Catching Up Part I

1999-11-15 10:49:00

My friends,

Rick, that's great news that the archives are up again. I have been holding off promoting the list much because of the current situation - so now we can shift into a higher gear again.

Very loving idea to refer us to the Song, Jean. We all need to be reminded to put destructive thoughts and feelings in their right place so they are neutralized.

Adrian and others are expressing concern that I may leave this list. Nothing has happened which will divert me from my original goal. I plan on staying here until the number of postings becomes too great for me to deal with. At that time we will split the list in two and seek the best direction for the whole.

The book, The Immortal has just been picked up by a major metaphysical distributor, which is more geared to the contents of the book than the distributors I have had in the past. This alone should double our sales. It will be a couple months before this really kicks in though. We also have some proven advertising coming up that should help also.

Many people do not realize the uphill battle of publishing a book yourself and then developing the sales outlets, but I think the hard part is just about over. The second book we publish will have a much easier time of it.

And Lorraine, I'm glad you moved the gathering ahead to June. I think New Years was too short of a notice for us to all get in gear. It would be nice to meet at New Years, and I did mention the possibility some time ago, but at present June feels much better to me.

Lorraine presented an idea to me that may be beneficial. She thought it would be a good idea to encourage members to gather in groups of three for discussion and saying the Song. Three is not a molecule, but is a foundation part of it and would produce more spiritual power than one alone. Those of you who have two other persons (or couples) in your area may want to consider this until a greater gathering is feasible.

Rick is right. I'm sure that there are other lists where the heat is much greater than this one. I would guess that some of the religious lists have a lot of fire in them, though I must admit I have not participated in them.

Overall, the people in this list are very peaceable in nature. Thus when we do have any conflict it may seem, to some, more disturbing than it is really intended to be.

As Saul said, the fourth Ray is very strong in this group. This is the Ray governing the principle of harmony through conflict. This fourth ray along with the fifth governs humanity itself and is the primary ray influencing the whole of Planet Earth. This is one of the reasons that we humans have such difficulty escaping its influence. The goal of the Brotherhood at present is not to eliminate all conflicts, but to shift the center of conflict from the physical plane to the astral and mental. Once this is accomplished we will at least escape the danger of blowing ourselves up.

Nevertheless, in the coming age of peace, primary conflicts will be eliminated from the physical plane, but they will be intensified on higher planes. The interesting thought about all this is that there will be some realization that harmony is derived from conflict and the lights of the race will see harmony as the end of all enlightened conflicts. Some of those who lack spiritual vision will wonder when all the peace is supposed to break out.

Nevertheless, if the age of peace unfolds as planned, it will be a great improvement over what we have today.

Today many look back at Columbus and the early explorers, the founders of the US Constitution and other innovative thinkers and find much fault with them because they did not seem to stand up for some of the things we consider today as "good." But 1,000 years from now humanity will look back at us and wonder why we lived in such a veil of ignorance and followed the current beast with such non-thinking obedience. All historical initiates must be judged by the times they lived in just as it is hoped we will be.

Jennifer asks "What is the soul?"

The Bible states that God breathed the breath of life into Adam and he became a living soul. The word soul is often used synonymously with Spirit, or that which leaves our body at death. Other teachers use it when referring to our Higher Self.

Soul, in a way, is that point of oneness that Saul, CW and Zina have referred to. Soul energy occurs when spirit interplays with matter. Thus when God placed Spirit in matter, and there was interplay, soul (or living soul) was the result. Soul is that point by the sea where land and water meet which is neither wet nor dry, but where wet and dry interlay.

Our Higher Self, as well as the Masters, uses the medium of soul as a means of communication with us. Thus when a disciple says he has received something through or from the soul it could be from either his higher self or a Master.

The Internet is an imperfect correspondent to the soul. When we say we received something from the Internet you did not really receive it from the Internet. In reality the Internet is a medium with no form. You really received the information from another person through the medium of the Internet. In the same way, a disciple is likely to say he receives from the soul when he really receives through the soul from some higher intelligence.

When a regular writer talks about the soul, you must examine the context in which he uses it so you can follow his train of thought. As I said, soul is often used interchangeably with a number of things, but a spiritual Internet medium is perhaps the most common used by disciples.

There are two main aspects of soul. The first is that spiritual medium that links us to higher lives. The second and not so well understood is the interplay between spirit and matter within the atomic lives who are so evolved on their own plane that they oscillate between spirit and matter and thus create the energy of soul that builds and maintains the forms for the greater lives. This knowledge will be expanded upon in a future Immortal book.

CW asks:
"The question I would ask here ... in relation to what JJ is putting forward ...

"If ... Psychology and research is able to substantiate that behavioral problems in children ... especially aggression and violence can be statistically linked to children of veterans ... and if the algorithm that it is genetically inherited can be substantiated ...

"How do we handle the children ...?"

JJ
Scientology deals with this idea somewhat and tries to eliminate programming in the body, which they call engrams.

I believe that it is true that we pick up negative influences something like implanted hypnotic suggestions and they have a strong influence over many. Beyond traditional therapy, the way to overcome these influences is through mental development and then soul contact. The mind can learn to recognize negative influences and override them, but the soul can bypass them completely allowing the soul infused personality to live his life as if there is no past that can control voluntary action. Therefore, the best thing one can do with children is to guide them as close as possible toward the spiritual life.

There are a couple more sections to Project Peace and Goodwill. I will be posting them soon.