LIFE ACCORDING TO GREEN PRINCIPLES—
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
11 September 2021
09 September 2021
What is Mind?
MIND
Reflection of Himself, is mind, eternal—
And mirrored in each soul of all mankind;
Undying thought or will in deed or purpose—
The part that lives when clay is left behind!
W. S. in Spirit
Paul Gauguin (1897–1898)—Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? | Museum of Fine Arts Boston
What is Life?
LIFE
The spark Divine—the ray we know as spirit—
Undying as the God who gives and takes—
Part of Himself, though housed in poverty;
Enriching those with love the world forsakes.
W. S. in Spirit
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What is Spirit?
SPIRIT
The man himself, with all his baser nature,
Freed from the flesh to find his heaven or hell—
His form the same, as every taste and longing,
But unconfined by mortal case or shell.
W. S. in Spirit
Geoffrey Hodson's The Kingdom of the Gods.
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The Kingdom of the Gods.
Originally published in 1952, Geoffrey Hodson, clairvoyant, views and documents the angelic kingdom in The Kingdom of the Gods. Download the book here.
In his introduction to The Kingdom of the Gods, the author describes the day he sat on a hillside at the edge of a beech forest in a secluded valley in the west of England.
He was seeking ardently to enter the sanctuary of Nature's hidden life when the heavens suddenly became filled with
light and his consciousness was caught up into a realm radiant with that light, which
never was on land or sea.
Gradually, he realised the presence of a great Angelic
Being.
From the interchange, there began to flow a stream of ideas concerning the life, the force and the
consciousness of the universe and their self-expression as angels and as men.
Daily entering that realm of light, the author found that the great ocean of the life, the
force and the soul of the universe had its myriad denizens. These are the
Spiritual Selves of men and Supermen and the vast company of the Angelic
Hosts, of which the Being, who had addressed him was a member. He was
supernally beautiful, majestic, godlike, and impassive and impersonal to the last
degree.
As a teacher to pupil, the angelic being began to tell of and to enable the author, with
gradually increasing clarity to perceive the Angelic Hosts, their Orders and
degrees.
06 September 2021
Beyond Personality
(Or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity)—
Book IV of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
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Christian Behaviour
Christian Behaviour comprises Book III of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
The Return of the Prodigal Son | Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) | Kunsthistorisches Museum
Right and Wrong as a Clue to The Meaning of The Universe.
Inspiring and helpful for personal and spiritual growth, read (or listen online)—
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, and is considered a classic of Christian apologetics. In Mere Christianity, Lewis sets out simply to explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times.
31 August 2021
In the world of spirits, all is understood.
In the world of spirits, all is understood and judged on a wider basis—and all is understood and viewed with compassion.
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28 August 2021
Simple Truths | Life Review and Judgment | Adult Coloring Pages
SIMPLE TRUTHS
AS ONE THINKS, ONE IS.
There is no compulsion to review one’s past life on earth as soon as one arrives and the new life begins. Some take a long while to tackle the problem. They dread to see the effects of mistakes and failures.
THE CONVICTION THAT ONE HAS FAILED IN THE LAST ROUND HAUNTS THE SOUL.
Some get stuck—these undergo a kind of mental and spiritual psychiatry—and spiritual helpers devote their love and thought, their skill and experience to aiding the stumblers until their course has become clear (both past and possible future) and they have been able to rectify the places in the chain where they have failed.
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IN THE DEEPS OF ONE’S OWN MIND
Two blueprints are brought forward into the spirit-soul’s consciousness. These are so clear that the spirit-soul can literally take them out, materialise and study them. One is the Perfect Idea with which the spirit-soul went bravely into incarnation. The other is the resultant of only a partially understood Plan—the life, as it was actually lived.
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605) | Trento Municipal Library
A SALUTARY EXPERIENCE
It is a shock to the spirit-soul to find that these two plans, that is, the Life Review and Judgement, differ exceedingly.
The blueprints resemble maps, with coloured places, and light and dark patches, and a kind of glowing sun for the highlights. The mind looks at the whole comparison and sets the blueprints side by side. This is the first shock—a true humbling of oneself to find that one did so little when one would have done so much; that one went wrong so often when one was sure that one was right.
And yet, one learns so much by facing the results.
Mary Somerville1884 | Popular Science Monthly Volume 25
YOURS IS THE JUDGMENT
During this experience, the whole cycle of the spirit-soul’s life-term unfolds before it in a kaleidoscopic series of pictures. During this crisis, the spirit-soul seems to be entirely alone. It stands at its own bar of judgement, making its own decisions and taking its own blame. It is the accused, the judge and the jury.
This is where quite a few souls become immobilised. Their pictures are too searing in their exposures. They remain prisoners of the self until they have made the inner desire to right their wrongs.
Immediately the spirit-soul becomes ready to face itself again, it is guided to these beautiful and peaceful homes.
The second stage of this recapitulation starts when the spirit-soul feels strong enough and calmed sufficiently to take the earth life, round by round (so-to-speak). Then the blueprints are brought into the mind again; only this time the start is made from the moment of departure from the body. The mind works slowly backwards through its experiences. Now the spirit-soul seems no longer alone.
Someone is beside it. Only now, as the spirit-soul ponders, works out, goes over, tabulates and judges what it did AND WHY AND WHAT WERE THE RESULTS—good or bad—the spirit-soul is aware of a great Being beside it, giving strength, peace, tranquillity and helping with constructive criticism. This is a wonderful experience, though harrowing at times. But very cleansing and bringing new hope.
