8. The Divine Design

©1999 Athene Bitting

VIII

The Divine Design of Your Life:

Attuning to It and Manifesting It

Lecture based Questions:

1. Exercise: Planning Death

It’s time to relax and get the issue of death out of the way. This is not a permanent nor final decision on your part. It is intended to help you to create a clear picture of what would make you happy.

Write your own obituary as you wish to be when your life ends. How old will you be, where will you die, what will your health be like, what will the circumstances of your death be?

2. What strengths do you wish to acquire during this lifetime? This is not goal planning. It is rather a way to determine what is needed to enhance your journey through life.

3. What are the four-square elements of a perfect life?

Sweet love without bitterness

Endless & abundant wealth

Fulfilling self-expression

Vibrant good health & eternal youth

4. From which alternate life paths can we choose at any given time?

Many of our choices revolve around our self-images and our personal mythology. Any choice we make either validates the Divine Plan of our lives or postpones it. Having good or bad timing in the course of the day is a matter of focusing the conscious intention on success in this regard or in allowing the subconscious mind to rule the day.

Speaking of timing, sometimes when we hit every red light on the way home, the Guardian Angel might be testing our capacity for patience. We choose how to react to these lessons and exams.

What types of consequences can possibly result from these choices?

Negative choices turn the atoms of our bodies down and leak out energy. Choices that are brave, adventuresome, of integrity, strong, and kind bring the atoms to an upward position, gathering in healing and strengthening energy. When we choose to not be intentional, our thoughts become scattered about other people, issues that demand our time, and stress-related activities. The atoms then all point willy-nilly in many different directions, making a person feel unfocused and drained.

Physical atoms follow Newton’s law of motion, inertia, and resistance. The atoms here tend to slow down and point downward unless otherwise directed through the life force. Although it takes more energy and intention to keep them spinning rapidly, we gain much energy and personal power from regularly aligning the atoms to an upward position where the chakras can receive an inpouring of Divine Light. This is easily done through verbal command, mediation, affirmation, smiling, and other positive behaviors.

5. Scrying Exercise: I Ching

Sixty-four hexagrams (groups of six binary lines) are each made up of two trigrams (groups of three binary lines.) The binary lines are either solid (representing light, rising, positive polarity) or broken (representing dark, sinking, negative polarity). Each hexagram represents a scene from nature, a universal energy, a family member, a life situation, and a seasonal condition. Each line in a hexagram has a special significance of social power, time sequence, and relationship. Some of the lines change into their opposites, and some remain stationary.

We use the oracle by throwing three copper coins six times. Pennies or quarters are acceptable, as they still have some copper in them. Heads is worth 2 points, tails is worth 3 points. Six is broken-changing, Seven is solid-stationary, Eight is broken-stationary, Nine is solid-changing. We can also use yarrow stalks. The hexagram is determined by subtracting small groups of stalks from a pile of fifty.

6. Why and how does this work?

The Spirit of Truth finds us no matter where we look. This this case, the I Ching is a 5,000 year old collective mind, full of piercing wisdom and understanding. It serves under the Spirit of Truth and covers all possible situations and choices through pictures and metaphoric situations. It pulls no punches when the reader needs a tongue lashing. It gives hope and supplies time frames for those sincerely in need of guidance.

What would be the most appropriate use of this technique?

The I Ching never satisfies someone who has a strong will-driven desire for a specific outcome. We must approach it with humility, an open mind, and ask simply for the correct choice of behavior or attitude. Then it always gives good advice and is a good friend.

7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.

Why not focus on your Guardian Angel? She works so hard to keep you going the right way!

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We Are Dreams from a Perfect Mind

It begins in the Monad—what is called the God Flame In Being. A divine spark of life is newly separated from the great and everlasting Creative Force. This seed of individuality contains the consciousness and the plan for an existence in potential. Every spark of life is unique from all the others. Its future experiences are not yet determined. The only command governing it is to grow and develop through interaction with other life, gain understanding of the Divine Law, and—through this process—draw forth new power and Light in the service of conscious sharing.

Just as the Angels draw renewing energy and enthusiasm from their work, so are we meant to find our particular activities in physical life that renew and inspire us. All perfect activities have the following virtues:

1. It challenges the participant to learn and develop in new directions.

2. It allows the participant to give or share to the benefit of others.

3. It serves a cause greater than the individual interest.

4. The participant receives atomic polarization and joy from the activity.

Beyond time and space, in the vast regions of primal Light at the Vibrational Source, the spark of life begins its cycle of existence. Its very nature is to gather matter unto it, so it begins the process of weaving for itself a Light body—the Adonai. Also an aspect of divine existence, the Adonai is the Monad’s first expression of individuality. It begins as an innocent consciousness devoid of nuance or color, but throughout the intricate cycles of incarnation and illumination, the Adonai develops beauty, strength, and generative powers. It always remains in communication with the God Stream. Through the consciousness of the Adonai, a model is fashioned on the Soulic level of existence. (Always, there are Angels in attendance who aid and advise in the creation of these processes.) The Soul becomes an entity in its own right, yet connected permanently with its two higher counterparts. These three aspects of divine individuality remain as a team throughout the process of developmental incarnations. At the state of Logoshood, the Soul and then the Adonai become reabsorbed into the Monad.

Here the subject of soul-mates may arise in the mind of the reader. It is at the creation of the Soul body that the polarization and division of consciousness begins.

The Divine Plan for the perfected Soul is brought into being with the aid of the Kindel Archangel, who will guide and advise the Soul throughout the developmental cycle. There are many elements in this plan, and the archetype for it is intricate and filled with vibrant living images. It occupies the space of several dimensions simultaneously. Fulfilling the impulse of the Monad, the Soul and the Divine Plan unite. Intrinsic to the plan is the division of the Soul into two beings, so that the work may be accomplished through dual experience, thus increasing the value and strength of the cycle. The Biune Souls are never separated in consciousness. They retain intimate connection and harmonic dialog throughout their existence.

Mental bodies are then generated, and in turn Astral bodies and Physical bodies. In these three lower realms, the individuals create experiences that bring him or her closer to the ultimate goal, bringing the Divine Plan into Physical manifestation.

This goal is achieved when the consciousness of each body is aligned and united with the Soul consciousness on a constant level of connection.

Infinite Spirit,

Open the way for the Divine Design of my life

To now manifest.

Let me clearly see the Perfect Plan.

Let the perfected image now be released into physical form.

May the Divine Will now permeate this physical realm.

Under Grace, in perfect ways.

—Florence Scovel Shinn