THE COVER SYMBOL

The hands are as expressive as the tongue. They

can curse or christen, harm or heal, banish or
bless. For centuries teachers have used their
hands to communicate powerful non-verbal
symbols. We know that Joshua Emmanuel the
Christ was a master at teaching with His hands.
Our cover depicts one of Joshua’s symbols.
The connected thumbs form the base of a
triangle, with the forefingers angling upwards to
complete the sides. Spaced apart, and fanning
outwards, are the other fingers.
The full triangle represents our Divine nature
as a Spirit-Ego-Being, complete, harmonious and
luminous in the Eternal Now. This triangle is
itself composed of four internal triangles: three
of which face upwards, with a fourth in the
centre inclining downwards:

The upper triangle represents the Absolute

Beingness, God (AB). The triangle in the lower
left-hand corner represents the Christ Logos
(CL), while the Holy Spirit (HS) fills the lower
right-hand triangle. The Spirit-Soul-Being (SSB)
of a human – descending into time and place – is
situated in the centre, eternally supported on all
sides by the Holy Trinity.
The remaining fingers in the symbol represent
our descent into the worlds of separation: Firstly,
and with the least distance between them, the
middle fingers symbolize the noetical body and
world. Next, and with a greater gulf from tip to
top, the ring fingers depict the psychical body
and world. And finally, with the greatest degree
of separation, we have the little fingers which
represent the gross material body and world.
The apparent separation we experience is an
illusion, established and confirmed by the
egoism of the personality which sees itself as
separate from the whole. However, as is clear,
there is no real separation for the hands remain
inexorably unified at their source.
THE ESOTERIC PRACTICE
CHRISTIAN MEDITATIONS & EXERCISES

Compiled under the direction of

Stylianos Atteshlis
PhD, DD, MPsy, MMcs
A Teacher of What Is Within
(known as ‘Daskalos’)
 Published by
The Stoa Series
P.O. Box 8347
Strovolos, Cyprus

ISBN 9963-7740-2-4

© Copyright July 1994

by Panayiota Atteshli-Theotoki
All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any

form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without
permission in writing from the publisher.

For all the biblical citations appearing herein we have

selected the Authorized King James Version, published by
Oxford University Press.

Cover Illustration: Dominick Stauch

Printed in Cyprus
by IMPRINTA, Ltd.
P.O. Box 4105,
Nicosia
This book exists as a companion volume to The Esoteric
Teachings, by the same author, which details the more theo-
retical aspects of our work. However, this book has also been
designed to stand alone, as we have provided a short overview
of the basic tenets and beliefs of our esoteric Christian approach
to Truth.
While reading this text you are likely to come across terms
unfamiliar to you and, perhaps, terms that you may have heard
in other teachings and disciplines. Please note that our System
for the Research of Truth employs some terms and concepts in
a particular fashion. To avoid confusing our terminology with
that of other schools of thought, and to gain clarity over the
material, we appeal to the reader to consult the glossary at the
back of the book.
To complement this title, we will soon publish a collection
of guided exercises and meditations by Panayiota Atteshli-
Theotoki. Her work deals extensively with complex visualiza-
tion (a language of the Divine), leading to deep and intimate
spheres of consciousness.
The Editors
I wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the many who con-
tributed to the realization of this book. Thank you Paul, Eliane,
Rudoph, Sophie and my daughter Panayiota. I am also grateful
to Rob and Audrey for first collecting the exercises from
recorded lessons. Finally, I thank Valerie for her careful
proofreading. Together, we dedicate this book to Researchers
everywhere.

Stylianos Atteshlis
 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ................................................................. xi

PART I
GNOSIS
ESOTERIC CHRISTIAN WISDOM

OUR LORD’S PRAYER ........................................................ 2

ON EXERCISE AND MEDITATION ................................... 5

THE SEVEN PROMISES .................................................... 20

THE ESOTERIC TEACHINGS ........................................... 23

Absolute Beingness ............................................................... 25
The Archangels of the Elements ........................................... 29
On Being Human .................................................................. 32
Individuated Selfhood ........................................................... 34

SOME COMMON QUESTIONS......................................... 39

PART II
PRACTICE
EXERCISES AND MEDITATIONS

ON PATTERNED BREATHING ........................................ 47

Basic Breathing Technique ................................................... 49

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OBSERVATION, CONCENTRATION
AND VISUALIZATION ...................................................... 51
Drawing and Visualization.................................................... 53
A Lemon ............................................................................... 54
A Rose ................................................................................... 55
Doves .................................................................................... 57
A Pastoral Landscape ............................................................ 59
Concentration and Observation ............................................. 61

ETHERIC DOUBLES .......................................................... 65

On Etheric Vitality ................................................................ 66
On the Ethers......................................................................... 67
On Etheric Energy Centres ................................................... 68
Finger Concentration............................................................. 72
Sensate and Kinetic Ethers .................................................... 74
Vitalizing the Body ............................................................... 76

ETHERIC ARMS AND HANDS ......................................... 79

Developing Your Etheric Arms ............................................ 81
Etheric Hands and Coloured Balls ........................................ 83
A Candle Flame .................................................................... 85

HEALING WITH BALLS OF LIGHT ................................ 87

Balls of Light and Healing Hands ......................................... 90
Creating Balls of Healing Light ............................................ 92
Balls of Light for Self Healing .............................................. 94

CLEANSING AND PROTECTING

OUR THREE BODIES......................................................... 95
A Shell of Light..................................................................... 97
Good Health .......................................................................... 99
Health and the Subconscious .............................................. 101

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INTROSPECTION AND
THE COMMON SELFHOOD ........................................... 105
Daily Introspection .............................................................. 109
Learning to Love an Enemy ................................................ 110
Loving Your Enemies ......................................................... 112
Three Suns .......................................................................... 114
Creating Peace..................................................................... 118
Communal Prayer for Peace ............................................... 120

CIRCLES OF POSSIBILITY AND PROBABILITIES ..... 123

An Almond Tree ................................................................. 126
A Rosebush ......................................................................... 128
In All the Works of Thine Hands ......................................... 130

HE WAS LOST, AND IS FOUND .................................... 135

Ye Have Been with Me from the Beginning ........................ 137
I Am in My Father
and Ye in Me, and I in You .................................................. 139
I Am with You Always,
Even Unto the End of the World ......................................... 142

AN ESSENE PRAYER OF JOSHUA ................................ 145

GLOSSARY ....................................................................... 147

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Tell me what salt tastes like. Can you? Can you describe
to me the taste and sensation of salt? You may say that it
is a white crystalline solid, chiefly composed of sodium
chloride. You may also say that its chemical composition
is NaCl. But I tell you this: until you first place some salt
on your tongue you will not know the taste of salt. So, what
do we need to do? We need to take a pick and head to the
salt mines!
Daskalos
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and
ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 11:9

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy

testimonies are my meditations.

Psalms 119:99
O God, my Father, make my footsteps upon life’s path as
light as they may be. Let me not raise dust, in anger or
greed that blinds my brothers and sisters. Make my steps
light upon life’s path. Make my heart, O God, my Father,
a crystal-clear mirror to reflect Your Love, my love, and
to allow my fellow humans to rejoice.
Daskalos
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It is with great pleasure that we present this book of exercises

and meditations into the hands of all seekers. It is not enough
that we apply ourselves to the study of words and theory. We
have to explore and experience the inner reaches of ourselves,
of life, and of Creation.
Feeling the need to be in the presence of a Master, or the
desire to surround yourself with all the sacred books of the
world, is not unlike relying on crutches to move along the way.
You must be with yourself, sincerely and fearlessly exploring
life. The world around us grows increasingly complex, full of
distractions and temptations that threaten our attentiveness. Yet
we must be steadfast and apply ourselves unceasingly, for
although the texture of our lives has changed across the centu-
ries, the human condition, experience and purpose remain
unaltered and eternal. Work towards progress within yourself.
Learn to discriminate. Draw proper conclusions.
Let us remember that in our lives there is no more
demanding work than our pursuit of Truth. Religious involve-
ment is not a passive engagement, but an active struggle to
clean the heart and clear the mind. Yet the harder the labour, the

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sweeter the fruit. The rewards of cultivating a holy personality

continue long after the material body gives way.
Become familiar with the state of your gross material
body and keep it in good order. Bring your psychical (emo-
tional) body into a healthy exchange with your noetical
(reasoning) body. Your present-day personality, with its three
bodies, is a vehicle for the collection and distillation of experi-
ence towards the edification and fullness of your Permanent
Personality. You must try to attune your present-day self to
your Permanent Personality. With the aid of your Guardian
Angel, your Permanent Personality is continuously prodding
you on, guiding the way. Emotions and desires need to be
placed under the wisdom of moderation and reason. There is
no other way.
It is central to our work that we strive to develop our
capacity for:
OBSERVATION – Attention without tension. Without the
ability to observe and to recall in detail what you have
observed, your awareness of, and attunement to, the Divine
Plan is, at best, imperfect. Observation is an expression of our
Divine nature.
CONCENTRATION – This is one of the prime necessities for
creative thinking and for healing. You must learn to
concentrate all your thoughts on a subject of contemplation or
an object in hand. One’s concentration should focus, like a
magnifying glass, so that it becomes so absorbed, unmoved by
external forces, as to suspend the present-day self (attunement
and atone- ment).
VISUALIZATION – By learning to observe carefully and to
concentrate fully, the ability to visualize properly becomes
easier. Some bemoan the fact that they cannot visualize, but in
fact we all visualize subconsciously in the creation of

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elementals. This is the way we create our world. There is

nothing more powerful than thought, and visualization is the
process of harnessing thought in a constructive manner for the
expansion of consciousness and aiding others in need.
INTROSPECTION – An inner exploration to trace the sources
of your emotional and noetical behaviour with the resolve to
self-consciously structure your personality and its subcon-
scious. The determination to free the self from the limitations
of egoism, by releasing ‘your conscience from dead works’
(Hebr. 9:14), is moving towards the wise and loving voice of
the Soul.
MEDITATION – The inner reaches of introspection become
the outer reaches of meditation, as the exploration moves
beyond the subjective experience of the present-day
personality into the boundless ocean of Mind, towards
alignment with the universal and eternal.
Of that which is universal and eternal there is none
greater than Love, for ‘there is no fear in love; but perfect love
casteth out fear’ (1 John 4:18). The Love of Absolute
Beingness is at the very heart of the cosmos and the Source of
all Creation. It is the same Love to which we owe our Source,
and the same Love which lives in our hearts.

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GNOSIS
ESOTERIC CHRISTIAN WISDOM
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OUR LORD’S PRAYER

After the Sermon on the Mount, Joshua Emmanuel the Christ

was asked by a disciple, ‘in what way should we pray?’ (cf.
Matt. 6:9 & Luke 11:2). Then, and on the other occasions, the
God-man gave us His prayer. Our version of the Lord’s Prayer
and the complete second stanza have been given to us by the
Spirit of Yohannan the Evangelist, an apostle of Joshua.
Recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, either silently or spoken aloud,
is appropriate before beginning any sacred work.
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Our Father Who Art in Heaven,

Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our transgressions as we
forgive those who transgress against us.
And lead us while in temptation
and deliver us from evil,
for Thine is the Kingdom
and the Power and the Glory, Forever.

Absolute Infinite Beingness, God;

Everlasting Life, Love and Mercy;
Manifesting Yourself in Yourself,
as the Total Wisdom and the
Almightiness;
Enlighten our minds to
understand You as the Truth.
Clean our hearts to reflect Your
Love towards You, and
towards all other human beings.
Amen.
When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites
are: for they love id pray standing in the synagogues and in
the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret;
and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee
openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their
much speaking.

Matthew 6:5-7
 ON EXERCISE AND MEDITATION
A Conversation with Stylianos Atteshlis

Paul Skorpen: Dear Daskale, the call has become great for a
collection of exercises and meditations to be assembled to
complement the lessons you are offering. We now ask you to
share your comments on the nature of proper exercise and
meditation in relation to our theoretical understandings.
Daskalos: This is very precious work, most vital to our effort
to understand and experience the relative truths and advance
in our development. It is not enough that we sit and talk and
talk, for as I often repeat in the lessons we must not accept
anything unless we ourselves have experienced it. Truths
unexperienced quickly degenerate into dogmatism.
P: This seems true. We encounter so many researchers who
believe that it is only a matter of greater and new material that
will lead to enlightenment. I often wonder if to draw closer to
the Truth we need to know less and experience more?
D: Absolutely true. It is less a question of accumulation and
more a matter of discovering and purifying what we already
have, what we already are. We cannot become something that
we are not already!

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P: In your lessons we hear you stress the value of observation,

concentration and meditation. Could you say more here about
what you mean by these terms?
D: These are skills that a Researcher must develop to master
himself* and the circumstances with which he is confronted.
Observation, part of our Divine nature, requires that
nothing escape our attention either in the gross material
world or in the planes of the psychical and noetical worlds.
Concen-tration entails focusing our attention completely on a
subject, emotion, thought, or idea. The size is no matter;
remember what Joshua said, ‘He that is faithful in that which
is least is faithful also in much’ [Luke 16:10]. We need to
develop the skill of concentration to such a degree that
nothing moves us from our work. Meditation, which utilizes
both observation and concentration, entails contemplation
and investigation of a subject.
P: Of late you have been stressing the importance of ‘visuali-
zation’.
D: Proper visualization is indispensable in our work as I have
always insisted. It is one of the ‘keys’ [cf. Matt. 16:19] that so
many speculate about. The exercises and meditations which
follow all require the ability to visualize: to form
psychonoetical super-substance into the creation of objects
and situations. For those unfamiliar with the work of
visualization we will provide basic guidance leading into
more advanced work. We must not be overly intimidated by
the importance of visualization. All things will come in time.
P: Could you then describe the purpose of this work? What is
the difference between an exercise and a meditation?

* For the sake of simplicity, the author has decided to employ the male pronoun
throughout this book.

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D: We all must begin somewhere, at some point of reference.

There is work for those just beginning and there is work for
those on the way.
An exercise involves a series of successive movements
(using visualization) towards developing the conditions for an
intimate exposure to sacred energies and spheres. Meditation
is more passive as it involves reflection and introspection. The
difference is not great and often an exercise will lead into a
meditation.
P: And prayer?
D: Prayer is another matter. Although here again if an exercise
or meditation leads you into sacred space, exposing you to
Divine forces, you may feel the need to pray. Prayer comes
from the heart. And just as tears born of emotion own a separ-
ate chemical composition from those born of physical pain,
prayers – whether spoken with words or with thoughts – have
different vibratory patterns from any other expression. They
spring from our deepest nature and seek the ear of the Divine.
What is asked for in prayer should be heartfelt, not serving
egoism, and dearly desired, for sincere prayer is always
heard.
P: And, therefore, we should be careful what it is we desire, for
‘all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive’ [Matt. 21:22]. Where do we begin with meditation?
D: Meditation is practised in varying degrees. You cannot
jump ahead but have to go slowly by mastering each step
along the way.
The first field of work (let us call it the ‘microcosm’)
concerns the cleansing of the present-day personality. This
cleansing is ceaseless work and even so-called Masters must
keep constant vigil against the emergence of egoism. Through

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study we set about to understand the nature of elementals.

Remember, we teach that the sum total of all the elementals
which we create, assimilate and re-energize, compose our
present-day personality.
P: And because elementals can be characterized by their quali-
ty, and numbered in their quantity, we speak both in
qualitative and quantitative terms of a personality.
D: Indeed, a personality encumbered with demanding and
emotional elementals (of desire, greed, lust, envy), or
entrenched in a pattern of beliefs and attitudes (full of expec-
tations, preconceptions, categories, dogmatic ideas,
prejudices) is a heavy personality and more likely to cause
problems to himself and others.
So, if our study brings us to an awareness of the nature of
elementals, then it is through exercise and meditation that we
begin to weed out the corrupt and allow the beautiful to
flourish.
P: John the Baptist said, ‘He must increase, but I must
decrease’ [John 3:30].
D: This is the good work of cleansing – call it purifying if you
want – the personality; removing the clutter, cultivating love,
tolerance and charity, and allowing room for the Divine to
live and work. Lightening the personality.
P: This reminds me of what Michelangelo would say of every
piece of marble he saw, ‘I see a figure struggling to come out.’
Or Meister Eckhart when he said, ‘God is not found in the
soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.’
D: Well back in ancient Egypt there is the image of Anubis
weighing the heart – the psychical heart – of a man who has
just passed-over, against a feather. A clean heart is a light
heart and is the home of our logoic consciousness.

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Amongst the elementals within each personality the Self-

aware Soul is trying to emerge and express Itself as ‘a voice
in the wilderness’ [John 1:23]. The Teachings of the God-man
Joshua the Christ will help us pare away the egoism which
imprisons us in our shells.
P: It’s as if we will remain stuck in our shells as long as our
personality is preoccupied with the five senses, base desires,
unbridled emotions and the appetites of the flesh.
D: The expansion of consciousness, and exosomatosis, are dif-
ficult when ninety-five per cent of an individual’s conscious
ness is concerned with material things and base desires; ‘He
that is of the earth is earthly’ [John 3:31]. As eager as people
are for exosomatosis, as long as their personality is tied to the
material world they will be limited in their success\ fastened
to their material bodies.
P: And yet with time we will succeed...
D: Definitely! For the larva can only remain so long in the
cocoon (the present-day personality) before those quarters
grow too confining. Soon it will want to stretch out its wings
and take flight (the Permanent Personality). This is a natural
Law, the inexorable Law of the Circle of Possibility. Growth
is inevitable no matter how much it seems people enjoy, their
cocoon; as ‘it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh’ [Joel 2:28].
P: And Christ says, ‘I go to prepare a place for you.’ [John
14:2]. Yet I wonder if it is we who have a need to clear a place
for Him within our hearts and minds?
D: He is already there... no, it is even more than that, He is
our hearts and minds.

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So how then does our work help in this great Work? Take
for example our most valued exercise, that of daily introspec-
tion. If we dedicate ourselves to introspection – and I mean all
of us – we will see with ever-increasing clarity when we are
acting out of self-interest (causing harm to ourselves and oth-
ers) and when we are guided by virtue and principle. Other
exercises aid in the effort of identifying destructive elementals
within our personality, and slowly replacing them with life-
giving elementals.
P: Matthew writes in his Gospel, ‘Cleanse first that which is
within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be
clean also’ [23:26]. With this in mind it seems that the first
work, before aspiring to develop any psycho-noetical abilities,
is to put in order what we have as our desires, emotions and
thoughts.
D: It is a most dangerous situation when uncontrolled hunger
for psychical experience moves a seeker to engage himself in
strong exercises without first laying the groundwork within
the personality to cope with the ensuing experience. The
damage is often irreparable when an emotionally immature
student opens certain etheric centres [Sanskrit: chakras] and
has neither the means nor the strength to re-collect himself.
We must be well grounded, rooted in love and faith. ‘If the
roots be holy, so are the branches’ [Rom. 11:16].
P: Do you take issue with Westerners who are engaged in cer-
tain Eastern practices?
D: I have seen many, far too many, come to me, who have been
practising Eastern breathing techniques, having their nervous
systems shattered by interfering with the energy centres in an
aggressive manner – disregarding the delicate and careful
work of the Archangels. We have to constantly remind our-

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selves that it is not a matter of coincidence that we are born

where we are born. In the East people are born to learn
specific lessons, as we have our lessons in the West. We each
come into this world with a psycho-noetical constitution that
inclines us towards certain practices and prohibits us from
others. In the West, for example, we are raised to believe that
our personality is quite independent of others, while in the
East the sense of self is more communal and less atomized.
Another thing that distinguishes our work from that of the
East is our handling of the ‘lower self, or as we term it, the
present-day personality. The thrust of many Eastern schools is
to stamp out the lower self and exist in a kind of void-of the
‘no self’. We, on the other hand, see the Soul latent in the
present-day self. We work towards raising up the lower
expressions of the self into a unified Individuated Selfhood.
They seem to desire to live in a state of emptiness, whereas we
work towards a state of fullness, embracing all. We will get
nowhere if we do not appreciate all aspects of the Selfhood.
Our psycho-noetical physiology, as it were, is not able to
cope with many of the Eastern practices.
P: Perhaps some are just in a hurry?
D: To that Christ said, ‘If I have told you earthly things, and
ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly
things?’ [John 3:12]. The greatest poison to spiritual growth
is to be in a hurry. Patience and moderation are the rule; the
work is a transformation of all our misguided thoughts and
actions. This is the most valuable work, Later we will explore
greater truths. All things in due time.
It is, therefore, a primary responsibility for those who are
interested in the Truth to learn all that is permissible concern-
ing the human bodies. With the help of the Archangels, we need

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to master our etheric doubles, and control the etheric vitality

(in the four forms of ether: sensate, imprint, kinetic and crea-
tive) for use in our psycho-noetical development, maintaining
our health and the health of others.
P: Of the exercises to follow would you say that students of
psycho-therapy and practising psycho-therapists would benefit
from a particular line of work?
D: Those interested in the bodily and psychical health of
others will easily see that certain exercises will help them in
their work. But as Researchers of the Truth we contend that
psycho-therapists need to develop all their faculties evenly.
Therefore, we encourage them to work in all the fields – theo-
retical and experiential – to become evermore effective in their
professions. Psycho-therapists seek resolution and growth,
and is this not the work we are all engaged in?
P: If work on the present-day personality is in the microcosmic
field, could you speak a little about the nature of mesocosmic
work?
D: We have to be careful with our conceptions, as they are
limited by time-place contingencies. Remember that Joshua
Emmanuel the Christ speaks about, ‘the kingdom of Heavens
within’. We cannot divide our research into that which takes
place within the personality and that which is conducted out
side. As above, so below. All we explore outside the self –
Divine Laws, Principles, Ideas, Causes, and the Heavens –
actually belongs to our higher nature.
Yet, we need to speak in relative terms for now. The so-
called mesocosmic work is an exploration of Total Wisdom,
Love and Power in the worlds, leading to self-conscious and
responsible engagement in the Divine Plan. This work
engenders within the personality a respect for all of life, a

