Ilumine-Ao

First let me tell you that the following article by John Randolph Price is a little bit long, but it is worth the read. He provides powerful insights regarding the innate power that we all have and how the Universe functions. Read the article and keep what resonates and discard the rest.

Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

Between 2500 and 1500 B.C. (the dates vary), Hermes Trismegistus, the “scribe of the gods,” came on the world stage to tell about the Spirit of the Divine within. In his writings, he implores humanity to “rise from your sleep of ignorance” and to find the Light. He tells us that we have the power to partake of immortality when we change our minds, and he gave us the Seven Hermetic Principles as the way to mastery. They are as follows:

1. The Principle of Mentalism: There is but one Mind, one Power, all Divine. We use the same mind and power in our individual worlds that the All did in creating the universe.
2. The Principle of Correspondence: As above, so below. This shows us that there is a correspondence or analogy existing between things spiritual and things physical — the same laws operate in each realm. This is truly the secret of manifestation.
3. The Principle of Vibration: In each energy field, there is a vibration of either attraction or repulsion based on the trend of thoughts. These thoughts are both conscious and unconscious, and on each level, creative action is taking place.
4. The Principle of Polarity: Polarity is to think and feel in a certain direction, to bring our thoughts in tune with Infinite Mind, which forms a path for the flow of the divine energy. It is living life according to our highest truth.
5. The Principle of Rhythm: Life is like a pendulum, a swinging back and forth. When we understand this principle, we polarize ourselves at the point of optimum living, thus neutralizing the ups and downs of life.
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect: Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law. Chance is but a name for the Law not recognized. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
7. The Principle of Gender: Each individual is both male and female, mind and feelings, objective and subjective, the I and the Me. What the mind impresses on the feeling nature is manifest in the phenomenal world.

In 1335 B.C., Moses brought his esoteric teachings from Egypt in the Exodus. According to Manly P. Hall, “Moses was an accredited representative of the secret schools, laboring — as many other emissaries have labored — to instruct primitive races in the mysteries of their immortal souls…. The word Moses, when understood in its esoteric Egyptian sense, means one who has been admitted into the Mystery Schools of Wisdom and has gone forth to teach the ignorant concerning the will of the gods and the mysteries of life, as these mysteries were explained within the temples of Isis, Osiris, and Serapis.”

Zoroaster appeared in 628 B.C., to be known as the Persian prophet who taught the truth of the one and only God, a Supreme Being of Good Thought, Beauty, Holiness, Righteousness, Perfect Health, Dominion, and Immortality. Zoroaster believed in the oneness of God and individual being, and that prayers were the “speaking of friend to friend.”

Lao-tzu incarnated in 604 B.C., later to found the Taoist religion in China, with its emphasis on living in harmony with the great Universal Impersonal Power. He taught that Heaven, Earth, and man/woman were all created to be in harmony with one another, but we lost our way and miscreated a world of disharmony.

We move on now to about 600 B.C., when Pythagoras — a Mason, and also considered to be the world’s first philosopher – was born. He founded a Mystery School at Crotona in Southern Italy, and his teachings reveal another important thread in the Golden Cord of the Perennial Philosophy, an ancient truth carried forward to this day. Pythagoras taught that God, or Supreme Mind, was the Cause of all things, and since God was all Truth, then the effect of this Cause must be Truth, or Spiritual Reality — when the individual was in harmony with Cause. He believed that we needn’t ask for anything because the Intelligent Power of God was eternally providing all things necessary. Thus, the “secret” of prayer was to be in tune with Infinite Mind.

In 563 B.C., Siddhartha Gautama came forth to become Buddha, the Enlightened one. He believed in universal good will expressed from a heart of love “that knows no anger, that knows no ill will.” Gautama understood that lack, limitation, disease, and death are but illusions, not created by God, therefore not real. His Eightfold Path to freedom encompassed right belief, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right thought, and right meditation. As a true New Thought statement, he said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure heart, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

In 427 B.C., the Greek philosopher Plato entered the Earth plane. At the age of 49, he was initiated into the Greater Mysteries, the initiation taking place in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. In 397 B.C., he opened a school called the Academy, which became the first university in the history of Europe. Plato put great emphasis on the Ideal Life as a goal toward which people should work. This “Ideal” means that every individual is worthy of a royal life of beauty and nobility — that nothing is impossible to “Gods in Expression.” He also introduced the Christos: the immortal Self endowed with all the qualities of Deity.

Then we had the Master Jesus, an Essene. He was introduced to us in the New Testament, and his statements of Truth continue to shine through the pages. However, as a whole, these books of the Bible, which weren’t finalized until nearly A.D. 400, must be interpreted esoterically. As we shall see, they’ve been rewritten numerous times to prove the church’s point of view; yet secretly, enlightened ones have contributed their part and have provided coded instructions reflecting the teachings and philosophy of the earlier Masters. Jesus, the Master of the Law of Love, is shown to be the representative of everyone, our brother in the universal family of God, a Model for our completeness — spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.

