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Monday, January 1, 2024

New Year Resolutions

 Arhatic Alchemy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We are here already, 2024. Let us all make a firm resolve on this day to live by the principles of Ageless Wisdom. Let us work together towards the spirit of cooperation, harmony, compassion & goodwill.


Torkom Saraydarian once said,


“The sign of spiritual progress is to have a new life, a new beginning every morning. Every day you can improve your consciousness, relationships, relationships, goals, labor, and ways and means of doing things. You see a new meaning in every event, object, and person.”


-Torkom Saraydarian New Beginnings

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Those serious aspirants who are ready to take firm responsibility for this year can find the following resolutions helpful.


“They are resolutions with which to open the new year that it may in truth bring us closer to wisdom and understanding. Therefore let us consider these resolutions as listed below:


1. Unto that Self which is within me and is the source of all, I send those greetings which the body can send unto the source of itself and pledge that this year I shall serve this spirit within myself with my heart, my mind and my hand-not to the glorification of matter but that all the world may know the reality of spirit.


2. As the spirit in man is a friend of all things, one with the spirit of all things, knowing neither foe nor friend, kith or kin, race or creed, I shall emphasize this during the coming year through that personality which is the finite manifestation of the infinite. I shall harm no living thing during this year but shall seek communion with that spirit in all living things which is the universal solvent of inharmony.


3. My relationship with my brother man this year shall be based upon my own intrinsic realization of right and not upon their attitude to me. It shall make no difference to me how I am treated, for during this year I shall only do good, express charity, live fraternity, and follow the doctrine of non-resistance. I shall neither resist evil nor accept it but shall remain in poise while others are in turmoil.


4. No word of dissatisfaction, of criticism or of destructiveness shall be launched into the world this coming year from me. I shall meet and receive all things in the spirit of charity and will accept those responsibilities which the world gives me in peace, in poise and in placidity, no matter how hard my lot nor how sad my life.


5. I shall be clean in thought, word and action; in body, mind and soul; and nothing shall defile the temple of the living God within me; either that which goeth in or that which cometh out, but both shall be acceptable in the sight of the most high.


6. My voice shall not be raised in anger nor my words be quick in tone or harsh in meaning but shall be in perfect peace unto all things, realizing the fundamental unity of all life and that diversity is nature's illusion.


7. This year I shall labor. Every day something useful must be standing when night falls to show that today has not been in vain. Someone shall smile who has not smiled before, someone shall be glad who is sad, someone shall be richer who was poor, each day that I am spared in this world of men.


8. Unto my younger brothers I also pledge in the spirit of helpfulness all that I have and am, that each year will come closer to realization of the oneness of all living things.


9. Unto those foes with whom my life has been beset, those thoughtless ones who have grieved me of ten, those friends who have been untrue, those of my own flesh and blood who have been false to me-to all these this year I send greetings that, while they may be false to me, I shall never be false to them. That one Power in the universe which is the basis of all bases and the cause of all causes-to that I renew the bond which is so easily broken by the thoughtlessness of life that I may each day be true and come closer to the ideals which I know but which the weakness of the flesh so seldom gives expression to. Brother, beast and God-all three of these in nature shall realize my realization of unity for I shall live this year to serve those who alone have the power to reward in spirit and in truth.


Let us this year take unto ourselves these resolutions, build them into that eternal part of ourselves which was before the world was and shall be when oblivion dissolves all things.”


-Manly P Hall; The All Seeing Eye Vol 2 No 3

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

The Secret Rose Garden

 

The Secret Rose Garden

of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari

by Florence Lederer

[1920]


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Sa'd ud Din Mahmud Shabistari was born in Persia, in Shabistar, near Tabriz, about 1250 CE. His best known work, The Secret Rose Garden was written as a reply to questions by a Sufi doctor of Herat. This set of verses uses the rich Sufi allegorical language to explore the path to God.


