“The fear-based reality to which we’ve resigned ourselves to some degree was formed by our reptile brain’s survival instinct and the tendency of our left brain to control reality… Fight, flee, deny and control. A wide variety of methods for dealing with fear have developed over time from these basic tactics, then cultural worldviews grew from the tactics.
“Consider the ubiquity of war and its saber-rattling intimidation strategies, now used commonly in politics, business, and relationships. Consider the great credibility and power of scientific-mechanistic-academic thought, that co-opts or disparages intuition, art, dreams, oral wisdom, and personal growth. …
“In the Industrial Age we handled fear by strengthening materialism and patriarchy; in the Information Age we distract ourselves with a glut of media, data, and electronic devices … As we enter the Intuitive Age, these tactics and their resulting worldviews feel antiquated, …” ~Penney Peirce

Primitive animals like lizards may not have the mental facilities to reason out things, but they do have the primitive fear response built into their brains and it works very well in helping them stay alive.

Humans have that primitive part of the brain as well as more advanced parts that do allow us to think things through. Unfortunately, many of us are lazy and would rather just let the primitive brain control us with fear and instinctive responses to it. Now it may be a good thing if we are lost in the forest and suddenly find ourselves face-to-face with a bear that we have this automatic fear response but in most day-to-day activities that modern people engage in, reliance on a the most primitive part of our brain doesn’t make any sense. If you wanted to know how to better run a business you certainly wouldn’t consult a lizard or a toad, yet that is what you are doing when you let this most primitive part of the brain control most of your decisions.

One of the worse aspects of this allowing ourselves to run on fear is that it tends to block off our use of our more advanced spiritual facilities. People who fear they will lose their jobs if they don’t devote virtually all of there time to the job are afraid to devote a few hours a week to spiritual growth. Or they are afraid that if the boss finds out they are engaging in spiritual activities, he will think they are becoming weird people who are not totally absorbed by materialism ans start looking for an excuse to fire them.

Fortunately for us, the great spiritual and religious leaders like Jesus and Buddha managed to overcome this allowing themselves to be controlled by fear. These people often had a great deal to fear, but they didn’t hide from the things that might harm them, they faced them and often defeated them.

So one of the first things we need to do to become more spiritual is to realize when we do things based on fear, and start changing our ways and doing what our reasoning facilities and our intuition tells us is right.

Actually, I wouldn’t really say that fear-based human society is antequated because that implies that it made sense in the past and I don’t think it did. It is simply unworkable to live as if we are are all constantly running from the things we fear.

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“Plato regarded philosophy as the greatest good ever imparted by Divinity to man. In the twentieth century, however, it has become a ponderous and complicated structure of arbitrary and irreconcilable notions—yet each substantiated by almost incontestable knowledge. The lofty theorems of the old Academy which Iamblichus likened to the nectar and ambrosia of the gods have been so adulterated by opinion—which Heraclitus declared to be a falling sickness of the mind—that the heavenly mead would now be quite unrecognizable to this great Neo-Platonist. …
“In his treatise on Atheism, Sir Francis Bacon tersely summarizes the situation thus: ‘A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.‘” ~Manly P. Hall

Philosophy was once one of the great and noble fields of knowledge and its practitioners were highly respected individuals, kind of the celebrities of their day. But in modern times, real philosophy has been replaced by egotistical individuals simply stating their personal opinions about everything and calling that philosophy. Real philosophy is based on proper interpretation of divine knowledge and applying such knowledge to everyday situations. As a result of the degeneration of the field of philosophy to nothing more than the opinions found on the editorial page of the daily newspaper, there is little respect for this field anymore. While I haven’t made such studies myself, I suspect that if I were to go to a major university to get a degree in philosophy, instead of being taught how to gain access to divine wisdom (gnosis), I would be assigned to read the writing of various philosophers of the past.

It is therefore not much of a surprise that so much of the pretend philosopher of our modern times supports the idea of atheism. As Bacon said, when you just look at the surface of philosophy, or things in general for that matter, you are likely to come to false conclusions, but if you dig down deep, and keep your ego at bay, you will come to a very different conclusion.

