Anthony66 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:59 am
AshvinP wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:31 pm
Instead, we may say these outer rhythms described by the model as the manifestations of inner WFT activity which find a localized expression in our own body-soul-spirit organism. The bodies aren't revolving a certain distance in certain time periods, but the time periods are how we
experience the lawfulness of the interrelations of these inner rhythms from our current thinking perspective.
I guess the piece in the puzzle that I'm looking for is how the inner WFT activity of "other" agents finds expression with my body-soul-spirit. Reflecting on the many posts here over the last 12 months has given me a level of intuition for the answer here, e.g. modulations of deeper levels of conscious activity. But when talking to others about these ideas, I feel like I'm not able to effectively convey this understanding.
Anthony,
I'm hardly able to convey most of what I intuitively understand, either. That's why my posts on these things are so short and descriptive (rather than illustrative with graphics or metaphors). We should realize that what Cleric is able to do in that regard - translating the intuitive understanding into the language of the imagination and the intellect - comes after years of devoted practice. It is certainly a great ideal for us to aspire towards, but we shouldn't rush it or imagine we are able to immediately teach others what we have only provisionally understood. That is always a great temptation on the spiritual path, because the conscious mind generally tries to rush ahead of its organic state of development and we lean into that impulse in our efforts for higher development.
The task is pretty simple - the missing puzzle pieces of how the higher-order beings work into our WFT soul-life will be revealed to us, through our thought-life,
by those higher-order beings, in proportion to how much devoted attention we pay to them. Or as Federica said, by our willed activity of conscious expansion. But this simple task is not easily approached with our modern habits of dry intellectual thinking, our disposition towards ease and convenience, our cynicism and closed-mindedness towards prayer or things considered 'superstitious', or our attachments to a life of sensuality which distracts our attention from the realms of experience which are archetypal and lasting. We should start to feel that the process of working on the enlivening and attunement of our soul-rhythms through sacrificial work is the
same as the process of gaining greater insight into these higher realities.
Imagine that we think, 'well there are certain familiar and pleasurable habits of thinking, feeling, and acting which I am simply not willing to sacrifice today for this potential greater insight', and imagine that the higher-order beings can sense our thoughts (because they can). There are also 7+ billion individualities on the planet, some of whom are constantly thinking about what
more of their Earthly personality they can sacrifice than they did the day before, to unclog the coarse matter permeating their soul-life and let the subtler spiritual currents flow in. They keep doing this daily even though it rarely produces immediate or tangible results. Who are the higher-order beings going to direct their archetypal Imaginations and Inspirations towards? How would you proceed with that task if you were in their position? (of course this isn't meant to anthropomorphize the higher beings, but only as a loose analogy for what qualities attract the higher ideations)
These are questions we should deeply contemplate, not necessarily searching for clear conceptual answers, but simply letting them ruminate in our soul and motivate us towards concrete efforts, if we are interested in making more sense of our lives. The more we can differentiate our core be-ing from our lower nature and its tendencies, the more we can lift our head above the latter's murky waters and start to make sense of its normal channels, its currents, its flows, its twists and turns. These are all the inner aspects which begin to make sense of why holistic spiritual intents, unfolding in a nested temporal structure, convolute into our decohered perception of fixed objects and flattened processes which are mimicked by our intellectual thoughts.
Spiritual science also gives us a language to speak of the missing puzzle pieces - we may refer to the higher hierarchies, the Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth periods of Cosmic manifestation, the Lemurian, Atlantean, Post-Atlantean 'root races' nested within those, the Ego-Astral-Etheric organism which links our current consciousness to these higher planes of consciousness, the Intuitions, Inspirations, and Imaginations which flow from these higher planes into our consciousness and modulate our WFT soul-life, etc. But whether these will refer to immanent first-person experiential realities of the depth structure within us, or flattened concepts which we horizontally combine into an ever-more complicated model of reality, will depend on our devoted persistence to the spiritual exercises and spiritual scientific study.
On the latter, notice how every new detail we learn opens up a world of possibilities for further details which provide a greater context. It is like we are reading a sentence one word at a time - 'The'... 'Sun'... 'is'... 'moving'... - we are gaining a slightly more refined understanding of the holistic meaning with each new word, but if these words are only part of a few paragraphs, pages, or a book about the astronomical-astrological path of the Sun over a Platonic year, then it would really help to have that overarching context in our view as well. Otherwise we have little idea in what direction we are moving with the words. That is where the principles of spiritual evolution, signified by some of the terms mentioned above, become very important (rhythmically exercised with our meditative practice which inflows higher impulses of understanding, normally unavailable to the intellect). But, again, if we feel like sitting down for many hours of our free time, reading and re-reading a lecture series, is too much of a demand on our time and effort, then clearly there is something within our immediate soul-life that we are as of yet unwilling to sacrifice for greater understanding.