Wisdom From Atlantis : The Use of Symbolism

The Use of Symbolism :


We find mortals who have taken up the advanced form of thought, (wondering and inquiring of every one whom they feel might give any enlightenment on the subject,) the meaning of symbols and asking : "Why did I have a dream that seemed to be so symbolical? Why is it that so many things come to me in waking hours that seem to be symbols of something, and I cannot find it, cannot grasp it?" We hear this question all about, and many try to find out the meaning of symbols, or that which they take to be symbols.

In our opinion, a symbol is a picture : You attempt to teach your small child a great lesson from its blocks, from pictures, from birds, trying to impress upon his mind the lesson that he can always seek, that he can always bring back to himself when he sees this particular picture; and so it is that some individuals do not seem to grasp the meaning of your own language, that which should be the medium of expression between you. Many individuals are unable, are incapable of reasoning, of concentrating, of knowing the meaning behind the words. Therefore, it is often necessary to give to them a picture that will impress upon their minds the lesson that lies behind it.


We find among you mortals a tendency to speak your English language, or whatever language comes easiest to you. You speak it fluently, you discuss your world topics, the topics of the day, you think you understand one another because you understand the words to a degree that another speaks. You say you can speak such and such a language or perhaps many, and yet we find so few of you who actually know the meaning of the words that you utter, the true meaning that lies behind the simple words, such as the word remembering. When we speak the word remembering to you, it has its full meaning. To many of you, it is going back over some particular incident in your lives, or trying to find out what you thought or did --- that to you would be remembering. But to us it is becoming a member again, re-membering. The word atonement, as you call it, or at-onement, becoming one again. You have always been one and yet in your minds you have separated yourselves until now you must come back and at-one yourselves with the great Universal Spirit, not in reality, but in your consciousness.


Many words that you speak you do not use in their true sense. You do not give them their full power. You use them lightly and that is why in the form of speaking slang as you term it, you use many utterances as the savage would use a grunt. It means something that everyone soon forms the idea of its general meaning, and perhaps the word itself does not mean that at all. You do not use your language to become understood among yourselves. Yet you do not speak a language that you understand between yourselves. We find therefore that it is necessary to give to some of you who have lived so lightly and tried to assimilate in a somewhat meager way with language, an understanding in pictures, in symbols, because we find that you will concentrate upon a picture and that you will do little about it if it is written in your own language.

We cannot hope to express the great understanding that would come to you if you could understand one another's thoughts.Your English Language is not adequate, it is not sufficient, it has not a range of words, and yet it is being used over your country as the preferred language. For that very reason it is almost like your shorthand, and yet very few of you understand, only those of you who have studied it can use it to advantage. So, your symbols.


Do not give so much importance to dream symbols because you receive them; try to receive a lesson from them but remember that they are as blocks to you, they are given to you to help you to understand, to help you to understand your consciousness, because you will work harder if you can hold in your mind a picture.Then as you see a certain number of words on paper, it means a soulless something to you, that unless you receive it with the spirit behind it is nothing and that is why many individuals will read again and again and receive a different meaning each time, because they did not concentrate in the first place, did not look behind it, search for its complete meaning. Therefore it took many readings, many months, perhaps years, to find the understanding, or even a partial understanding of that which has been written in plain English.


You should seek from within out, rather than from without in. Many feel that wisdom is like seeking a gold mine ; it is something to be sought in secret places, unusual places. It is difficult to find it is true, but it is not beyond, it is within the grasp of every individual who will open his own consciousness. It is around him, within him, about him. He need not go out to receive it, it is within. He need not seek in far away hidden places, it is close at hand. For that reason he does not seek, it is so close, and yet mortals will spend months, years, lifetimes, seeking that which is so unimportant, and not realising that they hold in the hollow of their hands the all-important truth. To learn to know yourself. If you know yourself, you will know all men, for while they are different outwardly, materially, individually, yet when you find in another something that rings true to you, you find it within yourself ; it is within you or you could not recognize it in another. Remember, you cannot transcend your ideals or your understanding, and it is only that which is familiar to you that you could hope to understand in another, that which is unfamiliar, you do not understand. It baffles you, you are lost, you cannot see why in another there is something that you have never experienced yourself, something that does not dwell within you, as outward attributes, but the great fundamental truth is One and you will find even your smaller attributes of expression are very like many individuals the world over, when you can know them well enough to know they exist. When you can know another individual a little you will see the traits like your own, you will find a boy in China or any place in your universe is one and the same generally, individually it is different. It is true the nationality brings them up under different rule, but fundamentally you can see the great similarity. Therefore think of it! How much alike all mortals are and how you cannot separate yourself form another in truth, for all are part of the great universal God-head, but like a drop of ocean water helps to make up the ocean, so do you help to form the great Universal Spirit.

You could not be separated from it, you could not be released from it, you could not live without it. It is life. It exists, it has ever been and will continue on into eternity. Because of the laws of the universe, it is, and because it is , you are, and because the same law makes every individual born into the world alike, under the same laws governing the same act of correlation. It is true all over the universe you cannot be separated, you all are governed alike, you all live and breathe and have your being fundamentally the same. Without air, without food, without water, without certain elements upon your universe, upon your earth, you could not exist in the form that you now take, which has been created in thought. Therefore, remember that while you are in this body, you are functioning in one way. When you leave it, you function in another, and yet your consciousness always remains yours until you reach the place that you merge and become one with the great All-cosmic consciousness. It is when you begin to understand the symbols of life, which are only pictures that you see that there is no difference in individuals, underneath it all, fundamentally, in truth there is no difference, there is no separation.


To teach mortals that they stand out as individuals and yet when they learn themselves, they know all men, seems to be a paradox. It is not, it is a truth. You are functioning in these bodies to give to you certain expression for your soul's on-going. When you have completed it, or when your body ceases to be of use, you leave it, you lay it down and it goes back into its own individual form, fundamental qualities which indeed are a part of the same great cosmic force that you are. It has a consciousness, it is made of millions of entities over which your great consciousness ruled during the time that you possessed it.Remember that your consciousnesses has been made of myriads of consciousnesses down through the ages and you have attained the position that you now hold and that the only difference between the least consciousness that you are capable of, and the great Arch-angel is the degree of consciousness. That is the only difference; it is in the degree that you possess, that you bring forth, that you manifest. Therefore, when you are conscious of all about you, you are conscious of yourself and you are unconscious so long as everything about you is a mystery, so long as others are a mystery, so long as you do not know yourself you do not know another. Therefore, you know by that very symbol just how much you know yourself for just so can you gauge it. If you do not know another, if you criticize another, if he does not meet that which you think to be righte of, and the great Arch-angel is the degree of consciousness. That is the only difference; it is in the degree that you possess, that you bring forth, that you manifest. Therefore, when you are conscious of all about you, you are conscious of yourself and you are unconscious so long as everything about you is a mystery, so long as others are a mystery, so long as you do not know yourself you do not know another. Therefore, you know by that very symbol just how much you know yourself for just so can you gauge it. If you do not know another, if you criticize another, if he does not meet that which you think to be right, then you do not know yourself, and why do you not know yourself? Because you never know when you will meet it yourself in your life, the same thing that another has done for which you have criticized him. That is why you do not know yourself. If you knew yourself you could not criticize another for you would be honest with yourself and say, "I too am that one, or have been or will be perhaps. No doubt of it." We say perhaps because many of you are not conscious of that which you have done in earlier years, in this life. How could you know then of that which has transpired in another body many long ages ago, and yet the consciousness, that part of you which goes into eternity, carries with it its remembering, carries with it all its experience, its wisdom --- there is none lost.

