I'm keeping up the same effort because I've been in such surreal events recently, and the events have called for real ability to do battle from a higher centers realm: real will.
If I stop now I could get in trouble.
If I stop the prayer now too I could be in trouble.
Part of the surreal events is me getting falsely accused to the police and interrogated by the police (in this case REALLY falsely accused). If I didn't have self-command during these "battles" I'd have really put myself into the hands of the world (turned over to authorities, imprisoned. It's all very biblical.)
I've had to not internally-consider (the tempations have been directly on my vanity and pride).
So I'm like a grail knight who has been in a higher state, then has been in a battle, then continues on. If I just stop with the higher state part the next battle will do me in. I have to stay on my horse.
It's all blatantly an attack in a Christian context too. I'm not in the camp of the devil, so they are persecuting me (a loaded word: "persecuting". I know that.) Yet they are losing. I'm no longer in what I call a "liquid" state. When I first started becoming a real Christian I dissolved and was like in a liquid state. Very easy to mess with me. Now I'm no longer like that but am something substantial with understanding and ability to act from higher will (God's will). I can still overplay my hand (that's a temptation and weakness, like "I won that round, ha ha" and then indulge in resentment over the "injustices" in the aftermath and things like that), so I need to stay shrewd and recognize the dangerous ground I'm on.
I have understanding of the forces at work. It's the battle of not only entering into, but developing within the Kingdom of Light.
2/17/07
40 Day Work Effort (2nd of '07)
FEB. 17, 2007 THROUGH MAR. 28, 2007 (GOD WILLING)
Day17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Finished
Straight, basic 3rd State of Consciousness effort and provoking limits effort (self-remembering, non-identifying, real will). Prayer as higher will volition too. And reading the Bible for understanding. Then thinking/understanding in the language of cosmoses along the way.
Some schedule self-remembering too. (Combined with the straight self-remembering - duration, depth, and frequency - effort.)
Basically, to put a number and daily aim on it: 1 hr. (Again 1 hr., because it seems practical, and each hour can be more or less serious regarding the effort.)
Day
Straight, basic 3rd State of Consciousness effort and provoking limits effort (self-remembering, non-identifying, real will). Prayer as higher will volition too. And reading the Bible for understanding. Then thinking/understanding in the language of cosmoses along the way.
Some schedule self-remembering too. (Combined with the straight self-remembering - duration, depth, and frequency - effort.)
Basically, to put a number and daily aim on it: 1 hr. (Again 1 hr., because it seems practical, and each hour can be more or less serious regarding the effort.)
2/8/07
Language of Cosmoses 3
[Read this numbered series in order if anyone is (because I'm referencing things from past posts in the series).]
It becomes clear, when contemplating cosmoses and finding examples, that the distinction between the Macrocosmos and a Microcosmos is of a different order and is central to a human being's experience with the subject.
Just to be able to be (to have the potential to be) a pattern (full pattern) of the Macrocosmos is something that is truly special; and a human being can be a full pattern of the Macrocosmos, i.e. a Microcosmos.
Having the full image of God is being a microcosmos patterned after the Macrocosmos.
We were created as that but fell and lost that full image; but it can be recovered.
This is being a cosmos that is contained in a different way from other cosmoses. Less reliant on other things (though still reliant on God as source of all energy and everything).
That verse from the Gospel of John (4:14) says it (from the post below).
This is a subject almost separate from seeing the world objectively. Different anyway. Seeing yourself not only as a cosmos - your body and so on - but seeing it as an actual microcosmos of the Macrocosmos. The image of God and also the Universe itself.
There are subjects in here like healing too. Seeing yourself as a cosmos introduces such subject matter like healing, or getting a full-cosmos sense of your body and being. The body has these abilities to stay in tune, or to get back into tune, and to heal itself, to some degree anyway. (To not get injured or ill to begin with is best, and is part of being above the law of accident and other things.)
But getting understanding of ourselves and of God is part of this connection of Macrocosmos and microcosmos. All the Work teaching of many 'I's and Real I, personality and essence and so on is describing us as cosmos, and the universe as macrocosmos, and so on.
I just wanted to point out how the Macrocosmos/microcosmos subject is of a different order than cosmoses in general.