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respect for self and others. Mesocosmic labours include our

work on the etheric doubles for good health and healing pur-
poses, working with controlled elementals for the construction
of light-balls, and beginning to attune ourselves to objects and
forms within the material, psychical and noetical worlds. We
will marvel at the immeasurable Wisdom of Absolute
Beingness.
P: In your work it seems you do not devalue the material world.
Some systems of the East, as well as many in the West, consider
the material world an illusion, maya [a Sanskrit term], some-
thing to escape, overcome, and detach ourselves from.
D: Do you think that Absolute Beingness, in Its infinite Wisdom,
would allow for the creation of the material world if it were not
of value? Do you think that the Archangels would work
unceasingly to construct and maintain the material planet and
universe, keeping them in harmony, if it were not meant to be
the home of the phenomenon of life? Our material bodies
belong to the material world as our psychical bodies belong to
the psychical world. It is a great honour to participate in this
glorious earth as ‘this is none other but the house of God, and
this is the gate of heaven’ [Gen. 28:17]. The flesh, though
heavy at times, and the earth are sacred. It is a pity to degrade,
in any way, this paradise for it ‘is holy ground’ [Ex. 3:5].
P: Is it that our material bodies share the wisdom of the earth?
D: The Wisdom, Love and Power of matter. Remember
Absolute Beingness is – and is in – everything.
We know of greater realities in the higher worlds, and
supreme realities beyond the worlds of separation. But we are
here now and the world is a paradise with much, much to learn
from. The sheer majesty of the human body, and the cosmic
bodies, escape the comprehension of doctors and scientists. We

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must not demean matter, but we should respect and use it

properly.
Could there be a better school than the material world?
If we properly understand and take our lessons from all our
trials and tribulations, and not become too absorbed with
earthly joys and triumphs, there is so much to learn here. It is
a perfect school: the seasons of our lives, our varied relation
ships, our personal struggles, our failures and successes. The
Divine Plan is at work here.
P: Would you say something about detachment.
D: Detachment, as we understand it, means neither over- nor
undervaluing anything. In other words there is a place for
everything. What is to be avoided is to become embroiled in and
overly dependent on material goods, material aims, or, con-
versely, to value only the higher worlds.
We are fundamentally opposed to any system of exercise
adopted by Westerners which creates a division between the
mundane and the Divine and a gulf between a meditative state
and a normal waking state. It is not healthy, nor respectful, to
annihilate either the natural world or the lower body belonging
to it.
P: I infer then that you feel uncomfortable with systems which
require meditation periods of several hours a day, and retreats
that span months, even years?
D: Again, such a thing may be appropriate in certain traditions,
but we, as Christians, believe in service – not withdrawing from
our fellow humans who may need our help. We stress engage-
ment in the world, but not enslavement to it. For as Joshua said,
You ‘are not of the world, even as I am not of the world’
[John 17:16].

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If, from time to time, one has an opportunity to spend a

few days in the mountains or by the seashore, in meditation and
contemplation, that is most renewing and advisable. We spend
too little time in nature and far too little time in silence. It is
good to escape the chaos every now and then, but we have work
to do.
P: What is an appropriate measure of meditation?
D: Let me put it this way. Say you have a seedling. You expose
it to the sun, good soil and each day give it a little water. It
will grow in its own course. But if you decide to put it in the
hot midday sun, or water it to the point of drowning its roots,
it will surely shrivel up and die. By exercising too much there
is a danger in over-meditating, creating an extreme division
between the periods of meditation and your normal waking
state. We only encourage periods of fifteen minutes or so, two
or three times a day. I have seen many, too many, who have
severely damaged their nervous systems through excessive
meditation. We are in the world and must, dialectically, work
with it.
P: St. Paul writes in Romans, ‘For the invisible things of God
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being under
stood by the things which are made’ [1:20].
D: Well stated. One of the most valuable exercises we instruct
is the exploration of the Circles of Possibility inscribed to
each form. For when we understand the single life-course of
the smallest thing in nature, we will see a testimony of the
Greatest. We should study all phenomena of life in order to
expand our understanding and experience. This most edifying
work requires centuries.
P: Our study of the Circles of Possibility – the ‘hands’ behind
the sculptor – lead us naturally to an examination of the macro-
cosm.
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D: Yes, for if we understand that the forms of all things have

within them a heartbeat and a metabolism – the Circle of Pos-
sibility – we are drawing closer to the causes. This is our
work, this is life itself; drawing closer to our Cause ... to our
Source.
Exercise and meditation at higher levels mean exploring,
attuning to, and eventually becoming unified (at-one-ment)
with the Causes, Principles, Ideas, and Laws. Each Circle of
Possibility works according to the Divine forces of Total Love,
Power and Wisdom. These most perfect forces of life are
within our archangelic human form. Ecstasy, real ecstasy, is
aligning ourselves with the Divine.
P: This is all very humbling.
D: Humbling for the egoism of the present-day personality,
but inspiring for the Ego of the Permanent Personality.
P: Could you say more about at-one-ment?
D: At-one-ment is the great goal: the longing for communion
with the Divine. Through transcendence of the egoism the per-
sonality can assimilate itself with anything – and this is
important – temporarily suspending the self As we advance in
our work, through time and effort, we will be able to unify our
nature with that of the Archangels, the Virgin Mary, and the
Christ Logos [Gr. Χϱιστοαναστασία, Cristoanastasia: union
with Christ]. Theosis is the culmination of the work, where the
Self-aware Soul realizes Its unity with Absolute Beingness. I
say ‘realizes’ because we are all always in at-one-ment with
Absolute Beingness; only ignorance allows us to feel any dis-
tance between God and us. There is no such distance.
P: Macrocosmic meditation, as it were, seems less a pursuit or
practice, and more a state of Beingness. I do not think we are

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talking any longer about periods and states of meditation but a

complete transformation of the self?
D: St. Paul asks us to, ‘pray without ceasing’ [1 Ths. 5:17].
We should always be in a state of reverence for life, aware of
our place in the Divine Plan, living in God, which means, as
Yohannan says, ‘in love’ [1 John 4:16]. Love isn’t something
you do or feel only on Sunday mornings. It is the continuous
and eternal Truth. Love is each of us in the Common Self
hood.
P: The ‘Common Selfhood’?
D: Each of us is a logos and together we are unified in the
Christ Logos. This means that each of us is actually part of a
single body. This union is at all levels – noetical, psychical, and
even physical – as molecular biology now understands that we
are constantly exchanging matter with one another. Even with
the denseness of gross matter we are in constant exchange. Can
you imagine the interchange with the less tangible forms of
Mind, emotions and thoughts? So we see that it is not only in the
higher levels that we are unified, but also in the worlds of sep-
aration.
When we harm another we only harm ourselves. When a
child starves in Africa, part of us starves. When a child is born
into a healthy caring family in any part of the world, part of us
is born. When a soldier dies in Bosnia, part of us is slain. We
are both the assailant and the assailed. This is what Christ
taught. Christ spoke of a King who said, ‘I was naked, and ye
clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and
ye came unto me.’ Bemused, the praised could not recall the
acts of compassion. And Joshua the Christ, the King of the
Heavens, explained, ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me’ [Matt.
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This is the Common Selfhood. In another place Joshua speaks

of this: ‘I am the vine, ye are the branches’ [John 15:5]. That
we all share an equal place in the body of Christ is one of the
most profound and greatest truths.
P: Joshua continues ‘... for without me ye can do nothing’
[John 15:5]. I fear that some may shy away from such a
heavily Christian message? For Christ also says, ‘no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me’ [John 14:6],
D: What did Joshua mean when He said, ‘I am the way, the
truth, and the life’ [John 14:6]. What is Christ? What is the
Logos? Is it not Love, Wisdom and Power? This is a sacred
triangle: the universal, unconditional Love from above; the
Wisdom of a unified heart and mind; and the Power of Good
ness to overcome weakness. What Christ was saying for those
‘with ears to hear’ [Mark 4:23] was that any man or woman
who uses reason, love and power in the proper and Divine
way is a Christian, be he called a Buddhist, a Muslim or any
other brother or sister from the many faiths. The Church has
so misunderstood this point. Joshua comes to us to free us
from illusions, not to oppress us. Why did He come? He said
it: ‘I am come that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly’ [John 10:10],
P: The practice of meditation in the West seems to have been
repressed, if not indeed suffocated by certain forces?
D: This has been the course of things, but let us not see it as
regrettable. It is what happened. What is lamentable is that so
many continue to feel the need to go to the East - to India or
elsewhere - because they believe they will find something that
Christianity fails to offer. They often return more disenchanted
than before they left. Christianity has everything and it belongs
to us - it is our tradition; it belongs to our bodies, our hearts

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and our minds. So ‘drink waters out of thine own cistern, and
running waters out of thine own well’ [Prov. 5:15].
The church is the church, reflecting the Love of the
Godman to greater or lesser degrees, built of stone and some
old ideas. Christ doesn’t care how much gold may gild a
church [Matt. 23:16-19]. His concern is for what goes on
within a temple. The church is a holy place as it demarcates a
sacred area, a place of worship. But the real church is the
human form, with the three bodies. We ‘are the temple of God’
[1 Cor. 3:16]. Within us is the holy of holies, an inner
sanctum, in the heart of every man and woman. This temple
can neither be soiled, nor destroyed. Go there, supplicate,
pray and work. Christ is there. He awaits you.

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THE SEVEN PROMISES

Daskalos has long enjoyed the companionship of a Master on

the other side. For nearly two thousand years Daskalos has
been in continuous communication with Yohannan, with
whom he shared the blessed period of Joshua Emmanuel the
Christ.
In this incarnation Daskalos renewed his communion
with Yohannan at a very young age. When Daskalos was
seven years old Yohannan bestowed on him the Seven
Promises which are the vows of all Researchers of Truth.
The promises embody a timeless pledge to the Divine
Plan. Taking moral guidance from the promises through daily
meditation an aspirant will, in time, attune himself to the
Divine Laws of Creation.

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I PROMISE TO MYSELF:

To serve at all times and in all places

Absolute Beingness to whom
I whole-heartedly belong.
To be ready at all times and
in all places to serve the Divine Plan.
To make good use of the Divine Gifts
of thought and word at all times,
in all places and under all circumstances.
To endure patiently, without complaining,
all forms of trials and tribulation which the most wise
Divine Law may bestow upon me.
To love and serve my fellow human beings
sincerely from the depths of my heart and Soul,
no matter what their behaviour may be towards me.
To meditate and to contemplate daily
Absolute Beingness, with the objective of total
coordination of my thoughts, desires, words
and actions with Its Divine Will.
To investigate and check every night whether
all my thoughts, desires, words and actions
are in absolute harmony with the Divine Law.

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is full of danger, because man mistakes things which arise
within himself for things arising elsewhere. If, on the
other hand, you travel on a sea in a ship, this is perilous,
because there is danger of attachment to the vehicle. In
the one case, the end is not known, and there is no
guidance. In the other case, the means becomes an end,
and there is no arriving.
Niffari

But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no
thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
premeditate but whatsoever shall be given you in that
hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy
Ghost.
Mark 13:11

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A Christian Approach to Truth
If teachings, as theory, attempt to lay out the terrain of Truth,
mark the guideposts and suggest a path, then exercises and
meditations are vehicles to carry consciousness to higher
ground.
The primary work, however, is to cleanse our personality
so that we can see clearly where we currently stand and where
we are headed. Only after an individual has situated himself
within his personality (which is no small feat) is he able to
move on to heavenly matters. Hand in hand with the expansion
of consciousness, is the need to refine and direct our conscious
awareness.
Yet there is always a danger when beginning a work to
foresee or imagine its end. It is a basic truth, and a very human
folly, that the more we impose our ideas, our concepts and
expectations on what lies ahead, the less capable we are to see
things as they actually are. Seldom do our expectations
approximate the experience, and almost always they seem to
compromise our access to the real nature of things. We must
practise care with the ideas we create, as they may, in the end,

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serve to create us. In what way are we capable, from where we

stand now, to measure and to see what we have set out to
find?
We are fortunate that the pursuit of Truth has been dear
to the hearts of many who have gone before us. Sages,
masters, prophets and teachers from all over the world and in
every epoch have bestowed great treasures upon us. Each path
and each religion reflects another face of the great gem of
Truth. There exists a huge corpus of written and oral teachings
devoted to the common eternal Truth. All have contributed
invaluably to our developing understanding of Absolute
Beingness and the Divine Plan. ‘Her ways are ways of
pleasant ness, and all her paths are peace’ (Prov. 3:17).
Twenty centuries ago in Palestine all researchers, Arch
angels, angels, and demigods rejoiced as Joshua Emmanuel
the Christ was born among us. Joshua, who comes to us
directly from Absolute Beingness (as distinct from all human
Masters who earn their wisdom through successive
incarnations), offered for the first time the direct guidance of
God. What Joshua taught, by deed and word, during His short
corporeal life remains with us as the most pure, direct and
Divine Teachings. As the Son of man He was the ‘flesh and
blood’ of Truth (John 6:33). It is Christ as the Logos, the Son
of God, who is the inextinguishable Light and the everlasting
Life, the ‘bread and wine’ of Truth (John 6:32). The Logos is
the eternal nature of humanity, compelling us towards
perfection through the gentle and lasting exaltation of
consciousness as ‘the true Light, which lighteth every man
that cometh into the world’ (John 1:9).
Ours is a Christian path in celebration of Joshua’s Teach-
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religious traditions, esoteric and exoteric, past and present.

Differing in expression only, the ageless human effort to reflect
the Divine is guided ‘by the same Spirit’ (1 Cor. 12:9).
Esoteric Christianity is not the privilege of the few, but a
faithful reflection of the Soul of each of us. The meaning of the
term ‘esoteric’ has become severed from its Greek roots. In
Greek εσωτεϱιϰό (esoteriko) indicates knowledge found with-
in us, ‘for nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest’
(Luke 8:17). Inner Christianity, as ‘the secrets of his heart
made manifest’ (1 Cor. 14:25), is less a religion and more the
very nature of life - a clear, concise and complete mirror of the
Truth. Let us review what we believe to be the way things are.

Absolute Beingness

God is Love; and he that dwelleth in love

dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16
What Is, what always Was, and what always Will Be is the
Absolute Infinite Beingness, God the Father, as the Absolute
Infinite Reality. Of Absolute Infinite Beingness there is very
little that we can trace and come to know from the human per-
spective in the gross material world. What we know of God
we see in reflection as witnessed both externally and inwardly.
In order for light to become apparent it must be reflected off a
surface. Everything that surrounds us and the worlds within is
a reflection of the Truth of God.
Absolute Beingness is, above all, the Divine Common
Selfhood, that is to say, Super-conscious Self-awareness of the
Whole. All Beings within Absolute Beingness are logoi
expressing this Divine Selfhood as gods within God.

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Love, Light and Life belong to the primary Nature of

Absolute Beingness. The Love of God is universal, ceaseless,
impersonal and unconditional. It is the Love of God,
expressed as Grace, which lies at the core of Creation. The
Light is pure, luminous Self-consciousness which lives in the
centre of every Being. Everlasting Life is the eternal motion,
generation and regeneration of expression.
Other characteristics of Absolute Beingness include Multi-
plicity, Self-sufficiency and the Will-pleasure to express Itself
in Itself as Creation.
We know of Absolute Beingness that It is multiple in Its
Unity. Within Absolute Beingness, in both the expressed and
unexpressed condition, are the Christ Logos and the Holy
Spirit, ‘and these three are one’, writes the apostle Yohannan
(1 John 5:7). Also composing the Multiplicity of Absolute
Beingness are myriad upon myriad of Self-conscious logoic
Beings. Humanity, the Archangelic Orders, and other Self-
aware Beings are Holy Monads within the timeless body of
God.
The Self-sufficiency of Absolute Beingness inspired
Meister Eckhart to write, ‘Outside of God, there is nothing but
nothing.’ The Omnipresence of Absolute Beingness engenders
everything, embraces all, and all will be in the ‘restitution of
all things’ (Acts 3:21). There is nothing that God is in need of.
In our struggle to comprehend the Will-pleasure of
Absolute Be-ness we learn that the genesis of Creation takes
place in a Divine Meditation where God contemplates the
Divine Plan that becomes Creation. The Will-pleasure of God
is a gem-like prism through which the Great Light shines
giving us the colours of the Archangelic Orders. According to
the Will-pleasure, Omnipotence, Omniscience and Love of

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Absolute Beingness, this Divine Plan unfolds, is unfolding

and will always unfold in the Eternal Now.
The universes, as the texture of God, pour forth in Space
(a Nature of God). The Logos, Holy Spirit and the Holy Arch-
angels build and maintain these universes. In our system we
acknowledge seven heavens in which higher aspects of human
consciousness can study and live in Self-awareness. There
may well be more. We call the less tangible heavens the
causal planes as they give definition and order to the more
material universes. The Causes, Principles, Laws and Ideas of
Creation exist here in their archetypal state cared for by the
highest orders of the Archangels.
The causal planes give rise to the noetic state. Here we
have discernible forms in juxtaposition to one another, as yet
unexpressed, in perfect harmony and order. More advanced
human beings can begin to perceive structure in the noetic
state.

Following the noetic state, stepping down the vibrations

of Mind, we begin to experience the worlds of separation as
the noetical world takes shape. In the noetical world we have,
for the first time, realized forms in a space-place-time environ
ment (although quite different from the conditions we are
accustomed to in the gross material world). The noetical world
is the world of thought and is typified by seven planes, each
plane further divided into seven sub-planes.
Next, at a lower state of vibration, we have the emotional
or so-called psychical world. This universe is also divided into
seven planes and seven sub-planes. We all experience these
planes each night in our dream state, or self-consciously in
exosomatosis. As in the noetical planes, the colours in the psy-
chical world cover a much broader spectrum than on the gross

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material plane, and experiences of time and distance become

more elastic.
Where we read in the Old Testament that God laboured
for six days to create the material plane (cf. Gen. 1:1-31) we
should understand that each day represents an epoch. The
formation of the gross material world, the densest of the uni-
verses, took many millennia before becoming a fitting home,
indeed a glorious paradise, for the expression of forms.
The three worlds of existence co-exist, one within the
other, as do our three bodies. The gross material world is con-
structed of Mind etheric vitality, ranging in frequencies, let us
say, between 1 and 10. If 1 is etheric vitality in its densest state
as solid matter, 10 would be the more gaseous expressions.
Mind as substance composes the psychical worlds and vibrates
at frequencies 11 to 20. Mind as Super-substance, at frequen-
cies of 21 to 30, constitutes the noetical worlds. The properties
of each world, and of our bodies, are identical in nature;
Super-substance, substance and etheric vitality, each express
the four elements (fire, water, earth and air) and the various
ethers (sensate, kinetic, creative and imprint), differing only in
frequency. The more ethereal worlds are overlaid and
intertwined with the gross material world and doors’ to self-
conscious movement within these worlds open as a result of
sincere training.
The universes and all existences are constructed of Mind.
Mind emanates from Absolute Beingness and all Self-aware
Beings for the fulfilment of the Divine Plan. Mind is not
Divine, but is holy as it is used eternally and is imbued with
the goodness and purity of God. Mind is not itself a god, or
Being, and is not therefore an immortal part of God. Mind’s
nature, then, is to serve the Will-pleasure of God.
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Kingdom of heavens, and it will ‘go in and out’, moving

between the universes, incarnating and reincarnating (cf. John
10:9).

The Archangels of the Elements

And the Angel said unto them, Fear not:

for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy,
which shall be to all people.
Luke 2:10

He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:

And in their hands they shall bear thee up,
lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke 4:10, 11
The Archangels are logoic and Holy Spiritual Beings, who
build, govern over and project themselves into the universes.
Within Absolute Beingness are Orders of Archangels, Holy
Monadic Beings, each Order containing myriad upon myriad
of Beings of the same type.
We know of the existence of twelve Archangelic Orders:
Thrones, Authorities, Dominions, Principalities, Overlords,
Seraphims and Cherubims, along with others, named and
unnamed.
No one has ever spoken, in detail of the kind of
vibrations of the Archangels who belong to the higher
echelons of the Orders. Few have come close enough to these
Orders to attune to them. Human language, in any case, proves
inadequate to describe their splendour.
When a human being descends into the worlds of separa-
tion, an Archangel from the Thrones accompanies him as his
Guardian Archangel. Even if we are unaware of his presence,

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our Guardian Archangel, with whom we are egofied, is always

caring for us.
These Archangels appear in all religions, Eastern and
Western, and in the majority of theosophic and esoteric sys-
tems, as messiahs, messengers, demigods, devas and the like.
The Archangels are familiar to the Buddhists, Hindus, Aztecs
and Ancient Egyptians. They vary in form and in name, but
their duties, responsibilities and forces are universal and iden-
tical.
The Archangels of the elements concern us in our
research and meditations as they are most intimately involved
in our well-being and advancement. Their names are not of
human origin, but rather the resonance of each Order’s
vibration.
First there is the order of the ‘Michaels’ – Ma-Ha-El, ‘The
Great God’. In Sanskrit Maha means ‘great’ and El stands for
God (as it does also in Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew). Appro-
priately we find the suffix El in all the Archangelic names.
Michael’s light is red, in all its shades, and he is the Archangel
of light and fire.
Then there is the Archangel ‘Gabriel’, or in the ancient
Egyptian pronunciation, Kha-Vir-El. Ga or Kha denotes desire,
sentiment, and expressed love. Bir or Vir indicates element.
Gabriel’s light is sky-blue in many different shades, and he is
the ruler of water and the liquids, which constitute three quar-
ters of the planet. Gabriel is the steward of the entire physical
kingdom.
Let us next mention ‘Raphael’ – Ra-Fa-El. In ancient
Egyptian Ra stands for the sun, and Fa, for vibration:
‘Sun-vibration-God’. Raphael, the Archangel of energy, is
characterized by the shades of violet. This colour derives from
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with the role of Raphael as fellow-worker with the other two.

