It is not possible to advance on the Spiritual path without going
through a process of purification. The word purification comes from the
Latin and means „to make pure.“ („purus“ = pure; + root of „facere“ = to
make) It literally means „free from extraneous matter.“
Being an extension of Source, we are – like Source – a trinity:
Spirit – consciousness – matter; in intuitive philosophy this trinity is
also known as: Monad (Spirit or life aspect) – Soul (consciousness
aspect) – Personality (matter aspect).
Our mental, emotional and physical/etheric bodies constitute the
so-called personality vehicles. Our bodies are made of various degrees
of matter (physical/etheric matter, astral matter, mental matter). The
quality of the matter constituting our physical/etheric, emotional and
mental bodies is dependent on the thoughts we think, the feelings and
emotions we experience, the words we speak, and the actions we take.
Now, I would like to take a moment and talk about the need of
purification, focusing specifically on our matter aspect, our bodies. At
the end, I will explain why purification is a necessary discipline
which we cannot evade if we are to take the next step in our evolution
and advance into a Soul-conscious species.
Let’s begin with our mental body.
Since in our current stage of evolution we are mostly unconscious and
passive and pay little to no attention to our thinking, we naturally
allow the people around us, the situations we find ourselves in, the
programs playing on TV, global events, etc. to condition our mental
body. Said another way: The newspapers we read, the shows and movies we
watch on TV, the conservations we have at work and with our family, the
people we hang around with, all play upon and condition the matter of
our mental body. Since we, as a human family, are still mostly
identified with separation, most of these vibrations are separative in
nature. They separate us from Source and from one another.
However, the Spiritual path is the path of gradually replacing the
illusion of separation with the reality of oneness. Therefore, to
accomplish this, we need to purify our mental vehicle of all separative
elements. If we do not systematically purify our mental nature of these
separative elements, we will not be able to grow and advance. On the
contrary: we’ll stay stuck exactly where we are and keep going in
circles. You need to understand that we will not just wake up one
magical morning having a fully purified and enlightened mental body. If
our mental nature is going to transform into one of love and light and
beauty, we will have to take the initiative to do so.
Now, how do we purify our mental nature? One of the most essential
ways – and that‘s just one way – to purify our thinking is to begin
observing our thinking. As you observe your thinking, the moment you
catch yourself having a thought of fear, hatred, separation, anger,
etc., immediately stop it and replace it with a thought of love, joy,
gratitude and freedom. Energy cannot be destroyed but it can be
transformed. When we replace a thought of fear with a thought of love,
in that very moment of changing the direction of a thought current, we
transform the energy of that thought current and thus literally
transform the quality, wiring and substance of our mental body. Changing
fear-based thoughts into love-based thoughts is literally an alchemical
process. As we keep raising the substance of our mental body by
purifying it on an ongoing basis (by continually replacing fear-based
thoughts with love-based thoughts), we can use our mental body for an
increasingly higher, divine purpose. (To think high thoughts, we need a
mental body made of high vibrational mental substance; with a low order
mental body we cannot think high thoughts!)
What about our emotional body? The quality of our emotional nature is
dependent on the feelings and emotions we express – past, present, and
future. Fear-based emotions are separative in nature. Cutting off
oneness, they literally destroy the wiring of our emotional nature and
create short-circuits in our nature. As as result, we cannot change our
emotional responses but are caught in so-called emotional automatic
reactions. Someone attacks us, and we automatically attack back (before
we even have time to „think“ about what we are doing). To heal these
cleavages, we need to flood our emotional nature with love and joy and
gratitude, etc. Fear separates, love mends. This way we literally heal
the wiring and raise the substance of our emotional nature. So: Observe
your emotional automatic reactions. As you catch yourself reacting on
automatic pilot, stop yourself in the middle (to the best of your
ability) and make a conscious effort to consciously respond in a new,
loving way. In this way you install a new program. Part of our
evolutionary goal is to master and control our bodies so we can use them
in service of the Soul and Spirit. When we have an emotional body that
does its „own thing,“ the Soul cannot use it in service. When you purify
your emotional nature by flooding your feeling nature with love and joy
and gratitude, and by striving to respond to what happens in your life
in new enlightened ways, you literally purify and thereby raise the very
frequency of the cells constituting your feeling instrument.
Lastly, we also need to purify the matter out of which our physical
body is made. Now, how do we accomplish that? Through fasting, deep
breathing (I am not talking about pranayama!), sports, sweating in the
sauna, etc. Fasting, deep breathing, sports and sweating are excellent
disciplines to release coarse matter from our physical matter and build
new, finer, higher matter into our densest vehicle. In other words:
these are excellent exercises to purify and raise the frequency of the
cells constituting our physical body.
Now, this being said, as we all know: we are NOT our bodes. So why
bother to purify our vehicles if we are NOT our bodies? Excellent
question! As I have said in the beginning, we are a trinity: Spirit,
Soul, matter. These three aspects work together in unison. The Soul is
Spirit’s vehicle of expression, and the matter aspect (involving ALL our
bodies) is the Soul’s vehicle of expression.
In other words: The Soul cannot manifest itself without matter
(without bodies) because matter is the very vehicle for the
manifestation of the Soul.
Our current evolutionary goal is to advance into a Soul-conscious
species. Our current evolutionary goal is to MANIFEST the Soul, and for
the Soul to manifest itself it needs suitable instruments. A suitable
mental, emotional and physical instrument is free of lower-vibratory
coarse matter and full of high-level-vibratory fine matter. The Soul
literally cannot manifest itself in a heavy, lower-vibratory physical
body, emotional vehicle and mental house.
Purification is a necessary discipline on the Spiritual path because
it is the discipline that enables us to replace coarse matter with fine
matter (in all our vehicles). Purification is a discipline that enables
us to alchemically transform our vehicles so as to provide our Soul with
suitable instruments to express and manifest itself on Earth. And why
should we strive to manifest express and manifest the Soul on Earth?
Great question! Because, again, it is current evolutionary goal to
advance into a Soul-conscious species – and we reach this goal by each
one of us manifesting our Soul on Earth – in our thinking, feeling and
acting nature.
