THE LADDER OF ASCENT.

THE LADDER OF ASCENT

Three of the rungs of this ladder are good music, nature and woman.  These are able to stir a man emotionally to his very core, releasing untold powers for ascent and other exploits.  The power released depends on the elevation of your spiritual core.  The higher it is the higher the power that can be released.  Thus a man whose origin is of the primordial spiritual when deeply stirred emotionally by any or all of these three will connect with this core and release powers greater than that of a man with a spiritual core.

05/02/09

THE KEY TO ALL ASCENT.

THE KEY TO ALL ASCENT.

Sexuality has two types of motions.  They are the shallow-rooted emanation of the sexual urge from merely the physical, biological body, and the deep-rooted emanation of the sexual urge/feeling from deep within the spirit of man.  The first motion is purely intellectual, and a one-sided attachment to it binds one to what is relatively low and earthly.  This is an ordinary feeling that goes no deeper than the biological physical body.  It is shallow and devoid of the real power of the spiritual impulse.  It is not every such arousal that should be gratified, in order to avoid a one-sided attachment to such an earthly feeling.  Such a feeling may also come when one has just taken an aphrodisiac or stimulant.  They are not all together bad, for they have their proper use.

The second motion is the spiritualized biological feeling.  This emotion of sex is very strong, coming from the spirit and mixed also with the emotion of love.  It is not every time this sublime feeling will be present with you.  It is not every time there is a sexual arousal that it is present.  This is because a mere sexual arousal is biological, but this feeling is spiritual and comes right from the spirit.  When this feeling comes it is a sacred time in which tremendous power is flowing through man from the spiritual realm through his spirit.  It is the highest power that can flow through man capable of enriching both himself and his environment when properly utilized.

When a man is motivated by the mere biological sexual urge, he may resort to any means in order to gratify it, but when this sexual urge is mixed with the emotion of love, and this harmonized emotion comes right from deep within the spirit, a man will only aspire towards what is noble, high and great, even as he may also seek to gratify this emotions physically.  Of course it is not excluded, but it is a vital part of the total man, which must not be neglected.  For as long as man is on earth he must not forget the earthly, but must give proper attention to it to experience it and develop it.  This spiritual impulse as it comes down from the spirit arouses and awakens the man through the opposite sex (the woman).  At such times his feelings, thoughts, words and deeds are borne by the power of the spiritual impulse, which vibrates through positive channels.  It is only what is good that will ensue.  Sex at such times is spiritualized and greatly enhanced.  It is pure.  Here there is hardly any danger of one-sidedness as long as the spiritual and the physical that are involved are balanced.  This great emotion does not come all the time, but it is worth watching out for as a sacred time of immense empowerment when the vital core of man, the spirit, breaks through and sends forth his radiations all around man for ennoblement and great deeds.  Thus at such times the value of the woman as a guardian of this burning flame of the emotions of sex and love dawns very strongly upon man.  He then sees the woman as a channel through which this power flows from the spirit.

This spiritual-biological impulse does not flow at all times, but at certain times.  This in itself is important for balance, and as a safety valve, for excessive and prolonged stimulation under this power can in itself be wrong.  Man should cherish and await this great creative energy that God has placed at his disposal for his benefit and enjoyment.  Infact this is the power behind every great achievement of man in all fields of endeavour, be they spiritual or material.  Blessed is the man or woman through whom this power flows powerfully and he or she is conscious of its proper usage for the enrichment of his physical and spiritual being. 

The ascent of man in the spiritual and in the earthly is dependent upon the presence and harnessing of this impulse.  Like the pool of Bethesda when at a certain time periodically the Spirit troubles the water and thus impact power upon it so that any one who jumps into it is healed of whatever disease, so is it with this motion from the Spirit of man.  At certain times periodically the spirit within arises, breaks forth, awakens, energizes and arouses through the instrumentality of woman, as the guardian of the flame, the sexuality of man and he then feels deeply towards the opposite sex, for nobility, for greatness and for union as a split species that his intuitive perception, thoughts, words and actions are so elevated that all obstacles or bad karma are removed from man that he is able to ascend spiritually and materially.  This spiritual impulse of the love-sex emotion that often times pulsate through man or woman is therefore the key to all ascent.  Happy and great are those in whom this impulse is still alive and powerful.  Happy and great are those that have not buried this asset by attachment to surface sexual emanations.  These are the evolved beings who thus maintain connection with their spiritual origin.

The emotion of love-sex is a spiritual-biological impulse transmitted down from the spirit.  As it emanates from the spirit it is a purely spiritual energy, and it only cloaks itself with the emotion of sex since man is a split species, so that in being aroused toward the opposite sex man seeks for union with the other complementary split species.  And so this cloak becomes a major means for the awakening of the lower functions of man.  In this way a state of mind is induced that is so intense that his volition attracts to him magnetically all that is homogeneous with his desire or aspiration.  If in this state of mind his volition is striving toward union with the opposite sex physically, he may experience females coming to him first in his dreams, and finally manifesting in the physical in females being more interested in him and seeking his friendship and intimacy, but then only females that are homogeneous with him.  If in this state of mind his volition is striving toward spiritual ascent he will attract both ethereally and then physically all the things, people, events and forces that are required for him to spiritually ascend.  He should then wisely utilize the opportunities that will be brought to him from time to time for his spiritual ascent.

18/01/08

THE MASTER-PUPIL

THE MASTER-PUPIL.