I recently watched the animated movie “The Croods”, and one of the things I liked about it was the way it demonstrated that things are not always what they appear to be when we only view them superficially. First, we see the flock of cute little pink birds that look so cute and cuddly only to learn that they are essentially flying piranhas. Second, we find that the huge cat monster the cavemen have been hiding from for year is not chasing them to eat them, but because he wants to make friends and get his ears scratched.

Real philosophy is about getting to the truth behind the illusions, not about egotistical opinions.

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“Places also exercise an important influence in occult operation; some spots upon the earth’s surface are naturally highly magnetic. These have usually been discovered of old time by the ancients and their possibilities developed, and according to the type of development employed will be their influence at the present day. There is a very great difference between a place which has been used for evocatory rites involving blood-sacrifice.
“Occultists having the necessary knowledge avail themselves, as far as they can, of places with magnetism already developed; but failing this, they magnetize a place for themselves, but it takes considerable time and work to do this.” ~Dion Fortune

Substitute spiritual for occult, and this quote remains essentially true. While it is debatable that magnetism is the key factor, there are places that are good, great, and not good for spiritual activities. Unfortunately, it is impractical for most of us to travel all over the country or the world seeking spots of good energy to practice our spiritual techniques, and the results may actually be disappointing. When a group of Cosolargists visited Israel some years ago, they found that whatever positive energies once were there are long gone. On the other hand, we were surprised to find on our 2009 trip to Greece that the sun was quite mellow in Athens, which is very unusual for an urban area. Also, as Ms Fortune points out, strong energy or magnetic forces in a place isn’t necessarily a good thing. Those energies may be very negative or of low frequencies that harm rather than aid spiritual growth.

In some cases these energy vortexes formed naturally, but most often are the result of spiritual people, especially highly developed ones, conducting spiritual activities there over a long period of time. But again, it isn’t really necessary to travel to such places. In most cases, you can find a place of reasonably positive and high-frequency energy close to home. The basic rules are:

• Generally, urban areas are not good
• Mountaintops are usually good, unless there is a lot of commercial development on or around the mountain
• Seashores are also good spots, but with the same rules on development
• Forests and parks are generally good spots if there are few people around
• A garden is usually a good spot.

The main idea is to find a place where higher frequency energies are found, or can grow. If that isn’t possible, at least try to avoid a place that is probably full of negative or very materialistic energies such as Wall Street or a prison yard. If you can’t go to such areas every day, try to do it at least a few times a month.

And last but not least, when you practice spiritual techniques with others, the positive energies of the group can help raise the energy of the location.

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 “This is why the Lawgiver, symbolically commanding us to deny entry to sensual pleasure, told us to watch the head of the serpent, because it is watching our heel. Its aim is to bite our heel and so to poison us; … This means that we should first learn to detect the attack of deceitful thoughts from premonitory signs and to watch their first beginnings, which they contrive to make attractive in appearance so as to attain their end; than we can expose the wickedness of these thoughts by comparing their first beginnings with the final results. …
“To clarify what has been said, let us take two examples. Often the vice of unchastity has it’s first beginning in self-esteem; … Under the influence of self-esteem, a man may perhaps enter the priesthood or the life of monastic perfection; … his self-esteem makes him think highly of himself. … So, by beguiling him with such thoughts, self-esteem draws him far away from the inner watchfulness that he should possess.” ~The Philokalia

“Perhaps the most important part of this quote is near the beginning where we are told that when the teacher or master tells us to give up sensual pleasures, it is an allegorical way of saying that we need to watch our own thoughts and stop ourselves from thinking evil things, evil thoughts being anything that turns us away from doing God’s work. It doesn’t have to be thoughts of murder, or rape, or robbery to be evil. Any thought that encourages us to engage in more materialistic activities and cut back on our spiritual ones is an evil thought, but is often not recognized as such.”

