If we feel about it we will understand that we are unable to take anything material with us to the greater worlds when we pass on. We are unable to get along with us our residence, our money, our possessions, our titles, and many others. What we do take along are issues that are immaterial–our information, our reminiscences, our karma, our habits, our character, our spiritual and psychic improvement, our aspirations and desires. We can see from this that our function in this entire world, in this bodily airplane is in connection with these immaterial items described over, and if–and metaphysics declare it to be so–evolution is a law of Nature, a Cosmic law, then our correct function is to evolve, to boost and to purify those immaterial things. Our biggest possibility in this globe is the correct use of time. Use this gift of God looking for Fact and not throwing away it on non-essentials.
Maybe soon after currently being a tiny pessimistic about reflecting death just awhile ago we may now be cheerful and be optimistic about life and to carry-out the primary goal of physical existence instead of wasting our cherished time, vitality and sources on immoderate and extreme enjoyment: also significantly viewing Tv, too significantly intercourse, the taking of medications, and indulgence in other material gadgets invented and developed by the Dark forces to sidetrack and make us overlook our divine heritage, function of becoming and our mission right here on Earth. This is the nature of evil: it diverts us from encountering our correct soul-objective and require. Anything that distracts us from enhancing our soul nature, our character, our morals, or obtaining metaphysical information of Cosmic laws and truths, is to be thought to be as an evil system and an intruder to our microcosmic method. These evil intruders often perform in this kind of a delicate manner at instances that even disciples of metaphysics are often caught off-guard.
The Pure Life
A metaphysical existence entails living a existence of purity. Even before approaching a Master for apprenticeship, a pure, spiritual, constructive lifestyle should be lived as best as one is capable to. The diploma of purity inside of us can be seen and felt by the Spiritual Masters and Adepts of metaphysics and the occult. They know our spiritual state and standing by the colors and the luminosity of our aura, by our facial expression, by the quality of the emanations of our eyes, and by the way we assume, communicate and act.
By the over we do not imply that 1 has to be a saint in order to be a worthy student of the occult or metaphysics. What we are declaring is that purity is a required top quality to possess and to build when 1 gets a significant pupil of the occult. It is an indispensable high quality for it prepares our psycho-biological system, our nervous techniques to stand up to intense energies that we invoke from the greater worlds via our occult and metaphysical research. We usually hear of men and women heading insane since of their involvement with the occult or metaphysics. This is simply because of their lack of purity. Their nervous techniques were not ready to sustain the spiritual vibrations coursing via them. When this takes place, as described just before, the nervous technique ruptures, certain brain cells and nerve centers are destroyed, and the etheric webs protecting the student from overexposure to impressions of higher frequencies coming from the other dimensions, are shattered. One is then unable to shift focus from a single reality to another but is opened to the two. This brings about too a lot strain. Insanity is the unhappy consequence.
Spiritual vitality invoked by way of mystical practices also evokes the undesirable elements lying within us. If these components are not cleared by a process of purification, they would trigger us difficulty. This is not to say that metaphysics or the occult is an unsafe research. There is danger in anything. 1 just wants the proper info and prevalent sense, and take precautionary actions when delving into any examine, especially metaphysics and the occult.
Purification is a multi-stage approach. It should occur on all levels of the microcosm. For instance, our physical entire body, our blood-stream, our vitality-structures, our feelings, our minds, our aura, and chakras, all want to undergo purification. The Path of Purification is a simple step in any system of occult, metaphysical, and spiritual study. To neglect this essential step is to open-up ourselves to spiritual potential risks. Any Guru neglecting the Path of Puification in his or her metaphysical technique is a false instructor functioning towards the evolutionary tide and spiritual present. It is not past the signifies of any average man or woman to become pure and holy. The problems is that people do not see purity or holiness for what it is. They have many erroneous concepts with regards to it. For instance, some of us think that to be holy 1 has to seclude oneself from society, be celibate, or wear white robes or even tattered clothing. They feel that to be holy one particular should gown oneself in some special way or put on a particular hairstyle or do peculiar issues, or act a little mad. These are all fallacies. We ought to all strive for holiness by being what we truly are, and not be what we assume ourselves to be. In the title of Light, Existence and Really like, we appeal to all college students to be pure and holy.