It becomes clear, when contemplating cosmoses and finding examples, that the distinction between the Macrocosmos and a Microcosmos is of a different order and is central to a human being's experience with the subject.
Just to be able to be (to have the potential to be) a pattern (full pattern) of the Macrocosmos is something that is truly special; and a human being can be a full pattern of the Macrocosmos, i.e. a Microcosmos.
Having the full image of God is being a microcosmos patterned after the Macrocosmos.
We were created as that but fell and lost that full image; but it can be recovered.
This is being a cosmos that is contained in a different way from other cosmoses. Less reliant on other things (though still reliant on God as source of all energy and everything).
That verse from the Gospel of John (4:14) says it (from the post below).
This is a subject almost separate from seeing the world objectively. Different anyway. Seeing yourself not only as a cosmos - your body and so on - but seeing it as an actual microcosmos of the Macrocosmos. The image of God and also the Universe itself.
There are subjects in here like healing too. Seeing yourself as a cosmos introduces such subject matter like healing, or getting a full-cosmos sense of your body and being. The body has these abilities to stay in tune, or to get back into tune, and to heal itself, to some degree anyway. (To not get injured or ill to begin with is best, and is part of being above the law of accident and other things.)
But getting understanding of ourselves and of God is part of this connection of Macrocosmos and microcosmos. All the Work teaching of many 'I's and Real I, personality and essence and so on is describing us as cosmos, and the universe as macrocosmos, and so on.
I just wanted to point out how the Macrocosmos/microcosmos subject is of a different order than cosmoses in general.
Language of Cosmoses 2
[Read this numbered series in order if anyone is (because I'm referencing things from past posts in the series).]
Seeing speed of perception, or different speeds of reality (I don't know how to put it) in a scene or event or whatever is an element that brings deeper vision and understanding into things. Time. Past, present, future. Now. That girl and her remark. Not only does it reside in a cosmos that is represented by her life and experience and history and immediate physical surroundings and forces and so on, but it also resides in a cosmos, or cosmoses, of higher time (and lower time?), that means recurrence, perhaps, putting it practically, but I'm just saying. Musing.
You can probably forumulate things like: How best to enter a cosmos. Nothing too mysterious, just don't frighten the cosmos. Recognize you're a foreign element entering that cosmos. Recognize you're a guest, I suppose.
Or if not a guest (or whatever you are) play your role adroitly. You can if you understand your role and the cosmos you're entering and all that. If you see the whole and see yourself as a part in that whole, in perspective.
Alot of this we do anyway. It's just basic worldly understanding and tact. Still, there is more to be understood there with the language of cosmoses. If you push it.
Criminals get this kind of understanding of people and institutions. Like a criminal who "knows" the law and the police and correctional institutions and all that. They get a confidence. They know what can be done against them and what can't. In a tyranny they can't work the system like that (a tyranny like hell). (Where the laws are chaos.) Or a scam artist on the street who can look at a person and "size them up" and all that.
But there's much deeper levels of understanding when thinking in the language of cosmoses. More there. Vision and understanding.
Anyway, the language of cosmoses gives language to what we mostly intuit up to this point. When language it put to what has up to now been intuition (and similar things) it becomes objective understanding. Potentially. By degree.
Seeing speed of perception, or different speeds of reality (I don't know how to put it) in a scene or event or whatever is an element that brings deeper vision and understanding into things. Time. Past, present, future. Now. That girl and her remark. Not only does it reside in a cosmos that is represented by her life and experience and history and immediate physical surroundings and forces and so on, but it also resides in a cosmos, or cosmoses, of higher time (and lower time?), that means recurrence, perhaps, putting it practically, but I'm just saying. Musing.
You can probably forumulate things like: How best to enter a cosmos. Nothing too mysterious, just don't frighten the cosmos. Recognize you're a foreign element entering that cosmos. Recognize you're a guest, I suppose.
Or if not a guest (or whatever you are) play your role adroitly. You can if you understand your role and the cosmos you're entering and all that. If you see the whole and see yourself as a part in that whole, in perspective.
Alot of this we do anyway. It's just basic worldly understanding and tact. Still, there is more to be understood there with the language of cosmoses. If you push it.
