I am striving to become one with God and so I strive to behave like God. To do that I must have some idea of what kind of God I follow. To follow you need to have either a guide present or you need to have a guide’s map. And you certainly need to have a goal.
Here is one of my most basic tools. From a theoretical standpoint, everything is either like God or not like God. From a metaphysical standpoint, everything is either like God or not like God. From a practical standpoint, everything is either like God or not like God. From any and every standpoint everything is either like God or not like God. That’s it. That is the core belief of my doctrine. Every thought, word, desire, deed… everything. Everything is either in God’s image or it isn’t. It is that simple. You don’t need someone else to tell you what God is like. When that happens, you apply someone else’s vision to your experience.
Having said that what do I think God is like? Easy. God is the best of all the ideals of man, the common thread that runs through all religions, through the universe, that is our concept of universal values because the personality of God is woven into the very fabric of His universe. Sooo, what are God’s qualities? From my point of view some of them are Love, Truth, Service, Power, Wisdom, Mercy, Honor, Freedom, Duty, Loyalty, Justice, Clarity, Responsibility, Victory… These are qualities that are immortal. They are the very essence of who or what God is. Is there something on that list that you feel doesn’t belong there? Remove it! Don’t accept my doctrine without question. This is a map. I don’t claim to have the map down perfectly. Not even for me. Certainly not for you. We need simply to strive to incorporate the virtues that we see as being like God, those aspects of God’s Personality if you will, into our lives at every moment of every day and they will bring us closer to God. These are both the tools and the goal because they are God’s qualities as best as I am to understand and the more we strive to be like God the closer we will be to God and the closer we get to God the more we become God.
I strive, at every moment, to inspect my thoughts, words, deeds, etc. I ask myself whether they are like God or not like God. I don’t judge from the standpoint of ‘good’ or ‘evil’. I judge from the standpoint of ‘like’ or ‘not like’ God. The distinction is a subtle one, I know, but I try to steer clear of guilt which I do not think of as being ‘like God’. Guilt seems to me to be an unnecessary burden.
You are not required to live a life of ruthless determination. You are not required to do anything. It’s faster, yes. If you want to be the one in charge of your life rather than your life being in charge of you then it is a way, a viewpoint that may help. Take this paradigm and use it to the level that seems useful to you. Pedal to the metal or easy does it are both just right if that is how you feel drawn to incorporate it.
Do you want to live a saint’s life? You can right now. Right now. How? Strive without ceasing to manifest those qualities that you listed above or the ones that you believe belong on that list and others like them whatever the cost. Don’t expect to be perfect at every moment. Expect yourself to be striving for perfection as often as possible until it is at every possible moment. Perfection isn’t a static state anyway as far as I can tell. Perfection is being as perfect as you can be at any given moment in time. If you are doing ALL that you can then don’t judge yourself as “good” or “evil”. Leave that to the pundits, to dogma or religion. You simply move on in your striving for those things that you perceive as the qualities of God. In a sense you create a pull towards God by being similar to God. You pull yourself or magnetize yourself to God. Does God radiate as guilt? Not to me. You do not need to use my list you know, once you get the idea of what belongs on your list of what God is like. You know intrinsically what you are striving for by searching your heart. In order to discuss good and evil and how to maintain a higher level of purity on a day to day basis I need first to talk about how energy moves through your body via the chakras. To do that we need to talk about the chakras themselves. Bear with me in this because my aim is the day to day nuts and bolts of the path, not my doctrine. But I need to give you a framework through which you can understand the tools as I offer them and how to work with them. Hence, this initial information. Please don’t skip over this blog if you think you already know all about the chakras. You may get some information that you don’t already have or come to a new understanding of them and their operation and even if you don’t, you may get a bit of information that conflicts with your present knowledge and may, therefore, expand your paradigm if you don’t let your personal doctrine get in the way. In addition, I may say things later that assume you have absorbed this information. Even if you don’t agree with all this it will still serve as a framework for you to understand what I am going to say in the following blogs.
There are seven chakras that I want to describe for you. There are actually 12 major chakras in your body but only seven that I need to discuss at this point. The seven are located in a line from the top of your head down to the base of your spine. The top chakra is the Crown Chakra. It is a bright, pure yellow and is the wisdom chakra. This is the chakra of the Christ Consciousness. It is the point where the energy from God enters your body through the crystal cord. The second chakra from the top is the Third Eye Chakra. It is a bright emerald green and rules God Vision and healing. The third is the Throat Chakra. It is the seat of God Power, God Direction and the Word of God. The fourth chakra is the Heart Chakra. This is the chakra of God Love and it is pink, (no surprise there). The next chakra is the Solar Plexus Chakra. It is purple and gold and is the chakra of service and ministration. The Seat of the Soul Chakra is next. Its’ color is amethyst. It is the chakra of God Justice and God Mercy. Finally, at the bottom is the Base of the Spine Chakra. It is the chakra of the Mother Ray. It is the chakra of purity and of the Ascension Flame.
All of these chakras serve to spread the energy that comes into you throughout all of your four lower bodies, much like the breaker box breaks down the electricity that comes into the house or apartment where you live. There are, however, some important differences. While there is some similarity to a breaker box there is also some similarity to a prism. Because the function of each chakra is to step down an energy that is fundamentally different in action from the energy that moves through the other chakras but in a house the electricity flowing through each breaker is fundamentally the same.
In addition, the chakras don’t actually act as surge protectors the way breakers do. You might think of them as fuse boxes rather than breaker boxes where the fuses have pennies inserted so that they don’t blow when there is a short circuit somewhere downline. I have seen representations of the chakras in books where the colors do not correspond to what I have given above. This is not always because those who are giving that information are incapable of seeing the chakras or are inventing their descriptions. On the contrary, they are passing on the information as they see it and are often truly able to see the chakras. The trouble is that they see the chakras within their own bodies or the bodies of others around them and the light of those chakras is not the light of chakras that are pure, radiating the clear, brilliant light of God as it appears when it is emitted from God’s being and stepped down to us. That isn’t a judgment of them. My chakras aren’t radiating only the pure light of God either. So, these people are seeing that light as it is mis-qualified. They see the chakras as they are when some portion of the energy is being used for things that do not vibrate like God. They are seeing it in this environment, the negative energy of the physical plane, the environment that it inhabits and the misuse that it is put to here, once we receive it. This is simply the condition of people on the planet. Chakras that are pure radiate a beautiful pristine clarity of color far different from the muddy browns, oranges and grays that are often depicted.
The chakras are marvelous centers of energy that whirl and vibrate with life and God energy and should be treated as God’s abodes in the body. Approached with joy and reverence they offer us a way to learn and to honor the God within. Yoga is a great way to do this. So is meditation upon one or another of them. The Third Eye is a great tool for increasing one’s concentration and centering our mind on God. That is why many teachers of meditation recommend that you put your concentration upon the Third Eye when you meditate. Each of the chakras is the focus of a particular type of God’s energy and can, when keeping that in mind, be great tools themselves for strengthening one’s momentum.
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