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“Many people seem to take it for granted that if a man believes in and desires to have a spiritul life, he can live it in utter independence of spiritual food. He believes in God, loves his neighbor, wants to do good, and just goes ahead. The result of this is that the life of the God-fearing citizen or the Social Christian, as now conceived and practiced, is generally the starved life. … Yet the literature of the spirit is full of warnings on this subject. Taste and see that the Lord is sweet. They that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength.” ~Evelyn Underhill

“Most people understand that they must eat a healthy and nutritious diet to have a strong and healthy body, even if they don’t bother to practice it. Yet few seem to understand that the spirit and soul require nutrition as well. They must be fed just like the body, or like the body they will shrivel and become weak.”

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Gene Savoy Sr. in a crowd in Peru in the late 1990s PHOTO: Roger Weld

There are twenty-six Sayings recorded in volumes I–VI of The Image and The Word: The Secret Sayings of Jamil. The later Sayings were delivered either onboard the Feathered Serpent II, or during voyages that terminated in America or at the Sanctuary grounds. The object of the Sayings was to reveal to The Community what it must do in the world.

Volume VI, published in 1981, presents the Twenty-Second through Twenty-Fourth Sayings. It is in this volume that Reverend Ted Staver found a passage on Reverend Gene Sr’s life, described by himself, that seemed to fit the format of the “Path to Light” series. Ted suggested the passage to us, and we are posting it for you.

In the passage that follows, Bishop Savoy is presenting the story of his early life as an illustration in response to a question from one of the Companions of The Way regarding the means by which one comes to know who one really is.

“I was adopted when I was three. I lost my natural father and my mother remarried, so I was adopted. And I was raised with half-brothers and with a stepfather who fed me and took care of me and did the best he could as a father. I loved my father very, very dearly, and my brothers and my mother, of course. But my mother was the only person who really understood me. She had a kind of knowledge of me and gave me something that I needed that no one else in the world ever gave me, at least when I was a child. At the age of five I started going to church and by six years of age I was beginning to listen to sermons and getting involved in theology.

“My stepfather did not go to church. My mother was the granddaughter of a Baptist minister, and her father eventually became religious and became active in the Church, though in my own home there was no formal religion. But from the age of six on I went to various Churches: Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Pentecostal, Catholic. I had an urge to enter the ministry, an urge to be spiritual, without knowing why.

“I was different from my brothers and they never really understood me and my religious inclinations. Yet, I never understood the life that we led. Quite simply, I longed for the spiritual life even at that tender age. My mother’s sister influenced me greatly, for she was a Christian Scientist. But the motivation that drove me to worship was an inner compulsion, a driving force that no one understood, not even myself. I did not like school and formal education, not even in later years at business College and University. Like in my earlier home life, there was no spiritual environment. Even the orthodox Church environment was empty, yet it was better than nothing. Still, I longed for a spiritual life of a kind and order not known in the world. No one could instruct me in it. No one was knowledgeable in it. No one I talked to – clergy, teacher, priest, scholar – had the vaguest idea of what I was seeking. I was an alien in a hostile environment, alone, lost, empty.

“The same feeling continued as I got older – I never felt comfortable in the world or that I belonged in it. Though I continued to go to church, was baptized and planned on entering the ministry, I felt alien even to the Christian environment. Like so many, I became interested in Eastern teachings, but again I felt like an alien. I only began to feel comfortable when I discovered the beauty of the ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism and the ancient Egyptian teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. However, I did not become a great student of these religions as I continued to be more inclined toward Christianity.

“Basically, what I am trying to say is that with all my searching in the Christian Church and in the Eastern and Oriental religions, I never became comfortable with religion until I had experienced the visions, and then was able to endure the strong light of the sun. My eyes were no longer blind to the Light of Christ. The world was no longer Dark. For I saw within the light that illuminated the world a greater Light, the Light of God that illuminates the spirits of men, a Light more brilliant than the light of the stars and the moon and the sun combined. That efficacious Light put my heart and mind to rest. It taught me the meaning of religion in a flash, a rapture of spiritual joy. It instructed me in religion more than any rite or ritual, more than any book, more than any sermon. It was a living communion in which I was able to experience the divine Presence of God. I was reborn! Made spiritual, yet I was without instruction, an innocent child, a neophyte awaiting maturity as eagerly as a babe.

