Stranger wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 12:45 am
Federica wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:49 pm
Rather: by seeing if our freely engaged inner transformation sends us echoes that we are attuning ourselves to the harmony of facts, as described by their "claims" that we indeed don't see as claims, but that we trust in the first place, by inclination, and by inner disposition, as in Martinus' words.
Fully agree with the inner work and transformation. But regarding the "trust in the first place", what happens if we put our trust in someone who turns out to be a false spiritual teacher or a pseudo-spiritual-scientist? We know too many examples of false teachers and sect leaders in whom people put their trust only to later have detrimental consequences on their psychological and spiritual health. So, before we put some trust onto any spiritual authority, we need to apply our spiritual discernment, as much as we have developed and to the best of our ability, to see if what these people claim do align with the harmony of facts of our inner and outer experience. And that applies to both incarnate and discarnate beings (because there are many false teachers in the discarnate realms just like there are in the incarnate ones, or as the Hermetics say, "As above so below").
Eugene, may I give you a concrete suggestion - if you take for example Martinus' symbol n. 7, and first carefully go through its explanation, with a soft and kind eye-mind, then maybe even meditate with the symbol at the center of awareness, letting the truth captured by the symbol speak to you, without letting the controlling mind’s eye strictly and tightly supervise the experience, you will surely come to the orange mark that the eternal law captured by the symbol is not only an in-principle, ideal reality appearing to you as supervised, pondered truth. Rather, you would further see that the reality of the symbol is embedded in, and expressed by, your own flesh here and now. Your mind-flesh, your body-flesh. You would come to see and feel the truth of the reality reported by the symbol in every atom of your flesh also, and in every bit of experience, sensorial and spiritual alike, that awareness can conceive, as well. But the question is, do you want to let that eternal symbol become applied inner knowledge within you? Do you want to welcome the knowledge in yourself and “be the highest instrument for the unfolding of wisdom and love”, as Martinus says (in the rose quote)? Are you ready to let the truth of the symbol bleed onto you?
If you were to engage in this meditation, that initial piece of knowledge would become one with your point of awareness. What would happen then is an applied instance of transformation. Not in-principle transformation, but transformation through training, exactly as in the rose quote above. That would be your first spiritual science transformational training session, so to say. Of course, you already know a lot about spiritual science, but only under the cognitive mode “in-principle supervision-apprehension”. Now, if you were to change gears, and put your being in the first line, available for transformation of self, not in principle, but willed, the story would take a turn, and the “how” that you have been wondering about would become clear. Willed transformation does not mean “directed” or “supervised”. What is willed is the disposition of openness and acceptance that something we are not yet able to imagine/see/consider could become a conscious part of us, a tiny bit at a time (which is why it’s a training). That highest instance that we can open to, if we feel such drive, would perfect our current stage of understanding and our current ability to love through understanding. So, provided that we first agree within ourselves with this opening (it’s the trustful disposition I was speaking of), we will surely undergo some tiny but significant transformative experience, that we will not be able to supervise. That’s very important. The only, and crucial thing we can, and have to, supervise is our openness to the experience. It’s the wish, the firm wish (the wish has to be firm, because there are counter forces our wish has to pierce through in order to affirm itself, as we all know, as you are knowing right now). The firm wish leads us to the disciplined (willed) training session. From that point on, we have to trust the eternal law of the symbol, knowing that our current notion of control and outlook will die and be born again. We have to agree with such a transformation, we have to welcome it, otherwise nothing will advance, and we remain in our status quo, with our questions, and strong hold on our present-day partially obstructed view, including all the question marks on the for-us-invisible causes of those obstructions.
I think this kind of self assessment would be very useful for you to probe if you really feel a call and an opening toward Martinus’ spiritual science, or not. Because the integration of a symbol like this one, I believe, could encounter some resistance within you, and that’s why I think it would be a good test. I believe you have well apprehended the symbol, but you have not yet been open to applied integration of its truth. For instance, when yesterday I gave the example of the lung-being with reference to Martinus, you didn’t say anything about what sense it makes to you - the idea of a lung-being with an “I”, as organ-being embedded within our own being. You didn’t say anything, and reasonably so, because the question I was asking was another one. Still, I believe that in yourself you were in a position of uncertainty, or ambiguity, whether to adopt Martinus’ vision in the first place, or rather to lean towards the current standard scientific view that a lung is a lung, not a “being with an “I” made of myriads of other I-beings in its turn. In case you did have this question arising, this is only normal when spiritual science is apprehended as in-principle knowledge. But shifting from in-principle to applied knowledge requires precisely that trust, that you have expressed doubts about.
This reserve you have expressed is the only reason why you are currently caught in the disconnect I was speaking of yesterday. If you were to open yourself to Martinus’ spiritual science in meditation, in the way I have tried to describe, the quality of your experience would start to change, and you would start receiving the clarity he has endeavored to put in words for people like us to benefit from it, as guidance. I think it’s good that you have a preference for initiating this work with the help of Martinus, rather than Steiner or others. And by the way, I am thankful that you have brought attention to this additional perspective on the eternal truth of reality. But there is only one Truth, and the reports expressed by various spiritual scientists can only differ by the style of reporting, and the depth of reporting. However the object of reporting is one and the same. For this reason, if you were to consider willingly opening yourself to becoming the expression, or instrument, of higher knowledge through the direct (and unsupervisable) transformation proposed by Martinus, you would certainly come to new stages of understanding. And you would also soon realize, as cognitive result of ongoing inner transformation, that the symbol n. 7 pictures the same absolute Truth described by Steiner as nested hierarchies, described and pictured by Cleric as the Mandelbrot set, and as the Cantor fractal, and expressed by Ashvin in his recent post on the
meaning of nested hierarchies.
To come back to your initial point about trust - the impulse to try to first “discern by oneself”, and reserve the trust for later - I hope I have illustrated how such impulse - although present in all of us and deeply understandable - is one and the same as an unreadiness, and unwillingness, to be transformed by higher Truth and intelligence. We give in to the impulse to maintain full control and remain equally in charge all throughout the projected transformation, that we believe we can watch happen, as we would watch the landscape scroll past from a train window. But it’s impossible to undergo transformation in this way. That would only be an accruing of in-principle information about spiritual science. It’s in the scheme of things that for many, the resistance materialized in such an impulse feels stronger than the call to transformative higher knowledge through spiritual science. It simply means that one is setting oneself up for a different, more convoluted trajectory along the path of the continuous formation/dissolution of karma. I don’t know how these conflicting calls to action will turn out for you, which impulse will be stronger. It’s something you have to experience and will for yourself. Of course we all wish for one thing, but only you have the means to either go with the overwhelming flow of reality as it passes through your current inner riverbed, or start to slowly reshape that riverbed through conscious opening effort and training, so that the flow can start leading you along the currents of cosmic intelligence that you don’t yet know, but trust to pervade you with ”the very highest energy of consciousness or the holy spirit”.