AshvinP wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 5:26 pm
Such radiation of the exceptional state into life experience should also help us inwardly orient towards otherwise seemingly complex occult scientific ideas (that we otherwise feel we are viewing from the outside, lacking any inner relation to them). For ex., we have spoken before about the 'delaminations' of the whole Intuitive potential through the planetary stages of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth (also recapitulated in the 'root races' of our 4th round and globe). We should consider what follows only to get a broad sense of the polarities that delaminated from the unified potential and are now nested within one another as Russian dolls - not in any outer spatial way, but entirely as inner temporal relations that are finally
projected outwardly on Earth. Although this may be difficult, we can simply try to sense the
inner meaning of such polarities. By consistently struggling to keep the connection to inner meaning,
we are keeping something of the exceptional state within our intuitive context, since the inner meaning of outer perceptions and concepts always flows through our spiritual activity.
(I’m posting in this thread because it fits better the topic)
Ashvin, thank you for these concise explanations. The bold part is really key, and it reminded me of an exercise by OMA that I would like to share. Unfortunately, I can’t find the original text, so I’ll put it in my words.
The exercise is really a kind of prayer but with a more pictorial nature. It is based on the number seven and the colors.
First we try to grasp our own personal life. We imagine a sphere of experience (in which our whole body fits) filled with red light, which encompasses our life situation, our ideals, and ask Divine Intelligence to fill us with its Wisdom, Love and Strength, such that we can walk the luminous path of evolution. Of course, all the points can be complemented with anything more concrete, which we would like to address.
Then we expand our soul sphere, fill it with orange light, and imagine how we come in contact with our closest ones – children, spouses, parents – those who make up our innermost circle of souls. Then we ask the Divine to bless them, to pour on them Wisdom, Love, Strength, to help us harmonize our relations, to polish any misunderstandings, so that we can all work for the Kingdom.
Then we expand our soul sphere even further to include also all our friends and relatives. We imagine how the blessings of the Divine pour on them too.
We expand further to connect with all people from our nation. Here we can ask that politicians and those at key positions, where decisions can either bring good fortunes or demise, are inspired by lofty ideals. The ruling party may not be the one that we sympathize with, but we should still pray that they’re inspired by the good. As a matter of fact, the collective hatred of people towards those in power is very detrimental for their inner life. They become surrounded by these dark clouds and since most of these people do not have any deeper knowledge and the corresponding methods to deal with such inner conditions, they instinctively barricade themselves within the physical body. This has the effect that dark inspirations can more easily influence them because the person has no means of discernment, and they can more easily make bad decisions.
Then we expand to connect with the whole Earthly humanity. We ask that the Spirit who is above race and nation can reign in human beings, such that the blessings of Divine life can manifest through each one of us.
Then we expand to include also the Angelic hierarchies of the archetypal spheres, within whose consciousness our own is embedded, and who constitute the curvature of existence – the evolutionary epochs, the archetypal processes and forms. We ask that their luminous life can pour through us and also that they are blessed by the Divine who lives in them.
Finally, we expand into infinity to include the Divine and we ask that His Name is blessed, His Kingdom may come, and His Will be done.
Then we can finish by trying to feel together all the spheres that we have expanded through, resulting in endless white Light of Love and Harmony. We try to feel how these spheres can be concentric and musically attuned to each other, resulting in man’s consciousness lucidly living in the Cosmic. Just imagine how much of humanity lives entirely in their personal sphere! Even the relations with the closest souls are dissonant. We can imagine how if more people expand into this gradient of being, then we'll naturally synchronize our existence at these higher levels.
This is a simple exercise, but we might be surprised how effective it is. If we have never done something like this, we might be surprised by the state of expansion, peace and harmony we can achieve at the end. It is this state that came to mind when I read the bold text. This prayer is even more powerful when we try to experience the words pictorially. For example, when we’re on the second sphere, we can imagine within it our loved ones and picture how they are showered by vivifying light, healing not only the body but also the heart, mind, soul and spirit. When we pray that Divine life may pour through us, we shouldn’t be afraid to use our imagination. We can imagine our body and inner landscape as barren wasteland into which the rivers of Water of Life flow from above and whatever they touch turns into green meadows, flowers bloom, birds come and sign, until all our body and aura vibrates luminously. Everything can be felt as radiating health and harmony, like the joy we experience when we contemplate a healthy plant with abundant fruits. Of course, such visualizations shouldn’t become a goal in themselves (they can easily lead us into a natural psychedelic state) but should feel as the expressions of our ideas – our desire that our life could fit as a chord within the Divine symphony.
Here, at least in my personal opinion, the seven-foldness and the colors shouldn’t be directly mapped to our spiritual scientific concepts. I see it more as means to instill certain structure to our prayer. Such spheres of expanding consciousness and the colors of the spectrum, of course, have their archetypal meaning, but I think that the mapping would have to be slightly different if it has to be aligned with the hierarchies. Instead, the exercise is tied with our very human experience, which is also why it feels so accessible and powerful.