The conscious you is the intellectual, gross, outward, planning and thinking you.  It is the encasement for the real You, the unconscious You – the spiritual You, that is the inner spiritual Master.

The conscious you handles the conscious, outward arrangement of your life, which consists of planning and thinking and executing.  This is the surface you.  It draws its energy and power from the unconscious spiritual You.  If it draws too much energy from the inner You, it means imbalance and a one-sided attachment to the activity of the conscious intellectual you.  It is unhealthy.  Actually the conscious you represents only about 1/10^th of your Real Being.

Your Real Being, the unconscious You handles the unconscious, non-intellectual arrangements of your life, whereby things are arranged and worked out outside the knowing or participation of the narrow-minded conscious you.  This You is about 9/10^th of your life activity in value on earth.  This part sees far beyond the widest knowledge or understanding of the conscious you.  It can for example arrange something for you mysteriously weeks, months or years in advance.  It is mysterious and profound in his working.  This workings of the inner You, you have often experienced.  This You is given opportunity to exert his influence better through non-intellectualism, but attachment to non-intellectualism must be avoided, for all attachments or one-sidedness are always unhealthy.  One must not lose grip of the important conscious intellectual hold on life on earth.

Both sides of life here on earth must be exercised in a balanced and harmonious way.  Exercise the conscious you through your intellectual, planning and thinking run of life as we know it here on earth.  Balance this with the non-intellectual activity of the unconscious spiritual You.

The happy mean will be achieved in which there is a harmonious and balanced union of both such that your very conscious intellectual activities are fully infused with the power of the unconscious spiritual You.  You will then be a man as he should be, truly living the spiritual life on earth.  In your life on earth you will witness more and more how the inner spiritual You is arranging and synchronizing your life in harmony with the conscious you.  You will experience your guiding spiritual inner Master, the Real You.

14/04/09

I SEE

I SEE

Dwelling in this body,

I lift up my eyes and see­­­ –

I see that I am not this body, not this name, not this nationality.

I see that the essential kernel that I am is not a Nigerian,

Not a “Christian”, not this successful man, not all these labels.

I see that I am on a journey.

At every turn of the wheel I am in a different carriage,

The one I needed best suited for that particular time.

At each stage a new body, a new name, a new nationality, a new religion? –

I am not all these changing forms of lower-lying matter.

I see that I am the eternal Spirit,

Experiencing creation in these epochs of time in the world,

Learning in the continuum of time in which I live.

I live ever and it is the same I that dress Myself for the different occasions each time.

I am not this cloak.

This is not My first time.

In the truest sense of who I am, I cling not to external labels of the world,

For I transcend the world.

I only sojourn here, learning.

I am a citizen of the Luminous World

Where I bear My true Name and My true Body.

There is nothing but life, and I live.

From the Great World, land of a thousand suns, we came down here to learn.

In the many lifetimes We have spent here so far,

We have graduated from one class to the next,

Until in the end We have, like Odysseus,

Gained enough experience and knowledge

To return Home as matured Spirits to the Luminous World.

23/11/08

THE PICTURE AND THE WORD.

THE PICTURE AND THE WORD.

You cannot describe something well that you have not seen.  So the Picture and the Word must go together in order to produce a good description of something.  If for example you are describing a person with only words, the impression you can create in the hearer would not be clear, definite and complete.  But if you present together with the description his picture, you create a better impression and understanding in your hearers, just as you may use diagrams, charts, pictures and graphs to give a pictorial illustration of a "paper".  Infact you cannot even describe the person if you have not seen him or his picture before.  The picture is not the same as the actual living person himself.  When it is impossible for you to see the living person because of the barrier of distance, the picture and the word of description are the best approximations for bringing the nature of the living person to your understanding.  The best you can know of the person can only be brought through these coarse, scaled down and rigid representations, and not the actual living person.

Through the Word, the Picture and your experiencing of Creation you can continuously expand your knowledge of Creation.  It is not for nothing they say, “a picture paints a thousand words”, and “experience is the best teacher”.  These are to underscore the importance of these elements in the acquisition of knowledge of the Will of God in Creation.

A BETTLE RESCUED FROM A BATH TUB

A BEETLE RESCUED FROM A BATH TUB.

Everything is of the Light-Essence!

Separated from the Light-Essence White Heat,

Itself a Ray out of the Unutterable,

Pressure, colour and tone slackened in the scale of Creation.

ATTENTION

ATTENTION.
Consciousness is built only through attention. Good or evil comes when you place your attention on what is good or on what is evil until what is good or what is evil becomes the dominant consciousness. In intuitive perception, thought, word or deed you should let your attention dwell on what is good so that it becomes the dominant consciousness you have. This has the reciprocal effect of also detaching you gradually from all your wrong volitions, so that they no longer bring to you any wrong reactions. Let your good overwhelm your bad so that you receive only what is good. Good or evil comes only through the channel of your attention. This is why the Bible says, “My son, attend unto my wisdom…”
Link yourself to the good, but detach yourself from evil; and this only comes through the discipline of right attention. In this regard it is because it takes some time to let good gain the ascendancy and the evil to be detached from through right attention that they say “time heals”. With time you get over what is wrong as you continue in right activities. It will develop the right volition that brings the right reciprocal effect with time.
Let your good outweigh your bad. Pursue only what is good always. If you err do not remain in it. Detach yourself from it by focusing only on what is right, so that it may have the dominance in your life. Do not dwell on what is wrong, except it is for the purpose of understanding it in order to master it; but rather dwell on what is right.