“I found the source of Righteousness. I had found the place where God resides, not by my own motivation, but by the vision of Light, and by the Presence within the Light. What clergyman, what Apostle, what biblical scholar had ever seen God face to face? God dwells in a place accessible only to those who are called to it by Him, it seems. And I knew that it was my destiny to serve God in the formation of this Church. I therefore awaited the birth of The Child from whom I would learn with trust, and hope and belief. I gave up all my human motivations of self; that is, pursuit of my human destiny. It was my destiny to serve God within the framework of the Church to come. God would be my Teacher and I would follow Him. My spiritual eye had been opened, and it saw a realm of spiritual beingness. Now that I had been led to it by revelation, I would devote my whole life to teaching it to others.

“Then I began to have recollections and remembrances. It did not all come at once, it came in stages. And as I had experiences and began teaching and moving about in the world, my remembrances increased by the act of working in the Church. Then, of course, when Jamil was teaching, just by looking at him I knew many things. He had the flashing eyes and the touch. He did not have to say much – all he had to do was make a gesture with His hands or look at me with a flash, and I knew. I learned from him by his presence and by looking at the sun, and by recalling and putting things together. And after a while I realized that although I was doing all the work, or so it appeared – writing, teaching, recording the words of Jamil, exploring and holding the Church together as best I could, and suffering, as it were, especially as people could not understand and were leaving – that there was a power over the Church that was outside of my control.”

—from The Image and the Word: the Secret Sayings of Jamil, Volume VI., by The Most Right Reverend Gene Savoy, pp.81-86

 “The Pythagorean doctrine that God is the universal mind diffused through all things, and the dogma of the soul’s immortality, are the leading features in these apparently incongruous teachings. His piety and the great veneration Plato felt for the MYSTERIES, are sufficient warrant that he would not allow his indiscretion to get the better of that deep sense of responsibility which is felt by every adept. ‘Constantly perfecting himself in perfect MYSTERIES, a man in them alone becomes truly perfect,’ says he in Phaedrus.
“He took no pains to conceal his displeasure that the Mysteries had become less secret than formerly. Instead of profaning them by putting them within the reach of the multitude, he would have guarded them with jealous care against all but the most worthy of his disciples.” ~H. P. Blavatsky

“Most people know of Pythagoras as a great math teacher, particularly of geometry, but he was more a philosopher and spiritual teacher than a mathematician. His interest in mathematical formulas and geometric shapes was only for the purposes of helping himself and his students grow spiritually. His idea that God is universal mind is a good one, but this should not be confused with the intellectualism of the human brain. Divine Consciousness and materialistic intellect are two very different things.”

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This is your forum to share higher-level experiences in Cosolargy through the images of your dreams and visions. All postings are anonymous. Send in verbal descriptions and, if you have them, drawings or paintings.

The primary value in these postings is simply to allow others to see that people do have relevant or meaningful dreams and visions. Another value is to see if others find that the dreams and visions we post are similar or identical to their own. This is why we ask for your comments.

Dreams are communications from the unconscious mind and sometimes the higher self. Some are simply compensation for attention directed elsewhere during the day; some are indications of bodily processes, and some help us work through conflicts. Occasionally, they communicate information from higher realms and thus have more than individual value.

As Cosolargists, we are learning to navigate higher realms. Dreams are part of these higher realms. The Worlds of Light, the realm of spirit, sometimes breaks through to the psyche and gives us information. What breaks through deserves our attention and analysis. In this section of the Community Communique, we offer Community members a forum for sharing their dreams and visions for the edification of the Community and themselves.

Vision No. 2

“I experienced the following vision on three separate occasions and know of one other person who had the same visual.

“All three happened at sunrise at the Red Rock Sanctuary. After the Sun had released itself from the horizon it took the shape of the Tao symbol and maintained that appearance for the entire episode, lasting more than five minutes. The symbol was in motion with flares coming off the tails of the Tao.

“It was multicolored, one side red the other side blue.”