So when you see another one doing that which you disapprove of, which you would change, which you would teach him to be different in, you are seeing in that other one, yourself in a lesser degree or a greater degree, yet yourself. Remember, rather than criticize the other one, go back within yourself, say to yourself, "That is part of me, if I would change it in another one, I must begin now and change it within myself, for here is where the trouble lies. If I can see it in another one to criticize in another, here is where the seat of it is. If it is something that I dislike in another, here is my work --- not to change the other one, that work is his, inherited by him, and inherited by me is my own work to do. If we all would do our work to the best of our abilities, the world would grow better fast."

As it is, every one is reaching out of himself to criticize, to change, and very little is done at home, because of it, time apparently is wasted, and yet we see mortals feeling that you are justified, feeling that you are capable, feeling that you attained to the position in life where you are judges of humanity. It is not a position that anyone should assume because when you judge humanity, you admit literally that when you have done little in yourself, that all of this you would change in another, lies unchanged in yourself, lies there awaiting the time when you will return and change it, and when you reach the place that you are working on it, you are then too busy, too well occupied, to reach out into the world and train another. You are willing then to leave his duty to him, when the time comes that he will see it ; for others have left you to do yours, until the time came when you changed it, for after all, you are the one who breathes for this body, you are the one who lives in this body, and by the same token you are the one to change all, for it lies within your own soul and is yours for you to remodel.


If mortals could but know that much time is wasted and the greatest sin that one can perform is to bring judgement down on another when he has not worked it out within himself. Think of your own lives. Some of you say, "Where shall I begin?" We have just told you, begin on that which you see and dislike so much in another. It lies right at hand. When you reach the place where you feel there is no power, that it has no power over you, that it ceases to exist in your consciousness, that you cease to see it, you have no doubt overcome it, but when you yet can criticize it, you have not overcome because you can still see it and recognize it in another. It is still distasteful to you in another, therefore it is still within you and you are not conscious of the fact that it lies there within yourselves. Why? Because most of you have not lived lives to perfect it. If you know that you do not approve of it, then strengthen yourselves before the battle, not attempt to do it when the battle is on. Most of you mortals wait until the great test comes upon you before you seek to strengthen yourselves. But the time to do that is to prepare for it and to so train yourselves that it has no power over you. Then when it comes you are strong. It is not a test to you, you stand above it, you have overcome in  the fact that you have faced it and you have permitted it to loose its power before the test comes, but it will come to prove to you whether you have overcome it or whether you just think you have overcome.


Remember that as long as you can say you have overcome, you feel sure, you think about it, talk about it --- you have not overcome. When you reach the place that when you meet it, you could give it a glance of recognition but pass it on, place it out of your mind, know that it has no power by the very fact that it does not remain within, that it ceases to exist for you, then you have finished, but not until then because the denial of a thing is in fact the recognition of the existence of the thing. So when you deny it, you admit it, you hold it within yourself.


If all your lives could be utilized as a symbol you would waste no time by seeking to reach and to know the understanding that is yours, that you are seeking, that you came here to find. Hunt for it right within yourself and whenever others disqualify, do not reach your standard, so to speak, see to it that your own standard is a standard and not an assumed one, not a pretense, not an out-pouring of that which is for the world to see only, see that you live it, for when others seek to investigate they find as a rule a structure behind very much like your moving pictures --- a beautiful front yet no backing. It is deplorable indeed that mortals can waste so many moments in building structures in their lives that are only so much waste material, that have cost so much pain, in sorrow, in trouble, even as your beautiful pictures are so expensive to produce and after all, none of them can be utilized for anything but for the purpose it is built, and that is to be seen from the front only, and when that is torn down by storm, then do you stand naked in your lack of wisdom, your lack of understanding, in all that is worth while in life. Many of you have frittered away your time and begin to change only when the time comes that you feel that you are leaving your bodies, and see a panorama of your lives and recognise your lost moments and see that which you might have done but did not do, and all that you did do and how little it has availed.


It now is the time when you are in your zenith when you have all opportunity ahead of you, now is your opportunity to begin, now always will be the time when you do begin, so why not this moment as well as another moment? Why can you not see the interest on your investment now and this moment instead of a moment when it is too late to do that which you craved to do?


Symbols of  life! Most of them only symbols, only sign-posts and many of you wrap yourselves around them and can go no further. Tear yourselves loose and go out into the universe, living your lives and being that which is your ideal, that which is yours to attain that which you see within yourselves, not that which you see in another or that which another may see for you, but that which you see for yourself. --- The Great Cosmic Pictures can never be complete until each mortal goes back and lives his life, not as others picture it, but as he sees it, as he pictures it, as it is a truth to him from within himself, not from the brain, for it is, "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not as he thinketh in his brain, that is of little power and a know-ledge passes into nothingness because the brain is continually filled with something different out of which the soul can make all that it can sift through of the wheat from the chaff.


Source :  "Wisdom From Atlantis" by Ruth B. Drown. Pg 137-150.
Note from the Author :  "Wisdom From Atlantis" was received through the inspirational Pathway from the Etheric records. While the words are English, the style is Atlantian and the wisdom is eternal.

There Are No Coincidences

"There Are No Coincidences : Synchronicity as the Modern-Day Mystical Experience"

Frank Joseph is one of my favourite authors, he writes extensively on ancient and lost civilizations such as Lemuria, Atlantis and Egypt just to name a few. Recently, I got to reading his other titles, on the subject of Synchronicity. In the book, "There Are No Coincidences: Synchronicity as The Modern-Day Mystical Experience", he described "Synchronicity" as the most mysterious thing in the world. It is the term parasychologists use for "meaningful coincidence". He stated that, "In earthly existence, we live in a field of time. Events have happened, we experience life now, and anticipate what is to come. We absolutely need this clear division of past, present and future to get through daily life in the work-a-day world of physical reality. But science has revealed that this concept of time is not the only one. An astronaut who travels almost at the speed of light will return to find that the planet he left behind five of his years ago has changed five thousand Earth years. Synchronicity is part of this so-called "Theory of Relativity". When we have meaningful coincidence, time seems to have stopped or been suspended, because we temporarily move out of our usual field of time, into the field of eternity; that is why synchronicities feel so strange. It is the so-called "wisdom body", our natural, supra-rational spiritual instinct, reacting to the presence of the Divine." 

The author, then went into detailed explanation about how there are seven major chakras, and Seven Human Types that can generally describe different people men and women as a "Root Chakra Persons", "Sacral Chakra Person",  "Navel Chakra Person",  "Heart Chakra Persons", "Throat Chakra Person","Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Person", "Crown Chakra Person". Though each individual would have blends of all characteristics from all the seven categories, their leading character traits seem gathered into one that predominates. However, the person is not prisoners of the chakra that most defines their thoughts and actions. They may change from one to another, but how they think and behave at any given time indicates the chakra that most typifies them. No chakra is better or more necessary than any other.And all chakra personalities have their positive and negative qualities.

As highlighted by Joseph, "Recognising the dominant chakra, both in ourselves and others, must lead to a heightened sense of identity and even compassion. We begin to discern a fundmental inter-connectedness of all human beings ona common spiritual level. Such recognition could also help us avoid those persons, often so deceptively charming, with potential for harm. No less importantly, being able to distinguish the seven human types can lead us to individuals capable of doing the most good for us." 

Well, called it sychronicity, but the two persons whom I personally have great admiration for, were both highlighted in the book as  "Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Persons", one personifying the positive and the other the negative aspects of the chakra's character when balance is not sought.

