Reflections in a Petri Dish – May 18, 2021
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
Everything… EVERYTHING in this life, in or out of this life, hinges on one inflexible dynamic. There is NO OTHER. You are either resistant to or serving God. That is the be-all and end-all of EVERYTHING and the whole of the story of your life; what has been, what could have been, are based on this, and how effective or ineffective you have been at it; how consistently or inconsistently you have applied yourself.
If you are ignorant of God, that is, apparently, no excuse (grin). The whole of this and every life you have and lose… is ALL about how you handled this. There is ONE component that you must possess and without which you are lame, halt, and blind. That is Love. Love is quite a bit more than an emotion you express to indicate affection. Love holds everything in the universe in its proper place. It is the primary and supreme attractor. It also dissolves everything accordingly. All the dissolving is about the melting away of the temporary, to reveal the eternal, concealed behind appearances.
These are mere words here. Something other than words can be found in them, but Understanding is required. On the Tree of Life, at the very pinnacle, is the Sephiroth, Kether. Kether is the manifest location of God Almighty and is the pure consciousness of The Divine. God, of course, is also beyond this and exists in concentrations of ever more luminous light called Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur. One can talk about these but… contemplation with the intention of Realization is the best method.
Just below Kether (The Crown), are the other two points of the first, and superior triad. They are Chokmah and Binah, which are Wisdom and Understanding. Back when we first began to talk about needing Understanding, well… this Supernal triangle shows how important it is. Wisdom and Understanding are the Father and Mother God of it all. They emerge from the incomprehensible singularity of Kether.
It is not my intention to provide blueprints of the Kabbalah, especially since the exoteric aspect, and some portion of the esoteric, has been hijacked by scoundrels. You have to find a system that appeals to you and CONTINUES to appeal to you. This is ONLY one of them. This is important because if you do not Love it, if it does not inspire you, you can expect little in the way of Understanding. Also… unless you have a tutor, a guide, you cannot understand the deeper implications. It is said that the doors of arcane wisdom are permanently shut against the Profane. Much as it may seem an arduous task to acquire it, you MUST have Purity. If you do not have Purity there are specific entities in the invisible that will assure you of a whole lot of bad highway when you meet them, as you SURELY will if you persist.
Will is a very important component of the whole, and if you have no more than a pedestrian Will, you are in for a Season in Hell. Here I should point out, as has been the case here many times, all will is borrowed from God. When it is purely channeled there is NOTHING that cannot be accomplished. When it is perverted to personal ends, it WILL conclude in tragedy.
In the book, “Zanoni”, there is a character, a painter who aspires to occult knowledge. His name is, Glyndon. Zanoni is an immortal. He has an associate that he has known for centuries whose name is, Mejnour. Please forgive me if I am not entirely precise here. It has been a while since I read it last. I usually don’t recommend it to people because of the floral language that is present, most especially in the first 60 pages or so. It is a dense read to get through because it takes some time to get to the point. Most people would not be ‘attracted’ enough to slough through it. It is not as bad as, The Pilgrims Progress, but I know many people who never finished it and that is a shame because of what the story brings forth in a profound and beautiful way. It is one of the finest expressions of Real Love to be imagined.
The book was written by Bulwer Lytton and there is even a Bulwer Lytton Award that is given out each year for bad writing, excessive purple prose, and the like. It’s kind of like The Raspberry Awards for films. I am not affected by that, myself, because I know what the intention is. At the beginning of the book, in the author’s introduction, he states that the manuscript was put into his hands by a Mysterious Stranger; an implied Rosicrucian, who wrote Zanoni, and Lytton agreed to put it in order for publication; so the story goes. It is a love story of a higher-order AND… I’ve gone well past the point I had in mind (grin). Let me say it is a cautionary tale and that is where Glyndon surfaces as an example. As I remember, he first approached Zanoni, who wanted no part in taking him on. Perhaps he saw more deeply into the young man and noted the dangers that attended him in the form of an unstable character.
