“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.