A Balanced Approach Towards Metaphysics
In metaphysics or in the occult, the pupil is requested to get a balanced method. There are 3 aspects that college students have to think about:
1) Information of metaphysical laws, ideas, and cosmic truths.
2) Unfoldment of spiritual and psychic senses, faculties, and abilities.
3) Acceleration of one’s spiritual growth, of one’s soul evolution.
The pursuit of these three together in a harmonious way is essential in creating a effectively-rounded attainment. When one is over-emphasized and the other people compromised as to their value, then difficulty results for the metaphysical pupil. For instance, also a lot information without spiritual capabilities and a spiritual development outcomes in a poor instrument, a single ineffective in the service of males, and one particular filled with pride and vanity. Psychic skills devoid of understanding and a degree of spiritual advancement brings about related signs and symptoms as the above–pride and vanity, together with a poor knowledge of what 1 registers by way of the psychic centers. Although one be “spiritual,” without metaphysical knowledge and comprehension one is typically deluded and misled by psychic forces. 1 falls into the trap of glamour and illusion.
To be spiritually formulated with out enough knowledge and psychic potential benefits in one’s ineffectiveness in serving humanity. We can see from this that the problem going through the metaphysical student is the appropriate pursuit and growth of individuals three factors concurrently. The unfoldment of these 3 aspects causes that Divine Spark (Spirit), the Soul-Flame inside of us to develop in strength and magnitude. This Spark is threefold. There is a will-electrical power facet (blue), a love-wisdom element (pink) and an intelligence-understanding facet (yellow). This divine flame, metaphysically, has its place inside our physical heart and is about two cm in size. It is representative of the Higher Soul inside of the microcosm which is likewise threefold in nature. Esoteric college students of Theosophy, for instance, call these elements of the threefold Soul, atma, buddhi, and manas.
Too often metaphysical, occult, or so-referred to as spiritual Gurus teach on the foundation of a single tactic. This does much harm to the student and to society in the lengthy run, or in the quite least, it does no lasting great. Sophisticated teachers, or correct Spiritual Masters would synthesize the over 3 elements. Their approach as a synthesis of those triune elements, would be practical, instructive, and useful.
Let us appear again at these 3 elements. What do we indicate by occult and metaphysical information? By this kind of information we indicate of the subsequent :
Expertise regarding, the origin of Spirit-Guy; the origin of human beings; the origin of the solar method; civilizations of unrecorded hstory; the real historical past of man; man’s function of currently being; the progression and the transmission of the ageless teachings during the centuries; the origin of religion; the Mystery Colleges; the occult anatomy of man; man’s latent powers and faculties; the secret teachings and oral tradition of the prophets; the nature and laws governing the larger worlds and guy; the application of Cosmic laws; the concealed laws of this 3-dimensional planet; the rules of counseling and healing; the nature of man, and so forth.
Now what do we mean by the unfoldment of psychic and spiritual capabilities? What are they? Here are just a number of: the capability to register spiritual impulses emanating from the Soul, the Spirit, the Spiritual Hierarchy, one’s spiritual group, and Master; telepathy; the ability to direct the elements and forces of Nature; spiritual vision; etheric vision; the ability to operate consciously in the greater worlds; the ability to attune with the Divine Cosmic Thoughts; the potential to know the past, current and long run; the ability to heal body, mind and soul; the power to produce; and many others.
And lastly, what do we suggest by spiritual improvement? We indicates expanding one’s consciousness; opening up the intuitive channels; the transcendence of the false ego; the expression of one’s divinity; oneness with Nature, God and one’s fellow men; the purification of one’s ideas, words, and actions; the realization and consciousness of one’s genuine identity, and the unfoldment of all spiritual virtues and attitudes this kind of as sacrifice, renunciation, detachment, steadfastness, endurance, power, self-control, persistence, magnanimity, purity, heroism, truthfulness, generosity, compassion, comprehension, enjoy, affection, serenity, faithfulness, altruism, tolerance, explanation, devotion, adaptability, sincerity, joy, discernment involving the real and the unreal, service, stability, attractiveness, harmony, creativity, self-assurance, perception, reverence, sympathy, punctuality, love, tenderness, gratitude, gentleness, harmlessness, inclusiveness, desirelessness, forgiveness, believe in, self-discipline, and many others.
