Dear Nicos

You really have addressed the situation of Being Human very powerfully and very well. Thank You! for this brave demonstration of “Gratefulness” because to be a Grateful Human Being is, first and foremost to acknowledge ( within all the understanding of ones existence ) that we Humans are gods within the multiplicity of the One God.

Your treatment of the concept called “time” echoes the point the powerful Christian Mystic Dr Stylianos Atteshlis ( aka Daskalos ) repeated to all those listening to him “Time is an Elusion!” we Humans are capable of living full in our Noetical – Noetic realm were motion and change exist in totality different contexts relative to “earthly” time and place. I am cheating a little here by copying and modifying the intro the gratefulness moderators used as an introduction to your book ( hope they don’t mind!)

“The book” we, each human being is writing in Cosmic memory (aka Akashic Records)right NOW… “is the result of” …our incarnations into the manifest realm called “material-earthly-life” .. “around-the” within of Circles of Possibility and Probability set for that realm…..” journey during which”…..we, as gods exercising our will-pleasure are learning to … treat the earthly….”world as if it were a single destination”, one huge”….. paradise. That “paradise” IS an extension of the Kingdom of Heaven …the inheritance of every Human Being….As Joshua Emanuel the Christ continues to remind us of.

And what a “privileged present” it is!

As I said above I enjoyed your submission very much, it contains many, many, points of daily reflections which I, as an Esoteric Christian ( Essene ) do continually renew and refresh, so that I am capable of the “privileged present”.

Be Well Be Present
EdS

I am curious to know where the introductory quote originated ….

.iow the text in red …beginning with….“The present state of worldwide anxiety, which is characteristic of all great periods of radical transition, must give way to an expression of dynamic hope and faith …..?

I ask because tin he quote provided of Brother Davis’s U.N. prayer he does not use either the words “hope” or “faith” in it.

Being an Esoteric Christian I notice and pay respect to Br David’s use of the english language. Is that opening quote from Br David?

yes or no, there can said to be some some similarity here in his U.N. prayer here…. between Esoteric and Exoteric

“Since we are truly one in heart, we ought to be able to find a common expression of the Spirit who moves us at this moment. But the diversity of our languages tends to divide us. Yet, where the language of words fails, the silent language of gestures helps to express our unity. Using this language then, let us rise and stand….”

Here is an Axiom which I learned from the ancient traditions of the Caucus Mountain peoples.

This Sufi Axiom is wonderful way of summarizing the functioning principles within the ‘Seven Promises of a Researcher of Truth’ and is a detailed guide to being able to Truly emanate gratitude, Knowingly and authentically. I say these two words because without “knowingly” being aware of Who You are wrt the Divine Plan one cannot emanate Gratitude to its full potential. ( I have listened these 7 promises below as a separate point. )

The Axiom says …………

“If anything good happens to you, look for the cause without. If anything bad happens to you, look for the cause within.”

Ultimately of course, at the Noetic level, there is no “”Within” / “Without” ” these are only witnessed in the every day world of yet to be awaked unconscious behaviour of humans.

A brief explanation of the Axiom:

The first sentence in this axiom confirms that good services applied “without”, IOW promises 1 thru 5, will always be abundantly returned. Joshua Emanuel said “You can’t give a glass of water away without it being returned.”.

The second sentence in this axiom confirms that achievement of “Self Realization / Self Mastery, Promises 6 and 7, is the key to protection from negative elementals. And if you are being influence by negative elementals then “look within”. IOW enter into introspection to find where the weak defenses are. You will then cut off the loss of lift vitality and be able to emanate it as MORE gratitude to Life and all around you.

Here are The 7 PROMISES of a Researcher of Truth
( with a big Thank You to Dr Stylianos Ateshilis ( aka Daskalos )

1) To serve, at all times and in all places, Absolute Beingness to whom I whole heartedly belong.

2) To be ready, at all times and in all places to serve the Divine Plan.

3) To make good use of the Divine Gifts of thought and word at all times, in all places and under all circumstances.