Here is an abstract from the book :-

Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Celebrity-A: Leonardo Da Vinci

"Perhaps the greatest genius in history, the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci are famous around the world. No one before or since him excelled as the supreme master and most imaginative innovator of so many disciplines: painting, sculpure, architecture, literature, human anatomy, foreign languages, the staging of public festivals, weapons technology, civil and military engineering. He was a pioneer in modern scientific illustration, aviation, sunmarine development, and the construction of armored vehicles. His Mona Lisa and Last Supper are the best known paintings on Earth.

  For Leonardo, subconscious truth and conscious fact, representing the right and left brains, respectively, were not at odds with each other, but combined in his own "theory of knowledge". This was a synthesis of art and science, in which his art was scientifically executed, while his science was artistically developed. His genius, then, was a result of a perfectly balanced mind, wherein both hemispheres of his awareness worked together for unified purposes. His noted biographer, L.H.Heydenreich, commented that Leonardo's universality was "a spiritual force that generated in him an unlimited desire for knowledge, and guided his thinking and behaviour."

  To him, "sight was man's highest sense organ, because sight alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly and with certainty. Saper vedere ("knowing how to see") became the great theme in his studies of man's work and mature creations". Heydenreich insists that Leonardo's genius was based on tremendous powers of observations. In other words, he powered his Brow Chakra to a phenomenal degree. It almost literally vacuumed up illimitable details and subtleties his consciousness then ordered into mosaics of great art and scientific vision.

  Despite the unprecedented energy of his mind, he knew that there was more to living than painting the Leda,or building the working model of an airplane five hundred years before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. Leonardo had many friends, relished their company, fell in and out of love, enjoyed travelling, and was an amianle gregarious man. He never exercised his henius at the expense of his humanity. Especially adored by his students, they knew he regarded the arts and sciences, not as intellectual pursuits in themselves, but means to the glorification of the holy spirit and service and enlightment for his fellow man. When he died at 67, he was as much beloved for his heart as his mighty brain. His life demostrated that the heights of intellectual accomplishment may only be achieved through perception through our Brow Chakra of the spiritual forces which underlie all visible phenomena."

Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Celebrity-B : Nikola Tesla



"Of humble Serbian origins,Tesla migrated to the United States with four cents in his pocket, in 1884. The following year, George Westinghouse, head of the renowned electric company named after himself, bought the 28-year-old inventor's patent for alternative current. Tesla thus made the incredibly quick transition from pauper to multi-millionaire, because he was obsessed with discoveries in electricity. Nothing else in life interested him. He was himself a powerhouse of energy, his every waking hour consumed in invention for its own sake. Even the practical application of his finds was useful for him only in so far as they interested backers for new projects.

  An intensely driven man in every sense, he fused all his energy-centres into his sixth vortex, then focused the accumulated forces of these super-charged chakras into his conscious mind, which fairly explored with new concepts. He had harnessed his entire being to the genius of his "Thord-Eye", which glowed with a blinding intelligence. The vortex of his Brow Chakra spun ever faster and brighter, while the other etheric "wheels" of his personality dimmed and slowed.The results were spectacular but his life became a flame that burned with too brilliant an intensity. His biographer describes te inventor as "quite impractical in financial matters. An eccentric,driven by compulsions and a progressive germ phobia, Tesla had a way of intuitively sensing hidden scientific secrets and employing his inventive talent to prove his hypothese. Tesla demanded much of his employess,but inspired their loyalty." He had very few close friends, if any, and chose to distance himself from all personal relationships. Although physically attracted women, he had no time for them, and never married.

  Tesla's restless,fervid brain was a pressure cooker of far-out ideas his obessive will-power wrenched into reality. He was a man far ahead of his time, even beyond ours. More than sixty years after his death, scientists comb his personal papers for ideas. In 1891, he invented the Tesla Coil, still used in television sets and numerous other electronic instruments. Two years later, he astounded late 19th Century Chicagoans when his electricial system lit up the World Columbian Exposition at the Windy City, the first mass-illuminated display in history. Its dramatic success led to his installation of the premiere electrical generator at Niagara Falls.

  In 1898, Tesla claimed he cloud operate an unmanned boat entirely by electrical impulses beamed at a receiver guiding its engine and steering merchanism from beyond the water. The announcement was universally condemned as a mad boast, until his pilotless model performed perfectly in a pool before thousand of astonished on-lookers at New York's Medison Square garden. he had invented the first remotely controlled vessel. Advancing rapidly from this "toy", he lighted 200 lamps without wire connections from 25 miles away. The following year, he moved to Colorado Springs, where he established a new laboratory. In it he produced great flashes of electricity over 40 feet long.
  While in Colorado, Tesla made what he considered the most significant find of his career. He said that his radio receiver had received signals from an advanced civilization on another planet. Like his remote-controlled boat, his statement was received with derision. But this time, he had no means of demonstrating his discovery. He lacked any means for recording the outer space transmissions, and, when they stopped being broadcast for no apparent reasons, he was left without proof.
  Returning to New York in 1900, he undertook construction of his most ambitious project. With a $150,000 advance from financier J.P.Morgan, Tesla began working on a huge tower powerful enough to send photographic images and written messages around the world in seconds - all this nearly one hundred years before the Internet was born. In the middle of this project, a financial crisis struck the U.S. econmoy, and Morgan suddenly withdrew his promised support, leaving the great tower half-finished. Fixated as Tesla had always been on his experiments, he had no business sense, and his ideas were routinely stolen from him, ending up as someone else's patent. With the 1929 stock market crash, he lost all his money, spending the rest of his life in solitary improverishment. He was no less engrossed in his scientific plans, but from now on they would go no further than the scraps of paper on which he sketched them.
  On 7 January 1943, Nikola Tesla died alone penniless in the single, shabby room of a low-rent hotel in New York City. News of his death revived memories of the virtually forgotten inventer, and hundreds of people, including three Nobel Prize winners, turned out for his funeral.
Feeding every energy of mind and body to his sixth chakra, Tesla had starved the rest of his vortexes. The resultant man was a powerful creative intellect with incredible vision, but his conscious connection with the soiritual source that drove his brain was cut off. Even his personal survival skills had been stunted.Tesla's dilemma was the imbalance of internal forces, which his precursor, Leonardo da Vinci, had learned to harmonize. By subduing those forces to a single chakra, Tesla set a tragic example of the hazards inherent in favouring one vortex, no matter how lofty, at the expense  of all the rest."

I-CHING Wisdom 79 : "Events are the language of the Universe." 

We speak of the Universe with words, thoughts, and actions, and the Universe speaks to us with events. An example of an event is what we call coincidence, although there is actually no such thing in the Universe. A meeting "by chance", is no actually by chance but by design. Every event is a Universal communication. By acknowledging the Universe each time we become aware of its communication, the Universe becomes aware that we are aware of it, and so raises the level of communication. To be aware that the Universe is constantly communicating with us is to live in a manner only to be thought of as magical, and brings rewards of ever greater significance. 


Ophiuchus' Notes :

Whatever may be made out to be, my understanding is, there is really no right or wrong, just different experiences...

Source : There Are No Coincidences - Synchronicity as the Modern-Day Mystical Experience by Frank Joseph, pg 13,15 and pg 92-95
Leonardo da Vinci, Part 10/10 (History Channel)
Nikola Tesla : The Lost Wizard 
I-Ching Wisdom, Volume Two : More Guidance from the Book of Answers - Universal Keys ofr Creating Peace, Prosperity, Love and Happiness by Wu Wei, pg 158

Further Readings : 

- "The Science of Leonardo : Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of Renaissance" by Fritjof Capra.

-"My Inventions : The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla" by Nikola Tesla.
-"Tesla Is Back" by Ophiuchus on this blog published 12 April 2010.

