Dear Emissaries of the Divine Light,
Spring returns again to the northern hemisphere. During the Lenten season we greet our Divine Mother every morning, acknowledge our Master Jesus in the noon day, and reflect upon the actions we strive to accomplish in faith and love each evening.
Such are the cycles of our life in this earthly plane—and the path is more joyous as we observed daily spiritual practices, in sunshine or shadow. As pupils in this terrestrial school, it can be difficult to adjust to changes to our own physical circumstances. No matter what religion, belief system or thought process we have during our daily living, this is what we all have in common: the cycles of life on earth and adjusting (or not) to change.
I remember listening to a recording of Father Paul, as he told of sitting quietly in contemplation: He became aware of Jesus right there, in the room with him and it brought him joy and comfort. He did not present this as a dramatic vision, just a subtle presence.
How often I wrestle in my mind with some problem or challenge, trying to figure out solutions, when my time would be better spent saying a prayer and giving up control to the Master! As we have been told, the solution is always there even before the problem arises.
It all comes down to letting go of our relatively small cares or worries (in the cosmic scheme of things) and being connected to the Great Solution.
Jesus suffered; he was misunderstood, he was portrayed as having a devil and blaspheming against God. He was tortured and killed in the cruelest fashion. He was placed in a tomb, as many have who have long been forgotten.
His connection with the Divine was so complete that he arose—and still he is with us as the channel of the Christ for this planet, allowing all people to come to the Father through him.
This is the reality—and has nothing to do with religion (or Christianity as it is being currently practiced, for the most part.)
This is our reality—we are here to radiate that Light, and as divine fools to step out in faith; to experience the death and resurrection into eternal life in a physical body, demonstrating his great gift to humanity within ourselves. Happy Easter and a blessed Spring.
From Father Paul: Cosmic Consciousness January 1972
This is to bring us closer to the Lord Jesus Christ, as we move toward that day when He went through the great cosmic initiation. Down through the ages Teachers whom taught of the Christ, taught it as our Lord and Redeemer. They believed and knew, some of them, the true reality. During the time of Paul there were many false prophets and many whom were not teachers, and this was one of the great difficulties which Paul had in trying to teach the true Christ, the true Way like that of the Master– and which had been taught by the many great Teachers down through the many centuries as far back as we could trace, back into the hoary ages of time…
For the reality of the Christos was a secret as well as a sacred thought, and to mention Christ or to refer to Him was considered a very sacred thing, especially in the wisdom schools. ..
In accordance with the esoteric teachings, the Christ that was to come was the result of many incarnations of spiritual development. His final and ultimate manifestation was the result of the spiritual consciousness that he brought into the world, for his job was to personify the spiritual development of man and bring it into the earth, for here he took on the greater initiations of the cosmos in a realistic and a real material way. And from the esoteric side of this, the work of the Christ is in all human beings to some degree existent, regardless of whether they know the name or title or what to call it by. There is a certain consciousness which exists. It can be attuned to the divine Christ consciousness which came to earth and manifest in the personality of Jesus. For he said unto us, “of all these things which I do, so shall ye do also…He is and evermore shall be as far as our finite minds are concerned, the Lord and Master of this earth. To those who sincerely seek and are truly seeking to know him…it is possible for him to project his magnetism and his great body as it was released when he left, and rose up in the resurrection and then in the ascension when he came into the outer sphere where no longer was he confined by flesh. Then this atmosphere became filled with his being and he encompassed the earth.
But it is possible for him to project his magnetism in several places which is not an uncommon thing for a Teacher to do, even those in an earthly form… to do healing It is a true spiritual voice that touches the individual, and with its tremendous power and the magnetic forces of his voice, the healing takes place in what would have been a miracle in those days, and was.
We are told that Christ Jesus walked on the water and performed many other great miracles which are marvelous for the multitude to see but hard for them to understand… this faculty of walking on the water, walking in the fire, levitation and other spiritual phenome are not known by too many today. But they do exist in our world…
The real secret of the Christ’s visit to earth from the body of our Lord Jesus is so simple that it flaunts the mind of man, of the logician, the thinker. Because you’ll remember what he said, “lest you become as a little child, you may not enter the kingdom of heaven.”..
Jesus was a great Master and was a human being, who carried the divinity of the great Teacher, the great Logos of God. It was at the time when the dove descended upon him, when the great Light enveloped him at the River Jordan, that the Christhood was evidenced by him and its mantle of infinite wisdom became a part of his personality..