4) To endure patiently, without complaining, all forms of trials and tribulation which the most wise Divine Law may bestow upon me.

5) To love and serve my fellow human beings sincerely from the depths of my heart and Soul no matter what their behavior may be towards me.

6) To meditate and to contemplate daily Absolute Beingness, with the objective of total coordination of my thoughts, desires, words and actions with Its Divine Will.

7) To investigate and check every night whether all my thoughts, desires, words and actions are in absolute harmony with the Divine Law.

Dear Ms SmithI took the liberty of using the title of your “Blog” to respond to to-day’s Gratitude, “Daily question”. Here is their question and my reply.

Question: How do I want to be remembered?

The best, the truest, “re-membering” will occur when my loved ones and I meet up again in future earthly incarnations ( not RE-incarnations). We will re-assemble are carry on with our mutual Soul experiences which are, in fact, character development experiences. As it is said, “Sow a Character, reap a Destiny”.

Therein is the proof positive that each of us are but ‘rays of our Spirit-Soul’ gathering our earthly-human experiences and, yes indeed, “Walking each other Home”!

Further note here, you mentioned that you are pursuing “learnin… that you are pursuing “learning to read Akashic Records”
As an Essene Christian I immediately received your example of a daily neighbourhood walk as a flowing metaphor for the journey we , each Spirit-Soul-Being, take on our journey(s) into the lower-three dimensional- earthy existences to gain experiences. ( The Prodigal son parable when understood correctly …not the one most Christian religions interpret it as ….some sort of punishment! ) it is here on our earthly “walks” that we gather our experiences, meet and connect with other ‘like mined’ Souls ( more often then not from the same Monad ) and eventually return home, divesting our temporary characters of all but the loving – truth resonating -experience, like we take off an outer layer of clothing we don’t need when back in our house. Those loving-truthful experiences are then dutifully recorded on our Permanent Personality/ Permanent Atom ( our individual Akashic Record so to speak ) and off we go down into another ‘earthly’ experiences, meeting past and new Soul-beings, gaining experiences and “walking each other Home” again.

Thank You for this metaphor which reminds us who and what being a Human Being is truly about. Be Well Be PresentEdS

Gyani,

as one way to enrich your experience in “fatherhood” (and equally important, future “family” ) I recommend listening to James Hillman’s “The Myth of Family”. And just to be clear here, Hillman uses the word “Myth” in its proper context …not as a ‘lie’ but as its true meaning….Psyche’s vehicle into the entertaining, painful, comical, confusion etc etc journey called “life”. Hillman’s sharpe observation skills and rich use of humour all employed in the frame work of (his method) “Archetypal Psychology” combine to make any Father/Son relationship richer in ‘Truth of Loving Life’ and can easily be passed on to future Father/Son/plus Grandfather relationships implanting exponential growth of Joy within that expanding relationship.

( caveat here ….it isn’t always pretty but it is always powerful ! )

Be Well Be Present

EdS

Re:
“Anyone who’s worked on becoming happier knows that it’s not simple, and research in positive psychology is starting to reflect that. ”

It is note worthy that some in the business of Psychology ( and Psycho-therapy ) choose to add the word “Positive” in front of their profession BUT PLEASE

lets not ignore the fact that the root word for “Psychology” comes from the Greek origin, “Psyche” that aspect of our Human “Being-ness” is now / was / and always will be…. Perfect, Unchanging and Indestructible.

The English language unfortunately has a way of butchering older languages for strange reasons!

As the powerfully (anti- traditional) Psychologist James Hillman pointed out in his “We have had 100 years of Psycho-thereaphy and the world isn’t getting any better”. Psychology is the new religion of the western world and it has become as self-serving and the religions it has replaced!

Perhaps the “Well-Being-ness” industry would do a “positive” by dropping the word “Psycho-” from its vocabulary?

I make this suggestion to reinforce Hillman’s observation that,

“our ‘Ideals of how it aught to be make it so much worse. Our ideals promote the suppression of those dark parts ( within our sub-conscious) ! And they become darker because of therapy’s ( aka Therapists ) ideals!

