I Remember ...

I remember being very negative 

in an argument with my Boss many years ago. 

I tried self-remembering but was being difficult. 

Then, I saw the Human Resource gentlemen. 

He was listening and at peace. 

His peace gave me permission 

to return to my peace. 

It was then I verified 

how negative emotions have been taught to us 

and it is within us.

 ~T

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One Way...

 

One way I can "be ground, be crumbled ..." 

is to loosen my expectations. 

Then I can be open 

to receive the floating seeds of the wildflowers. 

This kind of practice 

has been very powerful for me lately. 

It's a new way to see through becoming more receptive, 

more relaxed (thank you, Maurice Nicoll!). 

Then images and events, 

surprising gifts from higher realms 

become visible and can change my path, 

perhaps correct my path.

~J

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About Our School...

 

Edouard Manet

(About our school)

The mirror of presence is invaluable.

~S

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Somebody Should Tell Us...

 

Somebody should tell us, 

right at the start of our lives, 

that we are dying.

Then we might live life to the limit,

every minute of every day.

Do it!

I say.

Whatever you want to do,

do it now!

There are only so many tomorrows.

~Pope Paul VI

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The Current Of The Work ...

 

The current of the work draws us in 

to submit more than we perhaps know 

or would be mechanically comfortable with. 

In my own play 

recently has come the experience 

of the third class of negative emotion 

that Ouspenksy outlines, 

those that we cannot stop, 

only observe when they come. 

It's helping me to understand better 

the second conscious shock - 

of the transformation of negative emotions 

because in these states the soul is aflame. 

And any leak or egoism 

will only serve to give expression to one's anguish. 

And then down we go. 

In these cases, 

it's becoming apparent 

that the only value in these states 

is the ultimate valuation and trust in God 

and all his servants. 

For what else could our sufferings 

be propelling us toward if the first shock is maintained. 

And so in ultimate friction and cleaved heart 

the smile and comfort of our father 

can overtake me 

and these pains can be transmuted 

into acceptance and grace, 

lightening the load of our creator

~O

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I Desire...

Guilio Romano

I desire each and everyone of you 

to evolve to your maximum potential.

So do the Gods 

who long before 

have incessantly prepared you all 

for a great happening.

What has been missing and now must be replaced 

is your Desire to awaken.

Eros and I are ready to serve you 

and that is not all.

There are other Gods in the wings 

waiting to emerge too.

Love to you all,

~Mervyn

Deseo que todos y cada uno de Ustedes, 

evolucionen a su máximo potencial.

Así lo hicieron los Dioses, 

quienes incesantemente, 

los han preparado a todos para un gran suceso.

Lo que ha estado faltando 

y ahora debe ser reemplazado, 

es vuestro Deseo por despertar.

Eros y yo, 

estámos listos para ayudarlos; 

y eso no es todo.

Hay otros Dioses en las alas, 

listos para emerger también.

Amor a todos,

~Mervyn

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A Few Meetings Ago...

 

A few meetings ago, 

M mentioned she was looking at a site

that had images of sacred geometry. 

She spoke of photos taken inside instruments.

This is one taken inside a cello:

It's empty! 

Waiting to be played 

so the vibrations can resonate and create music. 

I find this so powerful. 

An empty space is necessary for the magic to happen - 

to find that within and be in attention. 

Bennett refers to this as 

the ‘psychic tone’ of our inner life.

~J

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One Thing That I Have Realized...

 

One thing that I have realized recently, 

is that even though we may be present, 

we need to get our hydrogens from somewhere 

in order to soar. 

This is something Mervyn used to mention all the time. 

It may be wine or music or company, 

but sometimes efforts need to be made 

just to stop becoming negative.

~O

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Grief Never Ends...

 

Frederic Leighton

Grief never ends,

but it changes.

It is a passage, not a place to stay.

Grief is not a sign of weakness 

nor a lack of faith:

it is the price of love.

~Queen Elizabeth 1

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I Don't Typically Think...

 

I don't typically think about alchemy

on a daily working level,

but I'm feeling how much it is our work. 

It's just another way

of relating to our effort to self remember,

to transform and refine has to begin with seeing,

sensing, feeling clearly. 

We need to know what is true and real in us. 

We need to be sensitive enough

to value this finer vibration inside us -

or maybe it's the quiet in the heart

that we sense in the moment -

or the clarity in our minds rising above the i's. 

That is in the place we need to return to 

again and again where the alchemical work begins. 

~J

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I Think We Have ...

 

 I think we have 

a very sacred alchemical vessel in the Academy, 

where we learn to refine our desires, 

purify ourselves 

within our relationships to other students, 

and transform ourselves into substances 

which can process the higher energies of love. 

I think everything we do here in meetings, 

intentionally, adds fire to this process, 

and by using all the elements of our nature, 

we can, as a group, become transformed, 

and as individuals have the possibility of awakening.

~J

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