The planet in its entirety is within Raphael’s domain, who
controls the electromagnetic forces - etheric vitality, as we call
it.
Another Archangel, who coordinates the work of all the
Archangels within the gross material body, is ‘Uriel’ – U-Ra-
El, as known to our Egyptian forefathers. U stands for space
and Ra for the sun: ‘Space-Sun-God’. The great harmonizer of
substance, Uriel keeps the universal Law of Order and Harmony,
both within and between each body. The colour which repre-
sents Uriel is silvery-white.
The phenomenon of life in all the kingdoms is the work
of the Archangels of the elements.
When a human being first incarnates into the lower worlds
it does so with one Archangel from each Order of the elements.
Thus, within the bodies of every human being there work a
Michael, a Gabriel, a Raphael, a Uriel and a Shamael. Shamael,
who is the angel of earth, is the elemental projection of Lucifer,
the Archangel of light and keeper of duality. Shamael is not
himself an Archangel.
Let us now look at the way they serve our material body.
As the angel of earth and minerals, and in everlasting coopera-
tion with the Archangels, Shamael provides us with the
material for our bones, our muscles and the organs of the
body. Michael gives us bodily warmth and rich red blood.
Gabriel gives us the body’s various fluids. Raphael provides
our etheric vitality and plays an invaluable role in maintaining
our health. During the night these Archangels work in our
resting bodies to enact repairs towards good health.
Corresponding to their immaculate labours in our material

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body the Archangels also help build and maintain our psychical
and noetical bodies and their respective etheric doubles. They
work in a similar manner throughout all the universes.
We must learn to work self-consciously with the
Archangels of the elements in the maintenance of health and
well-being, and also to consciously benefit from their wisdom
and love. Exercises and meditations will help us develop
awareness of the Archangelic Orders.

On Being Human

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
Genesis 1:26
Ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:18
Prior to passing through the Human Idea, humanity is an
Archangel within the Archangelic Orders. Before their expres-
sion, Human Beings and Archangels, as Holy Monads, differ
little from each other. Later, however, when they return to be
within Absolute Beingness, the difference is great. Archangels
cannot obtain Super Self-consciousness in any of their expres-
sions. This is because they have their Being within the Eternal
Now and are exposed to various experiences without being able
to make comparisons. An Archangel of fire, for example, uses
this element with Total Wisdom, but does not know the emo-
tions and thoughts which are aroused by the presence of the
element. Conversely, human beings, as Prodigal Children (cf.
Luke 15:11-32), are fully exposed to the worlds of duality, of
space-place-time impressions, and are therefore able to devel-
op a keen sense of individuated Self-consciousness. Such con-
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human form is higher than the angel form. Man is the highest
being in Creation because he aspires to freedom.’
After passing through the Idea of Archangelic Man, a ray
of the Spirit then continues through the Idea of Heavenly man
to be shaped according to the law of the Human Idea. From
that moment it takes on its own separate radiance within
Absolute Beingness. A small ray of our Spirit-Ego-Being
enters into a separate domain of Total Wisdom, Total Power
and Total Love as a Self-aware Soul. Now we have two
foundations for the Inner Self: the Holy Monadic Self within
Absolute Beingness and Its emanation which passes through
the Heavenly Man to be formed into the Self-aware Soul. Here
we see how our Holy Monadic Self takes on a separate
existence from that of the Archangels.
The Self-aware Soul, which is formed of Spirit, then
begins to express Itself. As the Soul is of incorruptible Spirit, it
is Self-sufficient and Omniscient. All Souls are equally lumi-
nous. The Soul can never be harmed or weakened in any way,
so ‘fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the
soul’ (Matt. 10:28). It is the Soul which distinguishes humans
from other Beings, for Archangels have no need of a Soul as
they each belong to a communal Order. It is the Soul that har-
bours the Divine Individuation of each human Spirit-Soul-Ego
when we return to our Father. The Soul is the womb of Super
Self-consciousness.
As the Spirit-Ego-Being gives birth to the Self-aware
Soul, the Soul gives life to Its own projection. This projection
is what we call our Permanent Personality. Descending into the
worlds of experience, it takes on its own colour and designs its
own projections. As long as it remains in the worlds of space-
place-time, it assumes many names, dons many present-day

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personalities and expresses itself in many ways in these

worlds.

Individuated Selfhood
Even though you tie a hundred knots - the string remains one.
Rumi
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place,
neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in
may see the light.
Luke 11:33
Corresponding to the seven universes of Creation are the veils
which dress the Spirit-Soul-Ego during its sojourn. Further
investigation suggests that the human form does not so much
contain the kingdom of heavens, but rather is the kingdom of
heavens. When you realize this you understand that the traveller
is the journey, the seeker is the sought. And when you seek this
kingdom all ‘things shall be added unto you’ (Luke 12:31).
Human beings in their highest states express the Divine
Love, Causes, Principles and Laws of Creation. In the lower,
more dense states, as bodies, they express thought (noetical)
and emotion (psychical) in the worlds of separation. Our gross
material body, such a small portion of the Selfhood, and yet
often mistaken for the self, belongs to the material plane.
Our psychical and noetical bodies are given us as amor-
phous masses which we must sculpt into refined and cleansed
vehicles through which we can live unencumbered. Most of us
allow our emotions and beliefs to rule over our personality,
but it is the personality that must dictate the composition of its
psychical and noetical bodies. As St. Paul reminds us, ‘Hath
not the potter power over the clay?’ (Rom. 9:21).
After passing-over from the material plane we shall
continue to live in the psychical world and, later on, in the

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noetical world before reincarnating on the gross material

plane. Entrenched, encaged, in a petty present-day personality,
most of us will fail to realize that we have crossed over to the
other side, and will continue to live in the same restrictive
manner as on earth. The work of self-consciously constructing
our psy-chical and noetical expressions rewards us now and in
the hereafter. ‘Verily I say unto you/ warns Joshua,
‘Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven:
and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven’ (Matt. 18:18).
The Selfhood of each of us extends from our Self as a
Spirit-Ego-Being (our unexpressed Holy Monad Self) as it
remains in at-one-ment with Absolute Beingness, and reaches
down to the often struggling present-day personality. For those
who wonder whether it was our choice to leave home we sug-
gest a reading of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-
32) which details the decision on the part of the Son to leave
his father’s home. This is where free will is established.
The central task of each Soul is to reunify the self – after
its enrichment through the cycles of incarnations – into the
unified Self in Theosis.
The Individuated Selfhood, accounting for the various
expressions, is in the ‘image’ and ‘likeness’ (cf. Gen. 1:26) of
Absolute Beingness.
Firstly, we have Self-sufficiency. As Absolute Beingness
is without any needs, we contain within us everything: ‘The
Kingdom of Heavens is within you.’ We lack nothing and
need nothing that we do not already possess.
Secondly, as Holy Monads, we can express ourselves
self-consciously within our own universe and within our own
selfhood. In a similar way, macrocosmically, the Logos
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expresses Its Self within Its universes as the Common Self-

hood.
Thirdly, we have the power of shaping the Mind substance
into thought and emotion, and of expressing ourselves as love.
And when deemed worthy we are awarded the gift of emanat-
ing – not merely shaping – the Mind super-substance, the
bearer of life.
Fourthly, we have been blessed with the gift and the
responsibility of procreation and of caring for other incarnated
Souls. In this way we are co-creators within the Divine Plan,
with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Archangels, and the Christ
Logos.

The Individuated Selfhood, as a single umbrella, encompasses

four discernible expressions:

Spirit-Ego-Being
This is our Real Self, in at-one-ment with the Multiplicity and
the Self-sufficiency of Absolute Beingness. The Spirit-Ego-
Being projects a ray of Itself into Creation. The Will-pleasure
of Absolute Beingness to express Itself in Itself, is identical to
the Will-pleasure of the Spirit-Ego-Being to express Itself in
Itself. The Spirit-Ego-Being is not properly considered an
expression of the Self-hood, rather it is a creator of the
Selfhood.

Self-aware Soul
We become a Self-aware Soul the moment a ray of the Spirit-
Ego-Being passes through the Human Idea, at which point we
understand our Self as something complete, yet seemingly
separated from the Whole. The Self-aware Soul with its pro-

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jections is both Beingness and existence. Beingness, as our real

nature, is the Divine Permanent Point. That of existence is the
other end of the continuum, where it plunges into the worlds of
experience and development.

Permanent Personality
Described by some as ‘the feet of the soul’, this self is an
expression of, and in union with, the Self-aware Soul in the
worlds of time and place. The Permanent Personality contains
the Divine Laws, Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love.
It is the task of the Permanent Personality to select and
supervise the lives and experiences of the present-day
personalities. Through this process the Permanent Personality
becomes fuller.

Present-day Personality
This is the personality we express in each individual
incarna-tion. It is the projection of the Permanent Personality
into the worlds of separation and their sub-planes. It is that
aspect of the Self which experiences emotions, desires and
thoughts, of which a character is formed. With time, this
personality learns to interpret the impressions and correct its
reactions, so that a refined personality develops. It is this
expression of the self hood that Joshua asks us to ‘deny’
(Matt. 16:24) so that we may better understand our Real Self.

Let us sum up, so as to better understand the concept of Indi-

viduated Selfhood in its different expressions. Our selfhood is
one, even though we meet it in four stages: Spirit-Ego-Being,
Self-aware Soul, Permanent Personality and present-day per-
sonality. Our Individuated Selfhood, in its higher expressions,
takes part in the Common logoic Selfhood.

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We can imagine the pure Spirit of humanity as a ray pro-

jected from the sun (Absolute Beingness). This ray passes
through the Idea of the Archangelic Man, continuing on to the
Human Idea. Now picture this ray approaching an open win-
dow. On one side of the window we have the Self-aware Soul.
As the ray passes through the window the Permanent Persona-
lity is shaped, part of it remaining within the Soul’s home in the
Eternal Now, and the other part expressing itself in the worlds
of separation. The ray continues beyond the window and hits
the floor. Here we have what we term our present-day person-
ality. The floor, where the pattern of the Spirit Soul is laid,
should be kept clean and swept.
The light from its source is pure and luminous. Filtered
down through Ideas, universes, and layers of the Selfhood, it
remains the same light, only diffused. It is as if numerous
lampshades had been placed over a bright bulb. Exercises and
meditations, coupled with sound theoretical underfootings, can
do much to clean these shades, help us draw nearer to the source
of the Light, and allow the Light from above to reflect more
fully within our personalities. ‘If thy whole body therefore be
full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light,
as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light’
(Luke 11:36), Therefore ‘Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father
which is in heaven'(Matthew 5:16).

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What is the best time of day to engage in this work?

Any time you feel most comfortable. We would only say that at
sunrise etheric vitality abounds and exercising at this time can
be beneficial. Conversely it is prudent to avoid meditation
during sunset when many harmful energies are active. We
recommend the practice of one exercise in the morning, com-
plemented by engaging in another in the evening. If you find
time at midday to do a short exercise so much the better.
Depending on your individual focus choose which line of work
you wish to pursue during these periods. After nightfall we
advise against the practice of exercise beyond daily introspec-
tion. Daily introspection, the most valued exercise, is best
practised when preparing for sleep.
Is routine valuable?
Commitment is a necessity, but we never ask any of you to
meditate when you are not inclined to: nothing good will come
of that. You cannot force this work on yourself. If it is possible
and you feel comfortable with it, try to exercise at least once a
day. What is most vital is that you allow and preserve for
yourself some time in your daily life. Certain exercises require

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daily practice to properly succeed (e.g. developing etheric

hands, light balls, daily introspection).
Does fasting help to concentrate?
Joshua said, ‘Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a
man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a
man’ [Matt. 15:11]. On the other hand a full belly can be
quite a distraction. We are neither for asceticism nor over-
indulgence.
Is it better to sit in a chair, cross-legged on the floor, or in some
other position?
Find whatever position makes you most comfortable: in a
chair, on the floor, or even lying on a bed. Remember the Soul
is always in a state of worship and reverence. Try to relax your
body in whatever position suits you for productive work. As
much as possible, and without discomforting yourself, try and
keep your spine straight to assure the proper flow of energy.
In a few of the longer exercises I have difficulties remembering
the sequence. Have you any advice?
This is understandable. If you feel comfortable with your own
voice, or with that of a friend, try recording the longer medi-
tations on tape, or have them recited to you.
Should there be silence in the room, or does music help?
As you like. Music, as long as it has a calming effect on the
psychical body, is a nice device to measure and mark move-
ments within a meditation. Quiet instrumentals prove to
enhance meditations for many.
How can I gauge when to move on to more complex work?
You will know when it is time. Remember, this work takes time,

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much time and patience, so do not expect great results early on.
A good measure of your readiness to move on is the level of
success at each stage. Master each stage as you go along and
do not be in a hurry. Your Guardian Archangel will always be
there to assist you in your work and will encourage you when
it is time to move ahead.
I would like to know what exercises are good for children to
practise and at what age they should begin.
Children come into this world with distinct personalities, gifts
and directions. This, coupled with the extent to which parents
and a culture encourage or limit the child, determines the
degree to which the child is inclined towards meditation. Some
children are more introspective, while others are extroverted.
We have to remember that we are more clairvoyant when we
are young and are more in touch with the greater order of
things. This enables youth to enjoy heightened states in medi-
tation. Children are also in closer communication with the
Guardian Archangels and guiding spirits, and through medi-
tation they can keep this vital communication open as they
grow older and more involved in the world. All types of exer-
cises and meditations are suitable for children, yet we must
never require our children to meditate. It has to be their wish.
If someone is burdened with great confusion is it advisable
that they should meditate to sort matters out?
If a friend or someone you know is in a state of internal
upheaval we strongly advise against any exercise. For someone
battling with psychical turmoil the etheric energy centres need
calming and balancing. We have to be in control when we
exercise lest we do further damage. Prayer, and a basic exer-
cise of flooding oneself in white light, are the best approaches

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for restoring order. Friends and family can be of great help to

those in crisis, with their prayers and by sending balls of
white light.
How can I differentiate between actual psycho-noetical forms
and those which I imagine?
We must be vigilant against imagination interfering with our
work. Psycho-noetical forms are real and will continue to live
after a material form is dissolved. We have holy authority to
create psycho-noetical images, but not forms. We can only
invoke the Divine forms. In our visualizations we reflect Abso-
lute Beingness9 work, and should not allow ourselves to be
overrun by our fantasies. When we work we must shape
elementals and fill them with the appropriate ethers. In time,
as we grow more able, these shapes will be filled with the help
of the Archangels and become faithful to the universal forms.
I am having difficulties separating times when I am experienc-
ing my psychical body from times when I am working with
my noetical body. How can I tell the difference?
Intoxicated by matter, humanity is only able to see things in
material terms when, in fact, our psychical and noetical bodies
have greater realities – far greater – than the material body,
for ‘it is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing’
[John 6:63]. All of us can determine when we are motivated
by a desire or an emotion from the times when we are guided
by an idea or an ideal. These are our separate bodies voicing
themselves through the personality. Learn to hear their voices
(i.e. elementals) and it will soon become clear that each body
is distinct with specific needs and purposes.
In many exercises we are asked to ‘raise or lower our vibrations
to different levels’. Could you explain how this is done?

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Every form owns a vibratory pattern which regulates its exis-

tence. In order to come in contact with specific forms it is
necessary to adjust our vibration to correspond to the fre-
quency we desire to come in contact with. Often this means
lifting ourselves up to Divine energy, while at other times it
may mean gauging our rhythms to ‘lower’, less complex forms
of life (e.g. flowers, fruits, birds, etc.).
This is something that has to be experienced. During a
meditation you slowly rid yourself of heavy emotions and way-
ward ideas. As water reaches a boil at a certain temperature,
so we can learn to let go of the lower self during a meditation
in an effort to reach higher states. When the time comes to
return to our present-day personality (i.e. lower our vibrations)
we learn to recompose ourselves.

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PRACTICE
EXERCISES AND MEDITATIONS
 ON PATTERNED BREATHING

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
Genesis 2:7

From the moment we are born into the world we breathe.

Breathing is basic to life. Along with food, rest, sleep, and
sunshine, breathing is a major source of etheric vitality neces-
sary for the generation and regeneration of a healthy life.
Yet as basic as breathing is to good health, few of us
overcome our instinctive pattern of breathing (indeed, we often
corrupt it) to gain self-conscious control over the work of our
lungs. The fact is, most of us breathe poorly and our health
suffers as a result.
Breathing exercises abound, some good, some harmful.
We must use the utmost caution when we decide to interfere
with our breathing – for the manner in which we breathe affects
every other aspect of our physiology and psychical well-being.
We find that many Eastern techniques of breathing can have
detrimental effects on the minds and bodies of Westerners,
crippling their nervous systems by prematurely exciting their
etheric energy centres.

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Our recommended system of breathing is both safe and

effective, having been practised over the millennia in many
traditions. Every exercise and meditation to follow will benefit
from patterned breathing. When breathing systematically you
free the mind of the bodies’ discomforts and charge the medi-
tational process with focused energy. You will soon find that
patterned breathing will begin to enter your non-meditative
states. By breathing properly you will enjoy increased stores
of etheric vitality for your own health and to share with others
in need.

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Basic Breathing Technique

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.

Psalms 150:6

Begin by relaxing as much as possible. Forget the weights of

yesterday, today and any thought of tomorrow. Free mind and
body from any activity. Breathe in a calm and patterned man-
ner: one full inhalation followed by a full outbreath.

Now inhale, through your nostrils, a breath measuring

three counts of the heart. On the first count fill your abdomen,
on the second fill the torso’s midsection and with the last count
inflate your chest fully. Immediately begin to release the breath,
through your mouth, starting with your abdomen and moving
upwards with each beat of the heart until your lungs are emp-
tied. Repeat this for a few minutes daily until it becomes
effortless and natural.

Once you feel comfortable with the 3:3 count, try a count
of 4:4 by dividing the torso into four parts, always filling the
abdomen first and the chest last; then releasing the lowest sec-
tion first and the chest cavity last.

In time, as your lungs grow accustomed to the work, you

may want to try a six count, i.e. six in, six out. Later you may
try seven or eight counts. Each of us will find a count that suits
us. Please avoid a count of five as this can have adverse psychic
effects.

Patterned breathing is not so much an exercise in itself as

the foundation for most exercises. The Archangels, who help
regulate your body’s health, will rejoice as you gain greater
conscious control over your breathing.

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AND VISUALIZATION
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall
understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms 107:43

Perhaps the most important skill for performing an exercise is

the ability to form psycho-noetical images and scenes. This
work is otherwise known as visualization. Psycho-noetical
images are elementals constructed of Mind super-substance at
varying rates of frequency. Once created, an image has a real,
multi-dimensional existence that is far more durable than any
gross material object.
We must not confuse this holy work with fantasy. In
shaping substance (using kinetic, creative, imprint and sensate
ethers) we seek to replicate the work of the Logos and the Holy
Spirit by faithfully reproducing noetic forms. Visualization is
used as a vehicle to expand our consciousness, as it is the lan-
guage between the mundane and the Divine. By constructing
specific forms and settings we allow for interaction with Divine
energies. Visualization, additionally, is indispensable in heal-
ing work for invoking images of health and perfection where
illness and disease have set in.

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Archangels are constantly creating such images, in

accordance with the Divine forms, when they shape universes
and worlds, and when they form angels to watch over their
work. Our ability to form these images is a most Divine gift
and privilege that we need to fully develop with reverence.

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Drawing and Visualization

A good way to start with the creation of psycho-noetical images

is to take some simple household object and study it in great
detail over a series of days. Observe its contour, texture, weight
and colour with full and unfailing attention.

Now, whether you can draw properly or not, take a pad of

paper and a pencil and, with the object in hand, do your best to
make faithful and detailed drawings. With each drawing you’ll
find you are able to add more and more detail.

After drawing the object over a series of days place it out

of sight and draw it from memory. Slowly, but surely, in time
the image that is ingrained in your memory (by use of imprint
ether) will pour out on the paper in detail.

The next day, or the next week, draw again the object
from memory and you’ll find that it hasn’t diminished but
remains a vivid elemental within your subconscious. Stored in
your memory are thousands of living three-dimensional forms
that you can recall at any time.

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A Lemon

Practise the preceding exercise with a lemon. Spend several

days drawing an actual lemon, and a couple of days drawing it
from memory until you know well its outer form.

Take a lemon and turn it in your hand. How heavy is it?