Jesus remained a man, human, but the Christ consciousness associated itself with a physical body…and became part of his soul in reality, for it was easy for the Christ body to separate itself from Jesus and go forth among the people…in the ministry of our Lord Jesus, if we look at it closely, we find him mingling with men and women, teaching, lecturing, preaching, carrying on the work of a Master Leader and Teacher…There was another side of his nature or his ministry on occasions where we see him performing the miracles and suddenly appearing somewhere far away from where he had been. This indicates the spiritual side of his nature…and suddenly [it would] be separated to perform some other wonder, to leave an everlasting stamp across the minds of man to carry down through the ages of history as no man’s word has ever lasted.
Jesus found the woman by the well and turned and said, “I am thirsty and would like to have a drink.” She, being a Samaritan woman, was quite surprised that he would ask her this, for she was amongst those who made their living by the pleasures of man. This made no difference to him, to our Master, for he was bringing her to a point of teaching, when he said “There is another kind of thirst beside the physical and those who drink of the living waters will have eternal life…this sort of symbolism puzzled the woman, just as it puzzles many others today. For by giving him a drink of water, and he drank with appreciation, she had helped to sanctify the human body that was tired and thirsty. He was here to bring the great atonement for those people who were considered sinners (and were.)
Likewise in this day and age man moves out across the span of time and the life cycle which he takes on as he comes into this earth plane seeking—and with that great thirst, and that thirst can only be quenched with the Light of the Christ within…
As your inner spiritual Self awakens and develops, you are lifting your consciousness to greater heights—and you are actually ascending the greater mountain which is frequently spoken of. The first thing that will happen when you are allowing your real Self to extend and broaden, is that you will rise higher and you will seem to have a broader vision; not only of the whole of life, but life’s problems, and individual peculiarities of every person you meet. Human beings themselves will take on a different nature…The greatest effect ever will be upon you once you enter into the spiritual Illumination and the spiritual awakening. You will find all of life becoming an easier problem, and even health and transition are not so difficult to understand. With this broadening of the vision or extension of the consciousness comes an increasing power and mastership, and an increasing ability to foresee intuitively or otherwise the events of tomorrow and the next day. There also comes the power to meet all obstacles or all incidences that might frustrate our plans, and we are unable to override them or make them something entirely different.
Now if you keep this in mind and concentrate upon your thoughts; upon this development of consciousness, instead of expecting some spiritual manifestation of some kind, you will see that a greater change has been taking place in your thinking during the past few weeks or months. You will see that it is possible for you to have more of this awakening, and an extension of consciousness, even though there is no unusual contact with the consciousness of others who are going through the same experience that you are—and it is through the help and the work with your teachers and priests that you will find the answers to many things, but many things will come from within if you will just listen and not concentrate upon your problems. And it is going to blend into the cosmic consciousness until you find yourself being a part of the general consciousness to a greater extent than you have at any time in the past.
And with this, I want to give to you my blessings, and go forth, and during this time of the year in the Lenten services and the Lenten consciousness, let this be as if you were personally preparing yourself to walk with Jesus on his road to Jerusalem, where he was to partake of the greatest sacrifice the world has even known. Good night, and God bless you from Mother and I, Father Blighton.
A Born Healer – Aunty Margaret Machado, 1916 to 2009
Formally, she was known as Margaret Machado, she embodied the Aloha Spirit in her work as a healer, massage teacher, and, some would say, miracle worker.
She was born on the Big Island but was sent away to live with a Christian missionary family in Honolulu on ‘Oahu when she was still young. She never knew her real family very well because of that move. Her move to another island gave her exposure to the Christian religion alongside her beliefs in true Hawaiian Values.
Kalehuamakanoelulu’uonapali* was the name given to her by her grandfather before she was born. This ordained her future as a healer and Hawaiian Lomilomi practitioner.
Most importantly, it foretold that Margaret would be the one to carry on the family healing secrets; she would be the one entrusted with the Hawaiian Lomilomi knowledge to carry forward.
Her grandfather, who she did not know well, came to visit her in Honolulu when she was ten. It was then that he passed down the family wisdom and practices. He died not long after. Six years later, at the age of 16, Margaret came back home to the Big Island.
Aunty Margaret, as she was fondly called, chose to break with the traditional Hawaiian culture which had the practice of keeping family wisdom within the family. Instead, she felt that her Christian upbringing gave her another direction, and that was to teach anyone who wanted to learn what she called Love Work.
Her fundamental teaching was pure and simple love. Aunty would often say: “Your hands reveal your heart. If your hands are gentle and loving, your patient will feel the sincerity of your heart, and the Lord’s healing will flow through you both. Remember Lomilomi is a praying work.”
What Aunty gave the world was so much more than massage techniques. Hawaiian Lomilomi to her was touching and massaging someone with love in your heart and your hands. People came from all over the world to learn or be treated by her. She never once took any credit. Instead, she always said, “I don’t do the healing. The Lord does the healing.”
