—he could be no more subject to reproach and punishment than the mere animals. But as the scheme hold, man is singles out for condemnation when he does evil; and this with justice. … For he is no mere thing. …
“This does not, however, outside the Providence of the Reason of the All; the Over-World cannot be dependent upon the World of Sense. The higher shines down upon the lower, and this illumination is Providence in the highest aspect: The Reason-Principle has two phases, one which creates the things of process and another which links them with the higher beings. … “Men possess, then, a distinctive Principle: but not all men turn to account all that is in their nature; …” ~Plotinus

Man is Different

“We do not consider an animal evil when it kills other animals to survive. Even when it kill a human, we generally don’t think of it as evil or needing punishment, though we probably hunt down and kill it for our own protection, not to punish it. Likewise, when a person eats a poisonous plant and dies, we do not blame the plant, for the plant did not choose to be poisonous or to be eaten. Man is, on the other hand, held responsible for his action, on both the material and spiritual levels. Man has a spiritual link.”

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Different types of sports played by people

“This threefold union with Reality, as your attention is focused now on one aspect, now on another, of its rich simplicity, will be actualized by you in many different ways: for you are not now to suppose that an unchanging barren ecstasy is now to characterize your inner life. … The sense of your own dwelling within the Eternal transfuses and illuminates it, the sense of your own necessary efforts, a perpetual renewal of contact with the spiritual world. … When the greater love overwhelms the lesser, and your small self-consciousness is lost in the consciousness of the Whole, it will be felt as an inner stillness, a quiet fruition of Reality. … Since you are a child of Time as well as of Eternity, such effort and satisfaction, active and passive love are both needed by you, if your whole live is to be brought into union with the inconceivable rich yet simple one in whom these apparent opposites are harmonized.” ~Evelyn Underhill

“Today, perhaps more than ever, it is hard to stay focused on one thing, but that is not necessarily bad. I don’t mean the kind of lack-of-focus some people have where they never accomplish anything because they keep changing their mind on what they want to accomplish. I mean those of us who do no what we want, and will work towards a goal for years when necessary, but not all day, every day. We need to live a rich life of many worthy activities, not just one, but make sure spiritual growth is one of them.”

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“When the alchemists stated that every animate and inanimate thing in the universe contained the seeds of gold, they meant that even the grains of sand possessed a spiritual nature, for gold was the spirit of all things. Concerning these seeds of spiritual gold the following Rosicrucian axiom is significant” ‘A seed is useless and impotent unless it is put in its appropriate matrix.’ Franz Hartmann comments on this axiom with these illuminating words: ‘A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development.’ … Everything which exists has a spirit—the seed of Divinity within itself. … Regeneration actually the unfoldment of the omnipresent Divinity in man, that this Divinity may shine forth as a sun and illuminate all.” ~Manly P. Hall

Seeds of Gold

“If you were hoping that Seeds of Gold was something you could buy at your local Nursery and plant in the back yard to grow your own gold, sorry to disappoint you. As usual, when the alchemists spoke of seeds of gold they meant the spirit hidden in all things, just as the true alchemists sought to turn the man of lead (materialist, low consciousness) into a man of gold (spiritual, high consciousness) and not literally change one metal into another. Referring to this spiritual nature as “seeds” seems appropriate to me since, like seeds, they are a potential that can grow into something much greater, just as an acorn can grow into a great oak tree.”

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“The devil cannot see the Soul, for the second Principle, wherein it lives, and in which God and the Kingdom of Heaven stands, as also the Angels and Paradise, is shut up from him, and he cannot get to it.
“In this consideration you may find what I understand by a Principle. For a Principle is nothing else but a new Birth, a new life: Besides, there is no more than one Principle wherein there is an eternal life, that is, the eternal Deity. And this would not have been manifested, if God had created no Creatures in Himself, (viz. Angels and Men,) who understand the eternal and indissoluble band, and how the Birth of the eternal Light is in God. …
“The divine Essence in the divine Principle has wrought in the root of the first Principle, which is the begetter, Matrix, or Genetrix. … In the second Principle, (viz. In the holy Birth,) there is only Spirit, Light, and Life.” ~Jacob Boehme

The Principles

“It seems that Boehme is using the word “Principle” in the way that we use “Dimension” in Cosolargy. Another difference is that he seems to be numbering them starting with the highest as number one, then down to the lowest. In Cosolargy, we number the lowest dimension as one, and go up to the highest as the ninth. So what Boehme calls the first Principle, we call the ninth Dimension.

“Boehme tells us that the second Principle (eight dimension) came into existence when God created the Angels and Men. This tells us that God alone exists at the highest level that Boehme calls the first Principle.”

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“Something may here be said concerning the environment in which this [spiritual] training should be undertaken, for this is not without some importance. … Anyone practicing in an environment filled only with self-seeking interests, as for example, the modern struggle for existence, must be conscious of the fact that these interests are not without their effect on the development of his spiritual organs. It is true that the inner laws of these organs are so powerful that this influence cannot be fatally injurious. Just as a lily can never grow into a thistle, however inappropriate its environment, so, too, the eye of the soul can never grow to anything but its destined shape … .
“Especially fortunate is the student who can carry out his esoteric training surrounded by the green world of plants, or among the sunny hills, where nature weaves her web of sweet simplicity. This environment develops the inner organs in a harmony which can never ensue in a modern city.” ~Rudolf Steiner

Location, Location, Location

“The environment in which we practice spiritual development techniques is important. The reason ancient holy people like the Essenes went to mountain tops or open fields to do their practices was not just to avoid being seen, but also to get away from the materialistic thought vibrations found in the crowded cities and towns. We did find an interesting exception to the idea that cities are bad places to conduct spiritual techniques. A few years ago a group of us took a trip to Greece where we visited many ancient religious and spiritual sites, but we also spent several nights in the crowded and bustling city of Athens. In the morning, we would go to the rooftop patio to do a few minutes of spiritual sun gazing (gazing at the spiritual sun, not the material one) before breakfast at the hotel restaurant, which was also on top of the hotel. In most big cities, the sun feels harsh when you do this, but it was surprisingly mellow in Athens.”

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“In the degree that Man realizes the existence of the Indwelling Spirit immanent within his being, so will he rise in the spiritual scale of life. This is what spiritual development means—the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us. Try to remember this last definition—that of spiritual development. It contains the Truth of True Religion. … There are many planes of being … and all depend upon the advancement of beings in the scale, of which scale the lowest point is the grossest matter, the highest being separated only by the thinnest division from the SPIRIT of THE ALL.” ~The Three Initiates

“There are a lot of people calling themselves spiritual these days, and a lot of schools claiming to teach spirituality or spiritual development. There seems to be considerable difference, however, in what different people and different schools call spiritual.”

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