Archangel Metatron: Being Alone - The Sacred Divinity of Solitude

Archangel Metatron via James Tyberonn (Updated & Republished By Request)


Archangel Metatron : Being Alone - The Sacred Divinity of Solitude

 

Greetings Beloved! I am Metatron, Lord of Light, and we welcome this gathering. We surround each of you in a specially created vector of Unconditional Love. A vector of nonlinear space that is uniquely opened as each of you read these words from your own space and chosen time.

The present phase of linear time on your planet is a uniquely opportune juncture for self-review and chosen solitude. Masters many of you, particularly those above the age of 49, the seventh 7 year cycle, find yourselves in a state of solitude, after spouses have passed, relationships terminated and marriage contracts have ended. And although this path is at times quite lonely, quite difficult and may feel 'unnatural' for many of you, it is with purpose. So we tell you to use this time wisely, embrace it. You are on the cusp of a great graduation.

Now there is a recurring message in many of your religious texts that says "For everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven."

Indeed there is a time for solitude. Divine Solitude is a noble condition, and one that offers quantum leaps in terms of growth, when understood, and recognized for its profound purpose.

You see the Divine-Self is ultimately, conclusively alone in its final pursuit of omnipotence.

In your terms, the soul enters the earth alone, and the spirit departs the earth alone. Ascended Masters that walk the Earth, have for millennia sought solitude in their incarnations before achieving Mastery. So it is with many of you now.

Dear Ones, Many of you who find yourself alone at this time, are of the belief that you must find a partner. Many of you seek your 'soul mate' your twin flame. Yet we tell you, in many cases among the advanced souls, you are alone because you have planned it. Indeed it is a special and noble undertaking. It is time for Divine Solitude.

Solitude for those seeking sanctified light, for those seeking, what is termed 'consecrated enlightenment' chose specific periods in their life plan, to be alone for a time. This does not mean you will always be in solitude, it simply means for a time you have chosen it to 'work on the self'; to achieve self love. Among souls seeking Mastery, approximately one of every three or four lifetimes, is a lifetime chosen for solitude.

Loving the SELF is a Requirement

 

Love of self is a condition that many, especially those from Christian heritage, have lost. Christianity with its teachings of original sin taught you that you were flawed in your nature, that you needed forgiving. You spent lifetimes prostate asking forgiveness for who you are. You lost your sense of your divinity, and found it easier to give than to receive. Balance was forfeited.

Now, we tell you that as the Earth transforms to the new Crystalline Age, the nature of energy resonance and the dimensional grasp of the planet is expanded. There is a lessening of the influence of duality/polarity for those of you that choose to extend beyond the third dimension.

You may ask whether solitude or partnerships bring greater advancement to the soul. The question is timely and especially pertinent for many of you in the dawn of the Ascension.

The short answer is that both coupling and solitude have their divine purpose.... and we underline the word BOTH. Much is gained in being in committed loving relationship. This is the natural circumstance in most sojourns on the plane of Earth.

But Masters, we tell you that there is also great purpose also in solitude. It is in fact a requisite.

It is no error that great numbers of you on the finals steps of the path of enlightenment are alone in this period. Now is the prelude to the coming Ascension. If you are among these, we tell you that perhaps your solitude is appropriate. Perhaps it is as it should be. You see it is how many of you planned it.

Yet many of you feel that the loneliness is too much to bear and that you must pursue a partner...the elusive twin flame. Dear Souls, there is much confusion around the concept of the twin flame, the 'soul mate', and the role and nature of optimal partnership in Mastery of Self.

Solitude and Nondependency

 

Solitude is intended to be a period of sublime reverence of self. Your life and your experience in this plane is your own creation, your own living tapestry, woven by your individual belief. Within solitude, the soul is prompted into self-review, and opportunity is given to dive deeply into the deep waters that flow within you. To swim in the ocean of SELF, and in so doing rediscover the love within, to learn what a brilliant spark of God you truly are.

Relationships are a method of reflecting the affectivity of your belief system, and giving you feedback on what, simply stated, is working, and what is not. Detachment requires the individual to explore the self, to reacquaint with the inner horizon, and this facilitates and necessitates sovereignty. Sovereignty is the prepotency of Mastership.

A relationship of two sovereign nondependent humans has greater balance, greater creativity, and greater longevity than a pairing of two beings co-dependent on one another. Do you understand?

Ultimately each soul must clearly define SELF in order to gain Mastery. Self Mastery is embodied in periods of planned detachment. It is that period in which impeccability is crystallized. And we tell you Dear Ones, crystallization, through impeccability is a necessary phase of Self- Mastery. It is a calibrational juncture in the multidimensional sojourn. One enters the void, the great mystery in the quest for fortitude and sovereign vision, alone, without a shoulder to lean on. And in the process, one discovers sublime wholeness and self completion.

Do not misunderstand our meaning; there is great validity in coupling, in the natural aspect of soul mate. But conclusively one walks the path of Mastery in sovereign detachment.

One becomes enlightened when one learns to transcend the physical self. Each of you must endeavor to the final conquest of what we term as 'impeccability'. Impeccability is the crystallization or uniform clarity of the soul, and it is a necessary virtue of Mastery. This involves release of dependency, the release of all that does not serve your divinity. It is a rebooting and reprogramming of all you are.

We have told you that the language, the fabric of higher dimension is sacred geometry. Impeccability is the geometric clarity of the soul mind. By defining oneself through impeccability one becomes crystalline, and thus more capable of Divine Consciousness within the geometric light of coherent higher planes. It is only accomplished by deciding who you are, what you believe, and then living it. Recognizing your truths, and aligning fully to them.

Question to Metatron: Are you saying that loving relationships, such as marriage, are not our ultimate union?

AAMetatron: Remember that in the highest realm you are in sacred Oneness, each a part of the Divine One. So in terms of duality experience, the answer to your question is yes. In this context, YES! Masters, in highest reality, you are a unified plural consciousness.

Relationships in the linear duality experience are a means to the end. We are saying that loving relationships are a sacred, joyful tool of achieving Self Mastery, but that ultimately in each soul's journey; there is requisite ultimate growth into sovereignty. The sovereign self is a sufficient self & truly has no dependent need of another. Such conceptual dependency can be a deterrent to Mastery.

In truth you merge in sovereignty with your other half. The other part of your soul that separated in duality expression. Each of you have a male and female component, and the other half is re-merged in the Integral Divine Self before rising into higher realm.

Many of you consider a soul mate and twin flame the same. Only the syntax is in parity. The true meanings are different. The twin flame is the other half of the same soul, split in duality, and these are rarely in physicality together. The 'soul mate' is in our terms, another soul with whom you have contracted to grow together within physical duality, as a means of development and exploration of love with another soul. Movement toward common purpose.

The seeming paradox in linear relationships, that of the 'soul mate' concept (not the twin flame) is that a relationship of two non-dependent sovereign beings, has greater joy, greater balance, greater interface with the divine, greater opportunity for advancement than a relationship based on co-dependence. Do you see?

In this time, in this now, many of you are actually merging with your etheric (non-physical) twin flame, and molding your sacred fullness into one physicality in order for you to enter the crystalline realm in wholeness. In most cases this soul reconnection is accomplished in solitude or in sovereign non dependent relationships.

So we say embrace your chosen period of SOVEREIGN SOLITUDE, it is the sign of your souls intent to enter into Crystalline Mer-Ka-Na Mastery.