Feel its texture, scratch the skin and inhale its rich fragrance.
Notice the hundreds of pores on the rind. What does it feel like?
Cut a slice out of the lemon. A little oil comes from the rind.
Juice runs over your hand from the succulent pulp. Squeeze a
few drops into your mouth and taste its sharp, tangy flavour.

Clean your hands, sit and relax. Bring to mind a whole

lemon. Visualize it in your etheric hand with your eyes closed.
Turn it before your etheric eyes. It is very much like the lemon
you just held. You can feel its weight and the waxy texture.
Notice how the lemon is not fully yellow as it has lime-green
colour on the crown.

Cut into your visualized lemon. See the glistening pulp.

You can feel the oil from the rind on your fingers. Take the
lemon to your mouth and squeeze a few droplets. Perhaps you
will find yourself squinting your eyes for fear they may be
sprayed. The sour taste makes your mouth pucker. With all
your senses - your inner senses - you are experiencing this
psycho-noetical lemon.

Try another fruit the next week and as you grow more able
to faithfully reproduce forms you will enjoy the development
of your inner senses.

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A Rose

Still, in a way, nobody sees a flower really, it is so small,

we haven’t time, and to see takes time,
like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keefe

Hold in your hand an actual red rose. Study this rose very
closely: its shape, size, and colour. Turn it before your eyes
and consider it in full detail. The petals are soft as velvet with
rich shades of deep crimson. The stem that you clutch is stiff
and coarse in comparison. Your fingers avoid the many
thorns. Bring the flower to your nose and take a deep breath of
its deli-cate scent. If the rose has been in blossom for a few
days, you can pull back some of the layers of petals and peer
into the centre. See the stamens coated with yellow pollen as
they dance about well protected. See the extraordinary beauty
of a rose.

Set the rose aside, close your eyes and inhale deeply.
Now visualize a rose in your etheric hand. You are using
imprint ether to see and sensate ether to feel. Turn the flower
before you. What do you see? You can see the rich green
petals. The calyxes curve under the rose. You feel the stalk in
your hand. You can even feel a prick from the thorns. See the
patterned veins on the thick waxy leaves. Run your finger
along the ser-rated edges. Bring the rose to your nose and
breathe in the fragrance. The petals tickle you as you once
again enjoy the smell. Peer into the open flower and see the
delicate stamens.

Decide to change the colour of the rose. See the petals turn
from red to white. Slowly the colour shifts until you have a pure
white rose. Using imprint ether it is easy to change the colour
of your rose. Turn it to yellow and then back to red.
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Study the rose for a few minutes and then visualize

someone with whom you may have had a quarrel. Offer your
psycho-noetical rose to him with love and peace.

There is so much to see and feel with the Divine gift of

inner sight.

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Doves

Let us all draw upon what we have within us, as thought,

knowledge, and form. We are all familiar with doves: their size,
shape, colour and weight. In this exercise we will first visualize
and then animate a dove.

Relax and breathe deeply. Visualize in your right etheric

hand a dove made of white plaster. Notice its shape. The plaster
is cool. Place your left hand on the dove. You can feel the tex-
ture of its feathers. They are not soft as are real feathers. Scratch
the dove a little with your fingernail. It is static because there is
no Mind-life as kinetic ether in a plaster dove. Let it fall from
your hands and watch as it shatters into pieces on the floor.

Hold out your right etheric arm and visualize a white dove
as it lands on your hand. This dove looks much the same as the
plaster dove, but it is filled with life. She trembles as she bal-
ances on your hand. Her rose-coloured claws dig slightly into
your skin, but it doesn’t hurt. Her finely carved beak has a yel-
low hue.

Gently place your left hand on the dove. Through her

chest feathers you feel her heart flutter. She stirs as you stroke
her silky feathers, but she likes your touch. She softly coos.
Unlike the plaster dove this form has been filled with Mind-life.
Caress her head with your index finger. Notice her dark round
eyes blink as she moves her head. Fill your dove with love.

Shake your hand and the bird takes flight. She doesn’t fall

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to the ground as the plaster one did, but rises up and inscribes
a beautiful circle in the air, before she returns to you. Caress her
and send her once more up in the air to circle about and have
her alight again on your hand. With love let her go.

This dove will exist forever as an elemental. Whenever

you wish you can call her back to your hand, and even create
another dove for her to play with.

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A Pastoral Landscape

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to

which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse

Breathe in a patterned manner and relax completely. Visualize

yourself sitting near a meadow on a beautiful spring afternoon.
Create in your etheric hands a small swallow and allow it to
take flight. Watch it as it flutters over the meadow and settles
on a branch of an apple tree covered with delicate young blos-
soms.

See in the distance, against the deep blue sky, a large

ivory-white eagle soar through the air. The eagle dips and rises
with just a tip of his wings. He is riding the air currents.

Now study the rich meadow before you. Many are the
smells re-emerging after a long winter. The thawing ground is
moist and the air is still cool. See a cow grazing down near a
pond. She is enjoying the new grass after eating dry hay all
winter. What colour is this cow? Brown and white? Black? You
decide.

You can trace a small brook flowing out of the pond.

Dragonflies dart about the rain-swollen stream. What a lovely,
calming sound running water makes.

Up on the far side of the pond is a flock of sheep and

lambs. Count them. How many are there? A shepherd watches
over his flock. He is leaning on a crook enjoying the warm sun
as his sheepdog sits beside him. You can hear the bells of the

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sheep ring as they move through the grass. There are baby
lambs bleating as they skip and play with one another.

Now stroll into this meadow. Yellow daffodils are scat-

tered here and there. Move where you wish. Your swallow is
flying about and lands near the pond. The eagle soars overhead
and the sheep startle slightly as they see you approach. Notice
how the soft ground sinks in as you take each step. Feel mois-
ture soak into your shoes. The air is damp and fresh. The cow
stares at you for a second and then continues to eat. Go up to
her and feel her soft coat. She likes it when you scratch her
behind the ears.

After a while return to where you began and look over

your meadow. You see serenity and harmony everywhere. This is
a centre of calm and peace which you can visit and take sol-
ace. Wish the harmony and peace of this meadow to spread
over the material plane.

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Concentration and Observation

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Mark 13:37
Observation is an aspect of our Divine nature. Observation and
concentration make us both human and gods, as we can probe
the outer and inward worlds deftly and gracefully. It is through
observation that we are able to expand our conscious awareness
to endless heights. In increasing our awareness and under-
standing of our surroundings, becoming keenly aware of all the
nuances, we will move out of the small shells of our personali-
ties and into the larger truths. There are no limits to how far we
can extend our comprehension of the Divine Plan when we
develop our ability to concentrate and observe.
The more aware we become of the world which surrounds
us now, the more conscious we will be in the worlds beyond.
This applies equally to our nightly visits (exosomatosis) to the
other planes, as it does to when we eventually pass-over from
the material plane into the more refined worlds. Through
enhanced observation comes an ability to see beyond apparent
limitations and to control the course of our experiences in the
psychical and noetical worlds. The following exercise is
instrumental in awakening and tuning our ability to be percep-
tive and alert.

Choose a site either within your home or in the environs that

surround your home: your living room, a garden, a park, or a
meadow. Select a time when you will be alone in peace. Sit
calmly for some time, say five minutes, breathing on a pat-
terned 4:4 count. When you feel your senses in a heightened
state, stand up and begin to move very slowly about the area.

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You are observing every detail: the colours, the sizes, and
the smells of all the objects that surround you. You see each
item in relation to every other. For fifteen minutes you move
about absorbing as much as you possibly can. Return to where
you began. Repeat this for a few days, each time learning more
and more of the area of research.

When you feel familiar with the setting, after your fifteen
minute walk of observation, return to where you began and
relax. Now, in your thoughts – using imprint and sensate ethers
– try to visualize all that you have just seen. You have been
studying this setting now for many days and it is easy for you
to recall it. Recreate every detail: the textures, the smells,
sounds and the sensations. You can see the colours of every-
thing. You see it all just as you did a few minutes ago.

Set out again the next day and see what you failed to
notice on the previous days. You are beginning to observe
more, much more. Settle back in a chair and again recreate the
setting. You notice that imprint ether has stored much of the
scene in memory in great detail.

When you feel attuned to the setting simply remain in the

chair and for fifteen minutes consciously survey, even move
into, the multi-dimensional painting you have stored in your
memory. Practise this exercise in two-week cycles, selecting a
different setting for each period.

You will find that with practice you can easily draw into
your consciousness a full array of settings that you have

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collected from this work. You may even try to pull up memories
of places from your childhood connected with happy moments:
perhaps an old house, a neighbourhood, or a school that you
attended. Sit and relax and bring to mind, in minute detail, all
that you can remember of a place. You’ll soon find that the
settings - alive in your memory - paint their own detailed
images and you are allowed to sit back, or even move about
these places, and watch those scenes come alive once again.

Extend your awareness into everyday activity. If you take

a daily stroll, drive a regular route to work, or walk the same
path to the market, try to notice more and more about the route
and the landscape. See how the changing seasons affect various
elements of the route. Observation should not be limited to
exercises. It is a way of being.

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ETHERIC DOUBLES
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body,
and in your spirit, which are Gods.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20
Within the gross material body of all living organisms there
exist currents of energy called ‘ether’, providing life and health.
The flow, distribution and storage of this energy take place
within a field which surrounds and permeates the body. We call
this field the ‘etheric double’.
Every gross material, psychical, and noetical body has an
etheric double. Each atom and cell in the body possesses an
individual etheric double: together they combine to form the
etheric double of a body.
The etheric doubles serve as moulds in which the bodies
are first formed. The Archangels of the elements work through
the etheric double to build a body atom by atom, molecule by
molecule. A body, once built, is then maintained by the etheric
double which supplies and distributes etheric vitality to its
various locations. Etheric doubles, always perfect and incor-
ruptible, oversee the life-course of an expressed form
according to its Circle of Possibility.

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A body cannot exist without an etheric double, nor can the

etheric double live independently of the body. An etheric dou-
ble cannot detach itself from its body, except when the body is
dissolving.
Both the psychical and noetical bodies have their own
etheric doubles, which are used as active links between the
bodies. Apart from overseeing the distribution of energy within
the gross material body, the etheric doubles are used as conduits
– for the flow of etheric vitality – between the material, psy-
chical and noetical bodies.
Familiarity with our etheric doubles is of great concern to
us. It is vital that we become intimate with their natures so that
we may control the health within our own bodies and aid others
in need of healing. Meditation and exercise are the prime means
for learning more about our etheric doubles.

On Etheric Vitality

Coursing through the etheric double, both penetrating the body

and extending outwards, are currents of energy. Etheric vitality
is Mind super-substance in specific vibratory patterns that
allow for the phenomenon of life. We must not imagine that
flesh, blood or a nervous system create this force. This would
be equivalent to believing that wire creates electricity. Wire
may carry electricity, but it is incapable of creating it. Etheric
vitality is bestowed upon us as our ‘daily bread’ (Matt. 6:11).
A widow suffering from a haemorrhage touched Joshua’s
clothes, and He asked, ‘Who touched me?’ His disciples were
perplexed, because the crowds were pressing against the Lord
on all sides. Joshua continued, ‘I perceive that virtue is gone out
of me’ (Luke 8:45-46). In another instance He healed hundreds

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with etheric vitality: ‘And the whole multitude sought to touch

him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all’
(Luke 6:19). ‘Virtue’, here, refers to etheric vitality.
We live in a sea of etheric vitality which imbues and sur-
rounds us. On many occasions Joshua drew from the etheric
vitality which covers the globe and shaped it into fish and bread
to feed thousands (cf. Matt. 14:19-21 & 15:32-39).

On the Ethers

Etheric vitality breaks down into distinct states to serve particu-

lar functions in the maintenance of the three bodies. In the
etheric double we have identified four classes of etheric sub-
stance: creative ether, sensate ether, imprint ether and kinetic
ether. This does not mean that an etheric double is divided into
separate parts, but that the super-substance of Mind, which
contains within itself all conditions, is adapted in each instance
to the particular requirement.
Creative ether is used, under the supervision and accord-
ing to the will of the Holy Spirit, to construct and maintain all
phenomena of life. The Holy Spirit and the Holy Archangels,
guided by Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love, use
creative ether to build, maintain, and take care of a body’s
proper functioning. Whatever part of the material body we
study, be it the texture of the brain, the fluid of the eyes, the
different sense organs, the operation of the glands, the lungs,
the liver, the intestines - all bear witness to the continuous
presence of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Archangels.
Imprint ether is used to shape etheric vitality into psycho-
noetical images and is therefore vital to our work in visualization.

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Using imprint ether we are able to memorize and store images.

Imprint ether, when used in recording images, helps us see the
shapes in various sizes, colours and designs.
Sensate ether is the ‘feeling giving’ ether. By merit of
sensate ether we experience the sensations of pleasure and pain.
Sensate ether is also used in conjunction with imprint ether. The
parallel use of these two ethers makes the phenomenon of
memory possible.
Kinetic ether facilitates motion. All movements, whether
conscious or subconscious, including autonomic actions (e.g.
circulation of the blood, breathing, the receipt, assimilation
and discarding of substances) take place with the help of kinetic
ether.
We must use etheric vitality in a balanced manner without
interfering with the creative work of the Holy Spirit and in such
a way as to be worthy of logoic expression.

On Etheric Energy Centres

When God created the human form He endowed us with many

great gifts.
The heart is the greatest gift. Through it we may reflect
Divine Love towards God and our fellow man. The heart is the
house of the Common Selfhood, the home of the Logos, and
we must keep it pure, for ‘Blessed are the pure in heart: for they
shall see God’ (Matt. 5:8).
Another gift is the brain with its psychical and noetical
counterparts. This is the centre of inspiration and reason
permitting us to use Mind to comprehend the presence of God
all around us. When Moses began to look within himself and
moved up to the level of the cerebellum, symbolized as a

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burning bush which is never consumed, he heard for the first

time the voice of God (cf. Exod. 3:2). The two tablets of Moses,
on which were inscribed the Law of God, represent the two
lobes of the human brain (cf. Exod. 34:28). When, at some
time, we vitalize this etheric centre we shall also hear the voice
of our Inner Self, bur Self-aware Soul, and become one with
God’s Law.
It is through the solar plexus, another valued gift, that the
Holy Spirit expresses itself as will-power and instinctive wis-
dom. As the seat of our subconscious awareness the solar
plexus is also the storehouse for etheric vitality. Joshua said,
‘He that believeth on me... out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water’ (John 7:38). Joshua is the living water of ‘ever-
lasting life’, and when we drink of Him we ‘shall never thirst’
again (cf. John 4:14).
The fourth gift comprises the reproductive organs which
will come into use at the fight time, in the right circumstances
and at the right age. They are Holy Spiritual. They are the
means of perpetuating life on the material plane and we should
not misuse them.
Corresponding to these gifts are centres of energy. These
points are known as etheric or psycho-noetical centres. In the
East they are termed ‘chakras’.
Every pore on your skin has a centre. Every gland has a
centre. Every fingertip has a centre. What is the nature of these
centres?
The energy belonging to a centre rotates and creates a
whirlpool which funnels down towards a point. If you put your
hand in a basin of water and roll it in a circular motion, a conical
whirlpool will form. This is the basic shape and pattern of
motion of the etheric centres.

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In the etheric double of the gross material body we have

psycho-noetical centres, which we call ‘churches’ (cf. Rev
1:20). In the etheric double of the psychical body, we have
psycho-noetical centres, which are more intense in activity,
called ‘lamps’ (cf. Rev. 4:5). Finally, in the etheric double of
the noetical body, there are even more active centres with a
wider concept of space and time. St. John, in the Revelations,
refers to these as ‘stars’ (cf. Rev. 1:16-20).
These centres serve a dual function. They care for the
organs, situated in a particular part of the body, by controlling
the flow and quality of etheric vitality. In another mode they act
as links between the material body of a human personality and
its psychical and noetical bodies, in order to channel thoughts,
emotions and energy, arising as a result of space-place-time
impressions. It is through these centres that elementals are
received and stored in the etheric double and impact on the
personality. Mind is shaped into psycho-noetical elementals
which combine to compose the human personality. Elementals
inhabit these centres and exert their influence over the charac-
ter.
What is the purpose of these centres? How is it possible
for us to work with them? Will we interfere with the work of the
Archangels?
When we reach a certain level of awareness the Arch-
angels will be most pleased to teach us more about the centres.
However we must first become masters of the elementals that
we are creating and revitalizing. Elementals use these centres,
for better or worse, as entrances and gateways into the person-
ality. We subconsciously create, invite and absorb elementals
into our energy centres where they affect the functioning of our
personality. It is, therefore, imperative that in conjunction with

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our study of these centres we also gain some understanding of

the subconscious.
The following series of exercises will begin to familiarize
you with the etheric vitality in your body, will help to teach you
to differentiate between the separate qualities of ethers, and will
allow you to work gently and self-consciously with certain
etheric centres.

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Finger Concentration

With this exercise we will begin to learn to control the ethers.

At will we can direct etheric vitality, as kinetic ether, to differ-
ent parts of our body and then feel it as sensate ether. This
exercise will prove most helpful to those who rely on their
hands: healers, pianists, typists, surgeons and many others.
Although this exercise may appear simple it requires much
training and concentration.

Close your eyes and raise your hands in front of you.

Relax and begin to breathe on a 4:4 count. Inhaling, see etheric
vitality flood into your hands. Exhaling, see any darkness
released into the atmosphere.

Have all the fingertips come together with an open space

between the palms. Begin by focusing sensation between your
little fingers. Ignore the feeling of the other fingers – keeping
them touching, but with no pressure - pressing only the tips of
your little fingers together. It may be difficult at first as the
other fingers will also want to press. You are trying to concen-
trate sensate ether in these two tips. Relax.

Now shift your attention, by using kinetic ether, to your

ring fingers while slowly relaxing the little fingers, keeping
them, and the other tips, in loose contact. Concentrate sensate
ether in your ring fingers as you press them together. Remain
there and observe the resulting sensations in your body. Con-
tinue to breathe in a calm, patterned manner and relax.

Next press the middle fingers together – only these two

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fingertips – and feel the sensate ether pass from one fingertip to
the other. What do you feel now?

Move to the index fingers and press these tips together.

Relax all the other fingers – keeping them in light contact –
while focusing ether in the tips of your index fingers. Relax.

Press together the sides of your thumbs – all the other

fingertips remain in touch, but without pressure. Relax.

Press the tips of all the fingers together at once. You may
feel considerable energy in your hands. Now, in reverse direc-
tion, repeat the exercise until you have returned to the little
fingers.

Collect all the energy between your palms, shape it into

a ball of white light, and place it on any part of your body where
you may have some pain (e.g. sore joints, mending bones,
weak eyes, a wound), or if you know someone who is ill and in
need of energy offer it to him.

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Sensate and Kinetic Ethers

Close your eyes and breathe in a patterned manner. Relax every

muscle in your body.

Feel-the soles of your feet. Be conscious of where your

feet meet the ground. You are using sensate ether to feel and
kinetic ether to move in your body. Shift up from your soles
into the ankles. Feel the entire foot. Feel each of your toes. This
is sensate ether that allows you to feel your foot. Now move
your awareness up the legs towards the knees. Feel the sensa-
tion in the knees. You feel from your knees down to the soles
of your feet. Focus your attention and move from your knees
down through your calves, through the ankles, into the toes and
down again to the soles of your feet. Using kinetic ether, you
have moved your consciousness at will through your legs, and
with sensate ether you have felt each part as you travelled. Go
up to the knees and down again a few times. Ask yourself:
‘Who am I that I am able to move in my body?’

After a while slowly move from your knees upward

through the thighs, through your pelvic area and into your belly.
Breathe deeply and descend again down from your belly,
through your hips, thighs, knees, calves, ankles and toes until
you are in the soles of your feet once more. Move back into
your belly - feeling each point all the way upwards - and back
down again a couple of times. You may notice some heat gen-
erated in your lower body - that is good; it is the movement of
ether.

Settle your attention again in your belly and feel your

solar plexus. Feel all the energy in your solar plexus. From

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there move upwards to the lower section of your chest and

breathe deeply and easily, feeling the life-giving etheric vitality
fill your torso. Deep, long breaths. Feel the air in your lungs as
you breathe. Feel from the shoulders down through the arms -
the full length of both arms all the way down into the fingers.
Moving downwards from the neck, feel your chest, belly, pel-
vis, thighs, knees, ankles and feet. After a few deep breaths
reverse direction and move from your toes upwards - calves,
knees, thighs, belly, torso, and neck, and down into your arms
and hands.

Now move your attention to your head - only the head.

Feel your forehead, eyes, nose, mouth, lips and throat. You may
sense your ears growing warm. Shift your attention from one
point to another – from the back of your head to your chin, from
your thyroid to your crown. From the top of your head move
slowly all the way down to the soles of your feet and then return
to the head. Feel your entire body.

Practise this exercise for about ten minutes - moving up

and down with the help of kinetic ether, and feeling with sen-
sate ether - then relax.

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Vitalizing the Body

Sit, stand or lie down with your back straight. Completely relax
for five minutes until your emotions and thoughts are calm.
This exercise is a combination of patterned breathing and wilful
direction of energy through the body. Although this exercise
will have us move energy through various etheric centres, we
will not concentrate our attention there.