The Sisters in the Home help the stumblers—many get stuck on their first picture—and try to link up with these great ones and bring help and strength to the stumblers’ level. The soul cannot move on until it has literally seen the Light or at least as much of the Light as it can assimilate at its present stage.
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Simple Truths | The Realm of Mind | Thompson's Mandalas
SIMPLE TRUTHS
The Realm of Mind
In the world of Spirits, spirit-souls live so much more in the realm of mind. As they ponder over an experience or a Purpose, the mind stretches out to see all sides of the problem. This is a new and not always exciting or pleasant experience. It is rather like a chain reaction; much more potent and real than the old association of ideas of earth psychology. Here, as one thinks, one is.
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SIMPLE TRUTHS
STRETCHING OF THE MIND
Spirit-souls still have the same experiences, the same problems, the same hopes, with even greater and wider aspirations for work; only now do they view them from an entirely different angle and with far greater dawning comprehension.
They learn to apprehend the meaning of much that happened to them. They see it as a background Pattern and begin to realise the effects of their thoughts and to view the events that were set in motion by these very thoughts and ideas.
Consciousness is on an upward spiral and progresses onwards.
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The rope of one’s character has to be tested at its weakest part.
22 August 2021
I have a message for Pope Francis.
You are right, Your Eminence,
But keep us from temptation.
In his article, The Telegraph, 13 December 2017, Nick Squires writes The Devil is more intelligent than mere mortals and should never be argued with, Pope Francis has warned.
Satan is not a metaphor or a nebulous concept but a real person armed with dark powers, the Pope said in forthright remarks made during a television interview.
He is evil, he’s not like mist. He’s not a diffuse thing, he is a person. I’m convinced that one must never converse with Satan—if you do that, you’ll be lost, he told TV2000, a Catholic channel, gesticulating with his hands to emphasise his point.
He’s more intelligent than us, and he’ll turn you upside down, he’ll make your head spin.
He always pretends to be polite—he does it with priests, with bishops. That’s how he enters your mind. But it ends badly if you don’t realise what is happening in time. (We should tell him) go away! he said.
Pope Francis frequently refers to the Devil in his homilies, sermons and on Twitter, where he is followed by 40 million people in nine languages.
He uses various terms to refer to the Prince of Darkness, including Satan, the Evil One, the Seducer, Beelzebub and the Great Dragon.
It’s a Jesuit thing. He’s a Jesuit who is deeply imbued with the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola, which allow people to discern the movements of the good and bad spirit, said Austen Ivereigh, a Vatican analyst and the author of The Great Reformer—Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope.
For him, this is real, these are not metaphors. It may not be the way that people speak nowadays and some Catholics may be taken aback by it. A lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of evil being real, but anyone who knows the spirituality of the Jesuits will not be surprised.
Three years ago, the Argentinian pontiff told a convention of exorcists from around the world that they were doing sterling work in combating the Devil’s works.
He said that exorcists needed to show the love and welcome of the Church for those possessed by evil.
In 2013, during an address to crowds of faithful in St Peter’s Square, he said the Devil often appears disguised as an angel, and slyly speaks his word to us.
He shares stories about the Devil’s devious ways when he gives his daily homilies in the chapel of the guesthouse where he lives inside the Vatican.
Last week Pope Francis called for the wording of The Lord’s Prayer to be changed so that it blames the Devil, rather than God, for leading us into temptation.
He said that prayer had been badly translated from the Greek used in the New Testament and the new version would better reflect its meaning.
It’s not a good translation—I am the one who falls. It’s not Him pushing me into temptation to then see how I have fallen.
A father doesn’t do that, a father helps you to get up immediately. It’s Satan who leads us into temptation, that’s his department, he said.
The life of a Christian is a continual battle against evil, the Pope has said.
WRITER’S NOTE—
The writer agrees, as do Our Beloved One In Spirit, with Pope Francis’ argument that The Lord’s Prayer must be changed so that it blames the Devil, rather than God—
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and keep us from temptation, and deliver us from evil.
Squires, Nick, The Telegraph News Online, 13 December 2017, Don’t argue with the Devil—he’s much more intelligent than us, says Pope Francis—https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/13/dont-argue-devil-much-intelligent-us-says-pope-francis/ (accessed 22 August 2021)
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The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus The Christ
In Heaven’s Gift—Conversations Beyond the Veil, Mike’s spirit-soul urges his father, Jasper Swain, to beg, borrow or steal a copy of Levi H. Dowling's The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus The Christ—The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal. In writing The Aquarian Gospel, Levi claimed it was the true story of Jesus’ life and included the lost eighteen years silent in the New Testament. Levi said he had transcribed the text of the book from The Book of God’s Remembrances, known as The Akashic Records,* as a young man in the early morning hours. The Aquarian Gospel is an uncorrupted text and is expressed in simple and familiar language.
*The Akashic Records (or The Book of God's Remembrances) are a collection of concise but detailed information of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present or future. These records are encoded in the etheric plane.
Swain, Jasper, Heaven’s Gift—Conversations Beyond the Veil, 1996, Kima Global Publishers, South Africa, 83
Levi H. Dowling, The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ—The
Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the
World and of the Church Universal, transcribed from The Book of God’s
Remembrances, known as The Akashic Records, 1911, L. N. Fowler and Company,
London; E. S. Dowling, Los Angeles, California
17 August 2021
Lord Jesus Christ, be present now.
Lord Jesus Christ, be present now.
Lord Jesus Christ, be present now, English adaptation by Catherine Winkworth of Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend
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