The Divine Feminine

 

We add that many who are in this life, of the female gender, have chosen particularly effacious roles in the balancing of the planet at this time. Is it not true that the planet has been imbalanced in an overage of patriarchal energies for millennia? That is why it would appear that a vast majority of those drawn to the 'New Age' are female, you see, to anchor in the Divine Feminine. Females have been conditioned and labeled in your current paradigm as the 'weaker sex'. Nothing could be farther from the truth!

Many of the females, who find themselves now in single status, are conditioned to feel they must have a partner. Again, we say, embrace your solitude. You chose it, we honor you for the path you have chosen.

The ideal for the planet is not to be female or male, rather a perfect balance of BOTH, but it is at the moment still in an imbalance of patriarchal resonance. We honor those of you in female biology, you're strength is indeed progressing in creating the nurturing balance.

Truly the over-soul is androgynous, self-contained. Self-sufficient. That does not mean that love is not the frequencial basis of the soul, indeed it is the highest vibration. It is the resonance that is produced by the Ascended Soul to the Cosmos, and reflected back as a collective harmonic of crystalline love. There is a time when those of you have played the role of soul mates, will individualize, and in your terms, part in joy. The evolved soul in achieving omnipotence, will become consummately self sufficient, and in so doing radiate spectacular unconditional love to ALL. That is as it should be, as it must be. It is how you Ascend.

Embracing Sovereignty

 

The final graduation of the soul is not done in pairing, you see. It is done within the Divine SELF in universal harmonic to the All that is. Do you understand? This is the activation of Self to the divine resonance of the Quantum Crystalline Field. Separation must osmatically occur before the final collective reunion, it must occur to allow for the final coalescence into the ALL THAT IS. It is who you ARE. It is the I AM that I AM.

Our point here, is that if you find yourself in Solitude, recognize its purpose. If you are in a relationship refine it in beauty to the greater love of non-dependence. You will indeed discover the love expands and the relationship becomes more splendid in non dependency; just as you are discovering relationships of co-dependency are imbalanced one way streets, and fail.

In sovereignty humanity will see themselves in this framework as being 'whole' and not being their partner's property or someone's 'better half'. Each will bring their integral, whole SELF in fullness, in robust flow of energy into relationship, in a manner that often does not occur today. There are pre agreed points that allow for freedom of choice and for change, even if that change is to end the partnership. In sovereignty individuals share their best, without compromise of ideals. Each will recognize the divinity of the other, and retain the integrity of SELF.

They will afford their own promises, promises and choices of a new paradigm, but there will be avenues and opportunities of adjustments and the ability of reviewing terms. This will allow for greater recognition of the SELF. These will be designed to prevent energy blockage and reduce dysfunctional marriages and divorce complications and lawsuits, you see.

Some relationships in these terms will indeed last a lifetime, some will not. But the archetype of sovereignty will better support both, based on choice and mutual agreement of each individual’s terms. And as such independence becomes joyful, devoid of one partner being dominant and imposing their beliefs, morality and will over another.

Humankind, in mass today, truly does not recognize or understand their soul, their divine SELF. Self is unfortunately regulated to the realm of ego personality by the masses. It is true that a higher degree of the light quotient is awakened on the planet now, than has occurred at any other time, but it is still only about 10% of the population of eight billion plus that has awakened. That is a sufficient number to bring about the Ascension, but much has yet to be done.

Religion in the New Paradigm

 

Religion in the new paradigm, must be individualized, must truly recognize the nature of SELF the nature of the DIVINE SOUL. None of your world religions truly answer these questions today. None of your religions answer the questions of mans true Cosmic Extra-Terrestrial multi-dimensional origins. And that must come to understanding in the new paradigm. None of your current mainstream religions can accurately and completely express the true history of man on the earth. As such, there is no one true religion on the planet today. Most are bought and sold on preset regulated templates. Each claim to know the path to God, to be able to lead the way to God, yet none truly do. Each has its dogma; each has its hierarchy and controls.

Man searches for GOD more fervently now than at any other time in on the planet, and so this seeking in itself has the potential to bring in the light. Few religious teachers are true teachers, scholars perhaps, but not true teachers, you see. Others are charlatans, even within metaphysics and the so called 'New Age'. Few who make claim to channel Ascended Masters or Angelics truly do.

Discernment

 

When integrity is not maintained the connection to true spirit is disconnected, and all who are human are subject to fall in and out of integrity. Truly the way in the Ascension is the ability of each soul to rise into his/her higher self. Look inside and find your own divinity within your heart. Not through blindly following a guru, evangelist, channeler or spiritual leader, but through SELF. Accept only what you discern individually to resonate as true, Dear Ones, and do not give your power to another. Each of you can and must channel your higher selves. Study, look, listen, discern, review and only accept what resonates within you.

The way to the divine, Masters, is through the sacred sovereignty of SELF, and in the Ascension, the way to the higher SELF is through self-definition, and seeking that aspect of God inside each of you, with the great desire that is embedded in each of your souls. Study, seek, and work! There is little hope for the lazy. You are here to make known the unknown! Work at it! Be a warrior of light within duality, for the true battles are within for self mastery. The path is not easy. But within Self Mastery lies an energy so exquisite that it fuels all you require to move forward and there is another level above each you ascend to. Consciousness ever expands.

You Are Never Alone

 

Oh Dear Human, We truly do feel your occasional despair and longing, and know that we want you to know that we honour you, know that you are never truly alone. Spirit embraces you, and we are especially available for you to find solace and comfort in the walk of divinity that you are undertaking. For we assure you, that you have chosen to be exactly where you are, and there is a great reason, a noble aspiration and goal in your celibate secular aspect.

It is the very sense of resulting loneliness that so often feels bittersweet and hollow, that compels you to seek the rich ocean of wisdom available to you in rediscovering the vast solace within your own divinity.

So we gently urge you to understand that this, for many Master Souls is precisely why you are outside of relationship at this profound time on your planet.

You are then not alone because of a failed relationship; you are not alone because you are incapable of finding a partner. Indeed you are in noble solitude because you have chosen to move higher, to focus on the inner soul. Every soul enters in solitude, and will depart to higher realms in solitude. But that solitude is an opening to your true nature of plurality consciousness, you are reconnecting to the bigger part of you, and that part does not know loneliness. Lonely only exists in duality.

Dear Hearts, use this time wisely, and embrace it., for you have chosen a path that Masters on the 'Cusp of Graduation' often select. We know it is not easy, but the very real pain you at times feel, is the motivating driver of inner reflection. You are on the cusp of a great quantum leap.

Closing

 

Discover your path. Discover yourself. Love yourself, love one another, love the divinity inside you and inside every one! Discover the multidimensional aspects of your true Soul. That is the nobility of solitude.

And thought the path is at times quite difficult and lonely, know that such is the challenge of duality, for above, you are whole, and lack nothing. In the higher realm, Masters, you are in your sacred nature of integral wholeness, in complete and abundant bliss.

I am Metatron, Lord of Light, and I share with you these TRUTHS!

You are Beloved.

...And so it is.

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Ophiuchus' Note : I have been single all my life. Never dated, never been in love, and at the same time, never really felt the lost of not having yet experience the joys and tears of having a soul mate to learn and share my life with me. Came across this article recently and it definitely helped to bring much clarity and understanding as to the possiblity of why I  am alone. Nevertheless, whatever experience awaits me, I know I am never alone, I shall discover my own path. discover myself. love myself, love one another, and love the divinity inside you, me and inside each and every one!