Begin breathing on a 4:4 count. After a few minutes

inscribe a circle that begins below your genitals, moves clock-
wise up over the liver, through the solar plexus, down past the
spleen, and ending once again below the genitals. As you
breathe in you move towards the top of the circle at the solar
plexus, and as you release the breath you continue down to
complete the circle at the genitals. See a sky-blue light radiating
within this circle as you continue your measured 4:4 breathing
for five minutes. As you release each breath, see any dark spots
you may have in these centres being expelled, and as you
breathe in, see a sky-blue globe take form.

Now move up to the solar plexus. In the solar plexus you

may concentrate and store energy without doing any harm. This
time inscribe a circle that travels over your right lung, moving
over the heart, continuing downwards over the left lung, and
returning to the solar plexus. Once again, with a 4:4 count,
inhale as you trace the circle up and around the heart area, and
exhale as you return down to the solar plexus. Continue for five
minutes, seeing a warm rosy light emanating from within this
circle.

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Finally, begin a circle that starts slightly above your heart

area, moves up over your right shoulder, reaches an apex over
the crown of your head, and moves down past the left shoulder,
returning to the heart area. This circle has as its centre the thy-
roid gland. With your 4:4 count, inhale up to the top of your
head, and exhale as you return to the starting point just above
your heart. In this case the circle is filled with golden light
around your head, while an orange light surrounds the thyroid
gland at its centre. Inscribe this circle for five minutes and then
relax. The circles you have created overlap but the spheres and
colours somehow remain distinct.

It is with kinetic ether that you direct the flow of energy,

with sensate ether that you feel it, and with imprint ether that
the circles gain colour and shape. Practise this exercise daily
and soon, without effort, you will be able to move etheric
vitality where you wish.

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He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;

who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD.
Psalms 24:4, 5

The material body is an exact replica of the etheric double

through which it is built and maintained. As your body has
limbs, so does the etheric double, and every time you move
your material body the etheric double moves in unison. The
etheric double cannot be removed from the material body until
the body is no longer needed. However, it is possible to train
yourself to use freely your etheric limbs, by lifting them out of
the material form. An etheric limb has few of the limitations of
the heavy material body. It may, for example, be used to pene-
trate and extend into gross matter.
For properly enacting certain exercises, and as an indis-
pensable tool for healing, the development of etheric arms and
hands is vital. When first freeing your etheric hands you’ll
visualize an elemental of a hand and arm that rises out of your
material form. After a while you will begin to feel some heat in
your material arm as your etheric double begins to replace the
elemental. With steady practice, preferably daily, you will

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develop greater control over your etheric limbs. In time you

may find yourself using your etheric hands in healing, e.g. to
adjust bones in a mis-aligned back or to lengthen legs.
The psychical and noetical bodies have their own etheric
doubles and as you advance in your self-conscious awareness
you will find that you can train yourself to use these hands for
much greater work!

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Developing Your Etheric Arms

By stretching forth thine hand to heal…
that signs and wonders may be done by the
name of thy holy child Jesus.
Acts 4:30
Sit in a comfortable chair with your right elbow resting on a
table. A white table top or a white tablecloth will provide good
contrast between the surface and your material arm.

Begin to lift your right material arm slowly off the table
upwards until it touches the right shoulder and then return it to
the table. Repeat the movement five times noting the way the
arm moves.

Raise and lower your arm again five times, but this time
rotating your hand. Feel and study how the muscles are moving.
You see the network of veins and arteries. It is important to
observe every detail. Do not be in a hurry. You are beginning
to feel the etheric vitality flood into your arm.

Now with your eyes closed, raise and lower your material
arm very slowly. With your mind’s eye see the arm move; you
see all the details of the skin, muscles and bones as the arm
moves through the air. The etheric double of the arm is moving
in perfect unison with its material counterpart. You can see the
material arm glowing in white light.

Now with your eyes remaining closed leave your material

arm on the table. See and feel your bright white etheric arm rise
up out of the material arm. Move it through the air and have
your translucent etheric hand touch your shoulder. Can you feel

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it? Slowly move your etheric arm downward and replace it in

the material arm. Five times raise and lower the arm all the
while studying the contour and movement of your etheric arm,
as you flex your etheric hand. You can see it in great detail. You
can even feel a light breeze caress it as it moves.

After working for some time you may now try this
exercise with patterned breathing. With the same sequence
described above, try breathing on a 3:3 count, inhaling as you
move your arm (first material, then etheric) up to the shoulder,
then exhaling as you lower the arm to the table. If you prefer a
4:4 count or a 6:6 count, feel free to try. After working with
your right arm proceed to your left.

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Etheric Hands and Coloured Balls

Cleanse your hands and purify your hearts.

James 4:8
Place your hands on the upper part of your abdomen where the
solar plexus is located. Close your eyes. Lift your etheric hands
out of the material hands. See these etheric hands snow-white.
Move them in and out of your material hands a number of
times. Feel sensate ether in all four hands. Raise your, etheric
hands in front of your eyes, bringing the tips of all your fingers
together. Between your cupped etheric hands see a white light
begin to grow. It is becoming brighter and brighter until it
forms a luminous ball which radiates through your hands and
fingers.

With the use of imprint ether turn the bright white ball a
shade of canary-yellow. The ball now glows with the comfort-
ing canary-yellow light of the Logos. As you feel and see your
etheric hands, feel your material hands at the same time,
crossed and resting on the solar plexus. Inhale comfortable
deep breaths.

Return your complete attention to your etheric hands and

the ball of light they contain. See the ball now shift from the
yellow hue to a clear emerald-green light. Breathe deeply and
calmly. Feel both your etheric hands and your material hands
so that you have four hands. Place your etheric hands on your
chest. Breathe in the emerald-green light. You are filling your
lungs with strength and vitality.

Now lower your etheric hands and place them back into

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their material form. See the hands resume the bright white
glow. Once more inhale deeply and make a short prayer that
these hands – all four of them – will become healing, life-giving
hands.

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A Candle Flame

For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD

my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalms 18:28
After you are able to use your etheric hands with some com-
mand you may want to try this exercise.

Rest your right material hand on your right thigh.

Breathing deeply, begin to move your fingers. Close your eyes
and study every detail of your hand and its white etheric double.
Raise your etheric arm out of your material arm and move it in
front of your closed eyes. Study the hand: the knuckles of the
fingers, the nails, the fine engraving of the fingertips.

Create in your etheric hands, from the etheric vitality in

the air, a large white candle. Feel how each finger grasps a
different part of the candle. With kinetic ether move your
etheric hand along the candle. Note how it feels in your hands:
its cool waxiness and solidity.

In your heart there burns a fire, an everlasting fire of love,

kindness and compassion. Light the candle with this fire from
your heart.

Study the flame. Do you notice that around the base of the
burning wick it is a little darker? Around and above this darker
patch the flame is brighter, starting as orange and turning
golden-yellow as it crowns.

If you are envious, anxious or angry the flame will sputter

and flare. Calm it by relaxing your thoughts and emotions. Pass

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each desire, thought and emotion through the flame and clean
your heart and mind:

First see all your mis-guided thoughts, prejudices and

judgement stream from your head and pass through the flame.
Next allow any bitterness, envy and poisonous dissatisfaction
to leave your heart and be purified by the flame. And finally
release into the flame all the anger and hatred which has been
stored in your solar plexus. These elementals, such a burden on
your consciousness, will either be disenergized by the fire and
sent to the cosmic consciousness, or be cleansed and returned
to you.

Your present-day personality has been purified by the

flame. See the flame steady, tall and straight. It is still now. The
light is clear and the colour bright.

When the flame is perfectly still, and you feel centred and
cleansed, thank the Logos. Return the flame to your heart and
slowly dissolve the candle.

This cleansing exercise should be practised once a week,

preferably on Sundays, to burn off all petty thoughts and emo-
tions.

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Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper

and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 John 2

Psycho-therapists can do much work through absent healing

when they have learned how to create and project light balls.
They must practise creating these healing elementals and load
each one with the solemn wish that the ball will help restore
order within an unbalanced personality. These light balls can
be sent to aid individuals, families, or even entire communi-
ties.
A psycho-therapist can train himself in visualization to
create psycho-noetical balls of light of appropriate colours.
Each colour has a specific vibration capable of positively
influencing a deficiency in a personality. To construct balls of
light is an act of prayer. What is prayer? The creation of angelic
elementals.
There are important responsibilities to remember before
engaging in this work. One is an ethical matter. We must be
certain that the recipient of the light has requested our help.
Additionally, we must be sufficiently skilled in knowing the

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appropriate colours required for various disorders. Deploying

a colour not suited for the situation can easily aggravate the
condition.
As with any healing efforts we must remember that it is
God’s Will and the Divine Plan that allows for healing. Healing
may only take place when the source of the ailment is resolved.
As illness is engendered in the personality it may only be recti-
fied within the personality. Outside help is only possible when
the internal ground for a healing has been prepared. We are
limited both by our capacity to help and by the recipient’s
readiness to find resolution. It is God’s Law, Mercy and Grace
that prevail.
Finally, when sharing etheric vitality with others, we must
be certain our ‘gifts’ are pure. If there is within us churning
hostility, animosity or any sense that we are superior in the
exchange, it is better that we work first with ourselves. Joshua
teaches, ‘first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and
offer thy gift’ (Matt. 5:24).
When creating a ball of light visualize the face of the
fellow you wish to help, either by recalling him from your
memory or by having his photograph to hand. No matter where
he may be located on the planet the ball of light will go to him
arid enter his etheric double.
To a person who is emotionally (psychically) distraught,
behaving erratically, or plagued by strong desires, send to his
solar plexus a sky-blue ball of light.
When a person’s internal organs are in disorder, or if he is
suffering from arthritis, rheumatism, or general physical dis-
comfort, send emerald-green light to his solar plexus.
If someone is stricken with blood contamination, a viral
infection, or a hormonal imbalance create a small ball of deep
orange light. Send this ball to the thyroid area of the sufferer.

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Red light imparts strength. If someone is very weak,

depleted of physical energy, or anaemic, you can send a ball of
red light to his heart centre. There it will expand into the shape
of an egg to energize him. Provided you have loaded the ball
with the strong desire to help, he will benefit. Never send red
light to an anxious or nervous person, or to someone with a
heart condition, for it may harm him.
If a friend is going through a period of low self-esteem,
or is angered and potentially violent (as these are often con-
nected) send a ball of rose-coloured light to the heart centre.
This will calm the sufferer as it is the colour of love.
When someone is exhausted, downtrodden, fatigued from
life, or has difficulties sorting out his thoughts, principles and
ideals (noetical imbalances) send a canary-yellow or golden
ball of light. This will enter the head centre, helping him to see
things more clearly.
If you are unsure what is afflicting someone, or if there are
a number of ailments at once, send a ball of white light. White
is not a colour in and of itself but a combination of all colours.
It will enter through the head of the recipient where it will
assume the shape of an egg expanding to engulf his entire body.
The Archangels will assign the appropriate colours to the white
light to address each individual problem.
Many want to help friends and family members who are
passing-over or who have already made the transition to the
other side. See them in white light (do not use any other colour)
and pray that they may rest in peace. Please remember that you
should include a wish that they move on. Do not bind them to
this world with your sorrow.

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Balls of Light and Healing Hands

You will find that while creating balls of light you magnetize
your hands, energizing them with healing power. Here is a
useful exercise to be practised daily by students of healing who
desire to become good conduits for the Holy Spirit. A refined
capacity to control the vibrations in your hands is vital in
healing work. Each colour owns specific vibrations which can
be called upon - through will-power and visualization – to
correct energy imbalances.

Close your eyes. Bring the fingertips of your material

hands together and concentrate on the space between your
palms. With sensate ether you feel the space. With imprint ether
create a ball of white light to fill the opening. The ball becomes
energized as it radiates bright white light. Feel heat emanate
from the ball and your hands. Take a few deep breaths and
relax.

Continue to hold the ball and see it turn emerald-green.

With every breath you take the ball becomes a brighter hue of
emerald-green light. Breathe deeply.

Next see the ball slowly shift to sky-blue light Breathe

deeply as the ball glows with the blue light, giving your mate-
rial body a feeling of comfort. .

After a while the ball begins to radiate rosy light, the hue
becoming more perfect with each deep breath.

From the rosy light have the ball turn a fiery red. You are
holding a ball of mental fire between your palms. You can
actually feel the heat but it doesn’t burn. It feels good and fills
your psychical body with vitality.

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As the red recedes the ball becomes golden-yellow. Hold

this ball for a couple of minutes. As you hold it you will find it
easy to place your thoughts in order. Your mind is now at
peace. Your hands are becoming blessed healing hands.

With your etheric eyes, see your material hands become

snow-white as if you were wearing shining gloves of radiant
light. Breathe deeply on a 4:4 measure and with your thoughts
concentrate energy in your arms from your shoulders down to
your fingertips. Now the ball of light is turning a shade of clear
emerald-green, and as it does so your hands take on the same
emerald-green light. Continue breathing on a 4:4 count.

Next you see the ball shift from emerald to blue, sky-blue,
and soon after your hands shift to blue as well.

Next the blue light becomes rosy, and once again your
hands follow suit. You now have a pair of rosy hands.

Then the ball, and your hands, turn deep red. Breathe in
and fill your lungs with this energy.

The ball now changes to canary-yellow and so do your

hands. Keeping your fingertips together lay your thumbs on
your chest and breathe in etheric vitality. Consciously feel the
energy flooding your chest from your hands. Ask the Holy
Spirit to bless your hands to help others.

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Creating Balls of Healing Light

Relax and extend your material hands out in front of you. Space
your palms about six inches apart.

Inhale on a 4:4 count. You are going to construct a ball of

sky-blue light. In your solar plexus see a sky-blue ball. With
each inhalation you draw etheric vitality from the atmosphere
into your lungs and your solar plexus, from where it spreads out
into all parts of your body. Your arms are also glowing in sky-
blue light.

Focus the light between your hands. It starts as a small

blue ball which gradually expands to fill your palms. When the
ball is complete turn it around in your palms. Toss it gently in
the air and have it return to your palms. You can feel its solidity.
You can feel its energy.

Now you are ready to send it out. Simply meditate on the

recipient for a few minutes, make a prayer that this ball will
help him, and allow it to leave your hands. It doesn’t matter
where he is, the ball will reach him.

To create a ball of rose or red light see a flame kindled in

your heart. It grows to form a perfectly round globe. Allow the
light from the ball to flood down through your arms, into your
hands and between your palms. There a ball of rose or red-
coloured light takes shape. When it is fully formed release it
with all your love towards the person in need.

To create a ball of orange light you will need to blend the

light from your heart (rosy-red colour) with the light from your

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head centre (yellow or gold colour). Simultaneously create a

sphere in the heart, and another in your head. See yellow or
gold light pour from your head down your arms and into your
hands where it meets and melds with a stream of rosy-red light
from your heart. Together they form a brilliant orange ball, the
size of a tennis ball, between your palms. Send it to the throat
of a person with a thyroid problem.

Keep the golden-yellow halo of your head full and com-

plete. Allow your heart centre to become calm. Direct the
golden-yellow light down your arms to the space between your
palms. When you have created a golden or canary-yellow ball
of light send it off to a person with noetical disturbances.

You will find that each colour has a different feeling, its
own vibration. Relax your arms between each effort and work
no longer than fifteen minutes at a time. After a while you will
be able to create these balls of light between your etheric hands.
As you become more proficient at creating and sending these
balls you will learn to sense when the balls are received and
what other help you can offer.

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Balls of Light for Self Healing

Raise your etheric arms and stretch them out before you. They
are bathed in white light and in your hands is a ball of sky-blue
light. Breathe in and out on a 4:4 count. As you concentrate and
breathe the ball becomes a brilliant blue light like the colour of a
Mediterranean sky at midday. Place this beautiful blue ball in
your solar plexus. Breathe in this rich blue light.
Once again stretch your etheric hands out in front of you.
Breathing on a 4:4 count see a rosy ball take shape in your
hands. With each breath the rosy hue becomes richer. When you
have a radiating ball of pure rosy light place it on your chest
over your heart, and let your heart absorb this light.
With your etheric hands in front of you see and hold a ball
of radiating golden light. Fill this golden ball with etheric
vitality, and bring it to your forehead towards the bridge of your
nose. Let the ball fill your head and extend as a gleaming halo.
Drawing on the rose light from your heart, blend it with
the golden light around your head, and visualize a ball of
orange light in your etheric hands. Shape this orange light – a
marriage of the heart and mind - into a small ball. Place it on
your throat in the area of the thyroid. Wish for your blood to be
clean and pure.
Finally create a ball of shining white light of life. Breathe
deeply until this ball is radiating pure snow-white light. Allow
your white etheric arms to shift their colour to a rosy pink – the
light of logoic love. Study the contrast between the ball of
white light and your rosy arms. Dedicate yourself to Joshua.
Slowly see the white ball dissolving into your rosy etheric
hands. Once it is fully absorbed wish good health to your
present-day personality with its three bodies.

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OUR THREE BODIES

I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

Kabir
We swim in an ocean of etheric vitality that surrounds and
permeates the globe. Through breathing, sunshine, rest, and
food we take this etheric energy into our bodies to replenish and
restore our health and well-being. Etheric vitality is no less
important to our health than is our warm blood. Each of us have
habitual patterns of renewing our stock of etheric vitality and,
as well, expending this vital energy. No one has greater access
to etheric vitality than another, only some have learnt to absorb
it more consciously. Conversely, many carelessly exhaust their
supplies, finding themselves fatigued, ill-tempered, or even
falling ill.
Let us say we are granted a hundred units of etheric
vitality each day. The Archangels need 40 units to maintain
health in our bodies. Simply by living and going about our daily
lives we expend a further 40 units of etheric vitality. The
remaining 20 should last the day if we live free from the effects
of stress.
If your life is unduly stressful you will find the extra 20

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units are consumed through worry and anxiety. If you are given
to fits of anger, depression, episodes of self-pity, or indulge in
excessive jealousy, you will find yourself drained of all life-
giving energy, rendered exhausted and vulnerable. On the other
hand, if you are peaceful, life-loving and content, you will
have a bounty of energy that you can share with others.
The following exercises will help you restore strength in
your bodies and work in a preventative manner to avoid ail-
ments, but they are by no means a substitute for the work of
cultivating your personality. We have to move beyond the
self-corruption of obsessively engaging in base emotions and
desires. This is truly preventative work which will lead us to
life beyond the realms of distress and disease.

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A Shell of Light
Ye are all the children of light,
and the children of the day:
we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:5

During the day we may feel fatigued by endless activity. We

need, from time to time, to stop and balance ourselves lest the
stress of our hectic lives lead to poor health.

Sit comfortably in a quiet place. Calm your thoughts and

emotions; let all your worries go.

As you breathe feel etheric vitality fill your lungs and

extend throughout your body. The oxygen is contained in your
lungs, but etheric vitality spreads throughout the body.

Through your breathing a light is kindled within you.

With each in-breath this interior light becomes more and more
luminous. As you exhale all the darkness from within leaves
you. The light continues to radiate and your entire body is now
glowing with white light. See the light continue to expand and
take the shape of an egg. This snow-white egg surrounds you
evenly on all sides.

Breathe in the white light. You are clean, healthy and

energized. Wish good health to your three bodies and your
present-day personality.

We suggest that you practise this exercise after your

nightly introspection and before leaving your house in the
morning. By engulfing yourself in a cradle of white light you

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are benefitted in two ways. Firstly, you help keep your energy
levels high by not allowing etheric vitality to seep subcon-
sciously from your etheric double. Secondly, the shell of light
retards any negative elementals, either directed at you or float-
ing in the common atmosphere.

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Good Health

Relax completely. Breathe deeply but comfortably. Be aware

of the soles of your feet, then your calves, your knees and your
thighs. Feel you are in both your legs. Feel them, be conscious
of them. You’re using both sensate and kinetic ethers. See your
legs surrounded and penetrated by pure white light.

Now move up to your abdomen, and from the centre of

your solar plexus create a sky-blue ball that spreads out through
the abdomen and extends for a few inches beyond the material
body. The ball should be perfectly round and about the size of
a beach ball. Keep your attention simultaneously on your shin-
ing white legs and the blue ball. Breathe deeply.

In your chest see a globe of rosy light. This ball is slightly

smaller than the one radiating in your solar plexus. It extends
outward from your chest cavity and although it overlaps the
blue ball, the colours and shapes remain distinct. Your arms and
legs are bathed in snow-white light, your solar plexus radiates
sky-blue light, and centred in your chest a rosy globe spreads
outward. Breathe deeply.

Keep your focus on all the colours and, at the same time,
move your awareness up into your neck. There, around the
thyroid, see a bright orange ball about the size of an orange.

Continue upwards and see a golden light radiating from

the centre of your head around the entire skull. Inhale deeply
and visualize your entire body in this array of colours with each
ball radiating its distinct colour, overlapping yet remaining

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unblended. You are blessed with a sensation of perfect health.

Breathe in these life-giving lights. Wish all your bodies

good health and allow peace to reign in your heart. ‘Thy King-
dom come, thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven’ (cf.
Matt. 6:10).

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Health and the Subconscious

The six-pointed star is the universal symbol of Creation. The

five-pointed star is the archetypal symbol of the human form
and a balanced personality. When you invoke these symbols in
exercise you situate yourself in the harmony of the Divine Plan
and the perfection of the human form. By orienting the three
bodies in this essential state of health and well-being you will
gain self-conscious control over your subconscious.

Feel your legs from the toes to the place where you are
sitting. See them radiating a bluish light. Without taking your
attention away from your legs, expand your awareness into
your abdomen. See your entire body glow with the blue light.
In the centre of the solar plexus, see an emerald-green light,
round and shining like a jewel.