Title Page
Contents
Editorial Note
Introduction
Acknowledgment
Part I. The Perfect Face of the Beloved
Part II. Beauty
Part III. The Sea and its Pearls
Part IV. The Journey
Part V. Time and This Dream-World
Part VI. Reflections
Part VII. Divine Inebriation
Part VIII. Reason and Free-Will
Part IX. Man: His Capabilities and His Destiny
Part X. The One
Part XI. The Self
Part XII. Idols, Girdles, and Christianity
Part XIII. Thoughts
Part XIV. The Light Manifest
Epilogue


Monday, April 17, 2023

The last air-bender

 

Friday, June 17, 2022

Realize your deepest desires

By Gloria
Link: https://www.totalenlightenmentcoaching.org/private-coaching/ 

You have a million dreams and desires and don’t know where to start?

You feel stuck in your current situation and don’t know how to get unstuck?

You have relationship problems, health problems, financial problems, self-worth issues etc. and you just don’t know how to go about it all?

Don’t worry, I have got some good news for you!

You just have one problem: You don’t understand life!

Spirit – Matter – Consciousness

Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of the Soul.

The reason why we HAVE bodies even though we ARE not our bodies is because without body (=matter aspect) the Soul (=consciousness aspect) cannot manifest and express itself.

Think of the Soul as a nucleus of pure consciousness around which countless atoms – with the fire of Spirit (=life aspect) at their core – accumulate and circulate, forming what we commonly call body, circumstances and environment.

Your body, your circumstances, your environment are a direct expression of your inner dominant thought life, they are your deepest inner desires and fears pushed outward, in short: your outer life is an exact outpicturing or expression of your inner life and consciousness.

We cannot move within and stand still without.

We look at the world around us as being factual, not understanding that these facts are simply effects of a deeper inner cause, not understanding that the cause is the movement of our consciousness. As the Soul moves, the atoms circulating around the nucleus of our Soul rearrange themselves in now-time.

Therefore: We cannot move within and stand still without.

Problem: We have made matter the positive controlling factor in life

Solution: Make Soul the positive controlling factor in life

Going through life unaware of the reality and power of our Soul, we go through life being identified with matter, forming our identity around our bodies, our titles, our circumstances, forming our identity around the outer world rather than the inner reality.

Being identified with matter rather than with our Soul, we have made matter the positive (=active/controlling) factor in life and Soul the negative (=passive/serving) one.

As a consequence we go through life passively, allowing the world around us to induce active vibrations in our bodies, to place thoughts in our minds and desires in our hearts.

In other words: The outer world determines our inner life.

The outer voice has drowned the inner voice.

Yet, our inner voice constantly speaks to us in the form of deep, inner desire.

You must honor your deepest inner desires

Your desires for a more fulfilling, joyful and abundant life are literally the desires of the Divine within you seeking to express themselves, in this way pushing you upwards on the ladder of evolution, upwards in frequency.

The word heaven comes from the Old English heofon meaning home of God. Heaven is just another word for high frequency.

Our deep inner desire to upgrade our life – our relationships, our health, our finances, you name it – is the Divine within us pushing us on from the inside out to align our frequency with the frequency of heaven.

Therefore it is essential for your inner peace and wellbeing that you honor your deepest, loftiest desires! To disown your deepest desires is to disown your Inner Voice which is your inner compass.

The desire to do implies the ability to do

Your desires are real, tangible energies.

A (somewhat superficial) scientific definition of energy is the ability to do work.

That is why it has been said that it is a Spiritual law in nature that the desire to do implies the ability to do. In other words, whatever it is you truly desire to be, to have, to do, the very desire is a guarantee that you can be, have and do whatever it is you truly desire!

Yet to fulfill your deepest desires and turn all your problems (=markers for unevolved potential) into activated potential, you need to reverse the process:

You need to identify with the Soul, thereby making the Soul the positive (=controlling) factor in life and realize matter to be the negative (=serving) factor in life.

This is the way to realize your deepest inner desires.

The way to change your circumstances is to change your level of consciousness

No matter how complicated or hopeless your current situation may look like, you can turn it around in record time by recognizing that YOU are the center of your universe and by realizing that the visible world around you is nothing but the temporary (!) arrangement of the building blocks of matter around the nucleus of your Soul, outpicturing your current level of consciousness.

The way to change your circumstances it to change your level of consciousness.



Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Thoughts along the road

 Source: https://www.carloscardosoaveline.com/thoughts-along-the-road-43/