Earth Is Going Home

Earth Is Going Home

By Sandy Stevenson

In the past 20 plus years that I have spoken of the Ascension of Earth, I have never once mentioned a possible time for this. Nor has a time ever been given to me by the Ascended Realms. I’ve always said the Earth Mother would decide her destiny and the ‘when’ of it. It is, after all, her ascension. I now have very clear indications that she has decided her final course, has made alterations in the ‘how’ and decided the ‘when’. I have verified this with every universal source I have access to and am satisfied for myself that I understand what is to be. Now each person must stand in their own mastery to seek their inner and heavenly guidance to find their own truth. 

It is exciting and wonderful to finally see all we have worked towards since Atlantis come into being. We had a goal to take Earth to her new place of evolution and to enlighten as many as possible along the way. Billions of people have gained sufficient enlightenment to progress their own evolution through the work we have done. In addition, many new blueprints have been created, including one that allows the raising of frequency of the human physical body into Light instead of going through physical death. 

The Earth is now partially already ascended into the 5th dimension. She is currently bridging between two dimensions - the 3rd and the 5th. It is likely you are in that same wonderful position. Many people are now experiencing being partially in both those worlds. If you feel you are ‘not quite here’ then you probably aren’t! This is a very good indicator that you are indeed already partly in the 5th dimension. However, to make sure if this is the case, you need to be grounded. People who aren’t grounded often feel they are not quite ‘here’. Once you’re sure this is what is happening to you, then just relax, go with the flow and make sure you stay there. Being positive keeps you there. Being partly in the 5th actually helps you to be more positive. You will notice you are less negative and can spot more easily when your thoughts are negative.   

What occurs is that as we move more and more into the 5th, that reality becomes stronger and stronger and our current 3rd dimensional life becomes less real and less important. This also helps us release fears of the unknown and what lies ahead.  

If you don’t feel yet that you are bridging the two dimensions, then focus more on being positive, loving, non judgmental and keep releasing every belief pattern and dense emotion and thought that shows itself. If you really do this, at some point you will notice that feeling of being someplace else as well.   

It takes time to adjust to moving to a new dimension, so it is beneficial to begin now.  

For those people who are choosing not to ascend at this time but wish to stay in a third dimension, this will be undertaken on either this or another planet. Releasing any dense energy patterns within is always of benefit, even if you are staying. 

 

There have been recent changes to the plan for Earth and these involve that the Earth now ascends with her subtle bodies, but without her physical body. She had hoped that all the cleansing could be done via the use of Light, but in reassessment Earth sees that that other forms of cleansing will also need to occur. That has begun. Even though the earth is now leaving behind her physical body, it still needs to be cleansed. This will ensure it has a fresh start as it too one day will ascend.   

With changes to the Plan for Earth, some of us have changed our plans as well. In the original plan, most Lightworkers were going home as Earth ascended and some were going to stay on the 5D planet to help. Humanity was always duly making its choices of whether to stay in 3D or raise vibration and ascend into 5D. The extended choices have been presented to all of us during our sleep time. Those choices are: 1. ascending and returning home; 2. ascending but then remaining in the 5th dimension to assist there or 3. remaining partly in both dimensions helping in both. 4. There is also the possibility of remaining solely in the 3rd dimension but this would generally only apply to those who have difficulty raising their vibration sufficiently to reach the 5th. None of these choices are ‘better’ than the other. Each person chooses what suits their own advancement and evolution. Continue to trust that everything is perfect. It’s not always easy to do when we can’t see that higher picture, but it is still always true.   

Signs now point us to the Mayan calendar. That doesn’t mean everything will change at midnight on 31st December 2011 . It seems more likely there will be a steady progression and cleansing and the final Earth Ascension will be in the latter half of 2012/early 2013. While this may seem a way off, it isn’t really long. It takes time for us (and her) to adjust to a new dimension.   

If you wish to be part of the current cycle of ascension, it is truly time now to leave any self doubt behind. A lack of confidence or concern that you may get it wrong and hurt someone can no longer be a reason not to do what you came here to do. Lack of faith in yourself leads to inaction. It leads to lack of self cleansing. It can affect our ability to discern who and what we are connected to. When we don’t trust ourselves, sometimes we hand our power to others who we ‘hope’ have got it right. When you are truly in your own power, there is less ‘need’ to be led by others.  

Recognise who is around you and who you wish to align with. Gone are the days of connecting your energy to ‘whomever’ and just hoping its OK. Know what energy stands in front of you at any given moment and act accordingly – so if it’s not energy you prefer, remain in a loving space and walk the other way. If it is energy you prefer, then align to it with cords of light.   

It is time to ensure your own evolutionary position now. Pick up your mastery. If you need help from the Higher Realms, then ask for it. But please ask in the manner of a master, not as a pleading, begging victim – or you may not be heard. Demanding (with love) can work also as this can also be done in mastery.   

There is nothing to be achieved now from any other position now than one of mastery. You are capable of completely changing your life and your destiny right now. If you are choosing ascension, allow yourself this brief time ahead to move into the vibration required to be a part of the beautiful ascending Earth.  

Every day take time for some deep breaths and get into stillness. Move into that space you were in long ago before you entered this world. Let go of everything you can possibly let go of. That means everything that is not the truth of who you are. Move into KNOWING instead of believing. Get rid of any deeply held rigid or critical stuff - of yourself/ everyone/  organisations/ systems/ authority/ education/ religions/ big business/ the world. Don’t pass on news in such a way as to depress others (remember there is a higher and lighter picture to all events). Stop blaming others for events in your life. All these energy patterns contain too dense a vibration to allow you to ascend. Stop deciding who it’s alright to love and instead use all your inherent instant mastery in this moment to love the whole world and everyone and everything in it. Be grateful for every spark of life you have. Thank God for your gifts of intelligence and intuition that allow you to know what you need to know when you need to know it. Mend the rifts around you (yes, including family!). Clear your aura – use Light/Violet Flame and essences such as Bach Flowers. Eat right. Use other Kingdoms on Earth – Angelic, Devic, Mineral, and Elemental (Fire, Earth Air Water). They CAN all help. For example, while you are taking a shower you can ask the Water Undines to bring you healing and grounding and this can be set up as a permanent thing. Get yourself into a harmonious space and then check out your fellow travellers and give them a helping hand to move into their own power and a space of love.   

Keep around you only strength, focus, pure intent, faith and trust, love of all, a desire to evolve and to be the best you can be. Be watchful of your words; create only positive harmony, uplifting all. Keep your lines clear of karma; keep your space and intent pure and perfect. Now that you are in your space of mastery, stay there.

 

With love and intent for your Highest Good.  

Sandy Stevenson     12th April 2011

 

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Ophiuchus' Notes : 

This article is reprinted here with the permission of the writer.

For those who knows Sandy, she's always highlighting the importance and need for Discernment with information that's but before us.

In her words :

The following articles are offered in the hope they may assist Lightworkers in areas of self mastery, integrity, trust, highest truth, faith, discernment and love.

One of the wonderful gifts of Spirit we each possess is our ability to discern differing energies and levels of truth. A resonance of harmony occurs deep within when we are comfortable with concepts that feels true for us.

Equally, we may feel ourselves rejecting things that do not resonate with us. To establish either, we need only to listen to our inner voice.

Discernment has a vital role on Earth at this time. The vastness of its far reaching effects, both in its application or lack of it, are beyond imagination and comprehension. If we truly commit to the practise of discernment, the resulting outpouring of Light will transform the Earth in a moment.

From this space of clarity and without confusion, our lives and our service to Earth at this time of her Ascension is greatly enhanced.                    

Please apply your inherent gift of discernment to the information given here. 

 

THE GREATEST GIFT OF LOVE

The Greatest Gift of Love -
The heart whose love has no bounds.

Throughout our incarnations on Earth, we have experienced many personal traumas. Along with times of great joy, we also experience betrayals, loss of loved ones, great sadness, injustices and various forms of death. These incidents leave us with lots of different emotions and thought patterns.