Move up to the chest and see there a ball of rosy light and
at its centre a small golden sun. Breathe deeply; see the rosy
light grow in intensity until your shoulders and arms are also
radiating this rosy light. Your feet and legs continue to glow in
the blue light. Now see a ball of orange light at your thyroid,
and a canary-yellow or golden light emanating from your
head.

Feel your entire body and breathe deeply. Your head

glows in a golden gleam, your shoulders, arms and chest in a
rosy light, your legs and abdomen in a blue light, and the centre
of your solar plexus in an emerald-green light. See all the col-
ours.

Now concentrate on the golden halo which extends about

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six inches around your head. Be in that halo for a while. See
your entire body turn snow-white. Your body is surrounded by
a comforting white light.

Look again at your solar plexus and see a vibrating

emerald-green five-pointed star. Look into your chest. On your
heart centre a yellow six-pointed star has formed. The halo on
your head has taken the shape of a golden triangle rising up off
your shoulders and enclosing your entire head.

The six-pointed star is Creation in Divine harmony. The

five-pointed star is the human form, balanced and Wealthy.

Breathe deeply and order your subconscious:

I want perfect health in my material body.

I want order and peace.
I want full control over my psychical body.
I want to master my emotions and desires.
I want full control over my noetical body.
I want sober and constructive thoughts to rule my life.

Continue to tell your subconscious:

My thoughts will no longer enslave me, my emotions will no
longer trouble me, and my physical body is clean and vigorous.
I am the master of my gross material, psychical and noetical
bodies. I feel strong and healthy in all three bodies! I am the
master of my destiny!

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Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a
tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but
whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take
away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall
compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that
asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not
thou away. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love
your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and
on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For
if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not
even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren
only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans
so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.
Matthew 5:38-48
 INTROSPECTION AND
THE COMMON SELFHOOD

A new commandment I give unto you,

That ye love one another;
as I have loved you,
that ye also love one another.
John 13:34

Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend,

hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great,
and ye shall be the children of the Highest:
for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke 6:35
All of us have our own reasons and life-events for turning our
outward gaze inward. Many are growing disenchanted with
materialistic cultures and mentalities that now seem to blanket
the globe and pervade every aspect of our existence. We are
struck by the paradox that material wealth has come at the price
of spiritual poverty. As we are torn from each other, we are torn
from our Inner Self. So we are turning away from the outer
chaos towards an inner clarity, an inner calm.
Yet many of us soon find limits in our work. We find it
hard to let go of all our worries, our fears, our doubts. We are

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plagued by distractions and are often unable to summon suffi-

cient will to overcome all the resistance. We find ourselves
caught in a cycle that is difficult to break. We lack faith.
Faith is the transformation of the personality so that it may
more properly express its essential nature. When Joshua said,
‘thy faith hath made thee whole’ (Matt. 9:22), He was speaking
of this. All those He was able to heal had already worked on an
inner transformation. Faith, as such, is an active virtue in which
the determination to know more of the Divine leads the aspirant
towards overcoming the egoistic tendencies which have hin-
dered and harmed. It is through faith that we slowly and
methodically let go of the cumbersome emotions and desires
that prohibit our access to higher energies.
It has been said that, ‘we never really know how ill we are,
until we begin to improve.’ We are careful to protect ourselves
from seeing the true extent of our corruption lest guilt and
remorse grow too great. One of the most difficult chores of a
Researcher of Truth is that of confronting himself, allowing
himself to see the harm he is causing to himself, his family and
friends. This is not easy, but there is no other way than total and
endless honesty with oneself.
The central tool and the most basic practice of seekers,
from every tradition and age, is daily introspection. Introspec-
tion is exploring the attributes of the present-day personality as
it expresses itself in itself and in relation to others.
Our present-day personality is the sum total of the ele-
mentals that we have generated from within or adopted from
the common psycho-noetical atmosphere. Elementals are
assimilated into our character and form our constitution. The
cultivation of the present personality starts before birth with the
traits and tendencies we carry from previous lives. The per-

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sonality continues to develop with every experience throughout

a lifetime, resolving some issues, while creating other obstacles
for this life and the lives ahead.
Of our thought and activity eighty per cent are driven by
subconscious desires and needs. We are seldom aware of the
origins of our desires, and yet they dictate much of what we
experience, determining the extent to which we enjoy or suffer
from life. These needs and desires are in fact clusters of ele-
mentals that we feed with etheric vitality every time we act to
satiate their desire for fulfilment.
It is not that a subconscious is ‘bad’ or ‘good’, for in most
people it is a little of both. The subconscious is both inevitable
and invaluable, and it can be your best friend, when you allow
it to express Holy Spiritual Intelligence, or your worst enemy,
when it is overrun by base desires and unbridled emotions.
The subconscious, and the personality in general, can be
measured both in quantitative and in qualitative terms. As ele-
mentals can be characterized, they can also be numbered. By
and large, the bulk of our elementals serve egoistic ends rather
than contributing to the betterment of the Common Selfhood.
The majority of the difficulties we face result from our regen-
eration of base elementals.
Even Masters possess a subconscious. However, with
Masters the proportion of their subconscious to their self-
consciousness is smaller than ours and, furthermore, they have
implanted in their subconscious attributes of love and compas-
sion. If we liken the subconscious of an average man to an
infested jungle, these more developed human beings have
fashioned their subconscious into serene meadows. And when
a gardener cares for his garden, the garden will care for the
gardener.

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Introspection is an earnest effort to unveil our subcon-

scious to our self-consciousness so that we become more aware
of our motivations and activities. It is a process of cleaning the
subconscious so that we may better know ourselves and have
ever greater control over what we think, feel, desire and do. We
should strive to ensure that the elementals composing our per-
sonality are governed by love, reason and right-thinking.
Introspection will lead us out of the narrow confines of
our present-day personality into an expanded state of aware-
ness. Our petty personality will move under the wise wings of
our Permanent Personality, although not without protest.
Remember the egoism is crafty and will try to foil our efforts,
coming forward as ‘an angel of light’ (2 Cor. 11:14). So we
need to be wary.
Through certain exercises and enhanced understanding,
we will not only clean the subconscious, but also clear space,
making a fitting home for the Logos and the Holy Spirit to
express Themselves through a holy personality.
When we begin to remove and disenergize elementals
from our personality we must use care to fill the resulting
‘vacuum’ with wholesome elementals. Elementals exist in a
delicate balance with one another in the personality, and any
restructuring must occur slowly and surely. This is why lasting
spiritual advancement takes time. A personality is a careful
construction – for better or worse – and daily introspection is
a safe approach to improve the present-day self towards self-
conscious engagement in the Divine Plan.

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Daily Introspection
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 16:32

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:

condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned:
forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Give, and it shall be given unto you,
Luke 6:37, 38

Each night, just prior to sleep (when your subconscious is more

porous), relax completely and inhale in a 4:4 pattern. Either
lying in bed or sitting up (try not to fall asleep!) begin to recall
the day from start to finish. Review the events and encounters
of the day. With full impunity and leniency towards yourself
and others, ask yourself:

What did I think or feel that I should not have thought or felt?
What did I not think or feel that I should have thought or felt?

What did I say that I should not have said?

What did I not say that I should have said?

What did I do that I should not have done?

What did I not do that I should have done?

The goal is not to scold (nor to praise!) yourself or others, but

simply to study your activity as an impartial observer. Work to
correct your behaviour. With time you will grow more accom-
plished at seeing yourself and will find that your moral,
spiritual and mystical life will accelerate in growth.

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Learning to Love an Enemy

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;

and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink.
Proverbs 25:21

We often come into conflict with others in the community, even

in the family. Some find it difficult to forgive and will hold
grudges for long spells. As we develop along spiritual lines we
soon learn that in disliking others we are causing more harm to
ourselves than to the subject of our hostility. Anger, hatred,
enmity, and other base emotions consume etheric vitality in
great volume leaving us vulnerable to psychical and physical
discomfort. We also learn that it is fruitless to hate others when
we belong equally to the common brotherhood. The Lord
Buddha put it succinctly when he said, ‘hatred does not cease
hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.’

Relax completely. Bring to mind the face of someone with

whom you have been having problems. Perhaps recently you
have been quarrelling over a small matter, or maybe it has been
years since you have spoken because you disappointed each
other. It doesn’t matter now. Just visualize that person’s face in
front of you.

If you have differences with that person you will see on

his face an expression of anger or discontent. This is the
reflection of your own feelings. Forget all the differences that
have been harming your relationship.

See an expanding sun of light radiating from your heart.

The light is a soft rose colour and it lights and caresses the face
of the person in front of you.

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Clean our hearts to reflect Your Love towards you

and towards all other human beings. Our love is
Your Love.

With your thoughts tell your friend, ‘I no longer wish any diff-
erences between us. Let us forget the past.’ You can see his
face understanding and agreeing. This person can no longer
hate you.

Now you can see that fellow satisfied and happy. He is

expressing love toward you and you are returning that love. All
the differences are cast away. That friend is now happy, no
longer upset.

You have helped him and yourself. If it is impossible to

be together on the material plane that is all right. But on the
higher planes you have made peace. You have removed the
poison of hatred and complaint which handicaps the personality
and brings illness to the material body. Wish good health and
happiness to that person.

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Loving Your Enemies

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye,

but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Matthew 7:3

Those that truly love have nothing to forgive.

Daskalos

Relax and breathe on a 4:4 count. Bring to mind a collection of

persons towards whom you have some bitterness, or people
who have some hostility towards you.

This is a time for reconciliation, so feel no anger. With

every out-breath let go of any bad feelings that arise until you
feel peace.

It was not they who hurt you. No one can ever hurt you,
no one at all. Words, however hateful they may be, can never
hurt you. You only hurt yourself by accepting their energy and
reacting to the abuse.

See these people in front of you, taunting you, swearing

at you, insulting you or even raising a hand to strike you. Your
reaction is to smile with peace and understanding. In other cir-
cumstances you might be quick to anger, but now you
understand the fruitlessness of an ill-temper. What was it that
Joshua taught?

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft

shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto

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thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times

seven [Matt. 18:21, 22].

The feeling of being wounded or offended is self-punishing.

The desire to be apologized to is an expression of subtle ego-
ism. And Joshua Emmanuel taught that,

To hate those who love you is devilish.

To love those who love you is human.
To love those who hate you is Divine.

Return to their faces. They are disarmed by your state of peace.

They have forgotten why they were angered in the first place.
See these people with love. It is difficult now to understand
how it is possible to see any other person as an enemy as we all
share a common effort to learn and grow. They are your broth-
ers and sisters in the Common Selfhood – and Self-aware Souls
like yourself.

Whatever society we live in, no matter the trouble cur-

rently besetting the community, let us not have enemies, let us
not be unnerved by anything that anyone says or does to us. Let
us sow peace and thereby set an example.

Before ending the meditation, plant a seed in your subcon-

scious to think before you act. The next time you are in a
situation where you are inclined to anger or to react harshly,
pause and recall this exercise. Remember that you cause greater
harm to yourself than to others when you lose your temper.

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Three Suns

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the

kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 13:4

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8

The psychical body of each of us extends for miles around, the

noetical body much farther. As we move about, thousands of
people pass through our finer bodies, subconsciously experi-
encing our psycho-noetical attributes.
Joshua Emmanuel the Christ, as a pure expression of the
Logos, could pass among the multitudes and thousands would
be healed. We sow peace and love, or hatred and malice, simply
by living among others. We can heal or we can harm according
to the quality of our consciousness.
As we begin to put our house in order, purifying our per-
sonality, we learn to have conscious control over our
contribution to the greater psycho-noetical community. We
begin to maintain the purity of the Mind super-substance by
shaping it into benevolent and healing elementals.
Here is an exercise to increase awareness of your bodies,
and to enable you to extend them consciously and contribute to
the welfare of others.

Feel in your heart peace and love. Breathe on a 4:4 count.

Concentrate from the soles of your feet, to your toes and up to
your ankles. Now from the ankles spread your awareness
through your calf muscles into your knees. You are aware of
your legs from the soles of your feet to your knees.

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Continue breathing while you expand your concentration

through your thighs and up into the pelvis. You feel the entire
length of your legs now as they glow in a snow-white light.
Wish good health to your legs.

Now continue spreading your awareness by moving up

into the abdomen. Feel your solar plexus and see a small sky-
blue ball begin to take form. It grows brighter and brighter with
each breath you take, until it reaches the size of a beach ball. It
is transparent and extends all around your abdomen.

Maintain your concentration on your snow-white legs and

the sky-blue ball in your solar plexus, and now have your
awareness encompass your chest cavity. In your chest see a
rosy light the size of a tennis ball. Watch it as it expands and
grows brighter and brighter until your entire chest is radiating
this lovely light. The blue light of your solar plexus and the rosy
light of your chest overlap but remain distinct spheres of light.

You have full sensation from your chest down to your

toes. Continue breathing as you notice that your arms are
glowing with the same white light as your legs. Pray your arms
be blessed that they may be used to ease the pain of others and
to wipe away the tears of your fellow man.

Now move up through your neck and into your head.

Clear your thoughts and see a golden hue begin to surround
your head. Extending a foot outwards on all sides you have a
luminous golden halo. This golden aura meets the rose light of
your chest but each colour and each ball keeps its shape and hue.

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Now your entire body is radiating light: your legs and

arms shine with great whiteness, your abdomen and solar
plexus are engulfed in a lovely sky-blue ball, your heart and
chest are emanating a rose-coloured globe, and your head is
surrounded by a beautiful golden hue.

You have a desire to share with others the harmony you

are experiencing.

See the blue ball expand to reach far beyond the area in
which you stand. See it bathe every living being with peace
and contentment. Now bless your material body and ask that it
always be clear.

The rose light in your chest begins to grow in circumfer-

ence to cover a huge area of many, many miles. Wish love to
all as they are bathed in this light of love and peace. Wish peace
to your psychical body, and to the psychical body of every other
being.

The range of the golden light, as it spreads out from your

head cannot be measured. Perhaps it blankets the entire conti-
nent or even the globe. See all who dwell within this golden
halo to be in the peace of knowing and understanding. May
your noetical consciousness be always blessed, and may it
always bless others.

The three balls that were in your material body have now
blossomed into three great suns.

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After a while slowly, slowly contract the suns; first the

golden halo, next the rosy light and finally the sky-blue ball.
Wish good health to all other human beings and to yourself.

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Creating Peace

These things I have spoken unto you,

that in me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,

to the which also ye are called in one body;
and be ye thankful.
Colossians3:15

This exercise is helpful when you know of a location where

there is unrest and violence, perhaps a friend’s house, or a vil-
lage, or any place on the globe. You can help calm tempers and
allow people to see things more clearly by flooding these
areas with rose light from your heart.

Begin by inhaling comfortable deep breaths. Slowly

inhale white light, exhaling any darkness. Your material body
is now glowing in bright white light while your etheric double
is turning sky-blue.

Your consciousness is becoming lighter and no longer

hindered by heavy thoughts and emotions. Begin to expand
your consciousness in every direction from where you are sit-
ting. It passes out of the building, above the trees, like a
growing bubble, until you can see the town in which you live.
A lovely rose light pours out from your psycho-noetical heart
blanketing first your neighbour’s home, then the whole neigh-
bourhood and finally the entire town. You feel joy.

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You continue to expand to the point where you can see the
entire nation. Perhaps there is trouble in some part of it. Your
heart continues to pour out love for all. The whole country is
now covered in this light.

Next spread your awareness to encompass first the cloud

cover and then the atmosphere. You can see the whole planet.
It is a gorgeous paradise of deep blue oceans, vast mountain
ranges and lush plains. But you know there is fighting in vari-
ous parts of the world, great unhappiness, and you want to help.
From where you are, there are no borders marked, no lines
separating people. It is one world. All trouble is born of ignor-
ance and misunderstanding. We want to love one another and
live in peace.

Now your heart is a river of rose light which floods the

entire globe with peace and love. You see millions of smiling
faces bathed in the rose light. You see men laying down their
arms and embracing one another in common brotherhood. You
see people giving food and clothes to others in need.

Now you see the planet move towards you and nestle in
your heart. Moments ago you were on the planet and now it is
in you. Keep the planet in your heart. You are once again back
in your present-day personality.

Breathe deeply until you feel you have fully returned.

Wish peace and harmony to prevail the world over.

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Communal Prayer for Peace

Love all God’s Creation. The whole world and every grain of sand.
Love every leaf and every ray of God’s light.
Love everything. But remember that you must face
the mystery of God in everything you love.
Feodor Dostoevsky

The power of prayer to heal is now gaining much attention.

Scientists and doctors are beginning to recognize that focused
love and care for others is a powerful remedy in the healing
process.

Of related significance has been the recent recognition of

communal prayer in affecting positive change over a given
population. Tests have proven that if one per cent of a popula-
tion collect in unison prayer, a sharp change in behaviour can
be scientifically measured within that population. Such is the
power of thought, such is the strength of love.

There is too much pain, sorrow and strife in the world.

Many want to contribute to the amelioration of the wounds of
humanity yet feel helpless. Across the globe there is a network
of Researchers who synchronize their prayers for world peace
and harmony. You are welcome to join this community.

Each day at 9:00 pm sit and clear your mind of all thoughts, and
fill your heart with unconditional love. If you are a Christian
first recite the Lord’s prayer or, should you belong to another
faith, recite your own prayers.

Envision peace flourishing in the hearts of every man,

woman and child in every part of the globe. Sit in peace for a
few minutes and then, either internally or aloud, recite this
short prayer:
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Peace on Earth and goodwill to all.

Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.

There are many timezones and each of us will pray at a

particular hour – at 9:00 pm local time. It is invaluable to con-
tinuously fill this holy and blessed elemental of love and peace
with etheric vitality from all comers of the globe, for all comers
of the globe.

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Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom

of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took,
and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds:
but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and
becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in
the branches thereof.
Matthew 13:31, 32

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CIRCLES OF POSSIBILITY
AND PROBABILITIES

His delight is in the law of the LORD;

and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms 1:2

Be still, and know that I am God.

Psalms 46:10
Holy monadic forms are like the cells of the body of Absolute
Beingness. They belong to the Nature of God as Its Multiplicity
and Self-sufficiency. Yet as expressions they cast an autono-
mous and individuated reflection into the worlds of
separation.
We marvel at the great diversity we see around us. There
are insects which live but seconds, olive trees that have lived on
since before the time of Joshua the Christ, and galaxies which
form and dissolve over the course of billions of years. There is
perfect harmony and balance throughout the natural world
extending to the farthest reaches of the universe.
What dictates the life-course of each expression to allow
the phenomena of life? Where are Divine Wisdom, Love and
Almightiness within these forms?

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The Christ Logos and the Holy Archangels conduct the

genesis and development of each form, acting upon a Principle
instilled within each expression. We call this Principle the Cir-
cle of Possibility.
Each Circle of Possibility is immutable. It demarcates the
range of experience possible for every expressed form. There
is no transmigration between forms. Humanity always keeps
the human form; for, ‘Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive
berries? either a vine, figs?’ (James 3:12).
The simpler the form, the more discernible is its Circle of
Possibility. A flower will emerge from a bulb and grow until
ready to share its wonders, before it returns to the soil. Other
forms own more complex Circles.
The Circle of Possibility of the human form – a cherished
form in Creation - delineates the (seeming) departure from our
complete unity with God and the gradual return to the Godhead,
predicated on the development and purification of conscious-
ness. The full Circle of our form strings together a long series
of incarnations allowing a diversity of experience throughout
ages, cultures and communities. A smaller loop inscribes the
sequence of a single lifetime taking a personality from birth,
through adolescence, and into old age, exposing him to a broad
spectrum of sensations, perspectives and events invaluable to
the process of expanding consciousness.
Circles are, at times, interrupted. In conjunction with the
Circle of Possibility is the Principle of the Circle of Probabil-
ities. This stipulates that any Circle may be withdrawn for a
variety of reasons. A seed may not germinate. Or a seedling
may be over-watered and rot. Trees can become diseased and
die. A child may pass-over (to continue his evolution in another
dimension). These interruptions, when viewed from the limits

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of our vantage point, may appear unfair or even cruel. Yet

again, it is in accordance with the Total Wisdom, Love and
Power of the Divine Plan.
Developing an awareness of the grandeur of the Circles
of Possibility and Probabilities is instrumental in the cultivation
of consciousness to higher states. In many ways our ancestors
were more sensitive to the presence of God, the Logos and the
Holy Spirit, than we are today, as they lived in harmony with
the cycles of nature. They saw God’s hand behind the changing
seasons and life’s continual passages, in ways we have forgot-
ten. We must again see what a tremendous gift this world is.
Meditation on the many Circles of Possibility and Probabilities
evident around us will clear and expand our vision.

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An Almond Tree

I remember the days of old;

I meditate on all thy works;
I muse on the work of thy hands.
Psalms 143:5

Blessed of the LORD for the precious things of heaven,

for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun.
Deuteronomy 33:13,14
All around us there are so many wondrous forms. In Cyprus we
have beautiful almond trees. Let us examine the Circle of Pos-
sibility of an almond tree as it passes through the seasons. You
may use any fruit- or nut-bearing tree that is indigenous to your
area.

Visualize an almond tree. In winter you see the tree as

though it were completely dried up. Pure white snowflakes are
dancing in the air, and fall gently on to the tree and the ground
until all is covered in snow. The trunk and the leafless branches
stand out against the white background. Study this tree for a
while and breathe deeply.

