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23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. -Proverbs 4:23 King James Version (KJV)
To me there are at least two ways to interpret this scripture. One interpretation is to keep thy heart pure. Our thoughts and feelings help to determine whether we are on the way to death and re-embodiment or on the way to Eternal Life and Peace in the Kingdom of Heaven for Eternity. The Kingdom of Heaven is a place of Purity therefore spiritual or pure thoughts and feelings raise our consciousness up towards Heaven while carnal or impure thoughts and feelings drag our consciousness down towards hell. Another interpretation is to keep thy heart chakra open.
The Thirty-third Degree Freemason C. W. Leadbeater reveals: In the magnificent illumination given in the Eighteenth Degree, that of the Sovereign Prince of the Rose-Croix of Heredom… [the Mason] finds the divine Love reigning in his own heart and in those of his Brn. [Brethren] He also learns that God has descended and shared our lower nature with us expressly in order that we may ascend to share His true nature with Him. …It further teaches us that God sits enthroned in every human heart, that the inmost Spirit of each man is part of God Himself, a spark of the Divine; and that therefore all men are one in Him, and there is no height to which man may not aspire. …Each Knight [of theRose-Croix] should meditate upon it and try to realize all that it involves for the knowledge which it gives should permeate the whole fibre of his very essence, if he is to do the duty which is expected of him. …For the man who really knows this, all life is one great glad song of triumph and of gratitude. All this he acknowledges, in all this he rejoices, every time he remembers that wondrous Word of power (The Name of T.G.A.O.T.U. [The Great Architect Of The Universe? God? The author does not say what this Word of Power is but on p275 he talks about the Sacred word AUM or OM ] which is revealed to the aspirant in this most wonderful 18[th Degree] was the central and innermost secret of the ancient Egyptian mystery teaching. It is the clear duty of every Knight of the Rose-Croix to spread this light abroad- to preach by word when possible, and always by action, this true “gospel of the grace of God.” In the Co-Masonic form of this Degree he is instructed to offer himself as a channel for the Divine force and to make efforts to co-operate with T.G.A.O.T.U. [or God?] By this daily work… the Christ dwelling in man, should be aroused and greatly developed, so that he becomes, to the limit of his capacity, a living manifestation of the Eternal Love, a veritable priest who is its instrument for the helping of the world. In this Degree also we find certain symbols of deep significance. The flower of the Rose… [and] the Cross. …So when these two emblems are taken in conjunction, as they always are in the name Rose-Croix, they betoken the Love of Self-sacrifice, the secret of Immortality, and the sweet Fragrance of a Holy life. (p296-298) Much of the ancient wisdom has been allowed to slip into oblivion, and so some of the true secrets were lost to the great body of the Brn. [Brethren] But among the Hierophants [or wise Master teachers] of the Great White Brotherhood the true secrets have ever been preserved and they will always reward the search of the really earnest Mason. (p38, 296-298) You may be interested to know that just as Jesus is acknowledged as the Master at the Head of all the Christian Religions C. W. Leadbeater teaches: The Chohan of the Seventh Ray… is that Master of the Wisdom of whom we often speak as the Comte de St. Germain. (p11) He was the Comte de St. Germain at the time of the French Revolution. …This great Saint and Teacher still lives and His present body has no appearance of great age. I myself met Him physically in Rome
H. P. Blavatsky from the Theosophical Society teaches: The Doctrine of the Heart [is] for the elect. (The Voice of the Silence by H. P. Blavatsky p27)
The Ascended Masters recommend that you; practice several times a day sitting quietly, very still, and feeling the energy at your solar plexus… become very still! Turn the attention to the Heart and the Unfed Flame within your Heart, or to the “I AM Presence” above you. …I know some of you have never completely entered into that Stillness, for if you had ever touched It once, you would know that there is God’s Greatest Power. It is the Throne-Room of your Being… (p13) If you have learned to command the energy at the solar plexus to be quiet and feel the Power of the Great Great Silence, you can suddenly withdraw everything from the outer, and go as it were, within the Throne-Room of the Light in your Heart, and feel there the Love from your Presence- Its Strength and Power, and abide within It for awhile… (p21) So if you will acquire that Calm, Poised Mastery of the energy at your solar plexus… you will find you can move forward from one Victory to another and your struggle grows less and less. Your problems will dissolve! You will find many disturbing habits just drop away as if they had never been.” (p22) (The Voice of the I AM 1946 September)
Form ist Leere
(Form is a wonderful illusion) by h.koppdelaney
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