At the end of each incarnation, we review these events so we see the truth of what really happened, this allows us to release it. However, sometimes we put off looking at the more painful events, thinking it may be easier to examine them at a future time when they may not be as painful. So we put it off and put it off. Lifetimes go by and they remain waiting to be addressed. Then one day, we realise we have arrived at our last physical incarnation and many of these incidents with their various emotions are still with us.

All old souls on Earth are now completing their final physical incarnation. In order to proceed to the higher realms of existence for a more harmonious form of learning, all these patterns need to be released. The difficulty is we have no idea we have any buried trauma. Fortunately, on a spiritual level we do know.

HOW DO WE DISCOVER THESE BURIED EMOTIONS?

We start to attract situations into our life to show us we have specific emotions and thoughts that need releasing. We begin by attracting gentle, non-traumatic events to help us notice where we have a reaction that can throw us slightly off balance. Perhaps we notice a stranger doing something to someone else that slightly offends or upsets us.

There is always a choice regarding the way we view any event that occurs in our life. We can notice our own reaction and let it go and be grateful to this stranger for showing us this negative trait within ourselves. Or we can choose to ignore our reaction and instead, condemn and judge the other person for their behaviour.

Life situations will show us again and again all the specific emotions we need to release. In order for us to proceed home, we are shown all reactions that need transmuting into a higher level of light energy. If we don't understand the real reason for attracting and thus fail to handle them, we will go on attracting more people doing things to bring up this same response in us. The events and situations may be quite different, but are all intended to trigger the same response in us. The universe continues to do its best to get us to notice the buried pain. It begins to increase the frequency and intensity of these events.

If we continue to blame others and fail to acknowledge and accept these areas of negativity and traumatic reactions within ourselves, life can get quite traumatic. Events will begin to be inflicted upon us by those closest to us, rather than by strangers. Loved ones are more effective in dragging our buried stuff up to the surface. As we care more about the people closest to us, they can usually reach us where others may have failed. Relationships with our family cannot usually be so easily escaped and we are forced to address things.

Let the next statement reach deep within your heart and soul. The people doing these things to us are the people who love you so unconditionally, they are willing to create whatever circumstances are necessary to help you see what you need to see before you can go home. These are the people who love you so much they are willing to risk being treated like the enemy, judged, criticised, yelled at, hated, trampled upon, scorned and abandoned. Of course, it doesn’t seem as though they love you at the time. It can appear they hate you as they often behave horribly. This is often quite uncharacteristic, unless they have been trying to show you this particular reaction for a long time.

Every area of your life where you cannot maintain a harmonious balance of unconditional love, where you have negative thoughts and behaviour, where you can be thrown off your purpose and focus, where you blame others and fail to accept responsibility for your own life and its creations - will be presented to you.

As we often have quite a few different reactions to release, we usually attract several different scenarios with different people, at any one time. It would take a long time if we only attracted one event showing us one reaction.

Aside from our own life situations, we can also view our reactions to various world events. We will hear about the events that produce a reaction in us.

For your sake and that of everyone around you – if you find you have a need to be right or have any feelings of self righteousness or thoughts that you are better than anyone else - it is time to let them go.

None of us are above spiritual law. It doesn't help to pretend we are victims and aren't really creating our world. We need to stop blaming others. It is time to let go of unwanted emotions, exhaustion, struggle, pain, weariness and effort. Perhaps it's time to see the beauty of the truth we are being offered. The universe is showing us these things so we can let go of them. We are being helped to go home. It is time to move into harmony, joy, love and happiness.

YOU GET A CHOICE

The hard way to live is to continue to ignore your reactions. This rejects the spiritual understanding that we create all the circumstances in our life for our highest good. You can go on blaming everyone else for the grief they are causing you and play at being a victim of life. You can go on focusing on the apparent external circumstance, trying to decide how you should go about handling that situation/person, etc.

You can create bigger and bigger upsets in your life until things get so drastic they can no longer be ignored. Incidentally, at this point it also starts to impact as physical problems and illness upon the body.

Or you can handle it the easy way. This would be simply noting your reaction and releasing it - whereupon you STOP attracting the type of incident designed to trigger this reaction in you. When your reaction is no longer there, you don’t need to attract more incidents to show it. When the reaction is gone, the universe will change the events in your life to accommodate your new state of being.

Having cleared a reaction or thought pattern, you will then attract a new set of circumstances to show you another emotion you have buried. You will go on doing this with every buried thought and emotion you have, until you are completely in balance and can maintain a place of inner calm and peace without getting upset.

It is not wise to deny or suppress your emotions. Nor do you need to make any judgements about them or yourself. There is nothing wrong with emotions. They are OK and you are OK. It is just that at this particular time, it is better for you to release emotions that throw you off balance. In other words, release the emotions that throw you into a space of conditional love rather than unconditional love. Conditional love is the type of love where we say we will only love someone if they behave in a way we feel is acceptable. Unconditional love is when we just love someone, no matter their behaviour, colour, religion, beliefs, etc.

This is truth. No matter the level of horrific trauma you are sitting in right now, start afresh with this new view. Do nothing else initially than go within and handle your own stuff. This is the correct handling. Concentrate on letting go of your own reactions. That is why the situation has occurred. It may not always be something happening to you personally. Many different scenarios are created to help us see our reactions. You may read something in a book or magazine, or have a reaction to a movie, or perhaps you hear news of something happening to someone else or in another country. There is no difference. The reason you saw that movie or heard about that thing is because you attracted it.

Do not put your attention on the details and the significance of the situation itself. Do not worry about what reactions the other people involved need to let go of. We can often avoid looking at ourselves by putting our attention on what we think other people need to handle within themselves. We somehow try to make ourselves right by pointing out what they need to handle. Yes, they may need to let go of reactions also, but this is not your problem at this stage. The idea is to just take responsibility for yourself and the fact you created this to help you become wiser, more loving and more balanced.

When your reaction is gone, you will regain your inner peace concerning this area. Then the situation that caused it can and will change. Although there may be completely different types of events occurring that seem unrelated, if you examine your reaction to them, you will find an identical reaction. You are just being given different ways to see it. The significance of the event is not important. Whether you have attracted poverty, a partnership break up, are involved in family arguments, the house burning down or a court case, you still just handle your reactions.

THE WAY TO RELEASE UNWANTED THOUGHTS, REACTIONS AND EMOTIONS.

Find a quiet time where you will not be disturbed. No children around, no phones ringing. A time for you.

Choose a particular reaction you have noticed you have. It needs to be brought to the surface again. If you need to help it along, you can imagine the scenario again, or a particular set of circumstances, that you know will provoke this particular emotion in you.

Let the thought, reaction or emotion come up so you are experiencing it fully. Then begin to flood your whole aura with Light. Have the intention that you wish to bring the exact frequency of Light that is right and comfortable for you. If you wish, you can visualise a lovely golden flowing light. Let it pour down through you and your aura. We can all know how far out our aura extends. This includes our emotional and mental bodies. You don’t need to think about how far out it is. You just know. Remember that it would include a space in front, back, underneath and above you. You can ask the angels to assist you to release the specific emotion or thought pattern.

Then, imagine the same scenario again to see if your reaction is gone. If it has not, let it come up to the surface again until you are feeling it. It may feel less severe as some of it may be released. Your goal is to have no further unpleasant reaction and you are able to stay calm, balanced and centred.

You can then imagine the scenario again to check if there are any different emotions or reactions coming up. There are quite often several or more things to handle from the one type of incident. Only stop doing this action when you are able to imagine that person or situation and it produces no unfavourable response in you. You are able to stay quite calm, comfortable and peaceful.