She gave selflessly to many individuals. Even though she broke with the family tradition and began teaching Lomilomi outside the
family, she still practiced the heart and soul of Hawaiian Values. That was the practice of Aloha. Being kind, generous, giving.
“Aloha and prayer are the essence of Lomilomi. Touching the body with a loving touch, if your hands are gentle and loving, your patient will feel the sincerity of your heart, and their soul will reach out to yours so the Lord’s healing will flow through you both“. -Auntie Margaret Machado
From Father Paul (1970)
…For a long time, probably ever since you have been in this school, you have heard me refer to the New Heaven and the New Earth, and the fact that as the sun and the power of the Christ comes into earth, that you will have a constant expansion until we reach the level where the heaven world has come down, the psychic world has enmeshed and come into conjunction with the earth, I’m talking vibration-wise, and then we’ll have a new vibration on the earth.
Now, a long time ago, ten, twelve years ago, I had it pointed out to me very clearly what this new heaven and new earth was. And it is a change of the relationship between the molecular structure. In other words, we are becoming less dense, more porous. You’ve probably heard that many, many times since you’ve come here. But tonight I want to get a truer understanding of what takes place when we use the terms, that the man is “cleansing.” Now, this is a very, very trite term, and they are going through it, and I don’t think that always we understand it. We say that they have things within them which are toxic, that have been built up and so on and so forth, and they are getting rid of these things. Well, generally and in a very true way, this is an existent fact.
But let us go back a little bit further and study the reality of how this body became imperfect….When the average individual comes into life, unless he is carrying with him a karmic debt, one which he has brought over where there is physical deformity from the past life, he has a perfect body. At the time of creation, that body is perfect. Then in the Testament, we have this very trite saying which we try to side-step and which we do and which I believe in because I don’t wish to accept the medical terminology of “heredity.” And that is, “the sins of the father are visited upon the second and third generation.” Now, the second and third generation is sometimes very misunderstood….the second generation is not the next individual or child that comes from that mother. The second generation thereafter, but not the next one, the grandchildren….We have been taught for thousands of years, the existence of the dweller on the threshold. This is a very ancient and well-put term which has been used by the mystics and the teachers for thousands of years. The dweller on the threshold. It is that which you create, that which you bring forth over the years of your growth…Now there is this dweller on the threshold as he is called. I call him, and later writers of mystic form and order have also called him, the animal, because they found it more convenient, more realistic, and it sort of drove home an idea to the people that they were teaching. It kept it away from being an abstraction, because people were always talking about the human race as being just another form of higher animal. Well now, this is partially true.
When we sense this in reality, God made man in His own image. This didn’t say anything about the vehicle that He was going to bear this man in. Because there are a number of different types of vehicles that man is born in and that isn’t just man of the earth either. There are other places for man to be in besides just this earth, that’s for sure. But here on this earth where we are particularly interested, man has a vehicle and it is the vehicle which you look at in a mirror. I’m sorry, gentlemen, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all. And until you get to realize that that isn’t you, until you get to the place where you feel it’s not you, until your consciousness has abandoned it and it is not you, you do not you do not have the realization of unity with God.
Now there’s one particular one phase of this thing that we are vitally interested in teaching, and that is the elimination of the animal within us. Now I didn’t say anything about the vehicle itself…Many people said that they have animal bodies, and this is true. But these vehicles can become very spiritual. But it is the act of the individual making the change from the animal to the spiritual physical body of man that brings about what we talk about as “going through changes.” And this happens in this way.
The spiritual body of man is always perfect. The physical flesh which is within that matrix; it’s pretty perfect too. When man’s thinking and vibration of his thinking, his fears and other things of this nature brought about by his ignorance, changes the chemical balance and composition of the physical body and produces foreign elements within it, then he reaches an imbalance and the reactions of these chemicals build up a vibration of itself. Here we have what is being filled in an electrochemical structure of the body, filled in it is this foreign substance and foreign matter. And you are building in accordance with your thoughts, in accordance with your actions, you are building another being. And this is the being that you are breaking down when you are going through training and becoming adjusted or “going through” as we call it simply, and I love the term because it takes away from the student a possibility should I say, of fear complex.
