Fire and Harmlessness

2001-6-27 11:22:00

Wow, Keith, I must compliment you on your latest post. It sounds like you took a leap in consciousness. Reading Alice A. Bailey has been good for you.

I received a comment off list expressing concern to me about the seeking of the Spiritual Fire so I thought I would say a few more words about it.

It is true that fire can heat and purify or burn and destroy, so could there really be a danger to seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit?

The danger of spiritual fire talked about in most metaphysical books comes from an unnatural raising of the Kundalini. There are methods of prematurely raising the spiritual fire trough breathing and meditation before the seeker has reached a point in evolution where he is able handle it safely.

If the seeker experiments with these methods without the proper guidance he is setting himself up for extreme danger.

There are three channels for the fire to travel up the spine and those with a material focus will raise it up the two outer channels which create an interplay for duality, and if wrongfully raised the aspirant can be literally destroyed.

However, seeking God, the Spirit or the Presence thorough natural pursuit and living the spiritual life brings the unified fire up the central and single channel in complete harmlessness. If the person merely seeks to move along the path and takes what God has to offer him, then any spiritual fire he experiences will warm, enliven and stimulate, but not harm.

The only danger of the Holy Fire which is naturally arrived at is if the seeker turns his attention away from the Spirit toward fear, illusion and low desire. If this happens his entire vibration will be lowered and darkness will replace the light and "how great is the darkness," as the Christ said.

It is always dangerous for a disciple to go contrary to either light or the direction of fire he has received. The consequences can be from living the rest of his life in illusions of grandeur to something much worse than that.

I speak from experience when I teach that one can approach the most intense of spiritual fire, a fire so great one would wonder why he is not consumed. If approached naturally the experience is endured in joy and love rather than pain and fear.

Seek therefore, the higher things of God and when you are ready the power of the Presence will come into you and fill your cup until it is exactly full.

Question
Someone asked what the higher Triad was. Use the same sources you did yesterday and define it and give some thoughts on it. Also, what is the lower Triad?

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods."
Thomas Paine