2004-8-24 04:40:00
JJ:
The future and the past are like land and water. The past and present and future all meet at one point to where you only see the one thing then the magic can be wrought, like a miracle. When you let the past and future enter in when dealing with people where miracles are supposed to occur, it creates barriers to the soul. The same thing with relationships. You fall in love at first and after awhile you see the past in that person. You see everything about them you don't like.
You have to eliminate that to see the person and see them in "the now."
Any questions?
John:
"It sounds like you are contradicting yourself.
"First you say: 'The past and present and future all meet at one point to where you only see the one thing then the magic can be wrought, like a miracle.'
"Then you say: 'When you let the past and future enter in when dealing with people where miracles are supposed to occur, it creates barriers to the soul.'
"Perhaps you can explain the difference between having the 'past, present, and future all meet at one point' and NOT letting the past and future enter in and focusing on 'the now'.
"Is this simply a question of where we focus our attention? I think I understand the difference, but it is a subtle one, and I might be missing it, and perhaps others are missing it as well. The meaning was probably clear when you taught this in person, but when reduced to writing, it seems vague and confusing.
JJ:
To understand this we must look at the Eighth Rule of White Magic which reads:
"The Agnisuryans respond to the sound. The waters ebb and flow. Let the magician guard himself from drowning at the point where land and water meet. The midway spot which is neither dry nor wet must provide the standing place whereon his feet are set. When water, land and air meet there is the place for magic to be wrought." ("Treatise On White Magic," by Alice A. Bailey)
The standing place is neither land (the future) or water (the past) for it is neither wet nor dry. Neither is it the present (air) as we understand it. Instead it is that place in time where the three meet. This point is a singularity where the past, the future and the present consciousness are transcended and the power of the soul is brought in. This is where miracles take place.
Notice the rule says "when" water, land and air meet there is the place for magic to be wrought.
There comes a cycle of opportunity when the disciple must balance the past, present and future in his consciousness so the "Eternal Now" can be seen.
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
-- G.K. Chesterton
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