Criminals get this kind of understanding of people and institutions. Like a criminal who "knows" the law and the police and correctional institutions and all that. They get a confidence. They know what can be done against them and what can't. In a tyranny they can't work the system like that (a tyranny like hell). (Where the laws are chaos.) Or a scam artist on the street who can look at a person and "size them up" and all that.
But there's much deeper levels of understanding when thinking in the language of cosmoses. More there. Vision and understanding.
Anyway, the language of cosmoses gives language to what we mostly intuit up to this point. When language it put to what has up to now been intuition (and similar things) it becomes objective understanding. Potentially. By degree.
Language of Cosmoses 1
Musings on cosmoses...
Driving down the street I was thinking about cosmoses and how they are contained things, of order and beauty (in their own way, or just beautiful in a universal way).
I looked at other cars and could see they are mechanical cosmoses. I looked at buildings I was passing and could see they are cosmoses. Both need an outside source of energy though. The cars need fuel, the buildings need electricity and gas and so on.
Also, a big institution like a hospital building or a government building is a cosmos. When you enter it as a visitor you are entering a cosmos. The people who work there are part of that cosmos. You are a foreign presence in that cosmos (and you feel it usually).
Human beings, physical bodies, are cosmoses. We need energy from outside us: food, air, impressions.
Impressions can be from the Absolute III or the Absolute II.
(We eat, breathe, and live in cosmoses too. The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan are cosmoses.)
The Bible, I pondered, speaks on this subject regarding energy source:
Objective understanding comes from seeing in the language of cosmoses. Acting from the language of cosmoses. Speaking and thinking from the language of cosmoses. It is big enough to contain everything, even things that don't immediately seem "cosmosish." It contain, for instance, all the ideas and things of the cosmological side of the Work (that word alone: "cosmological"). Ray of Creation, Law of 7, Law of 3, Scale (Hierarchy), Relativity, Speed, Centers.
Also, for instance, seeing different "orbits" in the world. These are part of seeing in cosmoses. Orbits of whatever. Economy, social things, forces, laws, whatever. You then see things as a "whole," which enables real understanding. Actually: objective undersanding. Seeing parts in relation to a whole.
So with the language of cosmoses you can see any scene or event and connect it with its whole and get objective understanding of it. Even something like a remark made by a girl. You see the "whole" that that remark and that girl resides in. Seeing objectively.
External-considering is part of this language of cosmoses.
Driving down the street I was thinking about cosmoses and how they are contained things, of order and beauty (in their own way, or just beautiful in a universal way).
I looked at other cars and could see they are mechanical cosmoses. I looked at buildings I was passing and could see they are cosmoses. Both need an outside source of energy though. The cars need fuel, the buildings need electricity and gas and so on.
Also, a big institution like a hospital building or a government building is a cosmos. When you enter it as a visitor you are entering a cosmos. The people who work there are part of that cosmos. You are a foreign presence in that cosmos (and you feel it usually).
Human beings, physical bodies, are cosmoses. We need energy from outside us: food, air, impressions.
Impressions can be from the Absolute III or the Absolute II.
(We eat, breathe, and live in cosmoses too. The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan are cosmoses.)
The Bible, I pondered, speaks on this subject regarding energy source:
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.Here Jesus is talking about being a truly contained cosmos where the source of energy comes from within us.
Objective understanding comes from seeing in the language of cosmoses. Acting from the language of cosmoses. Speaking and thinking from the language of cosmoses. It is big enough to contain everything, even things that don't immediately seem "cosmosish." It contain, for instance, all the ideas and things of the cosmological side of the Work (that word alone: "cosmological"). Ray of Creation, Law of 7, Law of 3, Scale (Hierarchy), Relativity, Speed, Centers.
Also, for instance, seeing different "orbits" in the world. These are part of seeing in cosmoses. Orbits of whatever. Economy, social things, forces, laws, whatever. You then see things as a "whole," which enables real understanding. Actually: objective undersanding. Seeing parts in relation to a whole.
So with the language of cosmoses you can see any scene or event and connect it with its whole and get objective understanding of it. Even something like a remark made by a girl. You see the "whole" that that remark and that girl resides in. Seeing objectively.
External-considering is part of this language of cosmoses.
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