Out With The Old - Resolve

Today, 31 December 2010, is known as New Year's Eve. A very minor cycle of 365.25 days is ending. As the next cycle begins and the New Year's Aeon moves into position, many millions will be making resolutions. Resolving to stop something or to begin something. Most of these resolutions, although heartfelt, are doomed to failure from the start. This is because man is attempting to make corrections to the separated self with the assistance of the separated self. Get that. The same self that drinks too much, eats too much, does too much or too little of anything in this physical world is the same self that we are going to ask to help us to change those behaviors. Can anyone say "conflict of interest"?

The separated self does not want to change! Our uncontrolled physical, mental and emotional bodies are perfectly happy to be addicted to sensations. This is normal because these vehicles were designed to process sensation and then to relay that information to the ego (the soul), which resides on a higher plane. That is their function. The problem with humanity is that we have allowed these physical elementals to run rampant. The ego has lost control of its vehicles. Remember, the human body and its invisible mental and emotional bodies are biological phenomena only. It is like a suit of armor or a space-suit, used by our ego to gain experience in the lower physical worlds.

In order to effect a permanent change in the behavior of our runaway vehicles, we have to regain control over them. Having the will, wanting to do something about things is a first step. However, we must enlist the aid of our ego if we wish to make changes to the personality vehicles. From "The Ego and Its Vehicles" :

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This problem of the lower and higher self is an old one, and it is undoubtedly difficult to realize that there is after all only one consciousness, and that the apparent difference is caused only by the limitations of the various vehicles. The whole consciousness works on its own higher mental plane, but in the case of the ordinary man only partially and vaguely as yet. So far as it is active it is always on the side of good, because it desires that which is favorable to its evolution as a soul.

It puts a portion of itself down into lower matter, and that portion becomes so much more keenly and vividly conscious in that matter that it thinks and acts as though it were a separate being, forgetting its connection with that less developed yet far wider self-consciousness above. So sometimes it seems as though the fragment worked against the whole; but the man who is instructed declines to be deluded, and reaches back through the keen alert consciousness of the fragment to the true consciousness behind, which is as yet so little developed.

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Mark the following carefully: you...are...not...your...body. The body is only a tool used by the ego to gain experience through interaction with the lower worlds. Your five senses are designed to observe, process and relay impressions of objects sensed in this world back to the ego, where it is processed and utilized for spiritual growth. If the ego has poor control over its lower vehicles, they will run wild. That is behind all error that occurs on this planet today.

To re-establish control, the ego must be contacted. The ego is contacted via the practice of meditation. However, because of the special times that we are living in, Christ Consciousness can also assist us in purifying and purging our lower vehicles. Healing of all kinds is possible if we will open ourselves to the Divine Love being made available to this planet. From "The Urgent Need for Preparation and Purification (The New Call):

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Once relieved of the symptoms of their ailment - be they physical, emotional or mental - most people tend to become quite satisfied; they often revert back to their routine pattern of living and so fail to begin a search for the underlying causes of their illness. If discovered and understood, however, the essential reasons for their trouble would indicate an appropriate new direction in life for them to take in order that they may move forward while simultaneously effecting a permanent remedy for themselves.

The majority of individuals today seek healing for themselves alone, i.e., with selfish motives. Such personal objectives will not serve to raise their vibratory rate of consciousness; indeed, to the contrary. Should the complete solution be absent from healing services, if the root-cause is left unaddressed and re-education neglected, then temporarily-cured symptoms of illness will only reappear in one form or another, for true healing must necessarily include right understanding.

The purpose of disease is not merely to provide humanity with an opportunity to discover how to eradicate it! Disease is an effect of a corresponding cause. It therefore bears within itself an important lesson for its creator, a lesson that cannot be learned as long as one's attitude toward the self-created disease is antagonistic, as long as one wishes only to stamp it out. However, in remedying the cause of the problem by learning the lesson, the effects of disease will eventually disappear by themselves, never to return. Such is true and permanent healing.

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It is never too late to begin learning who and what you really are. Right Seeking leads to Right Understanding. Right Understanding leads to Wisdom. Wisdom will ultimately lead to a Right Relationship between the personality and the ego. This union is necessary if one wishes to attain the Final Liberation.

Regain control over the physical elemental. Learn about your vehicles and the invisible forces that are constantly impacting upon them (more about this in the next post). Live unselfishly, serving who you can, where and how you can. Meditate often. Recommended: Meditation For Beginners - J. I. Wedgwood". Heck, all the links in this post are recommended reading.

That's all for now. 2011 is upon us. It is time to be about our Father's business. Great challenges lay before us in the very near future.

Prepare Ye.

All Love,

~ g