For whatever reason, Mejnour did take him on as a student. Perhaps it was Karma. I don’t know, because Mejnour was a great deal more serious about the pursuit of Knowledge than was Zanoni. Love was the more compelling attraction for Zanoni. In any case, Glyndon got to fooling around one day in the laboratory, while Mejnour was away, and had a truly unfortunate experience among the beakers and clay jars. If one does read this book, one SHOULD… absolutely take into consideration what happened to Glyndon, and… what it was in Mejnour’s and Zanoni’s power to do in the aftermath. A VERY SERIOUS point is made. NO ONE should enter into such studies who is lacking in character and PURITY.
There is a great deal of arcane truth in the book if you can abide all the flowers crawling up the walls and place your attention on the stones of the building over which the flowers grow; perhaps even make your way inside the building itself. On the matter of higher and more profound truths, you DO NOT discover them on your own, and the PERSONAL force that drives you to do so is no friend to you. They are REVEALED to you. It DOES NOT happen any other way, not in any complete sense. Purities boon companion, and without whom Purity does not travel, is Humility. Volumes could be written on this matter, and I am neither skilled nor informed enough to do so. I can infer and suggest. I can be indirect. We treat with Cliff Notes Spirituality here, and as simply as I am inspired to present it, it is within Safe Parameters.
Let us come full circle. You EITHER serve or oppose God. There is nothing more to it. Some will say, “I don’t oppose God.” Ah… but you do. Nearly all of us do until we do not. We are Rocks in the Stream that the water of God’s love eventually wears away. It wears away the false self of the Personality, to reveal the Individuality, over vast reaches of time, or very quickly if you are ENERGETIC. The main problem is a lack of Determination and Consistency, which is why you MUST Love doing it. It really is hopeless otherwise.
Think of it… every situation and condition in your life is the offspring of serving or resisting God. The real Irony and true Tragedy of it all is that EVERYTHING we want is accessible through loving and serving God. Otherwise, you get The Bitter End. Nothing tastes right. The Joy takes wings and goes looking for a more suitable residence. All that is meaningful leaves, a bit at a time, and… occasionally all at once.
The World is a Hard Knocks school of learning. The blows are softer or miss entirely if you roll with the punches that turn to nudges and hunches. Once you are set, irrevocably on the right course, the ministrations of the invisible become more and more tender. Loving God is Good Judgment, whatever little you may Understand about it. Very simple people, people who could not read or write, found God and rained down beauty on all they met. Knowledge and Intelligence can be fierce obstacles to UNION with The Divine. Being told that we must become as a little child, SHOULD tell us ALL we need to know on the matter.
The purpose of these writings is to nudge and hint when it is not simple and direct. We do not go into exhaustive detail here, generally, because it is… exhaustive. Some like to chart vast cosmologies filled with intricate complexities. I see no useful purpose in this. Love God and everything will take care of itself. Any number of times, Heaven has told me, “Visible, it is not your job to fill in the blanks and handle all those peripheral matters. That is MY JOB. I take care of the details. Your job is to pay attention and direct your attention to me. Your job is to grow and spiritually evolve, as I tend you in my garden.”
You either go along with the Divine Program or you have your own program. Good luck with that, and with the Purpose of Demonstration that you will INEVITABLY experience. There are Positive and Negative expressions of the Purpose of Demonstration. Do you really want to be an object lesson on what not to do?
EVERYTHING that you turn over to God, God WILL handle. Everything you claim for your own will be left for you to handle; good luck with that also. Seek to employ UTTER RELIANCE upon The Divine. You have been told this so many times by so many bonafide sources who have come and gone across the centuries. Why is it so hard to get it? This is because you have an enemy within. This enemy is potentially… your best friend. I am speaking of The Mind, that mind you consider to be a separate entity and it certainly is not. You can make it seem so, nearly everyone does, and that is how you get all these inmates who are confined in the Penitentiary of the Mind. You could, just as well- OR EVEN BETTER, be in a glorious amusement park, with a single attraction that is infinitely diversified, ever new, ever more wonderful, and forever beyond the reach of words to describe or explain.
One can talk about doing something, as most everyone does. It is often more convenient and less arduous to chatter like magpies. You don’t get anywhere, but you do have plenty of company. Conversely, you can do it and not cease doing it, and you will have less time to talk about it. Leaving good footprints and being a good example speaks more loudly and with greater certitude than mere words ever could.
End Transmission…….