Provincial Master's Message

Greetings Brothers and Sisters, Fraters and Sorores.

Life is, by design, full of challenges and upsets. It is, after all, the one place where we can gain the experiences that wake us up to our true nature and allows us to expand our conception of who we are and our relationship to each other and Divinity.

These are all very fine words but may seem like “pie in the sky” to many because there is a disconnect between what we know to be true and how we approach life. These words are nice to see but what do we do with them?

I have developed a tool over my decades as a seeker of truth that helps put life’s events into a perspective that helps it all make sense. That tool is to always think in terms of Eternity and Infinity. Words are so limiting in defining concepts so let me expand on this tool.

As we go through life we accumulate experiences and understand them, act, and react according to our mind “filter.” Our mind interprets and processes these events according to its previous experience including interpretations gleaned from parents, friends, spiritual leaders, teachers, etc. I’m sure you will agree that not all these sources can be accurate. So our reaction to life is usually constructed from very limited and perhaps erroneous information.

In pursuing your quest for mystical knowledge and truth you are “correcting” the programming provided by your previous teachers and are learning the truth about your existence. You are expanding your horizons to incorporate a much larger conception of the universe and your true nature. As this continues, your horizons extend to infinity and eternity. This is a slow process and we have a large degree of resistance to changing our mode of operation in life. Only time and willingness will accelerate its progress.

So I would offer this tool to all of you. When challenges, difficulties, and limitations present themselves, and when gifts, joyful events, and blessings, occur in your daily life, don’t think of them in the old, limited, way. Take a step back and think of them in terms of the larger picture. How do they fit into the Divine plan of your life? Do you see Karma involved? Can you appreciate the Divine Love behind these events, the actual gift? Expand your understanding and experience of these events to incorporate what you have learned as a mystic. See them all as part of the Infinite and Eternal plan of your existence and the existence of all humankind. The potential resistance to the negative events and the potential unappreciative response to the positive will fall away and you will, indeed, begin to interpret life in terms of Infinity and Eternity.

May you ever dwell in the Eternal Light of Divine Wisdom!

David Schloegel, S.I. , F.R.C.

Provincial Master

Traditional Martinist Order