We’re told that we are the light of the world, that we must be perfect as a fact of life, that we are to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons because all things are possible. This is true, for the kingdom of God is in the midst of you. Ye are gods and the Spirit of truth dwells with you, in you. You yourself are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, for you have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God. Christ in you, the hope of glory. You are of God.

In the Pistis Sophia Treatise of the Gnostics, Jesus takes it even further: “Do ye still not know and are ye ignorant? Know ye not and do ye not understand that ye are all Angels, all Archangels, Gods, and Lords, all Rulers, all the great Invisibles, all those of the Midst, those of every region of them that are on the Right, all the Great Ones of the emanations of the Light with all their glory . . . ”

The truth was clearly expressed, and with this remembering in minds and hearts, the powers were again released. In the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon reports that during the first century, the lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, and the laws of nature were frequently suspended.

But it all changed. In A.D. 180, Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, attacked independent thinking and all teachings relating to the oneness of God and man. Believing that a spiritual consciousness and a personal union with God would undermine the authority of the priests, he directed his wrath upon Gnosticism. First he issued his Five Books Against Heresies, followed by a list of acceptable writings — choosing only those words that supported his demand for a fixed dogma. The shift in mind-direction from within to without had begun, and the innate power of the individual was gradually given to an outer structure and a lower authority.

When emperor Theodosius made Christianity the sole and official religion of the state in A.D. 395, the Institution assumed complete control over individual minds and humanity entered the thousand-year period referred to as the Dark Ages. The feudal system controlled secular life, and the keys to spiritual enlightenment were held by the church leaders. A too-free subjective interpretation of the doctrine, or lack of faith in the state religion, resulted in extreme penalties. And with the constant struggle between the church and the individual, the mastery techniques dealing with freedom from need and the science of forces and forms were temporarily lost. The Western mind was kept “in the dark” until the institutional structure began to crack in the 1500s … and the eternal principles of oneness and unity began to resurface.

In Europe in the 1600s, the Rosicrucian Fraternity surfaced again and became the center of philosophical discussion. Members of this secret society were known to transcend the limitations of the physical world through their spiritual awakening. They taught that within each individual being was the Supreme Secret of the universe, and that by following the Path of Reality, Truth shall be revealed.

Other secret societies based on the teachings of the Greek Mystery Schools also emerged in England, France, and Germany; and in the 1800s, the philosophical movement known as transcendentalism came into full bloom as the beginning of New Thought in America. The writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson played a significant role in advancing the ancient teachings of Truth. He wrote: “Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid them take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.” Emerson, who had studied the Ancient Mysteries, knew that once these eternal Truths are appropriated by mind, we’re no longer controlled by fate. We pass into a higher council chamber and a life of sovereignty.

Emerson said, “Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.” To him, prayer was not to “effect a private end” but to establish oneness with God in consciousness and then see the miraculous activity of God at work.

The universe is a spiritual system, conceived in the Mind of God as an idea, and automatically projected into manifestation through mental and spiritual laws. Browning said that we should release the “imprisoned splendor,” which is the divine pattern within us.

For our best and highest good all ways… In every moment.

Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

The following article by John Randolph Price is phenomenal! It opened my eyes to possibilities where I may seen things in a certain way that did not benefit me for my best and highest good. So I thought I would share…

Four our best and highest good…all ways…

Ilumine Ao,
Al Diaz

Abandonment Mask Removed
by John Randolph Price

A consciousness of abandonment may begin in early childhood with the death or divorce of a parent, the father taking a job in another town and seldom seeing the child, or perhaps feeling lost in a large family of brothers and sisters and not receiving enough attention. Other factors to consider are lack of affection from parents resulting in a high degree of childhood insecurity. As the child matures, all pleasure in life is seen to be exclusively in the outer world of form and experience.

A neurotic need then develops for someone “out there” to fulfill all expectations of life, and to take the responsibility for loving, protecting, and caring for the individual. All the time there is an unconscious fear of desertion — and this fear is projected on love partners, family, father figures in the workplace, and mother figures among friends. This energy repels, pushes people away, and leads to that self-fulfilling prophecy of abandonment. Removing the Mask

The only way to peel away this mask is to change your mind, and the first step, of course, is forgiveness — forgiving yourself for your miscreative thoughts, and forgiving others for what you think they have done to cause your unhappiness. They really haven’t done anything but act out your projections on them. Consciously withdraw those projections now, knowing that you must change the inner before anything positive can happen in the outer. Then you become a sponge (consciously) and soak up the full Presence of your true Identity and let your Holy Self live in and through and as you. Look not to the external world of effects for your love, joy, and peace, but focus only on the world of Spirit within for everything in life. It is a complete abandonment to Spirit and Spirit only.