AMEN! Brother Hillman!

I would vote to change the title of Psychologist to “Desire-ologist” and Psychotherapist to, “Desire-therapist” And add a new branch which would promote true positive-ness named “Self-Introspection-ology”.

Rabi’a Basri

“May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.”

“How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?”

“O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give to my friends. You are enough for me.”

“In my Soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel. Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.”

Quoting Kristi here “We often begin to truly practice gratefulness once we realize that we may not have full agency over all that happens in our lives, but recognize that we have choices about how to direct our attention and actions. ”

So true and as practicing Essene Christian and a Researcher of Truth we have a prayer which I chose to repeat many, many time per day because it is one of the “practices” which maintains my Centered-ness in Being-ness. The prayer is….

“Absolute Infinite Being-ness; God.
Everlasting Life, Love and Mercy Manifesting Yourself in Yourself, As your Total Wisdom and the Almightiness.
Enlighten our minds to Understand you as the Truth,
Clean our hearts to reflect Your Love towards You, and
Towards all other Human beings.

Amen

For myself any form of Gratefulness comes out of the basic fact that ( and this is stated clearly in the above prayer as “manifesting yourself in yourself”) I and every Human Being IS a God, experiencing God, for God.

This being the first day after Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection, it seems appropriate to ownership of the Greatest gift of all …the experience ( yes including here all the imagined hardships ) of Being a Human Being. And “Awareness”( and in the researchers of Truth a method of developing awareness is by “Introspection” ) is indeed one one the “5 Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven”.

But without a clear understanding that we Human Beings are ‘Dual in One’ ( meaning BOTH in a Human form …bodies, physical, Psychical, Noetical …and our Divine Spirit-Soul-Self ) it is very easy to fall into the situation which, unfortunately, so many New Age practices do. They get side-tracked and diverted into ways of strengthening egoism rather then dis-energizing their egoism ( even Tollle admits 95% of material in spiritual book store is counterproductive ) rather then “enlightening” them. ( well it is true their bank accounts get “lighter” 😉 ) So it is essential to appreciate, first and foremost, what you, as a Dual existence, are working with.

But there again I return back to the prayer above …” Everlasting Life, Love and Mercy Manifesting Yourself in Yourself, As your Total Wisdom and the Almightiness.”……which maintains that even that egoism is God because God ( the source of all existence) is within it. So, gratefully, it will as the old folks say, “It will All come out in the wash”, eventually.

Be Well Be Present
EdS

Revisited a part of Br David’s “Deeper then Words” this morning… the section of “Reserection”

This fits very well with this article and this point in time …Easter and the Resurrection of “Body awareness”.

Start Quote: To neglect either Spirit or body has detrimental consequences for both. Disembodied spirit becomes impotent. Bodily reality, separate from Spirit, loses its dignity and falls prey to abuse. Rape of the environment is shocking proof of this artificial and untenable separation. Ascetics of all traditions have often gone too far, mistreating their bodies instead of seeing them as temples of the Holy Spirit. They sought to strengthen the Spirit by weakening the body, as if the body were not a tool of the Spirit, but an enemy. The body may be hard to handle at times, but without this tool, what could we accomplish? How could we serve the crying needs around us?

On the other hand when the body is no longer the tool and expression of the Spirit within it, how can it thrive? It is one and the same life-force that drives our bodily appetites and guides us toward our loftiest goals. Deprived of this guidance, our body resembles a runaway car. It careens into abuse of every kind. In any 12-step meeting you will hear life stories that illustrate and prove this point.
The same abuse we inflict on our bodies when we no longer experience them as embodiment of Spirit, we perpetrate on our environment when we forget that it, too, is alive with divine life-force. Imagine how different our world would look if we recognized Earth as our wider bodily existence. We reverence and cherish every form of life the moment we become aware that it is animated by the divine Spirit. Faith in THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY is intimately bound up with reverence for the whole cosmos. END QUOTE

This is an exceptional article and so very very timely for this day on the Christian Calendar!

