Use It Or Lose It

[QUOTING]

Listen, my child. There is no such thing as a vacuum. That sentence conceals the secret that everyone must unveil who wants to be transformed from a perishable animal to an Immortal Consciousness. Only you must not apply the words merely to external nature; you must use them like a key to open up the Spiritual Realm; you must transform their meaning. Look at it like this: someone wants to walk, but his feet are held fast in the earth; what will happen if his will to walk does not weaken? His creative Spirit, the primal force that was breathed into him at the Beginning, will find other paths for him to tread and that force within him that can walk without feet, will walk in spite of the earth, in spite of the obstacle.

The creative will, man's divine inheritance, is a force of suction; this suction - you must understand it in a metaphorical sense - would of necessity create a vacuum in the Realm of First Causes if the expression of the will were not eventually followed by its fulfillment. See: a man is ill and wants to get better; as long as he resorts to medicines, the power of the Spirit, which can heal better and more quickly than any medicine, will be paralyzed. It is as if someone wanted to learn to write with the left hand: if he always uses the right, he will never learn to do it with the left.

Every event that occurs in our life has a purpose; nothing is pointless; an illness says to a man, 'Drive me away with the power of the Spirit so that the power of the Spirit will be strengthened and once more be lord over the material world, as it was before the Fall'. Anyone who does not do that and relies on medicines alone has not grasped the meaning of Life; he will remain a little boy playing truant. But anyone who can command with the field marshal's baton of the Spirit, scorning the coarser weapons that only the common solder uses, will rise again and again; however often death strikes him down, he will yet be a king in the end.

That is why men should never weaken on the Path to the Goal they have set themselves; just as sleep is only a brief rest, so is death. You do not begin a task to abandon it, but to complete it. A task, however unimportant it appears, once begun and left half-finished, corrodes the will with its poison, just as an unburied corpse pollutes the air of the whole home.

The purpose of our life is the perfection of the Soul; if you keep that goal firmly in your sights, and in your mind and your heart every time you begin or decide something, then you will find yourself possessed by a strange, unknown calm, and your destiny will change in an incomprehensible way. Anyone who creates as if he were immortal -- not for the sake of the object of his desires, that is a goal for the spiritually blind, but for the sake of the Temple of his Soul -- will see the day come, even if it is after thousands of years, when he can say, 'I will it' and what he commands will be there, will happen, without needing time to ripen slowly.

Only then will the point be reached where the long road ends. Then you can look the Sun in the face without it burning your eyes. Then you can say, 'I have found a Goal because I sought none'.

From "The Nightwalk" - The White Dominican - Gustav Meyrink

[END QUOTING]

Live consciously, ever aware that each thought, feeling or action will either help or hinder the ability of Spirit to effectively re-link with and work through you. There is no wasted motion in Life. All is designed to point man back to his Divine origins. Know that your microcosm, although fallen, is immortal. It is the mortal personality enclosed within that microcosm, the man or the woman, who is lost and wandering in Darkness.

~ g
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