As time passes the snow melts and the almond tree begins
to shoot forth buds, tender buds. Watch these buds evolve as
the days pass. Every few seconds of observation is like another
day. You are controlling time!

Soon the buds open up and lovely blossoms appear. Del-

icate white and pink, sweet-smelling blossoms explode all over
the tree while just a few moments ago it was still blanketed with
snow.

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Bees buzz from one flower to the next, pollinating. Feel

the freshness in the air; the cold weather is gone and spring has
fully arrived.

See the petals fall softly to the ground much in the same
manner as the snowflakes did. A bed of petals collects under the
tree. Look around the meadow where your almond tree stands.
It is teeming with life. What can you see?

With time the petals soak into the ground or are washed
away by the winds. By now young almonds are taking shape all
over the tree. It is late spring and the daytime temperatures are
very warm. The once muddy ground is now sun-soaked and
dry. Beads of sweat form on your brow and you take shelter in
the shade of the tree.

You watch as summer rolls by and the almonds grow in

size with each passing moment. Autumn replaces summer. The
time has come to harvest the nuts. You watch people as they
gather the nuts into bags and take them away in carts.

The air turns crisp again. The leaves of the almond tree
begin to pale, and one by one are swept away by an early winter
wind. A year has passed and snow falls again. You have studied
the tree – in all its seasons!

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A Rosebush

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;

they toil not, neither do they spin.
Matthew 6:28

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,

the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11

Relax completely and begin patterned breathing. Visualize

yourself in a beautiful garden on a warm summer’s day. You
are surrounded by lovely flowers and fragrances. A small brook
cuts through the garden over which hummingbirds dart back
and forth. Let your worries be carried away by the water. You
feel tremendous pleasure as you forget all the burdens of the
day.

Enter this lovely garden and sit or lie comfortably on a

blanket. Enjoy the life that surrounds you. Near you is a gor-
geous rosebush covered in soft white roses. Begin a study of its
Circle of Possibility. Where was this rosebush just five years
ago? Look into the past and see its life unfold.

It began as a small cutting - you can visualize it now. A

gardener nurses the fragile cutting in a greenhouse until the
frost has lifted and spring sets in. He then finds some fertile soil
and a sunlit spot. When it doesn’t rain the young plant is lov-
ingly watered. You can see the soil soaking up the water. The
warm sun bathes the tender life. It grows well under the care it
is afforded.

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The long summer leads into autumn. The leaves lose their
green hue and slowly fall off. You see the leaves float to the
ground and drift away in the winds. Winter approaches. The air
turns from cool to cold, and a storm lays a blanket of fresh
snow. Later more snow falls and covers up the young bush.
Perhaps too much snow will fall and the bush will not survive
the harsh winter – the Circle of Probabilities has interfered.

However, the bush does survive and with the eagerly

awaited spring it sprouts new leaves and small buds begin to
form. Look at these tender buds. You can reach out and feel the
textures. Be careful to avoid the sharp thorns.

Weeks later the bush is in full bloom. You see the

branches so laden with blossoms that they bow slightly down-
wards. You marvel at the richly layered petals. It is absolutely
glorious. There are so many flowers you decide to cut a few as
a gift for a friend.

Now, years later, you sit before your mature rosebush. It

has survived many seasons and is strong and sturdy. Take a
cutting from it and begin a new cycle of life.

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In All the Works of Thine Hands

Deuteronomy 16:15

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Psalms 17:5

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;

and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 33:6

There is not so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Meister Eckhart
No path is even and no travel without some spells of disquie-
tude. Few among us can say that we haven’t, at one time or
another, shared Thomas’s desire to see the nail prints (cf. John
20:27). In a world so tangible, we seek the apparently illusive
and are frustrated or even despondent when ready proof escapes
us.

There are no miracles other than life itself. Spread out

before us is an immaculate testimony to the presence of the
Divine. Periodically we should transcend the chaos of everyday
existence and meditate on the Total Wisdom that carries life.

Relax and breathe on a 4:4 rhythm. You are going to conquer

any existential anxiety that has arisen and reconfirm your faith
in the Divine order of things.

Let us begin with a study of the human body. What a

marvel it is. Consider how the two lobes of the brain are kept
safe in a bony skull and how your eyes also nestle in a protec-
tive casing. Your eyelids, brows and lashes work together to
protect them from danger. Your heart and lungs are guarded by
a sturdy cage of ribs. Your liver and spleen and other organs are
less vulnerable thanks to the protective peritoneum. Your gen-

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itals are well placed, secured from harm. The dexterity of your
arms and hands have yet to be duplicated by machines as sci-
entists and engineers admire the ingenuity of the opposing
thumb. We move about skillfully thanks to our well-designed
legs and feet.

Of those who have taken the time to study the glorious

human body few have failed to be astounded. The nervous,
respiratory, immune and blood circulation systems work in
perfect order and interplay – all powered by etheric vitality. The
capacity to carry and sustain a child, the inner workings of the
organs, down to the precise and minute motions of cells,
molecules and atoms, testify to an incomparable wisdom.

From the cleansing and life-giving rivers and waters to the

importance of the forest and foliage as great filters, we have
grown increasingly aware of the delicate balance of the earth’s
ecosystem.

Have you studied how the cycles of the seasons lend time
to the land that it may be rich and giving? And all this takes
place under a carefully layered atmosphere. You should aspire
to comprehend the wisdom of the planet.

Do you know that without our moon, which spins ele-

gantly around our earth at a speed of 2,300 miles an hour, the
earth would slip into another orbit. Imagine how perfectly sus-
pended our earth, our home, is from the sun. 109 times greater
in size than the earth, the sun is positioned no further than 95
million miles and no closer than 93 million miles from the
earth. A deviation of a few percentage points in either direction
would create conditions hostile to human life. There is an

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immaculate balance and harmony within this planetary family.

We spin around our sun at a dizzying rate of 66,600 miles

an hour, while our entire solar system rides through our galaxy
at a speed of 150 miles an hour. It requires 225 million years for
the sun to orbit the galaxy, which itself is propelled through the
gross material universe at a speed of 35,000 miles an hour. Yet
on a summer morning you can step out of your door and not a
leaf on a poplar tree wavers, nor a ripple disturbs a placid sea.

There is nothing in the universe that is not also in the

human body, and there is nothing in the human form that is not
also present in the universe.

In times when our troubles seem too many, let us

remember what a haven this world of ours is and how perfectly
designed life is to allow us to live and learn. By any human
measure the larger science of Life is difficult to fathom, well
beyond known statistical probability. And then let us remember
that life is not, nor ever was, a question of probabilities or
coincidences, but a most ordered and wise process in accor-
dance with the Divine Plan.

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And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of
them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods
that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all
together, and took his journey into a far country, and there
wasted his substance with riotous living.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in
that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined
himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his
fields to feed swine.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the
swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to
himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have
bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will
arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have
sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more wor-
thy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am
no more worthy to be called thy son.
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe,
and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his
feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat,
and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he
was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:11-32
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For in him we live, and move, and have our being.
Acts 17:28

There is no other parable of Joshua that speaks so clearly of the

human condition as does the story of the Prodigal Son. It is as
much the drama of the human form as it is the biography of
each of us as Spirit-Soul-Ego.
We learn of the separation born of free will: ‘a journey
into a far country’, tells of the humanization of an Archangelic
Order for a sojourn in the worlds of duality.
We hear about a bitter-sweet life of indulgence and waste
leading to Self-realization: ‘wasted his substance with riotous
living ... to feed swine ... when he came to himself’. With time,
both tired and awakened by a long series of incarnations, he
heads back home.
And then comes the repentance and the desire for reunion:
‘I have sinned against heaven, and before thee ... make me as
one of thy hired servants’, he intends to beg of his father. But the
father had expected his son’s return and ‘ran’ to embrace him.
This is a story of separation and reunion; but, above all, it
is a lesson of a father full of love for his children.
To conclude our lessons we often take the listeners into

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a state of introspection where they are reminded of their

essential nature and purpose. The meditations within this sec-
tion are examples of these journeys.

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Ye Have Been with Me from the Beginning

John 16:27
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to his own purpose and grace,
which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began
2 Timothy 1:9
Relax completely. Feel you are in your toes, feet, calves, thighs,
abdomen, and chest. Breathe deeply and comfortably and relax
every muscle in your body. Silence your psychical body. Let go
of all negative emotions and desires. Begin to slow your
thinking; indulge in fewer and fewer thoughts until your noeti-
cal body is calm.

Feel you are everywhere in your material body: your head,

chest, hands, abdomen, legs, and feet. You have to slow down
your way of thinking and feeling. Slowly ask yourself: Who am
I? Don’t be in a hurry. Who am I in this material body? Is this
material body mine? I am in it. I live in it. But who am I really?

Breathe deeply and comfortably. Who am I who can

change the rhythm of my breath? Previously I was breathing
subconsciously, my breath being guided by the Holy Arch-
angels. But now I take control and breathe willingly to the
rhythm of my heart.

Take control of what? Of your emotions. For unbridled

emotions and desires will exhaust your psychical body.

Breathe deeply. You can become master of your home,

your material body. Now you can influence your subconscious,
your personality’s subconscious. Say, in your mind, I want

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perfect health in this material body of mine. The Archangels are

laughing: ‘What are we doing all the time? Are we not con-
stantly restoring good health in your body?’ Of course they are,
but you must realize this. Order your subconscious to aid in the
work of the Archangels. Help them to help you. Breathe deeply
and repeat: I want perfect health in this material body of mine.

Forget your name, forget your human form. You want to

investigate your Selfhood, not the material body, not gross
matter. ‘It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth noth-
ing’ [John 6:63]. You are the Spirit.

What am I? An entity receiving impressions from the

material world? Yes, I am also that. But I am more, much more.
I am I. This I-ness, myself I want to know. I want to enter into
full Self-Realization.

Who am I? What am I? I have cast away my emotions,

desires and thoughts, and yet I remain myself. I am I. That I-
ness I want to know and feel as myself. I am not my desires, my
weaknesses, nor my thoughts. These are constantly changing.
But my I-ness does not change. I am everlasting Life. Even in
a dreamless deep sleep, I am I. Waking, I recompose my petty
little time-and-place self, yet I am the I-ness. I am Life and I am
the Truth. What am I then?

You may not receive the answer immediately, but some time
you will awake and know the answer. The Holy Archangels and
your Guardian Archangel have heard you and, when the time is
right, they will reply to your questions. Continue breathing
deeply and comfortably.

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I Am in My Father and Ye in Me, and I in You

John 14:20
If the only prayer you say in your whole
life is ‘thank you’ that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Relax your material body completely. Move your attention
from your toes, through your feet, thighs, abdomen, chest, and
up to your head. Feel you are completely relaxed, no tension
whatsoever.

You are living in a material body and yet you know very
little about it. The Holy Archangels of the elements are working
in your body. They care for the circulation of your blood, your
breathing, and for the steady beat of your heart. In perfect har-
mony, with Total Wisdom, the Archangels take care of your
health, making your body a fitting home for you to live in. You
feel your material body with the sensate ether in your etheric
double. You are in your material body.

You must begin to understand how these Holy Arch-

angels – one Archangel from each Order – are working for you.
It is your body, and you feel it now. It has been given to you to
make good use of. Yes, it is yours! It is a perfect gift of the
Absolute Infinite Beingness as part of the Divine Plan. It is
given to you, a human being, so that you may express yourself
through it. For you the material body is a reality because you
can feel it. Master this material body of yours and make good
use of it.

You are also a living personality – a man or a woman with

a name and certain characteristics. This is you as a present-day
personality, as a logoic being expressing itself in Creation. As

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this personality you exist in time, place and space, to be born,

to live, and some day to pass-over. You express yourself as
emotions, desires, and thoughts.

Now, try to separate an emotion from a thought and you

will find that you have enslaved your thought to your emotions
and your desires. But emotion and thought are Mind in two
different frequencies of vibration. You are expressing yourself
as both emotions and thoughts.

Ask yourself: ‘Who and what am I as a feeling per-

sonality, and who and what am I as a thinking being?’

I see before me a threefold mirror: the material, psychi-

cal and noetical bodies. What kind of self do I see now in these
mirrors? A self completely distorted. Can I see this self of mine
clearly reflected so as to know who and what I really am?

You are not your material body, you are not your emo-
tions and you are not your thoughts. They are given to you to
use so that one day you may realize who you are: a Spirit-
Soul-Ego.

Your Spirit-Ego-Being is beautiful and perfect, though

your personality may not always be so. Your Inner Self, the
Inner Self of everyone, is a Divine god. Try to make your
time-place-space self, your personality, as pure and perfect as
your Inner Self.

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How are you living? See yourself now in your base emo-
tions, in your weaknesses, in the subconscious reactions of your
personality to the environment. Do you believe that you have
enemies? Your heart has not been given to you to hate and
complain. Your heart has been given to you to reflect the Love
of Absolute Infinite Beingness. Do you allow your heart to
reflect the Light, Love and Life of Absolute Infinite Beingness,
your Father?

God is our Father. As Spirit-Ego-Beings we are always in

Him and have never been created. But as human beings, as
present-day personalities, we have been created. We need to
realize that in our present-day personality is the Divine Spark,
our Inner Immortal Self.

You must ask sincerely: Who am I? A feeling and think

ing being in a material body? What am I as life and who am I
even as a phenomenon of life?

Practise this meditation each day and a reply will come from
within. With this kind of meditation what are we doing?
Creating constructive elementals to help us see the truth. Every
thought, every emotion, creates an elemental. So you have to
know how to create or revitalize constructive elementals for the
betterment of yourself and others.

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I Am with You Always, Even Unto the End of the World

Matthew 28:20
The meaning of human life is the establishment of the
Kingdom of God on earth, and that means
the replacement of the egoistical, hating, dictatorial, and irrational
things with a Life of Brotherhood, Freedom and Reason.
Leo Tolstoy

Breathe deeply and comfortably. Feel completely relaxed in

your material body, no tense muscles. Calm down your emo-
tions and thoughts.

So many thoughts and desires are coming to me. Ele-

mentals I have created disrupt my concentration, presenting
themselves as pressing desires.

Suppose these desires are fulfilled, will they give me the

pleasure I first imagined having? Looking into my past I recall
countless desires. Many of them were fulfilled, then quickly
forgotten, and after a little while new, stronger desires
appeared.

Usually we desire something on the material plane.

However, once we possess it, it loses all appeal and value and
we want something else; and then something else again; always
something bigger and better than before. All that time wasted
in pain, agony, and anticipation – an endless chain of desires
with fleeting satisfaction.

Is it not time to control these feelings? If it is impossible

to fulfil a desire egoism will come forward to torment you,
demanding satisfaction. Egoism is never reasoning. Egoism,

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when very irrational, can lead to violence and crime. Egoism is

obstinate. Should we follow it, or study the circumstances and
decide to control ourselves?

We have to think seriously about the nature of desire, any

desire, the result of its fulfilment, and of the frustration of an
unmet desire. This is daily life. We create and revitalize an
endless parade of elementals with our thoughts, desires, needs
and emotions, thereby composing the subconscious of our per-
sonality.

Using reason I learn that I am not my desires, I am not

my emotions, nor am I my thoughts. I am not my egoism - with
its obstinacy and cruelty - often leading to enmities, malice,
and crimes.

Breathe deeply. I am a Soul I am I. I am living and living

is something very precious. I must value my life and the lives
of others, even those who consider themselves my enemies. Do
I have the right to make people unhappy? Do I have the right to
make my life unhappy? Each day my inner reality, my Spirit-
Self is blessing my personality with a new day of life.

Breathing is life. Breathe in rich oxygen; it is life-giving

etheric vitality. Yet vitality is not life. Life is He, the Love, the
Prince of Love. He is here in every one of us. He is the Logos
and we are logoic Beings within Him. Bring Him into your
personality. Breathe Life.

By doing this exercise daily what do you think will happen?

Provided you do it properly and you do not allow thoughts and
emotions to come and disturb you, an Archangel, or your

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Guardian Archangel, will appear in front of you. Or, if you

concentrate on the Logos, Joshua Emmanuel the Christ will
appear. Develop your sight and you will see Him. He is every-
where. We first reach Him through attunement to Him and,
some day, we will become one with Him. This is real happi-
ness. Happiness is in us, in the Kingdom of the Heavens
which is our Being.

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 AN ESSENE PRAYER OF JOSHUA
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength,
and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke 10:27

In conclusion we present a meditation given by Joshua

Emmanuel the Christ, our Lord, in the synagogue of the Essene
Brotherhood, to His disciples before sending them into the
world to work as teachers and healers.

Relax completely. Visualize Joshua Emmanuel the Christ

standing before you as you sit peacefully, listening. In perfect
at-one-ment with His Divine Self, the Logos, and attuned with
each and every human being, Joshua spreads out His arms and
says:

All of you, listen. You are my children, my offspring. I am

in you as God, as Absolute Beingness, your real Self, and you
are always in me as gods. And I am also with you as a human
being, as your loving father, within our loving Father.

Every breath you take, sustaining the life of your material

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body, is a fatherly kiss of mine for you. My beloved ones, I will

not only speak to you in words of any language, but will also
come to you as inspiration and as sensation.

I am the heat which keeps your body alive. I am the

breeze, the fresh air, that caresses your face, I am in your eyes
– as your sight – allowing you to enjoy my works around you,
as phenomena of life, I am the sight and I see all.

I am continuously creating Mind substance for you, to

keep your bodies thriving. I am the living ‘bread of life1 [John
6:48]. And I am the living water which you will drink and never
thirst again [cf John 4:10-14]. I am the Mind vitality every-
where in the world. I am Spirit and I am form. You are in my
Omnipresence.

I am the wise voice in your minds that speaks to you when

you are doing something which is not right; not rebuking but
awakening you. For I am reason in your thoughts and I am love
in your heart.

Cast away from your heart every bitter emotion, all

enmity, and any cruelty you may harbour .... I am the Life in
you. Enjoy my Life. You are my offspring, you are my flesh and
blood, part of myself,

I love you. Love all my expressions, love all other human

beings as your own self, and love all of life ‘as I have loved
you’, and as I will always love you [John 13:34].

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GLOSSARY

ABSOLUTE BEINGNESS, ABSOLUTE INFINITE BEINGNESS

GOD, THE FATHER, ALLAHA.
What we know of God we see in reflection as witnessed both
externally and internally. Absolute Beingness is, above all, the
Divine Common Selfhood, as Beings within the One Being.
Love, Light and Life belong to the primary Nature of Absolute
Beingness as Total Love, Total Wisdom and Almightiness. The
Love of God is universal, ceaseless, and unconditional. It is the
Love of God, expressed as Grace, which lies at the core of
Crea- tion. The Light is pure, luminous Super Self-
consciousness. Everlasting Life is the eternal motion,
generation and regener-ation of Its expression. Other
characteristics of Absolute Beingness, in Its Omnipresence,
include Multiplicity, Self-sufficiency and the Will-pleasure to
express Itself in Itself as Creation. Absolute Beingness
manifests Itself as the Logos and the Holy Spirit, ‘and these
three are one’ (1 John 5:7).

ABSOLUTE BE-NESS
That aspect of God which lies beyond the reach of human and
Archangelic comprehension. The ultimate Source, the fathom-
less and inarticulate depths of the Divine that are beyond
expression, for ‘no man hath seen God at any time’ (1 John 4:12).

ARCHANGELS, ANGELS
The Archangels are logoic and Holy Spiritual Beings, who
build, govern over, and project themselves into the universes.
Within Absolute Beingness are Orders of Archangels, Holy
Monadic Beings, each Order containing myriad upon myriad of
Beings of the same kind. We know of the existence of twelve
Archangelic Orders: Thrones, Authorities, Dominions, Princi-
palities, Overlords, Seraphims and Cherubims together with

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others, named and unnamed. They possess Total Wisdom,

Love, Power Absolute Self-awareness. Angels are elemen-
tals of the Archangels.

ARCHANGELIC MAN
Archangelic Man is an archetype. A Holy Monadic emanation,
on its way to the Idea of Heavenly Man, passes through the Idea
of Archangelic Man. For this reason, human beings are brothers
to the Archangels.

AT-ONE-MENT
A Super Self-conscious state in which a being is able to merge
itself in complete unity with any other being or existence, and
with Absolute Beingness in Theosis, without ever abandoning
its Self-Conscious Ego.

ATTUNEMENT
Adjusting our vibrations to the frequency of any other existence
or being to the extent that we can observe and study its nature.
Attunement is reached prior to at-one-ment.

BEING and EXISTING

Being is our Divine nature, boundless and eternal. Existing, as
the expression of Being, requires time–place–space conditions.
Existing has a beginning and an end and is thus a temporal
phenomenon.

CAUSAL STATES
Above the noetic state, the causal states are non-dual conditions
of pure Love, Causes, Ideas and Principles, cared for by the
higher echelons of the Archangelic Orders. They are also
known as the fifth heaven and above

CAUSE AND EFFECT, LAW OF

The Law of Cause and Effect is recognized by scientists as well
mystics. This Divine Law of growth, harmony and balance,

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requires action to result in reaction. Every deed, thought and

emotion has a consequence, either favourable or detrimental.
Karma, a term from the East, is the accumulation of the
‘effects’. Not limited to the gross material plane, this instruc-
tional Law can operate over several lifetimes as well as within
much shorter periods.

CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES

The Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness is the primal Cause. It
is the cause of Creation. From within the Will-pleasure of
Absolute Be-ness, all subordinate causes spring. Causes then
give rise to Archetypal Ideas. Archangels work through the
Ideas and apply Total Wisdom to each form. Every Idea holds
within it the whole Circle of Possibility and Probabilities of the
form to be manifested. Principles govern the expression of
causes in time, place and space.

CIRCLE OF POSSIBILITY
Each form contains a Principle known as the Circle of Possi-
bility. A full embodiment of Total Wisdom, this Principle
delineates all the expressions of each phenomenon of life. All
forms are continually developing: from seed to tree, from child
to adult. Life requires change, movement, so that experience
may be gathered from the many perspectives of a Circle. Each
form changes in appearance, though never in nature. In the
Eternal Now a form is complete, with its Circle of Possibility
already established. On entering the worlds of existence
(material, psychical and noetical), the Circle of Possibility of a
human being is inscribed on the Permanent Personality. No
form can escape its Circle of Possibility, thus ruling out trans-
migration from one form to another (humans will always
reincarnate as humans).

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CIRCLE OF PROBABILITIES
While the Circle of Possibility is the ideal development and is
inescapable, the Principle of the Circle of Probabilities allows
for the halting of a developing life at any point in its expression
in a given plane. A seed may not grow, a young tree may
become diseased and die, or a child may pass-over (to continue
in another dimension). Within each Circle of Possibility we find
millions of probabilities.

COMMON SELFHOOD
As present-day personalities, we may come into conflict with
one another and the gulf between us may seem great, but in our
logoic consciousness we are unified and indivisible. That is
what Joshua Emmanuel the Christ taught when He said,
‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me’ (Matt. 25:40). This is the
Common Selfhood. In other places Joshua speaks of this: ‘Ye
shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you’
(John 14:20) and ‘I am the vine, ye are the branches’ (John
15:5). That we all share an equal place in Christ is one of the
most profound and greatest truths.

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMIC MEMORY

In the Cosmic Consciousness every event, past and present, in
all the universes, is recorded and preserved. The Cosmic Con-
consciousness is constructed of Mind by means of living
elementals in the eternal now. Contained within the Cosmic
Consciousness is the Cosmic Memory (Sanskrit: Akashic
record). This is the ‘heavenly archive’ where impressions,
actions, thoughts, emotions and desires are chronicled. By
attuning himself to the Cosmic Consciousness a mystic can –
within the limits of his own development – study and know the
Cosmic Memory.

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CREATION
Manifestation of Absolute Beingness in Itself as the universes,
from the highest heavens to the worlds of existence, in accor-
dance with Its Divine Plan.

DIVINE LAWS
The basic structure of the Divine Plan, governing all worlds and
universes, and corresponding to our higher nature. Epitomizing
Reason and Love manifested, it is our recognition of, and
alignment with, these Laws (e.g. of Cause and Effect, of Har-
mony, of Order, of Growth and of Love) which lead to
enhanced spiritual development.

DIVINE MEDITATION
Divine Meditation, for lack of a better term, is believed to be
the state prior to the Will-pleasure where Absolute Be-ness con-
templates expressing Itself within Itself

DIVINE MERCY
A little understood, but most compassionate force in Creation,
Divine Mercy permits the miraculous, the seeming exception to
the Law of Cause and Effect, to take place. James, in his epistle,
wrote, ‘and mercy rejoiceth against judgement’ (3:13).

DIVINE PLAN
The blueprint of Creation, perfect and complete, accounting for
everything and for all occurrences. Attuning our thoughts and
actions to the most wise Divine Plan of Absolute Beingness is
the purpose of our existence.

ECSTASY
Entering the Kingdom of Heavens through expansion, attune-
ment and at-one-ment. Ecstasy is of the heart as it implies a
passing beyond all conceptual thinking.

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EGO and EGOISM

Our use of these terms is not to be confused with contemporary
psychological terminology. Egoism misuses Mind through the
construction of selfish desires, through base emotions, greed,
malice and envy. The Ego (with a capital E) is the Self as
Beingness, our Soul-aware Soul nature, and is reflected through
a reasoning and loving personality. While egoism (the sum total
of unbridled elementals) is the source of dis-ease throughout the
personality, the nation and the world, our Ego nature brings
forth love, compassion, reasoned thinking and reasoned
action.

ELEMENTALS
Every thought, emotion and desire creates and transmits an
elemental – also called thought-form – that carries on an exis-
tence of its own. We create and regenerate two types of
elementals. When negative emotion prevails over thought, we
have created emotional thought-forms, or desire-thoughts.
When our ideas, desires and emotions pass through reason and
love, we create reasoned thought-forms, or thought-desires. An
elemental can never be destroyed, only dis-energized (when no
longer fed with etheric vitality). Elementals of a kind collect to
form powerful group elementals. If an individual, or a collec-
tion of individuals, are vibrating at the same frequency, they
will attract such group elementals. Archangels also create ele-
mentals (e.g. nature spirits and angels) in the service of the
Divine Plan.

ETERNAL NOW, ETERNAL PRESENT

Time and place are concepts resulting from, and sustained by,
impressions generated in the worlds of separation. Conse-
quently the concepts and the experience vary according to your
location within the Universe. The worlds of existence are con-
tained within the higher, causal heavens, of the Eternal Now.
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Any experience we have in the worlds of existence is but a slice

from the larger whole, the state of Everlasting Life, where past,
present and future collapse into the Eternal Now.

ETHER
Within etheric doubles etheric vitality breaks down into four
conditions of ether: creative, sensate, imprint, and kinetic.
Creative ether constructs and maintains the phenomenon of life.
Imprint ether is used to shape etheric vitality. Sensate ether is
the ‘feeling giving’ ether, and kinetic ether facilitates motion.

ETHER, ETHERIC VITALITY

‘Our daily bread’, etheric vitality (Mind at a certain frequency)
is obtained from the sun, breathing, meditation, food and rest.
We swim in a sea of etheric vitality which surrounds and per-
meates the globe, yet, through disharmonious lifestyles, most of
us exhaust our portion of etheric vitality and are unable to
restore it. Everything in existence, including our bodies, is
constructed within a mould of Mind vitality (i.e. the etheric
doubles).

ETHERIC CENTRES, SACRED DISCS

Centres of energy and activity (Sanskrit: chakras) located at
various points on the etheric doubles of our bodies. Each of the
three bodies, from the gross material to the more refined, dis-
plays these centres, which correspond to organs of the material
body. These centres act as gates and storehouses for elemen-
tals.

ETHERIC DOUBLES
Each body of everything in existence, from the simplest to the
most complex structures, possesses an etheric double centred
within the body and extending slightly beyond it. The etheric
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a body’s construction and in the preservation of a body’s health.

Within etheric doubles ether is accumulated and distributed to
various parts of the body. The etheric double exists as long as
the body (whether material, psychic or noetical) is projected.
When a body dies (passes-over), its etheric double dissolves.

EXOSOMATOSIS (Εξωσομάτοσς)
The Greek word equivalent to the English expression ‘out of
body’. We know of a first (from the material body), a second
(from the psychical body) and a third (from the noetical body)
exosomatosis. We all leave our bodies each night, during sleep,
and travel to other planes subconsciously. The aim, however, is
to live self-consciously while out of our bodies.

FAITH
Not only an individual or theoretical belief in the dogmatic
truths of a religion, but an all-embracing relationship, a recog-
nition of, and love for Absolute Beingness. As such it involves
the transformation of our personality, whereby we are taken up
into the whole theanthropic activity of God in Christ and of man
in Christ through which we realize our Theosis. Faith, above all,
is an active virtue: ‘Faith without works is dead...’ (James
3:26).

FORMS
Anything, in order to exist, is created according to an everlast-
ing Divine form. There are billions of forms reflected in the
worlds of existence. Each form possesses a unique Circle of
Possibility, established in Total Wisdom, that demarcates its
expression in the worlds of separation. The Archangels work
through the forms to create and sustain the phenomenon of life.

GUARDIAN ARCHANGEL
At the point of our first incarnation, having passed through the
Human Idea, each of us is protected and guided by a Guardian

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Archangel. Throughout our long sojourn in the worlds of sep-

aration, our Archangel helps our Permanent Personality plan
and experience each incarnation – all our valuable lessons –
though never tampering with our free will. Our most faithful
companion, this Archangel (with whom we are egofied), is
from the order of the Thrones.

GROSS MATERIAL WORLD, BODY

The lowest vibration of Mind. Mind made solid to compose the
three-dimensional gross material world and body.

HEAVENLY MAN
Also called the Idea of Man or Human Idea. Our bodies are
constructed according to the Causal Law of the heavenly human
form.

HEART CENTRE
Not simply the physical organ but the spiritual centre of
mankind’s being. Man made in the ‘image and the likeness’ (cf.
Gen. 1:26) of Absolute Beingness as Reason and Love, our
truest self, our inner sanctum, through which the mystery and
union between the Divine and the mundane is consummated.
‘Heart’ has thus an all-embracing significance. Prayer of the
heart means prayer not just in the emotions and affections, but
of the whole person. We should strive to purify our hearts for
‘God knoweth your hearts,’ writes Luke (16:15).

HOLY MONAD, HOLY MONADIC SELF

Our real identity as Spirit-Ego-Beings. A Holy Monad might be
thought of as one of countless myriads of ‘cells’ within the
Multiplicity of and Self-sufficiency of Absolute Beingness.

HOLY SPIRIT
Impersonal Super-consciousness that expresses the Omnipotence
of Absolute Beingness and makes possible the creation and

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preservation of the universes. The dynamic aspect of Absolute

Beingness as Total Wisdom and Almightiness. We experience
the Holy Spirit as universal Wisdom and healing force.

HUMAN FORM
see HEAVENLY MAN and FORMS

IDEAS, DIVINE
see CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES

INDIVIDUATED SELFHOOD
The Personality as a unified Divine Being. Selfhood encom-
passes all the expressions of the Self from Its apex as the Holy
Monadic Spirit-Ego-Being filtered down to the petty present-
day personality. Within the Selfhood not a single expression is
devalued; each is cherished in its own right. Our Spirit-Ego-
Being partakes in the Will-pleasure of Absolute Beingness (to
express Itself in Itself) by expressing Itself within Its own
Selfhood.

INNER SELF
A term indicating the Self in Its expression as the Permanent
Personality.

INTROSPECTION
An inner exploration to trace the sources of our emotional and
noetical behaviour with the resolve to self-consciously structure
our personality and its subconscious. The determination to free
the self of the limitations of egoism, by releasing ‘your con-
science from dead works’ (Hebr. 9:14), is moving towards the
wise and loving voice of the Soul. Daily introspection, also
termed ‘looking within’, is the process of self-examination, of
‘knowing thyself’. This is the core practice of every Researcher
of Truth and all those interested in Self-Realization.

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JOSHUA EMMANUEL THE CHRIST

God’s ‘only begotten Son’ (John 3:16). Joshua is a direct and
pure Ray of the Logos incarnated, by immaculate conception, in
Palestine twenty centuries ago as the ‘son of man’ (Matt.
18:11). His Divine Teachings, as preserved in the New
Testament, are cherished in our work as universal and timeless,
offering indispensable guidance in the exaltation of
consciousness.

KARMA
see CAUSE AND EFFECT, LAW OF

LOGOS, CHRIST LOGOS

The Logos, the Divine Common Selfhood, is Absolute Being-
ness manifested as Super Self-consciousness. Logos has been
translated from the Greek to mean ‘Word’ and ‘In the beginning
[authority*] was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God’ (John 1:1). The Logos is ‘the real light which
enlightens every man … coming into the world’ (John 1:9)
Joshua Emmanuel speaks as the Logos when He says, “I am the
Son of God’ (Matt. 27:43), and as Joshua when He speaks as
the ‘son of man’ (Matt. 18:11)

MEDITATION
The inner reaches of introspection become the outer reaches of
meditation, as the exploration moves beyond the subjective
experience of the present-day personality, into the boundless
oceans of Mind, towards alignment with the universal and
eternal.

MIND
Mind is the bearer of all Life. Everything that exists is made of

* The Greek word αϱχή (arche) has two distinct meanings. The first, and more popularly used,
indicates a ‘beginning’. The second, and one the author believes to be the real meaning,
suggests ‘authority’. Please note that John’s gospel was originally written in Greek and then
mistranslated into Aramaic.

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Mind at varying frequencies from super-substance, substance,

to solid matter. Mind is an emanation of Absolute Beingness
imbued with the Total Wisdom, Love, Power and Purity of its
Creator. Mind, however, is not an immortal Being, but rather
substance eternally used in all Creation. Mind is Divine at its
source, and holy in its expression. When mind is used to express
its everyday, idiomatic meanings, it appears with ‘m’ in the
lower case.

MULTIPLICITY
Absolute Beingness in Its manifold nature as gods within God.
The entire diversity of Life resides within God, ‘which is his
body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all’ (Eph. 1:23)

NOETIC STATE
The mental world. A state of Ideas and unexpressed forms in the
Eternal Now. From the noetic state the Archangels derive the
forms for creating and sustaining the phenomena of life. This
state is where we may come to rest in between incarnations.

NOETICAL WORLD, BODY

The five-dimensional world, and the most rarefied of the three
worlds of separation. In the noetical world – the world of
thought and home of the noetical body – the Total Wisdom of
Absolute Beingness first finds expression as thought-forms,
ranging from galaxies to unicellular organisms. This is a world
of seven planes, each with seven sub-planes.

OBSERVATION
Observation is part of our Divine nature. Attention without
tension. Perfect concentration. The ability to observe in detail
and to recall what we have observed is vital to our understand-
ing of the Divine Plan.

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PASSING OVER
A euphemism for what is commonly termed ‘dying’. Passing-
over is properly understood as an episode within a Circle of
Possibility where a personality concludes its existence in one
dimension only to continue in other worlds. It is in no way
separate from life but part of it.

PERMANENT ATOM
That part of the Permanent Personality which records the
experiences and lessons it has received in the space-place-time
worlds. The permanent atom is situated in the etheric heart of
each body simultaneously, and registers emotions, thoughts,
reactions and experiences as they occur in the worlds of exis-
tence.

PERMANENT PERSONALITY
The active and expressive part of Soul, both within and
beyond the worlds of separation. It filters knowledge to and
from the present-day personalities and distills wisdom.

PRESENT-DAY PERSONALITY
A personality developed during each incarnation, which we
may call ‘George’ or ‘Mary’ or whatever. The present-day
personality is a projection of the Permanent Personality into the
worlds of separation. This petty self, infatuated with knowledge
resulting from the five senses, is the sum total of its elementals.
The work of the present-day personality is to cultivate a hum-
ble, moral and loving character.

PRINCIPLES, DIVINE
see CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES

PSYCHIC WORLD, BODY

The four dimensional world, also known as the ‘world of

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emotions’. The super-sensuous psychical world is composed of

seven planes, each having seven sub-planes. It is to the psychi-
cal worlds that we travel in first exosomatosis, in our psychical
body, and to which, on passing-over, we first go.

PSYCHO-NOETICAL
The relationship between the psychical world (emotions) and
the noetical world (thoughts) is so interwoven that we need
often to consider them as semi-unified. There is scarcely a
thought without some emotion, and in every emotion there is a
measure of thought.

PSYCHO-NOETICAL IMAGE
A multi-dimensional image of the psycho-noetical substance,
formed through visualization by means of noetic light. Once
formed, this elemental is everlasting, as are all elementals.

PSYCHO-THERAPY
The esoteric Christian concept and practice of psycho-therapy
encompasses a complete range of healing. Not limited to treat-
ing problems within the personality, a true psycho-therapist is
concerned with the noetical, psychical, and physical well-being
of human beings. An aspiring psycho-therapist must train him-
self in many fields: self-conscious use of etheric vitality (as the
four states of ether), the ability to visualize, comprehensive
knowledge of human anatomy including the etheric doubles,
understanding the subconsciousness, and awareness of Divine
Laws. A psycho-therapist is first and foremost a humble
Researcher of Truth whose effectiveness in the healing process
(not considering himself a ‘healer’, but rather a worthy conduit
for the Holy Spirit) depends on the purity of his heart and con-
sciousness. Motivated by compassion, understanding and,
above all, love, he values a friend in need as a Spirit-Soul-Ego,
in the Common Selfhood, with time-place-space difficulties to
be resolved and evolved from.

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REPENTANCE
The Greek word for repentance, ‘metanoia’ (μετάνοια), signi-
fies primarily a ‘change of mind’ or ‘change of intellect’.
Repentance implies not only sorrow, contrition or regret, but
more positively and fundamentally an analysis of our erroneous
ways coupled with a resolve not to repeat them. Repenting
means turning our thoughts, emotions, and deeds towards
alignment with the Divine.

SELF-AWARENESS
A state of conscious awareness of the self within the Divine
Plan. Through work and will-power we awaken from the
slumber of everyday consciousness into a state of expanded
self-awareness.

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, SUPER SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness, in varying degrees, of ourselves as individuated
beings and existences. Through faithful introspection self-
consciousness expands into Super Self-consciousness, which is
total awareness in Beingness and existence also known as
Theosis.

SELF-REALIZATION
The culmination of life experiences in the worlds of separation.
At the point of Self-Realization, the present-day personality,
transmuted into the Permanent Personality, unified with the
Self-aware Soul, is prepared to assimilate with the Spirit-Ego-
Being in Theosis.

SELF-SUFFICIENCY
The primary Nature of Absolute Beingness: complete Abun-
dance, Blessedness and independence of all needs.

SOUL, SELF-AWARE
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Heavenly Man, a Soul is. The Soul is not created; it is the pre-
cious ‘pearl’ of Spirit (Matt. 13:45, 46). The incorruptible Soul,
which St. Paul called the ‘Spiritual Body’ (1 Cor. 15:44), is in
a formless state as Spirit, yet retains the human Idea. When
returning to the Godhead, the Soul marries the Spirit-Ego-
Being in a state of Super Self-consciousness, as the bride mar-
ries the bridegroom (cf. Matt. 25:1-13).

SPIRIT-EGO-BEING
Our Self as a Divine Being: boundless, eternal, and immovable.
Our Spirit-Ego-Being is the Self as Holy Monad, Super
Self-conscious and luminous, in at-one-ment with the Self-
sufficiency and Multiplicity of the Godhead. The Will-pleasure
of Absolute Beingness to express Itself within Itself is identical
with the Will of our Spirit-Ego-Being to express Itself in Its
own Selfhood.

SUBCONSCIOUS
Researchers of Truth understand the triadic nature of their sub-
conscious. One chamber of the subconscious contains all the
elementals composing our personality. The second chamber is
the storehouse of life-giving etheric vitality. The third and
most valued chamber is that of the Logos and Holy Spirit.

SYSTEM FOR THE RESEARCH OF TRUTH

Our system of esoteric Christianity celebrates the eternal truths
known to all great religious traditions, while firmly based in the
teachings of the God-Man Joshua Emmanuel the Christ and the
New Testament. Through directed study, exercises and medita-
tions, we seek the balanced evolution and integration of our
entire being, as we cultivate our moral, ethical, spiritual and
mystical aspects. Our approach is methodical, safe and self-
evident.

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THEOSIS
At-one-ment with the One God, Absolute Beingness. The
moment when the Prodigal Son, now Super Self-conscious,
returns home to his most loving Father.

TOTAL LOVE, WISDOM and POWER

Primary Natures of Absolute Beingness and all Beings. Form-
ing a sacred triangle, each Nature depends on the other in order
to be properly expressed.

VISUALIZATION
Visualization is a language of the Divine, the ‘key’ to the
kingdoms (Rev. 3:7). After learning to observe carefully and to
concentrate fully, we gain the ability to visualize consciously.
We shape etheric vitality to create elementals, from psycho-
noetical images to entire scenes. Through visualization, in
healing work, we learn to materialize and de-materialize. There
is nothing more powerful than thought, and visualization is the
process of harnessing thought in a constructive manner for the
expansion of the self and to aid others in need.

WILL-PLEASURE
Absolute Beingness expressing Itself in Itself as Creation. The
Will-Pleasure, in Greek euareskeia (Ευαϱέσϰεια), carries a
sense of pleasure derived from bountiful giving, as practised by
a warmly generous and wealthy source. God’s pleasure in
creativeness.

WORLDS OF SEPARATION
The three worlds of existence (material, psychical and noetical)
in which we spend our periods of seeming separation from
Absolute Beingness. These are worlds of duality, of space-
place-time, which we experience during each incarnation.

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Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis (known as Daskalos)
was born and lives on the island of Cyprus.
Daskalos was educated in a variety of disciplines
in Cyprus and abroad. Having worked much of
his life in the Government Printing Office,
Daskalos also spent some time living and
working in Africa.
Throughout his life Daskalos has enjoyed
composing and performing music (violin and
piano), writing poetry, gardening, studying
languages and painting. His great passion is
teaching about the purpose of life and how to
develop our understanding and experience of the
Divine.
For over seventy years, Daskalos has taught
esoteric Christianity to small groups of students,
more recently to a rapidly expanding
international audience.
Daskalos prefers not to be treated as a Master
or Guru, but as a Brother Guide and friend,
always willing to help others in their search. He
stresses the independence of the Researcher
while discouraging any relationship based on
dependence and dominance. He is the moral
director of over a 100 study circles, known as
A System for the Research of Truth.
He is a father of two daughters, a grandfather
to three and a great-grandfather to three.

The Stoa Series preserves, develops and

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‘Tell me what salt tastes like. Can
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You may also say that its chemical
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this: until you first place some salt
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