Now, physiologically we have some drastic reactions take place in the physical body, but usually they hold up very well. We say, well they have colds, sure they have. They have disturbances of this nature. But they all come out of them. Yes. Why? Fortunately, fortunately, we have a very elaborate, very elaborate storage system in the body with a great many storage bins. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands upon tens of thousands. And they are the little lymph ducts. And as you go along through life, you store up all of the excesses that shouldn’t be there. Foreign elements of vibration, foreign toxins, foreign this…
Let us go back, though to this animal of the dweller on the threshold. Now, when you receive the power of the Holy Spirit, there is a tremendous force going through you. When you live in a brotherhouse where there is a common pattern of acceptance and the Light of Christ in it, there is a purification process that is prominent. Why? What is the second point of the triangle in color? It’s yellow, isn’t it? Blue, yellow, red. Right? Yellow—you people get what I’m talking about? Blue, yellow, red. The only three colors that exist. This point down here is yellow. This is the Christ point, isn’t it? Right? Yellow is a purgative color. It is a cleansing color. It will produce cleansing…I don’t know whether you know this or not, but colds of themselves are caused from confusion in the individual—or light shock of some kind…So, all that happens is there is confusion in the new student. Because he is changing life forms, you see? He is taking on a new form. A new potential. Now, the Bible is true when it says that you will take on a new body, when it says you will take on an eternal body…And you are; because regardless of what they try to perpetrate today, for when you’ve gotten rid of that body which you have created in there, that animal of the man; when you have gotten rid of this completely and you are in charge, then your body will start to reconstruct and regeneration will set in…
In “The Lord of the Rings”, why can’t Gandalf touch the One Ring?
The reason for this is one of the most important keys to understanding the entire Lord of the Rings saga, this is said and repeated countless times throughout the book in different ways, but perhaps, really, something was lost throughout the 9 hours of the films.
Gandalf does not WANT to touch the ring. Just as Galadriel resists the temptation to take it when Frodo offers it to her willingly.
And all this because “Power Corrupts”.
Sauron and the Ring are allegories for the corruption that inevitably arises when too much power is concentrated in one place . In this case, the power to enforce one’s will over all others, in other words, a dictatorship .
Even if it started with the best of intentions, whether to build a more advanced, industrial and technological world (as Sauron wanted), or to create a glorious empire (as Isildur wanted), or to defeat a very strong enemy (as Boromir wanted) or to promote ethical values, good and beautiful things (as Galadriel would do), the ends do not justify the means .
Even without the One Ring, Gandalf and Galadriel already have a great deal of power. Each of them already has one of the Three Elven Rings, and they are immortal leaders, wise and knowledgeable in the magical arts (not to mention that Gandalf is practically a demi-god). If one of them were to seize the ring and be corrupted by it, the result would be unimaginably disastrous.
The only reason Sauron was defeated was his lack of empathy, his lack of knowledge about different peoples and creatures, his inability to put himself in his enemies’ shoes. It was impossible for Sauron to imagine that his enemies would be capable of leaving such a powerful weapon in the hands of the most insignificant and obscure creature in Middle-earth, much less that they would come up with a plan to destroy the ring.
But Gandalf? If there is one thing that Gandalf did throughout his existence, it was to dedicate himself to getting to know creatures and people, different cultures, studying their strengths and weaknesses, how they thought and how they acted…
If Gandalf touched the ring and was corrupted, he would be far worse than Sauron, perhaps impossible to defeat.
And he knew it. -Danish Zahira ·
Quotations from They Might be Giants, the movie:
Watson: “You’re just like Don Quixote. You think that everything is always something else.”
Justin Playfair/Sherlock Holmes: Well, he had a point. ‘Course he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That’s insane. But, thinking that they might be, well… All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn’t? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we’d all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes…
Dear friends, would those of you who know what this is all about please raise your hands? I think if God is dead he laughed himself to death. Because, you see, we live in Eden. Genesis has got it all wrong. We never left the Garden. Look about you. This is paradise. It’s hard to find, I, I’ll grant you, but it is here. Under our feet, beneath the surface, all around us is everything we want. The earth is shining under the soot. We are all fools. Ha ha. Moriarty has made fools of all of us. But together, you and I, tonight… we’ll bring him down.
The human heart can see what is hidden to the eyes,
And the heart knows things that the mind does not begin to understand.
-They Might be Giants 1971 movie
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water.
His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him. -The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
Sons and Stars of Earth
Illumined souls, like stars far flung
Pinpoint earth’s darkly orb with sparks of light.
Their brightness varies, these God’s Sons,
As seen by eyes of Inner Spiritual Sight
Great Teachers make a far more brilliant show
Sons come to earth, round who revolve
Disciples, seekers after Christ—
Whose work more solar replicas revolve.
They hide much glory from man’s view,
And cloak the nucleus of living fire
Or hang a temple veil of blue
To guard identity from pryer’s stare
Saints, purely white, more softly glow
Most radiant are those with selfless love
To one who looks on earth with Spirit’s eyes
It looks thick starred like unto Heaven above.
-Yoke of Light