This day being the day of remembering of a certain Being’s body being abused….or so it is most often reported in current time. But if one is knowledgeable in the Original teaching of the Essene Christians ….then it is known not as a torcher event….. but a much much richer meaning ….It symbolizes the cross which is built in ‘The Symbol of Life’. This Symbol of Life is a complete, detailed, model of the Human Body, with its Centre column ( of light), three horizontal bars, ten major centres and many many interconnections. ( Please, This is not to be confused with the Eastern Chakra system of the Jewish “Tree of Life ) The Symbol of Life concerns all three Bodies, Noetical, Psychical and Physical as well as their corresponding Etheric Doubles ( the energy bodies which are in and around each body and interconnect the three bodies)

You are so right to say, “The mental change that took place was a change from doing actions out of fear and hatred to doing actions out of love. I used to exercise and diet out of fear of gaining weight, and out of hatred for my appearance. ”

And may I add that the Intelligence which actually DO the maintaining, the Archangels, the “Lords of the Elements”, Micheal (fire, heat), Raphael ( etheric vitality, magnetism, electric current in the nervous system) Gabriel ( water, liquids) and Urial ( the balancer of the three others) are REJOICING and welcoming you “HOME” to your body, with is the gift given to each Human and we will always have its forma , even after Theosis. These Archangels are charged with the responsibility of maintaining….(no Human mind will ever be able to comprehend the enormous complexity which is the Human bodies) …..but with Right thinking / Right Mental attitude ( as you have outlined so very well ) we can make their work easier.

We can also assist them by educating our selves in awareness of the body with the wonderfully detailed books now available “Atlas of the Human Body” by Beverly McMillan is one example. This, combined with relaxed, relaxed, relaxed meditations, and moving slowly around various points of the body ….getting acquitted with the Etheric Double of various points…IOb by isolating the Etheric Bodies feeling/giving ether at each point ( Etheric Vitality after all, IS, Mind Super Substance) you are strengthening the Etheric Double ( The material body is simply matter ..that has no sense of feeling) and there by, ALL over Heath …including Spiritual, Psychical and Noetical heath.

Be Well Be Present

EdS

Re:

“But do not hasten to conclude that you are a mere nothingness! On the contrary: Exactly because you do not own your life, you cannot lose it. And because it is this collected, and therefore resultant life of many other lives, it is rooted in the principle of Life itself that can never be ejected out of Creation. It is because this life of yours extends beyond your personal little life, and touches the universe at countless points, that it has a strong footing in eternal Being!”

The author here to touching on a fact of Being Human but seems to not want to go as far as it should go,…..

As an Essene Christian I will add that…yes we as accumulator ( or ragpickers if you prefer ) and we AS Human Beings being Human, are doing so over many, many incarnation in one continuous, never ending never beginning Life.

Yes we accumulate what Essence call “Elemental” Human in Nature Demons and Human in Nature Angels as well as generate/strengthen them by the way we live.

When around topic of “Live” it must be clearly understood that a Human Being is ‘Dual in One’…..as ‘time and place’ temporary personality self …..and Divine ….Permanent ‘Soul-Self’. Only the latter is Incarnated (not Reincarnated) into Human form to gain experiences ( that which this author is energetically pointing to ) It is up to the reader here to decide Who/What decides which “rags” are kept and which are dropped after each Earthly life cycle. 🙂 Happy picking!!

As the Sufis point out ..”it is not true to say, “Thank You”, it must be “Thank Us!”/…..because all we Humans Beings truly ever have… is each other.”

This point of theirs also identifies the Christhood which Joshua Emmanuel the Christ’s words within Matt 18;22, it is there now, waiting to be the active element in all of humanities actions. It is then we begin to use the potential we have been gifted to its true potential.

As Dr Lipson has confirmed, there is a tremendous ‘accumulative effect’ when that happens, “there emerges from our interaction a quality to the purpose itself that we could not have invoked alone.”

From “Br D.’s “Love your enemies” …Gratitude summed up in a nut shell

Love in every one of its forms is a lived “yes” to belonging. I call it a “lived yes”, because the very way loving people live and act says loudly and clearly: “Yes, I affirm and respect you and I wish you well. As members of the cosmic family we belong together, and this belonging goes far deeper than anything that can ever divide us.” In an upside-down way, a “Yes” to belonging is even present in hatred. While love says this yes joyfully and with fondness, hatred says it grudgingly with animosity, gall. Still, even one who hates acknowledges mutual belonging. Have there not been moments in your life when you couldn’t say whether you loved or hated someone close to your heart? This shows that hatred is not the opposite of love. The opposite of love (and of hatred) is indifference.

Cut quoting the article here……

“Then …… Here is what Campbell was really saying: “I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality…” He was talking about all our experiences on the physical plane, not just the happy ones. He was talking about finding “resonances with our own innermost reality” even in the midst of total darkness. End Quote

I will borrow an often used expression which has been used in the world of “New Age” talk around spirituality……..

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”

This expression is a only a half truth of course, one can sense that right away …or…if not…. your Guardian Archangel will soon be giving you a big scolding …saying something like …….”What? You are going to buy that?…No, you are not! because YOU are “Dual in ONE” You ARE the Life and you Are the dancer dancing in yourself. ….YOU are both Human ( are gifted with a physical body) AND you are Divine ( Psalm 82;6), God, at the same time!”

The pursuit of “meaning”, “happiness”, etc etc is simply the intellectual mind’s weakness of forgetting . Forgetting the “What you are beyond name and form”. And that is fine. It is well within the Divine Plan, because Divine Wisdom knew that weakness of “forgetting” would happen when the human experience was manifested. It is(in fact) one of the reasons for this human manifestation to Be. Be-ing-ness is getting experiences of “forgetfulness”! This is why Divine Wisdom has assigned a Guardian Archangel to each one of us, an over seer, just for when the human intellect gets way too for out of control and too close to destroying the temporary self. ( The Soul of course cannot be destroyed, or altered in any way, it is perfect and everlasting ).

All this doubt, anxiety and fear will be put to rest when the true teaching of Joshua Emanuel the Christ will be listened to and lived. It is all just simply, John 10;34 revisited.

Be Well Be Present
EdS

Yes Nicos, Indeed! Daskalos was and is a TRUE MYSTIC ( regardless of what some members of the church might think of him 🙂 )

And for what you choose to call “common sense” , Daskalos used the expression “Using the gift of “Mind” for “RATIONAL thinking””. IOW ….paying attention to, observe and analyzing our desires rather that being slaves to them.

I look forward to reading more of your notes and publications.

Be Well Be Present

EdS

You are Welcome Matt.

I trust and pray that your work will light up the lives of the many who are just simply looking for that ONE simple truth of who they are and what is truly important.

There are ( my opinion here) far to many books being published in the “Self Help” category which are only copying and repeating of what a similar experiencer has reportedly felt or read. But when it doesn’t emanate out of actual experiencing it lack SIGNATURE and becomes …as some have aptly named it, “Moral Grandstanding”.

The words of Robert Bly speak to counter this phenomena very well.

There are four things
man does not need
when at sea.

Rudder, anchor, ores
or the fear of going down.

And Rumi also brings that blunt fact of life with his …”it takest deep down lowliness ….which shows what “True Love” IS.

Be Well Be Present

EdS

You are most welcome Patjos and thank you for adding the Liewllyn quote. I have sat with him, in his Sufi sohbets, when he visited Vancouver.
I am an Essene Christian and the Sufi ( prior to it branching under religion) are our brothers. So much of their teachings are echoed in the teaching of Joshua Emmanuel the Christ.
The “Love” Llewellyn is referring to in that quote is, of course, Divine Love. it is original Essence of all manifestation and therefore, our “Being-ness” as Humans, as he has so graciously described it.

A common Sufi expression which the Sufi ( Rumi, Hafiz, Shalms ) use is “I run from you, to you”. It is saying, “there is no escaping Divine Love”, because, “we are in IT and IT is in us”. To have the lower mind deny that is like a fish trying to deny water!

Be Well Be Present
EdS