So far we have utilised the words occult, metaphysics, and spirituality interchangeably. At this time this fits our goal, but we have to recognize that these terms are not synonymous and each have a specific definition of their individual. To these terms we might consist of mysticism, magick, parapsychology, parapsychic science, and esotericism as each and every getting a definite which means and nevertheless still linked with metaphysics in general. In the course of one’s metaphysical examine 1 would progressively arrive to comprehend the basic big difference.
Humility and Fearlessness
So far, we have by now dealt at some duration with the qualities that the candidate of metaphysical studies has to possess, this kind of as purity and an open head. Other critical qualities are individuals of humility and fearlessness.
Humility is the quality of acknowledging the greatness of God as expressing during Nature. It is the realization that no make any difference what one attains or what one particular turns into there is constantly space for more development. Therefore, a single never see oneself as representing a final attainment such as currently being the smartest child in college, for a single knows that there are nonetheless other people considerably much more smarter than oneself. There is often area for improvement. We must not just seem down just before us, seem upwards as properly and see that there are other people far over us. Reaching one peak makes it possible for us to see a higher summit.
There is pride in contemplating of becoming clever or in getting stupid. There is also pride in thinking of becoming wealthy or in currently being poor. The writer has usually heard folks lamenting on how poor they are, and they appreciate saying this and proving it. They would get fairly a whole lot of difficulty to demonstrate that they are poor and that none are in as significantly a want as on their own. This is pride expressing itself, for they fail to see that they have several of God’s cherished presents to them, this kind of as their senses to register impressions, their minds to think, their will to act, and their fingers and feet to carry-out their wish; in short, all that is necessary to manifesting prosperity. This kind of men and women are ungrateful beings. In this they present their lack of humility.
When approaching an Occult Master in an egoistic manner, he would most undoubtedly reprimand us verbally . . . or in silence. Such applicants for the teachings are rapidly demonstrated the exit. Demanding to be taught indicates one’s unreadiness for occultism and metaphysics. Rather of requesting from the Guru the larger teachings, 1 need to come to comprehend that one nonetheless calls for the reduced teachings and disciplines from the numerous challenges that existence has to provide and instruct us. All of these problems are basically for the goal of taming the human ego. The ego when unbridled, is an unfit vessel for metaphysical and spiritual teachings. Exactly where the ego strives, there humility dies.
Dread is one particular of the obstacles to metaphysical comprehension and consciousness. Approaching and advancing on the occult route entails facing numerous enemies and scary phenomena, the worst of these is our very own lower self with its a lot of subconsious projections which in occult circles is referred to as the Dweller on the Threshold. If we wish to pursue occult studies, fearlessness is a paramount virtue to possess, for in fact nothing can damage us unless we give it the electrical power to do so. A single of the maxims of the Wonderful White Brotherhood is to know, to dare, to do, and to be silent. Make this maxim a part of by yourself.
In the maxim over the pupil is suggested to be silent. It is disrespectful to the teacher and to the Cosmic to reveal secret and esoteric matters to these unprepared for it. Be actually watchful of your mouth, for as the Master Jesus said: “Do not cast pearls prior to swines.” Silence is a protective top quality. It protects the particular person who retains silent on sacred issues as effectively as others who might be inclined to misuse the details. Assume silence when you should be silent and only talk when other folks are not courageous enough to defend Fact. Silence is golden at the proper spot and at the right time, and on sacred issues. Students will progress a lot more swiftly ought to silence be a part of their being. Do not draw consideration to oneself. Do not converse of your occult experiences to those unsympathetic to metaphysics, for this would just present them with offensive weapons.
In metaphysics also frequently than not, one may encounter contradictions. These contradictions might just be obvious and not real. Reality is like a cut diamond with its several aspects. Preserve in mind that what is fairly accurate is synonymous to being relatively false. Nevertheless, in instances of contradictions, adopt that which seems more logical to you.
This is an important article and the pupil is advised to think about it wisely. It is hoped that the student be sincere and use these teachings that he or she may obtain the virtues that we have referred to. In the days of Atlantis, males misused and abused occult and metaphysical teachings. This was a single of the direct good reasons why the continent submerged and leaving quite couple of traces as to its geographical place, its spot in the memory of guys, or in our historical past books. Many civilizations ended drastically simply because of the misuse and exploitation of information for selfish ends. People mistakenly imagine that the ends justify the indicates. This is false. The signifies determines the conclude. Let us not repeat our historical blunders, as it interrupts the evolutionary procedure and cause the holy ones to weep.