Here is a meditation from The Jesus Code that will help you move from a focus on effects to a deeper consciousness of your Source.

I understand that the effects of this world are from the past and are not creative. One effect does not birth another, for everything emanates from consciousness.

I affirm with mind and heart that no person, place, thing, condition, or situation in the external world has power over me, or has the power to create anew for me.

I place my total dependence on Spirit within, releasing everything to the presence of God I AM, knowing that Love has met my every need, want, or desire even before they were experienced in mind and heart.

I am a Whole Person, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. And my world reflects that Wholeness.

Remember that your world is the result, or a product, of your thoughts, and miscreative thoughts can make for a hellish world. If you plan a project or take an action specifically to yield a particular result in the external world — without divine guidance or the flow-through of creative wisdom that instructs on a spiritual level — then you are serving ego. You are trying to create effects that the ego wants in order to fulfill its desires, and when the effects “fail” you — that is, they do not provide the harmony you are seeking — you feel forsaken. Maybe this was followed by turning to Spirit in prayerful meditation to energize the effects, to make them what you wanted them to be, to make people do what you wanted them to do. And when nothing seemed to happen in the material world to your liking, you felt deserted by God.

The problem, of course, is trying to find supply, support, happiness, and harmony in the external world rather than in the activity of Spirit. When that didn’t work, you believed that by being more “spiritual” through meditation, your desires would be fulfilled, which was nothing more than a continuation of the previous thought process, an uninterrupted focus on the effects even while contemplating Cause. I know. I’ve been through this. I have placed my investment in worldly things instead of Spirit, and when I finally understood what I was doing, I forgave myself and once again turned my life over to God. In one particular instance, the peace that came over me was indescribable. Behold, I make all things new was the message, and I was then content to let a new bright and shining world flow forth from the love of God within to replace the limited world that I had created with my ego thoughts.

To work with the planetary energies rather than resisting them, cut the psychic cords on anyone who you feel has deserted you, and begin to love them with no strings attached — unconditionally. This means to stop judging by appearances, and accept everyone as they are — spiritual beings temporarily living in a physical world and adapting to the dense energies of the third-dimensional plane. We are all as one, living and learning together in our climb back up the mountain. As we move even higher in our seeing, we acknowledge the Holy Self as the only Truth of Being of every man, woman, and child.

Also, think about what you can do to provide a greater service — and yes, you as one single individual can make a major difference in this world. Think on these thoughts, not as something to come, but as a present reality.

I accept my responsibilities in life.
I have the ability to come up with new ideas and make them work.
I grasp new concepts quickly. I am creative.
I have great energy and vitality.
I am willing to face change creatively.
I look to the future with joyful expectation. I am optimistic about life.
I love harmony and beauty.
I am compassionate and understanding. I can laugh at myself.
I have intuitive wisdom.
I live happily and productively.

These statements will open your mind to new vistas, and the energy radiating from your consciousness will attract opportunities to provide a real service based on your skills and talents.

To remove the ego projections on the causal powers within, those governors of life, work on your stubbornness, possessiveness, jealousy, and your tendency to worry over nothing. Learn the value of empathy, cultivate a sense of humor to displace your irritable disposition, and stop making material things your exclusive goal in life. You may want to write down these points in your journal and begin a program of building a solid base in consciousness from which the living energies will perform their cosmic duties.

Look carefully now at what you consider the reason for your feelings of abandonment: the loss of a loved one, lack of affection (or even acceptance) from others, friction in any relationship, a sense of failure in fulfilling your life’s purpose, financial insecurity, or seeming delays and obstructions on your path of life.

Now go back to that emptiness, loneliness, loss, and futility that you are feeling in mind and heart, and ask yourself, “What is the advantage of this to me? How is this less-than-ideal situation in life benefiting me?” Let the answer come to your mind and write it down. Understand, as I’ve said before, that any challenge, problem, or negative influence in your life is something that you have chosen. No one else decided on it for you; there is no conspiracy. These aspects of life and living have been chosen on some level of consciousness; otherwise they could not be. Perhaps you didn’t say, in effect, “Let this be,” but in the fabric of your mind, you wove an outcome usually based on some feeling of guilt from the past. And this choice, although it may have been hidden under layers of self-hatred, insecurity, and unfulfillment, was made to compensate for what you considered a transgression of the law of harmony. But that law sees no transgressions; it simply is; and it works to lift you up rather than bind you.

Whatever that feeling of abandonment, look at it again and ask, “What is the advantage of this to me?” And the ego’s answer is, “To atone for my guilt for causing others (or someone specifically) to suffer in some form or other. Therefore, I must suffer.” Recognize this as a decision that you have made to pass sentence on yourself. Acknowledge it and couple it with the acceptance that there is absolutely no advantage for anything less-than-positive to be happening in your life. This acknowledgment and acceptance removes the guilt you imposed upon yourself, the sentence is lifted, and you can move back into the stream of the natural order of life.