Use the same procedure any time you wish to spend time on going within to handle your unwanted responses. Just bring to mind whatever type of situation will trigger the reaction or response in you.

When you have handled all reactions to any particular event, give the universe time to rearrange the events of your life.

Now you are in a centred and balanced place with love in your heart. Spirit is now in control. Now if any action is needed, it will be coming from a place of love and not from the reactions of your mind, emotions or ego.

It is very important to ensure at this point, that you have also let go of any decisions or judgements you might have made while you were still caught up in your emotion reactions to the situation. You need to release these or it will affect how you proceed from now.

If you take some time each day to put in the discipline necessary to release your own reactions, you will begin to attract less and less disturbance into your life. Slowly, as all these buried trauma reactions are released; your life will become more and more balanced and joyful. Struggle, effort and hardship will be replaced by the most amazing sense of well being, fulfilment and joy. Love will return to your life.

Let us be incredibly grateful to each other for this precious gift we are giving each other now right across the planet. Remember that you cannot go home unless this buried stuff is released. All dense energy in your emotional and mental bodies must be released. You must be vibrating at a high frequency of light.

One day you will understand just what a great sacrifice has been made by so many of your loved one to help you see what you needed so much to see.

One day your loved ones will understand how great a sacrifice you made in your willingness to reflect to them what they needed so much to see.

Everybody is helping everybody else – right across the Earth.

By Sandy Stevenson ©

Article is reproduced with permission from the author.

Ophiuchus' Note : I first came across this article in May 2004. For me, it was a great insight as to why one is continuously faced with challenges which seem to be uncalled for at times, and why the people we loved most are the ones who are able to inflict us with the greatest hardship and pain?!? I re-visited the article again recently, and decided to post it here and hopefully, it would be of help to you (to read this) as it did for me.

Spiritual Vanity : What It Is, What It Does.

question answered by Saint-Germain comes from monthly channel broadcast on www,joyandclarity.com

Viewer (paraphrased): I feel that true freedom comes when I can choose anything that I might want to create or experience in life. When I can do whatever I want. But doesn't too much freedom lead to difficulties, too? What about vanity, for one? What are your thoughts about freedom, choice, and vanity?

Saint-Germain: An interesting question. You are asking about freedom of choice here, and here is my short reply, "With freedom comes choice, and in choice you will find your freedom." Yes, there is something very wonderful about freedom of choice. But there is also something very seductive about it, especially if you are unprepared for the experience of being able to do whatever you want. And you have rightly named one of these difficulties. It is called, vanity.

What Is Spiritual Vanity?

Let's talk about a particular kind of vanity now. Let's talk about spiritual vanity. Have you ever met anyone who is spiritually vain? I'm willing to bet that you know one or two of them.

A person is spiritually vain when they take excessive pride in their spiritual accomplishments, and then use this to impress or manipulate others around them. It has “tarnished the halo” of many human angels who would lead others on the Earth today.

Spiritual vanity has consequences, too. Just consider how difficult it is for the spiritually vain person to disentangle himself or herself from this folly. It is a monumental task. It is a stumbling block for many who are on the spiritual path, as they journey back toward remembering their Divinity.

The Folly of Spiritual Vanity

Vanity is a trap, indeed, and here's the reason why:

People on a spiritual path often find themselves moving into higher states of awareness, as they progress along the way. The problem of spiritual vanity arises, however, whenever there is a fascination or fixation on these experiences. It is tempting for some people to believe that just because they had this marvelous experience, that they are somehow better or more enlightened than others. This, of course, is absurd.

What is really happening here is that their egos, which are not yet fully reintegrated into the experience of Divine Remembrance, are playing tricks on them.

Let me give you a silly example to illustrate this point.

Let's pretend that the ego is your local school teacher, and that you are a naive student who is willing to believe just about anything that you are told. Your teacher encourages you to write the following incomplete sentence on the blackboard: “My spiritual experience is...,” and then complete it with the following statement: “...better than your experience, any day of the week, so why not let me tell you about it?”

Then your teacher sends you home to repeat this ridiculous statement to your family, friends, and neighbours, until they are either convinced that you know exactly what you are talking about and should lead them to the Holy Land, or that you are certifiably insane. And so, the false prophet is born.

Know this, my friend: The ego will take hold of anything that is yours, and twist it to its own purposes. It loves to make sure that you, and those around you, stay in ignorance of your Divinity.

Why does the ego believe that it deserves to be recognized by, or to be better than everyone else around it? Because it is secretly uncertain of its place and importance in the world. This makes the ego particularly vulnerable to the experience of inflated pride. And the spiritual variety of this is particularly troublesome.The ego can never take legitimate pride in anything that is really important about you, – such as the Truth of your Divinity, because the ego was born out of your ignorance of this fact.

And This Brings Us Back to Vanity.

Spiritual vanity is nothing more than an ego-sanctioned “recognition” of your Divinity. But it is a false recognition. It's just another way to keep you from truly remembering your Divinity by telling you, and those around you, that you've already done it, when you really haven't. The ego encourages you to accept this fiction, by telling you that if you can just persuade enough people to believe that it is so, then it must certainly be true. And this is the trap of spiritual vanity. It is as much a problem for those who would lead others on a spiritual path, as it is for those who would allow themselves to be lead. So, to make things perfectly clear, I will repeat myself: “With freedom comes choice, and in choice you will find your freedom.”

 

Know this, dear friend, that when you are truly free, you will choose your experiences wisely, just as your Soul does, and that spiritual vanity will not enter into the picture at all.

Instead, your decisions about what to do with your life, your relationships, and anything else of importance to you, – will be in harmony with your Soul's Choices about how best to embody its Divinity as the human you on Earth.

And in this harmonious alignment between what is human about you, and what is Divine, you are going to realize the true meaning of freedom. The true meaning of freedom for you as a human being, is liberating yourself from forgetfulness about Who You Really Are... liberating yourself from ego-driven acts of self-sabotage that keep you in the dark about your Divinity.

Know that as you re-integrate the ego's distorted perceptions about who you are, into a conscious appreciation of your Divinity, that you will find freedom and purpose in everything that you do. And, more importantly, you will understand that your growing spiritual awareness has nothing to do with being better than others, or more highly-evolved. Instead, it places you on equal footing with all humans, and asks you to practice humility daily.

This kind of humility asks you to lead and teach by example, and not by showiness or showmanship; demonstrating to others that living a human life, and acting with Divine Awareness, is possible for them, too.

Remember that humility doesn't ask you to deny the grandeur of your Divinity, or to live timidly. Your Divinity IS grand; and so are you, when you feel inspired by it. Humility simply asks you to live your life without false pride. Without ego.

A Need for Discernment

When you can free yourself from the ego's vanity, then you will no longer feel that you are spiritually superior to others, or more enlightened; or that you need to force your higher perspective on them, for their own good. Nor will you be seduced by the competing messages of those who would try to tell, or sell you this kind of packaged vanity. There is much need for discernment about this today. Instead you will be aware of everyone's need to find their way back to remembering their Divinity, and you will be eager to help them in respectful and appropriate ways, whenever they call upon you.

Thank you, my friend, for asking this question on behalf of all those who are present now, and who may be reading this later.

Saint Germain

Source : "Spiritual Vanity : What It Is, What It Does." A Saint Germain channelled by Alexandra Mahlimay & Dan Bennack, April 4, 2010. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 

Ophiuchus' Note : Posting this article here to remind myself of the constant need for discernment and balance as I walk my path and experience my journey.  

Recommended Reading : Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa.